Lost Empire
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Chapter 105
0001 - Tempro
0003 - Conner- Thomas
0004 - Norice
0011 - Adam
0097 - Ace - Zimmel
0098 - Lucy
0100 - Derry (father ship)
0101 - Shelby (mother ship) - Derrick
0122 - Maleen
0125 - Lars
0130 - Gillese
0200 - Ellen
0201 - Jake
0222 - Helena
0250 - Tendra
0280 - Frela
0301 - Rodrick
0321 - Hardy
0403 - Johnathon - Hartwell
0499 - Henry
0505 - Craig
0660 - Realla
0778 - Jan
0798 - Celeste - Shelby (human)
0805 - Toran
0808 - Radella
0881 - Handrax
0882 - Teal
0908 - Tara - Mara
0921 - Tomack
0995 - Kyle
0996 - Tesal
1000 - Sherry - Lucie
Ungrown - unnumbered
Rescued from Tendraxians
so far bout 76 left
2 on Shelby in re-gen, Marco and Zan
2 on Derry in re-gen
1 on ellen
Known and OR numbered
0501 - Thaddeus
???? - Lena
Two portals opened near the orbit of the Empire planet. Three ships slipped out, taking up a place near Shelby. Derrick was about to call them when Shelby called. “Sire,” she said excitedly. “It is time finally, they will be back!”
Norice and Conner maneuvered Sherry into position next to Shelby. “Mother!” An excited Conner said. “We are prepared to transfer container 0999 and 0667 to you.”
“Opening bay doors to accept,” Shelby said as almost a quarter of her port side opened. A small platform slid out as well all as two robotic arms.
“Now opening the bay doors,” came Sherry’s answer. “Releasing clamps on both brain cases. Now released to you, Mother.”
“I have them proceeding to withdraw from your bay. I have them moving them into the bay, for connect. I have them, thank you, Sherry and Prime, Prime Lucie,” Shelby said as she moved and Derry moved up.
Derrick sighed as he had watched the proceedings. They needed Marco and especially Zan, the info he had might make things a lot easier for the coming battle.
He watched as the side of Derry was closing after the two he’d received. For the moment, they had thirty-two combat ships, he hoped it was enough.
He knew that the Cregons had the numbers for the moment, but he remembered the last battle. If they held to the strategy that they had before, it might be easy.
Then again, any other advantage they might have could more than turn it. Right now, he needed to check on their second guest.
Departing the combat center, he headed toward the med center. He sighed as he got closer, hearing the raised voices.
He also had to check up on Kimison and Rayburn as they had collapsed again. They had obviously lied to get out of the med center.
It was coming from the room ahead, shaking his head, he walked in. “I tell you, let me up, I am fine!”
“If this one doesn’t hold still, then this one’s wife may have to retrain you as well as your wife,” Derrick smiled when he heard Kimon’s voice.
“You wouldn’t dare!” Kimison replied to Onai.
“I have permission from the lord Emperor,” Onai said with a wicked smile. “Perhaps I should allow your wife to restrain you.”
Kimison looked at Medalina, who had a very toothy smile as she stared at him. “I am prepared to injure you to keep you here til you heal. Hello emperor sir,” she suddenly said.
Derrick was doing all he could not to laugh, but it was about to escape. “I really think that you should allow Greeson to finish healing you. I need to check on Rayburn as he was worse than almost all of you. Kimon is working on him, oh here’s an order, stay!”
Kimison growled as Derrick started to laugh as he left the room.
Next door, Kimon was working on Rayburn. “How’s he doing?” Derrick asked.
“I have everything from the knees-up healed. It’s below that that is giving me problems. I am almost ready to call in mother. She is a far better healer than I,” Kimon said.
“Actually, you should have called me. Please move and allow me to repair him,” Kimon’s mother, Akira, said, actually startling him for a moment. “You have done a good job, but you lack a few hundred lessons.”
Akira Dempsey almost seemed to float in, laying her hands on Rayburn. The man started to moan as Akira’s hands started to glow.
Cetalina was almost in tears as hearing her mate groan, this was tearing her up. “Be still little one,” Akira said as she spared Cetalina a warm gaze.
“Thank you, Doctor of the ancient ways, this is my first and only mate. I have been praying for blessings from the gods, then you appeared,” Cetalina said as she bowed to Akira.
“It is this one’s pleasure to heal him, may all your blessings be as good,” Akira said as she looked at Cetalina’s stomach.
“Please don’t tell him, it is a big surprise,” Cetalina said with a toothy smile.
“Yes little one, it shall be indeed,” Akira said, then smiled.
Luckily, Kimon had left the room, so no one else was privy to the news. Akira was also sure that Rayburn was unconscious too.
Derrick was surprised when Kimon entered Kimison’s room. “Ah, your mother is here good.”
“There are times, sir, that this one thinks that you can read minds. That is why this one is always careful about what this one thinks,” Kimon told Derrick.
Derrick stared at Kimon, which made him back away. It also had Derrick laughing uncontrollably.
“Hopefully, I can get the rest of our high-ranking team back on their feet. We have an invasion to stop, though for the moment the invading fleet is stuck near the Tendraxian field. I also got a line on a new armor that protects better against the Ripalon energy,” Derrick said with a wide smile.
Next to Shelby, Sherry was starting to re-gen her trans-warp generators. Her engines were fine, it was just that the particles that made trans-warp possible were contaminated. It was going to take a few days to purge them.
So far, she had decided to stay on the ship as she felt closer with Sherry than any other A.I. personality. She was also wanting to see her brother as she really needed to apologize to him.
She sighed as he was apparently out in the edge of where the empire was. Something about a pirate nest that he and the ships had destroyed?
