The Last Mistake

[southerngirl]

oh no banny blew up!(am i the only one that hates him?)

[zakazi]

“I told you it wouldn’t hurt me!”
I opened my eyes to see banny standing proudly in the wreckage.
“YOU’RE STILL ALIVE!”
“Yeah, can’t you tell?”
Jace gasped. “How did you survive that blast? How did we survive it?”
“Simple. Corey targeted the cast servers for the detonation.”
“How does that help?” I asked.
“Well, I was put into special education and so I wasn’t in the main server group.”
“Oh, I see.” Said Haul.
“Yeah, me too.” Jace replied, still curious.
“But why didn’t he just target the ‘special’ servers too?”
“Because that would mean he would have to rewrite his detonation program over again.”
I thought you were supposed to be an explosives expert, Jace?” I implied.
“You don’t have to know about computer detonations to be an explosives expert.” Auriga said.
There’s that annoying wisdom again. Maybe I’m getting close to understanding it.
“Lets get moving. Obviously Corey still has good in him, or else he would have turned the androids against us instead of just blowing them up. We have to hurry to rescue him before he gets completely brainwashed.” Auriga stated. Wow I hadn’t realized that. I had been about to give up! So we started moving again, but on the way there we noticed that many of the ships had blown up, probably the ones with normal casts in them, Auriga said. Jeez, that wisdom is getting to be a pain.
As soon as we reached the wraith ship they started shooting at us. Luckily, Banny was an expert pilot. He dodged and maneuvered while we winced and tried not to throw up. “If only banny had blown up, maybe we could have lived” Jace said, woefully.
“Jace! Be nice!” I snapped at him.
We managed to get into the hangar in one piece, only to get attacked my wraith marines.
Then finally, we found the prison cells. Only to find that Corey wasn’t there.

Chapter 5.

EPT0687 Pilot Diary: Kaeda.

Were losing the war! Almost all the androids have blown up, and now Newmans are being struck by a strange disease induced by radiation! We can’t hold on much longer
But yesterday, something happened that gave us hope! A small Fighter managed to get into the wraith Flagship and we may not be able to communicate with them, but were sure they’re going to blow stuff up. Well there isn’t much to tell…I killed again…
But it was necessary, so I don’t feel bad about it. If I hadn’t killed that wraith he would have killed many of us. I’ll just retell the story.
Well during curfew, in the mess hall, when all the troops were eating, someone paged me and told me to go to the commander’s office. Once there I was told by the squad commander that I was to get a medal for my bravery yesterday. Strange…I didn’t consider myself brave yesterday. And then it happened. A wraith dropped down from the ceiling vent and brandished a small katana. Before I could think, my hand pulled out a gun and shot her. The commander was shocked. So was I. so was the wraith, now dying.

[southerngirl]

NOOOOOOOOO banny survived! @#%$! I HATE BANNY!

[zakazi]

The wraith looked down at her chest, shocked, and suddenly crumbled to dust.
The commander looked at me and said, “You may not like it, but you have the heart of a warrior,”
“I don’t like it,” I replied.
The commander laughed and said,” Here, you deserve one more medal today.”
I reluctantly took the medal. Maybe she was right. I just didn’t have the courage of a warrior.

Chapter 6.

RAC7740 Saboteur diary: Corey.

The humans were angry at me for destroying the casts. It was not their place to believe that I had chosen that. So I was angry at the humans. And I showed it by smiting all of their Newman friends with disease. And, to retain my sanity, I have decided to categorize all the wraiths and write them down on a list, which I hope to send to the humans as an apology letter. Here is the completed list.

FEAR: glows red, other wraiths afraid of it.
PAIN: glows blue, harms other wraiths.
CONFUSION: glows green, other wraiths disoriented when around it.
ANGER: glows yellow, other wraiths angered by it.

And I made another list to categorize 2nd-level wraiths

TERROR: glows red, other wraiths terrified of it.
AGONY: glows blue, other wraiths greatly harmed by it.
PANIC: glows green, other wraiths panicked by it.
FURY: glows yellow, other wraiths raged by it.

I really do think the humans will regret making an enemy like me. Oh I almost forgot,
My captor isn’t the chief wraith. The chief wraith is arriving via warp in 2 days.
One day, now.

Chapter 7.

AUW3079 War Diary: Zakazi.

