Well folks, it's been a long time since I last did a long GA story, but here's something a little different.
A sequel to the GA II Retold trilogy, but also with a DOOM twist. This may be my most challenging story yet...so off we go!
The New Galaxy
The year is TCY 418. Eight long months had passed since the Will army were defeated for good and the NEUE galaxy was saved. Everyone that made it happen were there to pull together and bring out the greatest victory known to all life. I am Arnold Williams, recently promoted to Commander, 25 and happily married to the love of my life, Milfie.
After we had saved the whole galaxy, Milfie and I had our wedding two weeks later and we got married after being engaged for five years. Our honeymoon was the next day and we had a week of staying at Hokkori island, thanks to a lot of our friends who helped made the wedding possible. But just because there was now peace, doesn't mean that we can start slacking off, I was still in the military for a good reason.
After our honeymoon, Milfie and I moved into a normal sized house with two bedrooms, one for me and my wife and the other for when we would welcome our first child. The two of us were incredibly happy to hear that Milfie was pregnant and that she would be due in about nine months or so. When everyone else heard the news, Ranpha seemed very happy to hear and she planned a baby shower that resulted in a drunk Tequila at the end of the night.
Speaking of which, not much had changed according to the other girls. Ranpha was still happily married to Tact who chose to retire from the military so they could plan to start a family, although a few months earlier then Milfie and myself. Mint's family business continues to grow in both popularity and profits and there are now talks of a second department ship being built in the galaxy of PHOS which I will get to in a moment.
Forte is still on military duty, but reassigned as a commander of her own special squad that patrols around EDEN, along with the Ripsiors that were now modified to be automated in patrolling all across the EDEN galaxy. Vanilla's nanomachine research made a breakthrough and an HQ building was designed on Pico where she continues to conduct further researches. Chitose is still captain of her own small task force that often provides escorts and backup for the Luxiole in NEUE, she and Clayton are still together of course.
Which brings me to the Rune Angel Wing. Well, all of them are still on active duty with Kazuya who is now the ring leader of the group, patrolling around the NEUE galaxy along with the Luxiole. The last I heard from them was that Kazuya and Lily are still together and so is Roselle and Kahlua. Anise, Apricot, Nano and Natsume were all the same too. With the Ripsiors patrolling EDEN and the Rune Angel Wing and the Luxiole patrolling NEUE, Noah and Shatyarn believed that it was time to go and visit the four other galaxies that may be in need of security and stability.
Fast forwarding the clock to eight months later and my current situation was calm and timid. But if there's one thing I've learnt over the several battles and wars, is that when there's an uncertain amount of calm, expect a storm to kick in and I wasn't planning to change that mindset anytime soon. When negotiations between EDEN, NEUE and PHOS took place, the request to assign a military home base and it's own security was overwhelmingly approved.
As a result, a new flagship would have to be constructed and that it would be our mobile home for the duration. When it was finished built, the flagship was called the Galaxior and it combined what was great about the Elsior and what is good about the Luxiole. I was assigned as commander of the flagship, so I was to take charge of all of the responsibilities of being a commander and not just a pilot. Speaking of piloting, my Silver Speeder is still with me, but along with three different appearances of the Holy Blood, the unique Emblem Frame that Roselle piloted.
Noah, with her revived Black Moon, created these copies so that I would have efficient support just in case of a battle. But who would be piloting those three frames? Well, that was where I was in for a shock. Moments after I became the Commander of the Galaxior, the EDEN council had informed me that Jackson, who took up life in the jungle on Juno would be joining me for the long mission. Then it got more surprising that Keith who I hadn't seen for years was coming with me too and Clayton, who had always wanted to pilot a frame. All three of them went through a somewhat harsh training, but by the time it was done, they were more than ready to become pilots like me.
The Galaxior has many of the facilities that the Luxiole had, but with a bigger hanger, a vastly improved infirmary, a restaurant and a hot spring...crazy, right?
So here I was, standing tall and proud on the bridge of the Galaxior with nothing but open space in front of us. We had just entered into PHOS, thanks to my wife, Milfie who was operating the gates with the NEUE gatekeeper for today. Our mission is to dock at the Triad Spaceport, a military moon base that rotates around the capital planet of PHOS which is yet to have a name. We were to meet up with Phel, the gatekeeper of PHOS and along with a General who was in charge of the galaxy's own military and research center known as the Union Airspace Corporation or UAC for short.
We had received a letter from a reporter that on one of the moons in PHOS, a group of scientists had discovered several locked gateways deep under the grounds of the moons. Very little were known about it, but there was a growing concern that something very bad would come out of it. So as a precaution, we were tasked to meet up with Phel and General Malcolm Kennedy to provide our assistance in protecting the moons where the research labs are.
The bridge door was opened behind me which snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Yo Arnold, you drifting off while standing up or something?" Clayton asked.
