Andrew Saxon: Finding keepers

Elef said, “I want you to notice that each of those six humans have a bracelet on their left arm that is flashing an orange light.”

Dgran looked closer and saw the flashing bracelets. She looked at other humans in the community and their bracelets were not flashing. The other humans joined the creatures at the entrance. These six had, obviously, been selected by the creatures. One of the creatures motioned to the six, and they walked out of the community and boarded the vessel. The six brown creatures then climbed on board and moved quickly away from the community toward the building where they had originated. “Keep a close view on that vessel, Elef.”

“I’m already doing it.”

The vessel flew quickly back to the building and the six creatures exited, followed by the six humans. They walked up to what looked like a knee-high conveyer belt just outside the building, and the creatures motioned to the humans to sit on the conveyer. When each had taken their seat one of the creatures pulled a device and shot all six humans, who fell back onto the belt. The belt began turning and moved them into the building.

“Are they still alive?”

“They are still breathing, but there is no electrical activity in a huge area of their brain. Whatever they used to shoot them has totally destroyed all higher brain functions.”

Dgran was shocked at the matter of fact way the creatures had killed the humans.

“Commander, I have three ships coming around the moon and closing on our position.”

Dgran looked at her main screen and saw that the brown ships were on top of their location. “Power up all systems; bring weapons on line.”

The three ships stopped directly above the Searcher and fired three beams at the small ship. Dgran felt her body start to vibrate, “Jump out, Elef!” Elef did not respond, and Dgran saw that her ship was coming apart. The beams hitting the Searcher’s ship went through its screens like they didn’t exist. Dgran felt her body start to shut down and she pressed the self destruct button just before her body turned to dust. The small ship blew up with a huge blast that shattered the surface of the moon for a hundred mile radius. The three brown ships surrounding the Searcher were hit by the blast, but were unaffected.

One microsecond before the blast destroyed the small ship, a tiny probe inside the ship’s computer the size of a marble teleported away from the doomed ship. The probe jumped three thousand times in less than five seconds immediately after it recorded the destruction of the Searcher. It arrived out in open space and jumped out of the universe back to the Stars Realm.

“How can I possibly cause this coming attack you’re describing?”

Valerie stood up and refilled her cup, “Your psychic ability protects you even when you are unaware of it operating. Do you ever wonder why Robby was caught and you weren’t?

Jake’s expression turned serious, “Every day.”

“It’s because your psychic self directed the merchant’s attention away from you. You have survived because you have not been ready to release your power. Whenever you have been in trouble, things were made to happen to insure you survived. How many close calls have you had with the security forces on Gambian?”

“Before Robby died, there were numerous times that I wondered how I wasn’t caught. Are you saying that these skills you say I possess protected me?”

‘Yes, I am. It may have been necessary for another to face the security forces instead of you, but your psychic self will do whatever is necessary to insure your survival.”

“Why?” Jake asked.

Valerie shook her head, “Because you had to be kept alive and away from the one that would release your powers.”

Jake just stared at her. Cynthia asked, “I’m not sure what you mean.”

“Jake has an initiator somewhere, either in this universe of another and we suspect it is in another universe, that when he touches her it will break the barrier that is keeping his psychic power locked inside him. He can only come into contact with her when his psychic self reaches maturity. If he makes contact before he is fully mature, then both of them could be killed by the contact. In all of the prior super psychics, this usually happened between the ages of eighteen and twenty four. Jake has entered the time of his skills being released. He should also start showing some of his skills as they are released due to stressful situations. His full power can only be released by his designated initiator.”

Cynthia asked, “What makes you think it is in another universe?”

Valerie looked at Cynthia, “Because all of us are sensing a coming attack and there is no force in our universe that could threaten us. It has to be coming from another universe. That is what makes us suspect that is where the initiator is located. We hope that we can go there before the attacker comes here, but with billions of possible universes, we have to hope we get a clue as to which one has the attacker and is also the location of his initiator.”

Jake stood up and said, “This is ridiculous.”

Valerie stood and put her hand on his shoulder and appeared to wait for something to happen. When nothing did, she sighed and said, “No it’s not, Jake. I can see your aura and you will be developing stronger psychic skills immediately. I can see the blue flashes that indicate that your power is seeking release.”

Jake didn’t know what to think. Then Valerie said something that made him wonder if she was right. “Jake, I saw the recording of when the first psychic scanner exploded. You dove for the floor before it blew up. How did you know to do that?”

Jake looked at her and said, “I didn’t do anything; my body just suddenly moved to the floor.”

Valerie could see the confusion in his face; then she saw him realize a truth he had missed, “You’re saying I caused Robby to die because of my psychic abilities?”

Valerie sighed, “Why was Robby outside that merchant’s office wearing the same tunic you had on when you decided to take that bag? I’ll bet if you asked him he wouldn’t be able to explain why he came there.”

Jake was almost losing control, “He didn’t know. He just wandered to that location. He didn’t know what I was doing.”

“Jake, your powers do not care about anyone else but you. If someone you love has to die to protect you, they will die. If a planet has to die to insure your survival, it will die. It does not care. If a Realm has to die to make your powers active, it will die. If a dangerous enemy has to attack the Realm to get you to where your initiator is located, the enemy will attack. The most powerful force in the universe is psychic power, and until your power is released and you take control of it you could cause unimaginable destruction.”

“But I don’t want to hurt anyone.”

“Neither does your power, but it will if it is necessary for you to find your initiator. The first rulers of the Stars Realm caused a war with the Alliance of worlds just to insure that they would not be separated. The end result of that war was the formation of The Stars Realm. The Royal Family has been searching for you for five years. Why do you think we have eight hundred teams at the casinos trying to capture anyone with psychic ability? We were looking for you. Thank the creator, we’ve found you.”

Jake looked at the beautiful young girl and did not want to believe her, but something inside him told him she was right. Then he could hear her thoughts. He looked at her and thought, “Does this mean that I am now telepathic?”

Valerie jerked, then thought back, “Yes. We have to get you to your initiator. We know that high levels of stress will cause your psychic skills to manifest themselves.”