[blurred images, starting with things that occurred in the first two chapter, ending with things that will occur within the next two] [BUT THIS IS OUR GALAXY] Two brothers battled each other for control of our galaxy. With opposite but extreme - GEEZ! Is Yoshiko-chan ever going to stop repeating the same thing over and over in the beginning? Ok, quick summary, blah blah, they made IRIS. ------[end intro] [chapter title page] IRIS The 53rd Division Planetary Exploration 5003: Out From Nothing ------ [scene -inside the practice room] Eliisa: Ribbon Strawberry Check!! [image of Eliisa sending Jun flying with her rod] ---- [scene-the bridge] [Jun sits on top of one of the control decks. About 8 officers are on the bridge, doing their jobs. Suboji is lighting a cigarette. Jun is half-chibi and looks incredibly frustrated.] Jun: It's not that I really care about being sent home (since I was dragged here in the first place) but . . . [jumps up, both hands balled into fists, angry # marks] I don't wanna loose! [runs around] Not to some metaphysically impossible attacks! [grips his head with both hands in frustration] Not to a GIRL! [runs towards the bridge's exit, where an officer is going out] It's unforgivable! [the door closes right behind the officer, and Jun smashes into it] GAAAAAA!!!! Officer: Maybe he's trying to increase his endurance? [suddenly, the whole ship rocks as something slams into it.] [on the bridge, chibi Jun, sitting Indian style with both hands in lap, goes floating across the room in surprise, and Suboji lowers his cigarette, a sharp, serious look of concern in his eyes.] Officer: Sir! A medium sized ship has just entered our premises, and is firing upon us! It launched several small fighter pods at us . . . some of the pods attached themselves to our ship. Officer(b): An invasion? Of an IRIS ship?! Suboji: ((in thought bubble)) (...a second rate ship with a third rate crew.... good target....) Pirates. Give me the com. I'll be directing from the detainment cells. Officer(b): Yes sir! (into a speaker) Attention, this structure is currently being attacked. Please take appropriate response measures. Suboji: Jun, come with me. Jun: uh, sure. [they enter the hall] Suboji: (into the com) Have each of the pods that attached to the ships checked, and monitor the invaders' progress. . . . 510 . . . 507 . . . Send Eliisa to the floor 5. Seal the bridge so no one can enter: if you have to, destroy the door controls. Koji will break you out later. --- [scene: one of the halls - two officers stand before an invasion pod, which has drilled through the wall.] Officer C: Hey, I found it. This pod ain't opened yet. Officer D: Let's jump the guy when he comes out. Officer C: Yeah, what moron tries to hijack a police ship? [the pod opens, and the two peer in.] Officer C: Huh? It's empty.... Officer D: Lemme see.... huh, maybe it's a dud or something. [frame - view of the space between their heads. A young girl wearing a baseball cap stands watching them. Profile view.] Officer C: Whaderyu talking about? A dud's something that's broken, like your brain. [frame - close up image of the girl. One sharp eye shows from under the cap. She's frowning, and looks very serious.] Officer D: Ah shut up. Let's go. --- [scene - in front of the prison cells] Jun: [chibi with bunny ears, hopping along very excitedly] yay! I get to fight I get to fight I get to fight! Suboji: [angry # mark] Shut up! Eliisa will take care of most of the invaders. Jun: How unfair! But what about everyone else? Suboji: In order to take over this ship, the invaders only need to control two things, the bridge and the main engine center. The bridge is sealed and Eliisa will sweap anyone who gets to close to it. Koji can take care of the engine center. ....(mumbles) so that only leaves here.... Jun: [giant baby eyes filled with tears] But that means there aren't gonna be any bad people hear to beat up! Lets go to the engine room to the engine room lets go lets go! [Suboji lights a cigarette] [Chibi Jun grabs the cigarette and stomps all of it with several chibi feet.] Jun: Bad bad bad! Suboji: (into the com) Koji, have each of the invasion pods torn away from the ship. I don't want any of the criminals to escape before they're captured. (switches com channels) Officer Rinehart, launch the neutron missiles at their main ship, that will keep them from coming near us. The only way they could beat our ship is by taking it from the