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cHaOs Energy Times Infinity
Chapter 13 - Taking the Offensive
Crossover Bid For Power/Ranma/Sailor Moon/Slayers/
Project A-Ko/DBZ/Tenchi
by Afroplex - jwessels@cse.unl.edu
http://cse.unl.edu/~jwessels

############ NARAFA COLONY UNDERGROUND HANGER ####################

Ryuujin entered the hanger with Nabiki, Mihoshi, Kuno, Gourry and
Lina in tow. The sight that beheld the group was astonishing. A huge
underground metal hanger was lined with ten giant mecha about fifty
feet tall. All but one were painted white with red markings on
to give them a flashy look. The one was all black, with gold as the
secondary color. Along with the ten mecha, two large rectangular
shaped freighters the size of a football field were in the center
of the hanger.

Stepping onto a moving walkway, the gawking group rotated around the
edge of the hanger toward the nearest mecha. After stepping off a
literally at the foot of the mecha, Ryuujin turned around and grinned.
"These are going to be your transports. And you are going to fly them."

"WHAT!?" everyone but Gourry and Mihoshi yelled. They had a different
explanation that got some nervous looks by the others but Ryuujin.

"THIS IS SO COOL!"

Lina nudged Ryuujin in the ribs while the rest of the group walked around
the giant mecha. "You sure this is a good idea? Those two probably couldn't
start them, let alone start. Besides, the rest of us aren't even trained
in these things."

Still grinning, Ryuujin looked up at the distant face of the mecha.
"Don't worry. I have made special upgrades to these. Even a toddler
fly these." Satisfied the group had done enough drooling, Ryuujin
singled out Nabiki. "Nabiki Tendo! You are the leader of the group but
me I suppose. So get up into the figher and start it up."

The middle Tendo sister stepped back in surprise, "Uh. I don't know
how to get in even. I can't start it."

Now, it was Ryuujin's turn to be surprised and raised an eyebrow. Turning
his head toward Lina, "You really weren't exagerating. Great."

Cupping his hands, he yelled up at the engineer team busy above on the
second level catwalk. "Hey guys! Mind helping Miss Tendo into the
cockpit?"

After a quick intro on how to get into the cockpit, Nabiki was strapped
in. Surprisingly for a complicated machine such as this, the cockpit
was simple. It only had a lever under the seat for ejection of the
cockpit pod, while the rest were electric screens.

"Great, what do they expect me to do now?" she grumbled. The screens
flashed to life, and brought up various diagnostics. At first they had
a language she didn't recognize, but they quickly reverted to Japanese.
Stats on the sensors, ammo, shielding, fuel - and pilot brain patterns?

The display above her head, which had been dormant till now then activated.
"Hey! I'm your computer control for the Veritech Nova II. You think it, I
do it."

Nabiki was getting used to these surprises by now. "Kind of friendly for a
computer aren't you?"

"Well, I'm the personally the system chose to balance out decision making
with this craft, and to suit your personally the best with your brain
emination patterns."

Nabiki now was annoyed. Thinking, 'Great, if the others find out I have
a super friendly computer for a match, my ice queen image is shattered.'

"I heard that Nab-chan. I read your thoughts to control the movement and
operation of the ship, that way you don't have to go through too long
period of training."

Nabiki grumbled at being called Nab-chan, but tried to keep her thought
vocabulary decent. "Alright then, start this thing up."

"Alright! Let's get this party started!"

Outside, the group could hear the engines start to come online. Ventalation
systems attached to the engines activated and sucked the exhaust out of
the hanger. The internal nuclear reactor also came online to provide
full power to the other systems such as weapons, sensors, internal repair
units, and most important of all - the space engines. Fuel was used for
atmosphere flight and some thruster manuvuering in space, but nuclear fusion
jets gave the main thrust when the computer detected it was safe to do so.

Ryuujin nodded his head in satisfaction. "We are leaving now. We don't have
time to get familiar with the systems, so you'll have to learn on the trip
there. The computers in the fighters will help you. Getting back on the
walkway, Ryuujin instructed the other engineers to strap the other members
of his new fighter group in.

Before Lina departed from the walkway for her own fighter, she asked, "Why us?
I'm sure you have others in the colony that know more about these than we do."

Ryuujin knew this was going to be asked sooner or later, either by his own
people or these youngsters. "I don't want to involve them. If there is going
to be death, and possibly huge political problems with being involved in the
galactic scheme of things, I don't want this colony involved. You came at the
perfect time, and you will help keep these people safe."

The sorceress pointed out before turning her back, "But you can't be
with them forever. Eventually they will have to learn when to fight
on their own, and if you keep this up, they won't know how to fight
when that time comes."

Kuno put his bokken down beside the pilot's seat. Above, a redhead appeared
on the display screen. "PIGTAILED GIRL!"

