Disclamers: Babylon 5 and it's characters and universe are owned by JMS, Warner Brothers and TNT. The story is mine and the characters of Nt'Both, the Zes, the Gmiths, Bzed, and Zabmi are mine. This story is for the enjoyment of the reader and not intended to infringe on any copyrights
The Awaking Storm
by
AJ Marks
Part 2
John Sheridan was sitting at his desk wondering if he should join Michael Garibaldi at the new council meeting that was just about to get underway when he received a call from the bridge.
"Yes?" He answered wondering what they were calling him about.
"Mr. President, we have a situation that you could be interested in." The bridge operator said. "We have a Gmih ship that just arrived and the captain was wondering if you wanted to join here welcoming them aboard?"
"Yes, Delenn and I will be right there." John said signing off and leaving the room to find his wife.
Elizabeth Lockley watched from the docking bay as the Gmih shuttle slowly docked in the bay area. The shuttle was not like the one that she had seen before. This shuttle was less menacing and friendlier this time. She wondered if that had anything to do with the young women that they had taken with them when they left just over a week ago.
A noise behind her made her look over her shoulder and watched as the President, John Sheridan and his wife Delenn walking toward her. At least there would be a diplomatic greeting for them.
"Hello captain!" Delenn said warmly to Elizabeth, who returned the welcoming before turning to John.
"Well captain, did they mention why they were here?" John asked her, he was wondering if something had happened in the war against the Zes.
"No, they just showed up wanting permission to board the station." Lockley replied. "But that does not mean that I'm not worried about this visit."
The three of them watched as the shuttles was now docked and the door appeared and several men in uniforms walked down the ramp. The men did not appear to be armed, but the way the scanned the room and handled themselves, John knew that these men did not need a weapon to make them deadly, these men were elite troops.
Then Bzed and Zabmi appeared from the door and walked down the ramp. They approached the waiting party hand in hand.
"Welcome back aboard Babylon 5." Captain Lockley said to the couple.
"Thank you for having us again, I was not sure you would want us back here." Bzed said to her.
"Yes, thank you for allowing us to come aboard." Zabmi said, using a translator that Bzed had given her a couple of days before.
"Actually, we were wondering how we could reach you." John said as they began to walk down the corridor to the main part of the station.
""I think that you will not have to worry about that." Zabmi said confusing the other three. "I want to ask your government's permission to have a quarters here on Babylon 5." That comment startled all three of them.
"Zabmi needs social contact with a growing society, something that I cannot provide for her, and if she is here, so will I. We will also need rooms for her guards." Bzed said. "Anything else I will state to you government when we officially request a room.
"Have you given any thought to joining the Alliance?" Delenn said, speaking up for the first time since the couple had joined them.
"That I don't know." Bzed said and left it at that.
"There are a lot of issues that need to be worked out for that to happen." Zabmi said knowing the real reasons of Bzed's answer. Personally she hoped that they would join the Alliance. It would allow her to feel a bit safer regardless of where she went.
"We have a security council specially devoted to anything that could be related to the Zes, if you would like to attend?" Sheridan said wondering if they would attend this meeting.
"That would be very convenient for us, I believe I would like that." Bzed said knowing that if they were creating special councils for this purpose then they took the situation seriously.
"I can show you the way and Delenn and Captain Lockley can show Zabmi around the station." John said to the others.
"Sounds good." Bzed replied getting a nod from Zabmi. Bzed turned toward the guard and spoke with them in a hushed tone and then allowed Sheridan to lead him off after giving Zabmi a quick peck on the cheek.
"Have you traveled in space much?" Delenn asked Zabmi after Bzed and John had left.
"This is the first time I've been somewhere that I wasn't a slave." She said trying not to remember her captures.
"I'm sorry, I did not mean to bring up bad memories." Delenn said as an apology.
"It's okay." Zabmi said. "Its something I need to get over."
"You really were captured by the Zes?" Lockley asked as her curiosity got to her.
"Yes, to me I have only been free since I showed up on this station so their ways are like yesterday for me." Zabmi said.
"I take it that you do not like them?" Lockley asked.
"They have no soul!" Zabmi replied bitterly. "They just use you, you are nothing more than an instrument to them."
"That does not sound pleasant." Delenn said as they approached the shopping area. "Perhaps this will be more to your liking." Delenn said to Zabmi as they entered the shopping area of the station.
