The Blackest Days

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"I have the utmost respect for the Yoshi Bodyguards and their years of service, Captain Thule, but my orders are explicit and come directly from the Council of Star World. I cannot withdraw."
-Governor-General Alexander

The Blackest Days was an RP Chronicles story on the War of Chronis, the bloodiest battle in known history, and the climax of the Metal Wars. Nine Armies all collided on one planet, each bent on domination, each willing to give everything they had for their own cause. The story follows the local population, the Freaten, a race distantly related to the Waddle Dees of Popstar, who populated the Star World colony of Chronis, liberated from Darkcorp by the SWDF. Each chapter was the defeat of a different race, leading to the defeat of the cursed Metal Army's Iron Legion, serving a lost demon of the Titans of the Dark Ages.

The battle occurred throughout the month of June 2008, standard Federation Calendar.

Contents

Main Characters

  • Sha'Oreas Leader of the Freaten, their Ethereal leader. The symbol of freedom and unity for their race.
  • Ko'Tan The leader of the Freaten militia, a strong warrior who uses a prototype Darkcorp battlesuit to defeat foes. Has a strong sense of honor. Died in the final battle against the Titan's Champion
  • Captain Vash A young commander of the SWDF garrison in Or'Es'Kha, the Freaten capitol city. Idealistic, and hates war. Sacrificed his life to detonate the Hellfire Cannon in Victory Bay and stop the Yoshi Bodyguard advancement.
  • Governor-General Alexander A war hero who liberated the Freaten from Darkcorp, and General of the SWDF on Chronis. Was killed in the Battle of Victory Bay, which caused the SWDF and Freaten to pull back.
  • Commissar Gebit A strict and stern political officer of the 5th Infantry Division of the SWDF. Not afraid to kill his own men if they get out of line. Died by a Yoshi Bodyguard sniper in the Battle of Victory Bay.
  • Commissar Banir An older political officer of the 2nd Armored Division. Lost an eye to a battle with the Orks. Replaced Alexander as commander of the SWDF on Chronis after his death.
  • General Birdross A visiting General from Star World who was caught up in the fighting. Aided in the battle until the final encounter, then returned to Star World.
  • Captain Kooplass Commander of a small Cyber Vanguard Squad on Chronis. Most of her men were killed in the fighting, but she lead what few she had with valor. Disdained the fighting, but stayed until the end.
  • Zornt A strange creature who crashed into Or'Es'Kha during the evacuation. Though he had no experience in warfare, he helped throughout the war until the final battle, where he wielded a Demonhammer against the Titan's Champion.
  • Samus Aran A hero bounty hunter from the Galactic Federation. She aided the Freaten in destroying the Vhozon mothership after it shot her down, and helped clear out the Heartless from the Green Coast, but had to leave on a mission halfway through.
  • Ultra Stuffwell: Under command of the Supreme Overlord, Ultra Stuffwell was sent to Chronis to support Hi-Lord Gelvin with his great fleet. He grew wary of Gelvin's agenda, but carried out orders anyway. In the end, Ultra Stuffwell was used as the host for the bodiless Champion of the Titans, and was almost destroyed when he used a temporal shift to escape the planet. Through the course of the battle, his great dreadnaught, the Anchor of Naught was destroyed and crashed into Chronis's ocean, causing a tidal wave that destroyed the Metal Army base.