W e have been captured, the only reason I am writing this is because I bribed one of the guards into giving me a pen. Auriga spent his money differently. He wanted to know about the wraith leader. So I value history, and Auriga values knowledge. Even now he is over in the corner, talking to the guard. We have been in this cell for at least a day, but there is no natural light so we can’t be sure. We are working on an escape plan. Jace has one sticky bomb left over from our “Illegal entry” and he is going to use it wisely.
Well banny has been complaining more than ever, so being in prison is even worse than I expected. Ill have to get back to writing soon, Auriga is calling us over to share his info.

[zakazi]

Well Auriga had learned that the wraith leader was not on board the ship. He was a Wraithlord that was arriving in three hours. I told Jace we had to get out before then; no doubt he would interrogate us and learn human secrets. Jace agreed, but we’d need lots more than a sticky bomb to get out. That’s when we heard an explosion. And then another one. And then lots more. And then suddenly we heard a voice say over the intercom: “All military personal to the hangar. We are being boarded.”
That really got up a scare from the guards. Suddenly the prison was empty; except for us.
“Let’s go.” Jace said.
Jace blew out the side of the wall and we jumped out and ran out of the prison.
On the way out, Haul said, “Where are we going?”
“We’re going to the hangar, because that’s where the pilots are,”
“I don’t want to go to the hangar! I want to go to the armory and get my weapon back!”
Banny complained.
“He’s right. We need weapons.” Auriga said.
“Come on! Lets go, my feet hurt!” Banny urged.
So we went to the armory, and on the way there I asked Auriga several questions.
“Hey Auriga, what’s a Wraithlord?”
“It’s a powerful wraith figure, often political, that has a belief and tries to make the people believe it and follow him.”
“Oh yeah? Well then what’s his name?”
“I don’t know. The soldiers are afraid to speak it.”
“What’s his big idea? Why do people obey him so willingly?”
“His ‘big idea’ is that wraith society is growing and they need another place to live. Ragol is that place. But the humans are already settled into it. And in the wraith’s opinion, humans are nothing but trouble. They kill the animals and destroy the environment. So they must be eliminated.”
“But wait…then the wraiths will just kill stuff and knock stuff down, too. Just like the humans.”
“No, wraiths destroy no more than normality. When faced with a hostile animal, they pacify it with hypnotism instead of killing it.”
“What?!? They can hypnotize?!”
“Only animals. And they build their homes out of natural things, not metal or concrete.”
“Wow. But wait, how did they get ships then?"
"I do not know. Perhaps they stole them."
"I bet so."
We soon reached the armory and retrieved our weapons, only to find a small squad of pilots also gathering weapons.

Chapter 8.

EPT0678 Pilot Diary: Kaeda.

Before I had time to calm down after that short episode, they sent me out with a boarding party to storm the wraith ship. I was in a small strike crew of five members. I never got to know their names, but that’s okay because we called one another “Red 5” or “Red 2”
Because red was our strike team color. There were 6 strike teams, so six colors. So we
Landed in the wraith ship and shot all the hangar guards, which didn’t stop them from
Raising an alarm. We made our way to the armory to get explosives to detonate the fuel.

[zakazi]

We reached the armory without incident, but when we got there we were in for a serious surprise. Five ground troops were there, raiding the armory.
“Who are you?” I asked.
“AUW3079 Assault squadron. Minus tech expert.” Said a tall FOmar with white hair.
“And you’re the commander?” I asked.
“Yes. I’m Auriga, the field commander.” Auriga said.
“Good. I’m Kaeda, the ‘field commander’ of these troops.” I motioned at my troops.
“This is Jace, explosives expert, Zakazi, melee expert, Banny, ranged expert, and Haul Lunar, magic expert. Corey was our tech expert, but he was taken prisoner.”
“Ah. That would explain why you’re one man short. Let’s get going and blow this ship up.”
“Men! Move out!” Auriga yelled. His troops scattered and went around the room gathering weapons and explosives. Within the hour we were all armed up.
Auriga began giving orders to his men again.
“Haul, Zak, take the east route and meet us at the engine room. Jace, Banny, you two take the west route. I’ll go down the center route and take Kaeda’s troops with me.”
“Yes sir!” most of his troops said. Banny sort of whined about it.
Two of his troops, Zak and Haul, apparently, split off and ran down the east corridor.
Jace ran down the west corridor and Banny stayed with Auriga and said,
“I don’t want to go with Jace! I want to go with you!”
“No, Banny, go with Jace.” Auriga replied back.
Banny whined but went down the west hallway. Auriga took my squad and went north.
I followed along, seeing as they were my troops he was handling.
Soon we reached the engine room and Haul, Zak, Jace and Banny were already there.” Good work, men.” Auriga said to his troops. “Jace, start planting explosives.”
“Yes, sir.” He said back.
In a quarter of an hour we were done planting the explosives, and Jace told us he had a detonator that would ignite the fuel and turn the ship into a firestorm.
“Make sure you don’t detonate it until we leave the ship,” Auriga reminded him.
Jace laughed. Suddenly the ship shook. “Jace! Did you just detonate it?!” Auriga yelled over the shaking. “No!” Jace screamed. Suddenly the lights flashed. “Ahhhhhhhh!” Banny screamed. The emergency lights flashed on a moment later. And then…everything stopped. It was all quiet. Even the laser flashes and the engine hum. And then…a strange looking human wearing wraith armor walked out of the shadows…and up to Auriga.

