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Juni bounced nervously in her comfy theatre seat, grabbed her Doctor Pepper from the cup holder, and slurped away. The movie was so exciting! Rabby and Rachel were alien mercenaries that were part of the famous all-fott intergalactic mercenary unit known as the 'Mega-Force' in a very dangerous galaxy, known by their nicknames 'Rage' and 'Rhapsody'. The plot was getting thicker by the second!

Rage and Rhapsody walked down the hall of the grimy dump that passed for a starport on a rather crummy backwater planet, that was off the normal trade routes where they'd just made the pickup of what appeared to be an cheap kitschy ceramic statue of a Fott. A quick and easy transport assignment for easy money, or so it seemed. They sat down at the Starport bar, with Rhapsody looking around rather nervously.

"Hey, big bro. I don't think these people like us very much..."

"Eh, just a bunch of crum-bum aliens and humes that wouldn't be good enough to work shovelling up the crap on Uncle Ernie's farm, sis."

Rage sat down and nodded at the bartender as he plunked down some coins.

"Beer for me. Some herbal tea for my sis."

The bartender nodded and sat down the drinks.

"Oh man, incoming fight, err, brawl!"

"Yeah!"

"Wes! Aya! Pay attention!"

A massive dinosaur-like creature sauntered up to the two fotts as they quaffed their drinks.

"Me Chek. Yu Rage?"

Rage turned around and eyed up the huge green thug that lommed over him.

"I could be. What's it to yah?"

"Look. Yu got a statue da Corprit Authoratee wants. Give it up nice-like before Chek crushes yu."

"Frak the Authority, pal! I didn't even tell you I was Rage! Buzz off!"

A squid-like creature appeared from out of the shadows brandishing a rather large blaster, which caused Rhapsody to gasp and jump back!

*shkkt* "Chek, you idiot! It's them! Get the package! NOW!"

Rhapsody threw her drink at the Phentari brandishing the blaster and lept out of the way as the bolt hit the bar and blew a huge gout out of it! Rage slammed his beer mug into the Ram Python's head and stunned him. He then leapt over the huge crature and bounced off a table filled with gamblers, knocking over their drinks and gambling tokens.

"Oops ! Sorry, just passin' through, guys!"

The bartender hit an alarm. The security leapt up and went after the phentari, who promptly gunned one of them down, while the Ram Python picked up the hapless bartender and threw it at Rhapsody, who dodged out of the way with alacrity and tossed a chair at the Phentari and blindsided him, knocking him down like a wet sack of calamari!

"We've got to skedaddle now, big bro!"

Rage jumped again and played a leaping lick to the face of Chek, sending him sprawling to the ground with a meaty thump.

"Why! I'm just getting warmed up for a good fight with these goons!!!"

Several blaster bolts from some of the bar patrons flew wildly at Rage, who lept out of the way and swung from a light fixture towards the exit.

"I changed my mind, sis! Let's blow this scene!"

The two fotts ran quickly, with several thugs and what appeared to be some armored troops in hot pursuit!

One of them got ready to fire his blaster carbine at Rachel, but the phentari grabbed the gun at the last second.

*shkkt* "She's got the package, you idiot! We can't afford to damage it!"

Rage and Rhapsody tore through the starport mall, making huge rabbity jumps around and over the crowds and headed into the large landing area, where their Boson-Powell Mark 2 Defiant fighter sat there, waiting for them.

"Man! I was hoping for more gratuitous violence!"

Aarie tossed a piece of her popcorn at Aya as Steve groaned.

"Nyah! Aya! *munch munch* Stop heckling the movie! It's actually very exciting!"

"Pff! You going to a movie at all is exciting! I bet if we didn;t have this new theatre in the arcology, you wouldn't have gone!"

"Nyah! Shh!"

Rage went up to the cockpit and Rhapsody waved him off.

"You know better! get back there in the turret and cover us until I can get these engines started! Dad doesn't want you piloting a fighter until you learn to stop wrecking them!"

"Hey! It wasn't MY fault they actually stayed around to dogfight and knocked out the landing thrusters-"

Rage looked over and saw the pursuit begin to take aim, so he leapt up to the turret and crawled in in the nick of time as a hail of blaster bolts began to fly around their grounded fighter!

Juni bit at her nails and munched nervously at her popcorn.

Ack! They're in trouble!"

Rhapsody put on her headset and began to fire up the fusion powerplant and disconnected the external power couplings.

