Fiction:Holy Shadow War/Original

"At last, we are free..."

- Moxix Breek

The Holy Shadow War is a war in which the Five Gods of the Zazane Monolith arise from Zakaipods and attempt to conquer the Universe. If you want to join, please sign your username and empire below and side you want them to be on.

Participants

 * Lucario of the Gods
 * Zazane Empire


 * Irskaad
 * The FRA
 * The Iteok Khereg


 * BNSCLeader
 * The Bearian Nations Space Command


 * FalcoPunch
 * United Veatrex Federation


 * Spriggs077
 * Council of Blades


 * New Kralgon Empire
 * Loron empires (including Da Propa Big Loron Empire)
 * Loron empires (including Da Propa Big Loron Empire)


 * CaptainTybusen
 * Tybusen Intergalactic Allied Federation


 * The Krassio Host
 * The Krassio Host


 * 9988
 * The Terdiatlans


 * Dei'Ar Theocracy
 * Dei'Ar Theocracy


 * Khazurhal Angazhar
 * Khazurhal Angazhar


 * Corrupten
 * Kazalori
 * Kazalori


 * Apocalypta
 * Apocalypta


 * User:Jaredian
 * Fiction:Homo Jaredian Empire

Introduction
It is unknown whether it was fate or coincidence that led to the birth of Kezoreg Breek, but with his birth and the disappearance of Tyraz Breek of the Zazane Empire, the Five Gods of the Zazane Monolith have risen from Zakaipods, along with Tyraz's dead brother, the infamous Moxix Breek. Kezoreg provided the link between the Zazane and Ayrai'Shikua, due to inheriting the blood of Khazurhal Angazhar. Now, with the reawakening of Moxix and the Five Gods, the Universe is in serious trouble, as when a mad undead Zazane takes the throne, anybody can expect the simple goal of conquer.

Prologue
Date: 03/00/402 KRE

Lezia was at her home, watching an Asgordian Music video channel, which showed music videos, some from the FRA, others from the Kraw Empire, others from the URC, others from Earth. She was watching the music videos until she heard a noise in her incubator. It was Kezoreg hatching. She immediatly called Tyraz, even though he was gone now, to Xhodocto Hell.

Lezia - "TYRAZ!!!"

After this, Moxix Breek appears in front of Lezia. She shut down the phone, and said hello to him.

Lezia - "Awww, I renember you, you're Mozzie! Hello! Where is Tyrie?" Moxix - "Tyraz is in hell with the Xhodocto!" Lezia - "What?" Moxix - "Angazhar and the 5 Gods are coming!" Lezia - "Say wha?" Moxix - "Angazhar and the 5 Gods will destroy all of you mortals!" *Laughs Histerically*

Kezoreg now starts breaking through the egg using his claws. Lezia watches, and says this is too cute to watch. Before she could notice it, Herezath, the 1st god, appears in Lezia's house.

Herezath - "ROAR!!!" Lezia - "What is that? What are you doing in my house?" Herezath - "I AM HEREZATH OF THE FIVE GODS!!!" Lezia - "I asked a question, Herzie."

Herezath, insulted by Lezia's diminutive of his name, grabs Lezia by her throat.

Lezia - "Let me go! You are not taking my baby!" Herezath - "MY NAME IS HEREZATH! YOU SHALL ADRESS ME CORRECTLY!!!" Lezia - *Thinking Adress means location in this case* "Ok, what is your adress? I know it's in the Zazane empire."

Herezath, insulted, slams lezia into the floor. Lezia gets up, unharmed because of her descension. Utalasiel then rises.

Utalasiel - "UUURGH!!!" Lezia - "Who are you?" Utalasiel - "I AM UTALASIEL OF THE FIVE GODS!" Lezia - "What are you doing in my house, Utie?" Utalasiel - "I am the god of rage!" Lezia - "Don't rage on my baby!" Utalasiel - "Your baby has made us rise!" Lezia - "Say what? He's not even born yet!" Utalasiel - "TAHIZIEL SHALL RISE!"

Tahiziel rises.

Tahiziel - "YAAARGH!!!" Lezia - "Another one?" Tahiziel - "I am Tahiziel of the five gods." Lezia - "Hi, Tahizie!" Tahiziel - "I am the Godess of Betrayal." Lezia - "My baby is hatching! Come see!"

They both watch Kezoreg hatch.

Tahiziel - "He is the one that makes us rise..." Lezia - "How does he make you all rise?" Tahiziel - "He is part Xhodocto, which helped us rise." Lezia - "But he is just a baby!" Tahiziel - "It makes no diffrence." Lezia - "Where is Tyraz?" Tahiziel - "Tyraz is in Hell with the Xhodocto." Lezia - "Is he ok?" Tahiziel - "He is beyond Umbrux's control." Lezia - "Will he be ok? I want Tyraz to see this..." Tahiziel - "He will eventually become insane if he does not have any control over himself." Lezia - "Poor him... Can you make him come here?"

Before Tahiziel could answer, Neroxael Rises.

Neroxael - "AAARGH!!!" Lezia - "Who are you?" Neroxael - "Soon, we shall all rise!!" Lezia - "Come see my baby hatch!" Neroxael - "I am Neroxael, God of Disgust!" Lezia - "Ok. Come see!" Neroxael - "No..." Lezia - "Why not? And where are you all coming from?" Neroxael - "We are materializing in your mortal world! We are arriving from Zakaipods!" Lezia - "Awww, tell Mozzie I still think he's cute!" Neroxael - ''"AAARGH!!!! At last, Tehedaz rises!!" Lezia - "Who?"

Tehedaz is the last of the gods to rise.

Lezia - "Hello!" Tehedaz - "I am Tehedaz, God of Hate!" Lezia - "Ok, Tehie, come see my baby hatch! He is almost out!" Tehedaz - "The Zazane Monolith shall rise..." Lezia - "What's a monolith?" Herezath - "The Monolith rises!!!" Lezia - "What is that?" Utalasiel - "We shall be liberated from our prison!!" Lezia - "What prison?" Tahiziel - "The Dark One brings us here!" Lezia - "Who?" Neroxael - "The dead shall destroy all!!" Lezia - "Say what?" Tehedaz - "The wrath of the Five Gods will crush reality!" Lezia - "What wrath? What are you all doing in my house?"

As lezia gets more and more confused, The Zazane monolith starts rising in the center of Gaw'teles, in Vatelia. The Asgordians stand still, wondering what's going on. As it rises, it also burns down the entire city, leaving the inhabitants of Gaw'teles to flee from car or metro.

ASG Vatelia Report: ''A Strange building is forming in the center of Gaw'teles, in Vatelia. Citizens are urged to evacuate the city, Oh wait, something is happening-''

The Transmission gets cut off as the building gets burned by Descension energies. The 5 gods keep talking, confusing lezia even more.

Herezath & Tehedaz - "The ground around you shall burn, claiming your mortal souls!!!" Lezia - "What? Oh, Kezoreg's almost out!" Tahiziel & Neroxael - "The Dark One will bring the Apocalypse!!!" Lezia - "WHO IS THE DARK ONE???" Utalasiel - "The Holy Shadow War is over the horizon!!!" Lezia - "What? Just watch my baby hatch!" All Gods - "Your universe will burn!!" Lezia - "What are you 5 saying?"

As the Monolith rises further, everyone leaves the city. The Vanguard appears in Lezia's home. Lezia, not renembering who he is, asks:

Lezia - "Who are you? The 6th god?" Vanguard - "Do you not remember, Lezia?!" Lezia - "Renember what?" Vanguard - "Do you not remember me, the Vanguard?!" Lezia - "Oh, the guy we fought in Ka'an when me and Tyrie were dating!" Lezia - *Kezoreg is almost out* "Come look!" Vanguard - "Kezoreg is the Dark One, the Dark Messiah!" Lezia - "Hehehe..." Vanguard - "He is why your universe will burn!!"

Lezia watches as he leaves the egg, She takes a look at him, and finds him cute, despite not looking anything like an Asgord or a Zazane.

Lezia - "Awwwwwww my hatchling is so cute!"

The Monolith now destroys the entire city of Gaw'Keles, and the whole planet starts to suffer as well. Many depart from Vatelia into the other colonies. Lezia asks what is going on, until Moxix appears again.

Moxix - "We have finally arrived!!!" Lezia - "Hello." Moxix - "I shall lead a new army of old warriors against this universe!!!"

Moxix then lifts an army of undead from Zakaipods. Lezia keeps talking.

Lezia - "Why would you do that?" *Picks up Kezoreg* "Look how cute is my baby!" Moxix - "I bow to the Dark Messiah, not some infant!!!" Lezia - *To Kezoreg* "Yes you are, yes you are so cute! Mozzie, c'mon, take a look at my child." Moxix - "Take a look at what is happening to your galaxy, fool!!!"

KRT1 News: ''Zombies are appearing out of nowhere in Horehronie, Hakda and Giam, and more are coming!!! This is a Galaxy wide disaster which is happening in almost every empire. Is this the end?''

Lezia - "What's going on?" Moxix - *Laughs* "I claim this galaxy in the name of the Five Gods!!!" Lezia - "We all deserve to be independent..." Moxix - "Not mortals!!! My undead warriors are not like other zombies. My undead are smart, intelligent and almost unbeatable!!!" Lezia - "Look, I have a cutie in my arms!"

Moxix pulls out a large, black sword. Lezia begs him not to kill them, and even tells him she will raise Kezoreg as a Diplomat. Moxix contiunes talking.

Moxix - "It shall be called the Age of Eclipse!" Lezia - "We had an eclipse 3 months ago in Kane'es!" Moxix - "No, you misunderstand. The Age of Eclipse marks the day the forces of evil and darkness destroy the forces of all that is good and mortal!!!" Lezia - "Don't kill us!" Moxix - "Kezoreg will live on as the Dark Messiah, you mean nothing to me!" Lezia - "Yes, I do, without me, your "Messia" wouldn't exist!" Moxix - "Then you will live a life of dark pleasures!" Lezia - "Wha? Just let me feed my baby!"

Lezia starts feeding Kezoreg with a bottle of milk. Meanwhile she's doing that, Moxix laughs, and some undead Asgord enter Lezia's house with Empress Helenia as Hostage.

Lezia - "Hey! That's our Empress!" Moxix - "NO, I AM YOUR NEW EMPEROR!!!" Lezia - "Yeah right, you aren't elected, and you're not even an Asgord!" Helenia - "Give it up." Moxix - "Don't you see? The Asgord are going extinct!!!" Lezia - "Wha? You're kidding, aren't you?"

Moxix then cuts Helenia's palm and licks her blood.

Helenia - "AAAAA!!! THAT HURTS!" Moxix - "Tastes like life..." Lezia - "Blood tastes awfully, don't you agree, Kezzie?" Moxix - "What if I were to drink all of your blood, "former" Empress?" Helenia - "Let me go!" Moxix - "Does anybody want to see what I have done to your species?!" Lezia - "Ok, show us."

Moxix then summons an Undead Asgordian baby with sharp tentacles growing out of its back. Lezia and Helenia are shocked.

Moxix - "Even the children will suffer." Lezia - "Wh-wha? That's our race!"

