As the last of the original Dinozaur died, the new Dinozaur Reverse shrieked at the assembled machines and placed themselves between the heroes and the other monsters.
Bogal’s appearance managed to separate the Twin Tail and Goudon from their ferocious battle and had the earth monsters backing away from the space terror, only to be corralled by the new Dinozaur Reverse’s collective backs. Bogal’s claws twitched with anticipation as she approached them.
“Kabuto!” Ryouma shouted, “Come with me, the rest of you—attack Bogal before it can feed!”
A collective “Roger” went through the radios as the groups split up, though as they did one of the Reverse Dinozaur lumbered after Getter Dragon and Mazinger Z.
“Geeze,” Kabuto scowled, “Think this guy knows what we’re planning?”
“Well,” Benkei said, “It does have two heads. Maybe they
are better than one.”
Hayato’s cringe was not transmitted over the radio but Kabuto and the other Getter pilots knew it was happening—mostly because they shared a similar expression.
As the monster gained on their position, Mazinger Z unleashed a brief volley of missiles from ports at the elbow before it and Getter unleashed a direct energy assault. The Dinozaur Reverse plowed through the hail of missiles as if they were not there.
“Now that’s a Kaiju!” Kabuto sneered as the Dinozaur Reverse opened its maws to unleash a defiant shriek.
The call of “Photon Beam!” accompanied “Getter Beam!” as the two robots let loose a torrent of photonic and getter energy.
The yellow photon beams struck the monster in between its necks, while the pinkish beam from Getter Robo struck one of the beast’s heads. Burning flames erupted from each blast point. The Photon beams gouging burning pot-marks between the necks, while the Getter Rays put out one of the monster’s eyes, leaving it a gaping, bleeding sore and blackening over half of its face.
The injured face howled in pain, but the rest of the animal continued to plod forward.
“Aw,” Benkei moaned, “What makes these ones so tough? They’re the same monster—just backwards!”
“Life is full of cruelties” Hayato answered plainly.
“Kabuto!” Ryouma called out, “Distract it while we help Jack to his feet!”
“Done!” Kabuto answered before he flew straight at the Dinozaur Reverse at full speed. The monster braced itself, but was unprepared for Kabuto’s slight deviation to the left—scrapping the blade of his wing against its side. Though the monster howled in pain—only sparks flew from the contact point. Upon reaching the other side of the monster, Kabuto turned to face it—as the monster turned to face its attacker.
“IRON CUTTER!” Kabuto shouted as Mazinger Z’s fists launched from their sockets—blades extending from the sides of the forearms—taking a twisting trajectory over the monster’s neck and face. Shallow cuts were left in twin trails of pain across the monster’s body before the fists returned.
‘Wonder if that worked as a distraction...’ Kabuto thought before the Dinozaur Reveres’ mouths opened and lashed out with their mono-molecular tongues.
Nearby, the other team members were having even less success. Most of the F-302 ordinance had been spent by this point, and their remaining railgun rounds did little more than distract the giants.
“BREAST BURN!” Tetsuya Tsurugi shouted as his mech bathed a Dinozaur Reverse in burning light. The creature cringed from the beam directed at its face and showed signs of burns, but was otherwise unencumbered; “These new ones are a lot tougher than the first wave—THUNDER BREAK!”
Lighting from the tips of Great Mazinger’s fingers lashed out to the burned face Dinozaur Reverse—destroying it in an explosion of gore. The neck that held it fell limply, but the other head remained alive and active, lashing at Great Mazinger with its razor sharp tongue.
“Indeed,” Teal’c answered over the intercom, “Perhaps reinforcements are in order.”
“Or at least a resupply stop,” Cameron added, “I’m down to my last 20 rounds!”
The earth monsters were doing about as well as the F-302s against their foe. Bogal had already stunned Goudon with his blows and was in the process of repeatedly pile-driving Twin-Tail into the ground to weaken it.
When the alien’s tremendous mouth moved to engulf Twin Tail and in the space of a few bites made the monster disappear into what Cameron presumed was its gut, he couldn’t help but do a double take.
“Yeah, where’s that second wave?” he shouted.
“I’m almost within range!” Konomi answered over the radio.
Konomi looked out over the battle scene as the Dinozaur were drawn to the floundering F-302s and Bogal approached the remaining earth monster.