Armies

  • SWDF 1st Chronis Liberators and Freaten Militia: (Lead by Ethereal Sha'Oreas and Governor-General Lucas Alexander) The local force on Chronis that was caught off guard when the armies attacked. When Or'Es'Kha fell, the remaining forced fled to Victory Bay. One by one, they destroyed the opposing factions, until eventually they were the last one standing. They were reluctant to fight the Yoshi Bodyguards, until they attacked Victory Bay with no mercy, and killed Governor-General Alexander.
  • Yoshi Bodyguard 66th Storm Angels Clone Division: (Lead by Captain Thule) The Yoshi Bodyguard force that attacked Chronis under Order Extermanitis. They ordered the Chronis Liberators to fall back, but, under direct orders from the Council of Star World, the Liberators could not retreat. The two fought, destroying the SWDF capitol of Victory Bay. Eventually, Thule was killed in his base in the Skullchain Mountains, forcing the Storm Angels to fall back from the planet.
  • Metal Army Iron Legion: (Lead by Hi-Lord Gelvin) The Iron Legion was the spark of the conflict. Seeking to set a foothold for an assault on Popstar, Metal Sneezier sent in Hi-Lord Gelvin and his magi-tech Iron Legion to Chronis in mass number. He struck the Demos Peninsula through demon gates, and bypassed the SWDF fleet above, while Ultra Stuffwell paralyzed all aerial resistance. Gelvin had his own agenda, however, and attempted to revive the Champion of the Titans by using Ultra Stuffwell's body as a host. His Legion was devastated to the man in the end. It is symbol of disgrace of the Metal Army and became the butt of many jokes in Metal Army Propaganda.
  • Wargutz's Orky WAAGH!: (Lead by Warboss Wargutz) Wargutz, constantly looking for a battle, followed Ultra Stuffwell's fleet to Chronis, where he smashed a Space Hulk into the Green Coast. His forces then raided all of the surrounding bases, trying smash the Metal Army and SWDF defenders for amusement as opposed to any practical or tactical purpose, though Wargutz did have plans to convert the planet in a staging area for another WAAGH when the conflict was over. Wargutz's base was raised by the Metal Army, when he activated a massive bomb, destroying much of the attacking force as well as the Ork hold. Wargutz escaped in a tunnel, and fled the planet.
  • The Hades Strain: (Lead by Dark Danny) The Hades strain was ultimate strain of Phazon, and contained the last Leviathan Seed under Dark Danny's control. With Phazon being brought to the brink of extinction by the Federation, Dark Danny saw this battle as a prime moment to gain an army of Phazon mutants and dominate the universe. Dark Danny crashed the Seed into Or'Es'Kha, and enslaved most population as Phazon Zombies. Eventually, the seed was destroyed by a Necron Gauss weapon stolen by the SWDF, and Dark Danny fled.
  • The Chronis Necrons: When the last Leviathan Seed and the Ork Space Hulk smashed into Chronis, a long forgotten race of mechanical being known as the Necrons rose from the Deznium mines in the center of the continent in unheard of numbers. The Necrons swept through the land, but were mostly contained by the Vhozon fortifications on the planet's northern ice sheet. When the Vhozon were defeated, the Necrons awakened in number, and cleared the center of the continent into a vast desert, exterminating the corpses of billions and assimilating many Metal Army soldiers. The SWDF sent in a task force to collapse the mines on their sacred Nightbringer, which succeeded, and deactivated all of the Necrons on the planet at once.
  • The Vhozon Ice Hunter Pack: (Lead by Farseer Maythes) The Vhozon, an ancient race brought to the brink of extinction by the Necrons, stealthy swept down on the planet as soon as the Necrons appeared. They cloaked a mothership above the planet's orbit, barring any ships from entering or leaving. In order to evacuate millions of civilians, the Freaten and SWDF used their teleport gates to planet a bomb in their mothership, disabling its cloaking device just long enough for the SWDF to fire their Hellfire Cannon, destroying the mothership and stranding the Vhozon planetward. They were all slaughtered throughout the war.
  • The X-Naut Expedition: (Lead by Lord Crump) When Or'Es'Kha fell, the X-Nauts had noticed the conflict on Chronis. Sir Grodus sent Lord Crump with a large force of X-Nauts, and ordered him to take Chronis and cripple the armies that were there in order to ensure future operations would occur unimpeded. However, the SWDF, under Commissar Banir, raised their headquarters, and Crump fled the planet.
  • The Heartless: (Lead by Cel) Half-way through the war, when Wargutz fled the Green Coast, a shadow filled the southern potion of the continent, and a SWDF outpost mysteriously vanished. Lead by a strange Popstarian known only as Cel, the Heartless sought the keyhole of the planet, hidden under a destroyed Ork monument. The SWDF were aided by another unknown Popstarian, and together they sealed Chronis's keyhole and drove away the Heartless.

Story

Prologue: The Fall of Or'Es'Kha

The story began with Sha'Oreas and Ko'Tan, standing outside the burning gates of the Freaten capitol, Or'Es'Kha. With them, are the remaining Freaten Militia and SWDF garrison from the city, as well as a massive convoy of civilians. Ko'Tan, leader of the Freaten Militia, and Captain Vash, leader of the SWDF garrison in Or'Es'Kha, met with General Birdross, a SWDF General stranded on the planet. Inside the city, Phazon forces were taking over, corrupting the dead bodies of local Freaten and turning them into slaves. Just then, a motorbike streamed from the sky, and crashed into the area who volunteered to help the SWDF. So the forces escaped Or'Es'Kha, the last remaining air forces napalm bombing the city as they left.

