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Homeworld of the Vixens. A desert planet almost twice the size of Earth. The third planet of it's star. Located more than 600 light-years from Earth, it's huge yellow-red star is as yet undiscovered by astronomers from Earth and remains unnamed well into the end of the 21 century. The Vixens call it the Eye. Close to it lies the Falcon, it's binary partner. Due to it's proximity, the Falcon completes a single orbit around it's parent within 30 Earth days or roughly 14 Sols on Eleria. Rarely is Eleria without sunlight and its entire surface is continuously scorched by the rays of the Eye and the fast orbiting Falcon. Night descends every 15th sol. The whole planet would have been rendered into a total wasteland if it wasn't for the tilt of it's axis and the eccentric orbit of the Falcon; leaving a tiny temperate zone on it's northern hemisphere. A narrow ocean circles the planet and separates the humid north from the arid southern wastelands. Desert covers almost seventy-five percent of the planet, crawling upwards to the 30th parallel where the ocean begins. Within this harsh environment, rose a civilization of reptiles almost 15 million years ago. The Reptiods as the people of Earth came to call them as their motherships descended on Earth cities in December 1995. Evolving from a desert species of cliff-dwelling lizard, the early civilizations of the Reptoids were extremely fractured; having to balance survival within the harsh desert environment against other constantly warring tribes. The various early tribes would savagely descend on their neighbors, sacrificing them for food and their body water. The various early religions and cultures of the Reptoids centered around the water-cult of Kiki-Ti; a demonic lizard-god who guarded the planet's scarce water. At the end of every battle, the dead are carefully brought to temples of Kiki-Ti where every drop of blood from the dead are carefully refined for their water. The water would then be carefully tallied for every drop and gram before they are sent to be stored in huge cave-reservoirs. Centering around the temples of Kiki-Ti and adjoining reservoirs would arise the nucleus of villages and cities. The Reptoids existed as a hunting and foraging society for millions of years, always remaining close to their sources of water and avoiding the rest of the desert wasteland. Within the desert existed various other species of reptiles and mammals. Most of which are harmless and are easily subdued for food. However, deep within the erg fields lie hidden huge sand-snakes; measuring up to a kilometre in length and capable of swallowing entire tribes of reptoids in its seasonal hunts. After every attack, the sand-snakes would drill itself deep into the ground before hibernating at the water-table, waiting for its next hunting cycle or until some wary traveller disturbs the desert sand several kilometers above it. Due to the competition from the reptiles, the mammals of Eleria failed to evolve beyond a few species of desert rats and cow-like herbivores in the wetter northern temperate zone where reptiles are scarce. However, a species of avian mammals developed in the desert-cliffs of the south. Called Falcons by the Vixens, they however resemble more closely the legendary Gryphons of Earth. The Falcon posses a powerful psychic ability to perform mind attacks. These attacks stuns their prey, including the Reptoids into confusion, becoming the Falcon's easy prey. Almost 5 million years ago, the Reptoid society experienced a drastic change when their tribes came into contact with the larger mammals of the north. Braving the narrow but treacherous strip of ocean, they settled at the temperate zone. They began domesticating the mammals they found for food. Farming also begun in the wetter climate found there. However, almost all food and the mammals found there were transported back to the desert cities of the south. Reptoids prefer the warmer climate of the desert compared to the cooler north. At about this time, a new religious-cult; centering around Kiki-Ra emerged among the northern desert regions which had contact with the temperate zone. Kiki-Ra was viewed as Kiki-Ti's counterpart and the female demon-lizard cult grew to replace Kiki-Ti in popularity. Kiki-Ra was viewed as the guardian of domesticated animals and farming. The main feature of the cult involved implanting the larvae of the Reptoid young into the body of the domesticated mammals. The larvae would experience accelerated growth and mature within 15 sols compared to almost 2 years by leaving the larvae in their egg-shells. This caused the population of the northern cities to expand rapidly. They turned against the weaker southern cities and on to each other until one tribe emerged victorious. The tribe of the Blue Kiki-Ra led Eleria in culture and science and for the next 5 million years. Their technology developed to amazing heights. Terraforming had melted the northern polar cap almost a million years ago, and its precious water carefully guarded and recycled throughout the desert mega-cities and farms of the south where most of the population lives. Genetic engineering enabled them to breed special military units such as the Octabrains with the mind-attack power of the Falcons. The rate at which their society expanded was however kept in check by the rate which they are able to breed enough of