The Undead Asgord baby then starts stabbing Helenia's legs with its sharp tentacles. Helenia screams in pain.

Helenia - "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Lezia - "Let her go!"

Moxix then picks up the baby Asgord and puts him on his shoulders.

Lezia - "Please... Just let Helenia go..."

The baby now bites Helenia's right shoulder, infecting her. It will take minutes until Helenia gets transformed into an Undead. Moxix then puts the baby on the floor. Lezia gets frightened.

Moxix - "Watch as your "former" empress transforms into a truly holy creature (Undead)." Lezia - "Wha?" Helenia - "FORMER???"

Helenia's skin alters and she dies, only to be ressurected, becoming an Undead.

Lezia - "Give back our race!" Moxix - "Your race will fall to my dark power, along with many others..." Lezia - "Not the other Major 3..." Moxix - "Fordanta, BNSC, Iteok, Kraw, Tahar, TF, DCP, URC... ALL WILL FALL!!!" Lezia - "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" <> Moxix - "Now who is your ruler?!" Lezia - "Ko'han?" Moxix - "Ha! He will not even become one of my holy creatures." Lezia - "Phew, the FKA is safe." Moxix - "He will be killed and his flesh devoured by my warriors." Lezia - "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The Undead Asgord - "All hail Emperor Moxix!" Lezia - "Awww shoot! I'm going to have to move to Tantalus..." Moxix - "The Milky Way, Andromeda, Cyrannus, all will fall!" Lezia - ''<>'' Moxix - "Ottzello, Girdo, the Quadrants, no galaxy is safe!!!" Lezia - "Oh, shoot!"

The planet is now bombarded with earthquakes, forcing Lezia to flee the Galaxy to Tantalus with Kezoreg, while bringing her baby items with her. The Galaxy has now been taken under siege, and the civilians are frightened. Who knows how this will turn out...

Angazhar's Hatred
Date: 03/00/402 KRE, 10 minutes after Lezia fled the galaxy

Angazhar felt a sudden surge of energy. As if darkness was even more powerful than before. The Xhodocto had rebuilt, the Vartekians gained their power, and now the Zazane Gods were awakened. He smiled as if the universe was well and truly doomed. But he knew the difference between domination and outright destruction. To complete his goal, he knew that the Zazane Gods were far from the power that the Xhodocto wanted them to be. He new that Kezoreg was a 'key' in most cases to the victory of darkness. And he knew where that key was going and who had it. It was time for Angazhar to pay a visit to Lezia.

Lezia's ship was on course to Tantalus. A transmission came on board. It said that a distant, uncharted galaxies were being devoured by something indistinguishable from the blackness of space itself. She held Kezoreg tight, afraid and essentially alone. She thought the Zazane Gods were already destroying galaxies, but something felt different. The Zazane Gods would possess galaxy upon galaxy. This darkness was annihilating them in minutes. It finally came to her mind that something equally as threatening had the same goal as the Zazane. But she blanked that memory from her mind when Kezoreg jolted slightly. Kezoreg started to cry, differently to how a Zazane or an Asgord would in fear. All of a sudden, her ship was swatted aside by a black storm of energy. She looked out of a visor on her ship...and she slowly took her eyes off it.

From the massive cloud of darkness, emerged a crimson ball of fire, shadow and remnants of galaxies and planets. And out of that, a spurt of red fire shot into the ship, and engulfed it in a dark grasp of terror. Lezia was none the wiser. She thought it was Tyraz returning to her on the ship, so she shouted out;

"Thank you Tyraz! I finally got a part of my present - Xhodocto Hatchling! I love you!! =D"

The darkness disappeared from the celestial landscape. Lezia and Kezoreg were alone. Kezoreg cried harder and harder, almost as if he was in terrible pain. Lezia did her best to calm him. She fed him, all that she could do, she failed. The inside of the ship slowly started to be engulfed by a black shadow. Red seeps of energy emerged from the gaps, and Lezia felt nothing aside from excitement, still thinking it was Tyraz. The darkness emerged into one being. Her face turned from excitement into nothing but desolate fear. As Angazhar was present on the ship.

She tried her best to teleport away from the ship, but she could not. Kezoreg cried even harder. Angazhar's face also turned from an evil smile to a face which was all to familiar to a Xhodocto - disgust. Angazhar looked at Kezoreg, and with that look all of his plans turned to dust. Kezoreg was merely a disappointment to Angazhar, he looked at Lezia; she was on the verge of punching and kicking Angazhar. Angazhar leaned in closely to Lezia, she held Kezoreg close to her and started to whimper uncontrollably. Kezoreg still was crying immensely. Neither of them have seen Angazhar so terrifying. Angazhar came out with one word;

"...Hatchling?"

Lezia completely forgot what just crossed her mind. Her face lit up, Kezoreg unchanged as well as Angazhar.

"Yes! Isn't he so cute? Tyraz gave him to me as a present! I have a Xhodocto -"

Lezia couldn't finish her words. Angazhar wrapped his massive etheral hand around Lezia's neck. She couldn't speak, and her neck began to burn. In pain, she dropped Kezoreg. Kezoreg cried even harder. Angazhar's eyes glowed viciously as this abomination of a child lay right in front of him. Angazhar had nothing else on his mind but destruction. Something else run across run his mind. Moxix believed that Kezoreg would bring domination to darkness. Angazhar believed that he was nothing. Angazhar choked Lezia harder, she attempted to dig her claws into Angazhar's hand, but her claws went through Angazhar's hand like smoke. Angazhar remained unchanged. For the first time Angazhar was uncertain on the future. He slammed Lezia hard into the ship floor and walked to the controls of the ship. He ripped out the navigation consoles and threw them on Lezia.

"Let's see how you survive the landing on Tantalus..mortal."

Angazhar disappeared without a trace. Kezoreg calmed, Lezia was the one in tears now. The ship was almost at Tantalus, while the navigation systems were out. Lezia knew she would survive the landing, but she knew that Kezoreg was likley to be killed in the crash. It was only time's guess whether Kezoreg would survive or not.

Lezia woke up, bleeding intensely. Her vision was impaired, and she could not hear anything. Her ship was wrecked, torn in half on the distant hills. She came to, and all she could think about was Kezoreg. She limped over to the wreckage. The ship was destroyed to the point where it no longer looked like one. She dug up all of the wreckage of the ship she could, yet she did not hear Kezoreg cry. All of a sudden, a distorted cry sounded next to her. The cry was of Kezoreg. He was unhurt in the crash. She picked up Kezoreg, hugged him, and walked off into the far distance. Angazhar and Moxix were not so far from the event, looking over at it from the cliffside. Moxix turned to Angazhar;

"Ha! Told you he would live."

"That isn't my problem, Zazane. My problem is what that abomination you call 'Messiah' will become in the future. If he defeats our purpose of darkness dominating the universe...then I will be there to take him to Hell by his legs."

Arrival in Tantalus City
Date: 03/00/402 KRE, 21:48 Tantalus Time

Night fell in Tantalus. Lezia arrived in Tantalus City, and came to the Hospital. The next day, Lezia went to a Hotel, and settled there. There, Lezia fed Kezoreg with a bottle of Milk.

Lezia - "Now, I'm glad you survived. Maybe here we'll be safe."

Lezia tuned into her Visual device, and set it to an unrealistic Xhodocto Documentary from the FRA, and then Kezoreg started to cry. Lezia asked what was wrong, and tried to feed him again. She did not realize it was the TV, however.

A Few hours later, Lezia looked at the City from her window, and noticed an electronic billboard which changed from "KrawVision 1501 Tantalus" to "WARNING: THE KRAW GALAXY IS IN CHAOS.". Lezia was shocked, and decided to stay for her own good...

Activation of Operation Reach
Epsilon Eridani System, orbiting BNSC Shield Planet Reach II, 2700 Earth Hours...

The BNSC prepared to activate Operation Reach, the BNSC's high commanders, Lieutenant Admiral Benjamin XII and Lieutenant Commander Benjamud IV Zeta and Lieutenant General Bearian Cartersandal, aboard the New Alexandria, prepared to engage the Zazane to get Reach back from them, then seven thousand BNSC ships came out of slipspace, behind New Alexandria. These ships included the BNSC's Frigates and Normandys Fate of Epsilon, Death of Winter, Autumn's Time, Spring's Rain and many others.

Benjamin - "Epsilon, could you please turn on the other captains?"

Epsilon - "Yes sir."

Captains - "Commander?"

Benjamin - "Alright captains, some of you're new, straight from the Space Academy, but welcome to the BNSC. Anyway, this is our plan, we will destroy the ring that surrounds Reach at the end of the war, but right now, we will try to destroy the Zazane and their allies and clear them away from Reach, and then Reach's Revenge would be able to destroy it, if we fail and the ring fires, we will fire the Halo and reverse the effects of the ring and destroy it. Agknowledge?"

Captains - "Yes sir!!!"

Benjamin - "Good, now, we will be expecting the Zazane to be here in three... two... now"

Benjamin - "Captains, launch your Sabres, Jets and turn on your ships defences."

Captains - "Yes sir."

The Zazane arrived and the BNSC fought them, then an unknown substance arrived and mostly destroyed the BNSC frigates.

Benjamin - "Epsilon, what the hell was that?!"

Epsilon - "Sir, it seems to be an some unknown omnipontant force."

Benjamin - "Damn, captains?!"

Captains - "Yes sir?"

Benjamin - "Activate your ship's overshieldings to x7."

Captains - "Yes sir."

The BNSC ships all activated the ships overshieldings to protect themselves and try to evade the incoming bolts of shot ammunition. The whole space around the ships turned into a huge battle field.

Benjamin - "Looks like this war is going to get harder."

Tahiziel and Zavrhos
Undead Zazane warriors rise in front of Zavrhos's home on Ikrhas. Iteok soldiers fire their weapons at these undead, but to no avail. The Iteok keep going, however, determined to protect their commander. The undead continue to rise and start to become too much for the guards. An undead Zazane leaps in between two of the guards and jabs his swords into them, injuring them. He then bites into the soldider on his left, infecting him. However, the soldier on his right fires a bullet from an Iteok rifle into the Zazane's back. The Zazane turns and grabs the Iteok by its mandibles. The Iteok is thrown over the defences and is overpowered by a horde of undead Zazane, feasting on what they can find on the Iteok guard. The rest of the guards start using more advanced weaponry, but in a matter of minutes, they are either infected or devoured. Zavrhos hears the cries of his fallen guards and the roars of his undead enemies. As he rises from his seat, he spreads out his right arm.

"Men, fend off these persistent fools! Kill every last one of them!" he shouted.

His guards left the room to fight for him. As Zavrhos grabs his guns, a ghostly hand grabs him by his shoulder and forces him back into the seat. A dark shadow appears in the corner of the room, getting bigger by the second. Zavrhos, not fearing this strange developement, fires his gun at the shadow. It does nothing, and instead the Goddess of Betrayel, Tahiziel, materialises in the corner of the room. She has to bend down just to fit inside.

"You must be the dishonourable fool that Tyraz Descended!" she cried. "What of it?" questioned Zavrhos.

