Hi, I'm back again, with another chapter of The Will of Revenge. During our previous meeting, we were witnesses of the 'last briefing' before the enactment of SoS' plans. At the same time, tensions between UNSA and Laconian Republic continue to rise, especially when Laconia starts shipping some things towards one place, so a spy is sent to look into that. What will come out of it? We shall see.
But before that, reviews:
To Supreme Supra: Indeed we shall.
To Eddie199: Yeah, about that…
To S31tora: He only appears so.
To last admiral: Don't know if you ask about Saderans from Flare Prime or Sons of Sadera, but it was already showed that yes. Both have armies using more modern weaponry.
Okay, with that out of the way, let's get into the story.
Chapter 5
May 11
18:42
Dortmund AFB, Germany
Elsa was walking down the corridor leading to Ester's office, hoping to find her commander there. In her hands, she held another bunch of papers that needed to be looked through, signed and stamped. Already she could see the face colonel was going to make after seeing more papers and could hear the whining that would come with it.
Honestly, Elsa understood Ester pretty well. Everyone did. Paperwork was one of the most tedious things humanity had ever came up with. Just writing the same thing over and over again, seemingly without end. But it had to be done and Elsa, as a well organized person, knew it very well.
She stood in front of the door to Ester's office and knocked.
"Come in."Ester said.
Elsa pushed the handle and opened the door. Inside, she saw Ester, sitting at her desk, supporting her head with her hand and looking at the screen of her computer. Immediately when she saw papers in Elsa's hands, she grumbled.
"Sorry to interrupt you, colonel."Elsa said."These are the documents needed for acquisition of Cyclone Mk.2s."
Ester risen an eyebrow.
"They're finally giving us the new ones?"she asked."I wondered when we'll get them."
"I heard you spent the entire Great Galactic War flying on Eurofighter Cyclone."Elsa said.
"Indeed."Ester nodded."I wonder what did they change in the newer model?"
"Everything is written here."
"Before you say anything, I promise, I will take care of all that. But after I'm done here."
"And what are you doing?"
"Take a look."
Elsa walked around the desk and looked at the screen There, she saw, that Ester was watching Human News Network evening news. View from camera placed high above the street of colonial city showed large crowds of people with various banners in several different languages, with some Eastern European language being predominant. The red belt on the lower part of the screen was saying:'BREAKING NEWS: THOUSANDS PROTEST ON BANASZ III'.
"What is it?"Elsa asked.
"Do you watch any news?"Ester asked back.
"Yes."
"Then I guess you know about the protests that had been erupting along our border with Laconian, mainly on Planetary States?"
"Yes."
"Then, lo and behold, welcome twentieth Planetary State in the group with such problems: Banasz III, one of former Intermarium's territories, notably inhabited by Hungarians and Romanians."
"And what are these protests about?"
"The guy leading them claims, that it's against the rule of the current president, Antal Damos, which is Hungarian. Most of the protesters are Romanians, which claim, that he's favoring only people of Hungarian descent."
"And why only people of Romanian origin protest?"
"Girl, do you know how much Hungarians and Romanians hate each other? They might look calm now, but if not all the treaties that happened by the last two hundred or so years, they would kill each other for Transylvania."
"I think I get it."
They both then looked back at the screen, on which the giant crowd of people moved forward, towards presidential palace. Already, cordon of police was being set up around the area, to stop protesters from storming inside.
At the same time…
Republic of Banasz III, in front of presidential palace
The whole noise that came from the giant crowd of people approaching the palace almost made lieutenant Gyul Szemosz, officer of Banasz's police, deaf, even through his helmet. He could see these thousands approaching the cordon of Crowd Control officers, which stood in front of them with their shields raised and their stun batons held high. However, during the time he served in Crowd Control on one of Local Sector's planets, he learned, that even best prepared cops are not enough to stop enraged crowd of people.
"Sir?"a voice came to his ears.
He looked to his side and saw his deputy, Radu Comonescu, which was Romanian, but served the state.
"What is it?"Gyul asked.
"We're getting news from the boys on 9th and Kossuth's."
"What are they saying?"
"There is another group coming, this time ten thousand."
Gyul sighed.
"Great. Just what we needed."
