Space
Battleship Yamato 5
Part 1: The
Beginning of the 2nd Generation
A Star
Blazers alternate universe
Episode 4:
Rising Suspicions…
Part 1:
Information
Space
Battleship Argo
Thursday,
March 17th 2220
0708 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
‘Come on!
There’s got to be more useful information somewhere!’ Misako thought as she
sieved through several documents of Cometine diagrams.
“What are you
doing?”
“Huh?” Misako
leaned her head back and saw Invidia standing behind her.
“Well?”
Invidia asked.
‘I thought
she was asleep…’ Misako thought as she kept looking up at her.
“Well…I…uh…you know you’re half-naked…”
“I know”
Invidia told her as she pulled her falling bra strap back up on her shoulder,
she assumed that after she had fallen asleep Arty put her to bed and took her
dress off, leaving her in only her underwear and slip, all of which were black.
“Now, what are you doing?”
“I’m…uh…”
“Hm?”
“I’m looking
at your diagrams. I wanna figure out what’s going on…”
“Well, it’s
none of your business! Don’t you have something better to do then meddle in my
affairs?!” Invidia snapped.
“Who said it
was your affair?” Misako snapped back, just because it involved Cometines
that didn’t mean only Invidia had to know what was going on.
“Look I’m the
only one on this ship who understands Cometines and their morals! I’m the one
that has the diagrams! Therefore it’s my affair! And you need to stay
out of it!”
“No! You just
don’t want me to figure it out before you do because I was right about the
enemy! You’re trying to beat me to the conclusion!”
“Please, I’m
not like that! You think I’d hold a grudge over something like that! You only
knew something as coming because you’re a freak! And your mother is too! So why
don’t you take your freaky little powers and zap yourselves out of here!”
Misako glared
at her and stomped out of the room ‘God she’s evil when she hasn’t gotten
any sleep! Then again she’s evil anyway…either way she doesn’t have to be so
rude! It’s not just her affair! It’s everyone’s affair! If we don’t know we’ll
never defeat them!’
She didn’t pay
attention to where she was going, she was too angry to care, and halfway down
the hall she ended up running into something and fell down. When she looked up
again she saw Arty sitting in front of her.
“You okay?”
Arty asked her “You look angry…”
“I am angry.”
“Why?” Arty
asked as he helped her up.
“Invidia”
Misako stated.
“What’d she
do?”
“She
practically yelled at me for trying to figure out what was going on with this
attack, you know she talks tough for a half-naked woman.”
“Wait-she’s
up?”
Misako nodded.
“But I just
put her to bed about two hours ago…”
“Well she’s
up…have fun arguing with her!” Misako said as she left him.
‘Yeah, Well
I’m not arguing anymore’ Arty thought as he headed down the hallway behind
Misako. ‘She can do what she wants; I have more important things to worry
about…’
Black
Tigers Hanger
0730 Hours
“All right,
I’m glad to see that most of you showed up on time.” Arty stated as he
glanced at the hanger full of cadets, six of which were missing. “But, we have
no time to waste, from now on anyone who’s late stays to clean the deck during
dinner, do I make my self clear?”
“Yes Sir!” the
group told him.
“All right,
now we’ve spilt you into two groups, group one is going to join Hardy and
myself outside for some flight training, and group 2 is going to work with
Sandor on repairing the broken fighter, the list is on the board.”
After he
finished all of the cadets got up and crowded around the board, while the
missing 6 tried to sneak in behind Arty…
“Hold it!”
Arty barked at them. “Why are you late?”
“We...uh…” One
if them started.
“Never mind,
just join a group!” Arty sighed; he hoped it wouldn’t be like this all the
time, if they were gonna join the force they had to be more responsible! It
seemed as if they acted differently in battle, there they were focused…now they
were just being lazy ‘these are supposed to be high-ranked seniors, they probably
thought this was just gonna be a break-it’s not!’
“Okay Miss
D’Avena, care to explain this?!” Desslok barked as he threw down a folder on
the small black table in front of her, she was sitting on the couch in her
room, trying to act like she normally did, hoping that the folder wasn’t what
she thought it was...
“Nothing…”
“Really?
Because Razela asked me to do something about your orders.”
“Orders..?”
“Your orders
of attack! Who said it was alright for you to attack the Star Force! I gave no
orders!”
“I know, I
did”
“I never said
they were! I only said that we might have to fight them! I didn’t say I
wanted to, nor did I say that I wanted to conquer Earth!” Desslok snapped.
“Why? It could
add to your empire and help us gain more power.”
“Victoria,
Earth is also a valuable ally, and it would be easier if we work with them,
not against them!”
He watched her
go ‘she only thinks that way because she was raised by her mother on
Cometine morals, she understands nothing of government…though she could be
right- on a low scale.’
“Come on you
stupid thing!” Invidia snapped as she watched the computer. “There’s gotta be
something here…”
“Invidia-Mama?”
Akira asked as she came into the room.