"Take care of those goons, big bro! Fifteen seconds to lift-off!~"

"With pleasure! Can't yah go any faster?"

"And risk a shutdown of the power plant? No can do!"

Rage grinned and slewed the quad-10mm fusion cannon over to his left and opened up on the hapless Corporate Authority soldiers, the guns rapidly alternating and making pew-pew-pew noises. Several of the guard fell over and gratuitously exploded as he then started raking the walls and a fueling station.

"Hey! You may want to take out the defense turret at nine O'Clock so it doesn;t blast us to smithereens, big bro! Liftin' off!"

"And you're not asking for permission to take off!?"

One of the fueling rigs exploded and started a raging fire.

"After you just blew up the landing area!?"

"Tell them to bill Mega-Force for the mess!"

The fighter lifted up and accelerated smoothly, while Rage slewed the turret and raked the defense turret as Rhapsody flew by and started climbing.

"I have to hand it to yah, sis, that was a pretty clean get-away!"

"Not necessarily! Deep-space Ladar's picking up some fast moving contacts scrambling from the planetary surface! I'm gonna try and hail the Supernova for some back-up! I'm moving our shields to the rear for now, so keep your eyes peeled!"

Several Corporate Authority fighters began to form up and maneuver to intercept the Defiant, which left Juni munching the kernels at the bottom of the popcorn bag with the back of her teeth in panic!

"Farmhouse, this is Raptor Two, request a lock on to our position and some cover. We're in a weapons free situation with several Corporate Authority fighters."

Rage slewed the turret and yelled

"Screw fighters! We've got a couple System Defense Boats moving in, too! How many minutes before we can jump this thing?"

"The way we're using power to charge the guns, shields, and drive, we don't have enough residual power to quickly charge the-"

Rhapsody was cut off by several near misses from the lead fighter in hot pursuit and by her Brother, who was yelling at the top of his lungs!

"Do some of that pilot crap up there!"

"Meep! They're gonna get spaced! No, no!"

Rage fired his turret and blew apart the lead fighter as it barreled in. He damaged its wingman enough to cause it to break off, but the pair remaining moved to box in the Defiant!

"Get ready, Big Bro! I got the left one, you got the right! They're not gonna expect this!"

The fighter spun on a dime while maintaining its vector!

Rhapsody yelled, "Ding Dong, Avon Lady calling- with a GATLING LASER!",

and opened up with the forward firing Gatling Laser Mega-Force had installed on the Defiants after they'd bought them to give the pilot a forward firing weapon. the laser ripped a huge gash in the enemy fighter and ripped in half before it blew apart. Rage's turret caught the other one by suprise and toasted it in seconds!

"Yay! Go Rachel, I mean Rhapsody!"

"I don't think they're out of this mess yet, Juni!"

"Aya! Don't jinx this- No! MEEP!"

A large System Defense Boat escorted by several fighters closed in, and the larger Fusion cannon on the SDB began to fire off and on in their direction!

"Umm, maybe you turn this thing around now!?"

"Nothiin' doin', Big Bro!"

"What the Fott!!!!?"

"Get the turret facing on my heading and target the bridge! Get ready to reverse course the hard way Strap in tight!"

Rachel fired the main thruster and the Defiant slowed down, Rage's head snapping back from the heavy deceleration, a couple of shots hit their fighter, and luckily, the shields held!

"We're goin right down their throat, big bro!"

"And Dad said I was reckless with the unit assets!?"

"You are, I'm just smarter! Fire! Give 'em all ya got!"

The turret and laser poured out heavy gunfire to the larger SDB, and the subsequent explosions around the bridge caused it to bear off wildly as the little fighter shot by. It was obviously in trouble, the fires suddenly becoming snuffed by the vaccuum.

"Well, that bought us some time!"

Rage slewed the turret around and started firing at targets of opportunity.

"Well, yeah, but now their biggest problem is staying outta each others way now! We're boxed in!"

"Shoot us a way out or cover me while I do!"

The fighter rolled as the enemy fired wildly at them.

"GAAAH! I'll get sick if you keep doing that!"

Rhapsody giggled as she drilled a hapless Authority fighter and blew it up. Then she gasped!

"Uh-Oh!"

"Wha? GAAAH!"

Rage's jaw dropped as a much larger Frigate loomed ahead of them, coming around the planet and towards them. Their headphones crackled with the voice of that nasty Phentari!

