A/N: Hello my Readers, I will try to upload once a week or so, and always give you a bit more to read with every chapter. I am glad that already I have few readers that expressed interest of more and I hope to not disappoint! Now with no more senseless blabbing please read on. . .

- Chapter 1: A Change of Hearts -

The roar of the engines of each and every ship ignited the darkening skies with an early display of small orbs of bright lights, imitating stars. Large red hulled ships carried the Irken ground forces and several smaller freighters carried the rest, each ship flanked by smaller fighters as they ascended to reunite back with the rest of the Irken Armada. The people of Vort simply stared with a bleak expression up at the darkened skies as they knew this would not be the last time they will feel their home tremble of the sounds of Irken combat boots beating down their ground.

Total submission, or total destruction, the Irken military ideology.

Tallest Ikari kept himself entertained with his Information tablet, giving details of the other fleets moving into forward positions to take another solar system or two. He himself was astounded by the sheer numbers of Irkens that Control Brain could produce. Certainly Smeets took time to mature and fully grow into Irken Soldiers, even longer (In some cases never for certain Soldiers) to become Irken Elites. He knew the value of each and every company of Irken Elite. So much so that if three companies of the average Red Irken Troops were needed to act as cannon fodder for the Elites, Tallest Ikari would not hesitate to command such an order.

This was something he hammered home on both of his Advisors, he knew they were growing quite tall and one day they would take the reigns of the Irken Imperial forces. He would not leave his role until either Miyuki and or Spork understood how to rule properly. The Irkens in question were sitting idly behind him, he turned his own head to address the two.

"Advisor Miyuki, Spork, inform me on the movements of our troops in the. . .ah. . . Sector Z was it that had the 5th Red Army Legion?" Tallest Ikari asked, he knew he needed to read the reports more often.

"Their movements had been stalled, after successful conquest of the first three planets in Sector Z, their efforts were stopped by an unexpected appearance of a Meekrob fleet and with their military support had in fact stopped the 5th Legion's advancements," Miyuki quickly explained to her Tallest.

"And unfortunately, it had been confirmed recently that the Meekrobs and other species have joined forces and started to retake back the conquered planets in Sector Z, a few seconds ago a transmission from the 5th Legion Commander had asked for reinforcements," Spork added, his voice growing softer as he quickly averted his eyes back to the ground.

Tallest Ikari rubbed his chin as he considered the possibilities, Sector Z was to be transformed into a training grounds for the Smeets that were coming of age. The Sector at first did not posses adequate enough Military Forces to stop even the Red Irken Army troops , but now with the arrival of the Meekrob and whatever species that they managed to convince to help. . .

"Make route for Sector Z, I want us to directly reinforce our invasion of Sector Z, hopefully with this amount of force shown it would send a message to these 'Meekrobs' to never try to stop us," Tallest Ikari ordered.

Oh, how he would enjoy to strangle these Meekrob pests from existence himself.

Sector Z - Planet 3 - Command HQ of the 5th Legion

The Irken red troops were quickly moving back into their battle stations as more enemies began to bombard their Command Base. They thought they were the superior force, if not the superior race, and to be not only stopped in their tracks from their conquest but now be pushed back? The Commander of the 5th Legion was not pleased to see such events unfolding in front him.

Commander Ora was a mean and staut Irken, his red eyes often were seen to be raging balls of fire. Even so now when the rest of the Irken troops were faced with enemies at their front doorstep, the Commander was still a much scarier entity than anything they still had yet encountered, or even ever will encounter. 2nd Lieutenant Red and Sergeant Purple both felt more insecure with their sudden promotion to the Command Staff with their ranks. Whether or not they were currently safer inside the Command Base or outside where all the fighting was. . .

An explosion that shook much of the building quickly evaporated that thought as they stood straight and saluted their Commander as he walked over to the Overlay tactical table to discuss their next actions. Their stronghold was set up with perhaps an overzealous amounts of Laser Turrets and Rocket Launchers but the enemy seemed to be taking in the brunt of the attack and dishing everything back at them with equal or more firepower. Their energy shields seemed too good for any Irken Red Army grade weapons to punish. If fear were allowed for a Commander to show, Commander Ora would showcasing that emotion.

Commander Ora knew this was a rather sticky situation, even with reinforcements heading their way, if the enemies managed to take control of this Stronghold they would essentially have total control of this planet and push back months of campaigning. "2nd Lieutenant Red, Sergeant Purple, I want you two to take Joker, Shady, and Laugh Squad and spearhead a fank attack on our enemies siege weapons. If you can disable those heavy artillery it would give the rest of our ground troops a fighting chance to push back the enemy and give our own energy shields a break," Commander Ora ordered and explained.

Both Red and Purple gulped, true they were one of the tallest Irkens among their own peers but to lead an attack on the enemy? But Red knew he had no choice in such matter, he saluted and nodded quickly, "Sir yes sir," He responded as he literally dragged Purple with him to get the three squads and head out.

"Red! You can not be serious on going on this suicide mission!" Purple nearly screamed once they were out of earshot of their Commander and outside of the building. The skies were covered with black clouds and explosions. Red sighed as he rubbed his head with his free hand, looking over at the shaking Purple he patted his shoulder.

"Look if we stay here we're dead, if we leave here we're dead, at least if we go through with this mission we can at least take a few of those blasted resistance soldiers with us," Red explained, this of course did not make Purple any less scared but force only a single nod. "Also think of it like this, if we can disable those weapons and send those mongrels packing we'll certainly be promoted to the Irken Elite forces!" Red added with a bit more excitement.

This time Purple paused and thought of it for a moment, his fearful expression slowly evaporated and a small hopeful smile came out. The Irken Elite were given the highest grade weapons and armor, and most of the time sent to planets that could easily be taken over with a single company of troops versus an entire regiment of Irken forces. "Y-ye-yeah! You're right!" Purple said with a bit more excitement.

"Good, the other squads will be waiting for us towards the exit, time to go Purple," Red explained as he moved away.

"W-w-wait! Right now we're going?!"

- The Armada -

"I never imagined that such a pack of fools would band together in a futile attempt to stop the mighty Irken Empire, but I guess even the Galaxy is still filled with surprises," Tallest Ikari commentated during their hyperdrive journey.

"My Almighty Tallest, what are your Orders for once we exit back into real space?" Miyuki asked.

"Good question," Tallest Ikari said, he looked around and shrugged, "I'll let you take command for this operation Advisor Miyuki, it should be good training," Tallest Ikari add with glee.

Miyuki took a step backwards, she gave her Tallest a questioning look but nodded, "Yes sir, I shall make preparations and commence strategizing with a battle tactic to ensure complete victory," Miyuki added as she quickly moved over to the relay controls. She needed more information and the current status of their troops on the ground. "I will not let you down my Tallest," She added with a determined face and salute.

"Oh I hope you don't let me down Advisor," Tallest Ikari said with a dark chuckle.

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- Mr. B