- I am very ashamed of you. Your lust for the second time takes you away from doing your duty and pushes you for a violation. But if the first time you got away with it, in this case, you disgraced in front of several civilizations. Waiting for you at home a military tribunal. Your Royal Majesty, I ask you to imprison them and deliver them to my ship in a prison cell.
- Security! Take Earth Warriors into custody! - when the guards with the girls left, Vyalis and Vasilisa entered.

- Do you know why you are here?
- I guess. But, my king, only I am to blame for everything. Punish me to the fullest extent. Vasilisa is not to blame. I am ready to accept death.
- Death? !!! Commander! Do you so easily want to wash the shame off your shoulders? And you did not think how much money, effort and time spent for your training? Who will compensate for these costs? So you undeservedly took someone's place.
- Your Royal Majesty, I am ready to incur the most severe punishment, but I ask General Leah not to punish Vasilisa. It is not her fault.

- Commander! I'll think about how to punish you. But I want to hear what the Commander of Earthlings decides regarding his violator.
- General Liya, - Vasilisa dropped on one knee, - I beg you to punish me in the strictest way. Only I am to blame for this shame. Ready to incur any punishment, ask the distinguished King Arihonov not to punish Commander Valis.
- Curious question. Vyalis claims he is guilty, and you claim the opposite. So who is really to blame? Although, in my opinion, both of you are guilty. And both must be punished. I transfer my right to punish you Vasilis to his royal majesty King Arihon.

“Your Royal Majesty,” Vasilisa turned to the king, “punish me with all severity, but spare Commander Vyalis.” She fell to her knees, but Vyalis caught her. And Vasilisa hung in the air, without touching her feet to the floor. Then he gently lowered her to her feet.
“Officer Vasilisa, never kneel down before anyone!” - the king raised his voice, - you are a fighting officer, not a slave. I ask you to wait until I decide the fate of your counterpart. Commander Vyalis, I have been looking at the damage record of your ship, but not all the points are clear to me there. Explain to me how you survived? Or you were not in the command post at the time of the shot at your ship?

“Your Royal Majesty, I was in the command post all the time and I was in charge of the ship.” The shot glass of the cabin was broken by the shot of the Ship of Men and the on-board computer was put out of operation (a typical hit of Men). I was wounded and thrown to the wall by an explosion. I fainted. I woke up already in the ship of Zemlyan, which was moored to my ship even before the battle began. How I got there, I know only from the words of officer Vasilisa.
- Officer, how did my commander find yourself on your ship without my permission?

- Your royal majesty, he is not guilty. When a human shot was hit in the cabin of the ship Vyalis, the onboard computer of the ship was removed from the system. But the ship remained combat-ready, as the computers of our ships were combined and the control was automatically transferred to my on-board computer, which could destroy the ship of Man that fired at us with the guns of your ship. The destruction of the ship of humans was also facilitated by the fact that after the destruction of the cabin, the humans lost interest in him, considering that the ship had become incapacitated. And they didn't even notice my ship. After the destruction of the enemy ship, I, handing over the command to my navigator, in a spacesuit rushed into the destroyed cabin of your ship. The navigator was killed, the commander was seriously wounded and unconscious. Because of the depressurization of the room, the passage to the other premises of the ship was blocked and, moreover, I could not penetrate other cabins without codes, so I decided to save it on my ship.

- Officer, I thank you for saving one of my commanders. But both of you are offenders of discipline. Commander Vyalis, what do you know about the planet Kirematori?
- This is one of our distant colonies in the neighboring system. Barihvaty are constantly attacking her. Keeping a large fleet permanently there is not rational. And two or three of our ships, they easily destroy and rob the planet.
- Correctly answered. This will be your punishment. I give you the newest ship without a crew and send you to this planet. Your task: to protect the planet from the attack of Barrivah and at the same time survive. If you succeed, then you have washed off the shame. Run away - you know what it is called. Perish - the shame will remain on you after death.

- Thank you, Your Royal Majesty. I will justify your trust.
- Officer Vasilisa, what should I do with you? How to punish you? - the king thought.
“Your Royal Majesty, if the protection of that planet is so dangerous, send me there too.” We will survive with commander Vyalis, so together, and perish, so too, together.
- Hmm. And this is an idea. Well, you will fly with commander Vyalis, - Vyalis and Vasilisa happily exchanged glances, - but that would be too easy. Therefore, I will make it harder for you to atone. You will also fly to this planet, but on another ship. You get exactly the same ship, along with security codes to your submission. If you are confused by the management of our ship, then before departure Vyalis is obliged to train you so that you can skillfully control the ship no worse than him. Leave your ships you have no right. This is only possible during the battle, or to provide medical care. This link for you will last five years local time. After five years, you will be replaced and all charges will be dropped. Or change will arrive earlier if you die ingloriously. But you can not die - otherwise you will not be dropped charges. On the way there you will deliver to the planet of the colonists, you yourself are not allowed to go down to the surface.

“Thank you, your royal majesty,” Vasilisa did not hide her joy, “but can you ask for a little?”
- It depends on the request. Although your asking is already a great insolence.
- I ask us to issue doubled ammunition, and if possible, then tripled. And also the opportunity to take with you ten earthly fighters (unless, of course, General Lia does not mind). And complete with ten spacesuits with a full refueling maneuvering engines.
- Hmm. And not too fat for penalty box? Although I am personally for any fight in which there is enough ammunition. Your wish will be satisfied. If you want so much abundance of ammunition, then you get four complete sets of ammunition for each ship. Regarding fighters - the decision for your commander. But remember: in the attack on this planet, help is not sent to the penalty box.
- Thank you, your royal majesty.
- Free. All instructions will receive from the commander of the flagship.

- Wait a minute. Vasilisa, why do you need ten fighters? There are no catapults in them.When you hit the fighter, you die. On autopilot fighter maneuverability is very low. He was immediately shot down, despite the miniature size.
- Do not need autopilot. The fighter can be controlled from a ship remotely, as on a simulator. With such a management, it is almost impossible to get into it. But the enemy ships this fighter is very unnerving and even ships with an activated invisible ship begin to shoot at him. From the second ship, these tracers perfectly give out the coordinates of the enemy ships, and the second ship can easily destroy them. And if the fighter is still shot down, then the next one is released, but from another ship, - the king could hardly restrain a contented smile.
- Vasilisa, there will be fighters for you.
- Thank you very much, General Leah.

After Vyalis and Vasilisa withdrew, Leah rebuked the king:
- Your royal majesty, so ... Read more →