COSMIC:STARKILLER

Chapter 3

Back in human civilization Mirabel mckartney was pacing around her living room wondering where on earth her son was. It wasn't like him to be gone this long for any reason the sky was already dark. Having already gone to his girlfriends house and confirmed he wasn't there, neither was lucy. The lopez couple had revealed that their daughter had gone missing along with her boyfriend earlier that evening as they had returned home and she hadn't pestered them with a random complaint as usual. Mirabel was already thinking of informing the police when she heard a faint thump on the roof. She narrowed her eyes as she knew exactly what creature had made that noise.

Spencer was home.

Before she had time to react spencer stormed down the stairs in a mock fit of rage. As she opened her mouth to vent her spleen he cut her off by raising a hand motioning her to stop. She paused not sure what was going on. Spencer looked his mom eye to eye and began,

"mom, what happened to my dad?",

Mirabel sighed in frustration and wiped her face with one hand,

"Spencer starlight Mckartney. we have been over this countless times, your father died in an earthquake saving you from being buried in rubble",

at this point she started sobbing as a tear trickled down her cheek and she buried her face in her hands. Spencer stared at her unmoved for a moment before slow clapping in a sarcastic manner,

"wow, bravo, beautiful performance mom. Now tell me what really happened cause I know he definitely didn't die any any collapsed building. come on mom, the lack of a single photograph of him seems really suspicious don't you think.",

Mirabel was a detective so it didn't take her long to put two and two together. She glared at spencer with a face that seemed crossed between love, anger and annoyance. Spencer suddenly felt the need to back away before his mom materialized something and that object sailed for his head. He'd learned the hard way to steer clear of his mom whenever she had that look on her face.

"He's back isn't he.",

spencer decided not to play dumb so that he wouldn't endanger his head.

"Yeah", obviously she was talking about kronox,  " he's back.",

"did he give you the coin",

Spencer wordlessly handed over the coin kronox had given him to inspect as he tried to process what had just happened, his mom hadn't shown the slightest sign of surprise or shock. She had apparently been prepared for this scenario, man, just how deep did this thing go. Spencer got the eerie feeling that he was being watched, again.

"uh, mom?, I think ",

He was cut off by Mirabel who glared at him with glowing neon green eyes, literally,

"Duck.",

Spencer had seen his fair share of weird today and didn't want to get caught up in something he didn't understand, so he immediately followed his mother's command and flopped himself onto the floor, milliseconds later he felt a wave of heat blast over his head and back. though it was barely noticeable to him he could tell a normal human would have been scorched despite the distance between him and the wave.

"Get up, we've got to go. NOW!"

Spencer got up and dusted himself, glancing behind him he saw a crumpled heap of metal smoking behind him. He instantly realised why he hadn't seen the drone tailing him, it was invisible, the most basic of sci-fi camoflauge. Then was the question of his mom almost frying him with her eyes. Her voice somehow became bone quivering in an instant

"Where did he crash this time?"

Spencer was thrown off guard by this question.

"What do you mean, how did you know he crashed?",

Mirabel sighed, "my ship and his are affected differently by the earth's gravitational forces scince they were made on different planets, everytime he comes here his ship crashes. "

Mirabel covered her face with one hand and shook her head,

"Everytime, i tell him to go get a ship from my world first but he won't listen.",

at this point spencer wasn't sure what to do, he figured he'd worry abot his mom havig a spceship later.

"Uh mom, wern't we going somewhere?",

"you still haven't told me where he crashed ?"

"Somewhere in the antartic."

"seriously, your dad's gotta find better crashing zones. Isn't that where they keep those martians who came to earth before their planet was overrun?"

Spencer was starstruck, "am sorry mom, did you just say martian?",

Mirabel's eyes widened in realization," no, no I did not, now let's get going, we don't have all day"

Meanwhile on the planet Eridanus a silhouette similar to kronox but slightly bigger and muscular sat on a large throne inside a dark room where the only source of light was a thin stream of moonlight streaming through the ceiling that was focused on one spot at the center of the room. The beam gave off a faint glow that barely illuminated anything else in the room. A figure walked into the room and knelt with one knee.

"my lord, it was as you suspected. Both his wife and child still live on beta world. Outrik's plan was thwarted by her majesty. it appears we may need to send multiple forces.",

The dark silhouette spoke in a deep calming voice,

"outrik was the best there was, if he could not do it no one else will. prepare the void, I going to earth. it seems i'm out of options."

"but sir, how exactly to you plan to stop lord kronox?",

"I can't stop him, he is a god of war, i'll have to kill his son. If emox dies there will be no angels of war,if they don't exist she doesn't awaken to destroy us all."

"very well sir, I will prepare the ship immediately."

The figure stood up and left. The being on the throne sighed, "let's hope we're not too late."