A.

Ali

STARDUST
Stardust
Stardust
GALACTICA
Book One

A Ali
This Book is dedicated to my parents,
my brother, my love, Anik, Shubham,
and to the reader…
 Contents:
I) Prologue
II) Have I done something wrong?

III) I Lost Everything

III) The Fire of Revenge!

IV) Welcome to the Executrix

V) Ali’s Rage

VI) The Torment is by the door

VII) We can’t sit silently!

VIII) A Terrible Loss

IX) The Land of the Gigas

X) Giga-what?
XI) The Invasion
XII) On The Other Side
XIII) Breakthrough
XIV) Trinity
XV) The Giga-Rebellion
XVI) Backup
XVII) The Final Chapter
Prologue: The Man
in the Hood
“Hands up! The special forces have
surrounded you. Surrender and live in
custody for the rest of your life.” Says the
General.

The man in the Hood begins to unsheathe

his blade, and as soon as he nears
completion, the General says, “Looks like
we have no other choice…Open fire!”

All the soldiers, scouts, snipers &

helicopters began shooting at him and the
process made it all dusty that no one was
able to see anything but dust and smoke
all around.

The General announces over his

transceiver, “He wasn’t even a match for
us, sir. The sector is cle… Not clear! Not
clear!”
As the smoke subsided, the man in the
hood reappeared, he was intact with his
glowing blade. The General shouted,
“Retreat! Retreat…”, in a moment the
man in the hood dashed towards him
leaving the soldiers in the path, cut in half
horizontally from the waist. He slid his
blade through the General’s heart slowly
and steadily. He said this to the groaning
General while sliding the blade through
him, “No matter what you do, you will
lose all you love. The day you find
another reason to live, you are done for.”
As the statements were over, he slid his
sword forcefully and stroked him down.

He looked at the General while he took

his final breaths, groaning and with blood
spilling out of his heart…
 Chapter 1: Have I
done something
wrong?

About a year ago:

Ali didn’t know what to do, he just said,

“What did I do?”. His class teacher gave a
very uncomfortable reply, “Don’t act
smart, first, you beat innocent Michael. It
isn’t the first time Ali.”. The Principal
said, “Indeed! You must be expelled but
we are giving you a fair chance, pay us a
sum of 25000 as a penalty or you will
cease to exist.”.

Ali was dismissed and as he approaches

his class, he finds Michael in charge, “So,
you are still here?”, said he. He makes Ali
stand in the corridor, where he finds Aki
and Kaishin.
Aki: “We are glad you're safe.”
Ali: “Yeah, I am kind of used to this, you
know, habits.”
Kaishin: “Same here, I think we should go
to Abhijeet’s today and take Samarth with
us.”
Ali: “Yes, I think we should. We should
also take Shubham with us.”
Kaishin: (uncomfortably) “Ali…I want to
say something…Shubham…is…”
Ali: (confused) “What’s the matter
friend?”
Aki: “Ali…it’s just that…Shubham has
been reported dead.”
Ali fell silent, he was so shocked that he
couldn’t speak for some minutes.
Aki: “You okay?”
Ali: “How were you when you heard this
news? I am the same.”
All fell silent and as the bell rang for
dispersal, they were called in by Michael.
Michael: “Looks like you people have
been having a good time lately.”
Ali: “I will finish you…”
Aki: “Ali…”
Ali: “You will cease to exist someday…”
Aki: “Ali Stop!”
Ali: “Am I saying something wrong?”
Aki: “No but…”
Michael: “A caged tiger desperate to
escape and kill the hunter, I see I see.
Your friend deserved it, and so do you.”
Ali fell silent and got a lot angry that
however hard Aki and Kaishin tried, they
weren’t able to cool him down. At last,
Ali punched Michael so hard in the face
that he fell, before Michael’s assistants
could get their hands on Ali, Aki and
Kaishin ran away dragging him with
them. When they were quite far from the
school, they released him.
Aki: (Panting heavily) “Were you crazy,
you could have died.”
Kaishin: (Also panting) “Well there is no
good to talk about it now. We should head
over to Abhijeet’s house.”
Ali: “Sorry, I can’t. You people live near
the school but I missed the bus and if I
don’t get started on my feet now, I am as
good as dead.”
Aki: “Ok, so here we part ways…”
Ali: “Farewell!”
Ali headed towards his home and on his
way he felt sad and sat on a bench to cry
and mourn for his friend.
Ali: “You were a good friend,
Shubham…You were like a brother to
me…”
He headed back home as soon as he saw
the clock showed 2 PM, and he had to
reach home by 1. He was late and he still
had to cross half the way.
 Chapter 2: I Lost
Everything
An hour later:
Ali was panting heavily as he reached the
gates of the locality. “3 o’clock, I am
done for.”

As he reached his home, he was stopped

by a large man with a red cap. He
prevented Ali from going in. Alis line of
sight was blocked by the man. He tried to
get through and finally ran inside and to
his garden. He looked forward and what
he saw froze him. His house where he
lived since he was born was caught up by
flames all over.

He didn’t know what to do, he was frozen

in shock and depression. All of a sudden,
his instincts spoke to him and listening to
them, he gained enough courage to run
into the burning house.

He ran inside, firmly jumped over a fallen

door frame and next saved himself from a
falling shelf. He shouted, “Mother!
Father!”. But to his surprise, no one
answered. As he reached the hall he found
what shocked him more, his father’s
body, which was half turned to ash
already. He cried and shouted, “NO!
FATHER!”. He ran into other rooms but
found no one. At last, he ran into the
corner room, Lucky for him the part of
the house beyond the hall had caught a
little fire. In the corner room he found
more shocking things, “GRANDMA!
GRANDPA!” shouted him in anger and
sorrow.

His conscience said to him, “There is still

some hope left, your brother and mother
maybe upstairs…”. Listening to his
conscience Ali ran upstairs and looked
into every room, in one he found his
mother trying to take her younger son out
of the burning debris. Ali ran to them but
debris from the ceiling fell on his brother
and he was no more. His mother, to her he
ran and embraced her.
Ali: “At least, you are alive…”
Mother: (crying) “Is everyone else?…”
Ali didn’t say a thing but nodded his head
to indicate the answer.
Mother: “No time to mourn son, we must
save ourselves, there is no good to recall
the gone.”
Ali: “Yes, let’s run downstairs before…”
All of a sudden, the staircase collapsed.
Ali knew that he could make the jump but
unfortunately, his mother cannot make the
jump.

Lastly, they ran to the balcony and

because it was newly built, barricading
was not done. As the firemen saw the 2
survivors, they held their safety net for
them. As Ali was about to jump, all of a
sudden, the ceiling collapsed. Ali’s
mother shouted, “Out of the way, Son!”,
and pushed Ali and half of her body was
caught up by the rubble. Alu was hanging
on the floor of the balcony and tried to
help his mother.
Ali: “Wait Mother, I will save you.”
Mother: “It’s of no use, just run away!”
Ali: “I can't, my conscience doesn’t allow
me.”
Mother: “I SAID RUN AWAY!!!”
Ali’s mother threw her pendant at Ali and
the force was enough to make Ali
plummet down to the safety net. As Ali
reached the net, he sat down from the net,
sat down and looked as Nishat Villa
turned to ash. He was so depressed that he
couldn’t even cry at this point.
Next Day:
Aki, Kaishin, and Abhijeet learned about
the disaster day later from the news as Ali
didn’t report them. They immediately met
up and visited the site. Ali was there
kneeling towards the hill of ash.
Aki: “Ali…are you okay?”
Ali: “After all this…do you think that I
can be okay?”
Abhijeet: “We understand…but we
wanted to know about your injuries, are
you hurt?”
Ali: “Hurt…that I am, in my heart.”
Kaishin: “Just let go of it brother, come
with us…we will treat you.”
Ali: “FOR WHAT!…because I led my
family to their end, it’s all my fault and I
can’t forget it.”
Aki: “It’s not your fault.”
Ali: “Had I come home early, I could
have saved them.”
Abhijeet: “Don’t blame yourself, if you
had reached earlier, you ought to have
ended like them.”
Ali: “At least I wouldn’t have been
separated from them.”
Aki: “I understand how you feel, but it is
pointless to dwell upon the past.”
Ali: “Just leave me alone!”
Ali started crying and began to mourn.
His friends began to leave and while
leaving Aki left a bag of food and said,
“Here is some food for you…I know you
haven’t eaten yet. They left but Ali didn’t
bid them goodbye as he usually did. They
came every day for the whole week. They
wanted to cheer up Ali and again make
him who he used to be, the ideal person
veryone wishes to be…
Chapter 3: The Fire
of Revenge!

