Chapter Two
Sonic was broke to s**t.
But that’s what happened when you got swallowed by a behemoth bug queen and then blew up a trillion-dollar space station. The ship the Notches loved so well was falling apart, and Joel was doing all he could to keep it together until they found a port.
“Yo, hand me that duct tape.” He pointed to the shelf behind Reggie.
Reggie tossed it to him, and Joel pulled a strip off and placed it over a gash in one of the coolant lines. The engine was the section that had been hit the hardest. There was damage all over Sonic—punctures in the hull, entire sections of armor torn off, cracked monitors—but the engine room was the heart of the ship, and Sonic was in the throes of a full-on cardiac arrest.
“So glad we have such a genius engineer onboard,” Reggie sa
