Milky Way, July 22nd 2019
Saturn.
The second largest planet in the Solar System, consisted of hydrogen and helium gases through and through. Surrounded by a ring of icy metal clumps and asteroids around the giant gas planet, its peaceful void and lack of disturbance from any noise in the space, about to shatter with an unwelcoming visit from 'an unknown party'. in the middle of millions of icy asteroids inside the planetary rings, a large distortion in space formed out of nowhere before a large spatial tear cracked open wide ceaselessly. The moment it appeared, a huge suction into the void absorbed large numbers of metallic asteroids inside.
As the spatial tear continue to stabilize, a huge silhouette of spaceship slowly emerged from within the emptiness as it crashed numerous asteroids along its way out of the tear. The skeleton-shaped head on the spaceship's front suddenly came alive with its empty eye sockets reddening brilliantly moments later.
The space ship, or rather much appropriately called flying fortress since there were various kinds of artillery armaments around the surface of the giant ship, looked like it gained sentience when it arrived in the floating asteroids belt ring and looked seemingly alive. At the far center area at side part of the spaceship, there was an eagle grabbing a world symbol in golden as the skeleton spaceship scoured through the space.
Within the skeleton spaceship's main deck, two figures seen standing behind mirrors that separates them from the outside space. In that same chamber, there was an animal-like creature kneeling on the floor in the middle of that room, emotionless while reporting to the pair.
The bird-faced man: "Great General, we have arrived in the Solar System, though still millions of miles away from the Earth. Based on our calculations, with regards to our top speed, it can take almost 24 hours tops based on our fuel supply and resources. At least, even now, the puny mortal human's little planet still undeveloped despite their era of technology advancements has been achieved."
Sensing there was no response from the leaders, he then continued. "Based on this current Earth's technology and numbers of surveillance devices detected around the planet's surrounding, our arrival in the next 24 hours may remain undetected even for several days after that. At the same time assuming that it stays the same for the duration, our fleet will never have any problem conquering the Earth starting from Japan in full force, as our 'Associates' that have arrived earlier than our fleet in different continents around the world will began their moves. Seeing that even the Space Empire also join hand with our 'Alliance' as the last member, our glory will bound to be limitless and spread across the universe."
The golden-masked man, who the kneeling birdman called 'Master' remained silent throughout the briefing in deep thinking. With his back facing the kneeling man, the only reaction that could be heard from him was the finger-tapping subtle sound on the skull-headed cane on his right hand, echoing inside that spacious chamber.
"We have succeed in breaking through countless dimensions and conquered most of them until now. Without 'that person' helping us from behind the scene, those achievements remained untouchable by us and we are still forever trapped inside the same loop for good." The figure behind him spoken while gently caressing the bladed whip in his hand.
He then continued, "That person...already do us great favor in discovering new realms and helping us achieve more than we could possibly imagine in our lifetime. The person must have some kind of bad relationship with the Earth that he, as a human, rather helping us achieve what we have wanted all along instead of protecting it. Not even the strongest of both Alliance combined couldn't do any harm towards that human, even after we developed our own ability system from various Otherverse out there."
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"That human wizard....," The golden-masked man suddenly spoke coldly, making the two of them lowered their heads after that. "I have tried to gauge his abilities through battle, only to have brought out only 20% of his true potential, which I've came out with heavy injuries. If not for the modified Hunter device and my Soul Spirit, I couldn't survive until today as the outcome."
Brandishing the green-colored device on his right hand, he pondered about something that bothered him from that fateful day. 'What does he mean by 'the universe eater' that day? Is there something much stronger that him that caused him to become this afraid when he warned us that day?'
'Something much bigger and stronger than him is free roamming the universe clusters somewhere out there that capable of frighten even the mighty black clothed guy. If that case....'
The golden-masked man then turned to the rattlesnake humanoid creature. "Increase security around the Artifact's Monolith Chamber by several fold. Nothing can enter or exit the room without the Leader or my permission fro now on. There is something has bugging me from the moment we entered the Solar System earlier and this feeling has been stronger by the minutes." Then, he gave another order to the bird man creature.
"Send out more Combatsmen reinforcement to the 'Domes' to assist the Associates down there, as well as a few of our fastest low-ranks Officers. Send my orders to....."
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Suddenly, huge uproar tremors around the spaceship as explosions triggered the alarms, shattered the silence in the deep space thus interrupting the Commanders' order midway. Instantly, a holographic figure of a skeleton dragonoid appeared before him in kneeling phase.
"The Monolith Chamber has been breached. It was the Serptivoire who betrayed us, with the help of the Sigmaroid Architect to open and crack the Entrance Code. The explosion has damaged the Crisis Fortress by 45% with two hyperdrive engines totally collapsed in that situation, leaving only 3 of the remaining spatial hyperdrivers couldn't operated at higher potential. Our strength reduced by 15% in the explosions due to most of them remained in main cockpit and safe area at the time. At this rate, the travel may take at least 72 hours to arrive on Earth." The skeletal dragonoid reporting in unhurried manner as he continued laid out every details of the aftermath of the events happened.
He then continued on, "The Serptivoire and the Sigmaroid however, managed to bypass the security of the chamber and escaped unscathed from the room a few minutes later. However, the Architect didn't survive from the patrol corps right before they about to escape the platform. Only the Serptivoire survived the attacks with some lethat injuries and inbound towards the Earth based on the direction of his escape point."
After that, the kneeling hologram remained on his knee silently. Noticing the silence of the creature, the golden masked man ordered the subordinate to proceed. As the skeletal dragonoid spoke hesitantly after that, the faces of the rest of the people in that chamber began to change greatly.
Without any waste of time, the pyramid headed man ordered the subordinates in great anger. "In no time, fix the hyperdrivers at least in one day and immediately set course to Earth as fast as you can. Send out the fastest Associates we have onboard to the traitor's location and retrieve back the Artifacts from him. Also, send out transmission to our bases on Earth to speed up the process from within the shadow. If necessary, ask them to monitor any peculiar movement from the traitor's arrival on Earth and intercept him if possible."
"As you wish, sir."
The dragonoid hologram then left from the room after received the orders. The golden masked man slowly shifted his sight to the kneeling birdman before him.
"Knowing the Septivoire's nature and current state, he probably don't have much time before succumb to his sealed fate as soon as he entered the Earth's atmosphere. As for you, take one of the fastest spacenavigator strikers and search the Earth's surface for the Artifacts from the air. Assist the Alliance from there and wait for my next order."
"As you wish, master."
Without glancing towards the leaving birdman, he returned his sight back to the window glass and watching the desolate pitch black space outside. At this moment, the pyramid headed man and the golden masked man finally knew what did the black wizard told them before. The two Artifacts that the Serptivoire stole much valuable from other Artifacts they possessed in their Monolith Chamber.
Sighing in despair, his next words echoed in a mixture of agony, despair, anger and fear collectively. His fingers tightly gripped the scepter in his hands.
"We must prevent the Core Artifacts from choosing their Successors. The next Destroyer of Worlds and Chaos Lord must not be chosen at all cost."