Authors note: HOLY SHIT! FREEDOM PLANET IS SO GOOD, BUY THE GAME AND PLAY IT NOW!
I have never played a game this good and this fun in a long time. How long? Long enough.
If you don't know what Freedom Planet is for those of you not familiar with it, it's pretty much a huge love letter to everything good about the Sega Genesis. Imagine a mix of the 2D sonic games, Megaman X, and Gunstar Heroes, made by Treasure employees, on steroids.
That is Freedom Planet, and it is glorious for that.
I'm making this story because I want to have some sort of tribute for the awesome wackiness that is Freedom Planet. Although be warned, like all fanfiction ever, there will be crazy ideas and batshit insane shit I will put in this story like all other fanfics because, that's how it pretty much works and I'm crazy like that, cause that's internet life.
Other than my long ass author's note, I hope you enjoy the little prologue and reviews are always welcome.
Prologue: War is just the Beginning
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Avalice is a majestic world to behold. A planet created by ancient dragons of a long ago past, who molded Avalice into a unique beauty that only dragons could create. The inhabitants prospered as time passed, great civilizations had been created from the ground up, and stand today as a reminder of the dragons who had helped create such wonders in the first place.
The planet lived in peace with the three ruling kingdoms, Shang Tu, Shang Mu, and Shuigang, all three kingdoms were created when an ancient dragon captivated the people of Avalice with its majesty and beauty, which later became the legendary power source that keeps these very people alive, the Kingdom Stone.
That was before the madness began.
Avalice had recently been thrown in turmoil by an alien warlord not long ago that called himself Lord Brevon, a cruel monster that disrupted the long lasting peace. Brevon had crashed landed into the planet after a battle against some old foes, and hatched a plot to throw the three kingdoms in disarray to steal the Kingdom Stone to power his crashed ship to leave Avalice, so he could continue his galactic conquest elsewhere.
Peace soon became a distant memory, and the three kingdoms were thrown into chaos from the harsh, political atmosphere, and while Brevon would claim the stone, the whole world was too focused on its meaningless quarrels to even notice the alien make off with the power source that helped Avalice lived. Avalice had seemed like it was doomed for destruction.
Until it was saved.
While the madness of war engulfed Avalice, a group of unlikely heroes had also entered the conflict that Brevon had failed to take account of. While they seemed like they were just a bunch of kids who should have minded their own business and were deemed insignificant, they ended up becoming the saviors of the entire world, foiling Brevon's plans of leaving with the Kingdom Stone, destroyed his army, and his ship that was his only escape.
While the Kingdom stone had been lost during the conflict, the energy inside was not gone, and instead changed form into a vortex of twinkling stars that scattered across the world, providing an equal amount of power to all three kingdoms and ended the squabbles that occurred.
But while everything went back to normal on Avalice, it did not mean Brevon was gone. Unfortunately, Brevon had managed to escape after his ship was destroyed by the heroes that foiled him, and has since disappeared without a trace. Despite that, there had been no conflict ever since the invasion, and the people of Avalice were in harmony once more thanks to its heroes that they widely praised.
It seemed that peace reigned once more.
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While Avalice had peace, the galaxy as a whole was a different story.
War was a constant threat and menace beyond the stars, and Brevon's influence had some part in that matter. As beautiful as space can be with its wonders, it is also a large battlefield, the perfect place for intergalactic war to reign supreme and menace life beyond, especially those of the innocent.
Several alien civilizations in the galaxy are engaged in constant war with one another, waging mass conflicts for an array of reasons, inflicting the loss of life on every occasion possible and only use diplomacy to gain allies to join the conflict.
Because of the chaos of constant war, the coalition of planets was formed. This coalition consisted of an alliance of several alien civilizations that united under the goal to preserve peace as much as possible, and to bring those who are considered evil to justice so that war may end.
The coalition were formed at the perfect time, since the galaxy was still in turmoil as of recently because of their old enemy Brevon. The warlord had destroyed hundreds of worlds before coming to Avalice, killing or corrupting thousands of heroes who fought him and annihilated who knows how many innocents in the process.
