SPEED 2 - Off Home Planet

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MILKY WAY GALAXY
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
EARTH
W.O.N.D.E.R Lab
MILKY WAY GALAXY
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
EARTH
W.O.N.D.E.R Lab
" Has Grandpa Yakbell heard about this?" I made an enquiry from Quentin, the SAI programme. Super AI.
"Have you forgotten our satellite range can't get to him? He's in a state of dehumaning!"
" Yeah, I remember." I scoffed. I was left with no options, mostly devastated. My team has been nabbed by unknown interstellar rogues I put in penitentiaries. But why interstellar? I felt something beckoning me, more like a beacon. Just when I thought of my team again, I remembered I had a part-time member. My own cousin, Kabir.
"Should I contact Kabir?"
"Yes, please." I said.
Few seconds later a video link popped up on my screen. Here he was, in a cockpit. Fighter jet, certainly!
"Where are you?" I asked in agitation.
"Just calm it. On my way. ETA. Three minutes." Kabir informed and smiled. I wish I could do same right now. Guilt won't let me, I deserted my people for my own selfish gains, now they are somewhere I don't know. Dead or alive. No idea. I paced around the SPEED room for the rest of the three minutes, self wallowing in guilt.
The doors dinged as they disappeared evenly, revealing Major General Kabir of the Nijamian army. A Major General at 17. How intriguing! Just as always, he was radiating with smiles.
"Salute your General!" Kabir teasingly commanded as I took his hands and embraced ourselves. "You're all stressed out man. They really got to you."
"I never thought I'd be back here." I admitted.
"Home always has its way of calling unto us. Earth is one big giant too, that shouldn't be a reason to lose your dimples" Kabir teased again as I'm forced to let out a chuckle, then the said dimples are shown.
He got four more stars to his uniform. This guy is really in his prime, his gallantry and all that. OMG! It's great but superspeed doesn't come in handy.
" I didn't come all the way here for you to start liking my greens." He said again as we laughed, much more hysterically. We were quite a pair.
We got to work. We watched footages of how my team members were taken, Kabir and Fatah, there was a specific pattern. Similar, yet different.
Kabir and Fatah were an essential part of the team SPEED. They were literally the brain of the team. Grandpa Yakbell told me not to ever lose them, that was before his dissociation from the physical realms. Dehumaning! Celestials die, they go to a place I have no minute idea of. More of a Valhalla or the Ancestral Planes. Something I'd never get clear.
"So, what are the options?" Kabir asked Quentin after all the analysis.
"This group of interstellar rogues are from Zabick, they are jailbirds from the AIP. Arizona Interstellar Penitentiaries. You put-
"I put them there three years ago." I completed the statement. Kabir was there too, it was one hell of a fight. My first war. I got my sentient cape, Quaygraine.
"That's right, SPEED!" Quentin acknowledged.
"Where are these scums headed?" Kabir asked hitting the nail on the head.
"Zabick. Zabick is a plane-
" Cut that trap. Send the coordinates and the info into our tabs" I paused and look at Kabir." We're going for a ride."

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