The next chapter ^_^ A ship, a fight, and Randall and Vee...in full view of a ship full of humans!?
Chapter 2 The Axiom
*
The vapor trail led them far from the Earth, the Gummi Ship picking up another, fairly large object on it's sensors directly ahead, past a gas cloud giant. Ve tapped the radar scren, which was showing a blob the size of Manhattan. "Uhh...guys...we got something here the size of Manhattan" Vee said. See.
Sean entered the bridge a moment later, Figment somewhere else on the ship, heading to the front and placing a hand on his him. "Is it the ship we're tracking?" he asked.
"No...it's like...1 hundred times bigger...no...more like a thousand times bigger..." Vee said, eyes widening with each measurement. "DEFINETLY bigger than our Gummi Ship..."
Although Vee would be over ethusiastic, Sean took his comments to head, leaning between the two of them and looking at the approaching object. As the gas giant swam left off screen, it slowly revealed the ship in question. Calling it huge was an understatement, it was massive. A huge spherical ship, it looked like one of those carriers from Star Wars. And a carrier was perhaps the best class to put it in. It's massive frame floated in space, but all three of them got the sense that it looked even bigger inside. It was truely a marvel of galatic travel, and they were half worried that if the thing was hostil they'd be blow out of space in an instant.
"Jeez..." Randall started, breathless. As amazing as he was when it came to machines, the ship was a marvel to him, a masterpiece.
"Bet that cost a pretty penny..." Vee said, equally amazed.
"It's the Axiom...". Randall and Vee looked back at Sean, who was pointing at some lettering in large forms on the side of the ship when they got close to it. In bold black they spelt "AXIOM" as it's callsign. Suddenly a wrring noise followed by "Eva!!", turned their attention to Wall-e, who was lifting himself to the left nearest window, looking down at an opening in the ship. "The ship we were chasing..." Sean noted. The oval ship that had left the Earth boarded on an insignificant line when compared to the mouthship. It seemed to be brought in to a docking bay of some sort.
"Great...we get in there we'll have whatever security on our tails..." Randall muttered.
"If we can even get in there...the Dreamstar may be small but it's too big right now to land..." Vee said, point at the limited space to dock another ship.
Sean paused, placing a finger to his chin. "Ok...then we'll compact the ship till it's small enough to land...I mean we do it when we land anyhow...".
"Alright...just make sure we don't collapse the bridge...being squeezed into a cube isn't on my to do list..." Randall said, arching an eye at Wall-e, who still had his attention on the dock.
"Alright...here we go..." Sean said, raising a hand. He placed his palm on the scanner, giving the command to the interdimension pieces to compact into each other. No sooner had he done so, the orbital weapon gummis retracted, and the spires started lowering into their larger sections, the other gummi's halving their length and then their width. As it slowly moved to the dock, the Dreamstar slowly became more and more compact, and soon the bridge was the only gummi in sight except for occassional extensions. It landed with little trouble, easing down onto the slick metal interior of the hanger. The landing platform descended, and the four were already on their way out a moment. The same routine, and the ship ended up in one of Sean's pockets. They all quickly piled behind a locking clamp that had attached itself to the ship they had followed.
"EVA!" Wall-e quickly shouted, pointing. In the distance, near the north wall, was what looked like a hovering stretcher. And being pulled over and placed on it was a white silver opal, looking like a carefully polished and shining egg.
"So that's Eve..." Sean whispered.
"What? That probe?" Randall mumbled.
"In a robot sense...she looks hot..." Vee said, getting a look from Sean and Randall, and even Wall-e. "...What? I do spend time in computers you know..." he said in defense. All three shook their heads, turning attention back to the...NOW moving stretcher.
"EVA!". Wall-e took off without warning, following it.
"Wall-e! WAIT!" Sean yelled, outstretching a hand, but Wall-e had his mind on one thing and didn't listen. "Great...come on...". The three started at a brisk pace along the polished silver floor, looking at their surroundings, both to know and to make sure nobody noticed them. Several robots attached from the ship's inner sections held the probe ship and began cleaning it, other floating machines scanning and repairing if need be. A gallery of overhead scaffolding arched slightly above the ship along with large metal arms serving no current purpose. Vee noted that the large hanger was boardered by small, but rise-able, blue forcefields. They also spotted a few "hover blocks", some sort of robot that was able to hover a platform infront of itself.
