Chapter Seven
Waiting room
St. Orion's Hospital
Planet Orion
2656
"Peace. When I think of it, I think of prosperity. Enlightenment. Freedom. World peace is a far cry for the human race. Even normal peace is hard to obtain. When we conduct war, it's simple now-a-days. Fighting is in our blood. Fighting for survival is what we only, truly know how to do.
"We haven't really advanced as a species than the lions, birds or fish. The only thing we have been advancing is our knowledge of how to kill each other. Be it quick and painless, or a slow and gruesome death.
"We will never learn how to stop fighting. We are a warring species, we humans. Conducting one battle after another. The day we have true peace is the day that our entire species – the human race – is wiped out and nothing is left."
(Chairman Boyle speaking at a Peace Conference)
Dewey sighed deeply and thought to himself as what would happen to him and Kristen are not brother a sister. He shuddered at the thought and he did not want it. It was silent except the occasional page made by a nurse over the intercom. Everyone kept their thoughts to themselves. Even the princess kept to herself through the waiting. A swinging door swung open and a male doctor with a robot nurse walked through. The doctor held a clipboard, flipping through the pages it held. The doctor walked up to the Boyle family and they all stood up.
"What's the news doc?" Dewey asked.
The doctor sighed. "Listen, I have good news and I have bad news. It won't affect the rest of you guys except for him." The doctor pointed to Dewey. He just stared blankly at the doctor.
"Don't you guys always have good news and bad news?" Totobe asked annoyingly.
"Look, the princess is the sister of Desman Boyle, but she's pregnant with his child." Everyone's mouth just dropped except the princess's, who just stood there and giggled. Dewey just sunk down into his chair.
He stood back up after a bit. "There must be some mistake doc, there must be." Dewey told him.
"Look, I just inform the family what's going. And I'm a pediatrician so don't complain to me." The doctor said then walked towards the door. "Let's go Nurse Bot 068." The robot followed. The princess just kept on giggling. Dewey sighed and slumped down into the chair.
"I thought I told you not to be immoral Desman. Its bad enough you're in the Space Fleet, but this? Now you've done it." His dad said as he sat down with his arms folded.
"I didn't do it with her!" Dewey yelled. "I don't even remember doing it with her-." He cut short his sentence then gazed at his sister with a death glare. "You did it while I was unconscious, didn't you?" Dewey pointed at her.
"What if I did, you will not ever to find out." She laughed obnoxiously.
"Totobe, I know you were there, now tell me!"
"Actually… I, um, have to go sooo… see ya!" he waved bye then vanished.
Dewey sighed again and slumped back down into the chair. "You suck sis."
"I know." She said then giggled again.
Mess hall
Ghost Fox
2 days later.
Everyone who passed by their Captain usually said something or just passed by and snickered. Dewey had enough of it. He got up and walked to the bridge. He put the intercom mike near his mouth and spoke into it with anger.
"No more liberty until you guys can stop talking about what happened to me and my sister. And if I hear anyone talk about it, everyone else is going to clean this ship inside and out until I say you're done. You all should know where I came from so I have pretty high cleaning standards. That is all." Dewey slammed the mike down.
"Don't you think that's a bit harsh Captain?" Poline asked.
"You're right, its not." Dewey picked up the mike again. "And no pay to those who are cleaning the ship. You all can thank 1st Lieutenant Poline for that. That is all. Now don't you think that's harsh Poline? Jeez. These kids these days with their no pay and what not…" Dewey went off onto a tangent as he left the bridge and went to his room. Poline sighed and went back to writing in his journal.
"Princess of the Beta Centauries coming aboard. I repeat: Princess coming aboard." The intercom told the ship then there were a couple of dings from a bell.
'Oh great, she's here. I better get out of here.' He thought to himself as he ran to the hanger bay.
He jumped into his plane, strapped on his helmet. He turned it on and the plane lifted off the deck. The wheels went into their housing and the plane moved forward slowly till it was a yards from the ship. He pushed the throttle up and went up to mach 2. He sighed a sigh of relief and sat back in his chair. He set the plane to auto-pilot and set the time for the plane to return to the ship which is at 2100 (9:00 pm), which is in about three and ½ hours.
'I'm so glad she is not here to torture me.' Dewey thought as he fell asleep for an hour.
