Table of Contents

Prologue----------------------------4

Määli Approaches--------------------7

Prince Connor-----------------------13

The Bombing of the Cephalic Castle----17

Mentite is Fallen--------------------23

Evil Empowered--------------------30

The Transcendencer-----------------36

Torture and Treason----------------44

Kopplop System Down--------------54

The Six Gods Unite-----------------64

Farewell to Mentite---------------78

End of the Beginning of the End-----84

Epilogue-------------------------90

                            Part I

              The Fall

     Prologue

Pokoll was watching the prince play in the halls of the castle. His scepter bounced on the rock and he laughed. Pokoll and Amelia were sitting in the great hall, and the prince, named Connor, threw the scepter in the air. "Hey, Pokolly," said Amelia, "what did that paper say?" "It said... I forget. But what did it feel like?" added Pokoll. "What?" said Amelia. "Getting eaten by Klotians." "Hey!"

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cried Amelia, and suddenly Connor threw the scepter and it smashed the window of the Great Hall. It sounded like a grand plate of glass was dropped on the floor. Now, Connor liked throwing the scepter, but he was always lucky enough to have it hit the stone. It was a toy scepter, so hitting the stone did nothing. But the glass in the Hall was fragile, since the royal family normally could not move, or talk, or - anything, let alone throw a toy into the glass.

PROLOGUE

Suddenly, a knight busted in the door and cried out, "My liege, my liege! The grand beast Määli is here! Prepare the battle stations! Our peaceful era... is over already..."

   Määli Approaches

And now, as Pokoll smashed through the already-broken glass of the Hall, Amelia shot a grapple through the roof, and they ran toward the beast, our real adventure begins. A great black hole stood in front of the planet, and a red serpent smashed through it. It was hundreds of miles long, and it shot blasts of fire big enough to destroy cities. Immediately, the Mentitians got in their ships. After three blasted off, Pokoll saw and ordered the attacks to stop. Määli was far too powerful.

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And as Määli took Kriklo-upon-Immentia and ripped it out of the water with its mouth, Pokoll cowering behind a boulder, the Cephalic Kingdom rose. Pokoll cried out in terror as he got up, looking at the sky, and the sea growing farther and farther away. Anencephalia was floating into space. 

The three ships exploded in a flame, and Määli backed slightly into the black hole. Explosions erupted across Mentite as Määli erupted with a final blast. Black and red

MÄÄLI APPROACHES                                         *Neod Sea is the wreckage of Neod Unity

swirls flew into Määli, and it reared, torpedoing toward the ocean. The red beast hit the water, and twenty cephaminutes later, sunk out of sight.

Ikoko Glipokee's spirit flew out of the unconscious beast, and as she munched a Koikkfruit (that had sat in the Neod Sea* for four years), she cried out in relish, "Scrapper remains of Skaep Edinayc, KILL!" But nothing came. Suddenly, a dead scrapper slapped into Ikoko, and she fell off her float into the ocean.

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Dead scrappers rained from the sky. "I have done this before!" cried Pokoll, shooting a beam of light from his ancient scepter from Volume I, which hit the scrapper and flung him into the others. The scrapper bodies exploded one after another as the light zoomed through air and hit the others. Now, the story of the scrappers and Bloodburst comes to a full close. 

Pokoll ran toward the edge, looking down at what he had done. Now, Amelia blasted up into the air, and the

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atmosphere exploded into light. Ikoko wailed as she popped out of the water and saw it. Skaep Edinayc was zooming towards Mentite. Pokoll was now in space, watching from above as Ikoko screamed and was smashed under the asteroid-like small planet of Skaep Edinayc. Mentite and Skaep exploded, and together was wound into a huge super-planet. 

Pokoll's parents stood, at the front of the castle, in the patch of earth that was floating, as they approached the

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wasteland that was the Klokitok system. As a ship blasted into the area, a small baby crawled from the broken glass of the Hall. He shot his scepter straight into the ship, grounding it just enough to jump from the patch of land to the ship. And now begins the tale of Prince Connor, and the Beginning of the End.

