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Planet Valor

Joy to the World: chapter 2

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At the same time on an old airship passing over Planet Valor’s skies were the three members of famous rock band The Sirens; Echo Bear (the band’s drummer), Melody the Colugo (the keyboardist), and Harmony Heart (the lead vocals and guitarist) were heading to Ginger Island due to them having a gig on that islands annual holiday festival and to see their friends. Harmony is especially excited because she gets to see Aurora, her friend, hero, and someone she’s in love with; that last one is an open secret she has with her bandmates because the caracal doesn’t want to make things awkward between the two of them. This became something that Harmony was thinking about while strumming her guitar whiles onboard the very ship, which caused her to accidently cause one of the strings to break off.

As Harmony got up to replace the broken guitar string a loud noise like a plane engine began to echo through the sky and even be loud enough to be heard in her cabin. This might be because of how old the ship was and them not wanting to fly in anything fancy to avoid getting any unwanted attention by the press until they performed on stage on the night before Christmas but the sound was still noticeable. Follow by several explosions joining in on the echoing as well.

“Harmony, Melody needs you and Echo to come and see this,” Melody in her usual habit of breaking talking in the third person. The wildcat, trusting her young friend immediately went with the colugo to the deck with the duo waking up their drummer to come along. As they were running to the deck they noticed that the humans on the ship that being the remaining passengers and crew were trying to find cover, especially due to the fact that as they were running the bandmates they found out the explosions were coming from cannon fire.

“Listen here ladies we need to prepare fight because we could be dealing with pirates, monsters or even-”

As Harmony was talking they made to the upper deck when noticed a clearly more militaristic airship and it was one they remember all too well for it was the Zephyr; the personal air ship of Vesper Metallic the right hand of the villainous Dr. Neuron.

“Great just what we needed for the holidays,” the guitarist sarcastically uttered remembering with her history The Sirens have had with the metallic menace. Right on que Vesper gave a mighty leap from the serpent and landed the passenger ship with a force that made the liner shake, Harmony looked with distain at this monstrosity and everything she did to her both physically and mentally. This causing her to pull out her guitar, Echo Banshee (which would sound strange it not for the fact that it was designed to before used for performances and combat) with the attempt to smash the robot to pieces as at the same time she ran right towards Vesper at fantastical speeds.

Harmony swung vertically to strike Vesper in the head; however the automatic assassin step back immediately almost making the wildcat hit the ground. “Why are you here Vesper? Unless you’ve been submitting yourself as my stalker ever since Aurora saved me when we first met, because I can’t for the light me why a right felon like Neuron would want me and me mates for.” As Harmony was talking her opponent rushed at her like a lightning bolt almost hitting her in the heart if not for the guitarist using her guitar to block the attack and utilizing her history of Jeet Kune Do to use Echo Banshee to throw Vesper onto the ground with enough force to break push back her right arm joints removing the arm in the process.

I kind of forgot that Neuron didn’t program this calculator with text-to-speech. Harmony thought as she had Vesper pin to the ground and began to raise her voice.

“Melody, Echo, I was wondering if it would be to kind to get on this daft drone’s ship and not faff around watching me fight just so we’d know why he’s attacking!” Harmony said with frustration as her two friends were watching the wildcat swing at Vesper’s like a croquet ball only for the indigo killbot to sweep her legs, landing on her butt. Then to be slammed backwards due to Vesper grabbing her by the throat with the attempt to choke Harmony to death, due to the fact that Vesper was enraged which is one thing that separates her from any of Neuron’s robot, that she was programmed with emotions.

Vesper decided to finish this by setting up a kinetic needle to be fired into Harmony’s neck. That is until Echo charged at them knocking the droid off her friend saving Harmony.

“Thanks Echo,” Harmony said gasping for air.

“No problem we’d both know you’d be in trouble without me anyway,” Echo said with her usual slow simple tone. The polar bear looked down at the robotic foe towering over the machine which makes sense since Echo is a giant in comparison to Vesper who is the same size Aurora.

