The Tale of the Moon

Chapter 5: The Scorching Sun

Meanwhile, in Demoy...

Things seemed unusually calm. King of the Sun Tribe, King Cole, was fast asleep. Suddenly, the big screen in front of him began to flicker.

- "Huh...?"

Just as he woke up, the screen started speaking in a robotic voice,

- "Q-8A6 would like to speak with you."

- "Ah!" He looked at the screen. "Oh, just a call... I'll let it in."

*beep*- "Hello, sir. Um, I just wanted to inform you that the MTI you saw a few days ago, I've located... um, I've located where It's gone to."

- "Oh, ho ho ho! That's great!~ (looks like today's call WASN'T a waste of time!) Where is it, then?"

- "Yes, um, yeah, it's gone to a planet called... 'Earth'. If we had to send a team of people there, it'd take approximately 20... um, 20,500 years to get there, since it's so far away from us."

King Cole thought for a bit.

- "Can't you use your SPADE? I think it'd be good, it's nice and elegant, and it's fast, and-"

- "U-Um, sorry to interrupt you, sir, but... uh... It got d-destroyed."

- "It got destroyed, you say?... How foolish of you. You should know better than to destroy a ship given to you by your dear, dear Horridum~. Darling, let me ask you: what did you even do to it?"

Q-8A6 looked down and muttered,

- "I, um, crashed it. I crashed it on one of those mini-planets. With the little mini-tribes. I think it was one of the more popular mini-tribes, The Star-Mine Tribe? The planet, though, I don't... I don't recall."

- "Hm. What did that idiotic planet look like, dear? I'm going to send a Destroyer bomb to the planet, to... teach them a lesson."

- "Um... It was, uh... Well, it was round. Definitely made of stone... Ah, y-you see... I couldn't, um... I couldn't see the planet too well. I only remember someone who, er, l-looked like a Marshoft? Like those things you put in Hot Cuyue. "

- "Marshoft people... Darling... That sounds rather stupid, don't you think?~"

Q-8A6 fell silent. He was looking nervous.

- "...Well. If I ever manage to come across this Cuyue planet, I'll make sure to destroy it. But, let's get back on track, shall we? Your SPADE is gone and you can't get revenge... Hold up! I have just come to a realisation,"

Cole stared at the screen, his eyes wide open with a passive-aggressive smile.

- "You, Q-8A6, are a failure. Look at yourself! Coming to tell your leader that you blew up your only ship and you can't remember the planet you crashed it on? Then you make childish references to me? Darling, darling... remember, you're not a child anymore. You are a fully grown adult that is working as a soldier for the Sun Tribe. I, myself, am also not a child anymore. I am an adult, an adult that is the leader of the great, giant, ever-burning Sun Tribe."

- "Y-Yes... Yes... Yes sir..."

- "You know what? I think that you belong in that sick, disgusting Moon Tribe. Every one of their soldiers is... imported, weak, and... hot-headed. Well, the hot-headed is just Tsuki, but that isn't important. What I want to say is that you're similar to them. You know, weak, different, nervous, and... ugh... caring. You care about people and want them to feel good."