A little something I complied out of boredom, but really what other reason do you need to write?
A young man sat on top of a stone tower with a radio in his hands. The dark skies above shined with stars and two large moons. He look down at the radio set and pressed a button and began to talk in to it.
"I'm Saito Hiraga, a student from the Asian Union Life Ship 'Japan'. I was testing out a new type of mining capsule when I was shot through a wormhole. Now I lost in some distant part of the galaxy, or at least I think I'm still in the same galaxy. I'm on a planet, full of humans and strange creatures from fantasy. I may be going insane. If you pick you this transmission, please help me. Can anyone hear me? This planet is something out of a novel; magic, nobles, I've even hear word of elves. I'm trying my best to get home. If you hear this come help…"
000
Seventeen Hours Earlier
Location: Asian Union Life Fleet
Year: 2214 AD
"Saito you had better not be late for class again. For god's sake it's only on level six hundred." Saito's mother chastised her son and rushing him out the door.
"I going I'm going!" He said as he left, "sheez late to class for a week and she gets all overbearing." He walked along the hallway of the habitation quarters to catch the morning school tram.
"Saito! Hold the door!" A person said as the ran up to the tram and slipped in just as the tram was leaving. "Thank you Saito, I overslept again."
"Kenji how many time do I have to say it to you, set your alarm…" Saito sighed
"I do, but I spent all last night down in the workshops building." Kenji grinned
"What did you make this time?" Saito hazard to asked.
"A mining pod. It can, if my math was right, mine 32% faster than the ones we currently use!" Kenji said ecstatically.
"That might be the first thing you've made that was useful." Saito said in surprise.
"Wait, do you mean my laser guided toothbrush wasn't useful!?"
"I remember that and I believe it was banned on like twelve of the Life Ships." Saito said, "It caused blindness in over half it's users."
"What idiot looks into a laser, like really." Kenji said angrily.
"Well maybe it was the fact that it also burnt through skin."
"Fine, fine." Kenji said grumpily. He perked up for a second and looked at Saito.
"No." Saito responded without hesitation.
"But I didn't even ask yet!"
"Still know, I still have stitches from the last time I helped you."
"I promise it's completely safe with a 23% margin of error." Kenji stated hopefully
Saito though for a moment. "What do you wait me to do?"
"Well after school today the fleet is going to stop for it's annual maintenance and repair session. We will have enough time to test out the new pod, and I need a pilot."
"23%?" Saito asked hesitantly.
"23%." Kenji said hopefully.
"Just piloting right?"
"Yep."
Saito sighed looked at the ground then back at his friend. "Fine I'll do it, what work bay will it be in?"
"68, I think." Kenji said. "I'll wait for you after school and I'll show you the way."
000
Ten Hours Earlier
"Ok so here it is!" Kenji unveiled his pod to Saito. It was the size of a fighter with two large beam cannons meant for mining ores from asteroids.
"Nice, it's much more compact than the types in use." Saito commented.
"That was one of the points we could make more of these and get more ore and keep the fleet going even longer!" Kenji said happily. "All I really need to do now is calibrate the flight controls, but I must do that while it is being piloted so as to be more accurate."
"And I'm that pilot…"Saito stated with a forlorn look.
"Bright side, my inventions have yet to kill anyone." Kenji pointed out.
"I think everyone try not to die because they don't want to be the first ones on that list." Saito jests.
"Well it's fueled and ready to fly, you still want to do this?"
"I guess so?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes." Saito nodded slowly.
*click* "Ok good got that on recording so I can't get sued, again…" Kenji sets down his recorder and press a button that opens the hatch to the pod. "Good luck."
Satio jumped into the pod and situated himself at the controls. "Why do these control remind me of a video game?" Saito asked.
"Well lets just say it's suppose to make flying easier. Ok you good in there?" Saito nodded. "Ok Close the hatch."
