War of the universe
Ch. 1
Within the farthest reaches of space, where there's no life and not even the stars of the universe reach lies a magnificent yellow ship of great size. The vessel appears to be frozen in place with the empty vacuum of the void as if it is awaiting for any sign of life to Pursue within the nothing of the universe.
The darkest and blackest of space where no life dares to venture as it would surely brings ones own demise, the eerie silence is nothing of short but a gift to a man who is haunted by many beasties and monsters. Peaceful, beautiful, wanting, waiting for a weary soul to pass through.
From the ship a pod has blown out of the side, the person within looks back at the massive figure with the vessel, the dark cloaking his appearance as they witness him staring, as if thankful for this one's escape. The course of the pod was a mystery and the survivor started to ponder if they have made the wright decision on leaving the ship, to brave the great unknown alone.
Within the halls of the great ship of beautiful architecture and sleek design was nothing but scratches and destruction. The destruction that has caused the ship to lose power until something kicked it up again, the lights turned back on and everything seemed to be on the functioning side again.
Thump Thump Thump Thump, the sounds of heavy footsteps echoed the ship and rang through every hallway as if piece of metal was striking the ground with such force and weight that would rival the asteroids that kept hitting the ship, a smaller pattern of footsteps also started to be heard as if being led by the larger steps of whatever is causing the noise.
The rattling of chains can be heard and a massive shove can be felt as what seemed to be two lady like creatures with gem stones sticking from ones shoulder and the others nose. They both fell as both of these creatures have been shoved hard into the ground by a mysterious being of unnatural size and scale. The clanking came from this... beast. It's legs were completely made of metal prosthetic and shaped to look like a reptilian legs as the body of said creature seemed to still have its scales intact as this massive crocodilian creature with still scaly grey hand and robotic tail, the crocodilians body seemed to have been tampered with as it's body structure have been modified beyond recognition as its arms are now Massive and is rearranged in a way that resembles human shoulders, with muscles so massive it's seems to almost break through the creatures scales, it's chest also has been expanded as it has lost most of what it once was, once a great and ancient dinosaur reduced to an abomination of the parasites, no longer a reptile, but a humanoid lizard with instincts to match. The crocodilian shoved them forward as it hissed a deep hiss while baring its sharp teeth and dripping Saliva. It's piercing lizard eyes saw through the lady's with malicious, even hungry intent and yet it still found great joy on knocking them around, even though he was being... Uncourteous to the creature that saved him from becoming less of his true nature, as the creature easily lifted them up as if they weighed nothing, he simply growled :"Move. Parasite. Bridge!" It didn't speak perfectly and it's still amazing that it could talk now as they slowly approached the bridge of the ship.
Many console in the bridge seemed to have been destroyed or inoperable after what seemed to be a hard battle, the two ladies looked in horror as there were a lot of gems trapped in what seems to be a black container box that holds many stones that are similar in nature to them. Another shove from the beast and he growled even greater and threw them on their knees, the yellow and green ladies heads were pulled back so they could see the figure the crocodilian was bringing them to him. In front of the bridge lies a massive glass panel staring into the void of space with many stars and a single planet within view. Although the planet seemed to have massive gaping holes and some just don't have anymore structure just towering Beauties and lovely cites with seemingly flying vehicles. A massive creature stood in front of the glass with his back towards them just peering into the void. He seemed more metal than flesh as everything about him was just cyborg in nature, the prosthetic made him look larger as his arms shoulders and legs look like plates of armor attached to a metal arm and metal legs. While the shoulders where guarded by platted pads, the only parts of his body that remained visibly fleshy was the top of his head the the start of the shoulder bones, The rest seemed to be just cold heartless steel. He had massive flowing black hair that reached his back and across his shoulders. They seemed dry and unkempt as if his hair was just naturally dry, also had a massive black beard that reached his entire torso and he seemed to be quite pleased with it. He had a tanned body of unknown Lineage. The armor platted man seems to be breathing unnaturally heavy as he was forced to do so, with such power and force that even you can feel the breath coming out from across the room.
