Ch.1 Wormhole
Ern, ern, ern, the alarm alerts everyone in the moon base to the approaching threat. All the combatants immediately stop what they are doing, and take off in their respective kataphrakt. All except for one that is.
"Stand, Tharsis," commands Slaine, but the Tharsis remains dormant. 'The Aldnoah drive is deactivated,' Slaine then realizes and exits the Tharsis.
"Lemrina-hime," Slaine calls out to the princess.
"Is there something the matter, Slaine," she questions.
"Why have you deactivated the Tharsis?"
"Whatever are you talking about?"
"Your Highness is the only person here that can forcibly deactivate Aldnoah."
"Possibly."
"Please activate the Aldnoah."
"No."
"Please."
"Perhaps you should ask my sister. It had always struck me as odd. How could you, a Terran, operate the Tharsis? I'm sure she would be happy to know you still love her in spite of her condition. Even though we share a father no one pays me any heed simply because we have different mothers."
"That is not true at all. We all admire you, Lemrina-hime."
"Liar."
"It is no lie."
"It is. It's not me that you admire, it's my activation factor. Isn't that why you came to me? Do you want me that badly? Am I my sisters replacement?" She pauses for a moment to give Slaine a chance to speak, but he remains silent. "I knew it, I am. I hate you."
Once Lemrina is done talking Slaine starts to unbutton his jacket and turns around. He kneels on one knee and lowers
his jacket to reveal the beginning of a few of the many the scars that are hidden beneath his white undershirt. The sight of them causes Lemrina to gasp.
"I was born on Earth. When my father died, I lost my only protector. I became a servant of the Orbital Knights," Slaine begins while he stands up and buttons his jacket. "I will not say that I understand your hardships, but I, too, have known cruel treatment due to my birth. I can only understand a small portion of your sufferings. You do have my heartfelt administration, Lemrina-hime." As he Slaine kneels with his head bowed to Lemrina.
"Lift your head, Slaine." After Slaine raises his head Lemrina bends down and kisses Slaine, giving him the code to activate Aldnoah. "Now, activate it once yourself."
"You have my thanks."
"Good hunting, Sir Slaine Troyard," Lemrina tells Slaine as he heads toward the Tharsis and prepares for battle.
As soon as he enters the battle he looks for the enemy. In the distance he spots the enemy's ship. 'The Ducalion! Then means Orange is around here somewhere. Where are you? Orange!'
At the same time on the Ducalion: "Mustang 00 prepare to drop. Drop Mustang 00," commands the Ducalion's captain, Magbaredge.
Once he is free of the Ducalion Inaho takes off into the void that is space. Out On the battlefield Inaho notices one of the enemies quickly weaving out of the way of debris and bullets. 'Do they also have an analytical engine,' thinks Inaho.
'Bat!' he realizes with a slight smirk, and heads in its direction. Along the way Inaho lets loose a few rounds. With help from the Tharsis Slaine sees the shots coming and moves to right just enough to dodge them. 'How are they able to aim in this environment?' Slaine wonders until he sees who it is that fired him, 'Orange!
He then shoots off some of his own bullets directed at Inaho. At the sight of them coming at him Inaho quickly veers off to the side and lands behind one of the various asteroids that cover the battlefield. Inaho flies over the asteroid, and both he and Slaine simultaneously fire at one another. The Tharsis is hit in the head two or three times, which causes its analytic engine to malfunction. 'Whatever, I don't need this anymore,' thinks Slaine as he turns it off. For Inaho, the exchange costs him, his kataphrakt's left arm.
With his remaining arm Inaho takes aim and prepares to shoot at Slaine once more, but at that moment an asteroid rams into him, pushing him towards a wormhole. In an attempt to get away from the wormhole Inaho launches one of his grappling hooks at the Tharsis. The grappling hook stays true to its target and wraps around the Tharsis's leg.
"Che, Orange! Let go," exclaims Slaine.
"No," Inaho states simply.
Trying to get away from the wormhole Slaine begins maneuvering the Tharsis through the asteroid filled battlefield. Then out of nowhere another asteroid comes at the two of them, but this time it rams into Slaine. The collision sends both of them helplessly into the black hole that they were trying so hard to avoid.
As Inaho and Slaine enter the atmosphere of wherever it is that the wormhole has taken them, Inaho slowly begins to wake up. He immediately assesses their situation; they are falling through the sky and their kataphrakts are burning up.
"Bat. Hey Bat wake up," Inaho tries to get Slaine's attention but to no avail. "Slaine if you don't come to your senses we're going to die. Slaine, Slaine."
"Hn," Slaine finally starts waking up.
"Good, you're up. Now use the Tharsis to act as a drogue chute to stabilize us."
"W-what? Why me!? You're the one who got us into this mess in the first place."
"Because, unlike you, I only have one arm so it wouldn't be as effective."
"Orange!"
"I suggest you hurry unless you want to die." Being left with no choice Slaine grabs on to Inaho's remaining hand and strives to stabilize them both as they plummet to the planet below. As they get nearer to the surface they come to notice three things. First is that this planet look just like Earth before the wars with Vers. The next thing they notice as the space between them and the planet lessen is that they are heading in the direction of an island that resembles Japan. Lastly, minutes before they are about to hit, they see that their point of impact is right in the middle of a battle. Everyone fighting are using machines similar to that of kataphrakts. The main fight appears to be taking place between a red one with a silver arm that is topped off with a claw and a white and gold one.
"Bat, prepare to eject in ten seconds," commands Inaho.
"Stop ordering me around, Orange!"
"Five, four, three, two, eject," Inaho hits his eject button and Slaine begrudgingly does the same. Once they are out of their kataphrakts their parachutes fly open. From their location Inaho and Slaine watch as their kataphrakts crash into the spot where the red and white one are fighting.
When Inaho and Slaine land on the planet they find there are no soldiers in sight. They take off their parachutes; then at a loss of what to do they stare at one another until Slaine finally can't take it anymore.
"Now look at what you've done, Orange. You had to drag me with you, and now we're both trapped on some unknown planet."
"Inaho, Inaho Kaizuka."
"Wha-"
"My name."
"Orange," Slaine glares at Inaho with his hands clenched.
"It's Inaho Kaizuka, Slaine Troyard."
"Why you? How do you know my name?"
"I heard it from Seylum."
"Orange!" Slaine yells right before a dozen or so soldiers come out of the brush of the forest that they landed in. The soldiers aim their guns at Slaine and Inaho.
"We'll settle this later Bat, but for now how do you feel about teaming up again, Slaine Troyard," inquiries Inaho.
"It's not like I really have much of a choice here. Now do I Orange," Slaine says with a smirk at his 'Orange' comment.
This is my first story so please review and tell me what you think. Also one more thing pleases feel free to nag me to no end about updating. T mean like the day right after I update if you want because I am a really big procrastinator and I know it. Thank you for reading this story of mine and I hope to see you soon. ( ^ u ^ ) /