One week later:

Ali was doing better every day since then.
After a week passed since the incident,
while Ali was waiting for his friends, a
fair man in a leather jacket and casual
clothing approached him and said, “Son, I
have come to know that you have lost a
lot too…”. Ali replied with sorrow, “More
than you could imagine sir…”
???: “Leave that sir part and call me
Zenith.”
Ali: “Ok, Zenith.”
Zenith: “I wish to have a ta…”
All of a sudden, Zenith received a call and
he picked it up.
Zenith: “Yes sir…What sir?…Ok…I
understand…Now?… Ok sir, I will reach
you as soon as possible.”
Ali: “Zenith, I feel that you need to
leave…I will wait.”
Zenith: “Ok.”

As Zenith began to leave he saw a trio of

boys in hoods heading towards the site.
He thought, “What is he doing here? I
must inform John that I will be a bit
late…”.

Zenith placed a call to John, and in a

minute he picked it up.
Zenith: “Hello John.”
John: “Hi Zenith, where are you?”
Zenith: “John, please pardon me but I will
be late.”
John: “But it’s important…”
Zenith: “John…it’s him.”
John: (silent for a moment) “I will
manage, you have to see what he is up
to…”
Zenith: “Thank you.”
Zenith ended the call and began to focus
on what was happening.

SWAP:
The trio of boys approached Ali and said,
“Still dwelling upon the past?”
Ali: “No…What are you doing here
now?”
The trio revealed their faces, it was
Michael, Harlo and Jentzen.
Michael: “Looks like you escaped the
massacre…You should have set fire at
night Jentzen, but I guess it’s better to see
you in such despair.”
Ali: (in anger) “You…it was you!… I
will not leave you…not today!”
Harlo: “Let me fight him.”
Michael: “Ok, seeing you struggle to fight
will be a sight to see.”
Ali: “I am not alone, the Almighty is
always by my side.”

Harlo approached forward and so did Ali.

Harlo began with a hard punch towards
the face, but Ali blocked it with his
forearm. Ali landed a chop on the
shoulder and Harlo wasn’t able to block
it, and CRACK!, one of his bones cracked
but did not break entirely. A kick from
Harlo got Ali and he was down on his
knees, Ali pulled Harlo’s leg and he fell.
Next Ali held him by his feet and threw
him to the metal gate behind him.
Michael: “So weak you are…it is
shameful, well, Jentzen you are next.”
Ali: “Hello?! I know he was my foe but
he is your brother…you should care for
him a little.”
Michael: “Keep that stupid advice to
yourself. Jentzen, proceed.”
Jentzen: (hesitates) “Ok…”

Jentzen approached Ali and held him by

his shoulders in an attempt to break his
pectoral bones…Ali tackled him by
holding his arms by the elbow. Jentzen
freed his hands by letting go of Ali’s
shoulders and using his forearm in an
attempt to hold Ali’s neck, in an effort of
blocking his hand, he let go of his arms
and blocked his attack…that’s what
Jentzen anticipated, he used his legs to
kick Ali in the abdomen, all of this
happened so instantly that Ali wasn’t able
to block his kick. The blow may have
been fatal as one of Ali’s kidneys was
damaged, though Ali was unable to block
the kick, he still was able to move a little
so that the target was shifted from his
kidney to his stomach. Ali was sure to
lose as he was exhausted from the first
fight, however, the fire of revenge kept
him up giving and dodging a few more
blows, but how much would a man endure
after he has already been in a fight? Ali
remembered a move he learned from Aki,
he then tried to use it on Jentzen. Ali
lifted his leg so high up in the air, in front
of Jentzen’s face, that Jentzen had to
bring both his arms in front of his face to
block it, that’s when Ali brought his leg
down ducked under Jentzen’s arms and in
an instant caught his throat, he then
stabbed his throat very hard at the ground
using the momentum he gained when
trying to catch the throat. Jentzen fainted
from the impact. Ali was panting a lot
heavier than after the first fight and was
even coughing due to dehydration.

Michael: “You are hopeless…I guess I

must do it all myself.”
Ali: (panting heavily) “He fought so hard,
just for you and you can’t even appreciate
his struggle?! What kind of a friend are
you?!”
Michael: “Didn’t I tell you to shut up…
Fight me if you can!”
Michael took out a machete from his back
and pointed it towards Ali.

Ali: (panting) “That’s unfair…but I guess

that you don’t have a conscience…”

Michael came running at Ali, but Ali

barely dodged the blow, Michael slashed
at his neck but Ali ducked to dodge it…
Ali then kicked Michael’s legs to make
him fall. Although Michael tripped but
performed a somersault, and again he was
back on his feet. Ali though exhausted
from the previous fights…was energised
even more than he was before the first
fight. The fire of revenge was burning
more than ever inside him. He ran and
jumped towards Michael to perform a
kick at his face but Michael was no
slower than him, if not faster, he ducked
and slid from beneath Ali, while Ali
pushed the wall with his feet to prevent
crashing, he too performed half a
somersault and was back on his toes.
Michael dashed and struck Ali’s face with
the machete, Ali ducked beneath him and
slid from between his legs. Ali then
sensed something by his feet. Ali thought
to himself, “How did this come here?...oh
yes I might have left it when I trained last.
I don’t know if it’s stronger but it might
come in handy…”. Michael jumped very
high towards Ali with his machete in the
air, as he reached his target…
SWAP:
Zenith was spectating the whole match.
He thought to himself “He is doing
good…he might have been weaker than
them but his decisions and reflexes are
quick…”. Zenith took out his phone and
called John, John answered in a few
seconds.
John: “Glad that you called, is everything
okay there?”
Zenith: “More than ever…I think I found
someone interesting.”
John: “What do you mean?”
Zenith: “I am bringing a little guest with
me.”
John: “Wha…”
Zenith ended the call…
SWAP:
Michael’s strike was blocked by Ali, he
used a piece of wood in the shape of a
sabre. The strike just resulted in a scratch
on the wooden sabre.
Michael: “How is this possible? How
could a mere piece of wood stop my steel
machete?”
Ali: “It’s not just any wood…it’s the
wood of the Australian Buloke tree…I
carved the blade myself to practise sword
fighting, to spar with you someday.”
Michael: “I see, but you won’t win
today…”

Michael took aback his machete and now

the sparring was going to begin. A
vigorous thrust towards the chest from
Ali’s side was blocked by Michael,
Michael then kicked Ali at his knee and
the kick was so strong that Ali’s knee
joint got a bit dislocated. Ali thought,
“AAH! It hurts badly…well it is not
permanent, but it won’t heal so easily…”.
Ali was thrown aback by the impact of
Michael’s kick, he almost tripped but he
balanced himself on his feet. Ali thought,
“I must end this now…or it may cause a
problem for me…”. Michael and Ali both
were exhausted from the intense fight. At
last, Michael dropped his machete.
Ali: (panting) “Are you going to accept
defeat now?”
Michael: “I won’t lose to you…but I think
that I should spare you today.”
Ali: “What do you mean?”
Michael: “This…”
After saying his word, he took out a
cylinder, which looked like dynamite,
from his pocket, ignited it and threw it
between himself and Ali. At another
moment, the dynamite began to release a
lot of grey smoke, and gradually, Michael
vanished in the smoke. Ali tried to look
for him but the smoke irritated his eyes so
much that his eyes began to overflow with
tears. He couldn’t see anything but tears
in his eyes. All of a sudden he felt
someone behind him, he tried to turn
around but it was too late, he sensed a
needle piercing through his skin. At last,
his vision blurred more and ultimately he
was unconscious…
 Chapter 4:
Welcome to The
Executrix
Several Hours Later:

Ali wakes up and finds himself in the

back seat of a car.
Ali: (panicking) “What happened? Where
am I?”
???: (surprised) “Woah! Don’t surprise
me like that! I am driving on an
unmetalled and isolated road…so let me
drive peacefully.”
Ali: “Did you just kidnap me, Zenith?”
Zenith: “Umm…I just made you
unconscious, picked you up when no one
was looking, and laid you down on my
car’s back seat…then started to take you
to another place.”
Ali: “I think you just defined
kidnapping.”
Zenith: “You were taking a nap, that is no
different than kid-napping…”
Ali: “You try to say that I am a kid?”
Zenith: “Forget it…I carried you because
you could be the greatest asset for our
organization.”
Ali: “Wait…you just kidnapped me, and
now are going to make me work, that’s
child labour.”
Zenith: “So, you admit that you are a
child?”
Ali: “No…but…uhh!…ok, you win! now
happy?”
Zenith: “Good, now we will reach the
headquarters in half an hour…so you
better not go back to sleep.”
Ali: “Ok…I won’t”

As Zenith drove along the unmetalled

path, his car was bumping all the way.
Ali: “Why do we have to take such a bad
road?”
Zenith: “You will know…you certainly
will.”

