Chapter 22 - The Investigation

After a shocking discovery regarding my daughters powers I had to do a lot of new calculations.

If she can do this and she's not even nearly as powerful as Sin, then it means that most of our calculations for his new prison is wrong.

We always thought it would be impossible for him to jump from that prison to any planet, but the fact that she managed to get to him without a ship means that there is nothing that can stop them.

We had to pull more data from the prison, go through years and years of sensory and camera data. It took our analysis software a few hours to sift through over 10000 years of stored data.

But we eventually found it. She did use Crimson light energy to jump to the prison and back, we eventually found footage where it shows her arriving at the prison and walking right past the guards to his prison cell. Not even one of the guards saw her.

I could feel myself going ice cold, if she can create illusions and trap people in illusions just like she did with me, then how do we even know what is real and what is created by her?

I immediately forwarded all my findings to Krish and my mother, they on the other hand are busy analyzing all of the data collected by our ship sensors and ship cameras during the attack on Earth. Once again loads of data, we recorded the entire battle with multiple cameras and sensors, even though we were only watching it unfold in real time, our systems are busy putting everything together to give us a second by second overview, slowing everything down to real time and creating a real-time holographic film which will allow us to see everything that happened as it happened, we are also filtering through all the communications on earth at the time and scanning for relevant signals.

As I walk into the holographic room I find both my mom and Krish just sitting there in shock.

Chloe was adamant to come with as her wife was part of the attack, normally it wouldn't be allowed for a non royal to be part of the investigation process, but I could see that she hasn't been herself since we got home, she hasn't eaten or slept at all. She use to drink a lot, but now she basically doesn't stop, it took me a few hours to get her sobered up and to help her clean up.

Chloe. "Mom, Krish? Is everything okay? What did you find? "

Azaria. "She can't be here." Looking at Zoe.

Chloe. "Mom please, I told her to come, she needs to know what happened, this is killing her."

Krish and my mom looking at each other.

Krish, "I don't think it's a good idea."

Zoe. "Whatever it is, I can handle it."

Azaria. "Okay fine, you can stay, anyway, we are all in this together now and it will take all of us and a miracle to stop them now."

Chloe. "A miracle?"

Azaria. "Just watch, we will be in my office when you are done."

They then leave the room and I activate the replay.

And this is what I saw.

Sin and Cyn flew in a straight line towards a military base and as they arrive they find all of the soldiers mobilizing, but as soon as they land the soldiers starts to open fire on them, but they don't attack the soldiers immediately, unfortunately we don't have audio, but I can see that they shielded themselves from the bullets, it looks like they are trying to talk to the soldiers, but then they came under attack from the helicopters at the base and after a few minutes they got hit with missiles, that is when they acted, they took out all of the fighter planes and helicopters and tanks, then they tried to communicate with the soldiers again, but the soldiers just kept advancing towards them shooting at them, after a few minutes there is a blast of Crimson energy and you can see the soldiers that surrounded them flung in all directions, but the soldiers started to get up and immediately threw their weapons on the ground, and in a flash of crimson light all of their weapons are destroyed, that's when my daughter said something to the soldiers and Sin actually walked up to one of them and shook the guys hand, I can see them talking for a while and then the weirdest thing happens, the soldier salutes my husband and then Sin and my daughter flew off in another direction, I scan around to find that there are parachutes landing all over the place, seems that he just destroyed the planes, I scan for casualties, and the scan returns '0' casualties found. I follow the feed through to the end, as they do the same at every base they visit.

But then they suddenly take a detour towards a city, I see them land in-front of a building and I look at the symbols, it is a hospital, I can see police cars on fire and cops scattering all over the place, then I saw a rocket coming from the one hospital window towards where a few wounded police officers at hiding, I see Sin looking at the rocket and then the cops, and the feed slows down, I can see how time comes to a stand still for him and he holds his hand out towards them and I can see a crimson shield form between the police and the rocket and then everything returns to normal speed, the rocket explodes on impact against the shield, then he looks at the hospital and our daughter and I can see his crimson light fade and starting to go blue, but during this time that he is vulnerable another rocket gets shot from the one window, but this time straight at him, and I can see the shock on his face as he looks at the rocket, but then my daughter appears between him and the rocket, and she blasts it with crimson light, but her blast was too strong and she blows up most of the hospital as well, he looks at her in disappointment and says something to her, you can see that whatever he said made her angry and then they flew off, they continue their work with disarming the militaries.

