We have finally checked into our hotel, but I decided on a hotel with a lower star rating as not to draw to much attention to ourselves.
After checking in and unpacking our clothes and changing into more comfortable clothes we all met at a local bar, well if you can call it that, they had live music playing and most of the people were dancing, Zoe, Crystal and our daughter were also dancing, it was actually nice to watch them have fun for a change, Sin finally joined Christine and myself at the table and we were sipping on our wine, of course our daughter wanted to try a few different earth drinks and she went for everything she could find, and the more she drank the more she danced.
We were talking and eventually Christine went to join the other girls on the dance floor and Sin and myself stayed at the table and spoke. We mostly spoke about random stuff and our time when we lived on earth, it was mostly hard for him to recall those days as it has been only 30 years or so for me since we left earth, but it has been over 10000 years for him, I sometimes forget that he was in that prison, and to think that now we are building a new prison for him, one with better technology to hold him just in case it is ever needed.
Sin looked over at the girls and I also looked, you could see a few guys trying to join in with them, but they just kept closing the circle between them and pushing the guys away.
Sin, "so what is the story with the twins, they don't look anything alike?"
Chloe, "They are not really twins or even related, they just grew up together and has always been together since childhood, so it is a nickname that I came up with and it just stuck."
Sin, "So they are close then?"
Chloe, "Very close, they are actually together."
Sin, "Together?"
Chloe, "yes they are in a relationship."
Sin, "I see, yet they both fell pregnant?"
Chloe, "You know it happened the same way I fell pregnant?"
Sin, "But she" Pointing at the pregnant one, "is still pregnant?"
Chloe, "We couldn't find her when we left earth, we only found her a few months ago."
Sin, "I thought you and your mother haven't been back to earth since we left?"
Chloe, "We haven't, but we still have scouts in the system, and she was found in a system near the Acturions system, she was held on a Rogue ship, they detected the signal from the chip in her neck and went in, it was an ugly battle as they couldn't risk destroying the ship, because then she would have died, but they managed to rescue her and capture the abductors. "
Sin, "I see."
Sin looks over and sees our daughter dancing with Zoe, I look in their direction just in time to see them kiss.
Oh shit, I know he isn't going to like this, I always knew about them, but I was waiting for the right time to tell him.
Sin, looking back at me, "and that?"
Chloe, "I've been wanting to tell you, the timing just never seemed right."
Sin, "What is going on?"
Chloe, "Well..."
Then I heard our daughter behind me and we both looked up at her."
Cyn, "We are together as well."
Sin, "How long has this been going on?"
Cyn, "Not that it is any of your business, but since I turned 18, you know what, she helped mom raise me, she was always there for me, where were you? In prison?"
I could see that this hit him hard, he just looked down at his glass.
Zoe, "please don't be mad, it just happened, people who spend a lot of time together does develop feelings for each other."
Sin, looking back at me, "and does Azaria know?"
Chloe, "yes she knows."
Sin, "and how does she feel about all of this?"
Chloe, "She is happy that our daughter is happy."
Cyn, "We did nothing wrong, the only one here who did anything wrong is you, and you were gone for a long time."
He looks back at her and then me, I could see that he was hurt.
Chloe, "I can see you don't approve."
Sin. "No, I do approve actually, Zoe is a great girl and I would rather see our daughter happy then with someone who would hurt her."
Cyn runs up to him and gives him a hug, "Thank you dad."
He hugs her back and then gets up to walk away, as he starts walking away I grab his arm, "Where are you going?"
He just looks at me, "it's just a shock, I need air."
Chloe. "are you sure you approve?"
Sin, smiling at me, "of course. I just wish you would have told me sooner."
He then starts walking away and stops as our daughter screams, "Get your hands off of us."
We both look around to find a group of drunk guys pulling at the girls and trying to grope them.
I immediately walk over and try to intervene just to get pushed across the floor by one of the guys, I look up at the guy and back at Sin just in time to see his face change, that is when the realisation hits me that the crystal was never on the ship, my mother and Krish lied to me.
