Chapter 1: A New Beginning:

Mean while back on earth in Sacramento ensign Sora was walking toward the launch pad. On the launch pad was a transport which was going to take him to the shipyard. The shipyard was holding his new ship that he was assigned to, which was the starship "Shooting Star", destroyer class. Sora was mostly a boy who was kind, caring, a hard worker, and was a peaceful guy, but when he was under pressure he never kept his cool. He was boarding the launch ship and had sat down on a seat near the window when he heard 3 crewmen talking behind him. One of them was a lieutenant wearing a black uniform like him except the lieutenant had a yellow collar and that meant he was part of the of the engineer team (Sora's collar was red for meaning command crew).

The other 2 on the other hand were ensigns which were wearing the same thing as the lieutenant and except theirs had a blue-collar meaning they were for the medical team. They were talking about what president "Aaron Flores" had announced.

"I say screw them mysterious ships", says one of the medical personnel, "they fired upon one of are ships first and that pretty much crowns them the enemy to the earth federation."

"I don't know they might have just thought we were intruders in their space without permission", say the other medical personnel.

"Still that doesn't give them the right to attack without talking to us or giving us a warning shot", say's the other medical personnel again.

"Do you think they will attack us again?" ask the lieutenant.

"Maybe they will or maybe they won't, we will never know will we?" answered one of the medical personnel.

Soon though their conversation was interrupted by the pilot of the transport, "Closing air lock door, prepare for launch to shipyard Alpha". The young ensign looked out the window and stared at the slowly shrinking background as the transport slowly launched into space; and onboard he thought of the new adventures he was going to have and the new people he would meet.

Mean while back on earth in Washington D.C. the heart and headquarters of the earth federation, the president and his advisers were having a dispute over the attack on the science and patrol ships.

"Sir I say we should attack them back since they attacked us!" say's the military advisor.

"I say we should try to communicate with them and try to make peace," say's his foreign advisor.

"I agree, sir I say we should try to make peace with them and maybe do trade to get new materials," say's his trade advisor.

"I agree sir because with the trade we could get new technology for our ships," say's his science advisor.

"I'm not sure sir, this might affect our people's and the military moral to cooperate, with the same people who attacked us and our ships for no reason," say's his moral advisor. The advisors started to argue until President Aaron's intelligence advisor ran into the room and interrupted them. The intelligence advisor seemed disturbed and scared for some reason as he talked and soon all of the advisors and the president knew why.

As he panted he said, "sir we have just learned from one of our outer listening post's that an unknown small task force is heading are way, so we launched a probe from one of our carriers nearby, and well there are about 30 ships heading are way and they don't seem to be here to make friends."

"What should we do sir?" ask the advisors.

"We have no choice, military adviser assemble a small task force of all of are heavy, light, dreadnought, and destroyer class's under your command to attack the enemy task force; then also order all of the remaining patrol, and frigate class ships to head to earth, and mars to defend the colonies there, also to patrol all space colonies as well", order Aaron

"Yes sir, I will do it know!" answered the military advisor and then he rushed off.

"Intelligence advisor order the listening post to try to get enough information on the task force as they can and do it quickly!" ordered Aaron.

"Right away sir!" and the intelligence advisor hurried off too.

"While the rest of you do what ever you can!" says Aaron.

"Yes sir! And the advisors hurried off.

Then when the advisors left Aaron thought in his head, "We have to do something before this task force destroys earth and the human race forever." Aaron was a man who was always serous when it came to things important, but other times he was a laughable guy.

Mean while back on board the transport ensign Sora was looking out the window at the growing shipyard, as the transport got closer to it. He thought to himself that he would make new friends and have fun with them.

Soon the pilot said through the intercom, "We are now approaching the shipyard Alpha, would all passengers please prepare to go on board the shipyard, please."

As soon the pilot finished, everyone on board got his or her bags and things ready to go. Then a loud CLUNK! Then a CLICK! And soon the airlock opened and the ensign stood up with his things and followed the passengers off the transport and onto the shipyard hallway. In the hallway he explored the entire shipyard and saw a lot of the crewmembers the same age as him. Soon he walked right into the large mess hall in shipyard where a fare well party was being held for all of the new crewmembers of the U.S.S Shooting Star.

Soon the ensign joined in with the party and made some new friends at the party. At first all he did was stand at the entrance, but soon a lieutenant who was the same size as him with orange blackish hair asked him to join in. Soon the ensign made friends with the lieutenant who was named Riku, so Sora did. Riku seemed like a nice person who you would not like to tick off, or mess with, but Sora later found out that Riku was a pretty fun guy to hang around with. Later on at the party he got some food and soon after made more friends. Sora grabbed a plat, a fork and decided to get a little bit of mashed potatoes with gravy, BQQ chicken, French fries, a salad, and some fried rice, then when he is finished he would get some more or maybe not. After getting the food he sat down next to a large group of ensign's and lieutenants who were eating and having conversations, while a couple of others were playing instruments. With these conversations he made new friends like: Carlos who was a guy who was short, but overcomes his shortness with his great ways of making people laugh. Joseph was a guy who liked to hang with his friends and talk to fine girls when he got the chance; he was also a guy who would stand up for his buddies through thick and thin.

Sora also made friends with a short guy by the name of Tidus. Tidus seemed like a guy who you could always mess around with, and a guy who you would always have fun with even in hard times. Sora made a lot more friends at the party but he only actually talked to those 4 people. When it was 9:00pm he took his stuff, boarded the U.S.S Shooting Star, headed straight for his quarters, and fell asleep on his bed. Sora and the crew of the Shooting Star had no idea that this party would be one of the last peaceful and cheerful things to happen to them for a while after the war started.