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Phone Call

I've been waiting for it for what felt like months (which it had, to be exact three moths one week and two days), both my friends were getting annoyed anytime I heard a phone ring I would run to it like no other. So they started to mess with me. One day in the cafeteria we were right in the middle of it, normally they don't allow people to use their phones in there so I was at ease. Even if it wasn't my phone but someone else's I thought it would be him trying to surprise me by not calling me but instead one of our friends on the station with us. So when we were eating, I could tell something was up with both my friends, Carlos and James, they were looking at each other snickering. I was becoming fed up with it.

"What is it?" They both looked at each other than at me attempting to be nonchalant, they suck at acting.

"By whatever do you mean?" James said feigning hurt but like always failing miserably.

"You two are planning something, I know it." They knew I was right, I knew I was right. I was always right with them. I've known them my entire life, we all lived on the station. Everyone knew everyone on it. But like before they tried to cover it up.

"No we're not. We're just sitting here eating dinner with our bestest oldest pal." I looked at them suspiciously but was too hungry to care.

"Fine, don't tell me." I said and went straight back to eating my food. They were still looking at each other snickering every few seconds, then I heard it. A phone ringing and it was my phone because it was his ringtone. I jumped up looking around trying to pinpoint where they put it. I glared at the both of them with daggers, but they played like they didn't even see me glaring at them. I started to walk to the side of the cafeteria where the observation deck was because that's where I heard the phone ringing coming from. Just as I was about there I heard another ring coming from the other side of the cafeteria. I glared at them again and this time they were trying to stifle their laughter. I walked to the other side other side of the cafeteria but again I heard the same ringtone, but from somewhere else again, and again. They couldn't control there demeanor anymore and were currently laughing like maniacs, while people around us were murmuring and looking at me and my two idiot friends.

"Guys." I said seething now. They looked at me and saw how angry I was, they knew they crossed a line, so they bolted out of the exit. I shouted in anger and ran after them. I chased them half way around the station when I pinned them down a dead end. They should have known it was there, we've been living here since we were kids. But they stopped at the dead-end; I could tell they were arguing with each other.

"Dude! It's a dead end!"

"Don't you think I know that?"

"Do you think he was able to keep up with us?"

"Yes." I said and they both tensed and slowly turned around giving me their best apologetic smiles.

"Hey Logan, how you doin?" Carlos said hesitantly with a sheepish smile. I slowly made my way up to them; I could tell they were scared; they crossed a line. They deserved to be scared right now, but half way to them I saw out the giant window right next to us and saw the ship dock. I knew what ship it was, it was his'. I didn't give it a second thought and ran to the docking area.

"Dude, that was close."

"No it wasn't you know he's a pacifist."

"Yeah but remember three months ago, we took a picture of Logan and him, you know doing it and put it all around the station. Hedidn't do anything because he thought it was hilarious, but Logan, he beat the crap out of us." James stood there shuddering at the memory.

"Right, that was close."

I didn't know how fast I was running and honestly I didn't care. I was running past people slightly pushing them out of the way and jumping over all the supplies that people were bringing in. I nearly tripped over Dak who was on the floor searching for something he dropped.

"Sorry Dak!" I said not even stopping. I made it into the docking bay passing all the other ships and drones and headed straight for his ship. I saw him talking to Pauline, which made me a little angry she always flirted, but I knew it was unintentional. She flirts accidentally with everyone. But right now I didn't care, I haven't seen him in three months, and haven't talked to him in one. He barely turned to see me running up to him

"Hey-" I didn't let him finish. I jumped on him and made us both land on the cold hard metal floor as I straddled him. "Ow that-" And again I didn't let him finish, instead I gave him a heated kiss, and he instantly melted into. We both sat there on the floor for a good few minutes in that kiss before I reluctantly let us separate.

"You never called." He saw the pain on my face.

"Sorry, we were attacked and are deep space communication array was damaged in the attack." Instantly I felt guilt and hugged him on the ground.

"Oh my god I'm such a douche! Are you ok? Who was it? I'll make them pay by setting the entire drone army I control on them!" I said looking out of the docking bay and into space glaring nothing really. I heard him laugh, and I looked down confused.

"It's ok, we got rid of them." He said sitting up a little and giving me a peck on the cheeks.

"Good." I said not looking him in the eyes, instead into space as I let the blush slowly crawl over my face.

