Star Trek: Phoenix-X
Land Wars cut scenes
1
The Phoenix-X treks through space. Kugo enters Main Engineering, receiving a padd explaining today’s regular Engine maintenance.
Kugo: “Thank you, Ensign.”
Gewdeque: “No problem, sir.”
Kugo: “I am a female. You must call me ma’am.”
Gewdeque: “Oh, sorry, ma’am. What is this, the 14-hundreds?”
Kugo: “And stop playing that rap music! We only listen to classical here.”
Cell enters the Bridge.
RaeLuna: “Captain. I’m picking up some strange readings on sensors.”
Cell: “What? How could this be?”
He panics.
Cell: “Why us? Why??”
Seifer: “Captain, get a hold of yourself.”
RaeLuna: “It is emanating from a nearby Planet.”
Cell, calms down: “Oh like that’s not an invitation to trouble.”
Amp: “May I remind you, that it is Starfleet regulations to check out every strange sensor reading.”
Cell: “Oh please. What do you know about Starfleet regulations? You’re a fricken virus hologram!”
Amp: “Uh! I have simulated feelings, you know.”
Seifer: “He may be right, Captain. We’d better check it out.”
Cell: “Alright, Commander. I trust your judgment.”
Ensign Dan: “Then we are all doomed...”
The Phoenix-X approaches a huge Planet. An Observatory on the surface picks up their presence on their computer.
Bork: “...Mr. Steans! There’s an alien Starship in orbit!”
Steans: “Gad zooks man!”
Bork: “What does that even mean?”
Trunks is in Sickbay with Doctor Lox.
Lox: “What can I help you with, Trunks?”
Trunks: “I am feeling depressed. You see, I am an Android with only Combat purposes. But yet, I have no one with equal strength to practice my combat skills with.”
Lox: “What!? --Err... We do have a Councilor... Councilor Lucrecia, you know.”
Trunks: “Yes, but I would rather speak with you about my problems.”
Lox: “Listen, I... uhh, have never been good at these things.”
Trunks, places his hand on his shoulder: “Then we shall help each other.”
Lox: “Don’t touch me. That is so gay.”
2
The Phoenix-X suddenly shakes from some unknown force. Everyone on the Bridge is in alert mode.
Elly, was sleeping: “What!? I’m awake. I’m awake!!”
Amp: “Captain. We are descending into the atmosphere...”
The Phoenix-X takes on a gravitational force and is brought down through the sky. They pass clouds and head straight for a grassy field, until the Phoenix-X suddenly stops in mid-air, hovering closely above the ground.
Cell: “Report!”
Seifer, checks a panel: “We seem to be held by an unknown force. Possibly the same one we detected earlier.”
Cell: “Well that just puts an end to my day’s plans.”
Amp, taps at the Helm: “I know! I’ll get us out of here.”
He gets the Phoenix-X to move upward, but it’s suddenly pulled back down, to a slow hover, moving across the countryside.
Amp: “No luck. Want me to fire phasers in random directions to demonstrate anger again?”
Cell, holds up his hand: “Not yet. Maybe there’s another way out of this.”
He turns to Tactical.
Cell: “RaeLuna, are you sensing any omnipotent being, or powerful alien of any sort?”
RaeLuna: “No.”
Seifer: “That sucks!”
They’re suddenly hailed by the Planet’s inhabitants. The screen clicks onto a Conference room Office, where the Meronis Government sits.
>Ekoth: “You are in violation of Meronis Territory. Leave immediately.”
Cell: “We were brought here against our will and can’t leave. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that would you?”
>Ekoth: “No! We hate visitors! We prefer to be left alone!”
>Dokel: “Uh, Ekoth, you are making us sound like loners again.”
Cell: “What are you guys talking about?”
>Ekoth: “Your presence here is an act of War!”
Cell: “I’m telling you, we can’t leave, even if we try!”
>Ekoth: “War!!!”
He clicks the screen off.
Cell, turns to the Commander: “So how do you think that first contact went? Good?”
Seifer shakes his head.
The Senior Staff meets in the Briefing Room immediately. Everyone takes their seats.
