Aquamarine bay was a little quiet today. Nothing but birds chirping and the wind moving. The waves were slow and the sun was shining as bright as ever. It was a peaceful day.
Not far off laid a tiny cave where two pairs of eyes of different colors stared at a circle of pillars in the middle of the bay. The sun shining it's bright light illuminated one of the creatures' head, which revealed many stars of different shapes and sizes in a shape of a constellation. This creature was indeed Ecco the dolphin, earths defender of the future.
"Okay, so on the count of three, we swim around the pillars, three times right?" said Ecco, turning towards the other creature who was another dolphin.
"Yep. But why bother? You can't beat me." Says the other dolphin gloating at Ecco with a big smirk.
"Oh really? We'll just see about that!" replies Ecco as he focuses on the count to race his friend. He drops his fins down and lowers his head, ready to make a charge to get a head start.
"Okay then" says the dolphin acting like Ecco was losing his cool and throwing a fit. "Ready"
"One"
"Two"
"Three!" the two dolphins said in unison as they both charged off towards the pillars in the middle of the bay. The other dolphin got to first pillar first and spun around it with Ecco chasing behind. As they made around the first lap, Ecco took a huge charge, and took the lead by his opponent.
"Your going to regret passing me Ecco!" says the dolphin as it began to accelerate faster than Ecco. He noticed this and tried to block, but only to have his opponent trick him out, and pass him leaving him in the dust. "Aw. Can Ecco beat a little girl dolphin like me? Yeah, fat chance!" gloats the female dolphin, but as she turns around on the final lap, she humiliatingly gets stuck in one of the pillar's holes, leaving Ecco to win the race.
"Gee Coral, did you gain weight or something?" laughs Ecco as he comes for her aid, only to be hissed and growled at by the sore and irritated loser.
"Just wait till I get my fins on you Ecco!" yells Coral as she tries to squirm out and trying to reach Ecco with her fins.
"Relax, I'll get you out. Just hold still." Instructs Ecco as he tries to tug Coral out of the hole. Sadly, he couldn't release her. "You won't budge. Sorry" he says with a confused look on his face.
"Great. Ecco defender of the future and his mighty strength can't pull out a poor innocent female out of a hole!" Coral says with a frustrated look in her eyes.
"Hey, those where exaggerations, and you know it! Just because I saved earth, doesn't mean I'm a titan or anything! Besides, the Guardian gave me that strength." Replied Ecco, but all he got was a dirty look.
"That was temporary." He adds on that gave Coral a disgusted and hopeless look, that lasted only a few seconds when she heard a familiar song. A whale's song!
"Big Blue?" questioned Coral as she looked at Ecco.
"No, its sounds like killer whale". Ecco said, which he was right about. He could hear it louder and louder, and he began to notice a shadow of the singing figure. "I wonder who it is that's coming?" He asks himself out loud. The figure swam closer and closer until the shadow finally cleared as the whale approached them with it's teeth showing and an ugly expression on it's face.
"Oh Delphinus! It's going to eat us!" gasped Coral as she panic ally tried to release herself from the rock. "Ecco! Save yourself!" she tells him, but as the brave soul he was, Ecco tried to pull her out with every strength he had, ignoring the sounds she made when she felt a slight pinch.
Finally the whale with it's mouth wide open and sharp teeth showing was only a bite away from killing them stopped moving, and began making a loud roar, but not an angry shark's roar, but a roar of exhaustion.
The whale finished, and closed its mouth with a big smile on its face.
"What's the matter Coral? Eating too much of the fish again?" the whale said, trying to hold his laughter from his own joke. Ecco burst laughing as it was a friend he was with while swimming back from Atlantis after defeating the Foe.
"Aqua you weight more than all the buildings in Atlantis combined!" Coral said trying to break his laugh, which made it worse, since it was a terrible comeback. The laughing was broke short, since it was time for an air break. Aqua swam over behind Coral and poking her with his head. "Aqua what are you doing?" Coral asked since she was getting annoyed from the poking.
"Would you like the head or the tail?" asked the killer whale, waiting for an answer from the stuck dolphin.
"Huh? Head I guess." Coral answered with a very confused look on her face, staring at Ecco.
"Okay, it's going to hurt quite a bit!" replied Aqua as he slowly backs up preparing for a massive charge at Coral's tail.
"What?!" screamed Coral as Aqua charged full speed at the rock aiming at her. Slam! The whale went as well as the rock pillar and Coral as she flew out of the water and painfully smacked into a rock wall above the bay. She slowly fell off the wall and landed back into the water, landing on something small.
