Lokian System. Creon EK1. Nox Station Colony.Year: R7. Month: Vraruns, Day: Knaz.
Rodak Nomura looked over the selections of the Reilgraen's store. These were hands down the best prices in the system.
x2.8 Interstellar Xaxla for Iggoku Bread? x3.4 Int.Xala for Poached Igruple Bison? 6.7 Int. Xala for Chicorée de Paix? You couldn't find prices like this back in the Imaga System. You had to come all the way over here for the best deals. Rodak turned to the Reilgraen at the counter and raised his right hand with the palm towards the side, one finger fully stretched, two fingers half clenched and the other two fully clenched. A gesture that conveyed the equivalent of 'I approve of this' in Reilgraen Culture. The eight foot tall yellow skinned humanoid alien with tendrils hanging down from the back of its head, thick skin, red spots on its body and bone spikes growing out of its body, laughed and repeated the gesture before turning its attention back to a customer.
While he was gesturing to the shopkeeper a woman walked past him and dropped a small object into his back pocket. The woman then resumed browsing the store.
Rodak returned to the shelves and began stocking up on food and drink around the store. The levitating baskets around him would carry the groceries for him. Completely oblivious to the woman's presence, he walked up to the counter and placed two gems worth 60 Int.Xala on the counter.
The gems were aquamarine in color with marquise cuts and they were the size of grapes.
"Oh my. Are those Qescite Gems? I certainly was not expecting to see any of those today. May I investigate them my Masheothiousian friend?" The average member of this race has a slender build and is around the same height as the average human. They have turquoise-gray skin and have reddish pink hair. They have very large ears and large, vivid turqoise-to-blue eyes with markings around their faces and around their eyes.
Rodak laughed. "Please my friend, call me Rodak."
The Reilgraen looked up from his analysis of the gems. "Rodak Nomura? Of Battle of Tlizogh fame?" He asked in awe.
"The very same. In fact, I was the one who wiped out The Masked Council." He bragged. "Cut down those terrorist scum myself! Brought the whole damn temple down on their heads."
"You don't say? Well that is impressive. I had no idea my little store was attracting War Heroes." He grinned and returned the gems. "Well then. Rodak The War Hero. Please accept the groceries on the house. I cannot in good conscience charge a hero of your calibur. Just you being here was an honor enough. May I....shake your hand?"
Rodak smiled and offered his own. The shopkeeper beamed and eagerly shook his hand. While doing so however a finger slipped up the sleeve of Rodak's Dark Blue Pinstripe Tuxedo and he slipped a slime from his fingers onto his skin. The slime was quickly absorbed into Rodak's skin and faded from sight.
"That's a nice grip you have there my friend. Though I don't believe I caught your name?"
"Please. Call me Vrorrux."
"Vrrorux. That's a nice name. I hope to speak with you again soon my good friend!" He waved goodbye and exited the shop with his groceries.
Once he was out of sight Vrrorux turned to the woman standing on the other side of the store and nodded to her. She nodded in return and smiled.
The woman walked around the corner and raised a watch towards her mouth. "Kaddle yoop broort yoork offle geerf irfle ad oopple ef hirt yoppa eerp." She spoke into it quietly. Barely above a whisper.
Gréagóir Neasa Kalla Boulos Keyes meanwhile was shopping for weapons alongside Quincey Sanni Heitor Nina MacGowan. Both also of the Masheothiousian Race. They walked into a building and let the machines scan them. There were guards all around the building. Which was perfectly fine. They were here to shop not fight. Across the building on a fourth floor was a P'luurdian. These aliens are a type of mammal. They have four arms and two legs, with a long, thin tail. They have four eyes which sit narrowly in their sockets and can often make them appear to be bold. Their eyesight is notoriously amazing. Their enormous mouths and wide noses often make these aliens appear to be dangerous, but they are normally very peaceful unless provoked. Their ears are will hidden and their hearing is as good as their eyesight. Their skin is smooth, yet strong. It's covered in hair and rippling muscle. Their skin colors are mostly purple and dark pink, which tend to become dim as they age.
Anyway!
The computers finished scanning them and then they submitted their ID's into small slots. The ID's levitated into the air and rotated around while the computers ran background checks on their background checks. What came up was Masheothiousian Military Service. The ID's lowered back down and the slots opened back up. They took their ID's back and the doors opened to allow them inside.
The weapons store was a treasure trove. There were weapons from all over the System for sale in here!
Kioturn Warp Fusion Blasters! Vipecury Warp Fusion Blasters! Thelethea Vortex Laser Cannons! Bypso FEZ Multi-Load Hand Phasers! Crarvis 1XNW High-Speed Proton Cannons! Llonoe G6B Comet Plasma Cannons! Phorz 58KD Polarized Electron Blasters and more! Of course, like all weapons sold in a colony, they were specifically designed and programmed to be unable to fire in or around the colony via NeonCode Software. Safety reasons and all that. Nobody wanted a repeat of the Fauna Station Tragedy from 60 Cycles Ago. It wasn't a problem though. This was Space Candyland. The pair explored the weapons store dressed in finely tailored suits. After spending a few space hours exploring the weapons store they made their selections and walked up to the front desk with a few carts full of firearms. "Helllloooo good sir! We would like to purchase these fine instruments!"
The alien behind the counter scanned their ID's once more and then nodded as he checked over the weapons. "You do understand that the weapons are disabled in and around the colony correct? Once you are the requisite distance away from the colony the weapons will unlock themselves. Now all of these come to x26,357,267.83 Int. Xala. Ammunition and energy charges will cost extra."
"Of course. Hook us up."
The alien smiled and rang it up. "Okay with the addition of these energy chargers your grand total comes to x30,000,000.00 Int.Xala."
Quincey handed him a shiny silver card. "We'll be paying with this."
"A Presenia Card. Very fancy." He complimented and slid it into a scanner. After a few seconds a green light shined out of it. Sold. He signaled to his assistants and they hurried over and began loading up the weapons and their ammunition while the card was handed back to the customers. What the Masheothiousians didn't realize however was that there was a small cyndrical object inside of each and every case transmitting information to people watching them.
"Kaddle yoop broort yoork offle geerf irfle ad oopple ef hirt yoppa eerp." A customer whispered in a corner on the 4th floor.
Melusine Idris Hélder Milica Bösch meanwhile was relaxing in an artifical park watching the various alien children play together. A ball bounced over to him and he simply stood up and kicked it back towards the kids, over their heads, across the park and nearly into the goal before the goalie jumped up and caught it. Melusine laughed and waved to them as a tall green skinned man with an elongated forehead sat down next to him. The green alien was dressed in a tight white t-shirt, a black and brown jacket and black pants with fingerless gloves and combat boots.
"Qritasar." Kaphei said to him.
"Stekeza." Melusine replied.
"It's good to see you, Melusine. I'm glad you could make it."
"You as well Kaphei. This is a nice place and I love sightseeing but why not simply handle the transaction over video transmission?"
"Transmissions can be hacked or interrupted. Face to face interactions are safer for secrecy. Do you have the shipment?"
"Ready and waiting on the ship. Fresh and ripe."
"I would like to see it for myself. If it all checks out I can call my employers and we can set up a trade. Would Chumuthea work for you?" Kaphei asked him.
"Chumuthea will work great assuming that you can in fact pay."
Kaphei smiled and offered him a Presenia Card. Melusine took out a scanning device and slid the card into a slot. After a few seconds of scanning the card passed the device emitted a green light. It was good.
"There's x49,000,000.00 Int.Xala. in it for you now and double that when the transaction is complete assuming the products are in mint condition."
Melusine eagerly accepted the electronic transfer of credits before handing the card back to Kaphei.
"Kaphei my friend. This is going to be a life changing day for both of us." Melusine laughed and clapped his friend on the back. He waved to the kids and walked away from the field with Kaphei in tow.
He hopped into his rented air cruiser and Kaphei got inside with him. The cruiser levitated into the air and drove over the designated cruiser lanes of the colony.
"I must say I'm surprised. I never expected to set up a businesses meeting with Mr.Hollow this soon." Melusine told him as they soared over the colony streets.
"Mr.Hollow has long since known of your crew's talents and is looking to bring in new blood to the organization. Your crew are exactly what we're looking for and we think you'd have a bright future working with us."
"Oh please go on." He laughed. "Whatever you need, whoever you need captured, whomever you need killed? We're the best in the business."
"We know. That's exactly why we're looking to bring you in."
The two continued talking while they traversed the colony until they arrived at the colony docking zone. They parked the cruiser and walked inside. There were countless ships resting in the docking area. Some either being repaired, upgraded, detailed, painted or refueled depending on what the customers paid for.
There were nice looking ships here too. Toosahu-class escort ships, Umglo Light Capital Ships, Cfuujahan-class Automated cruisers, Espegask-class couriers, MK 1 Transports and more.
The one they were interested in though was a heavily modified Xroklu-Class Freighter. A large ship shaped vaguely like a croissant merged with a snowflake and is in average condition. A bit scratched, but spaceworthy. The repairs were cleaning it right up though while it refueled. It is extremely fast, is extremely sturdy, and extremely fuel-efficient. The first thing that Melusine noted was the expensive V5 Ionic Deflector Array built into the hull of the ship. An impressive method of shielding your ship from all manners of incoming blaster fire. The ship also boasted forward-facing kilo-Tetryon canons, Side-mounted Chroniton canons, Rear-mounted Giga-Laser Turrets and Front-mounted Ion Missiles along with a variety of other weapons.
"Impressive. The Tlizogh Scourge is everything you've said that it is."
"A real beauty isn't she? We've been modifying it ever since we got it. You'd be hard pressed to find a ship this powerful outside of Government Space Fleets or the Galaxy Knights." Kaphei bragged. "Trust me, it's extremely rare that anybody is even able to put a dent in it. We could even take down W'zasuufh-class Fighter in a head to head fight!"
"Beautiful." Kaphei sighed.
"Just wait until you see the inside." He pulled out a device and shined it on the ship. The ship responded with another light. "Access Code: Commander Melusine Idris Hélder Milica Bösch! Scourge Of Tlizogh!" The ship opened up and a door lowred for them. "Come on in. We'll show you around."
Kaphei happily followed him inside. Keeping his focus on him and their deal. Melusine never noticed the mechanic at the rear of the ship hacking into it on a hand held terminal.
The interior was very advanced even for space fairing races with a quaint atmosphere and is done in colors that remind you of a black and white film. The very nice looking Fusillade Grade Computer Console ran on Geode System Software. There were numerous guns attached to ceilings and a few walls as well. Additional security measures to further reinforce the Masheothiousian's defenses. Speaking of which there were dozens of them in here. Both male and female. Kaphei smiled. They wouldn't be a problem.
