Chapter five- Planet Wrosh
June 1st, 3007 - Somewhere between Lore and Wrosh
The Compass moved silently in space as they continued their trek towards Wrosh. They had gone to bed and set their timers for exactly 7 hours…(6 hours ,59 minutes, and 59 seconds later) RING RING RING RING- SMASH! Brian threw the alarm at the wall. " Yawn! Wake up guys, time to eat breakfast." he said with a loud yawn. Jeena got up, "Whoa!" said Brian "what happened to your hair?" he laughed. Jeena looked in the mirror, and she wanted to die of embarrassment. Her hair was sticking completely up in the air. Tom rolled off the top bunk and fell to the floor with a Thud!
They dressed (ahem Brushed their hair) and headed over to the Communications Central. Captain Sys Zero's face appeared on the large monitor. "Captain Zero, this is day two of our voyage. Everything is running smoothly and we should be arriving on Wrosh soon" Brian said. "Good," said Captain Zero "Keep up the good progress, Zero OUT" his face faded away.
They walked over to the bow of the Compass. Everyone took their positions and Tom set the ship on manual mode. "Ok, we should be arriving on Wrosh in about an hour guys" said Jeena checking the virtual map. Tom leaned back in his chair, "Good, I can't wait to finally eat some real food." he said. For dinner and for breakfast they ate toast and Pop Tarts. Everyone laughed. Once on Wrosh, they would buy some groceries and head towards Xi.
If everything went perfect…
"Guys I'm getting an incoming transmission from planet Wrosh" said Brian. "THIS IS A DISTRESS SIGNAL FROM PLANET WROSH, THE KINGDOM OF LESBONIA. SHADOWSYTHE FORCES HAVE SET UP A BASE HERE, ANY AVAILABLE MECHA PILOTS PLEASE HELP!" said a man's voice on a radio. "We have to help!" said Jeena, "Right, set course for Lesbonia. Tom, get ready to land soon" said Brian.
An hour passed by in dead silence…
"Wrosh!" said Tom "I'm taking the ship in for a landing" he fired the turbo thrusters and the Compass began descending into Wrosh's atmosphere. They broke the surface of the clouds and were now on planet Wrosh. "Tom, pull up and turn right. Lesbonia is not too far from here". Jeena directed. Tom did as he was told, he leveled the ship and turned right. "Over there!" Jeena cried "drop down now we're right over the city!" Once again Tom did as told, he pushed the control wheel in and the ship went into a nose dive.
Just before reaching the ground, Tom quickly pulled up, then he hovered down for a landing. Quickly, they all rushed to the cargo bay. Jeena opened up the bay doors and they hopped in the mechas. "Brian to Team, come in, I've spotted the outpost." said Brian into the COMM "Follow me."
The Shadowsythe outpost was merely a gunner tower, but was two Shadowsythe HOUNDs next to it. "Tom and I will take the two mecha out, Jeena, go in for the tower" Brian said. Upon noticing them the HOUNDs took aim, they were equipped with Surge Cannons on their right arms. Each HOUND fired twice at the two boys, they dodged and then it was their turn to fight back…
Tom slammed his stick to the side and set off a round of Photon Laser shots. Out of the ten shots fired, four hit one of the HOUNDs and the others missed. The HOUND Tom shot took aim at him and fired it's Surge Cannon, it hit Tom's mecha on the left shoulder. Tom finished it off by ramming it and then firing his Photon Laser in the vital spot, the chest.
In the meantime, Brian jerked the joystick forward. He took aim at the other HOUND. With his AutoGun aimed, he held the trigger tightly as he pulled back just before hitting the other mecha. His shots missed, for the HOUND moved to the side then fired its Surge Cannon at him. It missed, all of them. Brian took aim once more and fired a whole round and hit all ten times, totaling the HOUND.
Jeena moved in on the Gunner Tower. The cyborgs inside aimed the tower's large cannon at her. "Ha, you think that will stop me?" she laughed. She raised the arm that was equipped with a missile launcher and fired it straight down barrel of the tower's large cannon. It exploded.
"Ok guys back to the cargo bay" said Brian "nice work everyone." The three piloted the mechas back into the Compass. Once they exited the ship, there was a crowd of cheering people in front of the ship. A man walked up to the team and said "I am King Fallay, you don't know how grateful the kingdom is for the deed you three have done. May I ask your names?"
"I am Captain Brian Peacock" said Brian shaking the man's hand. "Navigator Jeena Chaaris at your service" said Jeena introducing herself. "And Pilot Tom Loveland here, the heart and soul of this team!" said Tom with pride. "Well, if there is anything you three want and need, the townspeople are at your service" said Fallay. "Well" the team grinned…
(The Lord's Kitchen)
Served before the Team was a feast of different meats, veggies, wines (not fermented wine of course), and all sorts of different plates of food. All three of them sat there with their mouths wide open. "Well dig in!" said King Fallay. Without a moment's hesitation, they were serving themselves turkey, beef, peas, potatoes, carrots, chicken, pork (Tom), rice, beans, and a fruit called "Tojanion Caracas".
An hour later, they had just finished eating, and it was night time. "Well thank you very much King Fallay" said Brian "we'll return to the ship and spend the night here, then we need to do a tad bit of shopping in the morning and we'll be on our way." King Fallay smiled "Well if there is anything else you need, just tell me. Goodbye then!"
They waved to the king and returned to the Compass…
June 2, 3007
"MORNING TIME!" Jeena screamed into Brian's ear, making him bang his head on the top bunk. Jeena laughed, then Tom woke up "Either the sky is falling or you guys are beating each other up" he said groggily peeking over the bed. "Come on you two, lets go get some groceries" Jeena said. Brian got up to see that she was already dressed, " Alright Tom lets get going" Brian said pulling Tom off the bed.
They got some clothes on, combed their hair, brushed their teeth, and left the Compass. They walked into town to see that there was a big store called "Alphabeta". They walked in and bought some Flargan Milk, Trojanian Caracas, Secaracusae Peas, and some canned foods imported from Lore (they needed some native food, all this new stuff was overwhelming).
Upon returning to the Compass, Brian opened up the main COMM monitor and sent a transmission to S4C (Star Captains Command Control Center). "S.C.S COMPASS TO S4C COME IN S4C" he said. "S4C TO S.C.S COMPASS, WHAT IS YOUR MISSION STATUS?" said Captain Sys Zero over the COMM monitor. "WE ARE ON WROSH ABOUT TO DEAD HEAD TO XI, WE JUST HAD AN EMERGENCY ON WROSH IN THE KINGDOM OF LESBONIA. WE TOOK OUT A NEWLY FORMED SHADOWSYTHE OUTPOST, THE SITUATION HAS BEEN NEUTRALIZED" Brian said. "GOOD WORK TEAM COMPASS, SYS ZERO…OUT" Captain Zero's face went away.
"Alright TEAM COMPASS!, lets get this show on the road!" said Brian. They all shouted "TO XI!"