  Prince Connor

As the Prince jumped into the ship, the Klotians inside screamed. "Please!" cried the captain. "We're the last ones of them!" It was at this moment that he knew- "AAAAAH!" cried the baby, and in a rush of scepter, teeth, and knives, the Klotians crumpled, only the hundreds in the back living. The twenty Klotians unlucky enough to be in the cockpit were on the floor. The Klotians in the hall screamed and ran to the back. Suddenly, warriors were shooting at Connor. The scepter

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choked the warriors, and they fell to the ground with blue faces. As the survivors cowered behind three men in the hall to the back, the rest of the warriors busted through. It was then when all the men still stupid enough to be in that area of the ship decided to run to the back. Prince Connor pounced upon three escaping Klotians, and teeth rushed through their flesh. Prince Connor scurried toward the hall, using the scepter to blast the cockpit off of the rest of the ship. The two generations of Okllks watched as the cockpit zoomed

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over the floating castle and destroyed the Klokitok star. The wasteland exploded and the patch of land from Mentite rushed back toward the rest of the planet. But Prince Connor was still in the ship.

Klotians ran at him, but his teeth's wrath were overpowering the aliens and the ship set to flames and flew toward Mentite.

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Prince Connor suddenly was with Pokoll and his parents. Pokoll's dad's white hair flowed down into Prince Connor. Three feet in length. Pokoll was growing older, and with it, his sixty-six year old dad. Pokoll's mom was fifty-nine, and Amelia and Pokoll were standing there, looking, when Pokoll's dad was grabbed out of the sky by a bird, glowing red and flowing on fire, when the heat was leached from the bird, it wailed, and Prince Connor flew two hundred feet to bite the bird, sending it crashing onto Mentite.

  The Bombing Of The Cephalic Castle

Suddenly, as Pokoll's family looked at Anencephalia, a ship flew out over the castle, releasing a firebomb. Pokoll ran and threw Prince Connor onto the ground as a wave of yellow-orange smoke flew over the island. A second bomb shortly after hit the castle. A logo was imprinted onto the side of the ship next to these words - Product of Kopplop. "What's Kopplop!?" cried Pokoll's mom, before a third bomb exploded onto the castle and the medical bay exposed itself, wounded Mentitians charred with the bomb and unconscious. Among them was Keiken Hyupel III, somehow back again. "Hello! My name is Keikeik!" he cried, getting up and smacking the bodies of the other

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patients in the medical bay. Suddenly, a patch of sand appeared under the family's feet. Amelia screamed as a wooden wall encircled them. A fourth bomb, equipped with three Kopplopi, fell into the pit and the Kopplop captain smacked it. Pokoll's dad was thrown off guard as the bomb flew into him and he exploded over the side of the pit and died. "NOOOO!" cried Pokoll, as he smashed the bomb into one of the Kopplopi, who exploded over the side, like Pokoll's dad. The captain lobbed the bomb at Pokoll's mom, who flew over it, but was still alive.

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Pokoll threw the bomb at the other foot soldier Kopplop, who screamed as he flew up into the rain of bombs on the castle. Then, the captain attacked Pokoll, as Amelia and Connor ran at him. The Kopplop screamed as he was set on fire and he crumpled onto the ground. The pit disappeared as the final, atomic bomb fell on the island. Pokoll screamed as his body tumbled into the air, and he saw the collapsing land as he flew thousands of feet up and through the clouds. Six beams of light flew into him, slowing his fall. He saw Amelia and Connor have the light

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fly into them too. Their falls were slowed, and they landed on a different Mentite. No bombs, no collapsing land, just bright, yellow light. Pokoll's dad was the sixth god. He knew it then, there. He was to be one of the legendary six gods of the HG1 Galaxy. "This is the end," said Pokoll. "The end of my epoch. The end of my time. The end..." Pokoll threw up a lit hand, while the gods, the Mentitians, the universe watched. "of my story!"

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And so it was that Pokoll Okllk was destined to live eternally as a god. And so it was that they were nearing the end of the war. And so it was.

