“RAXX!!! RAXX, RAXX, RAXX!!!” Dexius Solas, last of the legendary Guardian Warriors, frantically cursed as he solely piloted the escape shuttle pod out of the underground launch pad that was built beneath/behind the Royal House of Pronos.

  Sitting as his ‘co-pilot’ was the still unconscious Lady-Princess Ashanna.

  Flying up towards the light purple skyways that painted over the Royal City, Dexius came in contact with literal HUNDREDS of ‘Vexan Astro-Warships’ and ‘Vexan Ravager Astro-Fighters’.

  “RAXX!” Dexius cursed again as he narrowly maneuvered past multiple enemy astro-vessels.

  BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

  “Huh? URGH… THRACKING PERFECT,” the Blue Guardian Warrior shouted after being alerted by the escape shuttle pod that a ‘three-vessel unit’ of Ravagers was now tailing both him and the Princess from the rear.

  ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!

  KA-BLAM!!!

  “AGH! RAXX,” Dexius cried out after one of the several ‘red pulsar energy shots’ that the three-vessel unit squad of gaining Ravager Astro-Fighters had just fired upon his and Princess Ashanna’s pod struck it in its rear, rattling the whole astro-vessel and its protective ‘force-shield’.

  The Escape Shuttle Pod then shook violently as Dexius tried to dip and dodge the astro-fighters’ constant energy attacks.

  “Come on… COME ON,” Dexius gritted as he ‘climbed up’ towards Outer Space with the pod. “Almost there… Just hold on a bit longer, you thracker!”

  As the pod pierced through the multiple layers of Guardinas’s Atmosphere, it was hit by three more energy shots, with the second knocking out the astro-vessel's force-shield generator and the third striking its power core… CAUSING IT TO IMMEDIATELY START PLUMMETING!

  “NO!!!” Dexius cried out as he kept his hands on the pod’s Flight Control Wheel to desperately try and regain control of the astro-vessel whilst Ashanna’s limp body ‘jostled’ around in her Co-Pilot’s Chair under the ‘Safety Harness Restraints’ that the Blue Guardian had strapped her in before taking off.

  Just when all seemed at an end, the Escape Shuttle Pod’s ‘Backup Power Supply Core’ suddenly (and luckily) activated.

  “YES!!!” the Blue Guardian happily rejoiced once the power had returned to the pod as he then immediately pulled back on the Flight Control Wheel and flew up towards Outer Space again.

  The three Vexan Ravager Astro-Fighters continued to pursue him and the Princess from behind, but Dexius knew that it was almost time for the pod to go into a ‘Quantum Warp Jump’.

  As the Astro-Fighters primed their ‘dual, nose-based Pulsar Cannons’ again, Dexius yelled at the tops of his lungs, “SEE YOU LATER, THRACKERS! RAAAAAH!!!!!!!”

  Dexius then threw the pod’s silver ‘Quantum Warp Jump Control Lever’ forward, causing the pod to enter into a ‘self-created black hole’ (a Quantum Rift Portal), which was generated by its ‘CASTE-III’ Quantum Warp Jump Drive Core (or ‘Quantum Core’), en route to the ‘Saauda Galactic Sector’ (Milky Way).

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  “WHERE IS IT?!?!” Lord-Emperor Vexas ragefully demanded whilst he kept King Luxor under one of the ‘two’ blades to his Pulsar Lancer.

  “Huff… Huff… Where is what,” the fading Guardinian Royal panted.

  Growling ferally, Ventrix proceeded to stab King Luxor in his left shoulder now.

  King Luxor then screamed in pure agony as the enraged Vexan Royal dug the pulsar blade deeper into his previously ‘unharmed’ shoulder… Causing the blade’s tip to embed itself in the stone, throne-room floor.

  “WHERE IS THE PYRAMID OF POWER?!?!” the Lord-Emperor demanded in a fiery tone whilst twisting his pulsar blade around in King Luxor’s Shoulder, expanding the wound even more than it already was.

  “Ventrix!” Lord-Prince Axius called out, who was still in contact with Decimator ‘Annihilator-Class’ Astro-Battle Cruiser Commander Xaviux Thoran via his ‘comm-link’ (Communication Link) earpiece.

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  “WHAT, AXIUS?!” Ventrix shouted back at his ‘first’ younger brother.

  “I have just received another holo-report from Commander Thoran that ‘the unidentified shuttle’ made a quantum jump mere MILLI-CYCLES ago.”

  “So… THEY HAVE ESCAPED US???”

  “Yes… Lord-Emperor. I ‘regret’ to inform you that ‘yes’, the ‘unknown occupants’ of the unidentified shuttle have successfully evaded our custody.”

  Looking back down at King Luxor, Ventrix narrowed his glowing eyes whilst he asked through his gritted, filed teeth, “I am going to ask you again one more time, Pronos… And you BETTER answer me. ‘WHO’ WAS IN THAT SHUTTLE???”

