A FAMILY AGAINST THE GALAXY
Cyrus Saint plucks a family's souls from near death, gives them a class card each and a Star Wars ship to command then kicks them into the Mass Effect universe no fs given, but they end up in Council space and are pursued, their only hope is reaching the untouched Mass Relay 314.
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They say life threating and ending moments slow your perception of time to a point where you don't understand what's going on, its happened to me once, well now twice and most certainly the final time.
At least that's what I thought at the time, as I didn't know it then, I'd be going through so much more.
The first time was when I fell down some stairs and hit my head, I was very lucky to live from that as I was a vegetable for a month before waking up scared out of my mind, I dreamt wondering if everything that had happened was meaningless, it's hard to remember what really happened when I dreamt, but I was in some courtyard there was no sound and no living being of all sizes just dead quiet, it was a sun set then, but I saw a vague figure of myself in some sort of third person perspective.
I just see myself running around aimlessly but never leaving my sight, I felt fear and anxiety I mean it was quiet, there no people, what happened where is everybody, why I'm I running, that's what I thought over and over, like a broken record, then I see a digital clock counting down the seconds until the end of everything while flashing back to myself running to nowhere then back to the count down.
but it always changed.
Ten seconds
Fity seconds
Five seconds
Nine seconds
It keeps changing increasing my fear.
Twenty one seconds
Twelve seconds
Four seconds
I don't know any more I want it to end.
Eighteen seconds
Three seconds
Thirty two seconds
And then I wake up.
I look around and see I'm in bed
I'm not in some deserted courtyard
I'm not seeing changing count downs
I'm perfectly fine, I'm safe
And now
I'm fearing for that nightmare to come back again as my family's car with Mom, Dad younger sister older brother and myself plummet to a watery grave, we steered out of an oncoming car that was in our lane.
But in doing so we went off the seaside cliff road we were traveling on
I'm looking straight ahead, tears welling in the corners of my eyes as I see things go slowly even though the water is coming at us quite quickly.
I close my eyes, not wanting to look, having no courage to gaze into the blue death.
I wanted to believe that everything's all ok, it's all a bad dream, I'll wake up, I'll have breakfast, I'll say hello to my family, I'll go to school with my brother and sister, and I'll be back home thinking nothing but how lucky I am.
It was a lie that I was trying so hard to make reality, but reality has no feelings of mercy, for there will all ways be a point where we have to wake up and face it, with fear or courage it will not matter for reality is not hindered by our troubles and forever torments us with things beyond our control.
And all we can do is hope for a better end.
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"what the fuck?"
That was my brother voice and not the sound of bending metal the rush of sea water and the cracks of glass, it was his voice in the white noise.
Having the courage to open my eyes, I widen them, fully taking in this drastic change of location.
Gone the night sky, the winding roads, the sea that was going to take our lives and gone was the surrounding of Charlie's car.
It was all replaced with a white marble like surfaces, a blue but slightly dark blue sky that had an odd aroura effect to it, like the northern lights they were coloured in red, gold, and blue, I could see we were in the middle of it as it circled all around us.
"double fuck" I whisper
This whole area gave me the creeps.
Charlies next to me, he was clearly distraught much like myself, so was the rest of the family. Though as much as I tried not to panic and try to remain as calm as emotionally possibly, I still feel an immense sense of anxiety.
"I'm good" I say shakily getting up on my two feet
"were the hell are we" Charlie say's looking around the place
"well the last thing I remember is us falling to a watery grave" I shivered at the memory of a couple minutes ago or was it hours or even maybe days, who knowns how much time has passed.
"so, were dead, I mean" Charlie doesn't continue, he's scared, the thought of us being dead was going to hit us hard, and then I realised something
"shit" I hear my sister Kelly say mournfully
Mom, Dad. Elisabeth, Benson make sure that us three were fine.
I can imagen them right now. Lost and confused, paranoid at the wired fuckery that had happened to them and their children, all of us here somewhere lost in a world that we could understand how we got here aside to some fuckwit drunk on the road, I can imagen them thinking of something to make sense.
I wipe away the tears in my eyes trying to not think of something so depressing, but it was now I had the idea of being forever lost in this limbo forever stuck in my mind and won't be leaving for a long time.
Everyone is probably feeling the same things. I just sighs sadly and with misty eyes Charlie looks at me.
"what do we do now" he say
"I don't know" dad say back.
Mom is trying to calm Kelly down with some effect
"I don't know, I think we might be going to purgatory, or dare I say hell" Charlie just snorts at what I say to our area.
"is jerking off considered a sin of lust, because if it is I'll be pissed" Charlie says trying to lighten the mood
Mom stares at him with a scary face making him regret his words
We just stand silently for a while waiting to see if we be judged by some mystic being or something beyond our imagination.
But after the ten minute mark I could tell we were getting a bit annoyed but more so restless
"I'm starting to think that this is our divine judgement" Charlie says
"I don't think being stuck here doing nothing for an eternity is a judgement, I mean for all we know the man upstairs is busy" I give my own thoughts on the matter
But then something happened because HE came
Soon though an unknown voice made itself present
"you're not completely wrong but nor are you right ether" whipping around my family and I spy another humane person who by his looks is our age, but something tells me that he is more than meets the eye.
"who are you" Dad says abrasively. Wary to the new arrival eyeing him with a critical eye
"the names Cyrus Saint, I'm thee GOD that's going to decide your fate, and before you ask, this form you see is merely a form that I chose to suit my mentality, you cool with that"
For some odd reason I have no desire to question that, it kind of made a bit of sense, but now I'm thinking what fate myself and my family may be facing, I mean I really don't want to be separated form my family members that's with me and I don't think they would like that as well.
"right, to begin with your fates are going to be modified by yours truly as I'm actually not going to be having you lot reborn from child birth as instead I'm going to give you guys only two boons each and one to share for."
'oh, thank god' I'm grateful for the fact that my family would be staying together and I'm also glad that we won't be starting as a kid's again, that would be annoying, but I couldn't help wonder and be a bit worried for why this GOD. Who I haven't heard of before give us a blessing of sort, I feel like something bad must be happing in our next life to warrant these boons.
"what sort of boons are you giving us and where are you sending us" Mom ask warily
"well first I'm going to be giving you guys some magical cards" he grins at us
'what?'
