The cyborg life forms shaped like a pinecone had subsumed command of the purely machine warriors after a few skirmishes between the two. Determine the mechanism and those machine warriors could be either immobilized or brought about to Teknosian command. This was the simplest and most desirable outcome, and would allow for further study of these warriors and their curious technology.
Other Mongoian ships had long been on patrol in the area, and were now being upgraded so as to keep up the quarantine.
Would you believe that he was a mad scientist?. How about a weird science student? How about a fourteen year old kid playing at being a mad scientist and finding himself way in over his head?
Well, actually, that was Koichi's general description, and he was deeply regretting that he had chosen "rule the world" as an occupation goal when he could simply have retrodigitized some Playboy bunnies and had a fun weekend.
Unfortunately, he had two things going for him that he had in common with the typical "Ranma 1/2" character. Stubborness and a lack of common sense. A wiser or more intelligent 14 year old boy would have just called it off, gone home, loaded some typically plotless hentai video featuring a lot of curvaceous and willing babes and had a party.
Instead what Koichi did was similar to the story of the old woman and the fly. There once was an old lady who swallowed a fly (i don't know why she swallowed the fly), and swallowed a spider to catch the fly, and swallowed a bird to catch the spider, and swallowed a cat to catch the bird, and swallowed a dog to catch the bird... and so on. The situation was beginning to resemble that and similar old 'Cautionary Tales' but who was Koichi to listen to old stories or historical parallels?
Koichi looked over his video collection and tried to figure out what he could do to fix the situation. What could possibly stand up to the Terminators, the Daleks, and the few Alien xenomorphs still running around? What could he toss out that would not be hostile to him?
Koichi grinned as he spotted one seldom watched tape sitting there. Something he'd never really gotten into, but if anything could withstand those frigid temperatures and start bringing down the Daleks, this would!
Huh? Wait a minute. Wrong tape! He had put the wrong tape in the 'Record Of Lodoss Wars' box.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not THEM!" Even evil mad scientists (or wanna be) had some standards.
"Mew?"
"I don't read Martian but I think I know what it means."
"Meow?" asked Shampoo.
"I think it means 'Out Of Gas'," said Akane, noting that they were beginning to fall towards a red planet.
Clank!
"I think that means we're saved," said Akane hopefully.
"Why are we rescuing them?" Ensign Extra queried as he operated the big robot arm of the Space Garbagetruck Luxion.
"Orders from the days of Emperor Wang the Unlucky," said Lieutenant Ace, the unfortunate captain of this vessel. Once he'd been a highly decorated fighter pilot. Once he'd been a promising young officer of the Mongoian Space Force. Alas, for the error in judgement - one lousy decision fifteen years previous - and now he captained a garbage scow. Damn that Katrina! "Ships which are in distress not belonging to a designated enemy are to be rescued when possible."
"Pfeh," said Ensign Extra, who'd wanted to see both ships burn up in their respective atmospheres.
"Be that as it may, the Moonians and these Martians are not a designated enemy," said Ace. "At least if they are, I haven't seen a memo. Set their ship into Bay #3 with the other one and repressurize it. Queen, Joker, Jack, Deuce? Bay#3. Find out what kind of atmosphere these Martians use and make them comfortable. Three? As a Teknosian, perhaps you could look over the ships and fix them?"
The intercom crackled. "Statement: will comply. Observation: recording of inspection will be sent to Teknos for further study and technological evaluation."
"We're on it, boss," came the gruff voice of Deuce as his team replied.
"And make sure that large animal is penned up," said Ace. "Something that large has to be a carnivore!"
Meanwhile, back on Glacia, the creatures that Koichi had retrodigitized out where they could fight the Terminators/Daleks/Xenomorphs was now running into some problems as they were:
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