Space
Battleship Yamato 5
Part 1: The
Beginning of the 2nd Generation
A Star
Blazers alternate universe
Episode 3: Argo
takes off! The Vibrations Strengthen!
Part 1:
Re-enter…Desslok?!
Somewhere
in the Andromeda Galaxy
Tuesday,
March 15th 2220
0700 Hours:
Earth Time
It hung like a
vile moon around a planet at the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy.
It was one of
the many ships in the vast area. But what made this base ship so special were
three things; her mission, he size and her leader.
In Earth measurement
she was over fifty kilometers in circumference, 2 times the size of the
original Gatlantis that had once traveled through the sky. It held a
huge plasma shield, much bigger than the original, a shield that could destroy
earth with one swipe if needed.
It was a
second comet, given no real name yet, the comet had been built at the command
of the newly appointed Royal ruler of the house as a weapon of vengeance with
one purpose: The conquest or destruction of one defiant planet in the Milky Way
galaxy: Earth.
“This ship is
grand, no?” said a young woman as she strolled down the main hallway with one
of the ship’s many generals. She was the appointed lieutenant commander of the
new grand fleet, she was Victoria D’Avena, one of the few women in the Cometine
race who wasn’t green, half of her family was Earth
blood. You see, years ago her mother had been captured by the Cometines and was
assigned to be the personal slave of one of the top ranking generals. Though
her mother didn’t really like him she treated him with kindness and like a
person rather than just another general and he
eventually fell in love with her.
“Yes, but it
doesn’t seem complete” replied the man next to her, he was a familiar face, an
old Cometine general that had decided not to join in Trelania’s reform plan,
General Gorse. He had been on the flag ship with Zordar and the others but
didn’t go with Trelania; he transported himself into another space.
“Oh, but it is, or at least that’s what he says.”
“Yes but he
says a lot of things doesn’t he?” Gorse said as they entered the main throne
room. “It almost makes you think…”
“He might be
lying…about many things.”
“And WHY is
that Miss. D’Avena?!” Said a familiar voice from behind.
“Huh?” Gorse
and
“Accepted”
Desslok told her “now how are the fleet preparations coming along.”
“Well sir”
“And why is
that?”
“Low on
workers sir” Gorse explained “the rest will arrive tomorrow.”
“Good, once
they do inform them that they must begin work immediately and step up the
pace!”
“Dully noted sir”
“Right, Gorse
you’re dismissed,
Gorse left and
“Dear Toria, I
ask of you a favor.”
“Hm?”
“I ask that
you come see me later, I need your help with the fleet.” Desslok said as he
lifted her chin up with one of his fingers.
“And if I
don’t oblige?”
“Oh you will”
he stated as he moved his finger down her neck, when he removed it she got down
and walked off.
‘I’m still
not sure what to make of that one’ Desslok thought as he watched her go
off.
“That man is
strangely mysterious”
0809 Hours…
”Misako!”
“Huh..?”
Misako’s eyes immediately became flooded with light, and an image came into her
mind…”Mama?”
“Yes, Mama. Now get up!” Trelania said as she shook her daughter
awake.
“What?!” Misako shot up “Why? What’s wrong? Is Dad on the ceiling
again?”
“No, we have
to help your father, the ship takes off tomorrow, I told him that’d we help
with inspections.”
“Eh...No!” Misako stated as she lay back down.
“Okay then…”
Trelania said as she walked out, she stood outside the door and held her hands
out, using her powers to drag Misako out of bed.
“What the hell?!”
Once Misako
was out of the room Trelania threw her on the floor in the hallway. “Hi” she
said.
“Why?” Misako
asked.
Much later in
the afternoon Misako strolled the halls with Setsuna,
Astra, and Akira, they were supposed to be on inspection but they headed to the
outside deck instead.
“Misako? What are we doing here?” Akira asked.
“Because…there’s
something out there” Misako stated quietly.
“Huh?” Akira
looked at Setsuna and Astra.
“Misako…can
sense things.” Setsuna told Akira.
