Chapter Seven.
On distant lush, green planet, there lived an advanced subterranean race of beings who's mental and telepathic abilities had reached the maximum level of evolution. A race of people called the Zorgs. Their planet, Zorg Prime was the 4th planet in their solar system and three moons which circled it were bases for their military. On one such moon the Zorg soldiers were on high alert as their deep space radar had picked up an approaching fleet of ships. Ships baring heavy machinery, and from what they could tell, hundreds of people aboard. This could only mean one thing to them. Invasion. Some distant dwelling race of aliens was coming to invade their world and ravage it as they probably had done their own.
"There is only one thing we can do." The Zorg Ruling Council agreed. "We must prepare for war. They clearly intend to invade our planet or else they would he heading to one of the other unpopulated planets further away from here. We must defend ourselves. Launch the space ships and engage them before they reach our planet." The ships were launched, all one hundred and eighty of them. The Entire Zorg Prime Defense fleet and the immediately set an intercept course for the much smaller fleet of ships heading their way.
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"Mokuba and Rebecca make such a cute little couple!" Serentiy exclaimed as tied Kaiba's tie and brushed a stray hair off of his shoulder. "We make a nice couple too and the four of us make such a nice little family, don't you think?"
"Yes, but do we have to have a picture taken to prove it?" Kaiba asked as the air was being chocked out him by the tight neck tie. He reached up and loosened it just as Serenity bent down to tie Mokuba's bow tie. He and his brother were wearing matching blue suits with some minor little touches to give them that distinct flair that the Kaiba brothers enjoyed so much. Both Serenity and Rebecca were dressed up nice in matching dresses and both had applied a lot of makeup.
"Okay we're all ready. I can't wait to show this picture to my grandpa when he thaws out." Rebecca said taking Mokuba's arm and standing next to him. Behind them Kaiba and Serenity stood together and side-by-side with their arms linked. Kaiba felt like such a spectacle but if it made Serenity happy then he was willing to do it. Weevil and Rex meanwhile were fighting over the camera and over who was going to take the picture.
"It should be me!" Weevil insisted, "I have the best eye for taking photographs, Dino brain!"
"Yeah but Kaiba gave me the Camera to hold, so I get to take the picture, Bug boy!"
"Will one of you just take the picture already?" Kaiba commanded loosing his tie again, "I'm getting hot in this thing."
"Okay you hold it and I'll press the button." Weevil and Rex agreed. Just as they were about to take the picture though, a dozen bells, alarms, sirens, and whistles began to go off around them.
"What's going on?" Serenity asked, panicking.
"We're under attack!" Kaiba exclaimed. "Everyone back to your posts!" Everyone on the bridge scattered and ran back to their positions and stations. "Put it up on the main view screen." To Kaiba's surprise his deep space probes had picked up an approaching Armada of Attack Ships.
"Where did they come from?" Rex asked.
"Projected course suggests that they originated from one of the moons in the system we're approaching." Rebecca informed them all.
"Blast, the planet we're heading for must still be inhabited." Kaiba realized. "Well, it looks as if we've got a fight on our hands, contact the other ships, and have them prepare for battle." He commanded. There was just one problem as Kaiba would soon learn. Only the Kaiba Corp. ships were equipped with weapons. The Industrial Illusions ships were only equipped with the high frequency shielding technology but even that wouldn't protect them from solid projectiles. Only lasers would be ineffective against the energy shields.
"I can't believe you're telling me this now of all times." Kaiba said, outraged.
"Well Kaiba boy, it never seemed like it was going to be a big problem." Pegasus told him. "After all, who would have supposed that there was life outside our own in the universe?"
"I supposed it, because I knew the odds, and I always play the low end of the odds just in case. Now my ships are going to have to assume defensive formations around your ships just to keep them safe. We should be able to attack them head on being that our ships are smaller and more maneuverable but because our potential fire power is halved, we're going to have to play this on defense."
"Or we could try talking to them." Little Yugi said over the radio.
