Chapter 38 - Teaser! (Patreon)

50 Miles from Minosian Capital. Planet Minos.

I heard nothing but the slow rhythmic thrumming of a guitar coming from my hoverbike’s speaker, feeling the bass beats practically vibrating my chest, and it was hyping me the fuck up so I couldn’t resist what I did next, thankful there was no one around to see it.

“Flash, ah-ah! Savior of the universe!!” I sang at the top of my lungs along with Freddy Mercury of Queen as I flew down from orbit into the strangely deep aqua blue sky of Minos approximately 50 miles from my new palace headquarters, a huge smile on my face. “Flash, ah-ah, he’ll save every one of us!”

When was the last time I had had silly fun like this?

I had chosen this distant starting point to both protect myself from any unexpected surprises, but also to get a bird’s eye view of my planet. Beaming in and out of places took away a lot of the best parts of travelling, as you missed so much of the beautiful sights along the way, so I thought, why not use my Hovercruiser 924 that had sat in storage for years?

Since restoring and rebuilding it back on Earth, I had had no opportunities to use it since. There were times during the Occupation I was tempted to use it, but using a 23rd century piece of human technology from Earth would have been a mistake on a hundred different levels and attract all the wrong kinds of high-level attention from the Cardassians.

Executing another high-speed turn at hundreds of miles per hour, I continued singing, really getting into the moment.

“Flash, ah-ah. He's a miracle!” I sang loudly, doing a spin that had me flying upside down for several seconds, my modifications keeping me firmly locked in my seat. “Flash, ah-ah. King of the impossible!”

I had added some synaptic control technology to the bike before taking it out today, so a holographic display popped up between my handle bars at a mental command showing me where I was on the planet and giving me a heading back to my new capital city.