Tahiziel's body turned into a dark whirlwind for several seconds until she reappeared as a young, beautiful Zazane female. In her hands was a black and red blade that looked almost organic. She walked up to Zavrhos, trying to seduce him. Although, due to his strong feelings against other species that harm his people and the fact he is against this sort of thing, it had no effect.

"You will join me so that you can either suffer punishment from the other gods, or you can live an eternity of dark pleasure." she said, her voice soft with a slight Zazane accent. "I will not fall for your tricks, demon! I am Zavrhos the Descended, I can take you!" he cried.

Tahiziel smiled and unleashed a swipe from her blade, although Zavrhos evaded. Tahiziel returned back to her normal form and quickly wrapped her jaws around Zavrhos's neck, her teeth sinking in.

"Ugh...let go!" Zavrhos demanded.

Tahiziel turned her head, snapping Zavrhos's neck. Blood splattered onto the floor and wall. Zavrhos fll in agony before Tahiziel's ghostly hand wrapped around him and lifted him up. She looked at him face to face.

"You will be punished by the Five Gods and your people shall die! You will be forced to spend eternity aging and suffering!" Tahiziel exclaimed, her breath hot. "What...are you....on about..." Zavrhos gasped, just barely able to speak.

Tahiziel licked the blood from Zavrhos's neck with her sharp and cold tongue, tasting the blood. She did not taste life that was usually in blood, but instead she tasted nothing. It was just a cold liquid. Zavrhos's body burst into flames before Tahiziel slammed Zavrhos into the ground. The flames soon disappeared and Zavrhos got up. He did not feel right. He turned, and Tahiziel had left. However, the undead still attacked from th outside.

Kralgon Intervention
Despite alreadybeigng novolved in the vartekian war, the kralgons decided it was time to destroy the zazane and fully control their galaxy. tthey would crush the Zazane and whatever dreams they had of conquest... but there was an easy way. their slaves, the Loron, would do it themselves... due to the huge rivalry between the two and the Loron thirst for conflict, it'd be too easy...

The Zombie War
Aboard the New Alexandria, the BNSC got new life readings, the same ones during the BNSC-Zazane War. Benjamin was shocked by the discovery, then he turned on his comm to channel 7, the channel Bearian and Benjamud are always on.

Benjamin - "Bearian, Benjamud, we have a problem."

Benjamud and Bearian - "What is it captain?"

Benjamin - "There are zombies, the same that me, Gala and Kies fought."

Benjamud - "You mean the zombies from the war?"

Benjamin - "Yeah."

Bearian - "Shit, what do you want us to do?"

Benjamin - "I want you to go onto the hull of the ship and cleanse the ship from those descended-undead bastards!!! I will meet up with you."

Benjamud and Bearian - "Yes sir."

Benjamin - "Good luck you two, and godspeed."

Benjamin then turned off his comm and headed towards the armory, but then he stopped, facing the hallway, with his head tilted to the left.

Benjamin - "Commander, you're in charge until I come back."

Commander - "Yes sir."

The Benjamin headed to the armory and armed himself with weapons, and then headed to the cyro room and awoke all the BDSTs.

Benjamin - "BDSTs, follow me. We're going to fight us some undead bastards!!! Understood?"

BDSTs - "Yes sir!!!"

Then the BDSTs and Benjamin went outside, onto the hull of the ship from airlock 7. They waited for Bearian and Benjamud.

Aranexi enters the fray
Fleet of Radeon worldships was moving to the Vartekian space to help their allies faster than light, while all life on this world stayed dormant, in stasis trance. But suddenly, they stopped, and dark presence appeared on worldships.

Spiritmaster Tadjeleon, a powerful psionic, felt this presence. While in stasis, he could still use telepathy. And so he alerted his brother, Tadjamad.


 * - Brother... I am feeling something. The dark force appeared here... Not Xhodocto... But something very similar...
 * - As I foretold... The battle is about to happen. The end battle for Radeon. 

With these words spoken, this dark force has appeared. Armies of bloodthirsty Zazane and vicious undead were going to land on Radeon worldships from their ships. Meanwhile, Moxix stood in his ship, scheming and talking to his minions.
 * - Radeons... These Spode-worshipping rats are disgusting! But they will be perfect soldiers in my army...

And so an army of so-called Warriors of Honour descended on artificial worlds, destroying crafted blackstone fortresses of Dei'Ar. But second later, these warriors were incinerated, as simple citizen of the Theocracy held weapons and fought back.

And so, the first wave was destroyed. But this wasn't the end - for every Zazane dead two more have risen... While Radeon didn't have any reinforcements.

Steel Over Flesh
Even though the Fordanta had temporarily resealed the Void, they were not rendered impotent in the universe. Four races within the Ko'Sa'Va galaxy had proven themselves worthy of the Fordanta's patronage, and one of those races was the Iron Systems Federation. Before Hel'Bre'K Ce'So'Va resealed the Void, he ordered the Technomagi of the federation to watch over the Kraw Galaxy, especially since Lezia's child was announced. Even Hel'Bre'K was unaware of Kezoreg's dark inheritance, though, and not even his august mind could predict what was being unleashed upon the universe.

When reports of undead forces first began to come through, Technomagos Dmitri immediately called together his personal sect of the Iron Systems Federation military, known to the rest of the universe as Tech-Paladins. These warriors were not only mighty in the traditional sense, but over 50% of their bodies comprised of bionic augmentation that drastically exaggerated their combat potential. The soldiers sported all manner of heavy weaponry, recoil servos able to dampen the effects to such and extent that they could be fired one handed, or even on the move. To add to this, the soldiers had armour that was superior to most other races, simply due to having access to the best materials, combined with the most powerful technology drawn from an entire universe. Dmitri even had a point defence energy shield gauntlet, based off of Fordan shield technology.

Dmitri landed on one of the colonies at the edge of the undead invasion, and his first decision was to follow primary defence protocols and evacuate as many of the inhabitants as possible. Bio-scans indicated that there were a mix of Asgord refugees and Kraw citizens upon the world, although this mattered little to the magos. He only cared about preserving the many technological relics scattered across the surface. He only had a few hours left to his own devices before the first undead rose beneath his paladins' very feet!

Naturally, Dmitri was unconcerned, as his warriors unleashed the fury of missile, plasma blast and minigun on all in their path. At first, the zombies were scattered, cut down as they ran by the unnaturally, mechanically precise fire. However, not all of those hit died. Being undead, the zombies felt no pain, and so only truly died when blown to so many pieces they were rendered impotent. One paladin was slain as a zombie who had been cut in half by AP-rated rounds climbed up onto his back, tore off his helmet and broke his neck. Worse still, that paladin was then infected. Two more of the brethren had died before Dmitri realised what was going on. His orders came through the speaker system, chilling, unerring and precise as always, as he both ordered his surviving men, some dozen individuals, to retreat to the high ground, namely the planet's main spaceport. As they withdrew, their foe redoubled their attack, and once more the paladins cut them down with waves of heavy weapons fire. Eventually the three infected paladins were killed by a steady barrage of anti-tank missiles, their armour then detonating spectacularly as the revenge detonators mounted in the backpacks went off. Dmitri had a reprieve, and so he set his paladins, who were all skilled engineers and mechanics, to repairing what they could of the spaceport's adjacent control tower. While it was hardly designed to be a fortress, it would serve, or so Dmitri hoped.

When the undead redoubled their attack, Dmitri and his paladins were roughly halfway through their ammo supplies. By the time the zombies were pushed back from the spaceport, the defenders were entirely out. Sighing, Dmitri was forced to acknowledge that the planet was lost, and so called for evacuation as his warriors fitted and tested their chainblades. Night fell on the planet, and although the paladins had low-light and thermal imaging as a part of their ocular implants, they did not need them to know they were on an island of peace in a planet covered by undead.

Without any form of ranged defense, the paladins simply had to watch and wait as zombies by their hundreds began to charge the spaceport. The humming motors of the chainblades spun glittering teeth as the paladins prepared to fight, and most likely die. Earlier, they had reinforced the building, but there was a weakness: a large window on the first floor was only protected by hastily welded scrap, and so could be breached by a sufficiently resourceful foe. One of the zombies managed to pry a bar free, and began to smash the rest of them out. Soon, zombies had gained access to the stairs and the paladins had to defend against an attack from above. Chainblades left ragged, brutal wounds as they carved zombies to bits, arterial blood splaying everywhere. For the most part, the powered armor of the paladins preserved them from taking any damage, but their power cores were beginning to run down. Even worse was the steady degradation of the carbon scrubbers used to purify the air circulated through the suit. The paladins could only fight on for another day at best, and if they did not get help by then they would have to shed their armor and chance almost certain death. It was not a choice any of them looked forward to making.

By the morning, Dmitri was faced with a crucial decision: whether to stay or leave. His paladins' power generators were starting to fail, meaning that they probably only had a few more hours of activity before the suits became useless. Luckily, most of the undead had been slain during the night, and the way to the spaceport's adjacent hangars was clear. Upon arrival, Dmitri started hacking into the door controls, his neural implants running streams of coding across his vision as he searched for the proper codes to open the door. After a minute of working, Dmitri got the doors open, and his team were relieved to find a still-functioning Kraw vessel docked in its hangar. The Paladins swept around the sides of the craft, activating bio-scanners to search for undead. Declaring the ship clear, Dmitri and his men boarded the vessel and made ready to leave. Dmitri lost only three of his Paladins, and was grateful for that, but he had gained something even better: the knowledge of fighting this new opponent, knowledge that would be distributed to the rest of the Iron Systems Federation military.

Smarter Zombies
Epsilon Eridani System, orbiting planet Tantalus, 2750 Earth Hours, August 30th...

The BDSTs and Benjamin waited until Benjamin got a transmission on his comm.

Benjamud - "Ben, if you're listening to this, then we need you and your squad's help, Alpha Team has been infected, except one, the last survivor said that they're are smarter, stronger and more skillful. Do you copy?"

Benjamin - "I copy, we'll be right there."

Bearian - "You might want to hurry, because they're coming your way!!!"

Benjamin - "What the hell?!"

The zombies then crashed onto the hull, not breaking the ship's overshieldings, but infecting most of the hull, then at airlocks 5 and 2, BNSC Scorpions came out and blasted the zombies off their feet. Then Warthogs came out into the battle field and joined the Scorpions. Then Falcons from the BNSC Winter's Death arrived, with Gala Mevri aboard one. She then got off it and the Falcon left to pick up Bearian and Benjamud.

Gala Mevri - "Benjamin!!!"

Benjamin - "Gala!!!"

Gala then rushed towards Benjamin and hugged him. Then she stopped and stepped back.

Gala - "Whoa, is it me, or are you Bearians getting bigger?"

Benjamin - "Bearian Augmention thing."

Gala - "Oh..."

Then Benjamin saw the same Falcon come back, this time with Benjamud and Bearian. Then the Falcon landed and dropped off Bearian and Benjamud. Then the both looked at Gala.

Bearian - "Who's that?"

Benjamud - "Gala Mevri, BNSC Field Marshall and Zazane Rogue, just like Xanatos, the male Zazane that follows his Vartekian 'teacher' and Saya Kejin, the female Zazane that's a part of that Kaios' crew."