BOB, sets down Chinese Food: “Alright people, I’ve got Dim Sum and Stir Fried Noodles.”
Lox: “--I’ll have Dim Sum.”
Amp gets up to the view screen at the wall at the end of the table: “As you can see, the Phoenix-X is caught in some undistinguishable gravitational pull around the Planet.”
Kugo, gets up with him: “Our impression is that the pull is a Planetary layer existing in the Transwarp Domain.”
Seifer: “Whoa! Whoa! Let’s slow down here a second. That view screen used to be on the side wall.”
Amp: “Uhh... I guess someone moved the table?”
Seifer: “Okay, go on.”
Kugo changes the diagram to one of the Transwarp Core: “The Transwarp Core pertaining to the Temporary Conduit Creation Emitter Process is what’s holding the entire Phoenix-X down here.”
Amp: “In other words, when the Transwarp Core came near the Planet, it was pulled down to the Domain Layer surrounding the Planet.”
Cell: “This all highly sucks on a grand scale.”
RaeLuna: “There must be a way to get out of this Domain. This vessel is always sliding in and out of the Transwarp Domain.”
Kugo: “But the problem is that the Matter-Antimatter Frequency Convergence is active. It’s like we’re in Transwarp, but not.”
Cell: “Can you get us out of this?”
Kugo: “Possibly. I could try altering the Frequency Conduit Emitter, but any shut down of the Drive in this state would over-run the Core and destroy us.”
Seifer: “Along with part of this Planet.”
Cell: “Get to work on the adjustments, Kugo, and be careful.”
Kugo: “Aye, sir.”
RaeLuna: “What are the rest of us supposed to do?”
Cell: “What am I, your Day Care Monitor?”
He gets up and leaves.
3
Two Government Leaders meet in an Office somewhere on the Planet... A Soldier enters, having been summoned.
Ekoth: “Quinn. You are Meronis’ greatest Fighter. While our military forces are deployed, we want you to take down this Phoenix-X personally.”
Quinn: “It will be my pleasure...”
Dokal: “We also heard you were the best Laundry Attendant. While I hand you this bag of laundry, we want you to do it for us.”
He hands him a bag full of clothes.
Quinn: “Uhh... okay...”
4
Seifer: “Shields up!”
Cell: “Oh man... They’re acting on their War declaration.”
RaeLuna: “Shall I return fire?”
Cell: “Err-- eerggh... mmmreeerrhh... glllrrrrhh.... vvvlllhhhrr... ggrrrggghh... dlrhglrhjlrrrhhh.... Alright fine.”
He has more second thoughts.
Cell: “NNrrrgghh... gggrrreeehhh... blrrrrgggghh... chrrrggghh...”
5
The Phoenix-X treks across the countryside, as its surrounded by the many Flyers. They blast phasers onto one Flyer after another, as each Flyer is firing their own rapid compression beams.
Flyer 1 speeds above the Phoenix-X and rains it with compression beams.
Jorad: “Hey! I got the best spot!”
Flyer 2 jets around, as all the other Flyers are in the way.
Crane: “Aw crap.”
The Phoenix-X’s phaser knocks Flyer 3 spinning into Flyer 4, but both Flyers suddenly regain their courses and swarm around and continue their attacks.
Lerane: “Hahaha! They think they can take us out? No one can take us out! Hahahah!”
#Jorad: “Jeez, Lerane, take it easy.”
Trunks enters the Bridge of the Phoenix-X. The ship shakes.
Trunks: “What goes on? More Klingon belching contests?”
Cell, walks over: “Trunks, I need you to go out there and take care of these Meronis Attack Flyers. They’re so small and they’re just too many for us to handle.”
Trunks, looks on screen: “...I will do it.”
Cell: “Great.”
Trunks leaves the Bridge.
Seifer: “Good luck, and God speed.”
Trunks shoots out Hatch B from the side of the Phoenix-X and hovers in the air, using thrusters on his boots. He unfolds a torpedo launcher in his forearm and blasts a torpedo out into the sky.
Crane: “What the hell is that??”
