Hatred, as it's need to conceive ill will towards the ones that slighted us might seem like the proper course most would endorse. But it takes one with internal grace to lay waste to these anger-based intentions. Abstention from this primal need to recompede from your fellow man will bring you to understand true forgiveness.

Now there was one in the Vrill line that sends chills down the spines of even the most hardened ones. Her undone has never been known. Shown the strength of a demon for no reason she would kill for the slightest of ills. Her bright red skin could be akin to that of blood that would inevitably flood from enemies' veins lain at her feet after their inevitable defeat. To meet the one known as Vade many would trade their lives to suffice her strives. The value of life meaningless to her, true power was the only lure to this beast standing at least twelve foot tall leaving her worshipers in awe as they dubbed her the "Red Dragon".

Now, back deep in the lair of the dragon's eye our royal Vrill line Vade, enters the throne room to view her brother's slain body. Evil's embody, won't be denied when her eyes fill with tears seeing her brother appear to have been sliced straight through. It might have behooved her to ask any witnesses how he was cast down. But this arrogant crown just saw the Amazon brigade invade and make a quick exit. Beset by her inner rage this has now set the stage for war with the Amazons she already vehemently abhors. But what's in store many would implore her to stop dropping such a campaign with her misaligned aims many would see her as insane.

Vade: "Vek!," "Vek!," "Where are you?" "Need I do everything myself you hapless whelp!"

Vek, her aide runs to her side to abide by her wishes though she dishes out disrespect and neglect to his lot. He is sought only for his loyalty to Vrill royalty. At height of only three foot two, she shoos him around and constantly beats him down into submission. His type, a fission of genetic research for the Vrill are perched at the pinnacle of science. No longer reliant on normal breeding seeing it as below them somehow. So lowly toads like Vek are hatched to match the need to heed the royal line as they are the only ones designed to do it.

Vek: "I'm coming m'lady my delay lay with the guard they have every yard blocked still shocked from the Amazon invade." "May I know what you want?"

Just then Vek looks down to see Lord Vrax drown in blood. Negative emotions now flood his mind. If Vrax is dead his stead as King and everything goes to Vade. He knows she is insane but, for her to reign he has a lot of internal disdain.

Vek: "Did the Amazons kill Lord Vrax?" "What was the reason for their attack?"

Vade: "Why the dragon's eye of course." "To force their way in they must have been desperate."

Vade then rolls Vrax to his side and spies that his sword is missing.

Vade: "Where is the blade?" "We have been played!" "Vizcere was their aim then to flay Vrax when he tried to get it back!"

Vrak: "The guard said something about his bout with a green abomination the creation of the eye. Perhaps this is what made him die?"

Vade: "You question what I say?" "Is this the day you make your grave?"

Vek: "No m'lady!" "Just maybe we should get facts before we react."

Vade: "Little knave, you are nothing but a slave." "You dare to aim your words against me!" "You will see yourself darting across the room from my throw." "Go now!" "Get General Vasp!" "Or risk my wrath!"

Vek does as he is told though not sold on Vade's take she would definitely break him without mistake. So he makes haste to trace out the General's current placement.

Much later, at a place encased in steel the surroundings would reveal what seemed to be a ship equipped for interstellar travel. Their homeworld unraveled eons ago so they crash-landed on Earth and immersed themselves deep underground until they found volcanic heat to keep them warm. Though, cold-blooded very out from the norm they scorn the surface dwellers and take measures to stay hidden from the human race who has recently made them make haste to race back to the stars since human greed and wars are fastly approaching to their doors. General Vasp can be seen encased in a robotic suit trailing closely by Vek at his boot heels. The recent dispute with the Amazons has made the General troubled. Even with his guard doubled their struggle to keep them out has put him in doubt that they are a match for women attached with the power from the Earthly Gods.

Vade: "General Vasp!" "What is this monstrosity that you don has your mind gone wrong?"

General Vasp: "My Queen!" "You have seen how the Amazons have intervene in Vrill routine." "This armored machine will even the odds against their ungodly strength." "At length, it amplifies our might ten times." "Its design is from my covert R.& D. division." "Lord Vrax swore me to secrecy about its existence." "But now that you are enlisted into his seat I feel it's time for me to repeat what I said to him before all this bloodshed." "Our defenses hang onto but a thread." "It's time for the Vrill to tread into their prime and realign our fate taking the Amazons away from their jungle estate with help of these bionic suits we will make."

