United States
Aki Rosenthal
Aki controlling her spaceship through the clouds, since she open camouflage mode. So, there is no need to be afraid of any surprise attacks.
This planet inhabitants, judging by information from her radar, still unable to reach plasma era yet, and probably has no ways to discover her hiding ship.
Why looking for the information. Aki wonder if this is really a planet Suisei seeking.
After using the last of ship energy to create a wormhole and travel to this solar system. Suisei decided to leave Aki, one of marshal's best Android on the
smallest planet she could find. (Pluto)
Aki tasks is to wait and build a camps on the planet, she collects a box with every crews' DNA inside, in case that everything go wrong and the Suisei's cruiser
being destroyed or something like that happens.
It is Aki job to keep the boxes and her last scouting ship. Waiting until Suisei come back with good news. If she never come, Aki has to travel again and finds
star people genetic chamber and cloning everyone in order to start journeying again.
Aki is not sure how long should 'never comeback' be. But Suisei just laughs when she were being asked.
So, Aki guess that she means to coming back and Aki real jobs is just wait and guarding their back at the edge of the solar system.
Who knows what kind of aliens has evolved during the absence of star people? They may need to quickly retreat, and Aki could guarding them through safest
routes with the scouting ship.
Without enough energy to spare. Aki was forced to use her power reserves mode. She also shuts her ship systems down and open only radar,
setting it to cry an alarm if star people ship running within ranges.
After checking any routes to moving in and out of this solar system. Aki then take a long sleep, which is last until one outlaws ship flying pass her.
When Aki open her eyes again, the ship is already moving pass her camp. Every information she could read told Aki that it's act against the curfews law that
has been declared by Suisei.
So, it is her duty to destroyed it, enforcing the laws even if there are not much of star people left.
The fight did destroy parts of Aki spaceship, forcing her to stop and repaired it too.
After she finished fixing the spaceship, the enemy's ship is already gone, so Aki have to waiting and listening.
Aki argue with herself whether she should just ignore it and come back to guarding her camp again. One trespassing ship probably won't hurt Suisei
operations that much.
After checking every possibility, Aki decides to keep on searching.
The camp is deserted for so long and the alarming could warn Aki if anything coming close to it.
Trespassing ship however, is impossible to detect, and no one can be sure who is controlling the ship.
It might be another fraction of enemy. Ready to attack from behind.
After the confrontation. Aki decided that the intruder is just some surviving star people, probably coming from some distances colony where chain Supernovas
hasn't reached them yet.
Her strength isn't reach military standards. So, there is no point in collecting her DNA.
Aki decided to exterminate the criminal just in case. But local lifeforms taking her away somewhere and Aki is unable to find her yet.
Checking on the radar and signal again, Aki still unable to find Suisei's cruiser ship.
The spaceship shouldn't just disappear in thin air, so Aki refuses to give up searching.
She plays the recording of signal again and calculate tracking directions for hundred times, it leading to this accursed planet again,
so there is no mistake. The S.O.S. signal
starts here and Suisei ship followed, but no one has coming back.
Aki reading the data again, but nothing suggests that anything in this planet could hurt star people, much less destroying their ship.
Every lifeforms that evolved here is carbon-based and weak, their technology is not even reaching interstellar level yet.
Aki then reading the reason why they are being here again.
Yagoo, star people scientist using everything in genetic chamber to creating ultimate star people. His daughter who has every good trade of star people inside
her body.
It is an act against the laws, so Suisei has every right to cut his head off and already did so. Genetic engineering child need scientific and political inspection
first before they will being create. Nobody want an army of cloning soldiers or scientist to flooding their society. It used to cause a million years of civil wars
in the past.
And this Yagoo refused to report them about the child and sending her away from star people colony. 100% act of treason that must be punished by death.
Aki wondering if this genetic engineering child is the cause of Suisei ship destructions or not. It is hard to believe that one person could destroy entire ship
full of star people soldiers.
