Saxon Andrew - Greyson's revenge

“Virze, how have you learned how to read those maps?”

Virze shrugged and Timmy said, “She’s a natural. She has an affinity for spacial relationships. She saw it faster than I did.”

“Thank you, Timmy.”

“Hey, it’s true.”

“Vring are you listening to this?”

“Yes. Bleath is listening in as well.”

“Do we have a probe ready?”

There was a long pause and Vring said, “Yes, but we don’t want to leave, Your Majesty.”

“You will if I order it.”

Vring gave a mental sigh, “I know.”

“Both of you know they have the bodies of four Zord on New Ulmerton. Your species is listed in the databases of every old Realm computer and this planet is not screened. They are coming and it won’t be long. I am issuing my first command on this issue and we will move the planet today.”

“I will support your wish, Your Majesty. I’m just reluctant to leave.”

“Bleath, I’m responsible for protecting the Zord as well as my own people. I can’t do it if they attack in force.”

“I thought your ships could destroy those other five Searchers now that their systems have been upgraded.”

“They can, but if we destroy them, that other King, the real power, will come with thousands of ships. We’re not ready for that.”

Bleath thought about it and said, “If we’re going to be forced to move anyway, now is better than later.”

“That’s how I see it. Why the reluctance to go?”

“I don’t know. It just feels like we’re leaving a sky we know.”

Virze said, “I’m not completely certain that you will be able to see a difference. It will still be in this sector so the stars will be very similar in number.”

Bleath thought about it, “Vring, what do you think?”

Vring was shocked, “Father, why would you ask me?”

“Because you will be the next leader of our flocks. That is not an accident and your voice carries much weight with me and our flyers.”

“We have to go and we should have left already. I don’t want to go but we are in danger if we remain.”

Bleath smiled, “You do see it clearly, son. Make the move, Your Majesty.”

Scotty looked at Timmy and said, “Activate the probe and use Virze’s suggestion.”

Timmy lifted a small device and pressed a button on it.

Bleath said, “Let us know when it’s done.”

“It’s done.”

“What?”

“You’ll be able to tell tonight if you look closely at the stars.”

Scotty saw no difference in the amount of sunlight or anything else that would have indicated the planet had been moved. “I want a ship left in our former system to see if anyone shows up.”

“BC is there.”

“Tell him no communications. Don’t offer any clue that we’ve been moved. I want them to distrust their maps.”

Greyson said over the speaker in the learning center, “I’ve just notified him.”

“Thank you, Greyson.”

The tiny mote appeared eight hundred miles away from the huge hole in the dust cloud. There appeared to be a five hundred mile area of clear space in the middle of the huge cloud that surrounded the solar system. The mote began moving slowly toward the break.

“Do you think that ship will detect the frequency being used to send this information?”

“It’s on the same frequency and strength as the cosmic ray background that fills the universe. We wouldn’t be able to detect it.”

Grace stared at the huge break in the cloud and didn’t see anything. “It’s just a perfectly round hole in the dust.”

“That is their force field around the ship. We should get a reading on how far out from the ship it extends as it gets closer. Then we’ll know how big the ship is inside that force field.”

“I notice that the ship has positioned itself above the plane of the planets.”

“That way it can keep the planet in view as it circles the star. They won’t have to move the ship.”

“Why did they put it in a dust cloud? They’ll be seen if anyone comes close.”

“If they moved inside the cloud’s border, the Searchers on the planet would be able to see it. If it moved outside the dust cloud, their scanners would be obscured. They are just inside the front edge of the cloud outside the Searcher’s scanning range.”

“I wonder how long it’s been there.”

“According to the decay of the dust around it that hit the screen, more than five years.”

“What!”

“When dust hits their screen it is energized. This is also not the first ship to have come here.”

“How do you know that?”

“There are three other places close by where the dust is greatly reduced. The areas are very similar in size to the current ship.” Alex watched the feed from the probe and said, “I’m stopping the probe a hundred miles from the force field.”

“Why?”

“I’m not going to be able to penetrate it, so I want to keep an eye on it.”

“Alex, your probes are able to penetrate any force field the Realm had ever encountered.”

“Not this one. It’s several orders of magnitude stronger than any we’ve ever seen. It’s also powered by a different sort of energy.”

“I’m not sure what you’re saying.”

“The closest thing I’ve been able to find that resembles it is the field that the Realm used to exit our dimension. I think this ship is from a different dimension instead of another universe.”

“So were the Red Demons.”

“I know.”

“This is not good.”

“I know that as well. I’m setting the probe to only broadcast if anything changes. I don’t want to chance them being able to detect it.”

Daulun spoke on his communicator, “I’m sending Canton up to take three of you to a planet to destroy the ones that have been attacking us.”

Varner heard the communication and replied, “Have we found where that planet is located?”

“Yes, I’ve received word from Fleet Command that the four huge creatures killed in the attack are called Zord and we know where their home world is located. You will go there and destroy the planet and then return.”

Varner said, “Yes, Your Majesty.”

Canton arrived and boarded the small white ship, “Welcome aboard, your Grace.”

“Thank you, I’ve brought the coordinates. Take me there now.”

Varner said, “We’ll leave for the jump limit immediately.”

“A message came in on a discrete channel, “Varner, I’ve been going over the download and I’m troubled by what I’ve seen.”

“I am as well.”

“Will, Gilene, we’ll discuss this after we return.”

“We need to discuss it now.”

“Why?”

“Because I will not fire on Greyson if he’s there.”

“Neither will I, Gilene. Let’s just wait until we arrive before we make any decisions.”

The three ships arrived at the jump limit and disappeared. They arrived at a solar system and looked down on the planets from above. Varner was surprised and looked at his maps of the system, “Your, Grace, there is no planet where the maps indicate one should be located.”

“What do you mean?”

“Look for yourself.”

Canton looked down on the planets and saw that there was not a planet in the habitable zone around the star. Will and Gilene were surprised that Varner was broadcasting his conversation with Canton on an open frequency. Why was he doing that?

“How can this be? Do you have any idea?”

“Actually, I do, your Grace.”

“What?”

“If you look in the database, the old Realm forbid anyone from capturing any more of the Zord. El Prado took the ones they captured and put them in a zoo and the Realm quarantined this system.”

“So?”

“I suspect that to make sure that their instructions were followed, the real location of their planet was removed from all the general maps and a fake location put in its place. Without the Military Database, there is no way you can find its true coordinates in the general maps.”