"Well, hurry up and tell me your story." I said as I walked into my Tardis and threw my jacket into the nearest seat. "Who framed you?"
When nobody replied I turned around to look at the Prince of Zairon to find him gaping in shock at my lovely Tardis. "Yes, it's beautiful on the outside and bigger on the inside. Moving on, blah blah blah."
"How is this possible? This technology is beyond everything I've ever seen." Ryuu Ishida said in awe.
"Because you're just a frog in the bottom of a well." I replied rolling my eyes. How could human technology ever compare with Time Lord technology? Please bitch, they shouldn't even be put in the same sentence much less compared. "Moving on, explain."
"Right." He replied, with a serious look on his face this time. "The Empress murderer my Imperial Father to put her son on the throne."
"Really?" I asked disappointedly. "Boring. I was hoping for, I don't know, space ninjas?"
"I apologize if my enemies aren't interesting enough for you, my Lady." The Prince replied, obviously annoyed.
"That doesn't explain why you haven't left town yet, when I'm pretty sure you could. I mean you did tell me of the passage to pass through the city walls to reach the Tardis. " I said after giving it a thought. "Sure you want to prove your innocence, but you aren't an idiot. You should have already left to find allies to reconquer the throne and prove your innocence. Instead, you stayed behind, why?"
"Impressive." He calmly replied. "Your deduction displays your intellect."
"Stop bootlicking and talk already." I replied, narrowing my eyes. Princes and Kings and the lot, a bunch of politicians with sweet words. At least before they stab you in the back after they no longer have any use for you.
"After I was unjustly accused of murder I managed to escape from the dungeons with the help of an old friend. However, before I left the castle I was found by a group of samurai that serve the Empress." He explained. "I escaped due only to my luck because those men were no ordinary warriors."
"Some elite group trained in secret or something?" I asked, although not very interested. I mean I was hoping for more, for a moment there I thought is was going to be interesting. I should have ignored Rina and stayed in the Tardis tweaking with some tech.
"Yes, but that wasn't the only particularity that those men displayed." He replied. "I stabbed one of them through the heart, not only did it not kill him but my sword was coated with green blood instead of red."
My eyes widened in shock before I quickly turned to look at his face, to check for any kind of lie. "What did you just say?" I demanded. Well, this might have gotten more interesting than I first realized.
"I kid you not, those men did not bleed red but green." Ryuu replied with a solemn look. "They were stronger than anything I have ever fought before, even a sword through the heart didn't stop them. Before I can leave to find allies I must find more information on these men, or else any hope is slim."
"According to you their strength, reflexes and endurance were enhanced to extreme levels, as well as gaining the ability to rapidly heal, correct?" I questioned, I wanted to be sure.
"Yes." He replied with a nod.
"Did you notice their expressions?" I inquired. "Did they show an extreme lack of empathy or any kind of emotions really?"
"The man I ran through with my sword didn't even flinch." Ryuu said with a nod. "Do you know anything?"
"From the looks of it, Zairon has a Hullen invasion! Fucking great." I replied with a growl, although I was less bored now. A Prince wrongly accused of murder in space japan was so-so, but add an alien threat that I despise- now that's fun.
"Hullen invasion? Explain." The Prince demanded information.
"The Hullen are a race of humans bonded with an invasive neuroparasite." I replied thinking about the time the Third Rani had dealt with them. Expect she dealt with them during the 56th century, and I was currently in the 53rd century, so they were still out and about.
"Neuroparasite? I don't understand." He replied frowning.
"Of course you don't understand you're not a neurochemist." I snarked, still feeling somewhat frustrated with the appearance of those bugs.
"Let me put it into words a monkey can understand, they are mind-altering micro bugs that live in a specific liquid called 'the green plasma'. These mind-fucking bugs can bond with multiple species, but for some strange reason, they prefer humanoid species like humans. When the bond is complete the bonded looks like before but they have various superhuman abilities that set them apart. Like enhanced strength, reflexes, endurance and healing. The bonding process, however, damages the individual's anterior insular cortex and the hypothalamus, suppressing the capacity for empathy and bonding." I explained.
"In exchange for empathy they receive such strength?" Ryuu inquired as if it was a good exchange.
"Don't be an idiot, there isn't a free meal in this world princeling. The bonded with the neuroparasite develop a hive mind within their species, that allows them to access memories from all of their kind but their mind also gets accessed in return. In every hive, there's a Queen and the rest are just the little workers, the same happens here. Hullen lack autonomy, they're just pieces in a large chessboard." I explained, getting annoyed at the human.
