Milky Way Galaxy's Black Hole
Hoshimachi Suisei
" Good morning, motherf**ker!" An unfamiliar voice said, making Suisei return to her consciousness again. Star people quickly get up, but the pain from her body suddenly
rushed in, making she moan like a toad.
" Calm down! Your body is being stretched like a spaghetti just a few moments ago. You shouldn't move yet." A stranger said again, she is an orange hair woman with two
horns growing out of her head, a long purple tail moving around uncertainly as she is watching Suisei with interests.
Other voices coming in her ear and Suisei turn her head to face three women who's did a strange concert band playing around her.
One is a purple hair woman who is playing a guitar enthusiastically.
The second one is a yellow hair woman with sheep horn coming out of her head, she is playing an lyre with cheerful looks on her face.
The last one is silver hair girl with a strange symbol floating on her head like a halo, a small bird-like wings are flapping on her back.
She is beating the drum aggressively with her hands, similar to how gorilla beating its chest.
What the f**k are they doing? Suisei wondered.
" My name is Kiryu Coco, a dragonian, and you are a guest for my 'Kiryu dragon fleets', we are some sort of mercenaries company.
Going around and doing whatever people hired us to do." Coco stopped when seeing that Suisei is still frowned from her body aches.
" But we selling some stuff too. Like this Asacoco! It will lift your spirits and preventing the pain." Coco hands over some white stuff in the glass tube toward Suisei's hand.
Star people going to breath it in but stop and looking at dragon's eyes. " I am not using drugs." She gives it back to Coco, who snorted.
" It is not a drug if nobody says it is. But that's your choice."
" So, how can you drag me out of the black hole?" Suisei asked, trying to concentrate through the song that those three women behind them couldn't stop playing.
Coco laughed. " We are still inside the black hole. I just pumping you inside our ship."
" How can you controlling your ship inside this? The gravity here are insane." Suisei asked.
" Well, it's call technologies, newest spacecraft from Kiryu families manage to survive the gravity pulled from the black hole.
To be honest, I am surprised that it does. We have to sends our drone to checking first before follows when our safety is being guaranteed."
" So, you are here to test your ship and finding me by chances?" Suisei asked.
Coco shook her head. " No, we are being hired by someone who wants us to searching for something inside this black hole.
'Finding my friend's spaceship.' She said."
" What a coincidence! I want you to look for my spaceship too. Can you do that?" Suisei trying to hold her eagerness as she speaks.
Coco looks uncomfortable. " I thinks there are some kind of miscommunication here. Do you know Tokino Sora?"
" Yes!" Suisei clenched her fists. " She is the one who sending my ship here, and causes of all hardships I have to endured for more than 200 years."
Coco scratching her hair. " Don't get upset. But the one who hired us are Tokino Sora too. She said that she owns you something and I am owning her life too.
So, we should help each other."
" The hell is that mean?" Suisei asked.
" Okay, around two hundred years ago. I suddenly being teleported somewhere and have no memory of it when I finally back, a little bit injured but still alive.
People rumored about something like 'Star people force summoning' but that doesn't possible, right? Everybody knows that star people already extinct for like billions of years
ago." Suisei coughed. "Go on."
" I completely forget about it for centuries. Until one day that I do a space sailing with Towa." Dragon girl continues, pointing at purple hair woman who still playing her guitar,
she looks up and nodded, refused to stop her musical performance.
" My spaceship has limited fuels and the star in our area suddenly releasing a solar storm. It is enough to stopping our spaceship engine and forced us to do an emergency
landing in some deserted planet.
We don't have energy left to sends a signal for the rescuer. No need to talk about flying away, until the day miracle comes." Coco stops for a moment before deciding to
continue.
"A woman flying from the sky, literally. And asked if we're okay or not. She looks like one of those star people we have been reading in the book, it shouldn't possible.
But who knows? Maybe some of them did survive after all." Coco laughed.
" The girl them introduced herself as Tokino Sora. She then helps us by charging the battery with her nuclear power.
In a few minutes, we are ready to fly again."
" Before we departed, she said that she actually know me before. From around 200 years ago when I was being forced summon to her world.
It's seemed that I have created a lot of problems there.