After a brief tour of the ship he was taken down to the ship's brig where he was presented with their products: A variety of women from different galaxies. A white furred catlike woman, a small orange skinned girl, a red and green woman, a bird like alien woman, a fish like yellow woman, and an assortment of others. Twenty-five alien females from different star systems dressed in rags and chains with control collars around their necks. They were being kept in cages inside of cages that were a combination of reinforced steel and lasers. Kaphei smiled and took the time to check on and study every single one of them while setting a small cyndrical object on the floor before returning to speak with Melusine. "I think we can make a deal. Mr.Hollow will be very interested in purchasing such fine products. You've done us proud Melusine."
Melusine eagerly shook his hand. "Thank you! Thank you! Oh, I mean, yes, of course, we're glad we could be of service to your wonderful organization."
Kaphei laughed and put an arm around him. "Ohhh trust me Melusine. You're going to get everything that's coming to you. Come on! Let's have some drinks huh? Hey we'll see you ladies again real soon okay?" He laughed and exited the room with Melusine.
Ten minutes later the camera feed in the brig glitched out for just a moment before coming back. The room was exactly the same on the feed. Nothing changed. No differences. Because the camera feed was now stuck in a loop.
Once this was taken care of the sphere rolled itself out of the shadows until it was in front of one of the cells. The sphere then sprouted tiny mechanical legs to stand on while opening up slightly to reveal a red eye like device. The red eye rotated upwards and a laser began shining out of it into one of the cage locks.
The rest of the crew, minus Rodak, eventually returned from their shopping trips with new weapons and fresh supplies for their trip to find Kaphei laughing it up with Melusine and the others in the dining room. "....Brixanan's though! Am I right?" He joked with the others to uprorias laughter. "Hello there everyone! I hope you've enjoyed your stay at the colony."
"Oh it could not have gone better Mister Kaphei."
"Pleeeeaaase call me Kaph!" He laughed. "I see you have a fresh supply of weapons there. What exactly did you buy? Anything flashy?"
"The flashiest weapons available for purchase!" Gréagóir declared proudly and began unboxing the weapons. "It honestly shouldn't be too hard to get around the protocols if you want to try them out."
"I don't think that will be necessary. There are some rules even we don't break."
"Hey where's that slacker Rodak?" Melusine asked. "Is he at the tavern again?"
"No but he was looking a little drunk earlier. Probably hit the sauce. Forget him. Lets have a party and make him clean up!" Quincey declared.
However the moment that they finished unboxing the guns and began taking them out, metal spheres rolled out of the boxes and then leaped into the air, attached themselves to the crew and began shocking them into submission. The lights in the ship went out and Kaphei punched Melusine across the room and into a refrigerator. He hit the steel fridge hard enough to dent it with his head but only groaned. "Who in the HELL do you think are Kaphei?!" He yelled at him.
"Kaphei? Kaphei you say? I cut his head off back on Lucceumia!" A mechanical female voice spoke up through Kaphei's mouth. His flesh and clothes quickly began to bubble up and then melted down into green slime that spread all over the floor. In Kaphei's place stood a tall slender female humanoid figure wearing a black pilot suit with a breather mask, a red visor and a black helmet. The woman laughed and took a bow. "Allow me to introduce myself! I am Dawn Edeninvy Of The Zen Nightmare Privateers! Here to free your prisoners and hand your broken bodies over to The Draconian Empress!"
"And of course, we'll be taking your weapons, your supplies, your clothes and your ship for ourselves."
"w-w-we?"
That was when the door of the ship opened and the 'mechanics' around the docking bay walked into the ship.
Ten Pirates stormed into the ship while the remaining mechanics in the hangar bay surrounded it. The leader of the pirates taking point was a tall musclebound man built like a tank. He was humanoid enough but for the piercing gaze of his shining silver eyes and his granite-colored skin. A few faded scars from beam sabers decorated his face. The man smiled at the assembled crew of the ship and snapped his fingers. His mechanic outfit burned off to reveal a black armored spacesuit with mounted devices covering his upper forearms. A black helmet formed up around his head from the suit and a targeting reticle lit up around his eyes while the rest of the information about the area around him was also listed in the helmet feed. As the crew went for their weapons, the man activated his arm mounted gadgets with a thought. Instantly the emitters on the devices, worn on the back of his hands, lit up and a green energy blade shined out of the device in a split second just as he dashed forwards.
A trail of green light was left behind him as he ran past the slavers so fast that to the naked eye he appeared to completely vanish from sight! The slavers weapons were sliced to pieces and dropped to the floor just like the slavers themselves due to their sliced tendons in their wrists and legs.
Honestly, there were few things Captain Slayer Zen liked more than slicing up slavers.
Zeuxeilise Olithiphia, an Amagigolorn, burned off her own mechanic outfit to reveal a form fitting reptilian black and gold armor. Gold up along the outer sides and back and the torso and inner legs of the armor being midnight black. The upper chest of the armor was golden while the lower half of her chest had another plate of black armor covering it. She had a black double scarf around her neck. She had a black belt with golden pouches around her waist and an Adjustable Thermal Photon HandCannon and a Thunderfury Blade strapped to her waist. The armor was complimented by the long black sleeves of her armor with golden diamond markings up along the armor and she had long armored black knee length boots that went up to her knees.
The serpentine humanoid alien woman smiled at her Captain's display of skill. "Showing off again Captain?"
"Nothing wrong with having a little fun on assignment. Otherwise...what's the point?" Slayer Zen asked her.
"We finishing them?"
"Naaaahhh, not yet. So long as they don't give us any trouble they can live." He reasoned and raised up his wrist and created an energy shield the size of his body just as more of them stepped in and opened fire on the crew. The shield shined out of the wrist emitters when they were halfway towards them and the blasts were reflected back at them. The blasts scattered around the hallway and the slavers flinched and recoiled. A few of them were hit but the rest of the blasts scorched the floor and walls. "Speaking of which?"
Zeuxeilise flipped over him, unsheathed her sword, activated it and rushed them down at 37 Ritarin (180 MPH.) Zeuxeilise's sword in question being Trudenus Thunderfury Blade. This longsword utilizes a crystal-like blade that contains a lightning tube and conductor, when activated via the power button, this sword becomes electrified with energy and glows. The writing on the sword spells out her name in Trudenunian.
Zeuxeilise used the weapon as an extension as she sliced and diced herself some slavers. She elegantly sliced through a blaster rifle and into the chest of the slaver holding it, giving him a double dosage of electric shock that caused his body to shudder and convulse violently before being thrown down the corridor from losing control of his muscles. He didn't even get halfway down the corridor before she attacked the next man, slashed him and launched him through the air, turned to the right, slashed the next man and took him down, then she dashed forward and slashed up the next two men. Zeuxeilise swiftly closed in on the others and then kicked the slaver closest to her twenty feet upwards into the ceiling of the ship! He hit the ceiling, dented it and started to fall back down. By the time he was halfway down she'd already attacked the others. She slammed a punch into one of them so hard he flipped backwards and hit his head on the floor, then she lashed out with her foot and broke the leg of the next man, punched the next one halfway down the corridor and then spin kicked the next man hard enough to launch him into a wall. The man she'd kicked up earlier finished falling to the floor. There was a stampeding sound and the Blerukurian Cousins, Crakhax Nurassaek and Cyapkeq Brounmonlir, ran past her down the corridor. Their mechanic uniforms burning away to reveal Dark Blue Dura-plast Alloy Space Gear. The Blerukurian's charged head on into the blaster fire of the slavers coming in from around the corners, their bodies simply absorbing the energy of the weapons and they kept coming until they barreled into the slavers and slammed them against the walls of the ship.
A trail of green light was left behind him as he ran past the slavers so fast that to the naked eye he appeared to completely vanish from sight! The slavers weapons were sliced to pieces and dropped to the floor just like the slavers themselves due to their sliced tendons in their wrists and legs.
Honestly, there were few things Captain Slayer Zen liked more than slicing up slavers.
Zeuxeilise Olithiphia, an Amagigolorn, burned off her own mechanic outfit to reveal a form fitting reptilian black and gold armor. Gold up along the outer sides and back and the torso and inner legs of the armor being midnight black. The upper chest of the armor was golden while the lower half of her chest had another plate of black armor covering it. She had a black double scarf around her neck. She had a black belt with golden pouches around her waist and an Adjustable Thermal Photon HandCannon and a Thunderfury Blade strapped to her waist. The armor was complimented by the long black sleeves of her armor with golden diamond markings up along the armor and she had long armored black knee length boots that went up to her knees.
The serpentine humanoid alien woman smiled at her Captain's display of skill. "Showing off again Captain?"
"Nothing wrong with having a little fun on assignment. Otherwise...what's the point?" Slayer Zen asked her.
"We finishing them?"
"Naaaahhh, not yet. So long as they don't give us any trouble they can live." He reasoned and raised up his wrist and created an energy shield the size of his body just as more of them stepped in and opened fire on the crew. The shield shined out of the wrist emitters when they were halfway towards them and the blasts were reflected back at them. The blasts scattered around the hallway and the slavers flinched and recoiled. A few of them were hit but the rest of the blasts scorched the floor and walls. "Speaking of which?"
Zeuxeilise flipped over him, unsheathed her sword, activated it and rushed them down at 37 Ritarin (180 MPH.) Zeuxeilise's sword in question being Trudenus Thunderfury Blade. This longsword utilizes a crystal-like blade that contains a lightning tube and conductor, when activated via the power button, this sword becomes electrified with energy and glows. The writing on the sword spells out her name in Trudenunian.
Zeuxeilise used the weapon as an extension as she sliced and diced herself some slavers. She elegantly sliced through a blaster rifle and into the chest of the slaver holding it, giving him a double dosage of electric shock that caused his body to shudder and convulse violently before being thrown down the corridor from losing control of his muscles. He didn't even get halfway down the corridor before she attacked the next man, slashed him and launched him through the air, turned to the right, slashed the next man and took him down, then she dashed forward and slashed up the next two men. Zeuxeilise swiftly closed in on the others and then kicked the slaver closest to her twenty feet upwards into the ceiling of the ship! He hit the ceiling, dented it and started to fall back down. By the time he was halfway down she'd already attacked the others. She slammed a punch into one of them so hard he flipped backwards and hit his head on the floor, then she lashed out with her foot and broke the leg of the next man, punched the next one halfway down the corridor and then spin kicked the next man hard enough to launch him into a wall. The man she'd kicked up earlier finished falling to the floor. There was a stampeding sound and the Blerukurian Cousins, Crakhax Nurassaek and Cyapkeq Brounmonlir, ran past her down the corridor. Their mechanic uniforms burning away to reveal Dark Blue Dura-plast Alloy Space Gear. The Blerukurian's charged head on into the blaster fire of the slavers coming in from around the corners, their bodies simply absorbing the energy of the weapons and they kept coming until they barreled into the slavers and slammed them against the walls of the ship.
Melusine slowly stood up to his feet while his crew was electrocuted around him and he listened to the chaos unfolding at the front of the ship. "But I don't understand. Pirates? You're pirates right? What the plynnia do a bunch of pirates care about some nobodies?"
"I doubt garbage like you would understand but we're opposed to slavery on principle. Which is why your prisoners are being freed as we speak. We'll see how you like being chained up in their place."