     Part II

         The TaKEOVER

     Mentite is Fallen

Flames wrapped in a circle around Anencephalia. Giant patches of dirt were charred and falling like pieces of a huge brown sand castle into the sea. Pokoll looked up, at the light that was flying away, out of reach. The castle was in flames, and they had been living like this then for three weeks. Finally, something happened. A comm beeped on Amelia's and Pokoll's wrists. Pokoll's mom was back up, and Connor was there with her. Mentite has fallen. Get to a battleship to head to Kopplop System for war.As the comm beeped off, they ran into a battleship as his

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mom and son waved goodbye. "We will come back soon," said Amelia, as they got in the ship and sped away into the depths of space.

Pokoll's mom was sitting, shearing Anencesheep, when a Kopplop ship touched down. Soldiers ran out from hiding and fired, but the Kopplopi took Pokoll's mom. An Anencesheep bleated at the Kopplopi and bit one, making the Kopplopi eat the sheep. Whole and raw. The sheep was gone in a flash. Pokoll's mom screamed and

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unsheathed a sword. The sword crashed down on the Kopplopi, when another one came from the cockpit and threw a hungry Kopplowolf on her head. She screamed as the Kopplopi heard the sounds of metal clashing against bones, and howling. Then it fell silent on both sides. Pokoll and Amelia were flying through the depths when they exploded upon Kopplop in a flash. Lava lakes rushed over the land of Kopplop I, which they focused on.

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A Kopplop leader greeted them at the landing pad, and they got out to say hello. The Kopplop suddenly flipped over them and stabbed a Kopplspear into Amelia. She screamed as Pokoll quickly threw a knife backwards into the Kopplop and he fell. The Kopplspear disappeared, and Amelia fell to the ground. "Any fighters?!" cried Pokoll, as a battleship from Kopplop II came in. Pokoll turned to see it on the ground. "NO!" he cried, looking at a comm beeping and saying occasionally Kopplop II. Pokoll turned again to see Amelia crawling towards

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the battleship. They ran in and shot their guns from the ground at the surrounding buildings. Then, they flew up one thousand feet and pressed the Switch Gun button. The measly double-gun was switched with an overly destructive beam. The twosome fired at the surrounding towns and cities, killing thousands of Kopplopi, then turning to the battleship. The person inside screamed as his wing was seared off and fell into the wreckage of Kopkop Center XVI. The pilot of the battleship swerved to the left as Pokoll shot. Pokoll's cockpit was smashed

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open, and they instantly flew out into the depths of space. 

Pokoll's mom awoke in a pit. Flames surrounded the middle, then hungry Kopplowolves charged into the flames and attacked. In a flash, a wolf's head flew, gleaming and stained with red, over the edge of the pit and back up, to the amazed Kopplopi. Pokoll's mom eviscerated many wolves, when a giant Kopplowolf King ran out from the depths. Pokoll's mom jumped into the

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air and landed on the King, as he charged through the pit and ran up the side, before smashing out of the ship and flying into space. Pokoll's mom lay there, exhausted after the ordeal.

Pokoll and Amelia woke suddenly to see them inside another jail ship. "How long have I been out?" asked Amelia, as their ship latched to Pokoll's mom's.

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Pokoll's mom flew out of the pit when the two ships latched together. The two Kopplopi screamed when they saw the rush of dozens coming from the other ship's depths. She soared into the other ship and smashed into Pokoll in the jail cell area. Pokoll screamed as another ship latched on. 

Back at Mentite, Määli rose out of the water and shot a huge beam of fire at Anencephalia, which had already

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dealt major blows due to the bombing. It collapsed once more as suddenly, it happened. Ikoko Glipokee appeared by Määli and the final fight of evil was on. Ikoko threw a sword at Määli, who grabbed it and swallowed it. Ikoko flew into Määli's mouth, and stabbed the roof of its mouth until it spit her out. Ikoko then threw a grappling hook into Määli's nose, where it pulled out the sword. Ikoko's sword then flew back into the nose of the beast, and it stabbed into Määli for good. Määli sneezed out the sword along with five black holes, which Ikoko sent up

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into the sky. Määli then rushed Ikoko with a giant black hole, which Ikoko flew over and mounted Määli. Suddenly, a spike protruded from the very spot Ikoko was on, and it went through her body. She screamed as her brain exploded and her decapitated body staggered, still connected to the spike that was the end of the God of Mentite. 

Pokoll's family watched as thousands of Kopplopi wandered through the seventy connected ships.

