As we land we notice that there are multiple armed guards waiting for us, all dressed in full body armor.
Upon exiting the ship a few guards approached us with very strange advanced looking hand cuffs. Chloe places her hands in-front off her and we follow her lead. Once we got the handcuffs on the one guard motions for us to follow them and he leads the way with us and then a whole bunch of guards around us all pointing their weapons at us.
Zoe. "Gees, what's with all the attention, was this part of the plan?"
Chloe. "Shhhht, plans change. "
Zoe. "The cuffs are blocking me from using my blue light. "
Chloe. "I know."
Zoe. "So what now."
Chloe. "We've got a back up plan."
Zoe. "Care to fill me in?"
Chloe. "Him." Motioning towards me.
I look at them and immediately catch what Chloe is hinting at. I just nod in agreement.
We eventually got nudged into a room where the fleet commander is waiting for us.
Commander. Laughing. "Seleons? You don't look like Seleons, I thought Seleons are supposed to be really tall?"
Chloe. "Trust me, we are who we say we are."
Commander. "Oh really? And what do you want?"
Chloe. "We have come to negotiate your surrender."
Commander. "My surrender?" Laughing again. "From where I'm sitting you have lost, I destroyed your ships, this planet will soon be uninhabitable and you are the one in cuffs."
Me. "What cuffs? You mean these laying on the floor?"
That's when our cuffs just falls off and drops to the floor.
Commander. "Impossible, I know everything about Seleons and those cuffs were designed to block your blue light energy. "
Me. "Yeah, about that, I'm multi-colored. "
Moving my hand around showing him my crimson light energy.
Commander. "How is this possible? Seleons don't use dark energy."
Chloe. "Uhm yeah, he is something else, never been one to play by the rules."
Commander. "I've still won."
Zoe. "Keep telling yourself that, maybe you will eventually believe it, but nobody else does."
Then the commander grabs his head. "What are you doing to me?"
Chloe. "Just getting some information."
As she says that a bunch of soldiers runs into the room, pointing their weapons at us.
Me. "Really? Why don't you guys point those toys at each other?" As I say it they all suddenly turn and point their weapons at each other. "Now where we're we? Oh yes, why don't you tell us more about yourself?"
Commander. "I won't tell you anything."
Me. "Why not? You were so chatty a few minutes ago. Where is your home world? Where were you born?"
Commander. "If you knew anything about us you would know that we are born on these ships, we grew up onboard."
Me. "See? Was that so hard?"
Commander. "What do you want?"
Chloe. "We just want to know how you found us?"
Commander. "Zara betrayed your people. Okay you can leave now."
Chloe. "Zara? You mean from the counsel?"
Commander. "Yes, she is tired of your way of life, she misses the old ways."
Chloe. "I see."
Me. "So you live in this tin can, never going on planets?"
Commander. "No, our way is to annihilate planets."
Me. "That sounds dull, so you've never even been to a beach? Never seen the amazing views on any of this worlds?"
Commander. "Beach?"
Zoe. "You don't know what a beach is, man you need an education."
Commander. "No, this is our way of life. This is how we have been for generations."
Me. "You should really have just landed on earth and given a beer or good glass of wine a try, even pizza, earth has well had some amazing pizza places. But I guess you destroyed them all now. Oh well, your loss."
Commander. "I've just destroyed 2 of your flag ships and an entire world, and you guys are talking about stuff I'm not interested in. "
He then gets up and walks over to me and punches me in the face. "That feels better."
I look at him in surprise, "heck dude, is that supposed to hurt, give me a moment, uhm ouch. Just kidding, you hit like a girl."
Chloe and Zoe both in unison. "Excuse us, we take offense to that."
Me. "Sorry, you hit like a baby."
Chloe. "I think our baby took offense to that because she just kicked."
He then turns his attention to Chloe and walks over to her, "baby? You are pregnant? Let's see how you like having a dead baby." He attempts to hit her in the stomach but gets flung across the room and pinned to the wall."
Zoe. "I really hate cowardly men who hits woman, specially a pregnant woman."
Me. Walking over to him, now I'm glowing in crimson light, "you were going to hit my wife. "
I point my hand at him and start blasting him with crimson light.
All he can do is scream in pain.
Chloe grabbing my arm. "Stop it, this is not you, and he didn't get to touch me. "
I just glance at her and look back at him, "no, he wanted to hurt you, he needs to feel real pain. "
Chloe. "Please stop, we are leaving in a few minutes and then none of this would have ever happened anyway."
I eventually stop and look at Chloe. "You are right, nothing we do now matters as this will not happen again. "
Commander laying in the floor out of breath with smoke coming out of him. "You are not going anywhere, and what do you mean none of this would have happened, it already happened. " as he finishes more soldiers run into the room pointing weapons at us.
I look around at all the soldiers, "don't you people ever learn?"
Chloe. "Don't..."
But she's too late and within seconds they all get vaporized by a blast of crimson energy.
Me. "I've had enough of these people and their weapons."
Chloe. "You didn't need to do that."
Me. "What's done is done, and it actually felt good, after all, they had it coming after what they did."
Chloe. "We are supposed to be better then them."
Zoe just standing in a corner looking at me with big eyes and fear. "What have you done?"
Me. "I did what I needed to do."
Zoe. "You didn't need to kill them like that."
Me. "As Chloe said, soon none of this would have happened anyway. " just then I feel a sting on my side, I turn to see the commander standing next to me with a blade penetrating right through my body. I look at him and I grab his hand and pull the blade out. "Now look what you've done, I love this shirt."
