"This is what I get for not changing ships!" cried out one man who seemed to be piloting the ship.
The old man had no controls or anything but from outside you could see the ship trying to get out of the grasp from a deep red ship with graphler arms. The old man closed his eyes and began to chant. The dot on his forehead began to glow as the ship began to go faster and tried to run away from the battle. Behind him many people were doing the same and some were running around checking the systems and reporting back damages. "Blast it!" cried the old man opening his eyes. "That boy is at it again and if this fight keeps going on there will be nothing left of this ship. Of all the ships we sent out as decoys he picks the real ship out of all of them!"
On the red ship, a man about twenty-one was gripping his graphler arms handles harder than he had ever done. In front of him another boy about to hit his teenage years was typing like crazy telling the others around him damage caused from the other ship. Behind them was another girl who was about twenty and was tinted blue from the liquid data that she floated in. "Gene there is another missile about to be fired from behind, watch out," Melfina said from her readings in the data liquid.
Gene moved his whole body as he moved the handles on his controls. A large boom came from behind Melfina's tank as the tail of the ship was hit by two missiles sent from a foreign pirate's ship. "To think that after this we will have to go back to Sentinel after we just left from there," exclaimed Gene.
"That and we don't have anything to pay Fred with," replied Jim as he clicked away on his computer. A red light began to blink for all to see. "Gene, we have damage on one of the engines. That last hit must have froze the engine."
"Can you go fix it Jim?" asked Gene who was far too busy to take his mind off of fighting.
"Guess so," replied Jim as he got up and floated off towards the end of the ship.
The Pirates ship was in worse shape. All the graphler fighting only left them with one arm and a little ammo in the graphler gun. As for missiles, all had been used. The old man looked behind to a capsule being built around a young girl. The only thing she wore was a gold pendant with something in pink engraved on it. The girl had long aqua colored hair and laid there like she was asleep. The technicians around her were working hastily to finish their jobs before their lives were finished first.
The man looked out and said to himself, "I cannot loose her. Not only is she a piece of art but she was to be destined on the throne to the pirates. This boy already took one of our prized possessions but he is not going to take the life of this teenager."
The man did not close his eyes as more missiles came towards his ship. Instead he looked again to see his creation. The capsule was done and ready for ejection. At the same time another missile had hit the engine room destroying it along with those in there. More missiles were coming. Each one hit the ship destroying the section that it hit. "Get the pod ready for ejection on my count, 5.4.3.2.1.eject her now!" screamed the man as the last missile appeared right in front of the glass and exploded destroying the old man and the rest of crew to the ship. In space a lonely pod began to float off towards the Outlaw Star.
"Gene, you do know we don't get any reward for killing pirates right?" asked Jim.
"Of course I do! What do I look like an idiot?" replied Gene.
"Yes! Now we don't get the reward because you destroyed everything from it!" shouted Jim as he began to shut down his mini computer.
"It's not like I had the choice. He would of killed me it I didn't kill him!" screamed Gene trying to prove a point.
"Gene, should I set the coordinates to Sentinel Three?" asked Melfina from the back.
"With all that damage we have to. We are going to owe Fred a lot of money after this one."
"Gene, we still do owe him money. We owe a lot of people money," commented Jim.
Grumbling Gene turned off graphler mode and began to let the ship steer itself to Sentinel three. From the very front of the ship a circular device began to speak like an intercom would, "Gene, there is something outside of the ship. It seems to be some sort of capsule. Should I inspect it?"
"No Giliam. Hey Jim, why don't you check it out," said Gene.
"Fine," he replied as he again jumped out of his seat and began to float towards the hatch in the ship. Using hooks and cables from the inside Jim was able to reel in the capsule and bring it inside the ship. At the same time Outlaw Star docked at the home planet of Gene and Jim.
Jim slowly peered through the small hole on the capsule to see a girl. Startled to find out that he found a girl he looked up to the small pink Gilliam and told it, "Gilliam send a message to Gene and Melfina to come here quickly. I think they might want to see this!"
From the front of the ship Gilliam relayed the information to Gene and Merfina. Melfina's pod disappeared and then reappeared from the floor with her on a small circle all dried and dressed ready to investigate with Jim. Both ran towards the end of the ship until they met up with Jim. Jim had already activated the capsule and had opened it. In front of the trio was a teenage girl with long aqua hair and a gold pendant around her neck. Out of nowhere a feminine robotic voice said, "Deep Freeze Sleep Deactivated. Waking Up Activated."
A puff of mist bellowed out of the capsule just like Melfina's briefcase had a year earlier. The girl's sapphire eyes fluttered as they opened slowly and then fast to realize that around her were people that she had never seen. She slowly got up not knowing that she was nude and stepped out of her capsule. She looked straight up to Gene since she was shorted than him and smiled saying, "Hi!"
Jim and Gene looked at each other and said at the same time, "Not again!"