The small torpedo passes a few Flyers and hits the one that was aimed for. An explosion blossoms off Flyer 2 as it loses its propulsion and collides with Flyer 5 below it. Both Flyers loose course and crash along the grassy field below.
The Bridge monitors Trunks and all the chaos of ships’ around the Phoenix-X.
RaeLuna: “Perhaps we should increase intensity to our phasers.”
Seifer: “Perhaps, but really, what does Perhaps even mean in the long run?”
6
A quick Flyer 6 speeds around the other side of the Phoenix-X and emits a flood of dense particles against the shields, weakening them. The hatch to Flyer 6 opens and the Pilot jumps out, through the sky and onto the hull of the Phoenix-X.
Quinn: “Argh!!”
He clamps on with a magnetic field on his hands and boots, and finds Hatch B.
Targon exits the Holodeck on the Phoenix-X: “That was a great game of football. No one could take me down!”
Quinn exits the Hatch Room and runs into Targon, knocking Targon down.
Targon: “Dammit!”
7
Kortos runs into Quinn in the hallway: “Intruder!!”
Quinn, activates a device on his shoulder: “Pretty quick there...”
He activates a forcefield that attaches to his skin, and takes a fighting stance. He jumps and kicks for Kortos, as Kortos immediately blocks the leg and punches Quinn as Quinn is in the air.
Kortos: “A worthy opponent.”
Quinn hits the wall and lands on his feet, unhurt. Kortos and Quinn exchange punches and blocks, and kicks, until Kortos is forced kicked into a panel with immense strength, and knocked into submission.
An orbital satellite transmits the Battle of Phoenix-X to a Control Room in the main City, where the Government watches.
Lervek: “Looks good.”
Dokal, zooms in: “No it’s not... We’re losing ships!”
Lervek: “Oh. Well, I was speaking from a hypothetical point of view.”
Ekoth: “Relax. General Quinn has boarded the alien vessel.”
Dokal: “Since when is he a General now?”
Ekoth: “I promoted him. He deserved it.”
Dokal: “You are such a loser, Ekoth.”
8
Saiijen panics: “That Android is unstoppable!!”
Trunks is about to blast that Flyer away, until Flyer 10 rushes by and rams Trunks away. Trunks
smashes off the shields of the Phoenix-X and falls limp, into the ground below.
Saiijen: “Oh-p. Nevermind then. I should rather not jump to conclusions.”
The Phoenix-X and its 34 attacking Flyers continue off into the distance, leaving the Countryside behind and passing over a gigantic Ocean.
Cell: “What are you doing, Seifer? Those Flyers are getting too close to the Phoenix-X’s aft shields!!”
RaeLuna taps at the tactical holopanels frantically, phasering Flyer after Flyer.
Seifer: “Hey, RaeLuna’s doing all the firing.”
Cell: “Yeah, but you’re telling her which Flyer’s to hit.”
Seifer: “I may have made a suggestion here and there. --Psst. Hit that one.”
RaeLuna blasts another phaser out the Phoenix-X.
Cell: “That’s it! I’m taking over this operation.”
Seifer: “You can’t do that!”
Cell: “I’m the Captain!”
Seifer, turns away: “Oh sure, like that actually means anything.”
9
Kugo runs across Engineering, to help Gewdeque and Tong who are trying to coil span the frequency adjusting prongs at the Transwarp Engine.
Tong: “No effect.”
Kugo: “Damn! What about realigning the matter-antimatter injection units?”
Tong: “I don’t even know what that means.”
10
Seifer enters Sickbay, bruised: “Ugh... Help me.”
Lox, scans him: “The Phoenix-X under attack again?”
Seifer: “Yeah, but this time it’s a giant Crystalline entity. So it’s different than before.”
Lox: “Different is good.”
11
Lox: “What are you talking about? The United States was joined with Canada back in 2164. It’s called the UCSA now.”
Seifer: “Doctor? What are you doing here?”
Lox, shrugs: “I dunno.”
12
Cell: “I’ll handle this. Look, you see, I have no powers anymore. But with superior tactical skill, I was able to take out the Meronis scum, nevertheless.”