“Who gave you
permission to come in?” Invidia snapped.
“Well…no one,
but I am your daughter and…”
“Don’t care,
I’m busy, LEAVE” Invidia raised her voice as she pushed Akira out of the room.
“I...uh…Never
mind!” Akira said to no one in particular as she stomped off. ‘Why is she
being so mean anyway? I didn’t do a thing!’
“Okay…Now that
she’s out of the picture…” Invidia muttered as she looked at the computer
screen, “I can get on with my search…” ‘I will find it!’ she thought as
she scanned in a couple more diagrams.
0900 Hours…
“I don’t get
it” Setsuna told her mother as she looked at the radar. “The scan comes up
with nothing,
but if there was attack then there’s gotta be more out there-right?”
“I don’t know
Setsuna” said Nova as she studied the results. “But if there is we have to be
on the look out.”
Setsuna nodded
and yawned, the whole thing was getting a little of dull.
“Setsuna, if
you think that this is so boring then why don’t you just join Astra in the
kitchen? You can help her eat doughnuts” Nova said.
Setsuna
giggled, she knew her mother was only teasing. “It’s not all that boring; I
just want to know why we have to study the same scans over and over…”
“You know she
has a point” Nova said to Derek, who was at his post in the captain’s chair-it
had been his idea to study the area.
“What we need
to do is extend the range of the scan, and get a better view of the area.” Mark
suggested.
“But how?”
Setsuna pondered.
“You know
Invidia-Mama’s been working on her own scans” Akira stated as she entered the
bridge.
“Akira, you
know that you have restrictions” Derek told her.
“I’m vaguely
aware of that, but my father was busy so he asked me to give to this” Akira
moved up and handed Derek a folder. “It’s Conroy’s report on the Black Tiger’s
progress…”
“Good, now
what’s this about Invidia’s scans?”
“Well for
awhile she’s been in her room studying old Cometine diagrams and scans of the
area, she’s looking for the same thing you are…”
“For once”
Setsuna muttered.
“Setsuna” Nova
scolded silently, she knew it was the truth but she didn’t want Setsuna saying
things like that.
“All right,
I’ll go talk to her and see what she knows, Setsuna, keeps those scannings in
hand we could use them later. Nova try another scan, and see how far we can
extend it.” Derek ordered as he left. ‘It shouldn’t be too hard to get the
information, unless Invidia’s in one of her stubborn moods again…’ he
thought as he headed down the various hallways of the ship, after a long walk
he finally found and entered Invidia’s room, where, like Akira said, she was
studying Cometine diagrams.
“Uh… Invidia?”
“Huh?” She
muttered without looking up.
“Okay, can you
look at me?” Derek asked, as he picked up one of her diagrams.
“Huh?” Invidia
looked up “oh it’s you.”
“Yes me.”
Derek put the paper down and for the first time since he entered he noticed
that she was barely dressed. He looked her over real quick, she looked tired.
“Are you
done?” Invidia hissed.
Derek looked
at her; a little embarrassed that she noticed he was kind of…staring.
“Well?”
“Oh, sorry, I
just wanted to see your scans.”
“No.”
“But we need
them, if we add them to the information we already have it could help us find
out what’s going on.” Derek informed her.
“No! The
information I collect is to stay with me!” Invidia snapped as she stood up.
“What I have is really none of your business!! This is my race and my business!
You’re just…you’re just…” Invidia trailed off as she began to fall forward
“Derek…” she muttered.
“Invidia!”
Derek caught her. “How long have you been here?”
“Almost all
night…” Invidia murmured.
‘No wonder
she’s so weak, but where’s Arty?’ Derek sighed and picked Invidia up, she
looked like she was about to fall to the floor.
Invidia looked
up at him, then glanced down at herself and blushed slightly when she realized
that after he had picked her up one of the straps on her slip had moved halfway
down her arm and he could see part of her bra.
“Invidia why
are your cheeks red?” Derek asked.
Invidia shook
her head quickly “No reason!”
Derek sighed
and placed her on her bed, she looked at him and he put his hand to her head.
“Hmm, you are a little warm but that’s probably nothing. And tell me, when was
the last time you ate? I didn’t see you at dinner last night or breakfast…”
“That’s
because I haven’t eaten since noon yesterday.”
“Invidia
that’s not healthy” Derek informed her.
“I know”
Invidia muttered as she looked down.
“Well never
mind that” Derek told her as he pulled the blanket onto her “Just go to sleep.”
“But I don’t…”
Invidia trailed off as she began to lie down. She had to admit, she was tired
and lying down felt nice.
‘I’ll tell
Arty later…’ Derek thought as he left, but before he did he grabbed a
couple documents off of her desk and started rifling through them. ‘Hmm,
This stuff is a big help, I’m sure we’ll find something with the combined
scans…’
Part 2: Missing
Pieces
Space
Battleship Argo
Captains
Quarters
1245 Hours:
Earth Time
“So Invidia’s
scan cover one part of the area while ours cover another, but that still
doesn’t help.” Setsuna stated, she sat on her father’s bed looking over the
scan results with her parents and Arty.