"Wait just a moment! Please! Y-you said you were working for an Empress right? Well, whatever she's paying you, we can double it! Triple it! Quadruple it even! We can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams! Just partner up with us!"
This of course just resulted in him being kicked in the mouth and launched into the same refrigerator he'd been punched into earlier. "Give me a break. Like we'd ever be caught dead partnering up with some weak little shits like you."
He spat blood onto the floor of the ship. "B-but I don't....I don't understand...th-the Empress....The Empress is dead!"
"Is she now? Long Live The Empress." She replied cryptically.
"In that case...we'll go kill her after we're done with you!" He snarled and whipped out a blaster from behind his back and aimed at it at Dawn only for her right arm to shoot across the room, smash his blaster and punch him in the mouth, grab his lower jaw, yank him back across the room by his lower jaw, toss him up into the air, grab him by his face and slam the back of his head down on the floor before stomping on it and then kicking him over down on his stomach. By this point of course a number of his men had opened the door and were filing into the room only for her to drop kick him across the room over to the door and then her arms stretched outwards and double punched him in the stomach and pushed him into his own men and knocked a number of them over while they were trying to get through the door. With the slavers distracted by this, she quickly ran over to them and began lashing out with fast and vicious punches and kicks as she beat her way through the slavers.
"I doubt garbage like you would understand but we're opposed to slavery on principle. Which is why your prisoners are being freed as we speak. We'll see how you like being chained up in their place."
"Wait just a moment! Please! Y-you said you were working for an Empress right? Well, whatever she's paying you, we can double it! Triple it! Quadruple it even! We can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams! Just partner up with us!"
This of course just resulted in him being kicked in the mouth and launched into the same refrigerator he'd been punched into earlier. "Give me a break. Like we'd ever be caught dead partnering up with some weak little shits like you."
He spat blood onto the floor of the ship. "B-but I don't....I don't understand...th-the Empress....The Empress is dead!"
"Is she now? Long Live The Empress." She replied cryptically.
"In that case...we'll go kill her after we're done with you!" He snarled and whipped out a blaster from behind his back and aimed at it at Dawn only for her right arm to shoot across the room, smash his blaster and punch him in the mouth, grab his lower jaw, yank him back across the room by his lower jaw, toss him up into the air, grab him by his face and slam the back of his head down on the floor before stomping on it and then kicking him over down on his stomach. By this point of course a number of his men had opened the door and were filing into the room only for her to drop kick him across the room over to the door and then her arms stretched outwards and double punched him in the stomach and pushed him into his own men and knocked a number of them over while they were trying to get through the door. With the slavers distracted by this, she quickly ran over to them and began lashing out with fast and vicious punches and kicks as she beat her way through the slavers.
"I can hear them from here." The Captain laughed. "She's certainly having fun. Right. Zeuxeilise, Crakhax, Cyapkeq, Kausalya, you're with me. Kangiten, Melody, Infernoblight, Yotstûs, Мамитугуабетурand Zubu, clean out the rest of the ship and check in on the prisoners. Make sure they're okay. We'll get in touch when we take the bridge. Understood?"
"YES SIR!" They saluted with their fists on their chests.
He saluted back and the team split up to cover the ship. Zen's team followed him to the mess hall of the ship as he followed the sounds of the fight. "Gotta admit Captain. This has been our smoothest operation yet." Zeuxeilise told him. "We'll have this whole ship cleaned up in a couple of minutes."
"Tracking down that gutter trash Kaphei was the hard part. This is just the payoff." Kausalya replied. "We should still be careful though. It isn't over until its over."
A squad of fifteen guards were currently running towards the dining area but stopped when they saw the pirates and turned their weapons on them.
"Woah! Hey! What's going on?"
"Who are these guys?"
"HEY! STOP!" They opened fire on the pirates but Captain Zen easily reflected their blasts with his shields while Zeuxeilise knocked them away with slashes of her sword. The slavers were peppered with their own blasts and screamed in pain. Kausalya began leaping off of the walls too fast for the normal eye to see and then she inhaled very deeply and then she leaned forward and blew out a spray of cold all over them. Kausalya Kalyani Sati Lakshmi was a MervonoidBridin, a humanoid arctic avian creature from Cryke 1HZO and gifted with, besides the extraordinary physical capabilities that most creatures of the universe had, the ability to intake large amounts of air and breathe it back out in a spray of arctic cold that freezes the enemy. It was with this very spray of cold that the bird woman froze eight of the slavers and chilled the rest to their bones. She landed on her feet behind them and lashed out with a kick that hit the closest man to her and sent him flying through the air. Zen smacked him aside and then blitzed the remaining slavers and cut them down. The others destroyed their remaining weapons and kept running towards the dining area.
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The rest of the crew meanwhile ran to the holding cells of the ship using the robot they placed inside of the ship ahead of time as a marker. They easily navigated the corridors of the ship by following the signal. A squad of ten guards blocked their path only for Infernoblight to reach out with the Quintessence and use it to heat up their weapons. The guards screamed and dropped their guns as they turned red and super hot to the touch! With their weapons gone and their hands horrifically burned their was nothing to stop Melody from barreling into them and bowling them over like pins. She shattered shoulders and ribcages and jaws with her swinging arms and trampled them with her giant feet, crushing bones and organs. She scooped up two of them as she ran forward and then threw them across the hallway when she saw more guards standing in their way. The guards crashed into them like baseballs and knocked over a number of them. The others backed away and opened fire on the giant intruder only for her big body to bounce the shots off of herself. Kangiten ran behind her, jumped up on her shoulder, reached to his belt, pulled away a silver sphere device and threw it at the guards. The sphere broke open and smaller spheres floated out of it, flew around the guards and released charges of electricity that fried the guards until Melody barreled into them and knocked them over. The spheres flew back into the bigger sphere which flew back to his hand.
"I love our teamups." He joked.
"They certainly are electric. Stay sharp we've got some more coming our way." Melody replied with a smile.
"YES SIR!" They saluted with their fists on their chests.
He saluted back and the team split up to cover the ship. Zen's team followed him to the mess hall of the ship as he followed the sounds of the fight. "Gotta admit Captain. This has been our smoothest operation yet." Zeuxeilise told him. "We'll have this whole ship cleaned up in a couple of minutes."
"Tracking down that gutter trash Kaphei was the hard part. This is just the payoff." Kausalya replied. "We should still be careful though. It isn't over until its over."
A squad of fifteen guards were currently running towards the dining area but stopped when they saw the pirates and turned their weapons on them.
"Woah! Hey! What's going on?"
"Who are these guys?"
"HEY! STOP!" They opened fire on the pirates but Captain Zen easily reflected their blasts with his shields while Zeuxeilise knocked them away with slashes of her sword. The slavers were peppered with their own blasts and screamed in pain. Kausalya began leaping off of the walls too fast for the normal eye to see and then she inhaled very deeply and then she leaned forward and blew out a spray of cold all over them. Kausalya Kalyani Sati Lakshmi was a MervonoidBridin, a humanoid arctic avian creature from Cryke 1HZO and gifted with, besides the extraordinary physical capabilities that most creatures of the universe had, the ability to intake large amounts of air and breathe it back out in a spray of arctic cold that freezes the enemy. It was with this very spray of cold that the bird woman froze eight of the slavers and chilled the rest to their bones. She landed on her feet behind them and lashed out with a kick that hit the closest man to her and sent him flying through the air. Zen smacked him aside and then blitzed the remaining slavers and cut them down. The others destroyed their remaining weapons and kept running towards the dining area.
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The rest of the crew meanwhile ran to the holding cells of the ship using the robot they placed inside of the ship ahead of time as a marker. They easily navigated the corridors of the ship by following the signal. A squad of ten guards blocked their path only for Infernoblight to reach out with the Quintessence and use it to heat up their weapons. The guards screamed and dropped their guns as they turned red and super hot to the touch! With their weapons gone and their hands horrifically burned their was nothing to stop Melody from barreling into them and bowling them over like pins. She shattered shoulders and ribcages and jaws with her swinging arms and trampled them with her giant feet, crushing bones and organs. She scooped up two of them as she ran forward and then threw them across the hallway when she saw more guards standing in their way. The guards crashed into them like baseballs and knocked over a number of them. The others backed away and opened fire on the giant intruder only for her big body to bounce the shots off of herself. Kangiten ran behind her, jumped up on her shoulder, reached to his belt, pulled away a silver sphere device and threw it at the guards. The sphere broke open and smaller spheres floated out of it, flew around the guards and released charges of electricity that fried the guards until Melody barreled into them and knocked them over. The spheres flew back into the bigger sphere which flew back to his hand.
"I love our teamups." He joked.
"They certainly are electric. Stay sharp we've got some more coming our way." Melody replied with a smile.
"Come on ya mongrels! Bung up a real scrap already! Howdya even survive this long if this is yah best? Ya beltway pansies!" Zubu taunted the slavers while jumping over Melody, springing off her stomach and launching herself forward while holding her two swords at an angle from each other and rotating and spinning her swords rapidly. As the guards were about to shoot her she kicked off of the ground to increase her momentum and then she passed by a group of guards, came to a stop behind them, twirled her swords and sheathed them both. Only THEN did the blood spray from their wrists, chests and ankles while their guns fell apart.
"The Feahred Academy Of The Bloody Burnin' Heavens Swawrdsmanship: Cleavin' Bane Slashah Dahrt." She licked her lips as she turned around and looked down on the slavers crying in pain and bleeding all over the floor of their own ship. "Oh come on wat ahah ya cryin' about? Ya should be fahkin' happy! I'm shahrin' my homewawrld's secret moves with ya mongrels!"
"IF they're secret then perhaps you shouldn't be announcing them like that?" Yotstsu's asked her while crossing his blades and then slashing forward and sending out twirling energy blades sodnw the hallway that slashed through another group of guards.
"Too right, mate." She agreed. "Buuuut they kicked me out so I'll do wat I damn well pleayse with wat I've already leahrned. Ta very much."
"What did you get kicked out for anyway?" Kangiten asked her.
She shrugged. "I don't know. It was eithah because I fucked the bloody sensei's daughder awr because I was too violent in trayynin'. Or both. But root them. They knew wo I was wen I climbed those stairs 'n asked ta be trayyned. I'm Zubu Dintron Dhubbaggi Slottong 'n I'm a damn outlaw!"
"You are immeasurably skilled, Zubu, but it would be most prudent of us to focus on the situation at hand and talk later." Мамитугуабетур pointed out as she walked in front of the group and created an energy shield to protect them from a spray of blaster fire from multiple guards on the end of the hallway. While the barrier was protecting them, Infernoblight again reached out with The Quintessence to suddenly heat up the air around the guards to cause a sense of vertigo and make them lose balance. With the blaster barrage ceased she lowered the barrier and Yotstsu and Zubu blitzed down the hallway and sliced them open.
The pirates continued making their way through the spaceship until they finally arrived at the holding cells and Melody pulled the door open. She let the others enter first before ducking down and squeezing through the doorway.
