The Hammer destroyer, meaning Crushing Hammer, was de facto renamed Zergalor.

It was orbiting around the earth which was in the year 6000 of the old calendar and the year 4000 since the great cataclysm of which one could still see the traces by the moon broken in 2 pieces and surrounded by a rocky cloud and its heart still glowing in places.

It was not Ivan's world, the one that had caused the cataclysm by playing with the dimensional portals during a terrible war.

But it was the world of A, the original land of Marc, Bishop, Poisse and many others who have now disappeared as well as Maleström. The original dragons having been erased from the earth except for 3 survivors who have disappeared. The current dragons being descendants of the clones of Maleström and Grace, his sister but also a hybridization with the 6 surviving infernal wyverns stuck here.

"WELL WELL WELL!!! "Vociferated the greasy voice...

The hologram-enhanced baron was walking the halls of his own body, the former Hammership.

The Hood's crew members were now on the main command deck.

With everyone gathered, the Baron turned and threw a ball to Tristan, who took the game at face value.

With everyone knowing the dirty reputation of this abject being, no one dared interrupt the cursed AI.

"I suppose you have a thousand and one questions for me and I'll be happy to answer them."

Some of the crew was at Tania's bedside, stitching her up. Her injuries were horrific and it was a miracle she had survived. She was in a medical coma. Full of pipes connected and half submerged in a liquid filled with nano robots applied to microscopically glue the cells together and plug the holes with artificial collagen. The magic being non-existent for them. except for Altrax and its 5 copper companions.

Zergalor:" As you know... I was thirsty for conquests, and I was defeated by my own ambitions and now I am part of Tania. We live in her inner world. We are her infernal troops now.

Just like Tiamat, she is part of his family and shares her blood but also the empty shell of Hakumen, the greatest earthly demon. This is what saved her life but she kept her human soul too. She is first of all a soldier.

I wanted to help and serve our goddess Tiamat but as you met the great Hydra, we, on our side were struck down by the great Table...the Golden Lion.

One of the gods of light... We have nothing to envy to the fate reserved to those who remained... Our goddess, in her infinite kindness could make me gain a little time to save Tania. In her I reside as well as my squadrons. But without her, no army... no way to save Tiamat but we must think of the worst... Ivan is stuck on the other side. We have the guardian hydra that prevents us from returning too. And we are in a world ravaged by demodragon and Vulture.

We have lost all signals and most importantly, we are stuck in time. 4000 years separate me from my time and 4000 years from yours.

We have no space drug and Tania is out of action until further notice. Waking her up could be fatal and all our hopes would be gone.

So, by the fact that Tania was general of Tiamat and she is missing or considered dead, I take command unless there is another officer here?

Altrax: "I am the governor of California... and my five commanders."

Zergalor: "And what are you doing here?"

Altrax bowed her head. "I wanted to save Tiamat and gain favor with Ivan..."

The baron laughed... "AH... love... love.... "Then turning with a stern look... "You betrayed your post and embarked clandestinely, did you not?"

The dragoness was on the verge of tears, her mind unable to stand up to the baron...

Zergalor: "Well, that's not the point. We're stuck here. A god of light between us and Tiamat. If she's been defeated, we don't stand a chance...unless we send the Hood as a probe. "

Captain Nimbus : (Ex-Professor Nimbus): "The Hood has a dimensional disruptor..."

Zergalor: "So do I... besides Tania is a specialist... let's not forget that she is the one who brought back the "tear of god" and gave our enemies the technology of portals...."

The crew then took on the task of preparing the Hood for an automatic mission and to serve as a future beacon and to protect it from the ravages of time by an emission of amber loaded with chronoparticles.

After searching it thoroughly and leaving no one behind, the Hood's captain waved his ship off to the destroyed world at the last known coordinates of Tiamat and his ship.

A few minutes later, a signal was transmitted.

We saw the Lion of Light crushed by the cosmic hydra, crushed in one of its mouths and in another, Tiamat, bloody, with only one head left, a long stream of blood beading from each of its torn off heads... Only the main one remained, the red one, the others having sacrificed themselves to protect it from the terrible magical bite.

Then the cosmic hydra disappeared with its two bloody prisoners in a black hole that it closed. No trace remained. But the most horrible thing was Ivan who was held in another head, unconscious and hanging like a rag between the fangs of the Destroyer..

Contact was cut off and the Hood automatically landed on islands in "Asia" where it was covered with sand, waiting for eternity, like a relic of a past that had passed for eons.

No way to contact him. And so he disappeared forever.

It was one horror too many on board.

Everyone was desperate.

Altrax started to cry with all her heart, the 5 other dragons too and Tristan was screaming after his big brother...

"Sorry Ivan, Sorry Ivan... Sorry Ivan..... I did not know... WHAAAAAAHH! "

He had his muzzle against the belly of the Altrax dragoness...

They were crying together....

Then he straightened up: "BAD HYDRA! I WILL AVENGE BIG BROTHER!"

Altrax: "CHHHTtt...We all care about you...What do you want to do about it???"

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"TATIIIE! "

Then he looked at his half-human aunt, well not really his aunt but a great and friend of his big brother...

