Sheekareedree-Ahm Six - within the UP though not a member world. The indigenous people are small humanoids with butterfly-like wing that are at a lo-tech stage of development and are reported to ne not welcoming to those from other worlds. Science Police reports indicate there is an incursion happening currently and the Legion have been alerted; a team has responded.
Lightning Lass - Deputy Team Leader, Ayla Ranzz of Winath - electrical generation and manipulation
Backlash - Mrruaw MNau of Simballi - enhanced strength, speed, senses, absorbs kinetic energy to boost own size and mass
Dragonmage - Xao Jin of Earth - dragon magics
Kinetix - Zoe Saugin of Aleph - telekinetic animation
MWindaji - Gahaji of Kiringyaga - super tracker, carries the Ruby of Life allowing tactile transformative magic
Taikonglong - previously 'Szenlong' - the first Spirit-Dragon... of Space!
Science Police meta-squad seconded to Legion World First Base:
Captain Heavyweight - Senior Team liaison, Science Police Captain Tuk Shir of Daxam, Senior Team liaison - incredible strength, speed, stamina, senses, laser vision, space flight, invulnerability
Current interns from the Home Base training program included on missions in a probationary status:
Haze - Tkemwa Autmi-Hu of Ungara - strength, durability, induce confusion and senselessness
Polestar - Nykko Rine of Braal, magnokinesis
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<Team!> Xao's message got their attention, <we have a bigger problem than just protecting this colony, they're digging up a highly dangerous elemental ore and we can't let them get it off planet. Also, we think this isn't the only site where they're drilling>
<okay> Ayla responded, <Captain Shir, get up into the atmosphere and check if there's more, Polestar and I'll deal with the ships up above us. Xao, anything else you got to tell us? If not, we need your help up here as well>
<ah... um, there's these machines they're drilling into the ground, like they're pretty big and have these mechanical insects in them that are probably searching for elements>
<we've seen them and smashed a couple, but let's take the transport vessels out first, get their cargo off them so they don't get any off planet and then we can shut down the operation>
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Captain Tuk Shir enjoyed being able to cut lose.
The Daxamite flew into the craft he had been meticulously tearing apart. Using his x-ray vision he quickly located the loading bay were several dozen three legged beings scurried around robots that were unloading raw matter that had been streamed up on a grav-lift.
<Kinetix, get ready, I'm away to drop this ship> and with that, the Daxamite's laser vision tore through the craft, severing the section of the attacking ship that housed the docking bay.
There was an enormous screech as part of the craft tore off, sending it flying off. As the section with the mined material spun into the air Captain Shir used his great strength to grab told of the edge of the red hot tear and fling the craft out of the atmosphere. He flew after it to ensure it left the planets gravity well and didn't tumble back down.
As he reached the very edge of the planet's atmosphere and was certain that the damaged craft was in no condition to return, he turned back towards the green and blue world below. Using his expansive senses, Tuk Shir noted sixteen other sites where the strange three legged aliens were stealing resources. In a flash of speed he set out to dissuade them from completing their task.
He planned on dissuading them rather strongly!
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Kinetix hadn't heard the approaching Sheekaree warriors as they flew up towards her.
Her focus was entirely on the section of the large craft that Tuk Shir had just blasted off the craft directly above her. It had started to fall and Zoe was certain it would make a hell of a mess if it were to land on the natives below. Zoe didn't want to admit it but she was scared: the section that Captain Heavyweight had severed from the larger craft was still several hundred tons of material and she doubted if she could alter than much of it...
Reaching out, she caused the material around the edges to flatten and extend into a twenty metre-long frill, and with a push from her telekinesis she sent it spinning, hoping to at least move it away from the already damaged colony several hundred metres underneath her. Zoe thought it looked something like a flying saucer with its bulbous midsection. She was aware that there were smaller lumps of flaming debris falling though she didn't had either the concentration or power to focus on them, and out of the corner of her eye she caught a white shape tearing past her to deflect a lump of this falling material that was spiralling towards her.
<You've made some friends, Zoe> The intern from Braal, Polestar sent across the telepathic matrix as she flew up beside the Legionnaire.
Kinetix glanced over her shoulder and saw several of the pale winged natives flying at the falling smaller pieces of debris and ensnaring them with nets or smashing them with spears. For a second she was surprised by how beautiful they were, with alabaster white skin and long slim features and massive butterfly like wings with dark marking along their edges.
<let me help you with that...> Polestar reached out with her magnokinesis and sent the reshaped section of the craft Tuk Shir had cut from the mothership and sent it flying towards one of the other crafts. The young Braalian took off after the reshaped debris, guiding it towards her target.
Kinetix was simply too tired after her last use of her power to muster the will to chase after the intern, and instead, she took a few seconds to gather her breath and see what was happening around her. In the distance, she could see Lightning Lass was blasting at the third of the alien crafts, aiming for their propulsion units to cripple them and leave them stranded on this world. Around Ayla were specks of glowing green streaks - Dragonmage had arrived and was supporting their mission leader.
