A new force has shown themselves amongst many world's, leaving them in ruin, but when that force threatening's the existence of another world, Kalshion and Katarina show up to lend in a hand in the defense of that world. After repelling the attack's succesfully, a new enemy emerge's that could very well spell the doom of the twins.
Join Kalshion and Katarina as they struggle to fight an enemy that has seemingly unlimited number's, and why letting you're guard down can be your worse enemy
Authored by Kyle "Kalshion" Beaudoin
Story take's place 400+ year's after AoD
UAotFoP - United Alliance of the Freedom of Peace
The wind blew through the air as transport vessel "Lima" itched its way into the hanger bay door's of the transport station it was assigned to
As the door's parted a young man stepped off the transport. It wasn't hard to tell his age or that he attended UAotFoP, partly due to the uniform he wore
The uniform consisted of, or at least the male part, of long dark blue pants a bolt of lightning etched it's way down the left and right side layers of the pants, coming to a halt at the emblem of the school
The shirt was a tad different, featuring a sailor type style used by the navy of it's time. The emblem was on the left side of the sleeve, the student's name was etched on the right sleeve… there grade and school history was implanted in a chip that was also enclosed in there clothing, this was done for security purpose's, although no one really knew WHY since there was no war, but decided to just go with it
"Good day Sir," said a security guard. "Please take the next shuttle if you're going to UAotFoP"
Kastono nodded and boarded the intended shuttle
The school was unique in one way; it had its own transportation system that allowed students to be anywhere on the continent, and thus be sent to the school in a timely matter
The shuttles ran 6-9 in the morning and 6-9 at night, for the schools hour's where from 9 am to 6 pm, Monday through Saturday
Students at the school had a requirement; to be apart of a club or some other organization that was apart of the school
Another thing about the school, it was a one way school, the only place on the planet which allowed for multiple educations. A student could learn a verity of language's depending on what they wanted to do
However, it also had another branch: The Military
Although it wasn't really needed, the founders felt that having a military was better than not, since humanity was always prone to hostilities and conflict and having an active military to help safe guard the people
Kastono looked out the window and over one of the many city's that littered the continent, he was the chapter president of the school, but that also meant he was responsible for a certain number of people, more importantly, the lower classmen who lived in this area, he was therefore responsible in making sure they had the materials those student's needed for there class
Maybe it was a headache, but he didn't feel any different, in fact, he was glad he was chosen since the previous chapter president disregarded the need's of the students and abandoned them for something else… something more exciting
The transport moved its way into the dock of the school, and soon stopped, a flashing green light told it's passengers that it was safe to disembark
Kastono left the shuttle and walked down a series' of stairs, naturally he could have just used the elevator but he needed the exercise
The entrance to the school was majestic, but then again, being the only place on the continent it had to be
The door's slowly parted and Kastono found himself in the council room, he walked to the far end and placed his bag on the ground near the wall and sat down, looking over some papers that had been sent to him a day before
"Mobile suits… casters… hmmm," he swerved in his chair and took out his pin, signing the authorization to allow students at the school to take lessons in this field. Although those in his grade level and higher where allowed, anyone below wasn't, but this signage would allow certain students to be tested to see if they can get in
He heard the door open
"Good day President Dragon," came the voice from a young female student
Kastono got up and recognized the girl. "Miss Tomoyo…. It's rare to see a chapter president from the Elementary Division here… what can I do for you?"
She handed him a folder and he opened it, looking through some of the papers his expression became something of a concern. "Is this everything?"
"Yes Sir"
He turned around and walked over to the desk, then got on the phone and made a call, soon after he hung up and placed the folder on his desk. "We'll look into this right now, have those students stay in that classroom"
She nodded, then bowed and left
Kastono sighed and ran his hand through his hair, then stared out the window. "Students miss using there abilities," he said and tossed a fire ball to a candle near by, which lit up. "I just wish they realized that if those powers go out of the control it could lead to chaos"
No sooner had he said that, had the alarm above his door gone off, he only had a second to look before something rocked the building, blasting the windows to piece's and sending him into the wall
His eye's flickered open, and he could see nothing but darkness, he felt his way around and soon came to the realization that he was trapped under some debris. He moved try to push the debris up, but the harder he pushed the more his leg's hurt, apparently the debris that was on top of him was also on his legs and they hurt when ever he tried to push
"Great…." Kastono said as he laid there and waited, he could hear some commotion from outside
"In here!"
"Someone said that a student was in this room sometime before the attack occurred"
"That's impossible, this room was one of the hardest hit, I doubt anyone survived"
"Still, we must check it to make sure"
Kastono tried to sigh but every time he breathed his chest hurt, he felt around and soon found out why, a steel bar had gutted his chest from the right side and gone through and into the ground, the only reason he wasn't dead was because it was acting like a stopper, preventing the blood from flowing out
He could hear something going near the doors, and could hear the tall tail sound of a wielder being used, he waited for what seemed like hours, but in reality was only 15 minutes
One of the door's came off it's hinge's, and hit the ground so hard that the bar that was in his chest moved… and it hurt, so much that he yelped in pain
"Someone's here!"
