Galaxy of Empires- Merchant Wars Episode #1 by LLC United States Publishing

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