Marvel: A New God's Reign

Chapter 84: An Actual Star War

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"All right, sweethearts, you're a team and there's nothin' to worry about. We come here, and we gonna conquer, and we gonna kick some, is that understood?"

— Sergeant Apone, (Aliens)

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<{Aboard Ronan's Primary Command Ship}>

<(Omniscient POV)>

"What is happening? Why have the enemy forces not backed away despite the huge army Thanos has sent us as backup?" Ronan muttered with an angry frown on his face as he looked at the giant pyramid still floating in space on the opposite side.

"They are not like the regular armies that we normally fight, my lord. They are like savages, demons that only focus on killing using everything they have. They are not even the least bit afraid of death. In fact, they are no less dangerous than the infamous Chitauri army that Thanos lent us for this war. One could even say that these... cyborgs are even better than them when it comes to working together in a horde." A blue-skinned Kree woman standing behind Ronan dutifully answered him without missing a beat, scared that her silence might result in her death at the hands of her own boss.

"Better than Chitauri? That's impossible. The Chitauri army is known for their absolute loyalty and their discipline because of their hive mind while the outriders are known for their wild savagery.

I could have understood if this army of flying bugs would have won against the Outriders since those beasts are just a bunch of wild dogs trained by the Titan to kill, torture, rampage and rape others instead of their own kind like they used to before the titan trained them. But winning against a disciplined well-trained army like the Chitauri in direct conflict? That was impossible especially since this was just a new no-name army nobody had even heard of before." Ronan bellowed in rage before breaking the display nearest to him with a single swing of his Kree war hammer while the Kree woman just watched it happen with a scared look.

Ronan and his forces had originally encountered this army while exploring the star system for a unique energy signature that was coming from here. He, like many others, had been tasked by Thanos to search the galaxy for some hidden mythical weapon that the mad titan wanted, a weapon that was supposed to have an energy signature similar to the one they traced.

Ronan had entered this particular star system to scan the planets to pinpoint exactly where the energy readings were coming from. Unfortunately, however, they couldn't find anything related to the energy readings they had previously received since most of the planets in the star system were either completely submerged in water or frozen in ice leading to them being unable to be properly scanned.

But just when they had lost all hope and were about to leave, they detected some stray battle and mining ships entering the desolate star system, trying to land on one of the flooded planets. Now, this was extremely fortunate for Ronan and his people since their appearance on the planet out of nowhere made it pretty apparent that the newcomers knew something about the energy signature that they had previously detected.

Ronan's original plan was to intercept these ships and force the crew to give up whatever information they possessed. He was extremely confident of easily defeating any small crew with the help of his loyal soldiers even if they were the Nova Corps themselves but alas, reality was often more disappointing than one would think.

What he had foolishly thought of as weak forces hired from some small mercenary organization gave him and his crew more than just a run for their money. Ronan and his men had to give their all just to somehow survive their assault.