An hour later, he woke up with the plane flying across the open ocean. He sighed again and relaxed. A bit later, he felt of couple of mushy, light weighing things on both of his shoulders. He lifted up his visor that protect his eyes from the Suns' radiation and looked at what was in front of him. He put the com-link from a two-way radio to where he only received transmission instead of transmitting them. What he saw was two arms that had two hands attached to them, which had 5 fingers on each hand. His left shoulder felt heavier than usual. He looked over his right expecting his sister, but it was Major Hyman who had fallen asleep in the plane about 3 hours ago.
'I better head back to the ship and drop her off.' Dewey thought and turned the plane around and headed for the ship. 'I just hope she doesn't do anything weird.' He then felt his right shoulder become light, but felt a hand on his thigh and rubbing it. He pulled on the stick till it was in his crotch and the hand left. He leveled out and put the plane in a stall (The plane looses airspeed which causes it to suspend in the air for a bit then drop down back to the planet like a rock until the engines function again), which he recovered from. He did barrel rolls and corkscrews until he reached the ship.
He landed the plane, jumped out of it but he landed on the floor, flat on his stomach. He then bear crawled till he was on both feet and running to his room. He locked the door behind him and hid in the closet.
"Man you're pathetic master." A voice taunted him.
"Shut up Totobe. I'm running from a crazy sister who's trying to marry me. You run from women you like so don't call me pathetic." Dewey whispered.
"You got a point master. I'll be right back. I gotta go to the bathroom." Totobe vanished. Dewey left his closet and scrambled under his bed and hid there for a 30 minutes. After those 30 minutes has gone by, he heard footsteps. He saw combat boots with the ends of some BU (Battle Uniform) pants tucked into them.
"Captain, are you here?" asked a male's voice. He poked his head out and saw it was 1st Lieutenant Ensei. Dewey pulled himself out from under his bed and asked what Ensei wanted.
"So let me get this straight." Dewey wanted to clarify what Ensei asked. "You want your company to put up an obstacle race in the hanger bay and race staff?"
"Yes sir. That is correct sir." Ensei answered.
"Why not. Nothings been happening on this ship except for "that"." Dewey patted Ensei on the shoulder and recalled that account.
"It'll help the morale of the personnel here and we could get a few memories from it."
"I'll tell the flyboys' to move the planes." Dewey stood up and started heading for the door.
"Actually sir. The planes are the obstacles. We just need to move them into the right spot." Ensei said which made Dewey stop.
"Ok, have it ready in 2 weeks. Good luck Lieutenant." They shook hands Ensei walked out of Dewey's room. Dewey also walked out and went to the bridge. He got on the mike and told everyone on the ship. "In two weeks time, there will be an obstacle race in the hanger bay. Charlie Company of the Space Commando's on this ship is challenging all of staff. Talk to 1st Lieutenant Ensei about helping. See ya'll there in two weeks." Dewey placed the mike back with a smile.
Ghost Fox – Dewey's room
Military Space dock #592648
2 days before the race
There was a knock on Dewey's door and he stood up to open it after pausing the movie he was watching.
"Hey Hyman, what's up?" Dewey asked the girl who only had a black sports bra, short-shorts, white ankle socks with running shoes covering them, with head phones in her ears with her music player on her left bicep and had her dirty blonde hair up in pony tail.
"Nothing, just wondering if you wanted to go running with me?" She asked.
"Why not. I'll be out in a minute." He told her then ran to the bathroom. "Make yourself comfortable!" he shouted to her. It took a couple of minutes to get into some basket ball shorts, a sleeveless shirt, and put on running shoes. He came out of the bathroom.
"Ready to go?" he said holding out his hand since she was trying to get out of his bean bag chair.
She grabbed his hand and he pulled her up and out of it. "Let's go." She said then they both walked out of his room. They walked off of the ship and ran towards the park.
"So what's eating you Kristen?"
"What sir?" she asked back.
"Skip the sirs and just tell me what's going on in your mind cause I can tell you want to ask me something." He told her as they entered the park.
"Well there is one thing. No, it's just too embarrassing." She answered him.
"Is it about me or Totobe?" Dewey asked.
"It's about you…Desman." She said.
He just smiled with a chuckle. "It's not embarrassing till you ask."
"Well I was wondering if-." She stopped while grabbing his head with right hand and pressed her lips against his.
"Was that really something to be embarrassed about?" HE asked her with a smile.
She just blushed and ran off with him catching up to her.
"Alright, I'll see you later." Dewey's door closed automatically after he came into the room.