She insisted that I have killed her back there, but somebody revived her for some reason. And she is free to travel around the universe, helping those who need."
Coco continued.
" I am not sure if it is the truth or not, but the fact that she help me and Towa is still remain. So, I asked her what I can help and she said that she want us to help digging
her people out of the black hole and bring them toward a woman name Hoshimachi Suisei."
"What!" Suisei jumped up from where she is laying.
" I am Suisei! But why did she do that? I am her enemy!" Suisei yelled.
Coco laughed nervously. " I can guessed, you are matching at what Sora tells us about you. Blue hair, psychopath- I mean fierce eyes!"
Dragon quickly raised both hands as she saw Star people face.
" Sora also have some message for you." Coco said, while Suisei still clutching her forehead and trying to make sense of the situation.
" What is it?" Star people asked.
" She said that ' The universe is big enough for us all to live together. I hope you can find your place in one day' that's it." Coco said.
Suisei not sure if she should laugh or roaring in frustration.
Live together? With whom? Sora already make sure that every star people is dying inside the black hole… or not?
Suisei looks up. " My spaceship. If you can pull it out of the black hole. Can the people inside it survived?" She demanded.
" Possible. Have you heard the word ' IDOL'?" Coco asked.
The lightbulb inside Suisei's head suddenly shine.
" Now I understand why these people won't stop playing the music!
They are IDOL performing the ritual, right?" She asked eagerly.
IDOL are the word that use for ancient demigod that being worshipped before the star people era. Back in the time when everything is evolving freely and doing whatever
they want.
To controlling themselves and other beings. Some of creature start worshipping someone as their leader. The gifted one that can break the rule of reality by their song and
performance.
These gods are being called IDOL by their followers. They are fighting among themselves freely until the universe is threatened to burst by their the amount of energy from
them, forcing many gods to build something called 'council of gods' in order to make everything go in peace and harmony again.
With limitation of their power. IDOL start being forgotten and disappeared as its worshipper is moving their faith toward something else. 'The rule of nature'
The reason that can be explained by science, limiting beings' imagination and turning them into the blind sheep that follows what's being told by the other.
…Or at least that is what Suisei have heard from the tales and stories she used to listen as a child.
If these women are IDOL that's mean-
Suisei thought being interrupted as Coco suddenly burst out laughing.
" No! No! These guys are just adding background music fir our conversation. I thought it would be cool to do so."
Towa, silver hair angel and sheep woman suddenly stop playing and giggling at each other.
" Then why did you asked me about IDOL in the first place?" Suisei holds herself from punching the dragon woman's face.
" With IDOL power, we can relieving the gravity from black hole and fixing the damaged spaceship. Legends said that some IDOL can even revive a person back from the
death too." Coco smiled.
" I get it. I get it. If we have IDOL here, everything will be a piece of cake. But we don't, what are you going to suggest then." Suisei groaned.
Dragon woman laughed. " I never said that we don't have IDOL with us, I just said that they aren't performing a ritual here."
The silver hair angel gets up and taking the microphone from the sheep woman before clearing her throat.
" Meet my friend, Amane Kanata. She is coming from angel clan, but also an IDOL. Watame! Checking if the sounds systems are ready or not." Dragon girl said proudly,
before turning her head toward sheep woman that scurrying to follow her orders.
After that, every light inside their spaceship except from the one that shining on Kanata's head suddenly gone, everything went silenced as the angel stand still, waiting for
her time to performance.
Suisei snorted and going to asked when anything will happen, but Kanata start singing with her sad voices, and the music is blowing her minds away.
The song rushing inside Suisei's head, making her wondered why she is here and did everything she ever done in her life.
Why did she kill those people? What so good about her and not them? If only the strong remain and the weak are all gone, will the universe be the better place she thought?
How can she vengeful for Tokino Sora who killing her people? Since she just doing the same thing Suisei did for countless of time.
Suisei sitting on the floor and hugging her own knees.
For the first time in her life, Suisei actually feel like she wants to cries and sitting alone in corner, begging for someone to come and hugged her.
She knows that she is in the wrong and she will do anything. Please, just forgive her.