“Where’d you
get these anyway?” Arty asked Derek, he knew very well that Invidia wouldn’t
willingly give him her scans.
“I stole them
after she went to sleep.” Derek admitted.
“Well then,
don’t be surprised if she goes after you.”
“I don’t think
she’d touch me, she’s threatened me, but never hit me.”
‘Can we get
back to the situation at hand?” Nova asked.
“Right, now I
don’t think we need to extend the scan, I think we need to scan another area.”
Derek suggested.
“He’s got a
point, I mean we’ve only covered about a quarter of this area” Setsuna pointed
out.
“True” Arty
mused “and maybe I can talk to Invidia about helping you.”
“Yeah right,
she doesn’t want to share anything with us.” Nova told him.
“I can find a
way to convince her…”Art said slyly.
“Okay, I don’t
even wanna know what you’re thinking” Setsuna stated as she got up and left.
‘It’s funny
Akira’s that way too…’ Arty thought as he watched her, then he left
himself.
After they
were gone Nova turned to Derek “you know, what Arty said got me thinking…” she
purred.
“About what?”
Derek asked.
“I think you
know what” Nova whispered.
“Later, I
promise.”
“You better
keep that promise” Nova told him, before getting up and leaving the room
herself.
‘I will...’
Derek thought as she left.
Meanwhile Arty
decided to head back to the Black Tiger’s hanger, but first he wanted to see
how Invidia was doing, earlier Derek had told him that he put her to bed but he
wanted to see her. To his surprise she was actually asleep when he came in, she
looked so peaceful and he hated to wake her, but she also needed to eat
something and they were gonna eat lunch soon. He sat on the bed and began
shaking her. “Invidia? Honey? Its time to get up…”
“Leave me
alone” Invidia muttered and turned away from him.
“I can’t, now
get up” Arty shook her harder.
“What?”
Invidia growled and sat up.
Arty got off
the bed and picked her up “Hi, Princess…” he greeted her as he held her close.
“Why’d you
wake me up? I was having a good dream” Invidia whined.
“You have to
get up and eat something, lunch will be ready soon. And you didn’t take a
shower last night, so I figure you might as well take one now.”
“What are you
saying?”
“Nothing I
just think you need to get cleaned up is all.”
“That would be
easier if you put me down.” Invidia hissed.
“I thought you
like being cuddled” Arty teased.
“Not now.”
Arty sighed
and put her down, she went into the bathroom and he headed to the hanger.
Meanwhile, on
the comet Victoria was doing her own work in their hanger. She watched as some
of the ships from battle were repaired and new ones were checked.
“Pick up the
pace you lazy assholes!” she growled as she began writing stuff down on a
clipboard she had.
“We’re working
as fast as we can Miss. D’Avena” one of them told her.
“Then work
faster! I want everything finished by the evening-you have until midnight, GOT
IT?! Or there will be executions!”
“You can’t
order us executed!” Several of them shouted.
“Watch me!”
Victoria hissed before she turned around and left with her cloak trailing
behind her. ‘If that doesn’t get them to work harder nothing will. And if
they can get it done before Desslok finds out I could use it to my advantage…’ “And
destroy that damned ship!” she thought the last part out loud by mistake. She
looked around ‘Thank god no one heard that…’ she looked around one more
time to be sure and headed to Desslok’s throne room to give him her versionof
the report. ‘What he doesn’t know can’t hurt him…’
“I don’t get
it” Rivers complained as Arty worked with him on engine repairs.
“What’s not to
get?” Arty asked as he looked at the diagram he had issued him, it was fairly
simple for any trained cadet to follow.
“Every time I
connect these wires it short circuits!”
“What color
are the wires?”
“Red and
blue…” Rivers stated.
“No wonder,
you don’t connect two different color wires together!” Arty informed him.
“Oh…”
“Well it’s all
right; all you have to do is…”
“Arty!”
“Huh?” Arty
turned around and saw Invidia walking toward him wearing her all blue gown.
She stopped in
front of him “What are you doing?” she asked.
“Nothing” Arty
stood up, got behind her and put his arms around her waist. “So you’re all
clean now Princess?” he pulled her closer to him.
“Arty stop it”
Invidia laughed. Then she realized the cadets in the hanger were staring.
“What? You never seen people in love before?” she asked.
“She’s got a
pet name” Weston laughed.
“Why you…”
Invidia growled and tried to approach him but Arty grabbed her.
“All of you
get back to work. And for your information she is known as Princess Invidia,
it’s not a pet name.”
“Thank you”
Invidia whispered and gave him a quick kiss.
“Anytime.”
Arty smiled at her.
“And Arty….”
“Huh?”
“Watch the
affectionate names around the cadets, you know very well that Princess is a
title as well as a pet name and I get messed with enough.” Invidia told him.
