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by MidbossMan

Chapter 3

Finding Lockhart was always a bit of a hassle for Jervale... after all, the other challengers mostly stuck to some sort of pattern (or liked to lay around in one place for hours on end, in Lanus' case). As for Lockhart, she was an eternal sleep-walker, and her dreams seemed to ta...

by Gatsha

Chapter 9

"Captain," Haruka spoke brusquely as she grabbed Rebecca's arm, dragging the other woman across the bridge as if convinced she'd run off and destroy something else if she let her loose. "You need to issue your surrender to the enemy." "What? Why would I surrender to that cocky a...

by Gatsha

Chapter 10

In the nick of time, the Figurehead V's escape shuttle swooped in for the rescue. Standing in the open cockpit, Haruka caught her Captain, and together with the on-board backup copy of the artificial intelligence FV, the survivors headed for space, happy to live another day and e...

by Gatsha

Chapter 5

"This command is typical in nature," Haruka commented, her eyes scanning back and forth to indicate she was reading a screen that displayed only in front of her dark, artificial eyes. "The planet we've touched down on is not marked on our star maps. Furthermore, before they went...

by Gatsha

Chapter 6

Haruka liked to think she understood human emotions well enough to understand Rebecca's . However, the Captain had forgotten that they had long-since run out of actual freshwater to drink. They were now relying on a synthetic approximation... and with the ship malfuncti...

by Gatsha

Chapter 7

Haruka returned to the door with two field kits, each hanging from the hips on a belt. They'd probably be too heavy for an ordinary human to tote that way. She found found the Captain still standing there, peering through the small, circular window with a sour frown. "Is somethin...

by Gatsha

Chapter 8

Lanus had been crouching prone throughout the entire debacle, from the Captain's initial hesitation to her ill-fated departure, waiting to see what would happen. Now, motivated either by benevolence or simply reflex, he was perfectly poised to leap into the air, wrapping his arms...

by Gatsha

Chapter 5

The trio continued down a spiraling staircase into darkness, Lockhart leading the way with a torch she'd grabbed off the the wall... The only torch, Haruka noted. How did anyone normally get up and down these stairs...? Regardless, she was taking up the rear with the cannon in to...

by Gatsha

Chapter 6

As Haruka's sensors came back online, she immediately checked her internal clock. Not much time had passed since she went online, although there was a hole in her recorded memory. She had fired the cannon, and then... What? Nonetheless, she was now conscious again. As her vision...

by Gatsha

Chapter 8

"I cannot believe I am about to say this, but... I don't have another idea." Haruka glanced up at the obvious cloud cover above. "I have been trying to hail F.V. since this whole mess started, but I haven't had any luck. Rebecca... I have no idea how I am supposed to flag down a...

by Gatsha

Chapter 9

Haruka squinted her mechanical eyes at the vehicle which had descended from cloud cover and was now descending towards her, as though staring at it harder would it to start making more sense. Obviously, it was some sort of starship, but it was more like a personal vehicle t...

by Gatsha

Chapter 10

Working up her nerve, Haruka took a deep breath, stiffened her lip, then climbed over the attractive cyborg ambassador on her way into the taxi cab. The only tool at her disposal to hide any of the most explicit bits of her remarkably humanoid and remarkably bare body was speed....

by Gatsha

Chapter 11

Haruka had only seen the sprawling military office complex and central command tower Rebecca had described as the brain center of the Squadron’s operations on Earth in pictures and video. She’d always privately had reservations about meeting the rest of the captain’s colleagues t...

by Gatsha

Chapter 12

"... There's no helping it." Haruka sighed. She reached up to run her hand through her dark hair in frustration, but simply ended up whiffing her half of a mechanical arm alongside her head. "I'll bring an end to this foolishness. Somehow, someway, this is someone's nightmare. I...

by MidbossMan

Chapter 6

Doctor Tolstoy couldn't think of a single good thing that could happen after her colleague, Dotford, pulled that odd switch, which looked something like the electric breaker from an old mad scientist movie. Had she really designed something that looked like that? Why would it be...

by MidbossMan

Chapter 7

With the face of Tolstoy Sciences half-pressed upon the white chamber floor and the legs of Tolstoy Sciences suspended in the air, the woman who bore these various features struggled to right herself back into some position of dignity. To do so would mean breaking the machine hol...

by MidbossMan

Chapter 8

Janet Tolstoy stumbled her way out of the cleaning chamber through the open, rectangular door, with her hands tied, virtually naked, and with a large packing sticker slapped over her mouth, preventing her from complaining about her circumstances. Her weary eyes darted left and ri...

by MidbossMan

Chapter 9

The more Janet Tolstoy's dreaming, dizzy brain tried to comprehend the stage waiting outside of that elevator, the less she managed to make sense of. This had been a penthouse suite originally... it was the highest floor of the tower, containing a large office, a small personal l...

by MidbossMan

Chapter 10

The leggy blonde CEO of Tolstoy Sciences summoned up as much of her remaining dignity as she could manage, rising to a straight stance above the podium and crossing her hands in front of her. She tried hard to ignore the crowd's rancorous behavior and the sugary soda exploding fr...

by Gatsha

Chapter 6

9S recalled back to his time traveling with 2B. His memories... If he searched there, he was certain there had been something both of them had wanted. In fact, he thought to himself, it was the perfect example of the kind of wish to ask for here. Something small but meaningful to...