S.P.E.C.T.O.R – [A Sci-fi space adventure with fantasy elements]

“Is everything ok, Malgath?” Lady Erkath asked with concern as everyone recognised the special meaning of the alarm tone that sounded.

That special tone was only used for one thing, which was when a member of a planet’s emergency personnel was using the unibands emergency contact procedure.

“Hmm? Oh yes, yes, my apologies, everyone.” Malgath said in a slightly distracted tone before pulling himself together and apologising, after which he said.

“When I heard the alarm, I thought …. Well, I’m sure you understand.”

“Of course, we all thought the same thing when we heard that dreadful alarm.” Lady Erkath replied with a frown.

“Indeed, however, it’s not what we all assumed, thankfully.” Malgath replied before explaining, “It’s not an emergency alert and is just a normal holocall from Diva Rowena.”

“Diva Rowena? Why would her holocall activate the emergency alert of your uniband? Are you on her emergency contact list?” Lady Erkath asked with interest before adding, “I knew you were friends, but I didn’t realise you were that close.”

“She never informed me about adding me as her emergency contact,” Malgath replied with curiosity.

“Perhaps you should answer the call then and find out why it happened, I mean, she must know you’re hosting The MMM Show right now, and so she must have an important reason to contact you.” Lady Erkath replied.

“You must be right, if you’re sure you are ok with me answering her call, we can find out what’s going on,” Malgath replied.

“Of course, after all, I haven’t spoken to Diva Rowena in quite a while, and I would love to catch up with her.” Lady Erkath replied with a chuckle.

“Very well,” Malgath replied before accepting a call, making the holographic display above his uniband slightly bigger before Rowena’s beautiful face appeared on it with a frown.

“About time you answered, Malgath. I thought you and Erkath were going to sit there discussing my call all night.” Rowena said as soon as the holocall connected.

“Well, you shocked everyone in the studio when your call activated my uniband’s emergency contact alarm.” Malgath replied before asking, “Why did that happen by the way?”

“That’s not important.” Rowena replied dismissively before saying, “What is important is for you to link this call to your studio’s holographic projector so that we can create a new precedent in the Holochat Show industry.” 

“Pardon?” Malgath asked with confusion.

“Just do what I say, you won’t regret it.”

Malgath frowned for a moment before saying, “Fine, fine, this better not be a prank though, you know I’m live right now.”

“Of course I know, I have your show in front of me, while accompanied by Lorelie and Tephe.” 

“Diva Lorelie and Dragon Princess Tephe are there with you?” Malgath asked in surprise as Lady Erkath showed a surprised look on her beautiful face, and the audience murmured in excitement.

“Booo, why do I have to keep telling people just to call me Tephe, I’m no princess after all.” A voice sounded from the holocall that none of them recognised.

“There, there, maybe if you inform Malgath, he can let people know for you.” Another voice replied that people this time recognised as belonging to Diva Lorelie.

“Oh, good idea.” The first voice replied with excitement before saying, “Diva Rowena, tell him to hurry up so that I can ask him directly.

“Well, you heard Tephe, Malgath, hurry up,” Rowena said with her signature smirk.

“Err, sure,” Malgath replied with uncertainty while the audience laughed at his reaction.

“Oh, what’s this? Is the great and famous Holochat Show host Malgath Morthil Mirawenys flustered because something is not going to script?” Rowena asked in a mocking tone that made the audience laugh louder.

Malgath ignored her jab before linking his uniband with the studio’s holographic projector, causing Rowena’s beautiful face to appear for all to see. As it did so, the audience burst into cheers and applause at the sight of her.

“Hello everyone, it’s been only a short time, but it’s good to be back,” Rowena said while showing her signature smirk before continuing.

“I have a surprise for you all. Would you like to know what it is?” 

“YES,, the audience cried as Malgath and Lady Erkath watched on with interest.

“Very well,” Rowena replied before she switched the camera from her unibands to one of Adam’s microcams that she had asked to borrow for this call.