"Are we going home???"

She said nothing.

Then he jumped up and ran against Zergalor's hologram...

"Uncle, are you taking us home??"

The Baron, amused a little by the sadness of the others began to speak in flowery language, distorting reality into a kind of bad taste poetry, a dead painting art...

"General Tristan..." look:

And he enlarged the main screen overlooking the earth

"My little General, we are home... but.....we got home very very late... too late, I would say...."

Tristan: "But... Dad? Mom.... can you zoom in so we can see it?"

Vladimir zoomed in on the area of Anchorage and all we could see was some medieval buildings, the streets and buildings were non-existent.

Tristan: "To the right... the cave, the Tipi... and ... mamaaaannnn Wouaahhh!"

He pounded the hologram with his small fists but the baron looked on as he did at the non-existence of modern society.

"We're back in the Bronze Age....!"

But what interested him were the atomic blast zones and the tiberium drills and fields, crystals that appeared with strong radiation and in a sense purified the planet by gathering that energy in concentration, instead of it spreading out into the world.

This had not escaped the captain, the only one on board who had realized the plans and objectives of the baron: to recreate his empire through Tania.

Altrax, Tristan and the others huddled together in front of the huge screen.

Their rescue mission had been a failure, but also an unmitigated disaster, a catastrophe.

Not only was there nothing left to do for Tiamat, in the mouth of a cosmic monster, but their friend and dragon Lord Ivan was also lost, probably dead... in the monster's mouth, and. Tristan, separated from his family. With Tristan gone, Hissa was inconsolable and supported by Auronne.

"Ivan... Tristan.... my two children!"

Hirrax: "I too have been separated from my mother Auronne. Don't lose hope Hissa".

Brutus held his wife tight and cried crocodile tears in secret.

But Argentrix was furious... she was angry at Ivan for what he had said to her.

Auronne calmed her daughter down. "He was drunk and desperate. He was brave to defy the monster... He didn't mean what he said....He adores you and he was the best thing for you...."

Argentrix: "Sniff.... My Ivan...... This is all because of Tristan! "

Then she turned around, looking at Hissa nastily.

Auronne: "Calm down. It's not by blaming him that ..."

Argentrix: "I lost my man!!! because of"

Hirrax shook her. "Shut up! You know it's not his fault! I forbid you... Look at the poor woman. Ivan is also my husband but also her son and she lost on top of that Tristan... "

Argentrix, lost in her emotions: "Sorry Hissa..."

The golden dracosire and ex-dragon emperor Sinistrar covered his little children with his wings...

Shhh... Let's pray to God, the god of ivan, that he survives... I'm sure he will find a way.

Meanwhile, the baron had scanned the surface of the globe and encoded in 3D the map, villages, roads and population of this post-apocalyptic land.

A few days passed while everyone came to their senses, settled in and took their place in the baron.

Tania was still in a coma but was delirious.

She cried in her sleep and always the same names came up.

Ivan, Georgie, Iseult and Marise

Slowly, she was getting smaller and her wounds were becoming normal and she was getting back to her dragon raptor form.

Tristan was always at her bedside.

But Tania was also dreaming and in her dreams, she was not alone...

A black entity was constantly pursuing her. A black dragon, immense, made of an ink blacker than black.

She was running through endless forests with signs here and there indicating vague directions and eventually she came to a hollow rock with stairs going down.

It looked like a museum of religious art but totally abstract and meaningless. Vaguely distinguishable were symbols and then the lit glass floor and silent signs. And then she arrived following a meaningless path, in a huge underground cathedral, vaguely the black cathedral...

But it was not black but lit by spotlights and many candles.

On the display racks there were relics with pieces of clothes and objects that belonged to Ivan, Georgie and Isolde. Then a black sphere appeared as if on a huge eggcup.

Then she realized and fell to the ground.

"AAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! my child!!! my egg that I will never see... OUAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Then her egg grew and a huge dragon of darkness came out, threatening her.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Tania knew that she would turn into a shadow if she was touched by the monster's claws, or by its breath...

Tania: "WHO ARE YOU???"

XXXX. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Then, wanting to fly away, she weighed tons and saw that the dragon was putting his paw on her shadow.

Tania: "NO.. NOOOO NOT THAT.. NOT THAT!"

And her shadow became blacker and her tail became a shadow and it quickly went up to her head and she wanted to run away into the catacombs below the foundations.

But the huge dragon accelerated and tore away stone, earth, rocks, steps like a mad excavator.

Its paws tearing off earth and material caught up with Tania who was finally caught and huge translucent teeth like crystal, surrounded by black lips stuck to the ears/events of the dragoraptor...

"Piece of garbage.... You abandoned your own... for war and endless battles. Now look at you... You had the chance to become a dragon but now you are a demon.... You betrayed Ivan, his family, his little brother, you corrupted his wife and you mutilated your adopted daughter...and you destroyed a world and several worlds...

You are a scum... And you have forgotten your beloved ???? What are you going to do? Cry? But the portals... are over. We put away our little soldiers..."

Tania: "Sniff... am I dead???"

XXX: "Unfortunately not!... you're a tough cookie... but you'll have to live with this weight on your conscience..."

