Knights of Daybreak Chapter 10 By: W.Bob Yankovic Oooh, I think that our heroes are in a little deeper now. Brin and his nasty threats have put some sevear restrictions on thier planetary adoption plan. Let's see how they handle the situation. Maybe it is time to get rid of someone. "Ok anyone else pissed?" Sarhedrin asked. Everyone agreed. This was major bad stuff. I wasn't so mad that he made the threats to me or the Supreme Gaudrians, but threatening innocent people with death was a bad move. "New plan for now," I said, "We get rid of him now, not later. Someone call him up and call him out. Tell him that he can meet us on Tatooine in the middle of the Dune Sea. We kill him now." Needless to say, I was angry. I stormed out of the room and teleported to the training room. There I turned the gravity up to 40000 times Earth gravity and began to train. I would kill Brin myself. He didn't bother me. But if that slimy black hunk of meat Vyraxon was with him it would be another story. One thing was for sure. Someone was fixing to die. ----------- The next day everyone assembled in the Supreme Gaurdian hangar. I decided to catch everyone up on my plan. "Brin dies today, I am tierd of his crap. As soon as we get there everyone charge up to max. Pull out all the stops. He will not be alone. I suspect that Vyraxon will be there. If so, Mac he is your man. Just keep him busy. If there are any more Ne'llaf you all just take target practice. That is it, be ready," I said as I opened a portal. As I stepped through I called on the Sword of Light. The huge glowing blade appeared in my hands as soon as I stepped out of the portal. Then I saw them, Ne'llaf. And a lot of them. At least a thousand. "OK PEOPLE START GOING!" I screamed. I transformed into Gaurdian and began to carve my way through the hords of Ne'llaf in front of me. Behind me I could feel the energy building up as Mac and Draco went superhuman and everyone else went Gaurdian. Through the waves of Ne'llaf I could see Brin, sitting on a chair with an umrella over his head. The very sight of him pissed me off so much that I went to Mega-Fighter. I twirled the Sword of light in a huge circle slicing through the bodies of the Ne'llaf trying to fight me. I made a circle of about ten meters on each side of me. Then I began to power up. I moved my sword in the shape of a shamrock. The outline began to glow in the air. I flew up behind it and flew as fast as I could through it. As I passed through I screamed "SHAMROCK SHINE!" as my speed increased I caused a sonic boom, then faded from sight. I moved so fast that I began to tear holes in the Vortex. Behind me I left a wake of dead bodies. ------------ As soon as we arrived Mac began to shout orders. He formed up a line and made a quick plan of attack. Everyone began to bombard the Ne'llaf who kept charging even though they knew they would surely die. Most of them didn't even attack, some seemed like they couldn't attack with anything besides their hands. From behind everyone Mac began to charge up. "BREATH OF THE HEAVENS!" he screamed as a huge white blast shot out of his mouth. The blast swept past the first row of attackers leaving their bodies chared and smoldering. The energy reformed itself and passed through another whole line of Ne'llaf. After that it changed direction and wiped out a group that was trying to flank the gaurdians from the left. Draco in his superhuman form FlameShadow was in the middle of a group of Ne'llaf kicking and punching so fast that it looked as if he were standing still. Yet the bodies that began to heap up around him told another story. He began to charge up. He held his hands out to the side and began to spin. "BLACK HOLE SPIN!" he yelled. From out of his hands came pure black energy that engulfed his body and formed a huge hole. The Ne'llaf around him began to be sucked into it. As soon as they touched the energy they were struck dead and dissentigrated. This continued for a good two minutes. Cratin and Sarhedrin were standing back to back blasting at the Ne'llaf around them. "Hey Cratin, ready for the big buddy attack?" Sarhedrin screamed over the sound of ki energy flying around them. Cratin nodded and the two began to charge up. They turned to face the same way. Cratin took a step sideways toward Sarhedrin, then when he moved Sarhedrin moved toward Cratin. They began to speed this up until their images began to blend together in the center. The figure held its hands out in front and hurled a huge ball of energy into the air. "DOUBLE BOMB!" the figure screamed in two voices. When the ball hit it exploded leaving a huge crater and bloody body pieces flew everywhere. The two slowed down until you could distinguish them as two people and gave each other high fives. To their left Shandra was holding her own versus about twenty Ne'llaf. She screamed out and flew up above them. Then I felt her tap into the Force. She began to draw as much of it as she could hold in her body. She placed her hands below her and screamed "MINDWIPE!" A huge Force blast erupted from her hands and hit the Ne'llaf. The ones that it hit simply fell down. The didn't blink or move. They just fell down. She had fried their minds. They were reduced to a vegetable state. Shandra brushed her hands together and flew off toward another group of Ne'llaf. Irvine was having a hard time launching any kind of mega attack due to the lack of Ki being thrown his way. He couldn't do Neutron Bullet without a fairly substantial amount of stored energy. Now it was time to see if he was really a Supreme Gaurdian or not. He jumped onto a small hill and loaded his gun. He screamed "Demolition Bullets!" and began to blast away. These bullets looked pretty powerful but were vastly less powerful than a Neutron. I guess that he realized that it