By Cover of Skyfall (MS Quest)

Two days later Jhelks stood upon the surface of Namek deep in the heart of the rolling fields of the Maima Region. A seemingly endless expanse of blue grass stretched out to the horizon and beyond to the east, west, and south of Jhelks position. Overhead the green sky of Namek was crystalline and beautiful, except for the deadly Ramah's Comet which could be seen just beyond the atmosphere. The comet and it's trailing meteor belt were so massive that each main chuck was the size of a continent, and their sheer overwhelming bulk blocked out two of Namek's three suns from the horizon. With only one sun obscured the blazing daylight that Namek was known for had been lessened greatly, reducing the midday light to that of early dawn on most single sun planets.

Peering at the almost comically large body of Ramah's Comet passing overhead Jhelks released a sigh of relief that none of the main planetoid was to come close enough to strike Namek's surface. If even one of those larger shards were to impact the planet than Jhelks would have been certain that his home world would suffer a extinction level catastrophe. Still however the warrior felt that the soon to be upon them meteor storm would be hurling more than damaging hunks of debris almost planet wide.

Tearing his eyes off the wonder of nature that was the massive comet, Jhelks instead focused his attention to the north. Far across the blue plains the warrior could see the expansive lands of Pumpum Farms. Nearly two hundred acres of Namekian soil had been planted with seeds from different planets, creating an array of crops, bushes, trees, and stalks. The soil of Namek was exceptionally fertile and so many of the fruits and vegetables of Earth and Vegeta could easily be cultivated. The sight of the foreign foliage instead of Namek's own beautiful ajisa plants was disturbing to Jhelks, in his time serving the PTO Jhelks had seen many planets invaded. In the warrior's mind he viewed the slowly growing populations of Saiyan's and human's on Namek as it's own type of invasion tactic.

Shaking his head clear of the dark thought Jhelks looked back to the sky and began to wait, knowing that sometime in the next hour the meteors would start to fall. Settling in and enjoying the feel of a gentle breeze across his scalp Jhelks did wonder where Cargot and his raiders were hiding? All the bulky Namekian had told him however was that they would be hiding nearby the village, ready and waiting to strike. Shrugging at the thought Jhelks sat with his legs crossed and focused on meditation for the next hour until the Skyfall began.

Over an hour later Jhelks watched as the sky filled with streaks of smoke and fire. the meteors had begun their decent across Namek and the expected storm was set to last for hours. Guessing that the first pieces of debris would strike within minutes Jhelks took to his feet and began to run towards Pumpum Farms. Even with running at top speed Jhelks couldn't hope to reach the farm before the first meteors struck. To the north the Namekian could see figures flying on the horizon shooting beams of brilliant ki up into the sky. Sometimes one blast was enough to destroy a falling meteor, other times it required many. Than a figure came into view over the farm structures, a figure that grew larger and larger until it stood near to four stories tall!

A Namekian warrior had turned Great Namekian in the farm ahead, each sweep of his massive arms cleared meteors from the sky that had dare to pass within his reach. The sight was something impressive to behold but Jhelks couldn't watch for long as a flaming stone struck the dirt a dozen yards in front of him. Unable to fire ki blasts at approaching debris without risking discovery Jhelks was forced to put his acrobatics to the test as more and more stones fell to the blue fields. Dodging and flipping as he ran through a shower of stones took nearly all of the warriors concentration, and more than a few meteors passed him within inches. Easily close enough to shower the warrior with dirt and heat as they struck the soil.

Luckily the meteor's angle of approach was from the north, this meant that Jhelks could see every meteor falling towards him as long as he looked up. It also meant the defenders of Pumpum Farm's weren't looking south. As great a distraction as the meteors were however Jhelks picked a path that had him eventual reach a crop of earthly apple trees. The gnarled limbs and bushy leaves helped the Namekian to hide even more as he finally reached the farm. Echoes of explosions and the sound of snapping branches wehn smaller meteors slipped through the farms defenses sang out all around Jhelks as the warrior dived behind a tree at the edge of the crop.