inside. (switches com channels) Koji, make sure to detach the empty pod on floor 7. [frame - at the end of the hall, standing just around the corner, the silhouette of the baseball capped girl is shown, and Jun and Suboji can be seen down the hall, Jun with his hands behind his head looking bored and disgruntled, and Suboji speaking into the com.] [the girl grips a package she holds in her hand, then she quickly moves away.] --- [scene - floor 5] Eliisa: Emerald typhoon! [an invader is sent flying] Fire ball! [another invader spins away, smoking] It's show time! [a third invader, tears streaming from his eyes, begs for mercy as she pins him down, one of his arms reaching out in pain.] --- [scene - Jun is walking down a hall, hands behind his head.] Jun: How boring, I didn't get to fight at all. [suddenly he hears a rattling] Invader: [coming from another room] Damn it, have they abandoned us?! Jun: [leaning against a wall, surprising the man] Nah, they just realized they couldn't win and gave up. You should, to. Invader: Shit, don't think I'll go down so easy. My boss says I have a P.S.A. [he draws out a knife with his left hand and strikes at Jun, but Jun easily jumps away. Jun shifts into a kendo stance, and the wooden katana forms in his hands. The man strikes again quickly, but Jun parries with his katana.] [frame of Jun cringing, and blood.] [The man now holds a second knife in his right hand, and blood runs down Jun's left arm, which he grips with his right hand.] Invader: Heh. [sly, evil look. He enters a fighting stance with his double knifes.] [Jun, smirking through the pain, grips his sword. They rush at each other, but Jun swings his katana sideways so that it strikes both of the man's arms, then he swings his katana diagonally up at the man's head, knocking him unconscious.] [another rattling from the same direction as before. Someone opens the door. Instinctively, Jun attacks the person, knocking away a baton-like weapon, and sliding his katana at the person's throat.] [Suddenly Jun turns chibi as a very surprised Eliisa stares at him.] Eliisa: Nee... have you.... [punches with boxing gloves, very angry eyes] BEEN HOLDING BACK ON ME!!! [chibi Jun flys away] Eliisa: Hai hai, wakatta, I admit my defeat. [eyes the man lying unconscious on the ground] Hmph, there goes the prey. That idiot thought he had a Potential S.A. I'll call someone to come clean up. Chibi Jun: (so that's what the P means!) Eliisa: [turns towards the door way] Subo-chan! Suboji: Jun, a criminal won't always be a man. Some of history's most heinous crimes are committed by women, children, and the disabled. Evil is in the mind not the body. The leader of the raiding party was a woman . . . [Eliisa and Jun both look surprised and puzzled.] Eliisa: We didn't catch any women. How would you know that? Suboji: Just a guess. [several chibi Juns fly around the room with question marks] --- [scene - darkness. everything is black.] [out of the blackness appears a woman. She has large proportions and hair a little below her shoulders. Her eyes are sharp and hold a devious gleam, along with her tight little smile. She is wearing a business suite and skirt. For the most part, she isn't perfectly clear in the darkness.] Woman: Raena. [on the side of the black room, the silhouette of a girl is shown. the shape of a base ball cap on her head is clearly shown.] (note: Raena is continually emotionless in expression and voice) Raena: Hao. Woman: Well? [slightly impatient in her expression] Raena: I recovered the package. The men are still in IRIS custody. Woman: How could you let that happen? I told you to kill them! Raena: There was a man- Woman: A man? Raena: -and a boy- Woman: A boy?! Raena: . . . Woman: [hand on hip, slightly scornful] You weren't discovered, were you!? Raena: My ability worked without flaw. The only possibility is that the man utilizes one of the unique S.A.'s. Woman: Hmph. The 53rd division is rumored to be run by a set of incompetents. IRIS sends all of its rejects there. Raena: . . . Woman: [suddenly kind] Well, you did recover the package and that was the most important. The men won't talk - they were foolish enough to steal for me in the first place, and they're foolish enough to think I might try to recover them. [moves towards her. she places one hand on Raena's check, tilting her head up slightly.] You did well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Picture] Irresponsible Rancher In Space