Chapter 1: The Green Tide

The Freaten convoy reached the middle of the continent, where the conflict was turning the landscape into a moonscape of craters. Ko'Tan and Vash agreed that the safest way would be through the southern jungles, which Wargutz infested. Ko'Tan, Birdross, and Zornt were sent with an Ember Team to disarm the Ork base. At the same time, Hi-Lord Gelvin sent a Iron Legion champion, Babi, with a large strike force to destroy the Ork base. Just as the Freaten force came in, the Metal Army struck, giving the Freaten a chance to battle Wargutz. Wargutz was beaten, but activated a nuclear warhead that desimated the Ork base and the surrounding area. Wargutz and the SWDF/Freaten were able to escape, but the Metal Army and the remaining Orks were destroyed in the blast. Wargutz escaped the planet in a hidden Ork ship when the battle was nearing it's end, and the Freaten convoy moved onward.

Chapter 2: Crump's Crusade

The Freaten convoy made it to the outskirts of Victory Bay, when it was ambushed by a Yoshi Bodyguard force. In the end, Commissar Banir and Captain Kooplass came in to ward them off, informing them that the Yoshi Bodyguards had undergone Order Exterminatis, and would purge all military force from the world. Commissar Banir then informed them of the X-Naut presence in the area. Elsewhere, Lord Crump uncovered a massive stone relic, which spoke to him, though he ignored it. Just then, the SWDF attacked, devastating his artillery, but he brought out cloaked snipers when the SWDF were in position. Then, the SWDF took their communication's tower, allowing them access to the locations of their snipers. They cleared the way to Lord Crump, and destroyed his headquarters. Lord Crump swore revenge on all of the armies of Chronis, then retreated to orbit. Later, the Metal Army would raid the X-Naut base, and take the stone relic under orders of Hi-Lord Gelvin.

Chapter 3: Into the Icy Abyss

The SWDF returned to Victory Bay, where Governor-General Lucas Alexander greeted them. He told them of the Yoshi Bodyguard's Order Extermanatis, the order from their command to pacify all military forces on the planet, including the SWDF, who could not back down due to orders from their own command. He also informed them of the Vhozon Mothership preventing a civilian evacuation. Just then, Samus's ship crashed down into Victory Bay. She was saved, and offered to help destroy the Vhozon. So the SWDF went to the Northern Ice Sheet, home of the Vhozon ground forces and their warpgate to their mothership. The SWDF landed in the ice sheet, and battled several traitor Iron Legion forces before reaching the Vhozon. They battled Farseer Maythes, who managed to push them back, until the Yoshi Bodyguards arrived and bombed the base. Then, the SWDF made a push for the warpgate, setting a nuclear charge inside it, and delivering it to their mothership. The mothership was damaged, but not destroyed, until Alexander, back at Victory Bay, ordered the Hellfire Cannon, a relic from the days of Darkcorp, to be fired. The blast destroyed the mothership, and the civilian convoy was evacuated successfully. The Vhozon were stranded, and one by one, killed off through the war.

Chapter 4: Death's Locust

As the SWDF returned, they found that the entire central part of the core contient had been overrun by Necrons. It seemed that the Vhozon were keeping them at bay through Soulice on their mothership. The SWDF were shot down by a Necron Monolith, but were recovered by an assault team lead by Commisssar Gebit, who were to use a warhead left from the assault on the Vhozon to collapse the caverns the Necrons were spawning out of, destroying their energy core. The group entered, encountering converted Metal Army mechs and Necron abominations. They also fought a champion of one of the twin hearts, Gazu R who's now a Mecha Paraiah. They fought him then face the Necron Lord. They desabled him and eventually facing the Nightbringer. The bomb was detonated, and the caverns all collapsed. The Necrons on the surface, now without power, shut down, dying off. Now, without the Deznium Mines, the original purpose for the battle had ended, but all factions continued to fight on.

Chapter 5: In the Darkest Night

When the SWDF/Freaten returned to Victory Bay, Governor Alexander informed them of a strange energy signature coming from the Green Coast, former home of Wargutz's WAAGH. The SWDF reached the outpost set there, finding it overrun by a strange breed of creatures called Heartless. They fought their way to the crater of Wargutz's bomb, where they encounted a Popstarian named Cel. They battled him, and were about to lose, when an unknown Popstarian, armed with a keyblade, helped the SWDF defeat him, and sealed the "planet's keyhole" hidden in the center of the crater. Just as morning broke, the SWDF/Freaten got news that the Yoshi Bodyguards had launched an attack on Victory Bay.

