Chapter 14 - Defeated

We arrive on the planet to find the hunters waiting for us, we can see him sitting by a lake staring away into the distance.

Azaria, "how long has he been like this?"

Hunter. "He hasn't moved since we arrived."

Azaria. "Thank you, you may go now, we will take it from here. "

As we got closer he suddenly speaks up, "have you come to arrest me? Don't worry, I'm done fighting."

My mom and I look at each other in surprise.

Azaria. "You do know we are only doing what's best for you. You are currently the most feared and wanted being in the known universe. There is not a single race that doesn't want you dead."

Him. "Then why arrest me? Why not just kill me."

Cyn. "Because we still love you dad."

He froze for a second and then he stands up and look directly at our daughter. "Dad? I never thought I would ever hear that word in my life."

Cyn. "Dad please come home."

Him. "Home? You mean to prison?"

Chloe. "It's for the best."

Him. "For the best? How long is my sentence?"

Then my mom interrupted us. "Where are all the natives? There use to be millions here."

Him, "it's just me, there was nobody here when I arrived."

Chloe. "You are lying." I then waved my hand and suddenly the illusion disappeared, we look around us to see all the natives dead, my mom drops to her knees."

Azaria. "Why?"

Him. "I needed their energy."

Azaria, "they never did anything wrong. They were the most innocent and pure race in the known universe. Why massacre them?"

As he walks closer we can see his face clearly, the crimson lines all over his face, if I didn't know better I would think that he is on his way to a Gothic party.

Him. "Our daughter got so big, how long have I been gone?"

Chloe. "16 years, her birthday was just the other day."

Him. "It only felt like a few days."

Azaria. "The crimson light has corrupted your mind, it's breaking your mind into pieces."

He stops and look at me, just glaring at me, he is barely recognizable. He is pale, his eyes corrupted by the crimson energy, he looks like he is starving.

Chloe, "when last did you eat?"

Him. "I can't remember, but it was when I was with you."

Chloe. "How did you survive?"

He just points around us at all the corpses, "I feed on energy."

Azaria, "you have become a monster."

Him. "Maybe so, and I would do it again."

Azaria takes a step back, you can see the fear on her face.

But I decide it's time to act, so I walk towards him slowly and I give him an embrace, he closes his eyes and embrace me as well. That's when our daughter makes her move and she snaps the new collar we have designed for him around his neck, and he immediately drops to the ground screaming in pain, shaking as if he is been shocked, when the collar finally sync to his nervous system he looks at Cyn "why?"

Cyn. "Because you have wiped out hundreds of planets. Trillions upon trillions dead, you need to be stopped."

He immediately lifts his hand towards Cyn to blast her, but realize that his energy is blocked.

I just nod at Cyn and say. "Do it now."

She immediately type on her arm gauntlet and his collar activates again, he falls back to the ground screaming and shaking, she keeps increasing the pain level until he eventually blacks out.

We finally arrived at the prison, 2 of the guards drag his unconscious body towards the high tech secure sell we had prepared for him and they immediately activate the restraints which grabs his hands and feet and lifts him up.

After a few minutes he comes to and he looks around the room, he then smiles at us in a taunting smile. "You know this technology couldn't hold me before and it won't hold me now. "

Chloe. "This time it will, your new collar was specially designed for you, if you even so much as think about escaping or try to use your light energy it will activate at its full setting and knock you out. "

I then gesture to the others to leave and I walk up to him and I rip all his clothes off, I then blast it with blue light and it vanishes immediately.

Chloe. "Sorry, but you are a prisoner now, you have been stripped of all ranks, rights and privileges."

Him. "How long will I be here?"

Chloe. "After the crimes you committed? 500 000 to a million years?"

Him. "Will you please come see me?"

Chloe. "No, you will only see me when your sentence is finished, you will receive no visitors and you will have no concept of time. Oh and this prison orbits s dead galaxy, even the best technology can't see the nearest galaxies. "

Him. "I'm sorry."

Chloe. "It won't change what you did, you have committed the most hideous crimes in history and now you will pay for it."

Him. "I did it because I wanted to protect you, because I love you."

Chloe. "I love you too, but you must pay for your crimes."

Him. "Who sentenced me?"

Chloe. "I decided on your sentence."

By now the crimson lines has faded from his face and his eyes returned to normal, he once again look like the man I fell in love with.