the mammals to serve as hosts for their young. Once the Reptoids discovered space-flight, this situation changed. Reptilian races on nearby stars were subdued to become their slaves and to staff their military. Mammalian races however were captured for food and to act as hosts for the larvae of their young. Lying almost 20 years from Eleria, Earth was unfortunate to lie within the path of a Reptoid slavery armada sent to assault an advanced reptilian civilization on the nearby Sirius-4. Detecting radio and other EM radiation, the armada homed in on Earth and first contact was made on December 15th, 1995. The attack begun almost immediately. The governments of Earth tried in vain to fight back, losing millions just days after their first attempts to organize a counter-attack against the Los Angeles mothership. The entire planet's population was forced into slavery. The brutality of their Reptoid masters, combined with hunger, fighting, and various illness introduced from across the Galaxy to the population caused almost one billion humans to perish. To subdue the population, the Reptoids preferred to enslave female humans. Almost 200 million women from around the planet were captured and placed in stasis for the 20 year journey to the Reptoid homeworld. The human resistance movement finally prevailed. After Duke Nukem and the Earth Defence Force liberated Earth from the Reptoid garrison left there in 1996, the final toll on mankind was estimated at 1.5 billion killed, plus the 200 million females abducted to the alien homeworld. The main purpose for the abductions is to serve as hosts for implantation with the larva of infant Reptoids. The alien would then grow within the host, using the wasting body of the host for oxygen and nutrients. Once a certain growth stage is reach, the alien would then horribly "burst" out of it's host; and continue its development independently. The female humans that were transported to the alien homeworld were hurled into the massive hatcheries within the grounds of Kiki-Ra temples, containing thousands of infant aliens still in their eggshells. Screams of terror, fear and pain penetrated the entire Reptoid homeworld as millions of human females were brutally implanted with the infant aliens. Their cries died as soon as they began; when they realized their fate - destined to perish on an alien planet far from their own in a way too horrible to imagine; each carrying a living monster within their chests. As the days passed by, the toxins released by the alien larvae within their bodies clouded and destroyed their memories. All thoughts of their former life on Earth were erased. They began to lose all coherent thoughts. Millions who once glowed with life now lay wasting on the floors of the gigantic temple hatcheries throughout the planet. Throughout the alien homeworld, widespread famine developed as the Reptoid Emperor forbade any of their latest harvest from being eaten. Every single one of the female humans were needed for implantation. Honor had been lost following their defeat to the primitive mammals on Earth and the greatest army that the Galaxy had ever seen had to be raised to reclaim that honor. Already, various races on different planets under their control were starting revolts similar to that on Earth and their thinly stretched garrisons were in severe need of personnel. The reptoids waited anxiously for the "day of the hatching", which corresponds to the 15th Sol of their planet. Alien medics stared emptily on the wasted bodies of millions of the human hosts. Waiting for them to burst apart at any time, leaving behind a massive sea of blood and tissue while millions of new aliens waded its way through to the banks of the hatcheries; ready to be picked up by waiting claws and sent directly to the "nursery" where their final training awaits. In this case, the military "nurseries" nearby had already been prepared with massive amounts of equipment and weaponry in anticipation. Night finally descended on Eleria but the day passed without event. Reptoid medics however noticed a sharp increase in metabolism among all the human hosts. The aliens kept on hoping. By the morning of the 16th Sol, several of the human females were dragged up from the hatcheries and brutally cut open. The Reptoids were shocked to find that all of the alien larvae were in stasis and failed to develop. The neural system of the larvae had become fused with it's host; altering their host's physiological functions, sustaining and increasing their host's metabolism to unbelievable levels. Still hopeful that some of the larvae might hatch, the aliens were reluctant to react. By the afternoon of the 16th Sol, almost all of the human females have emerged from their earlier comas. Communication began to develop between them. Patterns of organization and leaders began to emerge among them. Octabrain aliens began to notice massive psychic links building among the human females scattered throughout the planet. Within minutes, the human females struck suddenly at their captors. Their efforts occurred almost simultaneously throughout the planet, taking the aliens by surprise. The weaker ones voluntarily sacrificed themselves as living shields from the deadly laser fire pouring from the alien guards, so that the stronger may get past. Others piled themselves atop one another to form living stairs for the rest to scale the high walls of the hatcheries. The