[On the planet of Palawia]
I was sitting on my throne, it wasn't a very busy day today, no peace talks, no wars, not many complaints, I was quite bored.
Suddenly, one of my advisors rushed in and started talking, he was so panicked that I couldn't tell what he was saying, after a few minutes I calmed him down enough to actually be able to hear him I asked him to tell me why he was so panicked.

"Your highness, a massive fleet of enemy ships is on its way to the planet." He said.

"How big is it?"

"From what our scouts say its...at least thirty ships."

"Well that isn't that bad, what kind of ships?"

"We don't know, they are huge though"

"How big?"

"The smallest ship in the fleet was about... uh,
fifty miles long, ten miles wide, and about fifty stories tall."
That's a big fleet "How long will it take them to get here?"

"About ten hours"
When I heard that, I went into full panic mode. Our nearest reinforcements were at least seventeen hours away, this would mean that we would have to hold off an invasion the likes of which we have never seen for seven hours at the very least.
Not only that, but we have barely any forces here, due to the fact that we have an advanced threat detection system, which can usually alert us of a potential threat that's over seventy-two hours away, how a fleet so large managed to get past it was a mystery to me.
Even though our on planet forces are the most elite in the empire, we would probably still be vastly out-numbered.
"Get all of the generals into the planning room within an hour." I said in a calm tone that betrayed my inner feelings.

"Yes sir."

After the advisor left I swiftly made my way to my personal armory. Once inside my armory I take what I think I will need. I put on my armor then grabbed my assault rifle, my shotgun , my battle rifle , my revolver , my sword , my backup knife , and my anti-aircraft rifle. Before I left I noticed my prototype D.E.A (Dimensional Energy Accelerator) which is just a plasma accelerator, but much, much more powerful, It could be quite useful.

After getting my weapons and exiting my armory I made my way to the intel room, to get a full report.
"What's the full situation?" I asked Gerald, the lead intelligence officer.

"As you know the fleet contains thirty ships. The ship are all carriers, but they seem to be much more armed than normal. They are much larger than regular carriers, they are similar in size to most destroyer class ships."

"Who do the ships belong to"

"The RPS (Republic of Palaw Supremacy) and the RA (Robotic Allegiance) both have fifteen ships in the fleet, although we are detecting magical signatures that would imply that the DE (Demonic Empire) is also going to invade ."

"What else can you tell me about it?"

"Aside from what I told you, nothing, we haven't seen ships like these before."

After I left the intel room my second in command, Benny came up to me and asked.
"You called all the generals to the planning room, what's going on?"

"I will explain when I get there."

Upon entering the planning room I noticed that all of my generals were waiting for me.
"Earlier today a massive fleet was seen heading this way, its much larger than the one that was used in the first invasion of Palawia, from what we can tell its made up of heavily armed carriers that are much larger than normal ones."

"How much larger are they?" Asked general Oliver, leader of the vehicle division.

"They are several times bigger then the biggest ships we have."

"If those are all filled with soldiers and equipment then, we have no way to fight them, we have far to little troops to hold that in a ship to ship battle." Said Tristan, the general of the air division.

"That is correct, so instead of fighting them in space we shall fight them on land, more specifically we will use our anti spacecraft guns to herd them to the wastes."

"But sir, The wastes are inhospitable anything we make won't last." Said Bob, the general of the navy.

"They will be here in about... nine and a half hours so nothing we build we need to last that long."
Everyone went silent after I said nine and a half hours

"What we are gonna do, is remove a three mile long stretch of the wall that makes up the wastes, and build trenches we will use the stone we get from mining it to make basic fortifications, and we will pummel them with artillery strikes. We will set up a shield above the wastes which will prevent them from escaping, then when our reinforcements get there we will destroy their entire fleet. Any questions?"

Benny asked, "And if your plan fails?"

"Our empire will fall, and we will all be sold into slavery, except us... they will probably just execute us. Now get moving, we don't have time to stand around!"

"Yes sir!" Was the unanimous answer.

