Gall Force: Battlezone Earth
By Jason King
kingfam@worldpath.net
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Based on the Gall Force series by Movic
Written on a 80386DX with Windows 3.1!
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Chapter 2-
Language barrier broken
The next morning Trevor, Conrad, Yasuo, and two other members of the Dark Slayers went out on their scedualed patrol. The seven Solnoids went out to have breakfast with Rob, Dirk, and Leo. It was around 9:30 AM, Rob led the way to the breakfast hall.
"So what is it we will be eating now?" Catty asked Rob.
"Well it seems the special for this morning is pancakes and breakfast sausage." Rob said
"Pancake? What is a pancake?"
"A pancake is like a light fluffy grain product that goes great with syrup."
"What is syrup?"
"Syrup is a sweet tasting sticky liquid."
"Ah." Catty turned around to tell the rest.
The Solnoids wholey enjoyed thier first breakfast in long while, but the Terrans were bored, especially Leo, who often looked forward to a fight with the Urilinoid.
"I wish I was out there right now, there's nothing worse than sitting here for 6 hours waiting for them to come back." Leo said.
"I hear what you say man, but the squad has to be rotated each day for the patrols." Rob said
"So what do you want to do?" Dirk asked
"I was thinking of going over to the simulators and do a mock battle with the rest of the guys, maybe a game of WAR." Leo said
"Hey that sounds like fun. Respawn or no respawn?" Dirk asked
"I was thinking of respawn, I don't feel like worring about dying today. That way we can actually play the game to the end." Leo said
"Good idea, but if we do no respawn it would be more like a real combat situation." Rob said
"Yah, but I want it to be more like a good friendly game." Leo said
"I would rather do no respawn too." Dirk said, trying to back up Leo.
"Excuse me, but since when is war a game?" Catty said, a little confused.
"No, not war war. We mean WAR, it is a game in our simulators, in it two teams are seperated by color, red and blue, then each team has to destroy all six of the power generators in the opposing team's base. It can be played with a combination of mechs, ground troops and air skimmers." Rob explained.
"Oh that reminds me, I want it to be mechs only." Leo added.
"Fine." Rob returned his attention to Catty "it is one of the more favorite things we like to do here."
"Oh okay then, my friends might enjoy that." Just as Catty was about to tell the rest of her friends about what the Terrans wanted to do, Jim came into the room.
"Hello boys, ladies. Catty the technicians say your translaters are ready." Jim said
"Oh excellent!" Catty turned to her friends and then speaking in Solnoid "The commander says the translaters are ready for you."
"Really?!" Rabby asked "Gee, that was quick."
"I tried to keep the design simple." Catty replied
"Are you sure they will work?" Shildy asked.
"They should, at least I hope they do." Catty said
"Otherwise we'll have a useless piece of metal in our scalps." Patty said.
"When you put it that way it doesn't sound like such a good idea." Spea said.
"Well I'm feeling left out, and I sure would like to talk normal to these guys, so I say go for it." Lufy said.
"I agree." Rabby added.
"If Catty thinks it's safe, I have no problem." Amy said.
Catty went to talk to Jim agian, "My friends say they are ready."
"Okay then, follow me." Jim turned to Rob and the others, "You will have to stay here for a while, or do what ever you were planning."
"We wanted to play a game of WAR, so when you finish how 'bout bringing them over to the simulator room." Leo said
"Okay."
The seven Solnoids and Jim took a transport over to the medical dome, where the docters were waiting to preform the operation. The head medical technician walked up to greet them. "Okay, this is what's going to happen, the six of you will enter this room behind me and lay down on those beds, there you will be put to sleep and we will begin the procedure for inserting these chips. It shouldn't take long, only about 15 minutes each, so you can just sit and relax while I do the first installation. So who wants to go first?" The doctor said. Catty translated and Lufy stepped up to be first.
"Okay, the rest of you can just wait here."
The next to go was Rabby, then Shildy, then Patty, then Amy, and finally Spea.
Each of them were greatly relieved to find that the devices worked, "Wow, I can understand you people now!" Lufy said.
"And we can you." Jim said with a smile.
"So can we join the others now?" Rabby asked.
"Of course."
