It didn't take long for Zurg's minions to find out the coordinates and to get a hornet army on the ground.
Zurg stood from his hovering platform the slowed approach of his army to what the grubs said he could find the jewel and future of the empire, Kelly. His armies couldn't move fast enough in the snowy environment, but Zurg felt nothing but calm and strength, standing above his platform reinvigorated by a mission with greater purpose than destruction.
Despite their seemingly slow speed, the hornets were moving more efficiently and twice as fast as they normally moved, their grace unlocked by a correct programming lovingly installed by a race of Grubs ready to get back the one they would lay their liefs down for.
Klato Forlon could hear the speeding Star Command's fleets chatter as they approached. He could just make out the first wave of space rangers. He could also see an approaching wall of yellow and purple from his right, moving faster than he expected the normally clumsy robots to move in such snow. It didn't matter to Klato, he was the only one who knew how this would end.
Booster and XR had arrived first, stopping only pick up Buzz and arm him. 42 was quiet as a graveyard when the three met up with the first wave approaching the coordinates.
Inside the cave, Kelly and Mira were ready. Ignorant of the two approaching armies, they prepared to set out on their own. Dressed in the warmest coats they could find, they prepared for a hard battle to escape.
Mira's steely voice spoke up first
"I'm ready if you are"
"I'm as ready as I can be,"
With that, the two ladys made a mad run for the nearest wall. This caught the attention of the nearest guard. His stubby arms reached for the girls, only grabbing their two coats. Mira quickly ghosted them out of the coats and into the nearest wall, their escape started badly.
42 and the other space craft were racing to the girl's rescue when the first missile alarms went off. Each ship, confident in their ability began to prepare to evade the missiles when the first three ships blew up without warning. Zurgs anti-ship missiles had hit with such accuracy and speed the space rangers hadn't seen before.
"Buzz!"
A focused Buzz heard the alarm in booster's voice, sharing it with the large red rookie ranger.
"I know!" He replied as two more of the ten ship wave exploded into a fireball.
Knowing what his only choice was to be, Buzz opened a comm to all ships.
"Everyone land, looks like we're fighting this the hard way."
Five ships dove to the surface of the planet, 35 rangers emerging from the ships on their packs and began to fly in to the battle.
From the other side, Zurg cursed his luck,
"I bet Buzz Lightyear is over there."
From the edge of his platform a voice rang out
"Evil emporer Zurg, we have shot down half of the first wave with our anti-ship missiles."
Zurg was in shock, his armies had never shot down even one cruiser. He knew this was going to be his day after all.
"Good grubs! Keep up the assault, we shall be VICTORIOUS!"
The space rangers flew to the battle bravely, their confidence bruised but not shaken. Flying in delta formations, it wasn't long before hornet's began taking out the rangers one by one. No matter how low they flew, the hornets still seemed to be able to hit them.
"Everyone land and find cover!" Buzz orderred.
The remaining force of rangers landed hard, finding cover to fire back at the invading armies from.
Few had seen battle like this before, but Commander nebula had. He knew they were in for a long fight.
He orderred the rest of his rangers to move is a fast as possible while being safe,. But even with 113 rangers, this would a long fight and he would be writing even more letters by the time it was over.