Chapter XI: Tension and Mistrust

''Nooo, bring my queen back to me!'' shouted the king angrily as they carried him to the recovery chamber, ''I will make you pay Cephas, I will make you suffer! You will beg for your own death!'' shouted the king as blood came out of his mouth because of the shots in his chest. They laid him in a more advanced looking machine and put an oxygen mask on his mouth and nose, they filled the machine with a fluid. ''How long will it take for him to fully recover?'' asked Alpharex, ''up to three days sir'' said the doctor, Alpharex then went out of the room and headed outside, once he got there he just looked at all the dead bodies and wounded guards who are being treated, Cephas deserved to die that day Asgard had the chance to kill him, he thought to himself, now he has the queen and I know whatever he's going to do with her is not very good, he thought to himself again.

Back in the mega drone, ''Put Goblin on the hologram'' shouted Cephas looking really happy and pleased of himself, Goblin then appeared on a hologram. ''Goblin you foolish coward! Haha, I got her and Asgard was powerless, It is about time he got off the throne and gave me the crown don't you think?'' shouted Cephas happily, ''pride is going to get you killed Cephas, you are on top of the world right now. It is easier to get on top than to retain your place on top commander, be cautious'' said Goblin then the hologram disappeared. ''Whatever you fool, Asgard deserved this, he messed with the wrong commander, I will pleasure myself with his queen, I will ruin him and I will destroy him in every way possible'' said Cephas with a smirk on his face, right then the queen became conscious again. ''Where am I? Asgard, where are you'' she said looking around, ''calm down my queen, you're with his best commander, Cephas'' said Cephas, ''what are you going to do to me, please let me go. If you do anything to harm me, Asgard is going to make you pay big time'' said the queen looking scared, ''hahaha, that is very funny my queen, see I have become stronger than Asgard so I figured I needed a queen to pleasure myself with, my choice is you'' said Cephas with an evil smirk, ''you sick fool, you will never get away with this'' said the queen, right then, the mega drone lands. ''Knock her out and bring her to my bedroom'' says Cephas and they do so. Next thing we see, Cephas is fiercely pleasuring himself with the half conscious queen.

Back to the utopia, Lucas is standing in front of a big screen waiting for all elites to settle down so he can present his 'long-term plan' of liberating Earth, they all settle down after some seconds and Lucas starts his presentation. ''Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I am here before you to present to you a project to liberate our home, Earth. As many of you have imagined, the plan is to create a new and stronger army, this will not consist of people however, as almost eighty percent of humanity perished, we are going to build an army of robot fighters, terminators. They will have sharper shooting abilities and very strong steel bodies which will make it hard for them to die, we also have to build as many of them as possible in order to match at least two thirds of the alien army. We will prioritize our attacks on main points of their administration, we will find those out by sending a spying small automated drone to Earth. The alien empire has many centralized centers and if we disorganize them from there, they will be easier to defeat that way. The only requirement is your investment, thank you very much'' said Lucas then after some seconds, the elites started clapping for him, the head of elites is also slightly nodding in approval, after all, that is the only plan they had to liberate their home and Lucas was the only revolutionary mind in the whole planet.

Three days later, the king is fully recovered as expected and the fluid is drained from the machine and it was opened then the mask is removed. The king inhales and exhales deeply up to five times, ''Cephas took her, he succeeded and took her, the only thing remaining is to eliminate him off the face of the universe!'' shouted Asgard as he got out of the machine. ''Call Alpharex to my office, I have to make Cephas pay'' said Asgard as he crippled out of the room. After getting to his office, Alpharex entered and closed the door behind him, ''good day my lord, two hundred of your three hundred guards were killed by Cephas' soldiers, other forty seven succumbed to their wounds hours after, then up to twenty more are being treated, you have exactly up to thirty three fit guards, that is bad my king'' said Alpharex. King Asgard started hitting things and throwing them around, ''and most importantly, my queen is gone and is with that bastard!'' shouted the king angrily, ''look Asgard, you are going to sit here and shout to yourself while Cephas pleasures himself with your queen or you can plan a way to demolish and destroy him'' said Alpharex. The king looked at him angrily and nodded in approval, ''I will need to create an alliance, its war time Alpharex''. said the king.