Peeking around the rough tree trunk Jhelks scanned every building he could see for evidence of what purpose they served. Many shacks and barns were immediately recognizable. It wasn't until Jhelks found a building with and array of satellite dishes and antennas that the warrior felt he had discovered his target. "Seems like my best bet." the warrior muttered to himself as he scanned for a path to the building, which was four buildings away across an open field.

Before conducting an open sprint Jhelks looked over the rest of the farm. Guessing their to be about twenty warriors present to defend the farm, most of them floated in the air firing ki blasts at the sky. The rest seemed to be safe guarding houses and barns over the fields of crops. Jhelks guessed the farmers must be hold up for safety inside the buildings. "Okay, lets do this." Jhelks said aloud to ready himself, right as a meteor took out the tree to his right in a shower of fire, dirt and splinters!

Spurred to action by the unexpected meteor Jhelks bolted across the farm as fast as he could manage. With nothing to hide behind the warrior was left with just running full tilt. Sixty feet from the door Jhelks saw another meteor falling his way. Fifty feet from the door he witnessed a Saiyan male turn to give the meteor chase! Thirty feet to the door Jhelks wasn't sure if he would be able to dodge the incoming meteor without stopping his charge. At twenty feet a ki beam struck the falling debris and blew the flaming wreckage to cinders!

"What the hell are you doing! Get inside before you get hurt!" the male Saiyan screamed at Jhelks before a aura covered his body and he rapidly flew back to his post. Jhelks blew a sigh of relief as he darted up to the door and barreled his way inside. Slamming the door behind him Jhelks found himself inside an obvious science center for the farm. A sadistic grin spread over the dark Namekian's features as he realized he was safe for the time being.

He was safe, everyone he found inside sure as hell wasn't.

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WC: 1,208
Totel WC: 3,289

The Green Star technique was of Jhelks own design, it's flashing pattern of light was tantalizing to behold and often lure enemies into dropping their guard. This also meant that it gave Jhelks time to pick a target out of the sky, take aim, and lob a ki blast at one of the farm's defenders. The ki blast struck Jhelks target full in the chest, knocking the goodly Namekian several feet backward through the air. "What the hell was tha-!" the goodly defender began to cry out in response to the weak ki blast, only to be cut short as a meteor caved in the man's skull.

Grinning at how perfectly he had line up his target with the descending rock, Jhelks suddenly had to throw himself hard to the side as two balls of ki came crashing down where he had stood the moment prior. Looking skyward the dark Namekian found his attackers instantly, two defenders whom had just witnessed their allies death. Rolling to his feet Jhelks bolted into a sprint as a volley of ki descended upon him. The two defenders went full bore as they attempted to gun down Jhelks, who focused solely on running and dodging the life ending beams.

Luckily Jhelks didn't have to run for long as a clawed hand ripped through one defenders chest, the other meanwhile was blasted to pieces as a ki orb detonated against his back. When the raining volley of death ended Jhelks came to a stop and heaved in air as he tried to return energy to his tired body. "You really did have it in you after all!" called out a familiar voice as Cargot flew down from the sky to land beside Jhelks. "Hope you and the gang got the rest, I'm damn near spent." Jhelks replied, much to heighten Cargot's mirth. "Trust me, we got the rest." the bulky Namekian said as he walked away from Jhelks, his form expanding and growing into that of a Great Namekian. By the time Cargot reached full size the huge warrior charged the defenders own giant warrior.

Jhelks could only stare in shock at the transformation, the young warrior having no clue that Cargot possessed enough power to take the Great Namekian form. Even as the two giants engaged in battle smaller warriors fired blasts through the air as fiery meteors fell from the sky. It was only when one of these flaming stones crashed through a barn nearby to Jhelks that the warrior was brought back to himself. "Right, the battle." he muttered to himself as the warrior flew into the air.

