One Week Later
Avery P.O.V
I was currently setting up the final details on a important presentation to the leauge regarding the Hive, the Taken, as well as the other enemies of humanity. I had just finished when the leauge funneled into the conference room. Every member was in attendance. I had decided to let Leo skip the meeting so he could learn to aclimate to the time period. Which roughly translates to "Jayden ditched him in new york and I didn't have the time to go and find him." When all the members of the leauge were seated I began.
"So I assume you all know why I called you here today." I said.
"Yeah we get to finally learn what all these things are you keep referencing and comparing us to." Hawkgirl said.
"Yes and personally I would like to know what a "cabal" is." Superman said.
"Not going to let me live that one down are ya boyscout." I said sarcastically.
"Can we please begin." Batman said.
"Right. Lets begin. There are currently five major species threatning humanity in my time, Fallen, Hive, Vex, the Cabal, and the Taken. Most of you have had the pleasure of seeing what the Hive and the Vex look like. But you don't know what they are. Any preference on what we begin with?" I asked.
"I want to know exactly what attacked my family." Diana said.
"Figured as much. Now the Hive are a very ancient race that evolved on a unknown planet but for some reason came to live on the planet of Fundament along wih many other sentient species. The records we have managed to take from the Hive are few and far between. But from what we can tell the hive lead pitiful and short lives on Fundament and were pretty much on the bottom of the peacking order on the planet. Apparently looking to change that three hive princess when deep into the planets oceans and found their worm gods-"
"I have a question." Flash asked
"Yes." I said.
"Worm gods?" Flash asked.
"Sadly we don't know much about them besides the fact that they are direct servents of the Darkness and are insanely powerful. There not unkillable though, it is stated in the Hive's history that Oryx killed his patron worm god Akka and stole it's secrets, specifically the power to take. The Hive worship death and becaue of this the are waging a constany war of genocide aginst all life in the galaxy. This eventually lead them to us. Because the Hive serve the Darkness they seek to destroy the Traveler they are now in the our system having taken the moon for their own and turned it into an impregnable fortress." I finished off by showing them a picture of the moon. Needless to say they were very shocked.
"Wh-why haven't you driven them out yet!" Hawkgirl asked in shock."
"You don't think we haven't tried! It was a massacre!" I yelled. Jayden decided now was a good time to jump in and start his part of the lecture.
"Most Guardians don't like talk about the 'great disaster' we all lost alot of people close to us that day. Now past all the history you don't need to know. These are the major Hive forces you will be fighting." Jayden said as a hologram of a Thrall appeared. "Thrall are the most common form of Hive and are the weakest. However don't underestimate them they always travel in packs and main purpose is to overwhelm their enemies and rip them to shreds. Best way to deal with them is to use fast firing weapons and mow them down before they get close." Jayden began. The hours rolled by with us explaing each faction in depth and how to combat them. Out of all the factions the one that seemed to disturb them the most were the Taken, mostly because it wasn't mind control it was full control and more importantly it couldn't be broken. The Fallen initially elicited some greif and sympathy and asked why hadn't we tried diplomacy with them, but we quickly assured them that the Fallen were had lost any and all sympathy a long time ago, they asked a very similar question regarding the Cabal. Superman especially began to push the topic eventually causing Jayden to snap at him.
"I still don't understand why you can't eventry to talk to them." Superman said.
"BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE!" Jayden yelled. "THE FALLEN JUST DON'T CARE! THEY LAUNCH ATTACK AFTER ATTACK ON THE CITY! THEY KILL OUR PEOPLE, DREGS DEVOUR OUR CHILDREN! THEY WON'T STOP UNTIL THEY HAVE THE TRAVELER AND ALL OF HUMANITY IS DEAD! THEY HAVE MADE IT CLEAR IT'S US OR THEM!" Jayden said. I put my hand on his shoulder calming him down abit.
"And to answer your question about the Cabal. We aren't dealing with any administrative body of their empire just their legions. More importantly when the Cabal set their sights on a target they will fight to the death until they claim it. Even if they wanted to they couldn't retreat." I said.
"What why?" Hawkgirl asked having taken a special interest in the Cabal.
"When ever a Cabal legion leaves their empires territory they're essentially banished not allowed to return unless they're victorious." I said.
"So even if they wanted to they couldn't. They'd have nowhere to go." Batman concluded.
"Correct. Now that were wrapping up any final questions?" I asked as I look at the leauge. They all had looks of shock on their faces. Clearly they didn't expect things to this bad.
"I have one." Flash said.
"Yes?" I asked
"How are you still alive?!" Flash asked trying to wrap his head around all of this.
"Well it certainly helps that we don't stay dead." Jayden said sarcastically.
"Your all crazy aren't you." Flash said. Jayden and I looked at each other and said the same thing.
"Yes."