Our Future

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We entered Senshi's apartment and I immediately walked to the kitchen and took our a bottle of water, downing the first half in one big gulp. "We'll explain everything when the rest of the guys get here don't worry." I hear Senshi tell Belle. I sit on the counter and stared at my feet, Belle must be furious with me. "Now tell me about the little breakdown at the institute today?" I look up and see Senshi staring at me intently while leaning on the kitchen counter opposite me.

I drop my gaze to the floor "Belle is going to be so angry, she'll leave me." He gave me a pitiful look and raked a hand through his hair "Annie, Belle isn't going anywhere. She's gonna be your best friend no matter what, even if you kept a life changing and life threatening secret from her but she'll for give you." I nod and hop off the counter "I'm gonna go take a shower" He shook his head and walked away.

I quietly shuffled to the bathroom and stripped of my clothes, hopping into the steamy water. The warm water eased my muscles, if there was one thing that could clear my head was a nice warm shower. Belle and I have known each other for years, she wouldn't just leave my side like that. She's kept many secrets from me too...but that's different, those were minor. This is huge, I wouldn't blame her; I probably would have done the same things.

After the refreshing shower, I change into a tank top and some denim shorts before returning to the living room. I see all the guys there waiting for me along with Senshi and Belle, "oh hey everyone." Belle frowned "great! Now that everyone is here, tell me who is this Theadore person and why are you all acting so strange?" Senshi stands up and lets me sit where he was since there was no other space to sit and sighed "calm down Belle, we're getting there. So you have up to were me and the guys leave after graduation right? We were actually trying to see if we could just be trainers and stay on Earth while the others go up into space to fight but they caught on that something must have changed our minds and id some digging, finding out that Anela are really great friends; they sent Theadore Daley to threaten Anela to leave me alone. She told me and we were being very careful of anyone trying to hurt her or kidnap her but one day when I dropped her to her apartment it was trashed and he left a message written on her bedroom ceiling saying that he's watching. I decided that since she isn't safe there she should live with me until this situation is resolved."

She stared at all of us wide-eyed with her mouth agape "s-so, all your lives are being threatened right now?" I nod slowly and play with my fingers "Yours included, but we can stop this and be safe. Please don't make any harsh decisions, we thought that it would have been a better idea to keep this away from you than to tell you because Theadore would also target you but, due to the recent problems, that might be to late." She sighed and shook her head "I guess you guys had good intentions but, I don't know...maybe you should have said something. What if someone was targeting me and killed me but you guys didn't know because you decided not to tell me? Telling me would have been the best thing to do."

Senshi gave a serious nod "I know, forgive us and we can move on." She rolled her eyes and motioned for him to continue, I instantly felt a weight being lifted off of my shoulders; she didn't leave us. I inwardly did my happy dance but payed attention to Senshi. He cleared his throat, "Christian, you said you had something to show us?" He got up and walked towards the tv, putting it on and connecting his phone to the tv. He began to play a video of an expensive looking office.

Suddenly, the door opened and Mr. Dallas and President Makenzie entered, taking a seat at his desk. "So do you have the things we need to do this? I could sponsor some things if you want." President said. Mr. Dallas shook his head, "You've given enough already, just let me and my team handle the rest." The president walked around his office, looking at the pictures but stopped by a certain one, "Tell me Jeffery, how were you able to put this..thing in the love of your life and make a monster of the next generation? You knew that, with time, the chemicals would have killed her and that your son, would have to go into space."

Mr. Dallas looked up from a file "It was hard but I knew, our generation would not be able to survive the coming years. I knew, its either see a problem and leave it, killing everyone or sacrifice a few lives to save millions. You see the big lie we told, of Galaxy Space-Wars II? That's just an excuse to use the modified humans as a suicide mission to release the gas that would change everyone into stronger versions of themselves. Of course, some may die but as I said, sacrifice a few lives to save millions."

The president nodded and continued walking "Can these modified humans reproduce too?" Mr. Dallas scratched his head, "They're fertile but I don't have any females. I want to see what Senshi's son would be like." The president tilted his head "You don't have a female? You could use my daughter." Mr. Dallas made a disgusted face "That's disgusting Sani, they're cousins." The president shrugged "True, but didn't you say Senshi has a little sweetheart?"

Mr. Dallas rolled his eyes "Yeah, she's a real beauty too; innocent little lamb. I can tell her likes her, but she's just ruining the plan. he came in here asking if he could just live like a normal human, almost burst out laughing in his face. That little Anela is a kink in our hose, one we have to get rid of. I set Theadore to monitor her without Senshi finding out, to threaten her."

The President frowned "why not just use her if he's already smitten with her?" Mr. Dallas scoffed "She's not modified and the offspring could swing any which way; strong or weak. I do not take stupid chances." Mr. Makenzie nodded and walked towards the door "Well, it was nice doing business with you, brother." Mr. Dallas nodded and the video ended.

Everyone looked shocked, confused, alarmed and angry. Senshi not slightly flustered, I could guess that I looked the same, I mean who wouldn't? "So...What now?" Kai asked in a whisper. That's the question we were all asking, what now?