The wastes were the result of the first battle of Palawia, they are a large bowl of sorts. It's not naturally this way, its shape came about when a splinter faction of my empire know as The Republic of Palaw Supremacy detonated a very powerful bomb after being chased out of our planet. It caused the beautiful plains to be turned into a canyon, upon detonation it messed with the tectonic plates and caused sheer walls of rocks to jut up out of the ground, it also caused the top of the bowl to become a inhospitable wasteland of lava. The inside of the wastes didn't fare much better, they were turned from grassy flatlands into hilly deserts . The worst part is that the bomb wasn't even at full power, if it was... we all would have died and my empire would have fallen. the strangest and most interesting part of the wastes is that nothing can survive in it for long, any living creature will go insane after about three whole days of exposure to the wastes, and any man-made structures will crumble after about one week this so called "dead zone" extends all the way into space, meaning we can't even put anything into orbit around it. They are about five-hundred miles in diameter and the walls are about ninety feet tall, and almost thirty feet thick.

[Nine hours later]
{Five minutes till the invasion}
{Seven hours till reinforcements arrive}

As I stand on the top of one of the fortifications I look around the defenses we have, they are crude, but they will work... hopefully. There are fourteen other fortifications like this one, mine being in the middle. every one of them has one aa gun on top of it. Behind this trench there is a secondary trench to fall back to, it also has fifteen fortifications and aa guns. Behind that is where the artillery cannons are, we have also set up a landing pad for when our reinforcements get here.

"Emperor, our anti spacecraft guns are forcing the enemy forces to land at the opposite end of the wastes."

"Good, ready the cannons."

"Yes sir."

As I look thru my binoculars I see that they are beginning to send the first wave of troops . I grab my radio and tell the cannon crews, "When they get into range start firing the special rounds, once you run out of special rounds cease fire till I give you next order."

"Yes sir." Was the reply.

[Six minutes later]
{Seven hours till reinforcements arrive}

I hear a loud BOOM and look up to see the first of the shells fire, I track it till it hits its target and see that it works just as expected
Suddenly a voice comes over the radio "Why didn't it explode, just what are those rounds, sir?"

"You shall see very soon." I said as a grin started to form on my face.

[Ten minutes later]
{six and a half hours till reinforcements}

At this point almost all of the enemy army is coated in the substance and slowed down significantly, I then notice that no shells have been fired for almost thirty seconds. I turn on my radio and ask, "Have the all the special shells been fired yet?"

"Yes sir."
"Good, now load in incendiary shells and hold you fire till I say."

"I-i-incendiary shells?"

"Yes"
After about a minute passes a voice comes over the radio, "All of the cannons are loaded sir."

"Fire." As I heard the explosion of all the cannons at once I felt a large grin form on my face. Once the shells impacted it was total chaos within seconds their entire army was in flames.

"W-w-what was in those rounds, sir."

"A mixture of pitch, gasoline, napalm, and magic."

The mixture worked just as expected, it seeped deep into the cracks in the vehicles and war machines, when the fire was lit, it would get everything, not just the outside plating, but the wires the circuitry, and even the people in the cases of vehicles.

That was just the first wave though... the next ones would be much harder even if they put all of their best troops upfront.
In fact, due to respawning and other similar things all that was lost was vehicles and war machines.

I'd say that the Republic of Palaw Supremacy (RPS) was hit the least hardest, due to their entire army being able to respawn, so all they lost was vehicles. The self-proclaimed Demonic Empire (DE) was hit harder, despite not using vehicles They didn't really respawn. The Robotic allegiance (RA) was hit the hardest, due to having a limited amount of soldiers, they can't just respawn like the RPS or just summon new ones like the DE.

[Two and a half hours later]
{Four hours till reinforcements arrive}

As I saw the next wave coming I gave the order to fire at will. I summoned my aa rifle And turned the magnets on then scoped in on the closest war machine, the loud BOOM of the rifle sounded and the machine fell over, dead. I moved onto the next target, the same thing happened. I then targeted a soldier, and fired, I could see his chest turn into a bloody pulp, the next guy's head got turned into a bloody mist. I continued to target and shoot, not all of my shots hit, but I still did some decent damage.
Then, The enemy aircraft started to come. Once they got into the range of our aa-guns, they roared to life with a deafening BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, at that instant a huge number of enemy fighters and bombers fell out of the sky and onto the ground. This carried on for a few minutes, when the last fighter fell we looked to the battle field and saw that it was littered with corpses and ruined vehicles, There was even the occasional explosion from some of the downed machines.

