KA-KRAM!

  “AHHHH!!!!!” Princess Ashanna squealed in fright after Dexius had ‘blasted down’ the ‘formerly’ locked sliding doors to her Personal Chamber with his ‘Special Guardian Power’ of ‘Sonic Wave Emission’.

  “TIS ONLY I, YOUR MAJESTY! LIEUTENANT SOLAS,” Dexius revealed as he held up his free, ‘black-armored-gloved’ left hand towards the terrified Guardinian Royal, who was currently ‘cowering’ in her massive hovering bed.

  “DEXIUS?!” Princess Ashanna blurted out in ‘confused-shocked’ as the Blue Guardian Warrior stood strongly before her with a ‘grandly stirred’ expression on his chiseled, bronze-skinned, and slightly ‘cut-up’ face. “What are you doing here? Where are the others?? WHERE’S LANTEUS???”

  “There is no time to explain, Princess. We must leave… AT ONCE!!!”

  “Leave??? Whu-Where are we going, Dex?”

  “All shall be explained to you later,” Dexius replied whilst taking the Lady-Princess’s right wrist forcibly with his left hand. “WE MUST GO!!!”

  As Dexius proceeded to ‘drag’ the Princess of Guardinas out of her chamber, she angrily demanded, “Whu-Wait! STOP! What is happening, Dexius? DEXIUS?! DEXIUS, STOP! AS DAUGHTER OF THE ROYAL LORD-KING LUXOR PRONOS, I COMMAND THEE TO…”

  Having enough of the Lady-Princess’s words, Dexius jolted her with the ‘electronic amplifier’ that was implanted in his armored glove, rendering her harmlessly ‘unconscious’ for the time being.

  “Urgh… Thrack me,” Dexius cursed at himself after hoisting Princess Ashanna over his left shoulder.

  The Blue Guardian Warrior then carried the ‘shocked unconscious’ Guardinian Royal out of her Personal Chamber and headed for the ‘secret launch pad’ that was built beneath the Royal House of Pronos… WHERE THE ESCAPE SHUTTLE POD WAS LOCATED.

  _

  THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

  With his eyes directed towards the Royal Throne Room’s sliding door entryway, King Luxor sat atop of his Royal Throne as he heard the ‘stomping footsteps’ of the Vexan Empire’s ELITE foot soldiers… THE VEXAN WARTROOPERS, growing louder and fiercer with each passing milli-cycle.

  KA-BLAM!!!

  IMMEDIATELY AFTER BLASTING OPEN the entryway to the Royal Throne Room off its track, SEVERAL ‘hunchbacked’, five-foot-tall Vexan Wartroopers infested the room like a swarm of Pharkitt Stingers (which were a species of native, venomous insects of the planet Guardinas).

  Their ‘slimy, pale green-skinned’ heads were covered by their night-cycle black, fiery-red spiked battle helms as their four glowing, blood-red-eyes were protected by crimson protective lenses… Which were also glowing.

  With Pulsar Arm Cannons encasing their left hands all the way up their elbows, and ‘Anti-Grav Packs’ strapped their armored backsides, the multiple ‘kill-squads’ of Wartroopers aimed their incredibly deadly energy weapons at the brave Guardinian Lord-King whilst the four, ‘dark-hooded-cloaked’ sons and HEIRS of former ‘Vexan Lord-Emperor’ Validax Vexas entered the throne room soon after.

  Standing before King Luxor now were the Vexan Lord-Princes Axius, Drellix, the ‘eight-foot-tall BRUTE’ Titanus… AND ‘CURRENT’ LORD-EMPEROR VENTRIX VEXAS.

  Throwing back his cloak’s hood, Ventrix revealed his true face to King Luxor.

  The Lord-Emperor bore a thin mustache on his lip that was connected to a finely trimmed and pointed ‘goatee’ that covered his chin, long night-cycle black, ‘silk-like’ war-braided hair that ran down past his shoulders, and four, blood-red horns that protruded from the upper corners of his slightly protruding forehead.

  Ventrix also had a long, fresh slash that ran over his two right sets of eyes that he had gained with his most recent, final duel of the now deceased ‘Red Guardian Warrior’ Lanteus Pronos.

  The Lord-Emperor glared fiercely at King Luxor whilst his younger brothers proceeded to throw back their cloak hoods as well.

  Lord-Prince Axius had short-trimmed black hair in the style of a ‘Caesar Cut’ with just a black mustache.

  Lord-Prince Drellix had his hair cut into a ‘warhawk’ style with a finely-trimmed-beard that ran along his jawline.

  And last… But certainly ‘not least’ was the ‘giant-like’ Vexan Lord-Prince Titanus, who also bore a warhawk like his older brother Drellix, but with its longer ends being warbraided, like his eldest brother Ventrix’s. He also had a thick, mustache/beard combo facial hair style with ‘razor sharp, sharkish-teeth’ and one big ‘blood-red horn’ jutting out the middle of his forehead.

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  “Grandest greetings… VENTRIX,” King Luxor bitterly said whilst the Lord-Emperor continued to glare at him wordlessly.

  “Well… What are you skoggers waiting for??? THRACKING KILL HIM,” Lord-Prince Drellix raged at the Wartrooper foot soldiers.

  Drellix had ‘bright green blood-soaked’ bandage wrapped over where his right hand used to be after losing it in a pulsar saber duel to the Lord-Prince Lanteus.

  “NO… Not yet,” Ventrix shockingly uttered whilst keeping his glowing eyes LOCKED on the still seated Guardinian Lord-King.

