Everyone Forgets the Beginning (BattleR Saga Story 1)
First Chant

All lost wants to be found

Black sky covered with sparkling pointslooks the same on every planet. At least that's what I thought when I was akid. However each and every planet of our Galaxy is different. Differentplants, different animals, different sky.

After graduation I was assigned as High Class Guard of one of the governingclans. Lord Kazaeros himself gave me that position pointing that regardless ofmy young age I’m much more suitable for this job than any other HG. I think heeither overestimates me or underestimates my new fellow guards. Anyway, thisleads us to my person.

Who am I, you ask. I am Chief Guard ofRoyal Department, Akh Dhamm.

Well, it might appear simple to tell you my name and position but what does itreally mean to be someone?...

There are only 5 men above me in thewhole MWG Society. They are: the Wind Lord Kazaeros Aarivento, the Fire LordHika Pozhar, the Ground King Giji Lok, the Water Master Nasui Vodha and themightiest Ellementall Gamidio Yakufe.

Our race lives peacefully governingthe entire Galaxy for over 10mln sun years of our planet. Because flow of timeis inevitable, our home planet is aging.

Even with our element-control abilities, we cannot stop this matter and so forcenturies map men have been searching for our new home.

One planet finally matched ourexpectations. 3SS-east23 is her official number. We called her Therra, whichliterally means, ‘blue home’.

Although a young and uninhabited planet with a strong nature balance suresounds great in theory, it must be tested first. Two teams were sent to checkhabitability, fauna, and flora of the whole solar system, Therra included.

I'm in charge of group 1 with missiondirectly on Therra.

My best friend, Rokki, is in charge of group 2 with mission on neighboringplanets.

Rokki always repeats the same phrasebefore any mission:

“No matter how far they send us, how terrifying the mission will get, mark mywords, elements are everywhere and with them we will return.”

It sure would be nice if that was true. But since we discovered only 7controllable elements, the ones that might get us home could lose to the others.

“Chief! Chief!” First officer screamedright into my ear. “Report! We’re gettin’ close to 3SS-east23! Temporary powerloss occurred in the middle of worm-tunnel. Supporters kept substitute air flowstable but we lost contact with command.”

Just as I feared. At such distancewithout reconfiguration of communicator settings, it is impossible to keepcontact all the time.

“Proceed as planned. Estimate the timeof arrival and keep trying to regain contact. Second bridge is free for now.Supporters, get some rest. We’ll need you later.”

“Yes sir!”

Dozens of soldiers left the bridge ina flash, leaving only me and captain Megmi Yakufe on stations. Meg is thedaughter of General Gamidio Yakufe - he's probably the most powerful being inthe universe. Also she volunteered to join this mission and I think that’s thereason I got tricked in this job. Damn babysitter. But what could a warriorlike me do in times of peace anyway? At least she is pretty.

“Chief” her silky and delicate voicecaught my attention.

“What is it?”

“Do you think this planet, 3SS-…”

“Therra. From now on, we call itTherra.”

“Right” Meg sat on the chair next tocommunicating panel. “So this planet, Therra. Do you think it will be fine toinvade it and take it for ourselves? I mean, I know our planet is dying butwhat if we replace some civilized race out there? Will we invade or retreat?”

“I don’t know. Not yet. That’s why Ineed to reestablish contact with base. It’s not my decision to make, andneither is yours.”

She looked at me as if I was some kindof villain who only seeks power and destruction. I knew what she was thinkingabout and I agree with that. If there will be civilization, it will be theirchoice: either they let us stay or not.

“Could you check on first bridge? Sendme Khail with status report.”

“On my way” said Meg, and shedisappeared behind the cold steel doors.

“Sir! We are in zone 3 now. Shall Icall for supporters?” asked a voice coming from the intercom.

“Negative. Is the arrival time set?”

“Yes sir. We will reach Solar SystemEast 23 in half an hour.”