"Are you crazy?" Kaiba asked him.
"No, just hopeful. I mean we don't have to get ourselves into a fight that we obviously can't win." He explained himself. Kaiba had to admit that he was right, they couldn't win this fight, no matter what. They were outnumbered, outgunned, and outclassed. Those were probably professional soldiers aboard those enemy vessels and if they had to they would destroy their entire fleet before allowing them any closer to their home world. Yugi was right, no matter how much Kaiba hated to admit it, they would have to try talking their way out of a fight.
"Very well, Yugi I'm placing you in charge of the negotiations. So if you fail, and we all get killed, it won't be my name the people of this fleet will curse with their dieing breath."
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"Okay, Pegasus, can we get closer to their lead ship?" Yugi asked as he sat on the bridge of the Pegasus.
"I'm sure we could." Pegasus replied from the command chair.
"What's your plan Yugi?" Kaiba asked over the radio.
"We take this ship, with no weapons, and show them that we're no threat to them. Then once we've established contact, we tell them our plight. That's if we can communicate with them."
"Like I said, it's on your head if you fail." Kaiba replied and then switched his Radio off.
"So what do we do now Yugi?" Joey asked from his station.
"We go forward and intercept those ships before they attack our fleet." Yugi said and so the Pegasus left the rest of the fleet behind and with no weapons to protect them. The crew was terribly uncertain of whether or not they would succeed but they knew that they had to try or else everyone would die.
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"Commander, we're receiving strange audio signals from one of their lead ships approaching our space." Said the Communications Officer aboard the Zorg Flag ship.
"What kind of Audio signals and from which ship?" The Fleet Commander asked.
"From the ship approaching us sir. It' seems to be hailing us but I can't decipher what their saying. It's in a language not known to our computer data base." The Communications Officer replied.
"Then scan their data base, scan their entire ship, and give me a print out of the capabilities." The Fleet Commander ordered.
"Scanning." Reported the Science Officer. "Picking up no signs of weapons of any known class, minimum shields, and their data base is small compared to ours. Their entire system seems to be reserved for running the primary functions of their ship. There is one thing though, their ship's computers seem to be running on a variation of our own computer primer codes. It may be possible for us to contact them using this variation of the old codes."
"Then send them a warning signal telling all their ships to turn back or they will be destroyed. Make sure they have ample time to decode the transmission and reply." The Fleet Commander ordered. The Science Officer and the Communications Officer working together devised a message to send to invading ships.
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"Any reply to our hails?" Yugi asked Tristan.
"No, sorry man, they must not get what we're trying to say to them."
"If only Rebecca were here, she'd know what to do, other than just sending them meaningless gibberish that is."
"You were saying?" Came a voice over the radio.
"Rebecca!" Yugi exclaimed. "Have you been listening in on us?" He asked her over the radio.
"Sure, have, you're line's been open since you spoke with Kaiba. Now as far as being able to communicate with aliens, I'm not sure that I can do that, but I can try and decipher any response they send back."
"Hey guys, we're getting one now on another frequency. It's not audio though, it's coming in like an internet signal." Tristan informed them.
"Let me hear it?" Rebecca asked. She put her headphones on and listened and it sounded just like the sound a modem makes when it's trying to online and talk to another computer. "They're talking to us guys, and they've got lots to say. They're using Binary."
"Binary?" Joey asked. "What's that?"
"That's the language of computers." Rebecca told them all. "When one computer contacts another they use a language comprised of a series of ones and zeros. When information is broken down it takes this form and when it's reassembled it looks just as it's was sent."
"So what are they saying?" Tea asked.
"Give me a moment to decipher the message with my computer, guys." Rebecca replied. "Okay done." She said after a moment. "It says quite plainly that if we do not turn back we will be destroyed."
"I was afraid that's what it would say." Yugi said.
"Better let me take over now, Yugi." Yami said. "This situation calls for tact and diplomacy, in which, I am well skilled."
