He started to climb the ladder that led back to the ceiling walkways that he and Jay were on earlier. The walkways were all gridded designs that were still made of certain metal alloys, but still blended well with the smooth clean neon background of the spaceship’s hangar bay itself. As he kept searching through the hallways, he entered the 3rd floor of the Freighter. He could not find even the command centre. He sighed deeply again, knowing that the Freighter itself was fully AI automated and controlled, since it was mainly meant for artillery, storage of weapons and other things, but not passengers.
“Come on Jack,” he said in a grunted tone. “Think man. There has to be a way.”
As he headed to the end of the hallway, he found a schematic of the Freighter which showed all of the possible rooms in an architectural and civil engineering-based drawing. The drawing was A1 size but displayed holographically within a touch screen. He used his fingertips to interact with the schematic drawing, as he selected each room to see which one was the ‘Fuel Chamber’. As he looked room by room in the interactive mapping and floor plans of the ship, he found a room where it displayed 2D schematics of the cylindrical blue fire fueled tanks where the main engine room was. The fuel sources were located at the rear end to help the Freighter accelerate forward, while other sources were right underneath it to help boost its altitude since its design is more rectangular prismatic shaped rather than a trout shape like the mothership.
“Wait….,” Jack spoke as he realized that he did not have to destroy all the fuel sources. He thought, the rear engines if destroyed, would cause enough damage to the entire ship to collapse in the Upper Bay along with at least half the Freighter itself being destroyed. But the main engine room had a source of blue fire in its own containment, where it supplied the rest of the fuel sources through a specified fuel line. The fuel line consisted of blue energized plasmatic heat that traveled throughout the entire spaceship, acting as an entire plasmatic generator to power the Freighter.
Using his phone, he scanned the schematic drawing displayed in front of him, allowing the phone to synchronize with the map coordinates of where he was in the world and where the Engine Chamber was. The phone was struggling to find a signal since it was not used to the 21st Century satellites, since in the future, satellites were more in the stationary spaceships that orbited the Earth instead with shield generators attached to it. With Earth 2.0 or eloquently known as E2 existing with human civilization in 2999, satellites would have to be placed from moon-to-moon orbits to be able to catch the signal from Earth to E2 itself for communication, thus having no delay of conversation at all. The phones in 2999 were compatible with every single type of port worldwide, using nanites to transform it into USB C, 2.0, other types of plugin ports for the phones too. Mobile phones no longer required charging anymore, since the charge or battery in it could last up to 150 years straight, after discoveries of new elemental compounds on E2 itself throughout the 28th to 30th centuries.
Amazingly, his phone connected with the satellites in the 21st century, since it was also compatible with catching signals of any sorts, even Wi-Fi hotspots, and many other signals. Cellphones had to do that in case of emergency if someone got stranded in space, the phone would have to be compatible to detect any sort of signal necessary. Using his holographic foldable phone, he followed the directions which were brought up as an interactive holographic map file transferred immediately to his phone’s internal storage. As he went around the illuminated corridors within the Freighter, he saw the entrance to the Engine Chamber room. The entrance to the Engine Chamber was locked and required an access code along with a key card, plus a holographic identification scan.
“Damn it,” Jack grunted.
He knew deep down even if he tried, the Freighter would go into code red lockdown seeing and identifying Jack’s identity, marking him as an intruder. He needed to find a way to get the attention of the AI militants to be able to enter that Engine Chamber if possible. As he looked up to the ceiling, realizing that in futuristic spaceships, no human could access the airducts due to its tightly compressed air and claustrophobic space in there. As he raised his plasma grenades from his hand, pressing it to initiate its plasma energy cycling around and spinning more than ten thousand clicks per minute, about to explode in a few seconds. He threw the grenade and dived around the corner of the hallway for cover to see if it would do any effect on the door.
BOOM!
The plasmatic explosion acted as an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) and blue fiery explosion, resulting in very minimal damage to the blast door of the Engine Chamber. An alarm system set off. AI militants began to sprawl throughout the corridors of the Freighter heading near where Jack was hiding around the corner of the hallway itself. He began to smile thinking that this plan could work, seeing if the AI militants would enter the Engine Chamber to try to find the perpetrator.
“Sector clear,” an AI militant spoke
