Tales from a lost Universe

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin nodded. "Good idea. I'll see if I can't figure out how to get this thing running."

He looked around, and after a little bit, noticed the captain's chair and sat in it, fiddling with the controls.

"Any luck?"

[Anonymous]

"Hmm...a lot of the hatches along the hull are open. Seems whatever happened drained this thing completely dry of power." Olguin called back, looking at a console on the right wall.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin looked up from the controls. "You mean this thing can't go anywhere? Great." he growled, leaning on one of the chair's armrests. He thought for a moment, then idly channeled a bit of psychic power into the system before him.

Each console still active immediately displayed red banded error messages and incompatability errors.

"Hmm...Hey, kid, take a look at this."

[Anonymous]

Olguin looked up from where he had been trying to figure out what was wrong with one of the repair robots. Blinking, he rose to his feet and dusting himself off.

"What is it, sir?" He finally asked when he had walked up to Knight Yuthirin.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin got up and motioned to the chair. "My psionic power isn't working on this thing." He growled. "Get in there and give it a shot."

[Anonymous]

Olguin turned disbelieving eyes towards Yuthirin, but did as he was told. Walking up to the chair, he plopped himself on it.

"But...I don't have psionic power." He mumbled, looking around in confusion.

[Yuthirin]

"Fish guts, boy. You can manipulate your life force, correct?"

[Anonymous]

Olguin nodded, pride clear on his face as he answered.

"Yes sir, I trained under the best to learn that ability."

[Yuthirin]

"Good. That should have strengthened some kind of psionic ability. Try using a small amount of it to jumpstart this ship."

[Anonymous]

Olguin blinked a few times at Yuthirin's words, but did as he said. "How is...this?"

Reaching out with his senses, he boggled as he felt...something behind all this. He tentatively reached out towards it, and began to feed the system a steady stream of his own life force.

[Yuthirin]

System consoles flickered to life, lights grew brighter, and the little robots started moving faster as Olguin fed the ship the energy it needed. Consoles ran through diagnostic checks and tallied various repair jobs before their eyes, thousands of tasks scrolling across the screens.

One screen flashed big, bold, red letters. "CORE POWER -- INSUFFICIENT"

Yuthirin walked around, checking the various readouts before discovering this message.

"See if you can feed it some more, boy. Whatever you're doing, you're doing it right."

[Anonymous]

The whole ship suddenly shook, a loud roar echoing through the silence that followed.

"Dammit! That bastard's back!" Olguin cursed, "I can't go out there, and feed the ship the energy it needs at once."

[Yuthirin]

He grumbled, chenching his fist. "By ancient Mu, this creature is irritating. Very well. Do you think that you can get this vessel working quickly? I may need your assistance while facing the beast."

[Anonymous]

"I'm...not sure." Olguin winced as the ship shook again. "But whatever we do, we have to do it before that thing causes the ship to crash down on our heads!"

[Yuthirin]

He frowned. "Do your best, boy. Join me once you're finished. I'm going to keep the beast busy for you." He clapped Olguin on the shoulder, then turned and ran out of the control room, dashing down the halls, over the lift area and rocketing out the hatch, his eyes searching for the creature.