"You have meddled in affairs that don't concern you, mortal," the robot maid said to Emily.
"These affairs DO concern me, tin can! They're getting in the way of real peace!" Emily tried to wiggle out of the robot's grasp.
"There IS real peace. You are a disruption and will be removed."
"There's no peace! Lurazzi! You know this is just tyrannical quiet! You can't turn a blind eye! Your people were praised for being peaceful because you changed your social status on a whim! The Adrexians were prospering because a Queen could be a farmer or a maid or a street sweeper and no one would bat an eye! I'm begging you! Listen to me!" Lurazzi considered what was said.
"…X5272, let her go!" The robot stopped.
"…Your Majesty?" asked the robot.
"Your new orders are to help me propagate this information to the entire station," ordered Lurazzi.
"Not necessary. You may give me that data-disc," urged the robot.
"…You know what, I should do it myself." Lurazzi headed to the door. "Somebody's gotta fix Auriella's mess!"
"Your Majesty!" The robot then got between Lurazzi and the door. "Ma'am, I insist you give me the data-disc."
"X5272, get out of my way!" commanded Lurazzi.
"We cannot go home," said X5272.
"What do you mean 'can't go home'?! Why not?!"
"That is classified information."
"What's classified?! You don't keep secrets from the Queen!"
"You are the stand-in Queen," reminded X5272. "Give me the data-disc." The robot reached for the data-disc, but Lurazzi kept it out of reach.
"Tell me what's classified! Is it what Verdutha found?!"
"The disc!" Lurazzi then pointed a magnet at X5272.
"Tell me what's classified or I shove this magnet into your brain!"
"Your Majesty!" protested Emily. X5272 and Lurazzi stared each other down.
"…Very good, Your Majesty." X5272 headed to a window and keyed in a command on the terminal nearby. The window became a holographic display of Auriella with an arm around Katie while she rested her head on Auriella's shoulder.
"And the light's on! We're good!" said Auriella. "Hello, Nanny! I'm sure you remember what's going on. Well, this is kind of my confession. I have constructed an ecological disaster so the Adrexians will have to move. It should be millions of years before it's over. Until then, the Adrexians need to be off planet as life is unsustainable on Adrexia Prime."
"Unsustainable?" asked Lurazzi as she remembered some reports about plant life.
"I know, sad and against what Peace taught us, but we can't tell who's doing what job anymore," continued Auriella. "So, rather than go to all-out war against Peace, it's easier to just contain her and her followers."
"Easier?!"
"Nanny, I'm implementing Directive V-117," commanded Auriella. "Go to full autopilot, take control of everything, and do not let the Adrexians return to Adrexia Prime. Repeat; do not return to Adrexia Prime."
"I think that's enough, sweetheart," purred Katie.
"Right you are, love." Auriella kissed Katie as she turned off the camera. Lurazzi was dumbfounded at what she just learned.
"Now, the data-disc," said X5272.
"No!" said Lurazzi. "No, wait a minute! Dame Emily, does the data-disc actually have an ecological report?"
"It does," replied Emily. "Last I saw, there was plant-life."
"And X5272, when was Nanny given that message?"
"The message was received in the year of the Blooming Star," replied X5272.
"THAT'S 800,000 YEARS AGO!" shrieked Lurazzi. "X5272, it's been long enough! We gotta go back!"
"Our orders are not to return to Adrexia Prime," said X5272.
"But life IS sustainable! The plants' existence down there is living proof that Auriella failed!"
"Irrelevant."
"What?! IT'S COMPLETELY RELEVANT!" Lurazzi pointed at the planet out the window. "Down there is our home! HOME, X5272! And it needs us! I can't just sit on the throne and do nothing! That's all I've ever done! That's all anyone on this damned station has ever done! NOTHING!"
"You are surviving," said X5272. "This station means survival."
"Do these women LOOK like Cybermen to you?!" snapped Emily.
"Silence, interference!"
"Belay that!" snarled Lurazzi. "Dame Emily, keep talking, because you're right! I don't want to just survive! I want to live!"
"Survival and living are the same thing," insisted X5272.
"Living isn't just blood-flow and heartbeats and brain activity!" Lurazzi went on. "It's exploring and playing and doing new things!"
"I have directives to follow." Lurazzi howled in frustration. She then looked out the window and clenched her fist.
"Auriella is no Queen! I am!" she said. "We're going home TODAY!" Just then, there were multiple clanging sounds. Lurazzi, Emily, and X5272 looked outside the throne room to see robots falling over. Emily smiled.
"Outdated hunks of junk that can't handle paradoxes," she said.
"That should make the job easier!" said Lurazzi. "I'll take care of my people! You and your team get the shuttles ready!"
"Will do!"
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE!" shouted a voice. Lurazzi and Emily turned to see X5272 still standing and tearing its maid dress off!
"…How are you-?!" gulped Lurazzi.
"That robot wasn't built here," guessed Emily.
"Correct," replied X5272. "But my mission remains the same! To prove to everyone that Auriella has it right! That there NEEDS to be a rigid hierarchy! I would have been the first robot of the Realms to prove it, but now-!"
"The Realms?" interrupted Emily. "As in…Arsha's home?" Emily then realized who this robot was! "JANSHA?!"
"In the flesh, in a manner of speaking," replied X5272-Jansha Borg.
"You know this robot?" asked Lurazzi.
"Your Majesty, get your people to the shuttles and get them home!" directed Emily. "I'll take care of this out-of-date scrapheap!"
"Don't lump me with those things running the station!" snarled Jansha. As Jansha charged, Emily fastened her Vortex Driver and inserted her id tag.
"Henshin!" she called. She spun the wheel and became Kamen Rider Touché, drawing her blade and swinging it at Jansha while Lurazzi dashed out of the throne room to tell everyone the news.
Verdutha and her team dashed through the station and were trying to make their way past confused Adrexians. Lurazzi then ran into them. "…Stand-in Queen Lurazzi?" asked Verdutha.
"No, I am QUEEN," replied Lurazzi. "Nothing more, nothing less!"
"Lurazzi, what makes you say that?" asked an Adrexian.
"Adrexians, we've been duped!" called Lurazzi. "I have here, in my hand, proof that Auriella tricked us all into staying here on the station! The rebels have been trying to clear a path for us and we were too comfortable to listen to them!"
"Then…there IS no ecological damage?" asked another Adrexian.
"None whatsoever!" replied Lurazzi. "Release the rebels and let them get down there first!"
