Chapter 13 - Hunted

And just on time the dark empire fleet exits their wormholes and they immediately open fire on the dud. The dud ship immediately explodes in an amazing show of fireworks.

They then turn their attention to our ships, but instead of using their flag ships weapons to fire at us they send out their fighters to intercept us, they immediately start firing at our ships with energy weapons, but our ships are faster and more advanced, between our ships we end up taking half of them out, that's when Chloe backs away with her ship.

Chloe on the transmission to me: "Is your secret weapon ready? "

Me. "Oh yes, fully charged. "

Chloe. "Time to show them what we can do."

I immediately activate the secret weapon and within a flash of light all their fighters gets vaporized.

Then Chloe sends a signal towards their capital ship. "This is queen Serine, we are Seleons and we would like to meet with your commander."

There was a few minutes of silence and then a transmission came in. "We have scanned your ships and your weapons are still hot, deactivate your weapons and we will guide you into a landing bay. "

We do as we are told.

Then another transmission comes in. "We have scanned your ships for life forms and we only detect 1 life form on each ship, please confirm."

Chloe. "That is correct," obviously by this time Zoe went into a part of Chloe's ship which can't be scanned."

Another transmission. "We recognize the one ship as a Seleon ship, but we do not recognize the other ship, please confirm it's also part of the Seleon empire."

Chloe. "It is, but we are not an empire, we are the Seleon people."

Transmission. "Affirmative, you may land now."

I follow Chloe into the landing bay and we both land. As we exit our ships the guards are waiting for us again with the handcuffs .

Chloe, "those won't be needed, we have come in good faith to speak to your commander. "

The guards look at us a bit confused, but then accept that we won't need the cuffs.

They guide us to the commander with a group of guards, all pointing energy weapons at us.

As we enter the room the commander looks at us and start laughing. "And here I always thought Seleons were supposed to be really tall. What are you? Kids?"

Chloe. "No, we are Seleon royalty."

Commander, "what do you want? I don't have much time. I've got a planet to destroy."

Chloe. "Straight to business I see. We are here to negotiate your surrender."

The commander immediately starts laughing again. "From where I sit you have lost, I've destroyed your flag ship and I've captured both your ships."

Chloe. "Are you sure about that? Maybe check your landing hanger."

So he decides to humor us and pulls up an image, showing an empty hanger. "What the hell?"

Chloe. "Our ships got advanced technology and left the moment we entered this room. "

Just then a bunch of alarms start to go off and a voice comes on the radio, "sir, we have a problem."

Commander. "This better be urgent, I'm busy."

Voice. "Sir, we have lost all engines."

Commander. "What do you mean?"

Voice. "Engines are offline, weapons are offline and our shields are offline. "

Commander looks at us, you did this, he then pulls out an energy weapon and fires it at Chloe, but within a blink of an eye I'm standing in front of her and I feel a burning stinging pain in my stomach, I look down to find that my entire midsection has been burned out, I drop to the floor in pain, but within a few seconds my stomach area is filled with blue light and everything regenerates. I get back up and I look at him."please don't do that again."

Then another voice came over his communicator. "Sir we have another problem."

Commander. "What?"

Voice. "We got multiple ships approaching us."

Commander. "Species?"

Voice. "Unknown, they are using slip space technology."

Commander. "Slip space? Impossible, that technology has never been perfected."

He then change the view on his screens just in time to see hundreds of Acturion ships exiting slip space.

But then his ship starts to shake.

Commander. "Now what?"

He set the view to search and as he does 4 Seleon jump ships decloaked around him, he gasp at the size of their ships."what is this? Which species can build such ships?"

Chloe. "It's our people, agree to surrender and nobody in your fleet will be hurt."

Just then 2 guards enters the room dragging Chloe in. "Sir we found this one in the server rooms."

He looks at her and then walks up to her. "What have you done?"

Guards, "sir we can't get any of our systems back online, we are locked out."

A smirk forms on Zoe's face, "you guys should really invest in better cyber security."

Commander. "You will pay for this, he walks up to her to hit her, but find himself flung against the ceiling."

Chloe gasp as she looks at me. "No, it's impossible, we stripped you of your memories, there is no way you can use crimson light."