"Come on, Carlos and James are probably waiting for us, and I only get an hour break before I have to get debriefed."

"Logan will most likely be doing the debriefing." I blushed even more and turned my head to see James and Carlos standing there.

"Carlos." I said giving him a death glare, but he couldn't take me serious cause how much I was blushing.

"What? It's true anyways."

"You know it is." James said backing him up. I just gave them both a glare before I turned back to see him laughing. And then I gave him a glare and he shut up.

"Come on let's go eat dinner. I didn't get to finish because of those two." I said as I grabbed his hand and made them all follow me back to the cafeteria.

We sat, ate, and talked, like we always have, like he hasn't been on a mission for the past three months. We all grew up with each other around, we became instant friends for life when Carlos and James were having a contest of who could eat the most and they both ended up barfing on me. He was there the entire time and burst out laughing letting juice fly out of his nose.

When we were done he had to go the meeting room to give his information on how the mission went. I hated when he did this, because it always lasted so long. Last time he was in there for three and a half hours.

"I have to get in there."

"Why?" I whined like a little kid. "Couldn't you just skip this one?" He chuckled at how I was acting.

"No, I wish I could but this is important." I huffed out like a little kid would and he chuckled. "Don't worry when I get back, you'll be making a lot more other noises." He whispered straight into my ear, and all I could do was blush and go wide eyed. He looked at me in the eyes and kissed me before he walked into the room. As the door slid closed I jumped up in the air and shouted.

"Yes!" And then I heard him burst out laughing as the door slid shut.

I tried to stay awake as long as possible but this meeting was taking longer than even his last one, so far he was in there for four hours. I really tried my best but the lack of sleep from the night before impatiently waiting for his call was creeping up and before I knew it I was asleep.

I woke up to someone pushing at my shoulders and heard shouting.

"What?" I said as I groggily opened my eyes, sleep still heavy on both of them.

"Come one Logan wake up!" I opened my eyes fully to see Carlos above me shaking my shoulders.

"What is it?" I said now awake fully but enough to know that something wasn't right. I knew something was wrong because Carlos and I both didn't like it when he was in my room. He said that it was too clean for someone of my position on the station, and whenever he was in here he messed with my projects on my desk.

"We're under attack!" I jumped up from bed.

"What! Where's-!" He didn't finish.

"James is at his battery gun holding them back."

"Where's-!"

"He's on his ship fighting back, but there's too many and he can't hold them back for long, we need your drones!" I only nodded and we both ran out of my room to people panicking in the hallway. Some were freaking out while others worked on doing what they were suppose to do to insure the safety of the civilians on the station. We ran to the top of the station to get to my drones, filled with nothing but adrenaline.

"Go to your battery gun, James' going to need help, I'll handle this!" Carlos nodded and ran back down to where James was. I could see he did a lot so far, there were up to a hundred small enemy ships but a fourth of them were turned to rubble, James was always the best at the battery guns than anyone else, Carlos was second best. It was ironic; they weren't even supposed to be on battery gun duty. I sat at my station in the tiny observation deck the captain had turned into my fighting area for the drones just in case we were attacked. He knew my drones would be able to help a lot if we ever were.

"Well let's find out if they can." I said to myself. I put my hands in the glass surface in front of me and it instantly lit up. I looked at the Station system's and saw that the shield was nearly depleted; it was at a stable thirty five percent, all the battery guns were being used 'Good, Carlos got to one'. I thought, that's how I controlled the drones I made, I just had to think and they would follow my every command.

The observation area lit up showing my drones flying out of the fighter bay. I let loose, I normally don't because most of the time it was a test run with my drones and this was my first time using them against an enemy. I made the forty little drones separate into groups of ten and made them each attack a cluster of enemy ships. Each time my drones got near some enemy ships I let them fire at will; little blue glowing missiles flew out of them and followed the enemy ship when it tried to run.

It took ten minutes but we were able to defeat the enemy ships. I was wiped and so were my drones they had no more missiles and all they had left was the collective shield's I put on them to protect the station just in case the shield failed.

I never told anyone but every time I used them it took a whole lot of energy just to control them, and then using them in a fight drained me. I also had to hide the practice video files that they have recorded to see if I was under distress when using the drones, because they had to make sure they would be safe to use. So when we were done I felt like was going to faint. But with what little strength I had I checked the station, we had damage in different sections, none of them were too severe, just little damage done everywhere on the station, but the shield was drained to a measly three percent. I was about to get my drones back when my station ringed up with a call from him and I smiled.

