Saxon Andrew: Escape to Earth-The Legacy of a Conqueror

“What about the sixth?”

“I’m going to go and have a conversation with that one.”

“Should I send you two more Pods to go with you?”

“No, just be prepared to fire on those five if I give the order.”

“I’ll issue the order and have them ready in thirty minutes. Let me know when you want to do this.”

“We’ll go five minutes after the Pods are ready.”

“I’ll confirm our status when the Pods are ready.”

“That would be good.”

Audrey looked at Chris, “Is it a good idea to go alone?”

“The Green Warships were able to kill them. I don’t see a scout being a real threat.”

“Then why are you sending three after the other five?”

“I want them surrounded so they can’t escape.” Audrey nodded and waited for Chad to notify them the Pods were ready.

Chris looked at Audrey and said over his communicator, “We will skip out to our targets on my mark! Three, two, one, MARK!” Barbie ignited her thrusters and the B-Pod blasted through the void at her highest speed. She moved in on a small object in the distance at an incredible closing speed and Chris thought, “If you attempt to flee, I will destroy your vessel!” The small scout fired its thrusters anyway but the B-Pod was on it in an instant and the Scout saw the small Silver Ship rotate its three disruptors and lock them on him. The Scout shut down his engines and hung in the void. “I have your other five ships surrounded and if they attempt to escape, they will be destroyed.” Chris’s comment was greeted with silence. “Why are you here?” Again there was nothing but silence. Chris pressed his panel and said, “Destroy one of the ships.” An A-Pod fired its disruptor and the small ship that was surrounded was blasted into vapor by the Dark Energy beam. Chris said, “I will kill each one of them if you don’t answer my question.”

Again there was silence and Chris pressed his panel, “Destroy…”

“WAIT!”

“Cancel that order. Why are you here?”

“We are going to make you pay for your criminal act against my galaxy!”

“I am going to assume that you blame us for the attack done by the Green Civilization.”

“You led them toward us!”

“My ships were fleeing them. We weren’t going to lead them here. You happened to be on the path we used to escape.”

“It was not an accident. You fled toward my galaxy. You deliberately led them there. You will pay for your crime!”

Chris listened to the Scout’s thoughts and could feel its hostility and malevolence. It wanted to kill every intelligent being in the Milky Way. Chris didn’t like being dishonest and decided that nothing he could say was going to change the mind of this being. “You’re right. We deliberately fled toward your galaxy. If we could go back and do it differently, we would. However, what’s done is done.”

“You will pay!”

“Let me see if I can possibly talk some sense into you.”

“Don’t bother!”

“I feel it necessary that you know what you’re doing. We have not attacked your planets, yet!”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“If you send another ship here to scout my civilization, I will take my forces to your galaxy and find your civilization. I will blast your planets down to bedrock and destroy every warship you possess. If you aren’t willing to let this go and you choose to become a threat to us, I will remove you as a danger.”

“Your threats don’t frighten me.”

“Chad, kill the other ships.” Chris saw the horror in the scouts mind as it watched the signals from the other scouts disappear from its panel. Chris fired a Dark Energy beam a hundred yards away from the small scout and saw its force field drop. “I hope you got a good reading on that beam. I am going to allow you to go and tell your leaders that I will not tolerate your stupidity again! If I suspect you are even thinking about attacking us, I will visit your worlds and introduce them to thousands of those beams. Your warships will only need to know one of them.” The scout looked at his panel and read the energy of the beam that knocked out his force field. He instantly felt his anger disappear and turn into fear. Chris smiled, “Now leave or I’ll destroy you. Go tell your leaders what awaits them if they demonstrate their stupidity again. If you choose not to go, I’ll go tell them myself with my fleets!” The Scoutship ignited his ship’s thrusters and flew away in the void at its fastest speed.

“Was it necessary to kill those other ships?”

“Sometimes you have to get someone’s attention before they’ll listen to reason. They have to fear us and know we will not tolerate their aggression. We are still going to have to deal with that civilization in the future.”

“Why not now?”

“They are helping us keep M-87 in check. We need them to fill that role for a while.”

The wall speaker said, “Audrey, you didn’t hear that being’s thoughts. They do not know how to play nice with others and they are as vicious as any creature I’ve ever encountered. Chris is right, we will have to handle this issue eventually.”

Audrey sighed, “Ok Barbie.” She turned to Chris, “Is this how we’re going to handle things in the future?”

“I suspect things will get harder than this. I may have to kill trillions before this is over.” Audrey stared at him and Chris said, “I will not tolerate our baby being attacked by aliens.” Audrey started nodding and put her arms around his neck, “Do what you have to do. I will support your choices, whatever they are.” Chris hugged her and turned his thoughts to the Fellowship.

Lukas looked at the three faces on the split screen monitor in his office, “It’s good to see all of you.”

The Welken Royal smiled, “The new communication probes are really remarkable. This saves a lot of time having to come to your planet to talk.”

Lukas smiled, “Thank you. We have a string of them set up between your civilizations and ours. We deem it important that we are all on the same wavelength.”

“Why have you asked for this meeting?”

Lukas stared at them and then said, “I have instituted a new policy on how we will deal with aggressive civilizations that intend to attack us and you need to know about it before we move forward.”

The Johan Ruler’s eyes turned into slits and he said, “I hope it has to do with stopping this waiting for them to come and attack us!”

“As a matter of fact, it does.”

All three Rulers’ were shocked by the statement. The Johan’s head moved side to side, “I was kidding.”

“Well, we’re no longer going to wait for our enemies to come and try to destroy our civilizations.”

The Welken leaned back on his throne, “Do you intend to go out and conquer them?”

“I do.”

“I thought you were steadfastly against doing that?”

“I have been.”

“Why have you changed your position?”

“Because the females in my civilization don’t deserve to live in fear of their children being killed by Invaders. I intend to remove their fear as well as remove those that wish us harm.”

The Myot and Johan looked at the Welken on their monitors and waited for him to speak. The Royal stared at Lukas and leaned forward, “My people fear the danger that your civilization represents to the universe. Your power has grown beyond anything I ever thought possible.”

Lukas nodded, “You fear that absolute power will corrupt absolutely?”

“That’s how it’s always been in the past.”

“You feel this way because your civilizations have not been given all of our technology?”

“Something like that.”