Private Prague, U.N.P.K

Chapter 19

It Came from Outerspace!

Both Lin and Doug sat down on the sofa and the latter turned on the television.

"Don't you have to do something for the Harriers?" Lin groaned as she looked at the man, "I never see you around there anymore."

"That's because we never do anything!" Doug responded bluntly as he switched the channel, "Stupid peaceful indigens being all stupidly peaceful." he grumbled to himself.

"Lighten up, Doug." Elma walked in, "Now people aren't dying, and that is good for New LA." she commented as she sat down next to Lin.

"I remember when we all used to take down big game." Doug sighed, "Now look at us... you're a housewife, Lin is very critical, and I'm just a big hunk of muscle and bacon sprawled on a sofa!"

"That's not true!" Lin growled, "Come on! I'm not that critical!"

"You're about as critical as a Skell engine on overdrive!" Doug responded, "Oh yeah, there's your mechanical engineering." he grunted and turned to the television.

"If you don't like the life you have now, why don't you try to better it?" Elma crossed her arms, "Try some new hobby, or maybe even join in the First Olympic Games." she informed.

"I am." Doug nodded, "But that's just a two year thing... Huh... Whatever..." he glared at the television.

"We now return to: Xenoblade X- Mexican Telenovela Edition." the voice in the tv spoke as the screen changed."

"Ivanna! Don't tell me you're in love with that American!" a woman told another as they boarded Skells, "Your parents will never forgive you!"

"Pero Maria..." the other woman said, "I am having his child!"

A dramatic score played in the background as the camera zoomed in on the inquirer's horrified face.

"But the world is about to be destroyed!" the first woman yelled.

"But he bought me a ranch in the-"

The Earth exploded before the sentence was finished, and a soft sniffle was heard in the real world.

"Doug, are you ok?" Lin asked the teary eyed Harrier, "Are you-"

"IVANNA!" Doug yelled to sky with clenched fists, "NOOOOOOOOOO!"

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"Last time I stepped in here, I was a crash-in guest." Prague told Irina and Gwin as he walked into the woman's house, "Perhaps I should go-"

"No." Irina bluntly said, "We need to make this loud and clear." she pointed at the android, "Do Not tell Elma about our little... encounter." she mumbled.

"Yeah, man." Gwin muttered, "Elma will have our necks if she finds out about this... Please, you can't spill the beans!"

"I have assured you I will not tell Elma about your little tryst." Prague sighed, "Now please, I have to do something for the UN." he groaned.

"Just don't do it!" Irina hissed, "You're free to go, soldier!" she ordered him.

"Excuse me?" Prague turned, "Hey, you don't order me around! I only fall under the authority of the United Nations and Vandham, Nagi, and Maurice during this interim!" he yelled.

"Shut up and go!" Irina growled, "Go on!"

"I will now respond with anger." Prague gnashed his teeth, "I will respond by contacting Elma!" he dialed the colonel.

"Oh no you don't!" Irina tried to punch him, but ended up hurting herself.

"Prague, please, no!" Gwin gasped in horror as Prague absorbed all the attacks from Irina.

"Elma, please rendezvous to my location." Prague spoke to himself, "I have some important data to share with you."

It took a few minutes, but Elma walked in eventually, looking at the three, "What is it you need, Private?" she asked with curiosity.

"No!" Gwin stepped back, "You can't do this to us, Prague!"

"Traitor!" Irina grabbed a mop, snapped it with her knee, and spun one half in her right hand as she threw the other half to the ground.

"I see how it is..." Prague muttered as he removed his right fist, then made a wave of plasma form a blade that extended out of his wrist.

"HRAH!" Irina swung down the metallic mop stick and struck the android's plasma blade, causing sparks to fly.

"Ha! Ha!" Prague blocked all her strikes with relative ease, "Hmph." he grunted and flicked Irina on the nose, sending her crashing into the loveseat.

"Private!" Elma gasped, "What are you- Stop it!" she said, "What is the meaning of this!?"

"Gwin and Irina are having romantic encounters." Private Prague responded calmly, "They told me not to inform you our they would face dire consequences."

"Prague..." Gwin groaned and sat down on a sofa in defeat, covering his face with his hands.

"Well I had my suspicions a tomcat had been fooling around here." Elma chuckled, catching the two Interceptors by surprise.

"You're... Not mad, Colonel?" Irina asked with concern, "Are... you sure?"

"Whatever you do in your private lives does not matter to me." Elma shrugged her shoulders, "As long as it does not interfere with your BLADE operations. If I was in everyone's bed, I would be the one with all the problems."

"I'm glad this came out for the better." Private Prague commented, "I predicted it. Elma is not one to snoop around and condemn when there is nothing that is mission threatening."

"Just try to keep this under wraps, ok?" Elma muttered, "I don't want to find out that a fellow BLADE Interceptor couldn't keep his pistol in his holster."

"Thank you, Colonel." Gwin nodded, "I was sure that my position would be compromised if you found out... Now who wants to watch TV? Irina didn't make a steak for nothing." he said and turned on the device.

"It's fine with me." Elma answered, "I left Mark with his father... though where is he?" she asked as she pulled out her holodev.

"He's in the barracks as of last tracking update." Private Prague informed, "That's right, I know where every civilian and BLADE in New LA is and where they are going 24/7." he chuckled.

"My word, don't you have a storage limit?!" Irina growled, "I thought you ran on memory cards!"

