Disclaimer: Once again I do not own the Blue headed Lad and his other companions


Chapter 2: Crash and Capture

The Vendeeni had their rifles aimed at Maria, and she moved to dodge. They pulled the triggers, and the blasts sped toward her. Suddenly she was tackled down by another person. The person grunted as he got singed by a blast. She turned around to look at Fayt.

"Fayt! Are you okay?" Maria asked examining his leg.

"Don't worry! Get the president!" he yelled. He seemed to be fine since he was able to get up quickly. He kicked the Conference Table down to use as a barricade. Then Maria pulled the President down behind the table. The disrupter blasts hit the table.

As the Vendeeni were reloading, Fayt jumped up from behind the table. Be brought his blade crashing down on an unfortunate soldier. As he landed, he adjusted his footing to throw a side kick into the other soldier. He assumed his ready position then twisted his blade around to catch the other soldier dead in the stomach. Another soldier was about to fire, but Maria quickly fired a deadly shot at his head. The two examined their work. With a sigh they turned to the President.

"President Silvest are you okay? Can you walk?" Maria asked, helping her up.

"Y-yes, I'm fine," she said, shaking dust off her outfit.

"We need to get off the Moonbase, fast. Do you have a ship we can get to?" Fayt asked.

"Yes, there is a secret transporter off to the side, which only I know about," she said. She looked a little pale in the face.

"Alright lead the way m'am," Maria said. She stopped before stepping outside. She went to a cabinet in the wall to pull out a phase rifle.

"Just in case," she said, slowly.

Maria and Fayt nodded and followed her out the door and to the left. As they walked further along they saw litters of dead Federation, Vendeeni, and Aldian soldiers, dead.

"God…" President Silvest said under her breath. She gazed around and slowly put a hand over her mouth.

"President, just think…all the families that will be grieving, think about the other lives that would be lost for your petty struggles," Maria said scornfully.

The President was still in shock looking at them. She seemed to notice one of them, as a tear fell from her eyes.

"Yes, well, we're almost there," she said, regaining her composure. She stopped when she reached what seemed like a dead end. She hit a panel in the wall, to reveal a keypad, she quickly punched in a code. The wall slid open to reveal a transporter.

"This will transport us to my ship, then we can escape, let me just confirm the coordinates.

Suddenly they heard voices on the other end of he wall. They spotted soldiers in a golden armor. One shot right above them and caused the wall to break, and debris fell upon them.

This time Maria tackled Fayt to the ground to save him. Fayt looked up dazed to see Maria on top of him.

"Thanks," he said. They quickly got up and noticed the soldiers getting closer.

They shot again, putting a huge dent in the wall.

"How could a small rifle like that cause that much damage?" Maria thought as she dodged another blast. As she pivoted on her leg she unholstered her gun. She spun around and aimed for the soldier's head. The soldier staggered backward, and fell limp on the floor. She shot another in the stomach, but the blast was absorbed by the armor.

"What the?" Fayt said. He quickly spun into action. Once again he waited for the reload, cautiously dodging the blasts. Then he made his move. He used his Blade of Fury technique. He maimed one soldier, turned his blade to get another, then he lunged forward getting two soldiers. More were coming from down the wall. Fayt lost his balace and had to scramble to dodge a shot. He got burned on the side by it and put a hand to his side.

Maria scrambled and shot a couple of bursts, aiming for their heads. "Madam! How much longer??" she yelled.

"Hold on….now!! It's ready!" she yelled.

"Fayt come on!!" Maria yelled to her companion. He quickly scrambled to his feet and ran to the transporter. Maria and the President provided cover fire to protect Fayt coming to the transporter. He quickly got in and the other two followed suit. Maria waited a second for the President to go. She snapped a bomb of her belt attached it to the transporter. When she was gone the bomb ticked for a second. When Maria was on the ship she detonated the bomb. It blew up the transporter, beyond repair, It ensured no one could follow them.

The strange soldiers examined the wreck and the captain shook his head.

"Captain Stern, it seems they've escaped," a soldier said.

"Obviously you fool!" he exclaimed. "Alert King Nede on the ship to be on the look out for the escaping Federation ship," Captain Stern roared.


Fayt and Maria materialized one after the other on the bridge of a Federation Ship. They arrived just in time to see a furious President screaming and yelling at the Bridge Captain.

"How could you let the Vendeeni, Aldians, and the Nedians catch us off guard!!" she yelled at the man. "You assured me that security was as tight as possible!!" she continued.

"W-well they attacked at Station #6 and we had to make sure they didn't get killed so-," the man quickly blurted but got cut off by the president.

"What about the Nedians then!! I thought we had them under control!!" she spat.

"Well some idiot left the Virtual Field off after a maintenance, and-,"the man stuttered, but got cut off again.

"Well that's your fault!!" she screamed. She calmed down for a second and took a seat in the Captain's chair.

"Captain we're being intercepted by one of the Nedian ships," the navigator said.

Maria looked on the main screen. She saw one huge golden ship decimating Vendeeni, Aldian and Federation ships alike. There were 6 smaller ships, drawing fire away from the main cruiser. One of the smaller ships broke off from the main fleet and pursued their ship.