‘Misako…can
sense things? What’s she talking about? I know Misako has powers, but now she’s
psychic? I…I thought I knew her…and now…’ Akira thought as she watched
Misako get up on the railing, as she sat there a breeze came by and blew her
dress and hair slightly to the left. “Listen…” she stated.
“Why? We
already know what you’re going to say” Astra told her.
Setsuna kicked
her.
“Hey!”
“I know, but
Akira doesn’t, you seem I’m sensing something out in space, maybe nothing,
maybe a new enemy, I’m not sure.”
“Really? You know Invidia-mama did tell me you had some freaky
feeling and that you were going nuts, she also said that your family was a
whole bunch of freaks. She said that a lot in a whole bunch of wordings, then
Dad told her to take a bath and she shut up…” Akira told them.
“That woman
has a serious problem” Astra stated.
Akira glared
at her.
“She does!
Misako could be right!”
“Or she could
be a freak who’s trying to trick us all!” A familiar accented voice said from
behind.
“Invidia-Mama?”
“Invidia! This could be real!” Misako told her.
“Yeah, it’s
real, as real as my empire ever coming back!” Invidia snapped, then she walked off.
“WHY is she
here?” Misako asked as she slid off of the metal railing.
“My father
told her to come and look at her room-they re-did it…” Akira told her.
“I don’t like
her right now.”
“That makes
two of us…” Astra told her friend; Akira glared at the both of them.
Part 2: Argo!
Launch into Space!
Somewhere
in the Andromeda Galaxy
2nd
2300 Hours:
Earth Time
That night
“
“Huh?” she
turned around and found Desslok looking at her.
“You know,
it’s not natural for a woman to be out this late alone.” He stated as he joined
her at the railing.
“Well you did
have me with you for hours after dinner while you droned on and on about our
preparations…you know that wasn’t what I thought you wanted when you said to
meet you!”
“I did tell
you what it was for did I not?” Desslok asked as he placed his hand over hers
on the railing.
“Don’t touch
me”
Desslok looked
at her “Now onto my original question-what are out doing out here?”
“What does it
look like, I’m thinking, I mean what if the Argo comes back and the
Empire falls-again?”
“
“Yes.”
“
“Can’t yell at
me for telling the truth”
‘She’s a
mysterious one…I’m sure I’ll get to know her better later on…If she ever stops
arguing with me…’
Ship
Dockyards
Wednesday,
March 16th 2220
0405 Hours:
Earth Time
The sun wasn’t
out yet, but the Star Force was, to check the ship one last time and take off.
Derek stood on
the deck of the ship with the rest of the crew, the all looked up at him and
Nova in the familiar stance-except for the select few (Cadets mostly) who just
slumped tiredly. “All right we have 1 hour and 55 minutes until take off, I
want all of you checking the ship one last time, once we take off the cadets
will report to their assigned areas for orders, the rest of you know what to
do, dismissed.”
As soon as he
finished the groups went their separate ways, well some of them did.
“Astra, Astra,
Astra!” Setsuna said to her, in an attempt to get her tired cousin off her arm.
Halfway through Derek’s sentence Astra had sort off
dozed off and was now leaning on Setsuna.
“Leave her”
Ryou said as he approached her in a blue and white Star Force uniform.
“I would but I
can’t move this way.”
“All right
then” stated a quiet voice from behind.
“Huh?” Setsuna
turned her head to see Misako of in the corner.
“Hi” she
stated.
“Hey” Setsuna
and Ryou told her.
“Now what’s
your idea?” Ryou asked.
“This…” Misako
held her hands out and gently moved Astra off of Setsuna and placed her on the
ship’s deck. “Now we wait for Nova to get her, or for her to get up whichever
happens first, I really don’t care, let’s go.”
Setsuna and
Ryou shrugged and followed Misako into the ship.
A couple
minutes later Astra got up-but why was she on the deck?
“Damn you
Setsuna!” she said then went to go find her cousin; it wasn’t her fault she had
gone to sleep! Nova did wake her up at 3 AM.
‘Damn you
all! Damn you all to hell!’ Invidia thought as she walked down the ship’s
hall with Arty, she was tired, annoyed, and definitely NOT happy. ‘You
people bug the crap outta me! You make me get up at 3AM, then drag me on this
ship and now what?!’
