No Mage...

[Gaserlake]

"Remember. No mage," the masked leader of the DACI said to his fellow soldiers before they went into the Sage Dimension. "Make it slow and painful."

The DACI soldiers were geared up, armed to the teeth. They were in a DACI Keeper, and ready to execute their plan.

The Keeper put up a Denial Field, and then JD'ed into the Sage Dimension, at the heart of the Sage Dimension's largest city. The city has a variety of mage races, but it's comprised mostly of Sages. The entire city was engulfed in the Denial Field, which left the city population defenseless. The Keeper beamed down the DACI troops.

The DACI troops unloaded their weapons on the city population. One by one, the mages were shot to death. Cruelly, they were shot in areas of the body where it was a slow and painful death. The ammunition was designed to make gunshots as painful as possible. The murderers were merciless. The mages pleaded and begged for mercy, but to no avail. Some were simply shot down, while others were stabbed to death.

One of the DACI grabbed a baby Sage from her mother, sliced the baby's neck open in front of her, which resulted in blood spraying everywhere, and stabbed the baby in the forehead. The mother, covered with blood, screamed bloody murder. The Aralang simply laughed, and then shot her in the stomach several times with a rifle. The mother died after minutes of agonizing pain.

The mages tried to strike back, but they quickly found out that their magic was used against them. Some of the mages exploded with their innards splattering everywhere.

It was complete chaos.

[The Blade]

The Vionix Captain looked over the soldiers of his companies, inspecting gear and weapons before nodding an affirmative. "This is War, no mercy, keep it agony." The soldiers all understood that command.

The ship they were traveling in was a modified Katana class, Denial Fields already active and stocked with several companies of Vionix soldiers. However, these soldiers were dressed DACI, all part of the plan.

The DFs were up and the Katana launched forwards into a Hyper Space gate before appearing alongside the DACI Keeper. The two Denial Fields from the ships would blanket the entire city, every spell attempted to be casted would be used against them, the magic attacking the user.

Then the soldiers struck, the Vionix soldiers teleporting in and dropping instinctively into combat stances. Shots from Distortion Rifles flashed out, any Mage that got hit had parts of them turned to ash as they fell apart from the withering plasma fire.

The Captain landed with his Wavering Blade and Pistol drawn and he shot one of the Mages through the head, turning half of the magical being's skull to dust and as it crumbled away the rest of the brain was revealed. The Captain of the company then stepped forwards and lashed out with his sword, the two Mages in front of him being cleanly bisected and the top halves of their bodies simply slid away from the bottom.

The other soldiers then saw a large group of the magic users ahead... so they drew their ion grenades and readied them. "Toss!" The sergeant shouted and the grenades flew overhead before landing amidst the Mages and detonating, crackling orbs of blue-white plasma flaring out and turning the beasts to dust.

Then the heavy weapons started to fire, the massive shimmerstrike launchers taking tolls on any being they hit, the High-Explosive rockets sending bits of Mage bouncing off of walls with wet noises and sprays of blood.

It was a sheer massacre, blood pooled in the streets and there were bodies everywhere, some of the Vionix would be haunted but overall, the ones chosen... hated magic and those who used it and would gladly fight against those who nearly worshiped it.

The heavy weapons weren't the worst though, no the worst was the magic the Mages tried to use. Any spell attempted would backfire and some of the magic beings started to lose limbs or chunks blew out of their chests as powerful spells suddenly shot back against them, destroying them from the inside out. The shocked looks on their faces were the best things however, the Captain would be heard saying later.

Now the question was... why?

[Gaserlake]

The mages tried to make portals, but they found out that the portals backfired and ripped them to shreds. Others tried to teleport, but imploded, and were crushed to death.

The Denial Field suddenly went off for a few moments. It was only a few moments before the Denial Field went back on, that was enough time for the mages to strike back and kill dozens of DACI troops.

After all the mages in the city were murdered, the DACI withdrew. The DACI troops were beamed back aboard the Keeper, which then JD'ed out of the Sage Dimension.

No mage in the city survived. Mage reinforcements eventually came, but what they found was a burning city, dead mages, and scores of Aralang bodies.

Meanwhile, in the DACI Keeper, the Aralangs were furious.

"What the hell happened to the Denial Field?" one asked the DACI leader.

The DACI leader grinned, and said, "It was part of the plan, well, my plan, anyway."

"What the fuck? Who the hell are you to do this? The deaths were unnecessary!" the Aralang yelled at the DACI leader as his voice got louder with each word.

The DACI leader took off his mask. Everyone in the room gasped. It was no other than Gaserlake. He smiled. "You are all fools. Once they find the Aralang bodies, every single mage will cry out for war!" Before anyone could react, he then infected everyone in the room, and, at the same time, the DACI Keeper.

[The Blade]

The Captain had laughed as the Mages tried in vain to escape and he watched them explode and die, their spells backfiring upon them.

When the Denial Field went off however, every single Vionix soldier was teleported back aboard the ship and locked down, all of them running after mission routines to get their gear and weapons packed away before a quick escape which would be happening soon.

The Katana class that had been with the Keeper quickly Hyper Space'd away and went back to Arcanis on its own, leaving the Keeper to its own fate... being completely oblivious as to the infection that had occurred. As far as the Vionix were concerned, all went according to plan.

[Admiral Regis Hermitage]

(Totally got the Reference... "God is with us... Remember. No Russian." Epic.)