After some time, Zenith stopped beside a

small hut, no bigger than a typical kitchen
in a 1 BHK.
Ali: “I think that I should reconsider
joining your organization, especially if I
have to live inside a small hut.”
Zenith: “I know you will reconsider when
you see the headquarters from inside.”
Ali: “A hut is a hut, however, modernized
it may be from the inside.”
Zenith: “It would be good if you stayed
silent for some time…you might create
problems for both of us.”
Ali: “Ok…”
Zenith: “Silence!”

Ali didn’t say anything but nodded his

head in response. As Zenith walked inside
the hut, Ali followed him. Zenith walked
towards the right corner and stood on a
floor tile. He then called out to Ali to
stand as well. Zenith then pushed some
switches on the switchboard, which was
on the wall in front of them, in a definite
order by changing the fan regulator’s
power after every few clicks. Ali thought
this to be odd as there was no fan in the
hut. All of a sudden the large arrangement
of switches fell inside and two large
pieces with a slit between them appeared
in the space. Zenith opened up his purse
and took out a card, which was
supposedly an identity card, and swiped it
in the slit. After this, the regulator glowed
green and the floor tile beneath them
began to tremble. Zenith said, “3…2…
1…and here we go!”. The tile beneath
their feet began to fall down and so did
they with the tile. Ali was frightened at
first but after some time, he found out that
it was an elevator with the tile in place of
a cabin. In a few minutes, they reached
the bottom. Ali looked at what lay in front
of them, a magnificent building looking
no less, if not more, advanced than the
largest international airports. It all seemed
to be a dream, a community of people far
more advanced, living under the surface.
Zenith: “Welcome!…to the Executrix!”
Ali: “I never imagined in my wildest
dreams that such a splendid settlement lay
below my feet this whole time.”
Zenith: “Now, do you reconsider joining
us?”
Ali: “I do want to join you but I think I
am underage…”
Zenith: “One of our best spies, the
smartest, strongest and fastest of all of our
youngsters, is no older than you.”
Ali: “I would like to meet him.”
Zenith: “The said person is a girl.”
Ali: “So…it still doesn’t change my mind
to meet her.”
Zenith: “You might find her attractive,
but beware of her and her father, he is the
director of our organization.”
Ali: “Well, beauty lies in the eyes of the
beholder, and to my knowledge, no one
has ever been able to seduce me, so…I
don’t think that I will fall for…”

Ali sensed a person behind him and when

he looked back, he found a girl cycling
him. She shouted, “Out of the way!”, but
Ali was late and they crashed into each
other, the cycle was thrown several
metres ahead and Ali fell on the ground
while the girl was above him with her
arms supporting her body off the ground.
The proximity between their faces was
very less, and as a result, Ali found her to
be very near and after a glimpse, he found
out that she was pretty, or perhaps the
most beautiful girl he ever witnessed, in
terms of facial beauty. When her green
eyes met his black ones, he was love-
struck. He blushed a little and when she
got up, she cleaned all the dust off her
pants.

???: “Forgive me for crashing into you,

my name is Violet and I am sorry for the
accident.”
Ali: (blushing) “Uhh…No problem, I
mean, I am kind of used to it, by the way,
I am Ali.”
Violet: “Sorry, but are you okay?”
Ali: (blushing) “Well…Yes, I am
surprised by how Sir Edmund Halley’s
‘Hollow Earth theory’ has been proved. I
am shocked.”
Violet: “I have never seen you before, are
you new to this place?”
Ali: (blushing) “Yes. I came here just a
few minutes ago and I want…”

A gentleman in a casual shirt and trousers

came and approached them.

???: (to Ali) “I see, so you are the little

guest brought in by Zenith. Let me guess,
you have just seen my daughter and are
enamoured now.”
Zenith: “Don’t give him a hard time,
Johnny.”
John: “I understand, every one of his age
gets love-struck upon seeing her, it isn’t
quite a phenomenon which is rare to me,
Zenny…”
Zenith: (sighed) “Why do you think you
are so funny?”
John: “I don’t think, I believe it.”
Zenith: “John, you…umm…uhh…
nothing.”
John: “Did you get his abilities and
capabilities tested, Zenith?”
Zenith: “Not needed…I believe that he
can be a great asset to us.”
John: “You know the rules, don’t you?”
Zenith: “Okay, let’s go, Ali. Let’s get you
tested.”
Ali: “As you say, Zenith.”
Zenith: (walking away) “The rules…like
they even matter.”

Zenith and Ali walked inside the campus,

and at the end of the corridor, they were
stopped by a young, yet beautiful lady, in
her early 20s, wearing a lab coat.
???: (making actions of ‘no’ using a
finger) “Uh, uh, uh…where do you think
you are going?”
Zenith: “Just let us go into the lab,
Necron. It’s urgent.”
Necron: “Hmm…I see, more urgent than
the dinner you promised me yesterday.”
Zenith: (blushing a little) “Necron, just let
me get this kid tested.”
Necron: “Oh I see…ok, I will get him
tested, but you must take me and John out
tonight. Is that a deal?”
Zenith: “What an indiscreet deal, *sigh*,
ok I will. Now happy?!”
Necron: “Yes, you tend to satisfy me just
to get your things done…however, I will
take that deal…come inside.”
Zenith: (whispering to Ali) “She is the
perfect example of ‘Don’t judge a book
by its cover’.”
Ali: “Is she always like this?”
Zenith: “Times…”
They walked inside the enormous lab as
they conversed, in the middle of the room,
Necron stopped beside a large treadmill.
Necron: “First will be your skill test, take
this puzzle and solve it.”

Necron handed out a puzzle to Ali, it was

a pyraminx, something which is Ali’s
speciality. Necron started the timer and
under 3 seconds the puzzle was solved.

Zenith: “Spectacular, you beat my time,

yet not Violet’s just by a few
milliseconds…”
Ali: “It’s my speciality…”
Necron: “Enough talk…Now will be your
reflex test, put on this VR headset and
don’t crash.”
Ali: “Ok…”

Ali put on the headset and found himself

in a spaceship which was about to enter
the asteroid belt. 3…2…1…and the
spaceship began sprinting towards the
pool of rocks. Ali had to make eye
movements to control the movement of
the spaceship. Even after 30 minutes of
being inside the VR world, Ali wasn’t
tired of playing the game, being the only
one in his entire family who didn’t wear
glasses, his eyes were incredibly sharp
and strong. After another 5 minutes, he
put off the VR headset.
Necron: “Let’s move on to the next test.”
Ali: “I am sorry…”
Necron: “Why?”
Ali: “You told me not to crash…”
Necron: “I know, but you did
excellently.”
Ali: “No, I didn’t crash the spaceship, I
steered in a pattern that made the
spaceship go 360 degrees and then the
headset crashed.”
Necron: (shocked) “Uhh…You didn’t
crash the spaceship, you crashed the
code.”
Zenith: “Your reflexes are on another
level, though your time missed Violet’s
just by some seconds, yet no one has ever
been able to crash the code or perform a
360.”
Ali: “I will take that as a compliment.”
Necron: “Now, onward to the next test…
now let’s check your knowledge.”
Ali: “I have to give a school exam?”
Necron: “Only PCM, that’s only
required.”
Ali: “Ok…”
Necron: “You have one hour to complete
the test, so take your time… there are 2
points for one question and -1 negative
marking.”
Ali: “Ok.”

