(I own the Valka, as I created them, and the characters who are of that race, I do not own Gundam, Phantasy Star Online, or anything else anything may have been borrowed from. Squall (the Valka one that is the main character in this story) is a character I developed before I even heard of Final Fantasy 8, so he is in no way connected to that OTHER guy, Squall Leonhart yes...I played the game, and I did not like the guy...at first...expect some parody of him later on....Yuna Tyrell is an original character, however, her relations are not, and are property of Sega/Sonic Team, Alex Artisan is an original character)

Phase 2

Fall of a Pioneer

Principal Yuna Tyrell watched as the Pioneer 3 passed the planet named in the survey as XA-224. "I wonder why they did not decide to settle here.....it has plenty of what we need. Land, air, water......even food, if the bioscans prove anything." she said. She was the sister of the Tyrell who had been assigned as Principal of Pioneer 2. After two years without contact from Pioneer 1 or 2, the government of Coral determined that a third ship should be sent.

Yuna was chosen to act as Principal for this mission.

"Brother, where are you?" she said to herself.

An alarm began to ring urgently, followed by another, and yet more after that second one. The entire display screen before her lit up with warnings and alerts. "What is this!?"

Meanwhile, in a camp on the surface of XA-224...

Squall looked up from eating a rather large hunk of meat, cramming some of it into his mouth as he looked up at the sky.

"......Wasi!? What!?" he exclaimed, as he saw something large burning in the sky, and falling toward the plains nearby.

The Hunters threw aside their food to watch as the burning object crashed with much fanfare into the field, setting fires and ripping the land apart. It began skidding along the ground, and tore into the side of a mountain that no one had bothered to name, and finally came to a stop.

The Hunters watched it curiously, resuming eating, but keeping an eye on the object. The fires around it began to subside when the rains came.

"Squall, dir cina gata, hasa tarec tes. we're going there, come with us." Kyla said to Squall, as she grabbed her spear from its place next to her seat, pulling it out of the ground.

"Hai, Ie cina. Yes, I'll come" he said, coming up next to her and staying with her as they left camp to head to the strange object.

"Principal! Several strange organisms have approached the ship, and seem to be trying to find a way inside. What should we do?" one of the security officers said with urgency. "Come with me. I will go and greet them." Yuna said. "Not advisable, they are armed." the officer said. "Thats why you're coming with me....just stay alert." She told the man. She looked at his ID, it read "Alex Artisan" with a photo of him next to the name. She stepped onto the teleport station in the bridge, having already set it to take her outside of the ship. Alex followed her onto it, and it activated, sending them outside.

Kyla heard something, and spun on her heels quickly, spear ready. She saw a strange organism with a flowing robe of some sort that looked inportant, with another similar creature next to it. It looked at the Hunters, and they looked right back. Finally, Kyla lowered her spear, deciding the two unknowns were not an immediate threat, and catiously approached them. The less important looking one said something to the other.

"Its coming.......we really should get back inside, Principal." Alex said, tugging at her right sleeve.

"No, I will not leave." Yuna said to him, looking back at the approaching bioform.

"Wasi yu ceda? Whats it saying?" Kyla asked herself, trying to figure out why the language the other two spoke was familliar somehow.

Yuna slowly approached the unknown bioform, hands held out to her sides slightly.

"Roko gata. Stay there" Kyla said.

".....-Stay there." Yuna heard come from the translator. "Hm? Thats odd, we must have gotten the translation data from the last P1 transmission sent to Coral......hrm....hang on a second.........there." Yuna said as she fiddled with the controls a bit.

"....-gata." Kyla heard come from the unknown creature with the robe. "Horre yar don? Who are you?" Kyla asked the creature.

"I am Yuna Tyrell, Pricipal of Pioneer 3. Greetings to you, and what is your name?" Yuna said. What Kyla heard was "Me of Yuna Tyrell, Head of Nomad of thrice. Greetings of you, and why it does nomination?"

Kyla looked at the bioform with suspicion, and a second later, confusion. "What in bloody hell?" Squall said, as Kyla looked at the others for their opinion of the situation. The Hunters looked at her with as much confusion as she herself had...and doubt about the sanity of these newcomers.

What Yuna heard was "What of blood filled odd eating of nasty placeness?" resulting in her looking at him in confusion. Alex looked like he was not sure whether to laugh or grab the Principal and make an emergency teleport up into the ship.

Kyla mulled over the meaning of the greeting given, and determined that the final portion was intended as an inquiry of her own name. "I am Kyla Endymion.......what species are you?" she asked.

"I are Kyla Endymion.......what of race are you?" Yuna heard from the translator. "Myself and the other with me are Human....what species are you?" Yuna asked the other, trying out something that the other had done, waiting a moment before finishing her comment, giving the translator time to figure out all of the words and resulting in a more acurate translation.

"We are of Human are race......what of race are you?" Kyla heard. "We are Valka." Kyla said in reply.

"We are of Valka." Yuna heard. "....well, that settles what everyone here is...........It looks like our ship will be here for a while, so why don't we get to know one another better? Why not come on into the ship with me?" Yuna said to them. The group in general had a good undestanding of how the translator system now worked, and that it messed words up a bit, and so the Valka understood, after a bit of listening to the translator repeat "of" and "are" about ten times, what had been asked of them, and they gathered in a tight group for a moment, discussing if they should go into the ship.

After about five minutes of discussion, they decided to go in. Kyla padded up to Yuna and said "We will come with you."