Transformation
by Ozirron - e-mail: ozirron@yahoo.com
* With a little whisper in my ear from Exzor *
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Chapter I
Part 3

"Alteris III .... We are there!" Terry exclaimed.
"So....Now to the right place ..... set coordinates for ..." Exzor started to commanded.
"O.K. Completed. I'm ready to transport you." Terry said.
"Shaggee, are you ready?.....Let's go. Terry! Transport!" Exzor commanded, as Shaggee jumped up into her arms. Terry transported them to the planet's surface, by standard teleport, which was often used in that part of the universe, which was called "Azsaros". All "known" space was marked by this name, specifically, all explored systems and planets within five galaxies. Azsaros was divided into parts. Some of them were empires, others were unions or independent planets, witch had their own governments, legislation, and armed forces .... similar to the states on Earth. You could find, there, free areas without laws or rules, too. For example The Neutral Zone. It was a spread out and dangerous area where anything was possible. It was a jungle, with only law, and that was The Club Law. Assassins, thieves, resellers of prohibited goods, the ones called "The New Species" (mutants, cyborgs, hybrids, genetically made creatures and so on) and other waste of a society abusively called "biological waste" or "bio waste", lived in The Neutral Zone. In Azsaros, the universal, intergalactic, language was used. It had several basic forms. The verbal one was called A.S. and all literate beings knew it.
Exzor and Shaggee walked down the street, in one of the towns. Suddenly, a formation of Loggan interceptors flew over the street and destroyed a tall building, with fire bombs, near the spot where Exzor stood.
"Oh. It's getting hot here!" Exzor told herself, as she went into a small and dirty pub, located in a small house.
"I'm Grappa's friend! " Exzor said, as she addressed the creature behind counter. "I want to ...."
"Grappa's friend? You are Kir Sharra Exzor?" The barman asked. Exzor nodded.
"We have been waiting for you. Come with me!" The barman led her a door, which opened to a set of stairs, which led down into the basement of the house, and finely led her into a small room. Inside the small room 4 creatures, looking like Grappa, sat.
"O.K, I'm here to take you away, to safety!" Exzor yelled.
"We don't want to be taken away, but, we do need your help." One said. "The Loggs shits are looking for us, we must make the Rebel's headquarters safe. If the Loggans get access to the information within the main computer, it will due us in. All of our allies, hidden within the Loggan forces, would be compromised, and would be executed. All of our bases would be destroyed. You MUST make a copy of all of the data from our headquarters database and move it to your ship's computer and then destroy all proof of our connection with Oreans." Grappa's friend told Exzor.
"What??!! ...I MUST?!!.... You amused me ..." Exzor smiled, sarcastically. "I'm here to save your lives, nothing more. Your conspiracy, that is your problem. To die for some Orean ideals? That is the last thing in the world that I would what to do! In addition, the Oreans are the same as the Loggans, as far as I am concerned. If you want to die, that is your choice. Bye." Exzor rounded and left through the door.
"You MUST save our secret list, or what .... Fuck you ... To risk my life gratis ... amusing. Don't you think so too, Shaggee." Exzor said, as she petted Shaggee.
"We have a problem!" Terry's synthetic voice stated. "A Loggan warrior flotilla is coming on it's way in."
"What ... big war cruises? ..... Oh, damn it, I guess its high time to vanish." Exzor snarled.

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"Raxor Shredder!"
"Raxor Taqon!" Shredder stated, as he saluted and entered onto the bridge of the warrior flotilla's flagship.
"So,... here is the Rebel's headquarters." Taqon's pointer was aimed at a specific spot on the map. Shredder was listening intently to him, as he stated. "And here is the power node for the defense shield's interspace blocking transformer. Your assignment, is to gain data from the Rebel's headquarters computer and to put set the shields out of order. You have two hours! Next, I will lead the attack against the Rebel's ground forces. We expect them to sally with heavy weapons. The shields MUST be down before the attack begins, otherwise, we will have heavy casualties and I won't be able guarantee our success." Taqon explained the situation.
"Yes, ... I understand ....the shields will be down in time." Shredder assured Taqon. "Is there anything else, yet?"
"No, that is all ......If you have no further questions .... I wish you good luck." Taqon said, as he returned Shredder's salute, and Shredder turned and left the control center. Shredder returned to his Alfa-Team and barked out new commands.
".........Toshi and C.J. will go with me, to take care of the shields and Kenjiro will lead you to their main computer room for a nice 'little' chat with their computer." Shredder looked at the rest of his ninjas. " ... Any questions?" No questions were raised. As one, all The Loggans' elite assassins started up their personal atmospheric interceptors, ARQ 4s, and went to their assigned posts.

