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WARLORDS

The castle walls of the Blue fortress towered above the red soil, offering protection from the three other kingdoms on Mars. Crown Me Tarzan, Warlord of Mars, looked down from the space terrace. He raised his arm, lowered it quickly, and his henchmen launched a fireball from the mouth of a shielded platform.

The fireball was hurled at the Green fortress with a terrific explosion. It slammed into the castle walls with a force of over 300 kilotons. Queen Reiden, Warlord of the Green Kingdom, screamed through the hole in the castle walls that used to be her throne room. She stepped in front of the video portal to hail the Martian Warlord. “Curse you, Tarzan, King of Mars,” Queen Reidun cried in anger. “Your brazen attack will be met with swift retaliation.” The screen went blank.

She launched a fireball at the Blue Fortress, but it was deflected by Tarzan (King of Mars’) henchmen immediately, hurling back into the Queen’s throne room and obliterating the Green Fortress into tiny bits of space dust.

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