Empyrean Iris Story Collection

Action Without Order Pt. 2

The entire room had gone into absolute uproar, absolutely deafening. The joyous cheering of a ravenous crew and the gasping shock of the unrelated. The room was so loud the floor shook and the windows rattled. Sunny was stunned by the roaring of the humans, she had once heard that humans were capable of using their voices as sonic weapons.... She hadn't believed it.

At the head of the semi-circular table, the main human was slamming a strange wooden object against his desk. The noise was loud, but it wasn't nearly enough to quell the roaring of the room.

Sunny's head was swimming, and overwhelmed by the noise she lurched to her feet and let off a horribly blood chilling screech, the battle cry of the Drev. It reverberated with enough power to shake the windows even harder than the humans had managed. The desk rattled.

The entire room went dead silent hundreds of eyes stared at her from the stands, and she slowly sat herself back down on the witness stand and turned to look at the judge. He was leaning back in his seat staring at her. She turned to look at Captain Vir standing at the center of the court still brandishing the prosthetic leg in his defense looking at her with wide eyes. She was momentarily worried that the man would fall into some PTSD induced panic, but the man stood straight then, on the leg she had given, and nodded encouragingly.

Since she had given it to him, he hadn't worn it once. She assumed he hadn't even kept it. It wouldn't have been personal if he didn't, she understood, but seeing him wear it now was.... Was surprisingly....

No, she didn't have a word to describe what it meant. Why the human would fight for her like that made no real sense, filled her inside with an odd warmth, like consuming heated water, not unpleasant but not necessarily comfortable either.

"Objection your honor!" The prosecutor called, "The Dawson V Cybercorp case was not intended for this means as we all well know. Yes the prosthetic is part of his body, but that does not establish a genetic link to another group of people, or aliens for that matter. Additionally the Galactic Assembly does NOT recognize Drev cultural law."

"That is untrue your honor!" The defense argued, "Adoption doesn't connect someone by DNA either, and yet the Galactic Assembly has chosen to accept our human custom." He raised his hand to cut off the other lawyer as he forced his way through, "Captain Vir, as a member of the Galactic Alliance has chosen to adopt Sunny's clan and ONLY Sunny's clan. Those are the Drev cultural rules. Her gesture does not speak to her entire race, but simply her immediate family. Additionally, Captain Vir's action has not broken any of the clauses under the Drev Action of Surrender Treatise. IN ADDITION!" He raised his voice over the calling of the prosecutor, "Captain Vir's orders were to 'foster good will with the galactic community' NOT 'foster good will with members of the Galactic Alliance only."

The room grew loud once again, and the judge was hammering his wooden mallet against the desk. Sunny remained where she sat in silence watching as the humans rolled and boiled around her.

The defense wrestled control back before the prosecutor could continue. It was like watching two men wrestle each other with words beating each other down into submission so they could continue speaking, "Looking at it through the sphere of his orders, 'to foster good will in the galactic community' I wonder why anyone would be displeased with him. The Drev are a dangerous race, as dangerous as some have argued humans are. It seems that the best option would be to make friends with a potentially dangerous enemy, it shocks me that no one else has though of this, and it took a man who had been directly involved in the war to finally put aside that prejudice."

The judge raised his hand for silence glowering at the prosecutor as he turned to Vir, 'Is that true?"

Vir paused glancing over at the defense as if he wasn't supposed to speak.