The green gem looked at the man in disbelief :"Subject HN-42? How did he escape? He isn't smart enough to figure out how his cell held him!" She said as the yellow gem was also dumbfounded by his escape. "Not only that how did he defeat the Amethysts and rubies! We still didn't test his combat efficiency!" She bellowed as the croc grabbed her mouth and growled: "Silence! Talk more. I break!" The croc threatened the small green gem as she let out a small eep.
"Don't harm them brother." The man said still his back to them as the Crocodilian looked up at him. "Let me talk to them first, and then we will decide their fate." The man calmly said as the croc started to growl in rage. Furious about his leniency toward these things. "No! They die! Prey gone soft!" He bellowed towards the man.
"No friend, I shall never and I mean never forgive their kind! But even they deserve a fair trial before we end their existence!" The man responded to the lizard which backed down and stepped back to see what he was planning to do with these two. Until he asked: " I look? More Survivors? Find? break?" The croc asked the man as he simply responded. "No I need you here, if there are any stragglers our sister will find them." The croc relaxed more as he finally asked his questions.
"The stars... never in my life would I ever even dreamed of even realize the possibility of being not only close to one, but to travel through the heavens. It's just unreal, truly makes me wonder and ponder on who managed to create all of this..." the man spoke aloud sharing his opinion of the universe, the croc looked confused but the gem asked back "what do you mean someone created this? The universe existed by an explosion and life just started after some great time has passed." The man didn't reply to their answer, he just started to turn, the front of his armor there seems to be massive pipes going through his skin penetrating it near the clavicle and into his lungs as his heavy breathing kept on going. His eyes were a dark shade of brown spaced evenly with his hooked nose, his massive beard and mustache were bushy and dry as well, his eye brows bushy and large and yet his age was an enigma although he did seem to look like in his fifties.
"You say that the universe was not created and yet I hear you praying for the stars whenever something goes wrong." He asked curiously, maybe they just had another idea on how all life was created. And that is something that just distracted him, he didn't care on how and who created all of existence whether or not they believed, he had a single mission now and forever.
"Tell me green one. What do you see outside this panel?" He stood aside from the view and the planet was in frame.
She looked out and just the gem conquered planet, confused she looked back at him and asked: "what?" The man looked at her again and just repeated his question but emphasized the planet. She finally understood and she replied: "I see the most advanced planet our colony managed to create, one of our most beloved and proudest achievements in bettering and strengthening the gem empire for our great and powerful diamonds, its is truly the testament of our advancements and our legacy." The green gem proudly boasted about their conquest, the yellow gem noticed the mans hand slowly clenching hearing the metal finger bend into a fist and shacking with rage. Even the crocodilian looked in defense as if he could easily shatter his hard scales.
"Is that what you see? Creation? Advancements?" The man asked while clenching his teeth, rage bubbling within him and patience growing thinner by the moment. "Uhhh... Of course that's what I see, I mean what else is there?" She said sarcastically until she realized something, he was looking at her with bloodshot eyes. He crept closer to the gem until he was close to her face staring down at was once his captor, "Do you want to know what I see?" He asked and she simply replied "not really." He punched her wright into her gem, a small crack was heard as his punch scratched the surface of her gem as she screamed in pain, the croc gave a small chuckle while the yellow gem jumped back in horror screaming and got grabbed by the crocodilian and slammed into the ground, his entire weight was on her now and she couldn't even budge.
"You give me a stupid answer again, the next hit and I promise you the next hit will be your last, so either you start praying for the stars or these diamonds because the next time you give me a stupid answer I will kill you! Now give me a straight answer, got it?!" He bellowed, she was holding her gem while tears started to form in her eyes she whimpered a small "yes".
"So let me ask you again, do you want to know what I see?" This time he asked calmly, she nodded slowly. So he started to talk softly:"all I see is a destroyed planet, millions of life forms sentient or not vanished, forgotten, no one to remember them, destroyed..." he leaned in closer to her as she can see the visible madness in his eyes, "annihilated, by your kind, you prospered at the cost of millions, you took everything and left nothing behind but rubble and destruction, you call yourselves advanced and proud, you call yourselves gems but I and many other call you for what you really are... parasites." He stopped and emphasized "filthy, stinking, unforgivable, parasites." He stood up and walked back to look at their "advancements" and he made his decision, "after all your kind have done, after all the pain and suffering you have caused, you will all be judged for you crimes against all life."