I then turn around without another word and walk out, the heavy armored door closes behind me and the shields around him activates. I then set the temperature to almost freezing temp.

I find my mother waiting outside.

Azaria. "You did the right thing."

I just walk past her and make my way back to my quarters back on the ship.

If I did the right thing then why does it feel so wrong? I cried for days, never leaving my room.

Back in the prison.

I don't know how long I've been here, kept in place by these metallic tentacles, the only way I have any idea that time has past is when my collar activates at full setting and it knocks me out to sleep.

I'm freezing cold here, I got nothing to look at and it's dead quiet in this sell, I don't even have much light in here.

Then one day the door opens, I got so excited, thinking that my sentence has come to an end and Chloe has come to take me home. But in came the largest Seleon I've ever seen. He walks around me and then stops.

Warden. "I thought I would come see the biggest and most dangerous criminal in the known universe, oh how rude of me, let me introduce myself. I'm the new warden here, sent by the counsel to keep an eye on you and make sure you never forget about your crimes. "

I just look at him and look back at the floor.

Warden. "Hmmm the most powerful being in the universe defeated by his own daughter and look at you now, strung up and helpless like a weak little puppet."

He was right, I'm helpless, completely at his mercy. And I realized that he is going to make my life hell here.

He then turns sideways and he punches me with his fist in my ribs, I forgot how strong Seleons are, and upon contact I could feel and hear my ribs breaking, I felt some piercing through my skin, I tried to scream in pain, but only managed gargle sounds and my mouth is filled with blood.

He looks at my wounds and smiles, "I think I might have broken most of your ribs and by the sound of it some pierced your lungs, you might want to get that looked at, oh wait, you aren't going anywhere."

He then turns around and leaves the room, I'm fighting for breath and I can feel that my one lung already collapsed, and without my blue light energy I can't heal fast, then I realized that I'm probably going to die here, either from the infection, or bleeding out or from suffocating, I'm fighting for breath, but every time I try to take a breath it hurts like hell. Eventually the collar activates and I pass out from the pain.

I eventually woke up and as I look up I see the warden standing in front of me. He just smiles, "yesterday felt good. Don't you agree?"

I just look down at the floor, I know what's coming, more pain.

Warden. "What's wrong, you know it's rude to not answer the warden when he speaks to you. Okay, if you choose to not talk then let's make it permanent, he then turns slightly and hits me on the jaw, I felt my head flung backwards from the impact and I felt and heard my jaw break in multiple places.

Warden, "there you go, now you got a good excuse to not speak." He turns around to walk out and then stops. "Oh before I forget. " he turns around putting his entire body weight in and his fist connects to the side of my head, I hear a crack and feel a sting and my head flings side ways and I feel my neck break. I try to lift my head, but can't. For the first time I can't feel anything, not even the cold and the metallic tentacles holding me in place. Eventually the collar activates and I'm knocked out.

I wake up to a female voice.

Nurse, "don't open your eyes, your injuries are severe, you are actually lucky to still be alive."

I try to open my eyes, but can't.

Nurse. "Don't, your eyes are swollen shut. Don't worry, we saw the footage and the warden has been arrested, he won't hurt you again. And all the footage has been sent to Azaria. She's on her way with a specialized medical team who can help you, but for now all I can do is keep you alive till she arrives."

Then she suddenly stops and screams "what the hell is that?"

I hear her running out of the sell and the door closing behind her. Then I hear a voice in the room. It's not male or female, but distorted. "Look at you, the most powerful being in the universe and now you are dying, I can't let that happen, you need to continue your work and keep feeding me. "

I then felt a cold touch against my forehead and suddenly my neck pulls back into place, I can open my eyes again and I feel my jaw pulling together and my ribs clicking back into place.

I look up to see a dark shadow like figure standing right in front of me.

Shadow, "continue your work."

Me. "I can't, this collar blocks all my energy,"

he then touches the collar and it falls off.

I look at the tentacles and immediately rip them apart with my crimson energy, I drop to the floor and I stand up, I look down at my naked body, "well this won't work."

I immediately touch my chest and crimson and black armor forms around me, covering my entire body.

I look at him, "thank you. I will continue."

Back on Azaria's ship.

I woke up to alarms blaring, I immediately put on my armor and rush out my door and to the bridge to find my mom standing there.

