100 days of Mother/Earthbound

052: Neptune

Giegue was almost at his destination: Earth. He'd just passed Pluto, which meant he was in the Solar System. A good sign.

But, lo and behold, a bad sign just popped up.

A Starman rushed into Giegue's private chamber, and shouted, "The fusion reactors gone under 50 Kelvin! There's no way it will sustain itself at this rate! We need to re-ignite it!"

Giegue realized this wasn't a time to punch the Starman for not knocking.

"Well, we can't use a star's heat... we're too far from the yellow dwarf known as the sun... so what do you suggest?"

"Use PSI Fire! It's the only way!"

"Well I'm clean out of PP... what about any of you guys."

"We all learnt PSI freeze... we figured we would never need PSI fire..."

"DAMN IT!" Giegue cursed.

And to make things worse, another bearer of bad news entered the chamber.

"Giegue... our reactor's stopped completely. We are currently being pulled towards Neptune at approximately 250 metres per second. We have entered its atmosphere..."

"DOUBLE DAMN IT! WHY NOW?"

"We don't know how to answer why... we're Starmen, remember?"

"Shut up! When will we impact?"

"In approximately 5 sec..."

And with that, the Mother Ship crashed on Neptune, and all the Omega saucers accompanying the ship descended with it... for guarding purposes.

Now, when you crash on a planet with methane as its primary constituent gas, you don't expect there to be any life on such a planet. Well, you'd be correct, yet Giegue clearly saw something from the Mother ship window.

"Alright, gas masks on... Starmen, out!"

All 30 of Giegue's private entourage teleported outside the Mother ship, and Giegue appeared in front of the thirty aliens with their hands on their hips.

Giegue focused on the object that he saw move. "There's a moving object! Perhaps it's a sentient being... lets see if it knows anything about fusion reactor reignition..."

"Master... what if it is unwilling to help us?"

"Well we MAKE it help us, don't we?"

So the troop approached the object, and when they found it, they realized it was a robot. It had a horn where it forehead would be, and two blue 'eyes'. The 'mouth' seemed like it would open sideways, and its body was fairly humanoid. It had a lump on its horn, and the lump seemed like it could be a third 'eye'.

Giegue touched the robot.

A few minutes passed, and Giegue was frozen with awkwardness. Then, out of the blue, the robot turned to face Giegue swiftly.

"YOU ARE AN UNKNOWN SPECIES."

"What?"

"I WAS MADE BY ECHIDAS FROM A DIMENSION KNOWN AS THE 'SONIC THE HEDGEHOG CONTINUITY'. I AM NOW IN THE DIMENSION KNOWN AS THE 'EARTHBOUND CONTINUITY'. I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS WORLD, ALTHOUGH THIS PLANET BEARS A LOT OF RESEMBLANCE TO THE 'NEPTUNE' OF THE DIMENSION KNOWN AS 'REALITY'."

"Does anyone know what this robot is talking about?"

"I CAN OBSERVE. I CAN OBSERVE AND COPY YOUR BEHAVIOUR. WHAT WAS MY LINE AGAIN? OH, YES. SHOW ME YOUR POWER, OR I SHALL NOT OBEY. I SHALL BECOME THE GIZOID, THE CONQUEROR OF ALL."

"Nope, still don't get it... oh wait, show you my power? Okay... stand back, Starmen."

Giegue proceeded to use his inexplicable attack... inexplicably.

"UNABLE TO LOG DATA. NO APPLICABLE DATA NAME ABLE TO GIVE FILE NAME TO NEW TECHNIQUE."

Giegue was not convinced. "Okay... Starmen, do PSI freeze... Omega."

"Yes, sir!" all thirty replied back.

After several snowstorms, the robot simply stared. It then clicked whirred, and began to point at one of the Starmen.

"SO MANY POTENTIAL LINKS... ONLY RANDOM SELECTION IS FAIR... EENY MEENY MINY MOE, CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE, IF IT SQUEALS, LET IT GO, EENY MEENY MINY MOE. OKAY. YOU-" the robot said while pointing to Starman #5002, "-ARE MY NEW MASTER. I HAVE A LINK WITH YOU. NOW OBSERVE. PSI FREEZE... OMEGA."

And as if the robot genuinely performed PSI, an ice storm ravaged a portion of land away from both Giegue and the Starmen.

"NOT THAT SHABBY A COPY. NOW I NEED A TASK. WHAT IS YOUR WISH, MASTER?"

Giegue smiled and said, "Fix the fusion reactor on my mother ship!"

"YOU ARE NOT MY MASTER."

Giegue scowled. "#5002... tell it to fix the fusion reactor."

The Starman instantly did as he was told. The robot simply clicked.

"I HAVE NOT ABSORBED THE TECHNIQUE NECESSARY TO BEGIN A FUSION REACTION."

"Well, it was worth a try..." Giegue moaned, "Wait... ask it what the atmosphere composition is on this planet."

Starman #5002 did as he was told... again.

"AT THIS ALTITUDE, APPROXIMATELY 50% CARBON-HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS, 30% HYDROGEN, 10% HYDROGEN-SULFUR COMPOUNDS, AND 10% MIXED NOBLE GASES."

"Wait... Hydrocarbons are present here? Excellent! It's primitive, but we can use these gases to heat the fusion reactor to a suitable temperature, and then we're off to Earth! The hydrogen will also give us more material to fuse too!"

"Okay... do I get to keep the robot?" Starman #5002 asked.

"Sure, why not?" Giegue answered.

And with that, Giegue started the fusion reactor, and the Starman army continued their journey to Earth.

Starman #5002 went to Giegue's private chamber the next day crying.

"What is it, 5002?" Again, Giegue ignored the urge to acknowledge the intrusion of privacy his army seemed to condone.

"...The robot... the robot just disappeared, Master! I even taught it how to juggle! I... I... no!"

Giegue was puzzled more at how emotional the Starman was getting rather than the whereabouts of the robot. "How are you so sad? You're a Starman! Pull yourself together!"

The Starman merely collapsed with grief.

Giegue looked at the pathetic grey alien. He was moved with... pity.

"I... I'm sure he's in some dimension right now, enjoying fun with... blue hedgehogs, and... two-tailed foxes... and... and... lots and lots of other strange anthropomorphic earth animals right now!" Giegue lied, just to make the poor guy feel better. The strange thing is, he was pretty close to the truth...

Author's note: Ha ha! You never realised this was a crossover Fanfic, didja? Huh? Huh?