“You look
pissed.” Arty stated.
“Of course I
am!” Invidia snapped “You did get me out of bed at 3 in the morning! What the
hell were you thinking?!”
“I was
thinking that we had to go through a lot to get you on this ship and that you
should appreciate it.”
“I’m thinking
that you should shut your mouth and tell me what the hell I’m supposed to be
doing!”
‘She just
needs a nap…’ Arty thought while Invidia glared at him.
“Look, help us
now and do what you want later” he said.
“No!” Invidia
stated firmly “I’m not going to help, it’s not my job and never was. Maybe if
you could order people around better you get the cadets off their lazy asses
and make them help you!”
“Aw, you’re
just tired” Arty said as he lifted her up.
“No! Put me
down!”
“Nope.”
“Don’t you say
no to me!” Invidia snapped as she struggled to get out
of his arms “I am a Princess and your superior! You can’t do this!”
“Actually
you’re my wife-and I can…”
“Put me down!”
“I don’t think
so…” he whispered. As he did a small breeze from his breath
grazed Invidia’s neck.
‘His breath
is so cold...colder than usual’ she thought, then looked up at him with a
tired but loving look in her eyes, he smiled at her. ‘Wait…No! Snap out of
it Princess!’ Invidia thought before she gave him a hard kick.
“Ow! What the hell?!” Arty said as he finally dropped
Invidia-hard.
“Okay-that
hurt, and I’m mad at you now.” Invidia told him as she stood up, the she
pointed down the hallway “Get the hell out of my sight! Now!”
“Gladly!” Arty said, as he left, he never understood how Invidia
went from loveable to evil within 2 seconds. ‘I have preparations to
overlook…’ he thought as he headed into the Black Tiger’s hanger. But what
he saw was NOT what he wanted, instead of helping most of the cadets were just
sitting around. ‘This is not good…’ if he ever wanted to teach them
something they had to be willing…this was not willing…
1 Hour, 55
minutes later
0600 Hours:
Earth Time
”All right,
everyone prepare for take off!” Derek stated as he entered the bridge via his
descending chair. “Has everything been checked?”
“3 times over”
Mark informed him from his station.
“Cadets
present and at their places?”
“Most of them
are in position, all are accounted for, right” Nova stated, as she
looked over at her daughter. Setsuna had been assigned to work with her mother
at the radar, and later with her father on flying the fighters and operating
the Wave Motion Gun.
“Yes mother”
Setsuna told her, it had been her job to do a last minute count on all the
cadets present.
“All right
then, I checked over the rest and we’re set. Flood the underwater docks” Derek
ordered.
“Flooding the
launching dock” Sandor stated as he pressed a button on his control panel. He
watched for awhile as the dock’s data came in. “Water
level at 20 feet.”
At his post
Orion Jr. watched the level’s rising form his post. “The ship’s starting to
float. Now at 20 percent buoyancy” he stated.
After a couple
more minutes Sandor reported again “Water level is above the navigation
bridge.”
“All hands
prepare for take off!” Derek stated.
“Flooding
operation completed” reported Sandor once again.
“Okay, let’s
go” said Mark “release the gantry lock.”
“Locks
released, now activate gyro stabilizer and accelerate slowly to 2.8.”
“Okay, engine
power to point six” Mark ordered.
“Engine power
up to point six” Orion Junior reported.
With that, the
ship started to slowly move away from its post, out the water gate and into the
vast ocean.
After a couple
second the engine report came in “Wave Motion engine energy charge one hundred
Percent, star the fly wheel” Orion Junior ordered.
“Ten seconds,
countdown starting” Mark said. “Te…” he stopped for a second and noticed a hand
on his own, he looked up and found Setsuna looking at him.
“May I?” she
asked.
Mark smiled at
her and nodded.
Setsuna made
her way back to her own station and started “Ten, nine, eight seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one, wave motion engine contact…”
“Now” Mark
finished, as the engine started as the ship drifted out of the water and into
the sky. After they were out of the water he gave a second report “All clear,
trim for cruising speed, main wings open.”