"You think they're gonna do something stupid?"Radu asked.
"You know how furious people are."Lieutenant threw up his arms."They work on instinct, spontaneously. You never know what might happen."
"I guess you're right…"
"Hey, they're starting screaming again."another officer said.
Gyul looked towards the crowd and saw, that the officer was right. Thousands of throats started screaming something in Romanian. Also, officer could see some hints of purple among their banners, but he wasn't sure what political ideology was that.
"Hey, Radu, what are they saying?"Gyul asked his deputy.
"They're screaming 'Give us rights, give us freedom'."Radu replied.
Gyul risen his eyebrow. Rights? Freedom? They had all of that. Banasz III was a democratic country, with democratic elections and rights for everyone that lived on it. Actually, it was one of the most democratic Planetary States out there.
He grabbed his radio and turned it on.
"This is lieutenant Szemosz, don't make any sudden moves and don't infuriate them."Gyul said to other officers.
"Understood."all officers replied.
Gyul then looked back at the shouting crowd, which was at the same time waving flags and banners. With the corner of his eye, he could also notice that other crowd of ten thousand already entering the square. Lieutenant pulled on his collar, because he had no idea, what this situation will turn into.
But there was one thing, that constantly pulled lieutenant's eyes. Notably, the purple flags flying among the people. At one point, the wind blown hard enough, that some of the flags were visible better. And when Gyul saw these purple flags fully, he discovered, that they were only half purple. The other half was black, with Spartan 'A' in the middle, also colored in both colors. Gyul had to blink a few more times, to make sure, that his eyes don't deceive him.
These flags were not of any ideology. These were Laconian flags, which was something new.
"Do you see these Laconian flags?"Gyul asked.
"We do."one of officers replied."And I don't like it…"
The last words were interrupted by a loud shot, which pierced the air. Gyul started looking around, but it wasn't none of his men that fired, mainly because none of them had firearms. Which meant…
"This is Szemosz, the protesters have weapons! Stay vigilant!"he exclaimed into his radio.
Situation started getting pretty tense pretty fast. In the crowd, banners and flags of Banasz III started to get completely replaced by Laconian ones. Officers suddenly stopped feeling so confident as before.
"Radu, call some support."Gyul said to his deputy."Quick…"
"Unde…"
Before Radu could finish, his face literally exploded, when another shot pierced the air. Gyul and others in the staff looked at it in shock and disbelief.
And then, the hell started.
More shots started piercing the air and much to Gyul's shock, he saw some of his subordinates' helmets flying high in the air, when high caliber rounds started hitting them. This was a cue for the protesters, which literally started charging towards the line of police officers that were left. Officers raised their shields and batons to stop the approaching crowd, but soon, they were shocked to see, that some of the approaching protesters had weapons aimed at them and started firing.
Gyul still couldn't believe in what he was seeing, as protesters opened fire on his men, easily gunning them down. And shields used by Crowd Control were made of a reinforced plate, capable of withstanding large amount of bullets fired at them, but these bullets were simply eating through any armor. Which mean, that the protesters somehow put their hands on military-grade armor piercing rounds!
"S-Sir!"one of the officers next to Gyul exclaimed."What do we do?!"
"Call in support! We need…!"
Before Gyul could finish, a Molotov cocktail landed perfectly on him. Broken bottle released flaming liquid, which quickly started consuming the lieutenant. He started screaming without control, which only allowed the flames to get inside his throat. He died before he even fell on the ground.
At the same time, protesters already reached the line of police officers and managed to break through it without much trouble, as police ranks were already completely thinned. Immediately, furious people started surrounding and beating the officers with their own batons, shields and pieces of armor.
Now, basically without anything stopping them, protesters started making their way towards the presidential palace, with the ones armed with firearms leading the charge. Under the pressure of so many people, the door gave up almost instantly and crowd started pouring inside of the building. Palace guards started pulling out their weapons, but were too slow to react, as armed protesters killed them.
In his office, President Antal Damos was shaking, hearing the shots outside of his office. He screamed, when the door burst open and protesters with weapons pointed at him poured inside. One of them, a man with face covered by a shawl, came up to Antal.
"W-w-wha…?"Antal mumbled.