Cyrus raised his left hand and then in a flash of gold light five gold cards appear. One with a sword symbol, two with a spear symbol, one with a skull symbol and finally one with a sceptre symbol.
These cards were floating on his hand
"These cards contain a heroic spirit from human history, they are very powerful beings who have transcended from the time of their death and been given great power according to their legend, what may be contained in these five, I know them and their power they have will be yours, they will change you from body, power ect, once you have them you'll gain knowledge of their identities and parameters aka stats on their power and the legendary weapons they wielded"
'wow' what else could I think of
"Wow" Charlie said astonished at the gift from this GOD
"double wow" I say
"yes, wow indeed" the cards float to us and we grab them
"Now for the last boon that you'll share between you, as the world you're going to has aliens"
We all just stare at the GOD
"wanna run that by us again" Kelly said
"hurr, I said that the world you're going to has multiply alien's races in it, but don't worry, humanity is in there as well"
That was comforting in small way, but wow, aliens and a lot of them form what the GOD had to say for it, but I could foresee a few problems with our future encounters.
"now the boon itself is a ship, as you guys are going to need to get around, the ship itself will be something familiar to you guys, in fact it's from your worlds humanity's famous Star Wars show, come on take a guess what it is I'll give you three tries'"
We all stare again at Cyrus oddly, but I quickly accept what he is saying no matter how impossible and slightly silly it is.
"ok, is it a rebel blockade runner" I say
"ooh, quite modest you are, no it is not think bigger, two chances"
"is it a dreadnaught heavy cruiser" Charlie say hoping for it to be that ship for it was his favourite
"nope, got to go way bigger, one more chance"
Mom, Dad and Kelly just watch us with a 'oh my god is this seriously happing' face
"Alight then, is it a super star destroyer" I say grinning thinking I got it right as I thought that 'way bigger' was a key word for what it was
"wha-hell no that's way to big" I deflate at that and pout
'I want a super ship, so I don't have worry about the aliens that we may face'
"well seeing that you guys are out of chances and all, the ship you two are getting is a resurgent class star destroyer."
'oh, well that nice, in fact now that I think about it, the ship he's giving us is quite versatile, but I won't bore you with the statistics but there's a problem'
"uh, how are supposed to operate a ship that requires thousands of people to work" Charlie asked the GOD
'Oh, never mind'
"oh well that's easy, all vital components like generators will be filled with A.I. like programmes that will only follow your commands, for and air and ground units work kind of like that new Homeworld game, and if you want to manually fly the ship, you'll have a control system smaller to the game called dreadnought, simple stuff, don't worry about resources and limited units, if you lose them in combat they'll regen after a certain amount of time, as for the rest they'll be taken care of."
Well that works pretty well, looks like unnecessary stress for that will not be hindering us
"well now that's done, I bid thee a due, have fuuunnn, oh and don't forget to look at the heroes you have, bye bye" Cyrus says warping away
Before Charlie and I could raise a quick question, Cyrus just flicked his fingers, and everything went white.
Then colour came back, and our new surroundings greeted us.
We were in a room or more specifically a ship, the bridge section from the looks of it, it had that design that the venators and imperial star destroyers have and looking at the windows that showed the void of space, confirming that we were on a ship.
"I have a question, where the hell in space or this galaxy are we" Charlie pointed out
"that's a really good point but let's worry about that later, lest become heroes" I say excitedly, I mean I always had fantasy of being some super powered guy taking on waves and waves of enemies who then eventually saves the day and gets the girl
Kelly seems okay at the idea while Mom just sighs and Dad makes no comital moves or gestures.
We all look at our cards. Dad got the sword, mom the sceptre, Kelly the skull and Charlie and I the lances.
Wondering how to activate them but then as if hearing our thoughts, they glow and then the stats and identities were reviled to us.
"I have a girl called Artoria Pendragon alter" Charlie says questioning
"Well I have whoa, I have the same but more purer I guess" I yelled in surprise which Charlie gives me an odd look
"what"
"I'm not joking it's the same girl just different" I show him my card
"that really wired and odd" I agreed with him
Kelly dose her next and frowns. "who the hell is Mysterious Heroin X"
Nobody knows who that was.
Dad sees his "king Arthur" he say simply
how is it possibly for three king Arthurs to be in our grasps
mom shows us hers and it was merlin…who is also a girl
and everyone is starting to feel very…what the word. Put off per say.
"oh well, hey Charlie check your states, Cyrus said they show our new strengths"
"oh, right I forgot about that…right let's see. Parameters?"
Then a holographic screen popped up in front of Charlie, I leaned over to see
STRENGHT A
ENDURANCE A+
AGILITY B
MANA A+
LUCK D
NOBLE PHANTASM A++
MAGIC RESISTANCE B
MANA BURST(DARKNESS) A
BLESSINGS FROM THE ENDS OF THE WORLD A (EX) 'increase all stats by one rank when in combat'
CHARISMA E
RIDING E (I know full well that lancer has A rank riding, its E because of what I'm planning further in the story)
"now that's badass, all right let see my op stuff"
INVISIBLE AIR ANTI-UNIT C
RHONGOMYNIAD ANTI-FORTRESS EX
EXCALIBUR MORGAN ANTI-FORTRESS A++
"ok now that's op" Charlie said rather impressed
"well that's nice Charlie" mom complemented
"well my turn now" I say
Charlie closed his stats and then I opened mine it read as such
STRENGHT A
ENDURANCE A
AGILITY A
MANA A
LUCK C
NOBLE PHANTASM A++
MGIC RESISTANCE B
RIDING A
MANA BURST(LIGHT) A
BLESSING FROM THE END OF THE WORLD A (EX) 'increase all stats by one rank when in combat'
CHARISMA B
"well look at that, if we are in trouble you can talk our way out or just stand there and look good"
"stuff it, let's see what miss Arthur has for op"
"you know her names Artoria right" Kelly coughed from the background
Dad just sighs
INVISBLE AIR ANTI-UNIT C
RHONGOMYNIAD ANTI-FORTRESS EX (ANTI-WORLD EX once wielder accepts Rhongyniad wholly)
EXCALIBUR ANTI-FORTRESS A++
AVALON BARRIER EX
"well looks like you also have some good stuff..wait is that a second card" Charlie said
My card shined and then split in two separate cards, the same lance one was there with none of the stats changed.