… And then Kanata changing the tone of her voice into something that more enthusiastic. Suisei's spirit suddenly lifted, star people get up, ready to face anything in the
world.
Kanata suddenly coughed and stop her singing. Suisei jerks back to her common sense and looking at the angel's face, bewildered.
" First time hearing IDOL singing, aren't you?" Coco smiled at Suisei, before quickly turning toward purple hair woman. " Towa! Give her something to drinks." But Towa
already running at Kanata and offering a glass of water medicine at her.
" I ain't doing nothing!" Wateme yelling from the speaker, but everybody ignored her.
" What's happened?" Suisei asked.
"Even IDOL couldn't sing forever. It's required too much energy.
And Kanata also have chronic injuries that nobody can cures. Even before I have met her." Coco explained.
" What happened with her?" Suisei asked, wondering about life of the first IDOL she ever met.
Dragon woman sighed. " She used to be a talented warriors from angel's races. The best at killing demons, and her IDOL abilities make her even more formidable.
everyone thinking that one day she will become the leader of the angels, or at least climbing to general level." Coco stopped as she saw Towa talking something to Kanata,
making her smiled.
" But the truth is, she don't like war and fighting, hate killing even more. The last thing she want is to blast the devil away with her song, she wants everyone to be happily
listening to her music instead, not using it as a weapon." Coco continues.
" One day, after the war between angel and demon. Kanata find one injured demon, who unable to retreat back to her dimension.
The demon's name is Tokoyami Towa." Coco points at the devil girl who looks at them and smiled.
"Instead of banishing her or just reports to the higher up. Kanata decided to help Towa hiding until she is ready to go home." Coco goes on.
" Of course, other angels must be noticed. They are trying caught her when she is trying to bring Towa out of the angel's realm borders.
They forced her to choose between her own life or devil's."
" Let me guessed, she choose devil's life." Suisei snorted.
Dragon woman nodded. " Both Kanata and Towa manage to running away from the persuading angels, but she is heavily injured by the attack from those she considered as
friends.
They are falling from the angel dimension to our realm for some reason, probably because Towa is planning to running away from her home too, since it was plagued by civil
wars between demon lords.
And I kind of find them laying around before brought them back to my fleets, you probably could have guessed the rest of the story."
Coco concludes, Suisei nodded.
" Okay, guys! We already have enough break for a moment, let's get our job done." Coco slapped Kanata and Towa's shoulder after some time has passed.
Kanata start singing again, but this time Suisei is ready, she enjoys the tone of music that can guiding her emotions and help her to meeting with her inner self again.
She controlling herself to not being wash away by the waves of emotion that start flooding in.
Suisei opened her eyes and seeing that Kanata's voice didn't just affecting her minds, but also the ship's crew and their surroundings too.
Coco opened the ship's screen and showing a picture of the black hole that still swallows their spaceship. It is starting to mellowed down its gravity and showing things that
being suck inside, including a lot of space rocks , light and some pieces of spacecraft that being crushed by the black hole's gravity.
Suisei stares intensely at her surrounding, searching for her star people cruiser ship.
"There! " Suisei yelled and pointing at the star people's spaceship that starting to repairing itself little by little after being stretched by the hole's gravity.
" Looking for the door, Watame. We will attach our spaceship with theirs" Coco ordered as her spaceship start moving toward the damaged cruiser.
In a few minutes, two spaceships finally connected by the entrances gateway that being launched from Coco's.
Suisei almost pushing others aside as she is walking toward the entrance, but Coco grabbing her shoulder and signal for her to wait as singing Kanata walking in there first.
Suisei quickly followed and inspecting her ship, everything seemed to be in the same condition as how she has left it.
The supply and armory room has some big hole appeared from its wall and the artificial sun is being destroyed, but that's not the damaged create by black hole.
It was Tokino Sora crashing through the ship's plasma cannon barrel and wrecking everything in her ways during their final encounter.
Even if Suisei don't like her that much, she has to begrudgingly accepted that it was one of the bravest moves in star people history.
Normally, there is no way for star people to survived being blown by their plasma cannon. Which Sora somehow did just that, probably due to the fact that her body is being
modified by Yagoo to be the strongest star people that ever live.