Saito took one last breath of oxygen and press the button marked 'Hatch Control'. The pod's Canopy closed before him and sealed him in airtight. A claw came and picked up the pod and put it on a rail system that would launch him into the void of space.
"Saito can you hear me?" Kenji's voice came through the pod radio.
Satio pressed a button and responded, "Yeah, I read to launch."
"Good, countdown starting, three, two, one, Launch!" Kenji said as the pod screamed out into space and started to fly.
"Well so far so good." Saito said.
"Try to fly it around." Saito flew around the port he came out of.
"Left turning is a little sluggish." Saito reported back.
"Ok let me fix that. Now Satio I want you to test out it maneuverability do some tricks." Kenji requested.
"Roger!" Saito replied. He performed loops and hard turns. While not being a professional pilot his tricks would still please a crowd.
"Saito be advised, I am detecting a small gravitational disturbance about 200 feet on your port side." Kenji alerted his friend. Saito wiped his ship to port to get a look at the disturbance.
"Kenji are you seeing this?" Saito asked.
"What is it?" Kenji wondered out loud. Before the pod and Saito was a green circle with pure black center.
"I'm no astrophysicist, but that is the strangest thing I've ever seen." Saito commented.
"Saito pull back, your drifting close to it!" Kenji warned his friend.
"I'm trying it seems to be sucking me in!" Saito said worriedly.
"You're too far away to launch the tether, try to hold on as long as possible!" Kenji said while looking around for something to help him save his friend.
"I'm giving her all she got, Kenji!" Saito yelled. He to was looking for something to help him out. Then the 'anomaly' let out a greenish colored shockwave that disabled Saito's pod. It began to drift closer and closer to the anomaly.
Kenji wildly pressed to radio transmission button and yelled. "Saito,Saito." But nothing came back. The pod touched the anomaly and both blinked out of existence.
"SAITOOOOOOOO!"
000
Saito was in a similar situation, just he was the one being pulled in.
"Kenji can you hear me? Kenji?" He yelled into the radio. He watched as the anomaly grew ever close to him and when his pod finally touched it he blacked out.
When he came to he noticed smoke in the cabin and all of the systems were damaged or offline. He unbuckled himself from his seat and was able to find the button to filter the smoke out of the cabin so he could see. Outside was filled with smoke, but the sensor that was online detected gravity and breathable atmosphere. Hesitantly Saito opened the hatch just as smoke began to clear. He was dizzy from the crash itself and as he stepped out he landed on the grass and dirt next to his ship.
'Wait grass and dirt? Where am I?' Saito looked up and saw a group of people standing just a bit off. He looked up towards the sky. 'Is that a star?' He saw the sun pouring light onto the planet.
One of the people from the group, a girl about Saito's age came up to him after being edged forward by an older member of the group. She said something that Saito could not understand and kissed him. After breaking the kiss, she had a look of disgust on her face. She turned back to the group and said something.
"What is, AHH!" Saito not only dazed after crashing onto a planet, now had a massive burning sensation on his hand. He looked at the girl who was now being laugh at by the group, well those in the group around her age. "Help me." He gasped out before he passed out.
000
Five Hours Earlier
Location: Unknown
Saito woke up in a soft bed, as he slowly regained his senses he began to look around to see where he was. The girl from before sat at a table in the center of the room reading a book. She noticed that Saito was moving and sighed. Saito felt a twitch of pain from his hand and looked at it. It had some strange bluish tattoo on it. Saito though that he will deal with that later.
"Excuse me where am I?" He asked the girl as he sat up from the bed. He noticed his shoes were at the edge lined up nicely. The girl set down her book looked at him and said something.
"I don't understand what you are saying." Saito replied. The girl rolled her eyes and shot him a look of disgust. She said something back then pulled out a stick.
"What is the stick for?" Saito asked carefully. She seem to stop to think of something then said a short chant then pointed said stick at Saito. A blast knocked him back onto the bed and hit the wall. The girl went back to her book.
