Except that Shade doesn't eat burgers, so it causes a temporal flaw which rips Skyfox apart every 24 hours and then reassembles him.
It's true, I don't eat burgers. Probably something subliminal about Ronald McDonald.
Now, if you'd ordered Sushi aaaahhh, wusabi. Man, that stuff's a hundred times better than coffee!
So's chocolate icing. You try eating a bowl of chocolate icing at 10 o'clock at night and you'll know exacly how I feel now.
OK UEA, I'll do your response.
A holoimage crackles to life on U.E. Admiral's transponder, revealing a grey- skinned alien with an almost scaly face and deep-set black eyes it's a Voinian.
"Khak uruz kaHuruk! Zakat urikUt Derükhag zhaNarl Council! Dhërzahg olO'khagi Ekűl! Vurök grähűt khäZug!"
Registering U.E. Admiral's total confusion, the image switches to a tall, feline alien with large oversized canines- a Miranu.
"Chiozol harias unirć- jurisad quirath yarćn khel Sükiith. Bhorial khana uotosil- friol chelens!
The system tries Kayian and Emalgha before the image switches to some grey-haired Human man who died 800 years ago, wearing a buisness suit.
"Greetings," He says, "This planet has been quarantined by order of the Council. Blockade drones are in orbit to enforce this edict- do not attempt to interfere."
With that the image disappears.
Out monster hunting, Shade stumbles upon a set of large, rusty metal doors set in the hillside.
Putting one hand up against them, he focuses the Kinetic Nexus force through his arm and into the doors, which are forced open with a resounding screech.
Sundry small creatures of the dark can be heard scutting away as Shade walks down the damp corridors, illuminated by the controlled emission of blue-white Nexus energy.
Finally Shade comes to a second door, plastered with signs reading "Top Secret" and "Authorised Access Only".
Forcing it open, he steps through.
In the pulsating Nexus-light is revealed several rows of starships, each sealed in a transparent statis bubble which keeps them as good as the day they were made.
Through the shimmer of the bubbles Shade can make out ships about 20 meters long, shaped a little like Crescentified UE Scoutships, if UE Scoutships carried heavy weaponry.
On a faded plaque on the wall Shade reads "Miranu- Voinian- Kayian- Emalgha- Human Alliance for the Defence Gunships.
Designed and built in the year 2238 AD, seven years after the beginning of hostilities with the Strand-Council."
So that's what happened to Earth , Shade thinks. The Council attacked and wiped out every Human with some kind of bioweapon, which is probably still around, hence the quarantine. Thank goodness for Zarian Universal Immunity Technology!(ZUIT).
Shade then realises that he's got enough ZUIT in his pockets for everyone. But why hurry back? He wants to try out one of those ships.
Dropping the stasis bubble, Shade enters the open hatch.
Lights switch on inside the ship's pleasantly decorated interior, and an artificial voice echoes throughout the ship. "Species:>error? DNA scan malfunction> please state your species."
"Human." Shade tells it.
A pleasantly female artificial Human voice then responds in UE Standard English.
"Welcome aboard, Captain." it says. "I am the AI system Cassandra, installed in Alliance for the Defence Experimental Gunship number seven. Please name the Experimental Gunship number seven."
Shade thinks for a minute, then tells the AI "Thanatos", after the Greek god of death.
"Experimental Gunship Thanatos now beginning powering up sequence. Please personalise weaponry."
Fiddling with the controls, Shade decides on a pair of swivelling forward cannon which fire a large bolt of blue energy, and some kind of torpedo launcher which shoots homing pulses of blue light.
He infuses both systems with his Kinetic Nexus energy- in the process creating a permanent psychic link to the Thanatos - then aims the forward cannon upwards towards the sealed hangar doors in the roof.
Two bolts of blue-white energy create a gaping hole in the roof, and Shade pilots the Thanatos back to the monster hunting expedition.
Quickly landing, Shade explains to them about the Council attack, the hangar of free ships he found, and gives them all Zarian Universal Immunity Technology pills.
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