Max: "You may be a new recruit, but I trust you with this…"
Max opened a glass covering and pushed a button beneath it. The red moon had split open, revealing what looked like a large disk with a hole on four sides. Except there was what looked like a bridge on it. The empty shells of this moon continued on, one of them burnt-up by the planets atmosphere. The disk was the size of the state of Texas. Max tapped some buttons, causing a screen to display the planet in gridline form. The disk moved to just outside the planets atmosphere. Max then pressed another button, causing the display to show smaller disks releasing themselves from the large disks hull, each one a replica of the large one. The real disks outside were doing the same thing. The small disks positioned themselves around the planet evenly, waiting.
Max: "This planet has caused me trouble. It has insisted that I be stopped, everyone on that globe agrees. But with a simple touch of my hand, they shall be reprimanded…"
Max began to charge energy, a sinister looking green energy. Jason didn't understand: surely, that power would rip this ship apart. Black electricity hissed around his hand, until he stopped charging, and looked maliciously at the planet below.
Max: "With the power and might of my stature, I CONDEMN YOU!"
Max threw his hand at the panel, into a hand shaped imprint on the left side of the panel. The imprint had an evenly placed array of small single hole sockets. He released the energy, but instead of blowing the panel to pieces, it seemed to absorb it. He kept it going for five seconds until a gauge on the panel read the words, "Full Capacity". With his left hand, he pushed a lever forward, until it stopped at the word "Charge". With a flash of green light, Jason saw from somewhere below the window they were looking from, a continuous beam of the same energy launched towards the main disk, threatening to blow it to pieces, but when it met it, a corresponding outlet absorbed it like a laser beam, and instantly, he saw it travel out of four other holes along the side of the disk. The beams spread to other smaller disks, and so on, until it appeared that there was a cage around the entire planet. Then, with only a little power left in the gauge, Max pushed the lever up to the word "Fire". Then, the beam coming from the Leviathan became concentrated, and suddenly, the open space between the cage-like beams filled in, so it appeared that there was a semi-transparent green shell around the globe. Steadily, the green shell began to close in on the planet, burning the top level of the atmosphere. Jason looked on in horror. On the planet itself, humanoid people with bluish skin and small horns were running in terror. Aircraft fighters went up to fire at it, firing blue missiles at the green shell. The missiles burned into nothing. The fighters tried to dive back down, but one of them couldn't stop in time, and was incinerated by the emerald mass. Soon enough, the top of the largest skyscraper began to melt as the green descended upon them. Pools of liquid metal started to form on the streets, different vehicles became trapped in the molten goop. People screamed as the shell came mere feet away from the ground. They were lying as close to the ground as they could, hoping it would subside before that, but then they all felt a terrible heat on their backs, and suddenly, all was silenced…
Jason watched as the ruined landscape was burned down to the core of the planet, where the green mass casing became too small to see, and exploded in a flash, and then everything was gone. The disks surrounding the planet returned to their spots on the main disk, and floated stationary. Max pressed another button and the wall came back, hiding what remained of the atrocity before them. Max sneered almost beside himself with insane glee. Jason gaped at where the planet had been, too astonished to speak.
Max: "Yes, impressive isn't it? It is called the Jade Death. It has been something I have planned on ever since my revival. The first thought I had when I was revived was a picture of what you just saw. Screaming people, inescapable destruction. Even I couldn't begin to make an attack of such complexity. You see, not only does the Jade Death kill and destroy, but also it causes unfathomable pain to the victims. I knew a combination of my power and the great technology at my disposal would create the perfect tool of vengeance. It was the only plan in my head, other than the Rejuvenator. That was my second idea. I sensed a great number of people near Alpha Centauri. I figured even if they posed no real threat they could be the guinea pigs of my weapon. I used their moon, drilled into it and made it hollow so we could work on it. I left a crew to build it while I summoned my brother to fight on Edoc. I thought I should be rid of my greatest threat so he would have no chance to interfere, as he undoubtedly would. The only flaw was that he survived, leaving me with his Union, who were all my least loyal servants. Most of them know about my plans and capabilities. They knew I was building a weapon, but didn't know what. I made sure none but the workers and I knew of its whereabouts"
Jason suddenly understood what J-Dude had said last night. They knew about the weapon, but did not know what it was, or where it was. J-Dude wanted the general to keep everyone ready for it, in case Max struck without notice. Then as he remembered something from yesterday with a horrible jolt, he turned to panic.
Jason: "How did you know where to send that hologram! What do you know!"
Max: "Not as much as you think. From the transmitter bugs on your bodies, I found out the many aspects of the base, thanks to my brothers tour guide act. Quite a hangar they have, I see how they recover so quickly from battle. I deduced that it is a swamp planet, and heard Jacob's babble about his defenses. Very formidable indeed; even my greatest pilots would have trouble with it."
Jason: "Pilots? I thought the Cougars were drone fighters, machines!"
Max: "They are. I'm not using those fighters for attack on the base."
Max pressed a button on the wall, and another wall slid out of the way to reveal a large hangar, that also looked like a factory of some kind. Fighters like Cougars were being made, except they had more weapons, were larger and sleeker. There was also a cockpit in this model. They were built in mass production, an endless assembly line creating one every five seconds.
Max: "These, will be my strike force. Beautiful aren't they? The X Party 320, otherwise known as Orcas. They carry an immense payload of concussion missiles, as well as their own Pulse Laser Cannons, and miniature nuclear bombs. The bombs are useless in space of course, but ideal for bombing raids on large cities. Orcas are even equipped with a state of the art laser-tracking device, built for identifying the coordinates of a ship in a wormhole and meeting it there. As we have tested, the Pulse Laser then travels faster than light speed, causing the beam to hit the ship with twenty times the original impact and heat, destroying it utterly. Thankfully, the ship usually vaporizes, leaving the Orca in the clear, so escape is impossible."
Jason: "You are one sick man Payne. I can't believe you would think of creating something as horrid as that Jade Death thing. Have you no heart! Those people you killed were only doing what they knew was the right thing! Why cause them such pain? Why end the lives of innocents? YOU KILLED CHILDREN YOU BEAST!"
Max: "SILENCE! They were all against me. Leaving any threat alive is a dire mistake, especially when you know little of the capabilities of the race. I never underestimate my opponent. If I let the children live, they would rally against me in their later years, more powerful than ever!"
Jason: "AND NOW YOU'RE PLANNING ON MORE! FORGET THIS, ALL OF IT! I'LL NEVER WORK FOR YOU!"
Max, out of impatience and anger, used a knife hand strike on Jason's neck, knocking him unconscious. He ordered a few of his men over to take him to a private quarter.
Max: "You will know your place, as will your friends. However, my young apprentice, you are fortunate enough not to share their fate. But you have chosen one of three paths, and you have chosen pain…"