"What was that for!?" Saito yelled at the girl. The girl turn and gave Saito a look of awe.
"You can speak normally." the girl said not looking up from her book. "Or did I just mess up the silencing spell that bad again?"
"What I've always spoken normally, just a different language." Saito throw back. The girl sighed again set down her and looked at Saito.
"All you were speaking was gibberish." the girl said.
"So were you before you blasted me into the wall." Saito said while rubbing his back. "That hurt you know."
"Well be luck you're still alive then or I'll hit hard next time." the girl then stood up and walk towards Saito, "Well I suppose I should introduce myself, I am Louise Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière."
"Louise Frankose da Blan le lo Valliere?" Saito tried to say her name. Her eye twitched a bit a the butchering of her name.
"Commoner I was trying to be benevolent, you know what just, just call me Louise Valliere you got that bit right a least." She tried to calm herself down.
"Commoner?" Saito wondered.
"Yes, I use magic, ergo I'm a noble. You don't have magic, ergo you are a commoner." Louise explained. "Well on a technicality you're Familiar, but commoner just fits you better."
"Hmmm." Saito pause for a moment. "I guess I'll introduce myself, I'm Saito Hiraga of the Asian Life Fleet Ship 'Japan'."
"For a commoner you have a very long name…" Louise raised her eyebrow. Satio let out a short laugh then looked at Louise again.
"Well it's also where I'm from, so just call me Saito Hiraga to simplicities sake." Saito explained.
"Well Saito, just so you know you position here, you are my Familiar, kind of like a servant of sorts." Louise started, "I summoned you here, but I was not expecting a human."
"Where is here exactly?" Saito asked. Louise looked as if he was insane.
"We are in the Kingdom of Tristain is one of five nations on the continent of Halkeginia." She explained slowly.
"I have no idea what any of that means." Saito tried to put softly. Louise look turned from one of curiosity to straight up shock.
"Just who are you commoner!?" Louise started to pull at her hair. "Ok you know what where are you from."
"Well that's a tricky question." Saito stated causing Louise to pull at her hair harder.
"Just answer the damned Question!" Louise growled.
"Let's see." Saito looked down at the ground a muttered, "Low culture, low technology how do I explain… Ah. Ok ready?" Saito asked.
"Tell me please." Louise said in a surly sweet voice.
"Ok so I from a land call 'Earth' after some great incident we built great ships and sailed upwards into the void above the land, we call it space. So we have been traveling through space from many years now and that's about it." Saito explained hoping that would suffice.
"Wait so you're from up there." Louise asked skeptically while pointing up to the ceiling and onwards to the sky.
"Pretty much, but before I came here we were no where near a planet. Infact I've never seen a star from a planet before, air that was not filtered for years and smell this… fresh." Saito commented. Louise still had a look of suspicion toward him.
"Prove it, prove you're from the void." Louise asked in a demanding tone.
"Where was the pod I came in?" Saito asked.
Louise though for a moment on what he was asking for "Oh you mean the Steel Dragon's Egg? I think Mr. Colbert took it to his shop to look at it."
"Oh no!" Saito jumped up from where he was sitting.
"What is it?" Louise still standing in front of Saito jumped back at his sudden movement.
"Where is it?" Saito looked at her with desperation.
"Where is what?" Louise backed up a bit.
"His workshop!"
Louise had not expected Saito to become this energetic that fast, she contemplated he options. "Er… Follow me." Louise slipped on some shoes and coat and went to the door to leave her room. The exited into another hallway with more door heading to a staircase.
Saito while following Louise asked, "Where is this?"
"Uh, the girls dorm of the Tristain Academy." Louise replied as the started down the stairs. They reached the ground level where the halls where. "Follow me the workshop is near the entrance to the academy." Outside the sky had darkened and two moons glowed in the sky.
"Wow, Earth was suppose to only have one moon." Saito comment in shock, but kept following after Louise how was leading the way.
They passed two other students outside as well, one commented, "Taking your Familiar out for a walk, Louise?"