Meanwhile…
Somewhere
in the Andromeda Galaxy
”You see these
readings don’t you!”
“Yes I do.” He
stated.
“This isn’t
good! According to General Razela’s report the Star Force is taking off! What
are you gonna do if they interfere with us?!”
“Calm down
“No! You know
very well that if we run into them we’re as good as dead! They have successfully
brought down two of your empires! Or did you forget that?!”
“That’s ENOUGH
Miss. D’Avena! I understand the situation!”
“I know that,
and if they interfere we’ll have to attack, I have a plan. And it’s not really your
concern Miss. D’Avena.” Desslok told her.
“Yes it is! I am
your lieutenant commander, I command the fleet! I tell them where to go! I
feed them information about the enemy I…”
“
Space
Battleship Argo
0800 Hours:
Earth Time
Later, Misako
was having her own doubts, she stood in her room staring out the porthole, well
technically it wasn’t her room, she had to share the
room with Setsuna, Astra and Akira. ‘This feeling…it’s getting stronger. I
know there’s something out there, there’s just gotta be…’
“Misako…Akira
to Misako…what’s up?”
“Where’d you come
from?” Misako asked, she hadn’t seen Akira earlier and still had no idea why
she came.
“Uh…my
mother’s room” Akira told her “why?”
“Oh, sorry, I
just didn’t expect you to come.”
“My father
made me this time, so I’m here.” Akira informed her.
“What’s your
job anyway?” Misako asked.
“I don’t have
one, but Nova said I could help out with the kitchen if I had the time. I’m not
gonna have the time…” Akira muttered the last part to herself
as she looked at Misako.
Misako smiled
at her, she heard her. “Anyway, have you noticed anything weird going on around
here?” she asked.
“What?”
“My feeling is
getting stronger, I know there’s something out there, I just know it…”
“Try telling
that to Invidia-Mama, she doesn’t believe you, and she thinks you’re a freak.”
“Pleasant
Woman…” Misako stated with a sarcastic tone.
“Hey! She’s
not always evil!” Akira informed her friend.
“Yeah…When she’s asleep!”
“Hey! I think
she looks cute when she’s asleep!”
“Yes, because
she’s not talking! Or being insulting! Or any of the other things that make her
evil!”
“You know
what, I’m out” Akira said as she walked out the door, she didn’t want to turn
it into a fight, and besides she didn’t like it when people insulted her
family. ‘Oh, Invidia-Mama…that reminds me…the rest of my stuff is in her
room! I have to go!’ she thought as she ran off down the hall, ignoring the
fact that the floor was moving.
After a couple
minutes she came to the end of the hall and silently slipped into her mother’s
room. Invidia’s room was added so that she’d have a place to be on the ship, it
was as big as the room back at the apartment, it was
designed in almost the same way too. Curtains and bed covers done in an elegant
dark red color most of the time, at rare times they were navy blue, depending
on when Invidia changed the room around.
“Okay…” Akira
muttered to herself as she entered the room, the first
thing she noticed was that Invidia had thrown her dress on the floor when she
had changed earlier.
‘She’s
either lazy or just too tired to bother with anything…’Akira thought as she
looked at her sleeping mother, she was so cute! Akira smiled then glanced
around the room, it reminded her so much of her home…‘Wait! Stop dreaming!’ she
thought as she shook her head. Then she sighed as she got on all fours and crawled
over to the closet that held her bags.
“Why are you
crawling?”
“Huh?” Akira
looked up and found Astra behind her.
“Never mind that! Just help me!”
“Fine” Astra
sighed and picked up two of Akira’s bags. “But seriously…why are we crawling? I
mean she sleeps like she’s dead….”
“Not all the
time…” Akira told her as they silently left the room.
When Akira
came back to her room, Misako had regained her original positioned at the
window and was staring out of it with a blank look on her face.
“What’s with
the blank look?” Akira asked.
“I don’t know
she looks like Astra in the middle of a study session” Setsuna stated as she
entered the room.
“Hey!” Astra
glared at her, she hated it when Setsuna said things like that-even if half of
them were true.
