Fal, Yr'Arl and I stood in the main courtyard of the Guard headquarters.
While previously we had been the leaders of this mission, the only ones tracking the new Null Space horrors that had sohow managed to invade Prespian city, we were now just three people in a crowd of around fifty aliens.
Standing at the head of that crowd, floating a few feet in the air so that we could all see him as he gave his announcent, was Clan Leader Belana.
I had been worried that he was going to pull aside again, give another verbal smackdown ending in him telling that once this was all over he was going to have put to trial due to not sticking to our previously struck gambit of fixing the situation. But he seed to have gotten the hint that this was just a little bit bigger than any of us had been expecting.
At least for now he was going to put aside his anti-human prejudice and allow to work as part of the larger group.
That didn't stop so of the suit-wearing aliens around from stealing furtive glances at , worry clear on each of their faces. Clearly, they weren't entirely happy with having to fight alongside one of the dreaded human scourge.
Luckily for , Fal and Yr'Arl had no such qualms and were standing close enough to that it was clear we had beco sowhat of a three-person squad of our own.
"We stand on the edge of a precipice," Squadron Leader Belana began, his voice bood across the complex with gravitas. Everyone there imdiately stopped their own conversations and gave the man their full attention.
"For years we have been trying to discover the hidden bases of the three gangs that run rampant throughout this city. Now, today, we may have finally had a breakthrough in that search. The base of Clan Pren has been identified, sitting below the waves of our planet, protected by the crushing forces of the ocean's pressure by our very own manna shield!
Today, fellow Guard mbers, we are going to take the fight to them! We shall descend below the waves ourselves and finally extinguish one of the problems that this city has been faced with for decades.
But, my friends and associates, we must be cautious in this endeavour. Thanks to the hard work by three Guard mbers, we have discovered that the Clan are operating with a new and powerful threat. They have brought Null Space Invaders to Prespian City!"
The crowd gasped audibly at that and began muttering among themselves. They couldn't believe it, the idea that their most hated enemy had sohow appeared on one of their most well-protected worlds. It was the worst of the worst possible news, the ultimate in disasters.
"We do not yet know how Clan Pren has managed to wrangle these invaders, or who managed to bring them to the City itself. All we do know is that we have to stop them before damage can be done to the gabuildings or their population.
This is going to be the fight of your lives, it's exactly what you've trained for and exactly what you signed up for when you beca a part of the Guard.
We're the last line of defence, and defend is exactly what we're going to do!"
The crowd raised their fists, tentacles and other various appendages and cheered as loud as they could.
BB said.
He was right, but I was also worried. He was so insistent that Clan Pren were the ones behind all of this when we had told him straight to his face that the assassin had said that Clan Pren were only being used as an interdiary between them and soone else. I couldn't help but think that we were being led into so sort of trap, like lambs into an abattoir.
BB snorted.
Well of course we were going to be using magic, and yes that was obvious, I didn't need so snarky AI who was living rent free in my head to tell that.
BB explained.
Right on queue, just as BB had finished explaining the situation to , a series of runes sprung up into life below all of us. I hadn't noticed that the Squadron Leader had already been chanting under his breath.
The fight was about to begin.
Hopefully, we'd finally be able to rescue Akash and Pax.
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