  Coughing up some blood, King Luxor replied, “I… I shall tell you nothing. Huff… Huff… You will just have to kill me…”

  “No,” the Lord-Emperor uttered as he kept his ‘burning gaze’ down on the Guardinian Royal’s withered, wrinkled, and BLOOD-SPLATTERED face. “Death would be a gift... AND I AM NOT ONE FOR GIVING ‘GIFTS’ TO MY ENEMIES!”

  King Luxor’s eyes then widened as a now smirking Ventrix continued, “What I am going to do to you is FAR WORSE, Pronos… And when you tell me what I want to know it shall be THEN when I ‘kill’ you. Until then though… YOU ARE COMING WITH US!”

  King Luxor’s formerly ‘calm expression’ briefly flashed with grand fear as Lord-Emperor Vexas harshly ripped his pulsar blade out of the Guardinian’s shoulder.

  ‘Retracting’ his Pulsar Lancer’s ‘dual blades’, Ventrix picked up and pulled his cloak back on whilst Lord-Prince Axius asked, “Your Highness… VENTRIX… What are we going to do now?”

  “DRELLIX… Have a medic tend to your wound once we are back aboard the Decimator,” Ventrix ordered the now ‘one-handed’ Vexan Lord-Prince whilst Axius stood idly by in a confused state.

  Looking at his towering, ‘lone horn-headed’ youngest brother now, the Lord-Emperor continued, “TITANUS… Retrieve this piece of Guardinian FILTH from up off the ground and lock him away in THE BRIG LEVEL aboard the ship.”

  Nodding, Lord-Prince Titanus went to pick up King Luxor as Ventrix then, finally, drew his eyes upon Axius.

  “AND BROTHER AX,” Ventrix huffed as he now faced his brother fully. “Tell Commander Thoran to set a ‘trazer-pinpoint’ on the location of the ‘Quantum Rift Portal’ that the shuttle traveled through…”

  Glancing back at King Luxor, who was now hoisted over Titanus’s boulder-sized right shoulder, the Vexan Lord-Emperor sneered devilishly, “BECAUSE WE’RE GOING HUNTING.”

  Planet (Aeshlara’s) Earth’s Orbit

  The (Saauda) Milky Way Galactic Sector

  SHOOM…

  BOOP!

  “THRACK!!!” Dexius cried out after the Escape Shuttle Pod steady after making the successful quantum jump into the Saauda Galactic Sector from the Guardinian ‘home-sector’ of Zagreus.

  The pod’s armored, ‘outer-shell’ was quickly being consumed by a fire that had been started by one of the Vexan Ravager Astro-Fighters’ energy shot attacks (this was due to its Force Shield Generator having been blasted into oblivion.)

  As the Blue Guardian desperately tried to keep the pod level, the Lady-Princess Ashanna had recently been awakened from her ‘forced unconscious state’ by the overwhelming noise of the astro-vessel’s ‘Exterior Danger Alarm System’.

  “Ugh… Fuh-Father,” Princess Ashanna muttered in a ‘dazed’ tone as the Last Guardian Warrior looked over at her.

  The Lieutenant’s attention soon turned away from the Princess once he had realized that he was quickly losing his struggle to keep the escape shuttle pod flying… WITH IT NOW ‘NOSE-DIVING’ TOWARDS PLANET EARTH!!!

  Entering the ‘unventured’ planet’s orbit and ‘piercing through’ its own multiple layers of atmosphere, Dexius kept his hands pulling back on the Flight Control Wheel in a last ditch effort to keep the astro-vessel steady.

  With this having no use, the Blue Guardian calmly began to consider the Lady-Princess and his own options for a possible escape plan.

  Princess Ashanna then let out a terrified scream, causing her ‘Guardian Protector’ to temporarily lose his ‘tight grip’ on the Flight Control Wheel.

  “URGH… SILENCE!” Dexius angrily shouted at the frantic Guardinian Royal. “Your cries are not helping anything, Ashanna!”

  Princess Ashanna started to scream again, to which Dexius just rolled his eyes and shook his head in annoyance.

  While Dexius still kept trying to hold back on the flight controls, the pod started to ‘pierce through’ a mass of darkened clouds.

  Virtually rendered ‘blind’ by the murky cloud coverage, Dexius stressed, “Come on, come on! Stay level! STAY THRACKING LEVEL, YOU PIECE OF RAXX!!!”

  “This is all your fault, Dexius!” Princess Ashanna speared at the Intergalactic Warrior from his right. “How are you not able to pilot a ‘simple’ astro-vessel such as this one?!”

  Having had enough of the Royal Princess of Guardinas’s mouth, Dexius intensely snapped, “With all due respect, Your Majesty… YOU CAN GO THRACK YOURSELF!!! I am trying to save our…”

  SPLASH!!!