The comanding// Jupiter Ascending

Chapter 5

    I wake up on the ground in what looks like some warehouse. I look over and see a gun. I slowly grab it and sit up. "I thought it would make you feel better when you woke up." He says "What?" I ask, not quite sure what he was talking about. "The gun. But it works better if you flip the switch by your thumb." He states I look and see the switch he was talking about. I flip it causing it to make a noise indicating it was on. "Careful. You've been asleep for almost 12 hours." He says slowly, raising his hands in defense. I try to stand up but my legs are still slightly tired so I just sit back down. "Where am I?" I ask, he turns to me "You're still in Chicago." He responds, "ok good," I say, we look into each other's eyes for a minute. He noticed this as well as he cleared his throat. I turned the gun off and set it aside, he gave me a look of slight surprise, I just stayed quiet. Until I looked down and saw I was in the clothes I had on before I got changed into the hospital gown. I look back up at him, "my clothes?"

    "Um... You were still in the paper clinic gown" I just closed my eyes and shook my head, I held my hand up "Nevermind" I say. "Look, Saturn. Is that your name?" He asks, grabbing something from off the table. He takes a step closer, I try to scoot back seeing that he stops. "How do you know that?" I ask, "I'm sorry, I was just trying to figure out what happened" he tosses me a stack of folded papers. "You must have used a false name at the clinic and their tests probably tripped the monitor to your geneprint." He states.

    "Wait. What are you saying? I mean yes I used a false name, but lots of people do that in there." I pause to regain my thoughts, "what does that have to do with what happened to me?" I ask just wanting answers, he sighs. "Ok, when I was in the Legion, they gave me protocols for this." He says out loud to himself, looks at me and holds his hands up in defense, and sits next to me. "It can be difficult for Terrsies, or people from underdeveloped worlds, to hear that their planet is not the only inhabited planet in the Verse." He says, I bring my hand up to my head "This... This is crazy. I must still have anesthesia in my system, because this has got to be a dream." I say he gives me a slightly amused look.

    "Protocol actually says that most Terrsies will say that this has to be a dream." He says I just look at him like he's crazy "well yeah, because a dream is the only way that this could happen." I state, "compared to what?" He asks, I just raise an eyebrow at him. "The idea that you're the only intelligent species on the only inhabited planet in a universe full of planets that you don't even have a number to describe how many there are?" He states I stare at him blankly for a moment.

    "No, I believe that there is life out there on another planet. But having something like that specifically come after me is what I can't get around." I looked at him for a second, "Wait, are you an alien?" I ask with fascination, ever since I was little I've always liked to look at the stars and study the universe. Jupiter never believed me when I told her I believe that there is more life out there.

    "Genomineerd human" he takes a second to look at me before continuing, "they cut my DNA with the DNA of something like a wolf. I'm a Lycantant. Bred for the military." He looks from me to the floor, "that's honestly pretty cool" I say he looks up and gives me a small smile. "I guess, but that didn't work out for me," he said, getting serious again. "What were those things at the clinic?" I ask inching a little bit closer, intrigued with what he has to say, "keepers" he says straightforward. "They're from the Diorite System, but they are genetically repurposed to act as Monitors and watchdogs." I look away from him to try and comprehend everything he's telling me.

    "And they're trying to kill me?" I ask looking back into his eyes. "Yes," he says blatantly, "but why me?" I ask, curious as to why I am getting attacked. "Well, it's not just you it's your sister as well." He answers, "wait what, this has to be some kind of mistake we're nobodies." I state. He gives me a slightly saddened look "these people don't make those kinds of mistakes." I look outside the window, "so if my sister is also part of this where is she?" I ask not looking at him, "we have somebody on it" I look back at him. "What would happen if I didn't go with you? Would they just keep coming after me until I'm dead?" I ask, he nods looking back into my eyes, I sigh and look back out the window, a few minutes went by without either of us saying a word.