Back to the utopia, Melanie is doing her house chores as her kids play video games then the doorbell rings, she walks to the door and opens, ''oh... what a wonderful surprise sir'' said Melanie to the head of the elites who had come over to her house, ''thank you Melanie, you should start calling me by my name, which is Marcel by the way'' said the head walking into the house and Melanie closing the door. ''Okay then Marcel, what brings you here then'' said Melanie as she showed him where to sit and the kids took their video games upstairs to their rooms, ''well Melanie, we have something in common that you don't know and I'm here to ask for your help'' said Marcel, ''and what is that exactly?'' said Melanie, ''we both have a loved one that remained trapped on earth, except mine is dead'' Marcel starts to get emotional as he says this, Melanie notices it and brings him a tissue and then Marcel just lets it all out, he looks broken, have you ever seen a broken man, picture that, Marcel is broken. ''Actually *sniffs* its loved ones, my wife and three kids, they all died in the war, their plane was blown up while they were making their way to Australia, I was waiting for them as we had planned to exile together, that is when I heard their plane was blown up and there was no survivor that means my wife and kids were dead. I couldn't take it, I wanted to stay and get killed too but the other elites brought me here and were able to give my life purpose again'' he breaks down again after he says this, Melanie just sits in silence also trying to hold back her tears.

''Listen, anyway *sniffs* Lucas presented us a plan to liberate our planet but its long term and it is a long process as you might know and we need people who have something to fight for. I heard you specialized in nuclear physics, we need you and Lucas to work on our artificial army we are planning to build, at first I didn't want to approve the plan because I had nothing to fight for and I thought it was a waste of money and resources but I came to think that I thought it was all about me when there are people who have what to fight for, so I approved it, it is going to be a way to honor my fallen loved ones. We are planning to make an army of terminators, we are going to make some bombs that will ease our terror and we will be able to liberate earth. We need you because of your nuclear physics specialization, you are going to help in the making of the bombs'' said Marcel, ''but I already work with the Carlson research unit, I can't balance the two of them I need to do one of them'' claimed Melanie, ''don't worry about that, I will talk to Carlson for you, and I'm sure he will understand, so do you want to help us?'' asked Marcel, ''absolutely, yeah, this will also mean I will help my husband, the bravest man in the world to liberate earth. But how long exactly will the project take?'' asked Melanie. ''Well I don't really know, you should ask Lucas since you are gonna be working together'' said Marcel.

Back to earth, ''put Hemsin on a hologram right now'' said an angry Asgard, then Alpharex did and Hemsin appeared on a hologram, ''greetings my king, I heard Cephas raided your palace and the queen is in his custody, I guess that is why you are contacting me my king'' said Hemsin. ''That is exactly why I'm contacting you Hemsin, I need to form an alliance with you and some other commanders, we have to kill Cephas in the worst ways possible'' said the king, ''no more negotiations I see, but anyway, I will give you my army, is it possible to have all the commanders forming an alliance with you?'' asked Hemsin, ''some commanders fear the casualties Cephas can cause them, some of them fear what he can do to them, matter of fact Hemsin, Cephas is likely to get more commanders on his side than me, that is why I'm negotiating faster before he finds out, then we have the chance to kill him'' said Asgard. ''My king, that also means Cephas has the chance of killing your queen right in front of you and you will do nothing about it Asgard, absolutely nothing, so I'm gonna remind you this, know your power because you are king and he is a commander. Asgard, destroy Cephas'' said Hemsin as Asgard nodded in approval then Hemsin hanged up and the hologram disappeared. ''Put Kraken and Lynx, the commanders of the Asian axis on a hologram'' Asgard told Alpharex.

After some minutes, Lynx was on a hologram but not Kraken, ''long time no see my king, what a wonderful surprise'' said Lynx, ''well Lynx, things haven't been going well in this empire for your information'' said Asgard, ''what do you mean my king? I did not receive any information about anything'' said Lynx. ''Cephas raided my palace and killed almost all my guards and then took my queen'' said Asgard, ''no way, you have to execute him my king, his ego has overgrown and feels he has more power than you, how can anyone dare to raid the king?'' said Lynx, ''that is why I contacted you, I want your army to join with mine and we will be able to kill him once and for all, contact me back if Kraken also approves'' said Asgard, ''of course my king, Kraken is on a journey and we also don't live in the same castle, but he treats you like a father and he will approve, I'm one hundred percent sure, and we will give you our army'' said Lynx then he hanged up and his hologram disappeared. The king typed something down on a device seemingly registering the Asian axis army into his alliance. ''Alpharex, put Nevaya and Tlurk of the North American axis on a hologram'' said the king to Alpharex then he did so and contacted them, after some minutes, Tlurk is the one who showed on the hologram. Apparently, they can't put two different figures on a hologram when there are in different locations, so they were able to reach Tlurk first.

