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Chapter 19 â€" Paradise Lost

Location: Valkyrie - Bridge

The battered Valkyrie jumped back into normal space right in-front of the glimmering blue/green planet of Terra. The ship still had massive internal and external damage however the weapon had been redesigned to work and extra shielding was added to that area of the hull that the weapon was mounted to in order to protect it. However this had compromised the shield grid and made it incredibly weak.

The rest of the fleet jumped in behind them, ready to defend the Valkyrie and attack the ships once the weapon had been used. On the bridge of the Valkyrie there was complete silence as the ship moved toward Terra with Colin sat in the command position, everyone was in awe of the sections of land on Terra that had been completely deforested and mined to the point that they could see it from space.

Colin reminded himself that this could not be allowed to continue and he had exacted justice and retribution on Terra for the death of Odin. He watched as Anna took the ship starboard to see a huge number of Asgard ships around Raven's Nest Shipyard.

"Fuck..." he mumbled under his breath as his tail twitched nervously. Those ships must have seen them by now and there were so many more then he had expected to see. He looked around at his crew and got up to speak. He was at least going to give a good fight before he died.

The rest of the crew looked up at him expectantly. Expecting him to deliver something with dramatic flare that would make the crew clap or cheer or at least feel a sense of hope.

"Eh... I'm not really good at speeches..." he said addressing the crew.

"Good job!" clapped Djynn, wincing sarcastically at that opening statement. Colin glared at him and then returned to looking round the room.

"Well... eh... You all know what's at stake and I know that you will do your best. I suggest that we give 'em hell!". He sat back down and fell back into the comfortable chair. The crew cheered and clapped, smiling at one another. Colin look at the screen and commanded "Battle stations..."

Location: Valkyrie â€" Main Hanger Bay

Five small dropships were stacked side by side in the hanger bay, they were helicopter shaped vessels with huge booster engines on the back instead of propeller and a large back bay for troop deployment. Each dropship was named after a famous females however they looked more like fat, green behemoths rather then slender ladies. It was a running joke with marine forces who served as a ground assault team.

The assault team consisted of both actually military members and volunteers who had trained with them. The commander of the unit was short, unusual race that was both interesting and had large white wings for some unknown purpose but seemed to resemble more of a canine species then anything else.

He glared at his motley group of different species, all dressed in combats as he puffed on his cigarette.

"Alright Girls...!" he shouted. He felt an affinity to his men because he had trained with them for six months on Alexandria and he believed that they were ready for real combat. "This is a real combat situation, so no fucking about!"

"Am I too late...?" asked Miles as he casually walked on the hanger with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He laughed at the height of the commanding officer as he walked in, he looked so cute and small.

"You got a problem eh...?" asked the commander, walking over to him and trying to stare him straight in the eye. Miles laughed even harder and eventually calmed down looking down at him.

"Well... I did not the big tough dude leading this operation to be so... small" he snorted with laughter. "I think the Asgard might go easy on ya cos your so adorable..."

Some of the marines began to laugh along with Miles and so did the commander for a second before he lifted his foot and connected it sharply with Miles's balls. Making Miles how out in pain before dropping to the floor.

"Small but dangerous... Oh... I'm sorry did I hurt you?" he patronised, Miles wincing in the floor in pain. The Marines suddenly went silent.

"Owwww... You fuckin' twat... I was only messing about!" shouted Miles bent over in pain on the floor. The commander just looked at him and chuckled. "So was I... anyway..."

He moved back to address the Marines leaving Miles to pick himself up from the floor. "And I was about to introduce you to your new XO (Executive Officer)... Commander Miles Tigerfox of Valkyrie ship security."

"XO!?" shouted Miles in protest. "But I'm supposed to be the commander of this mission..."

"Not according to Captain Colin, he thinks that this more military then you can handle."

Miles grumbled, still clutching his aching bullocks. "So your Corporal Munchy eh...?"

Munchy nodded and Miles glared a little. "I see where you get your name..."