Rob, Leo, and Dirk were busy playing a very rough simulated WAR battle with the other members of their squad, so far the blue team had 3 generators remaining and the red only had 1, Leo was on the red team and very frustrated. "Okay guys this is our chance to win, if we screw it up, the blue will have a wide open chance to get our last generator!" Leo was begining a last ditch effort to destroy all three blue generators in one rush, but if he timed it wrong, it would be all over. From what he knew the blue team had two generators on the west side of the base and one generator on the east, he assumed that Rob and Dirk were concentrating most of their men on the east side of their base, where only one generator was, so if he used the bulk of his force to attack the east side and he and his two best men attacked the west, he would win it. "Okay boys, here we go!"
The huge red mech squad charged in two side assults, just as Rob and Dirk expected them to. Rob was defending the west and Dirk was defending the east. The blue army was evenly spaced, which was not what Leo expected, and to make matters worse, Rob and Dirk dispatched three of thier men to attack the undefended red base, and so, while Leo's army managed to destroy one more generator, the red team still lost because thier only generator was left undefended. The game ended and Leo left his simulator booth cursing up a storm.
"Aaarrrggg!!! Shit! Damn! Ass! Fuck!" Leo said in total frustration.
"Face it Leo, you never were much of a strategist, leaving no defenders at your base was pretty stupid." Rob said, Dirk was grinning at thier victory.
All Leo did was grumble some more under his breath, his team mates couldn't help but laugh. "He sure does take this seriously." one of them said.
"IT'S A MATTER OF PRIDE!!" Leo said, still angry at his embarrassing defeat. "I didn't just screw it up for myself, I messed it up for you too!"
"Dude its only a game!" one of them said.
"What if it wasn't!" He siad, obviously he was looking at this deeper than even Trevor would. That showed a whole different side to the guy who usually just made himself out as just an arrogant hot shot only interested in putting more kill ticks on his mech and fighter. The guys were actually quite shocked at this moment.
"Okay Leo, think of it this way, it wasn't a real battle, and now you know what strategy NOT to use." Rob tried saying.
"Well you're right at that." Leo was feeling better with that said, "Okay, who's up for another round?"
"I am!" Lufy said.
"So are we," Rabby said
"Hey, It worked, thats great!" Dirk said enthusiasticly.
"So how 'bout a game?" Lufy asked.
"Right, just sit yourselves in one of the empty booths and we'll begin." Rob said directing the Solnoids to thier seats.
"What about you?" Dirk asked Catty.
"No thank you, I don't do much true combat, I am a more "behind the scenes" type." She replied.
"Thats okay, you can watch the battle from a variety of angles on the television screens above," Dirk pointed to the monitors hanging above the circle of simulation booths.
"Okay thank you."
"No prob."
Soon the six Solnoids and seventeen Dark Slayers pilots sat themselves into the booths. The Solnoids found the cockpit controls very similar to that of the Bronz units and fighters. Lufy felt right at home. "Okay, what kind of enviornment do you want to fight in? We have a desert, Titan enviornment, Ice world, Lava enviornment, Earth Mountain, Earth tropical, Earth urban, Earth temporate, Earth suburban, Lunar, Mars, Pluto, Io, Europa, Space station, and Super Astroid.
"You have that many options? Well, I would like to ask what Earth is." Rabby said looking over the large list infront of her screen.
"Earth is the name of our home planet." Leo said.
"You mean Terra?" Shildy asked.
"Yes, we did call it Terra at one time, but that was a long time ago." Rob said.
"And how accurate are your simulations?" Patty asked.
"The enviornments are rendered right down to the smallest pebble, everything on the simulation will look just the way it does on Earth." Dirk said.
"Well, that is definately far cry from any of our simulations!" Spea said in amazement. Even Catty was impressed as she heard this.
"So, what will it be?" Leo said, growing impatient.
"Oh, how about Earth mountain." Patty suggested.
"Okay." Rob entered the request.
Next a screen popped up asking for a mountian range. "Oh Geez, I don't know any of Terra's mountains!" Patty said. None of the other solnoids did either. The list had the following; Alps, Appalachian, Rockies, Andes, Ural, and the Himmilayan.
"I'll just pick the Appalachian, they're small and easy to get around." Leo said.
Then the simulation asked for weather conditions. "Weather conditions too!" Rabby said.
"Each condition effects how well the mech behaves in battle, if its rainy and mudy the mech will have greater difficulty moving around, if it is too sunny, it will be harder to see, if it's night time, the mech will have to use night vision, if it is a combination of any of these you will get a variation of results, snow and sleet is most hazardous, especially in mountainous terrain."