Zoe, "Can you please pause it?'

So I paused it, I can see the shock and horror on her face.

Chloe, "What's wrong?"

Zoe, "She destroyed a hospital?" her eyes are big and she is about to cry, I see her taking her wedding ring off and placing it on the floor.

Chloe, "I don't think it was her fault, she can't control the power like he can, it was an accident."

Zoe, "an accident that killed innocent people."

Chloe, "please stay, lets just see what was happening, it seems earth was preparing for a war and they tried to stop it."

That is when the hologram displays a notification, important communication audio file starts here, would you like to listen to audio?

Chloe, "play audio."

We watch them going from military base to military base.

Audio.

News broadcasts, "negotiations has broken down, we are on the brink of a nuclear war, all citizens in every country are advised to leave the cities and make their way as far from major cities as possible. The military has advised a red alert and they detected that multiple enemies has already activated nuclear weapons"

Military." All soldiers are advised to return to bunkers and stay under ground, nuclear weapons has been launched by all nuclear super powers."

Then an audio file came in from one of the bases that Sin and our daughter attacked. "This is base 'classified' do not launch nukes, please, there are 2 beings from off world that said they will help us, please do not launch."

Return signal. "This is command, nuclear weapons have already been launched, and 2 aliens can't safe us all."

Voice from base, "Sir you haven't seen what we saw."

Then another signal came in, "this is moon station to earth command, multiple nukes has been launched at us, please deactivate the nukes, we are unarmed and defenseless, there are only civilians here and most of them are woman and children.

Chloe, "those nukes were never meant for us, we just happen to be in the way?"

Zoe, "So Sin and Cyn knew what was coming, that is why they attacked, they tried to prevent earth from destroying itself."

Chloe, "but why didn't she just tell us, we could have helped."

I then pulled up the trajectory of all the nukes and found that most of them were targeted at various countries, and a few was targeted at the moon.

Sin and our daughter finally stopped at what looked like a giant hole in the ground, so I called up the statistics and found out that it was actually a dark matter cannon, so I pulled up its statistics and saw that it was getting ready to fire, its target, the moon.

That is when they both landed on either side of it and started blasting it with crimson light, and when it finally exploded it send a shock wave around earth and that is what took out all the technology, but when the smoke finally cleared they were gone.

I pulled up the scans from earth and noticed that it wasn't a permanent black out, it was just going to last for a few hours.

Chloe, "They actually saved the human race from extinction?"

Then I heard my mothers voice behind me, "That they did."

Chloe, "mom, but then why did he destroy a ship full of people."

Krish, "he didn't, watch this."

Then another view appeared and I can see sin flying, but he flew right past the cruise ship and then I saw it, lots and lots of orange lifeboats and life rafts just floating in the middle of the ocean aimlessly.

Zoe, "Why would they abandon a ship that wasn't sinking."

Azaria, "keep watching. "

I see him coming to a stop and moving in slowly, he seems to be talking to a man wearing a white uniform and a white hat, he looks back towards the ship and back at the man, they talk a bit more and then Sin surrounds all the boats and life rafts with crimson light and the next view they are in a harbor.

Zoe, "Miami?"

Chloe, "how do you know that?"

Zoe, "I was born on earth, I use to love going on cruises."

Azaria. "Please keep watching."

I see Sin and the man speaking a bit more and then Sin is gone again. I see him heading for the cruise liner, and then I saw it, multiple tuck boats leaving the cruise liner.

Zoe. "pirates."

As he gets closer I can see people from the cruise ship and the tuck boats shooting at him, they even fire rockets at him, but it doesn't affect him, and that is when he goes right through the ship and comes out the other side and the ship and tuck boats disappears in a white flash.

Chloe, "That wasn't him, he doesn't create white flashes."

Zoe, "That was a nuclear bomb."

I then pull up the ships trajectory and heading.

Zoe, "New York?"

Azaria, "he never killed anyone that is innocent, but he saved millions of lives."

Chloe, "and I threatened them to lock them up."