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"Evil is empowered," said Pokoll, looking out at the Kopplop system. Määli then floated to the ship, roaring and shooting black holes at ships in the space station. After twenty minutes, there was only three ships left. The first three to latch on, before Ikoko's defeat. Finally, Määli destroyed one more with fire, leaving only Pokoll's and his mom's ships. Määli tried to destroy the last ship, but the guns of the ship fired, and Määli turned away and disappeared into the void of space.

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Pokoll rested with Amelia and his mom, falling asleep in the pit by the jail cell. 

Prince Connor was screaming at Mentitian soldiers. "A yuu go do soldier work!" he cried, biting a soldier. "Lock him up!" screamed a Mentitian soldier. "NO!" boomed Connor, lunging at a soldier and ripping its head off. Other soldiers panicked as a heavy soldier ripped Connor from the ground and threw him in a jail cell.

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Pokoll knew he would be in his cell for a while. The whole Okllk family, or at least the living ones, were trapped in a cell. It was happening. Evil was empowered.

   The Transcendencer 

                       FIVE YEARS LATER

"Oh, my," said Pokoll, yawning and waking up in the cell. He kicked open the door, saying "Time for the cafeteria mush!" in a happy way, but you could hear the sadness in his voice. There was HAIR on his chin. "I'm old," said Pokoll. "Where's Prince Connor?" he asked in a crazy way. "Dead or dying!" he screamed, as a Kopplop kicked him into the pit of fire once more. Fire had, at first, hurt him. After sixty-one months in a cell, he felt nothing. Every day he was kicked into the cell.

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Suddenly, a bomb flew through space and hit the side of the ship. A gang of Kopplopi screamed "THE - THE - TRANSCENDENCER!" as a man with curly white hair and a build like an ice-cream cone strutted in through the gaping hole in the ship. "Where are the Okllks?" he said in a cold voice, devoid of emotion. He looked into the pit to see Pokoll, burning but not hurting. "Hello, Pokoll Okllk. The Deathspies gave me away on your mission nine years ago to Skaep Edinayc," he said, jumping into the pit. "Know I am your enemy. I transcend you!" the

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mad scientist cried, throwing a vial of liquid lightning at Pokoll. Pokoll screamed into the void as lightning rumbled through the ship. Eleven Kopplopi jumped into the pit and climbed back up with the Transcendencer on their backs. Five Kopplopi died to lightning strikes and the remaining six stabbed the Transcendencer. He screamed as a blow from the Kopplop King knocked him out. "We team up with you now, Okllk," said the King, shooting a grapple down into the pit. Pokoll got up and gave the Transcendencer a blow himself for good

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measure. They flew back toward Mentite.

Prince Connor was decaying in the cell, when lightning struck next to him. He screamed and awoke. Suddenly, the Kopplop ship appeared. Connor screamed and ran around in his cell. The ship landed as soldiers shot. "I come in peace," boomed the king, as he picked up the Transcendencer. Then, the mad scientist fell off the King, running toward Connor's cell. The cell flapped closed, and black drapes surrounded it. There was a scream, a

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tussle, a punch, a bite, and finally a blade slashing through the air and a crumple. Lightning struck around the cell. The Transcendencer, alive and well, laughed. Prince Connor was dead.

"I HAVE A FAMILY OF SPIRITS!" thundered Pokoll, lunging hundreds of feet to stab the Transcendencer through the head and instantly released the sword. The mad scientist screamed as his life was slowly sucked away. He crumpled onto the ground, screaming, as the

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little lifetime he had left was expedited by the instantaneous sinking into his flesh by Prince Connor's spirit. He twitched and screamed, and moved no more.

Pokoll's mom and Amelia ran out to see the fight. Amelia smashed through the cell bars, looking at the legless Prince Connor and screaming. "I'm right here, Amelia," said the Prince's spirit, startling Amelia. She screamed and ran out of the cell, crumpling onto Pokoll.

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The Transcendencer's body was trampled by a stampede of hundreds of Mentitians. The Kopplopi picked it up and threw it into lava. The Transcendencer's body burned in the lava, the spirit fighting to get out, before they both stopped their motion suddenly.

