I pulled my helmet over my head and felt the seals that protected me from any harmful gases or toxins engage, enclosing me in my own atmosphere. I sighed heavily before Cai activated the helmet's outer cameras that allowed me to see through the armored shell that protected my head. I wasn't happy about having to do this, but I would have to suck it up and deal with it no matter what.

"Let's do this," I said quietly to myself and Cai as I began to make my way to the armory that would issue as many non-lethal weapons as possible for this trip.

"Rickshaw, I am detecting a heightened amount of hormones and chemicals that are indicative of you being nervous and unhappy," Cai said. "Shall I contact Horseman Applewood for you?"

"Carrie couldn't help with this," I told him. "I don't want to go back to Earth just to conquer the planet because I'm trying to end a war between three factions that should never have met."

"Do you want me to do something to alleviate this issue?" he asked.

"I'm not sure you could," I told him frankly. "You're in my head and you can control the nanites, but I don't think you can help with this. Thanks for offering though."

"Would you like to discuss your hesitation, instead?" he asked.

"No, I pretty much know where it's all coming from," I answered. "I don't want to do this because, I didn't make the Nephilim Army to conquer Earth or any other planet from its natural people. Only the Scourge. Now I'm having to do exactly what I told myself I would never do. It's frustrating."

"Perhaps Horseman Applewood, Wing Applewood, or Paladin Swans would be able to help you anyway," Cai said.

"And how's that?" I asked him. I was genuinely curious.

"Sexual intercourse will unleash a flood of hormones and chemicals within your brain that is very likely to help stabilize your mental state," my socially inept Cyber said matter-of-factly. "It is only natural that such an activity take place with someone familiar to you."

"I am not asking one of them for a quickie just because I'm feeling down," I told him firmly. "That's just pathetic on my part and risks ruining whatever relationship I have with any of them."

"I was merely offering a suggestion," Cai defended himself.

"How about we file that one under the list of suggestions that will never help," I said. "I appreciate you trying to help, but that one's a little weird to hear from my Cyber."

"Very well, I will add it to my list of unhelpful suggestions," he said. "There are currently eight-seven items on the list."

"You don't have to give me a running count of the number of times I've told you something was a really bad idea to offer," I told him.

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"Shall I add that to the list as well?" he asked.

"No," I said, unable to help the small smile that began to tug at the corners of my lips. "You don't have to add that one."

The shuttle I rode in touched down in the capitol city on Earth and the doors quickly opened to allow me and the temporary squad of Nephilim to spill out and begin establishing control over the city and the people that lived there. Per my orders to all forces, any use of force was unwarranted without having first been attacked. And then, use of lethal force was to be avoided at all costs so long as they could guarantee their own lives.

"Demigod, sir," the Wing that was working with me pointed toward the towering building that was on the other side of the city and was the target of our current mission. "Target sighted, Cybers have worked out a route that will take us there with the least resistance. Shall we proceed?"

"No," I said. "We're going the most public route we can. I want them all to see that they can't stop this and, hopefully that will make them all lay down their weapons without as much of a fight. The faster we secure high priority targets like the Chancellor and the Capitol Building, the less humans we risk hurting in this operation."

"Understood, sir. Cybers are altering the route," the Wing said.

"Let's go," I said, pulling my sword from my back and leading the way toward the Capitol Building of the Solar Empire. I wasn't going to let the Chancellor and her people keep me from conquering this planet just because they thought they were justified in their actions supporting the war between the Alliance of Galaxies and the Wardens of Life.

"Hostile forces," the Knight at the front of the moving temporary Order called out. "Engaging!"

"Let's get up there and try to save a few lives," I said to the squad moving with me, before breaking into a jog and passing more of the Nephilim that were with us.

As we came into sight of the intersection that the Empire's forces had entrenched themselves in, I noticed that many of them wore armor that looked like smaller versions of our own armor, colored differently and missing the Seraph Drives that made us look as though we had wings. They were also using mag-rifles to fire into our advancing line. I was glad that everyone at the front of the line was carrying a shield or those mag-rifle rounds would have already torn into my people and left more than a few dead on the ground.

"We're jumping," I told my squad. "Use your Seraph Drives for greater speed, height, and distance. Try for non-lethal takedowns."

As soon as I finished speaking, I leapt over the line of shield-bearers that were keeping the Empire's rounds from ending the people behind them and Cai activated my Seraph and sent me flying forward faster than the Empire's men could react before I was in amongst them and laying about me with my sword, slicing through the barrels of the mag-rifles and knocking the men and women unconcious with well-placed punches and kicks. It wasn't two minutes before the area around me was cleared of the Empire's people enough for the ones further away from me to be able to take aim with their rifles and begin charging the magnetic rounds.

Before any of them were able to fire, my squad was around me and using their non-lethal weapons to finish my work and render the rest of the opposing forces unconcious and weaponless. With the line of firing Empire soldiers broken, the advancing Nephilim were quick to rush the area and finish taking control of the intersection.

"Good work, boys and girls," I said to my squad. "Now let's do that again and again. Roll out."

"Yessir," they said before some of them grabbed shields and others pulled gas and smoke grenades from their belts and readied them for the next intersection or choke point we came across.

"I want these people restrained and prepared for imprisonment," I ordered the two Palaldins that would be staying behind to guard our new prisoners. "Don't let anything happen to them. Understand me?"

"Yes, sir," they both answered seriously as their squads moved through our new prisoners.

"On to the next one then," I said before leading the way. I wasn't about to leave my people to take the brunt of this to keep myself safe. Whatever comes in this fight, I deserved it, especially since I'd been the one to start it.