energy beams are having no effect, the leader yells out, “Change to projectile weapons!” The complete front side of Eve’s house has huge blaster holes in it. Eve sends out telepathic instructions to the girls. Xaqu decides to make the mercenaries on the right side of them her friends. Suddenly, all of them start firing at the other men in front. She has mass charmed them. Chaca releases a huge cone of dagger-shaped ice shards that fly straight at the large group of men in front of them. The ice daggers slice through the armor they are wearing as if they were butter. They scream in agony as they fall to the ground. On the left side, there are about 20 or so mercenaries rushing from various positions and firing their weapons. Henry got out of there with Zach, fortunately. Gothica turns to the right and changes into arachnid form with her spider legs sprouting out into the ground. She blankets the entire right side with a gargantuan size web that encases most of the soldiers who were advancing. She dodges the bullets from the few who were left as she pulls out her blasters and fires back with all four guns blazing. Eve turns around when machine gun fire starts coming from her rooftop. She sees men tossing explosives. She grabs the devices in the midair with telepathy and sends the explosives back to where they came from. A huge explosion rips up large portions of the roof, causing it to collapse along with the men standing on it. Eve sees four armored hovercrafts coming in their direction above the top of her home. Their twin-cylinder rail guns are firing through her home at her and the girls. Large-caliber bullets rip through the house as they fly over it firing down at Eve’s location. Eve lifts her house from its foundation and crashes it into two of the armored hovercrafts. The entire mesh of hovercrafts and house parts gfall to the ground and began sliding off the back side of the edge of the hill. As a ball of flame crashes down to the bottom of the hill, it causes more explosions. Gothica turns around after dispatching the few stragglers over on her side and sees the hovercrafts coming. She activates her visor and releases a horrific green energy blast from her eyes that roars across the scene and hits the nearest hovercraft, obliterating it completely. Xaqu has her small charmed army shooting at the last hovercraft. Chaca releases a massive lightning bolt that hits a hovercraft’s engine and sends it thundering down on the house below where it erupts into a ball of fire. Eve scans the scene and looks for more enemies to kill. The area is filled with unfathomable carnage and destruction. “Are you okay, girls? Anybody injured?” Eve asks. “We are okay. Who would send this many people to kill us? What do you want me to do with these guys that I have charmed?” Xaqu inquires. “I don’t think any of them are leader types. They probably do not know who hired them as grunts, but we can try to find out. Bring them over here and I will scan their minds.” She scans all 11 soldiers, but they are all foot soldiers and have no idea who their employer is. “They do not know. They also have no marks on them that indicate which company they are from, which is unusual, and they humans. A human mercenary unit is not something that you see in the Reptilian Republic, but I suppose is not unheard of. As far as what to do with them, these mercenaries they knew the risk—kill them all. Make sure there are no survivors. We do not want people knowing how powerful we are.” “You think this was one of the merchant groups we are at war with?” “No dear, a low-level licensed company would not have the resources or even spend the resources on an attack of this magnitude against my company that has only a level 8 license. Apparently, I have created an even greater enemy that appears to be unseen. That is okay. I will find out who it is, and they will learn just who they are screwing with. They attacked us and