Reptoid guards were soon overpowered by beings the strength of which they had never seen before. Most of the human females soon reached the nearby "nurseries" where various weaponry were available in abundance. By the end of the first hour, an army of close to 195 million super-humans were armed and organized throughout the planet. The human's coordinated attack began to exterminate the aliens systematically throughout their own homeworld. The aliens referred to the super-human females as "Vixens" The only thing that slowed the Vixens was when they encountered food at various granaries and supply depots scattered along their path. By the morning of the 18th sol, the Reptoid's desert planetary capital and palace had been captured and razed. The Emperor brutally executed, and alien life was all but extinct on the planet. The Vixens remember the day as "The Day of The Reckoning". During the first fourteen sols after they liberated themselves, the Vixens throughout Eleria acted with a collective consciousness; the strong psychic link that existed among their members made them think as one. They continued roaming aimlessly around the ruins of the once mega-cities around the planet, stopping every now and then to feed themselves at various sources of food in their paths. Hunger began to set in among them. As night began to descend on the evening of the 15th sol, the collective consciousness that had existed among them was suddenly shattered. The event was known as "The Awakening". The Vixens awoke in a daze throughout the planet, the past fourteen sols was an empty black box in their memories. None could recall what happened. As night began on Eleria, the massive sand-storms of the 15th sol began to pound the planet. The Vixens huddled like frightened children in the ruins of the desert cities, while in the darkness all around them, the planet was blanketed in a blinding sandstorm. They gathered whatever sources of food they could find and tried in vain to question each other on what had happened to them, and where they were. The toxins released by the larvae in their bodies had erased all past memories except the ability for mechanical skills like speech. Those of them who were engineers previously on Earth began to sift through the rubble, putting together simple devices like heaters, cooking stoves, and lights only to stop and wonder where did they acquire those skills. Most began to cry through the night for family members they couldn't remember anymore on Earth. Only to stop as the faint traces of memories slowly disappeared from their minds completely as the dawn of the 16th sol descended on them. The planetary sandstorms died, leaving them stranded on the distant planet. Having lost all memories of their former life on Earth, the Vixens adopted the alien planet as their own, calling it Eleria. They existed as primitive tribes at first, similar to the early Reptoids. Sheltering in cave communities where strict water-cultures emerged to protect the scarce resource. They adopted the cultures of the Reptoids, where after every battle among their tribes, the dead would be recycled for their body water - not a drop of it was wasted. A new religion based on the Reptoid's she-daemon Kiki-Ra emerged among the Vixens. The Vixens view Kiki-Ra as their savior from the Reptoids. They referred to her as The Goddess and new statues of Kiki-Ra took on the form of human females in their temples. The only link between the various tribes on the planet was through certain members in each tribe who posses strong psychic abilities that enabled them to communicate with others throughout the planet. Most of them became priestess at various temples of the Goddess. Their telepathic sessions often results in revelations of future events and faint memories of their past on Earth which became known as the Motherland in their legends and myths. It wasn't long before the Vixens salvaged and repaired the Reptoid's cloning vats from the ruins of the cities. The advanced but simple machines were available everywhere within the Reptoid's former cities; enabling procreation among the Vixens tribes. Two Vixens who shared a mutual feeling for each other came together at the temples of The Goddess. Under an elaborate ceremony, their blood would be mixed and placed within the cloning vats. The child born would share the genetic trait of both her mothers. However, the children born to the Vixens were essentially human and didn't share any of the Vixens traits of their mothers. It was then that the Sisterhood of the Goddess discovered how to clone the larvae of the Reptoids. A first batch of children were chosen and at the age of four, they were sealed in specially designed cocoons and the larvae implanted into them. After 14 sols, all of the children survived and became Vixens. None of the children had lost their earlier childhood memories. The priestesses supervising their conversion had developed ways to counter toxins from the larvae, and the Sisterhood also succeeded in preventing the children from developing collective consciousness once they emerge from their conversion. The new Vixens were a marvel to the others. Beside the strength of the Vixens, the children possessed strong psychic abilities, enabling them to mentally summon the huge Falcons from their cliff nestings and ride them into battle with their mothers. Human females who convert themselves into Vixens would age