"Ow" she moaned as Ecco and Aqua came to her aide, only to discover a large seahorse on her belly. It was purple and it was a male. It glowed like a glyph.
"Ugh, what happened?" said the seahorse moaning as well, looking at Ecco and Aqua who were giving the seahorse confused looks. "Those markings on you forehead…"
"Yes I'm Ecco defender of the blah blah blah. Nice to meet you… Uh, what's your name?" Ecco finished asking the glowing seahorse.
"I'm Shard. The Guardians messenger. I came here to, well you know, to tell you to come back right away, or something like that" said the seahorse who was acting careless.
"What's the problem?" asked Ecco who was concerned and giving the seahorse a serious look that scared the creature.
"Hay now! Don't get angry with me! It's not my fault I'm not good at acting like it's a tragedy, even though he told me it was!" the seahorse said hiding behind Coral.
"What kind of tragedy?" said Aqua moving Coral out of the way and frightening the messenger silly.
"Something about his power or dying, or something. Look I don't Remember okay! So don't eat me!" cried out Shard as he tried to swim away, but only to be in the fins of Ecco. Aqua and Coral stared blankly at each other, then at Ecco, who was thinking.
"You think something's wrong with the Guardian?" asked Aqua looking at him with a worried look on his face.
"Maybe. I don't know, but I better go and check and see what's the problem." Answers Ecco looking at the gate to Atlantis. He began swimming over to the gate ready to sing to open when he noticed he was being followed by his friends, who where giving him determined looks.
"We're coming to Ecco!" said Coral with a jealous look. "This could be an adventure that's we might all enjoy. You might need help and the company." She finshed.
"Yeah, and you might need some extra muscle from me." Continued the killer whale with the same look.
Ecco wanting to say no since whatever might happen could be too dangerous, backed down from saying it. Aqua was a powerhouse lone-swimmer who finally found some friends, and a place to stay for awhile. Coral can fight many sharks, since her father was the last podleader, and taught her how to fight and how to win mentally and physically.
"I can assure you it's dangerous, but I can't argue at what I learned from you guys. While we're going, let's stop by and say hello to Crush and Hammer near the Coral Reef" Ecco said, who was referring to the mature shark Crush, and his immature brother Hammer, the hammerhead, who surprisingly, liked dolphins, and befriended Ecco as well on the way back from Atlantis.
"Well okay, but if I get bitten by one of those weirdo's, it'll be your tail Ecco!" Coral said as they opened the door to the pathway to begin their quest back to Atlantis.
Far off from Earth a mighty armada of ships and large vessels surf outer space, destroying a nearby planet, burning it to kingdom come.
While the onslaught was going on, one of the fighters ship opened a hatch into the mothership. It was moving fast, like if it was in a hurry. As the fighter parked in it's spot in the docking bay the pilot quickly ejected out of the ship, and begin sprinting towards the command center of the mothership. The creature was too hard to describe as it was to fast to see.
The creature made it's way to the command center, which held a sign that read: "Kings Office". He opened the door to reveal an extremely large creature that had to be sixty feet tall, with large claws that hold only three figures, and giant green eyes in the shape of tiger's. The "King" which the title near the door read, was watching the winning battle on multiple screens, with a large devilish grin on his face. This creature, this monster, was the powerful Foe king!
The other creature finally stopped running and was easier to describe. Although it wasn't what the king looked like, it was small and looked like snake, with a strange tube-like contraption sticking out of his mouth, which was used to talk, and can be used as a short-ranged weapon. This was a Foe spitter, but this one could move ten times faster.
"My-my lord! I have news on the battle of Earth!" the spitter announced to the King. The leader turned around and looked down at his minion.
"Hmm. What news must you bring to me? How is my Queen doing taking that weak jewel of a planet?" said the king talking as if the spitter was his friend.
"That's what I want to tell you about sir. We taken the planet by using our prototype vortex weapon you had your eyes on using." The spitter said starting to shake and becoming nervous.
"That's good news soldier. I knew that the vortex mechanism would make things easier." Replied the King, growing his grin even longer and thicker.
"Well until someone or something got in the way of things and…" the spitter stopped and worried to finish his sentence, feeling like he'll regret finishing.
"And what!" said the King who quickly became impatient and losing his long grin.
"… and destroyed the ship, and eventually…" the spitter stopped again, almost ready to scream in mercy of what was to happen next.