But the second card had an olden measure like seen on justice statues as its symbol
"huh"
"why is it you get a second one" Charlie complains
"how should I know, I just got this magically" tapping it I see a whole set of different stats but still under the same name
STRENGHT B
ENDURANCE A+
AGILITY B
MANA A
LUCK B
NP A+
MAGIC RESISTANCE A
TERRITORY CREATION B
ROYAL BUNNY A
ROYAL CARD C+
KNIGHT OF THE LION B
BRIGHT EHANGWEN ANTI-FORTRESS A+ (the hall in which Arthur's knights would meet now converted into high heel shoes that shine the Light to the Ends of the World)
"is it a support version of hi-her" Kelly asked
"I don't know" we were a loss as to why I even got this in the first place
"well at least you have support abilities" Charlie say and I have to agree
"so, it would seem, I also find it interesting that the stats are labelled like in some Japanese game" Kelly noted
"well maybe that god guy dropped us in a game" I said
"that would be stupid" Dad commented
"he's an all-powerful deity that sent us here dear" Mom responded
"Yeah, your right about that, still it be very wired to live in a game"
"well he did make this fictional ship real" I said
"true, well anyway shall we see what mine is" Kelly looked at her own stats
STRENGHT B
ENDURANCE C
AGILITY A++
MANA B
LUCK C
NP A++
COSMOS REACTOR A
RIDING EX
PRESENCE CONCEALMENT –(she hollers how she going to defeat all Sabers at the top of her lungs not very Assassin like)
BACK-UP FIRE EX
INSTINCT C+
STARS OF SABER C++
GALATIC METEOR SWORD C
SECRET-CALIBUR ANTI-UNIT A++ (EX)
EXCALIBUR ANTI-FORTRESS A++
EXCALIBUR MORGAN ANTI-FORTRESS A++
"Well that's me, can't believe this a pendragon theme" Kelly moaned Charlie just snorted in amusement
"hey, Moms the only one who breaks the chain"
"On to me now" Mom intoned mildly curious to see her own power
STRENGHT B
ENDURANCE E
AGILITY D
MANA A++
LUCK C
NP A
TERRITORY CREATION C
HIGH-SPEED INCANTATION C
ITEM CONSTRUCTION C
HYBRID EX (merlin is a half human of a succubus or incubus depending on gender)
HERO CREATION EX
CHARISMA B
ILLUSIONISM A
DREAMLIKE CHARISMA A
GARDEN OF AVALON ANTI-UNIT BARRIER EX
CALIBURN A+ ANTI-ARMY
EXCALIBUR A++ ANTI-FORTRESS
"I guess I'm lucky last"
And finally we all crowded around Dad to see his stats
STRENGHT A
ENDURANCE A+
AGILITY B
MANA B
LUCK B
NP EX
MAGIC RESISTANCE A
RIDING B
MANA BURST(WIND) A
INSTINCT A
GIANT BEAST HUNTING A
CHARISMA B
AVALON BARRIER EX
CALIBURN ANTI-ARMY ANTI-FORTRESS A+
EXCALIBUR ANTI-FORTRESS EX (ANTI-WORLD EX when all seals are released)
And that was that.
We all went through our power set.
What it all meant, we would have to find out for ourselves.
"well I guess we now fuse with them I guess" I bring my cards close to me and see they shine
"hmm, might as well"
The gold cards flew right into us giving us a glowing aura, mine was gold while Charlie was a red black, Kelly a deep blue, Moms a white one and Dads a mix of white and blue.
"hey, I feel I bit tingly" I say as my whole body sends me pins and needles all over
"yeah I feel it too" mentions Kelly
The feeling continues for a bit till Charlie smile and speaks
"you know I thought this was going to hurt but looks li-aaarrrrgggghhhhh" Charlie clutches his chest doubling over in pain, but I too feel a burning sensation overtake me.
"yoouu haaaddd too jinx uss-aaaarrrgrghh" I as well was feeling whatever he was feeling. The same went for the rest of the family as we all collapsed and felt the pain of our whole body and soul change.
What I felt was a burning sensation, like a red hot iron rod was being inserted into my spine, it did not feel nice at all, in fact my whole body was on fire as my body started fusing to the power of king Arthur, or well queen Artoria.
The pain was agonising, my chest and lower body had a strange feeling to it, my arms and legs were straining and changing, my hair turned from black to gold and I could feel my eyes tingle as changing colour, it was a pain that would be engraved into my memory's till the day I die, it was really hard not thinking about anything rather than the pain.
Luckily, the pain was lessening by a large margarine to a point where I and my brother were not crying out in pain, which was nice, though I did feel tingly and wired as my body felt like we were tumbling down a hill.
Soon though an new attire glowed into existence replacing my cloths, the same happened with Charlie, for me a royal blue fitting combat cloth appeared, small long flaps protrude from my hips and on top covering it was silver plate body armour that covered my body in some areas like length of my arms with silver gauntlets plus greaves and it covered my fingers, from above my knees to my feet were the same silvery metal armour that looked like an armoured boot, to my chest back and shoulders with the same silver metal armour, and finally my head had a silver helmet shaped to almost look like a lion, and there was a yellowish brown fur coat cape attracted to my back flowing to the back of my lower calf's.
Looking at my brother I see that he has drastically changed much like myself.
In fact he looks exactly like me but more dark coloured and draconic looking
Dad changed as well and wow he looked good. Blonde hair green eyes, very handsome facial features, taller and bulker by looks of it, armoured chest same colour as mine and that sword or should I say swords, beautiful.
Mom hair changed to white and eyes looked onyx, her figure became more pronounced, all covered in a white hooded robes and I assume from the glimpse I saw were black under cloths as well but they were hidden by the white robes, she also held a peculiar looking staff with two swords in sheaths attached to the staff.
Kelly. She honestly looked far too modern compared to the rest of us knightly wizardry looking people.
She had the same hair colour as dad and I same with the eyes, she had cap hat on, there was a long blue gold rimmed scarf around her neck, a blue unzipped jacket white casual shirt underneath and very daring black shot shorts. She also had thigh reaching dark blue socks or what ever you called them and regular light blue and white sneakers.
If she didn't have those two swords on her back then everything about her would scream rebellious teen.