“You can’t get
mad at me for telling the truth…”
“True…”
Akira looked
at the both of them “Can we get back to Misako now?”
“Misako does
what now?” Misako asked as she finally noticed the other girls in the
room.
“Misako
explains why she’s been so distant!” Astra told her.
“It’s
nothing…really” Misako lied.
“You sure?” Akira asked, then she switched her voice to a more
serious tone “I mean, after what you told us the other night I’ve been
wondering if you truly know something…I think you do.”
“I...I…” Misako
didn’t know what to say, she knew Akira could be quiet and serious but not that
serious or observant.
“When did you
get so intelligent?” Astra asked.
Setsuna kicked
her.
“Stop doing
that!” Astra snapped at her as she held her ankle.
“You know,
she’d stop doing it if you would stop making stupid comments” Akira informed
her.
“She’s right
you know…” Setsuna nodded.
Astra muttered
something to herself and turned the other way; she was
tired of having everyone against her!
“Anyway…”
Akira looked at Misako “do you sense anything getting closer? Or anything
coming…?”
“Well I…”
Misako stopped and immediately looked out the window with a distant expression.
“It’s strong…really strong. Something’s coming…and fast…”
“Huh?!” the
others looked at her in shock; Misako was being a little scary…
Part 3: The
Enemy Arrives! Target: Argo
Middle of
the Milky Way galaxy
General
Razela’s Flagship
1000 Hours:
Earth Time
“You
understand the measures…right?”
“Yes” he said
as he looked back at the image on the video screen.
“Good! Now
don’t stop until they are destroyed!”
“Yes Ma’am”
Razela said as saluted to her.
‘I really
don’t understand her…But she is the commander…and no one said I have to
understand her orders…just follow them.’ “All right!
Head out!” He ordered.
Meanwhile, on
the Argo Setsuna sat with Nova, while they watched the radar, and Nova
explained how things worked.
“Uh…Mom? Do you seriously think we could be attacked? I mean it’s
been months-no, YEARS since the last attack.” Setsuna asked.
“Setsuna, you
never know what could happen in space, that’s why you always have be on the look out, so that you can….” Nova’s voice trailed
off in Setsuna’s mind, she tuned her mom out and continued to look at the
radar, after a minute she thought she saw something blinking on it.
“Hm?” she
leaned over and looked at it more closely-something was there! She took her
mother’s arm and brought her down to face the radar “Mother! Look!”
Nova blinked
and looked at it-she saw nothing. “Setsuna, there’s nothing there…”
“Yes there
is!” Setsuna snapped “right there!”
“Huh?” Nova
blinked, she was surprised with her daughter’s tone, but more so with what was
on the radar… “You’re right…Derek! Unidentified vessel
ahead!”
“What?” Derek
was slightly confused, he was pretty sure that there was nothing in this area…
“Yeah look!”
Eager said as the image came up on the video screen.
‘It looks
so familiar…’ Arty thought as he looked at it. (He had come on the bridge
to inform Derek of the Black Tiger’s training.) ‘Wait a minute…I know I’ve
seen that before..’ Arty began to ponder…then he
realized where he’d seen it before! He bolted from the bridge and into the
kitchen, where Invidia was sitting with Akira.
She looked at
him “Oh, Hi Arty” she stated.
“You-Come with
me!” He said as he grabbed her arm and ran her into the bridge, just as the
first shot was fired. “Now what the hell is that?” He pointed at the video
screen.
Invidia studied
the ship for a minute. ‘It looks like…No it can’t be!’ “That ship’s
Cometine!”
“Huh?!” They all looked at her.
“C...C…Cometine?! You gotta be kidding!” Setsuna told her.
“No! I
recognize the design! It’s Cometine! I know it!”
“But…How?”
Homer turned to face her.
“I don’t
know…either some other race stole our ship designs, or there’s been
collaboration for another Comet…”
“A…A New comet?!” Derek asked as he studied the image.
Meanwhile on
Razela’s ship, he sat and watched as one of his fleet’s ships approached the Argo.
‘It’s not doing anything now…’
“It doesn’t
seem to be attacking…”
“Uh yes…but…”
“No excuses! Attack!”