Konomi took a self-assuring breath and spoke softly to the small capsule in her hand: “Mikuras, do your best.”
She hit the pointed the capsule at the battle field and depressed the trigger. An electronic voice announced “Realize” and in a bright green flash, a new monster joined the fray.
The creature was bulky with a large head and stubby but thick limbs. Green in coloration, four twisting horns surrounded the head. Its wide mouth was lined with pinkish lips and flaps of green skin. It reminded Cameron of a cross between a bulldog and a cactus.
“Damn,” he couldn’t help but breathe out, “That thing is ugly.”
Teal’c raised his eyebrow at the creature distinct appearance.
“Mikuras!” Konomi shouted “Don’t be scared! Fight!”
The creature grunted and leapt into the air—impossibly high. Cameron knew Kaiju stretched the laws of physics by their mere existence, and had been briefed on this digital monster-recreation program that Konomi was employing—but darn if it wasn’t amazing—it cleared a thousand feet in that leap—and that was in height alone.
Bogal leaned forward to engulf Goudon—only to be knocked on top of the monster by the descending Mikuras. Bogal shrieked and rolled away before standing up to face its new attacker—only to realize that Mikuras had her by the tail.
Mikuras’ horns sparked before Bogal went rigid and collapsed on the ground convulsing.
“Alright!” Konomi leapt in the air—but then realized that there were no troops there to attack the injured monster—and Mikuras only had another 45 seconds of activity left.
“Alert!” Carter’s voice echoed over the radio, “We have a UFO descending on the battle field.”
“UFO?” Cameron asked, “You mean something’s gotten past 3 battleships?”
“It’s jamming a wide area with some kind of chaff mist,” Carter explained, “It should be in visual range—now!”
True to her word, a blue tinged fog appeared at the top of the sky. Tetsuya’s heart skipped a beat once he recognized that fog.
“Don’t fire on the cloud!” Tetsuya said in the midst of dodging the Dinozaur Reverse’s latest tongue lashing, “If that’s what I think it is then—“
As if cued in by Tetsuya’s announcement,
a large saucer-like craft emerged from the cloud. It was mostly white with a stylized black and gold face on the front and wings that ended in disk-like projections to its side.
“Grendizer!” Tetsuya gasped and opened a new radio channel, “—tell me that’s you in there, Daisuke.”
“Tetsuya?” the answer came, “It’s good to see you’re still here.”
Tetsuya smiled, “Care to give us a hand with these monsters—though the green one’s on our side.”
“The black one, Bogal, is the reason I’m here. It attacked the Fleed colonies not three months ago. It took me this long to track it down,” Daisuke said with growing anger in his voice, “We can’t let this monster escape.”
“Roger that!”
Grendizer swooped in towards the battling monsters, flying high over the Dinozaur before the golden horns atop the machine’s head sparked with lighting. A thunderous call of “Space Thunder!” rung out as a bolt of electricity lashed out towards Bogal only for it to explode against the hide of a Dinozaur that intersected the blast. The monster was left with a terrible wound to match its already missing head, but still lashed out against the new arrival as the last Dinozaur Reverse, unscathed by the F-302 assault began to return to its master’s side.
Teal’c kept an eye on the newcomer for a moment as it circled for another strike, “This is an opportunity to refuel,” he radioed the others, “Cameron, take your flight and refuel. My team will remain and try and keep the monsters distracted.”
Though Cameron disliked going first, he acknowledged the command and led his team off.
The RahXephon had curled up into a fetal position at the side of a mountain—trees crushed under its bulk—by the time Getter Robo reached it. Sparks of black lightning shot off from the machine at uneven intervals, which caused the God Machine to twitch and shudder as involuntarily as a machine possibly could. Benkei called out several times over the a radio to Jack, but to no avail. The signal was getting through whatever darkness infected the RahXephon, but the pilot was unable or unwilling to answer.
For all they knew, Jack might be dead—Ryouma knew that the machine had nearly killed Jack once already. The Getter crew had known about that even before Jack re-awakened it with the last pilot of that mech—Akira Hibiki.
As Getter Robo gently reached for the RahXephon, some of the black lighting lashed out at the machine and knocked it back.
As Ryouma struggled to keep his machine upright from the backlash, a brief flash of something he could not quite pin down. But whatever it was, it made him sick to his stomach with guilt. Guilt of something he knew not of but knew he did not do.
