Astral's Rise 74.5 Annihilation

Astrid stood on the bridge of the Red Merle as they watched the home planet's of the Tizzle's. The Tizzle fleets stood still as it was here. Their doom was spelled out for them before they saw the next rotation of the sun.

"Captain, what is the plan? We still have no counter to that thing." One of the Tizzle's asked their comrade.

"We must fight till the last. Hope they don't go after the innocent and only the warrior's." The Captain stood still as he looked at the situation, they had a similar fleet to the earth invasion, and yet, why was there a sense of dread in the air?

"Sir reports are coming in from the Apparazza and the Hub, they are both under attack, the Peon's are fighting with Astral and the Polemistis warriors are fighting the Apparazza." One of the Tizzle officers announced as the Captain looked to the station.

"That means he isn't on the flagship. Prepare all ships to cover one side of the station. Avoid the center laser fire and spread out as far as possible." Captain spoke as the fleet moved into place.

Astrid watched the movement. "They Learned Shiro, but let's test out the station itself at its fullest power!" She spoke excitedly as Shiro stood next to her. She tossed her hood upward as the top of the station filled with bright holographic lights.

Shiro started typing coordinates as Astrid cracked her knuckles and typed away at certain algorithms. Two fleets launched in close proximity to the Red Merle. "Codex entry seven. Hallmark cannons. Fire." Shiro spoke as the salvos started flying through space. They were just short of their targets before they exploded.

"Ha their weapons don't reach Captain!" The officer on the Tizzle bridge spoke.

 "Not this one, but why are they choosing to not engage us, and instead are staying back and letting us get close?" It clicked for him. "CALL TO THE HOME PLANETS AND EVACUATE EVERYONE!" The Captain shouted as the officers panicked for a moment before sending the command through. Several of the ships left for the three planets orbiting around the sun.

"Astrid, they fell right for it." Shiro spoke looking at the fleeing ships in pity. "Shall we exterminate them all?"

"Astral said to try and preserve the planet's due to the ancient relic's on them, however, if we hit the moon in a display of power. I don't think he would mind, right?" Astrid looked over to Red Merle. "Target the farthest moon, full power." She spoke as she turned back, Shiro stopped firing the Hallmark cannons as the cruisers made it back to their home planets, a small defense fleet in case anything was to be tried.

Sal, Jax and Zane stood on the bridge as well in confusion. "Shouldn't we stop them?" Sal asked as he was watching a massacre about to appear.

"You have the authority to?" Jax questioned the donor.

"No, when it comes to military options the only role I play is commanding on the battlefield and how my clones are trained. Now that we are cloning more variety into the army, my role hasn't lessened. But I do not have say to stop this." Zane spoke as the two commanders stayed silent.

"Besides, aren't you interested to see the full power of this station, even then I don't think it would compare to Astral." Zane was referencing the moment where he froze the entire ocean as Sal and Jax moved back.

"Yes but, won't the moon shatter and cause the debris to crash into the planet?" Sal and Jax both spoke to the rest of the people on the bridge.

"No worries, this potent of a flare, using a concentrated beam, it will simply destroy the moon from its existence." Red Merle spoke and smiled as he pulled a rip cord. "Red Merle, Full Power Blast!"

A blue light was charging inside of the refraction tunnel. All of the ships cleared out of the way, having no clue what the target was as it stayed still. They looked at it turning from blue, translating through purple to red, then orange. Before being fired in a bright yellow, swallowing the moon it was fired at. Completely erasing it from existence.

"Captain we have no defense for that if they fire it at a planet!" The officer on the deck spoke.

"Are you kidding me, attacks like that generally have a cooldown period." He spoke as a second yellow beam fired past them. Striking directly on a second orbiting moon. "Oh. How are the evacuation efforts?" He asked as his tone was silent.

"Almost complete. We just need five minutes. Wait, video call from the opposition!" the officer spoke as Astrid appeared as a hologram in front of them.

"Hi! Nice to meet you and as you saw that little laser." Astrid pinched her hands together. "Despite its size is powerful enough to destroy your entire solar system all in one go. We could fire more but for now we will hold." She stopped speaking for a moment.

"What do you want from us?" Captain asked as he eyed the hologram.

