Space
Battleship Yamato 5
Part 1: The
Beginning of the 2nd Generation
A Star
Blazers alternate universe
Episode 5:
Answers
Part 1:
Invidia’s Path of Destruction
Space
Battleship Argo
Friday,
March 18th 2220
1308 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
After an hour
Invidia had almost the whole room destroyed, it was the first time in awhile
that she’s destroyed a room like that. After that she went on and tore apart
Arty’s bunk room (he stays there when he can’t stay with Invidia) ‘He
deserves this! Him and all his little friends! Trelania’s next!!’ she
thought as she stormed down the hall, she wasn’t gonna stop until every single
one of them had something destroyed.
‘It’s not
right! I’m not going to be belittled!’ she came into Trelania’s room and
knocked everything off of her dresser, then, like she did in her room, she tore
down the curtains. ‘This will teach her not to mess with me!’
“Where did she
go?” Arty whispered as he headed down the hall, he was kind of hoping that he
could talk to her, but when he entered her room it became clear that she didn’t
want to talk. ‘What the hell did she do?!’ The room was completely torn
apart, books flung into the wall, curtains on the floor, bed covers thrown
aside…it was a mess. “Invidia!” he raged, he was mad, they had worked so hard
to put this room together and she destroyed it. He stormed out of the room
“When I find her she is dead!” he muttered.
He walked
around and after awhile found her in Trelania’s room, which wasn’t as bad as
hers, but she was working on it.
“Stupid
Trelania! She knows nothing!” Invidia said to no one and threw one of her books
across the room.
“Invidia!”
Arty yelled.
“Huh?” she
glared at him.
“What are you
doing?”
“What’s it
look like?! I’m tired of being brought down! You will all pay!” she threw
another book across the room.
“Princess
stop!” he grabbed her.
“Let me go!”
Invidia struggled.
“No! You can’t
do this!” He picked her up to prevent her from actually escaping.
“Let me go!”
she bit him.
He ignored it
and carried her out of the room.
“Put me down!”
“No! I need to
talk to you!” when he came to her room he practically threw her on the floor.
“Look at this! You’ve gone mad Invidia! It’s not right or necessary!”
“I told you! I
have to! They’ll learn what happens when they cross me!”
Arty slapped
her. “Listen to yourself! You’ve gone mad! This isn’t the way to handle your
anger! Why are you doing this?”
“I told you!
They need to learn a lesson!”
“No it’s more
than that! You’ve never acted like this before.”
“What’s your
point?” Invidia asked.
“You need to
stop. This isn’t necessary!” Arty snapped at her.
“Yes it is!
They will pay! I’ll make sure…”
She was cut
off, Arty grabbed her and kissed her in an attempt to get her back to normal,
he figured the only thing that could counter act these actions was love, it had
worked before…and had often changed her from angry to loveable for a short
period of time.
“What was
that?” Invidia asked after he broke off.
“Feel better?”
Arty asked, not bothering to answer her question.
“A little…”
“Then how
about a little more?” Arty kissed her again, not because he had too, because he
wanted to.
She deepened
it and kept kissing him, he pushed her off.
“Invidia I
have work to do you know.”
Invidia looked
at him lovingly; she had a small hint of lust in her eyes… “Who cares?” she
kissed him again; it seemed that she had forgotten her anger for now, besides
she wanted something other than revenge now.
“Huh?” Arty
looked at her and she moved one of his hands up to her chest. “What are you
doing?” he asked.
“You can get
back to work later…right now I want you with me.” She kissed him again,
afterward Arty smiled at her; he decided to give her what she wanted, with some
luck it would help her forget all about her anger…
Meanwhile
Trelania had come to discover the mess that was her room.
“Okay… What
happened?” Misako asked.
“I don’t know”
Trelania held her hand out and put the curtain rod back in place.
“Mama?”
“Huh?”
“You
think…maybe it was Invidia?”
“I wouldn’t
doubt it” Trelania told her. “She was really angry.”
“But isn’t
this a little too much?” Misako asked.
“It depends…”
“Huh?” both
women turned around, Ryou was standing in the doorway. (Haven’t seen him in
awhile…)
“What do you
mean?” Misako asked.
“Depending on
how mad she is my mother will do crazy things. When I was nine she almost tore
apart the whole apartment…” He started muttering to himself “I don’t remember
why, but dad got mad at her and made her stay with her father for couple days
to calm down…”
“Your point?”
Trelania asked.
“Oh yeah, for
now it’s just best to leave her alone-especially if she’s this mad.”
“Yeah”
Trelania nodded, she had seen Invidia go mad and it wasn’t pleasant.
“You know,
I’ve always wondered…is it possible to find someone crazier than Invidia?”
Misako asked.
‘I don’t
think so…but another Invidia would be scary…’ Trelania thought.
