"You're going
to have to work on your evil laugh," chided John sitting next to her.
Katrina ignored him and kept staring ahead.
"Is she fixating on Cadet Krystal again?" asked Venor from beside John.
"Earth to Katrina," said John as he waved his hand in front of Kat.
"Venor, I think she's totally out of it."
"This reminds me of when F'Ter was trapped by the Hypnotic Seabass of
the Bialtax Ocean. For F'Ter had to build the Golden Bijan'du for Ost.
F'Ter and Ost ventured deep beneath the Bialtax in search of the
Flawless Pearl, which was the key component of the Bijan'du. Little did
they know that Cordban had sent the Hypnotic Seabass to trap the two,
so that he could rule over the Y'ssalrian with them gone."
"Is there a point to this story or do you just like to hear yourself
talk?"
"I'm almost there. F'Ter and Ost travelled in the Syballic Submarine
that F'Ter had built. But the Hypnotic Seabass guarded the entrance to
the cave where the Flawless Pearl was kept, and it hypnotized F'Ter.
Ost was unaffected, seeing as he invented hypnotism a millenia back.
Ost played his pipes and hypnotized the Hypnotic Seabass. And with that
out of the way the two were able to get the Flawless Pearl."
"Are you done?"
"Yes."
"And the point of this was..."
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"Oh, right.
Well, Ost had to free F'Ter from his hypnotic state. And it was like
this." Venor reached behind John and rapped Katrina on the back of her
head.
"Oww!" exclaimed Kat as she broke out of her trance.
"Never let it be said that religion has nothing to teach you," remarked
John.
Commander Zakarian was finishing the briefing. "We will use two
shuttles to transport you to the surface of Aldos. Squads one and two
will go first, the rest of you are dismissed until you're called."
The ~Gulliver~ was a typical shuttle used throughout the Federation.
Capable of Warp 2 and holding up to eight people, it was currently
quite spacious as only Commander Zakarian and Cadets Krystal, Gonar and
Serin occupied it. Serin manned the Helm while Gonar manned Ops as
Krystal and Zakarian had the seats behind the first two.
"Take us out Cadet," ordered Commander Zakarian.
"Can you fly this rustbucket?" asked Krystal.
"I am fully qualified in the Type 6 shuttlecraft," replied Serin.
"But this is a Type 4 shuttlecraft."
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