Sightseeing

One night of rest later, we still had 38 hours before we had to go back to our worlds, so we decided to go sightseeing in the city.

"So, how are we getting there?" asked Uzui.

"We'll use the ship. It can camouflage itself and it's super fast, so we can get there in no time. And it gives me an excuse to fly it. Two birds with one stone." I said before taking it out of my inventory.

Unfortunately, the ship wasn't a Mother Ship, but it was a Scout Ship. And the fact that more Yautja haven't come down from the Mother ship means that they don't know or they don't care. I did stop any signal from getting out, but the savageness of the Yautjas we fought makes me lean more towards the latter.

Anyways, the ship was a little damaged in the thruster so I used my nanites to fix it. After fixing the engine, I stepped back and took a good look at the beauty. Beautiful silver color with three external thrusters and a large blade on the belly of the ship with an almost whale-like shape.

"I can't believe a ship this advanced and big is only a scout ship for this civilization." I thought out loud fascinated by the technology.

"It's only a scout? I thought this was their main ship?" said Ciri in disbelief.

"No, their Mother Ship is probably more than 20 times bigger than this ship. Not to mention it's capable of interstellar travel and is essentially a mobile town. It's fascinating."

"Wow." replied Ciri.

"Alright enough of the history lessons, let's go visit the city!" said Uzui while rushing onto the ship.

"Aren't the bodies of the Yautja still inside?" asked Amelia.

"Oh right, I still haven't gotten around to cleaning those up. Does anyone want anything, armor, weapons, equipment?" I asked again.

"Can I have one of the masks?" asked Guts.

"Help yourself, there's enough to go around. Let's go see which ones they have." I said before going inside the ship with everyone else.

Looking around what I originally confused as a common room but is actually the trophy room, there were many skulls. Some I recognized, humans and animals of Earth, as well as a Xenomorph. And some I only recognized because of the database, lusca which were big boar-like creatures from a distant galaxy as well thruvrans, avian-esque aliens.

"Fascinating. Life on different planets, nowhere near each other, yet so similar." said Ciri.

"Well not, not similar considering the humans on this planet were created by a highly-advanced civilization known as the Engineers." I added.

"Really? So humans are man-made in this world? Also fascinating." replied Ciri.

"Well, not man-made but alien-made I suppose." I joked at which she smirked and shook her head.

"Where are the other masks?" asked Guts.

"They should be in the personal rooms of the Yautja. According to the schematic of the ship, if we go down that way, we should be in a hallway with doors to each room." I said pointing to a door leading to the right of the ship.

The decor of the ship is barebones besides the trophy room, which really goes to show how much the Yautja care about trophies. The only exception is the rooms of the Yaujta, which have different masks hung up on the walls. Other than that, the ship definitely needs some sprucing up.

As for the masks, it seems calling this clan of Yautja primal or savage would be apt. The ones I remember from the movies all had high-tech metallic masks, besides that one that had a bone jaw if I remember correctly. These masks on the ship all consist of an outer appearance of bone. Of course, they are still very high-tech but are more primal looking which I kind of like.

"Shame, I wanted to have some standard masks as well. These are all very primal in appearance." I said after looking at all the masks we gathered.

"Are the ones you know different?" asked Guts.

"Yeah. The ones I know are more metallic-looking. These look crude in comparison. But the tech is the same, so it's just an appearance difference." I explained to him. "So which one do you want?"

"This one." he said before picking up a mask that looked like a skull that covered all the way to the back of the head.

"Intimidating. Nice choice." I said before putting the rest away in my inventory. "Alright, let's head to the control room so we can go sightseeing already."

The control room was what you would expect of a spaceship's control room. A large window to see out of, but only one command center.

"Guess the ship does most of the work for them." I said seeing only one command center. "Alright everybody, hold tight."

Communicating with the ship allowed me to fly it with my mind, giving me complete control over it. I closed the hatch before turning on the thrusters and taking off.

"Excuse any bumpiness on the ride everyone, still getting used to it." I said before focusing on flying again. Once, we were sufficiently off the ground I turned on the camouflage before taking off nice and easy towards New York.

"Alright, let me speed up a little." I said before turning the speed up a notch. I thought going faster would make the ride bumpier but let me tell you, the Yautja know how to make a ship. Smooth sailing all the way to New York. I couldn't even appreciate the scenery for long enough, since we could see the city after 5 minutes.

"Holy shit. It took 5 minutes to cross half the country, and that's nowhere near top speed." I said a little in disbelief. It's one thing to know the ship can go fast, and it's another to experience it.

"There it is everyone, New York." said Amelia.

I stopped the ship and let it hover so we can get a good view of the city from the air, and I joined the group to look at it from the window.

"Looks like a scene from a history documentary." commented Amelia.

Wooden and brick buildings as far as the eye can see. Wooden ships flying all sorts of flags coming to dock at the port. People walking to and fro the streets and horses pulling carriages. Of course, it also has to be mentioned how dirty the city is. The streets filled with filthy water, horse shit, and trash everywhere. Not to mention rats at every corner.

"Guess New York has been a dirty city since its inception. Glad to see nothing's changed in the hundreds of years." I commented.

"Your cities are this dirty in the future as well?" asked Ciri.

"Not all of them, but New York is one of the dirtier cities. With so much population, it's inevitable. After all, not everyone has the time to care about whether the city is clean or not when they're barely feeding their kids." responded Amelia.

"That's quite depressing." said Ciri with a look of pity on her face.

"Indeed it is. Anyways let me put us down so we can sight see." I said before commanding the ship to put us down on the outskirts of town.