But no one ever mixing every good DNA inside one person before, so there are no ways to be really sure about what could happen.
Anyways, Aki can thinks of something. She will sending her own S.O.S signal, reversing the frequency that being send to them in the first place.
This should make the sender responds. If their ship is still intact enough to do so.
At least it was better than keep searching in vain.
Aki punch the S.O.S signal, watching it running throughout the planet and waiting for the responses.
….
Yucca Mountain, nuclear wastes repository: United States
Joe looks at the parameters again and read the information from the spaceship. It has been moving here, inside the secret base under the mountain
almost year ago.
He and other scientists has been working on the ship, but like generations of human before them, there are not a single one who capable of making this ship
workings.
200 years ago. A scientist leading by Usada Pekora, alien 'allies of humanity' has help them to work and start ship engines,
savaging lost technology from the ancient spaceship and improved humanity society like a skyrocket. Until she has been captures after smuggling alien from
space and destroying almost everything in New York City around decades after that.
Humanity didn't trust aliens anymore and there are no sighting of them since that time. We still managing to create something useful from the first and
second contacts.
And alien technologies helping us to conquering the Mars at last, terraforming it to have an atmosphere and oxygen, which can be only a dreams without
helps of technology from outer space.
But there are nothing humanity could achieve in the upcoming century.
The plasma technology is evolving and 'Hololive' equipment really improves how we contact with each other. But the main source of energy is still fossil fuel
and natural gas.
Some trying to arrange nuclear power. But the risks are too much and only the rich could get their hands on it.
Everything went full circle again, running back to where it starts. The only thing that left from alien arrivals is the spaceship that landed on this planet long
before human civilization occurs. It might be the key to humanity
survival too if they could make it working again.
The ship engine suddenly starts. Joe winces and checking his parameters. It is actually working! He quickly checked on what might be the cause of it,
nothing.
They just do a daily habit of cleaning and checking every room of the spaceship. Maybe worker has hit something and starts the engine without realizing it,
he must questioning them first-
The ceiling suddenly exploded, sunlight blinding Joe as he is trying to looks up. Something landing not too far from him. Grabbing his attention.
It was a yellow hair woman. Joe not sure if he is crazy or parts of her hair actually floating from her head with a strange futuristic disk intact with it.
The woman ignores everything and everyone as she is walking toward the spaceship that lay still behind the security glass walls.
Guards with assault rifles rush in and start shooting at her, but the woman seems to didn't feeling the bullets at all as she is running through the glass,
shattering it by forces.
Worker inside the spaceship laying low to avoiding bullets. Aki ignored them and looking at the ship computers, searching for an information.
The data has been deleted so, there aren't any helping here. Aki checks if she could reboot and retrieve some surviving information but it is no good either.
This ship has been damaged too much, it won't be able to fly again unless someone who capable to decides to fixing the thing.
One soldier decides to use a close quarter combat and shooting his gun when its barrel almost touching Aki's hairs. Star people Android swings her arm with
irritation, sending poor soldier to fly across the room and crashes with the walls, dead.
Aki checking ship's lock in history. She finds out that the last two times are interesting enough. Two times has been signed under Azki and Tokino Sora name.
Aki remembers Azki as DIVA Android from Yagoo's family. But who is Sora? His genetic engineering daughter perhaps?
Aki wonder what the hell just happen 200 years ago inside this ship.
Some soldiers bring the rocket launcher in and shoot at Aki, the explosive is enough to stunts her for a while, but except from the human equipment that
laying around.
Neither Aki nor the spaceship has been damaged by the puny attack.
Star people Android brush the dust out of her hand with irritation, she looks up as the soldier finishes reloading his rocket launcher and shooting it again.
Aki grabbed the rocket with one hand and throwing it back at group of soldiers. The explosions seem to send them scattering away at last,
so Aki can read her data in peace again.
She groaned with irritation when seeing that the genetic chamber has been destroyed, along with wormhole maker and most of artificial sun.