I jump up and try to talk the guys down and get them to leave peacefully, but it is too late, in a flash of crimson light all the guys are gone and we look up to find a whole in the thatch roof, everyone in the bar stops dancing and look up just in time to see the guys all fall through the ceiling, as they hit the ground you can hear their bones snap and everyone starts screaming and running away in all directions, we decide to join the crowd and make it ourside, we know that we can't leave, so we blend in and pretend to be as shocked as everyone else, luckily he moved too fast for anyone to see what was going on.
The authorities eventually arrives and they question everyone, but eventually decide that everyone is too drunk and they are not going to get a statement as most people claimed it was an angle or a demon or something crazy like that.
But then I saw it, one guy survived the fall and when I paid better attention I noticed that he was loaded into an unmarked ambulance and then they took him away.
We decided to go back to the hotel and we are all waiting in the courtyard, hoping Sin would come back, That is when I received a signal from Krish.
Krish, "Why didn't you tell me that Sin lost it?"
I immediately got angry and screamed at her, but the girls eventually grabbed me and told me to be quiet, so I calmed down and spoke to her.
Chloe, "Why did you lie to me? You and my mother never planned to bring the crystal here."
Krish, "no we didn't, because we needed him at full power in case something happened."
Chloe, "yes and now he is gone."
Krish, "He is not gone, we are currently tracking him, the new sensors we installed has been tracking him since he killed those guys, care to fill me in on what happened there?"
I tell her everything and she then goes quiet and then she responds. "okay it sounds like they had it coming."
Chloe, "there was a survivor."
Krish, "leave it, nobody will believe him anyway."
Chloe. "And Sin?"
Krish. "he is currently...Oh shit!!!"
Chloe, "What?"
Krish, "he just wiped out a whole cruise ship."
Chloe, "What? Where? Damage?"
Krish. "I'm sending you the images, the ship is gone, he went right through it and it blew up."
I immediately look at the images from the ships cameras.
Chloe, "Can you pull up data on that ship?"
Krish. "Already did. Oh no."
Chloe, "What is it?"
Krish, "it was the ships maiden voyage, it was brand new, and it had over 12000 people on it?"
Chloe, "Did any humans see what happened?"
Krish, "No, he is moving to fast for their technology to detect him."
Chloe, "Well, we have to rescue those hybrids, so what is the plan now?"
Krish, "Plan stays the same, remove the block on his telepathy, he should then automatically sense them."
Chloe, "it will still take him hours to make sense of what he is picking up."
Krish, "that gives you time to rest and prepare. "
Chloe, "okay, we are going to get some rest. I just hope he calms down and comes back before morning, we could really use his help when we go."
Krish. "he will be there, you know he can sense whenever you are in danger, just stick to the plan and he will come when needed."
I woke up the next morning to a voice on a loud speaker, "this is the agency, we know what you are and who you are, come out with our hands in the air and surrender."
We all get dressed as quickly as we can, and we exit our rooms to find a lot of black cars parked all around the property, hundreds of agents and soldiers, and military helicopters hovering over us.
I whisper softly, "Krish, can you see this?"
Krish, "I am watching, just stay calm, if the need arise we will act from orbit."
Chloe, "Where is Sin?"
Krish, "he is at your old cottage."
Chloe, "We need him right now, what the hell is he doing?"
Krish. "From the looks of it, picking up where the hybrids are."
Then this old man with a grey beard and a shaved head walks up to us.
Old man, "Hello Chloe, Hi Zoe, it has been a long time."
Zoe, "Who are you? How do you know us?"
John, "Don't you even remember your husband anymore? I know, I know, I look a bit different, this is what 30 years does to you when you are human, but you, you still look the same."
Zoe, "What do you want John?"
John, "The same as always, I want you of course."
Zoe, "sorry john, it is over, it was over the day you left and betrayed us."
John laughs at her.
Zoe, "What is so funny?"
