Chapter 10: The Space Horde

Boarding craft, landing craft, fighters, interceptors, bombers, fighter-bombers, gunships and even corvettes came forth like a swarm of bees from the hive. To think that they had so much variety in their ships, and that their cruisers could even carry corvettes – the Hordes of Gro'Dash were truly a sight to be held close to your warmongering heart, as an eternally worthy foe.

Olbaid's mouth twisted into a sadistic grin, "But now isn't the time to have fun…" He brought up a holographic panel and a list of the ships weaponry, and instantly came up with firing solution, for each of the eight MAC cannons – with four on both wings – began the charging process. These massive weapon structures are near the nose of the ship, but attached to the underbelly was the most dangerous and single most unpredictable weapon in the Devilukean arsenal crafted by Princess Lala herself at the age of nine – and then later weaponized using a long and difficult formula the Princess had to put into simpler terms for trained scientists. "I think the Shadowed Intent has a lot more than a few little tricks up her sleeves." He stated, slowly adjusted his monocle and then began the order for all loader-drones and defender-drones to get ready for boarding parties as well as load the weapons efficiently.

From the viewport, he could openly see how the leader of the Gro'Dash space mercenary horde was filled with rage, now the cruisers were coming forth with the rest of the buzzards – also known as Local Travel Star-Craft or just LTS-C for short. They blotted out the stars and filled the darkness of space with the light of their propulsion systems. "Enemy will attempt to make a bypass and enter atmosphere of Earth without permission… and utilizing chemical weapons to eliminate the indigenous population and what can kill an Earthling can kill a Devilukean… and that possibility lead to the Master's life being in danger so the only thing he could do now is launch three Blackburst Warheads to completely engulf all those craft in glorious power designed by the best military scientists Deviluke had to offer… Lala.

The effect of Blackburst Warheads was simply a scientifically designed black hole singularity that sucked all nearby matter in with an intense gravitational pull for an approximate one minute and thirty seconds – the items locked inside are reduced to objects that can only be seen on a microscopic level. The singularity then loses its energy, and the microscopic objects are sent outwards in all directions creating a massive explosion of super-dense dust that rips through lighter hulls and is extremely taxing on shielding systems.

Although, the gravitational pull of the singularity only affects ships without an anti-gravity field, and the ships that didn't have one were ripped apart and crushed, but the Cruisers would continue moving towards Shadowed Intent.

And that's exactly what happened when Olbaid fired on the fleet, turned fired, and repeated the process, covering the field of battle with a range of the three Weapons of Mass Destruction. "This is bringing back memories." He chuckled slightly, recalling his time as one of the Nine Great Lords of Deviluke. He was a Lord-Admiral, and when the war ended; his position was reduced to that of the mere butler of Deviluke's next greatest assassin to counter Golden Darkness, and revive that organization – which was destroyed by the end of the last galactic war. His hands were blurs as he created firing solutions and firing a variety of MAC Cannon shells at the enemy fleet of such a massive amount of cruisers. "Artificial intelligence, sitrep on the main gun." Olbaid grunted.

"Main gun, currently at 7%."

Olbaid grunted and slid his hand across the gravitational panel, then the MAC shells made contact one after the other, and the cannons were firing in what seemed to be an endless pattern of one shell after another; with each passing second a single cruiser was brutally gnashed and torn apart in a massive explosion.

Still, with a single ship per second, even as sixty seconds passed only sixty cruisers had been destroyed and a collection of LTS-C:s managed to break through the single battlecruiser blockade defending the planet Earth from horribly timed impossible odds all to save his master and the three princesses of Deviluke as well as the future ruler of Deviluke. "Well, I suppose I can't really complain because if I somehow manage to pull this off alone-" The ship shook violently, abruptly putting an end to Olbaid's dreams of a pay raise.

The cruisers were now in range after a mere minute, and an approximate number of 190 Cruisers remained, all guns pointed at the outdated but refit Battlecruiser. Even still the Shadowed Intent was a much more gorgeous ship than one of those hideous things, three times as large and obviously 250 times more powerful. "Sitrep on Main Gun." He called to the Artificial Intelligence.

"87% Complete…"

"Very well," Olbaid murmured, and continued to fire the MAC cannons. "Strafe towards port side at full speed," He ordered the AI and manually typed in the release codes for the locks on the torpedo pods, "Fire the torpedoes… utilize cluster functionality." He finished with a slight chuckle.