"I understand." He replied, with a thoughtful look on his face. "Why have they come to Zairon then?"
"They want to make more of them and less of you." I said, rolling my eyes. This guy obviously didn't understand the meaning behind invasion, did he? Then again, he's an ape.
Who knew me wanting to see space samurai would make us run into those guys? Rina said in my mind. Are you going to help? I think we should help him.
Before I could reply, another voice sounded in my head.
Squish them to death. Nari said, still using the Third's voice.
I grinned. For once those two agreed on something without me playing peacekeeper. I agreed with Nari, even if the Hullen didn't know it yet I was their enemy as such I should take care of them promptly.
"But you're in luck buddy. There are a few species that I particularly dislike- the pepper pots, the tin cans, etc etc. But the Hullen slugs are on my personal hit list." I said turning toward Ryuu with a smirk. "So forget getting information, let's just go for the kill."
"They heal extremely fast." He reminded me, arching a brow at me. "We don't know their numbers and we have no weapons."
"They do have one weakness." I replied as I pointed at my own head. "They're a neuroparasite, kill the brain bye bye parasite. Either headshot them, or separate the head from the rest of the body. Like a zombie really."
"We're are only two against who knows how many and we lack weapons." Ryuu refuted.
"While the Hullen generally work in packs, right now their strength isn't at it's best as such at most there should be less than ten slugs in Zairon." I replied, knowing full well that at this time they were still keeping low and would only grow in strength in the next centuries.
"I also have killed a bunch of them before, and I didn't even need a princeling to cover by back to do it." I continued, pointing at him. "If you lack weapons, well it's a good thing you're in my abode then. If I wanted I could start underground weapons dealing business with the stuff I make when I'm bored. Are you in or not?"
"If there's a chance to clean my name while dealing with these creatures will you help?" He asked, although I pretty sure he had made up his mind already. After all, the Hullen seemed to work for the Empress who wanted him dead or at least behind bars, and I'm a pro at Hullen hunting.
"Sure, it's always good to know people in high places." I replied with a shrug. "And hey, in case you become Emperor and I somehow am arrested for something, give me a freebie alright?"
"Deal." He replied with a nod but I could sense that he was curious about my identity. "Help me get the throne and I'll confer you a noble title, no one will ever arrest you in the Principality of Zairon."
"Well then, let's go to the armory then." I said with a grin as I walked into the depths of the Tardis. "I promise you'll see weapons you can only ever imagine."
The Prince followed, curiosity displayed in his face.
"The men must be inside the Imperial Palace and we are on the outskirts of the Capital, we will have a thought time infiltrating the Palace not to mention finding them." Ryuu said, as he checked the weapons I had given him. Just two high-grade sonic blaster guns, much better than the ones created in the Villengard Factory mind you, and a set of laser daggers.
"About that ..." I said as I ran around the Tardis messing with a few buttons. "We're already inside the Palace."
"What?" Ryuu asked, looking at me as if I was insane. Well, I was, but that had nothing to do with him.
"This beauty isn't just for show you know." I said nodding at my gorgeous Tardis who still didn't have a name. I then ignored the Prince and wrapped two gun holster around my thighs, I was taking two blasters with me as well. I already carried on me all kinds of gadgets disguised as jewelry, getting rid of a few slugs and putting a guy on the throne- piece of cake.
I walked towards and opened in a relaxed manner before turning to Ryuu with a smirk. "Off you pop, let's go kill some slugs mister."
He continued to stare at me with no emotion on his face, probably trying to hide his shock or possibly thinking that I was some kind of oni or witch. Eventually, he sighed, as if tired of being surprised and strolled forward gripping his sword.
The Tardis was apparently parked in the east side of the Palace, thankfully it's wasn't occupied and we managed to stroll around undisturbed. The Empress's quarters where on the north side of the palace, not particularly near but not as far as it could have been.
We had to kill a few guards and some servants as we crossed into the more busy parts of the palace. When I say we I meant Ryuu, apparently he felt that since these were his people he should shoulder the responsibility of getting rid of them. I was all for it, less work for me really.
"By the way Princeling..." I whispered as we hid from a large group of kitchen servants that were passing by. "Do you think you dear old evil stepmom has gone green? I'm not sure why she should have Hullen working for her."