“All right…all
right.” ‘God! She’s a pain! I don’t know why
Desslok bothers with her!’
“Do you
seriously think there could be a second Comet?” Setsuna asked as a series of
shots was fired from the enemy carrier.
“We can worry
about that later! Nova! Do we have a bead yet?”
“About 24
megameters from us, more are coming too, there’s 3 of them.”
“What?” Derek
looked at her and Setsuna.
“They’re
bearing 30 degrees to starboard, and speed, 15 space knots and accelerating!”
Setsuna finished.
“But why would
there be Cometine ships? I thought we destroyed the comet years ago…” Mark
asked.
“Hey! Shut
up!” Invidia snapped “As long as I’m still around the Comet’s still around...in
spirit…”
“Invidia enough!” Arty said “Go back to your room we have
issues….” He stopped as the ship was racked by another set of shots from the
left.
“I’ve got a
bearing on the fleet!” Eager reported “All guns, track to 30 starboard,
elevation angle, maximum.”
“Fire!” Derek ordered.
“What the hell is going on?!” Razela asked as his ship shook from the
Argo’s blast.
“They’re
fighting back!” One of the men told him.
“That’s was not
part of the plan!”
“Yeah well
“Just forget
it! Fire the missiles! And send out more planes!”
“There’s a
wave of missiles approachin’ from the right! A big wave of
missiles!” Eager reported.
“And 6 planes
on radar!” Setsuna reported.
Derek turned
to Arty “Arty! Tell Conroy to launch the Black tigers!” Arty nodded and ran
off; he grabbed Invidia as he ran.
“No! She
stays! She could help us defeat these ships!”
“Fine…” Arty
muttered as he ran out.
After he left Derek turned to Invidia “What’s the easiest solution
to this?”
“Just keep
firing! If we try to weaken them individually first we’ll have a better chance
for bigger fire later!”
“So there’s no
kind of imitate weakness?” Setsuna asked.
“Not that I
can remember…”
“All right
then! Main guns! Open fire!” Derek ordered.
Meanwhile, in
the black tiger’s hanger, the tension was rising among the flyer-half of them
cadets. “All right!” Conroy started “I know this is
sudden, but no one said that training was going to be easy! But I know that the
academy has taught you well if you’re here! So…Hardy, Jefferson, Weston, Banks
and Rivers! Head out!”
Arty, Hardy
and the three cadets nodded, then headed out on their
planes.
“Remember the
procedures you learned and stick with them!” Arty ordered the cadets.
“Right!” One of them replied back, his name was Samuel Weston, he
was known as a goof off when not in training, but he was actually very serious
when he had to work.
“Each of you
take a different ship!” hardy told them.
All 3 nodded
and headed their separate ways.
“Two of our
carriers have been shot down!” One of the officers reported to Razela.
“What?!”
“They’ve
launched the Black tigers! I guess they figure going after the carriers
individually helps!”
“Where would the get such and idea?!”
“Strike on
both sides!” Invidia ordered.
“Right…”
Conroy nodded and gave the orders, he was on the bridge to get the orders for
the black tigers; Derek had told him that Invidia was giving orders on how to
destroy the ships.
After an hour
and a half of fighting they had taken down 3 carriers, and 2 planes, leaving 4
planes, one more carrier and Razela’s flag ship to handle.
“That thing is
huge” Setsuna said as she watched the video screen.
“It looks
huge, but it’s really not, there’s got to be a weak spot somewhere…”
“Try taking
out the main guns!” Samuel ordered the other two cadets.
“Right!” both
responded at the same time as they split up to hit and confuse the ship.
“All right! You three weaken the ship! We’ll take on the planes!”
Hardy ordered through the helmet’s communicator. As he and Arty sped toward the
4 Cometine planes.
“This is for
daring to show your faces to me again!” Arty stated as he shot 2 missiles at
one of the planes, sending it plummeting into space and into another plane.
“Wow…” Nate
Rivers said as he watched both ships explode into a pile of rubble.
“Yeah! Go to hell bastards! You’re race is supposed to be dead anyway!”
his friend, Nicholas Banks shouted.
