Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Page #3

Please, I need your help.

That'll be five starbacks.

In advance.

Ladies and germs, next up for the bidding

is this young 200-year-old fembot,

the perfect work slave

for the most discerning of masters.

Who'll start the bidding at 500 starbacks?

500, do I hear 500?

250!

She's worth more than that junked.

Who'll go 400?

I've got to have her, Mizzo.

She looks like she'd make

a wonderful housemaid.

Your father told me

never to bring you here, miss.

This isn't the best part of town,

you know?

How will I explain to him

if you take home another robot?

Silica!

- 400!

- Wait!

It's a mistake!

She isn't a slave!

Orin, help me!

If you want her, young man,

you'll have to bid for her,

or else I'll have you

thrown out of here.

400, we got 400.

You with the 14 noses,

you'd think with such a bargain,

you'd be able to sniff it out.

Who'll give me 450? 450, 450.

- 450.

- 500.

We got a 500. Come on,

all you people out there.

500 for this wonderful sample

of a fembot?

- 550.

- 550. We got a 550.

- Who'll make it 6?

- 600!

600, we got 600. Who'll go 650?

650, do I hear 650?

We got a 700, 700, who-

750!

- 800.

- 800-

- 850!

- 850, 850-

1,000!

2,000!

- You're crazy!

- I can't believe it, 2,000!

It's unbelievable, I'm getting 2,000.

Going once, going twice, sold!

Well, how much did we get?

A mere 2,000 starbacks.

2,000! Who the hell bought her,

the governor?

No. This fine young gentleman.

Water Snake!

They tried to take Silica!

I got her back for you.

How would you like

to pay for that?

Starbacks or gold?

What's a starback?

If you can't pay, then I own you.

It's the law.

Sorry, kid. It's the law.

Hold it, Z'Gork!

You're some practical joker, Dagg.

For a while there

you almost had me fooled.

Yeah.

You two, follow them!

Can you run as quickly

as you screw things up, Water Snake?

What?

Arthur, open her up!

Market Transport 33517

arriving at eastern base.

Level 9, prepare

for tractor B boarding.

The Phi Antara system

will be secured within two weeks.

As soon as our forces return

from Raya and Horbinot,

we'll be ready for the final action.

Major Tagani,

what's the status

of Dibrimi and the boy?

They've escaped our men

in Toga-Togo,

but the secret police

have a lead on them.

Do I have to program

every robot myself?

Send out a sub-frequency order

to all mechanicals in this sector.

I want that boy found

and destroyed at all costs.

If I may, sir,

why all the fuss over one boy?

Twelve hundred years ago,

there was just one.

This time,

there will be no mistakes.

I will not fail.

Novaluna rain forest?

Forget it, kid.

I haven't got enough time

to make it to the Vagee Desert,

let alone go on some

wild-goose chase to Novaluna.

- But l-

- Gotta find the blade, I know.

Don't you ever think

of anything else?

Like warp racing or girls?

I think of my brother.

And Elan.

Elan? Oh, your girlfriend, huh?

Why don't I take you to her

after I'm done in the desert?

She's...

She's dead.

Sorry, Water Snake.

Zygon killed her.

Oh, now don't start that again.

You're late!

Well, the Vagee's not exactly

a sandbox.

You have the crystals?

You have the money?

Okay, Arthur, blow the ballast.

Sorry to dump and run.

Just a moment.

You are the one called Orin?

He's worth a million starbacks.

- Dead or alive.

- Way overpriced.

We could cut you in for a third.

Nobody's life could be worth

more than that.

Not even yours?

If we both don't walk out of here

in the next few seconds,

my ship is programmed

to blow the crap out of this tent.

Just a thought.

Sand in the wind.

Step lively, kid. I don't trust those guys

as far as I can blast them.

Why didn't you sell me, Dagg?

You could have got back

the money I owe you.

Those cutthroats

would have peeled you like a grape.

Looks like you're my

good luck charm, Water Snake.

I didn't think we were going

to get out of there alive.

Now where the hell

did he come from?

Will somebody get rid

of that energized pest?

He's fouling my instruments!

What? What are you doing?

No.

I think it's trying

to tell us something.

Dagg, I think those desert men

gave us more than gold.

- Damn!

- It's a time bomb!

Don't just stand there,

get rid of it!

Bastards!

Any second now.

I'd pay half my share to see the look

on the big one's face

when he's blown

into cosmic dust.

They were here

less than an hour ago.

It won't be long now.

All right, all right,

I'll take you to Novaluna.

Can the blind be made to see

in your world?

Sometimes.

And it's not my world.

I hope some day

my little brother can see your world.

I'm going back for him.

As soon as I find the blade.

Lunchtime!

What the hell?!

I thought I told you

to stay clear of the treetops, Arthur.

We're nowhere near the treetops!

That was just a warning shot.

Reduce speed

and prepare for boarding.

Don't bother with the shields.

That 'bot's about to get

a laser enema.

Dusted the little bugger!

Nice going, Dagg.

You just fell

for the oldest trick in the book.

If you're so smart,

why didn't you warn me?

Mounted one and two, move in.

They've got

the whole damn force after us.

There's only one thing we can do.

Good idea.

I'll transmit our surrender.

Nobody's surrendering!

We're gonna play a little game

of chicken with them.

You're joking!

Five behind us, Dagg!

- Give me full retros, Arthur.

- I'll do no such thing.

Give it everything

you've got, Arthur.

We've got to make it

over those mountains.

Dagg! I'm hurt!

Try to keep

your systems functioning, Arthur.

Just give me time to land this thing.

Come on, Arthur,

just a few more seconds.

I think I'm dying, Dagg.

If there's a Heaven

for computers, l-

I'll be thinking of you.

Zygon will want this one

for questioning.

Whoa, you organic beast!

Really, Miss, next time I hope

you let me take a gravity cycle.

The boy from the auction!

Bordogon security

has an all-points on him.

I'll radio them at once.

You do, and you'll be a sanitation robot

for the next 500 years.

We'll take him back to the palace.

- But Miss!

- Now!

Are you all right?

Elan?

My name is Aviana.

Who are you?

I'm Orin.

Where am I?

You're in the most heavily guarded

bedroom in this star system,

so don't get any ideas.

Ideas?

About what?

Judging by the ridiculous sums

you spend on surplus fembots,

I guess the police have good reason

to be tracking you.

Police?

Dagg!

You better take it easy.

Who was Elan?

A friend.

- From the mines.

- The crystal mines?

So you're a crystal runner!

Had a friend on the inside, huh?

Yes.

But Dagg said everyone knows

there are no humans in the mines.

How is it that you know

about my people?

Your people?

What are you talking about?

I dug my way up

from the Mineworld.

The hilt said that-

- Is this what you're looking for?

- Careful!

I think the crash

scrambled your brains!

Humans in the mines!

My father would never allow it!

- Who is your father?

- Why, Morbro, of course.

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