Utterly normal.
When all was said and done, I shakily stood back up, my armour creaking and clinking with my unbalanced movements I also felt top heavy, Charlie was also standing looking himself over checking if anything was out of place, he then moved to the windows to see himself.
"this is…more than what I was expecting" Charlie say though his voice has changed a bit sounding a bit lighter and more mature, he then turned to me look up and down my form
"dam, you look pretty badass in that armour Leo," Charlie smirked, I as well feel my lips tug up from that complement.
"yeah, I have to agree with you, though what's wrong with your voice" I say back, though oddly my voice was a bit higher than what it was supposed to be
"my voice, the hell wrong with your voice" Charlie said, I as well was wondering what was wrong with it
"I don't know, maybe it's the helmet" I say still with the odd high voice, so reaching with both hands I try to find a way to get the helmet off.
HISS
To my surprise and his own our helmets started clasping and shifting into our armour like how the dead space helmet retreats into the space suit, soon it down and reviles my face which has changed, same with my brothers looks. But we both were with wide shocked eyes as we stared at each other changes.
"your face" ok this voice is getting annoying, but Charlie seems to regain himself and look at me with worried expression and I him.
The rest were of similar expressions.
"Leo don't panic, but I think I know why our voices sound like this, but in order to make sure, we need you to remove our armour" I know why he sounds so hesitating.
I didn't like the idea but had to see. I don't know where to begin to take this armour but or how to remove it. But an idea flashes in my mind, so I decide to will it away and to my joy it flashed away in blue moats of light in a misty manner the same happened to Charlie.
But what I see next leaves myself and Charlie as well as our sister and parents speechless
"…"
"ah..oh…ooohhhh, Holly JESUS" Charlie exclaimed.
"IM A GIRL" I yelled so loud that I'm sure the whole of the galaxy hared me.
Now I see, and now I understand why my voice and his own sounded so high, because looking down confirmed that my body didn't just fuse with the hero, it changed everything to look exactly like the hero on the card. It was pretty clear that I was queen Artoria the same with Charlie, I mean, we were staring at a royal bust that would make any man bleed from the nose and my brother and I were no exception.
Charlie face was red, and his white face showed how embarrassed he was from shamefully ogling his brothers sudden change in gender but his own as well. I can't blame him I did the same.
I covered my royal bust and sinking to the ground being extremely self-couscous at the moment and even more embarrassed from what happened to me.
Kelly and Mom were trying to calm both of us down
"Leo Charlie, clam down, there's no need to be ashamed of yourself" dad said to us both. And while his intentions were good I was not ok with…this.
"that's easy for you to say, you're not the one who's become a GIRL, and how am I supposed to not be ashamed..." I jested my head to the royal bust.
"I... I don't know ok, but we will get through this, I know we will, I know it will be tough and very awkward" oh dad you know nothing
"big understatement" I snort but Mom continued on
"yes, but you…we will have plenty of time get used to it, I promise you this, I may not know how it feels to have changed completely, but you have push through it and adapt, because I don't believe the aliens here are going to care about your problems, you're going to have to live with it, can you do that"
I look at her in the eye and see that she is holding a steady eye at me showing no discomfort for what I've become nor my brothers, it is then I nod slowly
"ok" I say getting up again, though I was flushing along with my brother…older sister now I guess, we both tried to keep a composed posture but I know we failed as we ever so slightly gaze at our additions as well as gaze each other's newly acquired royal bust, they seemed to bounce a little from the slightest movements.
Charlie smiled reassuringly towards me, and I felt happy to know that I was with not suffering alone in this new...condition. Everything that has happened has just been so crazy, from dying to the semi afterlife and now rebirth of sorts.
"I know what will make you feel better, uhh, you there" Kelly says pointing to a random android looking person who was at the door, then I realise that we have a whole crew filled with A.I.s on this ship under our command.
I can't believe we didn't notice this sooner.
"what can I do for you master" the android guy said, who kind of looked like and equivalent of an American navy captain.
"is there per-chance a breathable none-habitable planet that we can go to" the A.I. nods in response
"yes master, the closet one is only one jump away that will take a couple of minutes to get to, do you wish for a shuttle to take you down to the surface"
"yes, that would be very good, get the ship underway" the A.I. bows with his right arm to his chest
"right away master" as the A.I. made the arrangements I question Charlies motives
"what are you planning" Dad asked, his tone sounding mildly angry, probably not happy at my brother and I's predicament
"well I thought this would be a great chance to test out our Noble Phantasms effectiveness and it would also get you two think about something else, rather than your current predicament"
"you mean you want to blow stuff up with your op demi-god power" Charlie just smirks at that
"sigh, not really something I had in mind, but I guess it would be a good indication of what our new forms are capable of" dad sighs clear that he is stressing out over everything. Mom just strokes his back and it seemed to calm him slightly.
"come on Ben it'll be fun drama queen" Moms say airily to him while he looks resigned, the three of us send him pleading looks at him which he turns and sighs more heavily this time while dragging a hand through his hair.
"fine, I suppose" I smirk at his clear displeasure.
We all then proceeded to the main hanger bay of the ship, we would walk their but considering that this ship is 3km long that would take a while, but this ship did have a tram rail system and high speed elevators around so traversing the ship was making our travel time less.
As we walked through the ship we saw a few A.I.s working in their specifically work station, from the mechanic checking that the ship is in perfect order, to the heavy armed patrolling guards, to the basic seaman and...were those maids I just saw?
It creeped me out to be honest, as we passed they seemed supper happy and ready to please. How they would make way for us and stop everything they were doing just to bow and call my family masters, I found it troubling how they seemed to have a sort of unquestionably loyalty to us, I suspect that, the GOD, Cyrus had something to do with this.
/all personal, this is the captain, were coming out of hyperspace braces for minor deceleration, 2nd Recon Squad wings prepare for 1st deployment, LA-AT 2247 Helix prepare for planet decent the masters are your passengers/
And not a moment too soon I felt the ship shudder and bit of force pushing me forward.
