Well chapter three and I might try and make a plot emerge here and with
luck it won't be totally shit.
Disclaimer
As you may have guessed I don't own FLCL or any other copyright I may inadvertently infringe, depending on my mood I may write in a lot of stuff I do own but I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference
Space etc Chapter 3: Extra Cargo
(Crap name I know but it's the best I could think of)
"Earthling." Naota berthed to himself and rand to catch up to the man.
"So, where we headed"
"My ship, as I said it's in a commercial dock in unit one."
They had made it to unit one before he spoke again.
"I suggest we hurry, two suspicious looking individuals in suits just came through that door, someone must have told the government about you. Don't turn round, just keep walking."
"There that desperate for test subjects that they'll send someone to pick me up before I can escape."
"Evidently"
"How do you know there governmental, how do you know there not just two people in suits."
"Well, firstly there's the fact that to function in the reduced gravity of space people generally wear light clothing for easy movement. The fact that they both have the exact same hair cut, or the slight giveaway that they just showed some guy governmental ID, said something and he, as a response, pointed to you. Just a guess."
"Oh, good point"
"Just keep walking until we get round that corner and out of their site."
"And I suppose then we run." Naota couldn't help but let his voice take on a certain dryness as he said that.
"Don't be stupid" he said with a knowing grin. "As soon as we turn that corner were face to face with our ships docking portal."
"Smart arse."
"And damn proud of it." He said as they wondered, unobstructed through the door to the airlock, they were two steps from the ship itself.
"But won't they easily be able to get through the outer door."
"I hope not."
It was then that he was proven wrong, the door started to open.
"Oh shit" The man said with practiced understatement.
"So now what do we do"
Suddenly two shots rang out behind them, the governmental agents fell dead. They turned, a woman stood in the open doorway of what was presumably there ship. She spoke.
"I'll tell you what you do, you thank fuck that you've got a good crew."
Unfazed the man shot back.
"Yes thank you, I was literally two seconds away from."
"Death, probably, and worse for your friend." She said.
"Well In was going to say a plan, but that did sound much more dramatic."
"Just get in here."
"Fair enough." He turned to Naota "You coming"
Naota followed them through the doorway and into the ship proper.
Meanwhile back in the bar on ALU-5 the barman was getting a grilling from yet another officious man in a suit.
"You said there was living N/O here, you said he was only a kid, you said it would be easy to capture him"
"Well I didn't know he'd get help from those, those, people."
"Those people directly caused the death of two agents, and indirectly caused the death of one civilian."
With that he turned, unholsterd his gun, and shot the barman through the head, his body pitched forwards onto the bar, blood running over the surface where a bar towel tried to soak up the copious amount of blood, it failed, miserably.
Back on the ship, now well into space and cruising on autopilot, the fore members of the crew plus Naota sat in what Naota reasoned must be the bridge. He thought this because of the instrumentation banked on the walls.
The man who had got him out of there, he now recognised as the pilot, spoke first.
"Well, I suppose before everything else introductions are in order, I'm Mac, Mac Fris, from earth. I fly this crate" He gestured at the women who saved them earlier. "That's Kia Kreslem, she's a Saturnian. She mainly deals with intelligence and communications, it was her who got word you were there, really quite lucky that we were as well." He pointed to a tall man sitting opposite, "That's Terin Sed, he's a venution, he does the navigating, and finally." He gestured to the last remaining crew member, a man of average height, with dark features. "Rate Kinra, Jupaterian, gunnery and defenses."
Naota could only manage a weak. "Nice to meet you goys, I suppose there are reasons you all do what you do."
Mac continued. "Individually yes, I pretty much fly the thing, basically because Earthlings have evolved a good ability to fly, seeing as how were the only planet from The Solar System who's wars extended to air, as a species the earth-human as evolved a good aptitude for flying. It's all about evolution, we all look the same, we're all human, but we've evolved different internal skills. Terin does the navigating because the populace of Venus live under the surface seeing as how it's the hottest planet in The Solar System. In a complex system of tunnels a good sense of direction and map-reading ability is needed. Rate, well, I'm sure you know that Jupiter is the 'vacuum cleaner of The Solar System' well, because it's gravitational pull attracts every loose rock there is Jupaterian scientists have had to become dab hands at defending there cities, Jupiter is the only planet to have mastered force shields, offensive technology just happens to progress in step with defensive, that's how it is. And, well as for Kia, Saturnian's are natural comms officers, those rings provide enough interference to make radio communication an art on Saturn, plus, Saturnian women make great spies, hell, look at her, men will tell her anything so long as she smiles at him."
Naota had to admit, she probably was the most attractive women he had ever seen.
"But it's another case of evolution, the populations on Saturn run at about 10 women to one man, so every woman on the planet has evolved to be extremely attractive so as to be able to attract a mate and propagate the species."
