Starbound - Book 1

Chapter 5 - Space Satan

"This be borin' me, what's the point of this lad?" A pirate scruffed voice says, he slid his blade against a tied up Novanian woman's neck. A drop of red sweat ran down her head as her hair flame darkened.
"Don't call me lad, Dreadwing," a tall , laky male said in a normal accent, he wore a scarlet red trench, which fitted perfectly on his skinny legs, red skinny khakis, with shining black beatle boots. Under his hat, platinum blonde hair, flowing, and pale skin, his sleeves were folded, and white gloves surrounded his hands, which gripped on a 42-40 Model Plasma Semi.

"Whatever ya say lad," Dreadwing replies obnoxiously, "I thought the plan was to go after the human that wrecked me ship."
"This never was about you, Dreadwing, I just needed some men to aid me in this little mission." the man replies, and looking up at him, from the shadows of his large hat, a scarlet red eye.

"And what be this mission of yours if I might ask?"
"There is a prisoner here, of my species, kept under high watch," the man stands and loads his gun. "And we're breaking him out."
He aims towards the stack of barrels and crates and starts firing red plasma bullets forward, Nova rolls out from behind the crates and starts firing.
"Move!"
August slashes out his rapier and manages to block off some of the bullets, Lily fires off some rounds as she heads towards the captives.
"Damn nuisance," the man fires his plasma rifle, towards Nova, and walks forward, calmly slipping out a small military knife from his glove.

"Aye, if it ain't the bilge rat that destroyed me ship!" Dreadwings laughed, walking towards August, and deftly slashes his cutlass against him.
"Nice to see you again to feather brain," August smirks and side steps from the blade and thrusts his rapier towards Dreadwing.

"Hey, kiddo! No talkin' with the enemy!" Nova runs forward and elbows Dreadwing across the face and kicks him away. "We got a new priority!"
The man with the red eye slipped his hat over his face, and aimed his rifle, a wide grin spread across his face, "It's been sometime since I've seen a human..." He looks up, "It makes my blood boil."
Lily hid by the captives, slowly cutting them out of the thick ropes, she kept staring at the man, he gave her an uneasy feeling, almost a fearsome presence.

"Now.." A second dagger slipped from his gloves between his fingers and loosely ran forward, "DIE!"

Kikuyo grips his large blue hand around the enemy's arm and spins him into the lockers with a head banging crash. Oscar stumbles to his feet, and picks up a locker throwing it towards the Hylotl, whom strikes it with a powerful fist, right back at him.
"You're strong, I'll give you that," Oscar swings his fist to the side and knocked it aside, "But highly unbalanced."

And with a mighty stomp into the earth, Oscar launched forward, gripping his arms around Kikuyo's waist and lifting him back into the air, and bringing him down into a german suplex. Kikuyo brings his hands up, pressing them against the floor, then wrapping his legs around Oscar's neck, a quick backflip, bringing a countering blow to the head.
A roar of a gorilla rings and Oscar rolls over from his neck onto his back, groaning in pain. Kikuyo stands victorious, over his enemy, Natalia and Impianto had managed to escape, Oscar laid there, he was breathing, surprisingly.
"Ikata doshi ma..." He mumbles, nudging Oscar's body, then picking the Durasteel Hammer from the floor, although he didn't need it, it may come in handy.

"Stay still you damn brats!" the man with the red eye said as he repeatedly fires his semi at Nova and August, Lily stayed hidden, adjusting and connecting some things to her gun, Dreadwing wiped a bit of grime and dirt from his beak scowling.
"So who is the guy exactly?" August calls out to Nova, trying his best to be heard over the sound of gunfire.
"No clue! This isn't Misha, that I know!" Nova runs up and jumps over onto the crates, firing his glass bullets out towards the man with the red eye, "Misha doesn't have a red eye!"
"Then who is Misha?" August replies, jumping forwards and stabbing out his rapier.
"The original boss of the guys we saw upstairs, this guy is close but no cigar to him.."
"What are you morons babbling on about..Dreadwing, get your feathery ass up and help me!" the man with the red eye growls firing out a shot towards Nova, "As for you, Novanian...you know too much."
"Yeah well, thanks bud, I tend to do what I can," Nova says wittingly, reloading his six barrel gun. Dreadwing crawls to his feet, leaning on his cutlass.
August looked over at Nova and the man with the red eye, and decided it was best for those two to go at it, in the mean time, he should be able to handle Dreadwing.

August slips to his feet and slips out his rapier against Dreadwing's chest, and cuts him across the chest.
"And so our long awaited rematch has come!" Dreadwing comments as he moves out of August's way.
"You talk too much you know that?" August looks over to the crate where Lily was behind, she's always disappearing for some reason. August then swiped out his blade, "Allow me to shut you up."
Dreadwing showed a smirk along the side of his beak and he stepped aside from the attack and slashes his sword around to the side, as a counter, August grips one end of his blade, and lifting it up as he sparks the blades together, and slashes upwards, cutting off one of Dreadwing's orange whisker.

"You'll pay for that...!" the penguin growls, slashing out his cutlass.
"Sorry pal, don't have much on me besides a button," August smirks, flicking a black button up into the air into Dreadwing's eye. The pirate roars in a mix of enragement and pain.

The man with the red eye clicked the bullet, barely any sparks popped out, plasma energy was low. Nova clicked his six barrel gun, and checked his ammunition belt, empty.
The two gun men stared at eachother for a moment.
Then, the man with the red eye threw out a dagger, aimed straight for Nova's rune, and bang, suddenly the dagger flung of course into a wall.
Both gunslinger's looked over to where the gunshot had come from.
"Sorry I'm late, some assembly required for these things," Lily grinning ear to ear, in her hand 10mm Semi Pistol, adding to it, a forty feet scope module. Nova couldn't help but to stare. The Man with the Red Eye scowls and tips his hat, "This is a problem..." then he tips his hat and begins to remove it from his head, everything stopped. The flames in the burner of the basement furnace blew into an odd pattern, and slowly became a bluish tints. Dreadwing stopped his fight and stared at the man, August turned his head and watched, Lily kept her gun up, preparing for anything.
"Humans, Novanian, Avians, Hylotl, Glitch, and other races across the sky..." The man grins, sharp fangs in his mouth, "Have you ever thought, who wiped out the race of Earth?"

Nova stopped, and noticed a small glass bullet lying on the floor slowly melting, the room was rising in temperature, the stranger was definitely not a Novanian, "What is this guy?" Lily called out over the shaking of the ground.

Nova looked over behind him at a cylindrical metal base, and back at August, "Get out of here! He's overheating the place, the gas tank is going to blow!

"What?!"
Dreadwing began to make his way to steps to escape, one last gunshot flew out, "You're not goin' anywhere," Lily growled. "Alright everybody out!!"

August ran up the stairs, and looked around, "Where's Kikuyo?!"
"Who?" Nova asked almost out the office door, "Oh the Hylotl guy...!"
"We're running out of time, August! Come on!"
"No way, I'm not leaving him behind!"
"Let me get him, my body is heat, I'll be able to last longer than you two!"
"But, Nova!"
"Go!"
Nova ran back into the building, the sirens blaring of the building, "Dammit , how hard is it to find a giant blue lizard..?"
In the swelling heat, a figure, largely disfigured emerges from the next room, it's Kikuyo, with a few new stowaways.
"I..Na..Heatha.." Kikuyo chokes out, the heat was drying him out, it wasn't helping that he was carrying Oscar, Natalia, and Impianto over his shoulder.
"Can't help but help the bad guy, even if they tried to kill ya, huh..." Nova sighed, "Come on you big lug.."