"Excuse me everyone! Hi! Hello! I see you're enjoying your newfound freedom." Мамитугуабетур greeted the ladies who were currently sitting around the room with the cuffs and collars removed from them and the doors wide open. Kangiten whistled to the droid and held out his hand. It whistled happily and rolled back to its owner and he picked it up. "Hey little buddy, good to see you again. Nice job setting everyone free."
"Hello, hello! We're Captain Slayer Zen's Nightmare Buccaneers, here to save you and deliver you to safety! By word of The Draconian Queen! I'm Мамитугуабетур, this is Kangiten, Melody, Zubu, Inferoblight and Yotstsu. Our Captain and crewmates are taking out the rest of these guys as we speak. We'll be answering all of your questions while our friend Zubu calls this in."
"Right then! I'll watch the door!" She declared while calling up the Captain on her comm.
"The Feahred Academy Of The Bloody Burnin' Heavens Swawrdsmanship: Cleavin' Bane Slashah Dahrt." She licked her lips as she turned around and looked down on the slavers crying in pain and bleeding all over the floor of their own ship. "Oh come on wat ahah ya cryin' about? Ya should be fahkin' happy! I'm shahrin' my homewawrld's secret moves with ya mongrels!"
"IF they're secret then perhaps you shouldn't be announcing them like that?" Yotstsu's asked her while crossing his blades and then slashing forward and sending out twirling energy blades sodnw the hallway that slashed through another group of guards.
"Too right, mate." She agreed. "Buuuut they kicked me out so I'll do wat I damn well pleayse with wat I've already leahrned. Ta very much."
"What did you get kicked out for anyway?" Kangiten asked her.
She shrugged. "I don't know. It was eithah because I fucked the bloody sensei's daughder awr because I was too violent in trayynin'. Or both. But root them. They knew wo I was wen I climbed those stairs 'n asked ta be trayyned. I'm Zubu Dintron Dhubbaggi Slottong 'n I'm a damn outlaw!"
"You are immeasurably skilled, Zubu, but it would be most prudent of us to focus on the situation at hand and talk later." Мамитугуабетур pointed out as she walked in front of the group and created an energy shield to protect them from a spray of blaster fire from multiple guards on the end of the hallway. While the barrier was protecting them, Infernoblight again reached out with The Quintessence to suddenly heat up the air around the guards to cause a sense of vertigo and make them lose balance. With the blaster barrage ceased she lowered the barrier and Yotstsu and Zubu blitzed down the hallway and sliced them open.
The pirates continued making their way through the spaceship until they finally arrived at the holding cells and Melody pulled the door open. She let the others enter first before ducking down and squeezing through the doorway.
"Excuse me everyone! Hi! Hello! I see you're enjoying your newfound freedom." Мамитугуабетур greeted the ladies who were currently sitting around the room with the cuffs and collars removed from them and the doors wide open. Kangiten whistled to the droid and held out his hand. It whistled happily and rolled back to its owner and he picked it up. "Hey little buddy, good to see you again. Nice job setting everyone free."
"Hello, hello! We're Captain Slayer Zen's Nightmare Buccaneers, here to save you and deliver you to safety! By word of The Draconian Queen! I'm Мамитугуабетур, this is Kangiten, Melody, Zubu, Inferoblight and Yotstsu. Our Captain and crewmates are taking out the rest of these guys as we speak. We'll be answering all of your questions while our friend Zubu calls this in."
"Right then! I'll watch the door!" She declared while calling up the Captain on her comm.
"Talk to me!" Captain Zen replied to Zubu as she got in touch with him while he was deflecting blasts back at the slavers as he closed in on them.
"How's it garn, captayyn? The bloody prisoners av been freed 'n we'ah all cleahr on our end!"
"Oh you too?" He asked while he spun around like a whirling dervish of neon green lights that sliced through the slavers around him too fast for them to react to. "What's your kill count at?" He asked as the bodies dropped behind him.
"Oh dammit I fawrgot ta count!" Zubu joked.
"No big deal. The important thing is that they've been freed. Maintain your positions and defend the prisoners. We'll get in touch again when we take out the kitchen trash and the bridge."
"Understood Captayyn! Be cahreful ovah there!" There was a pause. " Say, captayyn? Wat ahah we garn ta do about the cawrpses? throw them out the bloody airlock?
"Naaah, we'll throw them in the brig or an equivalent and then bury them all on Sunustea. The whole planet is one big desert. We can find a spot to bury them and deliver the rest to the Queen. If she wants to hand them over to the Knights or whatever afterword, that's her prerogative." The Captain explained.
"Fahkin' fair dinkum, Captayyn. We'll see ya wen ya'ah done cleanin' up the bloody ship." Zubu turned off the comm and closed the door and stood next to it to watch it in case any stragglers tried to break in.
"How's it garn, captayyn? The bloody prisoners av been freed 'n we'ah all cleahr on our end!"
"Oh you too?" He asked while he spun around like a whirling dervish of neon green lights that sliced through the slavers around him too fast for them to react to. "What's your kill count at?" He asked as the bodies dropped behind him.
"Oh dammit I fawrgot ta count!" Zubu joked.
"No big deal. The important thing is that they've been freed. Maintain your positions and defend the prisoners. We'll get in touch again when we take out the kitchen trash and the bridge."
"Understood Captayyn! Be cahreful ovah there!" There was a pause. " Say, captayyn? Wat ahah we garn ta do about the cawrpses? throw them out the bloody airlock?
"Naaah, we'll throw them in the brig or an equivalent and then bury them all on Sunustea. The whole planet is one big desert. We can find a spot to bury them and deliver the rest to the Queen. If she wants to hand them over to the Knights or whatever afterword, that's her prerogative." The Captain explained.
"Fahkin' fair dinkum, Captayyn. We'll see ya wen ya'ah done cleanin' up the bloody ship." Zubu turned off the comm and closed the door and stood next to it to watch it in case any stragglers tried to break in.
Despite the sheer numbers pouring in she was nevertheless having some real fun lashing out at them. Every blow she landed was breaking bone inside them and either launching them backwards into the onrushing crowd or smashing them to the floor. She cracked one man across the jaw and it shattered like glass as he dropped to the floor. A backhand across another man's face broke his teeth and launched him backwards through the air. She kicked a guy in the stomach and then palm struck two more guys in their chests as they were running in. All three were launched backwards. Two guys rushed her from the side but she quickly kicked them both aside, put her leg down, grabbed another man's hand as he was going to grab her and she broke his fingers, yanked him forward and then back handed him to the floor, turned with it and kicked a few guys away.
Dawn advanced on them. She jumped up, kicked two guys in the face and then she brought her legs together and kicked outward and kicked two more of them in the face. She landed on the floor and grabbed a guy while kicking backwards and catching a man in the knee and breaking it. Then she pulled the man she'd grabbed around and flung him around and over to the men behind her. He hit a group of them and they fell to the ground in a heap while she attacked the men in front of her and began beating her way through the crowd. Despite the sheer numbers circling around her none of them could land a blow! Punches and kicks and elbows were tried but she either evaded them or blocked or countered them. Every blow she landed was rewarded with the sweet sound of bones cracking and shattering from the sheer force of her strikes.
By the time the others arrived only seven of them were left standing! The pirates rushed them all at once and smacked them down.
"Hello Dawn. I see you entertained yourself while you were waiting."
Dawn slammed the last one down to the floor and looked back up at her captain and stood up straight. "Well you know how it is Captain. I like to exercise while I wait. Where are the others?"
"The prisoners have been freed." He replied. "Our mates are fine and the trash are either dead or wishing they were. Zeuxeilise and I will secure the bridge while the others help you secure these idiots."
"Sounds good Captain." She saluted.
He saluted back and he and Zeuxeillise headed towards the bridge.
There wasn't much resistance as the majority of the slavers had been smacked down already. The remaining rabble in their way were defeated with ease and they took the bridge of the ship. "Alright! Here we are!" Captain Zen de-activated the energy swords and worked the console to get in touch with The Empress.
While The Captain was getting in touch with the Empress, Zeuxeillse called up Zubu on the comms.
"Good news, Croco. We've taken the bridge and the ship is ours."
"That's my girl, zeu-zeu! Drinks ahah on me tonight! Wich reminds me. We can brin' the bloody girls up ta ya awr ya can brin' the bloody supplies down heah but we've got some fahkin' hungry 'n thirschoo recently freed prisoners in need of celebratin'!"
"Considering all they've been through already, I don't think they need to see the bodies. We'll dump those in a brig for now and then let them through when the corridors have been cleaned up. We'll bring the supplies to you for now."
"That's fair. Hey listen up everyone! Our mates ahah bringin' down tucker 'n drinks fawr ya! I hope ya'ah fahkin' hungry because we'ah 'avin' a victawry pahrchoo in here!" Zubu informed the girls with a big smile on her face.
"Good news, Croco. We've taken the bridge and the ship is ours."
"That's my girl, zeu-zeu! Drinks ahah on me tonight! Wich reminds me. We can brin' the bloody girls up ta ya awr ya can brin' the bloody supplies down heah but we've got some fahkin' hungry 'n thirschoo recently freed prisoners in need of celebratin'!"
"Considering all they've been through already, I don't think they need to see the bodies. We'll dump those in a brig for now and then let them through when the corridors have been cleaned up. We'll bring the supplies to you for now."
"That's fair. Hey listen up everyone! Our mates ahah bringin' down tucker 'n drinks fawr ya! I hope ya'ah fahkin' hungry because we'ah 'avin' a victawry pahrchoo in here!" Zubu informed the girls with a big smile on her face.
Dawn, Crakhax, Cyapkeq and Kausalya raided the space refrigerators and cupboards for food supplies and drinks, loaded everything they found onto carts and then Dawn and Crahax left to deliver the supplies to the prisoners while Cyapkeg and Kausalya stood vigil in front of the bridge door just in case there were any surprises.
Granted pushing the carts over the corpses and broken bodies of the slavers wasn't exactly pleasant or easy but they made do. They simply lifted the carts over the dead bodies while walking around and over them and then they walked on and over the broken bones of the still living criminals. They brought it on themselves anyway.
The pair arrived at the holding cells and waved to their crewmates. "Hey guys! How are the ladies looking? I hope they're hungry because we brought a feast!"
Kangiten stood up and waved them over. "Welcome back guys! You're just in time, we were right in the middle of getting to know everyone!"
She lead them back into the cells where Zubu was in the middle of telling everyone a story when the pair entered with food and drink. "Ah! Hey there! Ya'ah just in time! we've got a fahkin' friendly bunch of tough ladies in heah 'n they'ah really fahkin' nice too! let me introduce ya ta: Mari, Sate, Anin, Ralil, Neyte, Mili, Fmanti, Txilti, Nata, Sori, Ayyn'vena, Dodia'minn, Gunn'vena, Maree, Tyle, Teckly, Myra, Bialia, Sula, Krana, Cardina, Amage, Iblis, A'Gowaur, and B'Lono!"
