Space Battleship Yamato 5
Part 1: The
Beginning of the 2nd Generation
A Star
Blazers alternate universe
By: Ami Meitsu
Episode 1:
2220: The Prologue
Part 1:
Enter Astra
Friday,
March 4th 2220
0203 Hours:
Earth Time
The Earth
Defense forces building was right near the center of the city. Over the years
it had grown to be a bigger and better force, along with the EDF’s
“Where’d she
come from?” One of the cadets asked his friend.
“I don’t know but
she’s beautiful, huh?” the other whispered.
She ignored
them and kept walking until she found what she was looking for-the meeting
room, one of the meetings had just ended, and inside the room was none other
than Commodore Derek Wildstar of the Argo. He was both the Argo’s Captain and the Commodore in
charge of the Academy. Nowadays, in peacetime, the Argo was often assigned as the Academy Training Ship.
“Knock,
knock,” the young girl said while entering the room.
Derek turned
around and looked her over, he immediately recognized her “Astra!”
She smiled and
he walked over to give her a hug.
“Look at you,
you’re all grown up” he told her.
Astra:
Wait, wait! This is probably confusing huh? Well then let’s backtrack a bit.
2182…
A very young
and very cute baby Derek Wildstar sat in front of his parents with a
bunch of foam blocks and…
Astra: No!!
Not that Far!! Let’s try 2201…
2201…
On the Argo
Derek and Nova watched as a bright light overcame Prince Zordar’s huge
flagship.
Aboard the
ship were not only Zordar himself, but his daughter, Princess Invidia and
Generals Bleak and Dyre.
“Not you again!” Invidia hissed as Trelania
appeared before them.
“Zordar your
actions may seem unforgivable to some but I see something beyond that” Trelania
told him.
“And just vhat
is that?!” Invidia glared at the woman, a woman who should be dead!
“What I mean
is that if you’re willing to try and mend your ways…I will give you a second
chance” Trelaina finished. Then, she started to glow a yellow-orange color and
her glow surrounded the huge flagship.
“What’s going
on?” Invidia quickly looked around as the ship started to disintegrate.
“Can she
really be helping us?” General Dyre asked.
As that went
on, then only thing Derek and Nova saw was the disappearing ship, so,
naturally, they thought Zordar was dead, and after it had disappeared Trelania
appeared before them again.
“You’ll se me
again, Star Force, and I’ll be searching for you, especially Mark…” then
Trealania’s image faded away.
Astra: Astra:
After that Trelania came to Earth with Zordar and everyone else. They were all
tried and sent to a high security prison on Iscandar, except for Invidia, she
was set free and no one knows why….
2220…
“So how have
you been?” Derek iquired as he looked his niece over-that’s right Astra
was his niece. (No, Sasha does not exist in this world.) Astra Wildstar
was the 18-year-old first child of Queen Starsha and Alex Wildstar on Iscandar.
Their second child was Astra’s young brother Alex Wildstar Jr. or just “Junior”
for short. Junior was 17 and a cadet in training for the Iscandarian Defense
Force or the IDF as it was called, you see over the years Alex had work to
build up his own fleet, and with help from Earth it was now a great force.
“I’m fine”
Astra said “and so is everyone else.”
“Well, where
are they?” Derek looked around her, knowing that Astra never came alone.
“Oh I came
alone, and my mother never found out, Dad knows though.”
“Astra…” Derek
sighed… didn’t she know how dangerous it was to travel through space alone? Or
the trouble she could get into?
“What is it?”
Astra asked.
“Never mind,
let’s just take you back to my house, and NOW.” Derek then took her by the hand
and led her out.
Part 2:
Setsuna and Starsha
Wildstar
Residence
0245 Hours:
Earth Time
After Derek
and Nova had gotten married in 2201, they spent 2 weeks before finding a quiet,
relaxing place outside of the city. It wasn’t too far outside, just a little
off the city border in a small country area.
“Still the
same place, eh?” Astra asked as her uncle pulled the air car up to the house.
Derek didn’t
say anything, he just walked Astra up; it wasn’t that he was mad at her, just
annoyed. It was one thing to come to Earth alone, but to come without informing
your family?-well in this case just her mother. As they entered the house Nova
emerged from the kitchen, and she had a wooden spoon in her hand.
“Hey, Derek”
she said after giving her husband a peck on the cheek. Astra noticed she had
aged well; Nova still had a very youthful appearance for a woman of almost
forty.
“Hi” Astra
looked at her.
“Astra?!” Nova
looked at her niece in shock “Darn? Where did you come form? Your parents
usually tell us when you guys are coming.”
“What’s going
on?” said a serious but gentle voice from the kitchen, and in walked a young
lady about the same age as Astra. She had long light brown hair that almost
reached her wrist, and she had several small bangs across her face. Like Nova
she carried a spoon, and she wore an apron over her clothes-a black jean skirt
that fell to her knees and a white shirt with elbow length sleeves. “Astra!”
“Setsuna!”
Astra exclaimed and hugged her cousin.
In case you
haven’t figured it out; Setsuna is the daughter of Nova and Derek Wildstar.
