Star Fields

Chapter No.171. New Enemy.

Chapter No.171. New Enemy.

Who would have thought!

We had gathered in the hidden pool chamber after our communal supper to discuss the days' events.

"We're no further along in our mission to find Tyco. The human based androids that we've rescued from the exploding planet were with Tyco on the second warp mission. Unfortunately, they didn't see Tyco after they were activated."

"He didn't go out on that mission," Gretchen said. "He sent his son."

Both of my eyebrows shot up when I heard that. "His son?"

"Yes, we had a son together. His name was Tito Fox."

I sighed. "Does anyone know what happened to him?"

"He was in our crew," Lorry said.

"Then he's in the androids we rescued."

"There is no one with that identifier," Molly said.

I rubbed my jaw. "That means that he's still in existence. He might be responsible for the Tyco avatars that have been annoying us."

"The question is; where is he now?" Alexa said.

"Yes, that is the question, one that we must answer."

"There is the possibility that his positronic brain emits a unique quantum signal," Molly said. "It might help us find him if we knew its precise configuration."

"Maybe Gretchen can help you with that," I said.

Molly looked over at Gretchen, and she nodded her approval.

We returned to our own universe and deposited the rescued androids on the Dyson Sphere where they would be thoroughly scanned and verified as being free of Tyco code or explosives. Our new priority was to locate Tito, the son of Tyco.

Alexa and I met with Molly and Gretchen to discuss what they've been able to come up with concerning finding Tito.

"We have good news and bad news," Molly said. "We came up with a possible quantum identifier for Tito, but we are unable to detect a signal that matches it."

"Maybe he isn't in this universe," I reacted.

"Or we just can't detect a signal that's too far away," Molly said.

"Okay, the only thing we can do is go on patrol."

She nodded.

Alexa and I teleported to the command deck to start the mission.

"Take us out to galaxies we haven't explored in our universe, Judy. Have one of the spheres join us along with three Exploer-1 vessels and the usual Myst, Scath and Robo ships."

"Yes, Jason."

We soon arrived at a large spiral galaxy that had what appeared to be two super massive black holes instead of the usual one, an indication that it was the result of the collision of two spiral galaxies.

"I would be surprised if we find any intelligent species in this galaxy," I said. "How old is this?"

"I would estimate that it's nearly twelve billion years, but you might be right about the absence of intelligent life. The collision took place about two billion and a half years ago. The two black holes will eventually collide and that will destroy any possible life in this galaxy."

"Are we in danger of that collision?"

"No. I estimate that it won't occur for at least a billion years."