"Where?"
The look on his face was of terror and pain, he moved toward a piece of debris that was moveable, and pushed it, it hit the ground with a loud Clang
'There! Someone's under this debris!"
He smiled before his vision blurred once more, but managed to keep it together
The medic's managed to get most of the debris off, but the last piece they couldn't get off because of the small pipe that was in the student's side
"How are we going to do this?" Said one of the medics
The other medic, apparently the one in charge, thought about that. "We'll have to cut it off, but be very careful not to move it"
The medic with the wielding torch looked at his boss. "This'll be hard, he may be unconscious, but any sudden movement could very well wake him up"
"We'll have to chance it, we can't leave him here, not with what's going on outside," said the boss who was now over near what was once the window, he looked out at what used to be the park near the school, but was now a smoldering crater
He looked away. "Damn.. who the hell would attack a god damn school," he said. "This was completely out of the blue"
His colleges looked at him. "Don't know, from what I understand it originated from space"
"A planet bombardment…." Another medic said with disgust. "Still, why did they attack a school?"
"The easiest way to bring down a civilization is to attack the younger populace," another said
Several more hours passed before Kastono woke up on a hospital bed, IV fluids and needle's where stuck into him, a blood pack was also near by giving him blood
"How are you feeling?" A nurse asked who was in the process of changing out the IV Fluid pack
He just looked at her before pushing himself up. "Fine… I think…" he said as he placed his hand on his head, he had a pounding headache
The nurse walked over to his left side and checked his pulse, "everything's ok it seems" she said and walked out of the room
Kastono looked around, yet… as much as he didn't want to admit it, he was in a hospital, which he hated hospital's to begin with… but something bothered him, where was his mother and father? Normally they'd have been there by now, after all, there son was in the hospital!
He heard some voice's outside, before watching two people barge into his room
"Kas!" a young female yelled as she ran to his side. "How are you feeling?"
It took only a few seconds for him to recognize her. "Sharia….. I'm… ok I guess," he looked away from her, "what happened?"
She looked down on the ground. "I don't know, I was in class when it occurred, only that the wing you where in was the hardest hit," she sighed. "14 students where killed, several hundred where injured, you among them"
He snarled and got up, one of the needle's that was pumping fluid into him came out of his arm and hung harmlessly in the air, he got up off the bed, another needle released itself, this was the one that was giving him blood
"Wa.. wait a minute Kas!" She ran over to him, just as he collapsed. "NURSE!"
Two nurse's ran in and helped her place him back on the bed and put the needle's back in. "keep him on the bed please, he was near death when he was brought in…" one of the nurse's said as she left
The other stayed behind to keep an eye on him
He lay there, asleep, apparently the shock of having his wing attacked was just now settling in and he couldn't stand it so he decided to try and get some rest
Sharia stayed there, she had some news for him but didn't want to lay it into him just yet. Several more hours went by, she had been in the lounge when a nurse came to her and told her he had been awake
One thing the nurse noted was that Sharia's school uniform was covered with blood, possibly because she was one of the volunteers who helped some of the students out
She walked into the room, Kastono was reading a book when she came in. "You feeling better now?" she asked
He just nodded, but the look on his face told her right then and there that what she already knew: His parent's, including his big sister and brother, where dead
His father's body had been found in there own, which was leveled in the attack. His mother's and big sister's body's where found in a transport shuttle that had been gutted when a beam slashed through the center of the craft
However, his brothers body was no where to be found and that worried him a little bit
End Chapter 1
Chapter 2
After a few days had gone by, the doctor's finally released him and let him head ….. not home because he didn't have a home, but Sharia's big sister, who was taking care of her, told her he could live with them for the time being
They'd taken a shuttle back to the residential, the damage was more serious than he had assumed. Many of the building's where still being cleared and much of the destruction had taken place in the residential area, the industrial sector had been left pretty much unharmed
When the shuttle finally arrived at the transportation hub, a security guard walked onto the shuttle and checked everyone's ID. When he walked up to Kastono he looked the kid over and asked for an ID, he gave the guard the ID and the guard checked it out, then nodded and walked off the shuttle and onto the ground
"So, this is you're home?" Kas said as he whistled at the enormous size of the house
She smiled. "It is," she said, "please, come on in"
The door opened and a maid was standing there, "Welcome home, Sharia-sama" the maid said then glanced at the kid who was with her. "Who's this?"
"Kastono Dragon," Kastono said with a bow. "Nice to meet you"
She smiled, "nice to meet you to"
Sharia grabbed Kas's arm and tugged it, then pointed at the stairs and the two of them walked up to her room. Her room was littered with plush toys and other item's that he'd expect a female of her age and grade to have, although that was taking things a tad to far in reality
Kas sat in a chair near her desk, presumably the desk she used for studying, Sharia sat down on her bed
"May I ask you a question?" she asked after she picked up a plush toy
He laid back in the chair, arching his back in response, "what?"
