The Boo-Ya! Season 2- Issue 1: Part 1.1

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1.1: We open in a hallway somewhere aboard the Boo-Ya! one night; a nearby window showing a little section of space speeding by in the corner of the background. In the top left corner of the panel view, right where the ceiling is a single PING sound effect as…

CAPALDI

(Off-Panel, from that ceiling area)

What’s that bloody sound coming from? No flarking way! Is that…?

1.2: A beam of electricity shoots from the same area, revealing Capaldi in all his glory in the center of the panel view, waving eagerly at the reader.

CAPALDI

(Cont., cheerful) It is- HEY! Kinda weird seeing things from this “fourth wall” perspective. This must be that buzz Madam and the others talk about, just before it tips right into fully knackered. Anyway, how long has it been? Let’s see…

1.3: To the AI hologram’s left, a ticking clock appears with the proper answer on display- 2 years, 1 month, 3 hours (according to Eyarth standards).

CAPALDI

(remembering glance at the clock, before going back to their point)

Oh yeah, yeah! This is all a bit new to me. I just had a 4Meta filter installed into my software a few weatts ago. So things are a bit weird and fuzzy for me getting adjusted to it. Anyway, to those pretty peeps who are new to the ship and her crew, my name is Capaldi. I’m the dapper, witty and (if I may say so) quite brilliant AI switchblade of the motherflarking Boo-Ya! That’s what we call ourselves, though others usually go with the Boo-Ya!, or some other expletives that societies who shy away from such things would…not be great fans of, to put it kindly.

(Bubble 2)

The fine captain of this ship is called the Madam, one who is far more comfier in a dingy bar or Pleasuredome than in what peeps call “normal.” Her #1, pilot and kindred soul in many a platonic sense is Vanessatellier “Nessa” Ev, with Staehlia and Robin the logical support of…aye, it’d take a bit longer to explain all that. I think it’s best to just power on through what we’ve been up to since we saved the world from an evil MP with itchings for power.

(Bubble 3)

Well, we’ve kept busy wiith the usual fun underground nightlife stuff that makes up what we call “Normal…”

1.4: Holographic snapshots of the ship zooming away after stealing from TA cargo satellites that would end up…

CAPALDI

(Cont., Off-Panel) Then there were the other types of things that would be considered by some in the TA’s Hall of “Justice” as illegal, and to others…

1.5: The second half of the descriptor, showing the Madam and the rest of her crew off-loading the stolen gains to different settlements that are outside of the Alliance’s jurisdiction.

CAPALDI (Cont., Off-Panel)

…being given a chance to live a decent life, outside of the authoritarian dictats of the Prime Chancellor and the Parliament. Speaking of which…

1.6: Back on the ship, we see Capaldi a beat later shifting to another story that pops up into his head; the same pleasant demeanor that was in play as before.

CAPALDI

(Cont.)

Not that long ago, we were caught up in a big messy bit that weaved in both of those types of events: the fun, Underground nightlife stuff and the stuff that thoroughly annoys the elite of the Tristellar Alliance.

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2.1: In a series of flashbacks, we see the ladies in a bar in Kuhl, after many nights of drunken fun and debauchery, interacting with a royal maid filling them in on the latest high-paying job.

CAPALDI

(narrative 4Meta Caption)

It all started a little over a year ago when the maid of a royal of Titan with some semblance of power offered the ladies and enby (separate note- Staehlia came out as non-binary since last time we met. Surprised me a bit at first, but more I thought about it…more it made sense for xer) a sizable amount of ducats in exchange for one task: fix the annual Baarlax tournament in favor of a friend of the crown.

CAPALDI

(narrative 4Meta Caption 2)

Now, you might be asking what Baarlax is? Well, it’s- to use Eyarth examples- much like Go Fish, if AI avatars appeared at times to punch the snot out of the person with the losing hand. It’s safe to say that this is a very tough thing to pull off…

2.2: In the next flashback, set on Titan, we see the Mob boss known as Falk chatting up with lieutenants to plan out strategy when it comes to our fine heroines. It ends up appearing in the form of…

CAPALDI

(Cont., narrative 4Meta Caption)

Especially when there’s a pretty vengeful Mob boss on the other side of things with his own sizable stake on that same Baarlax tourney. One with a lot of power and resources and a misogynistic streak as wide as the planes of Ouvn’ss Prime. Which, for reference, are as wide as one of your football stadiums (either the American version or actual one).

2.3: …a TA cruiser, which is seen out in a dogfight with the Boo-Ya! moments later. You can see flashes of return fire from the latter ship coming at the much larger opponent, with a few of the blasts landing with a lifeless thud.

CAPALDI

(Cont., narrative Caption)

Not to mention enough clout within the tiny brained minions of the Parliament to have a TASF SkyCruiser sent to try to blast us out of the proverbial sky once he found out about the plan and it went kablooie. That was fun…much like what you humahns dread root canals without anesthesia, or nude skinny dipping on the ice planet of Droobke for those of us in the more advanced centers of the universe.

CAPALDI

(Cont., narrative Caption) There were some sweet and less life threatening moments that came about while hiding out from those brainless, shoot happy grunts. Namely, we found out a little bit about Staehlia’s love life with a cutie named Mani, which was sweet and quite fascinating to say the least. Unfortunately, they weren’t as lucky to start exploring things before the long arm of the fascist sky grunts came around…but I’m getting ahead of myself.

2.4: We see them at the tournament on Titan weiis later, dressed to the proverbial nines and protectively armed; Madam at the front, ready to compete.

CAPALDI

(Cont., narrative Caption)

After that near death experience, we were able to regroup and head back out for the Baarlax tournament to salvage some semblance of a win out of it. There was a lot of smoke and fire and a daring escape off-planet with a considerable amount of ched in the cargo hold- ya know, the usual bit of biz for exploits aboard this ship.

2.5: In the aftermath, after the ladies made their escape, we see Staehlia get the message from the aforementioned hideout on Titan notifying of Mani’s capture aboard an SF prison satellite.

CAPALDI

(Cont., narrative 4Meta Caption)

We didn’t get to celebrate the W that long before we got word about Mani’s capture by the TASF. After some angry growling and expletives flung from the good cap’n, we got to work on planning her escape. Which brings us to…

ROBIN

(regular caption) Yo, Cap- time to get to work!