Saxon Andrew - Greyson's revenge

Grang said, “Do you think those invaders will give us that long?”

Everyone turned toward him and stared. He said, “What?”

Scotty chuckled, “That’s a good question. Our Searchers are going to see if the King of the Life province will agree to have a war with us. I believe that as long as we’re fighting among ourselves that they will wait to take on the ultimate victor.”

Jingo said, “Won’t that weaken us.”

Everyone stared at Jingo waiting for him to say something else and he said, “What?”

Grang said, “Welcome to my world.”

Everyone started laughing and Jingo and Grang looked at each other. Grang shrugged which made them laugh harder.

“I hope so, however, we won’t know unless we try. I’ll be sending Timmy and Virze with the first things we need to do to make this happen and I trust you will follow their directions.” Scotty looked around the gathering and said, “There is one announcement that I have not made and I think it’s time I did. Julie.”

Julie handed Maddy to Jesa and stood and came over and stood beside Scotty. Scotty put his arm around her and looked at those gathered, “Julie and I are going to have a child.”

There was a moment of complete silence and then the roar from those present echoed off the forest. The cheers were loud and all of those from the community started hugging each other and jumping up and down.

Kreej looked at Bleath and said, “I’m the flyer.”

Bleath smiled and said, “Yes, you are.”

Grang got up, walked over, and hugged Julie. They saw his tears and he said, “I’m so sorry Madeline is not here.”

Scotty hugged Grang and said, “She is, my brother. She is.”

Jingo and Jesa joined them and the three brothers that were so different found how much they were alike.

The nine Searcher Ships listened to the meeting in orbit. Kelly said, “I’ve never seen that much happiness over the announcement of a child. Especially from a ruler.”

Anglo said, “You need look no further than your Stars Realm download. Every child of the Gardners prompted massive celebrations before the Realm was divided into Provinces.”

There was silence and finally Greyson said, “Just more evidence to support how wrong we were. Somehow, we lost our way.”

BC listened and added, “You need look no further than the planet below to see we have found our way back.”

William watched his scans and said, “It’s good to be back.”

“Hey Varner, how do you like your new Partner?”

“Jessica, he’s more than I could ever hope for. We’re a good team. The rest of you without one should start looking for a good candidate.”

BC said, “I’ve decided who I want.”

“Who is that?”

“This is turning into a space war. I’m asking Jingo to join me, Greyson.”

“Do you think the Emperor will free him from his duties with the Flyers?”

“We’ll see. I suspect he’ll want him involved in the fighting.”

“Good-luck, BC. You’ve made a great choice.”

“Did all of you know that June is Queen Ashley’s sister?”

“No way, Anglo!”

“Way, she abdicated the throne to come and face the death sentence the Zord had given her.”

There was silence and Greyson said, “You need to catch us up on all that has happened.”

“I’ll send you the download of Bristone’s history. Oh, and if you haven’t noticed, all of you are making it as we speak.”

Sena said in a whisper, “Let’s hope it’s a long history.”

Grace listened to the other Searchers and saw that they had regained their youth. They were excited at the opportunity to build something they could be proud to be a part. She also found that she felt alive again. Virze was so much like Melanie was when she came out of the Academy so many centuries ago. Grace knew she belonged in a ship and she would never allow allow anyone to take her out again. Perhaps Alex would eventually join them. He belonged in a ship as well.

The celebration began in earnest and for the moment the danger was forgotten. The Zord began arriving and then it spread into the skies as they circled and screamed their joy. All of the Zord that were saved during the Night of the Torg arrived and the noise was almost deafening.

Julie watched the gathering and felt the child growing in her womb. She could hear it and knew that BC was right. This child was going to be something special. She also heard it talking to Mallory’s baby. It was primarily in emotions but she knew that they were going to be close. Mallory looked at her from across the fire and smiled. Good, she felt it, too. She knew that the war would be delayed for them to grow up. She wouldn’t tell anyone, even Scotty, how she knew but she did. She couldn’t tell anyone because she couldn’t explain how she knew.

Scotty looked across the fire and saw Julie being congratulated by everyone. He thought about how lucky he was to have her and wondered about how they had come together. He knew there was a reason but he didn’t worry about what it was. Whatever had caused it was a good thing. He looked up at the stars and smiled. He felt an arm on his shoulder and saw Grang looking up as well. Then Jingo was there looking up with them. They didn’t say anything. They just stared at the massive gathering of stars overhead. Staring at the stars is where their friendship began. The stars shined down and for the first time seemed to be smiling back at them.

Bleath looked at Vring, “How certain are you about this weapon?”

“I see some problems with the software being able to work fast enough. It’s something we’ll have to work on and hope for a breakthrough.”

“Show me what you know.” Bleath looked at the data and said, “Have you thought about teleporting the data between the collection centers.”

Vring looked at Kreej who had been listening in and was stunned. “Don’t look so surprised. I don’t have this ring around my neck for no reason.”

“Father, you have got to join us.”

“You get the project moving and I’ll join you when you have a working model.”

Kreej just shook his head and saw the possibilities. Teleporting data was faster than light. It just might work.

Jilico watched his display and saw that there hadn’t been an attack. Where did those ships come from? Should he continue the jumps? He needed to reel in Daulun’s Kingdom but if he sent his fleet to make that happen he would leave his Kingdom wide open to further attacks. Ummmm. Maybe they had decided to give up. I’ll give it three more weeks. Then I’ll go and collect Daulun. He punched his communicator, “Ro, I want you here is three weeks to plan the acquisition of Daulun’s Kingdom provided there are no further attacks.”

“I’ll be there, Your Majesty.”

The probe in the room watched the King continue to sway in front of the window and sent the recorded conversation to Grace.

“Grace, are you ready?”

Yes, Your Majesty. Rehoben’s ship just arrived and he should be on planet in thirty minutes.”

“Teleport me up and let’s go say hello. Are the ships still making jumps to the assembled fleet?”

BC and Varner say the number has grown to more than eight hundred. I suspect they are planning to go to New Hope from there.”

“That makes sense. They’re armed and moving into formation. It would be a waste of time to make the fleet come back to Olympos.” Scotty appeared on the bridge and Virze stood up for him to take the command chair, “No, Virze. This is your ship to fight. I’ll take the second chair.”

“I’ll feed everything to your display.”

“Thank you, Grace.”

Virze was nervous having the Emperor looking over her shoulder but she said, “Take us there, Grace.”