Part 2: The
destruction continues….
Somewhere
in the Andromeda Galaxy
Friday,
March 18th 2220
1400 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
“It’s only
been one day and I’m tired of this!”
“Miss. D’Avena
the point is to clean them and reuse them not break them” one of the
others said, her name was Kiara, she was a half-breed like
‘She tries
desperately to help but she needs to give up, I don’t like her and I don’t want
her help! She’s nothing but an annoying bitch!’
“Knock it off”
Kiara hissed.
“Aw, am I
making you mad?” she dropped two more. “What are you gonna do?”
“Knock it off”
Kiara slapped her.
She headed
down the hall and back up to her room. “I don’t know why I was punished
anyway…” she muttered and she took off her clothes and put her regular uniform
back on, she just had to find away to get out of her punishment. “I’m just
trying to help!” She took one of the wine glasses off of her table and threw it
in the corner, where she knew she couldn’t step on it; it did help release some
anger. ‘All I know is that he better watch it, I may be under his command
but no one says I have to agree with him…’
Meanwhile
Invidia had come to in her room, she looked around, it was still messed up…as
for why she fell asleep, she couldn’t remember. She pondered as she looked
around some more, then finally noticed that for some reason she was in her
nightgown. ‘Wait a minute!’ she knew now ‘He changed my clothes,
didn’t he? I can’t believe this! He seduces me then leaves! And on top of that
he changed my clothes! Why? I don’t know! He was probably hoping I’d think I’d
gone to sleep and forgot everything!’ Invidia sighed, he was just
distracting her so she wouldn’t destroy anything else. ‘Well it didn’t work!
I’m still going after them and their stuff!’ She yawned, apparently she was
still tired. ‘After my nap…’ She laid back down and went to sleep. As
soon as she did Setsuna came in.
“Where is it?”
she muttered, Derek told her that Invidia had collected more scannings for them
to use and that she was supposed to pick them up. Setsuna rifled through some
papers on the desk until she saw a folder, it had a note attached to it written
in a neat, fluent cursive.
Derek,
Here are
the documents you asked me to get, you can have them for now but I want them
back! Understand?
-Princess
Invidia
‘Why does
she always sign with ‘Princess’?’ Setsuna asked herself. ‘Oh well…’ She
left to go find her father.
“Okay, so we
know it’s probably in the Andromeda Galaxy, all we have to do is figure out
where…” Setsuna muttered as they read the documents, they were sitting in the
one of the mess hall tables so they’d have more room.
“And fast, I
don’t think we can handle another attack right now, Sandor says we’re still
under repairs.” Mark informed her.
“So? You’ve
fought under repair before” Setsuna stated.
“But it’s
dangerous.” Nova told her “it could damage us more, or even cause the ship to
explode if we’re not careful.”
They all
nodded.
1430 Hours…
After she woke
up Invidia was enraged. She remembered what happened, the things they said…and
to make matters worse she heard Trelania mention something about her when she
walked past her room. ‘Where is it?!’ Invidia asked herself as she
rummaged through the closet, after a couple minutes she found what she was
looking for. Invidia had gone through a lot to hide this, Arty and Derek had
told her specifically not to bring it but she knew she’d need to drink
sometime. She moved some more stuff out of the way, picked up one of the
glasses she had hidden and poured herself some wine. Arty kept telling her that
she shouldn’t drink when she was angry, but she didn’t care. Besides, she only
did it rarely.
‘After this
I’m going to finish what I started with Trelania!’ Invidia thought as she
looked around, Arty had cleaned up some things, but the room was still a bit
torn. She had another drink and changed back into one her normal dresses. Then
she headed back into Trelania’s room. Luckily Trelania wasn’t there, but she
had put everything back.
‘That
little…’ Invidia thought as she ripped down the curtains again. Then she
looked at Trelania’s table, on it was picture of her and Mark. ‘Both of you
are nuts!’
“You!” she
pointed to Trelania. “Are an anti-matter freak! You used to be a threat but
you’re really just a weakling! And You! You and all your friends are against
me! You can go to hell!” she threw it across the room and proceeded to tear
apart the rest of it, after about 45 minutes she left and went up to the captains
quarters where Derek and Nova stayed. It was bigger than most of the ships
rooms, but to Invidia it was nothing right now. She was tired of Derek
contradicting her and now he was going to see what happened when he crossed
her.
“He is
nothing!” Invidia raged as she threw a picture of him and Nova into the wall.
The frame broke. She cast an angry glance around the room and knocked a whole
set of pictures off the shelf.
After a bit
Derek came back into the room, at first he just sort of looked at it, then he
realized what had happened. ‘What is she thinking?!’ Derek thought. He
looked at Invidia, she was sitting on the floor holding one of his pictures,
she ripped it in half and glared at Derek.
