AOE Saga: Morph's Hexagon
Chapter 2: Recruitment
Every experiment gathered to the Chateau. They were all briefed about what had happened recently and were all being trained for combat. They learned how to use their powers against their enemies in the most effective way. Draco, Chip, and Morph were having a counsel of war.
Chip was the last to arrive and he was wearing an old-fashioned general's uniform with a large hat that a feather in it. "Chip," said Draco. "Do you have to wear those silly looking clothes?" Chip gave a squawk of indignation. "This is the traditional look of the famous Earth general, Napoleon." Draco scratched his head and said, "Napoleon Dynamite?" "No! Napoleon Bonapart! He was a French general who tried to take over the known world with some success. Why would you think that I would dress up like some geeky loser? Anyway what will we need for our army?" Morph looked at his clipboard. "Soldiers, weapons, and a ship." "Our army is reaching their final stage of training," said Draco. They heard explosions outside the room. When they looked outside they saw that Plasmoid and Splodyhead were having a fight. "Oookay," said Draco. "We'll work out the finer details soon. Let see, the weapons have been made and are fully operational." Just then a plasma blast just missed Chip's hat and set the feather on fire. They heard 625's voice yell, "Sorry!" "And the ship is ready to blast off," said Chip. "What ship?" asked Morph. "I never saw any ship." "That's because we didn't want you to break it," said Draco. "Oh, and Chip, your feather's in fire. Hang on, I'll get it." Draco used his ice breath to blow out the fire but froze the rest of Chip's hat and most of his head. "Thanks Draco," said Chip with a frozen voice.
The group went to a large shuttle bay. Chip hit the light switch. A large green ship was revealed. Its main body was shaped sort of like a manta ray. The engines were a lot bigger that the body and were set on either side of the body. This made the ship like a giant pair of green binoculars. "This is our ship, the battleship BiNebular," said Chip. "It has a full arsenal of weapons to blast practically anything out of existence. It also has everything that a crew to live comfortably for space travel. The engines will allow us to travel at lightspeed with great ease. It also has a portal to the Chateau built inside. So we'll be able to escape back if we run into too much trouble." Then Chip turned to Draco and said, "Is there anything else we need?" Draco checked his clipboard and said, "We have all the provisions we need. But I suggest we bring the virus pods to study them." "That sounds sensible," said Chip. "Anything else?" "Just one thing but I think you should come with me to get it."
Draco took the others to Jumba's ship. He walked up to a safe and typed in the combination. The safe opened and Draco pulled out an all-too-familiar pod. "That's 6-2-7's pod," said Chip. "What are you doing with it?" "I planning on bringing 6-2-7 along with us," said Draco. "I think that he'll very useful in the battles." "You have a point there, but you forgot one thing," said Chip. "6-2-7 is evil, incurable evil. He'll turn around and destroy us the instant he's activated." "But you and Jumba have been experimenting on 6-2-7 to turn him good, right?" "Yes but he's still very dangerous. The closest we've been able to bring him to good is that he'll agree to a bargain if there are good things for him." Then Morph grabbed the pod and said, "I'll take over from here." He placed the pod into a heavy-duty capture container that was 6-2-7proof. Morph then added a little bit of water and sealed the container tight. The pod activated and turned into 6-2-7. "6-2-7," said Morph. "We're here to make a deal with you." He then explained what had happened to Lilo. "We need your help in fighting the evil empire and in return we'll allow you to cause chaos and kick butts to your heart's content." 6-2-7 responded in a series of "Evil, evil, evil!" Draco turned to Chip and said, "What'd he say?" Chip shrugged his shoulders, but Morph said, "He said, 'Sounds good, but what's the catch?'" Chip stared at Morph and said, "You can understand him?" "Sure I can," said Morph. "I have the intergalactic tongue." He stuck out his tongue to show that a detailed map of the galaxy was on it. Then Morph turned to 6-2-7 and said, "The only catch is that we'll be trying to turn you good. But we'll to it so subtly, you won't even notice." 6-2-7 thought for a few minutes and said, "Evil!" "He's in," translated Morph. "I didn't know that Morph was such a good negotiator," said Chip. "I didn't know Morph could be clever," said Draco.
An hour after that the BiNebular was launched at a secret base where no one would see it. Every experiment that could be useful in a fight was on the ship. Then the BiNebular activated its hyperdrive and blasted off after the timeship, Ohana.
Meanwhile, on the Ohana…
Matt sat at the controls. They were giving the Ohana a test run of the finished repairs while Chris was overseeing the stripping down of the imperial command base that had been on Ceres in his dimension.
He could still remember when V-627 had bit him. If it hadn't been for Stitch, Lilo, and all the others he called friends on this ship he'd be a lackey for this Hamsterviel (or Hamsterjerk as Matt called him). "Hey, Rick. Is V-627 comfortable in that stasis pod?" he said into the intercom. "Yeah. He won't get out this time," came Rick's answer.
Matt called up a few more cameras. As usual Lilo was in the gym with Stitch and Angel, trying to get the hang of her power. Akira and Kala were in engineering, replacing a burnt out power coil and Rick was keeping an eye on V-627.
Suddenly, the sensor computer beeped loudly. "Warning. Incoming heavy gunships. Allegiance: Imperial Timesplitter Reserve forces." Stated the computer calmly as two huge timesplitter gunships covered with imperial insignia came out of Nullspace.
Before Matt could react, two well-aimed blasts hit the Ohana hard, blowing out several consoles on the bridge. As Matt ran back and forth, putting out fires, a small ship detached from the larger of the two imperial ships and attached to the airlock.
Matt heard the clang as the boarding ship docked and called up a camera view of the airlock. A strange smoke was issuing out into the ship. "What the smeg?" he said and jumped as the smoke formed into something that smashed the camera.
Matt wasted no time in grabbing his plasma magnum and running towards the airlock. He was just in time to see it heading for the cargo bay where V-627 was. Matt chased after it shouting, "Oi, Fire Hazard." The smoke stopped and formed into what Matt recognized for History lessons back home as a Hydra. Without a word it shot a beam at Matt. He only just dodged it but hit his head on a bulkhead and blacked out…
As Matt came too he saw Rick lying unconscious in the corridor and also saw that V-627's pod was gone. "Oh heck," he said running to the gym to check on Lilo, Stitch and Angel. Judging by the 28th century swearwords that came from engineering as he passed Akira and Kala were fine. Only Akira could come up with those words.
Matt ran into the gym and saw Lilo and Stitch coming round. "Uuuhh…that Queesta." Muttered Stitch, he looked around when he realized that Angel wasn't there. "Angel?" There was a clank as the boarding ship detached and headed back for one of the gunships.
Matt ran to the bridge and was just in time to see the lead gunship hyperspace away. The other was charging its main gun. "I've had enough of this," said Matt, flicking a few switches. Outside, a large gun was folding out of the top of the Ohana. Inside a message appeared on one of the screens 'Rail Cannon loaded and ready.' Stitch had come in. Matt stepped aside. "Care to do the honors?" said Matt pointing to the fire switch. "Ih." said Stitch and hit the button.
A huge adamantanium round shot out of the rail cannon and went clean through the gunship, causing it to go up in a spectacular fireball. Matt sat down in the flight seat. "Let's get after them." He said as the ship charged its hyperdrive. The computer beeped "Emergency beacon detected. Range: 1.6 light-years." Matt shrugged and added "But first…"