“Got it, wait
for me outside and we’ll go eat in a couple minute.”
“Okay” Invidia
nodded and gave him a small peck on the cheek before she left.
“Aww!” The
cadets chanted in unison.
“Back to
work!” Arty ordered.
“But it’s
lunch time…” One of them complained.
“Back to
work” Arty ordered, he hated it when they complained like that.
“But you’re
going!”
“I’m in
charge, and right now I have time off, you need to stay here and finish
your projects! You can come eat after they’re done!” Arty walked off.
“He’s probably
gonna go play around with his Princess.” On of them whispered.
“I heard
that!” Arty turned around “One more comment like that and I will shoot you and
your plane out the Wave Motion Gun Barrel! Are we clear?!”
“Yes Sir…”
“Good” Arty
nodded and headed out in the hall. When came out Invidia immediately grabbed a
hold of his arm. “What’s this about?” he asked.
“Nothing”
Invidia stated, as she began walking with him, well technically she was hanging
on him, but, he didn’t care.
“So what is so
interesting about those scans you’ve been working on?” Arty asked.
“It’s none of
your business, so stay out of it!” Invidia snapped.
“Okay” After
that Arty didn’t ask anymore questions, he just kept walking.
"You
think there’s something missing in these scans?” Setsuna asked, currently she
was with Nova, Trelania and Misako in the mess hall overlooking the scans they
had acquired.
“I don’t know
it’s possible…” Trelania picked up one of the documents.
“I tried my
own scan, but it didn’t’ work” Misako told them.
“Your power
probably isn’t strong enough to do something like that” Trelania said, then she
picked up two more documents. “I could try and help you with that, and see what
forces we pick up.”
“Are you
telling me that you could’ve helped with that the whole time?” Nova asked.
“Possibly.”
“Okay then,
next time we run into a mysterious enemy…Start with that!”
“Sorry”
Trelania muttered.
“It doesn’t
matter; the important thing is we’re getting the information we need” Setsuna
told them as she picked up another diagram and moved it, sending another paper
to the ground. Unfortunately this one landed right in front of Invidia’s feet.
“What’s this?”
she picked it up and read it. “My scans…” Invidia turned and glared at the
girls and walked over"Where did you get dis?!” she slammed the
paper down on the table.
“Derek said he
took them while you were asleep.” Trelania told her.
‘Derek! I
should’ve figured as much!’ Invidia looked around and saw him at a table
with Mark, Eager and a couple other members of the bridge crew. “Derek! What is
dis?!” Invidia snapped, she help the paper in front of his face.
“It looks like
a diagram.” Derek stated.
“Yes, it’s my
diagram that you stole! Why?!”
“Invidia we
needed them.”
“I don’t care”
Invidia barked “They’re mine! And you had no right to take them! Is that why
you put me to bed? So you could steal my stuff?!”
“No, I did
that because you looked worn out, and what you were doing wasn’t healthy. I
only took the diagrams then because you won’t willingly give them up, they’ve helped
us Invidia. Why can’t you understand that?”
“Why can’t you
stay out of my business?!”
“Because it’s
our business too!” Derek barked “If we don’t figure this out and end it soon we
could be in another war! And if you don’t like it then leave! No one said you
had to be here! And further more no one cares if you’re here or not! You’re
nothing but trouble, we don’t need you!” Most of those things he said weren’t
true, they were said out of anger, and right now he didn’t care.
Invidia stared
at him in shock as tears began to form in her eyes, normally she didn’t put up
with this kind of thing, but it was quite harsh coming from Derek. “You never
wanted me here…no one did, to you I’m just…I’m just a useless bitch aren’t I?!”
Derek said
nothing, but the cadets did.
“You’re
right!”
“She just
makes things worse!”
‘They’re
all against me! And there’s too many of them to face alone…they never wanted me
here…no one did!’ Invidia thought, then she ran, weeping angrily as she
came into her room. ‘I hate this! I’m tired of being…’
“…Made out to
be a fool!” Desslok snapped as Victoria presented him with her report. “Do you
think I’m that stupid? You’re lying to me!”
“I am not”
Victoria stated “How dare you perceive me as a liar!”
“Oh really?
Because I got a different report from Talan about 10 minutes ago!”
‘Damn it
Talan! I’m gonna kill you later!’
“You know
there are consequences for lying to me.”
“So what if I
did?” Victoria asked “it’s not like you’ve never lied before, I mean no one
told your Earther friends about this did they?”
“I will deal
with that when the time comes, and why would you have resentment for Earth?
Half of your blood is Earth blood.” Desslok stated.
Victoria’s
eyes widened a bit “How did you know that?!”
“We do have
background checks Miss. D’Avena.”
“So what’s
that gotta do with me? I was raised on Cometine morals you know, and we don’t
like Earthers very much.”
“Well, if you
don’t change your ways soon, you’ll be out of here! Got it?”
“Yes Sir...”