“Hey!”
Banks cringed
as Arty’s angry yell came in his ears.
“First of all,
my wife’s Cometine! Watch what you say! Second of All this is NO time for
celebration! Do your job!”
“All right,
All right” Banks muttered under his breath, he had heard that Arty could be
strict, but not this strict…
“Stop
mutterin’ and Start flyin’ before you get killed!” Hardy ordered.
“Right!” Banks replied as he shot 2 more missiles into Razela’s
ship with Rivers following.
“If we’re
lucky we can take them down all at once!” Said Samuel as he hit the ship with a
series of short range shots, damaging the ship and startling the men inside…
“We have to
retreat!” One of them shouted.
“That would
probably be the best option…” Razela said.
“But what about Desslok and Victoria?”
“Who cares?! We’re at a loss now! Warp out!” Razela ordered, and in a
minute the ship disappeared.
“They warped
out…Cowards!” Invidia snapped. “It I was giving the orders I make them fight to
the death!”
“Be quiet
would you!” Derek said “We won! That’s the end of it! Sandor how bad is the
damage?”
“Not that bad.
Only minor repairs are needed, we’ll get to it right away.”
Derek nodded.
“Good…”
“Hey dad?”
“Yes Setsuna?”
“What does
this mean?”
“I don’t
know…”
Part 4: The
Mystery of the Cometine Attack
Space
Battleship Argo
Invidia’s
Room
1745 Hours:
Earth Time
“Invidia-Mama come eat would ya?” Akira said as she entered the room.
“Later!”
Invidia told her.
Akira sighed
and looked at her mother; she was sitting on the bed with a bunch of Cometine
diagrams around her. “What are you doing?” she asked.
“What does it
look like?” Invidia snapped.
“It looks like
you’re studying Cometine ships again…”
“Right! I just can’t figure it out! They only remaining diagrams
are here with me!” Invidia stated as she picked up a blue folder full of
various sketches that she had.
“Doesn’t Uncle
Zordar have some?” Akira asked. (Akira and Ryou call Zordar this because
calling him ‘Grandpa’ makes him feel old)
“You think
he’s conspiring against me?” Invidia asked “Once I did hear him talk about
having a son for an heir! Do you think he…he’s trying to kill me?”
“Boy you’re
fast to conclusions” Akira said as she sat on the bed. “But I don’t think he
wants to kill you, he loves you…”
“Yeah right…”
Invidia muttered.
“If he really
wanted a son for an heir do you think he would’ve cared for you all these years
after your mother died?”
“No” Invidia
told her. “Unless…he was just using me to replace Mama!
No wonder he never dated again!”
“You’re nuts…”
“Shut up
Akira, just go! I’ll figure this out…”
“Fine, but
when you decide that you don’t wanna starve, everyone’s eating dinner.”
“Yeah, yeah”
Invidia said as Akira left, she wasn’t paying attention. ‘There’s something
wrong, I just can’t figure out what!’
You did
what?!”
“We had to
warp out! They were gonna destroy us!”
“You are a
COWARD!”
“Miss. D’Avena
you don’t understand! They were going to kill us!”
“Maybe they
should’ve! You’re a bunch of useless cowards!! You can go to hell!”
“Vic…”
“Don’t call me
by my first name! You have no right!”
“She is a
pain” one of the officers told him.
Razela glared
at him “you think?!”
“No need to be
hurtful.”
“Shut up…I
don’t know why we talk to her anyway! All she wants to do is bark at us and
tell us what we did wrong.” Razela muttered under his breath.
“Isn’t that
her job?” The man asked him.
Razela glared
at him again “If you know what’s good for you you’ll shut up! We shouldn’t have
approached them yet anyway…It’s just not tactical, now they know we exist.”
“So? How are
they gonna find out what’s going on?”
0105 Hours…
”Invidia! Stop
with the research and come to bed!” Arty told her as he got up for the 3rd time
that night.
“No! I’ll
figure this out!” Invidia snapped as she worked with the computer.
Arty sighed,
she was so stubborn…”Jut give up! You’re not gonna figure it out!”
