GET HER!
The flight back to the Geselschaft was uneventful, but personally…I loved it. Unlike the stress of the fight before, unlike the vengeful and sad time I had spent rediscovering what it really meant to be a pirate, this was complete peace. Why was it so grand, simple, I could sleep, I could sit back and rest without worrying. For this short time I didn't have to care about the servbots, or getting what I needed, but still it felt empty as if something was not there. I didn't know what I was missing but if I could find it, it would be grand to have it and have a time like this.
your all probably thinking I'm pathetic, but if you were a sixteen year old, placed in a position of such enormous responsibility, and forced through all the stuff I just went through, you would understand. I woke up aboard the Gaselschaft still inside the Gustaff. When I got out of the Gustaff I was assailed by servbots. They asked a sever number of questions ,what I wanted to eat, should we check the map, what are we going to do about Bon, what are we going to do tomorrow. The noise was unbearable, "SHUT UP!" I shouted. "I don't care about dinner, # 11 is being lazy well punish him, yes let look at the map now!" the servbots ran about in a fury of activity as I made my way towards my room, I almost couldn't remember where it was. Curse my memory why was it not working now ,couldn't I just remember everything, if I could just remember I could solve everything. I dropped onto my bed, angry with myself a little, but mostly tired.
I could hear knocking at my door, "ahh, Miss Tron, we have the map and are waiting for you. If you want we will check the coordinates and proceed to them without you." called #1, I was starting to be able to recognize his voice with ease. I pushed my head into the pillows on my bed a little.
"what ever, just let me sleep." I murmured.
"yes, Miss Tron." He said softly, and left the room. This didn't feel right, I should be more active but all I could do now was rest, sleep seemed like a good thing.
I woke up a next day and could hear servbots outside my room talking to each other. "Miss Tron, sure is acting funny, I hope she doesn't start having us neglect out training programs." said the first.
"Hmm, maybe a poem could help change her mood?" suggested another.
"Shush, don't disturb her! She might torture us!" said a third. But I was relieved to hear them, I could remember I could recognize them the first that had spoken was 31 the trainer, the next was 39 our poet, and the third was 5 the lazy servbot.
I woke, snuck to the door and opened it. I looked down at the three servbots who were all huddled together and i smiled. "Good morning 31, 39, and 5. How are you today?"
"g-go-good Miss Tron" they replied nervously.
"Good!" I said back enthusiastically. I then walked up to the bridge and burst in. "alright where are we going?' I asked quickly.
"Miss Tron, we are heading twenty three kilo-meters to the northwest of the island we were just about to find the hidden ruin." Replied the servbot at the helm.
"Good!" I replied with a large smile on my face. I looked out the ships main window, and saw the endless sea. I could see it all, water going on forever and ever, until little patches of land or a ship created a spot in the endless blanket of water. "Tell me, when we see the ruin." I ordered the servbots as I sat in the captain's chair. The flight was relaxing, now and then servbots would come to me asking what they should do or asking me to do something for them but mostly I was allowed to wander the ship returning to the bridge every now and then to look out the window.
"Miss Tron we're here!" called the servbots over the ships intercom while I was in the cafeteria eating. I quickly left my food and went to the bridge. The sight of the ruin was interesting. It wasn't some grand building but instead all one could see was a single tower sticking out of the water with a couple of ships hovering around it. The first ship was a small green vessel with a long hull, that looked like a small bass fish. The second was the flutter, a short yellow ship with red lines, it reminded me something of a gold fish.
"What is the other ship?" I asked.
"That's probably the other dig team, Miss Tron." Replied #1.
"We don't have time to deal with the other dig team, and we can't risk Roll getting away so, I guess we'll just have to risk it and ignore them just get Roll that's all we care about." I commanded.
We went in fast and launched a few rounds off at the other dig teams ship ,then launched grapple lines to the Flutter. It was apparent that they weren't expecting us. The Flutter tried to escape and we could pick up signals being sent from the Flutter to the ruin, but it would be too late for anyone inside to stop us. "Quick go get her!" I shouted to the servbots who would were on the deck. I quickly ran through the Gesellschaft's hallways and made my way to the deck and joined the boarding teams as they ran across a rope bridge to the Flutter. I stood on top of the Flutter for a moment and dropped inside once I had the chance.
I entered into the Flutter's bridge, a small aria that was lined with computer equipment necessary for acting as a spotter during a dig, and for flying this small ship. I then opened the door leading to the main hall of the Flutter. On my right was a door labeled exit, on my left was a row of three doors. The three doors, all being opened by servbots searching for Roll, were labeled with a M, I cant remember what the M could stand for, a R, for Roll, and a B, B was probably for one of the diggers or a friend of Roll. I then dropped down another floor and in the Flutter, this one had a ladder immediately across from me a hall to my left and a Bathroom to my right. In the hall to my right was a door to a supply closet, which the servbots were scouring through, and a large living space. In the living space a kitchen was on the right hand side of the far wall and a larger bathroom to the left. That whole aria was empty.
