Knights of Daybreak: 2 By: W.Bob Yankovic Well if you are reading this you must have liked the first part. I just wanted to say that I don't plan on writing every one of these fics. I just wanted to write the first few to establish the basis of what I wanted to happen in the series. Mac will get his chance on part 4. If you can suffer through two more of mine I am sure that he will not let ya down. Enjoy the fic. "Yes I know that I am going to be hounded by Brin and his lackeys," I spoke into the screen. Two days after my fiasco appearance into the head position at NCC I was literally being flooded by mail and incoming calls. Katrina reclined on the couch half asleep. I didn't think that the Brin situation was more important so I cut off the screen leaving some "high ranking employee" in Varacron, the second largest company that I now had control of, screaming at a blank screen. I walked over to Katrina and picked up her bare feet so I could sit down. I looked over at her and asked "Whatcha wanna do?" She laughed half heartedly and closed her eyes. I reached down to tickle her feet but she caught me in half reach, "Don't even think about it," she said. I pulled her up to face me and she plopped her head down on my shoulder. "Why do you have to fight with all of these nobody from nowhere people?" she asked, "Can't they just accept that you pulled the biggest back burn in recorded history?" I shook my head and told her that it was just a natural reaction to a big change, and that the calls and letters would soon slack off. "Why don't you see what Mac is up to?" she asked searching for some kind of entertainment. I agreed and I punched up his number. A very aggrivated Mac answered the transmition. "WHAT DO YOU WANT AND NO I DON'T DO MEDIA INTERVIEWS?!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. Then when he realized who it was and apologized profusely. "Sorry man I have been asked a million times to give a story or a quote. I am beginning to wonder if you set me up by giving me this job. Anyway, watcha up to?" he asked. I let out a low laugh and Katrina removed her fingers from her ears. "I was just wondering if you looked over any of those profiles that I gave you?" he gave me a very puzzled look. "The files, of the possible recruits, that I gave you personally yesterday," I explained. He slapped the palm of his hand against his forehead. "Man, I haven't even picked those up. I promise I will get right to them. Oh by the way Ray called me earlier, said that he might have a personal request for a new SG," he added. I gave him a little suprised look and poked Katrina, "Hear that dear, the man that 'dissolves all ties' with us has a selection," I said jokingly, "Who is this wiz kid?" I asked Mac. "I think that he said his name was, ohhh what was his name," Mac said to himself. He snapped his fingers and tapped his pencil on his desk. "Ahhh, I can't remember, I think it was some kinda "K" name. Ray said that he would fit nicely in with you. I believe that women were mentioned," he said with a grin. "Kinneas, Irvine Kinneas, I bet you that is who Ray was talking about," Kinneas was a sharpshooter from a very parrallel dimention to the one that Cloud came from. I had heard of him but never saw him as a candidate for a SG. Then a grand scheme fell into place. What if instead of being fighters we, the Supreme Gaurdians each had a sphere of expertiece. "Mac how soon can you be ready to go to Earth sigma?" I asked as I picked Katrina up in my arms. "I'm on my way out the door, meet ya in the hangar," he said as he switched off his monitor. As we flew in Hogo toward a large portal I picked up a file and began to read it. "Cratin Jur, 25, Lock pick/master of disguise, deputy in some backwater dimention, second in his class, grade wise. How does he sound?" I asked Mac. "Sounds good, but how did he do in fighter training and hand to hand combat?" he countered. "Ummm, 7 of 10 in fighter sims, 8 of ten in Hand to Hand," I said with a smile. "What do his instructors say about him?" Mac asked. "You overanalyse things way to much, and his instructors say that he is a little rowdy but nothing to be conserned with," I added. "Add him to the list of interviews," Mac said. I tossed the file into a stack of about three. We had been through almost 50 by the time we got to a stable orbit around Earth Sigma. There were a few good ones, some middle range, and the largest group was the ones that didn't stand a chance. I guess I just skimmed the files, don't bite my head off. Among the most promising were Shandra Kreen, Cratin Jur, Sarhedren Blackknife. and Draco Fireclaw. Shandra was a 20 year old Jedi that was trained by Corran Horn. Her specialty was telepathy, she was rated higher than even myself in this specific area of the Force, she lacked the ability to move large objects. She also came