Saxon Andrew - Greyson's revenge

Alex said, “That is reasonable, Robby.”

Dani appeared and Robby said, “You’re next Jenna.”

Jenna did a double take and then disappeared.

Carter looked at Robby and he said, “Ladies go first. We must always remember to be a gentleman.”

Dani laughed, “Never forget that. Boy it was hard making choices.”

“Tell me what you saw.”

“Oh, the first answer was a good one but the real one is you want to be enlightened before you go.”

Robby pretended to be looking out the port, “Are you going to tell me?”

Dani thought about it, “You’ll find some small blunt nosed projectiles in the far left of the armory. If you ever have to board a ship and want to do maximum damage without burning any of the electronics, you’ll need them.”

“So you know about the dimensional drive?”

“I do.”

“Did you take any?”

“I did.”

“Do you see something I don’t?”

“Only that I’ll be with you when it happens.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

“Darn, I thought it would be Jenna or Carter.”

Carter listened to them and said, “What are the two of you talking about?”

Robby and Dani looked at him and Dani said, “Oh, nothing.”

Carter stared at them and Robby said, “I’ll tell you before it happens.”

Carter shrugged, “Fair enough. Who’s next?”

“You are.”

“Where did you say those slugs are located?”

Robby laughed and looked at Dani, “He’s one smart cookie.”

Carter raised his arms in a strongman pose and said, “And handsome besides.”

Kreej and Neelah listened to the back and forth and Neelah thought, “It feels like family.”

Kreej nodded, “We need to get Jenna and Carter a Flyer.”

“That comes later.”

Kreej said, “Get the message to Vring. He needs to start making the list now.”

Neelah nodded. “Your Sister would be good for Jenna.”

“Only if she passes Vring’s scrutiny.”

“Afraid of being accused of playing favorites?”

“Not at all, I just don’t know all of the Flyers available. There may be one better.”

Neelah looked at Carter, “He’s going to be hard to match.”

Kreej looked at Carter and nodded, “Yes he is.”

Jenna reappeared and Carter disappeared. After an hour Robby said, “Alex, is Carter ok.”

“I’m sitting here in amazement.”

“Why?”

“He’s combined several weapon platforms that are going to be devastating. Robby looked at Dani and said, “We need to go take a look at what he’s doing.”

Jenna, Robby, and Dani teleported to the Armory. Kreej looked at Neelah, “Yes, he’s going to be hard to match.”

Neelah just shook her head wondering what was going on in the armory.”

The ten new Ruling Masters looked down at the new Fleet Master. Kye looked around the gathering and said, “You understand your assignment?”

“Yes, I do.”

“You will bring the ship to us when you capture it.”

“I will, Sire.”

The Fleet Admiral turned to go. Kye looked at the others and said, “Have we decided which universe we will search first?”

“The last ten Masters were discussing that when we were called in.”

“We’ll not waste time looking at their decisions. We will go to the first one and work our way to the most recent.”

The nine Masters began issuing orders. Kye was not going to repeat anything the former Masters had decided. He did not want to see that light illuminate. The missing two galaxies were not discovered until much later.

Timmy and Virze were three hundred thousand miles from a planet that was being forced to grow the orange plants. The local populations had been rounded up and put in communes and the farm beside farm structure was taking shape.

“Do you think it’s too late to save the inhabitants?”

“Grace looked at her scanner, “The spores are in the atmosphere and their levels are growing. I suspect it is too late for those that have been in the farms more than a few days.”

Greyson said, “The intensity is highest at the farms. However, some of the spores have been blown into the upper atmosphere.”

Grace said, “Look out!”

“Two Giant Black ships appeared without warning next to the two Searchers. A beam shot out from the two ships and enclosed them in a force field that was surrounded by another structure with an orange gas.”

“Grace, my teleportation and communication boards are not functioning. We cannot get a message out and teleportation does not work in this environment.”

“Timmy, what’s happening?”

“Calm down, Virze. I think they have trapped us inside a force field surrounded by a dimensional field. If we leave this force field we will probably be destroyed by that field without the screen that protects their ships. They are now able to hide their emergence into normal space. I suspect they are going to take us to their home planet. If we leave this dimension, we will not be able to return. It looks like we’re trapped. I’m so sorry, Virze. I never thought we would both die. It’s my fault.”

Timmy suddenly found himself on Grace with Virze. She ran to him and hugged him tightly.

“Timmy!”

“Yes, Greyson.”

“That force field is the same strength as the one’s used on their ships.”

“It doesn’t matter, Greyson. If we go out into that dimensional gas, we’ll die.”

“Grace, we have to save Timmy and Virze. Will you help me?”

“What do you want to do?”

“I’m going to fire a full Zeta beam at the force field and I want you to also fire and overlap my hit.”

“What are you planning?”

“I’m going through the opening with my force field at maximum strength. Once the force field closes behind me I’m going to self-destruct.”

“Greyson, you can’t do that! You must not do that!”

Greyson ignored Timmy. “Grace, you know you are more important than I am to this effort. If we don’t try it, we all die.”

“Greyson, listen to me.”

“Timmy, this is the only way to save Virze. Someone has to warn the Empire. Grace, will you help me. Those ships are going to jump soon!”

“Give me a marking beam. I’ll hit just to the left of it. Greyson, are you sure there’s no other way?”

“If there is, we don’t have time to find it. Be ready to leave.”

“I’m sorry, Greyson?”

“Take care of Timmy.”

“I will.”

Greyson fired a low powered beam into the force field and the he and Grace hit the field with a max powered Zeta beam. A huge hole began appearing and Greyson flew through it. Grace stopped firing and the force field closed. Then a gigantic explosion rocked the force field and blew out into the two ships that were maintaining the fields. The shock wave hit the two ships and crushed their hulls into the walls away from the blast. The force field around Grace was blown out of existence and Grace teleported away just before the blast reached her. The shock wave continued out from the center of the explosion and hit the planet destroying the black ship in orbit and burning the atmosphere away.

Grace had teleported six hundred thousand miles away from the planet and stopped to view what happened. Timmy held Virze and watched the planet burn. He felt agony. His partner was gone and part of him died with Greyson. He took a deep breath and Grace said, “Those people were already dead. This was much more merciful than the death that orange plant would have given them.”

Virze held Timmy and said, “Grace, take us home.”

Grace teleported away just before fifty ships and the new Fleet Master arrived. The new Master had received the good news of having captured one of the small ships but there was nothing remaining in the system but destruction. No one survived to tell what had happened. He looked at his communication panel and saw the connection to the Ruling Masters illuminate. He had notified them that he had captured one of the enemy’s ships. He pressed the button and knew he was dead.