Chapter 13: 12
In New York, James, Eva, Charles, Kala, and the young adults are attempting to contact or locate John.
James: V.O.X.? Anything?
V.O.X.: Nothing yet...
Eva: Damn it! Where is he?!
Josh: He's gotta be around somewhere.
Charles: I'm telling you; V.O.X. can't locate either John or Sara! She's looked all over the planet!
Alex: That doesn't mean he's off world somewhere!
Kala: I'm telling you. That bitch has him.
Eva: Hey, watch it. That bitch is my mom.
Maria: And also, we trust her. More than we trust you for sure.
Kala sighs.
Kala: Look, cop.
Maria: Uh, actually, it's head sheriff now....I've been head sheriff for the past five years...you know, since you got my Dad killed. You remember that, Kala? When you betrayed my sister to Tarmac?
Kala folds her lips.
Trisha: Maria, this is not the time.
Kala: Look, I....I know what I did was wrong, but I'm a changed person.
Maria gives a skeptical laugh.
Maria: You're a changed person?
As Maria and Kala argue, Alex's cell phone rings. Alex looks at the screen noticing unrecognized the number, therefore, deciding to hang up.
Jessica: Who was that?
Alex: It's an international number.
Maria: You may have my sister fooled with your little bullshit repentant act, but not me. I know what you are. You are a criminal.
Kala: Your sister doesn't see me that way. She spared me when she could've killed me.
Maria turns to Trisha, who sighs.
Maria: You knew what she did and you let her live?
Trisha: What? Did you expect me to kill her?
Maria: Dude....she helped Tarmac kill Dad!
Trisha: Tarmac killed Dad, not her! She's trying to help us!
As sisters argue, Alex's phone rings again as he groans, before he then looks at it.
Alex: Jesus, man....
Alex denies the phone call, then puts it back in his pocket.
Trisha: Look, Dad would've wanted me to forgive her and—
Maria: You think Dad would want you to forgive this bitch?! She's a Enhuman freak!
Trisha gives an offended look.
Trisha: An Enhuman freak, huh?
Maria, realizing what she said, looks around at the faces of the Enhumans.
Maria: I....Trisha, you know what I mean.
Trisha: No, no, clearly I do, sis. I get it. I'm teaming up with the Enhuman bitch who did betray me, but is also the reason I'm a Super, the reason I have superpowers and the reason I met the man who's now my husband....and I have a great job and a great family...
Maria: These people are family? I'm family. I'm your sister.
Trisha: I don't expect my human sister to know my Enhuman struggles.
Maria: Come on, Trisha. That is not what—
Alex's phone rings again.
Alex: Ugh!
Jessica: Just answer the damn phone, Alex!
Alex finally answers the phone.
Alex: Look, dude, whoever this is, this isn't—John?!
Alex addresses the others, quieting them.
Alex: Shut up! Shut up! Everyone! Quiet! It's John!
James: Dad?!
Charles: Put him on speaker!
Alex puts the cell phone on speaker phone.
James: Dad? Dad, are you okay?!
John: I...I am.
Eva: Where are you?
John: En-route....right outside the Tower...
Charles: What? Is he—
James, Eva, Charles, Maria, Trisha, Josh, Alex and Jessica walk outside the Tower balcony, looking down at the street.
Josh: Is he in the damn building?
Charles: Where is he?
Jessica looks up into the sky.
Jessica: Uh...guys...
Jessica points at the sky as everyone else follows where she's pointing, seeing John in the sky, very tired, so tired to the point he drops the cell phone into the city below.
Trisha: What the hell?
Kala: What is he doing?!
John eventually slips into unconsciousness and begins to fall.
Eva: Dad!
James: V.O.X.! I need a suit!
V.O.X.: On it!
Charles flies out as a Dragonfly suit nanotechnically attaches itself to James, before he flies with Charles. Dragonfly and Charles catch John and set him down at the balcony. James, Eva, Trisha, Josh, Alex, Jessica, Maria and Kala rush up to Charles, Dragonfly and John. Dragonfly's helmet unseals from James' face. John pats James on the back.
John: Thanks for that, son....
Eva: Dad, what the hell?
Josh: Dude, what happened?!
John coughs.
John: Sara....Sara....she's....your mom....she's one of them.
Trisha: One of what?
John: She's an alien.....
James and Eva share a look.
James: That can't be true.
John: It is....I saw it myself....
Charles: John, start from the beginning.
Later, John is explaining Krylla to the team.