Bearian - "Oh..."

Benjamin - "Guys, can't we get back to our mission now?"

Gala, Bearian and Benjamud - "Okay."

After the talking, a BDST came down from a Falcon and rushed towards Benjamin, Bearian, Benjamud and Gala. When he got there, he was panting.

BDST - "Sir... There are... More... Of... Them..."

Benjamin - "Damnit, get all your troopers back into the airlocks now."

BDST - "Yes sir..."

The BDST left and went to get his team, then Benjamin looked at Bearian, Benjamud and Gala.

Benjamin - "Bearian."

Bearian - "Sir?"

Benjamin - "Gather Benjamud and your troopers to airlock 6."

Bearian - "Yes sir."

Benjamin - "Benjamud, Gala."

Gala and Benjamud - "Yes?"

Benjamin - "Follow me."

Benjamin - "Troopers, let's move."

BDSTs - "Yes sir."

So Bearian leaves to go his troops and takes them back into airlock 6, while Benjamin, Gala and Benjamud gather their troops and go into airlock 7. Meanwhile, the Scorpions and Warthogs protect the hull from the outside. While walking down the airlock, Benjamin turns on his comm to the bridge's channel.

Benjamin - "Epsilon, can you activate the ship's turrets?"

Epsilon - "Aye, aye sir."

Epsilon then activated the turrets on the ship's hull, and after Bearian came in with the other troops, Epsilon closed down the airlocks and sent them back down into the ship's hull to be protected. Then Benjamin made his last command for Epsilon.

Benjamin - "Epsilon, can you turn on the ship's cleanse ring on?"

Epsilon - "Aye, aye."

After the cleanse ring was turned on, it cleansed the zombies off the hull. Meanwhile, Gala, Benjamin, Benjamud and Bearian walked to the bridge.

Zazane Attack
Planet Xorrun, Corrupten Capital, August 31st 10:32am

The Corruoten Capital city is under heavy fire from Zazane cruisers. The rest of the small settlments have either been utterly devoured or burnt from forest fires.

Alkor'Juroner(On Radio Link):'Heavy Breathing' "All troops, 'Exhales', Attention 'Inhales' , Run, Go, Save yourselfs, the cruisers have blocked the sun. Wait no ahhh"

The Radio link then cut out.

The Capital city was half burnt down at the time, about 100 Corrupten troops were up against a full horde of Zazane soldiers. The corruptens fought with determantation, but even though being brainwashed to a point of a nearly robotic brain, these corruptens had fear. 22 Soldiers ran from the city.

A small group of soldiers stuck together

Alko'no: Look, this isnt going to work, we might as well run away

''Sam'xo: Are you a weak puny Kazalori? We must fight and fight well''

Ror'lok: Come on, this must happen now, we must kill them.

Sam'xo:(Sword inside a zazane) Look if i can kill one that, uh, easily, then you can aswell.

Alko'no: (Wimping) Yea Easily

Ror'Lok: (Picked up by zazane)Um guys, HELP!!!!

Alko'no (Stabbed) arrgh, I, CCCant Right now

Sam'xo: (Running) See ya

Planet:Karli-City:Zarli-Time: 2:22pm-Date:August 31st

Lord Ranbolk: Ha funny joke

Typhon: Yes funny

Jaklo: Well to all of you merry hissmus!

All: MERRY HISSMUS!!

Typhon: So guys lets eat this giant hog!

Ranbolk: Of course im starved

'Crash'

Typhon: Was that your stomach ranbolk?

Ranbolk: I certanitly hope not

Jaklo: Actually guys, that wasnt his stomach, look at the ceiling, chunks have fallen down...

Ranbolk: Get everyone out of here now, we cant be in an unstable building.

''Typhon: actually from looking out side this isnt the only unstable building. I think were under attack!!''

Ranbolk: Call every soldier to arms, call the citizens to attack, we need soldiers!

Jaklo: Ranbolk...

Ranbolk: What now (Just discovering Jaklo with a spike through his chest) Woah 

Jaklo: Yea i know, owww, Argh (Jaklo Slowy Dies)

Ranbolk runs to the door with typhon, then calls upon his soldiers. But slowy has a tear dripping down his face.''

Ranbolk: Hey you, stop hangingabout smoking and drinking.

Citizen: But this is a bar

Ranbolk: I know but the city is under attack, and you need to help, heres a ghun each now kill anything that isnt kazalorian.

Citizen: Sir yes sir, (chuckles)

Ranbolk: I anm the highest ranking man in the millitary so you can shut your mouth.

Silence falls in the bar, then the citizens run out and fight..

A bloddy battle is happening during the Hissmus celebrations, a great holiday. Zazane troops have traveld to the nearest populated planet from Xorrun the Corrupten planet. The cruisers start bombarding the city, making buildings fall, explosions start out, and many die. The other person that died, was Ranbolk. He was not discovered dead until the battle had just about going towards the Kazalori. Troops motivation lowered to the bottom. Zzane troops could just walk over this city, wich they did.

The (Un)Dead March
"WHAT?!" exclaimed a furious Captain Lorrelas. "After all the Asgord did for them, the Zazane attack them! Should have known they were shifty little-"

"This is all we know, sir," said an intimidated TIAF officer. "We also know that the ambassadors noticed FRA Asgord marching against their own kind, too."

"I smell a rat here," Lorrelas murmured. "Send someone to investigate. I sense something wrong in the universe..."

General Natalie Grey and General Robert Yates were sent to the Kraw Galaxy to search for any signs. Indeed, something was very fishy...

"Make a left when at the Galactic Core. You will be arriving at Vatelia in one lightyear. Congratulations. You have arrived." the navigation device announced.

"Stupid UPS (Universal Positioning System)," General Grey said. "Vatelia's still 50 parsecs away."

"Ah, give it a rest, Natalie," General Yates said. "It's pretty damn hard to use just one satellite to track your position in the universe. Besides, it's just a prototype."

Finally, Vatelia came into view. It was in pieces, but a large chunk with a large building sticking out was visible.

"That's the monolith they were talking about," Natalie said.

"Damn, that's one big monolith," Robert remarked.

"I'll go down to the surface, you cover me from the air, okay?" Natalie ordered.

"Got it, I'll be your eye in the sky," he replied.

Natalie and her crew beamed down to Gaw'teles. The city was completely leveled, except for the giant monolith in the center. The rainstorm was putting out the fires from the earthquakes.

"You really outdid yourself this time, Zazane," she said.

"This doesn't look the work of the Zazane," General Yates said from above. "I don't think they'd flatten the capital of the nation of the leader that their leader was dating."

"So then, what the heck happened?" General Grey replied.

"HOLY CRAP, WHAT IS THAT?!" a TIAF soldier suddenly cried.

The ground troops turned their attention to the center of the city, where the monolith was. Suddenly, dead Asgord began rising from the ground.

"Zombies?!" General Grey exclaimed.

"What the hell?! I thought zombies only existed in comic books and horror movies!" General Yates said.

"Well, I know one thing: that that monolith is bringing these Asgord back to life!"

The ground squadron froze in fear. There was silence amongst them, as the undead Asgord approached them slowly. Suddenly, a shot rang out. Everyone turned to see a brave TIAF soldier shooting the Asgord with a handheld gatling gun.

"DIE, ZOMBIE FREAKS!" the officer yelled as he mowed down 10 zombies with his gun. This seemed to wake up the ground troops, who pulled out their weapons and fired at the zombies. It wasn't long until the Asgord were all dead once again, lying motionless on the ground.

"Okay, looks like they're all dead. Let's move-" General Grey began. Suddenly, the zombies got up once again, and continued their march.

"Aw, come on!" she moaned.

Up in the sky, General Yates was having trouble of his own.

"General, I think you should come take a look at this," Lt. Fitzgerald said.

"What it is, Lieutenant? I thought we're supposed to be in abandoned space," General Yates replied.

"There are ships approaching. Zazane ships..." the Lieutenant said.

"Zazane? Aw, hell no!" the General said. "Ready our weapons, these guys aren't here on the welcome wagon..."

"Yes, sir!"

As the battle happened below, General Yates attacked the incoming Zazane ships.

"They're weak, Lieutenant, maybe they'll surrender. Get me a communications link with the Fleet's leader," General Yates ordered.

The link was made. The video feed finally cleared, and the General saw who it was.

"Herezath?! That Zazane god?!" General Yates exclaimed. "How did you...?"

"Enjoying yourself, Tybusen scum? Our undead legions surround you. Kill us all you want. We'll just come back to life," Herezath said.

"They're zombies, too?!" General Yates said, surprised.

"A bit slow, aren't you, General?" Herezath taunted. "You'll be blasted out of the sky before you realize you're dead!"

"You little..." the General began.

"Have fun!" Herezath said. He laughed before the comms screen went blank.

"This isn't good, Lieutenant," General Yates said. "Oh, crap! Natalie's still down on Vatelia!"

"Shall I beam her back up?" Lt. Fitzgerald asked.

"Yeah, and do it fast!"

On Vatelia below, Natalie was surrounded by the undead. Most of her troops had been infected, and now her once-friends now were poised to kill her. Suddenly, a beam of light came down, and Natalie disappeared. She would arrive seconds later on board the USS Eagle. However, the infected soldiers were beamed up, too.

"Okay, Natalie, you're safe now," General Yates said as she materialized in the command room. They both hugged and returned to the control panel. However, more beams of light appeared in the control room.

"Oh, please, hell no-" she said as the infected soldiers walked into the command room and attacked the ship's captains.

"What the hell?! The soldiers got infected, too?!" Lt. Fitzgerald said, shocked.

"Damn it, Lieutenant!" General Yates angrily said. "Next time, make sure you don't put the enemy behind our defenses!"

"There's not gonna be a next time if we don't fricking get out of here!" General Grey said.

At this time, General Yates, General Grey, and Lt. Fitzgerald made a run for the escape pods. Luckily, the zombies were distracted by the others in the command booth, and they made it to the pod safely. They entered the code to open the pod door and hopped in. They closed it before anyone could get in.

"Let's get out of here before those zombies get smart!" And with that, General Yates hit the "Launch" button. The pod shot out of the side of the Eagle, sprouted wings, and took off into space.

"This is not good. The entire universe could be at risk now," General Yates said.

"They know who we are now, and now we will not be spared by their onslaught," General Grey said, darkly.

Meanwhile, back on the Zazane ship, Herezath laughed. He had noticed the escape pod flying away.

"Leaving so soon? No one escapes the wrath of Herezath!" he angrily roared. "Our undead armies shall march over all you know!"