Naota's face wrinkled in thought "So, why don't we just head there and set up permanent camp."
"Which brings me to my next point, you may have noticed that were all from the same solar system, The Solar System, its needs no name, it's ours and that's what matters to us. No planet in TSS had made official interstellar contact yet, as a group we can never return to our own planets, we know too much, incidentally that's why we were kicked of our own planets in the first place."
"But people on earth knew of aliens."
"Certain parts of the government did, this is true, but official announcement of the knowledge of alien hadn't been made, therefore, earth had not yet made interstellar contact officially. Same with every other planet. The reason we all we all ended up like is that we all discovered the existence of alien life forms. We man aged to break from a detainment facility, where it was, we don't know, the theory is that it uses N/O to be simultaneously in several parts of the universe at once, it's imposable to find according to the uncertainty principle. TSS governments, or at least the bits that knew about each other used it to hold people who know too much. We managed to break and steal a ship, now we do nothing but hang around space, surviving anyway we can."
"Why do they lock up those who know of alien races?"
"Because giving the knowledge to the populace like that would cause mass hysteria, people don't' like being lied to and the media has done enough to make people think that alien race would be hostile that people would shit themselves, then riot, then rally against the government, then try and kill the aliens, all while they try and do the same thing. The thing is, the people of every planet in TSS are peaceful. Every planet that hasn't made contact yet is listed. Pretty much ignored."
"By who"
"Think of the hole of infinity as a world, and every planet within it as part of a country. When you're working at this sise you can't play it small. Basically there are two forms of elected government elected on about a third of the worlds each. One slightly left of center, one slightly right of center. There engaged in a race to discover a way of synthesising artificial N/O as strong as living N/O. Both have a long way to go. While not openly hostile to each other these governments secretly dislike each other and none would like to best each other at this more, as that would cause the people on there planets to revolt and accept the other governmental type this would allow them to take on Medical Mecanica directly, with increased numbers they might have a chance of winning."
"Why not ally themselves against Medical Mecanica."
"Without N/O technology to match Medical Mecanica nothing can be done, they have several living N/O subjects whose minds have been warped to serve them. So the people wait and see who can deliver a promise of a chance of victory. Medical Mechanica for there part concentrate on taking over the free planets, like those of TSS, to build up strength for the day when either Right or Left find out how to generate artificial N/O. It hasn't seems to have occurred to them to work together, like with a human, if Left and Right uses there different opinions to stimulate growth of ideas on the other side and share knowledge then it might work, but, these people cant see that, they just don't trust each other. And now to the ones you might have com across, was it a he or a she?"
"A she." Naota seemed to sigh as he said it.
"Tall, slim, attractive, weird hair and eye colour, guitar, bass or six- string it doesn't matter."
"Yes, yes, very, yes, yes, yes, blue Rickenbacker bass.
"Yep, what you came across was a Jhoshef."
"A what."
"A race of people, while they can be charming and ok for a while, and while they do have that certain something, when you get to know them they are, annoying, arrogant, self satisfied, self centered, selfish and only concerned with number 1. They have the arrogance to believe that they are the greatest race in the universe. Her planet, for there is only one of them, is huge, there are loads of them. Once Medical Mecanica made an attempt on there planet and those bastards can hold one hell of a grudge. They can generate a field of N/O encompassing the entire planet, if anyone approaches they get transported into nothingness, which must suck, that's Medical Mecanica hasn't tried to simply out number them and take there planet by sheer force. But be sure there thinking of something"
"But the one I met wasn't after Medical Mechanica, she was after a captive of there's."
"Atomsk you mean, well even one Jhoshef knows that they wouldn't be able to take Medical Mecanica alone, there were just after one person, but taking Atomsk seriously weakened them, they probably only chose her because she had personal drive backing her up."
"Well, yea, she loved him."
"And she went in under cover."
"Yes, a member of the Space Force Police."
"Not surprising, there the only ones who have free access to free planets."
"Speaking of, what do the Jhoshef's think of free the planets?"
"They couldn't give a flying fuck, we are of little consequence, they think that about everyone, only us more so, if we get blown up, or demolished it doesn't matte to them so long as they achieve there aims."
"And where do you guys fit in."
"We try to survive, anyway we can, we're the only ship manned by those from free planets, we have to get by any way we can."
Mac had obviously finished the back-story, Naota could only sit there marveling at what he'd learned. At that moment Terin lifter his head form the console.
"Mac, an internal scan of the ship shows that we appear to have a stowaway on board."
TBC
Was that to much info for one chapter, was that info hackneyed and trite, is this fic a load of shit, well, will you lot review and let me know I'll see what I can do as far a chapter 4 goes. Cheers to all those who have reviewed so far, your input is appreciated.