with a warning that the Dark Side had tempted her before, she reacted well but only with others to help. Mac almost had a fit but I was a Jedi and I could always be there to help. Sarhedren was a 32 year old master of tracking and survival. He had once been stranded in a jungle, without a computer, on an uninhabited planet and survived for 6 years totally by himself. He was supposed to be very crafty and sly, sounded strangly like MegaJester. He would be very good on missions that called for us to sneak up on someone. Mac and I both agreed that he would be a very good addition to the team. The most surprising file that I found all day was Draco Fireclaw. He was only 16 but he was a wiz at fighting, hand to hand and in an aircraft. He was the first person to make a perfect 10 in both cataories since Ray and I went through the training program. I had some reserves on letting him even interview, but Mac said that he was obviously mature enough to make it as a supreme gaurdian. He would be the next interview after we hopefully picked up Irvine. I was looking forward to the new Supreme Gaurdians. As we touched down on the planet I opened up a map to see if we could locate Mr. Kinneas without searching too much. My best guess is that he would be at Balamb Garden, he had trained there as a SeeD during his teenage years. Katrina decided that she wanted to do some shopping so we dropped her and the trees off at some huge town that covered up almost a whole continent. I think it was called Esthar. Anyway Mac and I hopped into a fighter and sped off toward Balamb. "So you think that Irvine is really SG material?" Mac asked for the hundreth time. "That is why we are going to interview him isn't it?" I countered. Mac just nodded and pointed me down to the huge mobile training facility that was Balamb Garden. I landed the fighter on a deck and hopped out the plane while Mac locked up the ship, you can never be too careful in strange dimentions. A deck officer rushed out and pointed a blaster carbine at me, "What are you doing here and who are you?" he demanded in a husky voice. I explained to him who we were and why we were here and he told me to come with him. I still didn't think that he trusted us because he kept his hand on his gun as he followed behind. As we walked throught the building I saw three people pushing around what appeared to be a new recruit. The tallest was a dark skinned man and he kept saying "Yo, you better do what he says!" Another was a skinny girl with an eye patch that appeared to be a very strict drill sargent or something. Whenever she said anything it was always screams at the top of her lungs. The ring leader was a guy with a white trench coat on. He was holding a very peculiar weapon that looked like a pistol with a sword where the barrel should be. He was saying, "Pay up! Don't make me get mad!" I decided to make a first impression. I reached out in the Force and lifted all three of the group off the ground and floated them my way. "That isn't very nice now is it?" I asked. "PUT ME DOWN!" the skinny girl said. "How about you all leave this kid alone," I said using the Force to play with their minds. "Hey, Rajin, Fujin, why don't we leave the kid alone?" The man with the gun-blade said. I put them down and looked behind me to the deck officer that was standing with his mouth opened. "H-how did you do that?" he asked. "Parlor trick," I replied, "Now can I see Irvine?" The elevator clinged as we reached the dormitories. We stepped out and I was directed to go to the fourth door on the left. As I opened the door a muffled gun blast went off. I almost immediatly brought out my lightsaber and Mac began to power up. The tall man with the gun stood up and tipped his cowboy hat at me. "Pardon my gun here, I was just taking target practice," he said in a country accent. He closed the window he was shooting out of and asked Mac and I to sit down. "So you came from another dimention huh, man this is like serious flash back here," Irvine said after Mac and I explained our situation. "Yep, and we came here to recruit you," said Mac. He gave me a puzzled look and leaned back in his chair to prop his feet up. "I'm game is there anything in particular you want me to do to prove myself?" he asked laughing. "Well you could show me some of your sharp shooting skills," I said. He hopped out of his chair, picked up his gun, and opened the window again. "You see that rock?" he asked. I looked out the window, there about a half mile away in a field was a boulder about the size of a car. "Yeah I see it," I said skeptically. It was a long distance but I was almost positive that I could hit it with a pistol. "You see the coin that I cemented on top of it?" Irvine said when he saw my expression. I looked out the window, I couldn't tell that there was anything there at all so I