Fiction:Captain of Space and War/3

Battle on land
Rambam asked for a full report on the battle in land, for several hours the conflict at the colony outside fields kept going, still the reports were full of good news, as the Nigtrions had taken control of the situation down there, Rambam was anxious to get some Nigtrions on his own for his mission, fortunately, the Imperial Ships didn't even penetrated the Luna's hull, so no repairs will be needed, just medical supplies for injured crew-members.

"Sir, the Captain of the USS Kroc wants to speak to you" said the COM through the speaker, "Should I tell him to wait?"

"No, put him through my quarters" said Rambam hurried, the Holographic form of the USS Kroc captain appeared, "Captain Ramburgo!" said Rambam happily, "its nice too see you again, and in a battle" added the captain simling.

Ramburgo smiled as well, the old Rambo showed a little scar in his face when he did that, then it disappeared when he stop smiling, "Captain Rambam, an honor and a joy to find you in this place, who could have though the USS Luna will be around to help us?"

Rambam kept smiling, "Well the truth is we were heading towards here, when suddenly our ship picked up your 'stress signal"

"Well is good to have you captain, thank you for the backup, if there is anything you need let me know" said Ramburgo.

"Am," said Rambam, "Well I think you could indeed help me with a question..."

The old Rambo captain moved his face like he was thinking on what could that be, "Go ahead?"

"Well I've seen a video log of a Rambo soldier's helmet camera, and what I have saw was really..." stopped, thinking on the correct word, "... disturbing"

"Disturbing in what way captain?" asked Ramburgo.

"What we saw was the Nigtrions, I didn't know you had a regiment with you aboard the USS Kroc"

"Yeah well remember that time we met at the outlying colony? I told you we were on a special mission..." he grabbed his throat, and continued, "... the mission consisted on being the first ship carrying a Nigtrion platoon, you see, this is the first time since the Rambo met these wonderful warriors, that they show humble enough to travel in one of our ships."

"I see," said Rambam satisfied, "then how we could not see them at the colony when trading?"

"Well they are really reserved, they keep their matters to their own, out attempts to talk to them while lunch time failed, but I managed to talk with the leader of the platoon, and he is very friendly and talkative..."

"Well captain Ramburgo, I asked you this because we might need the help of the Nigtrions..." he paused, waiting for the reaction of Ramburgo to be severe, but the old captain just limited to smile again.

"Problems chasing the Labyrinth Rambam?" said Ramburgo.

"Yes, see that ship has a skillful captain, like no one I have ever seen, the Labyrinth is a battle cruiser, and the USS Luna was designed for exploration and for supportive combat, I have no more soldiers to board it again, they stayed in the Labyrinth when he took the ship, along with my First Officer, I have few soldiers Ramburgo, and if you are not in a more grave situation, could you spare the Nigtrions and translate them into the USS Luna?"

"It is not my responsibility captain..." said Ramburgo, but then he was interrupted by Rambam.

"I know that a skillful captain could manage Command's retaliation of this..."

"Its not the problem captain" said the old Rambo a little angry, "the problem lies in that I have no authority on the Nigtrions, they are on the Kroc by their will, and I think they have chosen this ship just because of its name"

Rambam took a long breath, "you gotta be kidding me!" though; the Civatrons were just as stubborn as the Xhodocto were, and probably more, still he had to try...

"Captain, it is possible that I could speak to their Leader?"

The old captain opened his eyes "Master Leezard?" said Ramburgo surprised, "What is your point Rambam, you really need this warriors?"

"Yes, I really need them" repeated the USS Luna captain.

The old Rambo now was the one of the long breath, he changed his expression, a more thoughtful one, Rambam began sweating, will he say yes? or definitely no? Rambam could not imagine what the battle could be without the soldiers, assaulting an Imperial prison was really hard work to do!

Suddenly, the eyes of Ramburgo looked again Rambam, and said "Okay Rambam, I could arrange a meeting for you two..."

Rambam could barely hide his enthusiasm before the experienced captain of the Kroc, "T-thank you captain, I realy appreciate this, when could we meet?"

"Come to my office in three hours, Master Leezard will be returning from surface in that time" confirmed Ramburgo.

"Thank you captain, until then..." said Rambam, and the hologram disappeared.

At that moment the COM officer entered Rambam's quarters, he was so happy that almost grabbed the Pantorilisea's hand and dance with her, but did not, he just limited to say with enthusiasm the whole thing, her friend wanted to share his same happiness, but she was thinking of the consequences of this act, will she have the opportunity of seeing a Civatron, or now called Nigtrions?

The Meeting
Rambam walked across the Luna teleporter's desk, he was anxious, but as well nervous, talk with a Civatron? he never did that in the past! He did fight at their side, but only that, he never had the chance to talk even with a Civatron captain, he walked into the teleporter platform, an ensign clicked on several buttons, and the molecules of Rambam began separating, the captain didn't felt nothing at all.

Suddenly their molecules joined again, everything on its place, he was now on the Kroc's deck.

The Deck of the Akira class was a whole different from the Luna's, pretty too new and modern, Rambam really was surprised how the crew-members of that ship were so adapted to this kind of technology, putting his crew on one of these, will result in complete chaos for the Luna crew, Rambam was received by the personal ensign of Captain Ramburgo, a young Rambo female, pretty, but not as the beautiful pantorilisea.