As the view switched everyone in the studio and watching on the universal subspace network saw Rowena relaxing on a sofa in wearing some strange clothes none of them had seen before, however before they could focus on that the image of a beautiful turquoise haired woman who was sitting next to her in similar clothes appeared causing the studio audience to go ballistic.

Hello everyone.” Lorelie greeted while waving and smiling at the camera as the audience screamed and cheered loudly.

“Oh, oh, what about me?” A voice said before a beautiful green-haired woman stuck her head into the side of the frame and waved while saying, “Hi everyone, I’m Tephe, just Tephe, not Dragon Princess Tephe, as I’m not a real princess.”

The crowd cheered loudly again while Rowena and Lorelie giggled as for the first time the dragon princess voluntarily appeared live on the universal subspace network.

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“Well, now isn’t this an interesting development?” Lord Malacoss commented as he watched The MMM Sow onboard his ship that was returning him to the Hades Galaxy.

“I wonder how Senator Pevaphio will react when she learns her daughter appeared live on The MMM Show.”

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“YOUVE GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!” Sinead yelled in anger as she saw the three beauties appear on The MMM Show.

“I GO ALL THE WAY TO TERRANA FIVE TO TRY AND GET AN INTERVIEW WITH EVEN ONE OF THEM, AND HERE THEY ARE ACTIVELY CONTACTING THAT BASTARD MALGATH THEMSELVES.”

As she was cursing angrily, her uniband notified her of an incoming call and as she saw who it was and answered, Sinead angrily said, “What?”

A giggle came from the other end of the call before Sinead’s colleague said, “I take it you’re watching The MMM Show.”

“I’m not in the mood for jokes. What do you want?” Sinead asked irritably.

“The boss wants you back at the office to cover the universal senate’s embargo once they release the details.”

“Fine,” Sinead replied before ending the call, and a moment later yelled.

“FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK.”

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“OH MY GOD!” Becky screamed as she pointed at the large holographic screen that was showing The MMM Show.

“This is certainly an unexpected development,” Victoria said with surprise as she, Tessa and Becky sat in one of the lounges of the imperial palace watching The MMM Show.

They had wanted to gauge the fallout of the universal senate’s decision to place a trade embargo on their race; however, they, like everyone else watching, never expected Rowena, Lorelie and Tephe to appear on the show via holocall.

“What do you think made them decide to do something like this?” Becky asked in confusion.

“I could take a guess,” Tessa replied with a smile.

“Oh?” Victoria replied as she looked at her daughter with interest.

“This sort of thing has never happened before, right? That leads me to think that Adam was the one who suggested they do this.”

“What you said makes sense.” Victoria replied after considering her words before she continued, “From what you both have told me, he has already introduced a few ideas from his home planet, maybe this is one of them, and from a celebrity’s point it is a genius move.

Lorelie was already riding on a high because of her new music genre, and add to that the attack the three of them faced from the TISF, along with the universal senate’s trade embargo against us because of it, they are headline news on all the newscasts.

Doing a live interview on the most popular holotalk show will only boost the fame and status even further, as well as help promote Diva Lorelie’s tour.”

“Do you think she will perform a new song?” Becky asked.

“I can pretty much guarantee it.” Victoria replied before her face hardened and she said angrily, “Our race could have benefited from their rise by being recognised as their friends and using it to mend our reputation in the universe; however, because of that traitor, we are in an even worse position than we were before.”

“Fucking traitors.” Becky cursed angrily.

“What did great-grandfather say regarding this?” Tessa asked as she knew that Michael Ororis had visited her mother.

“He agrees that there is most likely a traitor in the imperial family, and he has ordered the Ororis shadows to investigate every member,” Victoria replied.

“That’s good to know.” Tessa said with a sigh before asking, “And what of Senator Pevaphio?”

“She left the planet a few hours ago and plans to travel to the Oasis Galaxy in an attempt to find Tephe.” 

“Well, that will certainly be an interesting experience I wish I could have seen,” Becky remarked.