>Leffer: “What are you talking about? You’re confusing me!”
13
Cell: “I don’t need to be reminded that my powers are gone. I’m doing completely fine without them.”
Just then, that omni’X, Throk approaches the Phoenix-X in space.
>Throk: “I choose to fight you!”
Cell: “Sorry, don’t have my powers anymore.”
>Throk: “What!? Stop wasting my time!”
He flys out of there.
14
Cell: “Well done, Mr. Amp. Good thing we got rid of that Quinn guy. We would have had to add him to the crew, and I’m sick of adding people.”
Trunks enters the Bridge, hearing this: “Perhaps I have no place here...”
15
Cell: “Well done, Mr. Amp. Good thing we got rid of that Quinn guy. We would have had to add him to the crew, and I’m sick of adding people.”
Matt enters the Bridge, being an addition from before: “Oh so that’s how you’ve felt all this time?”
He runs away.
16
Trunks enters the Bridge.
Trunks: “I have taken care of the Fighter Pods successfully. Now I have proved my usefulness to this crew.”
Kugo: “Oh,
Seifer, shakes his head and smiles: “Such a confused Android. Just like Data. Heh, heh.”
17
Trunks, opens his torpedo launcher: “Watch out, a bug!”
He fires the torpedo at Captain Cell. Cell quickly liquefies his arms and catches the torpedo casing in mid air before it can explode.
Cell: “Trunks!!”
The bug flies away.
Trunks: “My apologies.”
Lox: “Eeuu, a bug!”
He swats it.
18
Trunks leaves the Ready Room.
Seifer: “Hey Captain, you caught that torpedo without the need of the powers that you lost.”
Cell: “You’re right... Well done, Seifer.”
Seifer: “Thank you, sir.”
Cell deactivates the torpedo and takes a seat.
19
More and more Fighter Pods have the Phoenix-X surrounded in the sky. There are way too many to keep track of.
Seifer: “What do I do? What do I do??”
RaeLuna: “Pull yourself together, you pathetic humanoid!”
20
Seifer: “Hah! That’ll take care of them.”
As the ship continues onward, two large Meronis Hover Warships slowly approach from the distance.
Amp: “...And those’ll take care of us.”
21
Cell liquefies around and punches Quinn off him and across the hall, away. They both take their fight outside the Phoenix-X, through a hatch. They battle on the upper hull, with all the Fighters swarming the sky. Cell extends his arms, missing Quinn.
Quinn: “You know, perhaps this was all a misunderstanding.”
Cell: “Really?”
Quinn: “Oh well, too late!”
22
Trunks fires at two more Fighter Pods, taking them out. But one other Fighter Pod hits him with compression beams, knocking Trunks away. He falls, and skims the water below, before blasting back up into the sky.
Trunks: “I must defeat these Meronians. Perhaps, this will prove my usefulness on the Phoenix-X.”
He blasts more torpedoes at the Figher Pods.
Trunks: “Wait a second... I am not on the Phoenix-X! This proves nothing!”
23
The two huge Hover Ships approach and lock tractor beams onto the Phoenix-X. Seifer stops pacing the Bridge and just looks onscreen.
Seifer: “...I can strategize on the holodeck, but out here is completely different.”
He looks to the side.
Seifer: “We can’t move. How do we fight them?”
Amp: “Send them false signals.”
Seifer: “Hm... You’re right! If the large ships think the other large ship is us, then they’ll destroy each other.”
RaeLuna: “We would have to get those tractor beams off us first.”
Seifer: “I’m right on it.”
He uses his command abilities to tell people what to do.
Seifer: “RaeLuna, get those tractor beams off us!”
24
Kugo: “I may be able to realign the Conduit Initiators. But that may take a while, and it’s no guarantee that it’ll work.”
Cell: “Understood. Get to work. Now, about the pig races on Deck 6. Seifer, I want you to stop them!”
Seifer, stands: “I told you. It was the other Seifer!”
Just then, Seifer Talsman walks in: “Hey, am I late for the meeting?”