"How… did it feel… to be under all that debris," she said and looked away. "I was there when they found you…. When they found Tomoyo's body as well"
Kastono looked at her, then away. "Shame… she was still quite young and had the whole world ahead of her"
"Shame nothing, she was just a baby in some cases, I just don't understand WHY someone would attack us?" Sharia was confused, almost as confused as Kas was about the situation
He only shrugged; he wasn't a military analyst, so he couldn't begin to comprehend what the idea was, nor why this had been done
"Grade wise… what where the loses" Kastono's hand where clasped, he still had his job to do, despite how horrible it might be now
She sat up and laid back on her bed, her head on her pillow and her plush toy on her chest. "The Elementary division lost 159 students, half of them where just kindergarteners, the middle school division lost about 20, while the high school division lost only 6," she walked over to her desk and pulled out a book then handed it to Kas
He looked at it. "I see….. how long would it take to recover all the bodies?"
She just stared blankly at the mirror then sighed. "Don't know, you're wing was hardest hit, it was also where the majority of deaths occurred, so I honestly don't know"
He sighed and stared at the book, then placed it in his bag that the nurse had given him as he was leaving. "I should be getting back to the Academy; it is my job to assess the damage"
As he got up and went for the door, Sharia snapped up and ran in front of him, blocking the door, it was then that he noticed something on her uniform sleeve and placed his hand near it. "So.. you lied about you're grade"
She looked away from him, a sad expression on her face. "Because if I hadn't, you wouldn't have appointed me to the position of treasurer for the division"
Kas shook his head and folded his arms. "So, you're really a forth grader…." He said and made a mental note to address this issue with who ever was left in the student council. He then placed his hand on her shoulder. "I must get going, I'll be back tonight"
Sharia moved away from the door, her hand's where clasped together and in front of her. "Yea……"
He just smiled and left. As he walked away from the house all he could think of was the attack, and at how many lives it had claimed. The door's to the school where still in one piece, although it was a bustle of activity, even though the school had been attacked and much of the 2nd wing was now rubble, classes where still going on for the unaffected areas
Kastono looked around, several of the students from the Elementary Division where walking around, picking up loss debris that was missed by the others, some of them greeted him and other's didn't, which he didn't care since they weren't part of his division
As he walked toward a prefabricated structure, which housed the middle school's temporary division, he noticed an officer set aside for the council. He opened the door's and walked in, no sooner had he done that he had seen that only two people, out the original 5 remained
"So… we lost 3 then," Kastono said as he played his bag on a chair
"Unfortantly…" A council member said. "The military claims the attack came from space, which is fact since the camera's clearly show enemy lasers and some odd beam coming from the sky"
He sat down on the chair and, after typing in a few commands, was allowed access to some of the information in the schools information database. It didn't take him long to access the camera feeds and to review them. "Interesting weapons," he said and turned his chair. "They punched right through the academy's pulse and quantum shields like they weren't even there"
"I believe they weren't," the other council member said. "Right before the attack occurred I was called away from class and was told that something was wrong with the Academy's power grids, to be exact, the power grid that was around our section"
Kas placed his finger near his chin. "Inside job?"
The other two thought about it for awhile, it was a daunting thought. "If it was an inside job, then doesn't that mean someone in our school is bad?"
He chuckled at the word. "Of course there bad," Kas said and turned back in his chair and checked the feed one more time, this time he noticed something odd about one of the camera feeds, and sent it through an analyzer, after a few minutes he got some results. "This is interesting"
"What?" Both council members stated as they looked over his shoulder.
Kas stared at a still image of someone who was entering one of the fusion generators situated under the academy, each wing had it's own generator to help power the shield that was always present above, the shield allowed natural weather to come through, but anything else was blocked
"Well I'll be," said one of the council members, who were now looking through a database to figure out who that was, it didn't take very long, they had a match in under a few minutes. "4th grader, Viloska Mastina"
"A 4th grader?!" Kastono yelled. "Impossible… why would a little child want to do that?"
"Becareful, don't forget, WE are viewed as children to…." Another member said
He snarled. "We're a tad more mature right now"
"Because where in the 7th or 8th grade? Interesting…." He said with a finger near his chin while deep in thought. "Well.. you and I are," he then pointed to the other council member. "You're not; you're just a 5th grader"
Kastono sighed and stared at the picture. "But these type's of image's don't lie, it's a direct match… he's the one who get in and took down the shield"
The other council member sighed, that was a student in his division. "Since our president is dead I can't bring this to her attention, so, I guess I'll have to deal with it," he said and then opened the door, grabbing his bag on the way out. "Talk to you all later tonight after school"
Kastono and the other member just nodded and soon turned there attention to another pressing matter - the building itself. "Maska, how long did the committee say we'll be stuck in these temporary buildings?"