"Nedians…?" Fayt thought.

"Alright divert power to front shields, at these coordinates put all power to the Warp Engine. Go into Gravitic Warp," the Captain replied

"What coordinates do you want to head to sir?" the helmsman asked.

"Captain, excuse me but could we go here?" Maria asked handing him Elicoor II's coordinated.

The Captain asked the President and she said, "Yes, I trust these people."

"Maria why Elicoor?" Fayt asked. He looked at the Coordinates on the screen.

"That was the agreed rendezvous point Mirage and I planned upon in case of an accident," she replied.

"Soldier, please show Captain Traydor and Mr. Leingod a guest room," the President said werarily.

"Yes m'am!" a soldier said, standing up, he motioned toward the two to follow him. They followed him and they went into the room

Fayt looked around. "Man, all Federation Ships look the same," Fayt thought. He remembered the tragedy of the Aquaelie.

"Alright I'm gonna try to contact Mirage," Maria said. She popped her Communicator open. Mirage's face appeared on the screen, she was in the System Operator's chair.

"Captain!Maria on the screen," Mirage said seriously. The warning klaxons were buzzing in the background.

"Yo, Maria!" Cliff said nonchalantly, as the Diplo's bridge shook violently.

"Cliff! Where are you guys! What's happening?" Maria cried, concerned.

"Hey Mirage data report! And direct power to the main cannons and maneuver to their starboard side helmsman!" he barked. The ship was rocked again.

"Maria we're currently in the somewhere in the Beta Sector. We're uhh being pursued by one of those strange ships, and we're getting torn apart. "Cliff, shields down to 60 however we did score a direct hit on their engines," Mirage said calmly.

"Alright divert all power to the Gravitic Warp Engine and get us the hell outta here," Cliff said to Mirage. Cliff turned to Maria, "Sorry shorty but we might be a little late," Cliff said seriously.

"Don't worry about it, we're safe with the Federation. Just get away safely and in one peace," Maria said.

"Roger, Diplo out," Mirage said. Her face disappeared and her face went dark. She began sniffling and put her hands to her eyes.

Fayt rushed over to Maria, he knew something was wrong. "Maria, it's ok, they'll be fine," Fayt said, hugging her.

Maria cried a little and whimpered, "I can't lose them Fayt! They're l-like f-family to me," she whimpered.

Fayt ran a hand through her hair. "It's ok, Cliff won't let them go down so easily, they wanna see you again too, shorty" he said gently. He added the last bit at the end as a joke.

"Y-yeah your right," she said, quickly regaining her composure. Her tough enigmatic shell appeared again.

Fayt wiped the remaining tears from her eyes. "You're ok now right?" he asked smiling.

"Hey I'm not short!" she cried furiously. She punched Fayt in the arm lightly

"You kinda are...shorty!" he yelled. He smiled again.

Maria couldn't help but smile, and let out a short laugh. "You're smile is so infectious, it's hard to be sad around you," she said.

"Yeah wel-" Fayt got cut off as an officer came in.

"I'm sorry but we need you on the bridge," the man said.

"Of course," Maria replied seriously. They scrambled to the bridge and realized that they had returned to conventional space. They gazed at the form of Elicoor II on the ship's main screen. The President walked over to them.

"M'am, what happened?" Fayt asked.

"Well first of all sources have confirmed that this was a coordinated strike by the Vendeeni and Aldians. However the strange troops called the Nedians organized a surprise strike on the Aldian, Vendeeni, and Federation governments. Thanks to you, I got away safely. The other leaders however, unfortunately got killed in this assassination, but now we have reason to believe the Nedians are after you two. We analyzed some Ancient data-," the President stopped when the Systems Operatore spoke.

"M'am! Long Range Scanners detect unidentified golden ships are jumping out of Gravitic Warp!" the official yelled.

"Bring 'em on screen!" the Captain yelled.

"Sir weapons are charged and are firing a first round, the energy levels are higher than Creation Energy!" the System Operator yelled.

"Divert power to shields and aft engines! Dodge 'em!!" the Captain yelled. They dodged one bolt, but a lot more found their target. The bridge lost it's lighting for a while until the auxiliary lights kicked in.

"Captain! Shields are down to 20 and the Creation Engine is unstable!" the SO yelled.

"Alright all power to shields, give the evacuation code, escort her Madam President and her guests to the pods!" the Captain barked.

Fayt clenched his fist and remembered the attack on the Helre, this is just like last time! "Captain no! You and your men can get away too!" Fayt cried.

"No, someone has to stay and keep the systems running so you can get away!" he yelled back.

"But-," Fayt got cut off by Maria.

"Fayt…we have to be rational we have to get away," Maria replied grimly. She nodded to him and urged him to go.

"Alright…" he said, Maria bringing him to his senses. The ship was rocked violently again. The lights went out permanently, only the glows of the Crew's consoles were lit.

"Thank you Captain," the President saluted him.

"Just get the hell outta here! We'll be…fine," he yelled.

They didn't waste any more time and scrambled to the Escape Pods that the soldiers were motioning to.

