Fate of the Earth Chapter 12.1: The Escape

Chapter 12.1: The Escape

On the Ark:

Fireball was with Santor and Harry who insisted he didn't need to go to the medical room as he felt he was needed, even though a med bot was suggesting that he goes, but all Harry said just keep his arm in a sling and give him something for the pain, he'll be alright.

Santor asked how the hacking situation was and Fireball told him it was fine, Jeneen had caught it in time.

Jeneen then said as she detected one of the machines in the cargo room being active without permission “warning one of the Loaders is activated and I am detecting a strange anomaly inside it”.

Before Fireball could say anything this large machine burst through the doors they were just passing past, near a loading bay, and this huge machine stood before them, it was white, mecha like, but with a design to carry heavy loads.

However Fireball noticed it was glowing in parts and that the face looked like it had eyes “Santor what do you make of this?”

“I don't know, let me get out my book of weird shit” said Santor as he was unsure.

Harry then said “enough talking we got to shut that thing down”.

“You will not escape us” said the machine in a deep voice.

Fireball then said as he noticed this was something more then the Sillos at work “this isn't a Sillo at work here, this is something else”.

As the machine went to strike at him Fireball evaded as it smashed into the floor with its mighty hands.

“Your kind will suffer for their defiance”.

“So what new trick is my oldman playing out now, puppet work?” asked Fireball in a sarcastic manner.

The machine struck again, this time almost getting Fireball.

Santor fired a few shots at it with his Tri-Gun, but the machine's armour was too tongue.

“You attempts are futile”.

The machine swing its claw like hand at Santor, which Santor quickly dived out of the way of.

Drawing out his sword Fireball charged at the machine and struck at its weak spots, but even that didn't stop it “your kind are weak, like insects”.

Fireball then said as he tried to attack it again “yeah but like insects we know how to survive even the most hostile of conditions”.

“But so easy to be crushed”.

Before the Loader was able to crush Fireball with its foot, the ship shook, causing the Loader to lose balance.

The Ark was taking off.

On the Black Fortress:

Zarrand could see the ship taking off as it slowly comes out of the water, causing the water to ripple, forming tidle waves.

“STOP THAT SHIP!” he shouted to the Varo and Sillos.

Amethyst who was beside Zar-Kar, keeping watch on him, said as she looked at Zarrand firmly “tell the Varo fleet to open fire on it and tell them not to stop”.

Zarrand looked at his Sillos and nodded to them to do so.

Outside:

The Ark made its way into the air, activating its engines to make it move faster, the Rising Star and the Stardust 5 was keeping the fighters at bay.

The human fighters landed on the Ark while it was still upright, although it wasn't easy landing on a moving target but the pilots did so, some landing on the Stardust 5 with the other fighter squadrons, even the drones and the fighter squadrons from Fireball's group were docking.

The Angel Fighters were still firing at the Ark, so were the Sillos that took to the air to chase them.

Inside the Ark Loading Bay:

Fireball and Santor were still dealing with the possessed Loader, while Harry looked at the other machines in the bay and wondered if one of them could be used to stop that Loader, until he saw another Loader and said as he wasn't sure he could drive it “well let's see if we can teach this old dog some new tricks”.

Putting up a fight Santor was using his large sword on the possessed machine to try and cut into it, Fireball even threw a grenade at it, but even that didn't stop it.

It just kept repairing itself “your attempts to destroy me is futile, you should know when you are beaten”.

“Don't make any funeral arrangements yet” said Fireball as he jumped onto the machine and just whacked it.

Suddenly an old voice shouted “GET OUT OF THE WAAAY!”.

Fireball saw another loader come charging in at the possessed loader and quickly he dived off as the other loader hit the possessed loader.

As the two loaders fight Fireball and Santor only could guess Harry was piloting the other Loader.

“Not bad for someone who is using one hand” said a voice from the loader that sounded like Harry.

The possessed Loader punched the other Loader, while the over struck back and Harry was really giving the possessed Loader a run for its money.

Grabbing its arms Harry used his Loader to rip them off and then punching into the centre of the machine, then crushing the main body with his loader's foot.

The possessed Loader was deactivated and the light inside of it was gone.

On board the Black Fortress:

Zar-Kar stopped using his power and said as he was not phased by his failure “this is just a temporal set back, they will not survive the encounter with my kind”.

Zarrand knew he had failed to stop them and asked “is that your way to say you failed?”

“No, it is of no failure, the main objective is completed, we have Earth and the Planet Orb that we seek”.

“But failed to stop the Ark”.

“They still have the Varo Fleet to get through”.

Zarrand then turned to the main screen and asked as he thought of the possibility of the Ark escaping “if it escapes we will have problems?”

“They are of no threat to us, infact the Dreadlites can over whelm them, all you have to do is agree to side with us”.

Zarrand placed his fist on his cheek as he sat down and thought about it, he knew if he trusted the Dreadlites it could mean his doom as they were Planet Eaters, they could even eat Sillo Prime with their large bodies.

“You are thinking of the fact of what we are, but I can assure you you will be rewarded and Sillo Prime will be spared from our devourment, even the planets that your kind chooses will be spared, all we ask is our share, infact we can also provide you a place to live, on our bodies, using them as safe havens”.

“And why should I trust a bunch of Planet Killers?”

“Because you know it makes sense”.

“A poor reason”.