Chapter 6: The Fall of Victory Bay

The SWDF/Freaten rushed back to Victory Bay, hoping to evacuate Governor-General Alexander and Ethereal Sha'Oreas before the base was overrun. Their ships were shot down by Yoshi Bodyguards upon entering the city, but the group reformed on Commissar Gebit's position, which held against the Yoshi Bodyguards until several psychic operatives began to go insane from the Metal Army's tampering with Demonic magics. The SWDF/Freaten group battled one in it's own pocket dimension, defeating him. Just then, a sniper killed Commissar Gebit, and the men of his company began to turn on themselves for one last effort. the SWDF/Freaten under Ko'Tan fell back to the central plaza, where Commissar Banir was holding out with his Metal Slug Godslayer. The group reached the Command Post, where Sha'Oreas and Alexander were, and held out for some time, until a stray bullet hit Alexander in the throat, killing him. Just then, Commissar Banir came in with several transports, and got Sha'Oreas, Ko'Tan, and the remaining SWDF to safety. At the Hellstorm Cannon, Captain Vash saw his forces being overrun, and overloaded the core of the cannon, killing himself and a large group of attacking Clone Troopers, and preventing the Hellstorm Cannon from being used against them. The remaining SWDF at Victory Bay were shipped back to orbit by order of the Yoshi Bodyguards, and treated fairly, however, a good fourth of the Liberators were with Ko'Tan and Banir, and were ready for vengeance.

Chapter 7: Return to Or'Es'Kha

Sha'Oreas first ordered that a base of operations was needed before the attack could be continued. Dark Danny's Phazon force, still weak from the Necron attack, and preoccupied with the Yoshi Bodyguards, left their base open to attack. It was discovered in the Necron tide that Phazon could be destroyed by Necron Gauss, and a Freaten Battlesuit was outfitted with a Necron Generator. Ko'Tan lead an attack into Or'Es'Kha, with orders to destroy the Leviathan Seed of the Hades Strain using the outfitted battlesuit. The Freaten/SWDF first encountered several Phazon mutants, before breaching the inner walls of the seed and fighting Dark Danny. After a first defeat, Dark Danny formed with a local Freox Monster corpse, as well as a felled Broadside Suit, making him in an Omega form. He was defeated, his body destroyed, but right after the seed's core was destroyed by the Gauss blast, he reformed, just long enough to give the warning, "I'll have my revenge, but your war will do it for me." The seed collapsed, Dark Danny teleported away, and the Hades Strain died off, too complex to survive without a central seed. Or'Es'Kha returned to the control of the Freaten, when Commissar Banir and Sha'Oreas informed the main group that they would be attacking the Yoshi Bodyguard base in the Skullchain Mountains.

Chapter 8: The Blood of Star World

The SWDF/Freaten, under Ko'Tan, first infiltrated the Yoshi Bodyguard base in Skullchain. First, they commandeered an orbital control station, fighting the Yoshi Bodyguard Librarian Oswin in the process, and ordered the ship overhead to fire on the outlying bases. After the defenses were broken, Commissar Banir pushed the main assault on the Yoshi Bodyguard Stronghold. The SWDF/Freaten fought through their defenses, facing Thule himself, who wielded one of Supreme Commander Mack's lightsabers. He was killed, and the Yoshi Bodyguards bombarded their base in a last ditch effort to bury their secrets, which turned out to be forbidden technology horded in the base. The remaining Yoshi Bodyguards withdrew, leaving the SWDF/Freaten to take the technology left.

With one army left, the SWDF/Freaten moved what forces they had into the Iron Legion's position.

Chapter 9: Within the Darkness

The last of the Star World Defensive Forces and Freaten Militia began to move into the Demos Peninsula. Each of the core team was armed with a piece of hidden Yoshi Bodyguard Technology. Zornt was armed with a Deamonhammer, Ko'Tan with a light mana crystal (which he assimilated into his suit), Birdross with Mack's Lightsaber, Kooplass with a prototype cannon, Commissar Banir with a modified Metal Slug Godslayer, and Sha'Oreas with a staff of light.

Meanwhile, Gelvin put his plan into full swing. The Iron Legion took Ultra Stuffwell hostage, overpowering him and subduing him, then putting his body on an alter. Meanwhile, in space, Ultra Stuffwell's ship, the Anchor of Naught, was borded by Iron Legion, and it's crew was overpowered.