"Meet you down there Fayt!" Maria yelled across form the Evac Corridor.

"Keep safe Maria!" Fayt yelled. They both forgot about the President as she simply sighed

"Kids…" she thought.

Fayt scrambled into the familiar cockpit of the pod. The pod whirred to life. The computer hummed and turned on.

"Welcome," it said in a cool voice.

"Launch now!" Fayt yelled. The hall ahead of him opened up, the walls glowed a neon blue, revealing the void of space at the end. The pod 'wooshed' as it accelerated out of the ship.

The pod was immediately rocked by cannon fire from the strange ship. He saw other escape pods exploding in balls of flaming red. "NO Maria!" he thought. If anything hapenned to her...he...well he... just wouldn't be the same

"Fayt! If you can hear this please respond!!" Maria's voice rang on his console.

"Maria! I'm fine! I feared you might have been in one of those pods," Fayt said, relieved.

"Me too glad , I'm you are sa-," she stopped when a wail of distress rang out.

"This is the President, my stabilizer has been destroyed and oh no! I'm jumping into Gravitic Warp!" she yelled. Obviously she didn't want this to happen, god knows where she would end up. The two watched on as the ship jumped, one of the strange ships broke off to give chase.

"Fayt let's meet up at Aquaria and- ARGHHH!!" she yelled as Fayt saw her ship shot down. It plummeted toward Elicoor II, as it burned up in the atmosphere

"No Maria!!" he yelled, her comm. link was dead, as Fayt couldn't contact her. His ship was suddenly rocked and his ship also began plummeting toward Elicoor II. He was shot again and Fayt hit his head on the console. He lost consciousness.


…On the Diplo somewhere in the Beta Sector, after successfully shaking off the strange ship.

"Arghh!! Damn wires!" Cliff yelled as he was stuck in a tangle of red, blue, green and yellow. He began punching the wires and the lights in the hall blacked out, then turned back on. Cliff looked up.

He saw Mirage flip on the backup switch. "Cliff I did some research on the ship and I found some interesting…Err what are you doing?" she asked, fighting back a laugh.

"I decided to take a lovely romantic stroll with these pesty wires," he said sarcastically.

"Cliff…" she sighed, shaking her head. "You're supposed to be commanding the Bridge!! Besides Steeg, Lancar and Lieber are just getting some tools. They're heading down to make repairs as we speak," she snapped at him.

"I know but I'm worried about Fayt and Maria, I feel guilty for putting them in this situation," he replied.

"Yeah but why-," he cut her off.

He finally broke out of the wires and the ship whined a bit, and Cliff scratched his head "Whoops, but anyways I got jittery and needed to stretch my legs, I'm really worried about them. Now I have a hunch that they're in trouble," he sat down against the wall.

Mirage took a seat next to him, "We're geniuses, huh?" she asked miserably.

"Yup," Cliff said sadly. Mirage put a hand on his shoulder, and they stood up.

"Now get back to the bridge before you blow up the engines or something 'ya big lummox," she joked. She hit him in the arm and he laughed.

"Alright, alright!" he replied, scratching his head.


Fayt groaned and looked around at the pod's cockpit, The pod was damaged beyond repair. He unbuckled his seatbelt, and heaved himself out of the ship. Across from him was another ship. "Huh, Maria landed next to me, lucky for us," he thought. He dashed to her cockpit, and slashed the hinge. The door swung open, almost nicking Fayt on the nose.

He looked at her. Her eyes were closed and some blood trickled down her face.

"Maria!" he yelled. He ran a finger along her neck, and felt a pulse. He exhaled in relief. He unbuckled her safety belt and carried her out of the wreckage. He gently laid her down on the ground. Fayt brushed a lock of her cerulean-blue hair, examining her face. He blushed, then quickly turned away. He noticed this pod's communicator was intact. He pulled it out, and pocketed it. He looked at its computer.

"Computer, what is our location?" he asked.

"Elicoor II, Continent of Gaitt, Underdeveloped World…tread with caution," it said.

"Well that helped," Fayt thought. He picked up Maria again and began walking on a rough path. He looked around, the forest was quite normal, it couldn't be Duggus Forest. He had no idea where they had landed.

After an hour or so of trekking he noticed, Maria began to get heavy in his arms. He lay his sword against a tree stump and put Maria down. He looked around, "The trees aren't as thick as before, and more light is shining through. We might be nearing the end of this wood," he thought. He heard something move and dashed to his sword, he spun around. It was just a bird.

Then he felt a gun pointed to his back. He raised his hands in sign of defeat. He turned his neck to look at Maria. A man wearing a blue army suit and armed with a 19th century gun pointed it at her. "At least she's safe," he thought.

"I surrender!" he said, chuckling inwardly at what Cliff did last time.

"By the Greetonian National Guard you are under arrest, do not attempt to struggle!" the man behind him yelled. It reminded Fayt of his Psychology Professor's voice.

"Wait…did he say Greeton?" Fayt thought. His vision suddenly blacked out as he felt a gun smack his head.


Alright so that should be the last update for a while, but never fear! I will complete it! Reviews would be REALLLYYYY nice. Any suggestions or comments are welcome.