Chapter 199: (The War) (2/2)
The beings looked down at Gergy.
”Doki. Doki doki doki. DOKI! Doki,” the round faced primate with cat ears and pink hair said solemnly. Icons and emojis appeared over her head, too fast for Gergy to understand.
Gergy's translator clucked and chuckled for a moment then gave up.
”Doki doki. Joan. Doki. Kawaii doki,” the pink haired warrior in pink power armor said, nodding and crossing her armored arms. A smiley face was above her for almost a full second.
”Um, yes?” Gergy guessed.
”WAAAAAAGGGGH!” the green skinned one roared. What came next was just a barrage of harsh syllables and bellowing. Icons flashed above its head, where it wore what appeared to Gergy to be at least four wigs or scalps taken from others. It socked the pink haired on in the shoulder and the pink haired one had, somehow, beating hearts overlay her eyes for a moment.
His translator gave up with a slight whine and a thin tendril of blue smoke.
”Yes?” Gergy guessed again.
The two slammed their chests together, the pink haired one suddenly waving pompoms that still fired bullets in the air while the green skin one fired off his weapons into the air. Beyond them the thousands of identical soldiers did the same.
There was a weird fzzzzt feeling that made the back of Gergy's teeth tingle.
The field was empty. Just ash raining from the sky.
Having no clue what that was all about, but grateful for the two strange species assistance in destroying the out of control plant life, Gergy waddled over to his government skimmer.
The High Packguru would be happy to know the Terrans had (apparently?) defeated the biological plague.
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Admirals Log
The Lanaktallan forces so far have been no match for my Armada. The casualty count on Harmony Worlds where the Lanaktallan forces have made landing and attempted conquest has been from light to extreme.
Bioweapon use has occurred on at least fifteen of the twenty planets we have liberated so far. In six cases the Lanaktallan military forces fled before we arrived but left behind a bioweapon that seemed to, well, zombify everyone exposed.
The Lanaktallan do not subscribe to any code of warfare for their own actions but expect the Federation to obey rules that they themselves had decided should be enforced.
For a belligerent to make up rules that only the opposition has to follow is the height of warfare hypocrisy. To insist that no CBRNAN weapons be used by anyone opposing the Lanaktallans while they freely engage in it makes all of their other demands and complaints instantly irrelevant.
We are about to break orbit after dropping Soup Generators. A 1.1 billion population planet reduced to 850,000 after only a few months of Lanaktallan occupation. Thankfully we've seen this kind of bioweapon before on three different worlds.
My crew is currently undergoing psychotherapy.
At Warp 6.6 my armada should reach Beauty-38 in thirty-one hours. The Lanaktallan forces there will, of course, outnumber us by nearly a thousand to one but the Romulan Attack Group 97 and the Klingon War Force 318 will be meeting us enroute.
I will finish this. I will drive the Lanaktallan out of Harmony Space.
Admiral Jeff Picark 8873
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The atomic clocks, all synchronized off of the Bongistan Big Bonger, all reached zero.
Across Lanaktallan space, across the Outer Sphere and Inner Sphere, the roar was heard from every speaker, every flat surface, from the air itself.
Across thousands of worlds it rang out.
SPACE FORCE IS HERE!
Across these worlds, all of them military, industrial, or resource storage systems, hundreds of ships dropped from superluminal flight and into realspace within the exact nanosecond the others did.
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CONFED
Probing attacks and recon has ended.
The counter-attack has started.
Repeat.
The counter-attack has started.
Operation Kingfisher had been initiated.
All Gestalts prepare for incoming war sensory input.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
MANTID FREE WORLDS
Oooooh, this is gonna hurt.
---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
TERRASOL
And here...
we...
go...
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