"It's a high possibility." He whispered back. "Either way her only fate is death."
"Ruthless, I like that. Very Emperor-y of you." I said with a wry grin.
He gave me a strange look. "Do you know you're very strange? One minute you display a very strong intellect and maturity and the next I feel like I'm speaking with a peasant."
I shrugged, very amused. "I'm bipolar."
In a few words, he had managed to resume the two parts of my personality that seemed to be in constant flux- the cold bitch and the childish pumpkin idiot, very amusing indeed.
After that, he didn't say anything else and we continued forward. It took us an hour to actually arrive at the Empress's Quarters. Not only was the Palace huge, but we also had to either kill a few more people that saw us or hide from the large crowds.
"What now?" He asked, giving me a glance. "We've arrived but we don't know where neither the Empress or the parasites are."
"Let's just take a look around." I replied with a shrug, it's not like I carried my alien presence detector around, that thing was huge.
"And if we're found?" Ryuu inquired.
"Kill or run, both work for me." I said with a grin and strolled forward as I pulled the blaster hun from my right thigh holster.
He looked at me as if he was regretting his choice of following me but just tightened the grip on his sword and followed behind.
When I planned on just strolling around in a palace with a gun to kill off some alien parasitic slugs I did not plan on walking on the Empress having some kind of orgy in a poll of green plasma with five of her guards in the middle of the day.
Now that explained why they didn't find any servants inside she Empress's quarters, she was having an orgy so she sent anyone who could witness it away. On one side, not having to fight our way through was great. On the other side, my eyes.
"You apes have interesting mating rituals." Was the first thing that came out of my mouth as Ryuu and I saw the scene in front of us. Thankfully a large stone pillar covered us from view, although the rest of the people in the room where otherwise occupied. "Primitive but kind of hot."
"I believe mating in a pool of green liquid is part of Hullen mating rituals, it's not a human ritual." Ryuu deadpanned, as if watching his stepmom getting laid with a bunch of aliens in a green plasma pool was an everyday occurrence.
"How should we do this? Wait for them to finish or ...?" I asked, still pepping at the action going on. The loudest of the moans we're female, the Empress's, while the men just gave out loud grunts. The woman was already in her fifties but she still packed some action, she was obviously the one in charge. An obviously a Hullen.
"Let's use this opportunity to quickly finish them." Ryuu replied as he pulled a gun up and walked forward. As soon as he got a good shot he hit the nearest of the men with a blast to the head.
Not one to be left behind I followed. As soon as the Hullen was hit, the rest of them realized that not only we're they found but they were also under attack. The four remained men quickly jumped out of the pool, two ran towards us while the other two ran towards their discarded weapons.
The one that ran at me lifted his fist to attack, using his impressive and unnatural speed to rush me as to force me not to have time to shot. If I was a normal human that would have been a problem, I would have been shocked by their displayed speed and my brain would not have been quick enough to shot. Unfortunately for this Hullen trash, he wasn't dealing with a human.
He was dealing with a Time Lady, a member of a species known not only for their capable and superior minds but also their strong bodies. At first glance, it wasn't that noticeable but we were much stronger than humans. When one thought of Time Lords they thought- genius. But how could a race last four linear centuries fighting a war against Daleks with only their minds? Daleks not only we're as smart as time lords they were 'made' of freaking metal.
So how did they last so long? The answer is simple. Timelords and Ladies could activate a particular state of mind in which they only focus on one thing, enabling the ability to focus on anything else especially what happens to them- the term for it was Congenital Excessive Concentration also now as CEC. It made them war machines, even if it had its drawbacks.
I hadn't used it since the war, but since this was a Hullen it brought back memories. Without thinking I focused my mind on one thought- kill. Before the fist could hit my face my body moved backward, as I lifted the gun and shot at his head. The Hullen protect his head with his right arm, losing it in the process. Not that it would be a problem, as it would grow back in a few hours.
Not missing a beat I rushed at him, continuing to aim at his head.
"Who are you?" The Hullen asked, as green plasma dropped from his arm into the stone floor.
"The last thing you'll see before you go swimming with the Hullen fishes on the bottom of a plasma lake." I monotonously replied. My mind was too focused on killing him, but Rina apparently replied for me and her sass was on point.
The Hullen was shocked when I identified it's race and lost its concentration for a second, which was enough. Before he could open his mouth I shot him in the head, killing him effectively.