Vade: " Ha! Ha! Ha!" "I like the way you think!" "We will not shrink down!" "I renounce their rule and will give them just due." "Tell me!" "If I threw all the crew you need to proceed with manufacture could you guarantee enough for the entire Vrill Army?"

General Vasp: "Garnishing every available Vrill it will still take over three Earth years for the results you wish to appear." "Though, have no fear I creatively steered an elite few to wear six of the suits if revenge ever came due." "They have conquered through every test centuries of Vrill military could behest." "Lord Vrax suppressed them due to contention of their barbaric ways needless to say they will fight to the death to fulfill your any request." "Addressed as the R.A.T.L.R.'S. Robotically Augmented Tactics Lethal Response Squad. Give them merely a nod and they will trod over any that stand in your way what do you say?

Vade: "I want a display of what they can do."

General Vasp: "Of course, right away." "I'll have Captain Vile report to you without delay."

The General then touches a display on his right forearm and shouts (("No matter the whereabouts of Captain Vile have him report immediately to support Lady Vade's wishes to her premises!"))

Vade: "Vile?" "Vile!" "Isn't he in prison with the key thrown away?" "His arraign said over 400 slain at his own hands." "It was to my understand that my brother landed him behind bars never again to see the light of day."

General Vasp: "I waylaid his sentence without letting Vrax know." "To show such promise he was a merciless colossus just wasting away in prison. So I commissioned a stooge to assume his role and the dole out the life sentence with him in lieu of Vile's attendance."

Vade: "So, in essence, you committed treason, and what is the reason for your betrayal?"

General Vasp: "Vrax was unable to keep us safe." "We never saw face to face he wanted to remove thousands of Vrill weapons to quench aggressions with the humans by offering peaceful intentions as a solution." "This disillusion I couldn't abide and sit by to do nothing." "It was becoming ever more apparent our merits of technology needed to be combined with the Vrill kind to redefine our place amidst the human and Amazonian races." "To encase our best in what our technology can attest addressed the best solution." "A revolution in its time we can now climb to the top and stop the surface dwellers without our cold-blooded nature making it a danger." "When sealed in these containers they retain it at the necessary 143° we need to guarantee our life."

Vade: "I can validate your strife." "I fought too many a time with Vrax." "He was soo lax when it came to fighting back against the human ransack of our domain." "Did I hear you claim the suits retain the heat we need to proceed to the surface?"

General Vasp: "Yes, their internal furnace will make it so the surface temperature doesn't concern us anymore."

Vade: "Then immediately pour all your staff into making a suit for me." "I will proceed to own the Amazon throne with what you have divulged." "As far as your indulge with treason you have shown me you had every reason to go off on your own." "If you had not thrown your efforts to keep our people afloat we would be approaching extinction." "Your conviction to the Vrill race is of no disgrace." "I promise there will be a place of honor for your line in the dragon shrine."

The General now declined his chest to show respect to Vade's bequest.

Vade: "Now, that we are about to test the waters with the Amazon daughters we will need a spy on the inside to pry out information from their most devout."

General Vasp: "Would a scout do?"

Vade: "In lieu of one of their own showing their plans our hands are tied without an inside ally."

Vek: "Can I speak your majesty?"

Vade: "In your capacity as an aide your audacity may lead you to an early grave little slave." "Out with it!" "What do you have to say?"

Vek: "After the Amazons were put into cages I wagered that there was more afoot. So, I put a proboscis into the one called Min." "I figured it would be a sin not to find out why they decided to invade our home." "Soon it will be grown enough to take over her will though she will still look like them once it takes over her brain stem she will then be the spy or the ally we need to proceed."

Vade: "Ha, Ha, Ha!" "Vek!" "Your breed with its diminished seed may perhaps be misleading." "Proceeding with seating a Vrill mind control embryo is exactly the scenario we needed to make a successful attack on the Amazon state take place."

Vek: "Thank you my grace." "I hope one day to allay your hand and can be worthy to stand at your side. To one day be provided an equal vote and promoted to the equivalent of a pure-blood Vrill."