"You're coming with us."the man said.
He grabbed Antal by his arm and started pulling him out of the office, through the corridors full of bodies of both security and palace's workers. As they led him outside, he was shocked to see, that his wife, son and daughter were also being led out.
"Please! No! Not them…"he exclaimed.
"Shut the fuck up!"the man pulling him ordered.
Next, President received a hit in the face with a but of a riffle.
He and his family were lead to the middle of the square and were forced to kneel, with their hands behind their heads. Next, the man which led Antal out of the building stood behind him. He lifted his hand, in which he held a pistol and then, he aimed it at the back of Antal's head.
Back in Dortmund…
Transmission was cut exactly in the moment, when a man stood behind Antal. Both Ester and Elsa still couldn't believe in what did they just witness. They knew something bad was going to happen, once they saw all the Laconian flags appearing.
"What the hell?!"Ester finally exclaimed."Where did all that rabble come from?! And who gave them guns?!"
"I would really love to know the answer, sir."Elsa said.
She was clearly green on her face, barely holding herself from vomiting after seeing the police officers being massacred.
"Colonel…"Elsa said.
"Better go home and rest a bit."Ester said."Hell, you can even drink yourself to unconsciousness to forget that. I will not mention it in any of your future promotion applications."
"Thank you, sir…"Elsa then looked at the papers."And what…"
"Don't worry. After seeing that, I think I better focus on paperwork."
"Okay…"
With that, Elsa simply walked out of the office, while Ester grabbed all the papers and started filling them. But although she tried, she still couldn't forget about what she just saw. She had no doubts about what happened to leader of Banasz III and his family and this sent chills down her spine. Such unprovoked brutality and unnecessary need for killing were certainly something, which will never leave Human mentality.
Not to mention, that she was completely sure of who was responsible for all of this. If the military-grade weapons didn't show it, then hundreds of Laconian flags did. But there was still the question, which she, and probably now everyone in the higher ups, wanted to get an answer for.
What the hell was the Laconian agenda?
May 11
18:48
Harpy IV, Harpy System, Laconian Space
Freighter LFS Arcane exited the hyperspace and started making it's way towards the surface of the planet, as did all the others. Except Arcane, there were at least seventy more freighters that have reached the system and prepared to land on the planet, which had a pretty peculiar characteristic.
More precisely, the planet was cracked. Giant chunks of it's crust were floating around a blue core. Nobody knew, how the planet came to be like that, but it was certain, that some Enean experiments were responsible for this. After all, even ancient civilizations sometimes have a bad day.
Freighter managed to enter the atmosphere, which still surrounded the cracked world, then to a hastily prepared spaceport and after it landed, crew started unloading the machine. Most of the security also joined the crew and started helping.
This allowed Maxilos to quickly sneak out of the ship, as he made his way through the numerous vents from the cargo hold and allowed him to get out of the vessel. He quickly hid behind the nearby group of crates, as he watched Laconians moving containers and crates from the ship to numerous stashes of more containers. There, they were being loaded on transport crafts and sent towards the lower part of the planet. Agent squinted his eyes.
"What are you planning?"Maxilos whispered.
He quickly activated his camera attached to the helmet and started recording everything. Next, he started sneaking between the crates and containers, making his way towards one of the crafts transporting the cargo. It was pretty easy, as white sand which made the planet's surface was pretty easy to walk silently on.
At one point, a Laconian Marine stood on the edge of the crust's chunk and lit up a cigarette. Maxilos quickly made his way towards him. He stood behind him and before the Marine could react, Maxilos put his hand on Marine's mouth and started suffocating him. Before Marine could do anything else, Maxilos decided to simply snap his neck and thrown the dead body over the edge.
Next, he continued his way towards the transport craft without any other interruptions. He waited for a patrol to pass, stopped to search for a quicker way to the goal and after few minutes, he managed to reach one of the crafts, which was preparing to move out. When nobody was looking, Maxilos just ran up to the craft and crawled on an empty platform under it. Soon, the craft took off and started flying to the lower abysses of the planet.
"Let's see where that leads."he thought.