"Hey there, nice to meet you!" Crahax greeted the ladies. "I'm relieved to see that you're all okay. Apologies for all of the violence and theatrics today but we knew this would be our best chance to take them all out at once without having to worry about you being injured in the crossfire."
Dawn stepped up next and waved to everyone. "Hello ladies. I told you we'd be seeing you again soon." She greeted in the voice of Kaphei before lowering herself down to the floor on her hands and knees and switched to her normal voice. "Allow me to introduce myself properly. My name is Dawn Edeninvy. I am a pirate of the Nightmare Buccaneers Crew and a Master of Disguise. I apologize if I frightened you earlier but it was important that I play my role and lull them into a false sense of security until everything was ready. To that end, I had to act like a sleazeball. If I have frightened you while playing my role, I apologize once more." She bowed her head. "I am relieved to see that you are all safe."
"Right. What she said." Melody rubbed the back of her head with her hand. "Anyway! We will now begin distributing food and drink to whomever wants it and we will discuss any questions you have!"
Granted pushing the carts over the corpses and broken bodies of the slavers wasn't exactly pleasant or easy but they made do. They simply lifted the carts over the dead bodies while walking around and over them and then they walked on and over the broken bones of the still living criminals. They brought it on themselves anyway.
The pair arrived at the holding cells and waved to their crewmates. "Hey guys! How are the ladies looking? I hope they're hungry because we brought a feast!"
Kangiten stood up and waved them over. "Welcome back guys! You're just in time, we were right in the middle of getting to know everyone!"
She lead them back into the cells where Zubu was in the middle of telling everyone a story when the pair entered with food and drink. "Ah! Hey there! Ya'ah just in time! we've got a fahkin' friendly bunch of tough ladies in heah 'n they'ah really fahkin' nice too! let me introduce ya ta: Mari, Sate, Anin, Ralil, Neyte, Mili, Fmanti, Txilti, Nata, Sori, Ayyn'vena, Dodia'minn, Gunn'vena, Maree, Tyle, Teckly, Myra, Bialia, Sula, Krana, Cardina, Amage, Iblis, A'Gowaur, and B'Lono!"
"Hey there, nice to meet you!" Crahax greeted the ladies. "I'm relieved to see that you're all okay. Apologies for all of the violence and theatrics today but we knew this would be our best chance to take them all out at once without having to worry about you being injured in the crossfire."
Dawn stepped up next and waved to everyone. "Hello ladies. I told you we'd be seeing you again soon." She greeted in the voice of Kaphei before lowering herself down to the floor on her hands and knees and switched to her normal voice. "Allow me to introduce myself properly. My name is Dawn Edeninvy. I am a pirate of the Nightmare Buccaneers Crew and a Master of Disguise. I apologize if I frightened you earlier but it was important that I play my role and lull them into a false sense of security until everything was ready. To that end, I had to act like a sleazeball. If I have frightened you while playing my role, I apologize once more." She bowed her head. "I am relieved to see that you are all safe."
"Right. What she said." Melody rubbed the back of her head with her hand. "Anyway! We will now begin distributing food and drink to whomever wants it and we will discuss any questions you have!"
Esmeralda Vamiolos checked out the perimeter outside the door, she glances down at her rifle to see that it's around 75% of power. She knelt down to the nearest dead slaver and pulls out a charger pack for her gun, after she searched him. But not without observing her surroundings in the event of an ambush.
Lalpas Mara, The S'Goni Mechanic of the Crew, was currently relaxing on top of the ship, laying on her back next to the device she'd used to hack into the ship's defenses, and she was currently playing a v-game on her holo-device. While doing so she tapped her ear comm and a device slid out of it down to her mouth. "Heee~ey Esme! How's it going in there? You guys have some fun?"
Esme patted her rifle, "Palpy has had his bloodthirst quenched and there's a bottle of Valhalla back at the ship calling my name. Which I'll answer when the job is done"
She stood up and leaned against the wall, she had been part of the crew for about two cycles and has managed to pull her own weight as much as the others. She still finds it rather odd how Destiny managed this peculiar arrangement. Slingers and Pirates don't get along yet she's living proof that some fires can be put out.
She stood up and leaned against the wall, she had been part of the crew for about two cycles and has managed to pull her own weight as much as the others. She still finds it rather odd how Destiny managed this peculiar arrangement. Slingers and Pirates don't get along yet she's living proof that some fires can be put out.
The S'Goni laughed. "I know the feeling! I've got some zedarin juice I've been keeping in cold storage for an after work celebration just like this. Our chameleon friend should be around shortly with the slaver-straggler she drugged earlier and we'll have the complete set. Then after the shopkeeper gets his payment and The Captain gives the dock crew theirs, we'll go meet her highness and get a major payoff for the job." She patted the ship. "Maybe we'll sell the ship too after scuttling it for parts. Depends on The Captain's call." She returned to her game. "You might want to call Pyoch* on the guns we're stealing now or you can wait until they get divided up later."
"I'll take that into consideration, thanks." She checked her gun while they talked. "I must say, you guys are impressive. Not many pirates would think to set up a trap like this in a colony so far ahead of time."
"That's the crew for you. They plan these things out like military operations. Friends on the inside and out. Trap the enemy and corner them then move in for the kill before they know what's happening. That's how the crew operates." She laughed as she blew away some ships on her game. "You should be proud of yourself too. You're one of the best sharpshooters we've ever seen. No exaggeration, Esme."
"I'll take that into consideration, thanks." She checked her gun while they talked. "I must say, you guys are impressive. Not many pirates would think to set up a trap like this in a colony so far ahead of time."
"That's the crew for you. They plan these things out like military operations. Friends on the inside and out. Trap the enemy and corner them then move in for the kill before they know what's happening. That's how the crew operates." She laughed as she blew away some ships on her game. "You should be proud of yourself too. You're one of the best sharpshooters we've ever seen. No exaggeration, Esme."
Vrrorux returned to the back soon after he left and he closed the door behind himself. "Alright. I did as you asked. I know this isn't what they would want but...I can't let his atrocities fly. I drugged him as you asked." He spoke to the empty back room.
A ripple appeared in the air in the shape of a humanoid female. Color returned to the ripple until it was visible again and a tall female humanoid chameleon appeared in front of him.
Dazathra Panshe of The Nightmare Buccaneers. She was a Camakait from Zoria Q2AA, a race of humanoid chameleons renowned for their camouflage and shapeshifting abilities.
They could camouflage themselves by altering their color, consciously changing their pigmentation to exactly whatever it is they are surrounded by. Under their transparent outer skin and scales are cell layers that contain red and yellow pigments, chromatophores. Below the chromatophores are cell layers that reflect blue and white light. Even deeper down is a layer of brown melanin. Levels of external light and heat, and internal chemical reactions cause these cells to expand or contract. Heat sensors and beings with trained and enhanced vision would still be able to detect them, however. It would be unlikely that anyone without heat sensor equipment or superhuman vision would see them. Those with mental abilities like telepathy may detect their thoughts, but pinpointing them with their physical eyes could prove difficult.
On top of their camouflaging abilities however is the ability to absorb and generate a specific pattern of light in a counter-illuminating reaction, becoming unseen. In advanced or more powerful cases, the Camakits can hide not only themselves, but other people or objects in their immediate vicinity. However, they are only invisible in the visible spectrum, meaning that they can still be perceived by any of the other senses. Their body is still producing heat, which means that infrared equipment can be used to perceive them even if they are using this ability. Finally, they are able to alter their physical features.
Their final disguise trait is a Biokinetic specialization, allowing the DNA Alternate the ability to change their physical features in order to change their forms (skin color, height, weight, physical features) to look like that of another, including others of the same species or members of a different species via sampling their DNA, down to features such as fingerprints, though not on the genetic level, within their general mass range. The amount of time they can utilize a particular transformation is proportionate to the amount of genetic material that is consumed. If the genetic material of multiple people has been ingested, then the Camakits can transform into any of them, and without having to return to their original shape between transformations.
"We understand, Vrrorux. I apologize for asking you to betray their peaceful teachings but it was the most pragmatic way to capture him." Dazathra assured him.
"Rest assured you will receive your compensation if you still desire."
He sighed and rubbed the back of his head. "I...yeah, that's fine. Thank you. Honestly though, I just want scum like that off the colony and locked away."
"Oh rest assured, they'll get everything that is coming to them." She walked over to him and took out a device from her belt. He slid a card into it and she transferred ± 7,766,667 Int. Xalla to his account. "Consider it a bonus for the emotional turmoil. I know the order were peaceful."
"I thank you for the compensation but isn't this a little much?" He asked her.
"Oh relax. We stole funds from The Zenith Casino. We have more than enough Xalla to last us. This is a drop in the bucket compared to our resources."
"The Zenith Casino? Didn't it go bankrupt?"
"Precisely." She laughed and then hugged him. "Thank for your help. May the cycles find you well."
"And you as well." He replied and hugged her back. She gave him back his card and camouflaged herself again.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a trash fire to capture."
The backdoor opened and closed while Vrrorux returned to work.
A ripple appeared in the air in the shape of a humanoid female. Color returned to the ripple until it was visible again and a tall female humanoid chameleon appeared in front of him.
Dazathra Panshe of The Nightmare Buccaneers. She was a Camakait from Zoria Q2AA, a race of humanoid chameleons renowned for their camouflage and shapeshifting abilities.
They could camouflage themselves by altering their color, consciously changing their pigmentation to exactly whatever it is they are surrounded by. Under their transparent outer skin and scales are cell layers that contain red and yellow pigments, chromatophores. Below the chromatophores are cell layers that reflect blue and white light. Even deeper down is a layer of brown melanin. Levels of external light and heat, and internal chemical reactions cause these cells to expand or contract. Heat sensors and beings with trained and enhanced vision would still be able to detect them, however. It would be unlikely that anyone without heat sensor equipment or superhuman vision would see them. Those with mental abilities like telepathy may detect their thoughts, but pinpointing them with their physical eyes could prove difficult.
On top of their camouflaging abilities however is the ability to absorb and generate a specific pattern of light in a counter-illuminating reaction, becoming unseen. In advanced or more powerful cases, the Camakits can hide not only themselves, but other people or objects in their immediate vicinity. However, they are only invisible in the visible spectrum, meaning that they can still be perceived by any of the other senses. Their body is still producing heat, which means that infrared equipment can be used to perceive them even if they are using this ability. Finally, they are able to alter their physical features.
Their final disguise trait is a Biokinetic specialization, allowing the DNA Alternate the ability to change their physical features in order to change their forms (skin color, height, weight, physical features) to look like that of another, including others of the same species or members of a different species via sampling their DNA, down to features such as fingerprints, though not on the genetic level, within their general mass range. The amount of time they can utilize a particular transformation is proportionate to the amount of genetic material that is consumed. If the genetic material of multiple people has been ingested, then the Camakits can transform into any of them, and without having to return to their original shape between transformations.
"We understand, Vrrorux. I apologize for asking you to betray their peaceful teachings but it was the most pragmatic way to capture him." Dazathra assured him.