Vade: "I would still make you heel to the lowest of Vrill nor kill you the instant our society is instilled with respect for your sect." "You are incorrect if being met as an equal for your people will be gained." "Reign in your aims little Vek, you will always be just a speck in our eyes."

General Vasp: "You are despised from the moment your kind is hatched." "You are only matched to lady Vade to pay her needs." "Recede to the level to which we allow you to stay." "Now away with you!"

Vade: "I soon expect a review of your findings from the mind-ling you put into the Amazon brood."

Vek: "Yes m'lady."

Vade: "Also it would behoove you to remember your place." "Now begone from my face!"

Vek immediately races towards the door much too scared to explore further discussion without negative repercussions. All of a sudden Captain Vile enters. Before Vek is stepped on he ventures to the side and bows to Vile. Well known to be hostile this is a Vrill who instills fear just from appearing. Vek peers up at this gargantuan beast while drops of Vrill blood from deceased opponents drip towards his toes. Vile's bionic suit shows covered in the carnage of his newly defeated foes. Vek froze in fear as a severed finger dropped from the top of his shoulder. The beholder of a recent Vrill death this mess is detested by Vek's soul. To consistently dole out death like this without contest will surely mess with one's psyche. Likely to be next Vek immediately runs down the hall not enthralled to stay to be Vile's prey.

General Vasp: "Lady Vade, Captain Vile as you bade."

Vile: "Why am I here?" "I dare not appear to Vrax or I will be back in prison."

Vade: "Lord Vrax's spirit has risen." "He is dead and I will succeed in his stead."

Vile: "Dead!" "Who got ahead of me?" "I'd love to see him skinned alive for what he strived to do to me."

General Vasp: "Captain!!" "She is Vrax's sister!"

Vile: "What?" "I didn't wish her dead!"

Vade: "Let's pretend it was left unsaid for now" "General Vasp tred on thin ice to devise your escape from prison. A decision he may regret if your skills are yet to measure up to your reputation." "The information I heard was you deterred Lord Vrax from attacking his opposition in the Galatic War by pouring acid on his men?"

Vile: "Aye" "I did send his entire brigade to their deaths" "I have no regrets." "I set explosive charges at the base of the acid-filled craters on the planet of Quater." "I later positioned myself to set them off with a laser blast when his men passed the midway spot." "I caught them in my trap thus scrapping Vrax's plans." "Landing in acid is a horrible way to die." "I can still hear all their cries for aide in my mind as the acid dined on their flesh their protests were for naught as it sought to eat away anything in its path." "No Vrill could've outlasted such torture." "Scorching 429 troops that day I dare say it was my best work to date."

Vile, quickly makes a malevolent smirk as if to shirk off what he had done. This devilish son cares for no one and strives only to see death dealt to whoever he felt was worthy.

Vade's curiosity satiated she gasped to hear the details. The scale of Vile's bloodlust made her trust her gut that this was just the Vrill she needed to impede her will and kill the Amazons.

Vade: "Donned in those suits I would like to recruit you and your team into a task." "To sack the Amazon's homeland."

Vile: "No man nor Vrill has been able to kill a single one." "Their undone is known to none." "I've seen the stoutest of Vrill run a spear into their chest without penetration."

General Vasp: "Our formations cast at least twenty simultaneous laser blasts into their ranks." "Just like bullets off a human tank, they were ineffective." "From their perspective, they were having fun at our expense."

Vade: "What sense does it make?" "An entire race graced with invincibility? " That's an impossibility." "Will we just give up?" "NO!" "THE VRILL WILL NOT FOLD!" "We will behold the day the Amazons are laid to waste!" "Encased within these bionic suits I will see the General's recruits crush their skulls neath their feet to avenge the day Vrax's life was taken away." "Array your minds from defeat our vengeance will be complete." "Vek's discrete plant will grant us the knowledge we need to read into their minds and find their weakness." "He is a genius you know." "Though, I would never show accolades to his face." "Placed within his three-foot frame is a brain that could outwit most of you who sit at the pinnacle of the Vrill political chain." "So, remain composed and disclose to me the suit's capabilities."

General Vasp's and Vile's inability to grasp a single Amazon defeat up to this point having already been voiced they give each other a look that now both mentally took them to the same place. Are the suits enough to face these women in the Earth God's grace?
© Peter Gunn