    Caine stands up and walks in front of me "wanna see something cool?" He holds out his hand for me to take, I smile and take his hand. He helps me by placing his hand on my lower back making sure I don't lose my balance. We walked over to the window and he placed a little machine against the window and a few seconds later there was like a shiny blue lining over it. "Go ahead. Stick your hand through it" he says nodding his head in the direction of the window, I look at him with a smile but slightly confused expression, he just smiles. I stuck my hand out and it went right through the shiny lining. "Wow. That's really cool" I laugh looking at him. He smiles at me and looks down. I follow his gaze to his boots. One second they are normal, next they are lighting up on the bottom and he's floating about five inches in the air.

    I gasp "are those flying boots?" I asked in amazement, "they use the force of gravity, redirecting it into differential equation slopes that you can surf" He explained I looked at him blankly "yeah I never really liked math, all I heard was gravity and surf" I say he laughed "up is hard. Down is easy" he says, simplifying it. "Thank you for simplifying that" I laughed. "Those are so cool," I said without taking my eyes off the boots wondering how they were made. There was a whirring mechanical sound. "Our rides here. You ready?" I look up at him. "Ready for what? Ready to jump out of a 100-story window with you and your gravity boots onto an invisible spaceship." I say with a smirk and raised eyebrows, he smiles and rolls his eyes at me, "this might make it easier" he says before I have time to respond he places one of his hands under my knees and one around my waist carrying me bridal style. I quickly place my arms loosely around his neck as he holds me, he steps out of the window, I look all around me. "It's so beautiful up here" I smile looking around. I turn my head to see him smiling at me, our faces only a few inches apart. I quickly turn my head. "Sorry" I laugh and continue to look around.

    I hear more mechanical noises. I look to see the source and a few dozen spacecraft-looking things appear. "Oh shit." The spacecrafts started firing "hold tight!" Caine yells, I quickly tighten my grip around him and hide my face in the crook of his neck. There were some mini-explosions then a big one. I got pushed out of Caine's arms and started falling. I start screaming as I fall, I feel Caines come up and grab me again, I see the spacecrafts starting to follow us down. "Hold on" Caine yells. "No shit." I say more to myself, we start getting shot at then I end up getting out of Caine's grasp and he holds onto me by my arm.

    He goes up sliding on a building pulling me to his chest covering us with his shield, he leaps off and starts to run again, he shifts me onto his back keeping an arm around me. We continued to get chased and shot at, one of the ships fired a big cannon launching a huge red call and completely demolished the top of the building a huge piece of the rubble ended up hitting Caine and I, breaking us apart he was once again holding me by my arm. We got in the way of a train. He let go of me and then caught me then threw me up again, he quickly pulled me to his back again keeping an arm around me. He zoomed around, almost hitting two cars. He grabbed onto the bed of a blue truck until the spacecrafts came and shot at us bringing the whole bridge up in flames. Caine jumped off the bridge and landed on one of the spacecrafts.

    "Whatever you do, don't let go!" He yelled I tightened my grip slightly, the craft took off causing me to lose my grip, Caine reached out and grabbed both my arms pulling me to his back. I regained my grip as the craft started turning and flipping quickly, Caine grabbed his gun and flipped a switch and it opened the hatch and flung the alien out of the craft. The craft locks up and starts to nosedive down towards the water. Caine helps lower me in then gets in himself and closes the hatch, we dive into the water and the other crafts shoot at us. Caine pulls us out of the water and into the air, we continue our chase all around the city. Caine continues to shoot and knock the other ones down, on the last one the crafts are heading right for each other but Caine lifts so the wings of the craft slice through the other one. In doing so the craft we were in splits in half me on the back half, Caine jumps from his half to mine hooking onto the side causing the half to start to spin around he regains his footing and grabs me, and pulls me out. He launches off and we get off before it crashes and explodes. The front part of the craft skidded and hit a car setting off the alarm, I gasped for air while somewhat laughing not believing what I've gotten myself into.