"As I was saying... This is a military operation, we will break into 5 teams, each will head to the major population camps on Terra. Once there we are neutralise enemy threat and protect the civilians until the carrier ships from the fleet can pick us up..."

A young orange fox, who was still admiring the assault rifle he had been given put his hand up. "Sir..." Munchy nodded. "What is the strength of the enemy and what support will we have."

"We expect the camps to be well guarded, the Aesir prefer to use bladed weapons in melee combat, they are also very fast. Remember to keep your swords at hand, however these ones we expect to be armed with weapons and to number in about 20-25 protecting and enforcing the camp. Avoid shooting civvies in the cross-fire."

"Support-wise" continued Munchy. "A fresh squadron of fighters will protect the dropships as they help us clear up the Aesir. However the main battle will be taken place up here so we will have think fast and be quick."

"Miles" called Munchy making Miles think about punching him in the face for his humiliation. "You, Argus, Kariko and Leyton are with me. The rest of the squad leaders, gather your teams and grab your ships. Good luck."

Miles mumbled and went with Munchy, a horse, a nervous looking fox and a buff wolf and boarded the dropship.

Location: Valkyrie â€" Bridge

The crew on the bridge was busy working to bring the ship about, the whole fleet turned to confront the mass amount of vessels in front of them. There had to be over thirty Asgard capital ships and what looked like just a swarm of thousands of one-man fighters heading towards them.

"Hanger bay reports dropship status green Captain" called out Djynn from his position. Anna had taken a moment to kiss the object that Diamond had used to absorb Silver's soul, she thought about him so much, about how much he would be comforting her and telling her not to crash the ship into anything.

Colin nodded and pressed a button on the arm of his chair. "Miles... those dropships are on loan and they are expensive... bring them back... you here?"

Miles crackled voice came back over the speakers. "So if I crash it, you have to pay the repair bill?"

"Yes..." said Colin seriously.

"Whooo hooo!" shouted Miles. "Lets see what this baby can do Munchy."

Colin slapped his face with his paw. "Why did I let him drive it!?" he asked himself. "Just be careful... Colin out."

He then pressed another communication button on the panel. "Hy? You and Oriyn finished on the weapon yet?"

"Eh.... yes... and no..." sighed Hy over the communication relay.

Colin sighed. "Just tell me the status..."

"Well we can encompass all those ships but it will completely burn-out the weapon. We won't get another try."

"Alright" said Colin. "Anna, we need to get through that swarm of fighters first... luckily they don't have the inter-dimensional technology of the capital vessels. The Aesir seem to be rooted in this universe so lets send them a nice death in this universe. Full speed ahead."

The Valkyrie powered up its huge green engines and began to slowly accelerated towards the ships that had positioned themselves in a defensive position around the shipyard.

"Launch the fighters... All ships launch!" shouted Colin as a massive wave of fighters began shooting out of the resistance fleet along with the Valkyrie.

The swarm of Asgard fighters collided with the fighters from the resistance fleet which were botched but fast and a huge dogfight ensued. Inside on of these tiny specks of ships Blackfire was shooting down an enemy fighter and dodging the constant blue laser blasts that kept flying his hull. However most of the fighters were concentrating fire on the Valkyrie that was powering through the swarm and closer to the shipyard.

There was an explosion on the bridge of the Valkyrie as several laser blasts were powerful enough to go straight through the shielding and hit the already damaged hull of the Valkyrie. Most of the fighters were concentrating on them.

"Dammit we need more cover!" shouted Colin as he put out a fire that had emerged behind him with an extinguisher. Djynn worked hard talking to the fighters. "We need defence on our rear quarter. Angel unit, bandits at four o'clock, dive!"

"Five thousand meters from target!" shouted Anna causing Colin to react instantly. "Hy... NOW!"

A large purple glow began to emerge from the hull on the front of the Valkyrie and huge pylons began to spread out from the main hull like a pair of wings. There was an absolutely massive blast which caused the ship the flutter almost as if water was rippling over it.

