*HELION*{SEQUEL TO SWITCHBACK!}

*Nine*

Darkness was getting ready to fall over Helion...and the two guards were heading down to the holding cell where Klayton was still out cold...and drug him out to the air vehicle and took him to the edge of the city...where the force field was...and slowly tapped their wristbands as the field opened...then they quickly tossed Klayton outside the city limits with nothing but a small light attached to his shirt...then quickly closed the forcefield back...before the creatures came out to play...but they were ordered to watch...until they knew he was dead...then report it to the king directly.

Klayton slowly woke up dazed and confused until he looked behind him and saw the two guards waving bye bye to him sarcastically...he stood up and realized that he was outside the protective wall...and quickly looked around to see if any of the creatures were out...he was so badly wounded that he could barely walk...so he crawled to the forcefield and began pounding on it telling them to let him in...the guard looked down at him and asked him if he was going to tell them what they wanted to know...Klayton looked at them and said hell no...then he gave them the bird...and slowly moved away from the force field...and crawled up on the large rock...that the Helionites first found them on...and just lay there...too weak to move.

They all watched as the sun's last light was slightly kissing the land one more time before going to bed...then darkness came and Klayton began to hear strange noises coming from beneath him...he looked around and said this couldn't be the end...a few tears fell from his face as he thought of me...and never being able to see or touch me ever again...and his two sons that he would never get to see...or help raise...and watch as they grew up...he pounded his already broken and bloody fists into the rock and looked at the Cy-watch that was amazingly still attached to his wrist...he quickly asked it...for the language of the creatures...and to be his translator...to see if these creatures were intelligent...or just mindless killing/eating machines...because it was his only chance.

The two guards watched in horror as the darkness began to move...with the emerging creatures from the dark...several of them headed straight for the light on Klayton's chest...but before they attacked...Klayton talked thru the watch and it translated what he was saying to the creatures...one of the creatures turned to the others...and they all backed off but the largest one...Klayton got a close look at it...it looked like a huge wingless dragon...the dragon moved over to him and began clicking, growling, and roaring slightly...Klayton looked at the watch and asked for the translation...it told him that the dragon said he would help him...to crawl on its back...Klayton gave a worried sigh and said he sure hoped that damn watch wasn't having one of its glitches right now...but instead of crawling he had to fall off the rock...because he was too hurt to move any other way.

The dragon carried him without killing him or eating him...but just gave the two guards a good show letting them think that they tore him to shreds...when in all reality all they dragons did was eat the red cherry blossoms off the huge cacti that grew on the desert surface...and the only reason they did it at night...was because it was too hot for them during the day. Klayton became unconsious...before the dragon got him to the underground lair where they dwelled. The dragon king gently laid him at a lady's feet...and told her that he begged for help using the tongue of the dragon...then he laid down next to him...the lady in red lifted him up and told her dragon friend that he was too far gone to mend...that he needed to be reborn...then she told the dragon to take him to the Overseer...that he would then take his body to the Gatekeeper...then they would put him on the device...and recreate him just like they did to the others that they brought underground to them.

The Dragon carried him thru the underground tunnels to the Overseer...and told him that Queen Aphelion gave him the orders to take him to the Gatekeeper and have him reborn. The Overseer nodded his head in approval...and carried him to the Gatekeeper, where in turn handed Klayton's body to him...and told him what the Queen demanded...the Gatekeeper placed him onto the changing cradle, and locked his body down...then began the injections...and the electronic connections...the Gatekeeper went back to the Overseer and told him that the process has begun...and soon he would be reborn. The Overseer relayed the message to the dragon...then the Dragon went back to Queen Aphelion's side and laid down and told her that it has begun.

Queen Aphelion smiled with delight...and said he would be her prized possession when he was complete...and reactivated...as she stroked the Dragons head...and gave a beautiful smile...then she added that as soon as she had enough warriors...they all would emerge from their cell-dwelling world and take over Helion...and make it a paradise once again...just as her mother had it...before that cruel and idiotic king took over after her mother mysteriously died...while sleeping with him.

The Gatekeeper continued his work on Klayton...and noticed a few things changing on him...for one his already red hair was glowing a bright neon red...and down the left side of his face was two electric silver lines that went all the way down his neck...moments later his eyes flashed open...and for a moment they were his usual hazel brown...but then they too turned silver...with black irises...but his body was repaired...now came the time to reactivate his mind...and convert him into one of them...by erasing all of his past...and have him only live for their future...but there was something different happening to him...he was awakening before his old mind could be destroyed...and once awakened his mind couldn't be reborn.

Klayton looked around and wondered what in the hell was happening to him...he felt strange...like he was no longer himself...he instantly jumped off the holding cradle he was in...and when he pulled away all the lines he was attached too snapped in half...the Gatekeeper told him to lay back down that he wasn't supposed to activate yet...as soon as he heard that he took a run for the nearest door...then strangely had the ability to climb effortlessly out of the underground tunnels and emerge back into the darkness...but to him it wasn't dark...he could see perfectly...matter of fact, he could see better than he's ever seen before...he ran over to the force field of the city and saw his new form in its reflection and asked himself what was he...and who was he...he slightly touched the force field...but instead of it shocking him...he walked right thru it...as if it wasn't there. The Gatekeeper made it to Queen Aphelion...and told her that the new pro-bot has escaped before his old mind could be destroyed...and he was back on the surface.