"How about partly cloudy, that works for me." Lufy said.
"Partly cloudy it is." Rob entered the request.
Afterwords the screen read "processing request, please wait" and finally after ten minutes of waiting the next screen finally appeared, this one asking from a mech selection. After running through the different makes and models Lufy came to her dicision as did the others, her mech was Renalt G-24 heave assualt mech with two missile launchers, 2 heavy lasers which fire a blast powered by 100 terawatts, and a 20cm rapid fire cannon. Leo's favorite was the Arminion TC-09 a medium seige mech which he armed with 2 cutter beams, and four 10cm rapid fire cannons. When all of the preperations were completed, the simulation began. The teams were seperated with Leo, Rabby, Shildy, Patty, Amy, and other pilots. The blue team had Rob, Dirk, Lufy, and Spea, with the other pilots.
"Oh wow! Terra is even more beautiful than chaos was!" Rabby said as her mech stood high above the trees and looked out over the rolling hills and mountains of the appalachian range. In the small valleys there were roads and houses. "I didn't know we would be fighting in a populated area."
"It's part of the program, this is an actual town and location on Earth. We want to win this while causing minimal damage to the town below us. The blue base is over the next two hills. We need to destroy all six of their generators before they destroy ours." Leo said.
"Well that sounds easy enough. I'm going in!" Rabby sent her mech moving forward, Patty ran after her.
"Rabby wait up, we might want to do this in groups!"
The rest of the red team split up, some staying behind to defend the generators. But Leo knew Rabby and Patty wouldn't last long, because there was some gun towers along the outside of the blue base that would pick them off before they got there. Leo desided to use this to his advantage, while the towers were distracted by Rabby and Patty, Leo and his squad mate could destroy them without coming under fire, and maybe if he was lucky he could save their butts before the towers finish their work. But what he didn't know was that Rabby and Patty were smarter than that.
"Patty I would recommend stopping around here right now." Rabby and Patty's mechs soon came to the sumit of the second hill, and out of the corner of her eye she noticed the shape of gun towers on her radar. "I see some gun towers up ahead."
"You're right, I see them too." Patty said.
"Do you have any long range weapons?" Rabby asked.
"No, do you?"
"No." The two of them sat there for a second. "How about we try getting around them?"
"It's worth a shot." Patty replied. The two of them turned their mechs around a bit and bounded for the north, being sure to stay out of the towers' ranges.
Leo came up to where Rabby and Patty were and was surprised not to see any damage to the towers or any wreckage on the ground. "Hey were did you go?" He asked.
"Are you talking to us?" Rabby asked.
"Yah. Where are you?" Leo asked.
"We're finding a way around the gun towers." Rabby replied.
"Good idea, but watch out, most people take the indirect route, and if you are unlucky you may run into Rob or Dirk, or even both." Leo said.
"Oh yah, that reminds me, watch out for Lufy, she'll kill you four times before you hit the ground." Rabby added.
Leo laughed at the idea. 'Yeah right, like someone can be that good!' he thought to himself. He steered his mech around the turrets and took the southern route.
Rabby and Patty soon met up with two other mechs from the red team and they desided to stick together, they soon met up with Spea and another pilot. "Targets selected, opening fire!" one of the dark slayers opened with a heavy battery of laser fire, tearing apart Spea's squad mate.
Rabby and Patty did the same, aiming for the legs of Spea's mech, but Spea was a harder target. Realizing who she was up agianst, Spea activated her jump jets and rocketed to the top of another hill, and without mercy, blasted apart the mech of one of the other squadmates on Rabby's side. The other was completely stunned by this developement and almost forgot to dodge the next wave of blasts coming from Spea's direction. In a short while the forest area they were fighting in was pretty well leveled. But now the logs on the ground made for some unstable terrain, and in mid manuver the mech of Rabby and Patty's squadmate made a critical error and slide onto the ground, giving Spea an almost free shot. And very quickly the cockpit was vaporized into nothing. Patty took her hand in the battle and fired a grenade round at the ground Spea was standing. The explosion caused a small land slide and put Spea's mech off balance bringing it to a harsh callapse. From there Patty let loose with some heavy cannon fire.
"Nice fight!" on of the slayers said after it was over. Catty was also impressed with how well Patty handled the situation, but she did feel sorry for her friend Spea, who until then had the upperhand.
