GALAXY AT WAR - Book 3 - The Seeds Of Discord

CHAPTER TWELVE - February 2173 - Varso / Tranchilite

CHAPTER TWELVE 

February 2173 

Varso / Tranchilite

...Varso...

Rebecca was nearing the end of her electrical ability training. She was hovering in the air using telekinesis to lift herself while targets were firing at her. Rebecca had her shields up to deflect the laser bolts while concentrating on keeping herself in the air. Sal' Skit was using this final test to see if she could concentrate on using multiple abilities at the same time. 

As the laser bolts deflected harmlessly off her shield; Rebecca used her, now fully trained, mind control ability to bring her target out into the open. She instructed the target under her control to fire at one of the other targets, distracting it, while she moved round in a flanking manoeuvre. 

One target had managed to get behind her and, on pure reaction, Rebecca froze it with a stream of ice from her left hand then with her right, as she rounded the cover the robotic target was using, a bolt of lightening flashed out to incapacitate the two remaining targets. The one under her control dropped to its knees then its head exploded. Rebecca looked at the frozen one and smashed it into thousands of pieces with a kinetic blast so strong it made her earlier one back on Anthera look like she'd tickled Dowdneer's Lieutenant. 

From the observation booth Neil watched in amazement at the destruction his girlfriend had just unleashed. He knew she had power before but now she would be unstoppable. 

I hope these Watchers will be able to control her if she ever went bad, he thought. Or we'll all be in trouble. 

From where she was hovering Rebecca looked towards Neil and smiled. She'd picked up on his thoughts straight away but she couldn't reassure him until they were face-to-face. Neil didn't have any psychic abilities so she couldn't talk to him in his mind. 

Sal' Skit floated over to her, "Well done Rebecca. You are truly amazing. You may even be the one the legends spoke of." 

Rebecca looked seriously at Sal' Skit as she landed next to him, "Legends?" 

"Ah yes. As you know - we go back many billions of century's. A long time before your species was even conceived. When we were in our infancy - before we developed the means to travel through space - there was a legend that an alien with great potential would reveal themselves to us. It would be our responsibility to train this individual to bring peace to the galaxy. Not many of us believed in this legend as the galaxy has never, truly, been at war. We - ourselves - have always managed to control any skirmishes that have broken out - in a hands off approach of course." 

"And you think I may be that alien?" 

"It is possible. With events unfolding as they are a galactic war could break out but we still have the ability to stop it ourselves. For the legend to come true we would have to be eliminated or, in the very least, contained. I do not know how that could possibly happen. But at some point it could. We are not all powerful. Look at yourself. It would take most, if not all, of us combined to destroy you. You have grown strong. But your character - your sense of purpose - of being pure and good will keep you fighting against evil and not for it. I truly believe in you Rebecca Chambers. You are a remarkable being." 

Rebecca was blushing like crazy, "Oh stop it - you'll make me all big-headed." 

"No I will not. Believe in yourself and be true. You will not fail - must not fail."