"Where…" I asked, "Where am I?" My voice sounded hoarse. I clutched at my throat, trying to open my eyes. I found that I was not able to. Well yes, but actually no. I could feel my eyes being closed, at the same time, I could see.
The world was blurry, probably because I was looking… through(?) my eyelids. "What is this?" Everything felt wrong, so I stood up. The floor was made from cold stone, polished to perfection. There were no walls in sight,—or they were glowing, because—in every direction I glanced was an infinite white void.
I started to wander around, hoping I would find someone else.
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The Teddy Emperor had just run into an empty small racing shuttle. He hurried to sit down, closing the entrance just moments before the group of Geddos copies hunting him reached it. They started to pound against the shuttle as he put on the seatbelt.
"So… How do you work?" He asked the shuttle. Activating the eye Lana had shared with him, he started to read the code which controlled the shuttle. With quick and precise movement, which for any bystander would appear random and aggressive, he activated the ship, making it levitate, before the control panel extended towards his hands. "Just the way I like it."
The surrounding Geddos copies all either fell to the ground as the shuttle lifted up into the air or stepped back. Either way, their gazes were fixed on the shuttle with an angry expression covering their faces. "You coward!"
Turning the shuttle a full 180 degrees, he shortly was able to see their angry faces and, with a smug grin covering his face, he waved them nicely. And then he hit the gas( well, they are powered on stars, so not really gas, but fuck it).
The shuttle dashed forward, hitting a handful of Geddos copies and knocking them back. They slid to a halt on the other side of the hangar.
"Catch me if you can!" He screamed in delight as he left the hangar and flew into the halls he had come from. While he could have escaped, as the hangar was open, he wanted to see if Captain Teddy had escaped yet. "Hihihi!"
He activated the hidden autopilot. "How convenient Lana's eyes are."
Suddenly, the seat was forcefully turned around. His eyes widened. "Hi." He said shyly with a small—almost cute—wave. The person who had turned his seat, to which he was bound by the seatbelt, lifted his fist. "Shit!" The Teddy Emperor said and quickly kicked his attacker into his genitals while his fist flew towards his face.
His attack missed as he curled onto the ground. "You… bastard!" He cried as he tried standing up again, holding his hand before his genitals in pain. His face was covered by an evil and angry expression, directed at the Teddy Emperor.
"I don't really know about being a bastard, I don't remember my parents." He tilted his head to the side, innocently, "You speaking out of experience? You one?" He quickly blinked twice with abnormally large eyelashes.
"You dirty—" He tried to choke the Teddy Emperor and was headbutted away.
He unlocked his seatbelt and quickly ran back to the console. "I fucking love this ability to change my appearance, even if I just tweak the numbers, so she can reset it later if I break myself." He started to bash his fists violently against the console to shake the shuttle until his attacker, who was being thrown against every possible surface in the shuttle, was unconscious.
Right before crashing into a wall, he grabbed the console, trying to steer the shuttle around the corner. But he failed. The Teddy Emperor crashed against the wall and burst straight through it. Scared of dying to the vacuum of space, he quickly put on one of the helmets on the shuttle as the front of the shuttle exploded into thousands of tiny pieces and he avoided death.
His arm vibrated and he lifted it to his eyes. "Shit!" He pressed the accept button as Lana's face appeared on his wrist. "Hi~! How are you? What's up, why are you calling?" He asked.
"Your heart rate shot up to a dangerous level, my liege. Shall I come and get you?" Concern in her voice while her eyes were dark.
"Pff… No…" He tried acting nonchalantly.
"You're in the vacuum of space, your highness. And there are 16 battle-ready space ships flying towards you." As the Teddy Emperor turned around panicked, trying to hide in the shuttle's wreckage, one of her arms extended from the little screen and grabbed onto some rubble.
"Ah!" He screamed as he saw that.
Her shoulder, neck and head followed her arm before the second one extended. She grabbed onto another piece of rubble and looked into the Teddy Emperor's eyes with a flirtatious and triumphant smile before pulling her torso and legs through the tiny screen. "I've told you this was a bad idea."
"Everything worked out—" He was interrupted as the wreckage started to shake and started to burn and glow. He looked at the space ships attacking the wreckage while others searched for him in the general vicinity. "I deem your help necessary. Save me this instance!" He commanded, after a moment of silence, he quietly added: "Please."
Lana grabbed his collar and sprinted off the wreckage, seconds before it blew up and the two shot away and into the dark abyss which is space, vanishing from the radar of the Geddos copies in their space ships.
"Question: How come we can speak in space? Soundwaves don't travel through the vacuum of space." He asked.
"I decided we could, so we can."