Chapter Fifteen
The engine room filled with smoke two minutes into their journey. Not the kind of smoke that preceded a catastrophic explosion, just the kind that said, “your engine might explode if you hit a bump in the road or collide with some space debris or sneeze in its direction.”
It was a tense ride.
Luckily, they didn’t have far to go. The battlecruiser Cleopatra came into view eight minutes after the engine room had completely flooded with black smoke and began seeping into the adjacent hallway.
Cody readied to dock. “So, the AI controlling this ship is in stand-your-ground mode, right? It’s not going to blast us out of the sky?”
“Not if you transmit those authorization codes the client gave us,” Reggie said.
“Right. The codes. On it.” Cody made contact. “Battlecruiser Cleo