The news of Brevon's defeat had spread quickly in the coalition, deeming the warlord as a minor threat after hearing about his humiliating defeat to some kids. It gave the coalition a lot less stress to deal with when it came to other war mongering races, now having more free time to wrap up the other wars and stabilize the galaxy.
Unfortunately, the Coalition of Planets were not the only ones to hear about Brevon's defeat at Avalice, since galactic news can spread quickly to others in a short time span.
Somewhere in deep space, a large fleet of spaceships formed closely together, and drifted slowly across the vast emptiness of space. The fleet looks well-armed, equipped with state of the art weaponry, and is prepared to go to war with just about any fleet.
The lead flagship was the largest ship, a massive capital ship in a color palette mostly of chrome black with crimson red lines across the hull, the size of the ship surpassed Brevon's dreadnought, having a length that was twice as long as the Warlord's dreadnought. While it had a long length, its size was also massive, the front and half of the back parts of the ship made up much of the length, having several laser turrets and cannons on its sides, close to the nose of the ship to its sides had two large holes gaping that had a low glow, supposedly being some kind of superweapon in front, while several torpedo launchers are present around the large holes.
One the sides of the ship, there were also large hanger bays, covered in some kind of shield that showed the large hangers present, filled with all kinds of attack craft, ranging from fighters to bombers, or even blends of both.
The rest of the ship in the back was a little more bulky and had a slightly bigger width, four large engines were located on the back of the ship, two on the top and two on the bottom, two pairs of short but thick wings protruded on the sides of the back, one pair at the middle of the back and the other shorter pair close to the engines. On the top of the ship, there were some kind of missile launchers in segmented rows that ran across the top of the ship, covering an area around the oval like structure that was the bridge, while a few rows of flak cannons were at the lower ends of the top of the ship.
Several other ships also surrounded the capital ship that shared the same color palette, such as the vast dozens of cruisers, while much smaller in size and are considered the smallest ships in the fleet next to the bulky but fast corvettes and dwarfing the fighter craft, they are also very effective in combat, sharing a similar design to the capital ship but much thinner and has a more wide and bulky body, with several laser cannons, flak cannons or missile launchers depending if it's a laser cruiser, flak cruiser or a missile cruiser.
The corvettes while lacking size, made up for it with speed and rapid firepower, even if it had a more wider and bulky design, shaped a lot like a heptagonal structure, it had small and propulsive engines that made it fast and maneuverable, capable of swarming other larger ships and taking out fighters with ease, and numbered in the hundreds.
While there are many cruisers and many more corvettes, there are also the larger battleships for more larger combat missions, while not numerous as the cruisers but still had a few dozen, they make up for it with heavier firepower, being as large as Brevon's dreadnought, the battleships have room for heavy firepower such as larger laser cannons, missile batteries, and even torpedo launchers, some with more of the same armament than others.
There are also a few carriers that are almost similar to the battleship design, except they are wider and are armed with more flak turrets and have large hangers on the sides to hold fighter craft, preferring to use their fighter craft as its offense and defense.
This fleet was certainly a force to behold.
At the flagship in the massive bridge resided the authority figure of the entire fleet, sitting on his metal chair on top of the bridge area that overlooked the entire crew on the bottom, all who were operating holographic computers or any others who acted as guards by the doors.
The alien creatures on the bridge appeared to be some kind of bipedal wolf creatures, a mammalian species that are very similar to an earth like wolf but have a more vicious and intimidating appearance such as sharp teeth and claw, red eyes that could glow reader in the dark, long snouts that showed their sharp teeth, and long pointed ears that were almost bat like. Their bodies are covered in either white, grey or brown fur, wearing black uniforms along with having some kind of slightly lighter black pauldrons on their shoulders, the right pauldron showing a white painted face of their species while the left pauldron showed their rank.
One of the crew members of these wolf alien creatures then ran up to the top of the bridge where the leading figure sat at, bowing behind him so that he would turn his chair to face him.
"Imperator Lycarius. We have news of Brevon's possible location." Said the wolf alien, still bowing to his leader.
The chair then rotated around to face the bowed wolf, revealing the Imperator who wanted to hear the news as soon as possible.