25
Kugo works in Engineering, at an open conduit in the Transwarp Drive. Matt walks over to see how it’s going.
Kugo: “I’ve realigned the couplings...”
Matt: “You okay?”
Kugo: “Yeah... I just don’t know. The truth is, I really don’t know everything there is to know about Transwarp.”
Matt: “What?? How dare you!?”
Kugo: “Huh?”
Matt: “You call yourself a Chief Engineer!?”
Kugo: “But Matt, I just--”
Matt: “You’re nothing but a fraud! I’m out of here!”
He stomps out of Engineering. Kugo is left there sad.
26
Lox is approached by Trunks, in Sickbay.
Trunks: “Greetings.”
Lox: “What are you doing? Get away from me!”
Trunks: “But I’m not doing anything.”
Lox: “Aaahh!”
27
RaeLuna: “Everything seems to be in working order.”
Cell: “Is it just me, or does the Bridge look crooked to you?”
An Ensign falls by: “Aahh!”
Amp: “It’s nothing sir. The ship always gets like this when we pass through this Sector.”
The same Ensign gets up, but falls again: “Aahh!”
28
The Phoenix-X treks through space. Kugo enters Main Engineering, receiving a padd explaining today’s regular Engine maintenance.
Kugo: “Thank you, Ensign.”
Gewdeque: “No problem.”
Having just woke up, Kugo goes over and admires the Transwarp Core for a second.
Targon, stands with her: “Ahh, ‘tis a wonderful thing t’aint’it?”
Kugo: “Yeah... I guess...”
Targon: “’Tis the apple of my eye t’at’twas’tit’tis.”
Kugo: “Aren’t you a Klingon?”
Targon, changes his voice back: “Uurr--- yes, yes I am. --Patok!!”
He walks away angry.
29
Cell: “Maybe if we did an energy molecular scan, we could figure out its nature.”
Seifer: “That’s what I was going to suggest.”
Cell: “Good work Commander.”
Seifer: “Thank you, sir.”
30
Seifer: “Get us back into space.”
Amp, tapping frantically: “I’m trying... I can have us at full impulse, but the attraction is always stronger!”
The Phoenix-X tries going up, but is tugged back down to a low trek.
Cell: “What kind of virus are you? Can’t you do your job!?”
Amp: “Sir, I hardly think it is appropriate to appoint blame on me.”
Cell: “Oh, sorry...”
He looks around finding Ensign Dan walking by.
Cell: “You’re relieved!”
31
He walks away angry. Kugo walks over to check the domain aligner device. There, she adjusts the triple adapter interlock.
Matt, walks over: “Hey Kugo, that’s some great adjusting.”
32
Kugo, turns around: “Oh, Lieutenant, I forgot to tell you, I need the trilithum crystal converter schematics for this afternoon.”
Matt: “Aye, ma’am. You can already consider them a day late.”
33
Lox: “...And that’s the story of my first pregnancy.”
The Doctor converses with the EMH in Sickbay.
EMH: “Fascinating. But aren’t you a male?”
Lox: “Yes.”
EMH: “Oookay.”
34
Trunks walks through the hallways of the Phoenix-X. Amp catches up with him.
Amp: “Hey! ...So have you thought about that program meld?”
Trunks: “I processed the idea.”
Amp: “Still not into it, are you?”
Trunks: “No.”
Amp, stops shocked: “Well then. I hadn’t realized how rejection actually felt.”
He walks over to a panel and accesses his holographic parameters, deleting the feeling of rejection.
Amp: “Phew. That’s much better.”
35
Amp makes his way to the Bridge, with RaeLuna, as they take their stations. Seifer enters also.
Cell: “Lunch was three hours ago!”
Seifer: “There was a Klingon head bashing tournament on Deck 9.”
Cell: “Did Grath take out Targon again?”
Seifer: “Yes.”
Cell: “Hahaha! His head is the most deformed on the ship.”
Seifer: “Aren’t you going to reprimand me?”
Cell: “Haha! ...Deformed.”
The Phoenix-X slows in impulse.