"There!". Their attention shifted to something in the north wall, a funnel-base cylinder elevator. The stretcher, Eve, and Wall-e were inside, accompanied by two square shaped figures and a much smaller one.
Sean's vision jumped up and down as they all increased their pace. But something in his shaky vision caught his attention. Coming out of nothingness, three circular growing blobs of dark blue and purple colors swirled around. He skitted to a stop, and Sean and Vee stopped as well. Hopping out from the swirling portals, which disappeared, were pale blue creatures, touching down with subtle grace. They looked like a cross between rabbit and feline, but only in form. Their legs were pointed, and so were their knees. The body curved then in a thick crescent, ending in a point for the head. The arms were thin, like grass weeds, but thicker. And they had extensions for ears, like Vee, but were thinner and jutted like the classic lightning bolt. Their eyes were thin and long, like a stretched four sided diamond, pulsing red. The common form of the entity, the Unbirth.
Sean looked up at the elevator, the doors closing and showing that it was going to a higher level. Growling, he looked back at the Unbirth, throwing back his hand and summoning the Keyblade.
"Get out of the way!"
*
With fluid movement, each Unbirth shot forward like charging cheetahs. Sean rose up the Keyblade as one brought it's blade-like arm down, the sound of metal on metal clanging through the air. Vee had to jump back repeatibly as his began mimicking steps, slashing as it did so. Randall was fast enough to dodge his, twisting around and bashing all four feet on it's body, using it as a bumper to jump up as it crashed against the metal floor. Sean looked for an opening, and managed one when the Unbirth decided to strike high, jumping to slash at his face. He quickly leaned back, and used the momentum of the Keyblade to twist, whacking the Unbirth in the chest with the spike at the end, obliterating it in sparkles and whisps. Vee, meanwhile, was skitting back along the ground, the Unbirth slamming it's blades and splintering the metal beneath. On one push backward, Vee motioned forward, slamming his foot into the attacker, pushing it back. With a little luck, Vee pushed upward, and threw out his hand, a translucent blue and white blade formed from his palm and extended several inches past it. With a push, the V-Blade sliced into the creature, Vee giving a victory smile, but his eyes went wide when the Unbirth began hammering at the blade. With a grunt, Vee turned about and threw the Unbirth against one of the scaffolds in the ceiling, the Unbirth shattering in whisps and sparks.
"Oh boy I hate these things..." Vee mumbled, the V-Blade from his palm disappearing. He got to his feet, dusting off his legs despite no dust, looking at Sean and Randall. "WHY are they HERE!?"
Sean slung the Keyblade over his shoulder, looking around for signs of more, but so far none. "I don't know..."
"They're EVERYWHERE..." Randall mumbled, making his way over to the elevator. "Even when you think they aren't...". Vee looked down, seeing his own reflection. Though he disliked the notion, Randall was right about them popping up everywhere it seems...well almost everywhere.
Vee felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up to see Sean looking down at him. "Don't worry...we'll figure out what's going on...". Vee starred for a moment, wondering if he was right or not...
With a grin, Vee shrugged his hand off and marched forward. "Dang straight...and if they get in our way...POW!" he stated, doing a few flexes.
Over by the elevator, Randall rolled his eyes, not needing to look back to know what Vee was doing. Instead, he concentrated on adjusting wires to open the elevator. With a small spark, the doors slid open. With a grin of satisfaction, he leaned up. All three hustled in, Sean letting Randall do the honors of pressing the recently used switch. "Next floor...two robots and probably a buckload of soul stealers" he said.
*
"AND HUMANS!?".
As soon as the doors opened, all three of them were taken back by what thy saw. Silver shinning floors that reflected any and all that were possible. Several blue neon-like lights ran along the floor in small, organized paths, like a non-visible road. Several corners and curved areas showed up thin holographic ads from something with "BnL" in bold. Some signs awkwardly showed "Eat Eat Eat" or "Shop Shop Shop". But that's not what shocked them.