Suisei shook her head to brush away the unpleasant memories before searching at the star people body around the ship, most of them are understandably dead, neither from
black hole gravity pulled or lack of energy after the artificial sun is gone. Suisei is not sure.
But the emergency capsules are somehow working and there are at least a dozen of Star people alive in there. Comatose, but at least alive.
Suisei looking around the pile of bodies and the debris from the ship until she finally finds the pink hair woman who being buried underneath it. Her own blood-related older
sister.
" Sis! Sis! Hey!" Star people shaking her sister body, trying to check on the pulse, but she is panicking and not sure if her sister's heart is still beating or not.
The song reached her ears and Suisei looks up as Kanata slowly walking toward her. She is still singing nonstop, changing her tone into something more energetic.
And then Suisei's sister suddenly awakes.
" Mmm. Marshal?" She murmured something and looking at her own sister.
" Screw the titles! Sis, you are just survived from being pulled by the black hole!" Suisei quickly hugging her sister that trying to salute.
" You have changed." Her big sister said, closing her eyes as Suisei help her to laying down more comfortably.
" Probably have something to do with the fact that my entire spaceship and its crew have been sucked in the black hole for 200 years while I being stuck in the alien planet
too.
Or course, I have changed!" Suisei laughed, just realized that she is now crying in front of someone else. Something that her own self will never let it happens.
She really being alone for too long.
" Did we win?" Her big sister asked, Suisei shook her head, still smiling somehow.
" No, but we are still alive. And that's enough. We can do it all over again or choosing the different path. But the most important thing is that now. We have a choices." Suisei
said, ignoring the tears in her eyes.
" Glory to star people." Her sister said, and both women smile knowingly at each other as they heard the slogan from Suisei's campaign. It is not their family favorite quotes.
'Only strongest will survived' but almost as famous. This may be the right time to lift their spirit after all.
" Do we still need to be strong?" Big sister asked.
Suisei minds flashing back at how puny earthling and Sora can beat them all, including her recent fight with HoloX. Numbers always win.
" The strongest will survived alone. But when the weaker man that work together will survived together." Suisei answered.
" So, are we weakling now?" Her sister asked jokingly.
" No, but we will become stronger together." Suisei smiled.
…
Hoshimachi Cruiser ship
Hoshimachi Suisei
After Coco's ship finally dragged them out of the black hole.
Suisei sending every survivor she finds to the dragon spaceship in order to cured them.
Suisei doesn't like being in debts with anyone, but she doesn't have much choice since her spaceship is still unable to working properly.
" Never knows that one day I would have to hosting star people in my fleets!" Coco laughed as see dozens of star people in emergency capsules being transported into her
own spaceship.
" They need a lot of radiation in order to survive. Please bring them near your ship reactor core, if nuclear power still a primary energy source for your spaceship." Suisei said.
Coco chuckled. " Don't worry, everyone knows that star people ate radioactive. I will brought some of my warheads for them."
Suisei nodded and falls in silence again, after silently watching the space outside her ship for a while. Coco finally starts the conversation.
" What's your next plan?" She asked.
Suisei answered without looking back at her. " I don't know. Probably rest until my survival crews become strong once again. There aren't enough of us to survive on our own.
So, I guess we have to find an ally.
Star people used to be the top of the food chain in the universe. Now I have to check which level are we in."
" Maybe I can cloning my death crew members back too, their DNA are being kept in the bunker at Pluto planet. I leave Aki Rosenthal, my Android general to looks after
them, but rouge star people kill her not long ago and I don't know how many DNA will being preserved when we actually go back there." Star people continued, still losing in
her own memories.
Coco breathing Asacoco inside her nose and offering some toward depressing star people.
" Try some. It won't bite." She said when Suisei looked at her.
Star people breath it in and cough at the pain that rush inside her nostrils and then the warmness that suddenly filled her lung.
" It's strong!" Suisei exhaled. Her body, like any other star people. Have its own anti poisoning system that can destroyed almost every unwanted thing inside her body.
Most of the chemical that can get in will be quickly gone in a few seconds.
During her time on planet Earth, the local drug or alcohol couldn't affect her body in any way, and she just consuming them for the lulz.