Tania: "Then I'll wait in the ice..to join them..."

XXX: "HAHAHA...As if that were possible...but you're not in the same universe anymore....they're in "Once upon a time..."

Tania: "And Ivan? What about Mom?"

XXX: "It doesn't concern you anymore.... Ivan is gone... And Mama Tiamat is no more....You are all alone with your demons and your baron Vladimir... you would make an excellent couple together...."

Tania was crying... I have to change everything... I have to make up for everything... maybe it's not too late... my dinosaurs... my raptors....

XXX: "Don't you remember??? You left them too... in hell..."

Tania: "Who are you? Who are you????"

"YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!"

SQUEEEEEEAAAAAAK!!!!!

And Tania woke up, full of pipes in the muzzle and the trace of the teeth still on her cheek. some drops of blood....fell in the liquid of nanobots.

Immediately she recognized the Hammerhead and the fighting...

MOM!!! she screamed.

She saw Tristan on the edge, asleep with grief at his ankle in the ship's medical wing. A window looked out onto the earth, but immediately Tania saw that something was wrong.

The room was devoid of lighting and only the light of the stars and the planet below made the shadows of objects visible.

She unhooked everything and wanted to get up, but she felt her belly which was only a sutured plea. A lot of drins were still clinging.

With a sharp blow, she removed the whole thing and a lot of blood spurted out. But she threw herself to care "major" and her flesh closed up, leaving only new scales and feathers.

She took the water jug and swallowed it in one gulp, revealing her sharp raptor teeth, and put her paws on the ceramic-covered steel floor.

She took in her arms the little lizard man who had fallen asleep and was looking for his mother or his room in the ship.

With only her feathers as clothing, she staggered towards the main deck and saw no one as if the ship had no crew.

It was so big that there was even a subway on board and the crew was concentrated in the officers' mess, the rest were just service robots.

The dark corridors gave a sinister air like the baron.

Tania had a horrible headache and all shook up, she couldn't put one element of her memory with another to understand what had happened.

Besides, what was Tristan doing here? Would Ivan be here with Hissa and Brutus?

But one memory stuck with her.

The black dragon had given her another message, in the form of a threat...They had to repair this world ravaged by Tiamat's demons. As one of his generals...not yet in hell for eternity, she had to stop a war...but she knew nothing...Except that the portals to get out of here were sealed and forbidden. She was a guardian or something...she didn't know...There would be no warning and that it was a favor to know....

After getting the mission in the head, the headache went away.

Arrived at the bridge, the sliding door opened and a holographic baron welcomed with all those on the bridge.

"Look who's here!" chuckled Vladimir.

"Here are our two generals. The small and the big one!... This is Tania, for those who don't know..."

But everyone knew the sad reputation of the raptor assassin Tania.

Tania : "Ehhh? where are you?"

Nobody answered, especially Nimbus. He knew the cruelty of which she was capable. Especially that she did not skimp on the sacrifices to achieve her goals.

He still remembers her words when she mutinied and took control of the Hood. "Those who disagree with me, put their heads down... I can help..." as she pointed to her razor sharp feathers.

He then went to hide behind the desk, then seeing that it was a bad idea, behind Altrax.

Tania: "What???? it's the earth but not the earth? and where? and when? "Then she yelled at Nimbus but the baron interposed...

"Tania... my dear Tania .... While you were sleeping there were great changes...Calm down and stop scaring your crew..."

She looked around at everyone and except for Nimbus and Tristan, everyone else was a stranger.

Tania: "And Ivan? Hissa? her family?"

Vladimir:" Tania... Tania...Tssss. You know how I speak, but for you I'll do it differently: Ivan and Tiamat are no more..... They have been taken away by a super hydra. You have no idea how big it is. It is at least three times Ivan at its maximum size and it has a size on the scale of the cosmos... And our little general had the idea to play the spy or the stowaway and Mr. Lizard found himself here without his dad and without his mom. Fortunately he has Uncle Vladimir and Auntie Tania. You know how Ivan used to say...

Tania fell to her knees and gave Altrax the little one.

The nightmare was right...

The day passed in howling, crying and pawing in the armored walls. The rage of Tania was dangerous. Then she ended up getting drunk in her room and she cried.

So a week passed, everyone trying to put the puzzle back together and then came the council chaired by AI Vladimir.

"My ship, my body is a warship but as you all know, water and food and even energy resources are dwindling.It was only the Hood's supplies that were transferred here, and only in part.This was a rescue mission, not a long-term colonization.

My ship can split into 10 parts to land but we must not neglect to leave, fight or even return if possible...So I will prepare a landing shuttle and it is up to you to do your crew role. A tank will also be in the shuttle to take refuge but you have 7 dragons with you...including Tania..."

Then, looking with a reproach or warning, "I'm counting on you to work as a team... You see, your solo tactics where that got you."

Then they looked at the maps and tried to understand how the world was organized.

Tania pointed out that staying in the air would not teach them anything more.

It was necessary to go down and she hesitated between leaving Tristan on board or having him accompany them

"It is out of the question that he stays a moment more with the baron."