Zabmi's eyes darted around trying to take it all in. There were shops all over the area, of all types and sizes selling things that she had never seen before.
Delenn and Lockley watched as the women just stood there for a few minutes before she started toward the shops. It was apparent that she loved to shop by her reaction.
"You brought her here on purpose, didn't you?" Delenn whispered to Lockley.
"Well, after what Franklin said about our DNA being similar it only made since that she probably would love to shop, just like we do." Lockley said sharing a smile with Delenn.
Zabmi's guard quickly spread out among the crowd quietly blending in. Lockley noticed that they did not stop the women from doing anything she wanted to do, they just constantly scanned the area looking for danger of someone who might harm her.
Zabmi just quietly wondered around the area with Delenn and Lockley following and answering any questions she had about the different items for sale in the shops. Zabmi had noticed that her guards had spread out in the crowd and did not crowd around her, for this she was grateful. She only wished she had some money to spend, but that would take some time and she would have to talk to Bzed about it. She was not even sure they used money.
An aide came up to Lockley as they were still walking around and she quickly read the note before turning toward Delenn.
"Well, they need me on the bridge, apparently there's a dispute between two traders on docking order, but I do have temporary quarters for our new guests." Lockley said handing the paper to Delenn with a question in her eyes.
"I'll be sure to get them settled captain, try not to let them get to you." Delenn said.
"It was nice to meet you again." Lockley said to Zabmi and Zabmi returned the comment and the captain quickly walked to the bridge.
"Are you hungry?" Delenn asked and Zabmi.
"Yes, do you have any suggestions?" Zabmi asked.
"I know a good place to eat, what about your guards?" Delenn asked looking at the three men who had joined them again now that they were no longer in the shopping area.
"If its no trouble, a table next to you would do fine." The leader of the guard replied. He had been told by reports and spies that the food areas that the ambassadors like Delenn went to were quiet and quite secure so there should be no real threat to Zabmi's life, but sitting next to her would allow them to keep an eye on her and the rest of the room just in case.
"There should be no trouble, the restaurant is usually pretty well empty at this time of the day." Delenn said and led them down the corridor.
Bzed walked into the room where the council was meeting and everyone quickly stopped talking and wondered in amazement how the president managed to get in touch with the leader of the Gmih.
"Don't tell me they just showed up?" Michael Garibaldi said.
"Okay, I won't." John replied back in a bantering tone to which Michael just laughed a bit.
"I hear that you have created a council to report Zes activity?" Bzed said after watching the interaction between the two men.
"Yes, every race, whether they are part of the alliance or not was asked to participate, including the death walkers." Michael said.
"I don't see anyone from the death walkers here?" Bzed said.
"They said that they would sent in their reports and if we would keep them up on any news that we find out. They did that because to many races are still to jumpy at having one of them so near them." Michael said, and Bzed knew that it was the truth, but they traveled quite a bit.
"I am glad that you are taking the threat of the Zes seriously." Bzed said.
"I do have a question for you." One of the representatives said and continued when Bzed was looking at him. "How do we know that you are telling the truth and that you are not the evil slavers?"
"You really don't, but if we were the 'slavers' as you call them we would have already conquered the universe, your fleets are no match for ours." Bzed said and watched as several members nodded their heads.
"Well," The members said with a bit of a laugh. "At least your honest about that, I like that. Thank you for answering my question."
"You're welcome, and I will gladly take any information that any of you can give me." Bzed said knowing that they had taken the threat of the Zes with great concern.
One of the members stood up and approached him. "I lost my home world to these monsters, I hope that you don't plan on stopping this time." He said to Bzed.
"I would have destroyed them all but before I could they fled to another dimension, I don't know how many ships they have now, if they have been building up all this time it could be disastrous for all of us." Bzed said to them all. "I have been working for millions of years to find out where they went, but so far I have been unsuccessful."
"We might have an answer to that one." Garibaldi said thinking a bit as everyone looked at him.
"What do you mean?" Bzed asked curious as to how they could have found this answer.
"We uncovered an ancient temple on a planet, and the members of the security council were on their way to investigate when they were attacked by a race that we now believe is being helped by the Zes." Michael said remembering the reports that he had read.
"An ancient temple, very interesting." Bzed said quietly. "How did you find it?"