“Vhat do
you want?” she asked, her voice had a tone of pure anger.
“Invidia what
did you do?”
“What’s it
look like?!” she ripped another one and Derek grabbed her.
“Stop it!” he
snapped “What is with you?! Look I know you’re probably really mad about
earlier but that doesn’t mean you have to do this!”
“Let me go!”
Invidia hissed as she struggled to get out of his grasp.
‘Wait a
minute…her breath...’ “Have you been drinking?” he asked.
“Why is that
any of your business?!” Invidia snapped.
“Arty told you
about that! No wonder you’re so wound up!”
“My drinking
has nothing to do with it! It’s you and your stupid crew! They’re all idiots!
They choose not to listen to me even if I know more than them! I’m not going to
be shown disrespect!”
“Invidia
stop!” he turned her around and slapped her, Derek never hit a woman before,
but it was for her own good.
“You…Why did…”
“I did that
for your own good! Anger won’t solve all your problems! It just gets you into
more trouble! Can’t you see that?!” Derek asked.
‘That’s
what Father used to tell me...I remember when I was younger I would often break
things out of rage and he told me that I couldn’t do that my whole life, I had
to learn to control myself or I’ll get nowhere. He even said that Mama used to
be that way too sometimes, but once she learned how to suppress it she was better…I
think that’s how he use to calm me down. He’d sometimes ask me… ‘Do you
really want your mother to see you like this? How would she feel if she saw you
doing this?’
“I miss him…”
Invidia muttered, she looked around the room and slumped forward as tears
formed in her eyes. ‘What have I done? I’m…I’m a monster…This won’t help
any…’
“Are you
okay?” Derek asked.
Invidia
nodded. “I’m fine…” she lied.
“You sure?”
She nodded
“Yes…I just…”
“Hey Derek?”
“Huh?” Derek
turned around; Arty was standing at the door with a folder.
“Look, Conroy
says that…” he looked at Invidia. “Princess…” He went over and leaned down to
her level. “You’re crying…” he muttered.
Invidia turned
her head away from him.
“What did you
do to her?” Arty looked at Derek.
“Nothing, I
just told her that anger won’t solve her problems.” Derek told him.
“It wasn’t his
fault, it’s just that…What he said, it reminded me of…my mother and what Father
used to tell me…I just…I miss him…” Invidia admitted.
“Princess…”
Arty hugged her, it wasn’t normal for Invidia to be this way. Normally being
away from her father didn’t bug her. In fact, she rarely noticed he was gone…
Part 3:
Answers, Attacks, and a dream
Space
Battleship Argo
Invidia’s
room
Friday,
March 18th 2220
1800 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
“Father…”
Invidia muttered as she stared out the window in her room.
“Princess? Are
you okay?” Arty went over, Invidia had been kind of zoned out for awhile and he
was worried.
Invidia shook
her head “I…I want my Father” she looked at him.
“Invidia, I’m
sorry I can’t do anything…-Really”
“I know.”
Invidia blinked tears out of her eyes.
Arty sighed
“Invidia?”
“Huh?”
“It’s never
bothered you to be away from him before, what’s wrong?”
“Remember when
I first met your parents?”
Arty nodded.
“I guess it’s
like that…”she looked up.
‘I
remember-when I went to see them you were all so happy and I was alone in the
world…I just felt so bad…
May 24,
2203
1830 hours:
Earth Time
Invidia
watched as Arty and his parents talked, they all seemed so happy… ‘They’re
all so happy…and I’m so alone. I remember when my father and I use to play
around like that…’ She looked at them again; their smiles just made her
feel worse. ‘I miss him…I just feel so alone here…I want my father back… but
there’s no way of knowing whether he’ll ever be back with me…’ Invidia hung
her head as tears formed in her eyes.
“Are you all
right?” Nina (Arty’s Mother) looked at her, she sounded concerned.
Invidia stood
up “I’m fine, I just need some fresh air-that’s all…” she ran.
Trying to keep
from sobbing, Invidia ran to the far end porch and gripped the railing. Only
then, did she begin to cry. “Father…” she muttered.
Back inside
everyone just looked at each other, they all knew something was up.
“Arty, go see
if she’s alright.” Takachi (Arty’s Father) told him.
“She looked
upset…” Nina looked at Arty, he nodded and left himself.
‘What’s up
with her? She seemed nervous before, but she looked upset when she left…’ He
sighed as he came outside. There, he looked at her and knew she was crying. ‘Is
it something we did..?’ He went over and stood next to Invidia.
She looked at
him for a second and turned her head away.
“Princess…
you’re crying… what’s wrong?”
She looked at
him again “I miss my father…” she admitted.
“But Invidia,
he’s been gone for awhile, it never seemed to bother you before.” Arty said
with a gentle tone in his voice.
