Star Ocean: When present meets future.

Chapter 2: Escaping the planet, Part 1

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As I was running to catch up with Fayt and Sophia I heard one of the mysterious soldier yell, "They're getting away! Use the Incapacitators!"

I almost caught up to Fayt and Sophia; I heard a clanking sound coming up from behind us. I quickly started to look for some sort of weapon to at least buy us some time, I spotted an long steel pipe sitting next to the wall, I picked it up and brought it up over my head and slammed it down just in time to hit the incapacitators on the side of its head, the incapacitator lurched back for a second and came back, charging it's attack. I then swung the pipe down onto its head for a second time, knocking it into the floor, I then swung at it's head on more time and it stopped moving. After that one was taking care of, three more came running into the hallway, 'Oh crap.' I thought as someone tapped me on the shoulder, followed by a voice.

"Hey, mind if we help?"

I turned around to see both Fayt and Sophia holding pipes in hand, "Sure the more, the merrier." I said.

As soon as the three Incapacitators were in attack range, all of us struck at them first. I swung the pipe sideways, hitting the incapacitator across the head, it reared to the side and I noticed something, they had glass eyes, or so I hoped. When it regained its balance, I swung the pipe upward, hitting the eye head on. The shattering of its eye convinced me that their eyes were indeed made of glass as the incapacitator fell.

I looked around to see how the others were doing. Fayt was fighting pretty well, but Sophia was struggling with one she was fighting. It knocked her back and started to charge its stun gun. 'Damn, not enough time to knock it off balance.' I thought as I ran toward Sophia. The incapacitator fired at Sophia, who started to try to duck away out of fear of it. I stopped in front of her and the shot hit my left arm, it hurt like heck, but went numb in a couple of seconds. "Damn it!" I said out loud. Sophia, who was behind me, stood back up and said, "Aaron! Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine." I told her, but I don't know how in the heck I'm going to be able to defeat this incapacitator with one arm. I tried to move my left arm, it moved a little, and then I got an idea. I held the pipe to my side, I then yelled, "Raging earth thrust!" I swung the pipe up and put all my might into the thrust, the pipe went through the incapacitator's head. I quickly kicked the incapacitator of the pipe and yelled, "Sophia, get back!" as I grabbed her hand and pulled her into my chest as the incapacitator blew up, throwing pieces of it everywhere. I held her there for a moment and then she said, "Uh… Aaron!"

I quickly knew what I was doing and let her go and said as my face went red, "I'm so sorry!"

"It's okay." She said as her face went red also, "I mean, you were only trying to protect me."

"Uh guys, we have a problem here." Fayt said.

I stopped apologizing and turned around to see Fayt still had his pipe in his hand as two more incapatitaors approached us. 'Damn it, I won't be able to defect these two with one arm'.' I thought as a little dark skinned girl smashed the two incapacitators on their heads, they then fell onto the ground, lifelessly.

Fayt then exclaimed, "Who the heck is that?"

The dark skin girl then said, "Hey Fayt, Sophia. You okay? You hurt?"

Sophia's face lit up a little bit and she said, "Is that…" Then Fayt finished what Sophia was saying.

"Peppita?"

"I came to check out what all the racket was about and found ya guys in trouble." She said

I stood their thinking, 'Wasn't Ursus supposed to be here with her, and where is the other set of incapacitators.

"Thanks for you help Peppita." Fayt said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"No problemo! But we should get outta here. There'll be more of those things coming! It's already a complete disaster over that way. C'mon, let's get outta here!" Peppita shouted.

Fayt started to look down the hallway and said, "A complete disaster--? But my parents." Fayt tried to start down the hallway when Sophia blocked his way and said.

"Hey, wait a sec! Fayt? Forget it! Didn't you hear Peppita? It's too dangerous back that way!"

"But--!" Fayt yelled, but a screaming Sophia shouted over him again.

"Forget it!"

Then the impatient Peppita said, "Come on you two! I already said it was too dangerous!"

'It's like I'm invisible right now.' I thought.

Sophia then told Peppita, "Please, stop him! He says he's going back."

"What? Back…There?" Peppita said with a confused look on her face.

"My mom and dad are back there! I have to help them!" Fayt yelled as he tried to go around Sophia, but was blocked by Peppita. "Outta my way!" He yelled.

Peppita yelled back, "Didn't you hear me? It's an inferno back there!"

"It's way too dangerous!" Sophia yelled at Fayt.

"C'mon you two, out of the way!" he yelled at the two

At this time, Fayt has just about pissed me off, and since Ursus isn't here, I'll have to think of something, and then it hit me. "Hey, Fayt!" I said as I walked over to him.

Fayt turned and started to say, "Not you too, Aaron!" when I punched him as hard as I could in his gut, he gagged and fell to the floor, out cold. I picked him up and started to carry him over my shoulder. 'I've always wanted to hit him at this part anyways.' I thought as I turned to the dark skin girl and asked, "Which way to the teleporter?"

She stood their for a moment and then said, "It's over their." She pointed down the hallway to the left.

"Alright, let's go!" I said as I ran with a passed out Fayt over my shoulder. As we approached the teleporter Fayt started to wake up, he started to wiggle and say, "Lemme go! Lemme go!" As I set him on the teleporter, and then everyone got on it and everyone was broken apart and put back together, we appeared in a cool metal room, where a mal soldier greeted us.

"Welcome to Iruba shelter #5. This is an evacuation shelter located underneath Hyda IV. Please wait in your assigned rooms until the rescue ship arrives. You are allowed to move freely about the facility, but there are some restricted areas. Please refer to the console or ask the nearest official for detailed instructions."

We all nodded, and then Peppita turned to us and said, "All right, then Well, I am going now."

We stood their for a moment, and Peppita said, "Hey… cheer up!" and left the room.

We started to follow when the soldier then said, "Oh, one second, please. You've been assigned to room #506. Remember that."

"Okay. 506 got it." Fayt said.

Then we began to go out the door when, "Excuse me, the male with brown hair, could you stay behind for a little bit." The soldier said.

We were confused for a moment and then I said, "Me?"

"Yes, your not in trouble or anything, I just need to ask you something."

I thought about it, and then said, "Okay, go ahead without me; we'll meet back in the room.

"Okay." Fayt said as he walked out.

"Alright Aaron, see you later." Sophia said as she followed him out of the room.

The male soldier then asked, "You're Aaron Ryisen, are you not?"

"Yes, I am." I said as I thought, 'Oh crap, he found out that I wasn't staying at this hotel.'

"Yes, here you are. Are scan indicates that you do not have a communicator on you." He said.

I started to get nervous and said, "Yeah, well a… about that…" The soldier the interrupted me.

"Here take this one; a lot of people forgot theirs in the attack."

I breathed a heavy sigh of relief and I took the communicator and said, "Thanks." I then walked out of the room, and into a metallic hallway, I walked down the hallway until I found the room 506. The door opened and I walked in.

It was a high tech room 'As usual' I thought as I looked around the room until I found the control panel. I looked at the control panel, and I did not understand anything on it. So I said aloud, "Computer?" It then answered.

"Yes?" in a monotone voice.

"How do I use you?" I asked.

"Beginning computer usage training program." It said

After about 16 minuets of listening to the computer…

"Whew, now I won't be so helpless when it comes to computers." I said as I walked over to the door and back into the hallway. As I was walking down the hallway I notice a big balled man standing next to a dark skin girl, who was sitting down. I was about to go talk to them when I felt a burning sensation in my back. I ignored it at first, but it started to burn even more, "What the heck!" I yelled as I fell to the ground, my eyesight began to blur and I passed out.