Star's Allies
Chapter 420 - Okay, One Of Our Own Obviously Operated on Outpost 'O'
The drifting ship pierced through the sky. It was sailing quite fast, catching the winds as it glided through the air. It was shaped rather like a donut. Hyness had said it was one of the greatest shapes available for travel. They had been in there since an epidemic broke out from below the planet they were orbiting on.
In it, was a young team of entrepreneurs, who just had their UNO game from the citizens of Dreamland.
"Drats!" a cloaked woman yelled, having just dropped her cards.
"Ha! You aren't good at poker as well!"
"Don't get cocky this early in the game, Flamberge!"
They were having some fun, passing time before they had to go do their separate chores again. Maintaining a spaceship (or rather, any ship) was hard enough.
Hyness pushed all or her crackers on to the middle of the table (there were no chips in space, so they had to resort to desperate measures). Zan Partizanne laughed. "Ha! You cannot beat this trap card!" she pulled out her two set of cards.
"...That's way too early," Francisca grumbled. Her duo of cards weren't beating the rest any time soon. Betting the least amount each time, she had resorted to playing it safe.
"Fine, fine," Zan Partizanne mumbled in anger, closing back down her cards.
Check. Check. Check. Check.
"And I win!" Hyness proclaimed, showing the mages that indeed, Hyness had won (a full house on the river), as she celebrated in ecstasy.
Flamberge burned her cards the next moment. Hyness screeched at her as the two got into an argument about wasting resources.
Francisca sighed as she checked on their mysterious device.
She had gotten this particular device when nobody was looking in Dreamland. The device was a thin rock that had hinges on it as well as even more thin rocks inside. She had touched one of them and it had turned on all by itself. This… this had been magic!
So naturally she kept it a secret from others. The device, as it turns out, had been called a 'laptop' by one of the residents, so she started a new friendship with this 'laptop'.
"Aha, laptop! What will you show me today?"
The object did not respond.
"Ah, I see. Playing it quiet… I guess I'll just have to open you up and see. Letting out a small 'teehee', Francisca opened the laptop to another mysterious interface. She knew these, at least. It may be a bit primitive, though… To her knowledge, Hyness had once told her that old ships work this way!
With proper time to read and hear such tales about ancient techniques, she had the experience needed to operate the device wonderfully, though the hardware side of it took her multiple tries.
Her interest was definitely piqued when she opened up a logo with the symbol of an 'e'.
It opened up to a page of the net, where there were two buttons on the top right; login, and sign up. Luckily, she had found an account logged in, and so she checked on her fanfiction. It was steadily gaining views, as well as favorites and follows from her viewers, too.
Posting Kirby's adventures sure had been a challenging task for her to narrate, but part of it was the fun. She picked up the laptop and sat it down on her table, as she began typing away.
Somewhere out in the far reaches of the cosmos… was a signal, coming from a set of computers and other knickknacks.
A man in white clothing scrambled over to see what the screen above the machine displayed. "My god…" he ran out of the room, dashing over to his superiors.
Opening the door with such a force, he made his boss jump, as he squabbled his information out.
"W-we detected-d an inter-ternet signal!" he stuttered out. His boss laughed it off "Hah! As if! Now stop with these jokes, John or I'll have to contact NASA about your behaviour…"
"I'm serious, SIR!" His boss raised an eyebrow. He stepped out of his chair as John quivered under his gaze. "Humor me, then," he asked of the scientist, as they both walked into a room. John pointed towards the screen and his readings, and slowly but surely, his boss had his jaw wide open as they both gazed upon this unknown and potentially interesting phenomenon.
"Huh… well… I'll see that you'll get a promotion, John..." he commented, slowly muttering out those words. Suddenly, the screen glitched out, as a familiar symbol popped out, and a young lady stood in front of them, staring at them…
Her speech was garbled at best, perhaps another language, but the truth was now undeniable. There was someone watching out there.
Humans weren't the only intelligent beings who could utilize technology out there!
As the moment passed, the screen went black again, and that was the end of that.
"Say, John, did you record that?"
"N-no… but the building's t-tapes…"
His boss smirked. "Excellent. Ah, we're going to the big leagues now…"
Francisca tilted her head. She had just opened this weird app called 'Skype', and somehow, it connected her to some weird place. She was being so nice, too, mentioning hello and all that…
Francisca pouted as she closed the laptop. Those people were rude beyond belief.
Really, even Kirby was better than that! Well, Kirby was loads better but huh…
Francisca flopped back to her bed as she went to sleep. And yet… the urge to think overcame her.
And think she did. Of an adventure with Magolor, Taranza, and even Marx!
She simply couldn't sleep after that.
Opening the laptop once again, she began to type.
"Star's Allies - Prologue - Horizon"
Late into the night she went.
The government wasn't happy. They had said it was a mirage, a farce; and yet John had definitely seen it with his own two eyes. One day, he'll prove it. Swearing this, he turned around and walked across the lonely street.
AN: April Fools! Here's a fun small chapter while we wait for the real one. Don't worry, this chapter won't be gone when I post the real chapter; it'll simply be moved over by one chapter, so this is still available for everyone to see!