And yet, somehow this drug can actually affect her body, though not longer than a few seconds. She wondered what it feels like for those who actually take the full effect of it.
" Feel better now?" Dragon asked.
" A little bit, I guessed?" Suisei replied.
" Have you heard that when you moving faster than light, the time around you will be running backward?" Coco suddenly asked.
" Huh?" Star people open her mouth, the question is so random that she couldn't know what to respond.
' Sorry, that was a strange thing to ask. Forget about it." Coco turning her head away before changing the subject.
" If don't minds, I think we can cooperate a little bit more. I will help your fixing your spaceship and healing your crew. Star people are something we don't see every day, just
by writing the book about your experiences alone probably turn you into a billionaire overnight.
If I am a human, it was like I am talking to a dinosaur right now.
And every human will be jumping at the chance to do that.
"If you don't want to. I will leave you at the intergalactic space station. Tell them that you are from Kiryu's fleets, and they probably give you anything for free.
Don't tell them you are star people though, they will either running away or trying to capture and selling you guys to the 'Pol Pol Circus' or other companies like that." Coco
clarify.
" Thanks." Suisei said, before remembering the reason why she is here in the first place.
The world, and how it is going to end. If she could believe what HoloX 's members said.
Suisei shook her head, it doesn't matter. That planet isn't for her. Her people are here, and they need her more than ever.
Star people swore when remembering the reason why she, and her crews are still alive, not just from Coco, but Tokino Sora and her blindly optimistic behavior.
The woman even helps Suisei who is trying to destroying what she considered home. And hope that there will be no bad blood between them, after all the sh*t Sora just did,
killing almost all of her entire crews?
But you kinda want to destroy her planet too. That's even, her act is self-defense.
The weakling thought flash inside Suisei's head, making her flinched.
When did she become that weak? Did the blade in her minds actually dull during the time with human on earth, especially those Mongolian herdsmen who teaching her how to
read?
Suisei shook her head, that's the story of their planet. If the evil demon from other dimensions will be there to kill them all, there aren't anything to do with her.
Now their fate is separated, every one for themselves.
" What are you doing here? our ship are about to using portal. Will your crews go with us or not?"
Watame who walking to check everything inside her spaceship asked Suisei who still staring at them blackness of the space at the head of her own spaceship.
Star people looks up, realizing that everyone is already take their position, ready for the traveling.
…
" You looks like someone who always thinking too much about everything. Why don't you relaxed and make it simpler?
What do you want to do now?" Towa who is sitting next to Kanata said after seeing the look on Suisei's face.
Suisei thinking of the demon king who scammed her, Satan or whatever the hell his name is. He tricked Suisei to collecting the crown for him and then literally kicked her out
when the job is done.
And now he is going to be the master of the universe or whatever he wants to call himself, after doing nothing except from a few whispering suggestions and wait for her to
hand over the items for him.
" I want to punch his face." Suisei said, Towa flinched. " Well? That kinda…" Demon is going to said something, but Suisei already shaking her hands.
" Thank you! It's become a lot easier this way." Revenge is a normal thing in star people's society. And she has every right to do that.
If no one come to help her. Suisei probably being crushed for eternity inside the black hole, from Satan's doing. The rest of the details can be waited, now she needs her
revenge first.
" Wait a second!" Suisei said when Watame is going to press the wormhole button.
"Anything you need?" Coco asked.
" I remembered something important, can you guys go to the intergalactic space station without me? I have some unfinished business on earth."
" You trust us that much? What if we just leave and selling your crews to some scientists' lab?" Coco raised her eyebrows.
" You don't look like someone who good at lying, but if you do.
I just have to finds you and kill every one of your crews, that's it." Suisei looking at Coco straight into her eyes. That is not a threat, it is a promise.
Dragon laughed. " Good!" She then throwing a small piece of equipment at Suisei's hands.
" This is intergalactic space station's location. I will be waiting for you there. Come back and get your crews back. I don't want to be responsible for them forever!" Coco
laughed again.
" Understood." Suisei said, walking toward the emergency exit and waiting for the spaceship to open its gate.
Star people then flying away, leaving only a trail of electricity behinds as she is disappearing in the vast universe.