Disclaimer
As you may have guessed I don't own FLCL or any other copyright I may inadvertently infringe, depending on my mood I may write in a lot of stuff I do own but I'm sure you'll be able to tell the difference
Space etc Chapter 3: Extra Cargo
(Crap name I know but it's the best I could think of)
"Earthling." Naota berthed to himself and rand to catch up to the man.
"So, where we headed"
"My ship, as I said it's in a commercial dock in unit one."
They had made it to unit one before he spoke again.
"I suggest we hurry, two suspicious looking individuals in suits just came through that door, someone must have told the government about you. Don't turn round, just keep walking."
"There that desperate for test subjects that they'll send someone to pick me up before I can escape."
"Evidently"
"How do you know there governmental, how do you know there not just two people in suits."
"Well, firstly there's the fact that to function in the reduced gravity of space people generally wear light clothing for easy movement. The fact that they both have the exact same hair cut, or the slight giveaway that they just showed some guy governmental ID, said something and he, as a response, pointed to you. Just a guess."
"Oh, good point"
"Just keep walking until we get round that corner and out of their site."
"And I suppose then we run." Naota couldn't help but let his voice take on a certain dryness as he said that.
"Don't be stupid" he said with a knowing grin. "As soon as we turn that corner were face to face with our ships docking portal."
"Smart arse."
"And damn proud of it." He said as they wondered, unobstructed through the door to the airlock, they were two steps from the ship itself.
"But won't they easily be able to get through the outer door."
"I hope not."
It was then that he was proven wrong, the door started to open.
"Oh shit" The man said with practiced understatement.
"So now what do we do"
Suddenly two shots rang out behind them, the governmental agents fell dead. They turned, a woman stood in the open doorway of what was presumably there ship. She spoke.
"I'll tell you what you do, you thank fuck that you've got a good crew."
Unfazed the man shot back.
"Yes thank you, I was literally two seconds away from."
"Death, probably, and worse for your friend." She said.
"Well In was going to say a plan, but that did sound much more dramatic."
"Just get in here."
"Fair enough." He turned to Naota "You coming"
Naota followed them through the doorway and into the ship proper.
Meanwhile back in the bar on ALU-5 the barman was getting a grilling from yet another officious man in a suit.
"You said there was living N/O here, you said he was only a kid, you said it would be easy to capture him"
"Well I didn't know he'd get help from those, those, people."
"Those people directly caused the death of two agents, and indirectly caused the death of one civilian."
With that he turned, unholsterd his gun, and shot the barman through the head, his body pitched forwards onto the bar, blood running over the surface where a bar towel tried to soak up the copious amount of blood, it failed, miserably.
Back on the ship, now well into space and cruising on autopilot, the fore members of the crew plus Naota sat in what Naota reasoned must be the bridge. He thought this because of the instrumentation banked on the walls.
The man who had got him out of there, he now recognised as the pilot, spoke first.
"Well, I suppose before everything else introductions are in order, I'm Mac, Mac Fris, from earth. I fly this crate" He gestured at the women who saved them earlier. "That's Kia Kreslem, she's a Saturnian. She mainly deals with intelligence and communications, it was her who got word you were there, really quite lucky that we were as well." He pointed to a tall man sitting opposite, "That's Terin Sed, he's a venution, he does the navigating, and finally." He gestured to the last remaining crew member, a man of average height, with dark features. "Rate Kinra, Jupaterian, gunnery and defenses."
Naota could only manage a weak. "Nice to meet you goys, I suppose there are reasons you all do what you do."
Mac continued. "Individually yes, I pretty much fly the thing, basically because Earthlings have evolved a good ability to fly, seeing as how were the only planet from The Solar System who's wars extended to air, as a species the earth-human as evolved a good aptitude for flying. It's all about evolution, we all look the same, we're all human, but we've evolved different internal skills. Terin does the navigating because the populace of Venus live under the surface seeing as how it's the hottest planet in The Solar System. In a complex system of tunnels a good sense of direction and map-reading ability is needed. Rate, well, I'm sure you know that Jupiter is the 'vacuum cleaner of The Solar System' well, because it's gravitational pull attracts every loose rock there is Jupaterian scientists have had to become dab hands at defending there cities, Jupiter is the only planet to have mastered force shields, offensive technology just happens to progress in step with defensive, that's how it is. And, well as for Kia, Saturnian's are natural comms officers, those rings provide enough interference to make radio communication an art on Saturn, plus, Saturnian women make great spies, hell, look at her, men will tell her anything so long as she smiles at him."
Naota had to admit, she probably was the most attractive women he had ever seen.
"But it's another case of evolution, the populations on Saturn run at about 10 women to one man, so every woman on the planet has evolved to be extremely attractive so as to be able to attract a mate and propagate the species."