"EVENTUALLY WHAT?!?!" the King cried out at the scared spitter.
"Your Queen… was… killed" the spitter finished embracing of what was to happen next. The Foe king just stared at the spitter, and began making a strong and hardened fist. In anger, he thrust it against the largest screen, smashing the glass everywhere. He then screamed as loud as his vocal cords and lungs could carry the sound of the loss.
He finally calmed down, and looked at the spitter trying to think.
"How far is it to Earth from here? At the speed of warp five?" the spitter looked at the Foe king with a look of relief.
"About 8 earth months non-stop." Answered the spitter.
"Long drive. When we finish this planet…we attack…no…destroy Earth! We avenge the loss of our Queen and our best fighters!" the King said throwing his fist into the air.
"I Shall let the other commanders know about this sir. Oh and, thank you for not taking your anger out on me" said the spitter who began walking back to his ship.
"Just go." Replied the king turning his head to a window at the carnage.
"It will be a long quest to Earth. But when we arrive. They well all…suffer."
"Whoa!" says a human who woke up from his sleep. He had a nightmare of what will happen to Earth, and began to sweat and noticed a wet spot between his legs. He quickly got out of his bed and ran over to his dresser changing into his uniform, which was made up of green pants with a white undershirt, a gray tee-shirt, and a green army-jacket, which was all standard uniform for everyone.
Once he finished, he picked up some dog tags that read his name: Corporal Erick Baron. He finally got outside his room and headed left to which lead him to another room. "Intelligence Dorm" the sign read, and Baron went inside to see tens of hundreds of radios and computers. He quickly flipped on a computer and pushed a series of numbers, which surprisingly got him on a network of Foe ships and their orders. This was one of the methods used that helped the humans defeat the Foe the first time.
Baron scrolled up and down the endless list of orders, that where in a computer generated code that the humans cracked. Baron then discovered one particular code that was popping up everywhere. He clicked on the code that was encoded Derth1807.des.
What was just a code, was actually what Baron dreamed of. The order was the total destruction of Earth!
"I must let the lieutenant know about this!" thought Baron to himself as he tripped off the chair he was sitting on and headed his way to the Command Chamber.
The lieutenant was sitting with other members of his group of soldiers who were really just messing around, telling stories when they were on Earth.
"Hey Garret. Tell us the time you were in trouble for messing with your guns in public" asked a sergeant who was throwing paper airplanes at the door.
"For the last time sarge. I wasn't arrested for playing with my weapons, I was arrested for drinking in 'pub-lic.' Those idiots at the tavern threw me drunk into pub-lic." He just stared at the sergeant at the pointless and random joke until Baron opened the door, only to bump his head with airplanes from the careless sergeant.
"Lieutenant! Lieutenant!" cried Baron tripping over the mess the soldiers were making of the room. The lieutenant who knew that Baron was always on the computers and radios had to go through another episode with him, even though he ordered him to rest in his quarters.
"Ah Baron. Good to see you. Had a good nap?" the lieutenant said sarcastically with a big smirk.
"Sir, I was manning a computer and looking at a list of Foe orders and…" Baron was immediately interrupted by his commander.
"You should be manning the bed and getting some rest corporal!" said the lieutenant with a nasty look on his face.
"This adds to that sir! The Foe has ordered a full scale destruction of Earth!" he handed the papers and documents of the code Derth1807.des. The commander looked at the papers and continued to grow more attracted to the documents that Baron made. He finished and looked at Baron.
"Baron, get HQ on screen now!" he ordered Baron to turn on the screen that displayed a list of generals. The lieutenant pushed on screen to the officer of General John J. Ruther, commander of the armed forces.
The computer displayed the image of general Ruther who was drinking coffee, that was spilled on his lap when being warned of an incoming call.
"WHAT IS IT CHARLES?!?!" screamed Ruther as he tried to hide his pain.
"I'm sending you the note on that topic now sir" replied the lieutenant as he placed the papers in a tube like machine. He pushed some numbers and then pushed send which quickly was received by Ruther. He examined the document, and quickly typed his orders for other commanders.
"Looks like we're in war again boys." Said the general fiddling with his hands. "Get your men, and call everyone to prepare to return to Earth."
"Yes sir. Sorry to disturb you sir." The screen turns off and the lieutenant faces his men. "well thanks to Baron here, well be making it back to Earth, the military at least. The Foe are returning to destroy it, since they're precious queen was killed in the invasion the second time. They will not go down quietly this time. This time, we finish this!"