Vinny shot off so quickly that Blue wasn't sure he'd be able to catch up, and how do you find a guy in the middle of space. Blue intuitively leaned into the gentle banking of his craft as he pivoted seventy-five degrees to the right, punching the thrusters without even glancing at his console. In less than a heartbeat, Blue was deftly maneuvering his craft into position over Vinny's right wing. Together, they bobbed and weaved their way through an asteroid belt, strewn with the wreckage of less fortunate travellers.
"Freshies, " laughed Vinny as he expertly dodged a chunk of fighter by slinking to the left. As he did so, he realized that the chunk was sure to nail Tommy head-on. He spun his head around so quickly that it felt as though it might snap right off. However, he had no time to think about that right now. His mind was far too busy trying to muster up the resources to comprehend the images his eyes were feeding his brain. Indeed,the chunk was slamming into the nose of Tommy's craft with untold force and speed. However, instead of exploding, caving in or otherwise smashing to bits. Tommy's craft seemed to roll effortlessly over the debris. Seemingly effortless movements rarely are but often look so when performed by a practiced, well-disciplined individual. In this case though, practice and discipline were in short supply. Fortunately, Blue was flying with a boatload, rather a shipload, of intuition. As the creator of this fighter, he knew everything it was capable of. Recognizing that there was no way out of the collision, he acted quickly and instinctively to maneuver the craft in such a way as to allow the collision yet soften it's effect. Blue engaged the fore and aft thrusters simultaneously, directing the angle of their bursts, while pivoting the wing section, catapulting the fighter ass over elbow as Frank used to say. Then, just as quickly, Blue reversed the maneuver, righting the fighter just in time to rotate forty-five degrees to the right to avoid a smaller yet equally inconvenient chunk of "Freshie" fighter, which luckily for Vinny, had a second earlier, only narrowly grazed the surface of his fighters right wing. With ice cold delivery, masking his racing heartbeat, Blue said,"Yeah, it's as though they' ve never seen as asteroid belt before."
A single, deeply meaningful word escaped Vinny's lips, "whoa!"
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