"Our scouts found the remains of an ancient civilization and further digging found a large cavern where the temple was in. It took up almost an entire mountain it was so large." One of the members said. "Now being able to translate anything or make since of any of the buildings we contacted the Alliance for help."
"Our scientists think that they had a small gate to the other dimension hidden inside the temple, but it was destroyed before we could investigate any further. And until recently we had forgotten the incident altogether." Sheridan said recalling the invents that G'Kar had told him several years ago.
"Have any of you bee back there?" Bzed asked thinking that there could still be some clues in the wreckage of the temple.
"No, we've monitored the planet for any activity, but have made no further attempt to study the area." The member said.
"I would like to petition you for permission to land a survey team to the site." Bzed said and everyone was surprised that he was going through diplomatic channels instead of being secretive.
"I believe that my government will allow it, you will have to send a petition to our ambassador, and we will probably want to have an observer along." The member said not knowing how his statement would go over.
"Sounds fair enough." Bzed said. "I'll make a petition as soon as we are done here."
The meeting lasted for about an hour more with all of the interested parties asking some questions to Bzed. He answered some of the questions, but not all of them. The few he refused to answer dealt with power and weapon systems on the Gmih's ships. Sheridan was not surprised that Bzed did not answer the questions.
Sheridan and Bzed made their way away from the meeting room. Both men thought that the meeting was a success. Bzed was looking forward to the next meeting as he had learned a few new things. With so many people keeping an eye out for the Zes it put less pressure on his own spy system and allowed him to concentrate on more important matters, like stopping the Zes once and for all.
"I don't know about you, but I'm starving." Sheridan said to Bzed as they approached the cafeteria.
"That sounds good." Bzed said seeing the cafeteria up ahead. It was one of the same ones that he had been at the last time he was at Babylon 5. "I hope the Zabmi had the sense to eat." Bzed stated as the walked into the cafeteria.
"I'm sure that my wife wouldn't let her starve." Sheridan replied to him as they entered the cafeteria.
"Your Swedish Meatballs were pretty good last time I was here, they remind me of something that we used to have." Bzed said making Sheridan laugh a bit.
"G'kar used to say that every race has a version of them." Sheridan said.
"He sounds like he was quite a person, its too bad that I could not have met him." Bzed said. "I have an unusual request to ask." Bzed said as they sat down to eat.
Sheridan looked up at him with a confused face, wondering what Bzed would ask.
"I was wondering if I could get a list of names of those who were killed fighting the Zes, or were killed when their planet was destroyed." Bzed said and Sheridan looked at him strangely.
"Well, I suppose I can get you the list, but I'm sure that they would all like to know why you're asking that." Sheridan said.
"I promise that when I'm done I'll let you see why." Bzed said.
"Okay, I'll ask them." Sheridan said.
"Thanks." Bzed said as they continued to eat.
Bzed walked into his guest quarters to see Zabmi sitting there talking to Delenn. He was glad to see that she was making friends here as well. He did not tell her that while they were waiting for the ship to be built the potential crewmembers held contests to see who would be a part of her ship. Most of the contests were physical, but a few were mental and the competition was quite fierce.
"Hello Bzed." She said getting up and meeting him halfway to the sofa with a hug.
"I see you've found a new friend." Bzed replied returning the hug.
"Yes, she's been quite helpful, she even showed me the shopping area." She said and Bzed could see her eyes light up. He had to chuckle at her.
"You haven't changed much when it comes to shopping." He said and they both laughed. Bzed also knew that she need this, being a slave to the Zes had put some scars on Zabmi that she still refused to talk about, perhaps Delenn might be able to coax it out of her. Bzed made a mental note to talk to her about it sometime later.
"How was the council meeting?" Delenn asked knowing that she would hear about it from John.
"Informative." Bzed said. "It was good to see people working together for a common cause, even though they still don't fully understand what the Zes had done."
Delenn wondered what Bzed meant by that, but decided not to say anything about it. Her experience showed her that patience usually would reveal any secret.
"Well, I must be going, I will allow you two too get settled into the quarters. Would you care to join us for dinner?" Delenn asked as she got up from the sofa she had been sitting on.
"If it's no problem we will accept." Bzed said knowing that Zabmi would love to go.
"Thank you!" Zabmi said to Bzed after Delenn had left the room.
"Well I couldn't let you be disappointed now, could I?" He said to her and got the answering smile that he knew he would get.
Bzed turned as someone knocked on the door.
"Come in." He said wondering who it could be.