John: An alien deity called Krylla has had control over Sara. This thing is telepathically linked to her like a goddamn leach. She has power....incredible power....more powerful than Enhumans. She's the one leading the aliens...
Josh: The same one's that attacked us in Greece, right?
John: Were they different colors? Like orange and purple?
Trisha: Yep, same ones.
John: Those five are like her....main guardians....she also told me what their plans are; to capture the three Aquila crystals that we've captured and open a portal that will allow the entire Threll army to come through and take over Earth.
The team give unsure looks.
Alex: Shit....we're dealing with an actual alien invasion here.
John looks up at Kala.
Trisha: Kala, is any of this jogging up any memories of what that crystal burned inside your head?
Kala: Yeah....Sara...I mean, Krylla, she was definitely in those visions....
James: Alright, so how do we stop Mom?
John sighs.
Charles: I'm not even sure if it is your mom anymore.
Eva: What are you saying?
John looks up at Charles.
Charles: This deity has had twenty years hold strongly over Sara. I'm sorry to say this, guys, but....if we're to save Earth from this alien race, we....we might have to kill Sara.
John, James, Eva, Trisha, Josh, Alex, Jessica, Kala and Maria give a look.
Eva: What?
Charles: I'm sorry. I know we're not killers, but there might be no other....
John stands up.
John: Charles!
John grabs Charles and puts his back against the wall.
John: Charles! We're not going to kill Sara, alright?!
Charles: I get we don't kill, John, but I know for you. It's more than that. It's your wife, the mother of your children.
John: We are not going to kill her....
Maria: Well, if we don't stop her then her and her army of aliens are going to destroy the planet.
Josh: All of us against an army of aliens? Should we even the odds? You know, get some help?
Jessica: From who? The Purifiers?
Maria: Maybe so.....
James: Dad, if Mom's is as powerful as you say, then we will need help.
Alex: Does anyone here not remember the last time we worked together with an Enhuman faction? I believe Tombs wasn't happy with our choice to spare Ramses. I doubt he'll listen to reason.
John: No, you're right. Adrian won't see reason....but I know a guy...from below.
At a beach in Hawaii, John, Charles, James and Eva await, before Caspian walks out of the ocean.
John: Caspian....
Caspian: John Parker. It is good to see you again.
John: You too, my friend.
Caspian nods to Charles, James and Eva.
Caspian: Charles McGregor, James and Eva Parker.
Eva: Hello, Caspian.
James: How are things in Atlantis?
Caspian: Going very well. The Atlantean Guardians now serve in Atlantis. My brother is doing some time in the trenches. A one hundred year sentence for him to think about what he's done.
Charles: Hmm....helluva strategy for sentencing.
Caspian: Well, it's our way of punishment. We always did punishments a certain way....So, why did you summon me?
John: We need your help.
Caspian: The oceans have been calm since I've taken the throne in 2013. I've made sure of it.
Eva: This time, the threat's not in the ocean....actually, the threat is not on this planet at all.
Caspian seethes.
Caspian: Care to explain?
John: Well, for starters, I had a wife....or have a wife.
Caspian: I believe you mentioned her during our mission to stop my brother together.
Caspian turns to James and Eva.
Caspian: I assume this woman is your mother.
James nods.
Eva: Yes.....
Caspian: Okay, so your mother is still alive? Go on.
John: Twenty years ago, in 1996, my team and I managed to stop a Russian terrorist from opening a wormhole that would've allowed a alien deity to come through. A very powerful alien deity. Krylla....my wife....she....she stopped it....launched herself through the portal. During those twenty years, the deity and Sara fought telepathically....but the deity proved to be more powerful.
Charles: We found these alien fragments....crystals to be specific. We activated them together....and turns out it is a portal....a wormhole....that allowed Krylla as Sara to come through to our planet. She's powerful....very powerful.
John: And she has whole goddamn army of aliens....
Caspian: like the aliens in Greece?
John: Yes...and their armor and weapons is far more advanced more than ours.
Caspian nods.
Caspian: You helped me all those years ago, John. I will not turn you away, but I cannot leave Atlantis without a king. The people need leadership.
John: Caspian, these aliens not just threaten the surface world, they threaten the ocean world, too.
Caspian sighs, then turns to think.
Caspian: Give me a day. I will come to aid you. My daughter will take my place as leader of Atlantis while I'm gone....and I will also bring one of the Guardians to aid us.
John: Thank you, Caspian.