Craft proceeded to fly down towards the 'underground' of the floating chunk they were on. Maxilos looked in all directions and saw, that there were more crafts like this, going from other chunks to the 'underground' of the planet. All of them were carrying containers and Maxilos was really into seeing what is being hidden in them.
Meanwhile, the transport he was hiding on flew towards a small hole in the side of the chunk and flew inside. Now, when inside, Maxilos was able to see, what was hiding under the surface of the planet's chunks.
In front of him, lighted by a light deflected by hundreds of blue crystals, were tens of ship docks placed vertically. And each of these docks, was filled to the brim with ships of various sizes, ranging from small Corvettes to biggest Battleships. After counting to one hundred and twenty, Maxilos just gave up on counting them.
And, what shocked him even more, all of these ships were of former Holy Order design. The only thing that differed them from the ones seen in historical materials, was that all of them were painted in Laconian colors and had Laconian insignias on them. Moreover, numerous HO-made dropships were flying around.
When Maxilos heard a clang to his right, he looked in that direction and was stunned by what he saw. On one of giant stalactites that were hanging from the ceiling, he could see a giant, four legged robot climbing it. He heard, that Holy Order did use something like thad during the war and when such machines appeared on the battlefield, it was basically over. Their firepower could rival a Cruiser, but used on the surface. Now, one of these machines was climbing towards a platform placed in halfway of the stalactite.
Maxilos just couldn't believe in all of this. Laconians not only were doing some shady operation here. They were hiding an entire fleet of HO ships in here! This could not mean anything good…
As he was thinking, his transport was already approaching his landing pad, a complex of buildings inbuilt into some rock walls. On the pad, he could see some civilian workers unloading the cargo and pulling them somewhere else. When Maxilos' machine landed, he waited for his time and managed to sneak out of the machine to again hide behind numerous crates. He looked around. Now, that he was in this super secret Laconian operational base, he needed something to make his presence more concealed.
Much to his luck, another lone Marine just wandered away from his friends. He again stood on the edge of the platform and looked down towards the abyss, full of blue crystals. Maxilos used his moment of distraction and snuck up behind him and after covering his mouth to stop him from screaming, he pulled him behind the crates and snapped his neck.
Few minutes later, Maxilos was dressed in Laconian Marine uniform, with camera moved from his helmet onto enemy's, additionally darkening the visor, so nobody would see his face. He knew, that some Laconian soldiers also liked to mount cameras on his helmet, so he hoped, that nobody will point it out.
He quickly disposed of the body by throwing it down into the abyss, while he nicely folded his uniform and hid it behind some crates. Next, he proceeded to meld with the Laconian personnel of the base.
"Miru!"someone called out towards him.
Maxilos quickly turned around to see another Marine approaching him.
"Yeah?"Maxilos asked.
"Where are you going?"Marine asked.
"Well…"
"There's no time for wandering around. General Carintos awaits us. We're his personal guard after all."
Maxilos widened his eyes under his helmet. It seemed, that he might have actually been a bit lucky with the soldier he killed.
"I'm coming."Maxilos said.
"Okay."Marine replied."By the way, why did you darken your visor?"
"I just don't want to see general look at my eyes deprived of sleep."Maxilos replied.
Marine looked at him for few seconds, before throwing up his arms.
"I know. He's been working us out a lot lately. Maybe you got a good idea, then?"Marine then proceeded to darken his own visor."Let's go now."
"Right after you."
The two then proceeded to walk through a door leading inside the base inbuilt into the rock. They walked down several corridors, before they were joined by three more Marines, which after a short talk, also darkened their visors and all five of them walked further, until they reached an elevator.
And in front of this elevator stood general Carintos. He looked at his personal guard and frowned.
"Finally."he muttered."What took you so long?"
"We just had to find Miru. He wandered somewhere."Marine that found Maxilos said.
"I don't pay you for wandering around, soldier."Carintos said to Maxilos."You are supposed to protect me and if you don't, then maybe look for work somewhere else."
Maxilos immediately didn't like the general. But well. Why should he bother? He was Laconian after all.
"Understood, sir."Maxilos replied.
"Good. Now, let's go. The meeting is about to start."Carintos said.
