text: [Themes: sci-fi]
  
  For some reason you've steadily been over come with the idea human of superiority. In fact, you've been thinking a lot like Indoctrinator Salo and at this point your transformation is pretty much complete. You don't even think about going into the village peacefully anymore, you fully intend to destroy it and enslave the survivors, just like you did last time. Humanity is destined to rule.
  
  "No prisoners." You tell your team and charge into battle, it isn't as easy as you thought though.
  The Lizards somehow knew you were coming and they ambushed you and your team. Several of them fall into pits with either sharpened spikes or poisonous creatures at the bottom. While you're temporarily caught off guard, you and Salo's fanaticism rally your remaining troops to fight on shouting how the Lizards are no match for humanity.
  
  It works for the most part, the team begins to become inspired, except for two, Alyssa who didn't need any encouragement to fight harder, but is showing signs of unhappiness at your new outlook on life. Tough. The other being LeFleur who finally broke down and ran.
  
  "TRAITOR!!!" Salo shouts and shoots LeFleur in the back like the coward he was.
  
  After the battle you have significantly less people with you. The entire Lizard village has been wiped out; the Lizards that were enslaved either ran off or were killed in the ensuing mayhem. Strangely the Elojin is still around. You half expected him to try to escape. He looks at the carnage that you wrought upon the village, and looks over at Salo, who's busily pulling teeth from the dead Lizards to make some sort of necklace no doubt.
  
  "Well if you're done playing with your scaly friends, the Xont building awaits."
  
  The Elojin takes you and your remaining team a short distance, and there it is in all its glory. Its like nothing you've ever seen before, this is definitely Xont. You can feel it in your heart and the technology within shall be the Empire's. You briefly daydream about finally being able to live out your original purpose of joining the Empire in the first place: To bring glory in HIS name. With this find, you'll be able to do just that. Unfortunately that annoying Elojin begins talking again.
  
  "Well we're here, now remember there's some dangerous things lurking in there, I can tell you where I ran into them, and some of the interesting rooms I found that you should explore before I got chased out."
  
  > keep him around
  Despite Salo's insistence, you make the decision that you shouldn't kill the Elojin just yet. The Elojin looks at you in silence almost expecting to get shot, but quickly becomes talkative again when he realizes his life is going to be spared a few moments longer.
  
  "Okay be ABSOLUTELY quiet, those things are still in there, if you have to fight them let's at least get into one of the rooms where you can shoot at them with less danger, a lot of them have narrow doorways for some reason."
  "Hold on there spot boy, what exactly are these things?" you ask
  "I don't know, but they're large, vicious, and mindless and have a lot of tentacles."
  "Could they be Xont?"
  "I doubt that, they're far too animalistic. Maybe they're some sort of genetic Xont experiment, who know? Let's just not run into them!"
  
  With the Elojin in the lead you and your team follow as quietly as possible, soon the Elojin leads you to a room with a lot of strange looking computers. They have a look of being incredibly archaic yet very advanced. Buttons with bizarre symbols are all over the machines
  
  "Now I think this is a control room of some sort, I was meaning to come back here to study it more, but I was trying to map out the place first."
  "So what the hell do these things do?"
  "You humans have those huge audio organs hanging from your heads, yet you seem to be unable to hear. I just said, I didn't study the room, I was meaning to come back to it!"
  "Enough of this Elojin's insults! We have no further use for him!" Salo yells at the top of his lungs.
  
  "Look you can certainly kill me if you want, but I am somewhat familiar with Xont legends and such. I probably could figure out what all this exactly does, if you let me. You start pushing buttons at random and you could be asking for trouble."
  
  The Elojin is obviously attempting to prolong his miserable life a little longer, despite the fact that he knows the inevitable is coming soon. Of course he also could be trying to set you up some how. He looks at you expectantly.
  
  > Have the Elojin killed
  You sense the treachery that lurks within this alien. He's setting you up; well his silver tongue has only gotten him so far.
  
  "We humans have been learning things through trial and error for centuries, no reason to change now. Salo, shoot this spotty freak!" you say.
  "Wa..." the Elojin doesn't even finish before Salo melts half of his head with his plasma pistol. The Elojin slumps to the floor lifelessly.
  
  "Okay, now does anyone here know about Xont legends or read about any of that shit?" you ask your team. A relatively young trooper steps forward. It's Private Dobbs.
  
  "Um, I read a few things when I was a kid, but I don't know anything about this sir."
  "Well can't you remember anything? Like what these symbols mean?"
  "I suppose I could guess."
  "Dammit soldier, I can fucking guess! I'm asking you can you do better than guess?!"
  
  Before he can answer it appears that one of the inhabitants has finally tracked you down, and its as horrible looking as the Elojin described it. Tentacles, teeth, large and hungry.
  It makes an ear piecing roar and attempts to enter the room, but is unable to get through, that doesn't stop it attempting to lash at your team with its tentacles, who immediately open fire on it.
  
  Well you could help and let Dobbs study the computer, or you could just do it yourself and order Dobbs to help fight the abomination instead.
  
  > let Dobbs do it
  "Figure out that machine, Dobbs!" you shout and go help the rest of your team. The creature's tentacles are surprisingly long and are still doing a number on your team, its fortunate that being stuck in the doorway makes it a lot easier to fight, you'd hate to be surrounded by more than one of these things. After a combined effort of bullets, lasers, and plasma, the creature finally dies. Now you've got new problems, first of all the creature's dead body is completely blocking the doorway, but worse, all the sound of battle only attracted more of its kind.
  
  You're temporarily safe for now, as you know the creatures can't get through the doorway, let alone with a corpse of one their own blocking it. They won't go away though. In fact it sounds like they've started eating their dead buddy; eventually they'll be able to make enough of an opening to attack again.
  
  Meanwhile Dobbs seems to have activated something. A wall slides open revealing a small line of silver robots. Their metallic glean is almost blinding even in this low lighting. Judging by their build and the wicked looking weapons they're carrying, they were designed for battle, it also looks like they've never been used. They stand silent awaiting instructions.
  
  > ask Dobbs what he did
  "Dobbs! What did you do?"
  "Um I don't really know, I just started pressing buttons and that happened."
  "Well turn them on and tell them to start blasting those tentacle monsters out there!"
  "I don't know how! I mean even if I do turn them on, what makes you think they won't attack us? "
  
  Dobb's behavior begins to make Salo angry.
  
  "So you think it's better to stay in here, trapped? You disgust me; your cowardice is that of an Elojin! Out of the way, the Emperor's Will guides my hand!"
  
  Before you can stop Salo, he starts randomly pushing buttons. One of those buttons turns on the robots. Red lights flicker on in their eye sockets.
  
  Red lights then flicker on you and your team...
  
  "INTRUDERS!" metallic voice echo in unison.
  
  The battle is quick and bloody as the Silver Sentinels mow all of you down into a bloody mess. The last thing you see as you struggle to breathe is one of the Sentinels pointing its weapon at your head which against all odds, seems to be smiling.