I dropped down the far ladder to the final level of the Flutter on the left was the engine of the ship, but the room was empty, to the right was a small hanger that now the servbots were searching and across the hanger an office. I ran to the office and opened the door it was a small office and it was filled with junk, Roll couldn't even keep from tinkering with stuff even here. I looked to my right and saw a traditional business desk, the desk was also loaded with stuff. I walked up to the desk and looked it over. I then walked to the other side and sat down in Roll's chair. I was starting to stretch out my legs when I looked under the desk, and there was Roll hiding under the desk. "I've got you now! You're coming with me!" I said reaching down and grabbing her by the arm. "quick I found her, lets get out'a here!" I cried to the servbots and we started forcing her down the hallway, despite her complaints and my being punched a few times.
By the time we reached the grapple bridge to the Gesellschaft, Roll had seemed to have had exhausted herself, but when we started to cross over the bridge she started kicking with a fury, and almost knocked us all overboard. "Stop! Roll stop your going to kill us all, you crazy maniac!" I shouted slapping her on the back of the head. Finally we threw Roll into the Gesellschaft and took off.
"Tron! What do you think your doing? You're getting yourself into a lot of trouble." Roll said as she was being pulled down the Gesellschaft's main hallway.
"I wish I was…but I am already in too much trouble for this little thing to even match up." A murmured to myself.
"Miss Tron, should we have a party?" a servbot asked walking up to me, "for Miss Roll?"
"hmmm, no I don't think so, I can't see why we would throw one anyways." I replied.
The next few days after Rolls capture were tense, Roll refused to eat, attacked whoever entered the room we provided her, and I could hear her crying at night. I don't fell like I wanted to kidnap her, but I had to. The servbots kept telling me that she and I hate each other for some reason. [if she and I hate one another could that be the real reason I kidnapped her? I hate this amnesia stuff]
Things have been so uncertain, I can even trust myself. I finally settled on going in and talking to her, maybe we could make peace, maybe I could get her to understand and help me. I gradually came to the conclusion that I had to speak to her. After a day of waiting I, went into the room set aside for Roll. Fortunately for me when I entered she was in the bath. I waited outside the door, hoping that she wouldn't take offence to my intrusion, but then I was her captor and this was my family's ship. Roll came out wearing a bathrobe, her usually long spiky hair was rolled up into a towel above her head, and her blue eyes sparked when she saw me. I quickly took the initiative to try and speak,
"listen, I'm….", but I couldn't even get the first sentence off, Roll punched me so hard a collapsed backward into a small bed.
"you, deserve that." She said softly. "Tron, haven't you caused mega man and me enough trouble?" she then continued critically.
"ouch! I'm… [breath Tron, breath slowly]…sorry, but I n-need your help, and I need it desperately." I said, on the verge of exploding and throwing her out of the nearest air lock, but I kept my temper on check.
"Hmm, you never wanted anyone's help before." Roll scorned, crossing her arms over her chest.
"that is because before I wasn't suffering from a serious health problem before that kept me from doing anything, um, correctly." I responded to her criticism. "please…I-I'm begging you, I-I ,errr." I at least tried to ask politely for her to help me but I couldn't bring myself to ask her, I think I could have asked anyone to help me, anyone but her at the time. "Listen while you're here you are going to have to work in order to keep things as nice as they are for you. Put it this way you don't work you'll sleep in a cage." I sounded threatening and I was surprised to just hear myself.
Roll looked even more shocked than I was feeling. "You can't just kidnap me and then force me to work, that is wrong, and low, even for you!" she gasped. "Yea! Well I'm feeling pretty low!" I shouted in reply. "So get to work!" I finished and then stormed out of the room. [Why did I even try that? I went in there to ask, beg even for her help and I ended up threatening her, why?]
The next day went by even more tense than before. Roll agreed to help the servbots fix a machine but then turned around and tried to use it to escape, luckily for us the machine had other problems she didn't know about, and the machine shut down before she could break through the Gesellschaft's hull. After that I gave up and locked her into the room we gave her.
"what am going to do?" I whined to # 28, our ships chief, as he brought a hot meal to my room that night. "If Roll doesn't help us, not only did I waste a trip, but also I put us into unnecessary danger for any future attempts to get supplies to save Teisel." I concluded
. "Well, what if you, do something to convince her to help us?" the servbot replied
. "But what can I do to convince…" I had a hard time even referring to Roll as a person, "…Her!" I asked the servbot.