"You ok!" I could tell he was worried.

"Yeah Kendall, I'm ok." I was able to get out without sounding exhausted.

"Good. I'm heading back. My ship got a bit damaged; I lost my radar, and have no shields." I was about to talk back when my screen lit up in red, it showed the enemy mother ship 'Crap!' Then I saw it was powering up its main weapon, which was a giant plasma beam that could easily break through are defenses sense they were so weak at the moment. 'Kendall' I thought he was still out there. Then the shipped fired a horrendous green beam at the station. I didn't even have to think. I was able to get my already depleted drones to fully encircle the station, and thought as hard as I could with what little energy I had. The drones lit up a green yellow hue, and then a sheet of yellow green energy spread from each one and connected together enclosing the station in a bubble. The make shift shield took the hit.

One reason why the captain wanted my drones to have the newly developed shield technology on them 'which I can proudly say was my invention' was because the shield would absorb the hit and then through it right back to whatever threw it at us in the first place. The beam flew off the shield and back to the enemy mother ship and it exploded. 'Idiots didn't expect that'I thought, I was actually too exhausted to speak now. I layed and half fell onto the glass surface I use for my drones. I still needed to keep the shield up because of the explosion and the excess amount of radiation coming out of the rubble ship now just floating there.

"Logan! Logie!" I could hear Kendall calling but I was too tired to talk back. "Logan!"

"…Kendall." I was able to say I was too tired but I couldn't go to sleep. If I did the shield would collapse and then we'd be hit by the wave of radiation that was still flying off the dead ship.

"Logan! Are you ok!" I could hear him through the speakers.

"….i'm….tired…." I was able to pant out; it was suddenly hard for me to breath. I knew it was from the exhaustion. I just didn't think the side effects would come up so fast.

"Logan! Stay with me I'm coming up there."

"…I'll…." Pant "….try…." I had to hold on, this time not for Kendall, but for the people on the station. I had to wait until the shields at least got back up to five percent until I could lower the shield I had up, if I lowered them now the shield would collapse from the intense wave of radiation. I looked up 'four percent….. just a little more' I was able to stay conscious for a ten seconds before I looked up at the glass screen again 'five percent' I smiled a little and let sleep take over.

When I heard Logan's shout out 'Yes!' I couldn't help but burst out laughing as I walked into the meeting room. Everyone looked at me weird but didn't say anything as I sat down. What I hated about my job was that I was the youngest ship captain at nineteen, and I hated that I was pretty much second in command of the station whenever I got back. People always thought I was too young, that I didn't have enough experience, but when they looked at my file they would know that I was too experienced to just be a ship captain. When the captain walked in everyone went quiet, even me, even though I know he wouldn't' really care if I was laughing.

The captain was pretty much my adoptive father. I've known him my entire life, and he's taken care of me for as long as I remember. I don't remember my parents; they died in an attack when I was just a baby.

"Ok." He said firmly. "Did you succeed on the mission?" He said looking at me.

"Yeah." Most people in this room hated that I could talk to him so casually and he wouldn't get angry. They all knew of our father-son relationship, so they thought he was playing favorites. I didn't care if he was or wasn't, with my experience I could walk straight up to his face, cuss him out, and he wouldn't do anything, but I wasn't like that. "We were able to get the information on the enemy's next planetary attacks." I said.

"Good." He nodded. The rest of the time we spent was talking about which planet's the enemy were planning to attack, what forces we had in the quadrant, and what we could do stave them off till one of our mother ships would be able to join in the fight. This meeting took longer than any of the other meetings I've ever been in, we must've been in there for four hours when the alarms and red lights lit up. Everyone looked up as the overcome system came up.

"Warning! One hundred plus enemy fighter ships entering radar territory. All workers to their stations, civilians move to the designated safe area's immediately." None of us had to say anything as we went to where we were supposed to go. 'Crap, really now?' I ran to the docking bay. My ship was the largest they currently had and all the fighter ships were out of commission due to faulty construction. So even if others could fly them, they wouldn't even be able to get off the floor. My ship wasn't a 'mother ship' it was ten times smaller, but it was sufficient in a battle. I was just lucky I upgraded the shielding and weapons a few months ago. It was all free cause of Logan. 'I love him' my mind then went blank when I thought that, but all I could do was smile. 'I love him.' We've never said I love you to each other. I mean we've been together for so long we should of by now, but we never did. And I knew deep down I loved him, and that he loved me.