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"They really look like serious, heavy warrior, cruisers....." Exzor thought, from within her ship, Terry. "They must switch down the interspace shields, or the orbital defense weapons make Galactic fireworks out of them .... Can you find out where the shield controls, or power node, is, Terry?" Exzor asked.
"Maybe! Wait a moment ........ Yes, I have it ... it's in the Southern part of the Eastern continent." Terry said, as she displayed the location.
"Are the shields still active?" Exzor asked.
"Yes, there are no abnormalities, it is complete, without defects!" Terry answered.
"So, let's go there," pointing to the Eastern continent, "we'll see what The Loggans want to do with the situation, ... Activate your cloaking systems, Terry!" Exzor commanded, and Terry did so, even as Exzor made the command.
"Four Rebel FS2 interceptors and five drones of type FSX 24, versus three Loggan ARQ 4s .... An interesting match .....Who do you bet on, Terry, to come out the victor?" Exzor asked, as she observed the interceptors start the battle, from the inside of her cloaked ship.
"Hard to say. ARQs have better shielding, as well as weapons, but the Rebels have four interceptors and five drones.....in addition, if The Loggs shits win, we will destroyed them, won't we?" Terry said.
"Of course, ... make ready the disruption missiles, Terry ...... I'll take over the controls." Exzor commanded.
"The missiles are ready ...... control is ... now yours." Terry notified Exzor, as she, Exzor, observed the fight.
Four FSX 24s and two FS2 interceptors were destroyed, outright, and all of The Loggan ARQs were damaged, within seconds of their engagement. Toshi completely lost his defense shields and one of the FS2s targeted him and was doing it's best to destroy him. At the last moment, Shredder's missile made this FS2 into a flaming ball of hellfire, while C.J. shot the last drone out of space. But the last FS2 hit him a glancing blow, which badly damaged his ship. Toshi immediately returned the fire but the FS2 escaped. C.J.'s ship was seriously damaged and needed to land immediately. Shredder commanded Toshi to follow C.J.'s ship down, and help C.J., in the event that someone tried to continue the fight, and try and shoot his ship again, even though it was already too damaged to return to the fight. Shredder continued on, to the shield control node, to deactivate the shields and destroyed the control panel itself. To get there, he had to pass through the force grid tunnel. Suddenly, when he was inside tunnel, his ship was targeted by a strange ship that appeared in front of the entrance to the tunnel. He had no shields and couldn't shoot. In that moment, his entire life flew before his eyes.
"Antea, I'll be with you, soon." He whispered.
"Oh...NO.....defect in the plasma converter?!!! FAST AWAY!!" Exzor immediately set in a new course and flew away, quickly, before she could launch her deadly missile. Shredder finished his charge.
"WHY.....Why do you hate me so, Lady Death??!!" He asked her, as well as himself, as he didn't know why the hostile ships hadn't shot and destroyed his ship, and sent him to finely be with his beloved Antea.
In The Neutral Zone, near The Loggan Empire's border, and far from Alteris III, Terry jumped from interspace and arrived at the BetaDex space base.
"Terry, tell me what happened! What caused the defect in the plasma converter?" Exzor asked angrily.
"I really don't know! My indicators recorded an unusual abnormality inside the plasma converter matrix, but now, it seems, everything is in order." Terry explained.
"Everything is in order??? .... You don't say! I will check the plasma converter now." Exzor said, as Terry entered into the docks. Exzor took her tools and, removing the 'defective' converter from it's mounting, checked it out, with the skill of an experienced Master Technician, but could find nothing wrong with the unit.
"You are right, Terry, it really does seem to be O.K." Exzor said, as she finished her diagnostics. "I would rather change it out, but, I don't know. ... Your indicators have always been reliable." Exzor wondered.
"My indicators don't lie, maybe it was an unpredictable fluctuation, caused by an exception in the harmonics, depending on the actual situation surrounding that exact instant, in the converter matrix." Terry said.
"Yes maybe ........ so now, Shaggee, it's dinner time. Exzor took up her pet, as she left the dock, to go to her favorite restaurant.
END of PART 3