United States
Aki Rosenthal
Aki controlling her spaceship through the clouds, since she open camouflage mode. So, there is no need to be afraid of any surprise attacks.
This planet inhabitants, judging by information from her radar, still unable to reach plasma era yet, and probably has no ways to discover her hiding ship.
Why looking for the information. Aki wonder if this is really a planet Suisei seeking.
After using the last of ship energy to create a wormhole and travel to this solar system. Suisei decided to leave Aki, one of marshal best Android on the smallest planet she
could find. (Pluto)
Aki tasks is to wait and build a camps on the planet, she collects a box with every crews' DNA inside, in case that everything go wrong and the Suisei's cruiser being destroyed
or something like that happens.
It is Aki job to keep the boxes and her last scouting ship. Waiting until Suisei comeback with good news. If she never comeback, Aki has to travel again and finds star people
genetic chamber and cloning everyone in order to start journeying again.
Aki is not sure how long should 'never comeback' be. But Suisei just laughs when she asks.
So, Aki guess that she means to coming back and Aki real jobs is just wait and guarding their back at the edge of the solar system.
Who knows what kind of alien has evolved during the absence of star people? They may need to quickly retreat, and Aki could guarding them through safest routes with the
scouting ship.
Without enough energy to spare. Aki was forced to use her power reserves mode. She also shuts her ship systems down and open only radar, setting it to cry an alarm if star
people ship running within ranges.
After checking any routes to moving in and out of this solar system. Aki then take a long sleep, which is last until one outlaws ship flying pass her.
When Aki open her eyes again, the ship is already moving pass her camp. Every information she could read told Aki that it's act against the curfews law that has been
declared by Suisei.
So, it is her duty to destroyed it, enforcing the laws even if there are not much of star people left.
The fight did destroy parts of Aki spaceship, forcing her to stop and repaired it too.
After she finished fixing the spaceship, the enemy's ship is already gone, so Aki have to waiting and listening.
Aki argue with herself whether she should just ignore it and come back to guarding her camp again. One trespassing ship probably won't hurt Suisei operations that much.
After checking every possibility, Aki decide to keep on searching.
The camp is deserted for so long and the alarming could warn Aki if anything coming close to it.
Trespassing ship however is impossible to detect, and no one can be sure who is controlling the ship.
It might be another fraction of enemy. Ready to attack from behind.
After the confrontation. Aki decided that the intruder is just some surviving star people, probably coming from some distances colony where chain Supernovas hasn't reached
them yet.
Her strength isn't reach military standards. So, there is no point in collecting her DNA.
Aki decided to exterminate the criminal just in case. But local lifeforms taking her away somewhere and Aki is unable to find her yet.
Checking on the radar and signal again, Aki still unable to find Suisei's cruiser ship.
The spaceship shouldn't just disappear in thin air so Aki refuses to give up searching.
She plays the recording of signal again and calculate tracking directions for hundred times, it leading to this accursed planet again, so there is no mistake. The S.O.S. signal
starts here and Suisei ship followed, but no one coming back.
Aki reading data again, but nothing suggests that anything in this planet could hurt star people, much less destroying their ship.
Every lifeform is carbon-based and weak, their technology is not even reaching interstellar level yet.
Aki look at the reason why they are being here again.
Yagoo, star people scientist using everything in genetic chamber to creating ultimate star people. His daughter who has every good trade of star people inside her body.
It is an act against the laws, so Suisei has every right to cut his head off and already did so. Genetic engineering child need scientific and political inspection first before being
allows to create one.
And this Yagoo refused to report them about the child and sending her away from star people colony. 100% act of treason that must be punished by death.
Aki wondering if this genetic engineering child is the cause of Suisei ship destructions. It is hard to believe that one person could destroy entire ship full of star people
soldiers. But no one ever mixing every good DNA inside one person anymore so there are no ways to be really sure about what could happen.
Anyways, Aki can thinks of something. She will sending her own S.O.S signal, reversing the frequency that being send to them in the first place.
This should make the sender respond. If their ship still intact enough to do so.
At least it was better than keep searching in vain.
Aki punch the S.O.S signal, watching it running throughout the planet and waiting for the responses.
….
Yucca Mountain, nuclear wastes repository: United States
Joe looks at the parameters again and read the information from the spaceship. It has been moving here, inside the secret base under the mountain almost year ago.
He and other scientists has been working on the ship, but like generations of human before them, there are no one capable to make this ship workings.