Tahiziel Meets Angazhar
Tahiziel, while standing on a planet soon to be taken by her undead forces, laughed as the skies turned red and clouds turned black. She raised her arms and licked the blood-red rain. Suddenly, however, a strong hand grabbed her left arm and pulled her backwards with a strong pull. Tahiziel roared angrily at the face of Khazurhal Angazhar. Angazhar smiled before releasing a powerful roar that outmatched Tahiziel's. "What do you want, Khazurhal?!" exclaimed Tahiziel angrily. "This planet is mine...no, wait, scratch that, this entire system is mine! Find somewhere else to invade, goddess!" he answered. He released Tahiziel's arms before turning away. Tahiziel, anger in her eyes, tried to grab Angazhar's shoulder, but his ghostly form would not allow it. Instead, he turned and roared again at Tahiziel. "You dare try and challenge me?!" he shouted angrily. Tahiziel could sense this was not a winning fight. The red skies were soon destroyed and the planet crumbled beneath their feet. In minutes, both Angazhar and Tahiziel floated in space. "You wasted many of my warriors..." said Tahiziel, angrily. Angazhar simply smiled before disappearing in a black cloud.

The Visitation
Lezia, fleeing from Angazhar's wraith has settled down in Tantalus City, with her son, Kezoreg. They are watching television, when all of a sudden, the entire apartment dissipates, Lezia, frightened for her son's safety runs over to him and picks him up. The entire cityscape outside is replaced by the darkness of the Void, the home of the Apocalypta.

Lezia- ''Whats going on?! Oh, Kez I think your daddy is coming back!''

A mysterious voice, full of hate and despair speaks.

Apocalypta- You have been transported to the Void

Lezia - To the Void Star? Lezia says in confusion.

Apocalypta - No, to the space within spaces.

Lezia - ''What is that? =D''

Apocalypta - My domain. The Apocalypta says with an eternity of patience.

Lezia - Oh, I like your house!

Apocalypta - Your child is in danger, I will take him as my disciple!

Lezia - ''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Don't take my son! =(''

The Apocalypta transforms into a dark, evil looking Libertus, Lezia is glad to see a somewhat non frightening face.

Lezia - Hi!, Lezia says while attempting to pet the Dark One, the leader of the Apocalypta that has just appeared in front of her. However, before she could get close, the Dark One shoots burning hot lightning out of his finger tips, knocking Lezia 25 feet away.

Lezia - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dark One - Listen closely!

Lezia - Okay, Lezia says nervously.

Dark one - I will take your son as my apprentice.

Lezia - ''Wha? Don't take him from me!'' as she trys to protect Kezoreg from the advance of the dark being.

Dark One - He will become a servant of the dark powers of the Apocaypta!

Lezia - ''No, just don't take my baby! Tyrie will be sad!''

Dark One - He is too young, but the time will come!

Suddenly, the Dark Lord disappears, and the void is replaced by Lezia's apartment. She does not remember anything that has transpired.

Lezia - ''You are so cute! Do you need to be fed?'' Lezia asks Kezoreg while picking him up. Only he has any knowledge of what has just happened...

The Assault
Epsilon Eridani system, orbiting planets Tantalus and Circumstance, August 31st, 0151 Earth Hours...

When Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala arrived to the bridge, Benjamin was ready to give the almighty command.

Benjamin - "Epsilon, get the captain of the Revenge on."

Epsilon - "Yes sir."

The captain of Reach's Revenge turned on and saluted to Benjamin, Benjamin saluted back.

Revenge - "Revenge here sir, is it time?"

Benjamin - "Yes, we can't advance any further, if we do, then they will fire our main objective. Agknowledge?"

Revenge - "Agknowledge."

Benjamin - "Alright then, mark. Three... two... one."

Then Reach's Revenge charged up it's main MAC, and targeted the ring that surrounded Reach, then it fired it's MAC shot, meanwhile, aboard New Alexandria, Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala had their fingers crossed. They all saw the big explosion from the ring, then the remains of the shot gone away, they all stared at the ring, there was no actual damage, the shot only damaged the ring's shielding.

Benjamin - "Damnit!!!"

Then the ring shot out pods of the zombie substance towards all the ships' hull, luckily their shieldings had protected them from the zombies get aboard any of the ships, then Benjamin was furious, he walked through the hallway, grabbed his gun, walked onto the ships hull. Then the pods hit the hull's shielding and then the zombies came out of their pods and started to swarm Benjamin, then Benjamin grabbed another Shotgun Rifle and shot the zombies in the head, but they kept coming, even the Warthogs couldn't handle it. Benjamin then jumped onto top of the zombies and flipped in the air and shot the zombies with the Shotgun Rifles and spun in a complete 360 angle, mostly killing all of them. Benjamin then punched the ground, which made the zombies flip, and got up, he shot the Shotguns and killed all the zombies afterwards, then another pod crashed behind him and the zombie emerged. The zombie ran behind him, then he spun and put one of his shotguns in the zombies mouth.

Benjamin - "You like that don't you? Well, I hope you like this too!!!"

He then shot his shotgun and through it off the ship, because it was infected. He then saw a Pelican come out of one of the ship's vehicle airlock. It then landed and Benjamin got aboard the Pelican.

Benjamud - "New orders from command."

Benjamin - "What do they want?"

Benjamud - "They want us to board that damn thing and shut down it's controls to self-destruct if we get too close."

Benjamin - "Can't we just use our Sabres?"

Benjamud - "Can't, we just ran out."

Benjamin - "Then can't we just use a bomb?"

Benjamud - "That's a one way trip, and plus, we would destroy Reach with it."

Benjamin - "Then how are we going to sneak in, we're too visible and we will be shot down."

Benjamud - "Don't worry, the Savannah II is going to help us, and plus, we have cloak ability on, so they won't be able to see us."

Benjamin - "Alright then."

The Pelican then flew towards the ring, with the BNSC Savannah II.

Ready for Orbispira
Date: 15/01/402 KRE 09:38 Tantalus City Time

Lezia rested in Tantalus with her son, Kezoreg, until she got a transmission from PM Kala'talia.

"Hello, Lezia. As you know, we are suffering the worst crisis since 399 KRE, and I am not sure wherther we'll survive at all, and there are aliens criticizing you all over the universe. So I have decided to send you to the URC Capital, Orbispira. You'll stay there for a long while, about 1 KRE Month. The URC will do everything to defend you. Ok, see you!"


 * - PM Kala'talia from the FRA

Lezia was Joyful about going there, but Kezoreg started to speak, much to Lezia's surprise.

Kezoreg - "Ya! Ya! Orbi-Orbi-Orbi-wat?" Lezia - "It's the URC Capital. It has high tecnology. We'll be fine there." Kezoreg - "Wat bat Angie, mama?" Lezia - "Wait - Angie, that's a Xhornexian name! You know a lot of geography, don't you?"

Kezoreg Facepalmed. Lezia's conversation went through many topics. Angazhar going to orbispira, Tyraz being missing, If Tyraz was ever responsible for the Zazane monolith, Moxix Breek, The meanings of Conquer and Honor, which Lezia could not explain what honor was, and what Tyraz did before all this. But Lezia was more concerned of Safety, and she knew that Orbispira would be a nice vacation place for her...

Why does it have to be ZOMBIES???
Admiral Kaios, the feared mercenary captain, looked down at the surface of planet 'Reach,' as the planet's former BNSC owners called it. The planet, once a verdant world, was now a burned hellscape, with legions of shambling undead walking around on its surface. Kaios had been hired by the BNSC High Command to locate a scientist studying the undead from a firebase in hte northern ice shelf. Contact with the facility had been lost the day before, and the BNSC sent a crack BDST commando team to rescue the scientist. They too dropped out of the radio net upon entering the base, and High Command feared the worst. Kaios chuckled to himself, wondering just what the scientist was doing to make his work so damned important- the BNSC High Command was paying him somewhere in the order of several hundred million sporebucks after all. If the scientist was dead, then he was to gather as much of the research notes as he could and return those to the Bearians instead.

Xoratas walked up to the bridge, followed closely by Saya Kejin. The Pepian and Zazane were both rogues, like Kaios himself, and he trusted both dearly. Kaios brought up a holographic map of the terrain as his flagship began to orbit the world. The other members of Kaios' crew began to file in as the Admiral laid out his plans...

Kaios knew that any normal form of attack via ships or SOEIVs would be met with a ton of resistance, so Kaios looked for an opportunity to sneak into the base. Just such an opportunity was to be found in the armoury wing, where an air vent led straight down into the main walkway leading to the research wing. Kaios' plan was fairly simple: The crew would take a cloaked lander to the planet's surface, and skirt a glacier passing nearby to the base. Once on the roof, Xoratas would be more than capable of tearing off the exhast vent, and from there the plan was even simpler: cut through everyone in their path until they reached the scientist...

The plan worked like a charm for the first few minutes, with Kaios and his team arriving undetected. For around seven minutes the mercenaries sprinted across the glacier's flat top, eventually coming to a stop at a clif face overlooking the base. Kaios drew out a monocular, and scanned through thermal, low-light and several other spectrums as he tried to pinpoint the base's sentries. It was only when he switched the thermal view to black-hot that he noticed several building plates were warm, as if machinery was operating behind them. Kaios' initial suspicions were confirmed when a group of BDSTs, unknowing of Kaios' op, stumbled into the base's defensive perimiter. The hatches popped back and automated weapons tracked the BDSTs as they ran helter-skelter from the base. Kaios gave a quick signal, and Emirillia and Saya rapelled down the side of the cliff, the two ropes held up by Xoratas.

The Zazane were fairly confident of their defence network, however Kaios had bought a pair of chameleoline suits for his two angels of death, complex nanosuits that replicated not only the appearance of the surrounding environment, but also temperature as well. In this way, the two mercenaries managed to get close to a weapon port without being spotted. Emirillia used a plasma arc welder to hold it in place, and signalled for the rest of the team. Six minutes later, Kaios' crew was assembled above the vent, and Xoratas had already torn off the hatch. Kaios dropped an EMP grenade into the vent to shut off the fan, and then jumped down, followed closely by Nascaw, Xoratas, Emirillia and Saya. Jamaya had volunteered to stay up top to secure their escape route, and so that the Arkangel could home in on his co-ordinates for a tactical lance strike if necessary. Kaios muttered the infamous film quote "So far, so good," as the crew began to move down the corridor...

All went well until they reached the science wing. Opening the door, Kaios discovered that his crew was but a few minutes too late: the scientists weer already under attack. Opening up with a plasma repeater, Kaios managed to drop three of the nine zombies, and started to give covering fire while Saya and Emirillia went about their work. Nascaw was next in, firing off .30cal incendiary rounds from an assault cannon he picked up in the armory. The fight was over quickly, but at a cost. Only William was still alive, the other three scientists having been killed and reanimated by the zombies. Kaios quickly told Xoratas to hold the main door shut while Emirillia welded it, and then to do the same to the other door. Nascaw started to download William's research onto a portable hard disk, while Saya gave him a refractor field and a pistol. Neither would be that much use, but at least they would help keep the Bearian alive for a few minutes.

Kaios, in the meantime, was strangely quiet. Saya could see him shivering under his hat, and so swaggered over and asked what was wrong. It turned out that all Cohen have a natural fear of dying, but above all they have a fear of the undead. Many were the stories of vengeful ghouls rising up from the waters to steal bad people from their beds at night, and fighting zombies first-hand brought back terrible fears Kaios had long thought he had quelled. Saya had a temporary remedy for anxiety, though, and slapped the Admiral across the face, knocking his hat off. Normally Kaios would have shot her for something like that, crewman or not, but the sting woke him up from the trance he was in, so he picked up his hat and checked how much of William's data had been recovered. 20%...