That's mean her efforts to travel here is for nothing.
Aki jumping back to her ship that floating 500 meters above the mountains.
She flies away before the local air forces could even react.
….
Ozora Subaru
" Look at the news, guys! She is wrecking Yucca Mountain right now."
Kiara said as she is looking at the television.
" Reason?" Calli asks, sipping Sting Ray cocktails since there is no one forbid alcohol during their discussions.
" She is going for the star people explorer ship. US. Government moves them there few months ago." Subaru said without looking up from her phone.
" My friend just told me after the incident happens, not long ago."
" Did she get anything?" Risu asks, throwing nuts in the small bonfire near her feet and watch them explodes.
" Witness is not sure, since they're busy running for their lives.
But she seems to read an information from ship's computer before running away, probably didn't bring anything with her."
Subaru answered.
Iofifeen is the only one who didn't talk or react to anything, she is focused on drawing a lens after Subaru handing the blueprints to her,
but after she has finished, nothing happened.
" This is useless!" Iofi throwing her brush in irritation.
" I cannot reaching the III artists level yet! You need to build this lens first, not make me creating it out of thin air with my drawing skills."
" Calm down, folks." Calli put a cup of cold pineapples juice mixing with tequilas in painter alien's hand, Iofi take it and drinks with frustration.
Now they are laying and resting on the empty beach. Subaru rents the whole island with Akukin funds and since this is not the tourist season.
Everybody is happy with strange women who laying around and talking nonsenses , as long as they pays for everything they need.
Subaru shook her head after hearing Iofifeen words.
" I haven't built this lens yet, it is a mere concept. I need you power to make it real."
" What is the power of the lens again? I am being drunk for the most part of your explanation." Calli mixing Vodka with Brandy and coconut juice as she
speaks.
"This lens is a copied version of star people cannons we find on the explorer ship. It will focus the radiation from one spot and shooting with thousands time
stronger energy after the radiation running pass it, sort of like how you built a fire with camera lens."
Subaru explained, ignoring Calliope cries in distress as Kiara snatching the glass of alcohol away from her hand.
" Since we couldn't use 'star destroyer' (star people raw crystal before turning into 'cover' crystal. Mixing by Minato Aqua and use as an effective weapon
against star people, since it could sucking energy out of their body and make them become weaker.) crystal to weaken her barrier.
We need something with more firepower instead."
" This lens is star people weapons. So, in theory it should be able to be hurting them too. If we could build one, and find energy to shooting at them,
of course." Subaru concluded.
" I will said for one last time. I. Can't. Draw. It!" Iofifeen insists.
" Even with blueprint, it is not the same as having real object.
I can't do it. You need someone else!"
" With our current technology. We will be able to build it in 2 or 3 months. What will happen during the times? The world might already gone before that."
Subaru said softly.
" We aren't sure about that." Kiara interrupted. " We don't knows about the attacker intentions yet. She might just being here to kill our girl and leave."
She points at the container, where bunch of scientists still working on Moona's body.
Subaru shook her head. " Will you take a risk? Beside, I don't want to see she die either."
" This is not our fights." Risu picked up burning nut from the sands.
" For all we knows. Our friend might've done something wrong enough for that Android to start hunting her down.
Nobody knows about star people enough to be sure. They are gone for like billions of years before our time."
" I knows one star people." Subaru sipping her drinks.
" Tokino Sora is a good girl. She literally dies in order to save us.
The race that gives nothing but hatred and doubt for her.
Aqua could tell you the whole day about that."
" She is not Sora." Calliope warned. " We knows nothing about her. Suisei and her crews are star people too. And you can be sure that those ten thousands
people that die during their attacks don't call them a good girls."
" We will talk with her first and decide later." Subaru change the subject.
" Let's hope our attacker are not active tonight because it will be lunar eclipse. Thing will get real dark here." She looks at her phone to checks on the news.
" What will we use as energy. If we actually build the lens cannon?" Iofi asks, still looking at the blueprint.
