"Five minutes until hyperspace exit," Mia said, standing next to me on the bridge.
I nodded to her and said.
"As soon as we exit hyperspace, I want all ships ready for a quick attack on the enemy." I said.
"As you command, boss!" she replied.
For the next five minutes, we stood in silence and stared into space before us, until we entered something like a portal, and now we were back in space.
"The scanners have detected a planet with life. It is located 300,000 km away from us," Mia said, holding the tablet in her hands.
"How long will it take us to get there?" I asked.
"At low speed, we'll get there in two hours. At full speed, we'll get there in 10 minutes." Mia replied.
"Okay, then give all ships the order to go to full speed." I told her.
She simply nodded and gave my order over the comm.
The next moment, the ship jerked violently and began to accelerate.
Quite soon, we found ourselves not far from a planet that resembled Earth, only it was perhaps 10 times larger than Earth, I don't even want to imagine how many people live on this planet. And they were all killed by a parasite that took over their bodies.
Even though I'm not a fighter for justice, I want to avenge them. Maybe under different circumstances, we wouldn't be enemies, but became friends, but this vile parasite killed them and used the bodies of dead people for war.
"Boss, there is an enemy fleet in orbit around the planet." Mia said.
"Have they spotted us?" I asked.
"No, at least not yet! If we get any closer, there's a good chance their scanners will spot us." She replied.
"Then let's use the element of surprise. I want all ships locked onto the enemy ships." I said.
After a few seconds, Mia said that all ships were locked onto the enemy and waiting for the command to open fire.
"Then…"
"BOSS! Our scanners have spotted a ship that passed by the enemy fleet, and they're pursuing it." Mia warned me.
"Damn!" I sighed.
"I want the pursuers destroyed!" I said, since I most likely know who was in the ship that fled the planet.
"Boss, but then the enemy fleet will spot us!" Mia said.
"I know, that's an order!" I raised my voice. To be honest, I didn't like giving orders to these girls, and they knew it. So, they immediately understood that this was serious.
"Send Tanya and Oksana to intercept this ship," I added, to which she nodded.
Quite soon, I saw several shots into space, which destroyed the ship's pursuers.
"The enemy fleet has spotted us!" Mia said.
"I want everyone to activate their shields at full power," I said, and then the shields on all the ships in the fleet activated, which began to absorb enemy shots.
I waited for the moment when Tatyana and Oksana returned, so that I could give the order to open fire. I didn't want them to accidentally get caught in the crossfire.
"Boss, Tatyana and Oksana, reached the ship, and escorted him to our ship." - said Mia, to which I nodded.
"Then…"
"FIRE FROM ALL WEAPONS!" - I commanded, and my order was distributed to all ships of the fleet, and in a few seconds, the impenetrable darkness of space was illuminated by a bright light.
All the ships of my flotilla began to fire at the enemy fleet, which according to the scanners was much smaller than mine.
The enemy also tried to shoot back, but he could not make more than a couple of shots. They had already lost many ships when they were on the ground, and what they have left now can hardly be called a fleet.
After a while, we finished shooting at targets.
"Mia, I want the remains of the enemy fleet to be scanned for life forms," I said.
After a while, Mia reported.
"No life signs detected. No energy signatures detected. No survivors. Only debris remains of their fleet," Mia said.
I sighed and looked at the planet in the distance. The only way to destroy the parasite was to destroy the planet. And thereby calm the souls whose bodies were under the control of the cosmic abomination.
"Mia, do we have a weapon capable of destroying planets?" I asked, and noticed how she noticeably frowned.
"Asmodeus personally, does not have such a…" I interrupted her.
"Asmodeus?"
"That's the name of this ship, the flagship of the fleet," she replied.
Is this such a coincidence?
"In any case, continue!" I said.
"As I already said, the Asmodeus does not have such a weapon. But there is a weapon that can destroy planets only if they are directed from several ships. It is a photon emitter." - she said.
"And how many ships have this weapon?" - I asked.
"Besides the Asmodeus, on six. All of them are sisters of the Asmodeus, and have the same mass and dimensions as the Asmodeus." - Mia answered.
I can already guess what the names of my ship's sister are. All seven practically identical ships, seven… seven deadly sins!
"Then, I give the order to use the photon emitter and destroy the planet!"
Mia immediately contacted the other six ships, and after a while, I saw how the iron shutters on the bow of the ship opened and a large cannon rose up. It looked very cool.
Soon, white energy began to accumulate in this large cannon until it reached its limit, and a shot occurred in the next one, from which the entire ship shook.
Although, it was not exactly a shot, rather it looked like a laser that was aimed at the planet. In addition to the laser, from my ship, I noticed six more, the same lasers that were directed towards the planet.