''Greetings my king, what gives you the urgency to contact me on such a normal day'' asked Tlurk, ''well Tlurk, it has not been normal days here at the palace, we were attacked by Cephas and he killed almost all my guards and also took my queen. We need to destroy him and defeat his ego, I need your help, I need your army added to mine so we can kill that arrogant fool'' said Asgard, ''that is a great idea my king, we would outnumber him and it would make it easier to defeat him, unfortunately, Cephas is very smart and can take your most precious possession and use it against you which may find you powerless. I do not want to take that risk my king, apologies for declining your request'' said Tlurk as he hanged up, Asgard was smiling in the positive part of Tlurk's statement but it started to fade away in the negative part of the statement and leaving him looking very angry after Tlurk hanged up. ''not all will accept your request my king, you have to contact all the commanders in order to at least get most of them'' said Alpharex after seeing how the king looked angry, ''put Waska of the Australian axis on a hologram'' said Asgard then after some minutes, Waska's hologram popped up. ''What a pleasant surprise king Asgard, what do I owe the pleasure my lord'' said Waska, ''greetings commander Waska, I have had very unpleasant things happening to me all done by one perpetrator for the past couple of days, my palace was raided by Cephas and he killed almost all my guards and then took my queen too, he needs to be destroyed hence stopping him, I am asking you to let your army join mine of the main base, that way we'll have more power to destroy him'' said Asgard

''I have been waiting for this day Asgard, the day you will realize Cephas is a burden to your empire and you will have to demolish him, of course I will give you my army, as long as Cephas' head is placed in the traitors room with the other traitor heads, that bastard deserves nothing but death, I will mobilize my army and we will work together to destroy him'' said Waska as he hangs up leaving the king with a smile and him nodding in approval, ''that is what I'm talkin about, a serious commander who respects his king and desires the death of Cephas that foolish bastard. Put Kruul of the Caribbean axis on a hologram'' said Asgard then Alpharex proceeded to contact Kruul, after some minutes, his hologram appeared. ''King Asgard, greetings, what made you contact me so urgently?'' said Kruul, ''greetings you too commander Kruul, I have contacted you to ask you for your army's assistance. See, Cephas attacked me and killed almost all my guards and took my queen with him, leaving two shots in my chest which took me three days to recover from, I contacted you to request your aid in terms of helping me with your army combined with mine to destroy Cephas'' said the king, ''absolutely not my king, I did not even participate in the conquering war because I vowed never to take part in war or any other kind of violence except if I'm attacked, so, I can't help you with that my king'' said Kruul as he hanged up and his hologram disappeared, the king this time around though, didn't seem angry at Kruul for declining the request, he looked like he was expecting it as he knew Kruul and Kingston hadn't participated in the conquering war and they more of represented peace.

Alpharex tried to contact both the commanders of the South American axis but they couldn't be reached, so the king decided to leave them and stay with those who had decided to ally with him. The king prepared blueprints and the army requirements, he called the alliance 'the Nexus Alliance''. He informed each of the commanders about the other commanders that had accepted to contribute their army and fight off Cephas.

Back at the African axis, a messenger comes running to Cephas' meeting room where he was discussing with Goblin, ''commander, I have terrible news, Asgard is connecting most of the commanders and they are combining their armies in order to destroy you'' said the messenger, ''I was always ready for this, thank and please leave'' said Cephas then the messenger left the room. ''Now everyone is against you Cephas, this is all because of your foolish decision to raid the king and take his queen, it is surely going to cost you this time'' said Goblin, ''uhn-uhn not so fast Goblin, I told you I was always ready for this day to come, I'm a hundred percent sure the commanders of the North and the South American axes are on my side, I am ready for any raid and I can attack those fools in any corner. All I need to do is mobilize my army and be ready for any kind of war, contact commander Nova and inform him about the army mobilization, we've got some work to do Goblin'' Cephas said this then Goblin proceeded to do as he had been told, ''and remember, I still have the queen which means I have bait on him'' said Cephas.

And just like that, tension, fear and mistrust was at a high level which indicates a war is gonna take place, Goblin contacted commander Nova who was the other commander of the African axis but Cephas seemed to be more powerful than him. He mobilized the air force mostly and also the navy, while Cephas mobilized defense force on land which at this point was the most powerful on earth. Another war was going to take place and the king was going to give it all to rescue his queen