Far away, inside a lab in a distant planet, a beeping sound started. Singular beakers that stood lone in special counters shattered, their contents pouring down onto the ground. A black hole formed on the far side of

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the lab, as small explosions boomed around the edges. Finally, the roof cracked, and one last beeping sound was heard, along with words, before the cave-in of the lab. The Transcendencer is dead. Body cannot be found. Commencing total destruction method 328e9X.

Torture and Treason

The Transcendencer, and every memory of him, were gone, collapsed under a pile of debris. The Kopplop population were getting sent to the jails after an assault on a Mentitian leader. The Kopplop King screamed as a Neodiwhip recovered from the rubble smacked into him, and lightning flowed up his back. The King crumpled to the ground, where the Mentitian soldiers kicked him into a cell. Suddenly, a ship from Kopplop II, which they had not turned good, exploded over the newly built citadel. The citadel's middle collapsed into a gaping earthquake

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as the areas on the edge exploded. This was another ambush by the outer lands.

Finally, a battleship, two-hundred feet long, popped into the atmosphere and shot a beam of fire at the citadel. Many Kopplopi inside the citadel jail screamed, looking up at their species from the neighboring planet, that just burned down their new home. Then, the fire engulfed them, and they screamed in the jail cell, before smoke devoured their ashen bodies.

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A second battleship came, but before it could do anything, its front guns were blasted off by a turret. Then, as the hulking ship turned, small Mentitian ships blasted away the rear guns. And as it turned round once again to try for the final time to shoot from its bottom guns, it was blown to bits by another Mentite battleship. "Play with your prey, toy with them all day! Yay!" cried a Mentitian soldier, as the shards of the second battleship smashed into the ground. Then, the first opened fire.

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The Mentitian ships, one by one, fell. But the soldier who cried out in relish at the destruction of the battleship evaded the shots, flying straight for the first and blew it up with a shot to the cockpit, then to the control panel. The battleship fell on the other one, and they set to flames together. "Gibbs all the way!" screamed the soldier, crashing his ship into the battleships, and jumping out just before it exploded. "Hello. Gibbs Visenpe, at your Mentitian service!" he said to two soldiers, who whipped his face and felled him.

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The soldiers carried the KO'd body away, as Pokoll shot them. "What are you doing?" the King of the land cried. "You are torturing somebody who just saved the Citadel from certain destruction!" The soldiers flopped to the ground as they were hit by the butt of Pokoll's gun. The soldiers died as Gibbs got up and ran toward Pokoll. "Gibbs Visenpe, Commander of Squadron X14B, at your Mentitian service! Oh! Prince! Sir! Your Highness! Your-" "Stop!" cried Pokoll. "Stop, stop, stop! I am just a normal Anencephalian-Koikian person!" And Gibbs ran back to

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his squadron happily, talking about princes and battleships. And suddenly, a third battleship came, and turrets attacked. But it was not a battleship. When it came into plainer view, it was found to be Määli, bullets bouncing off its indestructible spikes. 

Amelia ran back to Pokoll, with the Prince by her side. "Määli?" cried Amelia. "Bääbi?" asked Connor, crying. Fire engulfed the castle, as the rubble broke down once more.

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Finally, it happened. Gibbs flew his ship in hyperspeed at Määli. It all happened in a flash. Gibbs screaming "Destroy the beast" and jumping in a ship. Gibbs flying through the atmosphere. Gibbs diving out of the ship, to escape most likely, but snagging his chest on a curved spike at Määli's bottom. And then, an explosion. 

"Hey! Uggbug!" cried a Mentitian. The other person, called Uggbug, ran up to him and gave him a hug. "Hi!" said Uggbug. "How are you-" And the head of the grand

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beast Määli spiraled through the newly repaired Grand Hall glass and smashed into the tables. Uggbug ran and screamed as the other man was crushed under Määli's chin. "No! Plook!" cried Uggbug. "Leave... me..." was all Plook could say. Then Plook died. Määli's head made a posthumous sigh, and lava spewed out of its nose and mouth. All of the lava in Määli's body poured out across the rest of the day.

