“Hello! Name’s Captain Eric Lawrence! I’m the co-captain of Limitless. It’s my pleasure to meet you! I heard so much about you from Captain Williams!”

After introducing each of the new Dark Fury members and a few more lieutenants and commanders, they got down to business right away.

“First of all, I would like to say this directly to you. Be prepared for the surprise of your life.” Admiral Luca was pressing the buttons that were being displayed on the table. A hologram of some kind of large spaceship appeared above the table for everyone to see.

“What is this?” Jessica asked.

Kawa widened his eyes in shock. He would recognize this kind of spaceship anywhere. “Is this an Europan spaceship?”

“What?” James asked, turning to Kawa.

“Yes, that’s right.” Admiral Luca nodded his head yes. “You’re smart, Mr. Takayama. I like you already.”

“No, that’s not it. I… I had seen this before,” Kawa said softly. “My father and I were trying to escape, and… this spaceship… it was that thing which killed my father.”

“I’m so sorry to hear about that.” Admiral Luca shook his head sadly. “That was 10 years ago, correctly? Everyone was trying to run away from Terra City, but about fifty percent of them died at the hands of Martians… as well as Europans.”

“But didn’t Europans say that they were only helping Martians with their resources and weapons… not like… you know, attacking us?” Alex asked.

“And, that’s why we can’t trust Mars and Europa anymore.” Captain Williams joined the conversation. “They are trying to get rid of Lord Terra of Earth and Lady Sabrina of Moon. There’s no way that we can ever allow them to get what they want.”

“It doesn’t make any sense.” Shiro shook his head furiously. “What does Moon have anything to do with the war? Why do Mars and Europa want to eliminate us?”

“Moon and Europa have history together a few decades ago, but of course you weren’t born back then,” said Admiral Luca. “But now, back to the mission. Now that you know this spaceship is out there in the Asteroid Belt, guarding Jupiter’s territory line. We don't know the exact reason why they are helping Mars, but we know for sure that they had been killing not only our samurais but also citizens who just wanted to visit Mars for their vacations."

"And, that's when you come into the picture." Captain Williams joined his hands together at the round table. "Your mission is to break into that --" He pointed at the hologram of the Europan spaceship. "--and get to the server room. Now, Jessica, do you see the reason why we chose you?"

"Yes. I used to work for one of Earth's most dangerous hacker organizations." Jessica toppled her toes a little bit while looking down at the floor, as if she was ashamed of her past. "Out of thousands of hackers you could have chosen, you got me out of the prison and enrolled me into the program?"

"It was Lady Sabrina who chose you." Admiral Luca gave her a shrug as well as a small smile. "You can't be as bad as we thought you were, yes?"

"Whoa, Jess!" James exclaimed. "We have a girl hacker from Moon? Wait a minute. If she was from Earth, then why did Lady...?"

"We do not dare to question Lady Sabrina, Miles." Captain Williams gave him a scornful look. "You know better than that.”

“I apologize, sir.” James looked away from the Captain out of embarrassment. He did not mean to overact this way, but it was not his fault! He was as surprised at Lady Sabrina’s odd actions as others, including the lieutenants and commanders. At least they knew not to say anything. As long as they trusted their Lady, they were bound to get an explanation eventually. Only if they did not die.

“So, here, we have a hacker who must be protected at any cost,” Admiral Luca said. “First, we will send out as many as we can in order to distract the enemies. When the right time comes, I will give you a signal.”

The new Dark Fury members waited patiently as the Lunan Admiral was typing on the keyboard display which was shown on the clear see-through table. They watched the samurais from both sides charging at and fighting each other, trying to slice down others.

The hologram of the Limitless was just standing by, at least until it began shooting some kind of smoke bombs.

“That’s the signal.” Admiral Luca nodded his head at the dark smoke that covered the whole space area between two large spaceships. “You will be able to sneak into the enemy’s spaceship much easier that way. After getting in Jove, Europa’s own spaceship, that’s when you will be split up into three groups of two people. For the first group, Alex, the medic, will be with Jessica for the whole time. You will go straight to the server room where you can receive information about the enemy.

“The second group consists of Shiro and Matt who will ensure that no enemy comes to harm Alex and Jessica.  You will be guarding the server room. You have my permission to kill anybody who saw you. And…”

Admiral Luca turned to the last two remaining Dark Fury samurais. “Kawa and James, you will be separated from your comrades. You will need to go to the engine room and start destroying everything. Go wild if you want to. Without the engine, their spaceship won’t be able to fly anymore -- yet even better, they won’t be able to attack as well. Their defense will be down. And that will be our first victory ever.”

“And then, we will go straight to Mars.” Captain Williams added. “If we take out the Mars Lord, then we will turn against Europa. That’s if we find evidence that they have been assisting Mars in the war. But for now, we focus on this mission. Any questions?”

