Universe of Conflict Chapter Six
#2 of Universe of Conflict
Chapter Six
Jeromy had escaped; leaving Natasha behind to bleed and suffer from her gut-wrenching injurys. She felt like someone had taken nails, made her eat them and felt them churn in her stomach; her head still ringing from her concussion; her eyes now swollen shut and blackened. Her face covered in large welts and red bruises that puffed up an inch from her face; multiple of her fangs were busted from her mouth and she was covered in her own blood. The rest of her body was bruised, black and blue and abrasioned. She was pulvarized.
Help did not arrive for two hours after she sent the help call, they had to go in quietly to prevent anyone finding out they were even there... from there things went downhill. Luxa, who was the first to see her condition when she returned from the planet crossed her arms and hung her head; tears fell from her eyes. Her best friend was in terrible pain, unconcious and now possibly before deaths door... she was rushed to the hospital wing and put under the corded IV's and statis tank to let her body heal without it having to operate to keep her alive. The fluids in the tanks would do that for her.
The time was now 0330 in the morning, Alex is asleep like a stone, and seemingly was forgotten by everyone as the ship was put on alert by Luxa's command. Shields and Weapons were armed, and they were trying to trace where the attackers had gone; using any and every thing they can think of to trace the attackers. But there was no luck... Luxa had put everyone on double-duty. The ship was on heavy and was working hard; she was giving everyone hell so if they were attacked; the attackers would surely pay for the attempt.
"I want to know who the hell did this to my best friend! Fucking I don't not give a rats ass how you get the information! Do it!" She screamed at the crew members in the bridge. Beast was on the bridge and he would not speak anything on the matter, he was silent; and would not look the captain in the eye as she burned her anger out in her attempt to find the culprits. Regal was in the bridge, and he noticed Beasts unsettling display, and he quickly wondered as to why he was acting the way he was. But said nothing to him, instead only watched him from the distance.
Things seemed only to get louder and more stressful as Luxa grew angrier and angrier as the chances increased of her never finding the people who did this. Natasha was just not a crew memebr to her; but a sister and a best friend. Luxa slammed shut her door to her quarters and sat on her bed, the soft coziness of the red velet silk did nothing to calm her down. She had stressed herself to the point of breakdown...and felt her head strain so much she blacked out...
Luxa and Natasha were rivals when they were 18, they both enlisted and even competed between one another even in childhood. They fought often, they were always showing the other up and they pushed there limits more then anything. In school, in chores; comparing breasts and body features in teen years. And who could kick the most ass by age 16, and who was the better person in general. They both enlisted in the military; there compitions showed they had the potential to be great and the Federation would not miss out on the opportunity.
Luxa was immediatly enlisted because of her health and fitness; she would always outlast and be able to take more abuse then Natasha ever could; she was very tough and durable and very intelligent, scoring a 127 in her intelligence tests, average being 100. She was enlisted as a Frontline Support-Trooper with the 46th Brigade of the Army. Natasha was very talented in her hand to hand combat skills; she was strong and very quick. When they would fight hand to hand, she would always land the most hits; and would always out-shoot her in any weapon she could use. She scored a 102 in her intelligence tests, and was pretty bummed when she found out Luxa was smarter then her. But Luxa was bummed because Natasha could out-perform her with combat and weaponry.
Because of her talents in the field, she was quickly placed in a Frontline Shock Trooper with the same Brigade as Luxa. Luxa graduated the top of her class in Basics, Natasha following in close behind due to her talents in taking the training and developing ten-fold on it. Upon graduation, Luxa was 19, Natasha being 18, Luxa was a Sergeant of the Support Brigade, and Natasha a Sergeant of the Shock Brigade. They found themselves always working the same mission, doing the same duty and working to achieve the same goal. Working on the ground; they did many missions together; and found out they have more in common then they ever thought possible; and from the experience they gained; they became the best of friends. They shared the same bullets, the same blood they got from injurys. They ate from the same plate, and even found themselves sleeping in the same sleeping bag more then once.
Some missions they did together that were recognized by the Federation were:
Operation Flash-Flood, Luxa age 20, Natasha being 19. Leading a team of demolition experts into enemy lines to blow the dam and flood the complex so the federation could seige and control the terrorist compound. They were able to not only blow the dam, but capture and seize valuable data and retrieve stolen Federation documents all in one.