Azaria, "none of us knew, if they told us then we could have helped them."

I looked at my mom in shock, I thought we don't interfere with human affairs.

Azaria, "the humans are close to my heart, they are like my children, I might not want to interfere, but I wont let them go extinct. "

Chloe, "So what now?"

Krish, "I need you to listen to one more file, then we are done."

Audio playing, "Unknown craft, this is the human moon base, we need urgent assistance please, there are civilians on this base and we are trapped here, please assist, we have run out of supplies a few days ago and people are starving, we have no way of evacuating or getting supplies from earth as the company we worked for has been taken over by the government and they cut us from from Earth."

Second audio clip. "unknown craft, we are begging you please, we need assistance, you are busy passing right over us, please we are begging you, please don't leave us here to die, there are woman and children here, we have sick people here who need medical assistance, we know you are not hostile, we have seen how you saved the people on earth from the nuclear war. Please we are begging you for help, we are dying here. Plea.... " then the signal cut out, we must have jumped at that moment.

Chloe, "how didn't we hear this sooner?"

Krish, "there was a lot of radio noise from earth and we were not listening for human distress calls."

Chloe, "We can't just leave them there to die."

Azaria. "and we wont."

Chloe, "when are we leaving."

Azaria, "we are not going."

Chloe, "but you just said.."

Azaria, "I know what I said, but we have bigger issues to deal with, I have already sent a fleet of ships to assist them and evacuate them."

Chloe, "mom, you do know that if you send them back to earth they would be arrested and killed, specially since all their ships was destroyed, how would they even explain getting back to earth?"

Azaria, "We are not taking them back to earth, they left earth for a reason."

Chloe, "Where then?"

Azaria, "We have a planet in mind, we will help them settle and set them up, our people will sign an alliance with them and we will look after them, "

Chloe, "I don't understand."

Azaria, "They were a group of peaceful humans, they wanted a new start, they gave up their lives on earth to build their moon base, but they overestimated their technology. But they have proven themselves to us, so we will help them and give them protection and a new future. "

Zoe, "Thank you."

Azaria looking at Zoe, "we will always help those who are willing to accept our help, that is the way of the Seleon people. Where is your ring?"

Zoe, "I took it off."

Azaria, "Why?"

Zoe, "She destroyed a hospital, killed innocent people."

Azaria, "Yes she did, and there is no excuse for what she did, but they also saved billions of life's, they saved the human race from extinction."

Then I saw Zoe pick up her ring and put it back on her finger, I could see she was conflicted and about to cry.

I took Zoe home and asked the twins to look after her and I went back to my mother.

Chloe, "Mom, have we found them yet?"

Azaria, "They stopped moving around."

Chloe, "Where are they now?"

Azaria, "do you really want to know?"

Chloe, "yes."

Azaria, "go home."

Chloe, "I don't understand."

Azaria, "they are home."

As I get up to walk out I activate the gauntlet on my arm.

Azaria, "What are you doing?"

Chloe, "Getting ready to arrest them, I will activate the chips in their brains before I get home and then collar them as soon as I get there, they wont see it coming and they will be paralyzed before they can run."

Azaria, "Why?"

Chloe, "For their crimes."

Azaria, "What crimes?"

I could see that my mother was actually confused now.

Chloe, "they both disobeyed a direct order, one that was repeated multiple times."

Azaria, "if they didn't then everyone on earth would have been dead right now, and we would never have been able to safe all those lives on the moon-base."

Chloe, "I understand, but then they disappeared, who knows how many other planets has been wiped out now that we don't know about? How many life forms drained of their energy, planets drained of their energy."

Azaria, "none. They didn't attack anyone anywhere."

Chloe, "how do you know?"

Krish, "because we monitored them the entire time, the planets they went to were all dead planets, all his victims from before he went to prison."

Chloe, "Why would he take her there?"

Then Krish smiled, who knows? Why don't you ask them?"

So as I get home I walk in to find Sin and Cyn waiting for me, I can see that they are both tired.

Sin, "We need to talk please."

Chloe, "about what? The fact that you took my daughter to all of your victims?"

He looked a bit surprised, but then he continued. "Yes I took her to a few of the planets I wiped out."

Chloe, "Why?"

