Battle of Space Burger King

The Battle of Space Burger King (Australian: Battle of Space Hungry Jack's) is a conflict which takes place at a Space Burger King near Rizina between a group of Krzakki pirates and, chiefly, the GDF, that Captain Retzorg is involved in the early stages of.
==Prelude==
Captain Retzorg, with a party of zyncho Saroski and two humans, Kiki and Pokémon trainer Makani, has departed from the Pokémon World and has stopped at a Space Burger King en route to the elf planet Rizina for fuel and lunch. Inside, Retzorg's travelling party meets the draheg Drone ZZ9774, or "Zeds." After the party has ordered food from and before any of them (sans Zeds) can be served by the sole front-of-house worker, the Namekian Aryol, the Burger King's alarm system sets off; a boarding ship of Krzakki raiders has arrived.
==The battle==
===Krzakki arrival and staff massacre===
The connection between the Krzakki ship and the Space Burger King location is made by way of a boarding tube. Almost immediately, the Krzakki boarding party meets the back-of-house staff of Space Burger King and begins killing them.
At the same time, in the customer area of the restaurant, Retzorg’s party, Zeds, and Aryol take cover in booths and behind the counter, with Retzorg, Zeds, Saroski and Makani each drawing weapons and Saroski using their powers to change into armor. Retzorg gives Saroski the key to their spaceship and orders Saroski to escort the humans and Aryol to the ship. Just as Zeds talks about the possibility of docking his lander with Retzorg's ship, a Krzakki soldier forcibly enters the kitchen, followed by two more. Saroski escorts everyone but Retzorg and Zeds out into the hangar while Retzorg, covering their escape, breaks cover to present their gun, badge, and spurprises to the invaders and order them to freeze in several languages.
===Zeds and Retzorg vs. Rtiyz and Schalp===
Zeds, unlike Retzorg, opts to shoot first and not talk, though his initial volley of plasma shots proves sufficient only to leave marks on Rtiyz's armor. Schalp aims his Gatling gun at Retzorg, and Narzz follows Saroski and their escortees into the hangar.
Being lighter and less armored than Zeds, Retzorg somehow puts their badge away and shoots Schalp's Gatling gun and takes evasive action by jumping onto the restaurant's wall and continually taking advantage of the zero-gravity environment by running in circles from wall to ceiling to floor. Using this tactic, Retzorg is able to narrowly avoid Schalp's rapidly-fired shots. At the same time, Rtiyz swings a claw at Zeds, which he is able to push back against the force of for long enough to retaliate with a punch with his powered gauntlet to Rtiyz's jaw. While Rtiyz is knocked over from the blow, Zeds shoots Schalp a few times to throw his aim off.
Rtiyz and Schalp square up shoulder-to-shoulder to gang up on Zeds, but Retzorg, no longer a target, takes the opportunity to jump onto Rtiyz's back and attack him quickly with their spurprises and point-blank blaster shots whilst uttering a battle cry of "Makkansoppaloppagus," modestly tearing the Krzakki's armor. Schalp throws Zeds against a wall, Rtiyz turns his attention to Retzorg, and Retzorg jumps off of Rtiyz's back to shoot Schalp.
With Schalp disoriented just enough from the attack to miss a series of shots Zeds, Zeds shoots the jet thrusters on the back of Rtiyz's armor, resulting in the thrusters exploding and taking most of his armor with them. Retzorg's blaster runs out of ammo and they throw the spent weapon at Schalp. Seeing Retzorg apparently defenseless, Schalp charges them with his jet thrusters; Rtiyz charges Zeds without his jet thrusters.
While Zeds shoots at Rtiyz, Retzorg ducks beneath Schalp, rapidly rotates their robotic right hand, jumps onto Rtiyz's back again, and uses their hand as a drill to pierce Rtiyz's back, killing him. Schalp turns around to face Retzorg, but Zeds jumps towards him, and shoves his plasma caster into Schalp's mouth. Schalp is killed by the subsequent plasma fire from Zeds's weapon.