“I think it’s a mental assault” Ryouma grunted in a pained reaction that echoed his machine.
“Really,” Hayato snapped, “The mental flash enough to tip you off?”
“I hope Jack’s holding up against it,” Benkei mulled, “If it hasn’t killed him already.”
Nearby, Mazinger Z was in rough shape. One arm had been cut down before the elbow, rendering it useless and one of the “eyes” of the machine had shattered from being slammed by the monster.
Its mouths drooled with anticipation as it approached Koji’s machine, but Koji remained defiant.
“OI! You want a piece of me and Mazinger?!” He shouted, gripping the controls tightly, trying to think of a way out as Getter Robo attempted to overcome the shocks the RahXephon produced and reach its pilot.
The cry of “ANTI-GRAVITY STORM!” echoed across the battle field as a rainbow of light launched toward the Dinozaur who, upon being struck, was flung high into the air. Teal’c watched as the UFO ejected a second craft similar to Great Mazinger, but with an overall foreign design to it, and slightly larger. The machine landed near Mazinger Z, keeping an eye on the monster.
The Injured Dinozaur Reverse landed upon the one which now sported only a single head thanks to Tetsuya’s attack.
“Koji, Ryouma, Tetsuya!” Daisuke called out, “We need to end this as fast as we can,”
“Yes,” Tetsuya said, “With Bogal tied up, this is our chance.”
“It may drain a good deal of power,” Ryouma added, “But with them tied up, it’s our chance.”
“Think we’re ready for this?” Benkei asked.
“I’m always ready,” Daisuke answered.
“I won’t miss,” Tetsuya added.
“This will be the final strike!” Koji concluded.
The four machines stood together, their eyes flashed with power before they separated on Daisuke’s command: “Everyone, let’s go!”
Daisuke’s mech, Grendizer, remained in place, the two monsters in its sight as he shouted “Anti-Gravity Storm!”
A rainbow of light lanced out from Grendizer’s chest and struck the entangled monster, lifting them high into the air.
“Koji! Tetsuya!” Daisuke ordered.
In the skies, Mazinger and Great Mazinger flew on opposites sides of the rising monsters.
“I’m in position,” Koji said
“Ready to go,” Tetsuya added before both machine’s red breasts shone their flames.
“Double Burning Fire!” The Mazinger pilots shouted in unison.
From above, Ryouma shouted “And this will finish them!” as he dove his mech down towards the writhing beasts—Getter Robo encased in glowing white-hot plasma.
At the last second, Ryouma pulled up, but the plasma continued down and stuck twisted mass of Dinozaur sandwiched between heat beams. The plasma interacting with the heat beams and the monster’s own combustible internals—generating the largest non-nuclear explosion recorded since King Ghidorah destroyed an oil refinery at sea.
“Final Dynamic Special!” Ryouma roared as he and the other super-robots landed a good distance away to avoid the shockwave from the pressured blast they had generated—it was still powerful enough to cause the last remaining Dinozaur to stumble—itself partly in shock at what it had just seen.
Mikuras, for his part, nearly feel over, but kept his grip firm on Bogal’s tail.
Inside the cockpits, the mecha-pilots breathed heavily, and noted the power gages on their machines. Hayato was the only one to openly curse: “Crap--that took more power than the last time we did it. And the overheating is nearly 30% greater than the last time we did this.”
“Well, that way almost 30 years ago,” Benki explained, “perhaps we’ve gotten rusty.”
Hayato simply growled at that answer, as all four waited for their machines to cool down—as all were acutely aware of the dangers of pushing a Nekketsu Engine to far beyond its limit.
A bright flash of light away from the explosion captured Teal’c attention. When the light faded, a blue and silver figure 50 meters in height stood in the light’s place.
“Teal’c to all units,” He said, unphased by the new arrival, “Hunter Knight Tsurugi has appeared.”
The giant wasted no time and charged Bogal—but he was intercepted by the healthy Dinozaur Reverse and literally bowled over by the creature’s bulk and strength.
The Dinozaur Reverse spun on its heel and lashed out with its tongues—which wrapped around Hunter Knight Tsurugi. The giant grunted as the tongues wrapped around his waist. An electrical current raced down the glowing blue lines and upon reaching Tsurugi, the giant tensed and twisted in pain as the power coursed through him. He fell to his knee in pain.