Louise turned her head as she passed. "Shut up Guiche. Commoner come on we almost there." Saito was just paces behind her.
They reached the courtyard where Colbert workshop was. "Good it's still in one piece." Saito took a sigh of relief. They walk closer to the building when there was an explosion and a red beam shot up into the sky.
"Commoner what was that?" Louise asked as she jumped behind him.
"Huh that still works." Saito said with a surprised tone in his voice. They went up to the door, opening it smoke poured out onto the courtyard the two students from early drifted a ways away to watch what was going on. The older man from earlier ran out of the room coughing and turned back to see Louise and Saito standing in front of him.
"What did you press?" Saito asked.
The man cough for a bit then answered, "The red button with four strange symbols on it." He coughed out.
"Mr. Colbert are you alright?" Louise asked.
"Yes, I play with fire all the time, first in a while I've been burnt though." Mr. Colbert finally finished coughing. The smoke began to dissipate and the trio walk in. Saito goes up to his pod and examines it.
"Well looks like the engines don't work probably from the crash," He went into the cockpit and pressed some buttons, "The radio and power plant still work but the antenna is busted." Louise and Colbert looked at each other unable to understand what he is saying. He roots around in the cockpit and pulls out a box, "Cool he put an emergency kit in here. Meds, food, a gun? Where did he get a gun from. Oh its a ferromagnetic launcher, that's how. And sweet a universal solar charger."
"Commoner what are you doing?" Louise asked.
"Salvaging, let's see can I get this radio out." Saito began to pull at his pod's consoles.
"What is this machine you have here young one?" Colbert asked.
"Call me Saito, and this is a Kenji model mining pod, whaaa!" Saito fell out of the cockpit with a device in his hands. "There I got the radio out.
"A mining pod? Don't we mine with picks and shovels?" Louise asked.
"We did that a long time ago this way is faster especially if you need tonnes of Titanium on short notice, remember the beam that almost blew up you lab just a bit ago, yeah those are what we mine with, probably take a mountain down in a few days." Saito mused.
"So what do plan to do with it, you're pod?" Colbert asked.
"I may have been summoned here, but like hell I'm staying longer than necessary. I going to rig up this here radio to transmit messages for me so the fleet will come and save me!" Saito said with glee.
Louise's face saddened at this but then turn slightly stoic. "How big is this fleet?" Colbert asked.
"I don't know, a few thousand, not much." Saito said as he continued to piece together his transmitter. Both Colbert and Louise had looks of shock and disbelief, but Saito was too involved in his project to notice.
"Ok it's finished." Saito said.
"I haven't seen or hear of anything like this since I study the elves." Colbert said to himself out loud.
"Elves this place has them too,"Saito asked. "Well this place does have it cool factor, but still. Louise what is the tallest part of the academy?"
"The central toward why?" Louise asks, but Saito is already out the door. They follow him outside and see him running to the central tower with something other than the radio in his hands. Suddenly he stop points something upwards then flies to the top of the tower.
"How did he do that?" Colbert asked. Guiche and the girl he was with joined the Louise and Colbert.
"What is he doing." Guiche asked.
"I don't know, I just don't know." Louise sighed and sat on the ground in exhaustion.
000
Just a Few Minutes Earlier
On the roof of the central tower, Saito was setting up his equipment. "I hope I'm high enough and this thing has enough power to send out a message." He said to himself.
"Ok let's go on air." He pressed a button. "Hello anyone out there?" He said into the radio's microphone.
Static was his reply. "Ok let's modify somethings her boost the gain, lower the frequency, this was a long shot to begin with." he pressed the button again. "Hello is anyone from the Asian Union listening?"
Again nothing. "Only one thing left to do, set this up to record and repeat transmission and hope someone finds me." He brought the microphone up to his face, sighed and started, "I'm Saito Hiraga…"
If anyone one seen Farscape they know where this plot was adapted from.