ca 8000BC by Earth's calender "I hate him" Betamu pounded on the disk repeatedly with her fist. She clenched her legs to her chest and fought her tears. Andryza leaned forward a reached her arm around Betamu in an attempt to comfort the young girl. Andryza was the oldest of their kind, and it showed. "You're so young Betamu, I don't expect you to understand the implications of it all." "H.. how..." Betamu choked on her rage, "How can it be wrong for me to want to kill him?" "There is a very thin line between revenge and justice... revenge is wrong." "B...but he's killed so many, so many have suffered because of him. Doesn't he deserve to die?" Andryza sighed in despair. "Yes, I would by lying if I said that he didn't deserve to die...but..." Betamu looked into Andryza's eyes. The hatred in her own eyes shone through, a beacon of problems to come. "But what?" Andryza shook her head, "It's wrong to kill out of hatred Betamu, if you were to do so it would make you no different from him. To want to do so is wrong, but there is a distinct difference between desires and actions." The very words gave rose to fury in Betamu's heart, but she could not become angry at Andryza. Even though Betamu was only eight years old she had already learned so much from her grandmother. "He" had killed Betamu's mother in cold blood, before he very eyes. The emotional damage could take hundreds of years to repair and she may never fully recover, a prospect which had Andryza extremely worried. Betamu could no longer control her tears. "Why... why doesn't anyone understand?" Andryza reached behind her neck and disconnected the chain for her necklace. She clutched Betamu's hand and placed the small pendant firmly in her palm. "I want you to take very good care of this Betamu. It is more important than any of us. It is a thousandfold more important than the secret of our genetics. It could be the source of life and prosperity, but it could also be the source of great death and despair for all living creatures." Betamu wiped her tears away and looked at the small pendant. "W... what is... it?" Andryza looked in Betamu's eyes. "This is why he killed your mother. He was after this. There can be no greater way to honor your mother than by defending this pendant." Betamu opened the small pendant to reveal thousands of small glowing shards. It had a mystical beauty, each piece like a star in the sky. "Many thousands of years ago our ancestors made this pendant to protect the universe. Each civilized planet across the galaxy has seven relics called Dragonballs by most races. These relics can grant wishes, but there will will always be people like him who will wish for power and death. So a very small piece of each one was taken and placed in this pendant." "So that they could never be used?" "Well, kind of. They can still be used, but not for the purposes that men like him would want them. Without these tiny pieces they cannot be used to wish for infinite power and immortality. People cannot wish away galaxies and races. They cannot dominate the universe. But it's not enough." "W... what do you mean?" "It is still the responsibility of every race to rise against evil men. It's our responsibility to stop them, and no one can ignore that responsibility. He has wiped out billions of lives and we shall not stand for it any longer." A look of horror seized Betamu's face, "You mean your going to use the weapon?" Andryza looked at the ground beneath her feet, "I'm sorry, I know I told you that such weapons should never be used, but we have tried everything at our disposal to stop him to no avail. If do not destroy him he will only continue to kill. It is a horrible weapon... and it will mean the death of our people." "B... b... but... what about the Elvyion?!" Betamu shrieked. "It will probably be annihilated, and without it the Sanse and Tellxyu will no longer have anything barring them from conquering our worlds." "B... but our people! They'll hunt us down to get the weapon won't they!?" Andryza sighed, "It's very likely. You will probably have to spend the rest of your life running from warlords and bounty hunters. I feel a great sorrow for sentencing you to such a life Betamu. I can only hope that one day our people will be able to draw themselves back together. The other races will never understand the sacrifice we are making for them." Betamu cringed, her cheeks drenched with tears. There was a long moment of silence. "Freya will take you with her tonight. She will protect you and raise you well." Andryza stood, and walked out of Betamu's room stopping breifly at the door, "Never let anyone use our secret Betamu." Andryza bowed her head as she left the room, "How I hope she will recover, first her mother dies and now she must say goodbye to her entire kind." A great thunder echoed across the bridge of the Elvyion as it passed into normal space to confront the warlord's immense legion of terror. There was a brief moment of silence which was broken by a visual communication from the warlord himself. Andryza rose from her command chair to greet the warlord. "So the Leers finally rear their cowardly heads." the warlord boomed. "Your crimes end here Alkanphel." "Fools, I am well prepared---" the communication halted as Andryza gave a hand signal to her communications officer. She then turned to face the main display which showed thousands of tiny dots encompassing the warlords flagship. Hesistantly she uttered the words which would doom her race and shift the balance of power across the galaxy. "Fire the IDM Disruptor" The lights on the bridge dimmed and static danced across the main display. A low resounding hum rang throughout the Elvyion's innards justling and rumbling the frame. Outside the ship thousands of small pylons and spires shifted into place to focus the aura of energy building from the core of the ship. A dazzling light danced out from the sides of the ship and slowly all the stars in the background began to dim. Beta Syvander grew dimmer as well and an aura of light began to seep from the star's inside toward the Elvyion. Small ripples began to edge off the exterior of the magnificent ship. Hundreds of massive bolts unlocked seperating the two main halves of the Elvyion which edged slowly to the sides revealing the core's menacing visage. As everything mounted towards the apoethesis Andryza clutched her hands together and bowed her head. Suddenly everything went silent, the rumbling the growing aura, everything. The countdown continued. 00:02. Andryza sighed, "Forgive me Betamu." 00:01 A brilliant flash echoed forth from the Elvyion's exterior. 00:00 A streak careened forth from the Elvyion towards Alkanphel's flagship. As the two made contact trillions of neon blue-green tendrils spread out from the union. Like small wisps of smoke the tendrils rocketed outwards across the entire solar system and then beyond traveling far beyond the speed of light or any other such corporeal barrier. They enveloped Alkanphel's flagship, his armada, the Elvyion, Beta Syvander, all the planets, everything. Suddenly all of the matter in the entire solar system turned black as though suddenly robbed of all light, some might even say the contrast against the tendrils was... beauty. And then a brilliant flash tore throughout everything. The armada, the flagship, the Elvyion, the planets, the star, everything simply evaporated in the precursor wave that preceded the real explosion. A terrific display of the IDM Disruptor, the horrible weapon that the Leer race's ancestors had coded into their genetics. All so brutally powerful, yet so graceful and elegant. It had all passed within a fraction of a second. An entire solar system literally ground into less than dust. The Disruptor left a lasting, perhaps eternal wound on the face of the universe. But it was over, Alkanphel's reign of terror had come to an end, all of his followers and all of his opposition had been destroyed. But it was not over, none of the other races had forgotten the secret of the Leer's genetics, and there was no price to high to pay for the key to unlocking that secret, there was no price to high for a government to pay to obtain one of the handful of survivors. And thus a great hunt began. Fortunately for Freya and Betamu, no one except Alkanphel knew about the pendant, unfortunately... allthough it would take him thousands of years to recover, Alkanphel had survived the attack perhaps through means beyond the understanding of any creature. It was the first time the IDM Disruptor had ever been used, but it would not be the last.