I look back at her. "The memory wipe didn't take. "

Chloe. "Why didn't you say anything?"

Me. "And give up this kind of power?"

Just then a bunch of guards came storming into the room and surrounds us. Then one guard speaks up, "sir, this one is pregnant, permission to terminate?"

That's when all my anger flairs up, I can feel my energy building up and I can feel the crimson lines forming on my face, with all the memories I have from my future self I remember how the commander tried to kill our unborn child.

Chloe looks at me. "Please don't? There is still time to find a peaceful solution. "

But she is too late, with one blast of crimson energy all the guards vanishes out of existence.

Chloe. "Nooo!!!"

The commander picks himself up from the floor, he has a look of defeat on his face. "We surrender."

I look at Zoe and Chloe. "Take him to your mothers ship, I will finish up here."

Chloe. "No, they surrendered. Let's go."

Me. "No, they have destroyed your mothers ship and a planet that had no defenses against their attack, I still have the images in my mind."

Chloe. "It hasn't happened yet, we prevented it."

But without a word I wave my hand and the 3 of them vanishes in a flash of blue light.

Then I receive a transmission from Azaria, "don't go down this path, seize and desist and return to the ship."

Me, "no, I know what they are capable off, this ends here."

Azaria. "If you go down this path you will be arrested and sentenced to thousands of years in an orbital prison."

Me. "Path?"

Azaria. "You can't destroy their ships, there are woman and children on their ships."

Me. "I'm well aware of that, but they are all part of this war."

Azaria. "They have surrendered and we have their commander in custody."

Me. "Good, then get what information you can from him. But this ends now."

Azaria. "What are you doing?"

Me. "Breaking your sacred law, they need a time out."

Chloe. "No, please don't, if you send them into the void they will suffer for eternity."

Me. "Good. I'm done talking now."and just like that I block all transmissions.

The immediately start to surround myself with crimson energy and within minutes the ship starts to fade, I can see the starts fading away and after a few minutes we all enter the void, their entire fleet trapped.

This is Chloe writing.

It's been weeks since my husband dragged the entire enemy fleet into the void. We have been searching for him nonstop. Our daughter has been born without her father present, I wish I could find him so he could meet our beautiful baby girl. Even though I know he will be arrested and send to our highest security prison for all the lives he took, I still love him and I miss him dearly.

Communication from the bridge. "Chloe come to the bridge immediately. "

As I arrive at the bridge my mother and Zoe stands there waiting for me.

Chloe. "Mom? What's wrong?"

Azaria, "he has been found."

Chloe. "Where and how?"

Azaria. "My twin sister also has crimson light energy and she managed to pull him out of the void."

Chloe. "Is he okay? Where is he now? Can we go to her?"

Azaria, "he is fine, he is still unconscious and they are keeping him sedated, don't worry. They are coming to us. They will only wake him up once we are onboard their ship. "

A few minutes later another Seleon jump ship appears and moves slowly next to Azaria's ship, it immediately links a bridge to her ship and we all make our way across into my aunts ship, as we enter her ship she is waiting for us with 20 guards all wearing heavy duty armor and carrying high level energy weapons.

Azaria, "what's with the hardware?"

Her twin. "It's not for you, once we arrive at his sell and wake him up I think we will need all the help and security we can get."

Azaria. "Why?"

Her twin. "Even in his sedated state he somehow wiped 10 guards out already."

Azaria. "How is that possible?"

Her twin. "We don't know."

We all make our way to the holding sell with reinforced armor doors, the heavy doors slide open slowly to reveal him been held in place by high tech metallic tentacles, surrounded by a high voltage energy shield, he is still out of it, but been completely stripped of his armor and clothes with a collar on his neck flashing blue and crimson.

Her twin. "My apologies for his condition, but we can't take any chances. Let's wake him up."

She presses a button on a control panel and immediately the tentacles shoots an electric current through his body, he wakes up screaming in pain. But then he lifts his head and look at us, his eyes has completely changed, it's now surrounded by crimson lines, if I didn't know better I would actually have thought it looks like he is on his way to a Gothic party.

