Advent of Astral Part 23: Stability

He would start by making a name for his family and adopting two kids, taking care of them and before he knew it. He started the family name in the area. The Andersons. The two children were married and had their own kids. Their kids had kids and Astral would join their family as a cousin when the time was right.

As for Astral, he was waiting for the desert storm. He hadn't prepared for the last one as well as he thought. Lying low in the Iraqi mountains. Waiting for the wee hours of the night for the last 'Astral' heir to appear before the true heir would exist. Once he showed himself.

A full scale battle started, it was slaughtering all of the US military that was sent to attack them. Astral was watching through his scope five miles out. Happy his sniper was capable of the zoom he would ready himself. He saw him throw his arms up in victory and shout across the valley. "Overlord is coming to claim your souls!" One soldier was crawling away and the Husk picked him up.

The round fired from Astral shattered the husk's skull and the soldier fell to the ground, even more freaked out. They had no snipers with them. He crawled slowly back to his base. Astral realized his job was done. He went back stateside and brought Anders out of cryo freezing.

"Astral, how long was it in the cryotube?" Anders asked as she looked at the current date.

"Okay mother, calm yourself, it was only a few trillion years." Astral responded quickly, "besides you are about to miss my birth." Astral had a camera set up in the delivery room for where his parents were. Anders was caught off by the entire mommy thing, the birth of the next astral could wait. Astral watched intensely hoping for another dude to hang out with. They announced that he was a girl and Astral threw his hands up. "Well shit, that's great, I am a chick in this universe, does this mean I get to deal with periods and shit?"

Anders put her hands on each side of his face. "You called me mommy. What are you planning?" She was catching up slowly to what he said.

"Oh yeah I should explain. I have a plan of becoming a child again, and going back to school. You will act as my mother and I will watch over and get to know the next one in the lineage." Astral smiled at Anders.

"What does that do for me? Do I need to be your 'legal guardian' so that this entire operation isn't exposed in an instant?" Anders took a step back as Astral nodded his head up and down. "Do you have your original birth certificate?" Astral reached an arm into the pocket dimension and pulled out an envelope, handing it to Anders. "Okay, how long have you been planning this?"

"Here read these notes I took on the last Project Star operation." He pulled out a second set of papers for Anders, getting handed these items would read them.

"You did the Astral experiment without me? Rude." She read the notes on how Astral could be around the new chip with no problems, but as soon as it got close to the other implanted chip, that is when it reacted. "So you can be around these other heirs without worry?"

"That is what it looks like." He would mention. "There is another thing to note, none of the symbiotes share any powers with the previous one. Weird right? Like they don't want to repeat themselves."

She would be reading over every note possible. Trying not to miss anything. "If it isn't repeating that means the girl that was born will have two new powers that neither of us have seen."

"Correct. Now. I am going to plant my birth certificate into their records, and figure out how to age myself back down to twelve again, in twelve years, don't worry. God I am going to be bored." Astral walks to the door but is stopped by Anders.

"You are not turning twelve, I won't allow it. I don't care if it takes twelve years before you turn, I'm still a lady who needs pleasing." She dragged him in closer. He would tilt his head down to her in awe.

"I have other ways that don't require me to be fully matured. Like money. Now I am going to do this very important thing. Then I'll go back to our normal routine. Deal? Besides, I have a couple of other things to figure out with your help alongside Alexa." Astral hugged her and went to the hospital. Planting his birth certificate and heading back home. He would meditate for an hour and focus on aging his body. He was able to make himself look slightly older. He went to bed that night satisfied. Realizing the goals that he has are attainable.

For the next twelve years he went on record of being homeschooled. Which was far from the case. He had goals to excel at and deadlines to meet. He made Anders a nice cushy job as a lead veterinary technician, freeing her hours to help him with sports. Her knowledge of pets kept her occupied while Astral was honing himself.

He meditated and trained for twelve long years, even working with Alexa to provide limiters on his level of strength, that way he didn't accidentally hurt anyone. This process slightly annoyed Alexa, but she agreed as she would be the one to help lay out future plans for them, excited to finally meet the girl that will reel in Astral.

Astral's excitement would grow with each growing month. He would cross off each day from the calendar in joy. Once it was time to be in high school. He joined the rest of the world. Anders was his mother and she looked out for him. Giving him rides for sports and being the place where kids can be kids.