"wow were here already," Charlie said
"well didn't the captain say it would only take a couple of minutes" Kelly said back
"yeah but that was six minutes ago" Charlie said back to her
"Charlie, for all we knew is that we were really close, or we were really far away and the hyperdrive is very fast." Kelly lectured to him
"maybe, well I guess it doesn't matter were here" just like he said, uh she, the blast door in front of us opened and stepping out we were in the Hanger on the bottom of the ship, it was very big, but I really couldn't blame the designer as I spotted big transport ships loading some AT-ATs, AT-TEs and other vehicles and crates with supplies.
I marvelled at how big the machinery were and in awe as my family had complete command over them, my inner nerd identifies many things. ARC 170 starfighters fly out of the hanger with some TIE scouts, in the hanger there were also other star ships like Y-wings of the Republic era and TIE hunters and defenders and a row of LA-ATs. And I knew that there were a lot more in the multiply side hangers on the ship.
As we walked we found our ride, it was positioned away from the rest of the LA-ATs and near what could be described as a waiting area for outgoing flights, as we approach the piolet who looked like a clone piolet snapped to attention and gave us a salute
"masters Arthur, Merlin, Altera, Atria and Artoria, I am ready to take you planet side" we all blinked at how the A.I. addressed us which left us a bit confused and the A.I. seemed to pick up on it
"I assume that lord Cyrus hasn't told you about your new names masters"
'ah that made sense'
"why has Cyrus given us those names?" Charlie questioned
"lord Cyrus said that you had forsaken your old names in place for the ones you fused with, but I see that he has forgotten to tell you. But luckily he foresaw that and told the whole crew, I hope that clears up the confusions master"
I don't like the idea of giving up my birth name as it was what made me, me in a sense, but at the same time I can almost understand why he's done it as we have all fused with the heroes, thus we would have to take up their titles and names in a way to honour them, but to me it made sense because I was recalling memories that don't belong to me.
Like memories of battle, of ruling a castle, and pulling a sword from a stone, getting stabbed by a knight in red striped silver armour.
I knew instantly now that they were from Artoria's life and everything I went through and all the battles and tragedy's I endured…
Wait what, no, my names Leo a guy who died with my family and were given another chance at life in another world filled with aliens and was turned into queen Artoria right.
Shaking my head, I bring my attention back to the now.
"well I guess we can accept a name change, at least we can't not act like were we came from right" everyone seemed a bit hesitant at something but responded away
"yeah, I can live with that, shall we get moving" Charlie said
Kelly shrugged her arms and our parents said nothing. I looked to the A.I. piolet and nodded to his ship.
"yes, master please board the dropship and we shall be on our way" the piolet climbed to his cockpit while we went into the ship troop compartment, once on the doors closed and we felt the ships engines power up
\this is LA-AT 2247 Helix, the masters are on board and we are waiting for permission to depart to planet side/
Our piolet said into the com of his ship then a reply came from the flight control was a female coordinators voice
/2247 Helix, you are cleared for departure watch for 2nd wings flight path as they will be near yours/
At those words I felt the ship lift off and accelerate into the void
/roger that control 2247 heading out/
The flight was surprisingly smooth and not all jerky as I was expecting it to be, then I felt a tap on my shoulder, turning I see that Charlie wants to talk to me
"yes Charlie"
"Leo, I've decided that when we get down there, let's have duel"
"w-what, why"
"well I kind of want to know how much punishment these bodies of ours can take, and I am assuming that there is very little threats in this new world that can actually harm us aside from probably a ships primary gun or ourselves per say,"
"Charlie if you hurt yourselves or even worse accidently kill each other I will punish you" moms voiced in a very, and I mean very scary tone but he just put up his hand
"Leo and I will not kill each other accidentally we will be careful, besides our body's and Noble Phantasm are strong enough to protect us. While having some of the highest forms of destruction we will be careful and not do anything stupid"
"how do you know that" Kelly or Atria 'Kelly' Pendragon now accused
"I looked into it, what you haven't checked what your own NPs can do" I looked him oddly
"what are you on about" Charlie then palms his face
"jeez you didn't look, fine then, well first off you can close your eyes, don't question it just do it" I grumble under my breath at that but follow his orders
"now think about one of your NPs per say AVALON and think to yourself what it can do"
Again, listening to his advice, I think about AVALON, the scabbard of EXCALIBUR and CALIBURN, soon information about it was entering my mind.
Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia
It is a luxurious piece of equipment made of gold and decorated with blue enamel that seems more like a treasure to show dignity and nobility like a crown or staff than a weapon, an inscription written in Fairy Letters engraved on its center to show that it is not the work of man. When wielded by its true owner, (i.e. Leo). It grants limited immortality through constant regeneration, as well as preventing physical deterioration caused by aging and potent healing allowing for critical or fatal wounds to be rapidly repaired to restore the wielders health.
The ever distant utopia, Avalon is the "absolute defence" that completely shields its user in the domain of the fairies, it is the greatest protection in the world that goes beyond defending or reflecting, completely isolating its user in a world completely separate from the regular world. The scabbard dissipates into countless tiny particles in the air and engulfs the user to become a "portable fortress" that shuts out all interference.
Avalon can also be transferred to another being to heal them if they are wounded, but it will only grant them high regeneration and nothing else for it will not see the subject as its true owner.
Opening my eyes, I had a shocked expression while Charlie is smiling cheekily
"I told you didn't I, so what can it give ya" I look at him feeling better at the thought that neither of us were truly in harm, well I wasn't but wasn't sure about Charlie.
"well, it seems AVALON can protect me from anything though I'm not so sure about it holding up to the vacuum of space" I hope his NP can stand up to my anti fortress NPs or at least is as good as AVALON
"so what can it do" he says expectantly, and the other are curiously as well
"it uh, Avalon gives me high speed regeneration so I cant die from old age and that's just its passive ability, when I call out its name. It makes it so that I am in another dimension while under attack from whatever" he just looks annoyed; mom and Kelly are neutral while dad looks like he already knows what it could do.
"oh come on how's that fair for me"
"sorry, not my fault that GOD gave me the god card, but don't you also have an absolute defence"
"no" oh sucks to be him/her "not my problem" I say uncaringly
This was very cool if I have to say, I look into my other Noble Phantasms capabilities starting with EXCALIBUR soon information fills my mind
Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory
Excalibur is the most strongest and most majestic of holy swords, the physical, and conceptual actualisation of victory, one of the ultimate god-forged weapons, a Last Phantasm, forged by the planet as the crystallization of the wishes of mankind stored and tempered within the planet. It is said that this sword, born (raised) in the inner sea of the planet, exerts its true power only when there is an enemy that threatens the planet emerges.