The Imperator as he was called, stood at seven feet tall, more taller than his six feet comrades, having black fur instead of the more usual colors, somehow having an even more vicious appearance than his fellow wolf comrades that helped with his leadership.
The Imperator wore some kind of carapace armor instead of the standard uniform, covering most of his body and bears vicious insignias of wolf heads on his pauldrons and greaves, the armor itself bearing a very close resemblance to roman armor, especially on the torso which has the head of a wolf on the chest with angelic wings, and below the head is a pair of wolf like dragons that looked like they were touching a great torch, with several extra insignias of vines with razor like leaves on the vines on the bottom edges of the armor.
While the majority of his armor was colored in a chrome silver and the decorative insignias were colored gold, along with having a long cape on his back colored blood red, the thing that stood out most was his right arm and eye.
The right arm was actually cybernetic, colored in a gold finish with no decorations, but still had sharp cybernetic claws at the end that are capable of cutting through the toughest steels, and his eye had some kind of cybernetic eye piece that surrounded a glowing mechanical red eye, the eye piece itself was also colored gold.
The Imperator stood up immediately, waiting in anticipation for the news to be heard.
"Where?" Demanded the Imperator in a low and deep growl.
"The celestial body M-516. Just a few months away from our current location."
The Imperator clenched his left fist, almost as if he had to hold in some kind of rage from hearing about Brevon before speaking once more in a slightly less demanding tone.
"Do you have a signal locked?"
"Briefly, but we lost it soon after."
The Imperator twitched at the answer, and picked up the bowed wolf with his cybernetic arm, holding him at a chokehold at his neck.
"Lost it!? How dare you lose that signal so quickly!" Snarled the Imperator, tightening his grip. "Do you not realize how important-
The Imperator then realized he almost killed his crew member and dropped the wolf in front of him, who quickly gasped for air as soon as he was let go.
The Imperator shook his head, placing his cybernetic hand on his head. "Damn it… set a course for that location. We need to find Brevon as soon as possible, and we need to find him now."
"Yes… Imperator." Strained the gasping wolf, who bowed once more before leaving the Imperator to his own duties.
Lycarious then felt a massive headache and grunted in pain, and used his other hand to take out some kind of small capsule with blue liquid and a sharp needle at the end. The Imperator then jabbed the needle into the side of his neck, gasping slightly from the sharp pain and releasing the blue liquid inside his bloodstream, slowing his rapid breathing and easing the pain in his head until he was in a more relaxed state.
Sighing with some content, Lycarious sat back down on his chair and turned it back to face the bridge, looking over his crew who were commanded to set a course for Brevon's latest signal.
"You won't get away from me again, Brevon." Muttered Lycarious to himself. "I will find you and end what you started. I swear that I will have your head on a pike before the others you have stolen from get there first, for my emperor, for my Imperium, and for my..."
Lycarious couldn't say the rest, closing his eyes as if the rest of the sentence was a painful memory, rubbing his cybernetic arm with his organic one until gathering enough inner strength to finish what he said.
The fleet activated their warp drives, and prepared to move out to pursue Brevon's brief signal once more.
"Stealing our riches will be your last mistake, insect. And when I find you, I will destroy you and your influence in this galaxy. I will purify every world you have corrupted with your taint, no matter how much life must be exterminated. I will purge this galaxy of your evil if it's the last thing I do."
The imperator then clenched his fists when finishing the last of his words.
"I will have my revenge, and nothing is going to stop me."
The fleet then warped out of space, locked onto their location and in hot pursuit of their new target, fueled with vengeance, hatred and bloodlust, eager to exterminate their foe with brutal prejudice.
Along with everything that gets in their way.
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P.S. - So yeah, that's just a short little intro to the chaos that is my Freedom Planet fanfic. I plan to include other aliens too so these space wolves here are only the beginning, but are the main threat. Also, if anyone wants to pitch in to help the story in some way, you can PM me if you have any desire to do so, but reviews are good too.
And if anyone's wondering where the quote is from, it's an unused voice clip for the game by Brevon that heavily implies a possible sequel for Freedom Planet, which is the inspiration for this story.