High School Terrans

Chapter 23

Kyle awoke late at night hearing the knocking of the door downstairs wondering who would be coming here this late. He jumped downstairs hurrying out of bed so as not to wake up his parents or his younger brother. He opened the door seeing Dan standing drenched in the pouring rain looking solemn but serious.

"Dan, why are you here this late?"

"I'm sorry but it couldn't wait," he said, walking in. "I owe you a big apology."

"What for?"

"It's about the other guys on the team. They never cared about creating a protective alliance between Terrans and humans. All they were looking for was a way to dominate and take over. All it looked like was to go inside and find a list of anti-Terran supporters. That was it. But a man came in and held a gun to us but then I literally watch Morgan instead shoot him but then I heard some kind of beeping. It was a bomb."

"What?" Kyle said, gasping. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, managed to get out of there before the whole building imploded and got the bullet out of the man he shot and took him to the hospital but didn't stick around."

Dan could see the shock and quietness on Kyle's face letting him talk.

"All this time I was so blinded and bought into their ideology." He just saw Kyle continuing to stare and listen. "It never should have gone as far as it did on the beach. I should have listened to you."

"It's alright," Kyle replied. "You were doing what you felt was right at the time."

"You have been staying awfully quiet the whole time. You know something about this, don't you?"

"I suspected but wasn't until my father clued me in."

"Your father?" Dan asked curiously. "What does he have to do with this?"

"Years back on Terra there was a similar group. Started out the same way about Terran's using their powers to rule over others until it resulted in an attempted coup to overthrow the Terran council. But he said that all of the leaders were arrested and sent to Peragus."

"So what you are saying is they are trying to do the same thing here on Earth?"

"It's starting to make a lot of sense now," he answered. "That's why they came after you to recruit you because of the level you are at."

"I bet that was them on the beach messing with Patrick's board. They were looking to test my strength."

"I really don't believe they have been on their own this whole time without some assistance. I mean we would have been all too young to remember what happened back on Terra. They would have needed somebody to help influence them. Plus somebody had to have planted that bomb."

"Mr. Wright?"

"He'd be the logical choice. They would have needed some adult help. Comes in and creates a Terran history class and offers to act as a faculty adviser so he can work closely with everyone on the team. But aside from that I had something else happen to me at the pier that has raised some questions."

"What went on?"

"Me, Sarah and Alan went together to Santa Monica where we ran into Christian and Anna playing some games. Me and Sarah wanted to ride the Ferris wheel and got on but from out of nowhere it started to spin faster and faster."

"Holy crap, is Sarah okay?"

"Yeah, she's fine but was a bit shaken up."

"So how did the Ferris wheel go so out of control?"