  “WHAT,” Drellix asked with a bewildered expression on his sweaty, cut-up face as he turned towards his eldest brother. “Why the thrack not, Ventrix?!”

  Lord-Prince Titanus then stepped in with his thunderous, ‘world-shaking’ footing to ask in a dumb, ‘childling-like tone’ (due to his brain nearly being the size of a peanut), “WHY CAN’T WE KILL THE ‘PUNY PRONOS’, VENNY???”

  Lowering his ‘dual-brow’, Lord-Emperor Vexas snapped, “I did not trek across TWO GALACTIC SECTORS just to ‘swiftly’ kill this piece of RAXX as if he were nothing! No… If we are to extinguish his absolutely WORTHLESS life-force then we are going to do it my way…. UNDERSTAND???”

  Drellix and Titanus both then looked at each other and backed down in grand fear of their elder brother’s wrath.

  “Tis what I thought,” the Vexan Lord-Emperor barbed as he still kept his BURNING gaze upon King Luxor.

  “You look like him… Like your father,” King Luxor remarked as he noted the strong resemblance Ventrix had to the ‘former’ Vexan Lord-Emperor. “VALIDAX…”

  “YOU DO NOT GET TO SPEAK HIS ‘HALLOWED’ NAME, YOU RAXX-EATING SKOGGER!!!” Ventrix ragefully ROARED in the Guardinian Lord-King’s wrinkled, bronze-skinned face.

  “Understood,” King Luxor replied in a ‘strangely calm’ tone. “Well… What are you all waiting for? Are you not going to ‘extinguish’ my… OOMPH!”

  In the blink of an eye, Lord-Emperor Vexas powerfully struck the right side of King Luxor’s cheek with the backside of his black gloved right palm, knocking the former ‘White Guardian Warrior’ clear off his throne.

  Once King Luxor had hit the floor… ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE THRONE ROOM, Ventrix bolted towards him in ANOTHER blink of an eye.

  Standing back over him like a ‘dark tower of terror’, Lord-Emperor Vexas mercilessly kicked King Luxor in his abdomen which then, in turn, sent him FLYING up into the air over his slimy head.

  King Luxor then CRASHED DOWN onto a nearby table, splitting it in two.

  The Guardinian Royal now laid upon the table’s wreckage whilst Ventrix sped back over to him again, but this time he pulled King Luxor up in front of his own face.

  “I have been dreaming of this moment ever since the day-cycle that I first heard word of my father’s death,” Ventrix blared in King Luxor’s ‘withering’ face as he delivered a CRUSHING ‘knee strike’ to his gut, knocking the air out of his lungs and breaking ‘a few’ more of his ribs in the process.

  As King Luxor gasped for air, Ventrix sneered as he remorselessly THREW HIM into his throne as if he were a piece of garbage, tipping it over on its backside.

  With the Sole-Ruler of planet Guardinas now lying in a bloody and bruised mess atop his toppled over throne, Lord-Emperor Vexas threw down his hooded cloak to reveal his skin-tight, black and red armored ‘warriors uniform’, which had the Blood-Red ‘V’ crest of the Royal House of Vexas pressed in the center of his breastplate.

  With his eyes locked on King Luxor yet again, Ventrix pulled out an approximately ‘eight-inch-long, black baton-looking object’ from the side of his left hip.

  Pressing a red button in the center of the baton, two long, razor sharp zilitium metal ‘Pulsar Blades’ shot out of each end, making the object over EIGHT FEET LONG now.

  With what was known as his ‘Pulsar Lancer’ weapon now fully drawn out, Ventrix twirled it in his right hand as he started to approach the fallen king.

  JILT!

  “ARGH!!!” King Luxor cried out after Ventrix had PIERCED his right shoulder with the ‘bottom facing blade’ of his Pulsar Lancer.

  BRUTALLY RIPPING the blade out of the royal monarch’s shoulder, causing ‘blue-colored blood’ to shoot up and out from the non-fatal ‘stab wound’, Lord-Emperor Vexas shouted, “THIS IS FOR OUR FATHER, THRACKER! RAH!!!!!!!!”

  Before Ventrix could land his final, KILLING blow on King Luxor, the whole palace suddenly started to shake violently.

  “WHAT THE THRACK IS THIS?!?!” Lord-Emperor Vexas asked angrily whilst the Royal House of Pronos continued to ‘jostle’ and ‘rattle’.

  “A QUAKE!!! RUN!!!” Lord-Prince Titanus frightfully screamed whilst looking up at the throne room’s crumbling ceiling.

  The ‘thunderous clatter’ of the shaking was then broken up by Drellix’s wounded cries, which aggravated Ventrix more than the sudden ‘seismic quake’ did.

  “I have just received a ‘holo-port’ from Commander Thoran from aboard ‘the Decimator’ that an ‘unidentified shuttle’ is currently launching from behind the Royal Palace, Your Majesty,” Axius shouted over the quake’s rattles and Drellix’s screams to Ventrix.

  “A shuttle??? Piloted by whom?!” Ventrix demanded in a borderline ‘crazed’ tone.

  ALL FOUR of the Lord-Emperor’s eyes then widened as he looked down to see that a ‘slight grin’ had peeled open on King Luxor’s bloodied face.

  Lowering his dual-brow once more, Lord-Emperor Vexas demanded from the Guardinian Lord-King, “Who is on that thracking shuttle?!”

  King Luxor did not reply. He merely just kept on grinning.

  As the room continued to shake violently, causing pieces of the ceiling to break and fall down and the impenamite walls to crackle and split, Ventrix fiercely demanded, “WHO IS ON IT?!?!”