Subaru pointing at the sky. " Sun. It is the strongest powerhouse we can find. I need you to put the lens, as big as possible near the sun and send the power
to earth, that amount of energy should be enough to destroyed the Android without problem."
" If eclipse is really happening. Then earth will get in the way.
We may need to move our battlefield." Kiara said, worrying.
Subaru shrugged. " Problem is we don't know where our attacker is.
The news said that she disappears again. She could be anywhere in this planet."
" We can lure her." Calliope suggested. Looking at the container.
" If we open the container. The lead shield will be gone. Maybe that Android can track her signal or something."
" Then what? Will you fight her one on one?" Risu sneered.
" We could make a plan or something." Calli flushed.
" We are doing that right now." Subaru said.
" And still not getting any idea" Kiara added.
" Can we use this?" Calli dropping her 'cover' crystal on the table.
Subaru look at it before shaking her head. " We still unable to control it yet. Not sure if it will suck that Android power or boost her up like what it did to
Kiara." She gestures at the crystal necklace on Kiara neck.
" So, we have tons of plan. But none of that working in real life? Man, that suck!" Calli sipping her Vodka right from the bottle.
" It's up to you now." Subaru look at Iofi. " We need your power. To stop what's coming."
Iofifeen sighed. "I will practice with something easier first. Risu! Give me some nuts!" She yelled at Risu who is using her water magic to mixing some drinks.
Iofifeen take two walnuts and laying them on the sand.
" I will draw new nut near it, if it successfully and nut suddenly appear out of nowhere. Then I can do it." Iofi quickly drawing a picture of three nuts while
there are only two nuts on the ground.
She looks up from the sketchbook. Nothing happens.
Iofifeen swears, drawing again and again and again but nothing happens.
She draws picture of two nuts explodes instead, and wince when it did.
" I lost my temper." Iofifeen scratching her head. Drawing a picture of two nut reattach again and glad that it did.
While everyone is looking at her, the container suddenly open as one scientist in protection suit running toward them.
" She is awake!" He yelled. Moving his arms.
" Get out. All of you." Subaru tell him before turning her attention at her companion.
" Risu, come with me. Anyone else?" She asks.
Kiara raised her hand. " I want to talk with her more."
" We are fine here." Calli shrugged, handed a glass of tequila at Iofifeen who still drawing furiously.
…
When they are moving inside. Moona looks up from the steel table she is laying down, aluminum blanket wrapping around her body.
" Uhm… can you understand us? My name is Subaru. Ozora Subaru."
Subaru said slowly, pointing at herself.
" I can hear your thoughts." Star people replied, making everyone winces.
" So, you can understand us?" Risu asked.
" A bit strange. But I thinks I get most of what you guys are trying to say. Maybe my brain has grown familiar with this planet waves after all.
My goodness! You guys can't stop making noises, aren't you?" Moona groaned.
" Okay. Let start again, shall we? My name is Subaru. This is Kiara and Risu. We are some sort of this planet inhabitants. What is your name again?" Subaru
introduced.
" My name is Moona Hoshinova. I am star people. No rank whatsoever."
" Really? What a coincidence! Do you know where you just falling from?" Subaru chuckled.
" What? You mean a giant rock near your planet orbit?" Moona frowned, auto translator inside her head is working like crazy.
" That's call Moon in human language. Coincidence? I don't know." Risu explained.
" Woah…" Moona silent for a moment, a same silence when you know someone just call one star, or something like that. With your name.
" Moona. We have tracks your movements on the Moon surface for a while." Subaru recalled the documents she used to read a few months ago.
About some spaceship that have similar shapes to star people ship landing on the Moon. Akukin scientists agreed that they should leave it alone until more
information comes out.
" Now can you please explained to us why you are here? Moona." Kiara asks.
" I am the last surviving star people. At least for all I knows, until I got the S.O.S signal from somewhere around this direction.