was time to try something differant. He took off his ring and stuck it in the clip of his gun. Soon after he did this a whole regement of Ne'llaf began to storm the hill that he was on. He cocked his gun and flew up to a 45 degree angle from the Ne'llaf. He began to charge up the crystal in his gun and pulled the trigger. "VORTEX MACHINE GUN!" he screamed. As he held the trigger down thousands of ultra-charged vortex powered bullets began to tear through the Ne'llaf. He was pushing all the power he could muster through the muzzle of his gun. About a minute later he flew down to the ground and changed back to regular bullets. He was exhausted, but had fought well. Mac noticed that Irvine was tierd so he flew over to cover him. The Ne'llaf encircled the two fighters. Mac saw that it was a bad situation so he began to power up. After a few moments he flew into the air over a group of them and shouted "MURUBATSU!" He shot out a very wide blast of white ki energy. He began to fly in a slow circle and lowering his altitude even slower. Every time he made a full rotation the blast jumped up a few nothces in power. By the time he touched down on the ground the blast was huge. Then he yelled out again and finished the move with a once and for all giant blast. ----------- With vortex power feeding me, my body blurred through existance. I directed myself throught the waves of Ne'llaf toward Brin. Dead and smoking bodies were testaments to my flight of death. As I approached Brin he saw me and began to run. Finally out in the clear I increased my speed and chased after. After a few steps Brin tripped and went tumbling down a sand dune. In mid-flight I began to crack up. By the time I flew over the dune and saw him buried head down in the sand I had changed to Mega-Jester. My black suit and its now blue as well as green beads shone in the sunlight. The Blue ones counted for five pranks and had appeared after I had filled the suit up with green ones. I walked over and pulled lard butt out of the sand, still laughing my butt off. He spit sand out of his mouth and began to curse me. "You betraying, rebel, super human court jester! You are in even more serious trouble than before. I will crush you, no better yet I will kill you!" he said as he pulled a gun and pointed it at me. Of course I had to defend myself. "JESTER COMBO!" I cackled. I flew at Brin and he turned his back and hid his head inbetween his legs. I kindly reached over and gave him a wedgie, which then became an atomic wedgie and using some of Jester's powers became a ultra atomic wedgie wrapping it around his whole body, leaving me with a nice package. I reached down in my Bag of Tricks and tossed out a huge whoopie cushion and threw Brin on top of it. When he hit the whoopie cushion it exploded. His now flaming body ran at me. I reached down and pulled out a nice pretty flower. Unfortunatly for him it squirted nitro glycerine at him only causing another explosion. Then I tossed a banana peel out if front of him that he stepped on sending him sliding into an open portal to the center of the sun. With Brin left I flew back to the battle field. Six exhausted Supreme Gaurdians stood amidst a smoking heap of dead Ne'llaf. "Well guys, Brin is dead. Mega-Jester took care of him. Boy I wish that I could have that on film. Great work guys, lets go home," I said as we portaled back to Camelot. -------------- In the center of the sun a body appeared. To the person's surprise a winged monster stood waiting for him. The monster put an energy sheild around the person. Another portal was opened and the figures floated through it. --------------- Back at Camelot we were all enjoying a rest in the Supreme Gaurdian lounge when my lovely wife came in holding a video tape. I asked her what it was and she put it in the VCR. To my extreme surprise I saw Joeseph Brin standing beside Vyraxon who was talking. "Executive Brin will no longer be in control. He has proved to be worthless to our cause. He will be eliminated," Vyraxon said. You could see the surprise on Brins face as Vyraxon turned toward him. The monster held his fist out toward Brin's head and in the blink of an eye extended the crude bone blades from the sides of his wrist, stabbing Brin in the sides of his head. Vyraxon raised his arm into the air carrying the now dead carcass of Brin. "Anyone who challenges my authority will get the same that he just recieved. I am now in control." He shook off Brin's dead body and returned to the podium. "Now for more business. We will no longer need the name Ne'llaf, we will now use our true name, the Fallen. As you may have guessed we are not like any species ever listed. That reason will remain a secret for a short time. As I said before I am now in total control of NCC and everything that goes on in or through it. I am the supreme power of the universe now. I will no longer hide behind petty lies and misleadings. If you fail to follow me you will die. The Dark Flame Fleet is at my command. With is is the Lucifer our new flagship. It has the capability to destroy a planet. Anyone siding with the rebel gaurdians will soon find that to be true. I am not scared to flex my muscle. That will be all for now. I haven't told a lie and will not back down from anything that I have said. Live in fear," Vyraxon said as he stepped off of the platform. "Hey guys, I think this guy is serious," Cratin said, "I'm not so sure that I want to go in there anymore." He had a troubled look on his face. I wasn't sure that I wanted him to go in there either. "I can't believe that he killed Brin right there in front of everyone in the universe," Shandra said, "I get a cold feeling when I look at him." This was a very serious time. It was clear that he wasn't scared of us and he definatly wasn't scared that he