What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 12 How To Solo Clear A Pirate Base

I brought my ship past the hangar doors and landed it in one of the empty spaces.

After going through the landing process, I did a final check on my equipment before descending the ramp to leave my ship, my rifle held at the ready.

I advanced cautiously, my eyes sweeping the seemingly empty hangar bay for any signs of movement.

Seeing none, I continued forward and stalked through the hangar, letting my ship lock itself up behind me.

Ok, first things first, I need to find a map of this ship or at least a way to get to the generator room.

Unfortunately I do not have a quest marker or even some kind of guidance line that could show me the way to my objective so I guess I'll need to do this the hard way.

Well... I guess I should first find a way out of here to start with.

Remembering how the ship looked from the outside, the only parts of the ship that still had power were concentrated around the hangar area.

It's still quite a sizable area to cover by myself so I tried to look for the pathways that seemed to be most used.

I realised that one particular door had deep grooves carved along the ground and what looked like tracks leading towards it. I'm pretty sure this meant that the pirates were pretty much only using that particular door to get out of the hangar.

Just to be sure, I went around to check the other doors and sure enough, all of them were either broken, locked or welded shut.

Well... I suppose this makes my choice of where to go next easier...

I moved to the side of the door, hiding around the corner with my rifle held at the ready while I pushed the button that would activate the doors to slide open.

Even as the door opened, I remained hiding behind the corner, waiting to see if there were any sounds coming from behind the door.

Seeing that nothing happened even after a while, I peeked around the corner to check if the coast was clear.

What greeted me was an empty corridor with lights that flickered on and off at specific intervals.

Hmm... Is there really no other pirate here? Did I really kill everyone already? I'm feeling a little bit stupid being so cautious right now but I guess some of my game instincts are at work here.

Especially in the multiplayer version of the game, other players would always love to set up ambushes and wait for other players to fall into them.

You could have just finished clearing a pirate base and might even be in the midst of collecting the loot when a player would drop down from the ceiling and eviscerate you from behind, causing you to lose all your loot and equipment to that bastard.

Yes, I speak from experience. And yes, I hunted down that bastard and made him pay for it, even made him lose his ship in the process.

Fuck that guy.

I decided to just assume that there might still be pirates in the station and continued forward carefully, making sure to check my corners and even the ceiling as I moved down the corridor.

Luck seemed to be on my side because I managed to find a map printed on the wall of the corridor midway.

According to the map, this corridor led towards the barracks and mess hall, which I suppose suited the pirates' needs just fine which was what led them to set up base here.

"You want to start something?"

"Oh please, I'll finish it."

"Both of you--"

I reached the door to the barracks and leapt in, the barrel of my rifle already trained on the location of those three before I had entered.

With a quick burst from my rifle, I had shot all three of them in the head, not even giving them time to realise they were being attacked before they were shot dead.

I then scanned the room, looking for any more potential threats but found none.

I slowly advanced into the barracks and checked each of the cots to make sure they were empty.

But at that moment, I heard a door slide open and a man came out wrapped only in a towel with a toothbrush hanging in his mouth.

"Hey, are you bastards fighting agai-- What the fuck?"

I twisted around and double tapped him in the chest, the pirate letting out a gasp of pain before toppling backwards on the ground, joining his companions in death.

I pulled out my rifle's magazine and checked the remaining bullets inside it.

Seeing that I still had plenty, I slammed it back in and went to the door that I assumed was the bathroom that the last pirate had come out of.

I peeked into the bathroom and found no one else inside, effectively clearing this entire area of any enemies.

I finally allowed myself to relax a little as I inspected the four pirates I had just killed.

The three I first shot were playing cards and there were some Credit Chips scattered on the table. Of course, I went ahead to acquire those Credits for myself by plugging them into my Codex.

Now I'm four thousand Credits richer, yay~

The rest of the barracks was empty aside from a few more guns and personal effects that I assume belong to those pirates, those I ignored.

I moved quickly to the mess hall and the place was also devoid of any life.

There was, however, one thing that stood out in the middle of the mess hall.

It was a big generator sitting in the centre of the mess hall.

Holy shit... Did the pirates strip this out from the destroyed part of the battleship and bring it here somehow?

One of them must have been a heck of an engineer to be able to do that.

Oh well, this makes my job a lot easier now. Time to blow this place up!

That was when I heard a voice come from the speakers overhead, "Hey! We're back boys!! Better not have drunk all our booze you hear?!"

... Ah fuck, there's more of them...