Victoria muttered and left. ‘Like I said before, what he doesn’t know won’t
hurt him; all I have to do is give the orders!’ With that she headed back
into the hanger. “All right, forget what I said earlier I want all of you
finished and ready to be dispatched at 1800 hours!”
“What?!” they
all glared at her.
“That’s
impossible!” Someone shouted.
“You heard me!
Just hurry up! After you’re done head out! Target: Argo!”
“But Desslok
didn’t say…”
“He told me to
tell you, and if you ask him he probably won’t remember it, so don’t ask! Just
work!”
Arty didn’t go
after Invidia, he figured it was better to leave her alone, he figured Derek
should be the one to talk to her anyway, he started the whole thing.
“Why’d you do
that anyway?” he asked.
“I told you I
didn’t know what I was saying” Derek told Arty “It was an accident.”
“Yes but you
got everyone else started” Nova told him “you know how that gets to her, here
she has no power, and they don’t take her seriously. She’d fix it if they did.”
“Go talk to
her” Arty and Nova said together. They looked at each other
“Weird…” Arty
said.
“Yah” Nova
nodded. “But anyway” she leaned closer to Derek “If you don’t fix this you can
drop that promise of yours.” She whispered.
“Fine” Derek
sighed and stood up. He didn’t really want to but he knew he had to go. When he
came into the room Invidia was sitting on the floor, with her head resting on
her arms on the bed.
“Invidia?” he
asked.
She glared at
him “What do you want?!”
He saw that
she was still crying, but look on her face told him it was out of anger.
“I wanted to
apologize for what I said, it was unnecessary and untrue.
“Accepted”
Invidia stated.
“Then why are
you still…never mind, but listen I had to take the scans, I mean we’re all
looking for the same thing, we want answers.”
“I know that!”
Invidia snapped.
“Then why are
you so stubborn?”
Invidia
shrugged. “I guess I thought I could solve it all on my own…”
“Do you work
with us?” Derek asked. “We can find more answers if we work together, not
against each other.”
Invidia nodded
“We just have to fill in the missing elements.”
“Missing
Elements?”
“Why we were
attacked and where it came from are important factors that we don’t have!
That’s why we need a wider scan!”
“Is that a
‘Yes’?” Derek asked.
Invidia
nodded.
“Good, not
that we have you with us, it’ll be easier to find out what’s going on…” ‘What
ever that is…and we better find out soon, I’m not gonna sit and let us be
attacked again!’
Part 3: The
Second Attack! A Location Theory!
Space
Battleship Argo
Trelania’s
Room
1900 Hours:
Earth Time
“Mama is it
really possible to do some kind of scan with our power?” Misako asked, she was
sitting on the bed with Trelania while Trelania explained what she wanted to
do.
“I’m not sure,
but we could try, I mean if I can communicate without a radio we could try to
find where our attackers are coming from…”
“But you said
my powers weren’t strong enough.” Misako stated.
“That’s why
we’re going to do it together, give me your hands.”
Misako let her
mother take her hands, and Trelania began to whisper something. After a couple
seconds both women were covered in a yellow-white light.
“Just think
about it and tell me what you see” Trelania whispered.
“An endless
darkness, the end of the Andromeda galaxy…”
“There’s
something there…” Trelania muttered.
“WHAT are you
doing?”
“Huh?” Both
broke their concentration and looked at Mark.
“What’s with
the angry look?” Mark asked
“You ruined
it! We could have had something!” Trelania stated.
“Oh, I‘ll give
you something, a big something” Mark whispered, then he kissed her.
“Okay gross”
Misako shuddered.
“If you don’t
like it then leave” Trelania told her.
“Fine, I don’
wanna be around when you two ‘get busy’ anyway” Misako said as she left the
room.
“Hey don’t
talk like that!” Trelania scolded.
“Why can’t
she? We don’t want her here now either…” Mark said as he wrapped his arms
around her.
Trelania giggled,
she wasn’t sure is her assumptions were right, but she hoped they were, she
flipped around, ready to kiss him back when the ship was racked by something.
“What was
that?” Mark asked.
“I don’t know”
Trelania told him.
Then the alarm
started going off and Mark ran back to the bridge, only to find more Cometine
ships.
“Okay what the hell is going on with this?” Setsuna asked.
“I don’t know
but it doesn’t seem good!” Derek said as he watched.
“Not this
again!” Mark stated.
Where are they
coming from?” Invidia muttered when she came onto the bridge.
“I don’t know,
but we don’t have time to find out now! Setsuna! Nova! Get a bead on the
fleet!” Derek ordered.
“About 30
megameters from us!” Setsuna reported “Moving at 21 space knots and coming
toward us, there’s 3 more in the distance.”
“Something is
definitely going on-Move!” Invidia pushed Derek out of his chair and sat in it
herself.
“Invidia, you
have no right to sit there. I’m the captain.” Derek informed her,
normally he wouldn’t have been pushed in the first place but she caught him off
guard.