Rabby and Patty continued to go behind the blue base, but unfortunately there was already six defenders, and Rabby and Patty knew they wouldn't be able to take on six. The felt it would be better to wait for Leo. Unfortunately again, they would have no such luck, because Leo came face to face with Lufy.
Leo and his squadmate were only a kilometer from their rendevous point with Rabby and Patty but instead he spotted a lone Renalt G-24 roaming the valley surrounding the blue base. "Alright easy pickings!" He said to his squadmate.
"I know, it's pretty dumb to roam the battlefield all alone." his squadmate said, but unfortunately, it was over the open com, and the Renalt heard what he said.
The Renalt made a ninty degree turn and fired off two missiles and a long burst of cannon fire at Leo's squadmate, leaving nothing but scrap.
"Oh yeah, well speaking over the open com is even dumber." Lufy said with a bit of humor in her voice, she was obviously enjoying this.
"The great Lufy I presume?" Leo asked.
"You bet!" Lufy launched her jets to get right behind Leo's mech,
"Oh Shit!" realizing his error, Leo quickly boosted to the right and did a 180 turn to get his target in his sights, he let off a sustained burst of fire with his 10cm cannons, but he only destroyed some trees and came 2 meters short of Lufy's cockpit. Lufy returned his gesture with 4 missiles right in his direction, he quickly activated his radar jammers and boosted to the left and managed to evade her missiles only by a hair.
"Oooo, not bad! But can you keep it going?" Lufy fired four more missiles, Leo dodged them again, he was actually sweating.
'Wow, she's tough! I'm actually feeling nervous!' Leo feeling the stress of near death, fired his cutter beams, chopping down a few trees and the right arm of Lufy's Renalt. She was not pleased. "YES!!!" Leo said, he felt victory at hand.
But Lufy ruined all that, "Not smart, not smart at all!", utilizing the split second she had with Leo's momentary false victory, she fired a steady stream of 20cm cannon shells straight into the cockpit of Leo's Arminion, the blast was so well placed that the mech reeled backwards and crashed down into the side of a small cliff, intestigating a huge explosion that could be seen from where Rabby and Patty were situated. Leo's death was replayed from an external camera view on his booth's screen, all he could do was stare at it, he was stunned speechless. 'That's never happened to me before, how did that happen!'
"Wow, what an explosion!" Lufy said with a whistle.
Jim and Catty were taken agast by Lufy's ruthless efficeincy. They could also hear Leo's excessive cursing from outside his booth.
"Well, I guess we can't expect any help from him any time soon." Patty said.
"Should we charge in anyway?" Rabby asked.
"We might as well, it would be better than getting blown up by Lufy." Patty said.
"Okay lets do it!" Rabby pushed forward on the throttle and her mech push forward through the dense forest and into the blue base, with a few well placed shots she knocked a few blue mechs right off their feet. Patty completely blew another in half with one of her grenades.
"That's three defenders down, where are the generators?" Patty asked.
"I'm not sure, but we don't want to stick around for long, Lufy or Spea might have noticed." Rabby said. The two of them split up fortunately, two other members of the red team were also there and taking Spea and Dirk's attention away from Rabby and Patty.
"Shildy, Amy, how are you doing at the base?" Rabby asked.
"We had some close calls but fortunately we haven't seen much action. How about you?" Shildy asked.
"I'm looking for the generators right now, oh wait I found one!" Rabby fired some heavy lasers into the center of the generator's mass, bringing forth a violent explosion that caught Dirk's attention. The second generator was right next to it. Lufy was preoccupied with some other attackers from the red base. Spea advanced forward to attack the red base.
"Uh oh, looks like I'm gathering some attention." Rabby turned her mech around to face her attacker and fired some more blasts at the second generator for good measure. Dirk's mech didn't have any jet boosts which gave Rabby somewhat of an advantage. Dirk progressed forward and launched several concussion missiles which shattered the internal systems to Rabby's right leg servo. Light's all over her cockpit began flashing. Realizing she wouldn't last much longer she fired all her weapons at once in a long sustained stream in Dirks general direction most of the rounds missed completely but others scored direct hits and blew off the whole left half of his mech, bringing it crashing to the ground.
