AN: Just so you know, the rest of the battles with the destructors will be single chapters that include the invasion of the worlds and the battles themselves. The final three, though, will have expanded fight scenes, and the third to last and last battles will be split across two chapters each, okay? Just wanted to give you a heads up.

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After I'd reduced Polaris to a speck and a mask (which I decided to keep as a trophy), I quickly set a course for Nocturna, the enxt target for the Crogenitor Insurgency. The planet had four moons and, thanks to some malicious experimenting by Crogenitor Ingto, the barriers between life and death had been shattered, so apparently spirits were running amuck on the world of eternal night.

Seriously, why, Ingto? Why did you do that?

But enough of that. It was time to bring an end to the Darkspore's tyranny of that world

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The arrival to Nocturna was a surprisingly tranquil affair: I didn't encounter any resistance, to my immense surprise. I also didn't get any crap from the spirits that wandered on the planet now that the barriers between life and death had been shattered. Maybe they really hated the Darkspore and wanted me to off that horde of monsters? I wasn't really sure.

Any ways, once I made planet fall, things moved quickly after that: I set up a few factories and got to work on churning out a metallic horde to support the genetic heroes against the Darkspore. I knew that I didn't really need to send them into this battle, but I figured that they would probably want vengeance on the Darkspore (especially in Krel's case) and wouldn't forgive me if I denied them that.

Once they were on the ground, though, they proved to be fully capable of handling themselves: they literally cut through a whole army of Darkspore while my machines were being built. Once they finally got backup, the battle turned into a curb-stomp. And oh how satisfying it was.

Eventually, I'd once again forced the Darkspore off of the majority of the planet, leaving only the battlefield with Nashira as their final bastion of power. Now all I had to do was wait for her to show up.

Then a giant purple spider thing showed up, via teleportation.

"So, you are the one who killed Polaris," it said, it a soft, feminine, seductive voice. Somehow that just made me nervous instead of attracted. Probably had to do with facing what could easily pass as the physical form of It.

"Yes, and I assume you are Nashira, correct?"

"Indeed. You have caused us much trouble at Nakto, haven't you."

"Well, I think that just means I'm doing well at my mission to destroy you."

"How humorous. Unfortunately for yo, your journey ends now."

"We'll see about that."

"Very well."

Then she charged at the genetic heroes, who wisely decided to dodge her and begin attacking. Her attack did end up destroying a fair amount of my mechanical forces, but more were already on the way to replace them.

Knowing that fighting up close would be a death sentence against my metallic army, Nashira pulled back and began lobbing giant skulls at my army, knocking a fair amount of units out of commission. I could replace the losses, but then she surprised me by opening several portals on the ground, releasing small, spine covered Darkspore to begin their offensive. Blasting Fiends if I remembered correctly.

Well, alright then. Time to break out Death from Above. I positioned some satellites above Nashira and started bombarding her with lasers from space. Based off what she said (some indeterminate growls mized with extremely filthy language), I think that made her hurt.

Soon, Nashira was on her last legs. That's where she got desperate.

Just as another set of lasers were about to hit her, I found myself facing two Nashiras, which promptly summoned even more blasting fiends to back them up.

Oh yeah, she could clone herself. Figures.

Not that it would help her: I had enough firepower to lay waste to her entire army, so some clones wouldn't change that at all.

First, though, I smashed her clone.

She summoned four more to replace her.

I just sighed and started throwing bombers at her. Soon her clones were gone.

This, coupled with a beat down from the genetic heroes, finally broke Nashira.

Once again, I charged up my commander's overcharge attack. This time, though, I was aiming for her body.

"I hope the souls of the Nocturni enjoy seeing you in the afterlife."

I swear, the subtle hints in her change in posture before the impact of the attack that informed me that she was absolutely horrified by that statement gave me a gigantic smile.

As soon as her body hit the ground, a vortex opened up beneath her and pulled her in. On closer inspection, it turned out she was being pulled in by the souls of the dead.

Wow. They must've really hated her. Glad they got their vengeance.

After hooking up Nashira's mask to a transport (it was an excellent trophy) I started making preparations to leave the planet... only to receive attempts to communicate from on-planet. When I responded, I found out that it came from the Remnants of the Nocturni Legion, the force that had originally controlled the planet. Arakna and Jinx, two of the Necrogenesis genetic heroes, had been part of said legion, though Jinx had betrayed them for making her people an endangered species. All that aside, they'd thanked me for defeating the Darkspore and allowing them to reclaim the planet. Then, after a moment, they asked me if I intended to take the Darkspore's place as the new ruler of the world.

Really? They thought I wanted to rule this planet as a tyrant?

I quickly assuaged their fears, telling them that I didn't plan on ruling this world; I'd merely freed it from the Darkspore because, as Optimus Prime once said, 'Freedom is the Right of All Sentient Beings'. They seemed very pleased to hear that and thanked me once again for freeing their world. They also promised that they would work tirelessly to rebuild it and help the rest of its inhabitants return to greatness. Considering what I knew about the Legion, namely that they had brutally conquered all that opposed them, I think they were just trying to get me to spare them. On the other hand, Nocturna would really need a lot of work done on it before civilization could be rebuilt, so I just accepted what they said and told them that I would be watching to make sure that they were doing so.

I was pleasantly surprised that, despite my initial fears, they never did go back to being as brutal as they once were.

With that out of the way, I set a course for Verdanth, home of Biogenesis.

Orcus, here I come.

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