Then Goudon began to stir. Mikuras let out a worried cry that sounded eerily similar to “Eep.”
“Damnit!” Kouji burst out, “I thought he was out of it?”
“To me,” Hayato said, “A kaiju isn’t dead until it blows up.”
“We should help the blue Ultraman,” Daisuke commanded.
“Eh?” Kouji recoiled, “I know you missed the briefing but that guy is no Ultraman! I’m not sure if—”
As Kouji spoke a golden flash of light caught his attention, as did a golden wedge of energy that sliced through the Dinozaur tongue.
Daisuke smiled as a silver and red giant similar in height to Tsurugi, but with clearly defined white eyes and more streamlined features and design patterns took to supporting him as the tongues released their grip.
“That, however” Ryouma said, “
is an
Ultraman.”
Hunter Knight Tsurugi pulled away from Mebius and looked away from him, ashamed, before turning to face the Dinozaur. The Goudon had recovered and turned its rage and pain against Mikuras—whipping the digitally constructed Kaiju repeatedly.
It took a good 10 strikes, but Mikura’s grip loosened as he was knocked back.
“Commander!” Ryu called out, “Requesting permission to use METEOR.”
Sakomizu’s reply of “METEOR Ban Lifted!” was almost immediate.
The R-Winger’s wings folded out and the entire craft become covered in a golden glow. It began to move at alarming speed—leaving a golden shadow after several high speed jumps.
Mikuras vanished as the digital process feed that kept him active ended, letting the monster dissipate into green sparkles of light. Goudon was caught off guard by this and nearly spun off its feet from the force of its strike.
Ryu snuck the R-Winger through the giants and monsters—close enough for Dinozaur Reverse to snap at it—but only catch the flickering afterimage it left. Ryu locked onto Goudon as he recovered from his unintended spin.
Ryu flicked the toggle on the craft’s joystick and announced his intentions: “Specium Missiles, FIRE!”
Four golden missiles popped out from the underside of the craft and launched themselves towards the monster—striking hard enough to knock Goudon off his feet and leaving bloody gouges the size of the monster’s agape mouth in its chest and torso.
Goudon fell as Bogal righted itself and dove towards the falling monster, wrapping its massive jaws around it and swallowing it in a flash. Bogal then fell face first to the ground.
“Damnit!” Ryu cursed, “I had him!”
As Mebius held back the Dinozaur, Tsurugi ran to the fallen Bogal—only to be knocked back by a shockwave from its back as the monster split in two like a shedding insect. The monster’s body shifted and twisted as massive wing-like structures grew from its back and the creature’s smooth skin became knobby and armored. The improved Bogal stood and turned to face Tsurugi, bellowing defiance.
Below and far from the battle, near the still open doorway, two scientists observed it near one of the most secure spots in the universe—the Tardis.
“That’s a pretty stable tear,” the younger of the two figures—the wheelchair bound Kara, observed.
“Far, far too stable,” The Doctor concurred.
“I mean, I’ve seen Phantom Zone Projectors in action—and they’re never this stable.”
“Yeah, didn’t they stop it by your time?”
“They made a special exemption for Zod and his ilk just before, but otherwise they hadn’t used it for several decades because…”
“Because of
him,” the Doctor scowled, “And then Krypton blew up due internal pressures caused by dimensional distortions. That’s not at all suspicious don’t you think.”
Kara looked at the machine in her lap—a stylized light projector connected by heavy tubes to the TARDIS, “Why do you think I’m so uncomfortable using this thing.”
“Well, you’re the last living pure-blooded Kryptonian so we really don’t have much of a choice in the time we have left.”
Kara’s face fell, but she said nothing.
“We should have more than enough power to close this, but that depends on how active
he is behind that curtain.”
“Not as active,” A voice boomed from behind the veil of the tear, dripping with a knowing smugness that repulsed the listeners, “As I would like to be.”
“Yapool, the God of the Phantom Zone,” The Doctor growled, “Back after another regeneration cycle I see.”
“As long as enmity exists, Time Lord, the so shall I!” Yapool answered.
“Right, right,” The Doctor said dismissively, “still trapped in the Phantom Zone, I see.”
“You say that as if it were some punishment for me to remain on my throne,” Yapool chuckled.
“Well, you have been trying to escape it for the past 200 years.”
“Again you confuse escape for the beginnings of conquest, Doctor,” Yapool growled, “And when the time comes, I shall ensure you suffer greatly for the trouble you have caused me.”