[Three and a half hours later]
{Thirty minutes till reinforcements arrive}

At first I wondered why the third wave was taking so long, Then I saw it, They had been biding their time, gathering their strength. The third wave was massive, larger than the other two combined, It must have been at least two million soldiers.
We numbered in The tens of thousands, with our reinforcements we would number maybe two-hundred thousand.
I grabbed my radio and said the words I never thought I would have to say, "We are vastly out-numbered... all men equip magic-canceling rounds." I didn't want to do this, as wars between rival factions or Palaw, due to respawning, are usually honor based, and decided by who can fight the other army for the longest, who ever surrenders loses. Thus doing this is seen as dishonorable, and who-ever does so is ostracized by their allies and enemies.

Magic canceling (MC) rounds would cause the RPS to not be able to respawn, causing a permanent death. The creatures of the DE would be not be able to return to their hell-scape, meaning that they would not be able to get new bodies , and would finally move on to the real after-life. Furthermore, any magic based items would fail to work.

No-one objected to the use of MC rounds, due to not wanting our empire to fall. I went down into the the fortification and got to my personal chaingun. I quickly loaded it with the MC rounds.

Once the enemy got into range there was a cacophony of gunfire. After that the entire enemy line broke down, instead of disciplined and orderly, it was now a chaotic rush to get to our trenches and push us out. At first we held them off, but as time went on it was looking more and more like we would get pushed back into the secondary trenches.

[Five minutes later]
{Five minutes till reinforcements arrive}

I had to give the order to fall back, once we got into the secondary trenches we fought harder than we did before, now we have all of our men in one place rather than split between two trenches. At this point they realized that we were using MC rounds and began firing MC rounds back, I could tell, because the body of a Palaw disintegrates after death, and a small box, called a respawn anchor, appears. Without going into too much detail, it essentially contains someone's soul, and is how they can respawn, normally they are bright with color and look unique, but all these ones were dull grey and uniform, meaning that the soul was no more in this mortal realm.
{Reinforcements have arrived}

The worst of it was over, but we still have a long way to go, even as the reinforcements start coming into the trenches and help us fight the enemy off, we are still being pushed back.

I then hear a rhythmic thumping, almost as if something very large is coming, then I spot one of the very few things that strikes fear into my heart, a war machine, but not just any one, L-35691, which is an old enemy of mine, he stands at a frightening 20 feet tall, he's made out of grade three palawium which is the toughest metal known to exist, and he hates me, this is because in our first battle I tore the cannon off of his head, there are other reasons, but this is the one that he says to be the biggest one. Instead of just getting a new cannon, or a new body, he made a special shotgun out of a 500mm artillery cannon, and vowed to kill me, and destroy all that I cared about.

I barely had time to react before he fired a shot, the shot went wide, and missed the pillbox I was in, before he could fire another shot I got out, the second shot he fired, hit the fortification, completely obliterating it. by this time he was already at the trenches, a few of my men tried to stop him, he grabbed his shotgun like a golf club, and swatted two of them away, he then fired at the third one, which tore them to shreds, he began to reload his shotgun as he turned to me and said "HELLO, FROSTY IT HAS BEEN A WHILE, I DO HOPE YOU ARE READY TO DIE." He then fired off three shots in my general direction, which I dodged, instead of reloading he tried to hit me with his gun, I was dodging his strikes when I realized that I had been cornered, I was infront of the wreckage of one of the aircraft, with no way to run. L-35691 began to raise up his shotgun to crush me with it. So, this is the end, this isn't how I would've wanted to die, but it is what it is. .

Suddenly one of the aa guns, which had been laying dormant, roared to life and began to pellet him with bullets, this didn't have much of an effect, but it certainly pissed him off.