200 years ago. A scientist leading by Usada Pekora alien 'allies of humanity' has help them to work and start ship engines, savaging lost technology from the ancient
spaceship and improved humanity society like a skyrocket. Until she has been captures after smuggling alien from space and destroying almost everything in New York City
around decades after that.
Humanity didn't trust aliens anymore and there are no sighting of them since that time. We still managing to create something useful from the first and second contacts.
And helping us to conquering the Mars at last, terraforming its after centuries of dreaming.
But there are nothing humanity could achieve in the upcoming century.
The plasma technology is evolving and 'hololive' equipment really improves how we contact with each other. But the main source of energy is still fossil fuel and natural gas.
Some trying to arrange nuclear power. But the risks are too much and only the rich could get their hands on it.
Everything went full circle again, running back to where it starts. The spaceship that arrives this planet long before human civilization occurs. It might be the key to humanity
survival too if they could make it work again.
The ship engine suddenly starts. Joe winces and checking his parameters. It is actually working! He quickly checked on what might be the cause of it, nothing.
They just do a daily habit of cleaning and checking every room of the spaceship. Maybe worker might hit something and starts the engine without realizing it, he must ask
them first-
The ceiling suddenly exploded, sunlight blinding Joe as he is trying to look up. Something landing not too far from him. Getting his attention.
It was a yellow hair woman. Joe not sure if he is crazy or parts of her hair actually floating from her headม with a strange disk intact with it.
The woman ignores everything and everyone as she is walking toward the spaceship that lay still behind security glass walls.
Guards with assault rifle rush in and shooting at her, but the woman seems to didn't feeling the bullet as she running through the glass, shattering it by forces.
Worker inside the spaceship laying low to avoid the bullets. Aki ignore them and looking the ship computers, searching for information.
The data has been deleted so, there aren't any helping here. Aki checks if she could reboot and retrieve some surviving information.
This ship has been damaged too much, it won't be able to fly again unless someone who capable to decides to fixing the thing.
One soldier decides to get in close quarter combat and shooting his gun when it almost touching Aki hairs. Star people Android swing her arm with irritation, sending poor
soldier flying across the room and crashes the walls, dead.
Aki checking ship's lock in history. She finds the last two times interesting enough. Two time has been signed under Azki and Tokino Sora name. Aki remembers Azki as DIVA
Android from Yagoo's family. But who is Sora? His genetic engineering daughter perhaps?
Aki wonder what the hell just happen 200 years ago inside this ship.
Some soldiers bring the rocket launcher in and shoot at Aki, the explosive is enough to stunts her for a while, but except from the human equipment that laying around.
Neither Aki nor the spaceship has been damaged by the attack.
Star people Android brush the dust out of her hand with irritation, she looks up as the soldier finishes reloading his rocket launcher and shooting it again.
Aki grabbed the rocket with one hand and throwing it back at group of soldiers. The explosions seem to send them scattering away at last, so Aki can read her data in peace
again.
She groaned with irritation when seeing that the genetic chamber has been destroyed, along with wormhole maker and most of artificial sun.
That's mean her efforts to travel here is for nothing.
Aki jumping back to her ship that floating 500 meters above the mountains.
She flies away before local air forces could even react.
….
Ozora Subaru
" Look at the new, guy! She is wrecking Yucca Mountain right now."
Kiara said as she is looking at the television.
" Reason?" Calli asks, sipping Sting Ray cocktails since there is no one forbid alcohol during the discussions.
" She is going for the star people explorer ship. US. Government moves them there few months ago." Subaru said without looking up from her phone.
" My friend just told me after the incident happens, not long ago."
" Did she get anything?" Risu asks, throwing nuts in the small bonfire near her feet and watch them explodes.
" Witness is not sure, since they're busy running for their lives.
But she seems to read an information from ship's computer before running away, probably didn't bring anything with her."
Subaru answered.
Iofifeen is the only one who didn't talk or react to anything, she is focused on drawing a lens after Subaru handing the blueprints to her but nothing happened.
" This is useless!" Iofi throwing her brush in irritation.
" I cannot reaching the III artists level yet! You need to build this lens first, not make me creating it out of thin air with my drawing skills."
" Calm down, folks." Calli put a cup of cold pineapples juice mixing with tequilas in painter alien's hand, Iofi take it and drinks with frustration.
Now they are laying and resting on the empty beach. Subaru rents the whole island with Akukin funds and since this is not the tourist season.
Everybody one is happy with strange women who laying around and talking nonsenses , as long as they pay for everything they need.
