Two guards appears behind the man. "Let him speak" Rogan says, "this may be interesting".
The old man continued...
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"God must love crazy people...he created so many of them"
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"That Alien cruiser, was on the run from something so powerful, so dangerous, so deadly, it will change history. It was on the run, from the Leechers! A mythical alien race described by the aliens that you fought. They had the ability to transform into any shape. They were nearly indestructable, and they fed by leeching on to animals and other aliens, and then sucking the life force out of them. THEY were what Dr. Richard Malcom was really afraid of! He wanted to destroy them! They killed all his friends on Torgo Prime in a large raid kept secret by the Rebellion. The Rebels don't know what hit Torgo Prime. All they know is that an alien warship turned Torgo Prime from a lush garden work to a hunk of molten rock, which is now all cooled off. The Leechers did this! They wanted to keep the humans away from them! They are xenophobic! And when they saw the humans recolonize Torgo Prime, they launched several biomolecular warheads at the planet, which filled it with the deadly Torgo virus.
"They live in the Serpens Nebula, and that alien cruiser was hiding there as well. It came into contact with the Leechers, and then tried to get as far away as it could, but then they ran into you. This is why the aliens attacked you! The Leechers forced them out of their homes!
"Now, I must tell you, the Leechers only have 1 battleship, 3 cruisers, 14 destroyers, and 23 fighters. Although their force is small, the Leechers are highly technilogically advanced! Every single one of their ships is highly resistent to our weapons, and their battleship is nearly indestructable. And every one of their vessels also has self-sealing hulls. Remember, Leechers are smart, keen, cunning, problem solving. They can hunt you down and then kill you and you wouldn't even know they were in the system. They can take several different standard forms, but they can also turn into almost ANYTHING else! They could impersonate you easily! As I said earlier, they are practically indestructable! You can't crush them, they can live in space, they don't need air, and weapons don't do a lot of damage to them!
"And you know how I know this and how I old I am?"
"I don't know how you learned all this. And I also don't know how old you are!" Rogan replied.
"I watched them do all that I have told you. But then, one day, they attacked me, and one Leecher latched onto me, and started to suck the life out of my body. I escaped in an escape pod after finally getting the Leecher off before he killed me. That is also why I LOOK so old! I am 33! Because that Leecher latched onto me, he made me look older than I really am!
"I warn you once more, stay away from the Leechers!!!"
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"I think that old man was making stories up.", Rogan said.
"I believe him," said Riprock. "These Leechers may be a bigger threat then the Confederation! I'm going to call one of my freinds on Armstrong and have him research this a little. But for now lets go on with our mission."
A few days later, just as they entered New Japan's system, Riprock got a call. It was his freind on Armstrong.
"Hey Dash," he said. "I found some books in the library you might be interested in. One of them is called The Torgo Virus. Its all about the virus, what it does, etc. Also lists some possible cures. Another one is full of conspiracies about the Great War. One mentions something about these Leechers, but under a different name. Supposevlly they devasted the red alien's worlds, which forced the red aliens to invade us. Very interesting. And you'll never guess who checked these books out before me..."
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"Who?" Riprock asked.
"Dr. Richard Malcom!" Rogan replied. "I bet it was him!"
"Well, uh, actually, he didn't, you see-" Stud tried to say. (That's the name of the guy on Armstrong)
"Dr. Malcom!" Riprock exclaimed, ignoring Stud. "But wait a second, why?"
"And how? I thought you kicked him to pieces!" Rogan said.
"As for how, I guess he did it before he died" Riprock replied.
"Well, you see, he didn't," Stud said.
"What?" Riprock asked.
"Dr. Malcom didn't check out those books, YOU did!" Stud replied.
"WHAT!?" Riprock yelled....
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"Yup, YOU DID!" Stud said again.
"I couldn't have been me! I haven't even gone to Armstrong for a while!" Riprock exclaimed.
"Well, someone just like you checked out those books and the returned them! I know it was you! ID, photo, and he sounded just like you!" Stud replied.
Suddenly, Rogan became very quiet. "Oh no..." he murmered.
"What? What is it?" Riprock asked.
"The Leechers!! That old guy...I mean, old looking guy, that that the Leechers could take almost any form! They must have impersonated you to see what we knew about them!"
Suddenly, a lieutenant interrupted. "Excuse me, sir, but don't we have a mission?"
"Oh yeah, thank you lieutenant, I almost forgot! We gotta go Stud!" Riprock said.
"Before you do, it says here something about Leecher vessels," Stud replied.
"What?"
"Their ships are made out of the same thing as the Leechers themselves. And so, their ships can take any form."
"Yikes!!" Riprock said. "These Leechers ARE a threat! Well, wish we could talk more Stud! Bye!"