While there are many other Noble Phantasms crafted more splendidly and with better skill, Excalibur gives an illusion far superior to them. It cannot be called beautiful because of its appearance, for the description of "beautiful" will only dirty it. It is instead sacred, made from people's conceptions, a legend weaved purely out of hope. It is not a myth or inhuman work, but a "crystal trained by the heart alone", making it reign as the strongest fantasy. It is the crystallization of the prayer named "glory" and everything etched in the hearts of those who are scattered at the sword's radiance; the nostalgic, sorrowful, and hallowed dream of those who were placed on the bloody hell called a battlefield, of all warrior's past, present, and future fully exposed to the fear of death and despair, and who still cling to a desire: "to be exalted."
Invisible Air can be used to hide its identity and increase its destructive power. It must be revealed to unleash its full power, and charging it with energy to slash an enemy, called the gold version, brings about an overwhelmingly superior power. Its destructive power widely varies, with Invisible Air showing a power from eighty to ninety and the gold version showing a power of around one thousand, it so destructive that is surpass anti-unit and anti-army status thus giving it a anti fortress designation.
Wow that's, wow.
And to think that we all have this weapon each
I looked another of my NPs
Bright Ehangwen: Be Brilliant, Our Radiant Hall
A high mobility reception hall that conquers the surface of the water, temporarily embodies Ehangwen, King Arthur's Hall, and shoots an oversized magical light onto the entire enemy line, the biggest attack of Artoria Ruler, Lion King of Swimsuits.
It is unclear whether the past Ehangwen had such navigational ability and artillery ability
On the other hand, regarding bombardment, there is a suspicion that "it is actually done with the loaded Rhongomyniad" or "it is actually the same Noble Phantasm as the Lance?"
But even more strange is that Ehangwen has taken the form of a blue high heel shoe and has the ability to utilise the anti-fortress blast all while keeping the wielder untouched from the blast itself
"…" there are no words to describe how ludicrous this all sounded.
And seriously Lion King of Swimsuit
…
I then move onto RHONGOMYNAID
Rhongomyniad: The Lance that Shines to the Ends of the World
Rhongomyniad, also known as Ron, it is regarded in the same light as the Holy Lance Longinus that pierced the Messiah around the 1st Century AD. An anchor of storm that fastens the planet together. A Divine Construct armament. Rhongomyniad is regarded as the "spear of the end", the light of destruction coming down from the heavens. It is said that no matter the toughness of Armor it is nothing before the lance as it pierce's. King Arthur also used this lance against Vortigern in his Dragon form, and the spiral light of the lance pierced through the heart of the dragon.
It is actually not meant to be used as a weapon to strike down external invaders. It is only the shadow of its true form, said to be a tower of light that fastens the outer layer of the World onto the planet. The Holy Lance Rhongomyniad makes that tower, a "pillar of light", as its main body, existing to ensure the World's stability. Originally, this Holy Lance is a "pillar of light" that fastens together the two sides of the World itself: the outer layer of the World (reality) and the Reverse Side of the World (illusion). It has been said that, in the unlikely event that this is undone, reality will be torn off from the surface of the World to reveal the Reverse Side of the World, re-enacting the Age of Gods. Being the "king" that stood at the final moments of illusion and the Age of Gods, King Arthur possesses this Holy Lance that conceals such a tremendous power.
If Rhongomyniad is used at full strength, it will go beyond its EX ranking of anti-fortress and be upgraded to anti-world EX, when that happens, the reality that it keeps in balance will distort, it will rip and tear the walls that keep the creatures in the reverse side of the world and the ones who live on the outer layer of the world to encounter each other and powers long forgotten will seep everywhere and mix into everything thus ending the world while beginning the starter of a new world.
Due to the active passive properties emitted by the holy lance, the wielder will alter into an existence close to that of a divine spirit's, if the wielder is constantly in the presence of the lance for a certain amount of time they will inevitably transform into a god or goddess if anything. The wielder will become physical beyond what they are capably of as all rankings increase to EX this will have a big effect on the wielders body as it is changed gradually in a big way, the aura that wielder will emit will cause those with magic resistance lower than B to revere the wielder in a sub-consciously higher being then themselves prompting higher spirits in valour and happiness as well as seeing them as superior, the wielder will also change mentally boosting a more composed, and rational mentally being more mature, and will have the power to bestowing gifts upon others that grants them special abilities.
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'…I…this…what?'
I'm speechless.
I can't think.
What the hell! I'll turn into a divine spirit, and what the fucking hell does it mean I'll become a goddess, and more body modifications, I didn't ask for fucking this, nor do I want to be seen as superior by other people, this is just messed.
"hey Leo, were here" Kelly taps my shoulder
"w-what, huh"
"you ok you've been quiet for whole trip" Moms looks at me
I see that Charlie and dad are out of the LAAT with is doors open standing on yellow looking grass that I didn't notice, I can't of missed that much.
"i-it's nothing, just lost in thought" 'lost in thought and panicking at the fact I'll turn into a goddess, no nothing to worry about here nothing at all'
Kelly and mom did not look convinced at my quite nature, but they moved out to the new scenery with myself behind them.
But as soon as I walk out of the ship I am then blasted by the fact that I am on another planet.
I am on an alien world that not earth
The weight of it makes me feel wobbly but I mange to stay up right.
Kelly though takes a seat on a protruding rock in this savanna like plain we find ourselves facing.
Moms moves near Dad and I hear him saying something about wishing he had his camera with him.
Charlie though "HOLY SHIT WERE ON ANOTHER PLANET THIS AWESOME WOOOO" is running around like an 5 year old on a sugar rush.
He's…she's all over the place. Power running moving at speeds that far exceeds that of a normal human being and is jumping too great heights well above buildings reaching 8 or more stories tall while hollering excitedly.
"she such a child" Kelly mutters in the background.
I hummed in agreement.
But after Charlie was done hopping around she looked straight at me grinning wildly
"LEO FIGHT ME" she raise her blacken Excalibur at me leaving her lance in the ground off to the side
I sighed knowing that It was now my duty to bring down her high, but I fear this fight will only increase it further.
