Chat room adventures

"I dont know. Keep firing. I have to run a sensor sweep." Adam was terrified. What if they had gotten to th outpost already. Surely something as advanced as an intergalactic outpost could handle a few Spammians.

"Enemy ship at 25% Shields" the computer chimed again.

"Blah blah," Adam muttered trying to think of a course of action. He had a crew, it was time he used them.

"Alright, I'm going to the Core to reroute power to the long range communications. All of you make sure that Destroyers get's blasted out of space."

"Can we go back out on the fighters?" Bella asked quickly. "It'll be ten different kinds of easier to take out their destroyers if we're in them!"

"Not all of you; Bella, you take one fighter and Alice can take one. The rest of you stay here and fire the inside weapons; the cannons and stuff. Got it?" Everyone nodded and went where they were supposed to go. Alice and Bella high-fived each other before climing into their fighters and taking off.

Adam dashed down to the main core. He did his usal keystrokes and rerouted some power. Just enough to send a message to the Outpost.

Another dash and Adam reachd the bridge. The Spammians were losing it. Their hull was shot and the onslaught of the Highwind and its fighters were to much for it.

"Highwind to Outpost, Do you copy?"

Alice was enjoying shooting the Spammian fighters, doing her best to only injure them enough to send them back to the ship, she wasn't so heartless as to kill them. She didn't like thinking about what she did to Jay, but thinking about him was an unpleasent memory in itself. She focused on the fighters, swearing that even in death he wouldn't have a hold over her anymore.

The com cracked with static, "Highwind to Outpost, Do you copy!" there was a click.

"Hello, Highwind."

"Thank the gods, is the Outpost alright?"

"It's in one piece. Though, if you want to save these foolish scientists I strongly suggest hurrying up."

"W-who is this?" The bridge was silent, no one breathed.

"Come and find me...Adam." The com went silent. Everyone stared. It was so strange, that voice. It radiated with darkness.

There was a sudden flash on the screen, the Spammian ship had lost hull stability and it's power core had exploded. A shockwave travled acorss the void.

Alice and Bella came onto the bridge a few moments later, their smiles died at the morbid atmosphere of the room.

"Take your stations," Adam said quietly, "Computer, activate Forum Leap."

"Warning, Forum leap generator is highly unstable and could cause structural integrity to fail."

"Override."

"Confirmed."

"Nutty, Bella, and Matt. I need you to magic the ship with every protection you've got. Anything that will hold her together."

They nodded and spread out into the ship.

Alice picked up her weaponry from where she set it to make it easier to manover in the fighter.

"Adam, what the hell is going on?!" she exclaimed in her most calmed tone.

"Old friend," he replied simply, "come to..."

Alice didn't need to hear the rest of the sentence to know what he meant, "what do we need to do?"

"I need you to be ready and willing to give it your all. The situation has become far worse than expected."

"Are you going to tell us who he is?"

"I dont want to say yet. I'm nearly positive, but until I see him I cant be sure." Adam started charging the Forum leap. He hated to do it but it would get them to the outpost in a matter of seconds...If the spells manged to hold the ship together.

Nutty closed her eyes, bringing any protection spell she knew to the front of her mind. Summoning all her strength, she started incanting, her power spreading from her core to envelope the ship.
Her senses told her that other magic, with the familiar feel of Bella and Matt, was joining her own and strengthening it.
"I do believe we are in for a rough ride, guys."

"You guys seem to have a lot of enemies," Heather noted as she retrieved her sword from Scipio.

"Who would we fight if we didn't? We have to protect the universe from someone," Mattster replied with a quick grin.

"Prepare for forum leap," The computer ordered.

"Everyone grab hold of something!" Adam added.

Adam set the coordinates. The ship started to vibrate. The spells seemed to be holding.

"Activating Artificial Wormhole Generation," chimed the Computer, unaffected by the violent rumblings of the ship.

The view screen flashed with blue light. The Highwind stretched like a rubber band into the bright blue light. The ship groaned as its entity was contorted.

Hold together, please hold together Adam felt his body being pulled. And just like that it was over. The ship had returned to normal.

"Let's not do that again," said Alice.

"I concur," muttered Scipio rubbing his head.

The view screen showed the Outpost. Intact and titlted to its side like any other station in orbit.

Alice stared at the view screen, dumfounded by it, the temptation to quote Star Wars was almost unbearable, but she kept her mouth shut.

"Thats no moon, its a space station!" Scipio whispered in her ear, Alice burst out laughing and playfully smacked Scipio's shoulder.

Nutty shook her head, trying to clear it.
"Ah, magic. Fun in small doses, killer in large doses."
Walking to a nearby window, trying to steady her nerves, she gazes out.
"Okay, what the hell is that?"

"Everyone," Adam had flipped on the com to speak to the whole ship, "I'm not sure what will happen in there. Whoever has taken the outpost is bad news. I want all of you ready and in the Hanger in ten minutes."

They scattered while Adam entered some last minute commands into the computer.

"Got to find a decent weapon," Scipio mused as he sorted through all the spares. He tossed aside a mace, ran a hand across a crossbow and then settled on a strange, metalic baseball bat.

"What is that?" Alice demanded as he caught up with her on his way to the Hanger.

"I'm not sure but it's rather heavy and it might be useful."

"Is everyone here?" Adam asked as they hurried into the room.

"I think so," Bella replied.

"Yeah," Alice agreed.

They gathered onto the shuttle and took off. The appraoch was smooth. Everything seemed to be alright until they rounded the outpost.

The research ships were floating in pieces. Sparking and falming as they moved slowly in the silence of darkness.

The shuttle took over and landed in a small hanger under the shell of the outpost. The doors opened. A Spammain soldier stepped onto the shuttle.

Everyone readied to attack, then it spoke.

"My Master has requested your presence," it rumbled in a dense growl. it then stepped off the ship and waited.

"Come on, Keep yourselves ready." Adam advised as he left the shuttle and followed the soldier.