As she hovered surveying the scene, one of the white skinned natives flew up in front of Zoe. It tilted its head and started to chitter in a high-pitched voice. Kinetix' flight ring had access to a basic translation matrix but was unable to suggest an interpretation. The Legionnaire smiled and shrugged.
"I'm sorry honey, but I didn't catch that and I gotta go to my team. Thanks for helping me out though." She gave a quick salute and flew off after Polestar.
Behind her, the winged nativehissed and shook their spear in her direction.
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The air for over twenty metres around MWindaji had been cleared of the greasy smoke.
The Ruby of Life glowed in his hand as he willed it to transmute the air around him. He had been avoiding the drones and trying to help the natives, though as soon as he had gotten close to them they had hissed and chittered to him, shaking weapons in his direction before flying away.
Haze had smashed one of the remaining drones into twisted wreckage not far away, so Gahaji flew over to join the intern.
"Hey, how're you getting on? The locals don't seem to appreciate our help, eh? I've never been hissed at before today..."
"They ran away from me." The intern replied as he looked around for more invasive technology to destroy.
Above them they could hear and almost constant tattoo of booms and crashes as their fellow Legionnaires stopped the crafts in the atmosphere from leaving this world with the dangerous minerals they had stripped from the ground.
Both MWindaji and Haze knew there was still work to do down at ground level, so levitated and looked around for Resource Raiders to catch or their technology to destroy.
"You're the tracker. Where we going next?" Haze asked the Legionnaire.
MWindaji felt a momentary flash of embarrassment as for a second, he hadn't thought to use his innate ability.
"Yes... ah... this way." Gahaji flew off to the right where he could sense the last of their prey.
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Legion World Home Base - the Academy:
Former Legionnaires:
Cosmic Boy – Rokk Krinn of Braal - manipulation of magnetic fields
Night Girl - Lydda Jath of Kathoon - incredible strength and durability out of direct sunlight
Science Police training staff:
Tues El - Science Police Officer Vae Loct of Daxam - incredible strength, speed, stamina, senses, laser vision, space flight, invulnerability
The warp control room on Home Base was behind an ornately carved set of large double doors.
It was 2:47am standard time when the doors slammed shut and a screeching noise was heard from within. Gear was usually aware of any strange activity on Home Base as the Linsnarian's nannites had been liberally spread around the planetoid. The exception was the control room, where Henry's original mushroom shaped mainframe console was housed. As there were no tutors or students present in that room, Gear, who permanently monitored the Base, decided to call for help to investigate.
An alarm sounded, and Rokk Krinn and Lydda Jath were alerted. Within three minutes, the two former Legionnaires arrived. As they had flown along the corridor, a general alarm sounded for all the tutor's quarters, informing them of the situation and ensuring they were awake and ready if further actions were needed.
Just as the recently wed couple arrived, Vae Loct, the Daxamite tutor who was often called Tues El, arrived in a burst of hyper speed. Behind him flew one of the students, Science Police Cadet Ber Sind of Daxam. They had been practising laser vision drills in a lower gallery when his alarm rang.
"It'll be safer if I go first." He said confidently as he strode past Cosmic Boy.
"No. You will wait... use your x-ray vision and find out what's happening in there before we touch the door. And Lydda and I will go first. We have decades more experience than you." Rokk said in a level tone; the look he gave the Daxamite made it clear that there would be no argument.
"Ah..." The Science Police Officer's eyes glowed pale blue for a couple of seconds before he spoke again. "There is a spinning disc of red and violet... and Henry is stood beside it; he's not moving."
"Henry, report!" Lydda barked at her flight ring.
"He's not budged an inch." The student, Ber Sind, said a couple of seconds later. It was the first words she had spoken since arriving. Lydda thanked her, though her eyes remained focussed on the double doors before them.
Rokk reached out with his magnokinesis and pushed at the large metal door handles; the doors creaked and groaned, straining before they finally flew open.
Rokk and Lydda darted in, Vae Loct behind them.
The holo-man Henry turned to face them, his expression unreadable as he whispered, "Wait..."
Rokk scanned the red warp before them, but his flight ring database could give him no usable information.
"There's something coming through..." As Vae Loct said this, he positioned his invulnerable frame between the warp and his fellow tutors. As they watched, several dark forms stepped through, and with a sudden silence that was as deafening as the screech had been, the warp disappeared.
Element Lad, the Huntress with her hound Laipas, Karate Kid, Strobe, the intern Shadowsurfer, along with a tall, powerfully built woman with dark skin and electric white hair stood in the centre of the warp control room.
"You did it, Henry! You reached us in the other dimension." Jan Arrah said with a broad smile.
"Welcome home, you have been missed." The holo of Henry flickered but grinned as he welcomed them back.
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