Space Pirate rivals back up

   In the depths of space the craft floats, an odd blue craft shaped like a bullet that had been slice in half from tip to butt. Within this craft a woman walks down a long corridor, she is a sight to behold, a shapely woman in a blue uniform with a white eight pointed supernova like insignia upon her chest. More striking still is her hair, a plumbe of yellow and red flames seemingly contained in a forcefield in the shape of wavy hair down her back and eyes with glowing irises of the same solar plasma circling around her pupil like the event horrizon of a black hole.

   Beside her another woman wearing a similar uniform, only with the star on her left shoulder walks. She has short shoulder length blue hair with a straight cut. The hall is lined with doors and the blue haired woman taps beside one, the wall turns clear with red lines like lasers immitating bars. The pale woman with the solar hair speaks, "Where are they?"

   Inside is a man in a white plastic uniform with green lines on the curves of his joints and major muscles groups, giving him a thinner look than he really has.

    The man's short brown hair is messy, his eye and lip broken, his right arm hanging limp.

   "Answer me at once," orders the woman.

   He glares at her with his good eye and spits blood on the floor, a blue light is quick to envelop the blood, washing it away.

   "Where are my men?" he asks.

   "Dead," says the woman, "as you soon will be if you don't answer me."

  "This isn't like the report," he says, "heh, I thought you were just some space clown, playing super villain like that other pirate."

   The woman puts her hand on the clear divide, her hand glowing, the air inside the chamber becomes wavy and the man *gasps* for breath.

   The blue haired woman looks worried and gives an audible *sigh* of relief when the fiery woman pulls her hand away. There is a wooshing sound inside the chamber as the vents reduce the temperature.

   "So you did do something to her?" asks the woman, "Did you kill her? Did you take her away?"

  "What," stammers the man.

  The woman raises her hand, it glowing red, "Betty the Baroness, the space pirate you just called a space clown playing super villain. Where is she? And for that matter where are the two Dimension Police detectives who are supposed to be following me? Where are Lee Lee and Ki Ki?"

  The man grinds his teeth and stands, "What?! You blast my ship to pieces! You kill my men! You torture me! Because of THAT!? Those two retired you stupid bitch! So did that space pirate, we can't even touch her because of..."

   He stops and sits down, "I won't tell you."

   The woman narrows her eyes, the solar light in her eyes growing to encompas them entirely, "Where are my friends? You will tell me or else."

   A red light flashes in the room as the man collpases to the floor screaming, the gravity increasing, crushing him. Her eyes return to what passes for normal for her and the red light vanishes, a stream of blood from the man's mouth vanishing into a blue light.

   "Th..they were classified as traitors, de...deserters," he says after a moment, "Other....Other World."

   "Other World," says the woman, "and what about Betty?"

   "s...same,"

   She turns to the blue haired woman, "Is he telling the truth?"

  "I sense honesty captain Hot Star, it would appear your playmates have been left adrift in the wilderness of Other World by the Dimension Police."

   "That's not what..." the man shouts as the clear wall turns back to blue cutting him off.

  As they walk down the corridor the blue haired woman asks, "What should we do with that man and his crew?"

   Hot Star *sighs*, "Just erase their memories to before we took them, dump them on some planet with their beacons on."

   "If I may ask," says the woman, "what do you plan to do?"

  Hot Star pauses, "There was a rumor going around that Betty killed the Thing Named Jim, not long after Lee Lee and Ki Ki vanished, but Betty never returned, I never got the chance to find them. So, we set course for Other World, we're rescuing my friends."

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   "Captain," says a small green man in the multi-layored cockpit, "We are detecting a new space port signal for Other World."

   "A new one?" asks Hot Star, "bring it on screen,"

   The screen comes up showing an hour glass shape, two dots near the bottom and one up in the top area, "The two usual space ports are there, the Tempest Sea Amana city port and the Suihrai's Dark Nether World port, but we are picking up a third one up in the Nebular Sea."

   "Hmm," says Hot Star, "One supposes either the Kuhrai or the Insectoids may have established a port; well that or one of those Makai cluster races; but last I checked everything up there was magic based, magic portals, divine gates, that sort of thing. I wander; Peitro take us there."

   "Signal sent...we have a reply captain, it says their sensors indicate our ship is too large to dock."

  "They can detect us that quickly? Well this is curious, I didn't hear about any Amana space port being established in that region, anyone else wouldn't...." she trails off and pauses before stating, "Tell them we will arrive in a smaller personal craft."

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   "Am I seeing what I think I am seeing?" says Hot Star as the small craft emerges from a portal high above Aesperia.

   Within the small blue triangular wedge shaped craft there are three occupants, Hot Star, the small green man Pietro, and the woman with the short blue hair who goes by the name Mai.

   Mai answers. "It looks like someone either made a disc world replica of Earth, or some Earth out there had a really bad time. I can't believe a landmass this big has been up here. This has to be the work of an Amana."

   Hot Star focuses, her hair waves about as for blade like antenna emerge from the flames, "I sense," she says, "a surprising number of my kind down there, the land however feels to be populated by a human variant, definetly an enhanced varient, wait...these life signs, I know them..."

  Her antenna vanish back into the flames as her hair settles down, "The Princess of the Holy Forest, Sahralia the Star Killer,...as are two others I am not familiar with."

   A smile creeps across her face, "I also found my friends, Lee Lee and Ki Ki are out in the Pacific Ocean and Betty is right where we are landing."

   "If I beggen your pardon captain," says Pietro, "but shouldn't we be weary of those other Amana? The Holy Forest hasn't existed for ages according to the ship logs, Sahralia is an overlord as well as a celestial being."

  Hot Star raises a brow, "Familiarity breeds such odd things, do not forget what I am Pietro."

  "of course Captain," he says as the ship docks at Stratalia

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