"All right, you two stupid little Fotts! You've caused enough of a mess, now stand down and give up that statue!"

"Who's little, squiddly!? Like we'll just give up so you can space us nice and easy!"

"Well, Rage, I did hope you were gullible enough to think I'd let you two go. Now, we'll just have to figure out a way to blow you both up and get our little statue."

Rhapsody's voice broke in with a paniced tone!

"I'm trying to jam their targeting sensors! Do something, big bro! They're gonna try and take out our engines!"

"Like I can do anything with the squirtguns in this turret! If yah want I can chuck the staute at them! It'd do the same amount of good!"

"Oh, please! Toss the statue at us so we can pick it up later after we blow you up!"

Shots began to come from all over as the remaning fighters and the Frigate began shooting!

"MEEEEEEP!" Juni snatched Anne-Marie's popcorn out of her hand and started trying to eat all of the fluffy kernels at once!

Aya chuckled as Juni grabbed onto the ends of her ears and winced as Rage's and Rhapsody's fighter began to take some hits along the side! Her tail waved back and forth, smacking Aarie and Anne-Marie's heads like a pendulum!

Just as Juni was about to shed all her fur in panic, a large vortex opened in space right near the little fighter.

A large Mercenary Carrier popped into normalspace and began firing into the fray, it's main laser cannons tearing large chunks out of the frigate and its defensive turrets blasting wildly away at the Corporate fighters!

"It's about time!!!!"

"We got your call and got here as fast as we could, Rage! Stand by for pick-up! We have a LOT of questions for the two of you..."

Juni cheered as the little fighter landed in the fighter bay of the Supernova, the planetside government arguing in the meantime with the Mega-Force leadership over the damages. Of course, the Mega-Force Fotts told the Corporate Authority where they could stick the damage.

"Jeez! Rabby and Rachel are wearing plot armor that's three inches thick and you were worried, Juni!?"

"Nyah! Plot armor! I like that, Aya!"

"Yes, I was worried! They can't blow them up, now hush, you two hecklers!"

The movie continued on, and of course, the mystery of the statue was carefully unveiled with Rage and Rhapsody having many more shoot-em-ups, beat-em-ups, and wild adventures. It was enough to keep Aarie awake past her normal bedtime and of course fluffed Juni's tail up to the point where she needed to work on properly arranging its fur for the next three days.

Aarie's little project turned out to be somewhat of a success for the URL, which built copies (without the whiskers) for many of their surface ships to use as small ship's boats. They were a bit expensive for private ownership, but found a niche market. She also realized that drinking too many Wild-Cats might not be a good idea. She also did have to watch N'yacula at Bad Movie Night with the gang, but that ordeal is another story.

Steve enjoyed his blueberries very much, and he even had enough that he even managed to share some, which Aarie would bake into wonderful blueberry pies on occassion.

Of course, Froilan Dingo worked on his next project for Boat Day, which involved Ole, Sven, and Alastair flying large radio controlled Lancasters that would drop actual scale Tallboy bombs on his Tirpitz. This time, he planned to jump ship before Alastair started dropping bombs on him.

Skip told Doctor Crocker that Boat Day and FestiMer was a real success, and Crocker took his word for it and was happy that a lot of people came to the harbor and participated as spectators and as entrants. Anything that showed the area that the URL community was a good neighbor to San Diego and Southern California was always positive. The Lab and the people who worked there might be a bit odd, but were basically decent, good, and imaginative folks.

And of course, Rabby and Rachel's movie did fairly well and proved to be a good enough action flick to spawn a spin-off animated series that also glued Juni to the TV.

For once all was well at the URL, but things were always not so calm, as further tales will prove.....
Well, here's the shamless plug for the Battlelords RPG. :)

I just hope Severflame and the Battlelords guys like this. I'm trying to stick to their setting as best I can, but I just had to include the Defiant. I know a couple of you will get the joke. :D

Of course, the Fott and Phentari are trademarked by the company that owns the Battleords RPG, and I'm hoping this doesn't offend them.

And the quad turret is kind of like the Babylon 5 Interceptor cannon, shown here at about 55 seconds on this clip which is one of THE BEST space fight scenes EVER, PERIOD.

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Story is hopefully complete. Hope everyone enjoyed a little laugh and some fun stuff. :)
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I think you've done an excellent job with Rab, Rach and all the BattleLord classes. I was sharing Juni's sentiment and was holding on to my seat the entire time.:D