Chloe and Zoe both stare at me in shock as the wound goes crimson red and disappears as if it never happened.
Chloe. "That's not possible, what have you become?"
I look at her and back at the commander. I just grin at him. "Now what am I going to do with you?"
Chloe. "Nothing, it's time for us to go."
Me. "We can go in a moment, I think he needs a time out in the void."
Chloe. "No!!! I'm giving you a direct order. Leave him alone and let's go."
But her words fall on death ears as I lift my hand and blast him into oblivion. "Now we can go."
Chloe and Zoe don't know how to manage time travel so they both come up to me hesitantly and take my hands.
Chloe. "You are scaring us."
But before she can say anything else there is a flash of blue light and we are standing in the room looking at ourselves unconscious in the chairs where we were placed when we went into the digital prison.
Both Chloe and Zoe drops to the floor and vomits.
Me. "Okay, remind me to not take you girls time travelling again. "
Azaria looks up from where she was sitting next to Chloé's unconscious body, she then looks back at our unconscious bodies and back at us. But before she could say anything Zoe shrieks and vanished into dust.
Azaria. "I take it you guys time jumped? "
Chloe. "Yes, we had to."
Azaria. "Let me first get Chloe from this time onboard because if her future self just vanished it means she's going to be flooded with all her memories." She taps on her gauntlet and in a flash of light we are face to face with a very confused looking Zoe.
Zoe. "What just happened? Why do I remember things that didn't happen as if it happened?"
Chloe sits her down and explains everything to her, and Azaria walks up to me and she she gives me a very worried look. "What happened to your eyes?"
I look at her confused. "What do you mean?"
She then points me to a mirror, "take a look."
I walk over to the mirror and get the shock of my life, I got I got crimson red lines running from my eyes like some gothic make up.
Chloe coming up behind me. "You used to much of it, it will consume you. "
Azaria. "Wait, he can use crimson light energy?"
Chloe. "Yes. I allowed it once, but then he lost control."
She eventually tells Azaria everything that happened from when and how her ship got destroyed, at which point Azaria went pale, and then how we got information on the enemy and how I lost control and tortured the enemy soldiers and eventually wiped them out. Azaria looks at me with a hint of anger and disappointment. Then she spoke in a very serious tone. "I'm going to have to wipe those memories from you before I bring you guys out."
Me. "Why?"
Chloe. "Because when she brings us out our memories will merge with our past selves and I agree with my mother. It's best if you forget about the crimson light. It will corrupt you. "
I look at her, then Azaria's disappointed look and then I saw the fear in Zoe's eyes. I then walk up to Azaria, "do it."
Azaria. "This is going to hurt though."
Me. "Just do what you need to do."
She then places her hands on the sides of my head and I feel a burn in my head and the last thing I remember is an intense headache before everything went black. I woke up to Chloe sitting next to my bed and she hands me a glass of water. I take a sip and look at her. Now she's smiling at me.
Me. "why are you smiling?"
Chloe. "I'm proud of you, you made the right choice. "
Unfortunately the memory wipe failed, but I can't find it in my heart to tell her.
She then helps me up, "they are about to bring us out. " we make our way to the prison room and watch as Azaria and a doctor are working to bring us out early.
Azaria, "remove their collars, otherwise their memories won't merge. "
Chloe and I look at each other and then at our unconscious selves starting to wake up.
Back in the prison.
I wake up with my face stinging to see Chloe standing over me, but as she is about to hit me again she stops and looks around.
Chloe. "Something is wrong."
Me. "Yes, my face hurts."
Chloe. "No, they are bringing us out early."
Just then there is a flash of light and we both wake up in the chairs completely free to move. I look up in shock to see myself and Chloe standing in the doorway, but as our other selves smile at us they both scream in pain and vanishes into dust.
And that's when our minds gets flooded with thoughts, images, memories of things that hasn't happened yet, we both fell off the beds holding our heads as our minds gets flooded with memories.
When it's finally over Zoe comes and helps Chloe up while I pick myself up from the floor.
Chloe. "I'm glad I'm not the only one who went through that. "
Azaria. "I take it you guys can make sense of what just happened?"
Chloe. "Yes, but what about Zara?"
Azaria. "She has already been arrested and will be sentenced accordingly."
I just walk up to the mirror and look into it, but no crimson lines.
Azaria looking at me. "Are you okay? What are you looking at?"
I knew I can't tell her the truth so decided to lie. "Oh, just making sure I look presentable for my girl."
Chloe bursts out laughing, "well if you like we can go to the room and take a shower. We've still got time to prepare before the enemies arrival. "
Me. "I would like that."
Zoe. "What about me?"
Chloe. "Our quarters is big enough. You can come with."
As we finished showering and getting dressed into our armor and pilot suits all I can think about is the crimson light and how free and powerful I felt.
We make our way to our ships and Zoe joins Chloe in her ship and I get into my ship.
Chloe. "Are you ready for this?"
Me. "I'm ready."
Azaria. "Remember the plan."
Chloe. "Is the dud ship ready mom?"
Azaria. "It is, as soon as you guys are off the ship we will cloak, by the way, thank you for the information, we managed to fix the sabotage in our cloaking systems. "
We fly our ships out and see the 2 flagships vanish with only the dud remaining visible. Our ships are also cloaked and just on time the enemy ships appear out of their wormholes and all start firing at the dud and as planned the dud explodes with an amazing show of fireworks.
Chloe on the transmission. "Okay, time to visit the commander again.