A look of horror started to appear on her face as she realized that he is going to do something drastic, "I will capture every single one of your kind and personally judge them for every crime they have committed against life and nature, until then I will have to confine you until the time of judgment comes." He gave her his plan, she looked at him confused and even through her terrified stuttering she still question his methods" W-what do you mean you will capture us all, We-we outnumber y-you in the millions." She told him, he looked back and said, "you outnumbered us and look who is the victor now." He turned back and said out loud "Brother!" The croc gave him his attention still clinging to the yellow gem. "She is all your's, destroy her." he offered him, the Croc turned his gaze towards the green gem, if a crocodile could smile he would've been the happiest lizard in all of creation, he got off the yellow gem and slowly walked, hunched to his prey as she started to crawl away from him begging and pleading for the predator to spare her but to no avail as the croc lunged his great maw swallowing the gem head fully in his jaw as he started to shake her around crushing her tiny form with his jaws, as he swung around he started to act instinctively as he fell on the ground and began to death roll, he actually started to swallow her as he continued the death roll again, she was halfway in before she finally poofed and the gem got stuck In His throat coughing it out!
"No Flesh! Hate them!" The crocodilian spoke up as he spit out the gem stone, although they have no flesh to feast on, he seemed to get a liking for its taste. He grasped the gem hard as he stomped his way to the human. "Here. Prey take. Seal." The crocodilian passed the green gem to the man who grasped it with his metal hands and clenched on it.
"You know brother, your method of destroying them never ceases to amaze me, quite entertaining really." He said as he pulled out what seemed to be a crystal box that formed the shape of the gem as he closed it in and numbers that seemed like prisoner tags on it. The crocodilian just looked at the human, thinking to himself that this prey truly act weird.
"Wait a minute... where's the yellow one?" The human just realized that he inadvertently helped her escape when he turned his gaze away to revel in the capture of the green gem and was fascinated on how the crocodilian hunted and ate his prey. The crocodilian noticing what he said and looked around, he picked up his pace as he searched the corridors for the yellow gem. "She escape! Hunt! Kill!" The crocodilian bellowed through the corridors echoing the halls with the threat of his brutality, the man just laid his hands on its shoulder as it looked at him, he seemed calm.. reserved... with no worry in his face and with a simple smile he said, "don't worry brother, she won't get far", as he pointed into the vents as something slipped by very quickly covered in the shadows, "as long as she got her sent, our sister will take care of it, come let us witness what she can do best." He started to walk slowly to where the yellow gem might try to escape, following behind him is the massive croc, through the halls to find a runaway prey.
The yellow gem panicking is running for her life as she passed through many battle torn corridors trying to run away from the experiments that has gone loose form their test chambers, she was breathing heavily and tripped a couple of times until she finally reached it, what seemed to be a huge monitor was laid before her, broken and loose, and yet the computer seemed to be working even if barley. "Thank the stars! It's still works!" She exclaimed as she was pressing and swiping images on the monitor, she was frantically trying to call someone, while also looking over her shoulder to see if anything was trying to ambush her while her back was turned, hoping that the ape and lizard have lost her and she would have bought enough time until she calls for reinforcements.
"There! Please, please, please, pleeeeeeeeease pick up for the love of the diamonds pick up!" She was pleading to get anyone to pick up the call and save her from the nightmare she finds herself in, something seems to be moving within the vents behind her and it's slowly and softly started to exist the vent.
