Chapter 24 - The Galactic Counsel

As we arrive at our destination where the Galactic counsel head quarters are we are all in awe at what we see.

Zoe, "OMG."

The twins just gasp.

Azaria, "looks about right, I expected as much. "

Chloe, "Mom seriously?"

Azaria, "Okay, I have to admit, not as much, but no turning back now, we have to follow through with the plan."

Zoe, "What the hell are those." Pointing at the huge metallic rings circling the planet.

Azaria, "planetary defense systems." She immediately orders a full and detailed scan of the planet and their weapons. "Okay, a bit more advanced then I expected."

We all look at the results from the scans, well let me highlight the obvious first. The planet itself is surrounded by 4 orbital metallic rings, then the planet is completely covered in a gold metal. The scans returned that the rings themselves contains hundreds of hangers all housing about 50 fighter ships each. The rings themselves are armed with high level energy weapons, missiles, dark matter cannons as well as EMP generators. Then for the planet, it has hundreds of hangers each housing over 1000 fighter ships, and the planet is armed with the same weapons as the rings, then the planet is hollow, so it is actually a space station, housing millions of aliens from different alien races.

Zoe, "uhm, how is this a good plan?"

Azaria, "it isn't, but we will just have to make it work, you see that? " pointing at the one screen, they already locked onto us the moment we arrived, if we try to jump now we are dead, and those dots on the screen" enlarging it, revealing hundreds of battle ships, "are blocking our way from using slip space to leave."

Cyn, "So I guess we stick to the plan, as crazy as that sounds."

Azaria, "it will work."

Zoe, "I hope so, lets just hope Sin can handle all of them."

Then we all hear him in our heads, "I can."

My mom looks at me, "it was a good call to not block his telepathic gifts."

Chloe, "Well, how else will we communicate with him."

We get ready and we open the jump portal to the location they sent us on the planet, just to be met by hundreds of guards all pointing their energy weapons at us.

Chloe, "This is bad, this is very very bad."

Cyn, taking her hand and whispering at her, "keep quiet."

Then a few guards approaches us carrying shock collars in their hands, but as they get to us my mother stops them. "What do you think you are doing? We were invited here for a diplomatic discussion, your people said nothing about those."

The guard, "put them on in good faith, we don't want anyone to get hurt and our people are already nervous of you."

Then my mother looks at me and nods and we all submit for them to collar us.

Christine, "well now I know how Sin feels. "

Azaria, "Keep quiet."

Chloe, "we are going to die here today."

I look at her to tell her to keep her mouth shut, but then I notice that my daughter isn't wearing a collar, she looks back at me and I point at mine, she just smiles and flickers out of existence and back in. That is when I got it, she is using her ability to create illusions so they cant see her.

So the guards leads us into a huge hall that is filled with hundreds of aliens from different alien races, all sitting in groups, then the guards leads us to the middle of the room and then takes their places around us.

That is when we hear a voice, "This hearing is now in session, high Queen Azaria..."

Azaria, "That is my name..." almost in a sarcastic tone which makes me want to laugh. But then a guard hits her from behind, she falls to her knees and gets up and looks at him, the next moment she hits him back and he lands a couple of meters away from us. "Touch me again..." but then they activated her shock collar and she drops to her knees, but they deactivate it immediately.

Chloe, "Mom, are you okay?"

Azaria, "yes, nothing I can't handle." She gets back up and looks at the draconian speaking.

Draconian. "Do not interrupt me again."

Azaria, "Okay, but can you at-least speak a bit faster, I got another meeting to get to."

He looks at her confused and then he continues. Honestly I think my mom has been spending to much time around Chloe and the twins, since she has started to pick up on their sarcasm.

Draconian. "you have been summoned to this hearing for judgment, you have unleashed the Demeca on our planets and it has destroyed and killed millions of our people in this galaxy. "

Azaria. "Demeca?"

