“AAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!” KING LUXOR SCREAMED after the Lord-Prince Drellix had placed his bare, organic palm against his forehead.

  After only a few milli-cycles, Drellix pulled his hand away from King Luxor’s head, leaving a reddened handprint on his bronze flesh.

  The Lord-King’s head then fell downwards again, more dead-like than before, as he gasped for air.

  “Brother… WHAT DID YOU SEE?” Lord-Emperor Vexas demanded as Drellix regained his composure.

  “The Escape Shuttle Pod… The one that fled from Guardinas after we invaded Pronos’s Palace… THE PYRAMID OF POWER WAS ABOARD IT,” Lord-Prince Drellix informed.

  Looking back at the fallen ruler of planet Guardinas again, Ventrix snapped, “I suppose that I did not speak a ‘load of raxx’ after all… DID I, PRONOS???”

  King Luxor kept his nearly swollen shut eyes looking downward whilst the Vexan Lord-Emperor snickered at his plight.

  “EARTH,” Lord-Prince Drellix suddenly uttered, causing his brothers to all look towards him in unison. “The Escape Shuttle Pod… ‘Twas heading to a world called ‘Earth’.”

  “WHAT IS AN ‘EARTH’?” Lord-Prince Titanus asked dumbly.

  “AESHLARA,” Lord-Prince Axius answered, causing his brothers to look towards him now. “Tis an ‘unexplored’ world located in the ‘Saauda’ Galactic Sector. ‘Earth’ is just a name its indigenous population; the ‘Aeshlarans’... Also known as ‘HUMANS’, refer to it as.”

  “And how in the thrack do you know all that, Ax?” Lord-Prince Drellix asked in a disturbed way.

  “Lest ye forget, Drell? I was taught much about the Known Universe and ALL of the planets and sentient life-forms that exist within it by the finest Scholars on Vexas in my youth… BEFORE THE FALL,” Lord-Prince Axius informed in a brooding tone.

  Looking back over at Ventrix, Axius confirmed, “Tis where the escape shuttle pod… THE PYRAMID is located, Lord-Emperor.”

  “EARTH?” Lord-Prince Titanus repeated, to which Axius nodded.

  “EARTH,” Lord-Emperor Vexas recited sternly. “Grand thanks to you both, Axius and Drellix.”

  Axius and Drellix then nodded to their eldest brother in unison as he turned back around towards King Luxor.

  “You would not have sent off the Pyramid of Power to an unexplored world UNPROTECTED, Pronos,” Lord-Emperor Vexas stated. “WHO was piloting the Escape Shuttle Pod? Answer me, skogger!”

  “A GUARDIAN WARRIOR, Your Grace,” Lord-Prince Drellix stated as his already pale green face grew even more pale.

  Upon hearing this shocking revelation, all four of Lord-Emperor Vexas’s burning hot, blood red eyes widened instantaneously.

  “‘Twas a Guardian who piloted the pod… THE THRACKING GUARDIAN WHO TOOK MY HAND!!!” Lord-Prince Drellix roared whilst clenching his mechanical fist in rage.

  “I thought you disposed of them all back down upon Guardinas, Drellix?” Ventrix asked whilst his mohawked brother cursed at the Blue Guardian (Dexius).

  “I thought so also,” Lord-Prince Axius followed. “But apparently not.”

  With both Axius and Ventrix now trading glances with each other as the ‘enraged’ Lord-Prince Drellix informed, “Urgh… Tis not all either. That Guardian THRACK had a passenger with him.”

  “A passenger?” Lord-Prince Axius repeated in confusion.

  “WHO???” Lord-Emperor Vexas asked.

  Smirking over at King Luxor now, Lord-Prince Drellix spat, “THE LADY-PRINCESS OF GUARDINAS!!!”

  “Really? Is this true… PRONOS,” Lord-Emperor Vexas pressed as he turned back around to face the disgraced and fallen Guardinian Royal. “Did you REALLY send your precious kin… DAUGHTER along with the Pyramid… AND A GUARDIAN WARRIOR to the unexplored world of Aeshlara… EARTH thinking that she… THEY would not be found… BY US???”

  “Thrack you… THRACK ALL OF YOU!!!” King Luxor defiantly shouted as he spat at Ventrix once more, this time hitting the front of his chest.

  With Drellix and Titanus ready to tear off the Guardinian Lord-King’s head whilst Axius glared at him intensely, Lord-Emperor Vexas called out, “CEASE! Cease… I COMMAND THEE.”

  Heeding their eldest brother’s command, the Lord-Princes stayed back and lowered their heads whilst Ventrix ordered, “BROTHER AXIUS… Go to the Command Bridge and inform Commander Thoran of what we have just learned… INFORM HIM OF EVERYTHING.”

  “As you command, Your Majesty,” Lord-Prince Axius nodded. “Is that all, brother?”

  “AFTER you have informed him of this very vital information to our ‘grand cause’,” the Lord-Emperor continued whilst keeping his eyes locked upon King Luxor’s battered frame. “Tell him to set a course for this planet… ‘Earth’. Have the rest of the fleet follow in suit. Confirm command…”

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  “COMMAND CONFIRMED, LORD-EMPEROR,” Axius nodded once more before turning around to exit the chamber.

  “BROTHER DRELLIX,” Ventrix boomed. “Rally all of our Wartroopers that are still currently down on Guardinian Soil and have them all return to the Decimator… POSTE-HASTE… For its time is on the wane…”

  “WHAT?” King Luxor uttered aloud as he raised his bruised and bloodied head upwards with all of his vastly diminished, but still remaining strength.

