Freedom Planet: The Fire Garnet
Chapter 3: เรอูนียง (The Reunion)
Shang Tu Airship
The airship flew through the sky at a fast pace in the night sky, the moon was out illuminating on the ship as Lilac and her friends were deep asleep in their beds. But this seemingly peaceful sail down south was abruptly interrupted by a disturbance...
*VVVVRRRRRROOOOOO... BOOM*
Everyone: "AAAHHHH!"
Carol: "What the heck was that!?"
Lilac: "Let's find out what it is!"
Milla: "Right behind you!"
Lilac, Carol, and Milla all run up to the deck of the ship, seeing a trail of smoke came down from the sky, with a fire spreading where the object crashed.
Lilac: "We have to go check it out!"
Carol: "Wait a minute, what about our mission?"
Lilac: "It'll have to wait, this could be something very important!"
Carol: *sigh* "Uugh, Fine!"
Lilac: "Lay the anchor and prepare to descend!"
Milla: "Aye aye, captain!"
Milla drops the anchor to hold the Airship in place, taking the small airplane to assist them on their way down where they began seeing that the crashed object was a severely damaged small spaceship from outer space. The space ship was being torn apart by squid like robots in a black and green color, as the plane landed Lilac and her friends got off the plane after landing It at a safe distance to rescue whoever was on the spaceship being attacked.
Spaceship Crash site
Lilac: "Quick, take out those robots before they kill the pilot!"
Lilac and her friends attacked the squid-like robots, a few of them attacked Lilac's crew head on while the others continued tearing up the spaceship to get the pilot, the fight lasted for a minute, when they finished off the robots they turned to see the unstable ship leaking highly flammable liquids.
Lilac: "Carol, the ship might explode If we don't get the pilot to safety, hurry and bust open the cockpit!"
Carol broke the cockpit open after seeing it was jammed, then carried the pilot out of the ship in a hurry with the smoke obstructing her vision, the group then ran off in a hurry to avoid getting caught in the explosion.
Milla: *activates psi shield* "Watchout!"
*BBBBBBOOOOOOOMMMM*
The crew flew out of the ground, the debris blocked by Milla's psi shield knocked them against a huge tree.
Everyone: *moaning in pain* "Uuggghhh..."
Milla: "Is everyone... alright?"
Carol sees Lilac and Milla conscious and relatively unharmed.
Carol: "Yeah, I think so..."
Carol turns her head and realizes the pilot was Torque, severely injured and unconscious.
Carol: "TORQUE!"
Lilac: "We need to get him to the sick bay on the airship, quick to the airplane!"
Lilac's crew got on the small blue airplane and landed back on the airship, giving Torque medical attention...
Shang Tu Airship (2 hours later)
Torque woke up with bandages on his body in great pain, seeing himself on a bed of an Airship. As he awakened, Milla was in the sick bay keeping an eye on him to make sure he was alright. Happy with excitement that Torque is finally awake, Milla went to tell the others of Torque regaining his consciousness...
Carol: "Torque, I'm so glad to see you're doing alright!, Well, kinda..."
Torque: *moaning in pain* "Ugh, Lilac, Carol, Milla?, Where am I?"
Lilac: "You are on our airship flying south to Saraburi."
Lilac: "Torque, what just happened to you in that ship?"
Torque: "We were running an experiment to help us in the war against Lord Brevon's forces, but they somehow managed to track down and attack our ship until it blew up. I would have died or been captured If it weren't for you guys. Lord Brevon... he is still alive..."
Carol: "What was this experiment you guys were doing?"
Torque: "We were using an advance prototype technology that could track powerful energy signatures and resources while remaining undetectable by the enemy."
Torque paused a second to catch his breath.
Torque: "We called it Project Horizon, it allowed us to scan the atmospheres of other worlds and help develop new, more powerful technologies and fuel sources to aid us in stopping Lord Brevon, but something happened when we were using it over your planet, the device went completely haywire, and not long after we were attacked. Our crew got the device attached to the ship, and they had me fly it to safety. I set the coordinates near where I could find you guys to help me keep it safe, but for some weird reason it started acting on it's own detaching the cargo and landing here instead."
Carol: "Wait, your ship detached the equipment and decided to land there at it's own will?, Interesting..."
Torque: "Something about the device must have caused it, that is the only logical explanation I can think of."
Lilac: "We will figure out how to get your device back for you once we reach Surat Thani, right now you need to get some rest and heal from your injuries."
Torque: "Thank you, Lilac"
Milla: "Get better soon!"
สุราษฎร์ธานี (Surat Thani)
Lilac and her friends arrive at Surat Thani, as they came off their airship they were introduced by the Royal escort. The air felt incredibly hot, and they were sweating from the heat and high humidity of the environment. This wasn't surprising to Lilac for a country near the planet's equator to have this kind of weather especially with jet streams that flow from the equator over the country. As they all exited the airship, one of the Royal escorts humbly welcomed Lilac's crew to the Royal city. Torque, having healed enough from his wounds to walk, followed Lilac's group.
Royal Escort: "Welcome to Surat Thani."
The Royal escorts performed a Wai bow.
Royal Escort: "Princess Pakārạng Ankara welcomes you to Surat Thani, please follow us to the safety of the Royal Palace to meet her."
Lilac: "We are all honored."
Lilac copies their Wai bow and followed the Royal escort to the Palace, they were brought to the doors of the throne room that were tall, carved with Ruby's and made with gold. As the guards opened the doors with the Royal escorts, Carol and the Princess stared at each other with a priceless expression of surprise...
Pakārạng: "!?..."
Lilac's group: "!?..."
Pakārạng: *breaks in tears* "You, how... they said you were dead!..."
Seeing a wildcat that looked and sounded like her, Carol was every bit as surprised as she was confused.
Carol: "Uh, what?"
Pakārạng: "You're, you're my twin sister, we were separated when we were just kittens, they said you died in the burning ship, I... I'm so glad they were wrong!"
Pakārạng hugs Carol in tears, Carol begins getting worked up over the moment and started getting emotional too.
Pakārạng: *smiles with tears* "I'd like you all to join me for a Royal dinner tonight, I'll explain everything."
Carol: *thinks to herself* (I have Royal blood?)
Everyone: "!?..."
Torque: "Well, this is gonna be interesting."
Milla: "We get to have a royal feast with Carol's sister?, OOH this is so exciting!"
Carol: "Your Majesty..."
Pakārạng: *smiles* "Please, there's no need for formalities with your twin sister, you can just call me Coral."
Carol: *smiles back* "Okay, I am truly honored to have a Royal feast with you anytime Coral!"
With both of them having discovered Carol and Coral were both twin sisters separated since baby kittens, they all came together for an elegant Royal feast accompanied with Lord Aawut to discuss the matters that were at hand. It was, truly, the most happiest thing yet that has happened in Coral's life, but beyond the happiness of that moment, a dark storm is lurking around the corner...