Subaru shook her head after hearing Iofifeen words.
" I didn't built this lens yet, it is a mere concept. I need you power to make it real."
" What is the power of the lens again? I am being drunk for the most part of your explanation." Calli mixing Vodka with Brandy and coconut juice as she speaks.
"This lens is a copied version of star people cannons we find on the explorer ship. It will focus the radiation from one spot and shooting with thousands time stronger energy
after the radiation running pass it, sort of like how you built a fire with camera lens."
Subaru explained, ignoring Calliope cries in distress as Kiara snatching the glass of alcohol away from her hand.
" Since we couldn't use 'star destroyer' (star people raw crystal before turning into 'cover' crystal. Mixing by Minato Aqua and use as an effective weapon against star people,
since it could sucking their energy and make them become weaker.) crystal to weaken her barrier. We need something with more firepower instead."
" This lens is star people weapons. So, in theory it should be able to be hurting them too. If we could build one, and find energy to shooting at them, of course." Subaru
concluded.
" I will said for one last time. I. Can't. Draw. It!" Iofifeen insists.
" Even with blueprint, it is not the same as having real object.
I can't do it. You need someone else!"
" With our current technology. We will be able to build it in 2 or 3 months. What will happen during the times? The world might already gone before that." Subaru said softly.
" We aren't sure about that." Kiara interrupted. " We don't knows about the attacker intentions yet. She might just be here to kill our girl and leave." She points at the
container, where bunch of scientists still working on Moona's body.
Subaru shook her head. " Will you take a risk? Beside, I don't want to see she die either."
" This is not our fights." Risu picked up burning nut from the sands.
" For all we knows. Our friend might've done something wrong enough for that Android to hunting her down. Nobody knows about star people enough to be sure.
They are gone for billions of years."
" I knows 1 star people." Subaru sipping her drinks.
" Tokino Sora is a good girl. She literally dies in order to save us.
The race that gives nothing but hatred and doubt for her.
Aqua could tell you the whole day about that."
" She is not Sora." Calliope warned. " We knows nothing about her. Suisei and her crews are star people too. And you can be sure that those ten thousands people that die
during their attack don't call her good girl."
" We will talk with her first and decide later." Subaru change the subject.
" Let's hope our attacker are not active tonight because it will be lunar eclipse. Thing will get real dark here." She looks at her phone to checks on the news.
" What will we use as energy. If we actually build the lens cannon?" Iofi asks, still looking at the blueprint.
Subaru pointing at the sky. " Sun. It is the strongest power we can find. I need you to put the lens, as big as possible near the sun and send the power to earth, that amount
of power should be enough to destroy the Android without problem."
" If eclipse is really happening. Then earth will get in the way.
We may need to move our battlefield." Kiara said, worrying.
Subaru shrugged. " Problem is we don't know where our attacker is.
The news said that she disappears again. She could be anywhere in this planet."
" We can lure her." Calliope suggested. Looking at the container.
" If we open the container. The lead shield will be gone. Maybe that Android can track her signal or something."
" Then what? Will you fight her one on one?" Risu sneered.
" We could make a plan or something." Calli flushed.
" We are doing that right now." Subaru said.
" And still not getting any idea" Kiara added.
" Can we use this?" Calli dropping her 'cover' crystal on the table.
Subaru look at it and shaking her head. " We still unable to control it yet. Not sure if it will suck her power or boost her like what it did to Kiara." She gestures at the crystal
necklace on Kiara neck.
" So, we have tons of plan. But none of that working in real life? Man, that suck!" Calli sipping her Vodka from the bottle.
" It's up to you now." Subaru look at Iofi. " We need your power. To stop what's coming."
Iofifeen sighed. "I will practice with something easier first. Risu! Give me some nuts!" She yelled at Risu who is using her water magic to mixing some drinks.
Iofifeen take two walnuts and laying them on the sand.
" I will draw new nut near it, if it successfully and nut suddenly appear out of nowhere. Then I can do it." Iofi quickly drawing a picture of three nuts while there are only two
nuts on the ground.
She looks up from the sketchbook. Nothing happens.
Iofifeen swears, drawing again and again and again but nothing happens.
She draws picture of two nuts explodes instead, and wince when it did.
" I lost my temper." Iofifeen scratching her head. Drawing a picture of two nut reattach again and glad that it did.
While everyone is looking at her, the container suddenly open as one scientist in protection suit running toward them.
" She is awake!" He yelled. Moving his arms.
" Get out. All of you." Subaru tell him before turning her attention at her companion.