Määli's body, in fourteen different pieces, was scattered

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across the island and in the sea. Pokoll's comm beeped, along with that of Uggbug, Amelia, and two other soldiers named Boen and Wright. They all met at a battleship when the news broke out. You must destroy Kopplop II, III, and IV ASAP. If you fail, all Mentite will be in jeopardy. Save us no - AAAHH!

Back in the castle, in a basement forty feet under the

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land, the CCW* information giver was shot by Kopplop II gang members. She was, although unknowingly, giving the last communication Mentite would ever have. For the lifetime of the thriving planet was coming to a close, although nobody on it knew.

  Kopplop System Down

In the depths of space, Pokoll, Amelia, Uggbug, Boen, and Wright were sound asleep. The soft beeping of the control panel was 'relaxing', as Wright had said. "I agree," Pokoll had replied. Now, at four a.m. Anentime, they laid there, unmoved. Then, the ship rumbled. Pokoll rolled off his bed and hit the floor. He bolted awake as Amelia said "Wakey, wakey, the ship went crazy," startling Pokoll. He turned to see Amelia in the darkness, messing with the wiring. "YOU! You made the ship shake!" cried Pokoll, chasing Amelia. Wright got up, saying "Who... who did that?" Suddenly, Kopplop II 

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appeared in the ship's sensors. "Get up, Boen!" cried Wright, waking Uggbug. "Not intended for him," muttered Wright. "Oh?! Oh, yeah?!" yelled Uggbug, shoving Wright to the ground. "You really wanna do that?" snapped Wright, smashing Uggbug's head with the butt of his gun. Uggbug simply screamed before he lunged at Wright, and Pokoll shot the window. "Better get your spacesuits on," said Pokoll, as Uggbug and Wright fell down the stratosphere of Kopplop II. "So," said Pokoll, "Amelia? Boen? Everybody here? Okay."

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And Pokoll jumped out of the ship, Amelia right behind. 

When they landed, they saw a bloody Uggbug beating a red-faced Wright to a pulp. Pokoll shot Uggbug's foot, and he writhed in pain on the floor. They walked, Uggbug on Boen's back, to the Kopplop II citadel with guns out. The King of Kopplop II stood there, whipping a Kopplop to death on the post. "Welcome, outsiders," he said in a snakelike voice, throwing the Transcendencer's signature lightning vial at Wright, Boen, and Uggbug.

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Uggbug screamed as two thousand Kopplop II citizens poured out from their hiding spots and charged at the squadron. There was a lone gunshot through the crowd, the King giving out an order, and a body crumpling to the ground. "THE KING IS DEAD?!" cried a Kopplop, as his fellow citizen stabbed him with a sword. "We win," said Pokoll, as Wright, Boen, Amelia, and Pokoll charged out onto the citizens. Uggbug crawled across the floor, Kopplopi running to attack the squad.

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At Kopplop III and IV, two separate squadrons killed the Kings of each planet. The squadron at III were all instantly killed by the Kopplopi crowd. The eighteen people at IV managed to wipe out the entire population of the citadel at IV, then flying out and blowing IV to bits. They flew away to rendezvous at II with Pokoll and the team. Wright shot a grappling hook into the crowd, where people screamed and crumpled to the ground. The grappling hook came back, two Kopplopi snagged on the end of it.

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Pokoll ran into the crowd, double-sided spear spinning it and slicing into other Kopplopi. Wright's heavy turret killed dozens of Kopplopi in the first few seconds. Boen's rocket launcher sent buildings with thriving Kopplopi crumbling. Then, it happened. Uggbug was shot by a Kopplop. He rolled to the ground and his lungs were crushed by a Kopplop. Finally, the Queen came out with "We surrender. The Kopplopi in this citadel now, around forty, will come in your battleship." In the back of the battleship, about one hundred feet of room for the thirty-two living Kopplopi (bombs) rendered

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them cramped, but the Queen knocked out three Kopplopi at certain times and dragged them out into the cockpit and left them there until they awoke. Then, the Queen knocked out three other Kopplopi. Finally, II was stopped. "Planet destroyer beam?" asked Pokoll. "Planet destroyer beam," replied Amelia. Kopplop II exploded, chunks flying throughout the air. And one chunk happened to hit them. 

They swerved back to go to III, the last remaining planet.