“So are you keeping this portal open just to bluster? What are you planning, Yapool” Kara hefted the machine in her lap and pointed it at the portal, her face twisted in anger.
“Do you truly expect me to tip my hand so soon?” Yapool answered, “I did not come to rule the phantom zone by being obvious, Kryptonian.”
“You want something, don’t you?” The Doctor concluded.
“Aside from conquest and turmoil, indeed I do,” Yapool nodded—his form largely obscured by the ripples of the portal—only his glowing eyes remained distinct.
“Well?” Kara hissed.
“You are two bright humanoids,” Yapool smirked, “You figure it out.”
Bogal slashed against the air, launching dozens upon dozens of purple spheres at her assembled enemies. The two Ultramen deflected the bolts with a shield raised in front of their hands. The earthen machines were forced to dodge—difficultly.
“Daisuke—you’re machine’s been in battle a shorter time,” Ryouma said, “We still need time to cool our engines. Give us some cover!”
“Roger!” Daisuke answered, elevating the arms of Grendizer before announcing “SCREW PRESSURE PUNCH!”
Spikes folded out from the wrists before the twin fists of Grendizer launched towards Bogal—who deftly dodged their first pass—but was slashed across the sides on the fists’ return. Though no visible scar was left, the beast howled and steam rose from its entire body.
In fact, Daisuke noticed, the entire monster had a slight red glow to it.
Hunter Knight Tsurugi used Bogal’s distraction to his advantage. He reached his hand into the air—to which lightning gathered, before placing his hand in a plus-shaped formation, but in a style that was the reverse of any Ultramen the others had seen before—with the in hand of the horizontal position behind the right hand’s vertical.
A blue beam raced from the edge of Tsurugi’s hand and struck Bogal in chest.
The monster screamed but did not die—though the explosive shockwave that radiated from the monster knocked all others present off their feet. Uprooting nearby trees and throwing boulders into the air.
Near the portal, the Doctor was spared going through regeneration again when Kara launched herself at him and pulled him to the ground before the shockwave reached them.
When the dust settled, the Doctor was the one to help her up.
“You alright?” She asked.
“For the moment,” The Doctor said, “But we need to close that portal.”
“Ah, It’s about time you caught on, Doctor,” Yapool smirked, “I thought you were more intelligent than—”
Yapool’s gloat was cut short by a flash of mirroring, silver-light from the machine in Kara’s lap that raced to the portal and sealed almost instantly.
“Bastard was observing us. Learning what we can do,” Kara concluded.
“Without a doubt,” The Doctor concurred, “But there’s more to it than just good tactics.”
“What the hell was that blast?” Koji shouted.
“This one appears much more volatile than the last group,” Teal’c observed.
“Teal’c, we can’t use explosives against this monster,” Carter’s voice came through the radio, “if it goes, judging by the explosion that only a part of it created, it might be a blast equivalent to a Mark IX Warhead.”
Teal’c raised an eyebrow.
“How powerful is that weapon?” Daisuke asked.
“Very,” Teal’c answered, “We cannot let the creature die on earth.”
“The weapon carries a multi-gigaton payload that has an initial blast radius of 100 miles,” Tetsuya elaborated.
“I’m not sure even the RahXephon could survive that,” Koji added.
“But wait the Ultramen need to know— “Ryouma turned on the external speakers on Getter Robo and shouted, “Oi! Ultraman! Tsururgi! Don’t blow up Bogal! If he goes, the explosion will kill us all and doom the whole planet!”
Bogal chuckled as the information hit them.
Tsurugi stood still for a moment before a golden blade extended from his left arm.
“If this planet suffers to end the threat of Bogal” His boomed before he charged, “THEN SO BE IT!”
He did not get far as Bogal released a red bolt of lightning from her eyes that struck Tsurugi full on in the chest. Bogal spread her arms out and further bolts of crimson lashed out at her foes.
Koji grunted, “How are we supposed to fight this thing? Even if we don’t use explosives, it’ll still explode when it dies!”
“That doesn’t mean,” Daisuke answered, “That we shouldn’t try!”
From the shoulders of Grendizer, Daisuke brought forth a pair of inverted crescent blades on the end of long handles. Daisuke connected them together at the unsharpened edges as he announced “DOUBLE HARKEN!” before throwing the weapon like a razor-edged discus at Bogal.
