Chapter 3: Bathing Interruption
30 minutes after the tourist shuttle landed on Earth.
Zastin was staring out the window into space looking at Earth from his nice steamy bath.
"This really hits the spot! After wearing armor all day this is relaxing!" states Zastin.
Pushing a blue button on the pad next to him, Zastin says, "I'd like a drink to be brought to me right away."
The commander closes his eyes and lets the heat from the water soak his mind, as he thinks of the ways to enhance security for the princess. It's not every day he gets a chance to relax as he's doing now, so he wants to enjoy it as much as possible. Surely he won't be interrupted this time.
For the past few months it always was something that would stop him midway through his bathing time. Whether it is aliens shooting out of his bath tub, the water being dyed green, or a noble of a territory coming to visit, he never got to fully enjoy his soak.
"Surely this time I'll be able to relax," mutters Zastin.
BAAANNNGGGG… The whole ship moves down, making Zastin and all the water in the bath shoot up and hit the ceiling. Alarms begin to blare as the commander hits the floor of the room bare assed. He gets up, pissed off and wraps a towel around his waist.
"What THE HELL WAS THAT?!" yells Zastin through the intercom.
A lower ranked officer reports, "Commander, the tourist ship like transformed or something and attacked. We're dead in the water! What do we do?!"
Zastin rushes onto the bridge of his ship in a towel, and looked at where the tourist ship was before and saw instead a massive ship bearing dual weapon cannons of some sort.
"What… the hell is that..?" asks Zastin.
"Do we have weapons?" asks Zastin.
"We only have sensors and life support and limited communications functional commander, we're caught in a damping field being emitted from that ship," replied the science officer.
"Commander, we're being hailed from that ship…" says the comm officer.
"Display it onscreen…" commands Zastin.
The transmission was put on screen, and Zastin stared into the eyes of the Angelitian first officer of the ship, Leviathan.
"Greet…. Why aren't you wearing anything but a towel?" asked the blonde-haired blue eyed Angelitian.
"Forget that… You'll be answering to the Devilukean military for attacking my ship!" barked Zastin with a sense of nobility.
"I'm pretty sure I'm the one in control here… I am Tieran, the first officer of the Leviathan. My prince would like to thank you for allowing him to send down the away team in the shuttle. Hahaha.. but to get to the point, my prince will not harm your crew, or you. You will be transported away from your ship and confined in accommodations we will provide for you. Thank you for understanding." says Tieran as he ends transmission.
Zastin orders his crew to comply with the Tieran, since they have no other options available to them and he goes to his room and gets dressed, sulking that he couldn't enjoy a nice bath.
True to his word, the crew of Zastin's ship and Zastin is transported to a luxurious accommodation prison quarters where they'll spend quite a lot of time.
Meanwhile, Tieran sends an away team to Zastin's ship and sets up a remote control commandeering device. He also sends a record message of the prince to the leader of Devilukean military, Gid Deviluke.
"Haha, Dan is genius. Gid will have to come rescue his daughters and then we'll right the wrongs that were committed by him!" states Tieran to the crew around him. "For the prince!" yells Tieran triumphantly in success.
"For the prince!" yells the rest of the crew.
On Gid's flagship…
"Gid Lucione Deviluke, I, Prince Dan Angelite advise you come to Earth to face me. I have your daughters under my care, and if you wish to have them back, then come. I have not forgotten what you did to my world, and it's time you face what you did. So, I challenge you. You may come with an entire Armada if you wish! I look forward to our meeting. Dan Angelite, signing off." The transmission ended, and left a very angry Gid in its place.
"WHY THAT BASTARD! Threatening me by taking my daughters hostage! What the hell! I knew that worthless human couldn't protect her!" yells Gid.
Walking on the bridge, Gid commands his nav-officer to plot a course for Earth. In about a day's time, Gid's flagship and a fleet of four battleships, two cruisers, one fighter carrier, and three frigates, make their way to Earth.
On the stolen Devilukean ship (Formerly Zastin's ship)
The Angelitian Prince had excelled in transmutation technology as well as espionage technology and therefore ordered the conversion of Zastin's ship. The ship was improved and remodeled to house superior weapons which included phase arrays and projectile tubes. Shields and engines on the ship were improved as well, and Tieran was given permission to rename the ship at his preference.
"Well, this is quite an improvement than what it looked like before!" said Tieran as he looked at improved Devilukean ship.
"Bladewing… that should be its name. After all it's going to support the Leviathan when we're outnumbered." said Tieran as he took a final look.
Returning to the Leviathan, Tieran proceeded to the remote ship command room. The room was mostly empty except for a chair incased in a sphere where he would sit and pilot the Bladewing when the so called "King of the Universe" arrived.
"I'm looking forward to this," Tieran says with a smile. Tieran thinks to himself, I wonder what the prince is doing on the planet Earth right now.