Necron handed the question booklet to

Ali, some papers for rough work, a pen,
and the answer sheet. Necron took out her
stopwatch and started the timer for 1 hour.
Ali started by reading through the
booklet, which was completed in 5
minutes. Ali thought to himself, “It’s all
MCQ, so I don’t need to show the whole
process. I might need half an hour…”. As
time passed, the stopwatch ticked, and
Ali’s pen ran across the papers. After 20
minutes, Ali handed out his answer sheet
to Necron. She put it inside the OMR
scanner and after a second, it was on the
other side with the result on Necron’s
tablet, which she’s been holding all this
time. She walked up to him and said,
“Spectacular, you scored 98/100.”
Ali: “Where did the 2 marks go?”
Necron: “You left the 10th question.”
Ali: “It’s a mistake I usually commit,
leaving one question which never resulted
in getting me 100 per cent.”
Necron: “Yet, it’s splendid. I was seeing
your rough notes, your way of solving the
questions was totally out of the box.”
Ali: “Was that a compliment?”
Zenith: “I guess it was…Your record is
far above Violet’s, you beat her time by
10 whole minutes.”
Ali: “I am happy, I guess…?”
Necron: “Now, for the physical tests…”
Ali: “Ok…I got this.”
Necron: “I know that you have already
seen this treadmill beside me. You have to
run and then the force of opposition by
your feet will push the track backwards,
and the velocity of the track will be your
score. Ali was getting very happy inside
as he topped the first three tests and he
thought that he would easily win the
physical test as he was able to carry on a
toe to toe fight with Michael.
He ran as fast as he could, yet he felt that
the track was moving very slowly. He ran
faster and faster, but still, it was very
slow. Necron’s smile faded and so did
Zenith’s. They didn’t say anything good
this time, Necron only said, “Let’s move
on to testing your strength…”. Ali only
nodded in response, Necron took him to a
punching machine. Necron said, “Land
punches on this and I will note the force
exerted…” Ali hit his fist on the machine
with all the force he could exert. “OUCH!
It hurts!”, screamed Ali. The happiness on
Necron’s and Zenith’s faces disappeared
completely and so did their hopes.

Zenith: (sorrowfully) “Ali, you wait

outside the hut, I will be coming soon.”
Ali: “But…”
Zenith: “I said go out!”

Chapter 5: Ali’s
Rage
Ali left the place and walked back to the
elevator. He set the destination to be the
hut and in another moment, the tile took
him back to where he entered from the
hut. He sat down on a bench outside the
hut, in grief. All kinds of questions were
roaming around in his mind, ‘Why?… I
got all I got, yet I wasn’t able to…”. All
of a sudden, Violet came and sat beside
him. She was smiling, yet Ali didn’t even
blush a bit when he saw her.
Violet: “Did the test go well?”
Ali: “WHAT DO YOU THINK!”
Violet: “Woah…calm down…”
Ali: “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to…it’s just
that I am frustrated by how I performed in
the test.”
Violet: “A test can’t define your
personality.”
Ali: (sorrowfully) “I have lost more than
you think…”
Violet: (depressingly) “There’s no good
to dwell upon the past.”
Ali: “Are you okay? I think you are
crying.”
Violet: (removing a tear from her eye)
“No…It’s nothing. It’s just that…”

All of a sudden, 2 boys who were walking

nearby, came to them. One of them put
his hand on Violet’s shoulder and said,
“Come and get a shot with us, beauty…”.
Ali removed his hand from her shoulder.

Ali: “Leave her alone!”

???: “Messing with Sawyer? You better
not interfere, you brat!”
Ali: “I won’t repeat…Leave her alone!”
Sawyer: “Jakob, let’s show this brat who
he’s dealing with.”
Violet: “You must deal with me first!”
Jakob: “Surprise!”
All of a sudden, Jakob electrocuted Violet
using a Taser and in the next instant, she
couldn’t move.

Sawyer: “Good, now there is no one to

interfere in our fight.”
Ali: “Come one by one or all at once, I
will stop you all, The Almighty is always
by my side.”
Jakob: “Then eat this!...”
Suddenly, Jakob took out a knife and
forced it towards Ali to stab him. All of
this happened so fast that Ali didn’t get
the time to move sideways to dodge the
impact…

SWAP:
Zenith was sitting depressed in Necron’s
lab when she came back with Ali’s report
in her hands. Her disappointment was
reflected by her facial expression.

Zenith: “Is there any hope?”

Necron: “No…the General told me that
his physical abilities are too weak to be
admitted into the Executrix.”
Zenith: “The General might be younger
than us, but he uses the whole of his
authority…”
Necron: “What should we do?”
Zenith: “His heart will be shattered
again.”
Necron: “What do you mean?”
Zenith: “Did you hear that recently a large
house caught fire?”
Necron: “Yes, I also heard that the whole
family ceased to exist.”
Zenith: “Except one.”
Necron: “You mean…?”
Zenith: “Indeed I mean Ali, he witnessed
the deaths of his family with his own
eyes.”
Necron: “The accident might have caused
him a lot of pain.”
Zenith: “It was no accident, the house was
intentionally set on fire by…”
All of a sudden Necron landed her eyes
on the large CCTV monitor. She pointed
out something strange and informed
Zenith about it. They saw Ali, struggling
against 2 scoundrels.

Necron: “We must save him, or else he

will die…”
Zenith: (holding her hand) “Wait! Just
broadcast this to everyone in the
Executrix.”
Necron: “What why?”
Zenith: “Do as I say!”
Necron: “Ok.”

Necron broadcasted the CCTV live

footage to every screen at the Executrix
HQ. After some time, John came running
to Zenith.
John: (worried and panting) “Zenith!
Help me, my daughter is in danger.”
Zenith: “Just wait and watch…”
John: “What do you mean…isn’t that the
same kid from before? How could you
send such a weakling to save my
daughter?!”

He tried to run but Zenith stopped him.

John: “Just let me go!”

Zenith: “Don’t you believe me?”
John: “I believe in you but you know, she
is the only one….”
Zenith: “I understand, but please believe
me, if it gets out of hand, then I will
myself go to save her…Necron zooms it
in.”

SWAP:
Blood splat in front of Violet’s eyes. Ali
stopped the knife with his hand. It was
piercing him through the skin.

Sawyer: “How is this possible?”

Ali: (in rage) “I am shocked as you
are…”

Ali held Jakob’s arm, ducked and slid

underneath so fast that Jakob was thrown
over to the wall behind Ali, Jakob didn’t
get time to react, so he crashed straight
and broke his head at the wall. Jakob’s
head was bleeding badly. Sawyer
screamed, “Jakob! Are you okay friend?!
…How dare you hurt my friend, I will kill
you!”. Ali thought, “He may be a
scoundrel like Michael, but at least he is
loyal to his friend…”. Ali took out the
knife from his palm, while Sawyer dashed
towards Ali. He kicked hard but Ali
jumped in the air and gave an intense
roundhouse kick to Sawyer. Sawyer was
thrown to the ground, and his face was hit
with a rock on the ground, so his face was
pouring blood. He ran towards his friend
Jakob, carried him over his shoulders and
ran away. Ali thought, “He could have
run away leaving his unconscious friend,
but he didn’t…and that’s what makes the
difference…”. Ali then lifted Violet and
carried her inside, he didn’t have a card,
but he found one hanging from Violet’s
collar. He took it and pushed the switches
in the same order as Zenith. Ali might not
have an insane memory but the password
was easy, 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 1 2 2 3 3 3 4
4 4 4, and to his surprise, the card swiper
appeared. He then swiped Violet’s card
after which the regulator glowed green.
He then stood on the floor tile, with
Violet on his shoulders, they got down
through the elevator. As Ali reached the
surface below, he found Necron, John and
Zenith waiting there as if a big celebrity is
going to come soon.