John, "I never wanted you, every moment with you was sickening you alien hybrid freak, no I want her. " pointing at me."
Chloe, "What do you want with me?"
John, "To dissect you and study you, see how this works. " moving his pointing finger around me. "
Zoe, "Sorry John, that's not happening."
John, "and how are you going to stop me? " walking back to her and stopping in front of her.
Zoe, "like this" She lifts her hand to blast him with blue light, but nothing happens, I can see the shock on her face, and that is when I realize that my blue light is also blocked.
John, "oh no, your blue light magic is gone, what is going on? Let me tell you a little secret, we made some new friends after you left and we found a way to block it."
Chloe, "How"
John, "That my dear is my secret."
I immediately tap on my Gauntlet to notify the ship to extract us, but nothing.
John smiles at me, "Signal issues over there?"
They actually found a way to block our blue light and jam our technology, I was shocked and I realized that we just walked into a trap.
I whisper to myself, "Sin, where are you? We really need you right now."
I look over at my daughter and I can see she is getting irritated at this strange man. And I just shake my head, the last thing I need is for her to use this power, I also still have it in me, but not enough to safe all of us, only Sin can help us now.
John turns to strike Zoe and as he moves in to hit her his hand stops, that is when I notice Sun, he is glowing Crimson and his eyes are completely corrupted by the power, he looks at John "Hello john."
John looks at him in shock and started stuttering.
Sin, "first you break my daughters wives heart and now you want to hit her? No no no, I don't think so. Then they are gone and the next moment I heard John screaming and I look up to see him falling towards the ground."
That is when all the soldiers started shooting at us, everything slows down immediately and I see a bullet heading straight for Crystal, but as it is about to hit her it burns up in a crimson shield, and I look to see where the shield came from to see my daughter standing there, also wearing crimson armor like her dad and her face also with the same lines. "Oh no, not you."
That is when the soldiers grabs myself and Christine and drags us off into one of their military vehicles and drives off with us with a few helicopters following us, we are speeding into a tree line and I can hear explosions in the spot where we just were, I can hear gun fire and people screaming.
This goes on for a few minutes as we are driving and the soldiers in the vehicle snaps cuffs on us, then the senior officer speaks to us, he introduced himself to us a 2.
Christine, "that is original, 2? Really?"
2, "you wont be laughing when we reach the base."
Chloe, "I suggest you let us go."
2, "and why would I do that?"
Chloe. "because what happened there, will happen to every man and woman on your base if you don't, I am the only one that can prevent it."
Christine, "Listen to her, he wont stop till we are safe."
2, "Who?"
Chloe, "my husband."
2, "that red shining being?"
Chloe, "yes him."
2, "don't worry we can handle him."
Chloe, "believe me you can't, he will come for us."
2, "I am counting on it."
Just then the one helicopter falls and explodes next to us on the ground and the driver has to swerve to prevent hitting it.
2. "What the hell is going on out there?"
Pilot, "We are under attack, I repeat we are under attack."
2, "I need details."
Another explosion.
Pilot, "It is red and it is heading our way fast and it is hitting us with some kind of weapon...." another explosion.
2, "ground support stay frisky, we are 2 minutes out from base, prepare the weapon. We got incoming. "
Base. "roger that, dark matter cannons ready to fire, we are tracking to targets heading your way, fast."
2, "driver, punch it, we need to get to the base."
Christine, "dark matter cannon, we are never getting out of this."
I just smile at her and wink.
That is when we see the cannon fire, they are firing all over the place.
2, "what the hell is going on? Cant you people aim?"
Base, "sir the targets are impossible to track, they are moving too fast."
The the sky lights up with crimson lightning and the weapons fire stops completely."
2, "has the targets been eliminated?"
Base, "negative sir, they took our all the cannons."
2, "impossible."
Chloe, "you and your people can still survive this, just let us go and turn off the scrambler so I can contact my ship."
2, "sorry babes, that is not happening, we have over 5000 armed men at the base, they are ready for your bf."
Chloe, "husband and daughter, trust me, you have no idea what you are up against."