Unfortunately, there were still three alive male Hullen plus the Empress who was apparently putting on some clothes in the corner of the room with a relaxed expression. I ignored her for the moment and rushed towards one of the men that had just grabbed his sword.
He slashed the sword down at me but instead, I slid down to the floor using my knees, using it to slid towards him at fast speed. Before he had time to once more slash the sword down on me I twirled my legs and kicked him with all my strength, forcing him to lose his balance.
Unfortunately, I was dealing with a Hullen, the bastards we're extra though. He quickly regained his balance and kick me in the gut, sending me a few steps backward. I shrugged the pain away and pulled my gun up, shooting him in a shoulder. The little bug that he was, he didn't even stop and continued to advance towards me with his sword ready to slaughter.
I shot him again, aiming for the head but the bastard used one of his arms to defend the blast like the previous, now dead, Hullen did. However, before he had the time to take another step I used my left hand and pulled my other gun from my left thigh holster and shot him dead in the brains. Bye bitch.
I looked at Ryuu and saw that he had managed to kill one of the men that had rushed at him with a shot to the head and was now being strangled by the remaining one. I was going to help out but noticed that the little princeling had something slightly glowing on his hand.
I smirked and instead turned towards the Empress and aimed both of my guns at her.
"Don't move." I said, narrowing my eyes at her for any strange movements. I was no longer on CEC but my body was still prepared to enter combat any second.
"Aren't you going to help him?" The Empress replied, nodding towards Ryuu who was being suffocated behind me.
"He's got it." I replied with a shrug.
Before the Empress could say anything else a loud groan was heard and the faint smell of blood reached my nose. I didn't need to turn out.
"Those laser daggers came in handy huh?" I asked, as I felt Ryuu walking towards me behind my back.
"I'm keeping them." Ryuu replied as he reached me with a slightly glowing dagger on his hand. I glanced at him and let out a smirk.
"There's some Hullen on you, don't play with your food." I joked, nodding at his clothes that we're covered in green plasma. "But you should eat your greens."
"Hilarious." Ryuu deadpanned before looking towards the Empress with a sneer. "Imperial Father's corpse isn't even cold yet and you were having a party?"
"Should I pretend to care?" She replied without emotion on her face. "I went to the trouble to have him killed, I should enjoy the privileges of him being dead."
"Why frame me?" Ryuu inquired, glaring daggers at the Empress.
"Hiro has been chosen to be one of us in the future, you are just a human." She replied with a shrug before turning towards me. "But you, who are you?"
"I'm just a consulting criminal." I replied without care.
"Let's end this." Ryuu said, shotting at the Empress's head.
The Hullen managed to dodge and grabbed a discarded laser gun from the floor and aimed at him. I pulled him back and shot at her, using a stone pillar to defend from the laser shots. The Empress continued to fire shot after shot. I looked at Ryuu and used my hand to tell him to go through the left while I would go through the right.
We each jumped from out of the pillar in simultaneum, the Empress readied her gun to shot at Ryuu when I touched my ring and activated the magnetic pulse coded to humans with suppressed chemicals in their brains, the same I had used on the tin cans.
Hullen still had a human brain but since the green plasma repressed a large part of chemicals in their brain the magnetic pulse worked well against them. Not as well as against the tin can since the Hullen had high regeneration abilities but well enough to stop her from shotting Ryuu.
The Empress dropped her gun as she grabbed her head in pain, green plasma running down her nose and ears. Not giving her any time to heal Ryuu shot her in the dead, ending her once and for all.
"What did I tell you? A piece of cake." I said with a grin, of course maybe I should have stayed quiet since in the next second the door was opened and a large number of guards pointed their guns and swords at us.
"Parlay? No?" I said, putting my hands slightly up but still not giving up my guns.
"By the order of Emperor Hiro Ishida, Ryuu Ishida and you blonde woman, are accused of the murder of the Emperor and the Empress." A female guard, possibly the Commander of the Royal Guard stated glaring at both of us. She quickly attacked Ryuu with her sword, he defended but was soon thrown to the floor with only his sword protecting his neck from the female guard's blade.
"Misaki, you know I did not kill my Imperial Father it was Empress Noriko, she was infected by an alien parasite." Ryuu replied pleading. Uhh, so the Empress was called Noriko, good to know that way I don't have to keep calling her Empress in my head.