“You want to side with us, you want our power, our strength, together we can be stronger”.

With that in mind Zarrand then asked “how long will it take for your people to arrive?”

“So far I and Obisack are the only ones in the area, more are on their way”.

“Where do you come from?” he asked as he wondered why it was so tricky for them to arrive so soon.

“The darkest parts of space, where there is no light, just our own, a place where we live, feed and create new Dreadlites”.

“So how will you help me?”

“I alone is enough to destroy them, my body when fully regained will devour them”.

When Zarrand heard this he then asked as he was curious about the fact that he had a body that needed regaining “what do you mean... regained?”

“My body is dormant, it has been for many years, I need seven Planet Orbs to revive it”.

“And we may only have one at this moment”.

“Two, there is one on Sillo Prime”.

Zarrand shook his head as he knew that Planet Orb was needed on Sillo Prime “that is not to be touch, the Planet Orb, also known as the Soul Orb is ours by rights”.

“It is the key to success”.

“Find another, leave Sillo Prime alone”.

“There is no other, only seven”.

“There is eight” stated Amethyst as she knew there was one more “it is on Fireball's homeworld”.

“Which we do not know where it is”.

Zarrand laughed as he found it ironic that such a superior being did not know of where Fireball's world was “I guess we are alike indeed”, he laughed again.

“It is of no laughing matter Zarrand!” stressed Amethyst.

Zarrand then said as he too was after the location of Fireball's homeworld, Wildra,  “we will find it, all I know it is called Wildra, but that is it”.

“Then we shall look for this Wildra and destroy it” said Zar-Kar.

“Let us focus on the situation at hand here for now” suggested Zarrand as he was getting reports from the Sillos and Varos that they were engaging the Ark and the two escorting ships.

In Space on board the Ark:

The Varo Fleet was firing at the Ark and the Ark was moving fast to get past the fleet.

Aurora was on the bridge with Harold giving orders until Fireball, Satnor and Harry came up.

“Brother, thank goodness you are here”.

Fireball then said to give her assurance “it is alright Aurora, you are doing well here”.

He then took command and told everyone on loud speaker to ready their selves for a rough ride.

Looking at the screen that stated the ship's status, it showed there was damage in the engine room from Zarrand's attack, the Fold System was offline.

“Great...” so he checked to see if the warp system was online, which it was.

He told Harold to set a course for Mars as he knew there was a group of Martians that will need their help to evacuate and knew that they would be willing to help them.

Harry asked Fireball how he knew this as the Earth space satellites didn't pick up life on Mars.

Fireball smiled as he knew there was and that he had encountered one of their leaders before coming to Earth, he said that the Martians were peaceful but however did had weapons that could help fight the Sillos.

Santor then said as he remembered on Earth that the Sillos couldn't adapt to slug rounds, hence why he told Jeneen to use the Rail Guns on the Stardust 5 and use the old rounds, which was impressive to Fireball as he had no idea about that, but did say that maybe they could use that to help them beat the Sillos, but Harold then said to them as he remembered his race thinking the samething on his world, however the Sillos ended up adapting and making armor to protect themselves, which was like what the Guardian Sillo did on Earth.

Fireball on the other hand saw this as an advantage still and suggested that they researched more into slug rounds, but ones that would rip into the Sillos as that seemed to be more effective then their energy weapons.

Jeneen then said to them over the coms as she detected a warship on an intercept course “warning enemy Dreadnought approaching”.

Fireball looked and noticed it was the same Dreadnought that was over in Russia, he then saw a group of ships surrounding it, that was when he remembered about the bomb he placed on their new weapon and that Dreadnought was in the middle of the fleet, away from Earth.

So with a plan in mind Fireball said with warning “everyone hold on, there is gonna be a massive explosion as soon as we pass these Varos”.

“What do you mean?” asked Jeneen.

“Just punch our way through and trust me on this one”.

And the three ships moved at flank speed, taking hits from the Varo ships, cutting through the middle of them.

As soon as they broke free Fireball then pressed a button on his wrist-com and there was a massive expolsion happening inside one of the escorting ships and suddenly it blew up, making a huge shock-wave that took out part of the Varo Fleet, plus the chemicals from the weapon on board the ship made matters worst as it began to eat away at the other ships, causing damage.

When the group got away they warped straight to Mars, where they would meet up with the Martians.

As they headed to Mars Harry was looking at Earth as it got smaller, even the other people on the ship were looking.

Fireball knew this wasn't a victory, it was a heavy loss as Earth was a key planet, but also it was the homeworld of the humans and losing that was a heavy loss, but however Harry said he was willing to fight to get Earth back.

Santor then said he was too, but knew they will need the rest of Fireball's fleet, the Freedom Alliance and other races to help them.

Aurora then said as she sat down next to her brother “so we run for now and return to fight again?”

Fireball nodded as he agreed, although he wouldn't say they were running “this is just a temperamentally maneuver, but however we will return and we will get Earth back”.

Harry then asked Santor as he looked out the ship window “so what is the plan?”

“We are going to meet up with the Freedom Alliance, in the mean time we better get everyone familiarized with the place, and train your people how to use our tech” stated Santor as he looked outside.

It was a lot for Harry to take in, infact it was a lot for all of the humans that had escaped Earth, they were on a ship, flying in space, their home taken from them, it was almost unreal to some.