“Somebody start explaining… NOW!!!!!!!!” Lord-Emperor Vexas asked his three younger brothers whilst staring at the still smoldering body of King Luxor after entering the chamber.
“We… We were only trying to exact our vengeance, brother,” Drellix stammered as Ventrix turned a heinous glare towards him with his half-scarred face now in full view.
Eyes widened, the war hawked Vexan Lord-Prince corrected, “I… I mean ‘Your Majesty’.”
“DRELLY IS TELLING THE TRUTH, VENNY,” Titanus fumbled out in his ‘child-like’ way of speaking, gaining an intense, narrow-eyed glare from the Lord-Emperor. “Tis only fair to hurt Pronos after he hurted father.”
“Fair,” the Lord-Emperor repeated. “FAIR???”
The three brothers remained silent now as Ventrix went on to coldly state, “Nothing can be ‘compared’ to our race’s pain… THRACKING NOTHING!”
Stepping towards King Luxor now as his brothers cowered behind him, Ventrix positioned himself directly below the captured ruler of Guardinas.
“Awaken, Pronos… AWAKEN,” the Lord-Emperor coaxed at the fallen King as he drew out his black, red glowing zilitium bladed Pulsar Lancer from within his robe.
Pressing the lancer’s leading retractable blade’s razor-sharp tip against the bottom of King Luxor’s scruffy chin, the Lord-Emperor rose his head upwards to look into the old Guardinian’s weary, bloodshot, and nearly swollen shut eyes.
“Ah… There we are,” Ventrix hissed as King Luxor started to regain consciousness after nearly being ‘electro-shocked’ to death. “So… Your Grace, how do you like my ship? Does it seem… familiar to you? After all, ‘twas the SAME ASTRO-BATTLE CRUISER that my father used to invade your world so long ago. You remember this… YES???”
“Yuh-Yes,” King Luxor croaked out in a hoarse voice.
Ventrix now smiled widely as the Lord-King continued, “I… I remember it being in PIECES after my brethren and I ripped a hole right through its black heart with our BARE THRACKIN’ HANDS.”
“I could end your putrid life-cycle in the blink of an eye, Pronos!” Lord-Emperor Vexas seared as he dug the tip of his lancer’s blade deeper into King Luxor’s neck, cutting him slightly.
As the Guardinian Lord-King’s blue blood began to ooze down his pulsar blade, Ventrix seethed, “Remember this each time you kroonishly choose to ‘unnerve’ me.”
“Duh-Do what you must, Vexas,” King Luxor fearlessly gritted whilst still being held under the Lord-Emperor’s blade. “Tis… Tis makes no difference. Huff… Huff… Killing me shall not bring back your father.”
“My father?” Ventrix repeated with his dual-brow now scrunched. “You… You think that this… ALL OF THIS is about my father???”
“OUR FATHER,” Lord-Prince Axius sternly corrected from behind whilst Drellix and Titanus looked to him with their eyes widened.
Looking back at Axius, Lord-Emperor Vexas glared at him intensely for a moment before slightly smirking.
Returning his attention to King Luxor, Ventrix surprisingly lowered his Pulsar Lancer and backed away from him.
“Even though the hatred that I have for you for destroying our father is beyond thracking words, Pronos, do not think for a milli-cycle that this is about revenge.”
“If… If not revenge then… Ugh… What is it about? Urgh… Why have you terrorized my world with… With countless others? Ugh…”
“Tis quite simple, Pronos… FOR POWER.”
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“Puh-Power?”
“PURE AND UNLIMITED RAW POWER,” Lord-Prince Drellix seared. “The kind that only emanates from the PYRAMID OF POWER.”
“And you know just where it is… DON’T YOU, PRONOS???” Lord-Emperor Vexas accused.
King Luxor now glared down at the Vexan Lord-Emperor.
“Where is it?” Ventrix demanded, gaining no reply from King Luxor. “WHERE IS IT?!?!”
“Far away… Ugh… From you,” King Luxor gritted as he proceeded to spit a gob of blue blood and saliva down at Ventrix’s feet. “Do what you want with me… FOR I HAVE NOTHING LEFT!!! Huff… Huff… You CURSED CRETINS have taken my people… My kingdom…. MY WORLD! EVERYTHING!!! Everything and everyone that I have ever loved and cared about is now gone! THRACKING GONE!!!”