  Lord-Emperor Vexas smirked sinisterly at the Guardinian Royal now as Lord-Prince Drellix followed his brother’s command and departed from the chamber also.

  “AND BROTHER TITANUS… For you, I would like for you to position the prisoner towards the ship’s stern. I wish to show him ‘something’ QUITE thrilling.”

  “YES, VENNY,” Lord-Prince Titanus nodded as he pressed a button on another impenametal control panel box which was connected to the four anchors that King Luxor’s Magna-Bonder restraints were attached to.

  “Wuh-What… What are you doing? What are you thracking doing?!” King Luxor helplessly cried out as he slowly swiveled around to face the stern of the Decimator Astro-Battle Cruiser. “Answer me! ANSWER ME, I SAY!!!”

  “Fret not, Pronos… SOON, YOU SHALL KNOW,” Lord-Emperor Vexas sneered before turning to his youngest brother again. “Titanus… OPEN THE BLINDERS.”

  Lord-Prince Titanus nodded giddily as he pressed another button on the control panel box, causing ten impenametal shield blinders to slide open and pull away towards the eastern and western walls of the chamber.

  “Raise your head, Pronos… AND OPEN YOUR THRACKING EYES,” Lord-Emperor Vexas hissed. “I want you to see this. Heh. Heh, heh…”

  Keeping his head still lowered and eyes closed, King Luxor remained silent as glowing turquoise teardrops started to roll down his swollen and split, wrinkle-lined cheek bones.

  “I SAID OPEN YOUR THRACKING EYES, YOU SACK OF RAXX!!!” Lord-Emperor Vexas shouted as he used Pulsar Lancer’s blade to ‘jab’ the fallen king in the middle of his wide and brawny back.

  “AGH!” King Luxor cried out as he felt the tip of the zilitium blade pierce through his blue-blood stained white and golden tunic… And flesh.

  Eyes now widened the best they possibly could be, what King Luxor saw before him behind a sprawling pane of triple-thick impenaglass was the ‘golden’ planet of Guardians. HIS HOME WORLD.

  “NO,” King Luxor breathlessly mouthed as he watched the several many parts of the Vexan Astro-Naval Fleet continue on with their orbital bombardment and ground siege of Guardinas.

  “WHAT, PRONOS??? Do you not ‘like’ what you see? Heh, heh, heh…” the Lord-Emperor snickered. “This is what it was like… THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE after you and the rest of your thracking Guardian cohorts MURDERED our father and nearly DESTROYED his WHOLE army!!!”

  While the fallen king continued to watch the downfall of his planet play out, Ventrix continued to grill, “With our father gone and armies fractured, planet Vexas… OUR HOME WORLD was left as a ‘defenseless victim’ to SEVERAL invading civilizations who DRAINED our world of its vital and most precious resources before picking up and moving onto the next cursed thracking rock! All because of YOU and the rest of your race’s so-called ‘HEROIC DEFENDERS’ known only as the Guardians. Hmph! What a thracking jest!”

  King Luxor continued to watch on in horror (against his will) as Lord-Emperor Vexas continued, “‘Twas once said that you all became ‘universal renowned heroes’ after you destroyed our father. Heroes… GENOCIDERS!!!”

  Driven weary by all the pain and torment that he had endured, King Luxor asked in a broken tone, “If… If this is about us, Ventrix… You and I… THEN LEAVE IT BETWEEN US! Why must you make my people and world suffer for it?! Kill me… Kill me and your vengeance shall finally be had! KILL ME! THRACKING KILL ME!!!”

  “NO. As much as I would love to extinguish your worthless life-force, Pronos, I must decline… FOR NOW. There is still ONE MORE Guardian Warrior left in the Known Universe that my brothers and I have yet to slay.”

  “AND HE HAS THE PYRAMID,” Lord-Prince Titanus restated, to which Lord-Emperor Vexas nodded.

  “AND WE SHALL FIND HIM, PRONOS,” Ventrix affirmed as he looked up at the fallen Guardinian Lord-King’s backside again. “We shall find the Last Guardian… Your daughter… AND THE PYRAMID. They will die, Pronos. They will BOTH die… And we shall finally reclaim the Unlimited Power Source… ONCE AND FOR ALL.”

  Walking alongside King Luxor’s left now, Ventrix looked up at his face to see more tears had leaked from his blood shot and swollen eyes.

  “And do you wish to know what shall become of you in the end of it all… MURDERER???” the Lord-Emperor pressed whilst King Luxor watched his world fall into more decay and ruin by the milli-cycle. “YOU SHALL BEAR WITNESS. You shall bear witness as I drive the tip of my Pulsar Lancer’s blade through BOTH of your beating, BLACK hearts.”

  With King Luxor now snarling and slobbering in an indescribable, ‘rage-drunken’ state, Lord-Emperor Vexas watched out the impenaglass as a MASSIVE metal ‘drop pod’ fell down towards from the surface of Guardinas from beneath the Decimator’s Stern.

  “Wuh-What is that?” King Luxor asked in a bewildered tone as he watched the drop pod fell towards his ravaged home world like a flame-coated meteor.

  “DECIMATION,” Ventrix firmly replied as a slight smirk began to grow on his face.

  As King Luxor tried to make sense of what had just happened, Lord-Prince Titanus sadistically bellowed, “HA-HA-HA!!! THE TIME HAS COME FOR ‘THE BEAST’ TO HAVE ITS ‘GRAND FEAST’! HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!!”

  “No,” the Lord-King gasped as he looked down at Ventrix, who looked up at him and smiled widely.

  Then, all that King Luxor could do… WAS SCREAM.