“It does,
you’ve just never seen it. You don’t understand, here you’ve got your family and…
you’re all so happy while I’m all alone…”
Arty hugged
her. “You’re not alone; you have me-don’t you?”
Invidia
continued to cry “You don’t get it! I don’t have anyone but you! I have no
family! No friends! Nothing!”
“Don’t think
that way; you do have friends, Nova, Derek, Mark, all of them. They may be a
little mad at you, but they know you can change, especially Nova, I’ve been
talking to her, she has a lot of faith in you.”
Invidia looked
at him “she… does..?”
Arty nodded
“she thinks you can change and so do I, I’ve already seen it. You know at first
we didn’t know that that you were even around, but when we saw you we all
thought you were pure evil. But you’ve turned out to kind of sweet, and… cute.”
Invidia looked
into his eyes; they had such a warm look in them. “Cute?”
Arty nodded
“yes cute, and you’re not too bad of a kisser either.”
“Arty!”
Invidia whined. He was always doing that (Being stupid to break tension.)
“What? It’s
true…” He said as leaned down… and kissed her.
2220…
“You were able
to help me them, but now you can’t, here I’m not exactly alone, but this whole
comet thing, and the things that Derek tells me remind me of him so much.”
Invidia sighed.
“Maybe a
little too much…” Arty muttered.
“Oh? So now
I’m a problem?”
“Invidia…No
I…”
“I don’t see
anything wrong with missing my Father! Arty you know I don’t like feeling
alone!” Invidia snapped with tears in her eyes.
“I know
that…but…” Arty sighed.
“Just forget
it! I have things to do!” Invidia left.
‘Why?’ Arty
looked up at the ceiling, it seemed like this was always happening. ‘She
jumps to conclusions too fast…’
Meanwhile
“I just don’t
see why I have to be reduced to such Menial task!” she snapped.
“You’re being
punished! Why can’t you understand that?!” Desslok snapped back.
“I don’t
clean! I’m a commander and it’s demeaning!”
“Oh be quiet!
I have no intention to lift your punishment!” he walked off.
“Okay that’s
it…”
1004 Hours…
“Is she okay?”
Mark asked. He and Misako were standing over his and Trelania’s bed, Trelania
seemed worried by the way she was moving.
“I don’t
know…” Misako said. “I think its vision, I’ve seen her this way before and it’s
always been connected to some sort of power…”
“You sure?”
Mark asked.
Misako nodded.
Trelania’s
Thoughts…
“All
fleets-Advance!” Derek ordered. He was sitting at his post looking at a bunch
of tired, but alert crew members; once again they were under fire. Invidia
stood next to him.
“Hit it form
the back! And hit Hard!” Invidia pointed a ship that was on the video screen.
A line of
Black tigers came on screen as they shot at the ships.
“Where are
they coming from?!” Invidia asked as Setsuna and Nova studied the radar.
“I looks
like…”
”The direction
of the Andromeda Galaxy!” Trelania sat up.
“What?” Misako
looked at her.
“Are you
okay?” Mark asked.
“There were
all these ships, Cometine ships…and we were under attack again.” Trelania
muttered.
“When?” Misako
and Mark asked.
“I don’t know!
That’s the problem!”
“She’s right,
if we knew we could prepare for it…” Misako muttered.
“I guess this
means we’re in for another surprise…” Mark looked at Misako.
“The only
question is when..?”
0200 Hours…
The alarm rang
through the ship as if was racked by something…No! Several somethings…
“What the
hell? What time is it?” Akira said to no one as she sat up in her bunk, Setsuna
stood at the foot of the bed.
“Get up!” she
hissed “We’re under attack!” Setsuna already had her uniform on and was busy
pulling on her boots.
“Why is that
my problem?” Astra asked, then the ship shook and she fell out of her bed.
“That’s why!”
Setsuna snapped as she ran out. ‘I wonder what this is…I mean where is it
coming from.
“Setsuna
what’s going on?”
“Huh?-Invidia!”
Setsuna looked at her; she was standing in her doorway looking confused.
Invidia just
looked at her.
“Come to the
bridge! You can help fend off the attack!”
Invidia nodded
and headed back into her room, she quickly grabbed her robe off of the chair
and threw it over her nightgown, even though it could’ve passed for dress. The
she grabbed her shoes as she ran back out going as fast as she could even
though the floor was moving.
When she got
to the bridge she discovered that Derek hadn’t arrived yet and neither had
Nova, so she took Derek’s place.
“What’s with
the outfit Invidia?” Homer asked.
“It’s 2 AM
what am I supposed be wearing?”
“Maybe…”
“Don’t finish
that…Please.” Invidia sighed, then looked back up. “Bring the image up on the
screen! Setsuna get a bearing! And someone find Derek!” She ordered.
