The Battle for Zelem's Nexus was, honestly, not very interesting. I mean, the final battle with Polaris was interesting, but other than that, it was rather boring, especially in comparison to the battles to come. Still, I think people will want to hear about it, so here it is.

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Being a commander has its perks.

Namely, I didn't have to abide by the rules of the games and films whose universes I'd entered.

Which meant that, among other things, when I landed on Zelem's Nexus, I could send in ALL of the genetic heroes, and not just three at most.

This, combined with a horde of killbots, made it easy to establish a beachhead on the fragments of Nakto and begin assembling an army to fight against the Darkspore native to the world.

It also meant that any Darkspore that would've been mini-bosses really just ended up being annoyances, given that I outmatched them in both numbers and firepower.

Ultimately, those so-called lieutenants only ended up being delays in my battle against Polaris.

That, though, was actually a tough fight.

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After about three hours of exterminating the Darkspore covering the Nexus, I finally reached the Chaos Fields, where the battle against Polaris was supposed to take place. Apparently, Polaris the Gravity Manipulator did not get the message, though, because he didn't show up at first.

What a jerk.

My solution? Start killing the nearby Darkspore and see if he got angry.

Considering the fact that I got an angry roar and something huge and spiderlike showed up told me that I made the right choice.

"So, you are the last crogenitor... how quaint."

"I'm flattered."

"Hmph. Well, you shouldn't get ahead of yourself: you are hiding behind your army, as well as the genetic heroes. Tough I am impressed that you were able to raise such a great mechanical army without us noticing. It is... impressive, to say the least. Unfortunate it is, then, that we have to fight."

"Are you going to keep blabbering or are you going to fight, you overgrown gravity spider-centaur THING!?"

"Urgh, fine, now we battle, RAGH!"

With that, he started teleporting. Just great.

And he summoned in some minions. Not that they'd help too much.

I told the genetic heroes to focus on Polaris while I sent my robots after his minions. With the minions caught up fighting a horde of easily replaced machines, I was a confident in my heroes abilities to deal with the overgrown spider-crab.

Then a column of tanks got sucked into a black holes, of which several had appeared across the battlefield.

Oh yeah, Polaris could make mini-black holes. Ugh.

Not that those would save him. I quickly decided to get some artillery (and my commander) blasting at the overgrown seafood special, which really put the hurt on him. Of course, since he was teleporting, not all of the hits connected with him, but enough did to give him a fair amount of pain.

In fact, even Polaris seemed to realize this and quickly made efforts to deal with that. He started up something that HELIX told me was called the Mark of Zelem. He quickly started marking targets with it. I was wondering what exactly that did when he fired a huge set of glowing blue bolts into the air, which broke off and began hurtling toward the targets he'd marked, reducing a fair amount of my army to scrap.

Oh yeah, Mark of Zelem marks people as homing targets for his ranged attacks.

Too bad I remember the counter.

When Polaris readied himself to repeat the trick, he trick, he selected a new set of targets, including my commander.

Clever, but not clever enough.

Just before he launched the attack, I had Meditron the Repair Bot activate one of his abilities, Syndrome Shift. According to the game, it swapped bufs between your friends and foes based on the effects the buff offered: if it was beneficial, it gave your allies the buff and robbed the enemy of it, while if the buff was harmful, the reverse happened. All of this meant one thing: Polaris' attack would hit his own forces.

And since I'd wiped out most of the Darkspore he was fighting with, that meant it would hit HIM. The minute he realized this, he seemed to go into a panic, just before he got clobbered. Amazingly, that didn't kill him.

Though the next barrage of attacks form both the heroes and my army certainly helped him on his way.

I think he just decided it was time to flee after that and promptly tired to teleport away. Or rather, he would've if I hadn't show him in the face.

When I got close to him, I noticed just how much of a mess he had become: His mask was the only part of him that wasn't dirty, and I could tell that he had been crying underneath it. He couldn't even speak now, all he was doing was incoherently babbling and trying to attack me with his fists.

I responded by activating my overcharge attack on his face.

"Light's out, seafood."

Then the blast hit him. Somehow, his mask survived unscathed. As for the rest of his body...

Well, he basically floated into the air, screaming, and got shrunk into some tiny light that disappeared into nothingness. According to HELIX, he'd been crushed by a black hole created from his own powers. Ironic, no?

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After that battle, it didn't take me too long to remove the rest of the Darkspore from the Nexus. I also managed to find the last of the Zelemnites, who I allowed to retake their home.

After all, I had bigger fish to fry.

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