The tile reached the surface, and Ali got

down. Zenith approached him, put his
hand on his shoulder, and looking at John
he said, “See, I told you to believe me…
Johnny!”. John replied, “Ok, I admit, you
were right…Zenny!”.
Necron: “Will you two ever grow up?”
Ali: “Sorry to interrupt…but Violet’s
paralyzed, and I can’t say when will I be
able to hold her.”
Zenith: “Oh yes, Johnny, you forgot about
your daughter…”
John: “Zenny, you …shoot it!”
Necron: “No, I don’t think you people
will ever grow up.”
Intercom: “Attention everyone! The Spy
General is approaching, so please make
way for him .”
Zenith: “Today is your lucky day, the
General wants to meet you.”
Ali: “How is this General of yours?”
Zenith: “He is a smart and respectable
person, we all obey him, he is a boy of
your age.”
Ali: “If he’s so young, then why do you
obey him?”
Zenith: “Shut up! You will create a big
problem for all of us. Just bow down and
don’t get up until I say so.”
Ali: “Ok.”
In a few seconds, a short person was
accompanied by two guards on either side
of him. All bowed down and so did Ali.
As the General approached, he was
shocked.

???: “Ali? What are you doing here?”

Ali: (getting up) “Do I know you…wait,
Kaishin! What are you doing here?”
Ali tried to embrace Kaishin but the
guards stopped him.
Kaishin: “Do away you loyal guards.”
The guards subsided.
Ali: “Why are they protecting you?”
Kaishin: “It’s just a privilege of being the
Spy General.”
Ali: “Ok…Wait, WHAT!?”
Kaishin: “Yes, I am the Spy General, well
I want to find the hero who fought so
bravely to save Violet.”
Ali: “Oh yes…sorry Violet, I forgot that
you are still on my back. Don’t worry, I
will get you cured immediately.”

Ali ran and found a signboard with

directions towards the infirmary, he ran to
the infirmary and without even meeting
the receptionist, carried her to the room
titled ‘Operation Theatre’. Fortunately, no
patient was being treated at that time, so
Ali ran inside and laid Violet on the
stretcher. All of a sudden, the head
surgeon reached there.
Ali: “Doctor! Please save her, she was
electrocuted by a taser.”
Surgeon: “If it is a case of paralysis, then
we should act immediately. Bring that
machine with ECT written on it. John will
be mad if I don’t save his daughter.”
Ali: “Ok!”
Ali brings the machine on a wheeled
stand with the label of ECT. The Head
Surgeon sets the charge to the maximum
and gives shock therapy to Violet. In an
instant, Violet tried to move her arms and
the next moment, she got up and was
walking like before. Violet reached Ali
and held him by his palm.
Violet: “I may have gone paralyzed but I
saw everything, you risked your life for
me, carried me on your back till you
reached the infirmary, and even
disrespected the General to get me cured
immediately, Thank you very much.”
Ali: “No, I should be the one thanking
you, I would never have awakened my
hidden potential again if you were not so
sympathetic with me. And most
importantly, thank you Doc, if you
weren’t here then I would have been
hopeless.”
Surgeon: “So modest you are, aren’t you?
…wait, aren’t you the hero who fought so
bravely for Violet?”
Ali: “That I am…”
Surgeon: “Oh my god! I thought that I
would have to waste some of my holidays
to meet you.”
Ali: “Thank you again Doctor…”
Surgeon: “My name is Dr. Elijah.”
Ali: “Thank you, Dr. Elijah.”
Ali bid farewell to Dr Elijah and started to
walk back with Violet. As they reached
the main entrance, they found Zenith,
John, Necron and Kaishin with his guards.
John, saw his daughter approaching, he
ran and hugged her.
John: “I am glad that you are okay.”
Kaishin: (to Ali) “Could you forgive me,
Ali?”
Ali: “Hmm?”
Kaishin: “I hid this secret from you all
these years, I even denied your admission
without even seeing your name on the
report, I only focused on the physical
part.”
Ali: “You remember those days when you
hated and lived away from me.”
Kaishin: “Yes.”
Ali: “Was I angry then?”
Kaishin: “No.”
Ali: “Then how can you think that I will
be angry with you now, friend?”
Kaishin: “You are as wise as before…
thank you.”
Ali: “Now, would you reconsider taking
me into the Executrix.”
Kaishin: “Yes, but you must take up an
oath before…”
Ali: “Ok what is it?”

Kaishin took out a paper and handed it to

Ali.

Kaishin: “Read this out loud with your

hand on the heart.”
Ali: (reading from the paper) “I, Ali
Affan, take the oath to serve the Executrix
for the rest of my life. I will keep this
secret deep inside my heart and will never
reveal it unless in the case of an
emergency. If I ever break this oath then,
may my life get destroyed and I be killed
on the spot.”
Kaishin: “Good.”
Zenith: “So, from now on, we are
comrades.”
Ali: “So, Kaishin…”
Kaishin: “Now you will call me General.”
Ali: “Ok…General.”
All of a sudden, Kaishin received a call
from Abhijeet. He picks it up.
Abhijeet: “Kaishin, Where are you?”
Kaishin: “I am at my home right now…”
Abhijeet: “Did you know, Ali has
disappeared, he is nowhere to be found.”
Kaishin: “Oh yes, well I am busy right
now, so just know this…Ali is in right
hands.”
Abhijeet: “Wait, Kaishin, Hello…”
Kaishin ended the call. All of a sudden, a
third person who looked like one of his
guards came with a letter.

Kaishin: “Where were you all this time?”

Guard: “Sir, an order has come from the
Leader himself.”
Kaishin: “Read it out loud.”
Guard: “It is hereby declared that Spy
General Kaishin Sriwastwa has been
demoted to the rank of a member of the
Elite Task Force. This is the result of his
indecent and dominant behaviour.
It is also declared that Ali Affan, the hero
who fought so bravely, will be recruited
to the Elite Task Force.”
Kaishin: “What does it mean?”
Guard: “We no longer work under you,
let’s leave boys.”
The guard left as well as Kaishin’s
guards.
Ali: “What did you do?”
Kaishin: “You remember SP?”
Ali: “Yes.”
Kaishin: “I tried to…”
Ali: “Leave it, I know what you did…”
This time Ali received a call, it was from
Aki. Ali answered the call.
Ali: “How are you?”
Aki: (crying) “Hi Ali, I understand your
pain today…”
Ali: “What happened?”
Aki: “My parents and my brother…they
passed away in a car accident.”
Ali: (in sorrow) “Oh…I see.”
Aki: “The pain is unbearable.”
Ali: “Don’t cry, I have a surprise for
you.”
Aki: “Wait…someone’s here.”
Ali: “NO! Don’t open the door!”
Aki: (shocked) “Ali! it’s Michael…”
The call dropped and Ali just kept saying
‘Hello’, for some minutes.
Violet: “What happened? Are you okay?”
Ali: “Kaishin, Aki…”
Kaishin: “What happened to him?”
Ali: “He suffered the same fate as I…we
must save him, Michael has reached his
place, he will kill Aki.”
Violet: “Michael…do you mean Michael
Cruz?”
Ali: “Yes.”
Violet: (sorrowfully) “Oh, I see, he
suffered the same fate.”
Kaishin: “Ali, calm down, as much as I
know Aki, he will not lose to Michael…
believe me.”
Ali: “Ok, I believe in you.”
Violet: “Should we bring him here?”
Ali: “That will be great but I have taken
an oath.”
Zenith: “Did I reveal to you where we are
going?”
Ali: “Oh I get it, Zenith you will need his
address first. It is…”
 Chapter 6: The
Torment is at The
Door
6 months later:

Ali was making his bed in the morning

after waking up. He then approached his
closet. After some time, he saw Aki
coming out of the washroom.
Aki: “So, you’re awake?”
Ali: “What do you think?”
Aki: “Ok…”
Ali: “By the way, did you see Violet?”
Aki: “Well, I think she woke up earlier…
This she does usually.”
Ali: “Well, I just wanted to…”
Aki: “It’s natural for humans to crave
love, but it’s not usual for you to talk
about a girl. You never fell for anyone,
you even rejected P25.”
Ali: “Well, I see you kept your promise
well, I know it was hard to reject such a
good lady’s feelings, but I am not into this
kind of thing.”
Aki: “She was the most beautiful of them
all, she never talked about Michael, while
all the others always talked about him.
They fell for him, just because he was
rich and handsome.”
Ali: “Well…He is another example of
‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, but on
the negative side.”
Aki: “I still think that you should not have
rejected her, she was perfect.”
Ali: “In all these years I have known you,
there hasn’t been a single day when you
didn’t talk about a girl.”
Aki: “You know me…”
Ali: (worried) “Yes I do, but why do you
have to talk about girls today?”
Aki: “The point is that you always ask me
about Violet, ‘Where is she?… When did
she wake up?…etc.”
Ali: “What do you mean by etc.”
Aki: “End of Thinking Capacity.”
Ali: “Your thinking capacity is limitless
when it comes to girls.”
Aki: “I will take that as a compliment.”
Ali: “Just shoot it…I don’t know what
you want to say about me and Violet.”
Aki: “I want to say that, at last, you fell
for someone, and it was no other than
Violet. I notice that you are always so
concerned about her.”
Ali: (blushing) “No I don’t, I just asked
you her whereabouts, as she is always
absent when we wake up.”
Aki: “Zenith also wakes up early, you
never asked about him…that’s
suspicious.”