At first, nothing happened, but the next moment, the planet just exploded. Of course, I knew that we would destroy the planet, but that it would be so easy...
Just like the Death Star...
"The scanners can no longer detect organic life," Mia told me, who was also watching the explosion.
I nodded to her.
"Then, we're done with this! Mia, let's go home." I said, and walked towards the exit.
Quite soon, I went down to the hangar, where Tanya and Oksana were already waiting for me, at the enemy ship.
"Boss, the scanner shows that there is a living person on board." Tanya said.
I nodded to her and looked at Oksana.
"Can you open this ship?" I asked.
"Yes, boss, I'll do it now!" she said, and a few minutes later, the airlock opened.
Tanya and Oksana immediately took their blasters off their belts and went inside the ship, and I followed them.
"Boss, it's clean here, but…"-
"What is Tanya?" I asked.
"You'd better see it for yourself," she said and led us into one of the cabins, where there was a crib with a little girl lying in it. She wasn't sleeping or even crying, but simply smiled when she saw us.
This girl had little horns that would probably grow as she grew up.
"Boss, what are we going to do with her?" Tanya asked.
I simply picked up the girl and looked into her eyes, and she just smiled in response, taking my finger.
"I'll take her with me and raise her as my daughter!" I said.
"Boss, are you sure, she's…" I interrupted her.
"Yes, I'm sure and that's not up for discussion!" I said in a sharp tone, to which Tanya and Oksana shuddered.
I sighed.
"Sorry, Tanya, Oksana, I didn't mean to be harsh in my words." I said, which made them smile.
"Don't apologize, boss, it's my fault for not observing tact. But still, many people won't like that you have a child, a race that killed half the population of the earth." Tatyana said.
"I don't care what some people think. I know that the Empress won't mind!" I said.
Although I wasn't sure, I hoped so.
"In any case, Tanya, Oksana, could you go get some milk, I think there should be some in the kitchen on this ship." I said, to which the two cat girls nodded.
In the meantime, I went to my cabin with the baby in my arms. It wasn't the first time I held a child in my arms. She was almost the same as my sister Nyx, only a little smaller.
She looked at the corridor we were walking along with surprise, which made me smile. I don't know what happened to her mother, but if she risked sending her daughter on a ship, hoping that we would save her, then she was in danger. Although this is a memory, but I feel that I acted the same way as now.
Having reached the cabin, I immediately went into it, intending to spend the remaining time before returning home with the baby.
I went to the large bed and sat on it holding the baby, who grabbed my finger, playing with it.
But soon enough I felt how her hands tried to pull off the clothes on my chest.
"Sweetheart, I'm sorry but I don't have milk." I said to the girl and stroked her back, but apparently she did not understand and continued to try to pull off my clothes.
After a while, I heard a knock on the door and pressed the button to open the door.
There was Tanya, holding a bottle in her hands. Now I have a question, where did she get a baby bottle, on a military spaceship?
I decided not to go into this question, but simply took the bottle from her, and she left us.
I immediately gave her milk, which she began to drink and drank quite quickly. What a glutton.
I climbed a little higher on the bed, throwing off my clothes. I lay down under the blanket, and put the baby next to me. I thought that it would take her time to fall asleep, but no, she fell asleep quite quickly, and soon I fell asleep too.
After a while, I heard a knock on the door.
"Boss, we are already in the earth's orbit, now we will descend," said Mia, on the other side of the door.
"Okay!" I answered, getting out of bed.
I quickly got dressed, which woke up the baby, whom I soon picked up in my arms.
After a while, I felt the ship land, and without thinking twice, I immediately headed to the main exit, along the way my girls from the squadron joined me, and eventually a long procession came out of us.
On the street, many military men were already waiting for us, who began to congratulate us on the victory and so on.
There was even a guy who asked "what is that thing doing in my arms", without thinking twice, my girls immediately beat him up, and I ordered them to put him in jail for insulting my daughter. When I said this, many of those around us had shocked faces, but I didn't pay attention to them, and headed towards the avi, who was waiting for me to take me to the empress.
As a result, I walked along the corridors, with the baby in my arms, until I reached the main hall, where I saw the empress, who was alone.
As soon as she saw me, she immediately smiled. I will never get tired of my wife's smile, she is so charming…
"Congratulations on your victory!" she said, rising from the throne.
After which she came up to me and asked.
"Does my marshal want to receive an award?"
I could only nod.
Her face immediately came close to mine, and she initiated a kiss, and I accepted it and began to kiss her back.
But we forgot someone…
"And who is this little girl who is grabbing my breasts?" asked the Empress.
