This fanfic is based on the Spectrobes series and primarily Spectrobes Origins.
All Spectrobes characters are the property of Disney and are not my property (seriously, this is one of the few non-Kingdom Hearts Disney games that actually had games and no tv show or movie!)
It will be told in the POV of Rallen and Maja with Rallen in the odd numbered chapters and Maja in the even numbered chapters.
With this out of the way, let's begin.
Chapter 1
It was business as usual ever since we had defeated Krux the first time from trying to destroy Nanairo the first two times. Ever since we had defeated him and his High Krawl, he had been sending us small waves of Krawl at a time from the different portals around Nanairo that led to other planetary systems. And Jeena and I were currently in a mission briefing for an assignment by none other than Commander Grant.
"Attention all NPP officers. The Krawl are starting to regroup and form larger numbers. They have already eradicated numerous planets and systems before, but we won't let them take this one. Everyone should especially keep an eye out for the 4 High Krawl, as I've heard rumors that they have been resurrected by the leader of the Krawl. We have no knowledge of him, and all we have is a name. Krux," Commander Grant said as he showed the picture of Krux's enigmatic appearance. No one but I had ever seen his face before and I was stunned to have seen it for myself. He honestly looked half human and half Krawl, which was something I never would've expected someone like him to be like, as he was full of evil and tried to annihilate all of Nanairo with a massive Krawlosphere.
I then inspected the faces of the four High Krawl, me noting every feature they possessed, as I had already taken them down once each, Jado being the only exception with two fights. Speaking of, Jado was by far the most slippery of the bunch, as he was the craftiest and most manipulative, even to the point of absorbing the powers of the other High Krawl when I defeated them in the past. His appearance matched his twisted nature with an insane smile, blue and black skin coating his entire body, and a mean cape that had a Krawl minion that lived within it.
Gelberus was the hottest of the bunch in both temperature and temper. He was of the Corona Property and he planned to flood Nanairo by melting the ice on a planet filled with ice to free a massive swarm of Krawl to invade our system. I handled him before he could do so and the planet has since been destroyed by one of our best lasers to prevent another attempt such as that.
Gronos was one of the most dangerous because of his endless appetite, which he demonstrated when he ate all of the Spectrobe fossils in our storage and tried to devour the gravitational field on Ziba to destroy the entire planet in one go. But he was a pushover to fight in all honesty.
But the one that was the trickiest and meanest to track down and defeat was Maja, the only female of the High Krawl. She always taunted me when she had the upper hand and she was the most annoying by far, especially when she laughed at me in rebellion. But when she was backed into a corner or when she didn't get her way, she reverted to a tantrum-throwing brat, which was ultimately her downfall when I finally cornered her on a planet that was all but dead in a distant system, where I defeated her as well as a Krawl-producing flower that was on the hollowed-out husk of a planet we fought her on.
I shook the thought aside as Jeena and I were called to Commander Grant's office and he gave us our assignment. "Rallen and Jeena, your task is to go out to Sector W and investigate a strange anomaly there," Grant said to us.
"Um, with all due respect sir, that's a low-priority sector," Jeena said as a response.
"I am aware of this, but I've heard reports of a strange magnetic field in that area. It may just be a coincidence, nothing to do with the Krawl at all, but I'm not one to take chances. Head out to Sector W," Grant said to us.
"Yes sir," Jeena and I both said at the same time as we went to our cruiser and Jeena put in the coordinates while I held my Komainu in my grasp, him already asking for more food despite being fed five minerals prior.
"Komainu, you little glutton. You're hungry again?" I smiled at him, the little Spectrobe smiling and barking at that as Jeena arrived in the sector and she looked out into the space in front of us.
"Hmm.. I don't see anything bad going on here, negative for any kind of strange anomalies... you think that Grant got some bad intel?" Jeena asked me.
"I don't know..." I frowned as Komainu then jumped out of my grasp and growled from behind me, which caused me to look there and me to gasp at something I didn't expect.
"YOU?! What the hell are you doing on our ship?!" I exclaimed at the person that was looking at me with a smile, her purple face and scythe-like hair showing her true malevolent nature.
"Hahaha! I'm here to get my revenge on you after the last time!" Maja snickered at us as she was about to get the jump on us before Jeena's scanners started going haywire.
"Ack! We're being pulled straight into that portal! Brace for impact!" Jeena exclaimed, me gasping as Maja then tried to rush me, but I dodged out of her way as the ship experienced turbulence. I expected to be dead after this as my body started to fly all throughout the cockpit, but I accidentally landed right on top of Maja's head with my ass when the ship regained control, knocking her out cold the moment that it happened.
"Well... that was certainly a way to defeat her," Jeena admitted.
"Not really, she's still breathing... wait... she's getting up," I said with a frown as I prepared for round two, but Maja, upon waking up, looked around her surroundings in confusion before looking at me, her grasping her head in pain.
"Rgh... my head... where am I?" she asked, me not falling for her tricks again.
"I already told you, you're on my ship, so get off of it or I'll kick you off," I frowned at her.
"Huh?... Who are you?... And what's that red thing by your feet?..." she asked in confusion, me noting that even though Maja was here, Komainu wasn't retreating back into my Prizmod.
"Do you remember anything? Anything at all?" Jeena asked her while also keeping her distance.
"I... I can't remember anything... all I know is that I'm not like you guys... you have peach-like skin and I have purple skin... do you know who I am?" she asked as she clutched her head again.
"Um... your name is Maja. And you're something that's called a High Krawl," I said to her, wondering if she was even faking. She of all people knew what Spectrobes were because she trained Dark Spectrobes when I fought her before.
"High Krawl?... What do Krawl do?" she asked.
"Well... bad things. Krawl do very bad things... but you don't want to do bad things, do you?" Jeena asked.
"What kind of things do Krawl do?" she asked.
"They devour planets, kill anything that they see, and annihilate entire solar systems for no reason other than to satiate their hunger," I said to her.
"You're right... those do sound like bad things... I don't want to be lumped in with those things," Maja said, me being absolutely gobsmacked at her before I looked out the front of the ship and noticed something. It was a planet that I had never seen before! It looked like it had tons of water and grassy areas on it and Jeena looked at the planet as well.
"Where the heck are we? Can we contact NPP at all?" I asked Jeena.
"No, the connections are all down. We did go through a portal after all, so there's a very unlikely chance that we could contact them unless I can build a more powerful antenna," Jeena said.
"Damn... well, like my mom always said, never be too proud to ask for directions... maybe someone on that planet in front of us could tell us where we are?" I asked as I looked at the promising planet in front of us.
"Well, there does seem to be a bit of noise..." Jeena said as she looked at the panel and then we heard a voice on it.
"Hello? Can anyone hear us? This is an urgent message from Wyterra! We're under attack from an army of Krawl!" the man on the radio said, me and Jeena gasping at that as Maja looked shocked at that.
"If anyone can hear this, please hurry. We need help and quickly," the voice said as Jeena already pinpointed the location of the transmission and she looked at Maja with a smile.
"Would you like to come with us? See what we're going to be fighting against?" Jeena asked Maja.
"I'll do more than that. I'll try to help you fight these monsters. I can't allow them to kill a planet as beautiful as this one!" she said, me trying to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming. I wasn't. Maja was either really, REALLY good at acting, or she really had lost all of her memories. I'd keep an eye on her for now, but if she did decide to take care of the Krawl with us, then she really would prove that she lost her memories.
