RIPE & DRAGGERS

CHAPTER 28

Pedro was loosing the dog-fight against the six Brahm giants. If not for the strength of his armor, he would have acquired several injuries by now.

On the other side of the planet, where the remainder of the Brahm fleet is slowly gaining strength against the defensive satellites, is now surprised by a left flank attack from Rik-Salamunbi's fleet of fighter speeders.

As Bob continued to slice each battleship one by one, Salbi came like a plague towards the enemy fleet.

The slow movement of the heavy battleships are now swarmed with very fast, very agile Gakuran speeder fighters; hitting precise tactical points that damages almost half of the fleet instantly.

"I told you they would come..." Aunt Rei said in the comms with much pride in her voice.

On Pedro's side, the Brahm fleet is giving the defense satellites a test of their worth when a green pod laser hit one of the nearest large battleship that instantly went lifeless upon impact.

Pedro as well as Wondro and the other six Brahm warrior stopped at their fight to witness what just happened.

Somehow a pod gun fired from the surface of the green ornament, instantly killing a battleship in the process that is now plunging to another battleship in its bottom position.

This is what a real gun should be like, Pedro thought and now they are witness to its power as it crushes a large battleship with just one hit.

Before they knew it, another pod gun fire came from the surface and hit another battleship in stunning precision. Again killing another battleship with one fire.

Wondro and his comrades watch in awe at the sight.

Pedro took advantage of this and dragged towards the nearest Brahm warrior. Killing him with one slice before going to the next, and before you knew it, four Brahms are dead by his blade. But Wondro is faster than he thought as he deflected Pedro's treacherous attack that threw the Runkan away, crashing him to the steel hull of the nearest ship.

The remaining three of them was about to finish him off when the other half of Salbi's fleet started to rain fire upon them and forced them to re-group to their command ship.

Pedro just laid there, injured, watching the chaos all around him; particularly the Jungle that tries to escape the six Brahm warriors in chariot boots that relentlessly chases them.

Those six Brahm warriors are faster than expected and they grabbed the Jungle in six different sides. One by one they pounded with their fists and started to rip Rodrick's ship with their gauntlet hands.

Gener was a bit surprised when Bob landed gently beside him where he stands on the steel deck of a floating dead battleship.

Bob was looking towards the green ornament planet and murmurred "Kai.." as if seeing thru the planet where the others are.

It's not even possible, Gener thought, for him to look that far away and see what's happening. So he turned on his monitor and saw the Jungle being torn into pieces by six Brahm warriors angrily pounding at the spinning ship, now smoking and exploding into piece by piece.

At this rate, its only a matter of seconds before the six monsters totally disintegrated the ship into space debris. One of them breached the hull but Kai was waiting inside with her rifle. At the slightest view, she fired her rifle hitting the Brahm in the face instantly killing the beast. One of the other five saw this and jumped towards the whole and quickly inserted his arm inside, grabbing Kai by the neck.

"No..." Bob said, seeing what is happening.

Gener looked at his friend Bob, who now started to float while his eyes turned black and it's pupils bright red.

What the fuck?

Kai's brother started to fire his blaster at the Brahm's arm and it swiveled the girl around until finally letting her go as she hit the inner walls.

"Lima.... I know you have the bloodline and you will not take action without my consent, but as of now; I am taking claim to this army." Bob said in all sincerity that made the Brahm pause and answer.

"Yes boss...." Lima said in humility.

Bob's dark hair started to rise up and glow bright red and his body seemed to emit some red smoke of some kind. There's been stories of this sight when they were little. In fact, there's a name for it; Gener just never thought he would be seeing it now. It was scary and beautiful at the same time, and it's a bit hard to believe even now as he sees it in close proximity.

Bob is a 'prime-dragger'.

His kind used to appear as one per billion, centuries ago. Legends of unknown origin that depicts a much powerful, more scary kind of Runkan supremacy.

A prime-dragger can back-drag the space time continuum as well as 'front-drag' it making him the fastest and deadliest specie in the galaxy.

Before Gener could blink, Bob dragged towards Kai's ship at tremendous acceleration that Gener almost tumbled down at the force of it all.

What's more surprising is that Bob reappeared on top of 'the Jungle'; that is easily thousand of kilometers away from his position. No back dragger can achieve this drag-distance. This is literally a curve-jump without a ship.

"Fuck me..." Gener said in amazement as he saw on his monitor, how Bob's impact arrival drove all six of the Brahm warriors away in forceful blow; and surprising the commander, Wondro, in space walk, face to face with a prime-dragger.

Being a back-dragger himself, Wondro pulled the drag to hurl himself towards Bob in the speed of sound. But Bob being able to drag the continuum towards the front made things worse for Wondro.

For Bob, Wondro's attack seemed like a turtle crawling towards him with a blade stuck out in suspended animation.

He was so slow that he could reach his neck with no effort at all and Wondro fell in awe at how fast Bob could evade him and hold his neck instantly as he blinked.

"I am your dominant..... And your army is mine." bob said as he slowly squeezes on Wondro's neck, using the energy field of the front-drag.

"Tell the army to stop the attack or I will drag a blackhole into the center for your regiments." Bob added.

Wondro feeling helpless for the first time in his life fell silent and started to feel the intensity of Bob's threat, therefore he could only say one thing, "Yes boss....."

"Lima.... Do it now." Bob said to his comm-link, igniting Lima's rage.

Lima breached the enemy command ship with his large hammer and faced Baran-gut inside the bridge.

"I am Lima of the third blood and the true supreme commander of the remaining Brahm regiments." he said walking deeper into the huge battleship's bridge; letting go of his large hammer.

"And my master, Bobby Pluma has taken dominance to your declared commander hence I claim this army in his name.." he added, drawing his small blade sheathed in his chest plate.

Baran-Gut took the battle stance and shouted his attack growl. "Never!!!"

He ran towards Lima and jumped at the last instance to stab Lima in the chest.

Lima jumped to his right and grab hold of Baran-Gut's head with his right hand while his left hand holding the small dagger plunged it deep upward into his neck, all the way up to his brain; killing Baran-Gut before they both landed on the deck. The dagger kill is an ancient skill passed on to royal bloodlines only.

Something that Lima has excelled in several years ago.

And so, Lima threw Baran-Gut's dead body away like garbage and faced the witnesses around the bridge.

"Any other objections?" he asked them in royalconfidence, signaling the end of this conflict for now.