Chloe. "Mom, what's going on?"

Azaria. "We are preparing for a jump, there has been a problem at the prison and he got out, he is currently ripping the prison apart."

Chloe. "Casualties?"

Azaria. "It's in the thousands."

Chloe. "Mom he has a buffet there, there are over 200000 prisoners in that prison and over 15000 guards. "

Azaria. "I need you to look at this."

Azaria then pulls up security footage from the prison, Chloe just gasped as she sees how the warden injured him, tortured him. And then how the dark figure appeared and the nurse ran for her life. The footage eventually cuts out after he covered himself in armour.

Back in the prison.

I walk down the halls, looking for the warden, ripping every cell door open, just to find other prisoners in the same situation I was held in place by metallic tentacles. As I make my way through I take their energy. I finally find the warden running down a hall and I start walking after him, but just then I feel the whole prison shake.

Warden. "Oh now you are in trouble, that's Azaria's ship docking."

I look up at him and smile, "well they won't stop me this time. "

But then I hear Chloe behind me.

Chloe. "Stop."

I look around and there she stands with my daughter, the daughter who betrayed me and a couple of guards all pointing energy weapons at me.

And before I can react all the guards starts to fire at me, but there energy blasts just deflect off of my armor.

Me. "You guys are not my enemies, he is, he tortured me." Pointing at the warden.

Chloe. "And he will pay for his crime."

I turn to face the warden and lift my hand to blast him with crimson energy.

Chloe. "You leave me no choice."

I turn to face her just in time to see her press on her arm gauntlet, and immediately a pain shoots through my head.

Me. "Impossible, the collar is destroyed."

Chloe. "It's a back up, while you were unconscious we implanted you with a chip that connects to your central nervous system. "

Me. "What?" I turn back to the warden and prepare to take him out, but then I fell to the ground, unable to move any part of my body, completely paralyzed, Chloe walks up to me and kneels next to me.

Chloe. "I'm sorry, but I think this time we will keep the chip active. "She looks at her guards, "take him to the extra high security sell and arrest the warden. "

2 guards grab my arms and drags me down the hall to a metal door, as the door opens the floor shakes, the door is about 2 meters thick. They place me back in the tentacle restrains which are 3 times thicker then the last ones. Then Chloe comes in with a new collar, it looks like it has crystal lining around it and it has lights flickering around it. She puts it on my neck and immediately a pain worse then I ever felt before shoots through my body.

When the pain finally subsided I look up at Chloe. "Why can't I feel my arms or legs? "

Chloe. "Because I'm keeping the chip in your brain active, you will remain in this state until your sentence is finish, and because of what you did today your sentence has been increased to 3 million years. "

Me. "You do know the void will rescue me again."

Chloe. "Not this time. "Just then bright white lights goes on in the corridors and in my sell. "And to make sure the lights doesn't bother you." She taps on her device again and immediately I lost my sight."

Then Chloe puts her hand against my armor and it vanished.

I hear her leave and the heavy door shuts behind her. As soon as she left the room temperature drops, but this time below freezing. Alone again, defeated again, and this time I can't escape. The thought of defeat dawns on me and I can feel my anger growing, but immediately the collar activates and I'm knocked out. I eventually wake up, my sight is still gone. I still can't feel my body, I know it's cold as my lips started to crack from the cold. But now I'm totally helpless, restrained, locked up, paralyzed and blind. I can feel the bright lights shining on my face, and the reality kicks in, I have no concept of time and this time there is no rescue coming, all I can do is wait and wait till my sentence is served. I'm completely defeated, outsmarted and betrayed by my own family, by the woman I loved and by my own daughter.

The only way I know time has passed is when the collar kicks in and knocks me out. I'm not even having any visitors.

I think I've been here for a few years now, I can't even remember my life before I was in here, I can't remember what it's like to see, what Chloe looks like.

But my resolve is coming back, I have to get out of here. I can't live like this.

Back on the Seleon home world.

Chloe. "It's been years and he hasn't even attempted to escape, I really think I should go see him."

Azaria. "I agree, but be careful. He is still dangerous."

Chloe. "Mom, I know what his capable off. But I miss him and I just need to see him."

Azaria. "Take my ship."

As the ship prepares to jump all Chloe can think about is her husband locked in the cold sell, naked, blind and paralyzed. She has to do something, anything, even if it's treason.