He then points to a screen that shows flashes of Crimson light destroying a few of their ships leaving earth.

Azaria, "oh him, I don't think he would like been called that. "

Draconian, "your judgment is.."

Azaria, "wait, doesn't the judgment usually come after a proper hearing?"

Draconian, "The hearing has concluded, you were summoned here to receive judgment."

Azaria, "May I speak?"

Draconian, "Fine, speak, but it wont change the judgment."

Azaria, "pointing around the room, so each one of these alien races represented here today has been abducting and experimenting on humans from earth and who knows what other aliens from other less advanced planets for thousands of years, you have been oppressing those planets, slowing their advancement, stripping them of resources, attacking any planets that isn't part of your so called counsel, and when someone finally stands up to you, then you cry about it."

Draconian, "That is our way, the way we have always been and our culture."

Azaria, "So, our culture and our way is to help those who need it, and "pointing at the screen, "his culture is to fight oppressors like you."

Draconian, "the counsel only recognize the culture of those that are part of the counsel."

Azaria, "That is a bit hypocritical, won't you say."

Draconian, "it is what it is."

Then we all hear Sin in our heads, "I'm getting tired of this guy, can I begin."

My mom just smiles at the Draconian, you have dug your own grave, we came here to talk, but if it is war you want, then so be it. "Sin, it is a go."

Just then the whole planet shakes and the draconian pulls up a screen just in time to see all their defense rings explode from been hit by crimson lightning, "You brought Demeca here? "

Azaria, "he prefers to be called Sin."

Just then my daughter materialized between us and him and she just lifts her hand and hits all our collars with crimson lightning and they shatter to pieces, but the guards are also quick on their feet and starts to fire at us with their energy weapons, but my daughter was prepared for them and she immediately had us shielded.

She takes them all down with ease and a quick random blast of Crimson lightning, but just before she is about to hit the one alien, the alien lifts its hands and speaks. "Please don't, I am on your side, follow me."

We all look at each other confused, but we follow her as more guards are storming into the room, she gets us away from the guards and to a quiet spot, then she taps on her belt and her disguise vanishes.

Azaria, "an Acturion?"

The girl. "yes, I am a spy, I was sent to infiltrate here and get information, but once I got in I was stationed here and I lost contact with my home world and I couldn't get away. "

Azaria. "We can help you."

The girl, "how, they blockaded your ship."

Just then our gauntlets lit up again and we hear Sin's voice in our heads again, defense systems down, and scramblers destroyed.

Azaria. "That was fast." Then she gave the order for the fleet to attack, and we can hear buzzing everywhere.

The girl, "What is going on? And how did you guys destroy those rings?"

Azaria, "We will have time for that later." She grabs the girls hand and in a flash we are back on her ship, we can she as the sky lights up with fighters heading our way and then it happens, our fleet arrives, over a 100 jumps ships, and then my mother gives the order to attack, the next moment Sin appears on the bridge with us and the girls falls to the ground and tries to crawl away shouting Demeca...Demeca...Demeca...."

Sin, "What does that even mean?" his crimson light immediately fades and he goes back to normal, he followed my mothers instructions to the letter.

The girl, "it means destroyer of worlds."

Sin just rolls his eyes and leaves the bridge. I can see he is tired, but I have to stay here for now and help manage the battle. We decided to not humor the enemy, so we didn't even bother to sent out our own fighters, instead we waited for their fighters to get close enough and that is when all our ships opened fire and within a few minutes most of their fighters were destroyed. You could see some retreating to the space station thinking that they would be safe, that is when the other jump ships move to protect our ship and we move closer to the station.

My mother runs a final scan of the planet and that is when she gives the order, "Activate the gravity weapon, destroy it. " she eventually looks at me. "take over, I am going to go have a word with the prisoners Sin and Cyn caught today. "

My mother leaves and I watch as the space stations cracks after the 3rd pulse, the moment the 4th pulse hit it I give the command to do a last scan of the system, but that is when I detected them, Wormholes opening all around us.