The Brothers Vexas remained silent with rage as King Luxor continued, “So do what you must, you thracking skoggers! Huff… Huff… Huff… For I do not care any longer!”
“LET US HURT HIM!” Lord-Prince Titanus bellowed. “Like he hurt father!!!”
“NO, YOU KROONE!” Lord-Emperor Vexas snapped at his youngest, most dim-witted brother. “Not until he tells us where the Pyramid is!”
Keeping his eyes locked on the fallen King, the Lord-Emperor ordered, “BROTHER DRELLIX… Lower the prisoner to my eye level… NOW!!!”
“As you command, Your Grace,” Lord-Prince Drellix nodded as he pressed a button on another metal panel box.
King Luxor was then lowered in his restraints to where he was now eye to eye with Ventrix.
“I will ask you one more time, Pronos… AND YOU BETTER THRACKING ANSWER ME,” the Lord-Emperor seared in the fallen Guardinian Ruler’s battered and bruised face. “WHERE IS THE PYRAMID OF POWER??? Where have you sent it? ‘Twas not in your Palace… NOR ANYWHERE ELSE ON GUARDINAS’S SURFACE. I had my loyal horde-legions scour EVERY THRACKING INCH of that wasted rock you called a home world… ONLY TO FIND NOTHING!!! So, tell me, Pronos! TELL ME!!! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT?!?!”
King Luxor remained silent as the Lord-Emperor awaited his answer. He had no reply.
“Right as we breached your thracking dwelling an ‘UNIDENTIFIED ESCAPE SHUTTLE POD’ was seen taking off from an underground launch pad beneath the premises,” Ventrix spat. “A small squadron of my ‘Ravager Attack Astro-Fighters’ then set off in pursuit of it until the pod suddenly initiated a ‘Quantum Warp Jump’ to a whole new Galactic Sector. So… Tell me, Pronos… Just who ‘was’ piloting that pod, ‘who’ and ‘what’ was it harboring, and of course… WHERE WAS IT THRACKING HEADED?!”
King Luxor kept his lips sealed, angering the Vexan Lord-Emperor even more grandly.
“WAS THE PYRAMID ABOARD THE ESCAPE SHUTTLE POD?” Ventrix pressed on as the fallen Guardinian Ruler remained silent. “Was it??? THRACKING ANSWER ME, YOU RAXX-EATING SKOGGER!!!”
The Lord-King of planet Guardinas still, surprisingly, had no reply for the enraged royal head of the Vexan Empire.
“Do you want to know what I think, Pronos?” Lord-Emperor Vexas went on in a more ‘calmed’, but irritated sounding voice. “I THINK that you ordered SOMEONE to take the Unlimited Power Source OFF-WORLD so my forces and I could NOT ‘re-obtain’ it. NOW, the particular identity… OR ‘IDENTITIES’ of whomever this someone… OR ‘SOMEONES’ is currently ‘unknown’ to myself and my brothers… BUT ONE THRACKING IS FOR CERTAIN, PRONOS: The Pyramid of Power was, IN FACT, aboard that very same thracking escape shuttle pod. That is what I think. Heh, heh… Now, am I ‘correct’ in my assumptions… Or have I just spoken a load of raxx???”
Keeping his lips sealed, King Luxor looked away… Giving ‘some’ validity to Ventrix’s assumptions.
“DRELLIX… ‘DRILL’ HIS MIND,” Lord-Emperor Vexas commanded, causing his Mohawked Lord-Prince brother to step up alongside his left. “Drill his mind for the answers that I seek.”
“WE,” Lord-Prince Axius (again) corrected from behind, causing Ventrix to slightly growl before regaining his poise.
“As you wish, Your Highness,” Lord-Prince Drellix sneered as he now stood before the fallen king once more.
Holding out his organic hand in the face of the Lord-King whilst his brothers watched on from off to the side, Drellix snickered, “Heh, heh, heh… Now this is going to hurt… A LOT.”