Kaishin wakes up due to all the noise

created by Ali and Aki. He walks up to
them.
Kaishin: (yawning) “Can’t you guys…be
silent, I am trying to sleep.”

Ali: “How much more will you sleep, it’s

already 7 AM, the cafeteria opens at…oh
god, it opens at 6, we might miss our
breakfast if we don’t hurry.”
Aki: “Yes you are right.”
Kaishin: “Ok, I will join you people
later.”
Ali: “I know you wouldn’t but ok, we will
wait.”

Ali and Aki left the room and walked

towards the cafeteria, as they reached the
cafeteria, they found that every table was
engaged but people began to offer their
seats to Ali and Aki. Ali refused as he was
modest. In one corner, they saw Zenith,
Necron and Violet on a mostly vacant
table. Necron called out to them, “Hey
Ali! Aki! Join us, we have a lot of
space…”. Before she could complete her
sentence, Aki sprinted and quickly
acquired the seat next to Violet. Ali
thought, “And he was telling me that I
was the one who was dying for her…”.
He approached the table and sat beside
Zenith. They began to enjoy their meal
while Ali stared at Violet.
Ali: “Violet, where is your father? I
haven’t seen him since last week, is he
sick?”
Violet: “No, he’s been called to the
Western HQ, there’s a conference being
held.”
Ali: “Oh, I see.”
Zenith: “By the way, Ali, do you know
what date it is today?”
Ali: “Yes, why?”
Necron: “Do you know that today is a
special day?”
Ali: “What, Sunday?”
Violet: “Not Sunday, it is an event that
comes every year.”
Ali: “Do you mean the conference?”
Aki: “No, the event first happened in the
year 2009.”
Ali: “Ironically, it’s my…wait that’s my
birth date!”
Everyone else: “Absolutely, Happy
Birthday Ali!”
Ali: “How did you people know?”
Aki: “Who could have told them except
me?.”
Ali: “Well, thank you, friends, I mean, I
forgot my birthday.”
Zenith and Necron handed a long wooden
box to him, it had a red ribbon and Ali’s
name was carved on the side. Ali
unpacked it and found a sheathed sword
in the shape of an Indian Talwar. Ali took
it out, unsheathed it and observed it, from
all sides.
Zenith: “It’s made up of Necronium,
harder than Tungsten and stronger than
Diamond, it is enough to slice this table in
a single slash.”
Necron: “As you might have guessed,
Necronium was discovered by me, it
always comes in handy…”
Zenith: “Just like you.”
Aki: “Hey Zenith, I also want…”
Necron: (angrily) “Shut up! As I was
saying; you see that button on the
handle?”
Ali: (pointing towards the button) “This
one?”
Necron: “Yes, press it but be careful.”

Ali pressed the button and all of a sudden,

the lamina of the Talwar’s blade began to
glow as if lightning was flowing through
its perimeter.

Necron: “Be careful, at this point this

sword can slice through anything, cutting
through walls will feel like slicing a
cake.”
Ali pushed the button again and the glow
vanished. He then put the Talwar back
into the sheath and began putting it inside
the box when he saw another gift inside.
It was a leather equipment belt. Ali took it
out, wore it and hung the Talwar on the
belt.
Ali: “Thank you, Zenith, Thank you
Necron. I love your presents.”
Violet: “Now it’s my turn.”
Violet gave Ali a casket with another
ribbon. This time Ali’s name was carved
on the lid. He opened the casket and
found a pair of gloves.
Violet: “Do you like them?”
Ali: “Well…Yes, they fit my hands
perfectly.”
Violet: “Concentrate your energy towards
your palm.”
Ali: “Okay…”

As Ali concentrated his energy on his

palm, he found that a ball of lightning was
emerging over the gloves.
Ali: “What is this?!”
Violet: “Well, when you concentrate your
energy on your palm, the gloves gather
free electrons and convert them into the
form of a sphere of energy, I thought that
it might come in handy.”
Aki: “Just like…”

All of a sudden, Kaishin entered the

cafeteria with a person who had a white
blanket on himself with two holes in his
eyes. He came towards Ali and said,
“Long time no see…”. Ali replied,
“Wait…You can’t be…”. “Yes I am…”,
said the ghost and removed the blanket, it
was Abhijeet underneath the blanket.
Ali: “I am glad to meet you, friend.”
Abhijeet: “Me too.”
Ali: “How did you reach here?”
Abhijeet: (seeing Violet) “Well…Oh hi
mam, are you free tonight?”
Violet: “Excuse me?!”
Ali: “Forget him, he’s been like this since
I knew him first.”
Abhijeet: “Sorry, but she’s just so
beautiful that…”
Aki: “Abhijeet, Ali has…”
Ali: “Shut up Aki! What did I tell you this
morning?”
Aki: “Ok, Ok.”
Abhijeet: (revealing a flat gift box) “By
the way, Happy Birthday.”
Ali: “You brought a gift for me on your
first day?”
Abhijeet: “Well, Aki and Kaishin helped
me prepare it.”

Ali opened the gift and what he saw

surprised him more than ever.

Ali: “Is it…”

Abhijeet: “Yes it is…”
Aki: “The symbol of the Alliance.”
Ali: “It’s spectacular.”

The gift was a wall hanging with lights in

the shape of their Alliance’s symbol.

Ali: “It’s one of the most beautiful gifts I

ever received. I just wish Shubham was
watching this.”
Zenith: “Well, I don’t want to interrupt
you but what is the Alliance?”
Ali: “Well, you see that…Everybody
duck!”

Ali ducked under the table and everyone

else, although surprised, did the same.
Kaishin asked, “What happened? Why do
you want us to duck?”. Ali replied, “Just
wait…”. Kaishin said, “Well, I think this
is absurd, I am going up…” and began to
get out when the process was half-
complete, a tremendous earthquake took
place and his chest got damaged as it was
hanging on the bench.

Ali: “Now, we can get back up.”

Kaishin: (getting up) “What was that?”
Aki: “I think it was an…earthquake!”
Kaishin: “Like I didn’t know.”
Abhijeet: “Then why did you ask such a
silly question?”

Necron suddenly turned pale and got

worried. She ran out of the cafeteria and
over to her lab.

After some time, everyone else reached

the lab, they found Necron with one of
her hands on her table and covering her
eyes with her other forearm. It turned out
that she was crying. Zenith walked up to
her and put his hand on her shoulder. In
an instant, she screamed, “Zenith…”,
hugged him tightly and continued
weeping.

Zenith: (blushing a lot) “Necron, it’s

embarrassing in front of these kids.”
Kaishin: “Say this during the…”
Ali: (stopping him) “Kaishin, it’s not the
right time to say this. This matter is
serious.”
Necron: (crying) “Zenith…it’s here.”
Zenith: (shocked) “You mean…”
Necron: “Yes I mean the great torment.”
Kaishin: “We are done for.”
Zenith: “How much time do we have?”
Necron: “Only 6 months…”
 Chapter 7: We
can’t sit silent!
Necron gradually stopped crying as
Zenith brushed away her tears. All of a
sudden, Ali recalled something.

Ali: “Zenith! I have a solution.”