About 15% more had been downloaded by the time the zombies rallied enough to attack Kaios again. The welds Emirillia had put on the main door held true, and the zombies gave up on it. The second door, however, was only lightly welded, and so a Zazane was able to pry it apart, to be met by a shotgun blast from Kaios' more symbolic gun. Other undead were close behind, trying to get at the Admiral's crew, but they were in a hallway that offered no cover for at least fifty metres. Nascaw had little trouble suppressing the undead with his borrowed assault cannon, and William's research was 70% downloaded by the time Nascaw finally ran out. Kaios was next in, holding the plasma repeater one-handed while he primed an incendiary grenade. He threw the grenade about twenty metres, where it created a curtain of flame that held back the zombies for a few minutes. Nascaw brought up his rifle and prepared to spell the Admiral while he worked out how to get out.

Infiltration
Epsilon Eridani System, orbiting planet Reach, August 31st, 0200 Earth Hours...

When the Pelican and Savannah II neared the ring, Benjamin just got a new transmission from command. It said the famous BNSC Scientist William Bantonation was found on Reach, and is a slave to the Zazane, but command hired Admiral Kaios' crew to rescue him.

Benjamud - "Is it about William again?"

Benjamin - "Yeah, Zazane slave, Admiral Kaios' crew rescuing him, that stuff."

Benjamud - "Oh..."

Gala - "Who's Admiral Kaios?"

Benjamin - "A guy that owns a crew and who is a pirate."

Gala - "Oh..."

Then, they neared the ring, Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala all got up from their seats and got their jetpacks.

Benjamin - "Alright, we're going to jump and fly onto the hull with our cloaks on. Got it?"

Gala and Benjamud - "Yes sir!!!"

So they jumped from the Pelican, activated their jetpacks and flew onto the rings hull. Then the group ran to the hole the Savannah II made in the shielding, then they switched their weapons' ranged ability to cutter ability to cut a hole into the hull. Then they jumped into it, and watched how the space sucked up stuff from inside the ring and then watch it close the hole by emergency repair systems. Then they all walked and switched their weapons back to ranged. Then they heard the alarm go off and heard Zazane soldiers footsteps, they defended the hallway. Then Benjamin led the group and assassinates a Zazane patrol, they did that with the rest. The group then comes to a door, where two Zazane soldiers talk about them, then Benjamin and Benjamud turned on their transalators.

First Zazane - "I heard there are intruders on the ring, I think we should blow this place to hell before they get any far. Don't you agree?"

Second Zazane - "No you dumbass, that is the worst way to kill them, there aren't gods you know. Plus, if we survive, the king won't be happy."

First Zazane - "I guess your right-"

Gala then stepped on something that stopped their conversation. They then held their weapons in front of them and barrel-rolled into the hallway, they check both ways but didn't see anything, so they turn around and start to walk back. Then Benjamin and Benjamud grab their knives and get ready to assassinate the Zazane.

First Zazane - "So, as I was saying, I think we should blow the hell outta this place before they take back our capital."

Second Zazane - "Why the hell are we talking about this again?!"

First Zazane - "I was thinking..."

Benjamin - "Alright, get ready in three... two..."

Benjamin and Benjamud both kill the Zazane and continue down the hallway, then they walk in front of Zazane in the ring's bridge, they all grab their weapons, shaking.

Benjamin - "Alright people, we don't have to get all childish about this. Can't we just work this out from Bearian to freak?"

Then one of the Zazane fires his weapon, but misses Benjamin and the rest of the group.

Benjamin - "I always knew I was never a good Diplomat."

Then Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala all grabbed their weapons and fired, sliced and kill all the Zazane in the room, but before the last one died, he activated the security system and Zazane started to pouring into the bridge, Benjamin de-activated the ring's self-destruct and shielding systems before they came in and got behind one of the bridge's computer systems and fired at the Zazane, they all fired at each other, then the group killed the Zazane in the bridge, but then the group heard grunting noises.

Benjamin - "Damnit, it's them!!!"

The zombies then poured into bridge, but then BDSTs started to pour into the bridge from a hole in the roof, they then inserted a ladder and windowed tunnel.

BDST Commander - "Sir, get onto the Pelican, we'll be up there afterwards."

Benjamin - "Thank you."

BDST Commander - "No, thank God for allowing us to serve you."

So Benjamin and the group get aboard the Pelican, while the BDSTs fired and killed the zombies, but some killed the BDSTs, then when the group got aboard the Pelican, the surviving BDSTs got aboard the Pelican and left the ring, then the ring sealed up the hole, but the zombies got sucked into space before it was sealed up. Aboard the Pelican, the pilot said to Benjamin that they will be heading to the New Alexandria. Then Benjamin watched as Kaios' ship headed towards Reach's northern pole.

Master Kroc's vision
Deep in the palace of VofValar, in the personal meditation chambers of the Hierarch Kroc, was the Civatron suspending in the air, almost transparent. His eyes were glowing green icy energy; psionic energy. His Preferetus (adopted kin) laid sat on floating thrones, staring at their master's trance. Yet they knew he wasn't meditating, he was in the Iluvii.

We've been here for five days said the andrudan Preferetus Horm, I left some skirmishes on the Xhodocto to come here, and I cannot get a report while being here...

Quiet! said the male Civatron Caim, He revealed us what he felt, and we know the gravity of what's happening in the Xhodocto borders, but this seems different

Even if we know the gravity, the Xhodocto are not a race to be ignored, like the others said Horm, pointing towards the door.

This invasion originating from the Zazane frontier seems to be dangerous enough to call the master's attention, look upon the gravity of the situation said the male Juvan Blitzscar.

Fine, fine agreed the Andrudan.

Just as they finished the argument, Master Kroc's eyes suddenly went normal again, and his body was gaining volume, he fell quickly into the floor, and walked towards his own seat.

My apprentices said his wise, delicate and powerful voice. ''I am now sure of what troubles the Zazane sector, their shadow gods have seem to be risen, and now are consuming entire galaxies in a matter of minutes. I've had to use my hidden powers to oversee that the Xhodocto are behind this as well''

The Preferetus opened their eyes, in surprise. The Ayrai'Shikua were plotting behind the usual frontline, and this time they were working with a powerful shadow order. Kroc signaled Caim, and the oldest of the preferetus stood up.

My son, take three expedition forces and deploy them within our borders with the Zazane, any possible attack coming from that side most be prevented, I'll travel with you until we reach the borders, then I'll enter their territory alone.

Father, if the Xhodocto are in this, you should probably not travel on your own in the war zone, our deadly enemy will do anything to take your head to Angazhar.

I know the risks, and that's why I'm doing this, Angazhar's presence forces me to travel there and help, I'll tell the Valader to occupy along with Horm our direct frontline with the Xhodocto. Kroc stands up, as all the preferetus. Fear not Preferetus!

Uninvited Guests
Back home in Tropicana, Captain Lorrelas was relaxing at home with General Grey. It had been a stressful week. The Grox had attacked the Bunsen Galaxy, they had lost Xanatos Breek, their only connection to Votorah, and life had been plain miserable for the commander. The other 4 Captains were sitting around, waiting for their next move.

"This is serious," Lt. Samenor said. "If the Zazane Gods have risen again, no one will be safe."

"Even worse," Admiral Mermus added. "Those zombies don't go down easily."

"We can't just sit around like-" Admiral Khoffman began.

"I KNOW!" Lorrelas angrily yelled. "If we can't kill them, what are we to do...?"

"Surely they have a weakness," Natalie said. "Nothing's invincible. Not even the Xhoddie god was completely invincible."

"Yes, but they had a magical sword! We have rockets and guns, but they aren't doing crap!" Lorrelas said.

"Well, maybe-" Admiral Khoffman began again.

Suddenly, there was rapid knocking and door bell-ringing at Lorrelas' door. He opened up to find General Yates in a panic.

"Zazane ships," General Yates said. "Zazane ships are reported to have entered the Gandropsy system."

"Not like had enough crap to worry about-" Lorrelas said, annoyed.

General Yates' radio buzzed, then a TIAF soldier was heard.

"The Eagle has landed. What is your command, General?"

"Wait, wait, wait," Lorrelas said. "The USS Eagle? From the scouting mission? You said that thing was destroyed."

"Well, yes, Commander, but I don't see why-"

Lorrelas rushed out the door, and the others followed him out. General Yates stayed behind, flustered.

The six rushed across the bridge into Shamning, where the USS Eagle was landing on the hillside. They rushed up to find many curious citizens gathering around. It just sat there for some time. Eventually, the crowd began to go away, when suddenly, there was the sound of an airlock opening. They returned to find the boarding hatch opening up. They intently watched, until hordes of zombified TIAF soldiers began pouring out.

"Damn!" Lorrelas exclaimed. "Evacuate the city, it's not safe here anymore!"

Nearby TIAF officials heard Lorrelas' command and began an evacuation of the city and the surrounding countryside. The city was to be put under lockdown until the Eagle was eliminated.

"Time for some killing!" Admiral Khoffman excitedly said as he pulled out his Sword of Shadows. The others pulled out their weapons and prepared for the fight. The six fought bravely, and most were dead, thanks to the group's powerful weaponry, but those who were still strong enough got back up. They were just blasted to pieces. All was okay, until one sneaked up on Captain Lorrelas and bit him in the back.

"OW! CRAP!" he yelled as he stabbed the last one in the head.

"Crap! He's infected!" Admiral Khoffman said.

"This isn't good!" Captain Lorrelas said. "Hurry! Someone shoot me!"

"What? No! None of us are gonna shoot you!" Natalie complained. "You're our leader!"

"I'll be cloned, I'll be back sooner than you know it," Lorrelas said.

"Fine! I'll do it!" Lt. Samenor said. Everyone gasped in shock, as the two were best friends. "It's for his own good."

He stabbed Lorrelas in the head, killing him. Lorrelas would reawaken minutes later at the Tropicana Cloning Facility. Meanwhile, the infected Lorrelas fell to the ground, seemingly dead.

"I guess that's it," Admiral Khoffman said.

"Lorrelas should be back soon," Admiral Tanyan said. "Hopefully-"

She was cut off by the reanimated Lorrelas, who was marching towards the remaining five, all weapons in tow (minus the Master Trident)

"What the...? I stabbed him in the head!" Lt. Samenor said.

"Guess he's not dead yet! Maybe you missed!" General Grey replied.

"Heck no, I know where I placed my sword, that's in his-"

"Look out!" Admiral Tanyan said as the zombie Lorrelas shot a plasma blast at Lt. Samenor, who was thrown against a nearby building.

"Here he comes for more!" Admiral Khoffman said as he narrowly dodged a missile. As the five engaged in battle with the zombie, the zombie showed a surprising level of intelligence, no doubt taken from the mind of Captain Lorrelas himself.

"Damn it, he's sure learning a lot from Lorrelas!" Khoffman said.

"How's he doing that anyways, its not the zombie's memories!" Lt. Samenor said.