The screen lit up, and the gem that picked up seemed to be on the same colour as the green gem the crocodilian has poofed earlier except this one was taller, imposing and yet looked a lot different from the small gem they have caught earlier, "This better not be a waste of my time star cruiser, as if this is another false alarm or useless update on your failing experiments I will not bother to..." she tried to finish as she was cut off by the yellow gem eyes wide open with fear and panic. "Please, my Emerald send help, our experiments have escaped confinement, they wrecked havoc on the ship and captured everyone but me!" The yellow gem was practically shouting until she calmed herself down as to not give away her position. While the she was being loud the creature from the vent dropped softly on the ground and started to crawl towards her, slowly, without making a single sound, two yellow eyes pierced her soul as it moved closer to its prey.
"That's impossible! The experiments couldn't have escaped their containment, there not combat ready, in fact they aren't even smart enough to escape. Is this another one of your schemes to escape?" The emerald asked, as the yellow gem started to panic, "Listen my emerald, subject HN-42 has escaped confinement and went berserk with DN-10 and captured everyone on board please send back up!" The yellow gem pleaded, as the creature got close enough and started to bare its teeth, suddenly the gem in the monitor seems to look behind the yellow gem, "who is that behind you?" The emerald as as when the yellow gem turned she got pounced and the screen turned to static. The emerald was visibly annoyed.
Giant claws, kept scratching the gem and slashing while growling and snarling at the gem, the cat managed to get a bite on her leg as it started to pull and tear at it, the yellow gem screamed in pain and horror as this giant feline started to rip her apart, her screams echoed through the halls and that fell on deaf ears, huge damaged was caused by the creature until it got a hold on the gems neck, giant teeth were on the spine of the gem and a strong bite poofed the gem back to her normal state, a giant paw rested on the piece of stone still growling and snarling.
The human and the crocodilian have found the room where the green gem fled as within the darkness they saw feline eyes, prone on the ground still hungry and excited for another hunt, it stared directly into the mans eye as the pupils started to widen up. The man opens his arms wide gesturing for a hug. "Dearest sister" he calmly said, as the quadruped started to actually stand in a bipedal position and ran towards the human, Finally she in the light, a giant tiger rushed to the human and hugged him hard, "Big brother, you're ok! I was soo worried the bad rocks hurt you!" She innocently told him, truly worried about her older brother, holding him with her bionic arms, she seemed to have bionics starting from there to the tail, legs, and what seemed to be her entire spine till her head, as it did affect her physical structure, she can change from being a cat to humanoid at will, one to hunt and the other to interact. After letting go of the hug she looked at his unkept beard, "big brother you are soo dirty stand still!" She started to lick his face with her sand paper like tongue, it was very uncomfortable, after she was done she looked at the crocodilian "Brother also dirty." As she started to clean him as well to much of his annoyance.
"No clean! Fine!" He bellowed but she was having not of that and kept cleaning him. The human picked up the gem and did the same thing as he placed it within a small box and locked it away, finally free from distractions, he made his move and started his plans to finally stop the gem empire.
"Brother." The crocodilian turned his head toward the human still getting groomed by the large tiger. "I need you to patrol the ship, find any stragglers and bring them to the bridge in their true form." The crocodilian growled as he stomped out away looking for his next quarry. The tiger looked annoyed and turned her head towards her eldest brother. "I wasn't done cleaning him! He is still dirty, very dirty! Like something that lives most of its life in water dirty!" The tiger complained as he did interrupt her familiar interaction, the human gave a small chuckle as he replied. " dearest sister, our brother doesn't like to be groomed as I, and anyways no matter how much you clean him, he will just find a way to get himself filthy again." He teased his sister as she flicked her tail at him and spun around with a hmph! He placed his bionic hands on her shoulders as she turned around and looked at him in the eyes. "Dearest sister. I need your help." He genuinely asked as she turned around and looked at him. "You are the brightest and the smartest among us, you and my brother have natural ways to defend yourselves and if it weren't for you two I would've never been able to take this ship. You have claws and teeth, brother has armor and powerful jaws. All I have is my arms and wits." The eldest told his sister. "But how can I help brother?" She asked as she had no idea how to help him.