Naota's face wrinkled in thought "So, why don't we just head there and set up permanent camp."
"Which brings me to my next point, you may have noticed that were all from the same solar system, The Solar System, its needs no name, it's ours and that's what matters to us. No planet in TSS had made official interstellar contact yet, as a group we can never return to our own planets, we know too much, incidentally that's why we were kicked of our own planets in the first place."
"But people on earth knew of aliens."
"Certain parts of the government did, this is true, but official announcement of the knowledge of alien hadn't been made, therefore, earth had not yet made interstellar contact officially. Same with every other planet. The reason we all we all ended up like is that we all discovered the existence of alien life forms. We man aged to break from a detainment facility, where it was, we don't know, the theory is that it uses N/O to be simultaneously in several parts of the universe at once, it's imposable to find according to the uncertainty principle. TSS governments, or at least the bits that knew about each other used it to hold people who know too much. We managed to break and steal a ship, now we do nothing but hang around space, surviving anyway we can."
"Why do they lock up those who know of alien races?"
"Because giving the knowledge to the populace like that would cause mass hysteria, people don't' like being lied to and the media has done enough to make people think that alien race would be hostile that people would shit themselves, then riot, then rally against the government, then try and kill the aliens, all while they try and do the same thing. The thing is, the people of every planet in TSS are peaceful. Every planet that hasn't made contact yet is listed. Pretty much ignored."
"By who"
"Think of the hole of infinity as a world, and every planet within it as part of a country. When you're working at this sise you can't play it small. Basically there are two forms of elected government elected on about a third of the worlds each. One slightly left of center, one slightly right of center. There engaged in a race to discover a way of synthesising artificial N/O as strong as living N/O. Both have a long way to go. While not openly hostile to each other these governments secretly dislike each other and none would like to best each other at this more, as that would cause the people on there planets to revolt and accept the other governmental type this would allow them to take on Medical Mecanica directly, with increased numbers they might have a chance of winning."
"Why not ally themselves against Medical Mecanica."
"Without N/O technology to match Medical Mecanica nothing can be done, they have several living N/O subjects whose minds have been warped to serve them. So the people wait and see who can deliver a promise of a chance of victory. Medical Mechanica for there part concentrate on taking over the free planets, like those of TSS, to build up strength for the day when either Right or Left find out how to generate artificial N/O. It hasn't seems to have occurred to them to work together, like with a human, if Left and Right uses there different opinions to stimulate growth of ideas on the other side and share knowledge then it might work, but, these people cant see that, they just don't trust each other. And now to the ones you might have com across, was it a he or a she?"
"A she." Naota seemed to sigh as he said it.
"Tall, slim, attractive, weird hair and eye colour, guitar, bass or six- string it doesn't matter."
"Yes, yes, very, yes, yes, yes, blue Rickenbacker bass.
"Yep, what you came across was a Jhoshef."
"A what."
"A race of people, while they can be charming and ok for a while, and while they do have that certain something, when you get to know them they are, annoying, arrogant, self satisfied, self centered, selfish and only concerned with number 1. They have the arrogance to believe that they are the greatest race in the universe. Her planet, for there is only one of them, is huge, there are loads of them. Once Medical Mecanica made an attempt on there planet and those bastards can hold one hell of a grudge. They can generate a field of N/O encompassing the entire planet, if anyone approaches they get transported into nothingness, which must suck, that's Medical Mecanica hasn't tried to simply out number them and take there planet by sheer force. But be sure there thinking of something"
"But the one I met wasn't after Medical Mechanica, she was after a captive of there's."
"Atomsk you mean, well even one Jhoshef knows that they wouldn't be able to take Medical Mecanica alone, there were just after one person, but taking Atomsk seriously weakened them, they probably only chose her because she had personal drive backing her up."
"Well, yea, she loved him."
"And she went in under cover."
"Yes, a member of the Space Force Police."
"Not surprising, there the only ones who have free access to free planets."
"Speaking of, what do the Jhoshef's think of free the planets?"
"They couldn't give a flying fuck, we are of little consequence, they think that about everyone, only us more so, if we get blown up, or demolished it doesn't matte to them so long as they achieve there aims."
"And where do you guys fit in."
"We try to survive, anyway we can, we're the only ship manned by those from free planets, we have to get by any way we can."
Mac had obviously finished the back-story, Naota could only sit there marveling at what he'd learned. At that moment Terin lifter his head form the console.
"Mac, an internal scan of the ship shows that we appear to have a stowaway on board."
TBC
Was that to much info for one chapter, was that info hackneyed and trite, is this fic a load of shit, well, will you lot review and let me know I'll see what I can do as far a chapter 4 goes. Cheers to all those who have reviewed so far, your input is appreciated.