“Do you want
me to help or not?” she snapped.
“Yes but…”
“Then let me
do what I need to do! It’s easier to see from here!”
“Okay…” Derek
backed off, it was no use arguing.
“Do we have a
bearing?” Invidia asked.
“Two of them
are about 20 degrees to port, and the other 3 are 40 degrees starboard.”
‘Two
angles? What do I do?’
“There’s a
carrier coming at us!” Mark reported.
“Put it up on
the video screen!” Invidia ordered.
Mark did and
Invidia studied it ‘That’s the carrier we saw yesterday!’
Indeed, it was
the same carrier, Razela was once again sent under Victoria’s command to
destroy the Star Force.
“Now don’t
stop until one of you is dead! Got it?!” Victoria ordered over the video
screen.
“Yes Ma’am”
Razela and his officers saluted, then Victoria cut the transmission off.
“Why do we let
her order us around again?” one of the officers asked.
“She’s our
commander, if we don’t she’ll mostly likely kill us.” Razela stated.
“Does she have
the power to do that?”
“Probably,
Desslok likes her, so she can probably do whatever she wants.”
“When is he
gonna realize that she’s just a crazy bitch?” one of the others asked.
“Or that she’s
making us attack allies?” another asked.
“Who knows?
Who cares? Let’s just get this over with!”
”Fire” Invidia
ordered. A set of gunshots destroyed one of the planes and damaged the carrier
a bit.
“Why are we
listening to her again?” Eager asked Mark.
Mark shrugged.
“Hey I heard
that!” Invidia snapped “You’re listening to me because I am a Princess and
your superior! And I know more about Cometine diagrams then any of you idiots!
So don’t question me-EVER! Or you’re DONE! GOT IT?!”
“Invidia!”
Derek snapped “you’re not in charge here! You can’t tell them that.”
“Then…”
“No! You can’t
execute them either!”
“But…”
“NO!”
Invidia pouted
as more planes came up on screen. “Send out the black tigers!” she ordered.
”You heard
her! Move it!” Conroy ordered the pilots, then he went on to read a list of
Pilots who would be sent out. Arty was one of them.
‘I can’t
believe we have to go through this again…’ he thought as he took off in his
plane. Following him were Hardy, Conroy, and several cadets
“Take out as
many as you can! If we can lower their defenses we can get to the main
carriers!” Conroy ordered.
‘This
should be fun…’ Hardy thought, there were more of them than last time,
meaning he could have a little more fun getting rid of them. He headed past
one, firing missiles into it as he passed, it fell and plummeted into two other
ships.
“Not every day
you get to see that huh?” Arty asked.
“Nope” Hardy
replied, and shot again.
Several of the
cadets followed as more planes came from the ships, and two of the Cadet ships
were almost shot down for good.
“We need to
send out more planes!” Conroy reported back.
“Then do so!”
Invidia ordered “bring them down! Or at least capture one so we know what the
hell is going on!”
“I don’t think
that’s possible, there’s more coming, 2 destroyers, and 4 more planes.”
‘What the
hell?! Where are they coming from?’ Invidia asked herself as they warped
in. ‘Cometine ships aren’t suppose to be around this area…’
“It seems as
if there’s too many for them to handle!” Razela laughed as he watched them.
“They’ll find
away around it, I’ve heard of their actions” one of his officers said.
Razela went
over punched him “Are you defending them?!”
“No I’m just
stating facts…”
“Well don’t!
Especially nonsense like that!! Just take them out!”
2206 Hours…
“We’re getting
nowhere!” Invidia stated.
“That’s not
true!” Derek told her, it had been 3 hours and they’d taken out most of the
planes, and one destroyer, but the main one and a couple more planes were left.
“Yes it is, we
should have them done by now! I just don’t get it!”
“You know there is one way to handle this…” Setsuna said, she looked at Derek.
“Wave Motion
Gun” they stated at the same time.
“I guess
that’ll work” Invidia said.
“All right,
start charging” Derek ordered.
“Right” Orion
Jr. sent the message down to the engine room, and it began charging, Derek took
his place at the gun.
“Wave motion
engine charge to 20”
Derek studied
the ship, and caught a glance at Setsuna, then he thought of something.
“Setsuna come here.”
“60”
“Huh?” Setsuna
went over and for the first time in ages Derek place her on his lap. She
smirked.
“Wave motion
energy charge now at 100” Orion Jr. Reported.
“All right”
Derek said as the crew put their goggles on.
Setsuna held
the trigger and Derek put his hands over hers.
He counted “5,
4, 3, 2, 1…”
“Fire” Setsuna
said and in an instant half the fleet disappeared in a bright light, the rest
warped out before the blast hit.
“Are they
gone?” Homer asked.
“Yeah, I don’t
see anything.”
“Where are they
coming from?” Setsuna asked.
“I don’t know”
Derek told her.
“That was
pathetic!” Razela raged at his crew.
