It didn’t take long for Ankhesenamun to return with Jennifer’s friend, the captain of the empresses Praetorian Guard, Janas. She recognized Jennifer and smiled. “What are you doing here, are you aware that you are a fugitive now? The empress has posted a large reward for your capture. “

Jennifer shrugged, “Yeah and this seems to be the last place you’d have thought to look for me, right?”

“Well yeah. Who would be that stupid to go into the empresses palace full of imperial troops, law enforcement, imperial intelligence and a large percentage of her personal praetorian guard. Imperial Intelligence seems to think you could be on earth organizing a resistance among the human population. Who know you plopped yourself right in the most heavily guarded place in the empire, as if you are giving yourself up.” She laughed. “Who could be that stupid?”

“Me,” Jennifer laughed loud stretching her arms out. “Who else.”

“Janas, I need your help. There is a planet that doesn’t stand a chance and I need you to help me organize them so they can resist the empress. “

“Okay, you are my friend, lets go.“

Ankhesenamun said surprised, “No argument, I would think the empress would be picker in who she assigns her personal guard. You know, in making sure her troops are loyal. “

“Hey, I have a heart and this is a favor to one of my closest friends. Are we going to stand here in the palace and have a council of war or are we going to get the frip out of here.”

They started running thought the protected corridor until they ran into a squad of troops. They recognized Jennifer and raised their blaster rifles, “Halt, raise your hands, all of you.”

Ankhesenamun stood in front of them and raised her arms up and as she did, the first three soldiers were raised off their feet and flung into the far wall hard. They crumpled down in a heavy thump sound. The rest started firing and the blasts seemed to be absorbed six inches from her body. None of the shots struck her. But she held out her hands, palms open facing the black armored soldiers. Three white-hot balls of flame shot out of her hands and each ball struck a soldier, the last three erupted in fire and died screaming in agony. Morgan never saw power of this sort. It seemed like the stories of Moses he had read.

Jennifer just stared at her, all struck. She saw this type of power but had no idea that her girlfriend, her fiancé had it herself. Ankhesenamun was part of the order.

“Yes Jennifer, I am part of the empresses party. I am part of the Dark Orions. I am also part of the resistance. There are many among the navy that are secretly part of the resistance also. Her invasion of earth will result in a fracturing of her fleet, when the time is right. Lets get out of here. I can get us a ship easily. Follow me.”

With a high-ranking member of the empresses’ order, getting off the planet was easy. No trooper would dare stop her as they walked though customs and flew off the ship. Jennifer led them to her ship and they transferred to it.

Jennifer took the controls and they entered hyperspace. “Our next stop will be earth. Lets pray we get there before the main invasion. “

~~*~~
They made it well ahead of the invasion he guided the craft to Germania this time. “We are headed for Berlin, Germania.”

The stealth kept the craft from being seen as it dipped below the clouds, screaming for Europe.

They settled out in the country, she kept the ship hovering 200 meters in the air. She looked over at Ankhesenamun, “You will fly the ship, Morgan and me will try to alert the government about the danger approaching them. You will follow me and hover the craft next to the main entrance of the Volkshalle. I will go in, shortly after I go in, I want you to disable the stealth and start firing. Do not hit anything important and I want casualties to be minimal. Just cause some damage. They will get the point if a lone ship can cause that much damage imagine what their main forces will do. “

She agreed and they were soon riding in a bus through the countryside of Germania. Jennifer examined the very attractive woman standing infront of the bus telling them all about the victories the Reich had. Her hair was blonde, like her own. She looked very fit and average height for a woman on this planet. Her uniform looked decidedly military. It was solid black. She had heavy leather shiny jack boots going up to her knees. Her suit pants looked nice on her as they tucked under the boots. She wore a coat, it looked like a military tunic with a bright red armband on her right arm. There were two lighting bolts together on her collar. They made the letters, SS. The bus ride was short and they were soon going though Berlin itself.

They passed a big sign while they were headed into berlin. The sign caught her attention abruptly.

“The fuehrer, Alfred Jodl jr. 35th birthday celebration. “ She assumed his picture was in the center of a blood read sign with those words below and big numbers 35 on each side.

“Construction started on the victory arch soon after the war with the United Kingdom ended, in 1945. It stands at two hundred meters tall and weights two thousand tons. To make the arch stable, the fuehrer ordered workers to drive heavy iron rods all the way down to the earth’s bedrock for stability. We are approaching the Albert Speer monument. The dome was his greatest achievement. Sixteen domes of the Saint Peters basilica can fit inside it. The great dome is four hundred and fifty meters in diameter and three hundred meters tall.”

The victory arch they went under was a huge structure. It seemed big enough to hold a entire museum inside. There were people standing ontop and hanging on each side of the arch was the same flag as was everywhere. It was bright red with a white circle in the center. Those flags were huge to hang on a Three hundred meter high arch and almost touch the ground.

Jennifer stared at it. While not anywhere near as big as the imperial palace on Imperial Home, this building was impressive in its own. She was sure it was the biggest structure on this planet. She watched as the enormous dome got larger and larger blotting out everything. Gleaming white marble rose up high overhead. The wide road they were riding on was blanked on both sides by the same blood red flags that the officer guiding them wore on their arms and the same symbol in the center white circle. Jennifer didn’t know what it meant exactly, but she understood the system, it was a lot like the one in place under the empresses. Dictators flood the streets with their image in marble, crystal and their flags are everywhere. Nothing changes, just who is in charge.

