BiggerNate91: Honor Guard - A Joe Moraliste Origin Story

Instead of doing what Nate Clone did and writing my entire story before publishing it, I'll be working on it gradually like we did with some of the other ones.

Chapter 1 - A Noble Fighter
Perpetual night.

The planet Skallion did not orbit around a star, so its skies were always shaded with the black of night, with the dark blue tint of the atmosphere. The stars were always out, and often you could see the streaks of the galaxy painting the sky. It was truly a sight to behold.

At the top of a large hill, a little girl with dark blue skin and white hair looked up at the stars. She loved the sight of the night sky, and it seemed she could never tear herself away from it. She found the bright lights of Skallion's cities to be distracting, so she often went to the hill so she could see all the stars at once.

She smiled, the little gap in her teeth showing. She hoped that someday, she could travel to the stars and see them for real.

"Glow!"

She turned to see her mother coming up the hill.

"I told you it was bedtime ten minutes ago!"

Glow - short for Afterglow - pouted. "I wanna see the stars some more!"

Her mother picked her up. "You can see the stars tomorrow, they're always going to be there."

"I want to go there someday," Glow told her mother as they walked back.

"I know you do, Glow," her mother replied. "Maybe you will."

She then looked down at her pregnant body. "Maybe you and your brother will go together."

They walked in silence for a while. Then Glow looked back up at her mother. "Mommy?"

"Yes, Glow?"

"When is Daddy coming home?"

BiggerNate91 glared up at the beacon.

It was Zero Hour. BiggerNate's forces had the enemy on the line, and were about to storm the moon base in front of them. The low gravity of Skallion's moon would weaken the enemy's defense, but it would also slow their assault. But it was now or never.

BiggerNate, or "Big" as he was known by his fellow Honor Guard, turned to his army. "We only have one shot at this. We have an opening, and we're going to take it. We're going to stop that beacon once and for all!"

He loaded his arm cannon that rested on his right arm. "FOR SKALLION!"

"FOR SKALLION!!!" The Honor Guard echoed loudly as they charged forward.