RaeLuna: “Captain. I’m picking up strange energy readings from a Planet nearby.”
Cell: “Jee, like that’s not an invitation to trouble.”
Seifer: “We’d better check it out. Remember what happened last time we picked up strange readings?”
FLASHBACK. The Phoenix-X runs into two giant Fat Blob’s in space, arguing.
Fat Blob 1: “No I’m the fattest!”
Fat Blob 2: “No you’re not! I’m the fattest!!”
THE FLASHBACK ENDS. Cell glances over at his crew.
Seifer, shutters: “UghHh... I can still hear their incessant jiggling.”
36
Just then, the Phoenix-X is hailed. The screen clicks onto a Conference room Office, where the Meronis Government sits.
>Terolen: “...What is this intrusion? We are the Meronians. Who are you?”
Cell: “Captain Cell of the Federation Starship Phoenix-X.”
>Terolen: “We change our minds. We do not care who you are! What are you doing here?”
Cell: “You don’t know why we’re here? You brought us here!”
>Terolen: “No we didn’t! ...Leave us immediately. We do not appreciate visitors from other Worlds.”
Cell: “We can’t. We’re being kept down here by some force.”
>Terolen: “Lies. You’ve come to invade us. This is an act of war!!”
Cell: “Something must be keeping us here. This is just a misunderstanding.”
>Terolen: “No it’s not. This is an act of war!!”
Cell: “No! You’re an act of war!!
The Captain cuts the screen out in anger.
37
Seifer: "Captain, if we’re not here by the Meronians, then how are we here?”
Cell: “That’s what I’d like to know, Number One...”
Seifer: “You’ve never called me Number One before.”
Cell: “I just wanted to try it out.”
38
Amp makes his way to the Bridge, with RaeLuna, as they take their stations. Seifer enters also.
Cell: “Welcome to the Bridge, Commander Seifer.”
Seifer: “What, why are you welcoming me? What did I do wrong??”
Cell: “Nothing. I’m just being nice to you.”
Seifer: “Oh my God. You know about the illegal Klingon Drug Meditation Ceremony.”
Cell: “No, I’m just welcoming you!”
39
RaeLuna, checks her panel: “...The energy seemed to reduce in intensity as we came nearer to the Planet.”
Cell: “Maybe if we did an energy molecular scan, we could figure out its nature.”
Seifer: “Molecular scan? ...Oh my God, he’ll find proof of the Drug Ceremony...”
Cell: “Who are you talking to, Seifer?”
Seifer: “Oh man, he’s on to me...”
40
Cell: “Amp! What’s happening!?”
Amp: “It’s not me, Captain. The Phoenix-X is caught in a gravitational pull!”
The sound of falling can be heard in the background.
Cell: “Oh crap!”
The Phoenix-X is brought down into the sky, ascending to a quick altitude, a few meters above the ground. The Phoenix-X starts moving slowly across the landscape, a huge grass covered countryside.
Seifer: “We’d better get back into space.”
Amp, tapping frantically: “I’m trying... I can have us at full impulse, but the attraction is always stronger!”
The Phoenix-X tries going up, but is tugged back down to a low trek.
Cell: “Did I mention, Oh crap?”
Just then, the Phoenix-X is hailed. The screen clicks onto a Conference room Office, where the Meronis Government sits.
>Terolen: “...What is this intrusion? We are the Meronians.”
Cell: “Greetings. I am Captain Cell of the Federation Starship Phoenix-X.”
>Terolen: “We change our minds. We do not care who you are! What are you doing here??”
Cell: “We were brought here against our will. We’re trying to get back up into space, but are unable to.”
>Terolen: “Oh, well, we understand completely and please forgive us if we seemed irritable--- is what we’d be saying if we believed you! You liars!!!”
Cell: “But I’m not lying. We’re really stuck here.”
>Terolen: “Oooohhhh, you’re really stuck there, oh-okay, we take that back... Deceivers!!!”
Cell: “But--“
>Terolen: “Misleaders!”
Cell tries speaking again--
>Terolen: “Con-Artists! ...Trickers!!”
Cell: “Enough! What is your point?”
