Mikan's Diary 3
The Attack
Stardate 1357.05
Last night, our starship was suddenly and deliberately attacked by an unknown ship. I remember waking up to the blaring alarm, totally confused to what was going on. Then the ship jerked violently, and I was thrown to the floor, in a tangle of bedsheets. For a while, I had trouble getting out of the mess before luckily, Yami-san came to my room and got me out. Rito wasn't there, though, and Yami-san said that she hadn't seen him in the hallway, either. That got me really worried. Where had he gone in the night?
When we arrived at the bridge, Rito and Momo was already there. Neither of them were well dressed, but given how we literally had no time to change I couldn't really fault them. However, I could also see candles strewn all over the place, where they had been knock over by the sudden attack. I also saw that Rito was stRirapped into his chair by those metal restraints. I looked more closely at Momo and saw that she was wearing one of Rito's button-up shirts, and I spied a very pink, very lacy pair of panties underneath. The magnitude of my failure became very apparent to me. I had sworn to protect my brother's innocence, yet now I could only wonder how far they had gone. How on Earth could I let this happen? I was still kneeling on the ground, when the others finally arrived. All of them were in a variable state of undress. Only Lala was fully clothed, and that was only thanks to Peke-san.
When she came on the bridge, Rito immediately vacated the captain's chair and gave her the command of the ship. Lala ordered Yami to turn the ship around, so that the vulnerable warp core was protected. If our shields went down, then an attack on the warp core would lead to a catastrophic explosion. Zastin was at his post in the lower bridge, monitoring the shield strength. Lala told him to withhold any attack, until they found out who was attacking them.
She needn't have worried, because moments later, Haruna was telling us that the other ship was hailing us. As it turned out, the attacking ship was manned by one of Lala's suitors, a member of the Ferengi species, called Pock. He had gotten wind that his main rival, my brother, was in space, and he figured that we would be vulnerable to attack. The Ferengi went on, saying how he had no idea that Lala was onboard our ship, and he would let us go unmolested if Lala would board his ship. You can see how terrible this offer was. I have been learning from Tearju-sensei about the sentient races in our region of space.
The Ferengi then pulled out his trump card. He had gone to earth and had kidnapped Kotegawa-san, and two other girls. They were Haruna's best friends, Risa Momioka and Mio Sawada. Haruna gasped as soon as all three of them appeared on screen. The Ferengi wasn't subtle about what he would do to them, either. These filthy scum of the universe! The way they treat women is just disgusting!
Anyway, the Ferengi has given us a few hours to decide what to do. Obviously, we have to get the girls back! But we can't just comply fully with his orders.
We have little time to spare, so we have to come up with a plan soon.
Stand by.