"Okay, but Yami, we're in a real bind here. We'll have to rely on skills that you haven't used in thousands of years." Yugi said to him. "But here goes. YUGIOH!" In that instant Yugi Mouto and Yami merged to become Yugioh. "Put me through on a direct channel with them and let everything I say be converted into binary." Yugioh said.
"Sure thing." Replied Rebecca, over the radio.
"Good people we implore you, hear us out." Yugioh began to say. "We are a people who have lost our world to cataclysm and fate. We travel amongst the stars hoping only to find a world where we can live peacefully and thrive as we once did. We are strangers, the poor beggars, and the homeless. We are not your enemies, we can not hope to match you, but what we can offer you in exchange for your help may prove quite worth wild." Suddenly then, over the radio, came a reply.
"We hear your words now." Said a gargled electronic voice. "We hear and we understand. You are nomads with no intentions of taking our world from us. We are sorry for any misunderstanding but as you know we must defend what is ours from those who would take it from us."
"We understand." Yugioh replied. "We would not act any differently but as I said we are needy. We have no fuel to continue any further than your world. We would be willing to trade what little we have if you would but agree to let us land safely on your world to conduct repairs on our ships and refuel."
"We will escort you to our refueling station on our planet's third moon. There you may land and present your case to our Ruling Council." The electronic voice said. They had no choice but to accept much to Kaiba's disliking. He did not like being called a beggar and homeless and especially not needy.
"I hope that you know what your doing, Yugi." Kaiba said over the radio.
"It may at times be preferable to negotiate from a position of strength, Kiaba, however we are not in that position. They are and we must present ourselves as humbly as possible or else we may find ourselves on the receiving end of something worse than death." Yugioh told him. The Zorg Armada turned around and waited for the Kaiba Corp. and Industrial Illusions fleets to catch up then they escorted them all back to their refueling station where the ships were all docked and the Blue Eyes One was launched to take Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus down to the surface of the planet where they had an audience with the Zorg Ruling Council.
On distant lush, green planet, there lived an advanced subterranean race of beings who's mental and telepathic abilities had reached the maximum level of evolution. A race of people called the Zorgs. Their planet, Zorg Prime was the 4th planet in their solar system and three moons which circled it were bases for their military. On one such moon the Zorg soldiers were on high alert as their deep space radar had picked up an approaching fleet of ships. Ships baring heavy machinery, and from what they could tell, hundreds of people aboard. This could only mean one thing to them. Invasion. Some distant dwelling race of aliens was coming to invade their world and ravage it as they probably had done their own.
"There is only one thing we can do." The Zorg Ruling Council agreed. "We must prepare for war. They clearly intend to invade our planet or else they would he heading to one of the other unpopulated planets further away from here. We must defend ourselves. Launch the space ships and engage them before they reach our planet." The ships were launched, all one hundred and eighty of them. The Entire Zorg Prime Defense fleet and the immediately set an intercept course for the much smaller fleet of ships heading their way.
------Scene Break-------
"Mokuba and Rebecca make such a cute little couple!" Serentiy exclaimed as tied Kaiba's tie and brushed a stray hair off of his shoulder. "We make a nice couple too and the four of us make such a nice little family, don't you think?"
"Yes, but do we have to have a picture taken to prove it?" Kaiba asked as the air was being chocked out him by the tight neck tie. He reached up and loosened it just as Serenity bent down to tie Mokuba's bow tie. He and his brother were wearing matching blue suits with some minor little touches to give them that distinct flair that the Kaiba brothers enjoyed so much. Both Serenity and Rebecca were dressed up nice in matching dresses and both had applied a lot of makeup.
"Okay we're all ready. I can't wait to show this picture to my grandpa when he thaws out." Rebecca said taking Mokuba's arm and standing next to him. Behind them Kaiba and Serenity stood together and side-by-side with their arms linked. Kaiba felt like such a spectacle but if it made Serenity happy then he was willing to do it. Weevil and Rex meanwhile were fighting over the camera and over who was going to take the picture.