>Terolen: “This is an act of War! You will be taken down at our earliest convenience...”
The screen clicks off.
41
Seifer: “Maybe when they said -earliest convenience- they meant sometime next week?”
Cell: “I only wish, Seifer... I only wish...”
Seifer: “Me too, Captain... Me too...”
Cell: “Everyone report to the Briefing Room... we have to figure a way out of this... a way out of this...”
Later, everyone takes a seat around the big table in the Briefing Room.
BOB, sets down Chinese Food: “Alright people, I’ve got Dim Sum and Stir Fried Noodles.”
Seifer: “BOB!! This is not the time and place for that! --I’ll have Dim Sum.”
He takes a box of food as Amp gets up to the view screen at the wall at the end of the table.
Amp: “As you can see, the Phoenix-X is caught in some undistinguishable gravitational pull around the Planet.”
Kugo, gets up with him: “Our impression is that the pull is a Planetary layer existing in the Transwarp Domain.”
Cell: “This all highly sucks on a grand scale.”
42
#Kugo: “Engineering to Bridge. I think there’s something wrong with the Transwarp Core.”
Seifer, taps his commbadge: “Well we’re busy trying to find issues related to the Phoenix-X being trapped here.”
#Kugo: “But---“
The comm. Signal suddenly cuts out.
Seifer, shakes his head: “Some people.”
The comm. Suddenly cuts back on.
#Kugo: “But---“
Seifer cuts it back out: "Man! These people..."
43
Cell: “How can you not care who I am? That is so mean.”
>Terolen: “What are you talking about? Why are you here!?”
Cell: “Why should I tell you? You don’t even care who we are.”
>Terolen: “This is an invasion isn’t it? Don’t lie!!”
Cell: “I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”
44
Cell: “This is just a misunderstanding.”
>Terolen: “No it’s not. This is an act of war!!”
Cell: “No! You’re an act of war!!
The Captain cuts the screen out in anger.
Seifer: “There’s a lack of communication.”
45
An omni’X, Throk, ascends from the sky to the abandoned City streets on Planet Meronis IV. There, he faces the Planet’s only Warrior brave enough to take him on.
Quinn, approaches: “I will protect my people from any threat.”
Throk: “Hahaha! Look at you. You’re so mortal!”
Quinn takes out a bazooka-sized Torpedo Launcher, and fires a torpedo at Throk. Throk is hit, as it explodes upon him.
46
Amp: “Oh my God... I’ve lost all control of the Helm!!”
Cell, runs over: “This better be a fault in your programming!”
The screen suddenly clicks on. The Meronis Government is sitting around a big table.
>Payne: “This is the Meronis Government.”
Cell: “I am Captain Cell of the Federation Starship Phoenix-X. What is going on here?”
>Payne: “You have broken Meronis Zoning Laws.”
Cell: “Oh really? Well we have been brought down here against our will.”
>Nrehk: “We are going to put a stop to you!”
>Payne: “...Your presence is an act of War!”
Cell: “How much of -against our will- did you not understand?”
>Nrehk: “Oh we understand all right... understand your invasion procedures!”
>Payne: “--Come to our Planet without warning and invade!”
The screen clicks off in anger.
Seifer: “Well that sucked.”
Cell: “I don’t get it. How did we get down here...?”
Seifer: “A monkey?”
Cell, shakes his head: “...It must’ve been some kind of omnipotent being.”
Seifer: “Maybe it was an omnipotent monkey.”
47
A Government Official, meets in a hidden room. Quinn enters, confused.
Payne: “Welcome, Lieutenant Quinn... These invading aliens may be more than we can handle. I know if anyone can stop them, it’s you.”
Quinn, nods: “I understand.”
Payne: “And, uhh, this room has been having rat infestation problems. I figured if anyone could disinfect them, it’d be you.”
Quinn: “Umm... sure.
Payne hands him a rat-spray and then leaves.
The Phoenix-X treks across the countryside. Seifer goes over to Amp at the Helm.
Seifer: “Try boosting the propulsion engines again.”
