Boshville

B. 30

Natalie and the others were chased out of the room. Zee and Carmosole came not long after. "Are you okay Natalie?" Zee asked immediately he saw her grieving expression. "Tristan, he-he..." She couldn't find her words. "What happened to him? Is he okay?" Zee's worries spiked to a hundred. Natalie gathered strength and pointed to the staircase. Zee and his sister ran up.

"You need to be strong, Natalie", Moss tried to comfort her, "Tristan is strong. He will make it". "He was in so much pain". She whispered. Moss pulled the purple alien to her feet. "Look at me", Natalie did so, "you need to fight just like he is. Tristan will win so we have to do the same. Casper needs you. Boshville needs you". Natalie sniffed and hardened her face. "Let's save our home".

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Casper thought he was going to be cuffed but he wasn't. He knew it was because they were watching him like a hawk. Casper distracted himself by looking around the ship as they walked. The technology was more advanced than he had seen. It was a thousand times more complexed than the camp's laboratories.

Casper felt like the algorithm of the computers were speaking to him. It was almost as if he understood machine language. "Polypschics are the most intelligent beings in the galaxy", The Gladiator spoke as if he had read Casper's mind, "if not the universe. Their thinking goes farther than one can estimate".

Casper said nothing. He didn't know if The Gladiator said all that to him because it had an itch about his special plan or it just said so to intimidate him. "I want to show you something". The Gladiator pulled him by the wrist. Casper was disgusted but he did not fight it.

Casper noted that he had been taken to the cockpit. Vashaks were in hovering chairs as they navigated the spaceship. The Gladiator made him stand close to the windshield. "What do you see?" The evil alien questioned. Casper took a look and sucked in his breath.

There was a variation of semi-opaque colors in the dark background. Casper knew the colors were stars and planets with species of their own. He identified asteroids that circled in rings around some of the planets. It was beautiful and Casper knew that he would anything to explore them.

"You think they are fascinating", The Gladiator spoke up, "true. But the power they hold is the true beauty. All that energy is just floating in waste". "If you destroy every Galaxy, what next?" Casper didn't know why he asked that but it felt right. The Gladiator hesitated before saying, "ultimate power doesn't need to have a reason".

Casper faced the reptilian, "you're lying", he accused, "you don't know what happens next". The Gladiator frowned and sneered, "like I said I do not need a reason to control the universe. Being a supreme celestial body is..." The Gladiator paused. Casper reckoned that it had said something it shouldn't.

The Gladiator used its claws to give signals to its Vashaks. "Let us wait for your friends, shall we?" The Gladiator smirked. Casper panicked on the inside. The alien knew he had made a plan and now, he would lose everyone he cared about.

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Natalie and Moss had just finished loading the weapons on the spaceships. "He's stable now", Zee walked to them, "Fortin is hopeful that he'll have the baby when he wakes up". Natalie saw the distress in his eyes. Fiona mentioned something about an attachment. The attachment probably worked both ways.

"You can't come with us". Natalie blurted. "You can't make that decision". Zee shot back. "You're not focused", she continued her argument, "and Tristan needs you here". "You're just a kid, Natalie. You can't survive without me". Natalie would be lying if she said his words didn't hurt her.