normally until they reach the age of 36, after which, the aging process halts completely - giving them virtual immortality. Besides their physical beauty, Vixens are also known for their amazing strength and mental prowess. Among the first batch of children selected for conversion was Princess Karla; born from the blood-union of High-Sister Margaret Arkana and Baroness Lydia Elerian. Baroness Lydia later went on to lead the House of The Blue Goddess to conquer the rest of the Vixens tribes and rule Eleria as Queen Lydia of the Vixens. Most of the population however have their hearts on the Baroness' youngest daughter, Princess Karla. Since an early age, she was raised among the Sisterhood of the Goddess and displayed an amazing psychic ability. She was ordained by her mother, High-Sister Margaret into the sisterhood almost a year before she was recalled by her other mother, Baroness Lydia to serve in the army of her house. She became the first priestess from the Sisterhood to serve in the army of an Elerian imperial house. Being the youngest daughter, she was placed in command of the Red Guards; a rag-tag division of the House of The Blue Goddess. Princess Karla transformed the Red Guards into a war-machine feared throughout Eleria. She was constantly spotted personally leading her troops into battle, wearing a light personal shield and riding her favorite Falcon in the air as the rest of her troops lumbered along in their syn-metal armor. This led the rest of her troops to discard their armor in favor of the lighter personal shields. The Red Guards played a major role in the victories of the House of The Blue Goddess and it finally captured the Imperial throne, enabling Baroness Lydia to succeed as Queen of the Vixens. Once peace settled, Vixens cities rose quickly in the temperate north; cloning brought them millions of new children and the early Vixens population of almost 200 million doubled every 20 years to exceed the 1.6 billion mark by the time contact was reestablished with Earth almost a century later. The advanced technology of the Reptoids was rediscovered and introduced into their civilization. Contact was made across the stars with other peaceful alien civilizations and trade resumed between the races and the Vixens. The Vixens became an advanced space-faring race. Remnants of the Reptoids still existed however, remaining as interstellar thugs, gun runners, and pirates who would pay top dollar for the flesh of humans or Vixens. Their hatred of humans and Vixens still run deep and the meat of both had become their favorite delicacy. They were known to arm rival human and Vixens factions on Earth and Eleria with the hopes that the primitive mammals would wipe out each other before contact was made and their forces united. The hopes of the Reptiods failed. After almost a century later, reports were received on distant Vixens outposts on the existence of a primitive alien civilization, whose members look physically similar to the Vixens. The Vixen's Sisterhood and science leaders began to speculate the correspondences with the ancient Reptoid records of a distant planet in deep-space called Earth. Rumors spread among the Vixens population of the discovery of the Motherland. Meanwhile, Queen Lydia had almost reached the end of her reign when the customary abdication law came into effect. She had to vacate the throne to one of her daughters and although she favored Princess Karla, she knew that to claim the throne, her siblings had to be sealed in the Royal Arena and fight each other to the death until one remains standing to claim the throne. Within days, thousands would watch from the seats of the Arena and millions more from vid screens throughout the empire as her children killed off each other to claim her throne. She didn't want this to happen. The only way out was for her to commit ritual suicide, enabling her eldest daughter, Princess Alicia to automatically succeed the throne. However, according to the laws, blood has to be given and that meant that her youngest daughter Princess Karla has to be cruelly sacrificed. Fate played its hand. The Reptoids came into the picture. They had desperately tried to avoid Princess Karla from succeeding to the throne which would spell the end of their lucrative slaving and pirate activity within Vixens space. Several of their agents met secretly with Princess Alicia who was known to protect them from the Vixens Armada for a fair share of energy credits. She struck a deal with them whereby they would guarantee the throne to her in exchange for a large portion of Eleria's southern desert to be returned to the Reptoids. The Reptoid spies succeeded in poisoning four of Alicia's other siblings including Princess Karla with a nerve poison, causing them to become weak for a certain period of time, thus making them easy prey in the Arena. The Queen was extremely distressed to hear the news. There wasn't any evidence to link Alicia to the poisonings and she knew that Karla would meet certain death in the Arena since the law made no exceptions. She met covertly with Karla's other mother, High-Sister Margaret and the both of them hatched a plan whereby false evidence would be planted to make it look like Karla had organized the poisonings. A trial was held, whereby Princess Karla was found guilty and sentenced to death. Shock and disbelief shook the empire. Karla couldn't believe it when she was told that her