"My Lord!" One of the guards said as he entered. "We have a message from headquarters."
"Stay here with the princess." He told the guard then turned to Zabmi. "I don't know how long I'll be gone, but if I still haven't returned by dinner then go on ahead, but take him with you." He said then turned around and walked out the door.
"All right, what's happening?" He asked as he walked into the room.
"We have a Zes attack force sited in hyperspace. They appear to be heading for planet X-E-53." The head guard said to Bzed as others were in the process of setting up a command center in the quarters.
Bzed went right to work helping them set up the communications and other equipment that they needed for their headquarters. After a couple of minutes they had it set up and Bzed started to bark out orders.
"Admiral Olte." Bzed said and waited for his friend to respond.
"Yes, I take it you have heard the report my lord." The man said.
"Yes, any idea as to how large the fleet is?" Bzed asked wondering how many ships they would need to stop this invasion. This time it was headed right for an important planet. If this home world went a lost of moral in the universe would go with it.
"Approximately one hundred and thirty ships my lord." Olte replied crisply.
"Send the fifth battle platoon to interrupt." Bzed said. "But have the Fifth Fleet on standby for spacebend jump.
"Yes sir!" Olte said.
"Captain, I'm picking up a large amount of energy in the guest quarters and a strong signal being sent from that same part of the ship." The bridge officer said to Captain Lockley.
"Any idea as to what is going on?" Lockley asked even thought she knew that they would not.
"No ma'am!"
"Great, I guess we just wait and see." Lockley said.
High above the planet's surface the space seemed calm, unaware of what was about to come. Several ships went to and from the stations that were in orbit, and to and from the planet's surface keeping the trade going. There were a few military warships stationed nearby keeping an eye out for pirates. But raiding any ship or the planet would be rare and extremely difficult do, not to mention highly visible.
The scanner operators on board the ships had been watching the routine flight paths of ships when their instruments registered an extremely high level of energy that they could not pinpoint. Confusion reigned on board the ships as they wondered as to the power source. They would receive their answer in a split second and the space above Earth would be shattered.
One captain of an Earth destroyer felt his blood run cold at the sight. It was something that he had seen when he was helping defend Babylon 5. The blinding lights and condensing forms took to the shape of immense ships that he knew contained unimanagible power. They were Gmih warships, and their arrival only spelled trouble.
The captain quickly radioed his commander and asked that all non-military warships be evacuated because something was about to happen. The commander quickly agreed and the transports were ordered to land or leave Earth space as quickly as they could.
Any attempt to contact the Gmih ships was greeted with silence as the ships aligned themselves into a battle position.
The Earth government and military was still trying to establish contact with the ships when a large number of jump points opened up and Zes warships poured through them.
The Gmih warships opened fire and a mass killing field began in space above the Earth. The captain and crew of the Earth destroyer stayed out of the way even thought they were violating direct orders. They had seen these ships in action once before and they had decided to hold a line and watch out for any Zes ships that broke through the Gmih line.
The battle took less than a half hour before the Zes retreating. They had lost over half of their fighting force before they retreated. The Gmihs seemed to far a bit better, but they to had lost some ships.
The battle was barely over when the Gmih clean up ships arrived and before anyone could even file a protest had the area cleaned up.
It the captain had not witnessed the battle, he would have never known by the look of space that a battle had taken place at all.
Bzed arrived at John and Delenn's quarters just a bit late. He had stopped by his quarters and was told that Zabmi had already left. He quickly changed and made it over there.
When he got there he apologized for being late as he had a pressing matter to attend to.
"That would not have anything to do with the recent attack by the Zes on Earth, would it?" John asked having received information about it as the battle was still going on.
"Yes, we received word that the Zes were on their way to Earth, so we sent a squad of ship your way." Bzed replied not surprised that he was asked that question. Especially seeing that John was from Earth.
"Is this going to be a regular practice, just showing up without any warning?" John asked politely.
"Well, we didn't have much time to warn your government, and we are not used to doing anything like that." Bzed answer honestly. "In the future we will try to give you some warning, but I cannot guarantee anything."
"Fair enough." John said.
"I suppose this means that your war with the Zes is not over." Delenn asked.
"Not until one side is destroyed." Bzed replied.
"Have you tried to talk to them?" Delenn asked her religious personality coming out.
