"Everything is functioning. If it comes to that, I'll have Rick help me move this near the airlock and we'll use this to get attention."
How true those words were.
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On the flight bridge of the SDF-1, Lt. Lisa Hayes was monitoring the various sensors. She blinked as an unidentified energy signatre was displayed.
"What is that?" Lisa muttered to herself.
Cluadia Grant heard her and walked over. "What's up Lisa?"
"A strange energy source. It's coming from.... Om my god, it's in the ship!"
Claudia snapped, "Don't panic, Lisa. We don't know if it's them or not. It could just be an unknown system that came on line."
"Right. I'm going to dispatch a team of Destroids to the area."
Claudia tapped her lower lip with her index finger. "Have Roy Fokker lead the mission. He's the only person we can spare with the most knowledge of how the ship is laid out."
"Okay," Lisa replied and picked up a headset. "Commander Roy Fokker report to the Destroid bay."
Lisa gave some commands to the people in the Destroid bay. After a few minutes had passed, Roy Fokker got on the communicator.
"What's going on?" Roy asked. "Why am I piolting a Spartan?"
Lisa took a deep breath and began. "I've picked up a strange energy reading coming from inside the ship. I'm sending a Destroid team to investigate the area. The energy is in an area that is not in use at the moment and...."
Roy interrupted, "And since I explored this ship as it was being rebuilt, it makes me the logical choice to lead the mission. Understood."
Lisa gave Roy the co-oridinates for where the energy read was at. She waited as Roy gave the running report as the group of Destroids worked their way through the ship's interior.
Sammy asked, "What do you think it is?"
"Shush," Cluadia said, as she listened to the reports as well. "We'll find out soon enough."
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Anakin looked up, as he could hear clonging noises heading in their direction.
"Rick. Minmei. Get near the TIE. Something is heading this way."
The two of them did so, as Anakin pulled his lightsaber, but did not ignite it. The three of them watched as giant robots walked out of the shadows.
"Are they the ones who invaded?" Anakin asked.
"No," Rick replied. "Those things have the same logo as the Valkyries do."
Anakin put his lightsaber away and waited.
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"We're almost to the area," Roy reported. "We should see it in a minute."
"Commader. Look," One of Roy's underlings said.
Roy looked and saw the black TIE fighter sitting in front of him.
Roy cringed as he made his report, "Lt. Hayes. I have made visual conatact with the energy source. We have solar-powered, mechanical eyeball down here."
"Say what?!" Lisa responded.
"That's what it looks like. It looks like a giant mechanical eye that someone has attached solar panels to."
"Anything else in the area?" Lisa asked in exasperation.
"I'll check," Roy replied and scanned the area with the Spartan's sensors. He spotted three heat sources near the TIE. Turning on the visual scanners, he got a pleasent shock as he recgonized two of the people. The third made him a bit nervous.
"I found two more survivors from the misfold," Roy replied. "Rick Hunter and a I think the girl's name is Minmei."
Claudia got on the communicator. "Roy, something's wrong. You snapped at Captain Gloval when he refused to let you search for Rick."
Roy replied, "There's a third person here. And, he doesn't look like anyone I have ever seen before."
"Is he holding Rick and that girl hostage?" Claudia asked.
"It doesn't look like it. Wait a second, he's stepping forward."
Shaking his head, Anakin walked away from the TIE fighter and closer to the Spartan. "I am quite sure you have spotted us by now. My name is Anakin Skywalker and I was dragged to this section of space when my ship jumped to hyperspace. I believe that something you did with this ship dragged me here. As to the two people behind me, I helped them survive until now."
Pointing back to the TIE, Anakin said, "That is my starfighter. I landed it in here, after appearing in this area of space."
Roy had opened the external microphones, so that what he heard was being heard on the bridge as well.
"We have another alien species to deal with," Lisa muttered through grit teeth. "Thank you oh so much, Rick Hunter for giving me more headaches. I'm going to have to explain this to Captain Gloval."
Sighing in defeat, Lisa told Roy, "Bring the three of them to the bridge for debreifing. I'll have Lang send a tech crew to get his ship out of there."
Roy chuckled. "Roger. I'll leave the Spartan here as well for them to pick up. Over and out."
Roy opened the cockpit of the spartan and climbed down the disguised ladder. The other members of his team stood guard over the TIE until Lang's techs would arrive.
Reaching the ground, Roy walked over to the trio. He shook his head in amusement.
"Nice to see that you're alive, Rick."
"Roy?!" Rick asked. "Is that you?"
"Yes, it is. Follow me. The three of you have a debreifing on the bridge."
Roy walked off with Anakin, Minmei, and Rick following. Anakin walked up beside Roy.
"I sense you have some questions. I'll head off one of them now. What I am wearing is a life support suit to keep me alivefrom when I took a fall into a lava pit. Without this suit, I will die. That includes the helmet."
Roy looked a bit green as he tackled the next question. "Was Rick any trouble for you?"
"No. To keep away the boredom, I taught him a bit of my martial arts style. He has amazing potential in it. He did tell me about the force that had invaded you world."
Roy nodded. "Thanks. I was worried about my little brother. So, do you have any idea on who they are?"
"No. I am fammiliar with the majority of the sentient races in the galaxy, but I have never heard of anything like them."
Roy snorted, "A bit of bragging on your part?"
"Not really," Anakin replied. "There's a nav-map on board my TIE of the galaxy along with the dominant race for each planet, other than the one limb called the Unexplored Regions. I was trying to jump to Courscant from the Yavin system, when I got pulled over here."
"Tie? It doesn't look like a tie. It looks like an eyeball."
Anakin cocked his head and chuckled. "No. I don't know what you're talking about. The letters stand for Twin-Ion Engines."
Roy shook his head and notice that Anakin had a flashlight hanging from his belt.
"No weapons I see. Just a flashlight."
Anakin pulled the lightsaber up and ignited it. He doused it and handed it to a very surprised Roy Fokker.
"That is my lightsaber I'll want it back later," Anakin said, and thought, 'Maybe. Maybe, I'll just make a new one.'
The four of them walked on in silence, other than the regulated breathing of Anakin.
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