"Don't know," Maska said as she walked over the table and picked up a letter that she had been given. "According to this, we'll be here until there done rebuilding the wing"
"I see…." Said Kastono who was now in a bit of a bad mood due to all the problem's that have been coming up. "Think we better go around and make sure everyone's ok"
"Call an assembly perhaps? Get a count on how many students are still alive and how many are dead?" Maska suggested as he handed him the student roster
Kastono nodded. "We can do that, write up a memo for tomorrow's morning homeroom, to take place in the gymnasium"
"Will do," Maska was already at the computer and typing it up before Kas even told him to. "In the mean time, you should get something to eat"
He was right, it was 1 in the afternoon and most of the school already had lunch, he didn't, so he decided that now was the best time, he grabbed his bag and left the room, still mindful that he wasn't in his school uniform and that he would have to pay a visit to the front desk to get a new one, thanks to the attack that tore his to piece's, and the doctor's who had to tear it up even more to get to the area's where he was most injured at
"Morning Dragon," The lady at the desk said. "I see the doc's at the hospital finally released you"
He smiled. "They did, although they did tell me to take it a easy"
This time she smiled. "Kinda hard when you're the student body president who has a lot of work to do thanks to all the happenings"
He nodded. "That's for sure, lesson, I need a new uniform, the one I had is a tad… beat up… how long would it take?"
She looked into the computer and then got up, walked into an adjacent room and brought him a new uniform. "You where out for quite sometime, we've had to replace a lot of student uniforms, so we had the company make a fresh load for us"
He looked at it, it was different a tad, the color's away around the sailor part of the outfit where a different color. "What's the deal with the color?"
"The committee decided that council members needed be seen better, so they added a different color to the uniform for those students," she said although it appeared that she didn't agree with the change. "Although I do think it's a bad idea.. seeing how anyone could easily pick you guys out of a crowd"
Kastono accepted the new uniform and went into the dressing room, it didn't take him long to put it on, seeing how he's been wearing these thing's for over 7 year's. "Nice fit"
"It's made out of a special material that fit's around the body, in other words, self fitting." The lady looked impressed
"I see…." He said and grabbed his bag. "Is the cafeteria still open?"
She glanced up at the clock, "should be.. if it isn't let me know"
"Will do"
End Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The door's to the cafeteria where still open, that was good considering how hungry he was, he walked over to a display and picked up a tray
"Ahhh, good afternoon Kastono," said the lady behind the counter. "What can I get you?"
"Any Salad left?"
She nodded and went into the back; soon she came back with a plate of salad. "You're lucky, we had one more left" she said and put it on his tray. "What else?"
He looked at the display next to him, touched it and a new menu came up. "Garlic Bread and some Water please"
"Coming right up," she said and got the item's he requested and put them on a plate, then put them on the tray. "Nothing else?"
"Nope"
"I'll need you're ID," she said
Kas had almost forgotten about that, he took out his ID and handed it to her; she scanned it and then gave it back to him. He picked up the tray and brought it over to an elevator, which took him to the top floor with a balcony, he set it down on the table and then took a seat and began to eat
In the nearby clock tower
Two figure's loomed in the clock tower, "This dimension is on the verge of collapse"
"I know," said the female. "There's nothing we can really do to stop it except by reversing the damage done to the other worlds"
"We need to inform Sonic and Rose of what's going on," said the male figure and opened up a comm.
~Sonic here~
"This dimension is on the verge of collapse, we've found trace's of the federation Assault Phaser and the Imperial Turbo Laser weapon's used… funny thing is, those weapons aren't even built in this world, the closest NODE that has them is 7 node's away"
~I see, keep searching, I'll send someone to check out the nodes~
"Very well," said the male figure and closed the comm. the two of them where about to teleport out when they heard a small boom and looked up
Several objects' appeared in orbit above the planet, they founded 56, the male figure moved out of the darkness and scouted down. He wore a robe that was emblazed with dragon runes, under it was a body suit, where the two parts of the robe came together was a rune that had two dragon's looking at each other, two sword's hang by the belt and one staff on his back. "I don't recognize them"
The female looked up. "Something's not right, " she said no sooner had she said that had a phaser pierced the sky and made a crisscrossing motion across the shield that covered the academy. The phaser sweep across the shield, trying to find an opening, but after a few seconds of having no luck the beam vanished
"Sis, there probing"
"I know bro," Katarina said as she opened up a direct link to the defense network. "Seems the military is responding to this attack faster than they did before"
Kalshion was in thought. "There military barracks in the last attack, they don't have many pilots," he said and looked at her. "Unless…."
"I'm picking up some sort of AI in there network - The Defense Networks Artificial Intelligence," she checked another line. "Scan's just picked up several fighters moving in from the ocean"
Over the ocean a squad of unmanned aerial drone's swarmed over the water, heading toward the city
"Delta 1 to base, we have target lock on unknown ship entering atmosphere and heading straight for the city." Said one of the drones
"Confirmed, enemy drop ships have been spotted." Another drone stated
He shot a glance up. "There heading for the academy," he said and took a closer look, but what he saw next almost gave him a chill to the bone. "Harayzeins….."
