"Go home, Melisson, go away" Hanako urged. "I want the Mishhuvurthyar out of this system. If you want to make an attempt to establish a peace, you must do this."
"Not many mishhuvurthyar will be happy if we leave here emptyhanded with only insults from these critters." Melisson thumbed toward Destiny. "I'm willing to leave with the thirty ships I have under my command. I can't answer for the commander in charge of the forces in Jun. However, you'll have to agree to a little contest with me. No one should die: in fact, you might actually save some people." The pink woman sent a telepathic command to her ship's computer and a vast holographic display appeared to cover one end of the wall, showing the shining surface of Lor. A moment later, a spherical bubble of energy shone in low orbit of Lor and vanished with a crackle to reveal a latter large reddish planetoid.
"Pretty, isn't it?" Melisson grinned. "It's one of the volcanic moons that was around the big gas giant. I've placed it in a decaying orbit, so, the planet must already be suffering some dramatic gravitational and atmospheric trouble." The Mishhuvurthyar woman looked almost proud of herself. "In less than an hour, it should touch down on the planet's surface and you know what would happen then, don't you?"
While accending to the station, Velor looked out onto the horizon, and saw something that should not have been there. The High Priest's jaw went agape as he looked at the planetoid. Instantly his mind opened a communication link with the remaining forces on the surface. "Continue evacuation, when space vehicles are launched, move the remaining population deeper into the ground. Also prepare our experimental antimatter storage for deployment... if the people from Yamatai overhead don't do anything to stop that moon, we may have to."
Destiny stared at the moon in aparent horror. Where had it come from? What was it doing here. "What are you doing! What is going to happen when it touches?" Her people were down there, about to die, and she was stuck up here, ready to live.
"I feel it need be noted at this point, what with all the slander you two are making upon us, that it was you, Yamataian, that failed at your side of the treaty first. We have been forced into this position not by our own will, but by your negligence and attitude. You forced us into your treaty, and thus the current predicament, but it is you, not we, who have failed to live up to your duties stipulated therin. We had no interest to side with either of you in this war, we only wished to be left alone, to be our own people. Not to be amalgamated into your empire," he said looking at Hanako," nor your regime," to Melisson.
"But, no matter our efforts you two refuse to let us be. Like children fighting over a new toy you strike out in violent fits to make it yours. Not because you think it interesting or wish to work with it, but because you want the pride of it being "yours". If you continue this way, you will leave nothing but burnt cinders throughout this region of space. "
Seeing the hologram of the moon," and now it seems to have progressed again. More innocents to die for your pride. More planets to burn for your childish urges."
Nyton saw the display and rewatched the energy mass that transported the moon to Lor. 'How the hell did they manage to accomplish that?' he thought to himself.
"Me? I'm showing you why you need the Star Army." Melisson said smugly. "We don't want you - you're spoiled meat as far as we are concerned and might as well die... apparently you have no idea of your place in your universe, so you'll have to collectively grow a brain and learn your place in it." She looked back to Hanako. "What are you waiting for? Take the Lorath trash back to your ship and save their planet!"
Turning to Destiny, Esajt said," From its size, it will be a total extinction event. The continent it hits will be liquidfied. There will probably be some planetary breakup, though I would say little will break free of Lor's gravity."
Hanako glared at the Melisson. The girl who had always been so permissive and subservient had become determined and inflexible. She was angry, so very angry, and now adding to the fire were these insults from the very people who had the most to lose.
"Go, Hanako." Melisson persisted. "As soon as you leave my ship, my fleet is leaving."
"Very well," Hanako nodded. She turned to the robot. "Guide us to the shuttle."
Fate had enough, with a quick pull, she drew her sword, the curved blade reflecting light. "Beast, filthy cur." She snarled. "Long have I waited to sink my blade into an off worlder." She growled as she walked towards Melisson, her sword kept to her side and low, her arm extended. "Face me and die!" She said while taking monsterous strides and clearing the room in little time. Her sword then raised to shoulder high as she let's it sing through the air towards Melisson's neck.
On Katha Station there was a slight hiss, the pressure equalized from the last Corvette ariving. A black suited Lorath walked into the passage way, with a short Halashio following close behind. "Come along, Jariyaa it is our time to leave," Skka'ri said with a heavy heart.
Destiny's ears twitched as she heard Esajt, her eyes wider now as her heart skipped a beat. Her people were going to die, all of them even her brother. She looked to Hanako, her eyes pleading now with the woman. Again, in such a short time, she was helpless. "Lady Hanako, please, help my people. This is the one thing I have ever asked of you or your people..Do this and I swear we will...We will do as yo- Sen'Ythy stop this instance!" How could she do something so rash at a time like this.