"My storage capacity is at 15%." Prague informed, "I have about 33 years, 22 months, 1 week, and 4 days of storage left. Though I should be refurbished and updated by my 15th year." he grinned.

"The future is amazing." Gwin chuckled as he flipped channels, "Just think, in 5 years maybe some guy will make a spaceship that can leave this planet." he stopped when all the channels went blank, "Huh?"

Every channel the man flipped to had the same black background.

"What's going on?" Elma asked as she saw a two faint glowing lights appear.

"Puny Human Scum..." a low voice grumbled, "We are the Pandellions." it continued, "We are a fully fledged Galactic Empire, sent on a Divine Crusade to eliminate your degenerate race."

"It's on every channel." Irina observed as Gwin continue flipping through all 5 channels.

"Even as we speak we have taken vital positions in Cauldros and Oblivia, and many of your puny human basecamps have been overrun by our vastly superior mechanized army." a video footage of large bipedal robots, armored infantry, and futuristic Skell-like mechs played, all attacking various base camps.

"Is this, for real?" Elma muttered, then got a call, "Secretary, what is the meaning of this? Yes! I'm looking at it from Irina's house! It's playing all over New LA!? What?"

"I can't believe it." Gwin shook his head, "Is this the real dilly?" he asked Elma.

"Private, see if you can pinpoint the origin of the transmission!" Elma told the android, "Do it now!"

"Affirmative." Private Prague nodded and plugged up to the television, "Scanning frequency... Detecting source of frequency emission site." he informed as he received the information, "It appears to be coming from orbit around Mira." he notified.

"Someone or something is blasting it from orbit." Elma reported to Nagi, "That's what he said, sir... Yes.. I know the games are a few- Oh, they're bluffing?" she said in surprise.

"Affirmative." Prague commented, "I can still see that every basecamp in Oblivia and Cauldros is fully operational and reporting back."

"They tried to pull the bluff card on us..." Irina growled, "Just who they think they are?!"

00(In the depths of Space)00

A large spaceship hovered in orbit above Mira, shielded by an assortment of starfighters and companion spacecraft.

"I see..." a lone figure muttered as he stood inside the large spaceship's cockpit, looking at the planet through a large circular window.

"I don't think we should have lied to them, sir." another figure, this one a humanoid bovine in armor, spoke, "They must have noticed it was a bluff."

"Silence, you!" the large figure turned, revealing it was slug with two extending stalks (however, his beady black eyes were still on his face), and extended his arm and made his hand grip the air tightly.

"Uh..." the bovine man muttered, "Sir, what are you doing?" he looked at the slug man's clenched hand, which was shaking in the air, "You know that doesn't... sir... I'm actually concerned for your mental health right now."

"I am Grand Daakan Slugzzar!" the slug man yelled and continued to clench his hand midair, "And I find your lack of respect disturbing..."

"Sir... If you keep this up, we will never be able to respawn the Guardian Deity Go-Rha." the bovine soldier muttered, "Is that not our dream, so we could finally defeat the enemies that oppress us?"

"Yes, I know that..." Slugzzar muttered, "But... we don't have the manpower right now... are all the Herz ready for combat?"

"Negative, sir." the soldier responded, "Many are still in cryosleep... soonest time to get all troops on the moo-ve is in two weeks." he informed.

"Very well, the invasion begins then!" Slugzzar pointed to the sky, "For now, we strategize... and use our ancient incantations to call to Go-Rha." he informed as he looked back to the planet, "Hopefully our friends don't join us later."

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"So for the most part we could call this a prank." Vandham told the group as they gathered in the barracks briefing room, "Don't worry, Elma, we already notified him to not come back and keep working." he told the woman.

"Who could pull such a prank, though?" Lin asked, "It would have to be someone that has access to the transmission module of NLA."

"We're checking every engineer so far." Nagi muttered, "Don't worry Lin, you were with us so your alibi checks out." he nodded.

"Too bad it wasn't real." Doug groaned, "That may have given us Harriers something to do for a change." he chuckled.

"We should be thankful it wasn't." Lao shook his head, "Or we all would have suffered the toll of war."

"Lao's right." Gwin agreed, "We should be glad we didn't have to engage in combat... this is our first time being at peace on Mira, we shouldn't take it for granted."

"Whatever the case may be." Vandham crossed his arms, "Maurice and the higher ups have decided to let the NLA Olympics continue, citing this incident as an 'Illicit Prank'."

"Though he did tell us to look into it further." Nagi added, "Thanks to data received from Private Prague's scan, we have at least have a starting point." he muttered, "Now, we cannot go against Maurice's orders, so the Games have to go on- Are any of you joining, per chance?"

"I'm going to be a coordinator." Elma answered, "For all the women's games."

"I am a referee." Gwin added, "I didn't want to participate... for reasons." he gave a quick glance at Irina.

"They banned me from joining." Private Prague informed, "Though the reasons are quite unclear..."

"Unclear? Are you kidding me!?" Irina growled, "You could make a crater the size of New LA if you wanted to! This is for us regular humans only!" she balled up her fist.

SM'S TIME-
Oh yeah! New Serious Storyline coming up! Also I have been challenged by a friendly rival! Let's do this! Activate Overdrive!
Anywho, he's a really great writer though, his stories are good! Please check them out in the XBX Fanfiction Base please!

Thanks for reading and have a blessed day! (Irina X Gwin doe, I ship it)