"It should be me!" Weevil insisted, "I have the best eye for taking photographs, Dino brain!"
"Yeah but Kaiba gave me the Camera to hold, so I get to take the picture, Bug boy!"
"Will one of you just take the picture already?" Kaiba commanded loosing his tie again, "I'm getting hot in this thing."
"Okay you hold it and I'll press the button." Weevil and Rex agreed. Just as they were about to take the picture though, a dozen bells, alarms, sirens, and whistles began to go off around them.
"What's going on?" Serenity asked, panicking.
"We're under attack!" Kaiba exclaimed. "Everyone back to your posts!" Everyone on the bridge scattered and ran back to their positions and stations. "Put it up on the main view screen." To Kaiba's surprise his deep space probes had picked up an approaching Armada of Attack Ships.
"Where did they come from?" Rex asked.
"Projected course suggests that they originated from one of the moons in the system we're approaching." Rebecca informed them all.
"Blast, the planet we're heading for must still be inhabited." Kaiba realized. "Well, it looks as if we've got a fight on our hands, contact the other ships, and have them prepare for battle." He commanded. There was just one problem as Kaiba would soon learn. Only the Kaiba Corp. ships were equipped with weapons. The Industrial Illusions ships were only equipped with the high frequency shielding technology but even that wouldn't protect them from solid projectiles. Only lasers would be ineffective against the energy shields.
"I can't believe you're telling me this now of all times." Kaiba said, outraged.
"Well Kaiba boy, it never seemed like it was going to be a big problem." Pegasus told him. "After all, who would have supposed that there was life outside our own in the universe?"
"I supposed it, because I knew the odds, and I always play the low end of the odds just in case. Now my ships are going to have to assume defensive formations around your ships just to keep them safe. We should be able to attack them head on being that our ships are smaller and more maneuverable but because our potential fire power is halved, we're going to have to play this on defense."
"Or we could try talking to them." Little Yugi said over the radio.
"Are you crazy?" Kaiba asked him.
"No, just hopeful. I mean we don't have to get ourselves into a fight that we obviously can't win." He explained himself. Kaiba had to admit that he was right, they couldn't win this fight, no matter what. They were outnumbered, outgunned, and outclassed. Those were probably professional soldiers aboard those enemy vessels and if they had to they would destroy their entire fleet before allowing them any closer to their home world. Yugi was right, no matter how much Kaiba hated to admit it, they would have to try talking their way out of a fight.
"Very well, Yugi I'm placing you in charge of the negotiations. So if you fail, and we all get killed, it won't be my name the people of this fleet will curse with their dieing breath."
-------Scene Break--------
"Okay, Pegasus, can we get closer to their lead ship?" Yugi asked as he sat on the bridge of the Pegasus.
"I'm sure we could." Pegasus replied from the command chair.
"What's your plan Yugi?" Kaiba asked over the radio.
"We take this ship, with no weapons, and show them that we're no threat to them. Then once we've established contact, we tell them our plight. That's if we can communicate with them."
"Like I said, it's on your head if you fail." Kaiba replied and then switched his Radio off.
"So what do we do now Yugi?" Joey asked from his station.
"We go forward and intercept those ships before they attack our fleet." Yugi said and so the Pegasus left the rest of the fleet behind and with no weapons to protect them. The crew was terribly uncertain of whether or not they would succeed but they knew that they had to try or else everyone would die.
----------Scene Break------------
"Commander, we're receiving strange audio signals from one of their lead ships approaching our space." Said the Communications Officer aboard the Zorg Flag ship.
"What kind of Audio signals and from which ship?" The Fleet Commander asked.
"From the ship approaching us sir. It' seems to be hailing us but I can't decipher what their saying. It's in a language not known to our computer data base." The Communications Officer replied.
"Then scan their data base, scan their entire ship, and give me a print out of the capabilities." The Fleet Commander ordered.