"Who?" Katarina said as she hefted a big rifle, which wasn't there a second ago, and was easily three feet taller than her
He grabbed her and the two of them vanished, only to reappear on the academy grounds. "I've read the intell report's from a few of our agents, there a splinter group from the old Authority"
"Why didn't Sonic or Rose order us to take care of them then?" Katarina said as she hid the rifle in the darkness of the girl's restroom
He shook his head. "Don't know, I don't think they assumed they where that much of a threat since they'd lost pretty much all there technology, but another symbol suggests they allied themselves with another group"
"If there jumping to different node's and stealing technology, then we'll have to get Sonic and Rose involved, we DO NOT have the weapons, nor the abilities, to combat this type of a threat," Katarina said as she checked her bio signs, her heart was racing
Kalshion laughed. "That would've been a good idea if we had thought of it 10 seconds ago," he said and tapped his communications badge, but noticed nothing occurred. "Our badge's are jammed, and Sharia is in orbit cloaked, if where jammed, so is she"
She snarled, "Sneaky bastards, they must've known we where here."
"Someone back in Fayt told them…. And when I find out WHOM, Sonic, nor Rose, will stop me from ripping the guy's throat out," Kalshion stared at the drop ships. "Well well well, looks they also stole the COHTD"
Katarina blinked. "COHTD?"
"Configurable Orbital Heavy Troop Dreadnaught," He said and stared at the dreadnaught. "Sharia, how much longer before they take the city?"
~With that amount of troops….. five minutes~
He cursed. "Well sis, looks like we'll be getting involved"
She grinned and hefted the rifle, and aimed it at the dropship. "Just tell me when"
Meanwhile, back at the balcony
Katisan was already heading down the flight of stairs, several marine's had swarmed into the building, evacuating everyone to the shelter.
The drop ships hovered in the air and several enemy troops flew out with jetpacks attached to there backs, each barking orders. One trooper landed near Katisan and aimed a rifle at him, speaking in a language that he couldn't understand. "Who are you!" Katisan yelled
The trooper fired, and Kalshion moved and nabbed Katisan, tossing him out of the way, his wrist was brought up and a barrier blocked the shot. He then stood up and smiled, "tsk tsk tsk.." he said while waving his finger in front of his face
A puddle formed on the ground as the marine raised his rifle a second time and fired, the beam flew through what he thought was Kalshion, but after a second the image faded and Kalshion was behind the marine, he slammed the back of his hand against the marine's neck, silencing him.
Katisan got up and looked at the person who saved him. "Who…" he said
Katarina appeared behind him, knocking him out. "This child need's medical attention"
He nodded. "Take him back to Sharia,"
She looked around, then nodded, a few second's later she was back. "Sharia said he was wounded from the previous battle, seemed the doctor's missed his kidney wound"
Kalshion was staring at the drop ships. "Put a beam through the drop ship; let them know these people have reinforcements"
She grinned and hefted the big beam rifle; she then took aim and pulled the trigger. Five seconds later a beam of blue and red light ignited from the rifle, crossing the space between it and the drop ship, then slammed into the drop ships shields
"Amazing, such a small thing has shields," he said and took out an additional beam rifle and fired, this time it couldn't keep the beam's energy away from the hull, the two beams' punched through and made two clean holes in the drop ship, it listed to port then exploded in one great big fireball. "Nice!"
The two of them smiled, but soon enough several fighters' appeared and made a strafing run on the academy. Kalshion placed his hands on the ground, several second's passed before a large barrier suddenly appear around the city
Katarina smiled as she watched what remained of the fighter's plummet to the water below. "That was nice bro"
This time he smiled, "that was simple, now for those capital ships." He said and looked up. "We need to take out there Troop Dreadnaught's in order to save this planet"
The two of them aimed there beam rifles and fired, but where amazed when the beams went around the shields and dissipated in the upper atmosphere. "Well.. There's something you don't see everyday"
"This… is bad…." Katarina said. "Sharia! Get down here!" she yelled into the head set
A second later something shimmering appeared above the academy grounds, and the two of them soon vanished, only to reappear on the ship itself
"Setting up weapons package, fusion, gravity, and creation weapons are ready to go," Katarina said
"Creation Cannon? Isn't that a tad dangerous considering the damage it'll do?" Kalshion said.
Katarina shook her head. "Not this one, don't forget, its energy output is reduced to about 1.4," she moved to another station. "Shields up, cloaking drive's online, scram jet's active"
"Never thought we'd use those…. Guess it's because of this dimension's odd physic's," Said Kalshion who was now piloting Sharia toward the group of enemy vessels
The drone's that had been heading toward the city where just now moving toward the Capital ships, the drone's AI must've been having problems, cause they stayed back once they saw a slick fighter craft appear out of no where heading straight toward there enemy
"Look's like the drone's decided to watch," Kalshion said as he plotted an intercept course for there sledgehammer missiles
The sky lit up between them and the capital ships with Turbo Laser Fire and Phaser fire, missile's and torpedo's where also present, heading for there intended target.