“Melody is already on Vesper’s ship so whatever Neuron’s plan is she’ll figure it out.” Echo proceeds to run at the robotic villain swinging her fist like a fight just broke out in the middle of the streets landing each blow. But Vesper was definitely made of tougher stuff, because while the punches from the incredibly strong polar bear did knock back and even the damage the bot to some degree it wasn’t enough. Because Dr. Neuron’s most powerful robot grabbed the Echo by the arm using both of its legs and slammed the drummer right into the deck causing inward bending on the floor. Harmony proceeded to stand up, guitar in hand with a serious scowl upon her face and told Echo,

“Get away love and make sure you’ve covered your ears.” As on command the drummer rolled away immediately both hands over her ears when she noticed her friend lift the volume dial upwards and adjust a few of the tuning pegs. This cased Echo Banshee’s headstock to open at the very top revealing a small USW and proceeded to point it at Vesper with Harmony getting ready to strum her guitar.

Echo Banshee isn’t at full power because one of the strings broke off. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be nice personal number one fan. Harmony though to herself with her releasing a concentrated blast of concentrated sound from the headstock with enough force to blast Vesper point blank in the chest leaving a one way hole just right over the power core.

But before the rockstar could finish the job Vesper proceed to make a beeping noise in as it happens releases a flash of blinding white light right into Echo and Harmony’s eyes temporally blind the two. When they got their eyesight back they noticed that their opponent had disappeared,

“Did Vesper just teleport?” The bear asked with a headache.

“No chap,” Harmony answered while still frustrated at the flash, “It was just a flash bang grenade I think Vesper ran right back to her…Oh no, Mel!!!” The wildcat came to the realization that her young colugo friend was about to be on board a warship with a foul-tempered weapon of destruction. This caused her to run directly towards the Zephyr in the hopes of at the very least she could save Melody, only for the keyboardist fly right into her older friend like a cannonball just before Harmony jumped ship.

The Zephyr retreated just as soon as Melody ran right into Harmony knocking back down onto the deck once again and said,

“Well Melody was on board the Zephyr the only thing she saw that implied any bad guy actions was a bunch of money inside the cellar. So Melody thinks Vesper was only here to steal money from the ship and we just happened to be here.” As Melody was talking the human’s began make their way back up noticing the wreckage from the attack but were thankful that the damage was very minuscule at a glance.

One of the humans, clearly the ship’s captain, walked up to the trio with a look of gratitude and proceeded to tell his crew,

“Don’t worry if she’s still flying we’re safe and we can take her to get repaired. If it doesn’t look to bad we can make it to Ginger Island on schedule.” The captain said, “Thanks you three how can we ever repay you?”

The Banshees looked at each other with confusion as they weren’t really expecting a reward for doing this but because it was the right thing to do. Of course they are surprised that a reward was given anyway they did stop a supervillain from raiding the ship and possibly harming everyone on board they would be some semblance of gratitude for this as a result. Until a discussion was made between the three friends over who should pick.

“Melody wasn’t involved with the fight so she shouldn’t really have a say in the reward,” the colugo first responded.

Followed by the bear saying, “To be honest we could make the travel expenses free for stopping the ship from being raided.” However the wildcat throwing her hat into the ring, “Echo the ship could use the money as part of the repairs.”

“Oh so you got a better idea?”

“Honestly, why are we asking for something in return anyway?”

“Well he is offering.”

It was then as Echo and Harmony were arguing that Melody proceeded to scream out in surprise.

“Harmony’s right, considering that where we are going and for what reason, and that’s the reason for the season.” This lead to two other members to stop and think about it for a second but the reward wasn’t important. And so Harmony turned and walk towards the captain with her answer,

“Terribly sorry captain but consider what we did a Christmas gift for this entire crew. So we aren’t asking for any rewards just know The Banshees are always ready to perform on and off stage for a show worth watching.” Harmony proclaimed to the captain a mantra that she believes The Banshees should follow as they decided to join the path of heroes.

The captain then acknowledged them by saying this, “So there is such a thing as celebrities with a real heart. So what happened to make you follow that path?”

“One time I as was captured by Dr. Neuron for one of his evil schemes and it was probably going to happen if Aurora didn’t show up and saved me after that day I wanted to help her out and become a hero myself.” The guitarist said with conviction this being something that impressed him leading him to ask,

“Okay how ‘bout you three tell me about me your adventures and maybe even play us a song at dinner tonight.”

“Melody would love for you to hear these stories,” The colugo said. “And hey we were going to get paid for performing at Ginger Island’s Christmas Festival so the practice show wouldn’t be too bad,” Echo said out loud.

“Then it’s settled captain that’s going to be our deal. Just let me restring my guitar and meet you later tonight.” Harmony said as The Banshees when back to their cabin to prepare for the rest of their voyage as part of their Christmas journey.

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