Zenith: “What is it?”
Ali: “I just recalled that when matter and
antimatter fuse, a lot of energy is
released…”
Aki: “I think I get what you are trying to
say.”
Ali: “If we can gather at least one gram of
antimatter, we can combine it with some
matter. The explosion might be able to
drift these galaxies apart.”
Aki: “Not just any matter, but matter in
the state of ‘quark-gluon plasma’. I have
heard that it was so hot that it was formed
some milliseconds after the Big Bang.”
Zenith: “We have antimatter, and suppose
we also get quark-gluon plasma, but how
we will reach the galactical conjunction in
6 months?”
Necron: “Zenith, I guess we should use
Chimaera.”
Zenith: “Oh yes, I forgot about her.”
Kaishin: “What is Chimaera?”
Necron: “It is an astrominer which I
designed some years ago.”
Kaishin: “But I recall that I rejected your
idea when you proposed it to me.”
Zenith: “Yes you did, but I and Necron
always worked on it secretly.”
Kaishin: “But you were always at my
duty, when did you work?”
Necron: “We work together at night and
till the next morning, we then take some
coffee and continue our duty during the
day.”
Aki: “That’s why Zenith is always absent
when we wake up. I thought that he woke
up early.”
Kaishin: “Oh, and I thought that during
the night time, you two…”
Ali: “Just shoot it, we are well acquainted
with your mentality.”
Aki: “Yes, you always think like that.”
Ali: “You are no less than him.”
Necron: “Well, according to my
calculations, Chimaera can take 5 of us to
the conjunction in 5 months.”
Abhijeet: “Which means that 6 of us can
reach there in 6 months.”
Necron: “It doesn’t work like that…well I
can manage the quark-gluon plasma.”
Zenith: “Excellent!”
Ali: “When are we leaving?”
Necron: “I will announce this to the
whole Executrix, we will disperse for now
and meet at the southeastern hatch. You
have 24 hours to prepare for the trip.”
Zenith: “You people leave, I will come in
some time.”
Everyone else: “Ok.”

Everybody left except for Zenith and

Necron.

Zenith: “Now, tell me what you didn’t

say.”
Necron: “What do you mean?”
Zenith: “I know, that you are hiding
something.”
Zenith neared Necron so much that in
another moment, Zenith’s face was just
above hers.

Necron: (blushing) “Zenith, please back a

little.”
Zenith: “Why?”
Necron: (blushing) “I am feeling
uncomfortable…”
Zenith: “Oh?… In that case, I will try to
get even closer.”
Necron: (blushing more) “Zenith…I can’t
stop myself…I love you with all my
heart.”
Zenith: (blushing a little bit) “I feel the
same every time I see you…”
Necron: (blushing with tears) “Oh
Zenith…I always hoped someday these
problems will end and we will live
happily ever after…But reality doesn’t
want us to…”
Zenith: (blushing) “Tell me…what you
ceased to tell then.”
Necron: (sorrowfully) “Ok…I will tell
you…but promise me that you will not
risk your life for me.”
Zenith: “I can’t…”
Necron: (with tears) “One of us will have
to sacrifice our life by initiating the
fusion. The explosion will be so great that
he will not get the opportunity to escape.”
Zenith: “Why you didn’t tell us then?”
Necron: “Because I knew that you will be
the one who will offer to sacrifice your
life…I know you well.”
Zenith: (with tears) “You didn’t tell us
this, just because you wanted to save me.”
Necron: (with tears) “I don’t want to lose
you…”
Zenith: (holding her cheek) “Neither do I
want to lose you…”

Zenith and Necron neared further, her

crystal blue eyes met his brown ones, so
much that at last their lips met each other,
and they kissed continuously…

SWAP:
Ali, Aki, Kaishin, and Abhijeet were back
in their room. All were packing their
stuff, Abhijeet gathered all the hygiene
and medical supplies, while Aki packed
everyone’s clothes. Kaishin was going
through the space book, Ali gave him
years back. Ali thought, “He kept it safe
all these years? I thought he didn’t like
it…”.

Ali: “Wait…Where is Violet!?”

Kaishin: “She might have gone to gather
some food.”
Ali: “Then why didn’t she say? We need
to find her.”
Abhijeet: “Looks like you fell for
someone.”
Aki: “That’s what I am trying to say since
morning.”
Ali: (blushing) “No, it isn’t like that…I
just worry about her.”
Abhijeet: “Why do you worry about her
so much?”
Ali: “You know what, shoot it. I don’t
care where she goes. Let me focus on my
packing.”
Ali began to pack equipment, weaponry,
and power supplies… all of a sudden he
saw a pendant. He said to himself, “It’s
the very pendant which saved my life…”.
His mother’s final words, “I SAID RUN
AWAY!”, echoed in his mind. All of a
sudden, he remembered about Michael.
He thought, “It’s all my fault, I should
have been dominant over him, if I had,
my mother would have been alive…”.
Abhijeet came to him.
Abhijeet: (sadly) “I know what you are
thinking, but it’s no use in convicting
yourself for a crime you didn’t commit.”
Ali: (angrily) “You wouldn’t understand.”
Abhijeet: (sadly) “I know that feeling…
You may think that I have come here for
your birthday but…my parents are
also…”
Aki: “Yes, he didn’t tell you that you will
be worried about your birthday.”
Abhijeet: “We all are here, thanks to
Kaishin who let us in.”
Ali: “What happened to your parents?”
Abhijeet: (depressingly) “Mine was even
worse than yours, I was tied to with rope
and my parents were slaughtered in front
of my eyes. I screamed and cried, but it
was of no use.”
Ali: “How you escaped Michael?”
Abhijeet: “He stabbed my arms
continuously with a needle…after which I
fainted and when I woke up, I called
Kaishin and Aki. Luckily, they brought
me here, I thought to call you as well but I
remembered the date and didn’t want to
worry you.”
Aki: “Fate may have hit us differently but
we are here for to the same reason…”
Kaishin: “I don’t know that pain, I was
orphaned since birth, I spent most of my
life here. I served in many missions and
they made me General but now…”
Ali: “I am going to train…I will come
back by night.”
Aki: “Ok, bye.”

Ali left for the training hall, he trained

there with his new Talwar.

