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.

Immediately, the enemy battalion in front of them opened fire. The Honor Guard blocked the incoming shots by activating their force fields.

Heavy cannons began firing upon the Honor Guard, but they just kept on charging, intent on taking down the beacon that would mobilize all of the war drones that threatened to decimate the surface of Skallion.

Big leaped ahead of his fellow Honor Guard and opened fire. His arm cannon made a "PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW-PEW" sound as laser blasts tore through the enemy soldiers.

"Big, we've got Rippers inbound!" Big's friend, Mindvolt, shouted at him.

Big looked up to see the fighter squadron - dubbed "Rippers" by the Honor Guard - descending on the battlefield.

Big grimaced. "Keep giving them everything you've got. I'll take out the Rippers."

He activated his space helmet and flew away from the moon's surface toward the three-pronged fighter crafts approaching.

"Bring it on, mooks..."

A Ripper zoomed past him, which he promptly exploded with a direct hit to the engine. Another Ripper dove into a barrel roll straight toward him, but Big tore through the side of it with his wrist blades. It careened into the side of the moon base.

Two Rippers launched their proton torpedoes at the same time, which headed straight for the blue-skinned captain of the Honor Guard. He simply caught them in a zero point energy field, and threw them back to the fighter crafts that fired them. He turned his back and flew away as the Rippers exploded in a ball of flame behind him.

He looked down at the battlefield. Both armies had already been reduced to smaller numbers. Big tried not to think about his fallen Honor Guard friends and instead rocketed toward the base.

As hard as he could, Big smashed through the walls of the base and faced the security drones waiting for him. He quickly tore through them with his blades and continued on. He heard the Honor Guard behind him cheering for him.

Big stormed through the corridors of the base, making his way to the top of the beacon, determined to put a stop to it.

He wasn't going to let his nemesis destroy his people.

Especially not his little Glow.