mothers had planted the false evidence against her. Princess Karla was stripped of her right to the throne and exempted from the arena. She was transported to a prison cell in the royal capital, to await her execution on the evening of the tournament. Still weak from her poisoning, she watched helplessly at the tiny vid screen across the bars of her cell. Once sealed within in the arena, her other sisters teamed up on their 3 poisoned siblings. The flashing of sharp blades quickly disabled her three helpless sisters one by one. They lay morning helplessly from their gruesome injuries on the floor of the arena. Karla watched with anger as one by one, Princess Alicia moved in to play butcher on her three injured sisters.The crowd cheered in frenzy for blood. Karla almost could picture herself there on the saw-dust floor of the Arena. Bleeding from the wounds inflicted by her sisters and finally having Alicia place the edge of a knife at her throat and slowly slicing it through. Just then a commotion erupted through the arena and the fight was halted. Karla managed to watch just in time to see Alicia plunging her knife into the chest of another sister. Guards appeared at the doorway of her cell and guided her to the execution chamber. She was tied to a stone bed and above her a glowing red hot metal rod was slowly lowered to her chest, aiming directly at the faded scar on her chest where she was planted with the Reptoid larvae when she was four. This was the form of punishment for high treason among the Vixens. The hot metal bar would be driven as it burned its way through her chest till it comes through her and rests on the rock behind her. She drifted off into a trance. Her training with the Sisterhood helped calm herself as she detached her mind from the pain of her body. The hot metal began to press and burn her chest but it was suddenly raised. Her restraints were released and a Vixens medic appeared and sprayed something at the burn on her chest. The shock broke her concentration, she let out an involuntary moan as the pain flooded her mind and she lost consciousness. She learned later that her mother, Queen Lydia had committed ritual suicide in the presence of High-Sister Margaret. This caused the tournament to be halted as Alicia was automatically proclaimed as the new queen. In Vixens tradition, every queen about to commit ritual suicide was given the right to make a final decree that will be recorded and has to be followed whatever the costs. Just before Queen Lydia plunged the ceremonial dagger into her heart, she spoke out to High-Sister Margaret that Karla was to be given a full pardon and placed at the head of the expedition find the Motherland. Realizing her mother's true intention, Karla couldn't help but break down in tears. Although she was still struggling from the effects of her poisoning, Karla personally headed the prayers for her dead mother. The ceremony was held amidst a crowd of millions at the Goddess' temple in the capital, and it ended with the customary refining of blood water from her mother's body. The Sisterhood begged her to remain with them but she refused and decided to follow her dead mother's wishes. A small fleet was hastily organized to follow the ancient alien charts to the mysterious planet. Members of the team would be placed in a 20 year stasis for the expected duration of the trip. Included in the cargo of the small expedition party is several thousand alien larvae which hopefully could be used to recruit new members into their species. The Queen has decreed that should Princess Karla's mission be successful, the princess shall be the appointed leader of this so-called Earth and be put in-charge of civilizing the planet. Arriving 20 years later in 2096, the princess and her small expedition awakened to an Earth which is still at its infancy of inter-stellar travel. It's inhabitants had already made contact with aliens living at a few nearby stars. Based on the similarity in language and anatomy, Princess Karla realizes that she had found the "Motherland" frequently mentioned in Vixen scriptures and religion. To her surprise, she discovers that the inhabitants are divided into those which look exactly like them which are referred to as "women" and another species referred to as "men". Princess Karla also noticed that a major social upheaval is under-way on Earth between the "men" and "women". All the missing and dead female population from the earlier war with the aliens resulted in an imbalanced human society 100 years later. Males outnumber females almost 2-to-1. The women were severely oppressed, equal rights and various ideas of women's liberation were declared illegal and males dominated all fields of society. The social structure of society were thrown back to the middle-ages. Already armed conflict have broken out between the two groups, and various women's revolts occurred in cities across the planet. Most of the older parts of large cities became ghettoes for women refugees who separated themselves from the male-dominated world around them. All they needed was a leader to unite them together against the men... Her other expedition members considers these "men" as a species of mutated women which prevents the other "women" from achieving an advanced civilization like theirs'. Their deduction is that the "men" should first be eliminated to ensure the purity of the "women" species. The princess decided that