"Oh yes! What luck!" Rabby said, but her joy was short lived as she soon realized that without a functional right leg, all her mech could do was move in circles. So soon enough, Dirk's respawn appeared and finished her off. A moment later Rabby found herself right back at her base.
It was all up to Patty now, all it would take is four more generators. Patty roamed a bit, taking out two more defenders along the way and found the two north generators. Using her two 10cm cannons she fired a stream of shells into both of them bringing another Earth shattering explosion. The red team was now ahead four to one. A few seconds later she came to the east generator, but much to her dismay, Rob and Spea respawned right in front of her, and Dirk was coming right from her behind. At this point she didn't have much of a chance to do much of anything, so out of desperation, she fired her last three grenades in the direction of Rob, Spea, and the generator. Two of them exploded right underneith Rob and removed his legs, the other came just close enough to destroy the fifth generator. And then Spea got her revenge and sent 3 guided missiles into Patty's center mass, ripping her mech to peices. Now the red team was ahead five to one.
But Lufy wasn't going to let her team lose, assembling a few team mates, she and the others did a swarming attack, but the red team did fairly well in defending, unfortunately, all it really took was Lufy herself to win. Two of her squad mates destroyed the red team's south generators, but Leo stopped them before they could get to the last of the north generators, the east and west generators were still in one piece at the moment Shildy and Amy were defending the east gen, and Rabby and Patty were defending the west generator, but Lufy had other plans, in a swift stroke, almost as a final insult, Lufy annihilated Leo and the generator he was defending with some more blasts from her cannon. But now it was out of ammo. All she had left was a single laser, the other one was blown off by Leo in thier first confrontation. Now she actually did need help, "Hey blue team, how about some help here!"
"Don't worry Lufy, we were already on our way!" Spea, Rob and Dirk rushed forward with lasers, missiles, grenades, and cannons blazing. But fortunately Shildy and even Amy weren't going to give up their ground, both of them put up a good fight and even put Dirk out of commision, but with Lufy's skill backing up Spea and Rob, they were eventually forced to respawn at another location of the the base. It was now a tie, Red five, Blue five, and it appeared the outcome would depend on Lufy, Rabby, Patty, Rob and Spea. But when Lufy came up to Rabby, both seemed to hesitate, but now because of that hesitation, both Rabby and Lufy were blown up, not by each other, but by other players, Rabby was destroyed by Rob, and Lufy by another red player, not by Leo. Leo didn't even respawn yet. Now it was Patty versus Rob and Spea. The other red player tried to get Rob distracted from the battle, but Rob didn't want to battle, instead he completely ignored Patty and the other player and fired straight at the red generator. Blue had won yet again.
All screens went blank, and the lights flickered back on, the simulation was over and blue team had won another battle. He was feeling pretty good. Leo on the other hand, was in a state of mental shock, sure all his life signs were there, but his brain wasn't. Even after they opened his booth, all he did was sit there, silent. "Leo? Hello? Are you alright?" Rob asked, waving his hand in front of Leo's face.
"My ass was kicked... Royally. That's never happened before." Leo mumbled, only he could hear it.
"Leeeoooo...?" Rob tried again. No audible responce.
"Is he going to be okay?" Rabby asked.
"I've never seen him sulk like this before. But then again, he's never faced a defeat like this before." Rob stood, unable imagine what must be going through Leo's mind. Soon the whole squadron was crowding around.
In his head, all he could hear was "Wow, what an explosion!", over and over agian, and the image of his mech pounding backwards into the cliff and exploding violently into oblivion.
"I, I can't believe it... Blown away like some newbie on his first day of simulation, no, even faster than a newbie. By a chick I only met a day ago. She made me look like some three year old who didn't even belong in a mech." Leo stared blankly at the black screen in front of his face, "All my life I wanted to be the best mech and fighter pilot Earth had ever known, and now, some chick from who knows where, brushes my carcass aside like a piece of trash that needs to be thrown away."
Lufy walked up to him. "Hey, I didn't beat you that bad." She put her hand on his shoulder, "You had me nervous for a while there, I wasn't sure if I'd win or not." Lufy lifted her hand.
This comforted him a bit, but in reality, it wasn't her he was mad at, or jealous of. It was himself, he was mad at himself for making such a fool-hardy error; calling victory without finishing the job, only biggest idiots make mistakes like that. He was too confident, he knew himself; one should never underestimate his opponent. But he did, and it costed him his victory and pride. The only way he could save what was left of his pride was to do the honorable thing, admit defeat and give the open hand.
