The War Within

Chapter 13

     Zubelon was hovering directly above his palace, watching the extermination of the Tasoolian race unfold before his eyes with a twisted grin on his face.

        “Yes, yes,” he cried. “In mere moments, I will have erased these wretched slaves from the face of this earth! Then, I will move on to exterminate all of humanity, and bring forth the dawn of a new era! Bwahahaha! All shall know the terror of King Zubelon!” The loud cackling of the maniacal tyrant echoed throughout the entire area as the Tasoolian slaves had no chance of survival. Those that did get away from the robots in time, managed to hide in the underground caverns Zubelon forced them to search through, but just then, a ray of hope shined upon the Tasoolian race as Jake, Captain Reko, and Darzay appeared in the midst of this chaos. Darzay looked around, seeing spreading flames, blood puddles here and there as well as scattered body limbs and organs. Seeing this made him chuckle.

        “I like what you’ve done with the place, Zubelon,” he said to himself.

        “He must have known we were coming,” Captain Reko said with a growl. “Even if he did, he’s gone way too far with this.” Zubelon spotted the three and began chuckling.

        “So you’ve finally returned, boy,” he yelled out to Jake, “and you’ve brought friends!? Perfect! I’ll have more to kill! With this newfound power of mine, I don’t even need the artifact to crush you all into dust! Robots! Forget about the slaves and eliminate the Resistance! It’s about time I put this rebellion to rest once and for all!” Zubelon’s red eyes began glowing, and he let out another ferocious laugh as a hundred of Zubelon’s robots flew down and landed in front of the trio. Darzay chuckled and warmed up his plasma gun.

        “What do you say, Reko,” Darzay said with a smirk on his face. “You take half and I take the other half?” Captain Reko did not respond. Instead, he walked in front of Darzay and Jake and pulled both of his swords out of their sheaths.

        “You both go on ahead,” he said in a low, serious tone. “I’ll take care of these robots.”

        “But Dad,” Jake pleaded, “you’re only one Tasoolian against like a hundred of those things! Not to mention that a lot of them are the gorilla types! The types that you couldn’t handle on your own!”

        “...Heh, have a little faith in me. I’ll be fine. Darzay...I’d hate to say this, but I’m trusting you with my son. Make sure he doesn’t get hurt.”

        “And what makes you think that I won’t kill him myself?”

        “I think you already know what’ll happen to you if you lay a finger on him.”

        “I’ll do what I want, Reko. Let’s go, runt.” Jake nodded and teleported away with Darzay, leaving Captain Reko by himself. A grin came to his face as the robots charged at him.

        “Alright, come get some!” Captain Reko charged at the robots and leaped into the air, pouncing on top of a robot and slicing its head clean off. The other robots swarmed around him readying their plasma cannons while the gorilla robots readied their eye lasers, which gave Captain Reko the opportunity to continue his attack. He put his swords in their sheaths and charged at the robots in front of him, and the machines fired their weapons at him from all directions. Acting on instinct, Captain Reko jumped into the air while the plasma balls and laser beams collided, and caused an explosion behind him. As he was in the air, Captain Reko's communicator began beeping and he saw four of Zubelon's robots flying​ up to him. He quickly did a somersault and landed on top of one of the robot's shoulders, and used them to bounce higher into the air. More plasma balls were shot at Captain Reko, which forced him to weigh his options in a manner of seconds.