They entered the elevator, flanking the general. Carintos pressed the button, the door closed and the elevator made it's way up. They all stood in silence. Maxilos could feel the tension between general and his personal guard. They said that Laconian troops were highly fanatical when it came to serving their commanders, but now, he could feel some of these things might have been exaggerated.
Elevator continued to ride upwards, when the leading Marine guard asked Carintos:
"Can I ask you something, sir?"
Carintos groaned.
"What is it?"general replied.
"We heard some rumors…"
"What rumors?"
"Some people are talking, that we're going to attack soon."
"Then tell them to eat shit. We're not going to attack…yet."
"Then when?"another Marine asked.
"We're gonna attack, when we'll get the signal from our allies. Until then, we're gonna proceed with our current plan."
"As you say, sir."
Maxilos carefully listened and recorded everything. All words that were just spoken here gave him a reason to worry. Going to attack? Who? When? And by allies, did he mean the rest of Galactic Concordance? Something was not right here. He just had to make sure not to betray himself very fast.
Elevator finally reached the goal floor and when the door opened, they all walked into a corridor, which led them to another door. After it opened, Maxilos saw a big command center, with a big table placed in the middle of the room. There, he saw several other officers. And what officers they were.
Field Marshall Timos Fortis, commander-in-chief of Laconian Army. Famous for his brutal and ruthless handling of things. Never ever he left any enemy to be taken prisoner. When he attacked, he attack until the goal was reached. More man died under him than under any other Human commander during Great Galactic War.
High Admiral Liliana McBurn, head of Laconian Navy, the biggest hothead in all of Laconian higher ups. Known for her fleet charge at Battle of Tripoli II. The battle was lost by Resistance forces, thanks to her charge, in which she lost twenty out of thirty ships under her command. Nobody still knew, how she got out of all that alive, but her failed charge allowed HO to simply surround Resistance fleet and eliminate it.
General Nils Halinis, commander of Laconian Air Force. He, on the other hand, was actually really talented pilot, one of the best in the Milky Way during his time. His fights in GGW against HO fighter squadrons became legendary and his book on fighter combat became a bestseller all across the galaxy.
General Zack Lioni, head of Laconian Intelligence Service. A spy to the very bone. Capable in all areas of spy work, some say he actually got his position by slowly assassinating all people that were higher than him in the hierarchy. What might have been true, considering that some time ago, news spread of sudden wave of deaths of operatives of LIS. Additionally, he was said to start a day with a coffee, a newspaper and a murder.
And last, but not least, was commander Jason Takua, leader of Laconian Marine Corp, a man so tall he could be considered a Nashini, if not his Human look. He looked as if he was made from nothing more than simple muscle mass, with disproportionately small head. It was said, that he once defeated a Hadadrian in one-on-one, hand-to-hand combat, simply crushing his head with his bare hands.
Finally, to top it all, all of them were completely loyal to Tekrionis. Alongside them, there were several other officers, that Maxilos did not know.
Carintos ordered his Marines to stop and go to the side, while he went in the direction of the table.
"So, you finally showed up?"Timos said.
"I just waited for my guards."Carintos asked.
"So, can we begin?"Liliana asked.
"You really want to begin without HIM?"Nils asked.
Admiral immediately shook her head.
"Thought so."Jason said.
"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen."another voice said.
Maxilos immediately looked in the direction of a voice belonging to a person, which he didn't expect to see.
Nikslaus Tekrionis, President of Laconian Republic, waltzed into the room like it was his own room, his black suit barely closing on his large belly. Maxilos knew that since he became president, Tekrionis really stopped carrying about himself and got fat, but that was just too much. He came up to the chair at the top of the table and sat himself on it. All his subordinates quickly stood up and saluted.
"Sit down, please."Tekrionis said.
"Yes, sir!"all of them said.
"Talk about running a country like a military unit."Maxilos thought.
President looked at the military commanders and frowned.
"Are we missing someone?"he asked.
"Well, we're missing the enemy traitor."Timos said.
"And when will he come?"Liliana asked."I wanna already start?"
"I'm here, stop whining."The Traitor said, as he entered the room.
Seeing him, Maxilos widened his eyes under his helmet. From everyone he could ever think of, he could never expect The Traitor to be that person. But he could just watch The Traitor coming up to the table and sitting himself on another chair.