He let out a sigh, stood up and faced Lufy. Finally looking at her face to face, he looked in her eyes, it was then he knew. This wasn't just any chick who beat him, she was a super elite, maybe even legendary. Those were they eyes of a warrior who had seen more REAL battles than he could ever fathom. Leo put out his hand, it was still sweaty and it twitched a bit. She took it. He showed a smile and said, "It has been an honor to be defeated by such a skilled opponent such as yourself."
Dirk and Rob were shocked, Leo had never been so polite in the entire time they had known him, and that was since elementary school. It was as if this defeat changed him, maybe this was the Leo that had been trying to get out for years, instead of the arrogant, semi-sexist, overconfident fool he had been most of his life.
Lufy returned the compliment, "And it has been an honor to fight someone whom I can consider my first real challenge in a long while."
This was truly a spectical to behold. If only Trevor, Conrad, and Yasuo saw this, they'd be as stunned as I am, Jim thought to himself. Maybe that was all it took, a defeat so sobering that even Leo could be transformed by it.
The day passed slowly by as they waited for the patrol to return. They sat in the pilots lounge most of the day after the simulation, they spent most of this time getting to know each other, but the Terrans wanted to save personal details for when the patrol returned. Jim was planning to have a "hear all, tell all" type of meeting where everything would be finally explained. Shildy understood this especially, since that was what she had done with Lufy before.
It came around 4:30pm and the patrol finally returned, but Yasuo's mech had come under heavy fire, the left arm was completely gone, one of the oxygen tanks was leaking. The group watched them dock into thier hangers from a control deck that had a view over he docking bay. A medical team stood ready in case Yasuo was injured, but fortunately he emerged from the cockpit without a scratch. Jim stood at the airlock to congradualate them on another successful mission. And to tell them about their Solnoid friends.
"You mean they speak english now?" Trever asked.
"Yes, I want to have "hear all, tell all" meeting after you are debriefed. That way we can finally learn what we want to know from each other." Jim answered.
"Yeah, sure. Sounds like a great idea to me, I have alot of questions myself." Trevor said.
And so the forteen of them walked into the main meeting room (normally ment for the Titan Command Counsel) and sat down at a large round table. In the room there was a large 70 inch monitor on the left wall. On the wall directly across from the door was a large window looking out over the windy snow covered envirornment of the moon Titan, actually the sky was clear that night and they could get a clear view of Saturn, the solar system's most beautiful planet.
Jim called the meeting to order. "Okay, to get this show started I think it would be most appropriate for our Solnoid friends to tell their story first."
"I think that can be done." Shildy said. "Our story begins with a war that had raged on for countless thousands of years. This war was the sole reason for existing during that time. It was also the time in which myself, Catty, Lufy, Amy, Spea, Rabby, and Patty had lived. We are a race of all females, genetically created for war, and war only, replacements for those lost in combat. But we are still all very much human. Our recorded history disappeared as the war dragged on, we don't know our true origins, we don't know the details of how our war started, we were simply born knowing the Paranoid were our enemies and we had to win. The more we tried to win, the more our enemy the Paranoid tried as well, the war grew and grew as did our technologies. War it seems, brings forth a great need for new technology, an so made our two races the most technologically advanced races in that quadrant of the galaxy at that time. Nearly every solar system was forced to be involved. As the war escalated we developed weapons so powerful, you would consider it overkill. We had lasers that bend to meet their target precisely, missiles that could fire backwards, anti-missile missiles, capital ship class super cannons, planet destroyers, and finally; system destroyers. The planet destroyers and system destroyers did not appear until the last ten years of the war, super weapons that would reawaken us to the concept of M.A.D. and bring about a plan that was secretly constructed by BOTH sides to preserve our wills."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, that speech just had a lot of meat to it." Rob said trying to gather all of the information "you had planet destroyers too? And did you say M.A.D.?"
"Yes, the creation of the planet destroyers led us to conclude that if both sides used them, both would be annihilated. Mutual Assured Destruction. And when the system destroyers were created we knew that would only speed up the proccess. So, with our demise quickly becoming a reality, both we and the Paranoid had an agreement. If either of our races were to be wiped out from the face of the universe, we could find some way to have our WILL survive. It was then Solniod intelligence and Paranoid command devised a way to combine the best aspects of both our races to create a third one, the third race would be used to either "break up" the fight or replace us if either were to vanish from the galaxy." Shildy finished, she could tell it was Rabby who wanted to continue it.