The weapon scythed past the monster’s side, generating sparks as the alien metal contacted extra-dimensional flesh.
The shockwave that accompanied the lightshow knocked them back even further.
Daisuke cursed, “We can’t touch this thing at all!”
“I don’t even want to know what lightning would do to it now,” Tetsuya added.
“Oi!” Ryu called out, “The METEOR isn’t loaded in this unit, but I bet a capture Cube could hold it in.”
“The shield would not contain the explosion fully and the creature may break out of it before the minute time limit passes,” Teal’c countered.
“That’s true,” Benkei confirmed as the Ultramen grappled with the horror and each other.
A voice echoed over the radio that caught everyone by surprise, “But it does block radiation and heat…”
“JACK!” Tetsuya shouted, “You’re okay!”
“Barely,” He answered, with a labored breath, “But I can’t move this thing and I don’t think I have time to explain why just yet. But—does the Capture Thingy block ambient radiation?”
“Are you suggesting we use the Asgard Transporters?” Teal’c asked.
“Asgard Transporters?!” Daisuke almost shouted in shock, “When—how did earth get those?”
Carter did not deem to answer him as she gave her explanation through the radio: “The Capture Cube can block the ambient radiation and other inhibiting particles many Kaiju produce, but there’s still the problem of mass to deal with. I’m not sure the Prometheus has the power to—“
“Leave that to us,” Admiral Lindy Harlowan interrupted.
“We may be still be holding the Arc-En-Ciel under lock, but we can use other weapons and spell casting through the ship.”
Carter blinked, “Wait, that ship can--”
“Cast spells as though it were a mage itself,” Lindy fished, “Yes. And if it’s a power boost you need.”
“General--” Carter again found herself cut off as Hammond answered.
“I heard,” He said, “Admiral Harlowan, you have my permission to boost our systems as needed.”
“Roger,” she answered, “But now you need to get it in a capture cube.”
“Don’t worry about that,” A new voice came through the radio, “I asked for a special load out for the F-302s and that’s all they had left.”
Most of the Earth forces turned to spot Lt. Cameron Mitchell and his wing as they entered the battlefield, reloaded and ready for battle.
“That is quite a coincidence,” Lindy commented as she brought a hand to her chin.
General Inspector Sakomizu back at base nodded, “Alright, Lt. Mitchell. Permission to use METEOR rounds is granted.”
Koji smiled broadly as he announced: “Operation: Blast them Into Space is GO!”
Carter lowered her head at just how bad that name was. An expression shared by many of those back at base.
“Mebius!” Ryu called out, “Get clear!”
The Ultraman nodded and dodged to the side as Getter Robo manhandled Hunter Knight Tusrugi to get him away from the target area with the aid of the Mazingers.
“She’s going to escape!” Tsurugi yelled as he struggled against the machines.
Aware of the incoming threat, Bogal opened her hands wide and a dark portal to the Phantom Zone.
A beam of glistening, mirroring silver light lanced out as Bogal leapt to enter it and sealed the gateway and instead fell on her face.
Cameron took the opportunity to target the broad target that Bogal made and thought ‘Eh, when in Rome’ before he said “Capture Cube—FIRE!”
The strange missile detached itself from the F-302 and rocketed towards the Kaiju as it stood—exploding and surrounding the Kaiju in blue fields of light.
In space, the
Asura and the
Prometheus watched the scene below intently.
Inside the
Asura, Officer Amy Limietta worked furiously to reroute the power from the
Asura to the
Prometheus—but it wasn’t going fast enough for her liking.
“Power linkup at 96%,” she announced as Bogal slammed her claws against the shield—and it began to waver with each blow.
“Hurry!” Admiral Lindy ordered, “That shield has 15 seconds--tops!”
With one final keystroke, Officer Limietta shouted: “DONE!”
Onboard the
Prometheus, General Hammond heard his ally and gave the order: “Beam that up and prep all remaining weapons!”
On the ground, a bright flash of light enveloped the shield and the monster—and both disappeared in a blur. In the sky above, a few moments later and even through the light of the sun, the explosive force of Bogal’s death was clearly visible.
“Mission accomplished,” General Hammond announced, “Bogal has been destroyed.”
“From the looks of things,” Carter added, “I may have underestimated that blast force.”
{{Battle Mastery Earned}}