"I don't know, you two have a lot of history and things to get over first." He replied yet again, serving me a bowl of soup and then leaving the room. I thought over what he said, she and I probably had a lot of bad history, but that wasn't the question, the question was how do I show her that she and I weren't enemies, that their was something bigger, that she and I had to do. But then, I realized, this had almost nothing to do with her,
I couldn't find anyway to convince her to help me with this problem. I had no way of showing her that I didn't take her from the flutter just to use her as a slave. I looked over at the small box on my dresser and smiled uncontrollably. Something about the box made me feel happy, yet also sad at heart, it was mysterious and yet familiar, an question and yet an answer. Something that called me to open it yet I kept away from it. [Why was Roll at that ruin anyway? Who was Glyde, or this Leon, whom I could only slightly remember? I could ask Roll these questions, find some sort of sympathy or common ground with her.] "Yes!" I cheered with a excited smile on my face. "I'll gain Roll's sympathy!, I can win her over while using her to improve my memory."
I quickly went to Roll's given room. She was being given a small dinner by the servbots when I entered. "No, #26 go to the kitchen and make Roll and me some warm food. I think she and I are going to talk." I looked over and smiled at her, she was sitting on the other side of the small bed with her back turned towards me and glaring over her shoulder.
"No, I think I'll just take what I'm being given, and I don't want to talk… thank you." she said in a soft polite voice, which showed signs of exhaustion.
I smiled, a bit bitterly but still politely. "Well then, go get me some of what your giving Roll." I commanded the servbot. "Roll, if you don't want to talk to me then, I want to talk to you so I think I will." I said as I sat in a chair nearby, but far enough that she couldn't punch me by surprise. "you know, I really need your help, Teisel has been kidnapped, and I seem to have lost most of my memory. In fact I think the only reason I came like I did and brought you onboard was because you are one of the few people I can remember, and you were only a face in my mind before a few days ago. I think of it as tragic, the servbots claim that you and I hate each other, and here I am, desperately needing you to help me." I told her, as the servbot brought me a platter and I poked at the food a little.
"That is a little far fetched if you ask me." Roll murmured still with her back turned, not looking at me.
"but it is all true, I don't even know why you were at that ruin." I politely responded.
"I was there helping Megaman as always." She replied coldly.
"is he one of your partners?" I asked, the name seemed to spark something but nothing I could mentally hold onto. "He is my only partner." Roll replied now sounding bored with my game, though I was telling the truth.
"Hmm, are you two in a relationship?" I asked slightly intrigued.
"No…he and I are more like… siblings." She responded.
"hmm, did you know that the island you and ,uhh oh yea, Megaman were at before going to the ruin, had a giant reaverbot hidden under its mayors office, which was under the mayors control?" I asked, wanting to change the subject.
"what!?" Roll said, sounding skeptical, but now turning to face me. "Please Tron don't lie to impress me." She scorned.
"But it is true; I fought it in order to get the coordinates to the ruin you were at." I replied trying to sound as honest as possible.
"Really, your brother gets kidnapped and so you come and kidnap me?" Roll replied skepticism filling her soft voice. I opened my mouth to reply but I was interrupted before I could speak.
"Miss Tron you are needed on the bridge!" servbot #1's voice called out over the radio. I walked over to an intercom spot,
"this better be important! Or you are in serious trouble!" I growled over the intercom.
"Miss Tron, Its Glyde's ship, he's caught up with us!" the servbot replied. I looked over at Roll, it was best if she came along too. "Get up your coming with me." I told her, and she complied by standing up.
Roll and I quickly made our way to the bridge. "Hmm, you have all of this equipment and yet you always manage to screw up you own operations up." She teased me when we entered the bridge. I ignored her and went up to the servbots.
"Give me a status report. "I demanded
"Glyde came out from behind one of the local clouds and now is in a position next to our starboard wing." The servbot at the helm replied.
"Alright, lets get ready to fight, ah, Roll, you might want to get somewhere safe." I said, ready to start battling Glyde. Suddenly a voice broke out from the bridge speakers.
"My, my, Tron trying to run away. Now isn't that strange, I thought you would do anything for Teisel, but I guess I was wrong. Don't worry Tron, Leon will make swift and painless for him." The voice said. The voice had to be Glyde.
"Glyde give Teisel back, now!" I shouted through microphone. "Mmm, that's quite impossible, you see, I don't have him. Nor do I even know where he is, but I would be happy to reunite both of you. Just surrender now Tron and you both can live happily ever after…that is if Leon doesn't kill you once he's through with you. Oh, but I must say thank-you for capturing Roll for us, he wanted me to attack the Flutter on its way back to port from the ruin, a sloppy operation. But now I can get both of you in one move." Glyde mocked over the radio intercom. I looked over my shoulder at Roll. "Do you believe my story now?" I whispered, and then turned my attention back to the microphone. "Listen Glyde…"
"Shut up, if you're not surrendering, then you're fighting, and that leaves me with no choice. Prepare yourself!" Glyde cut me off.