" Risu, come with me. Anyone else?" She asks.
Kiara raised her hand. " I want to talk with her more."
" We are fine here." Calli shrugged, handed glass of tequila at Iofifeen who still drawing furiously.
…
When they walk inside. Moona looks up, aluminum blanket wrapping around her body.
" Uhm… can you understand us? My name is Subaru. Ozora Subaru."
Subaru said slowly, pointing at herself.
" I can here you thoughts." Star people replied, making everyone winces.
" So, you can understand us?" Risu asked.
" A bit strange. But I thinks I get most of what you guys are trying to say. Maybe my brain has grown familiar with this planet wave after all. My goodness! You guys can't
stop making noises, aren't you?" Moona groaned.
" Okay. Let start again, shall we? My name is Subaru. This is Kiara and Risu. We are some sort of this planet inhabitants. What is your name again?" Subaru introduced.
" My name is Moona Hoshinova. I am star people. No rank whatsoever."
" Really? What a coincidence! Do you know where you just falling from?" Subaru chuckled.
" What? You mean a giant rock near your planet orbit?" Moona frowned, auto translator inside her head is working like crazy.
" That's call Moon in human language. Coincidence? I don't know." Risu explained.
" Woah…" Moona silent for a moment, a same silence when you know someone just call one star, or something like that. With your name.
" We tracks your movements on the Moon surface for a while Mooona." Subaru recalled the documents she used to read a few months ago. About some spaceship that have
similar shapes to star people ship landing on the Moon. Akukin scientists agreed that we should leave you alone until more information comes out.
" Now can you please explained why you are here? Moona." Kiara asks.
" I am the last surviving star people. At least for all I knows, until I got the S.O.S signal from somewhere around this direction.
I don't know if it was a trap or mistake or some of my people actually survive. But at least it gives me a hope to looking for them."
Moona said slowly, worried that these aliens will not understand what she is trying to say. At least they look friendly enough.
" I thinks I got an idea." Subaru frowned. "But you are very late. The signal sends by mistakes 200 Years ago. Tokino Sora, the last star people I knows, and her human
friends A Chan. Activates the signal why they were trying to open the explorer ship in Mojave Desert. The signal brings surviving star people ship here and they trying to take
over our planet."
She scramble to open the book ' My otherworldly friend' and shows its picture to Moona.
During the 'Battle of San Francisco' One camera manages to capture the picture of Hoshimachi Suisei's cruiser ship when it was trying to dig through Earth's core.
Another is a blurry picture of Sora fighting with Suisei in the sky and the destruction of the city that followed.
" So, our people already arrived? Where are they now?" Moona asks.
" Gone." Subaru said. Moona felt silence as she digested the news.
" Tokino Sora and Azki use the cover crystal to activate their ship and sending them to the black hole. Suisei fight with Sora and disappear.
I think Sora kills her. But no one can be sure since she never answers anyone, not even A Chan about what happened during their fight." Subaru explained.
" Now Tokino Sora is already leaving this planet too. She probably still alive. Somewhere in the universe." She concluded.
Moona clenches her fists. " I am late again aren't I ?" She laughs.
" Message from my parents said that I born too late to enjoying star people civilization at its finest. And now I arrived too late for facing my own people. Again!" She throws
away her blanket, furious.
" Sorry to hear that. But isn't the woman who follows you are star people too? The one who tosses you around the city." Kiara asks.
Moona laugh. " She is Android from Hoshimachi family. Probably one of Suisei allies. You know her, aren't you?"
" From the book, yes." Subaru answered. " No one here ever knows her but we are all knows about her story. She almost destroyed this planet after all."
" Suisei make a laws that no star people can leave their lands until the curfew is over. I probably break the laws by trying to follow the signal directions here, hence why one
of her officers trying to kill me."
" Possible." Subaru thinks hard before she speaks. " Maybe Suisei leave some person to watch her back. This Android could be one of them."
" What's now?" Moona asks, laying back on her bed again.
" She is going to find and kill me. This is not your fight."
" It is now." Subaru said softly. " No one can kill anyone on our planet. If she come, we will stop her."
" How exactly? Your civilization isn't match our in millions year. And I couldn't win against her."
Risu clears her throat. " We were just discussing a plan. Perhaps you could help us with your knowledge."
" Perhaps." Moona gets up, walking pass them outside the containers.
One the beach. Calli and Iofi are hugging and dancing in full circle, vodka bottles in hands. Besides them, there is a coconut that as big as a car.