"THIS IS BETWEEN ME AND FROSTY, BEGONE." He stated, then swung his gun at the turret, ripping it off of the pillbox, and sending the person manning it flying.

He walked over to where the person landed and began loading his gun, then aimed at the figure laying on the ground. "DO YOU HAVE ANY LAST WORDS, YOU FILTHY ORGANIC." I began to look for something to fire at the machine that would distract him, I quickly located a rocket launcher, picked it up and fired, before L-35691 could fire. The rocket impacted him and blew up, it didn't cause much damage, but it did cause him to turn towards me, and shoot at me. I was able to dodge it, he fired again, and I dodged it again

How am I going to bring this thing down... wait, I still have some of the "special" stuff. I then pulled a few containers of the liquid, which I had named y-237 and threw then at him, the glass jars shattered on impact, and the stuff began to soak into his body, I then threw a ball of frost flame at him, which caused him to go up in pretty, bright blue flames.

Suddenly a voice stated WARNING, FIRE DETECTED, ATTEMPTING TO ACTIVATE FIRE DISPERTION SYSTEMS. After a few seconds the voice came back, ERROR, FIRE IS ENCHANTED AND CANNOT BE PUT OUT At this point L-35691 was stumbling around as the fire spread and ravaged his internal components, HEAVY DAMAGE DETECTED, GOING INTO EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN. Before he fully fell over, he said ,
C-C-CURSE Y-YOU FROS-S-S-T-TY-T-YY-Y, I-I-IIII-III--I SHALL-LLLLLLLL- H-H-HAAAAAAAAAV-EEEEE MY-Y-Y-Y-MY-M-YYYY REV-EV-EV-REVEN-NNGE! TH-I-IIIIIIIII-S I-S-SSSSSSS-IS N-N-N-N-OT THE LAST Y-Y-OU SHAL-LLLL SEEE-EEEE-EEE---EE-E-EEEE-E OF-F-F-F-F-FFFFF-F M-M-ME! With that said, he collapsed on the ground, devoid of "life".

I looked over to the soldier who saved my life, and handed him a badge, then said "Here take this, you deserve it. Now, we should get to the battle field, we can't let the others have all the fun." I said before running out into the battle field.

I quickly located a target and ran him thru with my sword, then spotted a group of enemies and charged over to them. I killed the first by chopping his head off the second was cut in half the third was quickly dispatched, via a sword to the chest.

I then noticed a large group and drew my assault rifle and shot them, they tried to dive behind cover but the bullets tore them apart before they could.

I Quickly saw one of the abominations of the DE charging me and drew my sword. It raised its fists to crush me so I jumped to the left causing it to miss and hit the ground I slashed at it causing it to roar in pain. It then tried to punch me, I dodged it again and then drove my sword thru its chest I then pulled up, which nearly sliced its torso in half. I then took advantage of the fact that is was stumbling around in pain by cutting its head off.

I spotted a large group of RPS soldiers and summoned my chaingun, which I had ripped off of its mount before charging. At first it revved up then with a mighty BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the group of enemies was decimated, a loud click signified that I had shot all the bullets it had, it would take to long to reload so I put it in my inventory. I summoned my battle rifle and started shooting at what ever I could see. One person got too close and I shot them, the blood and brain matter from their, now destroyed skull splattered across my armor.

I noticed that there were no more enemies in near sight, then I looked around and saw that their entire attacking army was gone, nothing more than piles of gore and puddles of blood.
One of my tanks drove up to me, and the people driving it let me in so I could go to the enemy trenches with the rest of my army. I then spotted a large robot, which was an m-37, the same model as L-35691, then I heard the distinct BOOM of the railgun that acted as the main turret of the tank being fired, followed by the THUD of the robot, now with a massive hole in its chest, falling over.

The rest of drive there was mostly boring, aside from the occasional bits of combat. their deaths totaled at least two million, where as our deaths only totaled around ten thousand. That makes sense though, considering that the RPS basically only has cannon fodder troops, the DE and RA only actually made up about twenty five percent each of the army. Furthermore we have more training and better equipment, hell the RA is basically just made up of OUR outdated robot designs. The demons of the DE are all as dumb as a brick, so they don't pose much of a threat, at least not when they have such comparatively small numbers.

