From a space probe somewhere in the Grimore solar system...
"General Iratel!"The slightly pudgy man at the indecipherable control panel span around on his leather chair with a scowl.
"What now?!" he yelled irately, clearly not appreciating the use of his last name as such.
"And I'm General Earth to you!"Whoever had called him by that name was obviously quite used to the treatment.
"General Iratel," the voice cooed again, shrugging off the glare (oh, if looks could kill...)
"Would you mind sending out a scanner? We're supposed to be running a Galactic Protection order here, we don't want the fiasco from a couple days ago...""Shut it!" Alphaeus lashed out, and smashed his fist on the nearest available flat surface.
Said available flat surface was the control panel.
"Distress beacon activated."The entire ship suddenly began to resonate with a distinctly feminine voice repeating several stock cautionary phrases over and over again, and the entire ship took on a rather reddish cast, due to the fact that each of the lights, once a pleasant whitish colour, had suddenly taken on an unattractive mauve shade.
The fact that someone had, in their surprise and fear, effused several bodily fluids all over themselves and surrounding objects was not helping the situation.
At all.
And why was everybody running around with their hands flailing in every direction?
From a Magiton Gunship approximately 30 miles away...
"Why is there suddenly a giant red circle in the middle of space?""Orienda, did you divide by zero again? You know what happened last time."The brown-haired woman gave her attendant a glassy stare, and he took it as his cue to suddenly need to use the lavatory.
After Rigel's 'fun' encounter with the bathrooms regarding having to stay there for a period of time much longer than five minutes (an unspecified span of time which, incidentally, was punctuated by several awkward groans, moans, and high-pitched yeeps) he suddenly found himself dragged from one of the comfier armchairs by the Magiton-powered campfire (who said spaceships couldn't have useless creature comforts?) over to the crude radar system, which was beeping unpleasantly.
"Explain this," Orienda breathed.