Sharia dove and avoided the missiles like they where nothing, the torpedo's however had another plan in mind, "There smart torps," Kalshion said. "It'll be hard to shake them," he looked around then grinned and hit the boosters, as they came upon one of the dreadnaughts, he sudden slammed on the brake's and flew upward, the torpedo's couldn't change course in time and found a new buddy, the Dread Naught, which erupted in flame's when the torpedo's impacted it's hull
"No shields," Katarina said
"That's because our sonic boom ripped there shields to pieces, they didn't have time to re-establish them," Said Kalshion who was now looking for the flag ship of the fleet, but was soon getting second thoughts when ANOTHER fleet entered the system
"Bro!!! They just brought in 93 additional ships!" Katarina yelled
"Where the hell are they getting all these ships… there like Roaches!" he yelled as she spun the ship around and made a break for the atmosphere. "This is Kalshion to 5th Inter-Node Federation Defense Force, we have trouble here guys could use a bit of assistance" he said and closed the line
There ship was now taking a pounding, or rather, they're shields where. "Come on 5th fleet, we need you right now!" Kalshion said to himself as he glanced over his shoulder and at the approaching enemy fighters, so many filled the space that it looked like a parking lot
"Kal, I'm picking up a subspace disturbance near the sun," the AI said
He looked at the sensors, and noticed 509 green dots appear
~This is Admiral Claude from the Internode Federation Defense 5th Fleet, enemy ships you are to stand down this instant or we will open fire~
"CLAUDE?!" Katarina yelled
Kalshion nodded. "We asked Claude and Rena if they'd be interested in commanding a fleet"
Katarina got up and walked into the back of the ship and came back with a mallet, a second later the whole universe shook after a loud 'WACK' was heard
He rubbed his head. "You didn't have to hit me THAT hard!" he snarled but then glanced at the image on the screen
The enemy fleet must've been confused, seeing how the 5th fleet had deployed FOF scramblers and made it impossible for the enemy to tell WHO the enemy was. "How long do you think it'll be before they start blasting each other?" She said with both arms folded
Kalshion smiled. "Not long," he said and pointed. "See"
It was as if they had heard him, one ship opened fire on its own companion, blowing a hole roughly the size of the car and causing it's reactor to go critical, another ship launched it's torpedo's and gutted one of the support carriers
The flagship of the group tried to rally its ships, but entered up becoming dust when the 5th fleet's creation cannon's opened fire and obliterated it from existence.
~"I'll say again, stand down or we'll continue firing,"~
Kalshion smiled when he noticed that the enemy stood down. "Seems there giving up"
"Alert! Massive energy signature detected from enemy ships." Warned the AI
Katarina slammed her hand on the console and inputted some flight parameters, "All ships! Move away from the enemy fleet NOW!" she yelled over the comms
5th Fleet's Admiral heard the warning, and had his fleet move away
On the ground it would've been seen as just some fireworks, but in space it was many different ships self-destructing as one, and causing a lot of debris to fire outward and toward the planet's atmosphere
Apparently the automated defense network was online, because laser beams and machine gun's lit up and annihilated all the debris that rained down. Kalshion laid back in his chair and crossed his arms, he wasn't prepared for the damage report. "Damn…."
Katarina sighed. "They really did a number on this city, think we should get involved?" she said while she was relaying order's to the fleet
Several transport's where deployed to the planet's surface, "I'll that as a yes," Katarina said and looked over at her brother, who was on the teleport pad. "We should get down there and help the injured"
She nodded, and was about to go over there when she checked in sickbay. "That kid is ok, should we bring him along?"
"Keep him here for Sharia to monitor." Kalshion said, and soon after the two reappeared on the ground. "Come on"
The two of them began walking through the park, several second's passed before more of there troops showed up to escort them, another minute passed before Claude showed up and bowed to them, then proceeded to follow them. It didn't take long for them to arrive at what they had been told was the council building for the city. The Admiral gestured to the guard's and they spread out, he didn't need to tell Kal or Kat why he had done that
As they walked up the step's the door's opened and four figures' appeared at the top. "They must be the elders who run this city," One of Kal's escort's stated
Katarina nodded and looked around. "I'm getting an odd vibe from the people around," she said and then snapped a look at a group of civilian's who passed by them
"Can you blame them? They where just attacked, luckily there barrier held up." Kalshion said and they made it to the top, all six of them knelt down in respect. "Greeting, you're Excellency, my name's Kalshion Dragon, Agent of the Internode Authority."
The elder stared at him. "What brings you to our world?"
He stood up, "it seems our enemy has targeted you're world for occupation."
"I see, and what can you do to stop that?" The elder exclaimed while trying to make since of what his fellow colleges where telling him
Kalshion walked over to the railing, and overlooked a park down below. "They call themselves 'Harayzeins', they go around stealing technology from different worlds, but I have reason to believe they do more than just steal"
Katarina nodded. "They also abduct children for some sort of experiment; during the attack one of our pilot's told us that the fighter he had destroyed was being piloted by a child, an eight year old, who was still wearing the uniform that you're academy use's"
The elder almost went into shock, after hearing that, he knew right off the bat that there world had lost someone. After several minute's he finally nodded and motioned for the rest of his college's to follow him
As the two waited, one of there guard's walked over to them. "Sir, one of our patrols spotted someone who was moving here, but they lost him." The guard said to Claude, who in turn spoke into his mouth piece
Kalshion and Katarina nodded and soon vanished, only to reappear on a building near by. "So, an assassin left by them?"
