I know people will probably say that my xenocide of the Grox was bad, and that the fact I enjoyed it made me a monster.

They're wrong. The Grox deserved it. Big time.

But, I have to say, they had nice tech to work with.

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After I destroyed the first Grox colony, I started making headway toward the Galactic Center. Now that they had a reason to fear me, they weren't going to pull any punches.

Well, neither was I.

Whenever I came across a planet the Grox inhabited, I terraformed it. Worlds covered in ice began to thaw, volcanic planets saw the arrival of oceans, planets with low atmosphere's experienced rain for the first time in centuries, and worlds with atmosphere's that made Venus' look thin saw the sun for the first time ever.

And on each of these worlds, millions of cybernetic beings faded into nothingness.

Do you ever wonder how it feels to annihilate a race? To see every last one of their kind fall over and die? To see the brokenness in their eyes as they realize this is the end?

Well, when the race in question are cruel jerks who want to kill everyone, it feels pretty awesome.

Unfortunately, it meant I couldn't access their shinies.

At least, not at first.

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Spore spaceships are fast. As in, fast enough to travel several hundred light years in a few hours.

Combined with my massive supply of Progenitor tech, it let me perform feats that were practically unimaginable.

Namely, dismantling an interstellar empire in about a week.

After only 6 days, I'd managed to reduce the Grox down to just thirteen systems, which would probably take me about an hour to destroy.

Oddly, I hadn't encountered too much resistance. Though, all things considered, they were probably just holing up in their core systems to make a last stand. You know, super zerg rush?

Of course, that just gave me time to reduce their number of remaining systems down to twelve.

The system I happened upon was, at first glance, nothing special. Just your average colony on a world that should be completely uninhabitable to all forms of life (including tardigrades, apparently).

When I got near it, though, I started getting some weird transmissions from a ship orbiting it. Their planetary guard, I assumed. I decided to see if scanning it would help out. I hadn't really used the scanner on my ship yet, so this was its first test.

What happened pretty much blew my mind away.

The minute the scanner hit the ship, a huge amount of data suddenly started downloading into my hard drives. At first, I thought it was just details on the communications, but when I examined it, well, it was more than that. Much more: schematics for buildings, vehicles, starships and the like, plus biometrics for four different organisms (the ground troops the Grox used in one of the Adventures, if I remembered correctly). Most surprising of all, though, were the designs for a self repair system.

As in, the Grox's game-breakingly powerful repair abilities that are coded as unlimited mega repair packs.

My response to this:...SWEET!

Anyways, a few minutes, 3 comets, 1 drought generator and a crap-ton of missiles and bombs later, the Grox presence was gone from the system.

Now, I could turn my thoughts toward the center of the galaxy, and with it, my final challenge.

Soon, I would be victorious. Soo, the Grox would be gone. Soon, I would have completed one universe and be able to move on to next.

It made me feel very happy.

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Looking back, that happiness was the calm before the storm, before I fought the Grox...

Before it happened...

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AN: Read and Review. This is Flameal15k, signing off.