Chloe, "The dark fleet, how did they find us? Cancel jump sequence now, all ships to defense formation. "

Incoming signal.

"Hello Chloe, did you miss me." It was my mothers twin sister.

Chloe, "Samara? Why?"

Samara, "what? Oh no, hell no, I am not with them, when your mother told me what you guys were planning I decided to have my fleet on standby for in-case something goes wrong, we are just out of sight and cloaked, we are awaiting your command."

I give a sigh or relieve, I already informed my mother that the dark empire has arrived and are approaching our fleet, and she is heading back to the bridge with Sin and Cyn.

She decides to open a visual channel to the dark fleet and shared it with Samara and her fleet.

Azaria, "This is high queen Azaria, stand down and we will let your people go."

Then the screen went life and we see a huge man sitting in a chair wearing pitch black armor, he was bold with a lot of scars on his face.

Admiral, "This is the admiral, names are not important because you and your people will die here today."

Azaria, "trust me you do not want to do this. Leave in peace and your people will live, I know that you have woman and children on your ships and so do we, we are both commanders trying to look after our people, let us stand down and find a way to reach a peaceful solution. " I could see her hands shaking, then I saw Sin and my daughter also noticing it.

Admiral, "Our people are ready to die in battle, are yours?"

We know that our fleet is outnumbered 5 to 1, even though our ships are much larger and faster, their smaller size gives them the advantage of maneuverability.

Admiral. "This conversation is over." And then the channel closes and all our warning lights starts to go off, that is when the alerts starts coming in that we are been targeted by multiple anti-matter cannons.

Azaria. "Our shields won't hold up against those weapons."

We all go cold as we see them firing at us, this is it, this is where we all die. But then their anti-matter gets blocked by a crimson shield and we all look at Sin and my Daughter in surprise as they are both just standing their calmly holding their hands in the direction of the incoming attack, eventually the enemy stops firing.

Azaria, "They need time to recharge. " she then orders the fleet to attack.

We can see our ships also firing anti-matter cannons at them and some of their ships vanish in an instant. But more keep arriving, Samara and her fleet has also started to attack them from behind and after a few minutes we get another alert. "Multiple ships approaching in Slip Space.

My mother looks at the girl, "your people?"

The girl, "yes, the moment you detected the enemy approaching I alerted the emperor, you saved his daughter today, so he is in your debt. "

Azaria, "You are Daisy?"

Daisy, "yes I am."

That is when thousands of Acturion ships appear everywhere around us and around the enemy.

Incoming signal.

Admiral, "you might have won this battle, but you haven't won the war."

Azaria. "I am sorry, but you are not leaving here today, except in a prison cell."

Admiral, "I know about your people, you are merciful, you wont kill."

Azaria, "Yes you are right, but I can't say the same about the kids, that is when she widens the view and shows Sin and Cyn to him."

She looks at them and gives them the order, "bring the admiral to me and destroy everything else. "The one order that she should never have given to my husband.

They immediately vanish in a flash of crimson light and appear on both sides of the admiral, I see my daughter grab him and vanish again in a flash of crimson light, that is when the feed goes dead.

Azaria, "What happened there?"

Pilots, "Queen, we are receiving strange readings."

The screen immediately shows the enemy fleet fading in and out of existence, and the scans are all over the place, then it picks them up and then it is as if they don't exist and its just going faster and faster.

Azaria, "What the hell is he doing?

Samara. "He is going to trap them in the void, stop him, stop him now, if he goes in there, I won't be able to get him out again."

That is when there is a crimson flash on the bridge, I never even saw my daughter enter. The enemy ships return to normal and after a few minutes there is crimson lightning all over the place, some of the crimson lightning almost hit our fleet, and then the enemy ships started to explode, and after a few seconds our daughter appears in front of us holding her dad up, he just looks at me and then he falls to the ground.