"We're glad you could come here, general."Tekrionis said.
"Of course, Mr. President."The Traitor said."I had to pull some strings though, but I managed to get here."
"Good. Now, let's begin."Tekrionis ordered.
As he said that, the screen next to the table turned on. On it, Maxilos could see a map of Milky Way, with territories controlled by GC and UNSA, together with it's allies. Right then, it quickly zoomed on UNSA-LR Borderline.
"General Lioni, how is your operation going?"Tekrionis asked.
Head of Laconian intelligence smirked and pulled out his tablet. Next, a dozen planets were marked on the screen.
"All our operations are going as planned."Lioni replied."The unrest we started spreading across the Borderline started showing it's results. All are of course in our favor."
"I think that's an understatement."The Traitor said.
"What do you mean?"president asked.
"After I got here, I saw on the news, that protesters on Banasz III assassinated the president and his family."
Lioni just threw up his arms.
"Side effects."he stated.
"Oh, crap…"Maxilos thought.
"Okay, go on."Tekrionis ordered.
"With the current chaos across the Borderline, we are ready to declare our willingness to start sending humanitarian aid to planets, which protests brought to a verge of civil war and resulted in some kind of catastrophe."
"Actually, right after I'm back on Laconia, I will order the humanitarian convoys to move into the Borderline."president said.
"Great, Mr. President."Lioni nodded.
"But what if UNSA will say something about this?"Liliana asked."They will not like our ships crossing basically into their area of jurisdiction."
"And what are they going to do?"Jason threw up his arms."We're going to provide HUMANITARIAN aid. And because Earth loves 'humanitarianism' so much, them taking over or even destroying out ships might not be seen well among the galactic community."
"That's the point."Liliana grinned.
All sitting at the table laughed, making Maxilos wince.
"Okay, okay, calm down."Tekrionis said."Let's better take care of discussing out plans. Wat do we start with?"
"Of course, we start with…"Timos said and started explaining the plan.
And so, general started explaining the plan Laconians were preparing for so long. At the same time, plan was also being shown on screen and as Maxilos looked at it longer and longer, his eyes grew wider and wider. He couldn't believe, that Laconians were actually going to do it. He just couldn't let it go unnoticed by his superiors.
He came up to his Marine commander.
"Hey, I gotta go to the toilet."he said.
"Sure thing, buddy. Just come back quick."the commander replied.
And so, Maxilos quickly left the room, went to the elevator and rode it down to the lower floor. Next, he asked for a way to the nearest toilet. When he got there, he closed himself in one of the cabins, still trying to comprehend what he just heard. He just had to immediately send a message to Ankara.
He pulled off his helmet, set up the UNSA frequency and turned the camera to look at him.
"This is agent Theo Maxilos."he whispered."I'm currently inside of secret Laconian base in Harpy System, on Harpy IV. They have an entire fleet of HO ships hidden here. Not to mention, that they're also trying an invasion of UNSA and rest of the galaxy. Everything is on the video, which, I hope, managed to reach you."
With that short message done, Maxilos started sending it. He watched the bar slowly loading, preparing to send the message.
Suddenly, he heard the door opening and several pairs of feet could be heard. He quickly stopped sending, put on his helmet and started behaving as if he just buttoned his pants. He opened the door and was surprised to see the four other Marines that served as Carintos' bodyguards.
"What is it, did something happen?"Maxilos asked.
"Kinda."Marine commander said.
Immediately, the four pointed their weapons on Maxilos.
"You really thought we wouldn't notice?"
"Notice what?"Maxilos tried to play dumb.
"Don't play dumb."another Marine said."We served with Miru for years! Besides, he was always limping with his right leg, after he almost had it blown off."
"And if you're not Miru…"third Marine said.
"…then you must some stinking UNSA spy."last Marine said.
Maxilos looked at the four and thought about his possibilities. There was no way he could get out of here peacefully, that's for sure. Nor could he simply give up to them. He had only one option left.
"Okay then."Maxilos said, turning off the darkened visor."Let's do it."
And with that, he pointed his weapon in lighting-fast motion and pulled the trigger. Before the Marines could react, one of them was already falling dead on the ground.