“I don’t think
we want to find my parents…” Setsuna stated.
“Good point…If
he isn’t here now then we don’t want to know or see what he’s up too…” Invidia
muttered to herself.
“Image
appearing on the screen!” Eager reported.
“I’m getting
tired of this carrier…” Invidia growled under her breath. “Setsuna get a
bearing so we can shoot it down!”
“Right”
Setsuna nodded and worked with the radar for a minute. “Most of them are coming
from 50 degrees starboard!”
“All right!
Track the main guns to 50 degrees Starboard! Try and hit as many as we can!”
Invidia ordered.
“Invidia?”
said a voice from behind.
“Not now!”
Invidia waved her hand.
“Invidia…”
She turned
around “Derek where’d you come from?”
He motioned
for her to move over and she stepped aside.
“So where have
you been?” she asked.
“I don’t have
to tell you that” Derek stated calmly.
Invidia leaned
down and looked at him “Playing about with Nova?” she asked.
Derek looked
at her briefly then turned back to the crew.
‘He was…’ Invidia
thought.
“What are you
smiling about?”
“Huh?-Oh you…”
Invidia looked at Astra, who had just appeared behind her. “Don’t you have
something better to do? You’re just going to get in the way!”
“Aw, I think
you’re just cranky…” Astra teased.
“LEAVE!”
Invidia pointed to the door.
Astra backed
off and joined Setsuna and Nova.
“Three more
are coming! Forty degrees to port!” Nova stated.
“Launch the
black tigers!” Derek and Invidia said at the same time. They looked at each
other.
“Invidia, I’m
the captain, I give the orders.” Derek said.
“Derek, I’m
Cometine and know how to bring these ships down easily I give some of the
orders.” Invidia said.
“I thought she
was half Cometine…” Eager said.
“Is that some
of your business?!” Invidia snapped.
‘What’s her
problem?’ Eager thought, he didn’t answer her question.
“Invidia don’t
snap at them, I’m in charge.”
“I thought we
clarified that.” Invidia said as the ship shook again.
“Yes, we
clarified that I’m the captain and that I give the orders, you don’t.”
Derek stated calmly.
Invidia looked
at him and he stared back.
The crew
watched as they stared at each other, after a minute Invidia leaned closer to
him and kissed him. It was really nothing just a small kiss on the lips-to mess
with him.
“What’d you do
that for?” Derek asked.
“To mess with
you.” Invidia stated.
Derek shook
his head and faced the crew again. “Back to work” he stated and the guns fired
another round of shots.
Meanwhile, on
the enemy carrier stood Razela with another general-Skalvert, Victoria had told
them both to go and even gave them papers ‘Signed’ by Desslok.
“D’Avena’s
nuts…” Skalvert said “an attack at two o’clock in the morning…”
“She figures
it’s element of surprise…” One of the officers said.
“Yeah, well I
know what I’d like to surprise her- with a swift kick in the ass.” Razela
muttered.
“Sir! 3 more
have been shot down! And they’ve launched the Black tigers!” Another officer
reported.
‘Dammit…’ Skalvert
thought. “Just launch some of the planes. Bring all of them down!”
“They’ve
launched their planes!” Nova said as she studied the radar.
“Get a
bearing!” Derek and Invidia said at the time. They looked at each other “Stop
that!” they said.
“God, we sound
like Akira and Ryou…” Invidia muttered.
“What about
us?”
“Huh?” Invidia
turned to see Arty and Ryou come into the bridge. “Nothing…” she told them.
“Arty, why
aren’t you out with the tigers?” Derek asked.
“Because…”
Invidia hugged him “He wants to stay here and protect me.”
Arty pushed
her off “No, I‘m to stay here and monitor them-Conroy went out this time, not
me.” He explained.
“I like my
explanation better…” Invidia muttered. ‘And after what you said to me
earlier you owe me something!’ She thought.
Arty came up
behind her “Don’t worry-you know I’ll always protect you anyway…” he said.
She nodded.
“Okay enough
of this! We’re supposed to be fighting!” Setsuna said.
“Right…”
Invidia nodded “Start tracking the guns to the same angle! Get any of the new
ships approaching!” She ordered.
“Stop that!”
Derek said.
“You know if
you didn’t want my help you could have just said so!” She turned away from
Derek and crossed her arms.
“Then next
time I will…” Derek muttered to himself.
Invidia glared
at him.
“Knock it
off…” Arty hissed.
She cut her
eyes at him…
“And don’t
ever do that to me!”
“You deserve
it!” Invidia hissed. “I am still mad at you for earlier!” She walked off and
stood next to Derek.