Encasing himself in aura the dark Namekian began to zip around the battlefield, blasting beams of energy at every non-Namekian he could find. With Cargot distracting the enemy Great Namekian and many defenders falling in the first wave of the surprise assault, the aerial battle quickly became one sided. With defenders dropping like Flys Jhelks went from surviving enemy to enemy, often blasting or impaling them through the back as they battled another Dark Namekian raider.

Once the tenth defender fell Jhelks witnessed the remaining five who had yet to perish attempting to evacuate the employees and families of Pumpum Farm's across the burning fields of crops. "After them boys! We can't allow anyone to survive!" Jhelks cried to the eight or so raiders within earshot. Thw evil warriors hooted and hollered as they sped through the air to give chase at Jhelks's order. Before Jhelks himself could fly after them however a loud crash rang out through the blazing battlefield.

Spinning through the air to peer behind him, Jhelks saw Cargot collapsed upon a crushed capsule home. The massive Namekian looking a combination of dazed and strained, his giant enemy looming over him. Looking around at the ground the Great Defender plucked up an over turned tractor in his massive hand, and swung the machine hard against Cargot's temple. Jhelks had never truly liked the defeated dark Namekian, but the young warrior did respect him. Perhaps that was the reason Jhelks did what he did next.

Flying at full speed and power Jhelks crashed full body into the Great Defenders temple. The impact was like beating his own face against raw stone and the much smaller Namekian bounced off the giant. The tackle had gotten the Great Defenders attention however, the massive warrior threw his tractor at Jhelks full force! Only narrowly dodging the mangled machine Jhelks was not fast enough to avoid the swatting palm than knocked him out of the sky like an insect.

Smashing into the dirt like an missile, Jhelks could feel his broken leg as he lay half buried in loose soil. "FOOL! Your ilk should not have come here!" the Great Defender boomed in a thunderous voice as he raised both hands over his head, readying to bring them clubbing down upon the smaller Namekian. Jhelks tried to speak, but only blood escaped from his lips. Through hazy vision the warrior saw his end, he saw the Great Defender ready to strike, he saw the massive shadow that eclipsed everything behind the giant.

"GA-!" the thunderous voice bellowed in shock, the Great Defender took two staggering steps forward and fell to the earth with a mighty crash! Luck alone kept Jhelks from being crushed by the falling giant, and the dark Namekian knew only confusion as he slipped into unconsciousness.

Hours later Jhelks snapped awake in a rush! Pain flared through his beaten body, but the warrior found himself bandaged and laid out upon a makeshift stretcher. The bulky Cargot sat beside Jhelks returned to his normal size. "Good, your awake. I figured you'd die." the large green man joked. Jhelks could only look at his companion confused. "How'd we live? Did we succeed?" he asked, a gaze toward the sky revealed that the meteor shower had come to a conclusion.

"We won. You saved me somehow... and it would seem the gods choose to save you." Cargot said pointing towards the corpse of the Great Defender, a massive meteor lodge deep into the giants spine. The image made Jhelks think of the Earthen food known as avocado, for the dead giant looked much like one with the meteor serving as the giant pit when you cut one in half. "The rest of our crew is searching for valubles among the wreckage. We lost four warriors, but no survivors escaped and the farm is destroyed. Once we leave no one will ever know we were here." Cargot finished as he climbed to his feet.

"You'll be paid upon our return to Slug Town. Also... don't expect any thanks from me." Cargot said as he began to head towards a wrecked barn, presumably to search for his own loot. Looking down at his bandaged and tended body Jhelks guessed Cargot had already shown all the thanks he should hope to expect. "Yeah, don't expect it from me either." the young warrior replied as he laid back down to rest, awaiting their return to the underground.

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WC: 1,177
Total WC: 5,677 (I know grading stops at 5K. just wanted to end things right)