"No, they are nothing like the Shadow or Vorlons Delenn, they want nothing but to conquer, its that simple." Bzed said with a hardening tone in his voice then softening. "I have an idea, if you would allow me, I have something I would like to show you, and the members of the council, or high members of the governments to show you what type of aliens you are up against."
"Well that sounds interesting!" John said as he set down the main course of the meal.
The next morning Bzed found himself back at the council with a few angry members. Most of those that were angry were from the smaller worlds and not from those that were directly involved. The human representative was actually trying to defend Bzed's actions.
"I don't see how you can defend this person, after all they appeared without any warning. My government will not allow such an action like that." The green skinned member said looking right at the human member.
"If they hadn't shown up, my world would have been destroyed, along with my family." The human said back to the other member.
"I still think that he is lulling you into trusting him, then bam, he'll take over your race." The alien said. "You can't trust anyone! He even asked for the names of those who were killed, probably so he knows how many are left."
"Ambassador, you are way out of line!" Sheridan said having witnessed the exchange but was interrupted by Bzed before he could get anymore out.
"You want to know why, fine. I'll show you." Bzed said motioning to one of his guards. The guard left after receiving whispered orders from Bzed. "If you want to come with me, I'll take you on a trip and show you, there are two places I should take you so you know the truth."
A half hour later the entire council along with Zabmi and Delenn were aboard the yacht Princess and departed through the jump gate. It was the first time that anyone other than a Gmih had been aboard a Gmih ship. Bzed was not worried about it though, as there was nothing of real military value on the ship. Her shields were much stronger than anything that the other races had ever seen, and the engines were of special Gmih design, but Bzed was not worried. Even if someone was able to copy the design, there was only one knowing fuel source for the engines and that was still kept top-secret.
John and Delenn walked around the observation area looking at the ship design.
"There seems to be a lot of wasted space on the ship." Delenn said as they looked at the high ceilings that were about twice as high as normal ceilings.
"The entire design almost makes it seem like it was designed for someone bigger." John said.
It was that moment that a very large soldier walked into the room searching out Bzed. John estimated the man to be over nine feet tall. There were three more standing in the hallway who were the same size and everyone could tell that these men were not civilians.
"Excuse me m'Lord." The man said bowing slightly to Bzed who looked on waiting for the message. "There's been another sighting of the Zes, this time they are headed to coordinates 158-39-723. We have Squad 231 and 232 standing by."
Bzed walked over to a monitor and switched it on to see where the attack would be. He noticed the planet that it was and looked around for the ambassador to the planet. "Have them send the fleet at once and have an outside channel opened." Bzed said and the soldier's bowed and left to do their duty. Bzed made his way over to the ambassador. "I suggest that you tell your government that there is a Zes attack wave headed for your planet right now, we've sent two squads to intercept. I've made arrangements for you to be able to warn your government if you want to."
"Yes thank you." The ambassador said and went to warn his home world.
"Were those soldiers typical size for your soldiers." John asked knowing that most of the others were wondering the same thing.
"They represent the size of our typical ground forces, but our forces come in all sizes, but we've found that the large size is better for large ground battles where strength is necessary." Bzed said as a way of an explanation.
The rest of the flight was tense as there were updates to the upcoming battle. The Zes had arrived first but the Gmih ships were not far behind. The battle ended just as they yacht arrived at its destination. The Zes had been defeated again and another planet had been saved.
They took two shuttles down to the planets surface.
"I don't understand?" Zabmi said in her normal language so no one else could understand. She had thought that they were headed to the planet that he had taken her just last week but the planet's surface was a dull gray and looked the same all across it's surface.
"This is a different planet, you'll understand real soon sweetheart." He replied to her as she looked back out the window.
As the shuttle approached the surface the visitors could make our more details of the planet. They were headed to a small raised platform that was the only difference in the entire surface of the planet. There was a few square small buildings that dotted the entire planet, but other than that the entire planet looked like a library, with rows upon rows of stone walls that made all kinds of patterns, from circles to squares to more complex designs as seen from the air.
Zabmi and the other felt the thud as the shuttle landed on the platform and the door was opened. She breathed in the air and felt an odd smell.
"No one needs any thing special to breath this atmosphere, it can be found on only two worlds, and it will support what ever you need. They watched as some of the methane breathing species took off their masks and took a breath and found to their surprise that they could breath normally.
"Where are we?" Delenn asked as they approached a small set of stairs leading down to the surface.
