Star Ocean: When Present meets Future.
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Ocean, or any of the characters except for Aaron and my sword style.
Chapter 4: Escaping the Planet , Part 3 (And the last part, whew…)
We appeared in another transporter room, where a male soldier address us. "Welcome to the Federation transport ship GFSS-12372 Helre. You must have been through a lot. We will soon be departing for Remote Station #6. The Observation bay is located directly through the corridor leading out of this room. Please wait there until we reach our destination. Gravitic warp will get us there shortly."
Then we walked into the next hallway as the ship began to go into gravitic warp.
"Wow, starships are B.A." I said as I kept looking out into space.
"Have you ever been on a starship before?" Peppita asked when she walked up and began to lookout the window with me.
"No, this is my first time." I said absent-mindly.
"Then how did you get to Hyda IV?" she asked.
'Oh crap. I shouldn't of said that this was my first time on a starship, let's see.' I thought, I then said. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention to you the first time. I meant to say that this was my first time on a Federation Starship."
"Oh, mine too." She replied
Then my mind began to wander, 'I wonder where Fayt and Sophia are? I better find them if I hope to get off the ship in one piece.'
"Well, I'm going to go find Fayt, I need to apologize for hitting him." I said as I started to walk away.
"Wait a second!" She said as she began to untie one of the pink ribbons from her hair. She then held it out to me.
I took it from her and asked, "What is this for?"
"It for luck." She replied
"Alright, I'll take it." I said as I tied the ribbon around my wrist, 'Although pinks not my color.' I then said, "Well, see you later!" I ran down the long corridor that had the windows showing the outside until I got to what looked like a lounge area.
There were a lot of people in the room, there was also people from different races, Their was one who looked like a blue dolphin, and another one who looks like a cat, or maybe it was a fox. After searching the for a little bit, I noticed Fayt and Sophia setting on what looked to be a bench. I slowly approached them, as I got closer, Fayt, who was at the time looking off into the distance, noticed me.
"Look, Fayt I'm sorr…" I was saying until Fayt interrupted me. "It's all right. Sophia explained what happened, actually, I should thank you. If it wasn't for you, I might of die back their."
"It's alright,.. so how is she?" I asked as I sat down. Sophia was asleep on Fayt's shoulder.
"She was worried about you all night, she didn't get much sleep." He said.
"Oh…well, I was with the rosettie troop, they said I passed out in the hall." I told him
"That's not surprising, seeing that you did get shot in the arm by a stun blast. But still, you were using that pipe as if you learned how to use a sword." He said
I scratch the back of my head and said, "Well, I have invented my own sword style."
"Really, what's it called?" Fayt asked curiously.
"It's called the Chikyu-Kiba style." I said.
Fayt expression changed to a mocking one as he said, " No you didn't! Everyone knows that style was invented by Kyle Airion back in 2004 A.D."
'But that's impossible, This is only a game, isn't it…' I thought as I asked Fayt, "Yeah, I was just kidding about inventing it, but how did you know about it?"
"Well I did a term paper about Kyle Airion in my English class. He Invented it as a way to only disable you foe, not kill them, and it contains two sword stances and ten moves." He said.
'Hm… Ten moves… but my style has at least 23 moves .' I thought as a big red ship appeared in view.
Then a announcement began over the intercom. "This is your Captain
speaking. Our ship is currently under attack by a Vendeeni battleship. Our
gravitic warp engine has already been disabled, which means escape is not an
option. All power has been diverted to our shields to buy us some time, but I
wanted you all to know: our chances are slim. I had hoped to transport you all
the way to Remote Station #6, but it seems that is now beyond my power. All
evacuees are requested to proceed to the ship's escape pods. Please remain calm
and follow the instructions of the attendant nearest you as you board your pod.
...Good luck to you all."
As that was said, a laser beam hit the ship.
"Whoa!" I yelled as the ship began to shake, Sophia, who just recently woke up, was startled by the shaking and yelled, "Ahhh!"
When the shaking stopped, I over heard some people talking.
"Let's get out of here!" A girl said.
Then the cat/fox tail girl said, "Right behind you."
"Ohhh! We're doomed…" An elderly man said.
Then a crew member appeared and said, "To the pods everyone, hurry! They're located one level up in the hangar bay. Don't Panic!"
As people started to leave the room, I got up and said. "Come on guys, we've go to get off this ship."
"He's right, we gotta go, Sophia." Fayt said as he stood up.
Sophia got up and said, "Okay!"
We ran until we arrived in the Escape pod rooms.
Fayt began to look in the rooms until he said, "Good. The Pod's still here. Come on Sophia, get in quick! We're running out of time."
Nervously, Sophia said, "Fayt… Aaron… I'm scared."
Then I said, "Don't worry… It will be alright."
Sophia then said, "But…"
"He's right Sophia, a Federation ship will recover our pods in no time. We'll see you at Remote Station #6. Now get going." Fayt said.
Sophia began to speak, "O..okay. You two will follow, right? Promise?"
"Yeah we promise." I said.
Sophia enters the escape pod. We exit the escape pod room when we were stopped by a male soldier, "This way, hurry! There's still two pods left!"
"Right!" Fayt and I said.
As I was about to enter the escape pod, Fayt stopped me, "Aaron?"
"Yeah?" I asked?
"Don't die, for Sophia sake." He said as he entered his escape pod.
'Alright.', I thought as I entered the escape pod.
As I sat down the escape pod, I started to mess with the control panel until, " I think that will do it." I said as I pressed one more button. The computer turned on and said.
"Activation complete… Ejection in 10 seconds."
I waited impatiently for the pod to eject, 'It feels like ten minuets went by, hurry up already' I thought to myself when I was startled when the escape pod was launched from the ship, As I watch the veendini ship fire at the Helre, I felt a searing pain in my back again. Everything began to spin and I blacked out.
Author's note: That is the end of this chapter, the next one should be up faster that this one though, so please keep reading!