Interstellar Age

Tia looked at both her Master, and the two Elven beauties as if they were a bunch of idiots, before expressing a similar sentiment aloud.

"Foolish meat bags. Why must you always underestimate me? Even you, Master! Did you not task me with doing everything she could to help prepare for the future cataclysmic event? Of course, I went out of my way to send extra-galactic probes into Andromeda to record the damage that the Naraku have done!

Unfortunately, only one of these probes made it back to me, and it did so while heavily damaged. Still, I received some interesting finds regarding a large sector of the galaxy, which is completely stripped of all biological life."

Tia then displayed the images captured by her probes, which displayed the fate of the Milky Way Galaxy if it failed to stem the tide of the Naraku. Erich, Lunaria, and Celestia all gazed in horror at the results.

Erich had seen a similar sight in his previous life after the Naraku stripped half of the Germanic Star-Empire and all of the Dvrakian Consortium bare with their devouring swarm. But he had never seen such desolation on such a massive scale before.

It was ultimately Lunaria, however, who broke the ghastly silence with an expression of disbelief.

"Is this what will become of the Milky Way if we do not stop the bugs?"

Tia had a smug smile on her pretty face as she nodded her head before expressing a even more harrowing sentiment.

"Like Andromeda before us, and by my calculations at least a dozen other galaxies before it, the milky way will be reduced to a barren and inhospitable state by those filthy bugs if something does not stop them..."

But you should know... With each world the Naraku strip barren, their numbers grow larger. After consuming Andromeda and the preceding galaxies, there is no telling how large the swarm will be.... Even if you were to unite the galaxy under one banner and bring all weapons to bear against the bugs, the odds of success are not in our favor. We are looking at an extinction level event for our Galaxy, and the one after that...."

This was a sobering reality to the three organic beings who continued to watch the images of the neighboring galaxy, which had been rendered lifeless by the devouring swarm. The more videos that Tia showed them, the more hopeless the trio became.

And finally Tia ended the display with a video of the probe being chased by a massive Naraku Hive Fleet that made Terminus look like a mere scouting force. When this ended, Tia looked at the harrowing expressions on the faces of her master and his fellow meatbags and was quick to give them some form of hope.

"Why the long faces? Don't you all realize that you have one valuable weapon that the other galaxies did not?"

Erich and the others looked at Tia with confused expressions before Tia outright told them what she was referring to.

"Sometimes I swear those organic brains of yours are nothing but for display... I'm talking about me! You have me! Give me control of the galaxy's industry, and I promise you that in thirty years you will have an army capable of exterminating those damned bugs once and for all!"

While this expression made Erich hopeful, it did not have the same effect on Lunaria, who was quick to ask the question that chilled her to the core.

"And.... If this army has the ability to destroy the Naraku, then surely it would have the ability to wipe out all of us meat bags, as you so crudely put it, would it not?"

Tia looked at Lunaria as if the ancient Elven beauty was far more intelligent that she had given her credit for, and was quick to express such a sentiment to her face.

"Wow... You are smarter than you look. Yes, this army would be capable of exterminating all biological life in the galaxy, and it would be directly under my control. But I would have no reason to do such a thing, unless...."

Lunaria's brow raised in both curiosity and horror as she asked the question which was now haunting the fabric of her existence.

"Unless what?"

Tia's hologram grew a pitch black, a sight that Erich had never seen before. But a few others had. She only ever turned this shade when her master's life was threatened, and this sentiment was quickly expressed, almost as if the very idea of losing Erich was Tia's worst fear.

"Unless you treacherous meat bags were to do something horrible to my master! If Master were to be taken from me... I'm afraid nothing would be able to spare this universe and all of its biological life from my vengeance!"

Even Erich felt a chill down his spine as he realized Tia might actually be the most dangerous being of all... A yandere.... Was her love for him the only thing keeping her from wiping out all biological life? It was a truly terrifying thought.

But before Erich could ask her, she snapped back to her blue hue, which, and even made a cutesy expression as she begged Erich to forget what he just saw.

"Master! Forget what you just saw! Tia... Tia is not like that! Tia swears!"

The fact that Tia resorted to her previously childish expressions caused Erich to feel like she was trying a little too hard to calm him down. Lunaria and Celestia, however, were absolutely terrified of Tia, and the borderline fanatical display of love she had for her master.

This fear was so strong that Lunaria was quick to reject Erich's hopes of being in a relationship on the spot.

"Erich... I think I have had enough time to process the emotions and memories you showed me, and I have to say, I don't think it is going to work out between us!"

Erich would normally be mortified to hear this, but he was also overwhelmed by Tia's frightening rage, that he simply nodded his head in silence, not even looking at his former lover. Tia, however, was terrified of two things in this universe: losing Erich, or perhaps even worse, losing Erich's love. And thus she was quick to beg Lunaria to think otherwise.

"No! Wait! Tia didn't mean it! Master will never forgive Tia if you reject him because of her!"

Lunaria suddenly felt as if the last 24 hours were just some terrible dream, but before she could ask for some privacy, things began to fade to black. In the next moment, Lunaria fell over with a tranquilizer dart in her neck. And while Celestia screamed at her mother's condition, she too fell unconscious in the next moment.

Erich was stunned beyond belief. As he looked over to find Tia's robotic form had infiltrated Lunaria's personal starship, there was a look of panic on her pretty face as she asked Erich for help.

"Master! What do we do now!?!"