would lose his power. This guy had some major ego problems. "I think everyone needs to pray," Katrina said. She always seemed to have something to say when the times were going hard. That was one of the reasons that I loved her. I seconded that motion and we decied that we would reconvine after about three or four hours. We needed to come up with a plan. Somehow we had to get as much informatino about Vyraxon as we could without him knowing that we were doing it. Then we had the hard task of getting rid of him so we could get back in the driver's seat. One thing was for sure, we couldn't play anymore. ---------------- "I have come to a decision," I said adressing the whole body of the Knights of Daybreak. "We will not win this war with hand to hand combat. We will not win this war with technology. We will not win this war with huge scale space or land battles. They have us outnumbered and outgunned in all of these ways. We will win this war with heart, will, persistance, and God. Everyone here will have to believe in themselves. Sure they may be stronger than us. But we have a reason to fight. Think of your home planet. Think of your families and loved ones. As of now they are being oppressed by Vyraxon and the Fallen. We MUST free the universe from their grip. If that means that we have to die to do it, so be it. If that means we have to sacrifice some of our comforts to do it, so be it. We are the last hope for the universe. If we don't fight there will be no one else. And with the help of God, we will purge the universe of the Fallen. They will be cast out of our homes and workplaces. They will once again be sealed into their dimention. Now is a time of faith, not fear. Fear leads to anger, anger to hate, hate to suffering, all lead to the path of Satan, and everything that we have ever thought evil. God will bring us through this time. But we WILL have to fight. And fight we will. May God bless everyone here," I said stepping down from the platform. No war cry went up. No cheers of exitement. No whoops of the regain of NCC. Each cadet, officer, cook, pilot, deckhand, computer programmer, gaurdian, deputy,supreme gaurdian, and everyone else looked inward to contemplate the crises that faced us now. This was the greatest threat that had ever faced the universe. I thought back to the battles that I had partaken in over my short years. Exar Kun and his seven power rings, The Supreme Destroyer with its seven heads, Cordran the Chosen One of Evil, MewTwo and his evolution Armewgeddon, Seraphim an angel of God, and now I saw how desperate our situation was. Vyraxon, a being of evil from who knows where who had power of the Vortex that no man could fathom, controlled the single most important place in existance, Nexus Central Command. I needed some time alone so I opened a portal and stepped into it. Alone on what remained of the island where we had found Armewgeddon and Seraphim I sat down to meditate. After a few minutes I stood and called the Sword of Light. I looked at the gleaming white blade that stood for the power of justice and truth in the universe. Slowly I began to realize that I was not worthy to hold this sword. As tears filled my eyes I looked up to Heaven. "God, why have you placed me in this position. I am not strong enough to lead a whole army against a foe that is vastly superior to us. I am not even fit to carry your sword. I am too young to have this responcibility. Please give me some sort of something to help me. I don't know what to do or how to do it. I am broken before you. Give me strength, please help me!" I shouted into the cold black sky. With all these emmotions running through my head I dropped to my knees and buried my face in my hands. "GET UP," I heard a voice say. Knowing I was alone it startled me and I fell onto my back. As I slowly opened my eyes I noticed that I was not on the island anymore. White surrounded me. It went endlessly in every direction. Then I looked in front of me. There stood a man radiating with power. I had to sheild my eyes to even stand looking in his direction. I stumbled to my feet in too much awe to talk. I finally stammered out a query to who he was. "I AM THE LEADER OF ALL OF THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN, THE ARCHANGLE MICHEAL. GOD HIMSELF HAS SENT ME TO YOU WITH WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT. DO NOT DOUBT YOUR OWN POWER. GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU AND PLACED THESE EVENTS INTO MOTION TO FULFILL A PLAN SET AGES BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN. YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO WOULD DIE FOR YOU. THESE MEN AND WOMEN WERE PLACED UNDER YOUR GUIDANCE FOR A REASON. DO NOT LET THE EVENTS AROUND YOU BREAK YOUR SPIRIT. THE FOUR CHOSEN BY GOD WILL WIN AGAINST EVIL. THEY WILL ENDURE HARDSHIPS AND TRIALS, YET THEY WILL EMERGE UNSCATHED AND VICTORIOUS. NOW I GIVE YOU A GIFT. YOU WILL FIND ITS USE ONE DAY. I MUST NOW LEAVE YOU," he said as he dropped a necklace into my hands. A huge light shone around him and then he was gone. I looked at the necklace to see what it was. Hanging from it was a simple cross much like the ones you could buy for a credit or two from any shop. I didn't understand the exact meaning of it and before I could think any longer I found myself back on the island. What was going on? And what did Micheal mean by I would find its use? I was too tierd to think anymore so I portaled back to Camelot. While walking to my room Mac ran up beside me breathing heavy. I looked to him to explain and he spilled this out. "I was just visited by the Archangle Micheal, and he gave me this." He held up a necklace much like the one I had. Only on the end of his was the sign of the Trinity. This was too weird. Something was definatly up.