it was time to put her plans into action. After making first contact at the Freedom Space City, her party landed at Los Angeles. She met the arriving US President in full battle gear. Press cameras surrounded her delegation, enabling billions of Earth's population to watch. Standing defiantly before the shocked US President, she gave a full speech, proclaiming her intention to liberate the women of Earth. The president stood speechless before her as she finished. She remembered an old news footage she had just watched regarding the first meeting between the then US president and the first Reptoid envoy. Seeing him still speechless, she decided to follow the actions of the Reptoid envoy almost a hundred years ago at this very same spot in Los Angeles; before anyone could react, she removed her blade and inserted it neatly into the heart of the US president. As the president fell, and spurted blood at her feet, women throughout the planet rioted. Even the female Secret Service officers and marine guards turned their guns on their male counterparts, forming a shield around the Princess' shuttle. More reinforcements arrived from the Vixens fleet and from defecting female officers from the LAPD, plus nearby Army and Air Force bases. Massive sabotage by female officers prevented or delayed military units heading to stop the Princess. By the evening of that day, they had captured downtown Los Angeles. By the end of the week, military and civilian units allied with the Princess had captured New York, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur. The male population of the cities had to flee to the countryside. Those remaining were either executed or kept as slaves. With the larvae that they brought along, Princess Karla succeeded in converting large numbers of her new followers into Vixens; creating a superhuman army that made Los Angeles and Southern California impenetrable. The temptation of a perfect figure and immortality at 36 years of age drove the women of Earth wild into being converted to Vixens. From the female celebs of Beverly Hills to the businesswomen of Tokyo, all of them gave up their entire wealth to the cause in exchange for the immortality of the Vixens. Local military forces and the Earth Defence Forces sustained heavy losses as they were pushed back into the countryside. The leadership of Earth turned to the one man that they knew could stop the Princess; Duke Nukem. Colonel Duke Nukem headed a small crack team of EDF marines, and they left Flagstaff for Los Angeles on the 30th day since the Vixens invaded. Their shuttle was hit by Vixens AA fire just short of it's target and only Duke Nukem survived the crash. "Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!", muttered Duke as he landed on the rooftop of a building in downtown Los Angeles. Based in the intel. report, he had landed close to the Princess's base and he proceeded to do what he knows best; wiping out alien scum. Within hours, he had penetrated deep into her base and in the final standoff, he succeeded in wiping out her elite guards along with the Princess herself. Shit! He Thought as he surveyed the damage around him "What a waste of pussy!!!". He radioed the EDF with the news when suddenly he noticed movement. Damn! The Princess is alive!! Cautiously, he stepped around the bodies of other dead Vixens and reached for her pulse - it was still strong. She was merely knocked out from a stray round that had penetrated her shield and glanced off her forehead. She might be out cold for a day or two though, thought Duke as he examined her once again... Princess Karla regained consciousness a few days later in her prison cell. She noticed that her hands were chained to the hospital bed in her cell. There were a crowd of people just outside her cell. When they noticed that she was awake, she felt the glare of lights from press vidcams. A barrage of questions and information were hurled at her and from what she gathered, she was held on an island off New York City. There would be a trial at the UN and it was confirmed that she would be publicly executed after the trial. A lesson to the others, she thought. First they cage me like an animal for the press, then execute me in public for their cause.. She chose to remain defiant, giving out a speech urging all women on the planet to continue the struggle without her until they win their freedom. It was then that her jailers walked in, taking her down to a cold stone room in the basement of the building.Three of them entered and started interrogating her, asking her about the size of her fleet, her orders, were there any more fleets to come. When they saw that she refused to answer, they began to brutally beat her. Her body, weak from lack of food was hurled like a brick against the cold stone wall and beaten until she passed out, or so it seemed to her jailers. They would then leave her on the dark floor bleeding. The beatings would continue again at irregular timings to keep her off her guard. She counted almost nine of them, taking turns round the clock three at a time. They knew their job well beating her senseless up to the point that they feel they might break a bone or something and they would ease back. Every time they returned, she would remember her Sisterhood training. Sinking into a trance to detach her mind from the pain. They would think that she had fainted but the beatings continued. She was served