Null was glad to see that both Chris and Lisa had followed him through the portal. The Gate spell at its current level could only be used for short-range travel and took a significant amount of energy. The portal exit was in the capital city of mars Elysium.
Null look up in direction of the brig ship only to watch explode due to multiple missile impacts. Null had expected the Martians to react so fast and was glad to have unlocked the gate spell. The plan was progressing better than originally planned as he didn't have to use the makeshift escape pod he had created in his cell.
He turned around to look at Lisa when he was met with an almighty slap to the face.
"It was you! You gave them fake evidence and had us labelled as traitors!" Lisa was angry, no she was livid with this stupid teenager.
Null was stunned he had never anticipated this reaction. "Yes, but now they consider you to be dead so it shouldn't matter"
"You stupid child, of course, it matters what about the rest of my family they will think I'm a traitor and they will be punished"
"But your husband died, and your parents disowned you" Null had done his research on both Lisa and Chris. The Martians shouldn't have given him access to the QEC devices as he was able to link it up to Zero communication devices and gain access to even secure information networks.
Before Lisa could respond that her husband parents were still family she was interrupted by Chris.
"I'm sure you are both having an important conversation, but first why is Jania here? And second, we need to get off the street people are looking at us". Chris normally only communicated with Null by using the communication device so was hoping he would understand. Luckily over the last month, Lisa had helped Null learn enough solar standard he could understand most conversations.
"Yes, we should also find some cover before the station explodes" replied Null, Lisa wanted to slap him again but decided it was best to find cover before working everything out. She explained to Chris what he had said.
Martian architecture was completely different to standard Earth architecture. Each building on mars was a self-contained dome that was contained within a larger city dome. Elysium was the largest city on Mars housed around 4 million people which should have been plenty to enable the group to blend in.
Lisa was unsure of what to do, each citizen was scanned as they entered or exited a dome as part of the city safety program. This would allow for each citizen to be accounted for in case of a dome breach. If she or Chris were scanned then the military would know that they survived the explosion of the brig.
While Lisa was still looking for a place to take cover a large explosion occurred over her head.'No, I'm too late, we will just have to go to an emergency shelter'. Before she could act on that thought she found herself in a completely different room.
"Ahh, you must be Lisa and Chris, welcome to my ship. Thank you for looking after Null. It seems we rushed things and he wasn't ready yet." Zero turned his attention to Null. " it seems your grand adventure didn't go to plan it. Now put that girl down so I can have a look".
Null did as he was instructed and Zero floated over and heal her of her physical injury but he was concerned as he couldn't sense much mental activity from her. He had identified that she had a cranial implant installed but He didn't think she was in any danger at present so he would investigate later.
Chris was fed up, he was one of the leading cadets in the officer training program and had been trained to analyse strange and difficult situations and to not panic as that led to poor decisions. This qualified for being strange and difficult. It was beyond anything training could prepare him for.
"What is going on? I was arrested taken to the brig. Broken out of the brig by a child with wings and a halo who then used a portal to transport me and mum to mars and now I'm on another ship with a floaty ball of light. Can someone explain to me what the hell is happening?"
Lisa also wanted the answers, but she suspected she knew them already.
"It is simple young Chris. I am an Alien but your race refers to us as Angels and Null is my adopted son and is part Angel. He sneaked out to go meet humans for the first time at the new year event but he was wrongfully imprisoned. He help you escape and during the antimatter explosion, I teleported you and your mum to my ship."
Chris could hear the words but he couldn't believe them. Even when confronted with overwhelming evidence of the truth it was just too much. He sat on the floor and just stared off into space. Lisa came and sat down beside him. She was feeling the same way and she at least had heard some of this before. She had introduced Null to Chris as a new gifted student who had arrived from the outer solar system.
Zero made a private link with Null. "I told you not to use magic or fields. The council has requested that I investigate the humans and send a report in, as they had detected the use of field technology when you used that portal spell of your"
"I'm sorry Zero but I had to do something, they attacked the ship faster than I expected. Also, I wasn't expecting a 3rd person. She wasn't on the roster"
"I understand, I was observing you but there will still be consequences"