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After Riprock said goodbye to Stud, he took the Tremor closer to New Japan. He quickly destroyed the few Confed ships in the system, and then loaded up a few Biochemical impact dispersal pods into the injectors. Once in a low orbit, Riprock gave the order: "Activate the injector."
The Tremor launched five impact pods which speeded towards the planet. Riprock and Rogan watched for about half an hour, and then five blue hazes began to appear, which quickly started to grow. Impact dispersal pods were the favored method of launching bio-warheads at a target. They went through the atmosphere, and then impacted on the planet. On impact the pods disintigrated, dispersing the bio-agents.
"Set course for New France," Riprock ordered.
The Tremor quickly hyperspaced out, and then entered the New France system. Riprock watched as two Confed frigates neared the Tremor. "Corvette Tremor, this is the Confed Frigate Supreme Logic. We have just gotten reports that a vessel of your description launched bio-agents on New Japan. We have been ordered to terminate you."
But then, the frigates got "terminated" with a few blasts from the Tremor's anti-neutron beam. The Tremor then came into a low orbit of New France. "Load up eight Atmospheric Dispersal Pods into the injector, all filled with the Biogenic agent," Rogan ordered.
The injectors were quickly armed, and then activated. They launched eight Atmospheric Dispersal Pods, which exploded in the atmosphere. They provided a quicker way to deploy bio-agents, but they were expensive. Riprock thought that Atmospheric Dispersal Pods would be better for the mission the biogenic agent was supposed to do.
"Now, on to Merlin and New Columbia!"
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As the Tremor hyperspaced into Merlin's system, there saw a Rebel Destroyer in the system.
A guy ran into the capitan's room again.
"Mr. Rogan, we have a communication from the Rebel Destroyer. The capitan claims to know you."
It turned out to be Dr. Rick Render!
"Hey all, come aboad! I wanna check up on how your mission is going!"
Suddenly, another Rebel Destroyer hyperspaced in.
"Don't dock with the other Destroyer!", its capitan messesaged the Tremor. "Its a leecher!"
"Crap." said Rogan. "Who do we trust?"
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"You trust us!!" Rendar said in a low, deep voice. "And you trust what we say. And we say you die!" and suddenly Rendar changed form into a humanoid creature, with no features, no expression, just red eyes and a body that looked like liquid metal, or mercury.
The channel went blank and Riprock and Rogan watched in horror as the Rebel destroyer turned into a Leecher vessel. "Die!" Rogan heard the other Rebel captain say, and the two vessels engaged in combat.
"Quick! Launch the injectors!" Riprock yelled. The Tremor went over to Merlin, and then launched four impact dispersal pods, filled with the biological agent. As soon as they were launched, the Tremor went over to New Columiba. "Launch!" Rogan yelled, and the Tremor launched eleven impact pods and 3 atmospheric pods at New Columbia.
As soon as they were done, Riprock saw the Rebel destroyer hyperspace out, and the Leecher vessel (which looked like it was made up of the same thing as leechers themselves) raced toward them.
"Hyperspace out!" Riprock yelled and the Tremor hyperspaced out.
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As the Tremor entered the next system, Riprock suddenly fell out of his chair onto the floor.
"Dash!", Rogan yelled as he ran to him and knelt by his side.
Riprock was very weak, his skin was wrinkled, and his hair had turned gray.
"Damnit..." he gasped. "The Elixer I took from Malcom...it...it...it's been 18 days. And I havn't taken a second dose. The proceess is reversing...get...me...some...of...those, those...those secret Hobo Spices ... from the cargo bay. I need them to make a second dose..."
Rogan ran off to the cargo bay, got the spices, and ran back. Riprock was nowere to be found, and the instruments used to controll the Tremor were on fire.
Worst of all, a Leecher with a flamethrower-type weapon was standing the the middle of the room. It laughed, or tried to laugh.
"You've been had, Mr. Rogan," it said as it pointed the Weapon at him. "Thanks for getting me those spices, they'll make your roasted corpse so much more delicious."
"What did you do with the real Riprock!", he responded.
"He was taken aboard our ship, and replaced by me. Fear our superior teleportation technology!"
With that, the Leecher pressed a big red button on the burining dashboard.
"Oops, did I jettison the anti-neutron blaster? Sorry. Anyway, time for you to die."
With that, the Leecher...
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...aimed his flamethrower! Rogan, thinking quickly, suddenly noticed another red button on the consol. Then, he got an idea. "Hey! Leecher dude! Turning someone into a fried hot dog won't make you look good to your comrads!! How about sucking me into space, with that button right there!"
"What? What button? Ohhh! THIS button? Good idea!!" and with that, the Leecher pushed it, a smile on his face.
"Auto-destruct sequence in 20 seconds."
"Uh oh, I'm dead," the Leecher moaned, turning back to the consol. "Uh, which button was it? This one, no. That one, no. Eeeeek!"
"Auto-destruct sequence in 15 seconds."