"So, who was that?" The princess was tapping her right foot on the ground, with her arms folded.
"Lieutenant Ensei from the Space Commando's detachment that's aboard this ship." He told her.
"Well what were you two doing?" She asked.
"Playing basketball with a couple of others from my staff and a Space Commando." He answered. She just turned red with anger and left the room.
"Man. She's just like mom. Very nosy and persistent about it." He said as he got undressed and stepped into the shower.
The next day
Dewey yawned as he sat up in his bed and looked down at his left. He smiled since no one was there with him in his bed. He got up, got ready and put on his working uniform. He walked back into his room from the bathroom and saw that he a message on the answering machine. He hit the play button.
"I'm going back to my planet. This trip has been amusing but I will be back in four years. I hope to see you back here, brother. Good bye for now." The answering machine beeped as the message ended.
'It has been an amusing time, but that's life for you. Always FUBAR(Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition or Repair. Depending on the situation). I guess it's time to get to work.' He though to himself as he sat down on his chair and pressed the play button on the movie he wanted to watch. Hese peaceful times are the best. It's a good thing nothing's going on. This is the best time to relax and not care anymore.' He thought as he fell asleep during the movie.
Four hours into his nap, he was being shaken awake.
"Huh? Wha- what is it Poline?" Dewey asked while rubbing his eyes.
"Sir, we got a message from a man called Kyman."
"What?! What did he want?" Dewey jumped up.
"The message says that he has kidnapped your sister and holding her hostage in the forbidden sector, the coordinates he left us are 4-4-3-zulu-bravo-3-8-6." Poline told Dewey looking down at a piece of paper.
"Son of a- When was she kidnapped?"
"About an hour ago, sir."
"Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Dewey shouted out as he punched the wall while saying "damn it". "Get the ship on full alert! I'm going to get my sister back." Dewey growled.
"Aye sir!" Poline shouted out then ran out of Dewey's room and back to the bridge. The siren sounded onboard the ship and everyone was running everywhere. Dewey walked to the bridge in a calm manner- or so it seemed.
"Everyone is aboard and waiting to go sir." Honres told Dewey as he sat down in his captain's chair.
"Good. Now head for coordinates 4-4-3-zulu-bravo-6-8-6. Slow speed."
"4-4-3-zulu-bravo-6-8-6, slow speed, aye sir." Honres repeated. The ship moved to the left, away from the dock and moved forward. The bow (front) of the ship tilted upward at a 30º slope. The ship kept moving forward slowly till the planet was in the background.
"We have left the gravitational pull of the planet, going to warp drive in 5…4…3…2… now." Jinchu called out. Everything around the ship turned into a bluish-purple color as they up to 9,000 MPH.
A couple of minutes later, the ship came out of warp drive but continued moving on its course, at full speed.
"We are now in forbidden space. Keep a look out for plasma storms, asteroids, comet's, black holes' and anomalies." Dewey warned.
"Sir, I have multiple bogeys on radar, what is the course of action?" Padry asked.
"Do nothing. Reduce speed to half."
"50% speed. Aye sir." Jinchu repeated.
"Sir incoming transmission." Poline called out.
"Who the hell are you and the hell is a DOG ship doing here?" A person asked- who had a bandana on- Dewey as he stood up.
"I'm Captain Desman Dewey, Commanding Officer of DDS568, Ghost Fox. My ship is here on her own to help me rescue my sister, Princess of the Beta Centauries." He answered. "Now, who are you, ma'am?"
"The names Chris, Commander of the Beta Centauries Prize Fleet."
"I see. So I understand from a simple deduction that you are also here to rescue your princess as well. Let's make a pact." Dewey offered. "We will not fire upon each other until we get my sister, your princess, back then we can go back to being enemies once we return back to our home worlds. Agreed?"
"Agreed, but she comes back with us and I don't any funny business from you." Chris told him.
"Don't worry; the man who kidnapped the princess is really after me. And my Second in Command knows what to do since I won't be here for awhile."
"Fine. End transmission." Chris agreed then her image left.
"You think that's wise sir? Trusting these pirates?" Trebbal asked.
"We both have a common goal and a common enemy right now Trebbal. Just have a little faith or pretend to have some to humor me. Ok?" Dewey asked Trebbal.
"Aye sir." He mumbled.
'I'm coming to get you sis.' Dewey thought to himself. 'I'm coming for you.'