" The fokk did I just see?" Moona bleaches her eyes.
" See? We draw a new nut!" Iofifeen kicks the giant coconut.
" You gotta believes this! She just drawing, and it just appeared in front of us." Calli yelled.
" Well, I guess you successfully draws nut out of thin air." Risu shrugged.
" Can we start with the lens now?" Subaru asks.
" Oops! I forget." Iofi shakily walking toward sketchbooks.
" How can you do that?" Kiara asks.
" Calli point at bunch of empty alcohol bottles. " Just drinks! Don't think too much, and everything is possible."
" I guess so." Phoenix scratches her head.
" But is it a real thing?" Subaru touch the giant coconut.
" Easy. I will cut it open for you." Calliope summoning her scythes and wobbling toward the giant fruit.
" Wait a sec." Moona who stays silent for a while asks.
" During the fight. I can shoot some kind of laser out of my hand. Let see if I could use it again. It's probably useful against the Android."
" Go ahead." Calli and other girls tip toe back from the coconut.
…
" I used to read about every star people have their own nuclear reactor inside their body. Maybe this is why they can use energy attack like that." Subaru explains to Kiara.
" Well, let's see one." Calliope shrugged.
Everyone watches as Moona raise her hand, stop and look back at them.
" How can I do that again?" She asks.
Calliope push Kiara back. " Stupid bird! Aren't you can shoot fire or something? Go ahead and teach her."
" Eh." Kiara hesitated. " I thinks the secret about shooting power out of your body is to concentrate. Knows where the power flow and releasing it."
Moona follows her advice and closing her eyes, feeling the power running in her body. Moona right hand start shining purple light as she is raising her hand again.
" Wait, Maybe we should back-" Subaru said, before Moona open her eyes and shooting purple beam out of her hand.
The laser pierce through the giant coconut and making it exploded.
Sweet coconut juices and its soft and white tissues raining on everyone as they were standing on the beach.
" I just going to said…" Subaru face palms.
" Well, at least it is sweet." Kiara licks the juice that covering her own face.
" And yummy." Calliope agrees, eating a white tissue with an ease.
" That's enough nut for today. I will go and take a shower, anyone else?" Risu asks.
" I think I will go swimming instead." Iofifeen said, throwing away her shoes and walking toward the sea.
" What's swimming?" Moona asks, wiping some sticky white stuff off her face.
" Just some sort of movements underwater without our feet touching ground. Come! I will teach you how to."
Perhaps princess charm is working today, because Moona actually following her. Subaru sighed.
" We will discussing again in half of an hour. Let us rest first!"
….
Aki Rosenthal's ship beeping alarming sound as she is resting. Android quickly open her screen and seeing the cause of it.
Star people energy, releasing from someone, probably that out laws' woman on this planet.
Aki marking the location, her ship starts flying faster as it is coming toward the direction.
…
The sun is going down, everybody watches as the sky starts getting darker and darker.
" She has not come." Subaru sighed. " I already order fighting drone to patrolling around this island but there is no sight of her ship. We will have to move out of this place
before dark. Sunlight is one of our allies."
" And her too." Calli pointed out. " Star people Android probably stronger under the sun, they are all radiation consumer."
" I already discussed with Moona, Android has their own power supply that is not going to run out that easily, unlike star people body that cannot survive for long without sun.
She will have plenty to spare while Moona couldn't help us that much during the night, especially tonight when lunar eclipse happen."
" At least we have lens cannon." Calli reassure her friend.
" Now we just need to find energy to shooting it."
" If Iofifeen success." Subaru sighed again, looking Kiara, Iofi, Risu and Moona who are all talking noisily and eating their dinners.
Trio is laughing as Moona looking at knife and fork with surprise face.
Star people didn't need to consuming food for millions of years. They simply absorb nutrients radiation from their sun or artificial sun.
The concept of putting something in your mouth in order to keep the life going is somewhat weird for them, except from emergency time with no other choices.
" We will get out of this place through plane and follows the sunlight, if we can follows earth movements, perhaps we will keep in touch with the sun forever." Subaru
explained.
Calli shrugged. " Whatever you says, boss."
Before Subaru could answer, her phone suddenly crying and alarm.
Everybody looks up from whatever they were doing.
" Unidentified flying Objects 100 miles away. It will reach this place in 15 minutes!" Subaru announces.
" We couldn't move away that fast." Kiara looks alarmed.
" Look like running is not possible." Subaru shrugged, clapping her hands.
" Girls, follows the plan. Look like it is our only option now!"