Moving along the neon paths on hovering "lazy-boy" like recliners, weree humans. Every single one of them were in one, and each of them were rather...large. All wore the same red suit with white shoulder designs. And each of them were speaking to a holo-screen in front of their face, projected from the sides of the hover-recliner's head.
Sean moved to the side in the elevator, observing with disbelief. Vee edged behind him, morely wondering why they didn't see them before. Randall immediately placed his back against the cylinder elevator, muttering to himself the hate of not being able to blend.
"I..." Sean started, stepping out of the elevator. Looking back, he felt that he was a bit out of place. Turning back, he tried to wave down one of the humans. "Uhh...hello?". Some large woman drinking some sort of shake moved past him along the neon line, others following like they were actually in cars. He made sure not to get near the linees, which seemed to be the paths that the recliners followed. He tried to flag over someone, anyone, but none of them seemed to answer. In fact, none seemed to notice him at all. Each of them seemed entranced by the screen in front of them or the conversation with someone else they were having, though those conversations were handled by screen too. Heading back to the elevator, he merely reported.
"I don't get it...they're like ghosts or something..." he said.
Randall gruffed, Vee being slightly braver and stepping out of the elevator. "Wait a sec...". In a fit of some over-confidence, Vee tried to flag down some himself. "Hey! HELLO!" he shouted.
"VEE!". Sean leaped over, grabbing his tail and pulling him back. "Are you crazy!?"
Vee growled, pushing Sean's hand off his tail. "NO...SMART...LOOK...". Sean blinked, looking around. No single human was looking at them...eithr of them.
"Jeez...". He got to his feet. "They're out of it...". Randall stepped out, eyeing each one that sped by, making sure his abundent treatment of previous human encounters before Sean wasn't just teasing him. Sure enough, they didn't notice him either.
Vee got to his feet, brushing off his tail. "They aren't noticing anything..."
"Pfft...would explain the weight issue" Randall grumbled, having the need to say something.
"Guys...". The two looked back at Sean, seeing him rather serious. "Guys...we NEED to warn the leaders...the...captain here about the Unbirth...I mean...if they get themselves in mass here...". He walked past them, gesturing the passing humans. "And the robots like Eve...". He turned, his hair moving over one of his eyes. "It'll be a massacre...". Vee's eyes went wide at the notion. Battle-strong or not, the thought of what would happen in that sense was startling. Randall, on the other hand, was hardly moved.
"Pfft...not that I care what happens to THEM...means more work for US if they spread...wouldn't be good on our record" he muttered.
Sean agreed, though knowing of Randall's past experiences made him understanding in his feeling on the matter. "Right...lets...find the uhh...bridge! Yeah..." he said, slapping an open hand with a fist. He paused, looking around. "Yeah...but lets take a different route..."
"WHY?" Vee said.
Sean held out his hand, the dusk Keyblade appearing. The humans weren't interested yet again. "If the Unbirth are as predictable as we think...they'll follow the Keyblade first...". He lowered it. "And leading them away is our first priority upon reaching the bridge.
*
Meanwhile....
*
Wall-e waited behind Eve as the elevator rose to the top floor. Once the doors finally opened, revealing a dark cirular room with some white wheel ahead, Wall-e slowly pushed the hover stretcher inside. Coming around the side, sudden interest in the room, Wall-e looked back to see the white wheel actually twist and move, coming over Eve. He watched, instinctibly and slowly compacting, backing away, as the wheel scanned Eve. Without warning, the clear straps holding Eve to the stretcher phased out, much to the white wheel's surprise. Suddenly, Eve's storage container opened, causing Wall-e to back away more as...SOMETHING dark and bluish shot out, disappearing into the white wheel's one red eye.
The wheel stayed where it was as Eve's container closd, and the straps reappeared. Wall-e would'v seen more, when the wheel started conversing with the robot that had scanned Eve in the hanger, but he dropped when a sudden hole appeared in the floor....
*
My mind's blown! I like that meeting with WALL-E 
. The funny thing is... yesterday I bought and played on Kingdom Hearts for the first time and loved it. I'm awaiting more ;D.
and that makes me not in the good books ;D. Cup of tea is the best caffiene for me!