"Eeeeek! Which button is it!!!" the Leecher continued to pound furiously at the keys (most of which were on fire).
Rogan, seeing his chance, grabbed the flamethrower and they sprayed the Leecher with fire.
Auto-destruct sequence in 10 seconds, and counting."
As the Leecher was blasted backward, Rogan dropped the flamethrower and then ran out of the bridge. He went directly to the miniaturized Lightning fighter bay which was installed on the Tremor by Rick the Tick. As soon as he got to it, he heard the computer say: "Auto-destruct, cancelled," which meant that the Leecher was finally able to disable the auto-destruct.
Rogan hoped into one lightning and then blasted off (but not before telling the crew to abandon ship). The lightning sped away and then hyperspaced out...
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...And into the Antares system. Rogan was then met by a very mean looking Confed cruiser! "Oh my," Rogan said. "I am really dead."
But suddenly, a Rebel cruiser hyperspaced in. Rogan knew that any normal Rebel cruiser wasn't an exact match for a Confed cruiser, and so he debated whether or not to leave the system, when suddenly the Rebel Cruiser fired a Anti-Neutron Particle beam! The magenta beam easily disintigrated the Confed Cruiser, and then the Rebel ship (called the R.S.S. Avenger) hailed Rogan. "Rick the Tick!" Rogan yelled, recognizing the face on the viewscreen.
"Hey Rogan! What's up? Hey, where's Riprock?" Tick asked.
"The Leechers! They got him!"
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Meanwhile, on a Leecher battlecrusier somewere in space...
Riprock woke up from a deep, deep sleep. He had no idea were he was, or what happened to him. He looked at his watch. 2 more hours of immortality. Crap...
He sat there for about 30 minutes. Then, a leecher came in and threw some food into his cell.
"I must be on a Leecher ship!," Riprock though.
Thinking quickly, he ran after the Leecher that fed him, killed it, and took its weapon.
Riprock ran about the huge ship for about half an hour, killing any Leecher he saw.
Then, he walked into a large room.
In the middle of the room, he found why the Leecher ships were so unstoppable...
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Hold on a second OctoberFost. As creator of the Leechers, I must point out a few things.
1. Leechers are practically invincible. It's almost impossible to blast them, you can't knock them out, you can't disable them, and you can't crush them. (but, I geuss since Riprock is invincible it doesn't matter too much, but they could still imobilize him!)
2. Leecher prisons are hard to get out of.
3. Leecher ships are so unstopable because they can regenerate super fast, and since they are made up of the same thing as Leechers, they are very hard to destroy. All hull breaches are almost instantly sealed. (however, you could make it so that Riprock didn't know that).
4. Also, make him on a Leecher cruiser. Those are their primary vessels. Leecher Battleships are seen only rarely (because they are so strong).
I don't mean to be mean at all, I just want you to edit your post (and besides, if you can capture a Leecher gun, then you stand a MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better chance against Leechers.
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Come on people! Lets get this story moving!
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Here are two pictures of a Leecher fleet at two different angles.
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The largest ships are Leecher Battleships. The smaller ones with three elongated pods are cruisers. The third class of ships in the picture (the ones which are an oval with a round bulge at the end) are assault transports.
-Captain Carnotaur
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Um, sorry Entropy, but Leecher ships aren't living creatures. I already states that and how they are so unbeatable. Please edit your post. Sorry. :frown:
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Meanwhile, on a Leecher crusier somewere in space...
Riprock woke up from a deep, deep sleep. He had no idea were he was, or what happened to him. He looked at his watch. 2 more hours of immortality. Crap...
He sat there for about 30 minutes. Then, a leecher came in and threw some food into his cell.
"I must be on a Leecher ship!," Riprock though.
Thinking quickly, he ran after the Leecher that fed him, took its weapon, and killed it.
Riprock ran about the huge ship for about half an hour, killing any Leecher he saw.
This is how it ended, lets keep it going!
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Riprock then found a small access porthole. As he examined it, he was able to open it, and discovered that it was an escape pod! Suddenly, Riprock heard a group of Leechers nearing his position, so Riprock quickly climed in the escape pod. It was smaller than the escape pods that he was used to. He found the release handle and pulled it. The escape pod flew out of the Leecher cruiser. Suddenly, the escape pod shook, and Riprock realized that these escape pods were equipped with a hyperdrive! The escape pod shook, there was a flash of light, and then all was still. He was in another system.
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On the S.S. Vengeance (Rick the Ticks ship) Rogan quickly got aboard. On board the vessel was both Rendar and Rick the Tick. As Rogan was about to speak, a small vessel hyperspaced in. "It's a Leecher escape pod! And I'm detecting a human aboard!" the sensor officer said.
The Vengeance moved into a certain position and used it's tractor beam to pull the escape pod into the cargo bay...
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