So taking my place further out and facing Charlie with my own purer Excalibur.
The others stand near off to the side watching the duel
"Leo, Charlie. Do not cause any unneeded injury or there will be punishments for the both of you" our Dad told us sternly in a loud clear voice so we both heard it.
"yes Dad" we both ground out to the now only male in the family. This would take some getting used to.
I readied myself as did Charlie.
Both of us eyed each other to make the first move, we allowed ourselves be taken by foreign instincts and impulses that our minds now attainted.
A simple breeze passed us
And then
We exploded, racing towards each other with speeds beyond our wild dreams.
So quickly we went, so suddenly we clashed.
Our blades, both pure and impure met and their meeting created the loudest of clangs.
Both opposite energy's burst out in spectacular fashion.
The ground all around us quaked and buckled under the strain of magical energy as the grass dissolved or burnt away while the earth and rock flew away from being displaced my such forces clashing.
Charlie had the biggest smile I had ever seen before. She was enjoying this a lot.
And regrettably, so was I.
We both broke from one another. Till we swung at one another again.
So many times to parried each other's strikes and jabs.
More and more our surroundings were being wrecked.
Charlie dashed back a couple of hundred meter in just a second and I made to chase.
In out, up down, across the field in many directions we went and clashed.
Destroying more of the scenery as we went
Goodbye tree.
That grass was gone
The little pond nearby was evaporated
The rock formation just became a flat land
The flat land has holes in it
And still the more we pushed each other. We were still equal in strength and speed.
And then we met again.
Power colliding and destroying everything around us as we pushed against each other for more ground, both of us refusing to give up.
"THIS IS EXCITING, CAN YOU FEEL IT LEO, THE FRENZY OF THE MOMENT" Charlie yelled still excited as ever but she was tiering as was I. we were not used to our body's yet so we getting tired.
"I think we should warp this up" I broke off and moved a way back "with this final strike I will put an end to this" I rose my blade up building up my magical energy's
Charlie smile widen "hoho, then please allow me to meet you in kind"
She too raised her blade. Blackened energy condensing her form as my purer one did the same around myself.
Our power rose to a point where there were only two main colours shining in that day.
My light gold, and Charlies dark black red
We were approaching critical mass and would have to release
And so we came at each other at the same time.
Both yelling out the monstrous attack that would give this duel its final conclusion
"EXCALIBUR"
"EXCALIBUR MORGAN"
Two beams of supper condensed magical energies met each other. One of holy nature and the other a twisted demonic one.
There was no sound, there was no wind.
There was nothing but the light of gold, red and black.
But soon I found myself looking towards the blue sky
I blinked slowly before finding out I was on my backside even though I don't recall being put on my back or how I laying there.
Sitting up I am met with a crater far larger than what I could only guess was about a kilometre if not wider.
It takes me a bit to realise that I and Charlie did that.
I was glad I was sitting down as if I were standing I would of collapsed.
But then I heard it
"THAT WAS AWESOME"
That was the yell of a very excited Altera 'Charlie' Pendragon.
I sigh in defeat and laid back down again
"I have..failed" she was not tired, she was still excited
I sigh again as I get up on my two feet and look around and grimace at what our duel did to the environment
We completely destroyed everything within viewing distance. Everything the eye could see was a black barren wasteland.
It looked as though a bomb had it.
This once beautiful plain land was now a horrid blackened battlefield with craters everywhere.
We went overboard.
Making my way back to the ship and my sister and parents location. I could see them and how they looked.
Kelly was simply in awe at the destruction that we caused moms expression was nearly the same but dad just looked impressed mixed with disappointment.
Pretty sure his disappointment was coming from us making this photogenic plain un-photogenic.
As I came within hearing distance a spoke up
"in my defence, she started it" I point to Charlie as she came on over looking tired finally.
"you still accepted it so you don't have a defence" she say cheekily but subdued.
I just grunted.
"well I'm sure this has been all very informational to everyone and I hope you will know cause less damage next time" moms semi praised and scolded us.
We all headed back to the LA-AT.
He obviously knew we were ready to return to our still unnamed ship in orbit.
Once were all inside the blast doors closed and the sounds of the engines powering up and the shifting forces of gravity, we were now flying back to our ship.
The trip was spent mostly in silence, two of us were physical tired and the rest, I could only imagine were thinking about their own capabilities once they got the chance to test themselves out at a later date.
As the doors opened again I vaguely heard Dad asking where our quarters where.
And aside from the clone troopers and mechanical crew strewn about the hanger, it wasn't any of the regular crew to show us but instated, surprisingly a busty blond English looking women wearing a very skimpy clad maid suit who was showing us where our rooms were.
She moved in a very alluring way that I couldn't not be hypnotised by, and I'm pretty sure Charlie also fell for it and surprisingly Kelly also seemed to be distracted.
Dad looked completely fine, but Mom though, she was looking very displeased no surprise there.
Eventually we found our rooms.
Mom and dad had there own room and they disappeared through their automated sliding doors with a do not disturb holo message being displayed as it shut.
Ok
Kelly opened her own door and left my view as well same with Charlie as she went into her own room leaving me by myself.
With nothing else to do aside explore my own room I happily went in side to check it out.
And it was big but not too big.
The bed looked like one of those neatly made hotel beds in a 5 star resort, there was a couch and two comfy looking chair around a small tea table coloured in marble white. A terminal was stationed on a study table in the corner with a office chair along with it as well a bookcase with some folders and other stationary equipment.
A door was off to the side, opening it I found the wardrobe on the left side and the bathroom on the right.
Moving into the wardrobe first I found that there was a whole set of different type of garments in the draws and hangers.
Fancy blue dress for ether casual or formal occasions, there were some in different colour schemes but they were all mostly in the colour blue mixed with silver, I was dismayed at the fact that most of them looked like they were leotards. And on another rack I found different variants of my armour laid on them, though they kept the same regal lion look to it if not slight futuristic with the bright neon blue lines in the body suits.
But all my top cloths all had one issue that was present in all of them.
They had boob windows.
I moved on into the bath room.
And it was spacious for a bathroom. Shower could fit maybe three people, two sinks and a large mirror, the toilet was behind a door and the bath itself looked like it could fit my family in it. Overall it was a upgrade compared to my previous living arrangement where my brother and I had to share a bathroom together and it was smaller than this.