"Miss Tron, a lot of little ships have come from Glyde's ship." A servbot reported. "Quick prepare the draches. Get ready to fight!" I commanded. "Roll, do you know anything about air combat?" I asked after a moment of thought.
"What!? I don't know anything, you're the pirate you do something." She responded.
"Aim for his guns!" I then commanded the servbots, and crossed my fingers. I could hear guns begin to fire and explosions all around. Then suddenly the Gesellschaft shook with a fury and I was thrown forward.
"What is going on?" I asked, angrily to the gunners.
"Miss Tron, his guns are too heavily guarded. We can't even damage them." The servbots replied. I shot Roll a desperate glance and sat down in the captain's chair. "I don't know!" I cried, I felt like I could collapse at any moment.
"Tron, think there are three things all ships need in order to fly. The engine, their wings, and propulsion." Roll suddenly burst out in a rushed tone.
"hugh!?" was all I could manage, in response to what she said.
"I believe your story to some extent, at least. So I might as well help you here." She informed me.
"Well then, quick change targets get us to the back of Glyde's ship. Locate his propulsion systems and fire!" I commanded the servbots. The servbots replied to my command with a simultaneous
"roger!" and set to work. I looked over at Roll and mouthed a silent "thank-you" but I don't know if she caught it. The Gesellschaft slowly fell back; I could see Glyde's ship, the king Glydon, pounding away at the Gesellschaft with its guns as it flew by. I think that Glyde must have a bird obsession, he had bird bots working for him on his ship, his main robots all look like birds and even all of his fighters and his ship look like birds. The fighters looked small, but I could see the fake bird bills attached, painted up to look like red flying ducks or something. Also Glyde's ship was a large square with powerful guns, two main wings made to look like bird wings, rear propulsion and directional system, and even a strange bird-neck like deck with a large bird head attached to the front.
"hurry up!" I could hear Roll whisper into my ear. I looked over just in time to stare down large cannon on Glyde's ship. I quickly stood up and ordered the servbots to hurry, and the Gesellschaft seemed to go back a little faster, and I watched as a few cannon rounds go flying past the main view port. Soon we were behind the Kind Glydon and ready to fire, when Glyde's voice came over the intercom.
"What do you think your doing back there?" he asked in an almost tired tone.
"Getting rid of you Glyde!" I growled in the intercom. "Hmm, you have an interesting tactical advantage, but well for one I'm not on my ship right now so you can't threaten me, and two I'm in position to blow you out of the sky right now so I don't really care." He said now sounding like he thought of me only as a stupid child.
"Fine have it your way….Glyde your bluffing I can tell, so you're going down!" I shouted at him, and then I signaled the servbot gunners to fire. The Gesellschaft's main gun began to fire. The round skull crest on the Gesellschaft's front started firing duel energy blasts, one for each eye. These blasts pounded the back of Glyde's ship, melting the metal and tearing through the hull of the ship.
"What do you think your doing? stop that now!!" Glyde shouted over the radio.
"too bad I'm destroying your ship!" I cheerfully responded.
"You'll pay for this!" Glyde called out.
"No, not with your ship as damaged as it is." Roll kindly said to him through the radio,
"you should stop this fight and go get it repaired." She concluded. I didn't share her views at all, I wanted Glyde to go down, no mercy for him, while she was telling him what he should do to fix his ship.
"No, I won't g-give up. Surrender Tron or the Gesellschaft is doomed." Glyde claimed, trying to sound threatening, but the sound of despair in his voice convinced me otherwise.
"No I think not!" I said, a huge smile now consumed my face. "Now destroy Glyde's ship! Don't leave a usable scrap behind!" I commanded the servbots on the ship, to which they redoubled the bombardment on Glyde's ship. Soon secondary explosions started to tear his ship apart. I walked to the radio and flipped it on, "by Glyde, sorry to leave you like this but, I have to find my brother." I mockingly said, trying to act somewhat sorry for his pathetic position, which I did not.
"You will regret that Tron, Now fire the ultimate Glyde cannon!" his voice unexpectedly shouted through the radio.
"Miss Tron! There is a small ship behind us!" a servbot yelled.
"What!?" I replied not believing what was about to happen.
"Quick everyone! Brace for impact!" I could hear Roll shout, but too late, the Gesellschaft shook so hard I thought it would come apart and I was thrown backwards. When I fell I hit my head, hard. I lay their on the ground, and in pain. I could hear Roll get up and start to say something to the servbots but whatever she said was muffled and I couldn't understand what she said. Everything started to go black, just around the edge of my vision, but I fought to stay awake although I felt as though I was being drained just by keeping my eyes open. But as everything started going dark I could remember the sound of explosions and the ship shaking and then a bright fireball flying past out side just as I completely lost consciousness.