===Saroski vs. Narzz===
Saroski, Kiki, Makani, and Aryol exit into the Space Burger King hangar and are followed by Narzz. Saroski positions themself to protect the humans and Aryol, who take cover behind the landing gear of Retzorg's spaceship.
Saroski notices Narzz giving chase and uses their powers to shoot a blast of cyan energy at him. When Narzz recovers from the shot and revs up his Gatling gun, Saroski generates a shield and charges another shot; the shield deflects most of Narzz's ensuing barrage. Narzz charges Saroski and swings a claw in an attempt to crush Saroski through their shield with it which Saroski foils by backing away. As Narzz's claw crashes to the floor, Saroski lets loose the charged energy shot, piercing Narzz's armor, wounding him, and nearly knocking him over.
While Saroski contemplates their next action, Narzz shoots at Saroski again. They raise their shield in time to be hit by some of the shots and block the rest while Narzz charges forward and continues shooting. Saroski throws their shield like a disk, which shatters on impact with Narzz. This stops Narzz's charge, but he makes a clean shot at Saroski's right arm. Enduring the pain, Saroski uses their left hand to create another shield, shoots out of the shield, and charges Narzz. Narzz's armor absorbs most of the shots, and he retaliates by knocking Saroski away with a claw swing. While Saroski morphs their shield into a sword and attempts to get up, Narzz pins them down by the legs and prepares to crush them with their gun arm. Deciding that he can no longer merely watch the fight, Aryol utters a war cry and extends his arm to strike Narzz.
“I am not a bystander! I am a warrior!”
–Aryol (translated from Namekian)
While Narzz is taken off guard from Aryol's Mystic Attack, Saroski shoots their sword as a projectile at Narzz's earlier wound, completely severing his gun arm. Aryol exits cover and begins directly approaching Narzz; Narzz responds by shifting his armor to cover his wound and wildly swinging his remaining arm. Aryol avoids the attack by jumping towards the ceiling and extending his leg to kick Narzz in the jaw.
Despite the kick knocking off part of Narzz's mouth, he continues to fight. Narzz uses his jets to jump towards Aryol, Aryol jumps off the ceiling at Narzz, and Saroski shoots a blast at Narzz's jets. The fight is concluded when the explosion of Narzz's jets destroys his armor and Aryol kills Narzz with a barrage of rapid kicks, the last of which caves in Narzz's carapace and leaves Aryol, floating in the hangar's air, with his foot buried in Krzakki corpse.
===Escape of Retzorg's party===
As Retzorg and Zeds hear the sounds of more Krzakki soldiers coming through the back-of-house area of the restaurant, Zeds jets out into the hangar and Retzorg withdraws their right arm from Rtiyz's body and grabs their thrown blaster before following him. Retzorg meets Saroski and co. at the spaceship and takes their keys from Saroski, who is unable to figure out how to open the ship. Retzorg opens their ship while Zeds docks his lander with it, and Retzorg's initial party, joined by Zeds and Aryol, enters the ship.
Soon, the hangar is entered by more Krzakki soldiers, who wield welding torch-like weapons and fire upon the ship with Gatling guns. Captain Retzorg orders Zeds to fly their ship and mans their weapons. When Retzorg's ship's laser proves ineffective against the Krzakki's armor, Retzorg blows a hole in the hangar wall with a mini bomb, causing the Krzakki soldiers to be sucked out into space and tearing open a massive chunk in the space restaurant. With Zeds piloting, the ship takes off through the newly-created hole and escapes to Rizina without further incident.
===GDF arrival===
At some point concurrent with the escape of Retzorg's spaceship, several Krzakki fighters engage in combat with GDF ships; the Krzakki boarding craft is still attached to the Space Burger King establishment at the time of Retzorg's escape.
==Aftermath==
While Zeds and especially Saroski are wounded in the battle, they are quickly healed aboard Captain Retzorg's ship. Zeds and Aryol end up becoming unintended additional members of Retzorg's party and travel to the surface of Rizina with Retzorg, Saroski, Kiki, and Makani.
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