"Vile rebels, who gave you permission to enter my throne room?"
On a certain star system, a war was happening and it's on the verge of its end.
A lone woman who is sitting on a crimson throne said this as a number of rebels entered the deepest part of her battleship.
"Surrender now Empress! Your guards are no more! No one else in this ship will be able to save you from your demise"
A man armed with 2 rifles in each hand shouted towards the woman as he slowly walked closer towards her.
"Hmph! Do you expect me to bow down that easily? How naive."
The woman stood from her throne and looked down towards the rebels with a vicious glare. Even if she's called an empress, the suit she's wearing is more fitting for a soldier rather than a royal. But even so, once you've set your eyes on her, her beauty still reigns vividly. With long platinum hair that gently waves as she walks that perfectly complemented her silver skin, it is truly a spectacular sight to see. But what's more distinct is her eyes that is unique to her race; golden sclera with irises that are like crimson ruby gems.
"You barely have any choice though, do you? Surrender now or you'll face a more painful death."
"I'd like to see you try."
The Empress snapped her fingers and a light saber appeared on her right hand and a blaster on the other. And without a moment's delay, she fired her blaster while running, searching for a route of escape.
"Like hell we'll let you!"
The man evaded her shots as he also fired some of his own. The man then waved a hand gesture ordering the other rebels to try and encircle her in an attempt to block all paths of escape.
As the Empress notices this, her eyes suddenly glowed red and some kind of crimson aura manifested on her light saber and waved it towards the oncoming rebels, creating some sort of an energy wave, reducing them to ashes.
"Tch, maintain your distance and fire at will!"
And as the man orders, the rebels started shooting at her, but the Empress just swiftly evaded all of it and even reflected some of the laser beams using her light saber.
And now the Empress, with her nimble movements, was able to slip past towards the hall and to a room where she kept her last option of survival.
She quickly closed the door and even set up an energy barrier to delay their pursuit.
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"Now, I'll just hope this relic would really work."
Relics are things that they call to those stuff that may perform inexplicable tasks that can be used by absolutely anyone. No one knows who made them, and where and how they were made. One thing is for sure, these rare items are priceless treasures that circulated on black markets all over the galaxies.
The Empress took the relic that looked like an ordinary piece of rock with weird inscriptions engraved on it. She remembered what the black market merchant who sold her the relic the instructions of it's usage.
She took a sharp dagger from her desk and slit her wrist, and let her blood flow towards the inscriptions. A few seconds after, the rock started glowing with a pale blue light, signaling that it's most probably working after all.
"This is supposed to teleport me to the safest place I could be huh.. I'll definitely take my revenge, especially towards that haughty man."
*BANG*
But, the Empress suddenly felt a sharp pain that bore through her chest, following the loud noise that reverberated throughout the room. She then realized that she was shot through her chest.
"What?! Ugh.... That was... too fast... how.."
"Too fast? You really thought you could slow us down with that weak barrier? I even wondered what you probably did, spending a lot of energy enough to not have anything left."
As the man said this, and old lady stepped in and walked beside the man.
"So that's why. I noticed how none of her soldiers on this mother ship were fatally wounded albeit losing consciousness. It seems like she individually placed a barrier on them to avoid certain death."
"Really granny? Oho! It seems like our Empress here is a little softie after all! But, so what? you've still killed more than you've saved. Death punishment is still befitting of you."
The man smirked as he pointed his gun again towards the Empress.
"Welp, you could've been my hot girlfriend. Such a shame.."
"Shut u--"
*BANG*
*BANG*
Two more shots were fired by the man until the Empress inevitably shut her eyes and life escapes her cold body.
"With this... THE GALAXY IS FREE FROM THE EMPIRE!!!"
"YEAAH!!!"
As the man announced his victory, all the rebels that was with him also followed suit in cheering. But amidst the victory, the old woman walked towards the man after looking at the Empress' lifeless corpse once again.
"Hey.. Wasn't she holding something earlier?"
The old lady whispered on the man's ear as she said these words.
"Hm? I didn't really notice anything. I mean, I shot her directly the moment I saw her. But it is quite a mystery on why she escaped towards this place which is a dead end. Oh well, I'll let the guys look into her corpse later to find if she did anything else. And probably incinerate it afterwards. It would be scary if she suddenly returns to life after a while right?"
And with those words, marked the end of the story of the Empress that once ruled the entire galaxy.
Or so they thought...
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Eh? Where am I? Am I alive? Did I survive?
Why... why... why do I want to cry to badly..
"Uwaaaa!!!! Uwaaaaaaaaaaa!!"
Eh?! Am I that hungry that I want to cry?
"Oh my! Are you hungry little Bridget? Here, drink some of mommy's milk!"
Eh? Milk? I need more than that if I want to be full.
Wait a minute... "Mommy"? What the hell is happening here?!
I slowly opened my eyes just to see a woman's face. Hm? How rare.. a Human? Haven't seen a lot of them recently. Wait.. isn't she too big for a human?
Or... WHY AM I TOO SMALL?!
There's no mistaking it... Did I turn back into a baby?!
"Uwaaaaa!!! Uwaaaaa!!!!!"
"Oh no! Bridget! What's wrong? Shush baby, shush. Awww what do I do?"
And with this, my unexpected reincarnation begins...