"Well, it's his brain, he must have left behind some accessible memories!" Natalie said as she was thrown against a wall by a plasma blast. Zombie Lorrelas proved to be a tough customer, rising again every time he fell. Eventually, he proved overwhelming for the five, who were cornered, bruised and bloody. Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard over head.

"Here I come, zombie bastard!" Lorrelas said as he jumped from a nearby building. He drove the Master Trident straight into the zombie's head, killing it once and for all. There was an odd silence as the battered group walked away.

"Took you long enough," Lt. Samenor finally said.

"We had trouble in Shaldenis," Lorrelas said. "Zazane ships were swarming the place. I had to take 'em down before I could get on my way here."

"Interesting, though," Samenor said. "The zombie somehow managed to access your leftover memories, that's how he caught us in the corner."

"Strange indeed. We'll need to talk to Dr. McSmith. These zombies are getting stronger and smarter..."

An Aging Iteok Commander
Date: 19/01/402 KRE 04:41 Kiorhes Time

It has been 15 days since Tahiziel met Zavrhos. The soldiers noticed something odd was up with Zavrhos, but they ignored that. Zavrhos never looked at himself, because he never felt the need to. However, one soldier noticed his... strange look.

Soldier Ghaat - "Zavrhos, you look like a 70 year old." Zavrhos - "HOW DEAR YOU INSULT ME???" Ghaat - "No no, Great Commander, look in a mirror!"

Zavrhos looks in a mirror, and he stood there for just under an hour looking at himself. His skin was whiter, now in a brighter shade of grey. His horns where more black, and some of Zavrhos's skin was peeling off. He was physically weaker, though he was still descended. Zavrhos was shocked. He then walked away, back to his chair, and asked Ghaat:

Zavrhos - "How old am I now?" Ghaat - "Around... 70-ish years old. I think it was that incident with that god." Zavrhos - "How do I fix this?" Ghaat - "Well... Start by asking... Tyraz. The one who descended you." Zavrhos - "Heh, I'll ask his dumb wife to ask Tyraz..."

And so, he prepared to leave. Zavrhos had a long way to go, but his physical weakness meant that someone had to fly his ship for him...

In the New Bark City Ruins...
Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach, New Bark City Ruins, August 31st, 0500 Earth Hours...

When Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala got back aboard the New Alexandria, in the ship's bridge, there was a transmission for Benjamin and his crew from command, on BNSC Shield Planet Reach II. Benjamin then sat down in his seat and faced the screen, which had Benjamin's second-in-command man, Tyler Reaches, who works at the BNSC Base and the BNSC's CIA's Research Facility of Nobody's Fault, the facility was built inside a fallen BNSC Halcyon-class fleetship.

Tyler Reaches - "Benjamin, command wants you and your friends to head into the New Bark City Ruins, the Zazane have some sort of machine that will destroy all the ships on the field, except theirs."

Benjamin - "Alright, we're heading to the SOEIVs now."

Tyler - "Alright then, good luck out there."

The transmission ended and Benjamin and his friends headed to the SOEIVs and loaded their pods and strapped into their pods and waited until the ship's countdown sequence was finished.

Countdown - "Five... Four... Three... Two... One."

The pods dropped and headed towards the burnt ground of Reach. Then after 7 minutes of dropping, they finally hit the ground. Benjamin, Benjamud and Gala then activated their pods openning sequence and all the pods' doors blasted off, onto the burnt ground. Benjamin got out of his pod and grabbed his weapons, which were a BDST Silenced Submachine Gun and a BNSC Magnum. He then looked for anything that could guide him to New Bark City Ruins, then he spotted a twist sign, a litte rusty and burnt, but mostly burnt. He then picked it up and dusted it off. It told Ben which way to reach New Bark City, then he dropped it and started heading down remains of a road and towards the ruins of New Bark City.

The Revolt of Dark Terdiatlans
Sirian system, Planet Jarames, military base, September 17.st, 13.00 earth hours

The Dark Terdiatlans, huge sect of Terdiatlans, known for worshipping Xhodocto and demonic forces, constructed some minor transportation starships, and attacked central part of Terdiatlan empire, the Planet Jarames, main army and weapon base of The Terdiatlans. They taken thousands of ships, and escaped out of the Sirian systes, what was extremely guarded, but this time was there solar storm, and great-scale blackout. Dark Terdiatlans used it, and started to build grand base near Terdiatlan empire. They are going to attack Optimian Terdiatlans, and other nations who fight against the five gods and Xhodocto in The Holy shadow war.

Renus - "What! Sect attacked?!"

Edrantes - "Unfortunately yes, master. They used lack of power caused by sirian storm. They escaped with hundreds of our fighters, and with six dreadnoughts."

Renus - "Send one third of fleet to planet Feitner, their base. We will kill them all."

Edrantes - ''My lord, it will be not possible. Whole fleet is now fighting thousands of light years away. And, in our base were only these ships that they stolen."''

Renus - "You forgot something. Supership Dai Optimum I. It is now in planetary museum of Terdiatlan fleet. It can be used, we can start it now without problems. Only send transmission to planet Auridia, it is straight there, do you see it?(pointing on the night sky). We will destroy them.

Edrantes - ''Of course! It will start tomorrow with all fighters and dreadnoughts in museum. I will send transmission.''

And second day in the morning, majestatic veteran mothership leaved the Sirian system, and started journey to the planet Feitner, with thousands of hyperdestructive bombs. But Dark Terdiatlans were this time away, and their fleet was heading away, to attack all civilizations, what are fighting against Five Gods. Dai Optimum found only abandoned planet. Terdiatlan admiral Edrantes Flayor, on board of Dai Optimum leaved the Milky way, to help Terdiatlan allies...

The Attack
Outside New Jaredis 3:00 pm.

Laser fire erupts as the Zazane attack the planet of New Jaredis in hope of conquering the entire system of Solisiaus.

General Sethon- Fire those lasers at them blow their ships to smithrens.

Homo Jaredian 1- But sir we need to reload...

General Sethon- Who cares just reload and keep firing.

Homo Jaredian 2- But sir we are getting more troops to reinforce the blockade from those nasty Zazane scum.

Homo Jaredian 3- Umm... sir look out the window...

General Sethon- Oh my God!!!

The mysterious figure hits the ship.

Computer- Alert Alert the ship's oxygen tanks have been destroyed and....

Everything shuts down on the ship until suddenly the ship reboots.

General Sethon- Whew I thought something bad was going happen.

Homo Jaredian 3- Umm... sir look at the security cameras.

General Sethon- Zombies?!

Homo Jaredian 2- The zombies will arrive here in less than 5 minutes...

The door brakes

Homo Jaredian 2- Well that blows the calculation.

General Sethon- I've heard of zombies but this is ridiculous!!!

Descent of Angels
The zombies spread ruthlessly and efficiently, catching many off-guard. Within the Ko'Sa'Va galaxy, the case was no different. Zombie forces were already encroaching on the southern end of the galaxy, near the planet Solarus. Home to the proud Solarian race, this world was also a keystone bastion for the entire galaxy. When the first zombies landed on one of the Solarians' planets, generals across the galaxy leaned forward in their chairs to get a better look at what was going on.

The zombie attack began fairly routinely, a massive tide of deformed and degraded bodies shambling towards the glittering, elegant spires of Angel's Pride, the only colony on the planet. The defenders reacted no less routinely, with waves of Solarian warriors launching out of the city's flight bays, their lasers carving charred scars upon the ground. The zombies fell, blackened, but many were only maimed, and got up to continue the march. Worse still, Zazane ships began to duel the Solarians, and many of the angelic warriors fell to the ground, and were then reanimated by the encroaching zombies. Despairing, the remaining warriors retreated, hoping that their city's massive defence laser batteries could do the job. Unfortunately, a fanatical cult renounced Spode as their god, planning to embrace zombification as their 'ultimate destiny,' and attacked the generators that powered the defence lasers. One by one, the massive guns lost power, leaving the city all but defenceless.

As with so many great battles, the fight raged for and against both sides, for while the zombies surrounded the city they could not scale its clean, smooth walls. Instead, ships launched bombing run after bombing run, hoping to knock the edifice off its pedestal and down into the zombies below. Sometimes, strike teams would manage to bring down a heavily laden bomber, and the resultant explosions killed scores of undead. At others, the winged warriors were met with heavy hails of fire that tore through them like knives through paper.

It was only when the battle seemed most desperate that the city's greatest defenders came to the fore: a corps of the mighty Knights of Solarus, led by a Grand Blade of that order. Though only two dozen of them were present at the time, their very sight filled the Solarians with hope and valour, for to them, the Knights were the embodiment of the Divine Fate reserved for them all. Led by these unearthly warriors, the battle swung in the favour of the Solarians once more, and many of the Zazane ships were shot down, crashing into the zombies below as high-energy lasers tore their engines out from underneath them. Not satisfied with this, though, the angels of death descended upon the zombies below, their weapons shifted to low-output, but high-radius beams, scorching zombies by the four and five. The zombies withdrew to the plains beyond the mountains, to rally and reorganise, but the dauntless Knights gave them only an hour of respite.

As darkness fell, the Knights swooped in, their thruster packs leaving dancing trails of golden light in the sky. Brilliant yellow beams lanced out, igniting anything they touched. Sand turned to glass and zombies fell by the dozens to each sweep of the beautiful arcs. Although the zombies tried to attack, the Solarians stayed well above any small-arms fire, making use of the effectively unlimited range of their weapons to strike from among the clouds. The display was utterly dazzling, and many zombies fell with both fear and great joy in their hearts, for although they were culled without mercy, their deaths were the most gorgeous they could have dreamed of.

Regrettably, the colony was deemed unfit for continued use, as the zombies' plague began to spread. Acknowledging that the planet was lost, the main hall of the colony, which was in fact a colony ship, departed the city while the automated lasers commenced Exterminatus in Extremis- the complete glassing of the entire planet's surface, to a depth of over 50 metres in some places. The water evaporated, the sky was blasted into oblivion, and all that was left of the once lush world was a glassy hunk of rock. The zombies lost perhaps a few hundred thousand of their own number, the Solarians left around 60 thousand of the original 100 thousand colonists behind. It had been a dark day, but a day of light in more than one way. Now, with the involvement of both the Iron Systems Federation and the Solarian Empire, the full Council of Blades was forced to acknowledge war against the Zazane. An entire galaxy's military turned its massive head to the south, and roared.

The Attack part 2
Outside the capital city of the Homo Jaredians on New Jaredis 4:00 pm.

The infected creatures destroyed the blockade and the Zazane head into New Jaredis with everything going under Zazane plans. As the massive Zazane force heads into the capital city a huge force of Homo Jaredian soldiers head out to attack the Zazane but they are easily crushed by the military might of the Zazane. As Solisiaus sets over the planet New Jaredis the Zazane gather together to conquer the capital. Meanwhile in the capital the best of the Homo Jaredian military come together to defend them. But around midnight somrthing weird happened at the Zazane camp a bright light of gold that spread across the entire Zazane camp an burning the Zazane in seconds. After that scientists came to figure out what happened...

The Twilight
Meanwile, many more undead attacked various planets in the universe. They didn't won everywhere, though.