Once we arrived at the enemy trenches, and I exited the tank I saw how chaotic the battle was. At this point they were fighting for survival, so they were quite hard to beat, not only that but, they have thirty large spacecraft that look extremely expensive to make. The battle for the trenches was short, we over-ran them easily. Besieging the ships would be a lot harder.

[five hours later]

We were moving on to the largest ship, since we got to their ships we must have killed an additional million troops, we lost at least one-hundred thousand of our own.

This was the final battle either we kill them here or we fall.
We pushed into the ship, the resistance was brutal. After a while Benny and I went to try to find the leader.

Upon reaching the cockpit of the ship we stood before the enemy general and his elite guards.

I felt nothing but rage upon looking at that poor excuse of a man, he betrayed me, and lead an assault on my planet, not only that, bet he was the one who took my arm an my eye, and now, he shall pay for not killing me that day.

We exchanged no words, just blows. I used my sword, he used his bladed gauntlets, but, he was no match for me, I got one hit in on him and it drained him of his magic. I swiftly decapitated him, then I took his gauntlets from his, now evaporating, body.

"I'm not sorry that it has to be this way, John." I said to his near fully dematerialized corpse

With that he was dead, at that point, that wall next to me slid down, I turned towards it, and saw the chancellor sitting on his throne surrounded by his guards "Well, how does it feel to kill one of your friends, Frosty?"

I knew what was coming next, this morning, when I woke up, I knew I was going to die, I didn't know how, I just knew I was dying, and now I know what I must do. My plan is to run up to him, and kill his ass, even if his guards shoot me it wont matter, by the time he's dead, the reapers will have arrived, and benny will be done fighting the rest of John's guards, I know I shall die here, but when I do, my vengeance will have been taken, and my life complete.

"He betrayed me, I felt nothing."

At this point I was clouded with rage, the chancellor looked as if he was going to say another thing, but I didn't give him the chance, I teleported right infront of him, which I didn't even know I could do, and equipped the clawed gauntlets, his gaurds tried to move to me, but they were too slow, I drove both my hands with my palms facing away from eachother, into his chest and started pushing my hands apart, he tried to gasp out a few words, and that's when the bullets started to impact my armor, and then broke through and started piercing me, even with the effects of mc rounds there was no stopping me. He began to grab at my arms and tried to pull the out of his chest, but it didn't stop me, the room was filled with the sound of flesh tearing, and bones breaking, and then there was one final CRACK followed by two meaty thuds.

By this point all the guards were dead, and my rage was running out, I could no longer run from fate, no longer could I cheat death. This, didn't bother me though.

The chancellor, who had slaughtered my people, killed my parents, and betrayed me was dead. L-35691, Who was originally a person, who had me put his soul into one my prototype machines, so he could use it to found an empire of robots with the specific purpose of ending all life across all dimensions. They were both dead, my two biggest enemies were dead, and my life's work completed, despite my rage earlier, I now felt a sense of... peace.

I then fell over, and was caught by benny.

"Are you ok, Frosty?" Benny asked, he is my closest friend so we are on first-name basis.
I tried to talk but could only cough up blood, I struggled to speak but after a few seconds, was finally able to chough out the words
"Benny... you can't... save me, you have to take control of the empire."

"D-don't talk like t-that w-we can still fix you." We both knew he was wrong. "Look the medic is here, you can still be healed."

" I looked at him then said, I am dying, there is nothing you can do... as m-my last official order as e-emperor, I pass the title on to y-you... you will be a great leader."

"P-p-please hold on a little bit longer, sir, w-we can fix you."

"I'm sorry, Benny... you will have to go on without me, my friend... take good care of the people."
I laid there, dying in the arms of my best friend, my vision was fading, and I noticed Benny try to say something, but Oliver put his hand on Benny's shoulder and said,

" There's nothing we can do."

I then spoke my last words
"Be the leader that I never could, Benny... goodbye"
And it was then that my vision fully faded to black and I died.

Author's Note

Things such as respawning , history , magic, and weapons will be explained later.