Bzed did not reply right away leading them to one of the stonewalls. As they got closer they noticed that the surface of the wall seemed more like marble and that there was inscriptions all over the wall.
"This is the Planet of the Forgotten." Bzed said to the group.
Zabmi had found a section of the wall that was written in her language and as she read the poem she realized that it was about her, written by Bzed. At the bottom was her name.
"There are all names!" She said as she looked at her name and ran her fingers across the etched letters.
"Except for a few walls, which contain some translation material for these walls, yes. This planet's entire surface is covered with the names of those who we know died fighting the Zes." Bzed said as if he was now only talking to Zabmi herself.
Delenn looked at the wall a bit closer. Most of the names were written in a language she did not understand, but right next to it was a translator stone and she was able to translate a few of the names.
"The entire planet's surface?" She exclaimed as she looked at the section right in front of her. She estimated that there were at least several hundred and maybe even a couple of thousand names in front of her. And these were just the names that were know, who knew how many were never recorded she thought as she walked into the area and looked at the inscriptions on the walls.
Many were shocked into silence, the entire planet was a memorial for those who had no gravestone or anything else for people to remember them. There was one area that had a fountain and a small weeping boy and girl in the middle of the water. John realized that the inscription was written in several different languages. Human English was among the languages much to his surprise. He quickly read the inscription that was simple 'For those whose names we do not know who died by the Zes'.
Delenn found John still standing next to the fountain. She noticed that he appeared deep in thought and she was reluctant to disturb his thinking so she stood silently next to him waiting for him to notice her.
John looked to his left and noticed that Delenn was standing next to him. He wondered how long she had been standing there. He had been thinking that if the planet was full of names that the Gmih were able to capture, then how many intelligent beings had died that no one would ever know about. He came to the conclusion that there was no way to calculate the number.
"How long have you been standing there?" John finally asked her.
"Only a couple of minutes, you looked like you were deep in thought." She replied wondering if he would tell her what he was thinking or if she would have to ask him.
"I was wondering how many people have died that no one will remember." John said. "That's what this fountain represents."
"Its simple, beautiful, yet tragic." She said seeing the inscription in Mimbari.
"You know, it would take our scientist a lifetime and I still don't think that they would have made a dent in the amount of names that are listed here." John said. "On our planet there is a memorial in what used to be the United States and it reminds me of this planet. It is just a wall, called the Vietnam wall, but I've heard that to the survivors and loved ones that it is a powerful memorial."
"The silence and elegance are overwhelming." She said.
"Looks like its time to go." John said looking around as the group had started to reassemble. He noticed the silent expressions that now covered the faces of the council members. Gone was the suspicious attitude toward Bzed and it had been replaced by one of sorrow.
"There is somewhere else that I want to take you." Bzed said to the others as they started to climb aboard the shuttles again.
They all wonder what this place was, but Zabmi seemed to know where they were headed.
It was not much longer that the group found themselves in a small area of forested area with a small monolith in the center of the area surrounded by benches.
Bzed explained the same way he had with Zabmi about the monolith. All the names represented a race that had been killed by the Zes and if possible the last words that they had. They remained at the monument for a while before they made their way back to the shuttles to return to Babylon 5.
The news that the Zes had been defeated brought some excitement and joy to the group. There was still an underlying current of sadness about all the loses that had occurred because of the Zes and the realization that more of it could still happen.
Arriving back at Babylon 5 a more subdued council made their way back to their own chambers to think about what they had just seen.
John and Delenn walked along with Bzed and Zabmi as they headed back to their quarters.
"So, will you be able to defeat the Zes again?" Delenn asked as they boarded an elevator.
"I believe so, but I have not been able to determine their main base yet, what you've seen is just the beginning." Bzed stated as the elevator stopped and the doors opened.
Waiting for them was one of the Zabmi's guards with a look on his face that John, Delenn, and Zabmi could not really describe. It almost seemed to be excitement.
"My Lord, its begun." He said.
"Estimate?" Bzed asked.
"New reports put the enemy fleet totals at twelve point six." The guard said.
"They've been busy, begin total production and lets see if we can find out who's helping them." Bzed replied and the guard left to carry out his orders.
"What's going on?" John asked.
"The preliminary battles are over, they know we are still here and they know that we know that they are here so there will be no more dancing around in the shadows." Bzed replied to the group. "The war has finally started."
The End
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