"It was around that time when the fleet my ship was part of received an order to head to the planet Chaos, a newly terraformed planet which would serve as a new homeworld for our race. Unfortunately, the fleet was being engaged by the paranoid at the same time, and only my ship, and a few others were able to get there. From there some thing happened to our ship and it pushed us far ahead of the rest of the battle group, and we were left with malfunctioning lightspeed drive, and we were forced to an emergency stop in Paranoid territory, and while we were initiating repairs we were attacked by a Paranoid squadron. Only myself and Lufy were out there to defend the ship. During the attack one of the Paranoid drones released an assult pod onto our ship, but we didn't know it at the time. In the course of the battle the light speed drive was repaired and we had to get back in the ship, unfortunately Lufy was left behind, and I never knew what happened to her since. After that we came to notice the pod and we set out to search the ship, what we found was terrifying, it was the natural form of the paranoid, a polymorphic creature with amazing strength and speed. It's first victim was my best friend, Eluza. The second victim was Patty, but we didn't know it. It killed Eluza and I killed it. But before she died, she said "I know what they're trying to do, don't let them" but that was all she said, and then she died. I didn't know at the time what was going on, but I didn't like it, and the Catty android on my ship (whom I didn't know was an android) was my first suspect. I confronted her and asked what was going on, she only replied that she was doing something so that we would all have a chance at happiness. And apparently our ship computer was in on the conspiracy as well. But before I could get to the bottom of it, our ship had to be evacuated, and still two more of us died, that time it was the Catty android and Pony our computer opperater," Rabby was starting to shed tears. Patty was too. Rabby continued, "and aboard our escape ship we finally reached Chaos, your moon." There were raised eyebrows all across the room coming from the Terrans "on Chaos, the conspiracy was finally starting to show itself, Patty came down with pains in here stomach, but that was not in fact where they were coming from. The pains came from a vestigal organ in the Solnoid body that we did not understand, apparently there was some foreign body inside it. The computer said that the body would kill Patty if left inside, so I had it removed. Eventually it formed into a premature form of the Solnoid, only it was missing some of the physical attributes that a Solnoid had, and it also had a strange appendage between its legs which none of us understood. So in light of the situation I opted to kill it, but it was maturing at a rapid rate and left the base we had set up, my friend and rookie crew member Rumy chased after it. When we finally caught up with it, it reached the adult solnoid form, and I was about to kill it, when a feeling inside me told me not to. And I didn't. What it was, as I have realized now is, that strange new creature was infact the 3rd race in the plans of the conspiracy, called the species unification plan, or mission 21. You my Terran friends are that 3rd race. The time on Chaos ended when the central guard, a Solniod military group with it's own agenda, attacked our base and wanted the new lifeform, I guess you would call it a man, they said it could hold infanite possibilities. I refused thier order and sent Rumy and the boy or man, which ever, to Terra, what I guess you call Earth. Patty and I stayed behind to make sure the central guard or the Paranoids didn't get them. We destroyed Chaos and turned it into what it is today. From there Patty and I tried to leave the system but instead crash landed on this moon, and so here we are."
"But that wasn't the only time Earth was involved in our war." Lufy began her story "after Shildy and her friends found me frozen in space ten years later, the war was already in it's final weeks, the Paranoids destroyed the Solnoid home system and we destroyed their homeworld. Neither side had anywhere left to go. Shildy and the others revived me and told me what happened on Chaos, and about the species unification plan. They also said that we were losing, we were one hundred or so ships less than the Paranoid and 80% of our troops were cybernetic. The fleet we were in was ordered to this system yet again and we ended up in a face to face battle with the entire Paranoid Armada, our Tyrant leader Journey wanted to end the war right there, and devised a plan to use our own troops as bait to keep the paranoids in system so they could use the last of the System destroyers and annihilate the Paranoids in one shot, but doing so would not only murder thousands of her fellow Solnoids, but also you guys, so Shildy, Spea, Catty and Amy, took an assualt shuttle to destroy the system destroyer before it fired. I eventually joined them and saved the system from final oblivion. The war finally ended at the Sigma Narse star system, in the battle both sides charged head long and destroyed eachother, just as M.A.D. predicted, but we did try to prevent it with the help of the true original Catty, Capt. Catty Nova Nebulart, the head of Solnoid Intelligence, we tried one last time to convince them not end it that way, but the leaders of both sides were too short sighted to see what we were trying to say. So I disgusted with myself and my people, launched into space and decided to go down fighting like the rest of them."