The SWDF/Freaten landed in Demos, setting up a position deep in their lines. Then, the main force hit their factories, while the core SWDF/Freaten moved to where Gelvin was thought to be. They encountered, instead, a Iron Legion Champion named Hyperio, who attempted to absorb the power of the Demons he swore allegiance to, destroying himself in the process. Then, the SWDF/Freaten ran into a prison facility, where people of various factions from the war were held. They agreed to provide a distraction while the core force moved to Gelvin.

When they arrived at Gelvin, they found that his ritual had already succeeded, and Ultra Stuffwell was possessed by a lost Champion of the Titans, who was feeding on the dead spirits of the war. They fought, using their relic weapons to beat him back, but the Champion fought on. Eventually, Ko'Tan overloaded his suit's core, destroying himself and the Demon.

In space, the SWDF naval forces had destroyed the Anchor of Naught, which, due to the coup of it's crew, was near defenseless. The massive ship crashed into the sea of Chronis, causing a tidal wave that destroyed the Metal Army's factories, and completely annihilating the Iron Legion. Gelvin's position was bombarded by Banir's artillery, and Gelvin was about to escape, when Metal Sneezier overrode his AI, causing him to freeze in place. His body was incinerated by the artillery fire.

Epilogue: Peace on the Shattered Battlefield

The last scene of the battle showed a Freaten Warrior and an SWDF Trooper fighting an Iron Legion Champion, Ri-Zack the Bloody Spade. The Champion killed the Freaten, and injured the SWDF in one stroke. The Champion declared his victory, until the injured SWDF fired a lucky shot into it's eye, felling the last Iron Legion soldier. The SWDF Trooper limped over, and placed the Chronis flag, taken from the dead Freaten, in the body of the Champion. The banner flowed in the sunrise.

After the battle, Sha'Oreas and Commissar Banir were sitting with General Birdross, Zornt, and Kooplass in Or'Es'Kha. Transports from the Galactic Federation were coming in to reinforce the planet, and SWDF ships were carrying out wounded and dead soldiers. Commissar Banir ordered that Kooplas and Birdross be given the Medal of Stars, the highest military honor, and Zornt was be the Freedom Medallion, the highest civilian honor, as well as being welcomed to stay on Chronis as a home. Zornt refused, going his own ways, while Kooplass and Birdross were shipped to different fronts. Commissar Banir became Commissar-General of the forces on Chronis, and the planet was ordered to be given aminsety.

Fifteen years later, the planet's Freaten population was relaxing in the expansive fields outside Or'Es'Kha. Near a patch of woods, a massive monument stood, depicting the heroes of the battle in their attack on the Demos Pinnisula. The monument stood to honor the dead, and the living, that made the planet's existence possible.

Trivia

  • The basis for the RP was from the game Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Sub added in a more linear story, but many names and quotes remained virtually the same.
  • This RP was the first appearance for Zornt, Kooplass, and General Birdross.
  • Wargutz made his first canonical appearance under his name "Wargutz" in this story. (His first one being Tick Tack Emissary, and his first appearance being under "Gorgutz" in The Wrath of the Titan.
  • The Heartless and the X-Nauts were not in the original planning of the RP, and were instead added by Top and MDY soon after it began.
  • The Iron Leigon Champions' titles are based off from the suits in playing cards, Babi's the Flying Joker, Ri-Zack's the Bloody Spade, The Gazu Brothers are the Twin Hearts, Hyperio the Traitor Diamond, and Hygogg is the Aqua Club.

Connections to Other Stories

  • The attack by the Yoshi Bodyguards on the SWDF was one of the reasons that lead up to the unwritten breakup of their group very soon after.
  • Chronis partly continued the X-Chaos arc, being another reason leading up to Crump being thrown out in Oddtastic Adventure. It also explained why the X-Naut army was destroyed before Grodus Rising.
  • Originally, the ice age in Icy Heart of Darkness! The Final Story of Sneen! was supposed to explain why the SWDF and Yoshi Bodyguards could not resolve the issue with high command, but due to issues with the timeline, this reason was changed to Ultra Stuffwell's ship blocking transmissions.
  • In Coshi and Plasshi: The Tale of Two Dinos, SWDF Troopers were somewhat fearful and hostile toward the Yoshi Bodyguards due to the Chronis incident.
  • Dark Top reads a newspaper article about this story in The Top Plot for Takeover.


Preceded by:
X-Chaos 		Timeline
The Blackest Days 		Followed by:
Icy Heart of Darkness! The Final Story of Sneen!

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