"You know me, Clayton. I'm just doing my job like always." I replied. "So what do you need?"
"Just checking on you, cause you know, you and the rest of old timers are out here, whilst your wife is working hard at the Central Globe."
I sighed. "I know...and the fact that she is due when it's the ninth month or so, puts me on edge."
"Uh huh, thought so. It's kinda like me and Chitose."
"Oh really, speaking of which, have you considered popping the question to her yet?"
Clayton shook his head. "Not really, I can't do that. There's not even a mobile shopping mall out here yet."
"Indeed, Mint really needs to get that planned out before too long."
"Commander Williams, incoming transmission." Delilah said.
"On the big screen, please." I replied before looking at the giant TV above the windows.
Delilah was the communications officer I was assigned with as soon as I was given command of the ship. She was a graduate from Seldar Academy who knew her stuff well.
"Hey, good morning to you, Arnold." Tact greeted on the screen.
"Oh hi there Tact, don't often expect a call from you these days." I replied. "Hows your early retirement?"
"It's pretty good. Listen, I wanted to let you know that Ranpha is visiting Milfie at Central Globe. It seems my wife wants to look after yours."
I laughed. "Well they are long time friends, so that's no surprise. I guess it's do with you know what, eh?"
"Yeah, because after all, Milfie isn't the only one who's due, right?"
He was right on that one. "Yep, so how far is Ranpha by the way?"
"She's due in a month after Milfie." Tact got a little serious. "Anyways, I also called to let you know that you may get some incoming transmissions from the rest of the girls at some point."
"Got it, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for those. As for me though, I have a feeling of concern the closer this ship gets to the destination."
"Yeah, I heard about the letter you got from one of the research labs and it may be one of my hunches, but I have a bad feeling about it, so watch yourself out there."
"I will, no one will be left behind as that's what a commander like me promises and stands by."
"That's good to know, call you again soon, Arnold."
"You take care as well, Tact."
The transmission ended and I took a deep breath.
"You okay, commander?" Delilah asked.
"I'm fine, I just have to make sure that I don't crumble against difficult odds, cause I've been through that song and dance, many times."
Clayton tapped me on the shoulder. "Hey man, did you forget that I'm still here?"
"Nope, I remembered that you were behind me. It's still a surprise that all four of us are back together."
"Yeah, tell me about it, man. I thought we were never gonna see Keith again."
I nodded. "Anyways, are Jackson and Keith busy?"
"Sort of, Jackson's being talking to that nurse in the infirmary whilst Keith is having of his LDR video calls."
I nodded, knowing that LDR was long distance relationship for short.
"I see, well remember to be on standby, we should be close to the galaxy's moon base soon."
"Got it, Arnold." Clayton left the bridge whilst I went to my commanders room to rest my legs.
After a while, I left the room and as soon as I looked out the windows, I saw a metal shaped moon and a massive planet behind it.
"Commander Williams, we're approaching our destination." Delilah said.
"Good, then let us dock at one of the open spaces." I replied. "Be careful when entering inside the moon base, everyone."
The Galaxior slowed down and it docked at a vacant port from inside. This was the first time I was going to be standing inside the moon base, I had seen pictures of it when it was being built, but what was interesting was that the time it took wasn't for long. It was completed after three months, compared to the Galaxior that took six months to build.
"Woah! This place is much bigger than we thought." Keith commented. "You sure know how to pick your missions, Arnold."
"It was assigned to us, I didn't choose this at random." I replied.
"Well if you ask me, it makes a change than having my meals in the jungle of rock." Jackson said.
"Not another one of your rock songs..." Clayton muttered.
Once the docking was done, we exited the ship and walked down a flight of stairs before standing face to face with a few soldiers that were on guard.
"Commander Williams, the General has been expecting you." One of them said. "Follow us."
I nodded with understanding. The soldiers here were dressed like normal soldiers, but with a green body armor and a beige helmet to protect thier faces and identities. They also carried pistols and machine guns which according to Forte were easy to look at in detail. The pistols were like desert eagles, similar to the one I still have in my holster pocket and the machine guns were of a P90 design, the origins of where they came from was something I had forgotten about.
Following a very long walk out of the docks and up a few floors, we walked past a mess hallway, although my left eye caught a view of a scientist who appeared to be scared.
"I gotta get out of this galaxy..." He said in quest voice, shivering.
I had no idea why he said that, but it didn't seem to be good. But I shook that out of my head as we stopped by a large door that had a sign above, the meeting room. The four of us entered inside and we were greeted with a familiar face and a new one. Phel was here and along with the UAC's General. They both had serious faces, whatever this growing concern was, I had a feeling that this was only the beginning of the possible nightmare scenarios that would surely follow.
First one done and I'm glad that this is finally underway. The chapters may not be as long like this one, but I hope I can be forgiven for that. :)
NEXT TIME! Phel and the UAC General explain the situation in regards to the gateways.