Hmmm, she thought, she ought to call him. “Sherry, I need to make a call to Admiral Hartwell, please.”
“Opening a channel now,” Sherry said as a high-speed EIG signal leaped from the ship.
Onboard Johnathon, a strange chime started in the bridge. Startled, Hartwell stared at the hologram. “What in the hell is that?”
“Ship to ship EIG frequency, it appears to be from EIG-F 1000,” Johnathon said.
“OK answer please,” Hartwell said, then was surprised to see his sister on the com. “How can I help you Ms. Hartwell,” he said.
“I am somewhat docked for the next few days. The Ripalon energy contaminated the trans-warp chamber, so I’m a little bored. All my checks are done, and I don’t really want to go to the planet, so thought, I’d apologize to you. Are you there for much longer?” Lucie asked.
Hartwell was not only surprised, but shocked that she had called. “We’re here for a few more days trying to finish the clean-up. I could come back if you need me, I know you are not close to uncle nor his son. What would you like?”
Lucie was shocked for a moment, then remembered that her brother was the admiral of the fleet. He could almost do what the hell he wanted to.
“It’d be nice to have lunch with you,” she said.
“OK, give me an hour,” he said, then clicked off. He called Derrick, made arrangements, then they left orbit.
Bee looked up from her console a few moments later at Hartwell’s call. “We are going to the imperial planet. I am meeting my sister, would you like to come with me?” Hartwell asked.
A shocked look passed over her features, no one had ever asked her something like that. “Am I allowed to?” she asked hesitantly.
Hartwell rolled his eyes then remembered that to ask was to invite punishment in her world. He nodded to her, then said, “In this empire you are more than allowed. Please remember that we do not treat females as your world does.”
Bee could only stare at him for a few moments, then briefly smiled. “Yes lord sir,” she said, causing Hartwell to cringe a moment. “I remember the Lord Sir’s sister, a very strong female.”
Hartwell groaned a moment as he remembered the last time she had been aboard. His groan caused a small smile from Bee.
Hartwell straightened up and nodded, then said, “Yes, indeed, she is.”
Bee also nodded as she said, “To be the sister of one so powerful, she’d have to be.”
This, of course, caused another groan from Hartwell. “We should be arriving in thirty seconds,” the hologram of Johnathon said.
“Thank you, Johnathon,” Hartwell said as they suddenly appeared near the imperial planet.
Bee and Hartwell appeared aboard Sherry a few moments later. “Welcome aboard Admiral, Bee,” Sherry said after they appeared, “You sister the Prime, Prime is awaiting you in the meal area.”
Hartwell nodded as Bee was staring at the hologram of Sherry. “Hello miss Bee, my brother has explained your great proficiency with weapons.”
This, of course, caused Bee to blush greatly and stop. “I ... I thank you. You said your brother?”
Sherry’s Holo-gram nodded as she said, “Yes, Johnathon is my brother. As are almost all of the other ships are. With the exception of Tempro and his sister, Shelby, and her brother,” here Sherry stopped, a look of sadness passing over her face. “Her brother Gregor who has passed.”
Bee was confused for a moment, then everything she’d learned came to her. “I am sorry, Sherry, I forgot. I regret that I reminded you of it.”
“It is all well, though I am happy that they found my wing mate, and he will be with us soon. I also heard that they have found Marco, who was lost with his prime. That was sad and a great loss to the empire,” a happier Sherry said.
“I have heard the same thing,” Bee said, then she noticed that Hartwell was watching the both of them.
The both of them moved into a corridor as they then approached the meal area. Upon entering, they noticed a lone person awaiting them.
After Lucie had hugged the both of them, which caused a look of surprise from Bee, they sat. “I am glad that you had the chance to come,” Lucie said.
Hartwell nodded as he asked, “I hope that the search for the boxes isn’t stressing you too much? Also, congratulations on finding Marco and Zan.”
Here Lucie sighed as she nodded, “For the longest time I was so pissed at Zan. I couldn’t understand why he did what he did. He loves Sherry so greatly but chose to save me. It took me so long to finally understand that, that was why he did it and the fact that Sherry asked him to. His duty to the Emperor, the empire and Sherry is what drove him.”
Hartwell nodded as he was about to speak, then stopped, thought about it, then started again. “So I take it, you finally understand why I left to fight with him and the others.”
Lucie looked at him, then slowly nodded. “The supreme sense of duty, the honor and the closeness that you all shared, yes. It took a lot of death and life to happen before I did. That and trying to survive against the Duke. I love you little Johnny.”
Hartwell looked at her not in surprise, not in anger, but with a look of gratitude and love. “I love you too, Little Luce.”
Bee looked on a look of serenity, ‘til they both grabbed her and included her in the hug. Her shock was a topic that had the brother and sister laughing.
Lucie then looked at Hartwell as she smiled demurely and asked, “So what’s this I hear that the others want you?”
Bee smiled brightly as she said, “My sister and two others have partly bonded with the Lord sir. They wish to be a part of his group.”
Lucie looked at her brother for a moment, then said, “So a ready-made Harem, huh?”
“I,” was all he got out as he blushed pure crimson. “I’m not sure about that. If I am allowed.”
A shimmering appeared next to them as the hologram of Derrick appeared. “I will allow it, as I am so ready to have the females out of here. Plus the fact that they are also partly chemically linked to you, like Bee. I have enough going on right now as it is, without them distracting me.”
Again, Hartwell groaned, which brought giggles from his sister and Bee. “I’ll see as soon as all this crap is done.”
“I think,” Derrick started as he looked at a screen. “You might need to do something a lot sooner.