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Galaxy Girls The Diabolical Hand S1E2ch4

Two IRC spaceships, the exploratory vessel, Frigus Iustitia, and the military vessel, IRC Agatha Christie, move together at faster-than-light speed, united in a desperate mission to save a planet, and its people, from extinction!

In temporary, emergy command of the IRC Agatha Christie, Capt. Debris Jetsam orders the Quartemaster to open a communication link to her ship, Frigus Iustitia, which was stolen by an alien named, Koe Ghitatio, a self-described Tech Mentalist in service to Princess Bhonumm Durus, and who has taken control of her friend Major Scrumptious Sky.

 

Major Scrumptious Sky/Koe Ghitatio: (her holo image fills the forward screen) Yes, Captain?

 

Captain Debris Jetsam: How much longer until we reach Vhipernhal?

 

MSS-KG: Approximately eleven minutes.

 

CDJ: No wonder we haven't encountered your people before. We haven't explored this far out, in this area of space, yet.

 

MSS-KG: My people prefer a comfortable ... "distance" between ourselves and other species, to avoid contamination.

 

Quartermaster DeiPhi Ngravity: Xenophobes.

 

MSS-KG: Not specifically, Quartermaster. Germaphobes would be more accurate. We have refrained from in-person first contact since we inadvertently unleashed a plague on another planet. It decimated their population before our scientists found a cure. Our profound guilt has made us abundantly cautious regarding physical proximity.

 

CDJ: What about the scientists you kidnapped?

 

MSS-KG: They are being kept in strict quarantine.

 

Pilot: Quartermaster! Three alien ships approaching!

 

MSS-KG's holo-image suddenly shares the screen with the images of three ships, moving toward them, in formation.

 

MSS-KG: (rises from the captain's chair) Those are Royal Vhipernhal fighters, Pips! Let me try to talk to them!

 

CDJ doesn't correct the use of her nickname as MSS-KG begins to speak in a strangely flute-like sounding language that the crews' embedded comm links can't translate, since the language isn't in their databanks. When she pauses, reciprocal sounds come back to her, followed by a bright blast of energy from one of the fighters, and MSS-KG sways on her feet.

 

MSS-KG: They don't believe that I am who I say I am, Pips. King Durus has commanded the fleet to destroy any hostile alien ships that try to retrieve the scientists!

 

CDJ: Quartermaster! Weapons!

 

QDPN: Weapons! Aye!

 

MSS-KG: You're going to destroy them?

 

CDJ: Koe, you told me Major Sky is in there, with you?

 

MSS-KG: Yes, she is.

 

CDJ: Then have her tell you the story about the Vanishing Act, and be ready on my mark. Quartermaster?

 

QDPN: (with a grim smile) Ready to disappear on your orders, Captain.

 

MSS-KG: (looks alarmed) Pips, Captain Jetsam, are you absolutely sure about this? It seems, reckless?

 

CDJ: Oh, it's almost suicidal, which is why it's against regs. (the Agatha Christie is fired upon) Guess that's why I've never been given a military command. (gives QDPN a wink) Let's give them a show to remember.

 

QDPN: All hands! Vanish!

 

MSS-KG: All hands! Vanish! (she closes her eyes)

 

From the perspective of the Vhipernhal fighters, the two IRC ships break away from them, swiftly circling back, and firing repeatedly. Although several shots rock the three ships, a sudden miscalculation being the IRC ships into direct line of fire with each other!

There is a massive explosion of light -- and when visibility returns to the fighters, all that remains is minute debris of the two ships.

 

CDJ: Koe, you can open your eyes, now. Well, you can open Major Sky's eyes.

 

MSS-KG: (opens her eyes and looks surprised) We're alive!

 

CDJ: Although I'm sure your Royal fighters don't think so.

 

QDPN: There is no sign that the enemy fighters are pursuing.

 

CDJ: And how long until we reach Vhipernhal?

 

QDPN: Three minutes. We should be able to get a visual.

 

CDJ: Let's see it.

 

MSS-KG's image suddenly shares the screen with a simulation of Vhipernhal, and CDJ can't help gasping.

 

CDJ: What is that?

 

MSS-KG: That is what is killing us.

 

MSS-KG is sharing the forward screen with a distant image of Vhipernhal, and a rich, red miasma stretches through space, enveloping half of the rotating planet.

 

MSS-KG: Captain Jetsam, I will send your pilot the coordinates of a derelict space station orbiting my planet. We can conceal the presence of our ships there, and vee to the surface, near the palace.

 

CDJ: Quartermaster, take us in.

 

(Theme music)

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Major Scrumptious Sky/Koe Ghitatio: Bailey

Captain Debris Jetsam: Teddi

Frigus Iustitia Crewmember One: Arctic

Frigus Iustitia Crewmember Two: Teddi

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Uploaded on July 31, 2023