"I love him!" I shouted as I flew out of the docking bay. "Crap." My screen was littered with all the enemy ships that were flying to the station. "No, he needs to know this!" I said and then started firing at the enemy ships. I was in the zone. I was taking them out, but as soon as I took down one another three were in its place.

"Behind you!" 'What?'

"James!"

"I said behind you!" I looked at my radar and sure enough I saw two right on my tail, but before I could do anything they were blasted out of space. "You're welcome!"

"Pscht! I could of handled them if you didn't."

"Sure."

"Guys?...gu….is….thi…..on?"

"Carlos?!" Me and James said at the same time.

"Yeah!"

"How!"

"You know my mom's head of the communication department; she gave me this all access communication device. I can talk to anyone no matter what channel."

"Go get Logan, we need his drones!" I heard James yell through the speaker as I blew one of the enemy ships out of the way.

"I thought they weren't ready?" I asked.

"Dude, that was three months ago, he's got them working." I only nodded as I dodged a beam from one of the other ship.

"Go get him."

"Ok." Then we cut off. I knew Logan had his drones, but they were barely functional last time I was here. He could barely get one off the floor let alone all forty.

I thought I was doing well until I was surrounded all around by the enemy ships. They boxed me in and were about to fire when battery fire shot some and gave me an opening to get out of the box.

"You're welcome…again!"

"Shut up." I said to James I could hear him laugh on the other side. I was being chased and boxed in when a blue little light flew past me and hit the enemy ship making it explode. 'Logan' I smiled when I saw his drones fly past me and shoot down more of the enemy ships.

It took us nearly ten minutes before all the enemy ships were gone, but by then my radar and shield were down. I was just lucky we had the drones helping. I was heading back when I decided to call Logan I wanted to make sure he was ok. He didn't know, but I knew that all the other times he used his drones they wore him out. He tried to act like they didn't faze him, but one time after a session he fainted. Luckily he didn't remember. So I headed back to the station and right before I entered the docking bay I called him.

"You ok!" I asked once I made connection with him.

"Yeah Kendall, I'm ok." He sounded ok to me so I was glad.

"Good. I'm heading back my ship got a bit damaged, lost my radar, and have no shields." I was about to ask him again if he was really ok, but right before I did I saw his drones fly past me. My radar didn't work so I didn't know what was going on. I put the ship on auto and headed to the back observation area of the ship which was only a few steps away. I stared and the only thing I could think was 'Crap.' I saw the giant enemy mother ship. They were never pretty to look at; they were more of an eye sore than anything else. Designed like a giant foot ball and littered with patches of red and silver armor plates. But what worried me more was the giant green glowing beam flying straight at the station, even if I intercepted the hit the beam would just burst my ship like I was nothing and then hit the station. But before I could think of another plan I saw that the drones made some kind of formation surrounding the station, they started to glow a green yellow and then that light spread like a blanket surrounding the entire station.

"Remind me not to ever get him angry when I'm out here." I said to myself. The beam hit the shield but the shield looked like it absorbed the hit and then it threw it right back at the mother ship making it explode. "Yes!" I said this time me being the one who jumped up in the air. And then I started to my 'happy dance' as Logan liked to call it. 'Logan' I thought then ran back to the control array. I saw the station shields weren't strong enough to hold off the radiation hitting the drones' shields in waves yet, so I thought that Logan was holding the shield up until the station shields were strong enough. But I immediately got worried; I knew Logan could improve the drones since I was gone but knew a side effect like that wouldn't just go away from some software updates, so I panicked.

"Logan! Logie!" I screamed out, he didn't answer. "Logan!"

"…Kendall." I heard him and began to panic even more, he sounded exhausted.

"Logan! Are you ok!"

"….i'm….tired…." He sounded like he just ran a marathon; he could barely talk without heaving.

"Logan! Stay with me I'm coming up there." I said as the ship finally docked, I stood there for a second until he answered back.

"…I'll….….try…." I ran, I jumped out of the ship and saw James and Carlos right there with smiles, but they fell when they saw how panicked I looked.

"What is it?" Carlos asked.

"Logan." They knew instantly something was really wrong. We took off running up to Logan's make shift control room for his drones. What we saw when we got there scared the shit out of me.