Part 4:
Fighting on the Inside…
New Comet
Victoria’s
Room
Saturday,
March 19th 2220
O245 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
While the
battle went on Victoria sat in her room working on several other plans for the
current battle. “Let’s see…” she muttered. ‘If we hit them from both ends
there’s a chance that won’t get us…’ She moved her pen across the diagram
she had. “No, that’s stupid!” She crumpled it up and threw it across the room,
where several other papers littered the ground.
‘Why the
hell is this so hard?! I can print out fake documents but I can’t come up with
a new strategy? What is wrong with me?!’ Victoria sighed, all the brooding
wasn’t helping. “All I need to do is think…We have to…”
”Find the
weakest angle!” Invidia ordered.
“Invidia knock
it off!” Homer said from his post. “I thought Derek was the captain.”
Invidia walked
over and slapped him. “You DO NOT have the right to tell me what to do.”
“Okay that’s
it.” Nova got up, grabbed Invidia’s wrist and pulled her outside the bridge.
“What is your
problem?!” Nova asked.
“Nothing! Now,
MOVE!” Invidia tried to get past her.
“No!”
“What?!”
“I want to
know what your problem is! You’ve never acted this way before!” Nova snapped.
“You are NOT required to be here! Derek could kick you off this ship if he
wanted too!”
“But he’s not
going too! You know, I do know more about Cometine stuff than you do!”
“That doesn’t
mean you get to take over.” Nova said coolly.
“I don’t
care.” Invidia hissed. “I will do what I want! Not what you tell me
too!”
‘I think
she’s probably just tired…But that doesn’t count as an excuse…’ Nova
thought. “No you will not.” Nova hissed. “You are not in charge here and
if you try anything else like that I will make sure you are sent back to Earth
with and order saying that you are NEVER allowed to set foot on this ship
again! Are we clear?!”
“Fine…”
Invidia growled.
Nova stepped
aside and Invidia went back into the bridge and stood next to Derek. “We need a
new plan.” She said.
“You know, for
once I agree with you…” Derek said.
A couple
minutes later the crew met in another room where Sandor pointed at a couple
areas on the map on the round.
“As you can
see we have carries waiting here, here and here, with more coming from this
direction.” He said.
“I say we send
the Black Tigers in the directions they’re coming and hit them before hand.”
Invidia said.
“Well I guess
that’s all we can do for now…”Derek mused. “Arty, try and get a couple of them
to head out. The rest of us will go back to the bridge with everyone else.”
“You know, I
think our biggest problem is trying to figure out what’s controlling them if
there is anything…”
“That’ll take
some work Invidia, you know that. Let’s just fight them off for now.” Arty
said.
“Be careful.”
She told him. Invidia had almost forgotten about their fight earlier, she was
more concerned for his safety at this point.
“I will…”
She looked
down and Arty held her head up and looked at her “Aw, Princess you don’t have
to cry, I’ll be fine.”
“It’s just…I…”
She ship shook
and she fell forward, Arty caught her. “It’ll be all right, trust me…” he
reassured her.
“No!” Invidia
sobbed. “You can’t go!”
He pushed her
off. “I have too, I’m sorry…” He began to leave.
“No!” Invidia
threw her arms around him from behind.
“Invidia…Stop
it!” He pushed her off again, this time, she fell.
“Huh?”
“Look, I know
how you feel but I have something to do! I have orders and I can’t deny them
just because you need me.”
“But…Arty…”
She whined.
“Stop whining!
You need to go help the others, I’ll see you later.”
He left and Invidia
just watched him as the tears continued to fall.
Part 5:
More Fighting! The return of the Magna Flame Gun!
Razela’s
Flag ship
Saturday,
March 19th 2220
O300 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
“Sir, we’re
getting transmission for the Comet!” One of the officers reported.
“What?!”
Razela snapped, they Star Force had caught onto his tactics and he was tired of
losing.
“Miss. D’Avena
wants to talk to you.”
“Put her on.”
Razela hissed as Skalvert joined him.
The officer
nodded and Victoria’s image came up on screen.
“What do you
want now?” Skalvert asked.
“Don’t talk
like that to me! I can have your ass shot for that you know!” Victoria snapped.
“Whatever…” He
muttered under his breath.
“Now listen, I’ve
been proposing a plan…I think if we can get them form behind we’ll be at an
advantage…”
‘What is
she talking about?’ Razela and Skalvert looked at each other.
“They just
don’t want to give up, do they?” Setsuna muttered as a couple more planes
appeared on the radar.
“I don’t think
so.” Nova said. “They’re going to everything in their power to stop us. That’s
been evident since the first battle.”
“But there’s
got to be away to get rid of them…” Derek mused. “For now just keep fighting,
and tell the Tigers to go after any oncoming planes…” ‘Wait a minute…’ Derek
thought. ‘It’s weird I just gave an order and Invidia…she didn’t try to
interfere…’ He looked at her, she was sitting next to his chair on her
knees, her hands were on the ground in front of her and she was shaking a
little bit.