Setsuna, like Astra, is eighteen years old, but unlike her, Setsuna is a cadet
in training; she’s a student at the Earth Defense Forces academy, and in about
2 weeks she was going on a training session that took place on the Argo.
“So what
brings you here?” Setsuna asked.
“Well I came
to see you guys and I had to do it quickly…” Astra told her.
“What?”
“My mother has
no idea I’m here.”
“WHAT?!” Nova
exclaimed rather loudly “Astra Wildstar!
Why would you do that? Do you know how worried your mother must be?! What in
all the 7 hells gave you the idea that it was okay to do this?”
“Well…I uh…”
Astra just stared at her-it was rare for her aunt to be this mad ‘I don’t know
what I’m supposed to say…’ she thought.
“Nova, calm
down!” Derek told her “It’s all right! We’ll try to contact Starsha and let her
know that Astra is with us.”
“Dad, don’t
you think Uncle Alex would have told her by now?” Setsuna asked. In her opinion
it seemed logical that Alex would inform Starsha of her daughter’s whereabouts,
and if not then there was probably something wrong with him.
“It depends.
Astra how long have you been gone?” Derek looked at his niece.
She started
counting her fingers “1, 2, 3…about 5 days.”
“Then she
probably does know, but you should get in contact with her anyway.”
“How?”
Derek thought
for a minute-it was hard to contact Iscandar with it being light-years away. ‘I
could always take her to the Iscandarian embassy, but that could be hard, then
again she is the Princess of Iscandar’
“We’ll find a
way.” Nova told her family. “Don’t worry.”
“I’m not
worried.” Astra said. The truth of the matter was that Astra really didn’t
care-sure she’d probably be in huge trouble, but her father knew, so she
figured that it had to count for something…right?
Iscandar
Friday
March 18, 2220
0247 Hours:
Earth Time
“Astra went where?!” Starsha asked her husband who
was sitting on one of the couches in their many sitting rooms.
“She went to
Earth” Alex told her “I allowed her to take one of the ships to visit Derek and
Nova, and she left about 5 or 6 days ago.”
“WHY?!”
Starsha grabbed him and started to shake the poor man by his shoulders, that is
what he was afraid of. Starsha was usually quiet and serene, but when it came
to the children she became a whole other person. “How could you let her go
alone?! How? What is wrong with your brain?”
“Starsha!”
Alex took her arms off and tried to stop her. ‘how can I explain things if
she doesn’t calm down?’
“What?”
Starsha asked she blinked and looked at him; her look said ‘I’m waiting for an
answer.’ But inside she was thinking ‘what the hell were you thinking?’
“Look, I told
Astra a long time ago that she could visit them, I even taught her how to fly,
and the different aspects of space etc…”
“I don’t care!
You can’t let her go off on her own, it’s dangerous! Space is full of dangers!
Warping is dangerous, there are space pirates, cut-throats and assorted weirdoes
wandering the space lanes, and there could be many other hostile races no one
knows about yet.”
“Calm down, if
I know Derek he’ll find a way to contact us.” ‘I hope…’
Earth
Wildstar
Residence
Friday,
March 4th 2220
2245 Hours:
Earth Time
Later that
night, Astra lay out on the bed in the Wildstar’s guest room. She wore a set of
blue pajamas she borrowed from Setsuna and looked up at the darkened ceiling.
“Am I worrying
Mama by doing this?” she asked herself out loud.
“Doing what?”
“Huh?” Astra
turned over on her side to find her cousin standing in the doorway; she leaned
against the left side of it in a black camisole and dark blue pajama pants. “Oh
I kind of ran off without her permission, my father knows though.”
“Well…”
Setsuna stared as she walked over and sat on the bed. “If I know Aunt Starsha,
and I do, there is a big chance that she’s worried.”
“How big?”
“99.99999999
percent.”
“Okay we’re
the extra 7 nines necessary?” Astra asked.
“Yes” Setsuna
nodded. “But listen, you can ask her yourself, my father said he’d take you to
the Iscandarian embassy tomorrow to get in contact with her.”
“Why wasn’t I
informed about this?”
Setsuna
shrugged “I don’t know, my parents do things and I don’t know…they don’t tell
me everything!”
Astra giggled
“So do mine, but in a different way…”
“Whatever”
Setsuna shook her head and left.
Part 3:
Astra’s confession and ship preparations
Saturday,
March 5th 2220
0850 Hours:
Earth Time
“Do I have to go?”
Astra complained as Nova placed a breakfast plate in front of her.
“Yes” Derek
said as he sipped the coffee Setsuna had made for him. Earlier Astra asked why
Setsuna made it, but he didn’t answer, the truth was partially because most of
the time Nova’s coffee was horrible and Setsuna was the one who offered.
“Your mother
has to know” Nova placed two more plates on the table and sat down herself.
“Dad probably
already told her” Astra muttered as she stuck her fork into the blueberry
pancakes on her plate. Nova had made the pancakes. Unlike her coffee, the rest
of her cooking was pretty good.
“Yes, but you
have to tell her that you’re all right, that’s probably what she’s worried
about most.” Setsuna informed her.