Suddenly all the Asgard ships fluttered and huge dazzling wings of lights emerged from each ship that each burnt off in a similar fashion to Odin's.

The ships were suddenly mortal.

Colin felt a huge degree of success. "Begin launching the dropships and order the fleet to begin the assault." Djynn smiled at him and then carried out his orders.

The rest of the smaller but faster capital ships began to engage the surprised Asgard ships that obviously were taking longer to deploy themselves.

Location: Raven's Nest Shipyard â€" Deep Core

The shipyard was on full battle alert with Obsidian directing efforts between collaborators and Aesir to defend the shipyard against the fleet. Nobody noticed the door to the Deep Core being forced open. The deep core was in the middle of the ring of the space station that had been installed after Lance was killed. The Deep Core contained a powerful shield generator and was also the storage for Kestra after she was forced back into storage by the Asgard last year.

A woman moved into the large room which the only feature was an Echidna woman suspended in a test tube of liquid. Another woman joined her after checking the corridor and moving to the tube.

"Oh sister... how I have longed for this moment. The Vanir will soon be restored and the universe will be remade in our image and its all... thanks to my daughter here."

Ada smiled at Galladia, they had spent thousands of years in confinement for this moment. Finally the family would merge together and create a force so powerful that it was not bound by any rules, any will or anything... The power of the Valkyrie.

The Asgard was too busy with the resistance... it was too perfect.

Location: Valkyrie â€" Bridge

"Blackfire... are you ready?" asked Colin over the commlink to his fighter. Blackfire's voice came back over the communicator. "Yeah."

"Just remember to call us when you are ready to come back. Kill that bastard and come back."

"I'll be careful Colin, ready."

Location: Chentrilla Mining Camp â€" Terra

Miles jumped behind a rock and spun round to fire back at the approaching Aesir, his gun was low on ammo and there was several civilians that he was escorting to the supply ships that just landed on the field next to the mine. He felt the wind through his fur with a huge serge of adrenaline.

He watched Munchy firing as he ran up the hill towards that Asgard who were firing back with blue laser beams. The Aesir were killing civilians as they attempted to flee in rags to get to the ships however some of them had picked up fallen Asgard weapons and were fighting back.

Munchy collapsed to the floor to lie prone, he shot an Aesir right in the face through his long barrelled rifle, he ushered a few civilians up the hill and into the ship as he climbed up and ran onto the open hanger of the huge carrier vessel.

Miles followed him as the dropship circled overhead, firing on groups of Aesir, so far the mission was going well and they had almost completed it. But there were still a couple of dangers ahead.

Location: Raven's Nest Shipyard â€" Commander's Office

Obsidian sat at his desk, he continued to watch the battle progressing through the walls of the room that were all windows that looked out into the stars. He had not been concerned about the battle he was assured safe passage out of the battleground.

"So..." said Blackfire as he teleported into the room. He watched Obsidian's sudden surprise as he walked towards to him. "Killed anymore Terran's lately"

Obsidian grabbed his gun and pointed it at the window. "With one shot, I can kill both of us... do you really want to die." he jeered, his black wings slowly emerging from his back.

Blackfire moved carefully round in circle and kept his own gun concealed around his back. He intended to end this bastards miserable existence, he knew how to make him angry and provoke him into a fight.

"Interesting... that's two of your kind I'm going to have to kill..."

Obsidian looked at him in surprise. "What!?" he shouted.

"I... killed your little white lover boy.. and he begged for death before I shot him..."

"No..." mumbled Obsidian quietly. "You...you...can't have killed him..."

Blackfire nodded, waiting for Obsidian to show any signs of wavering. "And you know what?" he said sneering at Obsidian. "I fucked him before I killed him... and I loved it... He was so happy when I pounded his ass."

That was too much for Obsidian who exploded in rage and shot at Blackfire who cleverly ducked causing the bullet to smash through the window and the vacuum of space to begin trying to pull out both of them into space.

