Lore lol

Stardust had been with Sky for a little over a year now. Standing on all four legs, she was nearing his height. She was actually only a little taller than Avalanche though. Her training resulted in her becoming a master with many to legged life form weapons. However, she hasn’t used a long ranged weapon yet.

The 3 of them went back to the planet where Stardust was first discovered. To their disappointment, Stardust’s parents weren’t found.? In fact, not a single life form could be found on the planet. They decided it was time to look in other star systems and so off they went. Stardust was excited, she saw dozens of planets and many life forms on those planets. Each planet was special in its own way. However, with each planet she explored, her fear of never finding her parents only grew.

They decided to wait in one system for a day.

“How have we not found them yet?”

“I don’t know Stardust… I don’t know…”

“You think it’s possible we just missed them on the first planet?”

“It’s possible but improbable. There were no life forms there since 100 years ago, if the historian I spoke to at the space station was correct.”

“Wait, 100 years?”

“Not Earth years Stardust.”

“Oh, are we just going to rest in space for a while?”

“No, we’re going to land on a planet. It’s more dangerous up here in space than it is down on a planet in some cases.”

As they were flying to another planet, a large fleet has just warped into the star system and was moving to cut off Sky’s starfighter. There were at least 4 cruisers, 8-12 destroyers, and 12 frigates, each frigate with 2 starfighters as escort and more in every ship’s hanger bays. Suddenly, Sky was being contacted.

Stardust began to worry. “I don’t like where this is going.”

“Personally, I’m impressed with how large that fleet is. Everyone be quiet, I’m opening communications.”

A hologram of another life form appeared.

“What took you so long?,” they yelled, “we demand you pay tribute or we will take it by force, what’s it going to be?”

It was also this moment Stardust realized they couldn’t warp out of the system as Sky needed to make more hyperdrive fuel before they did, the materials lied on the planet below.

Sky responded, “woah woah woah, let’s back this up a bit. We don’t have much ok? We are—“

“Nonsense, I’ve scanned your ship, I know what’s in there.”

“Do you?”

“You have told on board that ship, and I know you can pay me in units.”

Sky chuckled, “I’m not paying if you are just going to raid loan starfighters with a massive fleet used for intimidation.”

The life form yelled something but the transmission was abruptly cut off. The pirate fleet advanced.

“Avalanche are you okay?”

Stardust felt Avalanche’s flashback and couldn’t help but read her mind. She couldn’t really tell what was happening, it was chaotic.

Avalanche didn’t respond for several seconds. “I’m fine,” she said. “I’ll contact our fleet, fly away for now.” Avalanche walked away.

“Wait, you guys have your own fleet of starships?”

“Yes, your gonna see it for the first time, they were out trading and getting supplies while we were with you, we thought we would find your parents fairly quickly.”

Sky spent 10 minutes out flying the pirate fleet, he actually destroyed what starfighters had been chasing his with ease. Suddenly another fleet appeared, the two fleets how about even numbers in terms of ships. Sky’s fleet was at a slight disadvantage with only 2 cruisers. Sky landed in the hanger bay of one of them.

“Stardust, stay here until the battle is over.”

“What? I want to help you!”

“And you can do that by not getting yourself killed.” He spoke to the captain via wrist comm. “raise the shields, prepare for battle.”

A ton of other life forms were already swarming the hanger bay and getting their starfighters ready. A lot of them stopped and stared at Stardust but they didn’t really ask questions. At least not yet, they had a battle to win and they knew they had to get ready as quick as possible. Avalanche and Sky boarded Sky’s starfighter. Stardust, feeling a little sad she couldn’t find a way to protect Sky or his fleet, explored the ship until she found the bridge. She was starting to get a headache again since she couldn’t figure out a way to pull herself from everyone’s minds yet.

The admiral saw her, “so your the new creature Sky has been talking about?”

“If he has been talking about me, I guess so.”

The admiral seemed surprised when she spoke. He didn’t ask anymore questions than that.

“Go get some rest, you look tired.”

“Alright, if there is anyway I can help, let me know,” said Stardust. She went exploring the ship and she found several emergency air locks she could leave through. She found the armory full of weapons and bombs. The battle must have begun because she heard distant explosions and cannons firing. She came up with an idea.

Stardust didn’t think Sky was going to win the battle. In fact, she foresaw a loss if she didn’t help. But if she went with her plan, they had a chance at winning. They couldn’t retreat, or at least Sky himself couldn’t. Stardust went to the armory and grabbed several explosive devices. She was able to fit the bombs inside of a bag she had wrapped around her right arm. She then left the ship through one of the emergency air locks and was flying towards the battle. She could survive in space and didn’t really need and armor or space suits. She kept as low as she possibly could, until it was open space between her and the enemy fleet. There was a mess of starfighters flying around and shooting each other between her and the pirate fleet. So she did the only thing that could keep her from being seen, her scales changed to match her soundings and kept changing as she flew closer to the ship. It was her perfect camouflage. She could suddenly feel the minds of those in their ships and considered abandoning the plan, but she pushed on through the enemy fleet. To the command ship or capital ship, whatever it was called.

*How am I going to get inside?* she thought. She then found another emergency air lock.

*They’ll know something entered the ship if u go through there, unless I disabled part of their alarm system quick enough, if they have any.*

Stardust got through the air lock and was still camouflaged. They couldn’t see her as long as her scales kept her hidden. She quickly found a control panel and disabled the alarm trigger for the air locks that had already gone off. Next she made her way to the main reactor. It was surprisingly easy with everyone at their battle stations. Stardust planted the explosives near the main reactor and set them for a timer of 5 minutes. As she made her way back to the air lock, she felt her nervousness rising. Several times her camouflage failed her as some of her scales turned completely white out of fear but she made it through stealthily avoiding any pirates in the ship. Just as she got the airlock opened, the bombed went off. She tried to fly as quickly as possible away from the ship before the entire thing exploded. She got hit with a few pieces of debris, one particularly sharp one almost cut her wing open. She barely made it out of the blast radius and started flying back towards her fleet. The pirates were beginning to retreat. She won! She couldn’t believe it.

*Come on Stardust, save it for when your safe.*

Stardust made it back to the ship, most of the Starfighters had already returned, some were more damaged than others, and she made the mistake of entering through the hanger bay. Sky saw her immediately, and Stardust could tell he was angry.

“What in the Infinite were you thinking?! You could have gotten yourself killed!”

“But I saved the day!”

“No, you didn’t! You made the admiral worry about you, you made me worry about you. Not to mention any one of those starfighters out there could have accidentally killed you because of your little stunt!”

Stardust was a little shocked by this side of Sky, although it was understandable. She did sneak off to go fight them. She should have seen this coming. “Alright, I’m sorry for sneaking off to join the fight.. I just wanted to help.”

Sky had Stardust escorted to a room, they gave her a room on board the ship. It was a little small but she could rest comfortably in the ship. Sky starfighter was much more uncomfortable anyway.

Sky came by again.

“Look, don’t take what I said to hard, I just don’t want you to die before meeting your parents… you did a great job… I just wanted to say that. But next time, please don’t do that, we were already pushing them back.”

Sky then left.

Stardust was actually happy after that. Hopefully she wouldn’t run into more problems. Maybe that was the end of her troubles in space.