Invidia glared
at him “Yes I will!”
‘Okay she’s
had one to many cups of tea…’ Arty thought as he watched her, Invidia
didn’t drink coffee because the generals used to give it to her when she was
younger and it made her crazy…But she was just as bad with tea… “Look, give up
for now, this isn’t healthy you know.”
“Who cares?! I will figure this out! You just wait!”
“You will
figure it out tomorrow!” Arty stated as he picked her up.
“Hey! We’ve
had this conversation before! Put me down!”
“No! Because if I do you won’t go to sleep!”
“Put me down!”
Invidia snapped as she grabbed one of his hands and bit it.
“Ow!” Arty
hissed as he dropped her.
“Thank you!”
‘Okay I
guess we’re gonna do this the hard way…’ He thought as he snuck back over.
“Don’t even
think about ….”
Invidia didn’t
finished he grabbed her wrist and hit her pressure point-hard.
“Ow! Losing
feeling! Losing Feeling!”
“Now are you
coming with me?”
“No!”
‘Hmm…’ he
dropped her arm “Never mind then…” Arty gave up, he was tired and he didn’t
wanna bother fighting with her, if she wanted to stay up all night she could,
he didn’t care.
After he went
back to sleep Invidia studied the computer some more ‘I’ve scanned this
whole area…there’s nothing within range…this is just weird, really weird.
There’s got to be something somewhere! A new race, a new empire, a new planet!
Anything! If only we could extend the scanner’s range!’
Early the next
morning Misako had her own searching to do. She knew she had been right, but
she didn’t know who or what was out to get them.
“Morning!”
“Huh?” Misako
turned around.
“Sorry did I
scare you?” Setsuna asked.
“No, just startled…”
“What are you
doing up so early anyway?”
“I couldn’t
sleep, you?”
“Orders, All
of us cadets have to be up and ready to go by 0600.” Setsuna explained “my
father wants to teach us responsibility.”
“You don’t
need to learn it…” Misako told her.
“Huh?”
“Astra does!”
Setsuna
covered her mouth and laughed silently “I know…”
“You want me
to come with you? I don’t have anything to do…”
“Fine” Setsuna
said as she left the room.
As they walked
down the hall Misako noticed something in Invidia’s room, she ignored it at
first, but halfway down the hall backed up and went in.
“What are you
doing?” Setsuna asked.
“Just go! I’ll
be there soon” Misako ordered.
“Okay” Setsuna
left and Misako went over to the desk. Invidia had fallen asleep while working
last night and had her head on her arms, which covered a bunch of Cometine ship
diagrams, there were about 20 more scattered about.
‘How long
did she stay here?’ Misako asked her self as she rifled through the
diagrams ‘and why does she have these?’ She picked up a couple and
looked through them; they were well detailed and scaled. She put them down and
studied the information on the computer; the screen had several more diagrams
and scans of the current area. ‘I don’t get it, why does she need these? Is
she…I mean are we looking for the same thing?!’
“Misako?”
“Huh?” This
time Arty was behind her. “Oh, sorry I was just curious, I mean…”
“It’s all right, I know you’re as baffled as we are. And you’re trying
to figure out why there’s Cometines in this area”
“Right, but
how did you…?”
“I took a
guess.”
“And…?” she
pointed to Invidia.
“She’s looking
for the same answers. She doesn’t understand it either, she spent the whole
night studying old diagrams and scans, I’m assuming she crashed somewhere
between two-thirty and four AM.”
“Did she find
anything?”
“I don’t know,
ask her later.” Arty told her as she picked Invidia up, being careful not to
move her around too much and wake her.
“Okay.” Misako
told him as she left, after a couple minutes he followed and she went back in. ‘Okay
let’s see what she’s got here…’ Misako thought as she began to type. ‘Diagram,
diagram, scanning, theories…I don’t see much…my powers are a better source than
this! But it helps…’ She continued to study it. ‘I wonder…is there a way
to extend the scan? I mean if we could see outside of this galaxy it might help
us to see what’s coming… whatever it is…I wonder if Mama might know something…’
To be
continued with Episode 4…