Chapter XII: Reverse Hit Payback

At Daniel's prison, some alien guard called only Daniel and some other humans including all his mates, ''commander Waska would like to see you all at the base. You have been selected to join the alien army, now you will all get into that drone right now and you will be taken to your destination, I will remind you to not do anything foolish because you will suffer if you dare, now start walking, we don't have all time in the universe'' said the alien guard then they started walking to the drone. ''So now we're not slaves anymore huh'' said Craig, ''why are we going to the army base?'' Daniel asked looking at his mates, ''looks like we are joining the alien army to me'' said Yoshida, ''for what purpose?'' asked Gabe, ''look guys stop wasting your time thinking too much, we're gonna get there and they are surely going to inform us'' said Nate, ''okay genius, we'll shut up'' said Craig. After a few minutes of walking, the group of prisoners reached the drone that was going to take them to the army base, they all entered and it took off. After approximately ten minutes, the drone landed at the army base, commander Waska then came out of the army base with two armed guards, the prisoners are then escorted out of the drone.

''Greetings my fellow human beings, you are gathered here today because many of you, actually all of you, were in the human army during the war against us. The humans you fought for turned their backs on you and left you here in our hands for us to do what we please with you, so now my fellow humans, I commander Waska, decides that you will all be drawn into the alien army. We will place you in different parts but most of you will be here, I will ask all of you to go take a bath and put on some armor'' said commander Waska then the guards led them into a different building from where Waska had come from after they landed. After some time, they all came out wearing alien army armor, then they stand in one large group which they are going to split them into smaller units, turns out, their purpose was to act as security for the commanders and king while the rest of the soldiers and guards fought Cephas top to bottom. The king seems to be investing too much just to defeat his now nemesis, Cephas. After they were split into groups of approximately ten people, Daniel found himself with his mates with an exception of Craig who found himself in a unit that would protect one of the commanders in the European axis. Daniel and his unit were registered at the palace and they were in security of the king, ''Craig got himself on the other team'' said Gabe, ''it was his choice, anyways, we are going to be at the king of this empire's palace, that is something big boys, who knows, we can get something from there that we can use to get our home back'' said Daniel. ''You still think we can finally send this alien empire out and reclaim our home? Forget it Daniel, it is impossible at this point, we can't do it'' said Nate.

Back at the African axis, ''Goblin, you know what's better than waiting for them to attack first, performing a spectacular ambush on one of the foolish commanders against me, that will set it off don't you think?'' said Cephas with a smile, ''you make everything sound easy commander, maybe you should try being patient for some time, or those commanders who seem foolish to you, will be the ones to silence you Cephas'' said Goblin who finds it hard to smile so he always has a really serious face on. ''Me being patient! You are very mistaken Goblin, Asgard wants war, he'll get it, and I have to make the first checkmate move, I already have his queen and if I annihilate one of his allies, he will have to see that things are getting serious with this war'' said Cephas, ''you make foolish decisions Cephas, I am trying to warn you that if you perform an ambush, it will make things even worse for yourself, do you understand that you being the commander of this axis is at risk?''. But just then, they both heard an explosion, when Cephas looked out the window it was something out of a nightmare. In the sky, hundreds of fighter jets were roaming around the territory and shooting at the soldiers, he also received a message that told him that his army base was totally destroyed and most of the soldiers had exiled and only up to fifty had been killed which made others stop fighting and exiled from there and left the ambushing soldiers to burn the place to the ground and they did. Who ever is behind this ambush is doing it full of rage and wanted to destroy Cephas. Back at the castle, chaos is ensuing everywhere.

Cephas runs and removes the electronic handcuffs off the queen and puts her on his shoulder and starts running trying to find a way to get out of there. Goblin has no choice but to grab a missile launcher and shoot every jet possible, he also ran and followed Cephas to his mega drone, on the other hand, Cephas' soldiers are holding on for dear life and are defending as hard as they can to keep their commander from getting hit. Cephas and Goblin successfully make it to the mega drone and some soldiers follow them in, the mega drone immediately lifts off. Some fighter jets started flying after them trying to attack them but Goblin and the soldiers took care of it and they were able to barely escape, ''checkmate you fool, we barely survived that ambush, one Asgard, Cephas zero, do you understand that he now has the power to kill you?!'' said Goblin angrily, ''shut up Goblin! This is his way of making me pay for the casualties I caused him, how dare he ambush me!'' shouted Cephas angrily, ''he is going to see war if he wants one, that fool!'' he shouted again angrily.

Back at the utopia, Melanie is in the lab with Lucas and he is summarizing everything they will be working on, ''we will actually need like tons of uranium and plutonium if we are going to make this amount of atomic bombs'' said Melanie, ''there is only one big problem Mel, the radiation we will be exposed to if we proceed to use these bombs, its enough to erase a continent if we use them all on that continent, they are too dangerous'' said Lucas. ''Well we have no choice Lucas, either we make weapons that will destroy those aliens once and for all or we will fight 'safely' to avoid radiation and we'll lose again, do you want that?'' asked Melanie, ''okay Melanie we'll proceed with making the bombs, but why should we use both uranium and plutonium?'' asked Lucas. ''Okay, well The isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were selected by the atomic scientists because they readily undergo fission. Fission occurs when a neutron strikes the nucleus of either isotope, splitting the nucleus into fragments and releasing a tremendous amount of energy, you get it now?'' said Melanie then she smiled, ''okay genius, this is going to take almost a year to make an army, and I also think adding the bombs also adds to our strength, we are going to do this, and you are going to be one of the heroes'' said Lucas as Melanie nodded and gave a smile.