“Invidia…are
you all right?” he asked.
Invidia
nodded.
“You’re not
hurt are you?” Derek knelt down next to her.
“No…” she
muttered.
“Then what’s
wrong”
“Nothing…Really…I…”
“You’re
crying…” Derek muttered.
“Did you and
Arty get into another fight?” Astra asked.
Invidia just
nodded, she didn’t even bother to snap at Astra for her comment.
“Was it that
bad?” Setsuna asked.
“He…He…He’d
rather die than protect me. He doesn’t want to be around me, Arty considers his
duty to be more important than his wife… He brushed me off like I was nothing!
As if I was an annoyance! I only wanted him to be safe!” Invidia cried.
“Oh, Invidia…”
Setsuna said.
“That’s
ridiculous.” Someone said.
“Huh?” Setsuna
turned around, behind her stood one of the Ensign cadets that worked with
Sandor, he walked up to Invidia and slapped her hard across the face.
Invidia hung
her head as cried harder.
“You are
Ridiculous! This is war you stupid woman! Who the hell cares if he goes off and
leaves you?! We don’t have time for your fucking emotional problems!”
“Ensign
Rivera!” Nova said in a fierce tone. She got up and slapped him. “Didn’t
your parents teach you any manners?! Invidia is superior to you, not as a Princess,
but as an adult! You do know that you’re supposed to respect adults and NEVER
raise your hand to a woman don’t you?!”
‘You tell
him!’ Setsuna thought as the crew became silent for a minute.
“Yes Ma’am…”
he muttered.
“And just for
doing that you’re re-assigned to the kitchen until I say otherwise!” Derek
said. “MOVE!”
Rivera left,
muttering to himself and the crew continued the Fight, except for Nova. She
knelt down in front of Invidia. “You okay?” she asked.
Invidia slowly
shook her head.
“You know,
it’s all right, he’s just a cadet, they say stupid things. Arty will be fine,
trust me. Besides, he’d want you to be strong-right? You don’t want him to see
you like this do you?”
Invidia shook
her head again. “No, it’s just…”
“I know you’re
upset about how he treated you, but you can work that out later. Right now you
really need to help us, you think you can do that? I think he’d like you to
stand firm even if you are upset with him. It shows how strong you can be.”
Nova said.
Invidia looked
up at her. “I guess…I guess you’re right. I...I want to believe in him…I want
him to see that I’m not weak…”
“Good girl.”
Nova hugged her. “Now do your job. You think you can help us without being
snarky?”
Invidia stood
up “Of course…now, hit them with everything you got! We’ll destroy this
carrier no matter what the risks are!”
As soon as she
said that shots came from both sides, racking and possibly damaging the ships.
“Setsuna find
out where they’re coming form! Maybe after this is over we can follow them…”
Invidia said.
“Maybe not
that but we can at least figure out…”
“…What the
hell is going on?!” Victoria snapped over the screen.
‘They’re
firing back and hard!” One of the officers reported.
“Sir!” Another
said “We’ve lost two carriers and eight more planes! Maybe we should stop…”
“NO! Never!”
Victoria said “You will fight until one of you is DEAD! And if you come back to
me alive I will SHOOT you!”
“You have no
right to shoot us.” Skalvert said.
“You just
watch me, and even if I can’t I will have you demoted to the lowest rank
possible! UNDERSTOOD?!”
“Yes Ma’am” he
grumbled.
“Good, now go
and fight!” Victoria caught the transmission off.
“I’m getting
really annoyed with her.” Razela said.
“Never mind, I
think it’s time to bring out more fire, remember the magna-flame gun? The new
one?” Skalvert asked.
“But that
hasn’t been tested yet!” One of the officers said.
“Test it now!
With some luck we’ll kill them in one blow.”
The crew
nodded.
“Argo…Prepare
to go down.” Razela muttered.
0345 Hours…
“They’re
almost gone…” Nova muttered.
“I Don’t think
so! There are 3 more planes on radar!”
“Hey…” Invidia
looked at Derek. “How come we haven’t tries to establish communication with
them, if we’re lucky it might help.”
“I would try
it, but there’s a chance it wouldn’t work and an even bigger chance that it’ll
put us in danger…”
“I guess you
have a point…but I f we could just…”
“I see
something’” Eager interrupted.
They didn’t
have time to look; it came fast and hit the ship hard.
Invidia
screamed as she was sent forward.
“The ship is
taking a lot of damage!” Sandor reported. “We need to get repairs started!
NOW!”
“Send the
report down to the engine room!” Derek ordered once the light had cleared.
“What was
that?” Astra asked, she had been working with Setsuna and fell over during the
commotion.
