EP-4: A Vessel was found? Time to go for it!

~Prelude Continued~

Zero now entered the base with his Cpl, the men were all assembled, 5000 strong as low levels, at the very least at Specialist Rank. They were strong warriors, tough and merciless and each man had a wrist blaster to overwhelm the enemy. It was nice to see the PTO expanded over the years with endless troops and planets worth of soldiers, a smile appearing on his face after seeing such a good turnout.

He now got to the stage and began to speak. "Alright Men, the boss demands that the stolen tech that the rebels have been salvaged! We already have a team on the planet doing that but this ship was a giant space station and the planet they crashed on is 3/5th water as well as five times the size of this planet. It's going to be a tough job, we are to purge the capital city of this Uota planet. It's not going to be easy, they have mutant troops, similar to the ones that attacked our city but salvage. The PTO already has 4 ships attacking the four out of five of the only but capital cities on this planet."

He now cleared his throat a bit and continued "This is the capital city of Uota...this is where the juice lives so he has his own imperial guards...not as strong as meh but you men may have a bit of trouble defeating them if you all don't fight like one. Look to your left and your right, look in front of you and behind it. You are all brothers and sisters but your men to the PTO and our most qualified troops for this mission!"

He smirked and then had a serious look on his face, "Your the specialist ranked low levels of our organization which we all work and commit to. I don't expect failure and I don't respect mutiny...play ball and complete this missions for if you fail, the planet is going to go boom and everyone will die...but don't worry men, your great Changeling Knight will survive and continue to serve the World Planet Trade! If you die today, your not worthy of our organization and are just nothing but bodies, bones, and meat! Now get onto the ship, we leave now!" The Troops now went into the ship which was loaded up with warriors wearing PTO Armor and a scouter along with a wrist blaster. The ship now lifted into the air and made their way to Uota, the attack and salvaging would now begin at long last.

Within a few moments, the ship hovered close to the clouds then kept going up, the stars and sun now seen through the windows of the ships by the troops. Soon they left the atmosphere and within even a moment, they now passed through the planet's orbit and shot towards the Water like planet.

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~A Prelude yet again~

Zero was at the bridge sitting in his chair as the ship was now entering the solar system of planet Uota. It seemed to be a large solar system with many planets...21 with Uota included. He now saw a nice set up with this solar system to be taken by the World Planet Trade.

First, they needed to purge the planet of the land lovers so they can set up operations, research, and ally with the Outa-Jin who were space pirates. It would be simple to get them to join, just tell em they work only for us and that we need the other planets to kick up to the Outa-Jin with the PTO keeping the planet safe from liberators and invaders.

It was going to be important, this was a tough job to do. He had the men but those scientists, they could have biological-infantries, a chemical created soilder which could cause issues. Apparently, these scientists mechanized their armies in each city. It would be fun to see how these infanteers measure up to the low levels he brought with him.

He had his middle-class foot soldiers and goons with him in the ship, Second class soldiers so to speak. There were thousands of them on the ship, specialists so to speak since that's who he took. The alien technicians and such kept tabs on all the planets in this solar systems, scanning each planet individually since they passed by 10 of them thus far.

They were being sent back to a PTO outpost in this section of space which the Cold Family had, having full scans of each planet; finding out commerce levels, nature levels, diversity, minerals in the planet, they found that 9 of the planets were bountiful but the 10th one had nothing of use on it.

It looked and was ruined and rotting, there was some tree of sorts growing on the planet and it apparently was the tree which drained the planet. This didn't concern Zero however, he could care less about a dead planet as he was reading the screen while in the Captain's Chair. Soon there was another planet and as well, there were two moons orbiting around each planet with the tenth one having only one moon. There were minerals to harvest and such for the great 'World Planet Trade', this solar system had the potential for a profitable return.

It was untouched by any intergalactic army or organization so it was ripe for the harvest. Now the next planet the ship passed, scanned it and sent it back to a PTO Outpost on a Moon. It was going to be quite the time, but at the same time, they had to purge the Outa-Jin's enemies who were in 5 capital cities which were each 20 times the size of new york. It wouldn't be easy and now the intercom beeped up. "Sir. Zero, we are now arriving at the planet Uota, it seems the cities are hard to take. We lost a lot of manpower making a diversion to salvage the stolen tech the rebels have." He now spoke. "On screen."

The alien's face came on the screen. "You are telling me the troops that followed the ships are barely holding out? Well, I'm here to take the capital city with my second class soldiers. Strong and loyal to the cause of our Grand Emperor Shibo! We need that tech, we need this planet aligned with the PTO and have them serve the Grand Emperor! The weak scientists won't but the space pirates will. How long until the equipment is all salvaged?" The ship was now in orbit and they shot down into the planet's atmosphere, the metals and such in the ship causing the planet entry process to not be a strain on the ship.