"Rest assured you will receive your compensation if you still desire."
He sighed and rubbed the back of his head. "I...yeah, that's fine. Thank you. Honestly though, I just want scum like that off the colony and locked away."
"Oh rest assured, they'll get everything that is coming to them." She walked over to him and took out a device from her belt. He slid a card into it and she transferred ± 7,766,667 Int. Xalla to his account. "Consider it a bonus for the emotional turmoil. I know the order were peaceful."
"I thank you for the compensation but isn't this a little much?" He asked her.
"Oh relax. We stole funds from The Zenith Casino. We have more than enough Xalla to last us. This is a drop in the bucket compared to our resources."
"The Zenith Casino? Didn't it go bankrupt?"
"Precisely." She laughed and then hugged him. "Thank for your help. May the cycles find you well."
"And you as well." He replied and hugged her back. She gave him back his card and camouflaged herself again.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a trash fire to capture."
The backdoor opened and closed while Vrrorux returned to work.
Rodak took the long way around the colony back to the ship while he kept an eye out for an easy target. Little drones carried the groceries for him with tractor beams. He felt good today. Excellent deals, clean fresh colony air, a warm sense of community, beautiful scenery, this place really had it all. They really would have to come back some time and vacation here after the they got rich off of the trade. Especially because everyone here looked just so promising. He crossed into the artificial park and looked around the area for a target until he found someone he liked. He whistled for the drones attention.
"Hbey guys why dn'ot ydou go onn ahead back to thqe ship? I need to pouur on the charm?"
The drones looked at him in confusion.
"Back to the ship? Grocesrie. Takoe them back to the ship....back...bleh! Groceries. Take them back to the ship. Yeah." He shook his head and patted it. "Got it. Go."
The drones flew on ahead while he cleared his head. "Okay...alright. Alright. I've got this." He slicked back his hair and walked across the park to catch up to a pink skinned young lady. "Wghy hello there xmadame." He squeezed his jaw shut and shook his head. "I mean, sorry, hello there madame. Forgive me but your beauty illuminates this park like a supernova. I was so enamored by your radianet beauty that I simply had to come oover and speak with yovu. Might I, Rodak Nomura, Hero Of Tlizogh, iunquire of your name?"
If she wasn't such a dedicated actress, Dazathra would have burst out laughing. This was way too easy. The drug was working its way through his system even faster than she had expected. All she had to do now was keep this idiot talking until he was so intoxicated he couldn't even stand up straight. Then she would rob him blind and take him back to the ship for transport. For now she kept in character. "Wow!" She exclaimed. "THE Rodak Nomura? I've heard so much about you!" She started eagerly shaking his hand. "I'm Rei Ketura! Oh my stars this is just a huge honor! You're such a great man!"
He laughed in a calm and confident manner or at least what he assumed was a calm and confident manner as the drug was swiftly intoxicating him. "The pleasure is all kmine, xrei the draiant. If you would lzlaow me, I would love to accompany you in thsi beautiful bpark. Accompany you and tzo sohhw you the stars."
A lesser actress would have broken character here but she continued to play her role with ease. Her trap was working perfectly so far and it would not fail now.
"You mean it?" She asked in awe. "You'd really show me the stars?" She gently grabbed his hands but then she looked away. Oh but I am just a simple colony girl. Surely I am not worthy of accompanying a big strapping pure hearted war hero like yourself!"
"No no trusht me youu are. You arle beautiful and yuo are most certainly worthy. The sgtars themselves could not corajpme eto your beauty." He stammered out.
Dazathra was definitely going to tell Haruno about this one. This was way too funny. "If...if you would have me join you on your travels. I would love to accompany you." She looked deep into his eyes and she could already see the intoxication working through him. "Come. Let us enjoy this beautiful day together while you regale me with tales of your wartime bravery!"
"Hbey guys why dn'ot ydou go onn ahead back to thqe ship? I need to pouur on the charm?"
The drones looked at him in confusion.
"Back to the ship? Grocesrie. Takoe them back to the ship....back...bleh! Groceries. Take them back to the ship. Yeah." He shook his head and patted it. "Got it. Go."
The drones flew on ahead while he cleared his head. "Okay...alright. Alright. I've got this." He slicked back his hair and walked across the park to catch up to a pink skinned young lady. "Wghy hello there xmadame." He squeezed his jaw shut and shook his head. "I mean, sorry, hello there madame. Forgive me but your beauty illuminates this park like a supernova. I was so enamored by your radianet beauty that I simply had to come oover and speak with yovu. Might I, Rodak Nomura, Hero Of Tlizogh, iunquire of your name?"
If she wasn't such a dedicated actress, Dazathra would have burst out laughing. This was way too easy. The drug was working its way through his system even faster than she had expected. All she had to do now was keep this idiot talking until he was so intoxicated he couldn't even stand up straight. Then she would rob him blind and take him back to the ship for transport. For now she kept in character. "Wow!" She exclaimed. "THE Rodak Nomura? I've heard so much about you!" She started eagerly shaking his hand. "I'm Rei Ketura! Oh my stars this is just a huge honor! You're such a great man!"
He laughed in a calm and confident manner or at least what he assumed was a calm and confident manner as the drug was swiftly intoxicating him. "The pleasure is all kmine, xrei the draiant. If you would lzlaow me, I would love to accompany you in thsi beautiful bpark. Accompany you and tzo sohhw you the stars."
A lesser actress would have broken character here but she continued to play her role with ease. Her trap was working perfectly so far and it would not fail now.
"You mean it?" She asked in awe. "You'd really show me the stars?" She gently grabbed his hands but then she looked away. Oh but I am just a simple colony girl. Surely I am not worthy of accompanying a big strapping pure hearted war hero like yourself!"
"No no trusht me youu are. You arle beautiful and yuo are most certainly worthy. The sgtars themselves could not corajpme eto your beauty." He stammered out.
Dazathra was definitely going to tell Haruno about this one. This was way too funny. "If...if you would have me join you on your travels. I would love to accompany you." She looked deep into his eyes and she could already see the intoxication working through him. "Come. Let us enjoy this beautiful day together while you regale me with tales of your wartime bravery!"
"And kthere I wash! Jupst me atnd thoes filthy monks idn that cave tuennl! They flaihled their hands ankd chanted ktheir nonsensical gibberish bfut I wouldn't be fxooled bny their hocus fpocus lmind trik!Sc ni reloadued mzy hatwblateesr hand roasted them alvl on the spot! And thhey emraecsd and they scrameed axnd ethy screagmed! It was funny! Ni bpurend tehm and burned thepm until they were ruoasted alive!"
He drunkenly bragged to her while he staggered around waving his arms around in the air.
"I burned thelm like we burbned their temple! We slxaughtered twhem all! We killed thenm. I kliled them uall. They're dbead, every zsingle one of them. Nawd noft just thre men, but thae women aend the children too. They wree like animpals and I slaughteregd them lxike animals. Qi clan still ssee it no!W every screami, every plea, every silenced fcry for help to stnop!"
"I'uve siltul ghot osme oif thrie artifacts lwith tiher heasd ain glsaos fcases ni my shitpt! I gillke mwy hnueting trophies ynolu sdee. Il'l show nyou vif you want! Whegn wkme get bacrk got jmy shiiiP!
He continued trying to be suave to seduce this nice young lady to coming back to the ship to lock her up and sell her like the others but he was slurring his words and struggling to keep his balance. It was like some sort of weird outer body experience. His legs wouldn't work as he wanted them, neither would his hands, or his fingers or anything. Every footfall came down to the path as if the collision of boot and ground wasn't entirely anticipated and he lurched and stumbled around the path. Somewhere, deep inside, he knew his brain was sending the signals telling him what to do but his body wasn't listening! He was swaying and stumbling left and right and his words slurring into gibberish. He collapsed to his hands and knees on the ground. The world was spinning and blurring around him.
"Kamakamakamakamakama." The woman laughed quietly while covering her mouth with her hands as she crouched down next to him. Kamakamakamakamakama."
w-yhunat y-ddaipd y-souu d-o t-kdo m-eg?" He stammered out as he tried to focus on her.
"Ohhhh nothing much. I just drugged you back at the store and let it run its course while you hung yourself." She licked her eye with her tongue and then retracted it. "Kamakamakamakamakama. Some war hero you turned out to be. You're just a pathetic cowardly little thug who only goes after easy marks. But someone should've warned you. Even lambs have teeth, little boy." She sneered. The woman stood up, kicked him into the air, caught his head and then she slammed his face against a tree.
Time passed and Dazathra returned to the docking bay carrying the slaver over her shoulder. She approached their ship while slowly changing back to her true form and saluted Lalpas and Esme. "Hey guys! Got another one for the road!"
He drunkenly bragged to her while he staggered around waving his arms around in the air.
"I burned thelm like we burbned their temple! We slxaughtered twhem all! We killed thenm. I kliled them uall. They're dbead, every zsingle one of them. Nawd noft just thre men, but thae women aend the children too. They wree like animpals and I slaughteregd them lxike animals. Qi clan still ssee it no!W every screami, every plea, every silenced fcry for help to stnop!"
"I'uve siltul ghot osme oif thrie artifacts lwith tiher heasd ain glsaos fcases ni my shitpt! I gillke mwy hnueting trophies ynolu sdee. Il'l show nyou vif you want! Whegn wkme get bacrk got jmy shiiiP!
He continued trying to be suave to seduce this nice young lady to coming back to the ship to lock her up and sell her like the others but he was slurring his words and struggling to keep his balance. It was like some sort of weird outer body experience. His legs wouldn't work as he wanted them, neither would his hands, or his fingers or anything. Every footfall came down to the path as if the collision of boot and ground wasn't entirely anticipated and he lurched and stumbled around the path. Somewhere, deep inside, he knew his brain was sending the signals telling him what to do but his body wasn't listening! He was swaying and stumbling left and right and his words slurring into gibberish. He collapsed to his hands and knees on the ground. The world was spinning and blurring around him.
"Kamakamakamakamakama." The woman laughed quietly while covering her mouth with her hands as she crouched down next to him. Kamakamakamakamakama."
w-yhunat y-ddaipd y-souu d-o t-kdo m-eg?" He stammered out as he tried to focus on her.
"Ohhhh nothing much. I just drugged you back at the store and let it run its course while you hung yourself." She licked her eye with her tongue and then retracted it. "Kamakamakamakamakama. Some war hero you turned out to be. You're just a pathetic cowardly little thug who only goes after easy marks. But someone should've warned you. Even lambs have teeth, little boy." She sneered. The woman stood up, kicked him into the air, caught his head and then she slammed his face against a tree.
Time passed and Dazathra returned to the docking bay carrying the slaver over her shoulder. She approached their ship while slowly changing back to her true form and saluted Lalpas and Esme. "Hey guys! Got another one for the road!"
"Hey about time! You didn't get lost did you?" Esme asked while they shook hands.
"We both know that's impossible. I just got a little caught up in my role on top of having to carry his performance. Do you have any idea how hard it is to act opposite of a blithering drunk?"