Paralyzed by shock, they didn't react fast enough, when Maxilos charged at them. Marines' commander tried to shoot at him, but Maxilos grabbed his riffle and pointed it up, while hitting the Marine in the chin with his palm. Then, he grabbed him by throat and turned around to face the remaining two. They fired, but bullets instead of Maxilos hit their commander.
Maxilos then proceeded to throw the body at the two, which ducked down, allowing Maxilos to shoot them.
Agent looked at the four dead bodies in the toilet for a few seconds and quickly left and went into the corridor.
Immediately, he heard alarms blaring across the base and could hear the approaching enemies. They already appeared from around the corner, so he immediately aimed at them and fired. First two fell down, while others aimed their weapons at him and fired.
Here, Maxilos quickly rolled under the fire and pulled out a grenade, which he then proceeded to throw it under their feet. Before Marines noticed anything, grenade exploded, shredding them.
Maxilos used this moment to make his way towards the landing pad. He just hoped, that once he was there, he would be able to leave the planet in some way. Because there had to be a way to do it.
Surprisingly, after there Marines that tried to stop him, there was no other obstacle on his way towards the landing pad.
"Okay, not to get a mean of transport and we're done."Maxilos whispered to himself.
He could already see the door leading onto a landing pad and after making sure he's not followed, he opened them and quickly looked around the landing pad. Much to his surprise, he didn't notice anyone here either. But it was not time to think about it. He had to quickly get out of here, if he wanted to warn Earth.
He could see one of the transport craft standing on the pad. He could already feel the victory in his grasp. He could already…
Shot was as sudden as the pain in Maxilos' leg. Agent was unable to hold his balance and simply fell flat on the floor. His helmet rolled off his head.
"No!"he exclaimed.
He tried to reach toward it, but another shot hit his hand and simply destroyed it.
"You really thought you could run?"
Maxilos looked behind him and could see all of Laconian higher ups approaching him, with backing of several Marines. They walked up to him slowly, while a red stains started forming under Maxilos, with all the blood flowing from his wounded leg and hand.
Lioni approached him as the first and smirked, seeing who he had to deal with.
"Agent Theo Maxilos."Lioni said with venom in his voice."The poster boy of ICTA. Fancy seeing you here."
"Fuck you."Maxilos said through his teeth.
"See how that goes."
Tekrionis approached Maxilos and stood over him, somehow managing to see him through all that fat on him.
"Unbelievable…"president said."UNSA agent, just next to us, in the same room…"
"And what agent."Lioni added.
Rest of the group approached Maxilos and stood over him. Agent was just furious, seeing all of them smirking and laughing at his sorry state.
"Well, I guess he didn't do his task properly."Jason said.
Maxilos saw the Marines commander putting his foot on the helmet and stepping on it so hard, that it broke into little pieces.
"That bastard recorded everything we talked about."Jason continued.
"But I guess he won't show it to his buddies anymore, will he?"Liliana asked.
"Nope."
Maxilos then looked up at Tekrionis.
"You will never win."he said.
"You're wrong."Tekrionis shook his head."We already won. Before UNSA notices, Earth will be ours, as well as the entire galaxy. Both galaxies, actually."
"And what are you planning for Andromeda?"
"Well, let's just say, that we have plans…"
President then looked at his companions.
"Dispose of him."he ordered."Clear all the mess he caused and let's go to planning. We have a war to win."
"Yes, sir."everyone replied.
With these words, everyone except Lioni went away. Head of Laconian intelligence looked at Maxilos.
"You know what, Theo?"Lioni asked, pulling out his gun."I actually liked you. You are a great agent and we both could do great things, if you joined our side."
"I was born on Earth and I serve Earth."Maxilos said.
"Too bad."Lioni threw up his arms.
Last thing that Maxilos saw, was Lioni pointing his gun at him, before a flash and darkness.
XXX
And it's done for now. Maxilos' mission, unfortunately, turned out to be failure, as he was unable to inform his commanders about the plans of the Laconians. It seems, that Milky Way is going to become a very hot place once again real soon, just like Andromeda. But how will all this play out? We will see in some time.
Until then, see you. As always, leave a review, follow and favorite. It will be greatly appreciated.