"Help me make a weapon." He bluntly asked as she asked, "weapons? Like the rock people have?" She asked innocently. "Yes dear sister, I want to be more of a aid than a burden, please will you help me?" She clapped happily as she nodded "YES, YES, YES! I will help you big brother!" As she grabbed his hands and ran of to another part of the ship, they passed the beautiful hallways until he realized where they were headed, the place where it all happened, the source of all his pain and suffering, the cells where they have escaped. She entered the room with him clearly still destroyed and yet luckily the armory was still intact with a single weapons manufacturer present, she ran to it and started putting in the information as if she had done this a thousand times to the amazement of her brother. "How do you know how to operate this?" He was genuinely curious. She tapped on the back of her head where the metal skull started to form, "when they tinkered with me they also gave me a new brain, they made me smarter for some reason. I can now learn anything gem related!" As she typed away as the machine started to Blare and a huge hologram appeared before them asking to be used. She looked at him with a smile, "so brother? What do you have in mind? Claws and teeth?" She comically asked.
He laughed as he waved his hand, "No dear sister, I am still thinking of the weapon I want to use." He stood there pondering what type of weapon would aid his plans to finally destroy these abomination that have imprisoned him for a very long time. He closed his eyes and tried to remember something about his past, to see anything he would class as a weapon or a source of hope. He could slowly see an elderly figure in the fines red robes, white long hair and a Shapley beard, slowly approaching him in the blasting light coming from the void within his mind, obstructing the mans facial features, whoever he was made him feel safe, made him feel like home, truly made him feel like nothing within the earth and heavens could harm him, and then he noticed what he was wielding. A Shepard's crook, that's it, a heavily modified Shepard's crook! He opened his eyes and approached the machine, ready to build his weapon.
"Sister may I?" He gestured to the holograms as she just said, "I don't think you would know how to operate it, just describe the weapon to me and I will make it." He sighed as he approached her and started to describe "the weapon should be a long metal staff ending with a malachite stone hook filled with barbs flaring outwards, a sharp end on the end of the staff to aid in balance control" as she placed the inputs he interrupts her again and added some few extra details "the weapon lacks range so if possible the staff could transform into a chain so I might be able to use it as a whip and flail. And if all else fails even the sharp harpoon end of the staff could be shot out with the chains to hurt any of them from a great distance." He added as she put in the specs, the weapon started to form and materialize before a shimmering light started to to form the shepherds crook, after some time it finished and it floated on the machine waiting to be claimed.
The man stepped forwards and grabbed it with one of his hands and gently used it as balancing stick. "Well? What do you think brother?" She asked him, he didn't reply he held the shepherds crook close to him and he finally saw him, the man within his blinding visions, a tanned man with a hooked nose looked down on him with a smile that only a proud father would have. A tear slid down his face as the tiger looked in horror. "Oh no brother! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to make you cry! I'm sorry my weapon was bad please don't cry!" She panicked as he looked up at her smiling, "thank you sister, you helped me remember." She felt a wave of relief wash over her as she hugged him, he hugged her back and asked her to meet her brother in the bridge she happily nodded and ran towards the hallway. He stood in his place and closed his eyes, the old man appeared before him once again. He looked at him for the final time as he finally returned to the light and stood tall and proud with his staff and returned to the bridge were they await him.
They looked at him as he approached the window still within view of the great city visible in front of him, he knew what has to be done, in order to protect all from these parasites he will have to destroy them all, or imprison them all, " Brother, sister, from now on I would like you to call me..." he pondered for a while trying to remember the name he was given from birth, his stay with the gems has affected his memory severely and it has affected his judgment and memories, he has completely forgotten his name. He looked at his staff, and finally uttered, "Shepherd."
Both of them looked at shepherd with a puzzled expression, as if what he just said was odd, they never call each other with names in fact the concept of names to animals is unnatural as they never communicate by names. "You want us to call you shepherd?" The tiger asked standing near her brother who also seemed to be as confused as her. "Shepherd? You prey. Not shepherd." The crocodilian retorted as shepherd turned to face his family.
"Yes, I want you two to call me shepherd or brother, whatever suits you. Even prey is fine brother." The human responded to the crocodilian. It gave out a small grunt of acknowledgement and waited for further instructions as the tiger looked at her eldest brother asking, "What about us brother? Don't we get names too?"
