Takal

The Catastrophe of Failure

"What are you both planning to do with me?" Jayron asked as the aliens escorted him toward the bus station.
    "Good way to stay alive is by shutting up," Takal said. "Sorry if you can't handle that. Well, I should tell you what exactly we need you for. So you turned the entire United States government against us."
    "Oh yeah, I remember that," Jayron pretended to forget. "That's what this is all about. It is revenge that you're after. Do you wanna kill me now or what?"
    "No," Takal said. "I appreciate you offering your life to us, but that's not what we're here for."
    "Okay," Jayron said.
    "We'll be needing you to undo the damage that you've caused us," Takal revealed.
    "Takal, do you really think they'll stop hunting you after I call off my command?" Jayron asked.
    "Yes," Takal said.
    "Good luck with that," Jayron said. "I just figured that they'd return to the way they already thought of your kind."
    Something else called out to Jayron's attention. Something he hoped he was right around the corner if he needed it.
    "I would give up on this foolish idea, but then again your kind was never really the brightest," Jayron said.
    "It's not foolish," Takal said. "I'm gonna stop them from hunting us down like animals."
    "No one's gonna stop hunting you," Jayron said. "Take a look around and tell me that not a single person here wouldn't take the chance at killing you if that fake skin you're wearing peeled off."
    "That guy has a point," Ous whispered to Takal. "Takal? What's the plan if this doesn't work?"
    "Well, I..." Takal wasn't sure himself. They entered the bus station and he took a look up at the bus routes for the day. "Um... I will get back to you on that."
    "Oh!" Ous was surprised by Takal's response to his question. "It would have been better if you'd actually said that you didn't know."
    "No," Takal said. "I am going to buy us some tickets for Leavenworth. I need you to stay with him."
    "Takal," Ous called out to his comrade. "We saw what he did to Wift alone, without both of us here I'm not sure I can keep him from escaping."
    "Yes you can," Takal reassured him.

The bus hit the road to Leavenworth, Kansas. Takal couldn't believe they made it this far. These were precious moments. The excitement of finally being able to not look over their shoulders for an agent of the government hunting them down was going to be a relief.
    They arrived back in Leavenworth and stepped off the bus. What Takal didn't see coming was a black SUV pull up right in front of them. The speed of the vehicle was so fast that when it came to an abrupt stop, the wind nearly knocked them off their feet. The door opened and Padma stepped out with a gun pointed at Takal and Ous. Jayron had waited for this moment and smiled graciously as he stepped into the vehicle.
    "Padma!" Takal shouted as he wanted to attack her but she kept her gun on him.
    "Takal!" Ous shouted at his comrade to stop him from getting killed.
    "Stop!" Takal shouted as she began to get into the SUV.
    "No!" Ous wanted to do something about the escape happening in front of him. Padma took off and just as she did, Ous tried stopping the vehicle. The speed alone was stronger than his grip. So when he grabbed onto it, he was taken off his feet. Padma made a sharp right turn down the road, leaving nothing but dusty in her path.
    Standing in the middle of the road was Wift, who had managed to track Padma and Jayron down with the Zeel. She held a laser gun in her hand and aimed it forward at the black vehicle coming her way. When she pulled the trigger to the gun, a laser bolt flew right into the engine causing a beautiful explosion that lit the streets. Everything was blown away by the massive impact of the SUV's destruction.
    Padma sat in the wreckage, barely alive, watching Wift approach her slowly through the flames. She stopped just a few feet away from her.
    "Are you really still alive after all that?" Wift asked Padma.
    "Please, don't kill me," Padma begged.
    "First you try killing us and now you expect me not to kill you?" Wift asked.
    The red glow of the explosions' flames covered the both as they stared at one another. The heated moment lightened Wift to do what she needed to do. This was the end of Padma's story. The idiotic woman followed Jayron to her own death. Her tale wasn't a very good one. She hoped to become Jayron's companion throughout his government take over.

Wift held the Zeel tight in her hand. If this guy truly could change their current position in the world, and it wasn't that good before, she couldn't stop him from trying. She swung her body around to face Jayron and presented him with the Zeel. He was going to lighten the minds of the people he controlled.
    Jayron wrapped both of his hands around the Zeel and began to speak to the humans telepathically. No one was going to stop hunting the aliens. Between now and the time he would return to this universe, someone was going to have to kill all of them. He knew what he had to do. He put his mind to it.
    "Why aren't any of you here right now?" Jayron asked the humans of the city telepathically. He thought about this thoroughly. He had the knowledge to make sure that the three aliens in front of him would die. He wasn't sure how they'd do it, but he wanted to make sure it ended here. He thought this idea would be so cool. He grew excited just thinking about it.
    Once he set his mind to it, he started speaking to them all. It surprised all three of them when the people around them began to look at them strangely. They couldn't believe what their eyes were seeing. Takal stood still, remembering the days when he was younger. When he first opened his eyes and began to live. Writing in their own language and getting excited over it. Creating weapons and scaring all of his classmates when he nearly burned the kingdom down with his weapons testing. Struggling to believe his own eyes when he first came to Earth. Having to eat human food. Learning of their medicine. Seeing how their technology compares to alien technology. Looking at the wonder of how lights were used in the darkness. Using a cell phone for the first time.
    Takal clenched his fists when he realized that everything he'd just seen was his life flashing before his eyes. It put a smile on his face knowing that he'd likely have to face death again.