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Meela and Flea
"What do we do, Meela?" Flea asked with a worried expression. Meela hurriedly twirled her stylus about as she turned around. Holographic screens started to appear everywhere as she searched through the data.
"If I can trace the signal, I can reverse the teleportation."
"Meela, stop"
"What do you mean sto..." she saw him. Holding a large knife to Flea's throat was Meela's worst nightmare. Silvery white from head to toe with long luminescent hair, and red cat-like eyes, it was a ghost from her past.
"No. You're dead. I killed you."
The figure holding the knife pointed his thumb at himself, "Me? Lady, I've never met you before in my life."
Meela shook her head and looked again, her eyes had played a trick on her. This man was wearing white military gear and his hair was as brown as his eyes.
"I've got a lock on both of them, let's take us up" the man said. With a flash of white they were now standing in the middle of a cell. There were three more men in white military outfits in this room with their guns at the ready.
"You idiot, you've got yer knife up to the wrong one. She's the dangerous one, not him."
"Well shit, I dunno!" the man with the knife moved over to hold the knife to Meela's throat.
"Actually, he was right" Flea had an uncharacteristically dark smirk on his face and his eyes were glowing red. "I'm the dangerous one". With a lightning fast jab, the man with the knife went flying into the wall to their left.
"Fire! Fire!" screamed one of the men as he tried to pull the trigger. Meela waved her stylus and hacked into his gun instantly. It exploded in his hands in a orange burst of light. He passed out as blood spurted from where his hands used to be. Meanwhile, the other two didn't even have the chance to act as Flea crushed their heads in his hands. Flea's eyes returned to normal and his innocent smile resurfaced. "Let's find the Cap'n and get out of here."
"That was pretty crazy. I didn't know you were capable of that."
"You gotta be able to fight if you wanna travel with the Cap'n."
"Yeah " she laughed, "I suppose that's true. Just how often does he get in trouble like this?"
"It's pretty much just been a steady stream of trouble since I met him"
"Eesh, I'm starting to think I may have made a mistake joining up with you guys."
"No don't think that, there may be trouble but the Cap'n always makes it through somehow."
"What do you mean exactly?"
"It's like he's got luck on his side or something, I don't know how to explain it."
"I think I know what you mean. I experienced some of that when he saved me."
"Let's hope that luck still comes through. C'mon let's go."
They stepped over the bodies and started to walk. "Wait" Meela said as she held her hand up. She twirled her stylus as a screen appeared in front of them. "He's not on this ship, we'll have to teleport to wherever he is." Another screen popped up, it was a mayday call. The screen kept turning to static at odd intervals, there were men on fire in the background and one terrified looking young man screaming his message. "....danger.....breach......fire.....escaped..." The screen went silent. Meela pulled up a screen showing the ship. It was the ship closest to the one they'd been traveling in, and it was on fire. Meela noticed that all the other ships excluding the one they were currently on were starting to drift toward the flaming one. "Didn't you say the Cap'n was on that ship?"
"Yeah. This looks pretty bad." She furiously began to scribble in the air as screens began popping up. "I gotta get him out" she said desperately. There was a white flash behind her. Up on the screen, the flaming ship exploded along with all of their belongings and all but two ships out of the three squadrons.
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