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Chapter Thirteen: A Prelude To HyperSpace



Blaster fire tore through the tiny Albatross, it's small shields collapsing, then it's hull being mauled.

Literal scores of fighters rushed to Tyio's craft, as it resonated a QOP(Quantum Outflux Pulse) from the atmosphere jumped, to make it seem as if a quantum bomb was about to be detonated aboard, drawing as much attention away from the Penultimate as possible.

"Sluo gun ma kyanni ma'un!" Tyio screamed through the comm. in Gerenpfpssh, firing at the Knn craft with the quickly draining lasers on the Albatross. But, the standar KWWW of the blasters stuttered, and died as a bolt sliced through them.

"Dyma!" Tyio cursed in Gerenpfpssh(he thought it appropriate he died speaking his peoples tounge.) Shoving his helmet on and grabbing two blaster guns, he kicked the glass, it starred, then he kicked again and it shattered, allowing him acess to the hull.

"Tekchh!!!" He screamed a final scream, his small blaster guns blaring, as a trio of fighters came in for the kill.



The engines of the Penultimate cried in agony, using the hull of the ship to amplify there screech.

Ducky ran as quickly as she could through the white, obstacle laiden hangar.

"Ducky, stop!" Seraph's order was barely audible over the wail of the engines, and the battle that roared outside. She was about to turn around to give the clanleader a sharp comment, to find the aforemention's foot hurtling straight at her head. The pain from the powerful kick delivered with a high heeled boot was incredible, but it was just as painful when she smacked into the pipes that made up the floor.

Still dazed, Ducky groped the deck for a weapon of some sort, feeling the gaze of Seraph upon her back like a knife. Finding a broken piece of piping about the length of a short staff, the whirled around, preparing to smash Seraph upside the head.

"You're bravery is admirable." Seraph lectured, stopping the pipe with her fore-arm as it, not her, bent, she the grabbed it's tip, yanking it away from Ducky, and crushing it. She then crossed punched Ducky across the face. All Ducky could think of is how incredible her strength was, as she then elbowed her in the other side of the face, and launched her to the other side of the hanger with a knee to the stomach.

"But your skill is lacking."

Pain was awash through Ducky's body, but her single-mindedness in the task to save Tyio was unwavering, as she again felt for a weapon.



The Knn cruisers and there escort moved into formation with a low humm, as The Demon scowled, his window overlooking the ruined planet of Carrotous. It's overun rivers and oceans, it's dry wastelands, it's sparse patches of forest and jungle. It's lack of ice. All caused by him.

"No, I didn't cause this. I have, as before, before time was welded away, always just nurtured the Evil Seed, where it had previously existed." With a wave of his gnarled hand, he made a image of a yellow, rocky world appear.

"'Tubelectric, the planet of sights and sounds

Where the music will blare on and on

As you die.'" The Demon recited,

"Cyerim Norfolk, 2031 A.D." The Demon smiled, "I remember back when Tubelectric was created, on a thousand years ago."

"A supposed place of happiness, a new home for the wandering Sparynlites." The Demon proudly strode to the holographic sphere, caressing it's non-existant sides.

"And look at it now, where everyone is drunk, the sun has been blotted out by solar panels so it can be an eternal party night, and more people are murdered in a single day than in all the planets in the Carrotous system put together."

"Sure, they may have became serious during that Rancorian ordeal a few years back, but all in all, a divinely twisted planet." A evil plan crept onto the Demon's mind, as he made a comm. activate.

"Treseda!" He shouted to the figure in the hologram.

"Esx assault force, at your serve Demon."

"I want you to send you're best Esx to Tubelectric, now, further instructions upon arrival." The shillouted figure on the screen seemed to contemplate it a moment.

"It'll cost a lot."

"Pice is no object." The Demon hissed.

"They'll be there, my leige."



In the way of a weapon, Ducky had found another broken piece of pipe, and was again charging at the now well proven fighter, Seraph. The latter crouched down, and struck a stance, preparing for another futal attack. However, it never came, when in a unexpected move, Ducky hurled the piece of pipe like a spear, hitting Seraph straight in the throat, giving Ducky time to put on a EVA and go help Tyio. Infact, she had barely completed the tast when Seraph stood again, ready to charge full, but saw it too late, when the hangar hatch opened and Ducky whooshed out into the void.



Tyio stood on the wreck of the Albatross, firing his last clip. However, the tough hulls of the Knn fighters (atleast compared to hand blasters) meant he had only downed a few fighters.

Another trio of fighters came in from his right side, and he knew that they would kill him, and he accepted his demise. All until a blast of blue energy seared right beside his head, knocking the middle fighter into two pieces and the other two to scatter. In the everlasting slow motion, Tyio turned around, seeing Ducky toting a large blaster rifle, and heading torwards him, with a cord running back to the Penultimate.

"Ducky! Stay back! Save yourself!" Tyio shouted.

"I'm NOT letting you die out here!" With what force she had left after her brawl with Seraph, she grabbed Tyio so he could make a mad suicide run, and activated the cable to bring them back.

"Why'd you save me, I mean, I stole the ship, and all that...why?" Tyio asked, his voice in a chattered mess over the comm. system.

"I got you out of trouble this far, why give up now?" A weak smile passed between them, Ducky placing her gloved hand on the faceplate of Tyio's EVA as if to touch him.



Seraph ran to the cockpit, holding her neck where Ducky's pipe hit it.

"Go to HyperSpace, now!"

"But Ducky and Tyio aren't back yet." Juiso, still in command of the flight stick, said.

"If we wait around any longer, were going to get blown out of the sky, as much as I want to wait for them, we have to go NOW!" Juiso looked to the others crowded around the cockpit for confermation, then began the sequence to enter HyperSpace."

"HyperSpace in 5, 4..."



As the underside of the hangar opened, a blaster bolt seared through the night, headed straight for Tyio.

"Tyio, look out!"



"3..."



Ducky hurled herself infront of the blast, it searing across her suit as her blood, her life force was yanked out of her body by the void as phenominal speed.



"2..."



Tyio climbed up the cable, into the inviting interior of the Penultimate, blood falling faster and faster from the unconcious Ducky.



"1..."



The hangar bay closed, and oxygen fled back in with a crack like thunder, as Tyio qucikly removed Ducky's EVA helmet and ran up to the Medical Bay.



"0..."



Juiso leaned on the HyperSpace Activation Switch, and space fell away into the invinities of color and blackness that is everything and nothing.

Beyond the speed of light.



"Excellent, we're in HyperSpace, inbound for Tubelectric, ETA, 2 days." Juiso leaned back in the chair, well proud of himself.

"Uh...guys, we've got a problem." Tymen stated, looking over one of the screens on the control panel.

"There's a Knn fighter stuck in our HyperSpace wake."