Caspian returns into the ocean. In the Threll warship in another space system, Krylla looks a mirror, reconciling the past few days as Sara with John, James, Eva, Charles and the rest of the team. Krylla's eyes turn back into Sara's regular eyes, before Krylla takes control again.
Krylla: Goddammit....
Krylla takes a deep breath.
Krylla: You're mine...you will never see them again. I will harvest them all...your precious family....and make you watch.
In London, the Purifiers watch the news broadcast of the Threll vanguards.
Mongor: Man...and I thought Snake-Bite was ugly.
Snake-Bite flips off Mongor, before Scarlett laughs.
Xiang: This isn't good. We now know we are not the only ones in the galaxy...
Tombs: These things are so far of no threat to the Enhumans.
Ravage: Well, John's kids were fighting them in Greece....
Scarlett and Tombs turn to each other.
Tombs: We'll be on our guard.
Suddenly, the Purifiers hear a rumbling noise. Nawk bursts through the door with a snarl, followed by Prague with a roar. Braka and Bruko broke through the double door.
Braka: I'm here, baby!
Blaka enters.
Blaka: So am I.
Blaka hits his face on the ceiling and covers his face.
Blaka: Damn, that hurt!
The Monster vanguards approach the Purifiers with growl of interest.
Tombs: What the hell?
The Purifiers prepare themselves in a fighting stance.
Switch: Holy shit!
Bloodlust: Holy shit!
Xiang: Who the hell are these guys?
Scarlett: I'm going to guess that these are the aliens that the Supers fought in Greece.
Snake-Bite: No shit.
Prague: Guess you heard of us, haven't you?
Tombs: Yeah...and what do you want?
Prague: Not us. What our queen wants.....and who would your queen be.
The Monster Thrells turn their heads to Krylla, who unseals her face, revealing the mutated Sara.
Krylla: Hello, Adrian. It's been a while.
Tombs eyes widen.
Tombs: Sara? You're alive.
Krylla: Not Sara. Not anymore. I am Krylla....and I'm here to make you and your Enhuman followers an offer.
Tombs: Well, Sara. Krylla...or whatever you're going by...care to tell me how you survived.
Krylla: Sara, physically survived.....but mentally, telepathically....she is mine...my vessel to control....
Tombs: Ah, so what, Sara, has been on wherever you're on for the last twenty years? Since 1996? And suddenly, you're a completely different person....literally.
Krylla puckers her lower lips.
Krylla: In theory.
Scarlett: In theory.
Tombs: So, why are you here?
Krylla sighs.
Krylla: I know why you're hiding over in the in of this city.....because the entire world calls you criminals....fugitives....freaks....I know you all want the respect of the world.....and to overrule humanity....give Enhumanity the respect you deserve...and if you help me, you will get that respect. If you help me, you will have your reign of power over the cockroaches of humans. They will know of the power of the Purifiers and the Threll race.
Tombs looks around with the Purifiers seeming interested.
Xiang: I don't know, Adrian.....this all seems to good to be true.
Krylla: Adrian....Adrian....think....the humans are trying to eradicate you all with a cure.....but knowing you, you won't stand for that....tell Adrian, would you rather wait until the President approves of this cure or would you rather strike now to keep your title as master race over the humans. Join me...and I promise you...you will.....so are you interested?
Tombs smiles.
Tombs: For now.
Tombs offers a handshake as Prague growls.
Krylla: Easy, Prague.....it's a gesture of trust.
Krylla shakes Tombs hand.
Tombs: So, what do you have in mind?
Krylla: Your advisories, the Supers, have hidden the crystals that will allow the Thrells to come through and begin their harvesting of this planet.
Xiang: And you are sure that we'll be alive to see this coming of age for the Enhumans?
Krylla: Yes...you have my word.
Xiang: Hmmm....
Scarlett: Father, if I may, can we speak in private?
Tombs, Scarlet, Arachnica and Xiang walk to the other room.
Scarlett: I gotta call bullshit on this offer.
Tombs: Why?
Arachnica: My senses are going off just by being near here and her army of steroid aliens.
Xiang: This all sounds to good to be true.
Scarlett: Plus, what makes you so sure she can make sure Enhumanity is given the respect we deserve.
Arachnica: Even if we were to remove the Supers, something tells me they will betray us later on.
Tombs: When has John offered us a way to help the Enhumans overrule this planet?
Tombs looks at Scarlett and Xiang.
Tombs: We need this....for our people....for Enhumanity.
Tombs, Scarlett and Xiang walk up to Krylla.
Tombs: So, what did you have in mind?
Krylla gives a devious smile.