Blackfire was quick at launching a wire from a spot on his belt that latched onto the low ceiling and kept him there. Obsidian shot forward, his wings flapping feverishly. He grabbed hold of Blackfire who was struggling against the vacuum of space.

"Warning, Warning" droned the computer. "Decompression danger... One minute till decompression field activation."

Obsidian began to punch Blackfire in the stomach, trying to get him to let go of the wire as they were both loosing oxygen.

Blackfire kicked Obsidian in the face causing him to let go and fall out in the vacuum of space. It killed him instantly and then finally after a few seconds, the field activated and Blackfire collapsed back onto the floor when gravity initiated... unconscious.

Location: Raven's Nest Shipyard â€" Deep Core

Kestra fell out of the tube in front of the two Asgard woman, she was naked and shivering. She looked up at Galladia as she woke up and immediately recoiled. "

"Galladia!" she said in disgust. "I thought you had been dead..."

"Silence child" smiled Galladia. "The time as come, you will help us form the final Valkyrie. Can you feel the rage... the divine retribution?"

"P..ple...please" sighed Kestra who was still wet and shaking. "Mother... I gave that up... I am sick of being used."

"You cannot run from your destiny. Let us open the gates to Yggdrasil"

Kestra was instantly shrouded in light, her white feathered wings shot out from her back as she screamed and all three of them converted to pure energy. The energy combined and caused a massive explosive reaction that rippled through the station, shooting out a beam at Terra.

Location: Terra

The beam had a devastating effect on Terra, the oceans began to swirl into massive cyclones of waters as the planet began to crack and lave appearing in the large fissures on the planet's surface.

The view from orbit was both spectacular and terrifying, it was like the planet was slowly crushing itself. Colin and the crew of the Valkyrie stood up in terror of what was happening, so much so that the battle stopped dead.

Meanwhile on the planet, Miles rushed to the ship as the ground around him was moving and cracking, using his tail to give him good agility in getting over the cracks. Munchy and the rest of the team were helping the civilians on the carrier vessel which had to hover slightly over the ground.

"HELP!" Miles turned round to find a tiger mother clutching her baby, trapped on island surrounded by waves of lava lashing against the rock. He waved at Munchy to get to ship to attempted to hover slightly above them.

He did an amazing jump over the lava and liquid rock and grabbed hold of the mother. He wasted no time in chucking the baby up to Munchy who caught it while it was crying and gave it to another civilian. The entire platform began to crumble as Miles lifted up the mother as the platform began to crumble, he helped the Mother up to the ship before the platform collapsed.

"MILES!" screamed Munchy as he attempted to grab him before he fell but it was too late. Miles fell backwards into the lava, death was certain.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH FUCK!" screamed Miles as he fell backwards into the lava leaving the ship. Munchy order the vessel to get out there, he was not going to let his tears fall until this mission was over. They had lost too many already.

Location: Valkyrie â€" Bridge

"What the hell is going on!?" screamed Colin as he watched the planet collapsing. "Djynn... "

"I dunno!" shouted Djynn, his fingers gliding over the controls. "It's like the whole planet is collapsing in on itself... it must be that... Beam!?"

Colin watched in vain as the beam finished and the whole planet began to break up... slowly collapsing into a white vortex and destroying many of the rising transport ships.

What had happened? Why had the planet ripped itself apart. He watched as Raven's Nest Shipyard and several Asgard ships were encompassed by the vortex.

"GET US OUT OF HERE ANNA! SAFE DISTANCE!" he shouted as Anna attempted to turn the ship however it was too late and the Valkyrie was caught in the shock wave, immediately disintegrating the back half of the ship and causing massive explosions all over the ship.

"UV! Watch out!?"

"Nooo!"

"HY!"

"ORIYN!"

"Captain are you alright..."

The Valkyrie was left adrift, alone and on fire with half of the ship utterly ripped away. With no engines the Valkyrie was adrift and alone. On the bridge, everyone had been either knocked out or killed in the massive explosion.

The Valkyrie was lifeless...

To be continued...

End of Book 2