water, bread and some biscuits immediately after each sessions. It was painful forcing the scraps of dry food past her battered lips but she wasn't a human. Vixens have a higher metabolism rate and they would starve to death on a diet that would keep a normal human alive. The only way she kept herself alive was to continuously go into a trance to maintain her energy as he prayed to the Goddess for a chance to escape. The capture of Princess Karla immediately weakened the resistance of Vixens throughout Earth. The EDF regained ground. New York, Los Angeles and London was liberated by the end of the week. Especially horrifying was the action of the EDF's 5th Army in liberating London. Almost a million of the city's defenseless women population were executed under the pretext that they had already been converted into Vixens. This set off a major backlash among the women of Earth. No female military or police officer could be trusted anymore. Riots and defections escalated to the point that their male colleagues have resorted to murdering them while they were out on patrols or at their work desks itself. These only served to increase the defections and sabotage. On the 14th day after her capture, Princess Karla finally saw the light of freedom. After they came to know where she was held, female officers from the NYPD had been planning a massive rescue attempt along with local resistance leaders. In the early morning of the 14th day of her capture, the rescuers attacked. Instrumental in the planning was Lara Croft who had just escaped the EDF recapture of London. It took a bare 15 minutes before the rescuers dragged out the unconscious Princess from the basement. Princess Karla was taken to an abandoned warehouse in New Jersey and hidden there as the massive manhunt continued for her. Her rescue had boosted the morale of the women's resistance groups worldwide. She began to communicate daily with them once more through VR. Her chance arrived two weeks later when she established a mental link with a Vixens battle-fleet that had just entered orbit. A hidden wormhole had been discovered orbiting a star system close to Eleria and it led to a similar wormhole orbiting Alpha Centauri. This shortened the travel time between Eleria and Earth to just 30 days. The fleet included units from her old Red Guard battalion on Eleria, all of them still as fit as they were 60 years ago, fighting from the backs of Falcons with makeshift spears and bows. They carried pulse lasers now and were hungry for blood. It seems that the small but potent fleet had been sent by her sister Alicia or rather Queen Alicia. As a goodwill gesture? she questioned herself Or to spy on he exiled sibling? She remembered that her mother's pardon meant that she still had the right to the Elerian throne. Someday, we'll settle this on that bloody arena, Alicia, she made a vow to herself. Princess Karla ordered the fleet to remain cloaked, ironically just 2 kilometers from the Freedom Space City and sent out spies to live among the population there. The most useful part of the fleet was the supply of larvae that they brought along. Almost a million cannisters. They were secretly dropped to cities controlled by women throughout Earth, including New York which the Princess planned to liberate. For the next two weeks, activity died down within those cities as hundreds of thousands of women disappeared into hibernation as the larvae planted within them slowly converted them into Vixens. The Princess was continuously busy on VR, communicating instructions on preventing the harmful side-effects of conversion. The manhunt for her had been called off as the entire North-Eastern United States had become a hotbed of women's resistance. The Princess was able to travel freely around her base in New Jersey during the day. Being a priestess of the Sisterhood, she was popular among the women population and many of them became converts of the Goddess. Meanwhile units from the Vixens battle-fleet were landed secretly around the planet to take up defensive positions vacated by the thousands of women now hibernating to convert themselves into Vixens. The initial loss was extremely demoralizing that news of it was held back from the general population. The Vixens fleet seized the Freedom Space City without bloodshed; having planted hundreds of spies among the inhabitants. The Princess had decreed that ALL civilian men were to be spared if possible. After emptying the City and transferring the inhabitants to the fleet, the trillion-dollar Space City was towed out of orbit and sent crashing into the Pacific. The world leaders were devastated and some which had committed billions from their nation's treasury committed suicide. This was followed by the liberation of New York which was easy since most of the EDF's units were north, assaulting Boston. The City had been relatively empty that Princess Karla had been able to drive an antique red Ferrari she found in New Jersey into Times Square; become the first Vixen to get into the City. The City's women emerged all around her and cheered while the City's EDF garrison tried in vain to recover from the shock only to be overwhelmed by the thousands of newly converted Vixens pouring into the City from all directions. The Vixens then moved out from Chicago and New York, encircling and capturing more than a million EDF units trying to assault Boston. That ought to grab their