Derek and Nova
nodded, though they both thought that Astra probably knew that already. Even
she should know that Starsha was very protective of Astra and her brother and
would do anything for them.
Iscandarian
Embassy
1024 Hours:
Earth Time
At 9:00 Derek
and his family climbed into the air car and headed to a small island off of the
city’s cost where the embassy was located. The embassy was a tall building
located in the center of the island. But why would they take her there? You
see, they had set up these receiver satellites that allowed them to communicate
with the faraway planet; it was one of the few sites on Earth where they could
communicate with Iscandar on the long-range Space Net.
“I hate you
people,” Astra pouted as they approached the building.
“Really?”
Setsuna asked, she didn’t believe that her cousin really hated her family.
Astra turned
her head the other way.
Setsuna sighed
and shook her head, Astra was so stubborn, and she kind of reminded Setsuna of
Alex-he could be stubborn when he wanted to be.
They rode in
silence the rest of the way, Astra pouting and Setsuna-well she was working on
something but Astra couldn’t figure out what.
After a while
they came up to the embassy where they were greeted by a couple of ambassadors
and…Captain Mark Venture.
Mark was there
with some Earth Defense force members who communicated back and forth with the
Iscandarian Defense Force. With him were Trelania and his daughter-Misako.
After Trelania had decided to save Zordar and his crew, she came to Earth
herself (No one knows how she survived, and she had never explained how) There
she met up with Mark again and they had gotten married and now they had their
daughter Misako. Misako could be described as a miniature Trelania; her hair
was parted the same way, and she wore a dress done in the same style as her
mother’s. The only difference was that Misako’s was an off-the-shoulder dress.
The other thing she inherited from her mother was her power, but unlike
Trelania Misako doesn’t have a continuous glow, she only glows when she uses
her powers.
“Astra!” she
called as she ran to hug her friend, Astra just stood there. “Okay what up? You
usually love to be hugged.” Misako told her.
“She’s in
trouble,” Derek said as he placed a hand on Astra’s shoulder “…she left without
permission and now she has to talk to her parents.”
Misako nodded…
“I see.”
“Then, shall
we go in?” Mark asked.
Derek nodded
and they led Astra inside to the communications room and sat her in front of a
video panel.
“You remember
how to work this, right?” Setsuna asked.
Astra nodded and
punched in what she needed to while they left, after awhile Junior’s face
appeared on screen.
‘Astra? What
the hell? Where are you?” he asked.
“Never mind
Junior! Go get Mom!” Astra snapped, because she didn’t want to talk to him and
she was already pissed off. Junior would just make it worse.
“All right,
all right” he sighed then walked off the screen, a couple minutes later Starsha
appeared on screen.
“Astra! Where
are you? Are you all right? You know you’re gonna be in huge trouble when you
come back!”
“Mom, I’m
fine, I know I shouldn’t have taken off without telling you but I’m fine I’m
with Uncle Derek and Aunt Nova, don’t worry.”
“Don’t tell me
not to worry! You disappear for five days and you have the nerve to tell me not
to worry!” Starsha snapped at her daughter, Astra knew very well that Starsha
cared a great deal for her and she didn’t like it when her children made her
worry.
“Look I’m
sorry, but I can’t come back now.” Astra said, she knew it would take awhile to
get prepared and she did want to stay for awhile.
“I have an
idea” Derek informed Starsha as he re-entered the room. “In about 2 weeks the Argo
is scheduled for take-off, if you would allow us to take Astra on the ship
we’ll reroute our course to bring her back home.”
“Astra what do
you think?” Starsha asked “it’s all right with me, as long as I know you’re
safe, but you don’t have to.”
“I want to”
Astra said the she nodded at her uncle “I’ll go.”
Part 4:
Academy Preparations
Monday,
March 7th 2220
0905 Hours:
Earth Time
The seniors of
the Academy had all been called into a small assembly in the auditorium of the
school to talk about their placements during the Cadet Training Patrol.
“All right”
Derek started as he looked around at all the kids in the huge room. Being
commodore of the school meant that he was the one to give the speeches and
inform the student. “In two weeks you will all be assigned a place on wither a
ship or cargo cruiser for training, know now that you’re not all going to be
placed on an ideal ship but….”
‘Blah,
blah, blah’ Setsuna thought as her father droned on and on, he had already
told her this 5 times while practicing his speech so she knew exactly what
was gonna happen. The deal was that they’d be assigned and area, the ship would
take off, they’d be training in their major subject of studies, possibly be on
a mission and come home. After a couple minutes she just tuned him out and
started fiddling with her uniform skirt. That’s right…Setsuna wore a dress as a
uniform, she had refused to wear the jumpsuit because it didn’t look right on
her and she hated it. So instead she wore a modified yellow and black uniform
with a short skirt that fell a bit above her knees with knee high yellow boots.
“I look
forward to seeing some of you on the Argo-dismissed!” Derek finished as
Setsuna tuned back in.
“It’s about
time!” she whispered as she left, ‘a week and 3 days before the Argo takes
off…’ she thought ‘I’m ready.’
To Be
Continued…