“But at least
we warped out before they got us.” One of his officers said.
“Yes but we
almost had them! You know Miss. D’Avena’s gonna be pissed.” Another said.
“So let her be
pissed off, she’s always pissed off anyway.”
“But she did
threaten to shoot us.”
“If we can get
to Desslok before she finds us, there won’t be a problem…”
2300 Hours
Later Setsuna
sat with her mother looking at the radar again, so far it had occurred to her
that the radar could track ship movements-but could it track other things?
“Hey…” she
started.
Nova looked at
her “Yes, Setsuna?”
“Is it
possible to track a warp path?”
“What?”
“Yeah, could
we track the path of the warp?”
“You’re funny”
Nova patted her head playfully. “But that’s near impossible, if we could do
that our job would be much easier.”
“Oh…” Setsuna
muttered.
“Well just
forget about it and go to bed, it is getting late.”
“All right”
Setsuna sighed and left.
And after a
couple minutes Derek showed up.
“Nova? You’re
still here?” he asked “Come to bed, I seem to remember that I promised you a
favor…”
“Sorry Derek,
not tonight, I have something to do.”
“Okay…” Derek
muttered.
“But maybe
tomorrow.” Nova whispered and kissed him.
“Fine, but you
remember that.” He told her.
“I will!” Nova
said, and ran off. ‘Sorry Derek, but I have to go!’ she thought as she
headed down the hall into the black tiger’s hanger, she had a couple questions
for them.
Only Hardy and
Conroy were present, but that was really all she needed and maybe Arty-but she
could get him later.
“Conroy,
Hardy, can I ask you two something?”
They looked at
her “Sure” Hardy told her.
“The ships you
saw, did you see what direction they were coming from?”
“No, I only
saw them coming from the carriers.” Conroy told her.
“And the ones
that warped in-it’s hard to tell.” Hardy said. “You could try asking some of
the others too
“Okay” Nova
nodded and went to go see Arty.
At the same
time Arty had come out of the bathroom, to find Invidia on the bed-reading. It
was one of those old Cometine novels she kept-he didn’t know why, considering
he couldn’t understand a word of it.
“Why do you
read those things anyway?” he asked.
Invidia
muttered something that Arty recognized as Cometine language.
“Excuse me?”
he asked.
“Huh?” she
looked up “Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.”
“Well you said
something to me.”
“No I didn’t,
I was trying to figure something out...”
“You’re
weird.” He told her.
“Yes, but you
married me, which makes you weird too.”
“That makes no
sense.”
“Who said I
made sense?” Invidia asked.
“No one,
‘cause you don’t.” Arty stated.
Invidia threw
a pillow at him.
He moved
“Sorry.”
“You better
be…”
Arty sat on
the bed “How about I make it up to you?” he sat her up and pulled her close to
him. “Besides I wanted to ask you if you’d let us keep using your scans…”
“I already…”
she stopped. ‘If I say yes he’ll leave me alone, but if I say no he’ll try
‘convincing’ me…I can use this to my advantage…’
“Well?”
“I already
told you ‘No’ once, and I mean it, my scannings are my business!” she lied.
“Come one, you
could really help us…”
“No!”
“Please?” he
whispered, then he leaned forward and kissed her neck twice.
She looked at
him lovingly; she had a weakness for neck kisses, and knew that if she kept
this up she could get what she wanted. “Keep doing that and maybe we’ll talk…”
Invidia purred.
She turned
around and kissed him again, then Nova came in.
“What are you
doing here?” Invidia snapped.
Nova looked at
them “am I interrupting something?” she asked.
“Yes!” Invidia
hissed.
“No” Arty said
“What is it?”
“I came to ask
you about the planes you were battling.”
Invidia sighed
and picked up her book again, Nova looked at it, she couldn’t even make out the
title.
“What does
that..?”
“I don’t know”
Arty said “It’s Cometine.”
“Anyway, I
want to know, did you catch where the ships were coming from?”
“No, but I
assume that…”
“You people
are so dumb…” Invidia muttered.
“Excuse me?”
Nova looked at her.
“If the ships
are Cometine, then they’re coming from the Andromeda galaxy.”
“Huh?” They
both looked at her
“Look when I
was younger I heard rumors of a Cometine world in the Andromeda galaxy, and
that’s where the first Comet was started anyway, by my Father’s grandparents,
my father was talking one night, and he said back then that’s where it stayed,
only being set out right before his mother was born. He was unsure himself
though, as were his parents and my mother. Unfortunately I never knew myself,
my grandparents died when I was 6. Though I never liked my grandmother that
much anyway…”
“Your point?”
Arty asked.
“Right…the
point it that this think has most likely come from the Andromeda galaxy, If we
wanna find it we have to head there fast, but first we should confirm that it’s
there.”
“How?” Nova
asked.
“I don’t know!
I’m just here to help not give you answers.” Invidia told them.
“All right,
we’ll figure that out, I’ll go tell Derek.” Nova left.