Somewhere else, a squad of FKA Asgordian troopers investigated the dark world. One of them heard something:


 * "Commander! Undead approach!"


 * "Damn... Okay, so we will fight! Bring your guns and shoot, dammit!"

And so this squad retaliated. Lasers pierced the air. Undead Zazane marched, their bodies burning yet continuing to attack, powered by the dark energy. And so, a close combat started.

It was a hard combat. Asgordian took their knives, bayonets, grenades and daggers, and were ripping the undead spawn off. Zombies fighted yet, biting and clawing. One of Asgordians froze, his eyes turning black and skin rotting. It turned his head on his comrades with last brink of humanity - but he was shot immediately then... - said the commander while killing his soon-to-be-undead friend.
 * "Sorry... I have to do that."

However, Asgordians seem to win this fight. Zombies stopped, with legs and arms cut off, and fell lifelessly on the ground. Only their leader remained, the only living one, retaliating with a chainsaw sword. Yet, when Asgordians charged in their very last attack, something happened.

The star which shined in the sky vanished. The purple, ghostly light formed, and reality was shattering. The portal of silver material appeared, and from them, unusual creatures appeared.

Purple, ghostly beings turned their sights on the fighters. They whispered in chorus:
 * "Sankta'Nar imperi deci'maelor...Divio'Nar imperi deci'maelor... Here, the Dark should prevail, for the best for all..."

Energy beings charged. They opened a rift in the reality itself, to their own realm. In a second, Asgordians' souls were sucked in it, bodies falling like corpses.

Zazane commander tried to talk with the mysterious ally:
 * "Who...you...are? Demon? Did Five Gods send you?"

Spirits answered via the mind talk:
 * "We are... Eola'Nar... We do not serve the Five Gods, nor any of your superiors. Our lord said that Darkness must pervail here. That's enough for you to know. We helped you, and other Zazane on this planet. Take this world. This is a gift by our lord."

Spirits vanished again. Zazane felt himself wondered and shocked...

Zavrhos's Last Quest
Date: 20/01/402 KRE 03:30 Kiorhes Time, 16:45 Tantalus Time

Zavrhos was ready to leave, in the quest for finding Lezia Ipevreia, Tyraz's wife. He set off in a Rhartas Ship, controlled by his personal pilot, as Zavrhos was "Too old to drive". They knew where she was now, thanks to the FRA's habit of not keeping secrets. She was still in Tantalus, waiting for the URC to take her to Orbispira. Zavrhos went there at full speed, arriving there in 6 hours. The Kraw let him in this time, because they could only laugh at Zavrhos's fate.

Zavrhos, now looking like a 77 year old, arrived at Lezia's apartment, and was greeted by her, and her new baby, Kezoreg. Zavrhos asked where was Tyraz, and Lezia was not renembering at first, but she was reminded through a note in her computer. He was in Xhodocto Hell, unaware of what was happening outside. And so, Zavrhos and his pilot took the radical decision of going to Tuuros Galaxy.

While they were going there, Tahiziel appeared. Zavrhos didn't know who she was at first, but she revealed herself, and Zavrhos knew she was Tahiziel.

Zavrhos - "GET ME BACK TO NORMAL! I AM 27, NOT 77!" Tahiziel - *laughs* "It is the price you pay for your boasting and your ignorance!" Zavrhos - "My what?" Tahiziel - "You tell lies of being the strongest being!" Zavrhos - "Those were not lies." Zavrhos - "I will find Tyraz, and he will restore me!"

She Told Zavrhos that Tyraz wouldn't want to Rejuvenate Zavrhos. But Zavrhos didn't listen. He was overconfident. So they arrived at Tuuros, which was actually close to the Kraw Galaxy, and Zavrhos and his pilot tried to find "In which planet was Xhodocto Hell". There, they saw an interdimensional portal, and Zavrhos thought that this was the portal to Hell. They entered the Portal, and they saw only White. White all over their surroundings, except what was in their ship. Then, Tyraz appeared and killed Zavrhos's Pilot, leaving Zavrhos alone.

Zavrhos asked Tyraz to Rejuvenate him, but Tyraz refused, and threatened Zavrhos. Zavrhos was too arrogant with his former powers, and Tyraz thought he deserved to die. A black cloud could be seen getting closer and closer, until it engulfed the ship. Then Angazhar appeared, and the Inter-dimensional portal closes, leaving Zavrhos with no escape. Zavrhos tried to activate the FTL controls with his age, but Tyraz destroyed the controls. Tyraz and Angazhar wondered if he was to be killed or not. He was instead dropped into space, near a black hole.

Tyraz Called the only one who he could rely on at this moment. Lezia. She then went to Zavrhos's location, and used her beam to drag Zavrhos in the ship, but lezia got caught in the Black Hole's force. Lezia then turned on her FTL drives, and launched herself out of here, back to Tantalus. Lezia was glad that was over, and Zavrhos asked to be brought back to Ikrhas, to announce his retirement. Then, Tyraz and Angazhar appeared on Lezia's ship, which she just got fixed.

Lezia was frightened, but when she saw Tyraz, she showed him Kezoreg, their baby. Kezoreg immediatly recognized his father, but Lezia covered Kezoreg up with her arms when Angazhar appeared. Angazhar threatened to kill all of them, but Lezia showed him a footage of Angazhar giving his necklace to Lezia. Angazhar demanded it back, but Lezia said it was destroyed when he destroyed Ka'an, her former home. Angazhar then set off to find the necklace in Ka'an's current wastelands, and dissapeared.

Then, Lezia showed Kezoreg again to Tyraz, and he said:

Tyraz - "Why has he not recieved the Zazane Mark of Birth?" Lezia - "Because he's Asgordian. Right, cutie?" Kezoreg - "Bah!" Lezia - "Woah, what happened?" Tyraz - "He discourages being called an Asgordian." Lezia - "Why?" Tyraz - "Because his heritage is Zazane." Lezia - "But it's also Asgord." Tyraz - "Do not forget Ayrai'Shikua." Lezia - "Yep. He was born in the FRA, so he is an FRA citizen." *Shows Kezoreg's ID Card* Tyraz - "Are you discrediting his other heritage?" Lezia - "No no no! It's cute he has 2 cultures!" Tyraz - "Then why make him follow just one?" Lezia - "Uhhh... Because he's far from the Zazane Empire." Tyraz - "My race has colonies within FRA and FKA borders." Lezia - "Cool! Now, one thing - Don't be harsh on him when you teach him his culture, he doesn't like war, right, Kezzie?" Kezoreg - "Bah, peace down!" Lezia - "See? He likes peace." Kezoreg - *spits in Lezia's eye* Lezia - "Why did he do that for?" Tyraz - "Because he is a true Zazane child." Lezia - "And? He said "Peace down!" As in "Hail Peace!"" Tyraz - "Peace down as in down with peace." Lezia - "This isn't true, is it, Kezzie?" Kezoreg - "Dadda right!" Lezia - "I will from now on, raise Kezoreg to be a diplomat Like me!" Tyraz - "You will do no such thing!" Lezia - "Yes I will!" Tyraz - *eyes glow a demonic red* "No, you won't!" Lezia - "Yes I will!"

And so, they kept arguing, until Lezia dropped off Zavrhos in Ikrhas, then he told Toragh 9 his time was over, and that he decided to move to the Terridor Federation, to avoid humiliation. Only Lezia knows where he lives now.

Reunited
Lezia was in bed, asleep. Kezoreg was in his cot. Tyraz, however, was downstairs, his knees on the ground and his voice chanting prayers in Dark Tongue. The Firesword resided in front of him as he chanted. Only he disrupted the silence. Soon enough, however, he felt a presence. He opened his fiery eyes, grabbed the hilt of the Firesword and turn rapidly. However, the blade was stopped by a ghoulish hand. Then, a ghastly face came in Tyraz's sight. "Alas, you have returned." smiled Moxix, his face decomposing. Tyraz growled before pushing the Firesword into Moxix, keeping him against a wall.

"Why have you come here?!" Tyraz questioned Moxix angrily. Moxix only smiled as the faces of the Five Gods appeared from the shadows. Tyraz pulled back.

"Your child is the Dark Messiah. Upon his birth, the Five Gods, the Zazane Monolith and I rose from Zakaipods. Frankly, I'm disappointed. I would've thought that you of all Zazane were to rid this Universe of mortals." explained Moxix, his voice cold.

"I apologize, dear brother, but I am no god. However, I will do everything I can to satisfy my hunger for bloodshed." Tyraz replied, easing his grip on the Firesword. Moxix smiled.

"You will do no such thing. The wrath of the Five Gods is already upon this Universe. The souls of deceased Zazane have risen to feed on the mortals. They will all perish and we will build a new Universe!" exclaimed Moxix, joy in his voice. Tyraz growled angrily and slashed at Moxix with the Firesword.

"You may have the power of the Five Gods and the Monolith at your side, but I have the power of the Ayrai'Shikua running through my veins. You will not be able to spill my blood as you did when we were children! Also, your soldisers are defeated souls. The power of living Zazane warriors is far greater!" Tyraz shouted at Moxix viciously.

"Fine, from now on, you will lead your army of Zazane warriors, I will lead my army of Undead. I declare that the first one to die is the victor. However, if either wins, there will be rivers of red flowing in their wake!" smiled Moxix competitively. Then, his body disappeared in black smoke. Tyraz's eyes grew even more fiery until his skin began to burn.

The Real Zombieland
Epsilon Eridani System, planet Reach, the New Bark Ruins, September 1st, 0200 Earth Hours...

Benjamin just got into the ruins but was being chased by a squadron of zombies, More Coming Soon...

On the Brink
Vikria, member of the Veatrex Senate, let out a laugh. "Yes, Venus, but I'm not the most popular senator in the Federation." "Could've fooled me!" exclaimed Aturox jokingly. "Everything you wear ends up being a popular new fashion for a year. I swear, if that dress is seen in one pictu-" Aturox froze. His eyes widened to the size of golf balls.

"Aturox?" asked Venus, worryingly. Are you all ri-" She was cut off by a scream from Aturox. "AEMEUS!" cried Aturox. Aturox dashed to a spot on the floor, then attempted to pick up something that it seemed only he could see. "Call a doctor!" shrieked Aturox. Vikria and Venus stared at each other, both showing distress in their face.

"Aturox, dear, Aemeus isn't there...," said Venus in an anguished tone. "Are you sure you're all right?"

"He's... he's not he...here?" asked Aturox. He looked at the floor with a curious look. "But... he was... he was lying here, with b...bl...blood..." said Aturox quietly, as if he was in a trance.

"Get a doctor," whispered Venus to Vikria. Venus turned to Aturox. "Sweetie, it's going to be okay. Aemeus is with the doctor now."

"He... he is?" asked Aturox, who was staring at the ground.

"Yes, honey, and we're going to go to the doctor too," said Venus, trying to help Aturox up.

"To see Aemeus?" asked Aturox.

"Yes, dear. To see Aemeus," replied Venus. She helped him out of the room just as doctors burst in.

"What's the problem?" they asked.

"He's hallucinating," replied Venus, tears falling from her eyes. "Please... help him..."