This caught him by surprise, he didn't think of names for his new and odd family but he did come up with something fast, he approached the crocodilian and placed a hand on its scaly shoulders, "brother, your name shall be. Jaws." He gifted the croc with his new name as the beast seemed annoyed. "No name! No Need!" It's hissed, as his brother smiled at his aggression, "it's just a name brother, to make it easier for us to communicate, but if it really is aggravating for you I will gladly call you brother." Pleased with the response the crocodilian calmed down and nodded.
The tiger started jumping frantically up and down a little bit to excited for a naming session. "It's my turn now! I want a name brother! I want a name too!" She started to step really fast excited to get a name from her brother, even if it was weird, anything from her brother is a gift she was happy to receive, "calm down sister, you will get a name I just need some time to think." He was laughing at her excitement and tried to calm her down with a massive smile on his face, she noticed it too, he rarely smiled and she felt happy that he is smiling even after all he has been through. He pondered for a while until he saw her hands, "...claws." He whispered to himself. "Claws? I LOVE IT, THANK YOU BIG BROTHER I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!" She screamed as he recoiled, he didn't expect her to like that name, he was just thinking to himself. "Woah calm down... Claws, I'm glad you liked that name." She proceeded to hug him while the lizard just watched, confused on the affection they are displaying.
She let go of him, and the smile on his bearded face slowly turned back to an angry frown, as if reality has reared its ugly head around as he approached the glass pane and looked out at their "advancements" the planets core was completely visible and also completely vulnerable. Anger raged in his heart as he gripped his staff so hard he could've bent it. "Claws, is there any type of weaponry on this ship we can use?" He asked the tiger as she jumped into position on the control panel and started to read through the ships files, "looking brother, there must be something here we can use!" She said as the crocodilian approached the panel as well, "Prey, How Kill parasites? To many. We only three." The crocodilian asked his brother about the plan. "It's true brother we are outnumbered, but we have something they will never possess.", the croc looked at him waiting for an answer. "A family to defend." He said with a hurt tone, as if he was holding back tears, even at that point the lizard understood what he said, protect the young, protect family, that all that matters. The croc wanted to say something until a large Ding was heard through the panel. "What did you find sister?" Shepherd asked as her face formed the biggest glee anyone could ever see as all she said, "just watch brother, you will enjoy this!" As she pressed the activation button, a large cannon started to erect from the top of the ship as it formed a giant laser and is now slowing forming and pointing towards the planet. Suddenly as the cannon is charging the panel came to life with the Emerald appearing before them. "Star cruiser SC-78 you are arming a core cracker directly on this current planet cease this attack or you will destroyed!" The gem threatened a man who has already lost everything, it may as well have dropped on deaf ears, shepherd approached the computer panel and she finally took a good look at him, the metal man with a metal crook. "Wait, the pearl was telling the truth? How in the diamonds name did you escape?!" She bellowed at him as he just looked at her as if she is the most revolting thing that has ever graced his eyes. "Your threats falls on deaf ears parasite, I have a simple mission in life now, as long as I draw breath I will find every planet your kind has conquered or in the path of conquering them and liberate them from the filth of your kind" as the laser started to charge up to dangerous levels that the ships hull is also feeling the heat. "You will all pay for what you have done to me and my family, you will judge for every soul that you have snuffed out in the cosmos, and when the times comes I will judge you all personally for every slight, For every wrong you have committed against creatures of flesh! An eternal grudge on your kind! And only your extinction will bring peace to the universe!" He threatened as the laser goes off into the core, destabilising the planet and millions of gemstones were flung into the vacuum of space, the panel turned to static wright after the face of horror grew on the emeralds face as the realisation of the monster they have created.
A giant planetary explosion occurred outside the panel as chunks of the planet flew in every direction, some even flew close by the ship they are on, he saw many gems float in space as well, his heart loosened as the scene before him finally gave him joy, he finally found peace for the moment. "What happen? Where planet?" The crocodilian asked in complete confusion as how they managed to destroy the planet entirely without them leaving the ship, "it's gone brother, and all the parasites with it. We finally have a fighting chance." Shepherd smiled as he said so, finally a way to end this war against all living things has begun.