At least that one good thing to come out of this…and with that I am reminded of everything that has had happened in the last hours.
Moving back into my new room, I be lined straight for the bed and jumped into it and crashed into its inviting comfort.
I did not care anymore.
I was tired from my duel with Charlie.
I was emotionally drained from dying with my whole family.
I was stressed about being whisked away and placed in another dimension beyond my understanding.
I was frustrated over my change in gender, and over the fact that I am now starting to believe that it was intentionally done by that GOD.
I was just tired of everything.
I closed my eyes, tearing up as I think about how everything as I knew it was gone.
Bye bye remaining extended family, bye bye friends who I will never see again, bye bye Homeworld of my birth.
I hope I see you again one day.
I don't know how long I laid there but I was getting to a point of needing to do something.
I spied the terminal off to the side.
'I could found out what this ship is capable of' I thought to myself.
Between my comfortable body and my nagging mind, the mind won the need to stay on the bed.
So getting up sluggishly I trotted over to the study area.
Sitting down I plugged in.
It was confusing at first to use such advanced system but with some twiddling around I found what I was looking for
/unnamed\
Resurgent-class Star Destroyer:
I saw extendable tabs leading to ether Armament, Complement and utility.
However it seemed that we could name our ship.
I thought about it, wondering what name I should call this ship.
I had many names that I could draw from.
But then I thought about the changes that my family had gone through.
We all were Pendragons, all related and now a part of the Arthurian legend.
So maybe something related to the Kings legend. I knew several things about his legend, I actually had memories that showed how some of those events were more or less true.
I didn't want to call it Camelot as that was a castle not a ship and…oh wait we did have a personal ship called Prydwen that was used to find the Holy Grail.
In a way our home would be our Holy Grail that we may try to find.
So clicking on the box I typed in the name of king Arthur's ship into this ship.
Prydwen: Resurgent-class Star Destroyer.
Now that, that was done I moved on to check this ships…Prydwen capability's.
NAME: PRYDWEN
CLASS: RESURGENT STAR DESTROYER
LENGTH 3KM
WIDTH: 1.4 KM
HIEGHT/DEPTH: 496 M
ENGINE UNIT: primary KDY Destroyer Ion Engines 3 secondary Gemon-8 Ion engines 8
HYPERDRIVE: CLASS 1
POWER PLANT: SJFS III-a 1 a primary hypermatter-annihilation reactor
SHIELDING: Deflector shields (energy/physical/ray shield)
ARMAMENT: 1,500 Turbo laser (laser cannons, Ion cannons, and super heavy quad turbo lasers) point defence lasers, concussion missile emplacements, and tractor beam projectors
COMPLEMENT: Aerospace. 2 star fighter wings (wing squadron, TIE defenders 44 and TIE hunters 48) 2 star bomber wings (wing squadron, Y-wing 30, ARC-170 24) 100 LA-AT troop transports. Ground Force Armoured units 10 AT-AT 35 AT-TE 25 APC 10 JUGGERNAUT-mobile artillery walker 18 PREDATOR-main battle tank 30 STEALTH TANK-mobile anti-air anti-armour rocket tank.
CREW: 8,000 seamen(doctors, engineers, mechanics ect) 19,000 phase 2 Clone troopers regular infantry 300 ZONE TROOPERs heavy infantry 300 BLACK HAND heavy infantry 100 SECTION 8 Special Warfare Super Solders.
5 MASTERs super heavy infantry commanders-mobile anti-army units
King Arthur "Benson" Pendragon Saber-class
Queen Merlin "Elisabeth" Pendragon Caster-class
1st Princess Altera "Charlie" Pendragon Lancer-class
2nd Princess Artoria "Leo" Pendragon Lancer-class
3rd Princess Atria "Kelly" Pendragon Assassin-class
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: hyperwave comm scanner.
UTILITY: Fabricator Assembly store
ROLE(s): Carrier/Destroyer/Transport/Command Ship.
END
This ship is unique especially its force projection capabilities.
I recognised many of the forces in the ships log.
The Juggernauts, Predators, Stealth Tanks, Zone Troopers and Black Hand were all clearly from the Command and Conquer sires Tiberium war genre, and section 8 super solders while not well known they were from the game Section 8. All this lead me to believe that the GOD Cyrus is a gamer, and among other things if the skimpily clad maids are anything to go by.
But when I see my families NEW names and our status as royalty. Well that brings a whole set of different emotions to the forefront of my mind.
Leaning back in my chair and sorting through all the new information I'd just acquired.
I understood that I'd need to tell the rest of my family of all the info I found if they haven't already twiddled with their own terminals in their rooms first.
So fiddling with the terminal again found the email icon or the equivalent of one. And in my contact box was the detail of my family and a room service icon as well. So that's nice.
So sending a message to everyone to meet again as I had things to say, and while also calling room service to have an maid show us to a conference room where we could discus and talk about what I found.
Powering down the terminal I push out my chair and slid it back to the desk heading to the door of my room.
Though before I exit I thought about if I should change out of my armour and use one of the cloths in the wardrobe.
But looking back they all mostly looked as though they would show off my new body and they also had boob windows, so I decided pretty easily to stay in my armour.
Exiting I found that I was the last to leave my room as everyone was here including the same blond English looking maid that showed us our new rooms.
I noted that everyone had different attire on.
Dad had black trousers and a red t-shirt on while Mum and had an sun blue dress on, Kelly had light blue skirt on with a white shirt.
Charlie had leotard looking body suit much like my own only the colour was a dark purple. And it left nothing for the imagination.
I could see Mum and Dad casting disapproving gaze.
"now that your all here, shall we head to conference room 23" the maid said cheerly smile never leaving her face
We all nodded and headed off to the room of my choosing.
And it only took about a minute of walking and one elevator ride to reach our destination.
The maid stayed outside stating that if we need anything she was just outside.
And now it was just the 5 of us.
"so, Leo what was it that you wanted to tell us" mum said
And so I explained everything I found on the terminal.
The general power of the ship that I'd named, our star fighters and ground force. The uncanny fact that some of them were from different fictions made real.
And finally our royal status
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AN don't know if this is gonna go anywhere. It was mainly something that was stuck in my mind. But maybe it might become something good to invest in.