Back at the king's palace, ''did you get him?'' asked the king to a soldier on a hologram, ''no sir, we weren't able to get commander Cephas or the queen, but we were able to destroy his main base and killed most of his soldiers and it looks like we have weakened him sir...'', ''I don't bloody care if you have weakened him or killed his whole army you fool, you had one job and you didn't even succeed! I wanted him dead and I wanted you to contact me saying you got my queen and you are bringing her back!'' shouted the king as he interrupted the soldier then he hangs him up and the hologram disappears, ''now its his turn to make you take a low blow my king, you know how Cephas is, I am sure he is now plotting on how to weaken you too'' said Alpharex. ''I thought I was going to finish this once and for all, turned out to be unrealistic I suppose, now I'll have to be ready for real all out war'' said the king, ''anyways, there is a report from the Australian axis commanders that they are recruiting humans into the security of you and your allied commanders, they added that it would help invest more soldiers into this war and it will increase the chances of defeating Cephas'' said Alpharex, ''that is a great idea, tell the it is approved'' said the king. The human groups of security had started to be taken to their destinations and Daniel, Yoshida, Nate and Gabe were on the same team. Craig was in the team that was going with Brakul, one of the commanders of the European axis.

Cephas, Goblin and the soldiers are still in the drone trying to get as far away as possible from the attacks, ''what are you gonna do now Cephas? Oh I know, trying to stop thinking that the world revolves around you and start thinking of how you can fix the problems you caused, you barely survived getting shot!'' said Goblin angrily, ''you know what I'm gonna do Goblin, I'm going to destroy Asgard bit by bit, he is going to regret ever feuding with me'' Cephas says this as he approaches the contacting device. He then contacts the king looking very furious, the king receives the call and he sees its from Cephas, he looks at Alpharex then proceeds to accept the call, ''Asgard you foolish so-called king, you really dared to raid my territory when you knew I had your queen with me, and surprisingly, you weren't brave enough to come face me and get what belongs to you, instead you sent soldiers knowing very well I don't just surrender. So now Asgard, get ready for fire because you called for this you coward!'' Cephas shouted at the king's hologram, ''Cephas, this is the last warning, handover the queen now'' said Asgard in a warning voice, ''I stopped listening when you said it was the last warning, let me break it to you Asgard, I don't fuckin care you hear me?! You have called to yourself what you shouldn't have, and now you are going to see how crazy I can get'' said Cephas then he hanged up. The king is left looking enraged, ''Alpharex, we are going to plot another ambush, the time his call took enough time for me to track him down''

Right then the drone that carried Daniel and the rest of his crew landed at the king's palace, it opened and they all got out, Alpharex had seen the drone come and had come outside to welcome the human soldiers, ''this place doesn't look all fancy'' said Daniel as they walked out of the drone, ''that's because it looks all shot up and bombed'' said Nate as they reached the ground. ''Humans already surrendered, who would shoot up this place like this'' said Yoshida, ''you think this is somehow related to why we are here?'' said Gabe, ''absolutely'' Daniel said as all of them were silenced by Alpharex's presence. ''Greetings humans, as most of your human brains have analyzed, this place doesn't look like somewhere a king would reside, that is because a conflict has started between the king and the commander of the African axis, Cephas, who even decided to abduct the queen as bait on the king, in a nutshell, serious warfare is about to take place. Your role doesn't have anything to do with fighting the war, you are here to provide security to our beloved king while all our soldiers fight the war as fast as possible, you will be trained and most of you won't be sleeping, you'll be patrolling the area and also inside the palace day and night. Your residence is that building on the far left side, I think there is enough room for all of you, your work will start the next day'' explained Alpharex then he walked away into the palace. Daniel and his crew were taken to their residence which was just a bunch of beds and a couple of tables which they would be eating from. ''Not too bad guys, at least its not a prison'' said Gabe as they set their beds and removed their armor, ''war between the aliens themselves, guess its and earth thing'' said Nate, ''who the hell is Cephas?'' asked Daniel, ''the alien guy said he is a commander that has turned heel on the king and they are trying to destroy him'' said Yoshida.

Craig on the other hand, is with a team that is protecting the commander Brakul and their drone is flying to the king's palace where he wants to get there early for a conference that is scheduled in a few days time, the drone flies safely over what used to be Türkiye but when they are over what used to be the Netherlands, their drone started to be viciously shot, ''what the hell is that?'' asks Brakul, ''sir we are being ambushed, and it is not looking good'' said a human soldier, ''open the drone and start shooting back!'' said Brakul then a missile hit the side of the drone which led to even more turbulence, then another missile hit right into the engine of the drone, ''we are going down sir, the engine just got hit'' said Craig, ''who is shooting at us?'' shouted Brakul looking panicked, ''commander, the bullets are coming from everywhere and the missiles just keep coming, they are not stopping though we're goin down!'' said Craig panicking, then finally, a missile hit right in the front control panels which took the drone down and it immediately blew up on impact leaving no survivor. Cephas is the seen smiling in his drone, he was behind this ambush