Suddenly what seems to be debris from the planet turns out to be gem stones colliding with the ships glass panel, the remains float within the void of space, ready to invade another planet he thought to himself, he would not allow it! He must judge them all for their crimes. "Sister! The filth clutter our ship and are staining the void of space, is there anyway to collect them all up?" Shepherd asked his youngest sister as she looked through the ships mainframe. "If I find something brother I'll let you know!" She kept working on the ships mainframe as he approached his brother to see how he is holding up as the planets destruction is doing wonders on the dinosaurs brain.
"Jaws? You seem lost, do you need to talk or?" Shepherd asked the crocodilian as it snapped its head around looking at him, the crocodile seemed confused to the point of questioning reality. "How gone?! No kill?! Where they go!" The crocodile bellowed as shepherd placed his metallic hands on the crocs shoulders again, "Brother, please relax, take a deep breath and let me explain, the parasites planet has been destroyed by the same technology they have built, so in some form they have destroyed themselves." Shepherd explained as the crocodile asked again, "how planet die?!", he couldn't find the wright answer as he simply said. "Some battles are not always won by Steel claws and teeth, they must be one with cunning and intelligence. Sometimes you have to be cheap when fighting such a plague." The crocodile still confused as his brother finally got through to him with, "Since they outnumber us a million to one, we have to use everything we have to make sure we win for the sake of the universe." Shepherd comforted the reptile.
"Brother! I found something!" The tiger yelled out as both of them looked at her direction. "What did you find dearest sister?" He asked as he walked up towards her holding on to his Shepherds crook. "Look outside brother and you will see", as she pressed some more buttons and a ding was heard as what seems to be small robots flying through the endless void of space collecting the gems and returning to the ships interior, shepherd followed the bots with jaws following closely as they found the haul of gems. He felt disgusted at the site of them, the crocodilian had another feeling, he wanted them to form, he wanted to hunt. As they started to round them up within the crates and serial numbers appeared on the bosses with the help of crocodile they managed to finish up and finally rested and started to devise their plan. Returning to the bridge they all stood together and shepherd pondered on his plan. It was in the end a suicide mission, but what choice does he have. If left unchecked those parasites would swarm the whole universe, and even his home wasn't safe from these monsters.
"Claws...Jaws... I know we aren't truly related, In fact we are extremely and biologically different from each other, but you two are family, and will always be my family." He said with a heavy heart as claws started to tear up while the lizard unfazed kept staring at him. "No matter how different we are, they see us as dirt, experiments, test subject to perform insidious acts of torture and experimental tests upon us as they believe we are beneath them, they think they are our betters, because we are made of flesh, and they are made of light." He had a spiteful tone to his voice, as if wishing upon them a thousand plagues and more upon them and all who believe they were peaceful creatures. "Sister they took you away from from family and you too brother, we were robbed of our chance to live, but no more, we will end this atrocity and make sure they don't harm any life form ever again! Everyone deserves a chance to live! And to do that we must end them, isolate them! IMPRISON THEM FOR LIFE!" he bellowed as he slammed his crook hard to the metal surface of the bridge!
"No kill?! They kill!" The crocodile retorted as they did go the extra mile to make sure they were exterminated. The tiger looked in agreement, "there deaths will come brother, but not before they face all the atrocities they have committed, only when they are truly broken may we end them. We must do unto them, what they have done unto us!" Shepherd retorted. Getting through the stubborn lizard and the joyful cat. "We are the first and last line of defense of this universe, and we will be their symbol. We are the Family! And we will free the universe from their existence! Sister please find any planet they have inhibited, or in the process of conquering so that we may free it." As shepherd sat on one of their chairs while the crocodile struggled to sit on one of the chairs. "There found one, next to this galaxy!" She exclaimed as he started to relax on his chair stretching and clutching his crook with an iron grip, he took a deep breath and readied himself for the endless war and gave the order. "Our vengeance begins." As the ship flies at incredible speeds and vanished nto the endless void.