Shildy continued from her side of the story "when Lufy left, Catty and I left capt. Nebulart and rejoined Spea and Amy, but the captian wanted to do one last thing before our extinction came, she sent us the entire known history of the Solnoid in a small memory card, it contained all of our technology, culture, and history. We sent the memory card to your moon in a small capsule, hoping you would find it, as a sort of fare well. But fortunately for us, we were so far outside the system that we escaped the star dust, and so did Lufy. We soon came to the conclusion to move to Terra, there we knew we could live in peace. But instead, like what happened to Rabby and Patty, we crashed into this moon. And here we are now."
The Terrans sat speechless. This was big, bigger than they thought possible. Trevor tried putting it all together. "So we decended from YOU?" He asked finally
"Yes. Your race is the final product of Mission 21", Catty answered.
"You have no idea how much that contradicts our way of thinking! This completely disproves all of our theories to our origins!" Trevor said, "For thousands of years our religions and science tried to explain our origins!"
"How did you think you came to be?" Catty asked, curious.
"Well, Scientists thought we evolved from apes, and the leading religions thought we are the children of a man and a woman who were put on Earth by a great deity."
Rabby and Patty raised thier eyebrows. Catty was surprised by how accurate these theories were when put together "actually, neither of your theories are completely inaccurate. Yes there is a such thing as evolution, but you didn't evolve from apes. And yes you are the children of a man and woman who lived millions of years ago, but we put them there."
The seven Terrans had difficulty swallowing what the Solnoids wanted them to chew. But after thinking about it, it actually made a little sense to them. But now it was the Terrans turn to shock the Solnoids. Jim took the time to give the Solnoids a summerized form of the history of the Earth. Up until the creation of FTL (faster than light) technology.
"Then came the year 2481, and the human race finally finished its first FTL spacecraft, the Star-Bright Explorer, we had sent it to the neighboring star system of Proxima Centuari. That was when we met the Urilinoids. At first it was a peaceful meeting, our two races exchanged ideas and technology, learned each others forms of politics. Then in 2483, after two years of peaceful and friendly relations, one of their diplomats was killed by a still unknown assassin. The Urilinoid were outraged and declared all out war on us only two days later. And so, for the last 51 years we have been fighting in a never ending war.
The Solnoids were shocked, that was how wars start? All it takes is a simple mistake? Rabby stood up, "That's awful! Such a thing could have been avoided, why didn't the Urilinoid simply try to solve the problem peaceably?" she asked.
"That we still haven't been able to figure out. All of the problems we had before with the Urilinoid were solved in a peaceful way, even worse problems than that. But for some reason they decided to attack us." Jim shook his head. "I was 15 when the war started. I had theories and other suspicions, but I thought them too outlandish to be logical."
"The truth is, not even the Urilinoids we have prisoner here know why they are really fighting us. Many even sympathize with us." Trevor added.
"But unfortunately the Urilinoids in power are too caught up in the war to give up now." Rob said with discontent.
The Solnoids understood how the Terrans felt. An inescapable war needlessly continuing because neither leader is willing to quit. It was as if Solnoid history was repeating itself. Maybe that was how the Solnoid and Paranoid war started, each of them wondered.
"Well I think each of us are quite tired, it has been a long day, and we will need our sleep. Tomorrow will be another patrol.
All left the room but Jim, Trevor looked back in, "Jim aren't you going too?"
"I will in a moment, I need time to think."
"Okay. See ya tomorrow morning."
"Good night."
"You too."
Jim thought to himself, two histories, remarkably similar, would the Humanoids and Urilinoids share the same fate as Paranoid and Solnoid? The thought made him sick in the stomach. "The first alien race we meet, and we end up fighting a war with them… How typical."
Jim thought some more, if there would be any way to save the Humanoids and Urilinoids, the Solnoids would be key, he felt it in his gut, something kept telling him. As if they were a gift of god, and Jim was supposed to make it all happen. He knew he would have to tell high command, and dodge another promotion while at it.
To be continued…