‘That
light…it’s so familiar…’ Invidia thought as she got up, only to realize
that her arm hurt for some reason below her shoulder. She placed her arm over
the spot and sat up, she then looked at her hand, part of it was red. ‘Blood?!’
“Invidia are
you alright?” Nova went over.
“That light…I
think…I recognize it… The magna flame gun!” Invidia said, not bothering to
answer Nova’s question.
“They still
have it?” Homer said.
“Well they do
seem to have everything else.” Nova said.
“Including a
remaining carrier!” Setsuna looked up.
“That’s the
only one left, Hardy did repot that the tigers came back.”
“You…you have
to get it before it warps away!” Invidia said, then she cringed.
“We only have
one option!”Derek said. “Setsuna!”
“Huh?”
“Fire the wave
motion gun!”
“Me?!”
Derek nodded.
“Heh, I guess
Victoria can’t say anything now.” Razela smiled.
“Of course she
can’t, we’ve left the Argo practically defenseless.” Skalvert stood next
to him.
“Yes, but they
could retaliate, they seem to know our weaknesses…”
“How? They
should know nothing of our race, the last time we attacked the Cometines were
killed.”
Not quite…
“Wave motion
energy charge now at forty percent!” Orion Junior reported.
“If this
doesn’t work, we fought for nothing…” Invidia muttered.
“Ninety
percent…”
“Is this our
last chance?” Invidia looked at Derek.
“Probably, we
need excessive repairs…and until we get that straight we don’t stand a chance”
Sandor said.
“So…”
“Stop
talking!” Derek grabbed Invidia’s arm and pulled her up into his lap. “Stay
like this.” He said. “You know very well that you’re not supposed to watch this
thing fire.”
“Wave motion
energy charge now one hundred percent!”
Invidia buried
her head into Derek’s shoulder and Setsuna fired.
‘I hope
this works…’ She thought.
When they
looked up again the carrier was gone, they weren’t sure is it had warped out or
if they had gotten it but it was gone.
“I don’t think
this is the end…” Mark said.
“It has to be
for now.” Sandor stood up. “We have to get our repairs done and quickly.”
“Right.” Derek
nodded and looked at Invidia. “Are you okay?” he asked.
“I should be…”
She stood up.
“No, you’re
not.”
“Huh?” Invidia
looked at her arm, her left arm. Part of her sleeve was ripped and the spot was
red with blood.
Nova grabbed
her arm. “What happened?”
“I don’t
know…I guess something scraped me when I fell…”
“You come with
me; I’ll take of this quickly, but you have to not fight with me, I have to
work fast. I have a feeling that you’re not the only one who’s hurt.”
Invidia nodded
and followed Nova out.
Part 6: A
Time to Relax
Space
Battleship Argo
O445 Hours:
Earth/Space Time
Everyone knew
it was only a little while until the next attack, but they decided to take
advantage of their free time now.
“I’m hungry.”
Astra said as she and Setsuna headed down the hall.
“It’s four AM
you should be tired.” Setsuna said as they came into their room.
“Eh…Hey
Misako.” Astra said when she came in.
“Hi” Misako
was sitting on her bed, ad she was glowing.
“She’s been
doing that for awhile.” Akira yawned “I think she’s meditating.”
“I’m trying to
reach the full extent of my power.” Misako whispered mysteriously. “I want to
see what is to come; Mama can see it in her dreams.”
Astra looked
at Setsuna, Setsuna shrugged.
”You okay
Princess?” Arty asked, he was sitting in the mess hall with some of the other
Black Tigers, they had been talking when Invidia came to see Arty. Her head was
resting on her arms on the table.
“I’m tired…”
was her reply.
“I’m not
surprised; we have been up for awhile…”
“Carry me…”
she muttered as she held her arms out to him.
Arty picked
her up and Invidia wrapped her arms around his neck.
“What happened
to your robe?’ he asked.
“Nova probably
has it; she took it when she cleaned me up.” Invidia explained.
“What are
you..?” he looked at her arm. “What happened?”
“I don’t
know…I fell and something scraped me, I don’t know what it was, but it cut me.”
“But you’re
all right, right?” Arty asked.
“Yes, it just
hurts a little…” She looked up at him “Are you all right?”
Arty nodded.
“And, I’m sorry I pushed you off earlier, I do love you though. I was just
anxious…”
“It’s okay, I
forgive you… Just put me to bed…”
“Right.” He
took her back into her room, which she had fixed earlier, and put her in bed.
“Arty” She
whined.
“What?”
“Stay with
me…I want you near me.”
Arty smiled at
her, and went over and climbed into bed with her.
She moved into
his arms.
“You’re warm…I
love you.”
“I know…” He
kissed her head and she fell asleep in his arms.
‘She’s so
cute! I’m glad we have sometimes together now, It’s not long until the next
attack…I know it…’
To be
continued with Episode 6…