“ATTENTION!!!! ALL RISE!!!! THE LORD-EMPEROR IS ON DECK! I REPEAT, THE LORD-EMPEROR IS NOW ON DECK!!!” barked Commander Thoran as Ventrix boarded the Command Deck of his grand, Astro-Battle Cruiser.

  Rising to their feet were several Vexan Crewmen and Wartroopers that populated the main control center of the ship’s ‘Interstellar Exploration’ capabilities.

  As the Lord-Emperor strode out onto the Command Deck he was accompanied by his younger brothers; Lord-Princes Axius and Drellix.

  As for Lord-Prince Titanus, the hulking buffoon was still at his post in the Extraction Room. THERE he kept a ‘watchful eye’ on (and also brutally torturing) the captive Guardinian Lord-King Luxor.

  Ventrix sported a cold look on his slimy and pale, green-skinned face as he approached the Commander, who stood before his fellow subordinates and Wartrooper guards.

  “Commander,” Lord-Emperor greeted in an unamused (and slightly irritated) tone as Commander Thoran immediately bowed to him.

  “YOUR GRACE,” Commander Thoran replied whilst bowing.

  “Ugh… What a skogger,” Lord-Prince Drellix remarked in disgust behind Ventrix as Axius kept a stern and wooden look about himself.

  Commander Thoran then glanced up at Drellix briefly as Ventrix demanded, “STATUS REPORT, Xaviux.”

  Looking back at the Lord-Emperor, Commander Thoran stated while his hands were now kept interlocked behind his lower back, “We a now FULLY PREPARED to send ‘your scout’ to planet Aeshlara in the Saauda Galactic Sector via ‘QUANTUM WARP JUMP’, my Lord.”

  “Grand, Commander… AND WHERE IS THE MAWL?”

  “The ‘Mawl Beast’, Your Majesty, is currently loaded up one of our astro-vessel’s spare ‘Escape Shuttle Pods’ by a few of the Wartroopers down in the ship’s underbelly Hangar Bay. They only wait for your FINAL WORD before sending the beast off on its voyage to Aeshlara, Sir.”

  Before giving his ‘final word’ to the Commander, Ventrix was interrupted by Drellix.

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  “THINK THIS THROUGH, BROTHER,” the Mohawked Vexan Lord-Prince warned towards his eldest brother. “Thrack the Mawl. LET US INVADE. Please, my brother… MY LORD-EMPEROR. I beg of you.”

  Thinking back to what Obrron had told him during their secret ‘holo-meeting’ on SEKTORA, Lord-Emperor Vexas knew EXACTLY what HE wanted to do.

  “Commander… SEND THE MAWL,” Ventrix ordered as he completely ignored and disregarded Drellix.

  “As you wish… my Lord-Emperor,” Commander Thoran replied before tapping on his ‘Holo-Communicator App’ that was located on his Holo-Gauntlet’s Holo-Screen.

  “PRIVATE RAZZUS… The Lord-Emperor has given you permission to carry on with your duty… SEND THE MAWL,” Commander Thoran ordered the Vexan Wartrooper who was on the other end of his holo-call. “CONFIRM COMMAND, TROOPER.”

  “COMMAND CONFIRM, SIR,” Private Razzus replied, bringing a sinister grin to Ventrix’s face whilst Drellix looked down in defeat and Axius looked to his eldest brother with his eyes mysteriously narrowed.

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  Less than ten milli-cycles later, one of the Decimator’s hundreds of Escape Shuttle Pod Hatches down in the underbelly Hangar Bay automatically pried itself open.

  Then, as soon as the hatch had fully opened, a lone Escape Shuttle Pod was shot out of it at a rapid speed level.

  Soaring through the stars like a heat-seeking Pulsar Missile, the Escape Shuttle Pod (which housed the Vexan Mawl Beast ‘scout’ within it) entered a Quantum Rift Portal that its Quantum Drive had generated, as it was automatically designed to.

  With its coordinates set on the EXACT LOCATION on planet Aeshlara (Earth) where the Pyramid of Power energy emanated from, the Mawl Scout’s Escape Shuttle Pod had successfully transported over into the Saauda (Milky Way) Galactic Sector in an instant after entering through the Rift.

  All the while, still standing upon the Decimator’s Command Deck watching behind its quintuple-thick impenaglass Front Main Viewport was Lord-Emperor Vexas, Lord-Princes Drellix and Axius, Commander Thoran, and their Ventrix, Axius, Drellix, Commander Thoran, and the rest Crewmen and Wartroopers that accompanied them

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  “Urgh… I hope you know what you are doing, Ventrix,” Lord-Prince Drellix grunted after watching the scout’s Escape Shuttle Pod ‘jump’ to the Saauda Galactic Sector.

  “I would NOT be doing this if I didn’t, kroone,” Lord-Emperor Vexas cursed, causing his younger brother to glare at him from behind.

  Drellix just shook his head as Lord-Prince Axius kept silent off to the side.

  “Grand work, Young Lord… VERY GRAND,” Obrron’s voice echoed within Ventrix’s mind as he kept his eyes locked on the point out in space that the Escape Shuttle Pod that quantum jumped through.

  Ventrix kept his face firm and totally emotionless as the old sorcerer’s sinister sounding voice continued, “Now… IT BEGINS.”