In Mihoshi's Veritech, the computer finally got her attention with a slight
electric jolt to her seat. "ATTEN-HUT! Mihoshi, Detective First Class you are
to listen to my orders to the letter! Do I make myself AB-SO-LUTE-LY CLEAR?!"

The blond's response was a short "eep".

Gourry's Veritech decided to take a different approach. It picked the overly
enthusiastic football coach AI. "Gourry, you have the fighting skills of tiger.
A TIGER! You will dominate! Now are you a ready to rock and roll!?"

Gourry let out a cheer and raised his hand over his head in a fist, "YES!
Let's go get em!" The Veritech had just finished linking with his brain
input, and in the hanger it also raised its arm in the same fashion. The
entire engineering staff sweatdropped.

Lina's Veritech was the most submissive of the group. "Uh... mam? Would you
like to start? I think it would be really good to do so at this time. Please?"
The pilot's jaw dropped, at the sight of a computer giving her the puppydog eyes
complete with twinkles in the monitor display.

"Uh... ok."

Ryuujin's face appeared on the right display of the cockpits. "Everyone, we are
leaving now. Just follow me."

The hanger doors above slid open, and the mecha were elevated above. The AI
detected they were about to take off, and responded by suggesting in the
appropriate fashions to each pilot to change to fighter mode. After all
transformed down to jet fighters, a runway was lowered up out of the ground.
First Ryuujin, then the others followed and took off perfectly for the vacuum
of space.

As the group followed in a loose formation, Ryuujin gave secret instructions to the
AI's of the fighters. He was going to have a quick "quiz" to prepare the group
to fight, then it was off to where the transports were being attacked.

Ejecting small mines, shaped like balls, Ryuujin quickly flew a good distance to
little show. They weren't full power, but the laser blasts the balls shot would
rattle their shields slightly.

In the cockpits, the AI's informed the group the mines were had malfunctioned and
were ejected from Ryuujin's craft. Ryuujin was trying to fix a problem on his
craft, so they had to take care of the malfunctioning weapons. Kuno's and Gourry's
AI's detected they perfered hand to hand combat with swords, so it recommended they
change to battletech mode, and use their energy swords. When they did convert to
battletech mode, the link between the ship and their brains completed, and they
-became- the Veritech. Kuno could feel the hydrolics in his arms moving, the
enhanced vision of the sensors, and could move with ease using the jets as if he
were born with them. The two fighters flew forward and attacked as a team, expertly
dodging some of the laser blasts, and even deflecting them with the green energy
swords.

Mihoshi's craft "ordered" the detective to go into guardian mode and get within
medium range to use some of the short range vulcan cannons to engage the enemy.
Instead of "merging" with the Veritech like Kuno and Gourry, it only partially
mind melded. The arms below the ship held two large weapons, and aimed where
Mihoshi's attention was and fired when she mentally thought she needed too. The
ship moved in an erratic pattern whereever she wanted to go. Mihoshi's mind
kept tracing back to her scramble through Kagato's ship the first time, and the
AI made note of other tactics that would be successful in battle with its pilot.

Nabiki remained in fighter mode and hovered out of range of the fighting. She would
rather stay back and snipe at mines that the others missed, and that could threaten
her teammates. Each time she shot, a powerful lasers on the wings of the craft would
appear, melt through the targeted mine, and then die out just as quickly. She also
realized that as the leader, she had to coordinate the fight. From her perspective
from a distance she was able keep everyone from spreading out too much and attack in
a someone organized fashion. Gourry and Kuno at the head, Mihoshi on cleanup,
her on support - and finally - Lina on the finishing attack.

Lina was used to dealing one shots at enemies to finish them. This was no exception.
Staying back by Ryuujin to protect him from any rouge mines, which didn't come by
for some reason, but to powerup her trump card. The technology of the Veritechs was
stolen from another universe, but here it was modified. The Nova II class had the
ability to use other energies provided by the pilot such as ki - or in this case -
magic.

A spell couldn't really be used by a Veritech so all it could do is use the energy
to power systems, special beam weapons, and shielding. In front of Lina, it was
being concentrated into a ball. Ryuujin was getting concerned when the magic
energy in the ball grew to about ten feet in diameter - enough to completely
wipe out a mountain.

The hundred mines that were sent out were cut down to fifty by the time
Nabiki ordered it to be fired. The three in the fighting area dispersed in
the same fashion of running from the infamous dragon slave. The magically
powered force field around the magic energy opened a hole on one side, which
let the concentrated energy jet out. It swept over the combat zone, desimating
the rest of the mines in short order. The rest of the energy was reabsorbed by
the pilot, who was slightly tired. Her mana reserves were good, but not infinite.
Also there was only so much mana she could channel from the emptyness of space.

Saying Ryuujin was impressed, would be an understatement..

"Lets go. I now feel we can take these pirates on with no problem. The coordinates
are in your computers. It will take us a few hours, so sit back and relax."

The ships disappeared, and went off to face what they thought were common pirates.

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End chapter 13