Amp accesses his controls, jolting the Phoenix-X upwards in futility, as the Phoenix-X is then pulled back down to its low altitude.
Amp: “I just don’t get it. I’ve tried everything... Even pressing the Go button over and over again.”
He continues speed tapping the same button repeatedly.
Seifer: “Stop that! ...I have a new plan. What if we decompressed the Shuttle Bay, and collapsed the Warp field?”
RaeLuna: “We are in an identical atmosphere and not in Warp!”
Seifer: “Yeah, technically.”
48
Amp taps his panels in confusion. He’s lost control of navigational sensors. The Phoenix-X suddenly jolts violently.
Cell: “What the ‘zooks’!?”
Everyone stays calm, but the Phoenix-X then shakes again: “Aaaaaaaahh!!”
It is pulled down towards Meronis IV, falling through the atmosphere. It falls through the sky, slowing as it nears the the ground.
The Phoenix-X hovers above the ground, close range, and starts moving forward, 100 kph.
Amp: “Oh my God... I’ve lost all control of the Helm!!”
Cell, runs over: “You fool! You have condemmed us all to death!!”
49
THE FLASHBACK ENDS.
Cell, approaches the Helm: “Amp, set course for that Planet.”
Amp: “That Planet?”
He points on screen to a Planet the ship was already facing.
Cell: “Hmm... no, that one.”
He points to another Planet in the distance, just deciding out of pure boredom, coincidentally turning out to be the exact Planet they needed to investigate.
50
The Phoenix-X treks through space. They pick up strange readings of a nearby Planet.
Kugo, shows a padd: “It’s an M-Class, but these energy readings are confusing.”
Cell: “Are you saying you were never qualified to work for me?”
Kugo: “No... You see, these are sub-domain readings. It seems as if it’s a natural spacial radiation produced by the Planet.”
Seifer: “Planet’s. Is there anything they can’t do?”
The Phoenix-X treks through space. They pick up strange readings of a nearby Planet.
Kugo, shows a padd: “It’s an M-Class, but these energy readings are confusing.”
Cell: “Are you saying you were never qualified to work for me?”
Kugo: “No... You see, these are sub-domain readings. It seems as if it’s a natural spacial radiation produced by the Planet.”
Cell: “Just tell me the truth, Kugo. You’re not qualified, are you?”
51
THE FLASHBACK ENDS and the Phoenix-X approaches Meronis IV.
Cell: “Scans?”
RaeLuna: “Everything seems normal; just another Planet...”
Seifer: “Normal... or, paranormal...?”
He tries to envoke mystery into the situation to spice things up.
RaeLuna: “You are... confusing me.”
52
The Phoenix-X hovers above the ground, close range, and starts moving forward.
Amp: “Oh my God... I’ve lost all control of the Helm!!”
Cell, runs over: “You fool! You have condemmed us all to death!!”
Amp: “I’m sorry, sir! I’ll just kill myself now!”
Cell, pats him on the head: “Yes... if that’s what you must do.”
53
The screen suddenly clicks on. The Meronis Government is sitting around a big table.
>Payne: “This is the Meronis Government.”
Seifer: “Hi.”
>Payne: “...And you would be........?”
54
Cell, sighs: “I can’t believe this. If these people didn’t bring us down here, then it must’ve been something else... or... some-thing- else...”
Seifer: “Like what?”
Cell: “What if an omnipotent being of some sort has brought us here...?”
He looks around.
Cell: “You have the Bridge, Seifer.”
The Captain then goes over to the Turbolift and leaves.
55
The screen clicks off in anger.
Seifer: “Well that sucked.”
Cell: “Hm... maybe they didn’t bring us here.”
Seifer: “Then who did?”
Cell, thinks for a second: “...Duh, an omnipotent being.”
Seifer looks down, sad.
56
Seifer: “Well that sucked.”
Cell: “Hm... maybe they didn’t bring us here.”
Seifer: “That’s cool.”
Cell: “Maybe it was... an omnipotent being of some sort...”
Seifer: “Well that sucks.”
Cell, walks away: “You have the Bridge.”
Seifer: “That’s cool!