They drag us out of the vehicle and towards the entrance to a bunker, but our way is blocked by a crimson shield.
2' "What the hell is this?"
Chloe, "it is him, just let us go and nobody will be hurt."
But then the sky goes dark, and we all look up to see my mothers new flag ship decloak, it is twice as big as her last ship, she has always loved her big ships, since she travels so much she feels she should at-least travel in style.
2, "What the hell is that? Who can build a ship that size?"
Chloe, "that would be my mother, this is your last chance, let us go and nobody gets hurt."
2."Not happening."
Just then their gates explode and the soldiers near the gate gets thrown backwards, I look to see Sin and my daughter walk in slowly, both glowing crimson now, the soldiers immediately starts shooting at them, but their shields just blocks the bullets and the bullets disintegrates in their shields.
I can see rockets been fired at them, but nothing gets through their shields, and as they walk past all the soldiers I can see them blasting crimson lightning all around them, vaporizing the soldiers. They just keep walking towards us slowly, I can see them looking around them, they are looking for something, but what are they looking for"
Christine, whispering to me. "What are they doing? "
Chloe, "They are toying with these guys."
Christine, "But what are they looking for?"
That is when it occurred to me, the jam, they are trying to figure out where it is coming from.
That is when they stop and blast 2 buildings to our left and right and immediately our gauntlets light up again, but as soon as it lights up there is a flash and we are on my mothers ship on the bridge.
Azaria, "did you find the hybrids?"
Chloe, "no mom, you need to send us back."
Azaria, "no, let them handle it now."
Chloe, "mom they are going to wipe out everyone on that base, I cant let my daughter get lost in that kind of power."
Azaria, "She wont, but we need them to find those hybrids."
Chloe, " Mom, innocent people are dying."
Azaria, "they would have killed all of you if it wasn't for Sin and Cyn. We had to track you visually as your signals vanished."
Chloe, "the humans found a way to jam our technology."
Azaria, "even more the reason to finish this mission now and leave."
We both look at the screens, they have finished the fight and there are no soldiers left, I can see them walk into the bunker and after what felt like an eternity we receive a transmission from the onboard hospital.
Nurse, "We need help down here, stat."
I go ice cold as I expect the worse.
Chloe, "What is it? Is it my husband, my daughter? Both of them?"
Nurse, "no, We are been overwhelmed, we just received over 200 very confused hybrids. "
My mom immediately sends a ship wide notification for people to go and assist.
We watch as the entire base explodes and gives in, forming a crater, to see both of them flying out. I immediately contact my daughter.
Chloe "good job to both of you, mission accomplished, you may both return to the ship." Sin doesn't wear a gauntlet anymore, so I have to contact my daughter to communicate with them.
Cyn, "Sorry mom, we are not finished down here yet."
Azaria, "all the hybrids are accounted for and safe, mission accomplished, return to the ship, that is an order."
Cyn, "not until we are finished here."
Azaria, "You guys are finished, return to the ship, now."
We have cloaked again and moved away from earth into a higher orbit, we are tracking them now as they are flying North.
Chloe, "Please don't disobey, right now you are both heroes, but if you stay on this path you will become criminals. "
We track them as they go around destroying more military installations and bases, that is when we get an alert, as the screen split into multiple views we can see earth launching their nukes in our direction, thousands of them, from all over earth.
Our defense systems immediately kicks in and burns them down with high energy weapons, we can see them explode, but some are still heading our way. They can't damage our ships, but we don't want to risk an explosion near our anti-matter engines.
Azaria, "brace for impact, I can see multiple nukes heading for us, they are too close for our energy weapons to burn out and as I feared some are going to make impact right by our anti-matter drives. But just as they are about to hit us they all explode and we can see multiple crimson lightning beams striking them from the planet, the attack on our ship stops and a quick scan reveals that earth has used up all of their nukes, we keep watching my husband and my daughter for a few hours as they destroy every military installation on the planet. We have tried to reason with them, but my daughter eventually said that this planet deserves it and that she can now see why her dad did all those things that he did, he was right, he only destroyed worlds that could be a threat to peace and that they will make sure that this planet will have global peace before they leave.