He looks around and then finally spoke up, but this time it's not his voice, it sounds distorted and dark. "Where am I? What's going on?"

Azaria, "my sister saved you from the void, you are currently under arrest, we will be moving you to a high security prison where you will serve a 10000 year sentence."

He looks down and then at me. "How do you feel about it? I can see you are no longer pregnant, what happened to our baby?"

Chloe. "You've been gone for weeks, our baby was born healthy and she's beautiful."

Him. "May I please see her?"

Azaria. "I'm sorry, that's not possible, she's on our capital planet and you will be transferred to the prison immediately."

He looks at me again. "Will I ever see you again?"

Chloe. "Not until you finish your sentence."

He looks down and back at me, this time I can see tears in his eyes. "I'm sorry I disobeyed the order. I just wanted to protect you."

Chloe. "By wiping out hundreds of thousands of people, woman and children?

Him. "They are no longer in the void, I send them out, but couldn't get out myself."

Chloe. "Where are they now?"

Him, "I sent them to a young planet, don't worry, I wiped their memories so they can start over."

Azaria. "That wasn't your call to make, they surrendered and the counsel would have decided on a fitting punishment for them."

Him. "I did what I had to do."

He then tries to pull free from the restraints, but to no avail.

Azaria's twin. "It's useless to fight, those restraints are indestructible. The more you fight the more it will hurt."

He looks at her and then smiles. "You do know this won't hold me for long."

Chloe. "Please don't fight, you are just going to make it worse for yourself."

Him. "How? You already sentenced me to an eternity in a high security prison."

Azaria. "Not an eternity, just long enough for you to think about your actions and pay for your crimes. "

That's when his demeanor changed, his eyes suddenly starts to glow crimson red and he looks at us, " I think it's time to go."

Azaria, "you are not going anywhere but the prison cell."

Him. "How sure are you?"

Azaria. "Those restraints are indestructible." But just then cracks started forming on the restraints.

Azaria's twin. "Guards fire now."

She immediately activates his collar, but it just cracks and falls off, and the energy beams from their weapons hits everything else but him.

That's when he breaks free. "I'm out of here."

Chloe. "Please don't do this, we are just trying to help you, I love you."

But before I could finish my sentence he vanishes in a circle of crimson light.

Azaria. "His gone. Scramble all available ships and find him."

It has been a few years now since his escape, our daughter is a teenager now, we have been tracking him, but every time we arrive at a planet that sent out a distress signal for help the planet is in ruins and all intelligent life has been wiped out.

My mother has sent the hunters after him to track him, but she instructed them to not take any weapons or wear any body armor, it seems that he only wipes those out who seem to be armed.

Unfortunately he has now become the most wanted person in the known universe and there is not a single species that doesn't fear him and want him dead.

But I have also made a huge mistake. Last night Zoe came over to my quarters and we had some wine and she was trying to comfort me, but then something happened, she kissed me, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help myself, I wanted to feel a touch, to feel loved, to feel intimacy, and I lost control, before I knew what was happening we were both in my bed naked. I woke up this morning feeling like the worst wife in the known universe.

I must find him, I must safe him and make things right.

Azaria on the communicator. "Chloe, come to the bridge, the hunters found him, we are preparing for a long distance jump and adjusting course to a blue light planet. "

I rushed to the bridge. As I entered I can see the worry and fear on my mothers face. "Mom, what's wrong?"

Azaria. "He has been found on a blue light planet, one that has multiple of our war ships guarding it, yet none of them detected his arrival, what's worse is that there is no sign of any of the natives. "

Just then the ship activates it's jump technology and the fracture opens, within half an hour the fracture closes and we start approaching the planet slowly, we decided remain cloaked and move slowly enough to avoid him realizing that we have arrived.

I can feel my stomach forming a knot, I look back at Zoe and our daughter who is now 16 years old, I can see the fear on their faces, my daughter showing fear as well as a bit of excitement as she has never met her father, but she's aware of what he is capable off and what he has done. I look back at my mother and I can see the same fear on her face, sweat dripping from her forehead, his mother came along, and she too can't hide her fear. We have never faced anything like this before, nothing as powerful as he has become. And nobody has any idea what to expect.