They soon stopped as they were now as high as the lookout on earth. They then had 2 more saucers coming in and they flew to two cities which needed to replenish the ranks. The ship was emptied and 1000s upon 1000s of troops came out of the slots and made their way to the central city. Zero now was in a chair and floated up with it as the hatch opened with two first-class soldiers on the left and right side of him. "Alright, I want some intelligence on the men that our troops are fighting...Karta!"

The one on his left side spoke. "200 troops got flesh wounds, 400 troops critically wounded. All 600 could be fixed with a medic tent. 700 troops not able to walk or move, taken off the battlefield and placed into Outa-Jin brand pools to heal. 400 troops dead and the rest still fighting, 1,500 strong." Zero now smirked. "Good Job Karta..." He now turned to the first class soilder on his right. "Koppi! Go down and lead the men into victory against the enemy. They are much stronger than the 3rd class soldiers and should be able to keep the enemy distracted." The human now shot down with a blue aura about his body while heading into the war zone.

He now turned to Karta. "We're going to deploy ourselves down to attack the...." Suddenly his scouter beeped and two bio-warriors appeared in front of him. One now rushed towards Zero with a face punch which he used his hand to chop at and nearly break the attacking fist before performing a tailwhip to its face, sending him flying with the soilder that was with the Changeling Knight to thrust his finger forward and a blast hit it which broke the attacking creature with the second now trying to whip Zero with electric like energy whips which Zero warped out of harms way from then got above him with a hard elbow to the top of its head, dropping it then with both palms discharged a purple ball of energy which was fast moving and hit the creature, blowing it up without much trouble or stress.

Suddenly a drop ship decloaked and cyborgs came out of the ship and opened fire on Zero who covered up as the bullets sprayed the changeling knight who just kept his defenses up as the gunfire came down. It wasn't something he enjoyed but he had a job to do. He now thrusted his right finger forward with his arm thrust towards the attacking warriors which the missile shaped finger beams kept striking and striking all of the attacking cyborgs, the rapid finger beams breaking each one as the Changeling knight kept firing. More and more cyborgs came out and Zero kept firing blasts as a distraction while the 1st class PTO Soilder now fired a thick wave of energy after charging towards the drop ship and causing it to smoke and drop to the ground with the parts of the cyborgs Zero broke, the ship fell to the ground before exploding. It looked like this one platoon was dead and was no use against a changeling knight. It was plain laughable to thing that the PTO was gonna be shaken down and broken by some inferior race, laughable to say the least.

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A strong creature now broke out of a building, a man in a brown bull hyde with horns now seen and staring at Zero with a really big grin on his face. He now stood on a building and began to power himself up with a purple film of sparks and energy coming about his body, it was getting serious. The low levels now surrounded the creature and used their wrist cannons to fire strong energy blasts at the creature to slow him down. Soon after the first volley of blasts chaos ensued, bio-troops now went to defend who was seen as a super weapon with the second class PTO troops now firing endless energy beams and waves from the wrist blasters against the enemy.

The enemy made a perimeter and it was up to Zero to break it. He now powered himself up, now transforming into the second form of his changeling racial transformation and was bigger with his body now as big as this brute with horns as well. He now discharged a large orb towards the attacking troops which blew up and shook the center of the city, causing buildings to break, crack and fall to the ground in ruins. Everything was going according to plan, the enemy was losing ground as the PTO Troops kept up the firepower, having attacks in volleys with the wrist cannons, it wasn't going to be pretty but it was satisfying to Zero, all this carnage and devastation brought joy to his cold heart hearing people screaming as the buildings fell to the ground without much fuss or resistance.

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This was turning out well, Zero now shot up into the air and once he got high enough, fired a volley of explosive finger beams from the right hand as the pointer finger was discharging these finger beams down upon the remaining buildings, explosions and shaking was heard throughout the region and within a while, buildings were crumbling to the ground.

While this was happening the troops kept fighting the enemy which just kept coming like suicide soldiers. It was getting insane, bodies were mounting up and it looked like they were winning this firefight, The enemy kept coming as they died off and within time, the cities were taken 4 out of five cities were now almost taken along with the city Zero was in, it was getting crazy but these troops held the line well and killed off everyone. Little known to anyone but PTO elites were on the planet, taking down the strongholds of the scientists who lived on the surface and began to purge them all, stealing all the research and putting an end to this automated army they had built trying to take down the fish aliens who were all space pirates. The enemy dropped and fizzed out as the source was taken and nothing was programmed to attack anymore.

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