I don't know if it was a trap or mistake or some of my people actually survive. But at least it gives me a hope to looking for them."
Moona said slowly, worried that these aliens will not understand what she is trying to say. They looked friendly enough, at least.
" I thinks I got an idea." Subaru frowned. "But you are very late. The signal sends by mistakes 200 Years ago. Tokino Sora, the last star people I knows,
and her human friends A Chan. Activates the signal when they were trying to open the explorer ship in Mojave Desert.
The signal brings surviving star people ship here and they trying to take over our planet."
She scrambles to open the book ' My otherworldly friend' and shows its picture toward listening Moona.
During the 'Battle of San Francisco' One camera manages to capture the picture of Hoshimachi Suisei's cruiser ship when it was trying to dig through Earth's
core.
Another is a blurry picture of Sora fighting with Suisei in the sky and the destruction of the city that followed.
" So, our people already arrived? Where are they now?" Moona asks.
" Gone." Subaru answered. Moona falls in silence as she digested the news.
" Tokino Sora and Azki use the cover crystal to activate the attacking star people ship and sends them to the black hole. Suisei fight with Sora and
disappeared.
I think Sora kills her. But no one can be sure since she never answers anyone, not even A Chan about what happened during their fight." Subaru explained.
" Now Tokino Sora is already leaving this planet too. She probably still alive. Somewhere in the universe." She concluded.
Moona clenches her fists. " I am late again aren't I ?" She laughs.
" Message from my parents said that I born too late to enjoying star people civilization at its finest. And now I arrived too late to facing my own people.
Again!" She throws away her blanket, furious.
" Sorry to hear that. But isn't the woman who follows you are star people too? The one who tosses you around the Sydney." Kiara asks.
Moona laugh. " She is Android from Hoshimachi family. Probably one of Suisei allies. You know her, aren't you?"
" From the book, yes." Subaru answered. " No one here ever knows Suisei first hands, but we are all knows about her story.
She almost destroyed this planet after all."
" Suisei make a laws that no star people can leave their lands until the curfew is over. I probably break the laws by trying to follow the signal directions here,
hence why one of her officers trying to kill me."
" Possible." Subaru thinks hard before she speaks. " Maybe Suisei left some person to watch her back. This Android could be one of them."
" What's now?" Moona asks, laying back on her bed again.
" She is going to find and kill me. This is not your fight."
" It is now." Subaru said softly. " No one can kill anyone freely on our planet. If she come, we will stop her."
" How exactly? Your civilization isn't match our in millions year. And I couldn't win against her."
Risu clears her throat. " We were just discussing a plan. Perhaps you could help us with your knowledge."
" Perhaps." Moona gets up, walking pass them outside the containers.
…
On the beach. Calli and Iofi are hugging and dancing in full circle, vodka bottles in hands. Besides them, there is a coconut that is as big as a car.
" The fokk did I just see?" Moona bleaches her eyes.
" See? We draw a new nut!" Iofifeen kicks the giant coconut enthusiastically.
" You gotta believes this! She just drawing, and it just appeared in front of us." Calli yelled in excitement.
" Well, I guess you successfully draws nut out of thin air." Risu shrugged.
" Can we start with the lens now?" Subaru asks.
" Oops! I forget." Iofi shakily walking toward her sketchbooks.
" How can you do that?" Kiara asks.
Calli point at bunch of empty alcohol bottles. " Just drinks! Don't think too much, and everything is possible."
" I guess so." Phoenix scratches her head in confusion.
" But is it a real thing?" Subaru touch the giant coconut. Except from size. There seems to be no different between it and normal coconut.
" Easy. I will cut it open for you." Calliope summoning her scythes and wobbling toward the giant fruit.
" Wait a sec." Moona who stays silent for a while asks.
" During the fight. I can shoot some kind of laser out of my hand. Let see if I could use it again. It's probably useful against the Android."
" Go ahead." Calli and other girls tip toe back from the coconut.