opened a portal and stuck my head through. Sure enough there was a twenty gil coin cemented to the rock. I drew my head back in the room and told him to go ahead. "Can do, I am gonna dead center that coin," he said. He stuck his gun out the window but I could tell that he wasn't aiming at the rock. "Hey-" Mac tried to say, I wanted to see what was up so I waved him off. Irvine took very careful aim, took a deep breath and squeezed the trigger. The bullet exploded out the barrel and right toward a car that was passing on the road. It hit the antennae of the car and ricocheted off directly to the rock. A large hunk of rock flew off along with the coin as the bullet hit. The impact of the bullet threw the still untouched bullet into the air. He quickly reloaded and turned to face me. He stuck the gun over his shoulder, pulled a mirror , and blasted the coin to pieces. "Your in," Mac and I said in unison. "This place thing is bigger than the Ragnarock," Irvine said as we boarded Hogo. I introduced him to Katrina, who had spent way to much money on strange stuff that we would probably never use, Kyusai, and then Hogo. He almost freaked out when Hogo spoke to him. "You have alot to learn," Mac said. Irvine just nodded and asked where he could put his stuff for the time being. I directed him down the cooridor and to the first room on the left. He trotted off, his cowboy boots clinking on the floor. "We have got to get him some new clothes," Katrina said. I laughed and set a course for the Suir Lux dimention. I had never been here but they supposedly had the reputation for the best fighters in the universe. I hoped that our young Draco was up to par. "WHAT WAS THAT!?" Irvine yelled as our ship made a pass through a portal. He came running out with a mouthfull of tooth paste and a toothbrush hanging out of his mouth. "That was a transdimentional portal," Hogo exclaimed over his loudspeaker. Irvine shook his head and left. He returned soon after wearing an official Supreme Gaurdian outfit with his overcoat and cowboy hat. He had switched out his cowboy boots for some issued black boots that were worn by almost everyone. "These new threads are kinda spiffy," he said giving a little fake twirl like a model on a runway. I told him to follow Mac and I to the hangar. "Hey Mac, I think that I am going to give him a fighter lesson, you go ahead in one of the others," I said. Mac nodded and added that his prayers would be with me. "Now just ease the stick back to where the little plane picture is even with the blue line," I said. He was better than I thought that he would be. He made almost a perfect landing, the only thing he did wrong was well he landed on a busy freeway and almost got us killed. But besides that he did pretty good. Mac met up with us in front of a large temple that looked like something from Japan or Wutai. We walked into the dojo to see a small boy fighting a mountain of a man. He was bigger than almost any human I had ever seen, plus he seemed to be an adept in the art of Ki fighting. The large man hurled a huge fireball at the kid but it was deflected. Before the man could react the kid was flying directly at his knee. The sound of a bone crunching and tendons snapping filled the room. "Very good, Draco," a very old man said as he walked over to the child. "Thank you master," the kid said as he bowed. "Hey, you there, Draco Fireclaw!" Mac called out. Draco looked over and said, "How do you know me?" Irvine, Mac and I walked over and explained how we were gaurdians and that he had been through the acadamy and scored very highly. He then told me that I could take the DGF and shove it up my butt. It seems that the only reason he went through the acadamy was to prove his man hood. That really stunk. "Just think of the people you would get to save!" Mac said. "Yeah plus they got really neat stuff," Irvine added. "I will come with you only if you will face me in combat and defeat me," he said. Mac and I tried to hold back a laugh. This guy might have had a 10 in hand to hand, but we could go way farther than superhuman. "How bout this, we have a few more people to pick up so if you come with us I promise that I will beat you," I said. "You should not be so cocky," Draco said, "but I will come with you." "Great!" Mac said. "Now all we have to do is find a man that is hard to find even if you know where he is, and find a woman who can trick you into thinking that she isn't there," I said with a laugh as the four of us walked out the dojo. "This ship is like none I have ever seen," Draco said as he walked aboard Hogo. He dissappeared for the rest of the trip. I could have told Hogo to track him but I figured that would only scare him off. It was for the best anyway cause I didn't want him challenging any new SG recruits, and scaring them off. He was impressive for a sixteen year