attention, thought the Princess,and it did. The world leaders decided to call in the cruel EDF 5th Army. The 5th landed in a massive airborne operation in Albany and moved down the Hudson towards the City. Vixens units fell back or were completely crushed by the massive weight of the elite 5th. Almost a week later, the 5th realized it's mistake. It had pushed too deeply into Vixens terroritory and were surrounded. The counter-attack began and combined with orbital bombardment from the Vixens fleet, revenge was extracted on the 5th for their cruelty in London. Captured personnel from the 5th were transported to the City and as far as Boston and Chicago to be paraded before the public before being slowly tortured to death. The latest Vixens push regained all their previously lost territory and almost thirty five percent of the total land area of Earth. The war came to a stalemate as both sides fought desperately for land; the Vixens pushing from the cities while the EDF counter attacked from the countryside. The leadership of Earth knew they were losing the war; for every Vixens killed in their assault at EDF territory, the EDF had to expend almost four times that amount to regain it. They decided to attempt another coup... send in the Duke. With most of the battle settling down , Princess Karla emerged from a trance one morning and left on a shuttle heading west from her New Jersey headquarters. She only mentioned that she'll be gone for a few days... Colonel Duke Nukem had spent the entire morning (and most of the afternoon) sulking and trying to say Aloha to his latest flame; some Hawaiian bombshell he couldn't quite remember her name. She had left before dawn that morning with a note saying she had gone to join the Vixens. He switched on the tiny vid screen in that beach-front hut and watched all of the bad news before his hand phone buzzed with an order recalling him back to EDF service. I ain't through with vacation and they are trying to use me as some sort of expendable assassin to get the Princess thought Duke. The news shifted to the Vixens parades in New York and Chicago where captured personnel from the 5th were cruelly tortured in public. Duke lost his cool, sending his right boot through the vidscreen. "This really pisses me off!!" Tried to wiped off traces of lipstick on his trousers but gave up seeing it had set in "Screw it", he muttered with a smile, remembering bits and pieces of the wild night previously. He tried to formulate a plan, running it through his mind several times trying to see any weakness in it. It was depressing that he could come up with thousands of reasons why it would fail. "I've got to try," he replied to himself, "I'm the only one who could get to her and that might make a difference and end this all." He picked up his carryall and booked the latest shuttle back to Los Angeles, remembering at the back of his mind that the EDF had a shuttle waiting for him at Pearl Harbor later that evening, "I'm going AWOL!!".
On reaching LA, Duke hooked up with his old flame, Lani who was a damn good Coast Guard chopper pilot. She has her own chopper now and handled mostly private and cargo flights. She balked at first when Duke told her of his plan and it took a "lot" of "persuasion" before she finally agreed to fly him to New York - at a price of course. Duke had twenty four hours to kill before the flight. He roamed downtown LA for some time before picking up a blonde hot number who didn't need a lot of "persuasion" before she did whatever he asked. Damn, was she good! he smiled as he reloaded for his eight shot. Something kept biting at him. His date looked really familiar and he couldn't quite remember where he last saw her. Something kept erasing his chain of thoughts. "Uh, baby," he started to ask as he fired his eight," you look real familiar...have I seen you before?" Her face was twisted in ecstasy but he did notice a slight trace of alarm in her eyes but she kept it well hidden. "You're a real big curious cat aren't you", she countered, smiling. Duke thought about it for a while and she started to move away from him. He immediately made a grab for her before she could slip further away, " You know what, baby?" he grinned, "a cat has nine..."
Duke decided he didn't have the time for it and once airborne, Lani introduced him to her ex-Navy SEALs flight attendant Pam and Duke wondered what it would take to shack with the both of them together. The flight was pretty un-eventful
except for the time when Vixens units assaulting Denver fired AA tracer
toward them. It took some deft maneuvering on the part of Lani to get
them free. They reached the City after several refueling stops and Duke
began to worry as they flew between the skyscrapers of Manhattan without
so much as a single shot being fired at them. He reached for some of
the in-flight mineral water as they flew past the Chrysler spire and
he suddenly began to lose consciousness after taking several sips. Lani
and Pam emerge from the cockpit, smiling at him, and they... they were
in full Vixens battledress!! He realized that he had been poisoned,
and he immediately began to alter his body's metabolism to counter it.
Lani and Pam began to realize that the poison wasn't killing Duke and
had already pulled out their lasers. It was then that Duke suddenly
realized where he had met that blonde before... She's Princess Karla!!
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