"Scanning." Reported the Science Officer. "Picking up no signs of weapons of any known class, minimum shields, and their data base is small compared to ours. Their entire system seems to be reserved for running the primary functions of their ship. There is one thing though, their ship's computers seem to be running on a variation of our own computer primer codes. It may be possible for us to contact them using this variation of the old codes."
"Then send them a warning signal telling all their ships to turn back or they will be destroyed. Make sure they have ample time to decode the transmission and reply." The Fleet Commander ordered. The Science Officer and the Communications Officer working together devised a message to send to invading ships.
--------Scene Break--------
"Any reply to our hails?" Yugi asked Tristan.
"No, sorry man, they must not get what we're trying to say to them."
"If only Rebecca were here, she'd know what to do, other than just sending them meaningless gibberish that is."
"You were saying?" Came a voice over the radio.
"Rebecca!" Yugi exclaimed. "Have you been listening in on us?" He asked her over the radio.
"Sure, have, you're line's been open since you spoke with Kaiba. Now as far as being able to communicate with aliens, I'm not sure that I can do that, but I can try and decipher any response they send back."
"Hey guys, we're getting one now on another frequency. It's not audio though, it's coming in like an internet signal." Tristan informed them.
"Let me hear it?" Rebecca asked. She put her headphones on and listened and it sounded just like the sound a modem makes when it's trying to online and talk to another computer. "They're talking to us guys, and they've got lots to say. They're using Binary."
"Binary?" Joey asked. "What's that?"
"That's the language of computers." Rebecca told them all. "When one computer contacts another they use a language comprised of a series of ones and zeros. When information is broken down it takes this form and when it's reassembled it looks just as it's was sent."
"So what are they saying?" Tea asked.
"Give me a moment to decipher the message with my computer, guys." Rebecca replied. "Okay done." She said after a moment. "It says quite plainly that if we do not turn back we will be destroyed."
"I was afraid that's what it would say." Yugi said.
"Better let me take over now, Yugi." Yami said. "This situation calls for tact and diplomacy, in which, I am well skilled."
"Okay, but Yami, we're in a real bind here. We'll have to rely on skills that you haven't used in thousands of years." Yugi said to him. "But here goes. YUGIOH!" In that instant Yugi Mouto and Yami merged to become Yugioh. "Put me through on a direct channel with them and let everything I say be converted into binary." Yugioh said.
"Sure thing." Replied Rebecca, over the radio.
"Good people we implore you, hear us out." Yugioh began to say. "We are a people who have lost our world to cataclysm and fate. We travel amongst the stars hoping only to find a world where we can live peacefully and thrive as we once did. We are strangers, the poor beggars, and the homeless. We are not your enemies, we can not hope to match you, but what we can offer you in exchange for your help may prove quite worth wild." Suddenly then, over the radio, came a reply.
"We hear your words now." Said a gargled electronic voice. "We hear and we understand. You are nomads with no intentions of taking our world from us. We are sorry for any misunderstanding but as you know we must defend what is ours from those who would take it from us."
"We understand." Yugioh replied. "We would not act any differently but as I said we are needy. We have no fuel to continue any further than your world. We would be willing to trade what little we have if you would but agree to let us land safely on your world to conduct repairs on our ships and refuel."
"We will escort you to our refueling station on our planet's third moon. There you may land and present your case to our Ruling Council." The electronic voice said. They had no choice but to accept much to Kaiba's disliking. He did not like being called a beggar and homeless and especially not needy.
"I hope that you know what your doing, Yugi." Kaiba said over the radio.
"It may at times be preferable to negotiate from a position of strength, Kiaba, however we are not in that position. They are and we must present ourselves as humbly as possible or else we may find ourselves on the receiving end of something worse than death." Yugioh told him. The Zorg Armada turned around and waited for the Kaiba Corp. and Industrial Illusions fleets to catch up then they escorted them all back to their refueling station where the ships were all docked and the Blue Eyes One was launched to take Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus down to the surface of the planet where they had an audience with the Zorg Ruling Council.