Cyn, "to teach me a lesson."

Chloe, "a lesson in killing?"

Cyn, "no, about not killing, about life, to explain to me why I must never use this power again.?

Chloe, "And? Did it work?"

Cyn "yes mom, I'm scared, I don't want to use this power again, dad explained everything to me."

Chloe, "thank you." But then I activated the chip in her brain and she immediately went limp and fell to the floor, but before I could activate his my arm stopped and I could see the crimson light under my skin. "let me go."

Sin, "No, why are you doing this? We didn't harm anyone."

I could see tears running out of our daughters eyes, she was just laying there, speechless.

Chloe, "I know that she visited you in prison, she was the one who helped you escape, and you both collaborated together so I would get you out. " I then looked at my daughter, "Your mind games and illusions are over. "

Sin, "You mean on the ship? We both detected the entity, if she didn't use the illusion on you then it would have possessed you, but because she trapped your mind it couldn't, she saved you there."

Chloe, "I don't understand."

Sin. "you vanishing? It dragged you into the void, it took both of us to get you out, she had to wipe your memory of your time in the void because you were gone for an hour here, but millions of years there. "

That is when everything came back, he wasn't lying, "Oh my gosh, you are telling the truth."

Cyn, "We have no reason to lie to you mom."

Chloe, "but you did lie, you went to the prison, I don't know how you did it, but I saw the footage of you visiting him there and brainwashing the guards."

Sin, "it wasn't her, she was been threatened by the dark entity, he threatened her that if she didn't do it that it would kill all of you."

I was in shock at what I heard.

Sin, "I'm going to let you go now and free you of this power, after that you can arrest me, but please let our daughter go, she won't survive this prison.

Just then my arm was free and I felt all the crimson light energy leave my body, I fell to the floor out of breath, but I immediately activated his chip, and he immediately went limp and dropped to the floor, that is when my guards entered and put their collars on, they screamed from the pain for a few minutes as these collars took longer to sync to their systems due to how powerful they have become, when they finally stopped screaming I went to sit on the floor between them.

Chloe, "I'm sorry, but you have both broken laws, and you must be stopped. "

Just then my mother and Krish entered.

Azaria, "What is going on here?"

Chloe, "Mom what are you doing here?"

Zoe, "I called your mother."

Chloe, "Why? I had this handled."

Azaria, "handled? I told you that their crimes are forgiven, they are both heroes."

Chloe, "They still disobeyed a direct order."

Azaria, "and saved a planet with billions of lives from extinction."

Chloe, "It doesn't matter, they should have communicated with us."

Azaria, "You are right, but what is done is done and we cannot undo it."

Chloe, "you are right, what is done is done, but if they don't pay for it now they will never learn and will think they can do whatever they want whenever they want."

Azaria, "Don't do this."

I then stood up and looked at them both, "You are both under arrest, you will both serve a 10000 year prison sentence in the new classified prison in an undisclosed location, you will not receive any visitors, nor will you be allowed to have any concept of time, your body's will be fed, and hydrated, but you will not be able to sleep, you will have time to think about your crime and that is all, you will see the guards at random intervals when they come to check the integrity of your cell, and you are allowed to be checked up on by a nurse once a week, your clothing will be removed and you will remained naked and restrained for the duration of your sentences and your cell temperatures will be turned down to an uncomfortable temperature, use this time in prison to think about what you have done and how you will change. "

Zoe, "Azaria, please do something."

Azaria, "there is nothing I can do, once a Queen has announced a sentence nobody can cancel it, it has to be served, I'm sorry."

I could see the shock in my mothers face.

But then I heard my daughter speak, "I request a trial with the counsel and all the queens present. "

She knew our laws, and by requesting a trial she just bought themselves time, that is the only way to have a sentence re-evaluated or even canceled.

Azaria, "then you shall have a trial, it will be set a week from today, but until then the 2 of you will be held in a holding cell at the palace."

Chloe looked at my mom confused.

Azaria, "Chloe that is the one way, but we are not allowed to suggest it to prisoners."

My mom immediately deactivated the chips in their brains and they regained their motor functions.

I was about to order my guards to escort them to the prison, but then my mom interrupted me.

Azaria, "that wont be necessary, Krish and I will take them."