"I'm a sniper. We're more about lining up the perfect shot." Esme admitted.
"You should be my camerawoman." Dazathra joked. "How are the others?"
"Relaxing inside." Lalpas called down to her. "These guys were about were worse than The Primo Order. At least we had to plan out how to take them down. These clowns were a slow weekend."
"True but a job's a job and we got to do what we love so why complain?" Dazathra laughed. "So where we keeping these jokers?"
"Bodies in the brig, survivors in their cages. We're going to bury their dead in the desert." Esme informed her.
"I suppose that's at least more respectful than jettisoning them out the airlock. Come on, lets get this loser inside." She saluted her crewmate Lalpas again and she walked inside with Esme to drop the slaver in the cage where he belonged. "Just wait until you see my impression of him. I'll put on one of my one woman shows for the crew later. It's going to be great."
"We both know that's impossible. I just got a little caught up in my role on top of having to carry his performance. Do you have any idea how hard it is to act opposite of a blithering drunk?"
"I'm a sniper. We're more about lining up the perfect shot." Esme admitted.
"You should be my camerawoman." Dazathra joked. "How are the others?"
"Relaxing inside." Lalpas called down to her. "These guys were about were worse than The Primo Order. At least we had to plan out how to take them down. These clowns were a slow weekend."
"True but a job's a job and we got to do what we love so why complain?" Dazathra laughed. "So where we keeping these jokers?"
"Bodies in the brig, survivors in their cages. We're going to bury their dead in the desert." Esme informed her.
"I suppose that's at least more respectful than jettisoning them out the airlock. Come on, lets get this loser inside." She saluted her crewmate Lalpas again and she walked inside with Esme to drop the slaver in the cage where he belonged. "Just wait until you see my impression of him. I'll put on one of my one woman shows for the crew later. It's going to be great."
"So where are the other guys?"
"Everyone's relaxing. Most of us are busy relaxing with the rescued while The Captain is talking with The Empress."
"Well okay then. Let's go see them."
In the holding area!
"So theah I was right? Stahrin' down this larrakin in black robes 'n I was just feelin' sawrry fawr him. I'm sah he trayyned fawr a long time but he was up agayynst me!" Zubu bragged while she told the story to a young girl they'd freed while she let her enjoy her meal. It was probably the first decent meal these poor victims had enjoyed in awhile. So the crew would let them eat first. "He 'ad a dardy swawrd though. A crossguahrd beam blade with vents ta let out the bloody heat of the generatawr. It was fahkin' nice. A swawrd liyyke that was wasted on him though."
The girl tried to ask her something but it came out mumbled.
"Chew yah food befawah ya speak deahr."
She swallowed it in one gulp. "Ahhhh. So what did you do then?"
Zubu chuckled. "I laughed at him. I tol' him, 'You'ah all flash 'n no talent. Fahkin' too right, mate."
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"Just look at ya with yah flamin' lasah swawrd 'n yah black cloak 'n toy helmet. All flash 'n no substance. Bloody oath mate." She taunted as the knight pulled himself free of the small crater in the hard metal wall of the ship she'd smacked him into. "You'ah nothin' but a show pony. LET ME SEE YA PRANCE!"
Black Mask Death Knight growled and raced towards her, soaring over the floor of the ship while swinging his sword in an arc down at her head. The air actually appearing to distort as the energy blade cut through it. He slashed downward at her but she deflected it with her right sword. He attempted to slash up at her but she parried again with her other blade. He attempted a slash at her right shoulder but she dodged it and deflected the blade aside. Undeterred he maneuvered around her and attempted to slash at her torso but she laughed and stopped it with her sword so he raised his sword up and tried to slash at her from the other side but she shut that down as well. So he spun around her and tried to slash at her back only for Zubu to block that as well before she knocked him off of his feet and kicked him into a wall. He grunted from the impact but he managed to raise his hand up and stop himself from impacting it with an invisible force. He righted himself in the air, pulled himself over to the wall and then he sprung off of it and raised his sword in an arc and tried to slash at her side but she blocked the slash coming from her right and then the left and then she side stepped and blocked his downward slash, dodged his swinging upward slash and his subsequent slashes aimed at her shoulders and torso, easily dodging around him while evading and parrying his sword before she finally decided she was done and she pushed his sword down with one hand and then she slashed up his chest, cutting through his cloak and body armor with enough force to send him flying backward several feet. He flew head over heel before he stopped himself and he collapsed down on one knee gasping and holding his chest.
Zubu flicked the blood off of her sword. "Wat's wrong now? Is that all ya got?"
"Not even close, monster." He snarled and he reached into The Quintessence and used its light to close up his wound and he stood up once again. He channeled the Quintessence into his body to enlrage his suprachiasmatic nuclei, increasing his circadian rhythm exponentially, allowing his body to operate at a higher speed while increasing the firing speed of his nerve clusters, allowing him to react to stimuli faster as well, effectively increasing both his speed and reflexes. Finally, he utilized it to manipulate electrical currents and generate electricity in the air, destabilizing the personal magnetic field in the air and collapsing the resultant static electricity onto his energy sword before rushing her down again in a sudden eruption of speed, his electrified beam sword slicing through the air!
"Oh that's fahkin' cute." She sneered and made her move after dropping into a partial crouch, both knees bent, one arm drawn back and the other crossed around her torso and then sprung forward, slashed with one sword to parry his slash while still keeping her other arm back and then thrusting with her free arm while pushing his blade out of the way. He leaped backwards to avoid being impaled but her blade was able to penetrate his flesh regardless. He growled and grabbed the wound on his left middle chest as blood flowed from his wound. "Heh." She swiped her sword and flung the blood off of it onto a wall and then advanced on him. She slashed with one sword at his neck while aiming at his legs with the other. He quickly backed away from Zubu while using his beam sword to parry her attempt at his neck and sliding his feet back. Her sword grazed his shins and drew blood from them. He backed away from Zubu again, stumbling a bit now from his leg wounds. Black Mask Death Knight was done yet however and raised his fist and clenched it. He tapped into the Quintessence and the ship corridor they were in began to shake and tremble. Zubu remained upright with ease however and waited. Panels of the walls and equipment attached to the walls as well as chunks of the floor tore themselves free of their foundations and assembled behind him.
"I don't mind ya spicin' things up a bit but ahah ya sah ya want ta go teahrin' apahrt yah own ship? My crew 'n I av already trashed it enough as it is." Zubu taunted him.
"Whatever it takes...TO OBTAIN VICTORY!" He shouted at her in defiance and flung the ship parts at her in a maelstrom of shrapnel and debris!
"Well said, black mask death knight. Ya'ah manliah than I gave ya credit fawr!" She finally complimented and raced towards the storm of ship parts while spinning her body and unleashing a tornado of slashes against the wall of debris he'd thrown her way while tapping into The Quintessence to accelerate her speed even further becoming a whirling dervish, a buzzsaw that cut right through all of it! The resulting gale tore around the corridor like an out of control locomotive. The wind could be said be as loud as the roaring engine of a fighter ship and had all the mercy of the Shanreus' Killbots!
Black Mask Death Knight was still not beaten yet however and met her attack with a two handed swiping sword slash of his own. His sword crashed into one of hers but she kept right on turning and her second sword crashed into the back of her first to double its power and met his. The resulting clash of swords resulted in a shockwave that shook the corridor! Black Mask Death Knight did his best to stay standing but he ended up losing his footing due to the wounds on his legs and he was sent flying backwards into the door on the other side of the corridor hard enough to put a dent in it! Although she couldn't see it through his mask, she heard hoark up blood on the inside of it and he fell down to his knees. Zubu straightened up and walked towards him.
"Ya really ahah betder than I thought. I usually slice my enemies up with that one. Ya got off easily all things considered."
He dropped off of the wall and landed on his feet. "A mere scratch, you mewling quim! Come!" He raised his sword again. "Come and let me take your head!"
"Now that's not very fahkin' nice. I'm complimentin' ya heah 'n ya just av ta gob off liyyke that. Don't ya av any manners?"
"To hell with manners. This is a fight to the death!" He spat at her.
"Fair dinkum." She acknowledged with a shrug and lunged at him, soaring across the corridor at high speed, swiftly closing the distance between them. She slashed with one sword which he parried but then she stabbed his exposed leg with the other. He cursed and fell back. She used this chance to push his sword back against him with her own while stabbing her free sword into and through his stomach into the door behind him! Effectively impaling him with one sword while forcing his beam blade into his chest with the other. His black robes smoked and sizzling with his flesh as he screamed in pain. She grabbed his hand and pushed into him so now the vents were stabbing into him as well! He essentially had four blades cutting into him now!
"Ya weah good as gold, mate. Considah this yah final compliment." She stepped back and swiftly decapitated him with a single slash. Cutting through flesh, muscle, bone, helmet and the door behind him in one slash of her sword. She pulled her sword out and stepped away as his corpse dropped to the floor of the ship corridor. His sword deactivated and Zubu flicked the blood from her own, sheathed them and took his sword as a trophy. "Rest assured, Sir Knight. I will treasah this swawrd."
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"He turned out ta be betder than I expected 'n carked it with honawr. I took his swawrd as a trophy out of respect fawr that." Zubu finished her story, while obviously down playing the more brutal parts of the ending.
"All respect towards our swordswoman, but she does love to hear herself talk doesn't she?" Dazathra asked Esme.
"Everyone's relaxing. Most of us are busy relaxing with the rescued while The Captain is talking with The Empress."
"Well okay then. Let's go see them."
In the holding area!
"So theah I was right? Stahrin' down this larrakin in black robes 'n I was just feelin' sawrry fawr him. I'm sah he trayyned fawr a long time but he was up agayynst me!" Zubu bragged while she told the story to a young girl they'd freed while she let her enjoy her meal. It was probably the first decent meal these poor victims had enjoyed in awhile. So the crew would let them eat first. "He 'ad a dardy swawrd though. A crossguahrd beam blade with vents ta let out the bloody heat of the generatawr. It was fahkin' nice. A swawrd liyyke that was wasted on him though."
The girl tried to ask her something but it came out mumbled.
"Chew yah food befawah ya speak deahr."
She swallowed it in one gulp. "Ahhhh. So what did you do then?"
Zubu chuckled. "I laughed at him. I tol' him, 'You'ah all flash 'n no talent. Fahkin' too right, mate."
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"Just look at ya with yah flamin' lasah swawrd 'n yah black cloak 'n toy helmet. All flash 'n no substance. Bloody oath mate." She taunted as the knight pulled himself free of the small crater in the hard metal wall of the ship she'd smacked him into. "You'ah nothin' but a show pony. LET ME SEE YA PRANCE!"