old. "We are now entering Star Wars Alpha," Katrina said happily from the helm. I had let her pilot my ship only under the deal with Hogo that he make sure that he didn't crash. She was a natural at it though. How I have no idea, she was after all from a land whose most advanced technology is something that you can make out of wood. "Mac you might wanna stay here and make sure that Draco doesn't try anything stupid while we are gone. Just don't fight him on the ship, take it outside," I said. "Can do, I needed to take a quick nap anyway," he replied as Katrina and I walked to the hangar. I figured that Shandra would feel a little more open with a girl to talk to. I made a quick scan of the planet with the Force. I could detect her on the night side, I hoped that she wouldn't be angry with a pop in at night. "I know she is around here somewhere," I said as we flew my H-Wing low over the surface of the planet. "Her house might be underground," Katrina suggested. I looked behind me into her eyes and thanked God for female intuition. I made a sweep for metal with my scanners and sure enough a small pocket of technology popped up about ten meters in front of me hidden by a clump of bushes. "Let's pay Miss Kreen a visit," I said. I landed our fighter and the one in tow for Katrina on the way back about a foot from her front door. I hopped out and tapped on the hatch with my foot. "Go away! This is locked with a level thirty seven encription code and ten inches of steel!" Shandra said through a small speaker that was hidden in a rock. "Um, we are here to ask for your help," Katrina said. "I know why you are here and my answer is no!" she shouted. "Ok honey, pick the lock for me," Katrina said. "Level thirty seven huh, I could crack that in my sleep," I said as I took off my glove. I placed my hand onto the hatch and quickly ran the numbers. It hissed and popped open about a second later. As the steel circle raised, a small Force blast that would have sent a regular human flying exploded from the whole. "That tickled, now I am coming down," I called to her. I picked up Katrina and floated down. As soon as my feet hit the floor a gun barrel hit my forehead. It was dark on the inside so I only heard her voice. "I do not want to be a Gaurdian," Shandra said. "Why not?" I asked slowly as not to scare her, "you have emminse power within you." "I also have the Dark Side in me. I would hurt too many people," she explained. "Hey, don't even start with the Dark side hun, I have scuba dived in it. The worst you have done is stick your toe in," I said. "Shandra, we could really use your help," Katrina said, "Plus Shane her is a Jedi, he was trained by Luke Skywalker. He has helped many people in the area of the Force." "You were trained by Master Skywalker?" she said in disbelief. "I was there when he died, I helped kill the man that killed him, he was a good friend," I said. "I can see that you are telling the truth," she said, "surely if Master Skywalker trusted you I should at least give you a try. Back on Hogo we assembled the cast, minus Draco who was still wandering around somewhere. I updated them on our mission and introduced them to Shandra. We all decided that after we went to talk to Sarhedrin that we would go to some secluded dimention and train. It sounded good to me. We landed on a planet not too far from where Shandra lived. Mac and I were supposed to locate and recruit Sarhedrin. We began to scan the area looking for any kind of sign that someone lived here. Mac directed me to a small clearing and we walked over. As soon as we set foot in the clearing, a huge net sprung out from under our feet and secured us quite tightly to the ground. Then a tall gray haired man walked out of the bushes holding a spear and a blaster. "Who are you?" he asked. "We are from the DGF, we want to recruit you," Mac said. "DGF, huh, you mean the people that left me stranded on that hell hole of a planet for six years? I think I'll pass," Sarhedrin said as he walked over to release us. "But we could really use your help," I added as I dusted myself off. "What position will I have if I go with you?" he asked with a sly glare. "A supreme gaurdian, you would have acess to almost everything in the DGF," Mac said in his best salesman's voice. "How bout I come along for a week. If I like it I name my own supplies, if I hate it I come back here and you people forget I was alive," he barganed. "Fine by me," I said as I stuck out my hand. He just looked at me and said "Wait here I have to get some things." With the new group of supreme gaurdians in tow Hogo flew into a sparcely inhabited dimention. As everyoe walked out onto the planet we decided to train on they saw some people standing at a distance. "Welcome to your training session," Anubis said. The new SG's were going to be tested by the Renegade Force.