Operation Sahara Loss, Luxa age 21, Natasha age 20. A group of renegade federation special forces had taken control of a large compound with more then a thousand civilians living inside. They infiltrated the compound, rescued all but 10 of the civilians who were already dead, silently and were even able to capture the leader without the rest knowing. Deemed impossible by the Federation by the rate of rescued vs killed and by everyone in the armed forces; this deed then determined their right to serve in the Black Ops.
They did only one mission; Luxa was 21 and Natasha was still 20. The mission was called Operation Intercept, this mission was a very sensitive one; a terrorist organization had teamed up with traitors of the federation and took control of a nuclear compund and had three nukes ready to launch to highly populated areas. The button was ready to be pressed and there was alot of pressure. Natasha risked her life acting as a double agent and a undercover inside the compound to gather as much information as possible on the compound before the attack, The operation dispite the best planning Luxa could do had killed many of the black ops troopers; but Luxa and Natasha carried the operation alone and stopped the nukes from being launched, killed the leader, and were able to hold off the groups by being in a bottle neck until Federation Shock and Support could arrive to assist, upon completion to this big mission, "You are too good to be here" said the President and were then discharged and promoted to intergalatic defence. They were then seperated... for four years; neither of them heard from each other.
They were reunited on the Federation Class IV Vessle the Grand Exhibitioner. Luxa was in command of that ship entirely, it was all hers; Natasha was to be back on the earth and Luxa said no. She demanded Natasha and would not settle for anything less; she was already past due on her contract and could quit at anytime. If she did not get Natasha she would do just that and Natasha agreed and would also go with Luxa if that was the case. The federation gave them their disires to be together. They did not speak anything they did for the four years they were seperated; they were too excited to even care.
Natasha was not just a best friend; she ment so much more to her then that... she was a heart friend, and losing her meant her dying as well, and she could not accept that. Laying in a stress-induced form of coma, Luxa slept in her bed dreaming of Natasha's pain.... She hoped things would get better for her soon; and she would pull through. Otherwise she knew she had a big choice to make...
Regal had watched Luxa storm into her room, and resumed command of the bridge; he knew her releationship with Natasha and could understand the grief that had befallen her. For they were litterally connected by heart-strings; if one pulled a cord; the other would feel it. Regal had only known Luxa and Natasha for the few years they worked on the vessle, he whenever he apprached Luxa he could feel something odd about her. It was nothing mental or physical; but something in her made him feel sick to his stomach; whenever he accidentaly made contact with her he felt a large force flow through him and sap his energy. He never asked why, just it must be a phenenmenon.
Regal was a old timer in the Military; he was born along side other elementals in a Top Secret Security Facility and remembers nothing of his childhood; just his teen years working on a vessle and started only getting real memorys when he began working on the Grand Exibitioner as an adult of 33; where he remained to this day being 38 years old. He feels his childhood was uneventful and therefore meaningless. But he created his own path by working with the Great Captain... but he always had a strong suspicion of Beast.
For Beast, was not here; but was then all of a sudden here. Federation employed him and set him because of his great talent in weapon construction and repair. He works as a civilian employee and would live the rest of his days on that ship by the contract he signed. He would go nowhere else of the rest of his life. If the ship goes down, he would have to along with it. The Federation made him sign a "Life Bound Contract" the only reason he was able to get onto a classifed vessle such as this one. Regal asked as to why, and the Federation told him he was under contract, a tool. He would listen to anyone on the ship and if he didn't he would be punished. Regal then wondered why he would throw his life away like that... and even became even more suspicious. But for the many years he was here, he did nothing wrong; he woke up went to work and was an active part of the vessle. So he removed his suspicions.
Regal continued Luxa's efforts to finding out the culprits, tracing any kind of beam or tractor device used; anything out of the ordinary. But the planet was barren and clean; nothing... he with a heavy heart ordered the cease of investigation and wrote a report to the Captain of everything he did so she would understand the choice he made; he noticed upon the completion of the document, Beast had vanished and was gone from the bridge. And realized that something was not right at all; a deep fear twisted the waters around his head and made him cringe and flow rapidly; something was deffinatly bugging him; but he could not figure out what... but decided it was time to alert Alex to what happened to his friend Natasha. It was the right thing to do... with the churning of his stomach spinning its water rapidly around and giving him grief. Something was about to happen; and it would hit hard.