It was show time, the bus pulled to a stop right in front of the huge dome building and the officer let them exit. “The fuehrer wishes you all to have a present and safe visit. TO those visiting from America, The fuehrer wishes good relations between our two states. “

She walked out with Morgan and headed though the big entrance of the building. She found a other officer guarding the place. He looked like someone she could talk to. She stood in front of him, “I have important information pertaining to the security of Germania. I need to talk to someone whom will use this information as soon as possible. I cant stress enough, lives of many citizens are in danger. “

She soon she found herself locked in a bare room with metal charge for him to sit on. she was left alone, the door was locked. It wasn’t long before she heard the latch on the door, and it opened to admit two higher-ranking officers. The older man favored her with a cruel scow. “You approached one of the guards on the tour and said you had valuable information concerning a terrorist attack on the Reich?

“I never said a thing about a terrorist attack, “ she said defensively.

“What else was it then that could concern the safety of citizens?”

“I can prove everything that I say but you must keep an open mind.”

He said impatiently, “Get on with it. tell us what this valuable information is.”

“A war. Germania is about to be invaded.”

Both of their expressions became very grave and serious. “Who are you and how do you come by such information. “

“My name is Capt. Jennifer Reide of imperial intelligence. I once served them but not anymore. I’m giving you this information. “

“What is imperial intelligence? Who did you once serve.”

“The empire. This empire spans the width of the galaxy. They have millions of heavily populated planets they administer and control. Their fleet is one of the most powerful and they serve the Empress. She found this planet on the edge of the galaxy. She had deemed that this planet must be absorbed into the Empire. Their fleet is coming. Their army is coming and you need to get your nation ready to meet them.”

They both looked at her like she must be crazy. The building shook as explosions erupted outside. Over and over, blasts shook the building down to the foundation.

“I am telling you the truth, go look outside.”

Both of the officers went running to see. They saw, it was a large craft hovering in the sky. It had some type of heavy cannons attacked to the hull spitting out large green bolts. They impacted buildings, houses. Big balls of flame erupted to the sky when the bolts struck. Soldiers wheeled anti aircraft guns and shot flack up. The shells exploded in the air but nothing seemed to affect it. They detonated near but nothing touched the craft hovering overhead. Bigger missiles blasted at it and exploded ten feet from the craft. It was clear that nothing they had would stop it.

Jennifer walked out behind them, “That is my ship, officer. If a single ship of our world can cause this much damage, imagine what the bulk and power of the imperial navy can do. It is time that you organize a resistance now! The clock is ticking. “

They saw the point quickly. The officer said, “Quickly, get this woman to see the Fuehrer. They took her up several floors and though a hallway till she stood in front of a door guarded by two SS officers. The door opened and she was let in and she saw the leader of this vicious government. She was in Alfred Jodl’s office. It was an impressive office, not quite as big as the empresses but that was different. His desk was marble and she would say it was around ten meters long. The entire office was close to fifty meters in length and width. The floor was shiny polished marble. The ceiling was twelve meters high above them. Everything was huge and polished till it has a glassy surface.

The fuehrer himself stood in front of her in his neatly tucked military uniform. He extended his hand toward her, “Welcome to the reich. I am Alfred Jodl junior. MY father was a general of the original fuehrer Adolph. Intelligence tells me that you have information about a incoming invasion, they say your information should be treated as very reliable. What is coming, and what can we do about it?”

What indeed, she though. There wasn’t a damn thing they could do but she had a feeling if she said that, they could shoot her right there and she couldn’t stop them. “The Empresses is invading. At my guess when I saw the fleet that was coming, I would put the number of troops she is going to land at around a billion. ‘

On of the generals gasp, “A billion?”

“Yes maybe more. A primary battleship, at four thousand eight hundred meters in length, six hundred thousand tons, they can hold around eight five thousand troops alone, and they require sixty thousand crew complement. The invasion fleet has three thousand of them. It also had over a two thousand military transport ships. Probably five thousand frigates and one eclipse class command ship. That one is thirty thousand meters long, over million tons and they hold over four hundred thousand troopers and three hundred thousand crew. The empress is taking along the Doomgiver, its over one thousand kilometers in diameter. It’s a sphere, kind of like a movable planet they built. Its its own battlestation, siege garrison, and more weapons than the entire imperial fleet. “

“My god, “ Alfred said. “What can we do against -that-“

“I have help coming. There is a rebellion against the empresses order. They are coming to aid this planet. You need to be ready to assist them. Join the resistant. “

Alfred looked at his top general, “Hendrich, We will join this resistance when it comes. Make our troops ready. Make this government ready to go into exile when the invasion shows up.”

They had made plans for several hours when it finely happened. Two frantic officers ran into the office, “Its happening, Its happening. Quick, turn on the radios. Some how its on every frequency. Their signals are overriding everything on this planet. “

She turned the radio on

“People of earth, you are ordered to disarm, and surrender yourselves to the Empire. Any attempt at resistance will be met with severe reprisals against your cities, your puny countries and your people. In two hours, I expect the leaders of every countries will be at the areas we give you and from there, my people will land there to take you up to arrange a official surrender, and to witness a demonstration of the power. Right now, I expect all eyes to be looking up. I have arranged a minor demonstration of how helpless you are. Commander, bombard the coastlines of every nation. Full power turbolaser broadsides. Now! “

Powerful blinding emerald green rained from the sky as deadly hail blasting huge parts of the ocean, flash boiling thousands of tons of seawater. The blasts rocked the shores. The coastline of Germania was first, then New York, Florida, then Japan and china was hit. There were minimal damage but the message was clear. There was no defense.

The cruel voice of the empress came back on, “I hope you got that message. Now witness the next. Commander, instruct the gunnery officer to commence primary ignition.”

All over the hemisphere, they saw a bright green pulse of power lance out at the moon. It impacted the moon, and shattered it apart in a blinding flash. If the message was unclear before, it was crystal clear now. Dire hopelessness.

Despair.

Earths humanity cried out, in vain. How could they resist this power? How could anyone?