The torpedoes were fired even before the battlecruiser started strafing, and it would take an approximate time of seventeen seconds to impact, and to obscure the vision of the hostile fleet. Olbaid waited for a few more seconds, ten more.

"Open the shutters on the main gun." He ordered, the shutters had been closed as a method of keeping the light of a Charging Super Particle Beam Cannon, he could hear the shuddering throughout the entire ship as the door opened, causing huge vibrations. "Open primary and secondary containment screen of Super Particle Beam Cannon." He grunted as the torpedoes exploded, the containment screens inhibited the true power of the Particle Cannon which was meant to target single enemy ships. The reason was because the weapon

"Charging 100% Complete."

Olbaid grinned maliciously and his eyes darkened. "Fire." The smile was easily detectable in his words, and he knew full well that the –

VRRRRRRRSHHHHZMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

DOWN ON EARTH

Cel turned her head towards the sky, lit up with a massive white beam of a particle beam cannon, followed by a massive explosion on the firing end and several more on the opposite end - it was a few minutes before it faded, followed by another explosion on the firing ship. It took a few moments for her to register, but her eyes widened as fireballs and escape pods came raining down to the surface in all directions. From their general appearance, they were all Gro'Dashian in nature – but on the attack was a massive fireball that came tearing into the atmosphere and the sound was earsplitting as it continued to fire it's MAC Cannon, tearing the enemy escape craft and corvettes to pieces, it even rammed into a huge number of the corvettes on the way down, the impacts sent outward explosions and shockwaves that could just barely be felt from the upper atmosphere – the Battlecruiser known as Shadowed Intent seemed to groan, and in a few more moments – Cel could see why as the entire ship bent and split into two, finally giving in to the strength of Gro'Dash but at least seventeen Corvettes from what she saw had managed to make it to the surface. The Battlecruiser was the most prominent as it continued to fire it's MAC guns at the Ocean, each with an bone jarring and ear-splitting explosion that sent vibrations so strong through the air that even the concrete sidewalk beneath her feet was shaking.

At first, Cel was oblivious to the reason as to why the battlecruiser was firing seemingly blindly at the Ocean – but then it was made obvious as it came to a slow due to the recoil, and finally made impact – even from here she could see the water splash upwards and outwards into the air. "…High ground." She mumbled.

"Y-yeah…" Kiera stammered, her eyes wide and found it hard to tear it away from the truly awe-inspiring sight of Olbaid and the battlecruiser falling from the sky.

Without another word, Cel walked towards a nearby school; with the hood of Hel's favorite coat still over her head – Kiera had tried to take it off, but the result was terrifying. "Master…" She murmured as Kiera followed her.

"Master?" Kiera repeated, with a grin. "What are you a masochist?"

"No… I am merely a tool to sharpen the weapon that is my master…" Her voice was still a quiet murmur, she sounded serious – and Kiera decided not to probe the subject any further.

Cel suddenly turned her head in Kiera's direction, peering from beneath the hood with a seemingly indifferent expression – her mouth turned to a mischievous smile. "I've seen you play with your tail and call out Hel's name… now that we're out of the D-Dial… I'm sure you can have all the privacy you desire – or maybe you'll come crawling out of your shell to finally confess your feelings to Master Hel." She said, her smile unwavering until she finished the sentence and as Kiera's cheeks flushed a bright red – Cel turned away and tried to suppress a snicker.

"W-w-w-wha-what did you say?!" She shouted at the, "How long have you been watching me!?" She shouted at Cel.

"Shh… you might make a scene." Cel replied, and opened the door to the school, but stopped before entering. "You didn't deny any of it… that must mean you actually do it… uhuhuhuhuhu…" Cel giggled and then walked inside.

"P-p-p-perv…" Kiera stuttered, obviously trying to hide her embarrassment and shame, she stayed silent for the rest of the walk to the second floor, before she grabbed Cel's arm. "P-promise not to tell anyone… okay?" She whispered, her cheeks were still deep red and she failed to make eye contact.

Kawaii

"What's the fun in that?" Cel said, with an indifferent expression – there was a certain mischievous tone in her voice though.

When they made it to the roof they could see a massive wave on the horizon…

"…Master." Cel murmured once again, showing some obvious concern.