"Welcome to the Kroc's deck sir" said the ensign, "The captain excuse the mess around here, we are repairing the ship from damage taken in the battle"

"That's all right, it looks pretty good right now" said truthful Rambam, the ensign just limited to smile.

"Could you come with me sir, the captain wait you in his office" said the Rambo female.

Rambam agreed by moving his head, and two walked across the deck, all around there were Engineers fixing panels, checking control systems, watching their writing device. The two entered a turbo lifter, and then they were at the bridge, this looked better, pretty advanced, everything seem more holographic than anything else, "the new improvements technology..." though Rambam, they walked a few meters from the elevator into another door, the ready room of the Captain Ramburgo.

This office was a lot bigger than the Luna's, it had also a desk for officer meetings, in the room, there were two shapes, one blue, and one purple, one Rambo, one Nigtrion. Ramburgo and Leezard were talking, but the two stopped by seeing Rambam entering the office.

"Ensign you are dismissed, please join us captain" said Ramburgo, the Nigtrion did not say a word, "Captain Rambam, may introduce you Master Leezard former leader of our Nigtrion platoon, Master Leezard, this is Captain Rambam of the USS Luna"

"Master, an honor to meet you" he tried to remember the word "hello" in Krassio, but as long as he tried, suddenly he remembered, "Thorbilojaritakai" said slowly.

The purple Civatron smiled, "Rambo'jaritakaimun" replied, "Do you know Krassio language captain?" asked Leezard.

"Just that phrase, no more, I was told that you were a honorable warrior Master, so I did my best effort" answered Rambam breathing now calmly, his best impression will open possibilities.

"I see" said quietly the Nigtrion.

"How was the battle?" asked our captain.

"Way to easy!" said Leezard almost screaming, Ramburgo had to close his eyes before that magnificent yell, "Those Lizardians were too easy to kill, my men did not suffer any injury at all, are like this all your enemies here in sector 82?" the Nigtrion punched his armored chest, "Ah! I remember the time of those glorious battles against the Xhodocto, they were great opponents, I killed many for myself, but what an opponent!"

Rambam looked to Ramburgo, who whispered: "just ignore him" Rambam then looked again at the Nigtrion and smiled, "Its that so? so do you want a real battle Master Leezard?"

"My heart and psionic veins hunger of a good battle, I could do anything to get one, and my brethren think the same"

Rambam saw this as an opportunity to convince him, "Well let's get to the point sir, I have come here to offer you this chance, what you saw down there was merely militia of the Lizardian's capabilities, you cannot possibly see a worthy opponent here, my Mission master is to chase an Elite Lizardian destroyer, full of elite soldiers now, they became stronger since our last engagement, if you are so mighty as you say, then this Lizardians could not be such a problem as these, though their may be..."

The Nigtrion's eyes glowed icy purple, angrily "Are you doubting of Nigtrion's power captain?" his voice made the room tremble, suddenly he had turned of a friendly, purple Civatron into an outraging psionic being capable of anything, Ramburgo began sweating and remained sat down, the two speakers stood up of their chairs, the Nigtrion was way to bigger than Rambam and a tall Rambo, the USS Luna captain had the result he expected.

"Maybe I'll have my doubts if you are afraid of facing this Lizardian elite" said Rambam serious.

The Nigtrion then showed his psionic-knuckled blade, green like a Rambula phaser and dangerous as a Rambo warp core's radiation, Ramburgo felt like he was tide up to his office chair, he could smell a short fight was coming, Rambam otherwise didn't had any intentions of showing any fear to the Nigtrion, he hadn't showed before in the Tigris War, neither against the Labyrinth, and he will never back up this time, he showed then his blade in a quick move.

The two looked few minutes, suddenly the Nigtrion moved his head upwards, Rambam feared that he could go that far, risking breaking the treaty and the Allegiance? he prepared by flexing his legs, but then the Nigtrion did an unexpected thing, he was laughing.

"HAHAHA!" screamed Leezard, Rambam shocked his head towards Ramburgo, he could only looked surprised to both of them, smiling, what could this probably mean? "You have a strong spirit captain, no fear, I like you, don't never back up Rambam, or you will regret it, its on your nature, we have an agreement then, I shall test this Lizardian elite and push them into their limits"

He turned down his blade, and so Rambam, the captain smiled, fortunately, he had success and his plan worked, Ramburgo smiled, happy of not seeing Rambo blood on his hands and a huge problem here.

"Captain Ramburgo..." said Master Leezard by turning into the Kroc's captain, "Sign our transfer to the USS Luna, and inform Rambo Command that we are now supporting Captain Rambam's mission, as for out little experiment, a whole success!"

"Done," Ramburgo, "You will now be onboard the Luna, Captain Ramburgo, I think I could take some of your crew-members in exchange, they will do normal work in our trip back to Rambo capitol, the Empress says this was is about to be finish in our favor, so we could take these crew mates in shore leaf to the Capitol."

"Sounds good, I'll will do a list of people suited for" said Rambam happy.

"I shall inform my superiors of this transfer, as well as my warriors, we are with you Captain" said Leezard

Rambam and Master Leezard left the ready room and separated, Rambam moved toward the teleporter again, happy to see as the everything looked promising, if the boarding procedure was too easy, now they had the best boarding party of the galaxy.

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