Black Mask Death Knight growled and raced towards her, soaring over the floor of the ship while swinging his sword in an arc down at her head. The air actually appearing to distort as the energy blade cut through it. He slashed downward at her but she deflected it with her right sword. He attempted to slash up at her but she parried again with her other blade. He attempted a slash at her right shoulder but she dodged it and deflected the blade aside. Undeterred he maneuvered around her and attempted to slash at her torso but she laughed and stopped it with her sword so he raised his sword up and tried to slash at her from the other side but she shut that down as well. So he spun around her and tried to slash at her back only for Zubu to block that as well before she knocked him off of his feet and kicked him into a wall. He grunted from the impact but he managed to raise his hand up and stop himself from impacting it with an invisible force. He righted himself in the air, pulled himself over to the wall and then he sprung off of it and raised his sword in an arc and tried to slash at her side but she blocked the slash coming from her right and then the left and then she side stepped and blocked his downward slash, dodged his swinging upward slash and his subsequent slashes aimed at her shoulders and torso, easily dodging around him while evading and parrying his sword before she finally decided she was done and she pushed his sword down with one hand and then she slashed up his chest, cutting through his cloak and body armor with enough force to send him flying backward several feet. He flew head over heel before he stopped himself and he collapsed down on one knee gasping and holding his chest.
Zubu flicked the blood off of her sword. "Wat's wrong now? Is that all ya got?"
"Not even close, monster." He snarled and he reached into The Quintessence and used its light to close up his wound and he stood up once again. He channeled the Quintessence into his body to enlrage his suprachiasmatic nuclei, increasing his circadian rhythm exponentially, allowing his body to operate at a higher speed while increasing the firing speed of his nerve clusters, allowing him to react to stimuli faster as well, effectively increasing both his speed and reflexes. Finally, he utilized it to manipulate electrical currents and generate electricity in the air, destabilizing the personal magnetic field in the air and collapsing the resultant static electricity onto his energy sword before rushing her down again in a sudden eruption of speed, his electrified beam sword slicing through the air!
"Oh that's fahkin' cute." She sneered and made her move after dropping into a partial crouch, both knees bent, one arm drawn back and the other crossed around her torso and then sprung forward, slashed with one sword to parry his slash while still keeping her other arm back and then thrusting with her free arm while pushing his blade out of the way. He leaped backwards to avoid being impaled but her blade was able to penetrate his flesh regardless. He growled and grabbed the wound on his left middle chest as blood flowed from his wound. "Heh." She swiped her sword and flung the blood off of it onto a wall and then advanced on him. She slashed with one sword at his neck while aiming at his legs with the other. He quickly backed away from Zubu while using his beam sword to parry her attempt at his neck and sliding his feet back. Her sword grazed his shins and drew blood from them. He backed away from Zubu again, stumbling a bit now from his leg wounds. Black Mask Death Knight was done yet however and raised his fist and clenched it. He tapped into the Quintessence and the ship corridor they were in began to shake and tremble. Zubu remained upright with ease however and waited. Panels of the walls and equipment attached to the walls as well as chunks of the floor tore themselves free of their foundations and assembled behind him.
"I don't mind ya spicin' things up a bit but ahah ya sah ya want ta go teahrin' apahrt yah own ship? My crew 'n I av already trashed it enough as it is." Zubu taunted him.
"Whatever it takes...TO OBTAIN VICTORY!" He shouted at her in defiance and flung the ship parts at her in a maelstrom of shrapnel and debris!
"Well said, black mask death knight. Ya'ah manliah than I gave ya credit fawr!" She finally complimented and raced towards the storm of ship parts while spinning her body and unleashing a tornado of slashes against the wall of debris he'd thrown her way while tapping into The Quintessence to accelerate her speed even further becoming a whirling dervish, a buzzsaw that cut right through all of it! The resulting gale tore around the corridor like an out of control locomotive. The wind could be said be as loud as the roaring engine of a fighter ship and had all the mercy of the Shanreus' Killbots!
Black Mask Death Knight was still not beaten yet however and met her attack with a two handed swiping sword slash of his own. His sword crashed into one of hers but she kept right on turning and her second sword crashed into the back of her first to double its power and met his. The resulting clash of swords resulted in a shockwave that shook the corridor! Black Mask Death Knight did his best to stay standing but he ended up losing his footing due to the wounds on his legs and he was sent flying backwards into the door on the other side of the corridor hard enough to put a dent in it! Although she couldn't see it through his mask, she heard hoark up blood on the inside of it and he fell down to his knees. Zubu straightened up and walked towards him.
"Ya really ahah betder than I thought. I usually slice my enemies up with that one. Ya got off easily all things considered."
He dropped off of the wall and landed on his feet. "A mere scratch, you mewling quim! Come!" He raised his sword again. "Come and let me take your head!"
"Now that's not very fahkin' nice. I'm complimentin' ya heah 'n ya just av ta gob off liyyke that. Don't ya av any manners?"
"To hell with manners. This is a fight to the death!" He spat at her.
"Fair dinkum." She acknowledged with a shrug and lunged at him, soaring across the corridor at high speed, swiftly closing the distance between them. She slashed with one sword which he parried but then she stabbed his exposed leg with the other. He cursed and fell back. She used this chance to push his sword back against him with her own while stabbing her free sword into and through his stomach into the door behind him! Effectively impaling him with one sword while forcing his beam blade into his chest with the other. His black robes smoked and sizzling with his flesh as he screamed in pain. She grabbed his hand and pushed into him so now the vents were stabbing into him as well! He essentially had four blades cutting into him now!
"Ya weah good as gold, mate. Considah this yah final compliment." She stepped back and swiftly decapitated him with a single slash. Cutting through flesh, muscle, bone, helmet and the door behind him in one slash of her sword. She pulled her sword out and stepped away as his corpse dropped to the floor of the ship corridor. His sword deactivated and Zubu flicked the blood from her own, sheathed them and took his sword as a trophy. "Rest assured, Sir Knight. I will treasah this swawrd."
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"He turned out ta be betder than I expected 'n carked it with honawr. I took his swawrd as a trophy out of respect fawr that." Zubu finished her story, while obviously down playing the more brutal parts of the ending.
"All respect towards our swordswoman, but she does love to hear herself talk doesn't she?" Dazathra asked Esme.
"She has the voice of an Angel...with a horrible voice." Esme joked.
Zubu replied with a backwards V-Sign.
"Little one, these ahah two mawah of my beloved shipmates. Our talented shaypeshifder Dazathrah 'n one of the bloody most lethal snipers in the universe, Esme." She introduced the child to them. "Shipmates, this is Zxotox Gheknans."
The four eyed gemheaded Rudanerthian laughed and ran up to them. "Hello! Hello! Hi! Thank you so much for saving us! I'm Zxhotox Ghekans! Thank you for saving me!"
"Hello to you as well Zxhotox. I trust our Crocodilian-Swordswoman has been treating you well?" Esme asked her while she crouched down and rubbed her purple hair.
"Uh huh uh huh! She's super amazing! She told me a cool story about how she took down a Laser Knight!" A thought occurred to the girl. "Uhhhhm, Miss Zubu? I have a question though. Shouldn't his sword have cut through yours?"
Zubu laughed. "Ya'ah a shahrp one, kid. But not ta wawrry. My swawrds ahah made of nelrenus qegraelium." She drew one of her cutlass-katanas from its sheathe and showed it to the child. Zubu's twin swords were forged out of a mix of different materials, including LightningFiber, SolarusSilver, Gleaming Titanium, Chuysten Steel, Sleitium and Ieprian Diamonds utilizing cutting edge technology to form a material similar to the nelrenus gegraelium metal forged on the Nelrenus Lunar Facility on the moon of the same name orbiting Gnara 9X. The result was a pair of blades that could easily stand up to beam and heat weaponry. The sheathes were formed of the same material. An energy core could be implanted into the swords to power up the energize function of the swords which could be triggered with the press of a button in between the blade and the hand guard. The design of the swords were sleek while still retaining their sharp edge and durability.
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"Woooow! This is amazing! C-can I hold it? Can I?"
"Wen ya'ah oldah. It's too fahkin' dangerous fawr a kid 'n too heavy." She returned the sword to its sheathe. "Ya'ah garn ta want ta grow up a bit 'n bung on some muscle befawah ya try ta cahrry these ahround."
"In that case...in that case....CAN I JOIN YOUR CREW?!" She asked eagerly.
The pirates laughed.
"Come now little one. Ya must av family waitin' fawr ya somewheah. Dya really want ta ride ahround with a crew of cutthroats wen ya could be livin' it up with them? our life is a very fahkin' dangerous one ya know." She gestured the other freed women who were hanging out, eating, drinking and happily chatting it up with the pirates now. "Wat about them? Ya don't av any friends awr family here?"
Zubu replied with a backwards V-Sign.
"Little one, these ahah two mawah of my beloved shipmates. Our talented shaypeshifder Dazathrah 'n one of the bloody most lethal snipers in the universe, Esme." She introduced the child to them. "Shipmates, this is Zxotox Gheknans."
The four eyed gemheaded Rudanerthian laughed and ran up to them. "Hello! Hello! Hi! Thank you so much for saving us! I'm Zxhotox Ghekans! Thank you for saving me!"
"Hello to you as well Zxhotox. I trust our Crocodilian-Swordswoman has been treating you well?" Esme asked her while she crouched down and rubbed her purple hair.
"Uh huh uh huh! She's super amazing! She told me a cool story about how she took down a Laser Knight!" A thought occurred to the girl. "Uhhhhm, Miss Zubu? I have a question though. Shouldn't his sword have cut through yours?"
Zubu laughed. "Ya'ah a shahrp one, kid. But not ta wawrry. My swawrds ahah made of nelrenus qegraelium." She drew one of her cutlass-katanas from its sheathe and showed it to the child. Zubu's twin swords were forged out of a mix of different materials, including LightningFiber, SolarusSilver, Gleaming Titanium, Chuysten Steel, Sleitium and Ieprian Diamonds utilizing cutting edge technology to form a material similar to the nelrenus gegraelium metal forged on the Nelrenus Lunar Facility on the moon of the same name orbiting Gnara 9X. The result was a pair of blades that could easily stand up to beam and heat weaponry. The sheathes were formed of the same material. An energy core could be implanted into the swords to power up the energize function of the swords which could be triggered with the press of a button in between the blade and the hand guard. The design of the swords were sleek while still retaining their sharp edge and durability.
www.deviantart.com/nano-core/art/Sci-Fi-Katana-Weapon-Auction-open-799566384
"Woooow! This is amazing! C-can I hold it? Can I?"
"Wen ya'ah oldah. It's too fahkin' dangerous fawr a kid 'n too heavy." She returned the sword to its sheathe. "Ya'ah garn ta want ta grow up a bit 'n bung on some muscle befawah ya try ta cahrry these ahround."
"In that case...in that case....CAN I JOIN YOUR CREW?!" She asked eagerly.
The pirates laughed.
"Come now little one. Ya must av family waitin' fawr ya somewheah. Dya really want ta ride ahround with a crew of cutthroats wen ya could be livin' it up with them? our life is a very fahkin' dangerous one ya know." She gestured the other freed women who were hanging out, eating, drinking and happily chatting it up with the pirates now. "Wat about them? Ya don't av any friends awr family here?"
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