…
" I used to read about the fact that every star people has their own nuclear reactor inside their body. Maybe this is why they can use energy attack like that."
Subaru explains to Kiara.
" Well, let's see one." Calliope shrugged.
Everyone watches intensely as Moona raise her hand, stop and then looking back at the groups.
" How can I do that again?" She asks.
Calliope push Kiara's back. " Stupid bird! Aren't you can shoot fire or something? Go ahead and teach her."
" Eh." Kiara hesitated. " I thinks the secret about shooting power out of your body is to concentrate. Knows where the power flow and releasing it."
Moona follows Phoenix's advice and closing her eyes, feeling the power running inside her body. Star people's right hand start shining purple light as she is
raising it again.
" Wait, Maybe we should back-" Subaru warned, before Moona will open her eyes and shooting purple beam out of her hand.
The laser pierces through the giant coconut and making it exploded.
Sweet coconut juices and its soft and white tissues raining on everyone as they are standing on the beach.
" I just going to said…" Subaru face palms herself.
" Well, at least it is sweet." Kiara licks the juice that covering her own face. Taste like normal coconut in her opinion.
" And yummy." Calliope agrees, eating a white tissue with an ease.
" That's enough nut for today. I will go and take a shower, anyone else?" Risu asks.
" I think I will go swimming instead." Iofifeen said, throwing away her shoes and walking toward the sea.
" What's swimming?" Moona asks, wiping some sticky white stuff off her face.
" Just some sort of movements underwater without our feet touching the ground. Come! I will teach you how to."
Perhaps princess charm is working today, because Moona actually following her. Subaru sighed.
" We will discussing again in half of an hour. Let us rest first!"
….
Aki Rosenthal's ship beeping alarming sound as she is resting. Android quickly open her screen and seeing the cause of it.
Star people energy, releasing from someone, probably that out laws woman on this planet.
Aki marking the location, her ship starts flying faster as it is reaching the direction with hypersonic speed.
…
The sun is going down, everybody watches in awe as the sky starts becoming darker and darker, reflecting with the blue water underneath it into a
mysterious light as the night reaching its hand on this planet.
" She has not come." Subaru sighed. " I already order fighting drone to patrolling around this island but there is no sight of her ship.
We will have to move out of this place
before dark. Sunlight is one of our allies in this fight."
" And her too." Calli pointed out. " Star people Android probably stronger under the sun, they are all radiation consumer."
" I already discussed it with Moona, Android has their own power supply that is not going to run out that easily, unlike star people body that cannot survive
for long without sun.
( By that. Moona mean a few hundreds years for normal star people. While Android could using sleep mode and survived for millennia with an ease.
Even more than that if it has used. Power saving mode.)
She will have plenty to spare while Moona couldn't help us that much during the night, especially tonight when lunar eclipse happen."
" At least we have lens cannon." Calli reassured her friend.
" Now we just need to find energy in order to shooting it."
" If Iofifeen success." Subaru sighed again, looking Kiara, Iofi, Risu and Moona who are all talking noisily and eating their dinners.
Trio is laughing as Moona who looks at knife and fork with surprise face.
Star people didn't need to consuming food for more than millions of years ago. They simply absorb nutrients radiation from their sun or artificial sun.
The concept of daily putting something in your mouth in order to keep the life going on is somewhat weird for them, except from emergency time with no
other choices.
" We will get out of this place through plane and follows the sunlight, if we can follows earth movements, perhaps we will keep in touch with the sun forever."
Subaru explained.
Calli shrugged. " Whatever you says, boss."
Before Subaru could answer, her phone suddenly crying an alarm.
Everybody looks up from whatever they are doing.
" Unidentified flying Objects 100 miles away. It will reach this place in 15 minutes!" Subaru announces.
" We couldn't move away that fast." Kiara looks alarmed.
" Look like running is not possible now." Subaru shrugged, clapping her hands.
" Girls, follows the plan. Look like it is our only option now!"