"Three things." Astrid paused for a moment. "First off, no more invading earth and colonizing other planets, outside of the Apparazza. Two, if the Apparazza break their treaty with us you must exterminate all of them, if they attack earth you will defend it." "Three, Astral has disbanded the Sacramentum alliance, and asks for you to join us, not in the military sense, but in the doctrine of letting him pass through your planets and explore the relic's on the planets."

"Miss, you threaten our livelihood with your mere presence and demands, why would we agree when we have no choice not to." Captain looked at the hologram.

"I mean, you can always forgo this deal I am making and cause extinction. We can meet on a neutral field and add more details to the contract." Astrid pointed to a planet in the system that they had no influence on.

"I concede, we will meet up and sign the surrender form." Captain motioned to cut the hologram as it faded. "Glass the planet when we land and are talking about the surrender."

"You would sacrifice yourself for us?" The officer looked up in awe at his leader as reports from their side came in, the remaining Tizzle fleets were fleeing here as the women, children and elders head to their outer colonies that are hardly developed.

"How do we know its not a trap?" Shiro asked as Zane motioned for Sal and Jax to prepare the ground forces.

"Once they see the mech it will be over." Astrid spoke as she slowly started walking out the door. "Oh, and Shiro, if anything starts to happen, blast the solar system to bits." Astrid would head to the hanger as Shiro watched more and more Tizzle cruisers, corvettes and carriers come from outer space.

Astrid saw Zeta suspended in the hanger. "How fast can you get back up to battle strength?"

"My core power is at ninety percent. The issue is my joints are stiffened," Zeta explained as Astrid disconnected the arms from the shoulders.

"Could you deploy a shield capable of deflecting a high tier blast, plasma level?" Astrid moved around and disconnected his legs as she saw the new ones already fabricated. Being able to install them with ease.

"Yes. Almost all my systems are offline outside of my hawk missiles and the shielding program." Zeta spoke as Astrid tapped the mech as the arms were still missing. 

"Perfect, I would love for you to escort me." Astrid spoke and tilted her head. "To the cruiser that will bring us to the planet." She waved for him to follow as the new legs took a second to calibrate.

Once they were on the ship they made it to the planet in mere minutes. Each flagship looked at each other in the atmosphere as shuttles carried each leader downward. Astrid, Zeta, Zane, Sal and Jax were there with a small handful of clones as it was just Captain for the Tizzle race.

"So you have decided to sign the surrender and treaty?" Astrid held out the tablet for the creature. Not expecting much as he was the only one there.

"Yes, we coincide." Captain held the tablet in his hands and signed it. Zeta flicked his head up at the sound of a charging weapon. He let loose four hawk missiles as he put up the shield around them. The heavy plasma cannon striking their position for five solid seconds before the hawk missiles hit their mark and disabled the cannon.

"Red Merle, you see that, spread targeting, refraction tunnel. Hit each and every one of their ships and leave the planets." Shiro snapped as she highlighted the overlap of each target.

"Firing at will, full power refraction tunnel, annihilate." Red Merle spoke as the light fired from the tunnel splintered and hit every orbiting and drifting ship the Tizzles had. Each one was erased from existence as the light touched it and destroyed it. The one singular ship in the atmosphere watched as all of their friends and allies fell in one swift motion.

Asrtid did not hesitate as she charged Captain, she was too fast for him as he couldn't keep up as she pinned him and dropped him to the ground. One of her arms held both of his as she held his head up and pointed it to space as explosions filled the sky from destruction.

"Now, do we have a deal?" She asked as Zeta loaded more Hawk Missiles at the ready.

"In your dreams." Captain spoke in anger as Nyan came out of the bag on Astrid's side. Jumping up the robotic cat would turn into a sword and slice open the lizard's skull as Astrid pushes it over. Zeta dropped his shield as he fired the remainder of his hawk missiles, as they homed in on the engines of the sole Tizzle ship. Striking the ship it would descend to the surface of the planet and crash.

"It's time to go, in ten minutes this place will be swarming with Tizzle forces." Zane spoke and rested a hand on Astrid's shoulder.

"Do as you wish, general, but I will stay here until they are dead." She spoke as Nyan filled her hand.