"I would like to believe you, but you have no proof of your innocence." The guard, Misaki, replied.
"Check the Empress's body, her body bleeds green instead of red. She wasn't human anymore." He tried pointing at the green blood spurting from the dead body.
"Even if what you say is true there's still no proof regarding the death of the Emperor." She said, glancing at the green blood with a frown.
Ryuu was about to plead once more but I was getting bored. "Hi, sorry, hello ... I don't want to meddle in your business but I have proof." I said, waving my hand slightly at Misaki.
"What?" Ryuu, Misaki and a few guards asked at the same time.
I smirked and pointed at the small necklace I was wearing. "This beauty here, I made it myself, as a few functionalities ... one of them is a micro cam as well as a microphone. So, I got your dead alien slug of an Empress admitting to killing your Emperor and framing the Princeling. We good right?"
Misaki walked towards me and pulled the necklace from my neck. She's lucky I just killed a bunch of slugs and was in a great mood or else I would be pissed at her for stealing my shit. "Careful, that's one of my babies."
"Bring me a memory disk reader." Misaki told one of the guards, who quickly ran out of the room. We had to wait for ten minutes with guns still pointing at us when the guard returned.
A memory disk reader was much like a tablet able to access all kind of files in near proximity, in the 53rd century, these guys no longer used Bluetooth. Misaki tried to access the data for a bit before glaring at me.
"It's encrypted, what's the password?" She demanded I didn't like her tone.
"What's the special word guard lady?" I asked back, winking at her. Everyone in the room stared at us as if waiting to see a good show.
"Please." She said with a sour gritting, gritting her teeth.
"The password is deca rules, capital letters no spaces." I replied, and soon enough the voice of the Empress confessing murder was heard by all the guards in the room, and eventually, they all put their weapons down.
"You're leaving Princess Reizei?" Ryuu asked with a smile, that only deepened as he saw my glare.
"I can't believe you went and decided to dump a princess tittle on me." I groaned, if the Doctor or the Master ever find out about this stupid tittle I would be mocked for centuries. "You even went and decided on a Japanese name to go along with it."
"I think it fits you." He replied with a shrug. "Not to mention you proved my innocence, and thanks to you I'm the Emperor. I owe you, I can at the very least give this to you. With this title, as long as you carry the Ishida medallion I gave you during the naming ceremony, no one will every disrespect you much less arrest you."
"Well, I'm not sure you'll see me again." I replied with a shrug of my own, I wasn't planning on coming back to Zairon in this particular century.
"I know, which is why I made a decree that will make your tittle last forever." Ryuu replied with a smirk. "Did you think I didn't figure out you were a time traveler? Your guns are too advanced, your ship is something out of the heavens- how could you be from this time. Know that you, my criminal consultant, will always be welcome in Zairon. It was even my first Imperial Decree."
"It's annoying but whatever." I replied with a sigh. "I might come back when I feel like having sushi but that's it."
"Please do." Ryuu said, as I started walking towards my Tardis. "And if you do want to set up an underground weapon dealing business, remember that Zairon is always in need of weapons."
"Don't get greedy mister Emperor." I replied with a laugh, as I opened the door of the Tardis.
"By the way that chick Misaki totally wants to roll with you on the sheets, you should tap that and possibly get some handcuffs." I said with a grin as I entered and closed the door.
Well, that went well. We got to see space Japan, meet a prince, fought with a bunch of evil aliens, saved a dynasty from being controlled by said evil aliens, got a princess title and even flirted with a hot samurai chick. It's like an episode of doctor who but a bit on the violent side, aren't you glad I told you to come? Rina asked, obviously pleased with herself.
I decided to ignore her and piloted the Tardis into the time vortex.
Toodles Zairon, it wasn't that bad.
A/N: Hi guys, here's an update. Next chapter will be a time lord reunion. It's hard getting inspiration to write a totally different and new adventure, but I think I did alright. Not sure what you guys thought about the action, but I normally don't write a lot of fighting scenes so I'm not sure if it's any good.
Anyway, I obviously took the Hullen from Killjoys because coming up with an alien race would just result in something super sh*tty. So the Hullen don't belong to me, but to Killjoys. Also, the Congenital Excessive Concentration wasn't my creation either, I read it in the manga called 'Arachnid' written by Murata Shinya and I thought it really fit the profile of a time lord.
Either way, tell me your opinions in the comment section down below.
Love, ritz