Chapter 9.

RAC7740 Saboteur Diary: Corey.

I’m glad I found you guys. I hope you will forgive me for all the bad things I’ve done.
I’ve killed most of the casts and Newmans…not Banny or Haul, though. I’m glad of that.
I never told you about the Newman disease I made, did I? I created a radiation-induced disease that 89% of all Newmans on the planet caught. 95% died from it. That left only a Small portion of Newmans who didn’t die from it. Haul couldn’t have caught it anyway,
He would have had to been on the planet to catch it. But what I really wanted to tell you is that I’m not angry at you guys anymore.

[southerngirl]

this is a wonderful, colorful story.
i hope you write sequels quick. but kill off banny. hes a stupid char.
but im starting to like him
who is the wraithlord?
and why do you write so slow?!

[zakazi]

idk why i write so slow but heres the next chapter

[zakazi]

He would have had to been on the planet to catch it. But what I really wanted to tell you is that I’m not angry at you guys anymore. I want to help you. This doesn’t mean that I don’t like the wraiths anymore; I just think their motives were wrong. So I’ll help you blow up the ship and kill the Wraithlord.

Chapter 10.

XMZ5107 Wraithlord diary: Slithzerakai

I am the Wraithlord, supreme force of the greatest army of wraiths. Our army is undefeatable. Not even the humans and their servants can destroy us. Perhaps I am only a pawn in this deadly game of destruction, between my leader and the human’s governor.
But I know I am an unstoppable force, showing the humans no mercy.
But I will die today. If this is a pitiful human reading this, then we wraiths have a sixth sense of when we will perish. And I know today is my day. But I will take many humans with me; I will not give up my life and soul easily. Perhaps I will retransform into a human; it is not rare for that to happen on a wraiths death day. But I am far too old.
I ride in a ship to the invasion army’s capital ship. I know that will be the place of my death. I may not even finish this journal before I arrive at the ship and face my doom.
So I will stop it now.

May humans fall today…

Chapter 11.

The Battle.

When the Wraithlord arrived, the humans were in the engine room, speaking with their lost comrade, Corey. The wraiths were getting ready to launch their offensive fighters.
The Wraithlord was writing his last Will and Testament, for he knew he was going to die.
The humans began firing on the wraith capital again and were dropping bombs on it.
But the small transport Slithzerakai was in was armed with high-quality photon lasers.
So he destroyed the first wave of human fighters and quickly boarded the capital ship.

He soon made his way to the engine where the humans had landed, and he destroyed the remaining ships. And then he waited. And soon the humans came.

Zakazi ran ahead of the rest of the group, and armed his Daylight Scars. All of their ships had been blown up! Everyone else pulled out their weapon and began looking around.
Suddenly he heard an ominous laugh. The Wraithlord dropped from the ceiling and charged at him. He flipped backwards and landed on top of some wreckage while Banny opened fire upon the Wraithlord. Slith turned to where the gunfire was coming from, and flicked his wrist. Banny flew across the hangar and made a heavy thud on the floor.
Jace barely cracked a smile. He pulled out a small red handgun and shot the Wraithlord on the wrist. Slith turned toward the meddlesome human and threw his long, hooked sword at it. Jace screamed in pain and fell on the floor, clutching his right arm.

[Wildfire]

Nice story, well told. A few things that are a little unexplained though.

First off, if only Ragol and Earth can support life, where did the Wraiths come from? They must have a home planet somewhere, or maybe they don't and the Wraiths are some sort of celestial being.

Secondly, how is blowing up the casts better than turning them against humanity (and newmanity ) considering it resulted in the destruction of capital ships? Surely everyone on board is dead anyway, so at least the living crew members could have defended themselves if the casts were battling them.

Lastly, if the wraiths only use all natural materials then what are their mothership and landers constructed from?

Keep up the good work though.