~EARTHxMARS~

“What the hell is your problem?”

“Hey, hey…” Kawa was trying to calm down Matt who was shaking his fork in the air angrily at Shiro. “We are the team now. There’s no need to fight right now. We need to prepare for the upcoming mission. It will be anytime now!”

“Let me go! I’m kicking his ass!”

“Airheads.” Shiro scoffed at them. “I bet that you are not man enough to,” He did the quote mark-in-the-air gesture, “Kick my ass.”

“Once a thief, always a thief!” Alex slammed his palms on the dining table, catching other samurais’ curious attentions. “You took away our land and resources!”

Shiro got up from the table faster than you could say Limitless, getting all into Alex’s face. “Thief? You stole and used our people for your war. You may hate us, but you need us. It’s a pity for an Earthling like you.”

“Your people threatened to drop a moon rock onto our home!” Matt shouted angrily.

“Stop it, guys!” Jessica slammed her tray onto the table hard, tossing her food. “We weren’t even there during the war between Earth and Moon! It was, what, fifty years ago? We don’t have any reason to hate each other anymore!”

Shortly after the Limitless spaceship took off, it was already dinnertime. The cafeterias had been open for a while, so most samurais went there for quick meals before it was time for their training sessions.

There was still some tension between the Earthling and Lunan samurais, but it was not as bad as the Dark Fury samurais.

“Whatever. I’m out of here.” Matt jerked out of Kawa’s grip. “I’m going to the training arena if you need me.”

“I’m joining you!” Alex grabbed his own food tray and quickly caught up with Matt after throwing away food.

“Matt --” Kawa stopped when he felt James’s strong hand on his shoulder.

“Just let it go.” James shook his head in disappointment. “There’s nothing we can do at this point.”

“You’re still here?” Shiro rolled his dark eyes when Kawa sat back down at the table.

“Yeah. I’m not done with eating. Problem?” Kawa gave him a knowing smirk.

James almost sighed in relief when Shiro did not say anything. He still did not want the recent argument to emerge soon again so he changed the topic. “So, are you going to the training arena after the meal as well?”

“Nah. I think I’m going to take a shower and go straight to bed instead.” Jessica said. “I’ll go to the training session in the morning instead.”

“I’m up for it if you are interested, James,” said Kawa after taking a bite of white rice. 

“Great!” James said cheerfully. “I can’t wait for another spar with you, Kawa! I’ve been looking forward to it!”

Jessica laughed cutely, at least that was how it sounded to James. She stood up with the food tray in her hands. “I’m returning to my room. Enjoy your sword fight!”

“Will do!” James waved his hand. “So, are you going now, Kawa?”

“Yes.” Kawa took one last bite of… was it meatloaf? Whatever, as long as it was food to him, he did not care what it was.

~EARTHxMARS~

“UNKNOWN OBJECT DETECTED WITHIN THE RANGE OF 5,000 KILOMETERS. UNKNOWN OBJECT DETECTED...” A loud computer voice kept repeating the same thing over and over again.

“What the fuck? Can’t someone go to the bridge and do something about that fucking computer?” Alex said sleepily, yet angrily. He tried to stuff his head into his own pillow.

Kawa stretched out his arms. He had to go to the restroom anyway, so he made his way to the living room when he found James and Matt there.

“It woke you up too?” James gave him a big grin. “Sooner or later, there will be an announcement.”

“It looks like our mission will start much sooner than we think.” Matt shrugged his shoulders. “The sooner it starts, the sooner it ends as well.”

“Think it’s that spaceship we are supposed to go to?” James asked, but he only received another lazy shrug from Matt.

Kawa was about to open his mouth when he was interrupted by a loud announcement.

“All samurais of Sora, please report to the dock as soon as possible. Your superior will inform you of your new mission. I repeat, all samurais of Sora, please report to the dock as soon as possible…”

The Dark Fury samurais quickly got dressed up in the usual Earthling and Lunan samurai outfits and met in the living room.

“All ready?” James asked as he took one more look at his new team members. After nods from the team, he slammed his fist on his other palm. “Good! We have to hurry up and go to --”

Before they knew it, they were being tossed around through the air, along with the furniture, right after loud crashes and explosions all the way from the other side of the Limitless.

“What the fuck just happened?” Shiro yelled in pain. There was a cut on his head already, and it could not stop bleeding at all.

Alex rushed to him and poured a large amount of alcohol onto Shiro’s head, getting loud screams. “You’re all good!”

“Fuck you so much, asshole!” Shiro shouted in anger. 

“Guys!” James snapped before he turned to Kawa. “What do you think just happened?”

“They started attacking us,” whispered Kawa.