"Who knows," Katarina said before sensing something. "MOVE!" she yelled and the two disappeared before the top of building exploded. Katarina reappeared on the ground below, she found herself elsewhere and no where near where she had been before. "This is bad," she said as she noticed that she was on an island, "Someone is messing with our teleporting powers," she said and she turned around and noticed that Kalshion was no where to be sighted. "KAL!!! KALSHION!!! BRO!!!!!"
Kalshion was dodging attack's left and right and he wasn't able to use his own, "Damn it…." He said as he did a somersault in the air to avoid a sword.
"You're pretty good, just what I would expect from one of there agents." The assassin said. "But that elder need's to die and there's nothing you can do to stop me," he said and powered up an attack, "Now, you die here!" he yelled and fired
A large fireball appeared in the middle of town, which caught Claude's attention. "ALL UNITS! Move to those cord's!" he yelled over the comm. The guard's at Claude's side nodded to him and they all took off. "That explosion must've come from the person you reported,"
"But who is he attacking?"
Claude smiled. "I beat I know who"
Kalshion moved toward one of the abandoned buildings to shelter him from the blast, his shield held out but then he heard a *pop* and knew he was in serious trouble. He used his abilities summoned a barrier that appeared in front of him
"So, you're losing you're shield," the assassin said. "Figure's, Sonic put to much faith in you."
"How do you know him?" Kalshion demanded
The assassin grinned. "I have a good employer who knows more about you four than anyone else," he said and powered up another attack. Kalshion could fell the intensity of the attack and knew right then and there that his barrier wouldn't hold, he snarled at himself also because for some reason he couldn't use his offensive abilities
"No…. die!" The assassin yelled and released a devastating attack, the attack pummeled his barrier for several seconds and Kalshion feed every bit of power into the barrier, but the barrier finally shattered and a straight explosion that began in the middle of the city, and proceeded toward the beach occurred
Sharia had been monitoring the battle when her bio sensor lock on Kalshion flat lined, the shockwave was so immense that even in space she could "feel" it with her hull, she then opened a channel with Fayt and report to them what had just gone on
Katarina wasn't far enough away to NOT feel the sudden surge, and that sudden surge told what had just occurred, and she quickly teleported out and to the location where her brother had been, all she found was the locket he had once wore. She picked it up and stared at the assassin, who was grinning at her, but she wasn't instead a fiery aura could be felt by anyone with the ability, and apparently the assassin didn't have that ability
"You killed my brother," she said as she looked at the locket and squeezed it tightly. "You……" she stared at the assassin
Claude and the rest of his troops arrived, only to find Katarina standing there, he could just look at her and know exactly what was about to happen, he got on the CB. "Evacuate everyone within a 50 mile, hell, make that 500 mile radius!"
The two sergeants stared at him, then nodded and went to work. The elder's refused to leave, as she felt they needed to be there as a show of respect for those who had been killed
Sharia was still in orbit before opening a communications link with Claude. "Sir, I think the quote 'if you can hear this, you are too close' applies, no where is anyone going to be safe, however I expect she'll use a barrier to reduce the damage done to the surrounding area"
"Still," Claude argued, "I'm not taking any chances" most of the troops from the Internode Authority had already been evacuated to the outlying sea and waited
Katarina smiled which if anyone had actually been there, would've caused them to open a portal and evacuated to another node……. 90 node's away. "You think THAT was powerful…." She said and flicked her hand out, which a small ball of energy appeared
Sharia's power systems began to read an enormous amount of power coming from Katarina. "Magnitude 2…. 3……… 4……… 5……. 6……" she said to herself. "Shit……. If she goes beyond her Mag limit then…. 7…. .8…. 9…… god damn she'll destroy this whole NODE with that magnitude!........ 10…. 11…. 12….. .13….." she finally stopped and just lit a small button next to her, which was green.
The power level was so enormous on the ground that buildings shook and glass shattered, the ball of energy was still pretty small, about the size of a fist, but anyone with a high enough intelligence would know that this seemingly harmless ball had enough power to wipe out the whole planet, yet it was dampened so he would only harm the son of the bitch in front of her
She threw her hand in back of her then yelled. "Soul Blast!" the blast wave engulfed the assassin before he could even react, causing a massive explosion that blew outward, but hit something in mid flight, causing it to repel back in on itself
Katarina was standing on top of a nearby building, which for some reason had been left untouched; as the smoke cleared she could see just how much power she had actually used. A canal had been dug by the blast and went straight to the ocean nearby; all that remained of the assassin was a pile of ash's that slowly began to vanish as the wind was kicked up
The wind blew through her hair, and she looked toward the rising sun, and squeezed the locket ever tighter, a tear ran down her face as she began to remember her brother, they where mortal, but she wondered just how he had succumbed to such a fate, "He's alive…." She said and stared at the locket and noticed that the image was still green. "If he was dead, this image would be red"
Two figure's appeared next to her, and she looked over her shoulder, both where agents from the Authority. "Katarina, Fayts sensor's picked up an odd energy source here roughly 10 minutes ago." The one agent said
Katarina' squeezed her fist. "Took you TEN FUCKING MINUTE'S to get here?!" she yelled, the ground shook violently but soon settled. "Report this back to Sonic, Kalshion is dead, but I have reason to believe he's alive.. it's possible he was resurrected in another dimension," she turned away from the two agents. "I'll do my search soon, but right now we have to rebuild this world"
The two agents nodded and then vanished.