“Very well. Call supporters intwenty-five minutes.”

“Yes sir.”

Intercom silenced again.

(end of part 1)

part 2

What if? The only question that cannotbe answered properly because no one knows the future.

What if… if…

“Chief!” Khail busted on the secondbridge with pile of papers in his hand.

“What is it? Are we…?”

“No sir, not yet. But please look atthis.” and he gave me a single page from the pile “This is a scanning report.It looks like we’re back in action sir. Those ships aren’t from MWS. Should wechange the course?”

“Communication?”

“Still off.”

This is bad. If we change the coursewithout informing command first we might get exiled for insubordination.However, if we leave those ships we might encounter something even worse.

“Call two supporters and captainYakufe. Assign new mission's priority to C-Class. I’m going for those ships,you continue on first bridge and contact command ASAP.”

“Roger”

In just a few minutes my squadassembled before me. One air and one metal supporter. It's always good to havethem close.

“Your names?”

“Mah Omd” said a short chubby guy withbeard that reaches the ground. “Air support.”

“Meh Omd” said a tall skinny guy with mustacheshanging to his belly.

“Metal support.”

They looked a little hilarious, and Iwasn't the only one to notice - when Meg entered the bridge, she almost fellfrom laughter. If I wasn’t chief commander, I would do the same…

“Relatives?”

“Yes, brothers.” said Meh, the tallone.

“Any dangerous mission experiences?”

“Yes. We were supporters for LordKazaeros private fleet during Andromeda Rebellion.”

Great, veterans. At least they knowwhat to do. As for Meg… Well, she has no battle experience but her knowledgeand bloodline gives us advantage.

“Ok. The mission is simple. Weapproach unallied ships and request to speak with their fleet commander. It isa quick recon mission with eventual force-use solution. I repeat, EVENTUAL. Donot act on your own accord. We leave in 4 minutes. Dismissed.”

Supporters rushed to their quartersfor supplies but Meg stayed with me. Don’t know why, though…

“Don’t you have anything to take withyou from your room?”

“No. I’m good”

It seems she doesn't get what sarcasmis… Anyway, I prepared the second bridge to detach the Sniffer from the mainship. All went well even with Meg looking over my shoulders the whole time…Annoying brat. But I cannot leave her. She’ll come in handy and here, no oneelse beside me can cool her down.

“All set. Head to the Sniffer. TakeOmd brothers with you.”

“And you, chief?”

“I’ll be right there. I must takesomething from my room first.”

And so, a few minutes later, theSniffer separated and the recon squad left the worm-tunnel.

Black space with small bright points…Like I wasn't expecting this view.

No planets, no moons, no stars, nothing. Just a medium ship, no bigger than ourTherraN-1 without the Sniffer.

If you didn't know yet, TherraN-1 andSniffer are spaceships standard and x-small size respectively. TherraN is themodified series of DiscN ships created for discovering planets. Sniffer is verysmall ship containing at most 4 people (2 officers & 2 supporters) usedspecifically for recon and infiltration missions. TherraN series have oneSniffer each. And each team have one TherraN (at least for now).

“Ok. Time to contact those weirdoes.”I grabbed the headset and typed in their antenna’s frequency. “This isCommanding Chief Akh Dhamm. MWS High Guard. Do you copy? Over.”

No response, not even a typicalbuzzing…

“Can you hear me? This is…” but Isuddenly stopped.

Huge hangar gates opened from belowthe ship and a bright green light was all we could see in this moment. Nothingcame out so I made a move and flew inside with the Sniffer.

“Be careful, and don’t act by yourself.”I said looking at my team heading for the exit doors.

Reconsquad officially starts its mission. We put our cloaks on and with hoods up, weentered the ship. But it was pitch black. So what was that blinding greenlight? Never mind that, we must replace the commander of this ship… Or at leastthe one who opened the gates. We went deeper and deeper into the hangar withthe hope of replaceing someone, or at least some light. But...