When we kissed, I had the baby in my arms, who ended up being squeezed between us, and she was trying to move away from Serika.
"Our daughter," I said with a smile.
"Our daughter? I don't remember the Empress getting married," she said.
"Well, I don't have a wedding ring, but will my victory over the enemy count as one?" I asked, to which she laughed.
"This Empress agrees!" she replied.
"Can this empress stop talking about herself in the third person?"
"We'll see!" she grinned.
The next time flew by for me very quickly, as it should in a dream.
After the victory, I resigned from the post of marshal, since I needed to raise my daughter. Although I was no longer a soldier, but one could say a politician, because I was the wife of the empress.
Yes, soon Serika and I got married, of course, many had objections that we were both girls. But all these objections were from male politicians who clearly wanted empresses.
Women, on the contrary, supported us, as did the entire council. As a result, we passed a law allowing only women to hold government positions.
In fact, there was some nobleman who dared to tell me to leave the empress alone, find myself some man, and bear him children.
This infuriated me, but before I could do anything, the empress herself went to his house and slaughtered all the men in the family, after which she appointed a woman in charge.
Oddly enough, they were not angry that the empress killed the men in their family, but were even grateful. Probably, their family treated women badly.
As I already said. after returning to earth and my resignation, we began to send different expeditions to different systems, and even found many intelligent races, which fortunately were not aggressive, and we even began trading with some of them.
Also, before resignation, I appointed Mia, marshal, with the empress's permission, and the rest of the girls were under her command, since they did not want to go anywhere and leave their family.
They often come to the castle to play with Lucifer.
That's what we called our daughter, she grew up to be a real troublemaker, she would run away from the maids every now and then, and a couple of times I was asked to find her, because they couldn't do it.
When I found her, as a punishment I held her in my arms all day, of course she tried to get out, but after several attempts, she became angry and pouted, saying, "Mom is mean."
Her favorite pastime was to sit on the throne and play the empress to whom everyone serves. No one drove her away, and if someone dared, they would lose their job and possibly their life...
Over time, Luci grew up, and of course she got access to the Internet, which is why the tragedy happened.
When I wanted to spend time with my daughter, I entered the room and froze in horror.
My girl was unconscious, and there was blood under her, and a severed horn was lying nearby.
Without thinking, I picked her up and quickly carried her through the corridors of the castle.
As a result, worried maids gathered around me, thinking that the princess had been attacked. I quickly delivered her to the palace doctor, who immediately began to treat the wounds on the damaged stump.
Soon Serika burst into the room, who must have been at some important meeting. I just smiled, knowing that our daughter was more important than some meeting.
Seeing me, she came up and hugged me, starting to console me.
In the end, everything was fine with our girl, except that she was left without one horn.
As soon as she came to, she immediately burst into tears, and Serika and I could only hug her.
As it turned out, she saw on the Internet the consequences of her race attacking the earth, and she felt disgusted that she was different, so she wanted to cut off her horns, showing that she was no different from us.
This silly girl...
We just started hugging her tighter, saying that we didn't care what she looked like. And I even told her a secret that even Serika hadn't told us after the victory. I said that her race was already dead when they attacked the earth, that the parasite was to blame for everything. This surprised them, and at the same time relieved our girl.
Luckily, we managed to regenerate her horn, Serika and I really loved her horns, and how embarrassed she was when we touched them.
So the years passed, soon Serika abdicated the throne, and Lucifer became the new empress. Although, it was only on paper, but in general we constantly help her with governing the country, and she does it very well.
Unfortunately, no matter what future we are in, it is impossible to create an immortality serum, but only to increase life expectancy.
Serika and I left this life at 350 years old, for me this time flew by very quickly, and the next moment I was already lying on a familiar bed, and Serika was sleeping next to me, who opened her eyes and looked at me immediately rushed to hug me and cry.
"What happened, darling, why are you crying?" I asked, because I did not like it when my wife cried, for some reason I felt guilty.
"You… you slept for a whole week, even your mothers did not know what was wrong with you, they could not wake you up. It was as if you were in a coma," said Serika, continuing to cry.
I sighed and began to tell her about one of the past lives, which we do not remember. When I said that we died on the same day, at the same moment, it brought a smile to her face.
"So, I was the Empress, and we had a daughter… Do you think she still…" I interrupted her.
"I don't know, honey! When we were 350, she still looked 18. I don't know how long her race lives, and there are various factors that could affect her lifespan."
"Something like a sun for a Kryptonian?" Serika asked.
"Something like that. If she's still alive, I think we'll meet." I said softly, patting my wife on the back.
"Anyway, did anything happen while I was gone?"
"Well…" she turned away from me
This isn't good…