She looked around and saw the devastation. "This'll take a few days." She said and soon disappeared, only to reappear on the step's of the elder's mansion.
"I take it everything's ok now?" The elder asked as he noticed the many fire's that dotted his once beloved city
"Yes…." She said, although neglecting to mention the part about her brother. "We'll help you rebuild you're city.. and provide you with a mean's to fight off this enemy"
"And in return?"
In return? She thought about that. "What type of minerals do you have?"
"We have something called Lithium which we use power our shield's, we have a by product as well called Lithium Mass," The elder handed her a solid form of the matter. "When its super heated, it turn's into an odd liquid that's highly combustible"
She thought about it, then nodded and accepted the trade. Getting up and looking toward the fleet, she radioed in to have the supply's brought down, along with equipment needed to rebuild the city
Sharia had contacted her and told her that there little guest was now awake and well, and that he was giving her a headache with constant questions, wait, how can a computer get a headache?
Two guard's, along with Katisan, appeared in front of Katarina and the Elder
"Katisan?!" The Elder yelled. "I thought you where taken by our enemy"
Katarina smiled. "He was hurt during one of there attempts at taking over the city, we saved him but noticed he was injured, so we took him to our ship where our computer healed him up"
"A rather annoying computer at that…" Katisan said with arm's folded
"I HEARD THAT!" yelled Sharia over the communications line
She shook her head. "Elder, I understand this child head's a portion of the school?"
He nodded. "Think you can help get the academy back up?"
Katisan smiled. "I can try, but it'd be best if all the student's helped out with cleaning the area up, it'd go by faster"
"Leave the hard work to the adults," Katarina said
"Adult?" He eyed her, noticing that she looked like she was only 16 year's old. "How can you call yourself an adult when you looked like a teenager?"
Katarina balled her fist, and Claude's men took a step back. "Where I come from… age is very different," she said in a rather stern voice, attempting to hide the fact that she wanted to punch this child
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Jared smiled, "I give her 3 minutes before she kills someone"
Inertia grabbed some popcorn "Oh come on, give her more credit than that, I say 30 SECONDS!"
Where were we? Oh yea!
He just shrugged and took off
She sighed. "Lively kid you got there…" she said and looked at Claude. "Order your fleet to conduct patrol's and to report any unusual sighting to the defense force here, also, inform your engineering brigade's to help with the rebuilding"
Claude nodded and relayed the respected order's to his crew
"Sharia, come on down and scan the planet," Katarina said
Sharia responded and ascended toward the ground, her sleek hull caused rainbow reflections on the ground, and her length was roughly the entire size of the city, which made her 90 mile's LONG, but in width she only 20-30 feet wide
ok.. back to those kids
Jared grinned. "I think you're going to loose the bet, she's calming down"
Inertia grinned back. "I'll fix that"
Phew… ok.. now back to the planet
Katarina nodded and turned around, only get a pie in the face; she stood there for awhile before wiping it off. "Whose bright idea was that?!" she yelled before spotting Claude
Claude blinked before looking at his hands, and noticed he was holding two pies. "Oh shit…."
Two day's later
The work had been progressing nicely; most of the city had been rebuilt. A new shield grid was installed to help protect the people from the enemy's weapons. Several pocket dimension weapons where placed in orbit above the planet, although the elder didn't know that since Katarina hadn't told him, what he also didn't know was that Harayzeins had been launching several attack's against the fleet, all ending in failure
Katarina awoke sometime in the afternoon, normally she didn't sleep but she couldn't help it lately, for some reason she was getting tired, and that wasn't normal, but she assumed it was because of the amount of energy she used in that attack two day's prior
A guard walked into her quarters. "Ma'am"
"What?" she said while putting her robe on, "Status?"
The guard handed her a progress report and she looked at it, then smiled. "Good, tell them to keep going to reinforce the barrier's that surround district four"
He saluted and then left, Katarina watched him and then sighed and took out the locket. "Time to search." She said and squeezed it tightly. Suddenly reappearing on Sharia, "Take us up, cloaking degree 9"
"Nine?" Sharia paused midway through her sentence, "very well, covert camouflage engaged"
The outer hull of Sharia suddenly vanished, in reality, it phased out of time making it so anything could pass through it. Sharia slowly descended through the atmosphere and broke the gravitational field; she was on an out vector toward the sun. "Well, time to search…" she said and engaged MSS
The outer hull suddenly turned orange, particle's danced across the different layers of the shield before Sharia vanished.
End of Story
Katarina's story continues in "Search for her Lost Brother"
Kalshion's story continues in "Rikku Leine"