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[Heavens' Crossroads|2] Wanted

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       Tiras leaned his large, muscular body against the balcony's glass railing and studied the sleek starship on the landing pad beneath him.  The ground was about ten feet below, and the ship rose up to about twenty feet above him.

       "It's shiny," said Tiras.

       Mitsuko laughed at him as she leaned on the railing herself.  "Is that the extent of your analysis?"

       Tiras shrugged.  "It has some big guns on it."

       "They look like mining lasers."

       "I guess.  Who are those people hanging around down there?"

       "I don't know..." Mitsuko brushed her black hair out of her face.  "I have a bad feeling about this."

       "Takashi and his pilot buddy should be here any minute.... and Kelphus is probably still on the ship.  Do you think we should go down there?"

       "Takashi's there."  Mitsuko pointed at the entryway to the ground level.  "Let's see what happens."





       Takashi and Skylar blinked as they stepped into the skylit landing bay.  Takashi walked forward, frowning, towards the first blue-uniformed person that was standing in front of his ship.

       "Are you the owners of this ship?" the man asked gruffly, studying Takashi and Skylar with a superior air.

       "Yes.  Who are you?" asked Takashi.

       The man pulled a digital tablet out of his jacket and started talking.  "We're from the Bureau of Spaceflight."

       Takashi furrowed his eyebrows, clenched his right fist, and muttered an incantation under his breath. "Karusvari solemtavar."

       Behind him, Skylar stepped back and counted the strangers around the spaceship. There were five, and they all looked too athletic to be bureaucrats.

       The man with the tablet kept on talking, not paying attention to Takashi.  "We're here to inspect your spacecraft per ordinance 8D-ISUR3.  We are going to have to take you to our office downtown and discuss the results of our inspection--"

       Takashi cut him off.  "Let me see your ID."

       The man looked up from his tablet down at Takashi.  "What?"

       "Your ID.  To prove that you're from the Spaceflight Bureau like you say you are."

       The man rolled his eyes and reached behind him.

       "Hyaaa!"  Mitsuko leaped off the balcony on top of the closest 'bureaucrat', who had pulled a pistol out of his jacket and pointed it at Takashi.  The man talking to Takashi had pulled out a pistol too, but he turned, distracted my Mitsuko's yell, and Takashi opened his right fist and grabbed the man's shoulder.  The man twitched and crumpled as electricity coursed through his body.  Skylar whipped his own blaster pistol out of its holster and nailed the third gangster's hand,  causing him to drop his gun.  All this happened in the few seconds it took Tiras to realize what was going on and yell, "Those are bandits, not bureaucrats!"
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So, here's page 2, as promised. Dang, I'm really looking forward to writing some new stuff. Now that I'm really done with school.... :3

Also, I routed it through Sta.sh Writer this time when I was copy/pasting and cleaning up formatting, and I think it converted much more nicely than when I was just using the deviation submission form. I'll have to keep this in mind.

EDIT: actually, apparently I can't edit it after submission when I submit it through Sta.sh. Grr. I tend to want to tweak the formatting some more after I see it submitted.

EDIT (2): scratch that, I found the 'edit' button. Sta.sh Writer has my approval now. ^___^
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