Three months passed after that tournament, Grievous found himself centered in his work, mostly gathering his assets and other trinkets from this planet as he would not be returning to it. He did gain a new officer in his ranks, Gabrielle Delacour, the younger sister of his former VIP, Fleur Delacour. The young woman had somehow gotten onto the transport ship from Hogwarts and had been learning and making herself into the perfect little officer for Grievous. He found out why, as he had saved her from the lake, she had gotten it in her mind to do anything for him.
As he stood on the nearly completed deck of his flagship, Gabrielle stood at his side, straight backed and ready to take orders. Grievous looked at the construction droids fitting in the computer terminals and stations, spark flying off the welding torches that the droids used to secure the panels into place. With the new army of construction droids, the flagship would be completed in four months or less. Still, his fleet grew and he was starting to notice that Mary was getting uneasy, he was getting antsy from the wait but he wanted the flagship completed and that was it.
"Sir?" Gabrielle spoke up, "Shall we return to the castle? Lady Mary will be waiting and she won't like that you are forgoing a job that you set up for the both of you, again."
Grievous nodded, remembering that Mary had torn him a new one at that. She was not one to take forgetfulness lightly, probably from all the boredom of being alone for who knows how long. Still, his new officer was correct, so he turned and was about to leave before stopping, saying sharply.
"You are to oversee the completion of the command bridge, Captain Delacour." Grievous then left his promoted officer to handle the finishing of the flagship.
The time had come, as the final units of droids were loaded, Grievous stood tall on his flagships command bridge. Mary smirked as she stood on the highest level, having taken command of the main communication terminals as Gabrielle observed the pilot droids finishing the final system operation checklist. Grievous stood on the second level, hands behind his back as he gazed out at the location of his fleet. The fleet itself was massive, but would finally leave the ground in a few moments.
"All systems are ready and have a green light, sir." A pilot droid reported, seconded by one of its fellows. "Waiting for the signal to take off."
Grievous' mouth turned upwards at the edges as he gave the order, "Bring the Malevolence into this planet's orbit."
"Yes sir." The droid replied, quickly starting to bring the main systems online.
The newly christened Malevolence engines started humming, all 38 of them. With a shudder and roaring of power, the titanic monstrosity rose slowly into the air, sending dust everywhere as the the rest of the fleet began take off procedures. As the Flagship slowly angled itself upwards, Grievous smirked as the ship pushed itself the planet's gravity and towards open space. Once the nose of the ship broke the atmosphere, the rest of it soon followed, casing a shadow over the planet as the sun's light hit it.
The droids were quickly making sure all systems stayed in optimal levels, as Grievous watched, the massive ship reached the orbiting level and waited before the general gave his next command.
"Bring the Malevolence out of orbit and signal the fleet to form up," He turned to Mary and ordered "Have the navicomputer plot a hyperspace jump to the edge of the galaxy and then have another jump ready to the closest Galaxy to this one."
"Understood, love." Mary's hands danced across the terminals, giving the orders out quickly and efficiently as the crew brought the goliath flagship out of orbit and headed towards the edge of the galaxy.
As the rest of the fleet formed up, Grievous felt the force guide him to the communications terminal and his hands moved quickly over the panels. He put in the coordinates in the navicomputer before stepping back, looking at them before looking at Mary.
"Send them to the rest of the fleet." He ordered, returning to his place as Mary sent it to the rest of the fleet.
As mary did this, Gabrielle frowned and looked over one of the panels, "Sir, one of the hangers is reporting a faulty system. Artificial gravity is acting up in that section and they want to know if it should be fixed."
Grievous nodded, "Send the majority of the fleet ahead, repair the flagship."
He could wait for another ten minutes to jump, patience was a virtue after all.
In the galaxy closest to the Milky Way, a large fleet of ships were gathered around a massive planet. The ships looked like large golden pyramids that had black colored metal star like structures built at the base. The largest was made up of two pyramids, bases connected together and a black octagon like star structure was built around the joined golden shapes. In the bridge of the massive starship, the captain was talking with three scantily clad women, all in Egyptian pharaoh clothing.
"My Queens," He was saying, "the planet in question could be the one in the legends but it is so quiet right now it could be a dead end."
The youngest of the three spoke up, "Have the teams returned to report this, Captain Apap?"
"Yes, and they-" He started to speak up when one of the many crew members that controlled the ship spoke up, urgent.
"Sir! Multiple unknown energy signatures are showing up at the edge of the system!"
Captain Apap was on his feet instantly, the hologram of his leader's moved aside as another appeared, showing the scanners imaging of the energys. Then out of nowhere, the signatures turned into the shapes of massive starships, each having a similar length wise design but that was where the similarities stopped. The ships moved towards them with startling veracity, allowing more of their similarly designed vessels to appear and take formation behind them.
"Shields up! Battle stations! Get all Death Fighter squadrons out there now!" The Captain started issuing orders as quickly as he could, the hologram showing multiple little star fighters being launched from all the fleet, thousands upon thousands if not millions of them.
As the Egyptian like fleet started taking action, the same crewmember shouted out, "Sir! The scanner is picking up a massive surge in the energy, I think the largest ship is coming out of whatever that warp like drive is!"
He wasn't kidding, as the Captain saw. The massive monster of a starship appeared into the empty space and its escorts a moment later. The colossus casted a shadow over his fleet before the tech let out a choking gasp.
"Sir! The mothership is firing up a powerful weapon!"
"Fire on them and brace for impact!" He ordered as his Queens watched in shock and horror.
Grievous had gotten the report of an enemy fleet around the planet and had the Ion cannon begin its charge. Once the Malevolence dropped out of hyperspace, along with her escorts, he ordered the flagship turned and at the fleet. The coms were buzzing as his fleet pulled away, all star fighters rushing out of the firing zone.
"Ion Cannon ready to fire, sir." One of the Ion Cannon tech Droids reported dutifully.
"Fire!" Grievous barked.
The Flagship shook slightly as a massive surge of energy was launched out of the largest disk of the Ion Cannon. The purple wave rushed forward, catching all but a few of the alien fleet in its path before dissipating into nothing. Grievous laughed darkly as he watched the alien fleet became crippled and unable to defend themselves.
"Bring this ship around and fire at will, destroy them all!"
"All systems are fired, Captain, our crystals are dark. All weapons, shielding and even the life support is down. The only working system is our communication." The Tech reported as the clearly hostile fleet surrounded them.
Captain Apap looked at his Queens before his ship was hit with the first of many energy bolts. The three Queens could only watch in horror as the fleet was torn apart and then the transmission went dead before coming back online. It only showed the massacre from a point in space, the only ships that could fight back were outgunned and outmanned. The starfighters were being picked off by the second and the swarms of enemy fighters seemed to cover one of the ships from few.
By the time they could see their own ships again, it was over. The fleet was nothing more than slag, floating in space. The hologram turned dark as the gigantic monster of a ship passed over what was the holo-communicator, making all three Queens shiver in fear. They all thought one thing as the hologram finally died.
The new contender was the most powerful threat that had ever appeared in this galaxy.