Invidia looked
at Arty “So?”
“So what?”
Arty asked.
“Aren’t you
gonna try and get my scannings?”
“Right…you
know what you just told us could void those.”
“But they
could still help, and you shouldn’t start something you can’t finish” Invidia
kissed him.
“No” Arty
stated.
“But…but…”
“No, I’m gonna
go talk to Hardy about this.”
“But I wanna
make love!” Invidia whined.
“So that’s
what this was about?”
“Maybe”
Invidia muttered.
Arty looked at
her suspiciously.
She sighed
“yes, I already told Derek I’d help you…”
“You’re bad.”
Arty teased.
“Just go!”
Invidia threw another pillow at him.
“I’m going”
Arty left.
Part 4:
Victoria’s punishment plan…
Somewhere
in the Andromeda Galaxy
Desslok’s
Throne room
Friday,
March 18th 2220
0900 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
“You wanted to
see me?” Victoria said as she entered the room.
“Yes I did”
Desslok stated “You’re in trouble Miss. D’Avena.”
She gulped;
when he got formal with her he was mad. “Yes?”
“Razela told
me what you did, so did 4 of the other generals. I gave you no orders! And on
top of that you lied to me on several occasions!”
“Sorry sir.”
She looked down.
“That’s not
gonna cover it, you’re going to be demoted if you keep this up!” Desslok
informed her.
“But…But…” she
stuttered.
‑
“No excuses,
in fact for the next week you’ll be working in the kitchen! You’re a servant,
and don’t take this lightly. I could just as well shoot you!”
“I understand”
Victoria muttered. ‘And I’m a pain!’
“Good, you
start now! Go change your clothes and meet me in the kitchen.”
Victoria
sighed and left ‘A servant?! God this is degrading! How could he reduce me
to a simple kitchen servant?! What are the others going to think? This is
horrible, but it is better than being shot…He’s still an ass anyway…’ “Wait
a minute!” she said to herself. ‘This means…I can’t do a thing!! The ‘Argo’
will go free!! I have to destroy it somehow! Some way he doesn’t
know…technically I am still a commander…’
Part 5:
Arguments
Space
Battleship Argo
Mess Hall
Friday,
March 18th 2220
1245 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
“It’s where?!”
“Invidia
thinks there’s something in the Andromeda galaxy, possibly coming this way”
Derek told Setsuna.
“You think
there’s another Comet or something?” Astra asked.
“Possibly”
Invidia told her “it all depends on what we find, but that’s what I think.”
“The question
is…Who would run it?”
Invidia
shrugged “I don’t know! Am I supposed to?”
“None of us
know-that could be a problem” Nova stated.
“We’re dealing
with an unknown enemy” Trelania said.
“No shit!”
Invidia snapped.
“Invidia!”
Arty snapped.
She looked at
him like ‘what? I didn’t do anything wrong...’
“Don’t give me
that look.”
“Okay enough
you two, point is there’s something out there to get us and we don’t know who
or what it is.”
“It’s Cometine
dumb ass!”
“Invidia if
you’re just going to insult us then leave” Nova stated.
“No! I’ll do
what I want! I’m a Princess, your word means NOTHING!”
“Invidia, I’d
appreciate if you didn’t yell at her like that, you’re on this ship to help us
not to insult us.”
“Isn’t she
supposed to be our friend?” Astra whispered to Setsuna.
Setsuna
shrugged. “No one knows, she could go either way.”
“Hey! I heard
that!”
“You were
supposed to…” Astra stated.
“Okay enough!
This fighting is getting us nowhere! We have to work together if we’re going to
solve this!” Trelania snapped.
“Oh now the
anti-matter freak is going to preach to us!” Invidia hissed.
“Okay I’ve had
just about enough of you!”
Then they both
started shouting at each other, everyone stared at them.
Arty grabbed
Invidia and took her outside. “What is wrong with you?!”
“Nothing,
she’s just mad because she can’t win.”
“Listen to me”
Arty pulled her closer so she heard him clearly “no more causing scenes-got
it?”
“You can’t
tell me what to do.” Invidia crossed her arms.
Arty grabbed
her arm and pulled her over again “No more scenes!” He hissed.
“Okay” Invidia
backed off, it was no use arguing with him when he was mad, she just went back
to her room.
‘So what if
I’m a little insulting? I’m just trying to prove a point! There’s something out
there and I will find it! I might even join with it! What do they care? That’ll
teach them to mess with me!’ “They can’t tell me what to do, I am superior!
They just won’t admit it…But I’ll get them…especially Trelania! Her and her
freaky little daughter think they’re all that because they have those stupid
powers! It’s just not right” Invidia raged, and then she picked up one of
Arty’s books and threw it across the room. “I’m more important than any of
them!! They can all go to hell!!” she pulled down the curtains and threw them
down with the rod. “I’ll show them! I’ll show them all!”
To be
continued with Episode 5…