Alexander saluted the military generals who were standing beside the ship before he went inside the spacecraft.
The spacecraft that Alexander went in was a star like structure with sharp spikes around it. It would look like an alien creature than a spaceship from afar, but this small spacecraft had a very dangerous explosive stored in it. One should not look down on it.
Apparently, the humans had been to war with the Butterfly race for a long time but this day, it was different because the humans had been cornered by the Butterflies. The Butterflies were going all out and they were determined to wipe out the entire human race from existance.
As a matter of fact, the Butterflies had a high birthrate compared to that of humans and when they decide to go all out against the humans, they came out in waves. The good thing was that the Butterflies didn't have spacecrafts but they only had warframes which were giving the humans a hard time to slew them all. The Butterflies were almost breaching the defense of the humans.
The humans had no any other choice than to sent several deadly explosives to the planet of the butterflies.
Actually, even though the butterflies didn't have a spaceship, through the use of their witches, they had made a portal that connected their world to planet Earth. Through this portal, they were able to access planet Earth. Humans have tried so much to seal the portal but the thing was tricky as it was made by the universal rules, so breaking it down was not an option that could be conceivable. They could only watch as this alien race invaded their planet.
Alexander and his four other volunteer soldiers entered into their spaceships and took off from the military base. And just like that, they left the Earth's atmosphere and flew into space. Yes, they were going to hit the butterflies in their home ground.
A person like captain Alex had gone to space several times so, he was not afraid. He was only sad for leaving his family because he was sure he would not come back the moment the explosive in his ship was activated.
He held up the pendant that was on his chest that showed the picture of his wife holding their last born daughter. In the picture, his wife was ecstatic just like his daughter. Alexander was very sure that he would miss his family so much.
One should know that the advanced tech in the military had made the military not to be a suicide occupation. What the military needed was simply a few dummies which were able to pilot warframes and spacecrafts to fight the battle with the butterflies in humans' stead but in this case this time round, those dummies had failed to work because the butterflies were too adept at manipulating those dummies out of the control of the humans. Those butterflies then used the warframes and spaceships that the humans had sent to them to wreck havock on their planet Earth.
The military generals on the humans side then decided to use real humans to pilot these spaceships so that they could bomb the entire planet of the butterflies to finish this war. One of the volunteers to pilot the spaceships to the butterflies lair was Alexander.
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Alexander picked a stick from the cigarette pack and lit one as he drove the spaceship towards the lair of the butterflies. Since he was a captain and one who had a higher rank among the volunteers, Alexander became the leader of them all as they journey towards the Butterfly planet.
The military spacecrafts were swift and silent which made them to enter into the butterfly planet unhindered.
Just like usual, they found too many Butterflies flying around in that they could not even count them. Their large population seemed to be what was forcing the Butterflies to invade other neighbouring planets and Planet Earth just seemed to be the most nearby to theirs.
The butterflies were barbaric and savage creatures and the moment they saw the human spaceships, they flew towards them without caring for their lives. Alarms were also rung in the entire planet to signify the coming of the humans.
However, Alexander and his team were not daunted on the slightest. They moved like a team towards the core of the butterfly Planet.
"Comrades! It is now time to unleash hell on this motherf*ckers planet!" Captain Alex said with a smile.
"Roger!" His comrades who were controlling the other ships answered in unison.
With a grin on his face, Alexander drove his spacecraft towards the epicenter of the planet madly while on the other hand, his comrades were following up.
The butterflies which had already entered into their warframes were also not left out. They followed the spaceships very fast which to Alexander, it was as if they were teleporting.
"They are almost catching up, we need to increase the speed to optimum!" Alexander ordered.
The warframes that were following them were countless. They leapt from place to place while firing blasts at them but because their ships had been modified to the utmost tech, they were not even scratched on the slightest making the butterflies even more maddened.
"I can see the core of the butterfly Planet from where I am. It is time to release the explosives..." Before even Alexander could continue ordering, he saw two of his comrades turning against them and because he was caught off guard, he was blasted to pieces before he even got a chance to release the explosives on the epicenter of the butterfly planet.
One should know that the explosives would not explode if they had not been released. That was to make sure that they do not explode on the way even before they reached on their destination. The comrades of Alexander also knew the flaw of their spaceships and that was what made it easier for them to blast each other.
Alexander clearly saw the smile on the faces of his two comrades which confused him before they morphed into butterflies. Alexander was too shocked to take any action and thus, he was easily taken out.
The humans only sent five spaceships and as for the other two human comrades who were behind Alexander, Alexander didn't saw what happened to them.
It was difficult for the butterflies to infiltrate into the humans domain unless his comrades who turned against them were possessed by the witches of the butterflies, that would make sence.
Just like that, Alexander died. But before Alexander's body blew up completely, his body morphed into a different person, it was not clearly Alexander but an old man with spiky hair.
If the military generals were here, they would recognize the old man as the highly reputable mechanic of theirs. The military would not have allowed this reputable old man to drive a spaceship to the alien's domain because the old man was more important to the nation and the human planet at large.
But how did this old man succeed in getting himself here - driving a spaceship with someone else's identity?
The old man just shook his head as he reminisce about the past. Apparently, Alexander was this old man's only son and because the old man had a higher leadership position in the military, he was quick to find out that Alexander, his son had decided to sacrifice himself by proceeding to the butterfly planet to accomplish the mission of bombing their planet.
Hastily, the old man tricked Alexander even before the day of the mission and locked him up, he himself decided that he would accomplish what his son wanted so that he could stop thinking about sacrificing himself and be with his family.
The morphing was just a trick that the old man invented about altering the DNA chains using the shapeshifting ability of champions. The ability was so flawless in that no one ever found out, but unfortunately for the old man, he didn't succeed.
Their opponent was more steps ahead of them. What a shame, the old man died with full of regrets and hopelessness.
The old man's name was, Avis Wafula - our MC.