Then we see them stopping and we can see a ball of crimson light building up around them.
Azaria, "they are going to destroy all live on this planet if they release that pulse."
We have no way of stopping them and we just watch as they release the pulse and we see as it goes around earth, as it travels cities goes dark. But then we do a scan for life signs and it turns out the pulse didn't kills any humans, but still the death toll from their attacks were in the millions, we watch as ships from different alien races are starting to evacuate the planet, but each one of them gets hit by crimson lightning and explodes before it even has a chance to escape.
Azaria, "this is madness, Stop them, stop them now, use their implants."
Then I remembered their implants, how could I have forgotten, I could have stopped them long ago.
As I activate the implants on my gauntlet I receive a notification, "out of range."
Chloe, "they are out of range, run a planet wide scan for them."
I tried to contact my daughter through the gauntlets communicator, but the same out of range error.
Azaria, "nothing, they are gone."
We watch through our screens as billions of humans on earth takes to the streets and chaos breaks out, within a few minutes their is violence everywhere, riots and fighting in the streets, and we know that the human governments are powerless to stop it, all their militaries has been wiped out, technology is gone, they have literally been put back thousands of years.
Zoe, "peace? That doesn't look like peace at all."
Azaria, "What have they done?"
Crystal, "We should help."
Azaria, "I wish we could, but no, we are leaving. "
We all watch earth fall into chaos on the screens as the ship turns and slowly moves away from earth while we are preparing to jump back home.
We have arrived back home and I am going to have a word with my mother about the manipulation now.
We met in her private office and I lost it with her.
Chloe, "What were you thinking"
Azaria, "I didn't know it would turn out like that."
Chloe, "you know it happened in the past, we should have been more prepared."
Azaria, "I know, but they didn't wipe the whole planet out."
Chloe, "no, they left the humans to wipe themselves out now, yes, I'm sure a slow death is acceptable."
Azaria, "there is nothing we can do, we already interfered with the human race far to much, they will recover and rebuild."
Then Krish walked in.
We both look at her as she comes in in a rush.
Krish, "Well seems the upgrades worked, We can track their energy signatures now. "
Azaria, "Where are they?"
Krish, currently moving between planets, jumping every few minutes."
Azaria, "We will go after them, has the prison been finished to hold them?"
Krish, "Construction is complete and here are their new collars, but getting it on them, that is the tricky part."
Chloe, "leave that to me, I can still use their implants to stop them."
Krish, "are you sure you are up for this? I know you had to arrest your own husband before."
Chloe, "I've done it before, I can do it again."
Azaria, "this time it is different, it is both your husband and your child."
Chloe, "I am fine, my family, my responsibility."
Krish, "There is something you need to see, we have finished scanning through his prison footage, there are multiple clips you need to watch."
She shows me a few clips of a hooded figure entering his cell and just talking to him.
But then she shows me the clip where his memory was wiped, you see the hooded figure walk in and talk to him as per usual, but this time the person actually turns around when leaving the cell and the cameras captures the persons face.
Chloe, "Cant be, how is this possible?"
Krish, "believe me, we have gone through this multiple times and this is real."
I watch as the figure turns around and looks up at the camera, the eyes surrounded by crimson circles and crimson lines running from her eyes, it is my own daughter, my own daughter has been visiting the prison and she committed treason. The Krish showed me the last clip, the clip when he escaped his first cell, they managed to break through the illusion, it was not a dark figure that helped him escape, either my daughter can create illusions, or she has found a way to tamper with the footage, she was the one that helped him escape, she made the prison staff attack him, knowing I would get him out if he gets injured, they never knew what they were doing.
But the question is, how did she get there, there are no records of ships docking or jumps close to the prison, and she doesn't have the authority to use jump ships. That is when the realization hit me...
Chloe, "Oh no..."