If anyone would be interested in pre-reading
as I polish it and get it this I would appreciate
it. I also sending it too my "All relative'
pre-readers. And chapter six will be out
tonight or tomorrow to them.
The Bubblegum Angels
Prelude v .9
By
John-Martin Lotz
Bubblegum Crisis is owned by ADV
and JVC/AJC
Dirty Pair owned by ADV and Takachiiho &
Studio Nue/Sunrise
Future
"Yuri."
"Yeah."
"If you play that song one more time, I am going
to kill you."
"Nope, I like it. It speaks to me somehow."
"Me too. It says play something else."
"Humph, Kei, you're a Philistine."
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Past
"Priss."
"Yeah."
"Please play something else."
"Nope, I'll get thing right, then someday.
It'll speak to people."
"Yeah, play something else."
"Humph, Neme you're a Philistine."
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Future
"Acton Base, this is the 'Lovely Angel" "
"Errrr . . . Hi Lovely Angel."
"Request landing vector."
"Certainly is a nice day, isn't it."
"We're in freakin space, a nice day and a bad
day look about the same. " There was a pause,
"Say, you married."
"No."
"Good. No Kie, I saw him first. Look I'll
meet you for dinner when we land."
.Before the two WWWA agents could get into a
fight the ground based radio operator interrupted,
"Excuse me, what is the nature of your business
on Acton."
"Cutie, if you were on duty twenty minutes ago
you might have remembered a Dreadnaught vectoring
in."
"Yes." The 'and' was implicit.
Looking upward for strength, Yuri continued,
"It happened to be the property of the Dread
Pirate Robert. We've been following him for
weeks.."
"I see." The screen clicked off.
"Damn, I hate when that happens." There was a
long silence.
Look at the bright side, Yuri."
"What's that?"
"Dread Private Robert's ship is so big that
it could scarcely sneak away."
"Yeah.." She ducked out of the bridge, "I
guess we'll just have to board her to catch
him alive. I'll be in the armory."
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Past
"Okay, Neme, whatcha got."
"Well, we - the ADP - just got this briefing
on the new boomers, and since they seem to
run away before we - the Knight's Saber -
show up. I thought these tapes should be useful."
"Haven't you seen them."
"No, I was running late."
Neme took a look at the time codes and began
narrating. "Okay I remember this one. Linna,
you were the only one able to get there, " The
picture was obviously from a helicopter snoop,
and the sound was coming from the radio units
on the police. Like most boomers it was ugly,
fast and strong. One officer hosed it down
with a SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) until he
ran out of ammo. The boomer seemed to grin
before cutting him in half. Others opened
up with sticky bombs, napalm. screamers,
though for all the good it did the may have
been throwing paintballs at it..
Suddenly Linna's voice came over the speakers,
"Unit Three, I'm in position."
Priss raised an eyebrow at Neme, as the Sylia
spoke, "that was our frame I trust,
Linna continued, "I was here,' she indicated a
rooftop where the figure of her hard suit could
just be made out peering around making a primary
assessment., "Now watch this."
As Neme restarted the recording, the lone boomer
fired at the still standing ADP officers, driving
them to cover, then fired at the figure on the roof.
Linna avoided the attack, but before she could get
back to position, it flowed into a manhole and
disappeared.
As the snooped tape ended the APC officers were
poking around the manhole as a scanner operator
reported over the TAC net that the Boomers sensor
trace had just faded out..
A talking head started analyzing the fight from the
ADP point of view as the Sabers fell to their own
discussion. Okay, what did you notice. Priss?"
"It's damn good, The ADP didn't stand a chance.
And it ran the minute Linna showed up. "
"Linna?"
"Like Priss said, it's good. And it It didn't run
when it saw me but when I first radioed in."
"I noticed that to, Neme, we're going to have
to rework our communications procedures"
The Knights Saber's attention was suddenly riveted
to the screen. "In short, ladies and gentleman,
this new boomer is trouble, If you see one, hold
position and monitor it , until we get some heavy
firepower concentrated on it."
Priss added, " Until we figure out how to engage
them, hopefully really heavy fire power, operated
by suicidal maniacs"
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Future
"Yehaaa!!!!!!!!!"
:"Kie, you're having entirely too much fun, you do
know that," Yuri called to her partner as she
lined up a shot. It hit true as a line of sparks
flared off around the bridge of the pirate ship.
"Kie, I need a sensor report."
"You hit, There's a lot of damage, and he's
. . . he's . . . he's mostly dead,"
"Mostly dead?!?!"
:"Well there's some kind of energy leak,
that makes it hard to read what going . . .
Oh oh!"
"Oh Oh, Is that a bad sort of oh oh?
Kie, I don't like bad sort of oh oh's."
There was no answer, then an instant later there
was no Lovely Angel. Nor pirate ship for that
matter, Nor a sixty kilometer in diameter hole
in planet Acton.
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Present
"Ooohhhh, my head. Yuri, I think we can
definitely call that a bad sort of oh oh. "
Kie flipped a switch and flipped on the
viewscreen. "oh oh"
jml