12 Hours Later:

Ali was still training, he was panting

heavily and had cut through a lot already.
He was extremely tired and at last, when
he thought of leaving for the room, he
thought of going out to observe the night
sky. “It’s an isolated place so there will
not be any light pollution, I guess…”,
thought he. He approached the elevator,
went upwards and approached the bench
near the hut. To his surprise he found
Violet sitting there and observing the
night sky, which was shimmering with
stars and even the Milky Way Galaxy was
visible. He felt a shock when he came to
her.
Ali: “Mind if I join?”
Violet: “Oh…yes.”
Ali sat beside her and started to look at
the night sky.
Ali: “Beautiful, isn’t it?”
Violet: “The sky?”
Ali: (blushing) “Well I wanted to ask,
why do you wake up so early?”
Violet: “I do my training every morning.”
Ali: “Oh I understand, you have to remain
strong and fast.”
Violet: “May I ask you a question?”
Ali: “Yes, you may.”
Violet: “When we met first, were you
blushing?”
Ali: (blushing) “Well, I won’t lie…so yes,
I was struck by your stunning looks.”
Violet: “Oh, ok I get it. Even Kaishin
tried to coax me into a relationship.”
Ali: “I know him.”
Violet: “Can I trust you?”
Ali: (hesitating) “Uh…Yes, you can.”
Violet: (nearing him) “Please keep this a
secret between us only.”
Ali: (nearing further) “Yes, I will.”
Violet: “It’s that, I wanted to talk about
Michael Cruz…”
Ali: (shocked) “Ok, I want to hear now.”
Violet: “Please help me take my revenge
on him.”
Ali: “What for?”
Violet: “It’s that, he cheated on me.”
Ali: “Well, I guess that’s too small a
reason you are telling.”
Violet: “Let me elaborate…It was years
ago, I had just entered my teenage. He
was my childhood friend, I was attracted
to him. I proposed to him and he accepted
at once. I was one of the happiest women
back then. We hung out together, ate
together, did everything together…”
Ali: “Everything? That’s kind of
suspicious.”
Violet: “I don’t understand what you are
speaking about.”
Ali: “You don’t know that there’s another
meaning to ‘did everything together’?”
Violet: (confused) “No, what is it?”
Ali: “Well…looks like your father has
raised you well… continue your tale.”
Violet: “As I was saying, we were
together at all times, but as time passed,
he began to ignore me. All of our together
moments stopped completely. I thought
he is busy but one day I saw him in the
storage room. I ran towards him to say hi,
but my happiness faded as my vision
widened. He was kissing a girl in the
corner, my whole world shattered in a
second. I walked up to him and slapped
him. Seeing me slap him, the other girl
ran away. He just said that we were over
and left the place.
Since then I cried every day for him,
remembering the beautiful moments we
spent together until one night when I was
sleeping, I was awakened by two people
with black masks. They tied my hands
and feet and carried me outside the hut,
and then put me in a field very far from
the hut. I found my father tied as well,
and also my mother. She was sitting in
front of us when a third person with the
same black mask came behind her.
He broke all of her nails, tore all her hair
and even scarred her neck with a knife. I
screamed and my father cried at the
madness, while he looked satisfied. After
that he took out a big rapier from his back
and slid it through her heart, ultimately
killing her. I was crying but I couldn’t do
anything, after that he continuously
stabbed her corpse to torture us. At last,
when he was about to hurt my father,
Zenith arrived on the scene. Zenith was
taking a walk with Necron and Kaishin.
When they saw us, they ran to save us.
Kaishin faced the shorter masked man,
and with his martial art skills, he quickly
defeated him. Next was Necron, she used
her laser gun to get the other down on his
knees. At last, when the other two were
down, Zenith was fighting with the third
who killed my mother. Zenith, the most
powerful in all of the Executrix, was
facing a problem fighting toe-to-toe with
the masked man. At last, Zenith punched
him so hard that his mask broke and it
was revealed to be Michael Cruz. My
heart shattered again, the one I loved with
all my heart was the one who killed my
mother in front of my eyes. Michael ran
away, the other two were left by us, as
they were supposedly dead.
After that day, I vowed to never fall for a
man again. I trained since that day, harder
than ever to be able to take my
revenge…”
Violet began crying after saying these
words, she lay in Ali’s lap and cried a lot.
Ali sympathised with her and at last, she
embraced him in sorrow.
Violet: (crying) “Tell me, what’s your
biggest fear.”
Ali: “It’s very odd, I am afraid that will I
ever meet the girl the Almighty destined
me for… or will my end be accompanied
by my good deeds or my bad deeds.”
Violet said nothing and held his hand, Ali
was blushing more than ever… there was
only him, her and the beautiful night
sky…
 Chapter 8: A
Terrible Loss
The next morning:
A large crowd was present at the hatch to
see off their heroes. Ali, Kaishin, Zenith,
Violet and Necron were standing on a
stage set up by the people. They were
wearing spacesuits. John was speaking on
the podium.

John: “Our respected Leader wasn’t able

to make it to the event, so I will be giving
the speech in place of him.
As we all know that there have been
major earthquakes happening lately, the
reason for which is that our galaxy, The
Milky Way is drifting towards and soon is
going to merge with the Andromeda and
the Maffei galaxies. A lot of star systems
will be destroyed in the process and our
solar system is expected to be one of
them.
A team was made by us, the team will
travel to the conjunction of these galaxies
and cause a fusion of matter and
antimatter, the impact of which will be
enough to push back the galaxies for
some time.
While they are gone, the rest of us will
travel to the TRAPPIST-1 star system, the
nearest star system with the least risk. If
the mission is accomplished, all will have
to retreat to Earth.
Today, we are here to depart our heroes.
While 5 of us will travel to the
conjunction, 3 of us will guide them on
their way.
Ali, Zenith, Necron, Kaishin and Violet
put on their helmets and began climbing
into the Chimaera. As they began to
climb, Ali and Kaishin were met up by
Aki and Abhijeet.
Aki: “What do you think? Will the
mission be accomplished?”
Ali: “Indeed it will, you know that the
Almighty is always by my side.”
Abhijeet: “Once you come back, I will
take you to a restaurant.”
Kaishin: “Let me guess, I will be the one
who will pay, won’t I?”
Abhijeet: “How did you know?”
Aki: “He knows you well…”
Meanwhile, John embraced his daughter
and said the following words, “Daughter,
you matter a lot to me. Never forget that I
loved you more than anything else. I don’t
want to separate from you but the
Universe demands that, so please promise
me that you will give your best to serve
the mission…”. Violet replied, “Father
it’s not my first mission, you must
understand that I have grown up now…”.
John replied, kissed her on the temple and
began to walk towards Ali.
John: “Ali, I have something to tell you.”
Ali: “Yes, I am all ears John sir.”
John: “While you are on the mission,
promise me that you will guard my
daughter even if it demands your life.”
Ali: “I promise, I will.”
John: “Thank you.”
Kaishin: “Why not me?”
John: “Due to obvious reasons. Farewell!
Farewell! Farewell!”

John left for his ship and didn’t look back.

As Ali and Kaishin began to climb into
Chimaera, a shouting voice was heard.
“Ali! Wait!”, said the voice. Ali looked
behind and found that it was Dr Elijah
who has come to meet him.
Ali: “Oh, hi Doc.”
Dr Elijah: (panting) “Take these…before
you go.”
He handed out a case with many pills.
Ali: “Thank you but we have medical
supplies.”
Dr. Elijah: “These are not ordinary pills,
they are specially made by me and my
staff. One pill has compressed nutrients
worth a whole day’s meal, along with a
catalyst which will increase respiration
and circulation by 10 times. Even if an
exhausted person takes one, he will get
super energized and be able to carry out a
whole day’s work in an hour. It does not
have any major side effects except that
once the effect is over, one will be tired
for the rest of the day until he eats
another. It can heal the worst of wounds
in an instant…Please take it, you might
need them.”
Ali: “Thank you, Farewell Dr. Elijah.”
Dr Elijah: (leaving) “Farewell! Ali The
Great!”
Dr. Elijah walked away and Ali put the
case into his equipment belt.

As Ali got inside, he saw everyone else

fastening their seatbelts. Ali got to his seat
and fastened his seatbelt as well.
Kaishin: “You are late.”
Ali: “I am well aware of that.”
Necron takes over the control panel while
Zenith turns on all the switches.

Necron: (on the transmitter) “Ok John,

open the hatch.”
John: (on the transmitter) “Ok, it’s
opening.”

The hatch begins to open and in under a

minute it was almost open

John: (on transmitter) “Almost…Yes,

now the hatch is perfectly open Necron.”
Necron: “In t-minus 10 seconds… 10 … 9
… 8 … 7 … 6 … 5…4…3…2…1…
Launch!”

As soon as the countdown reaches 0,

Necron pulls the lever and Chimaera
dashes into the atmosphere with a little
vibration and in a second it was out of it.

Necron: “Ready for Hyperjump?”

Everyone else: “Yes we are…”
Kaishin: “Won’t we crash in the asteroid
field?”
Zenith: “Chimaera is an astrominer.”
Kaishin: “Then I have no problem
Necron: “Then be it!”

Necron pushed a button on the lever and

then Chimaera travelled towards the
conjunction breaking the light barrier and
tearing into time-space…

**********************************
3 Months Later:
Ali was sitting on his berth when Violet
entered the room.
Violet: “Mind if I join?”
Ali: “Not at all…”
Violet: “You look sad…”
Ali: “I am just thinking, if we cease to
accomplish the mission, will I ever get the
chance to take my revenge?”
Violet: (nearing him) “I also think the
same, but I always wonder, why life has
to be harsh on us.”
Ali: (nearing her) “Life gave little
pleasure to the good and problems to the
evil. However, he deeds of the good and
the evil shall be repaid in full. There’s no
stopping to that.”
Violet: (nearing further) “In the 9 months
I have known you, I have found you to be
very god-fearing… you always go on
saying that the Almighty is always on
your side… The night, when we were
talking, you said that you don’t lie… Why
are you so concerned about your
conscience?”
Ali: (nearing further) “It was that day
when I committed a sin I can’t say, I
prayed to God that I be forgiven and my
conscience be made stronger. I was then
envisioned with a dream showing my
dreams have been achieved by me. Since
then, I became god-fearing and the
Almighty has been by my side.”
Violet: (looking up to him in a seductive
manner) “I never wanted a man in my life
ever again… I was afraid to lose a loved
one again, but you made me understand
that good people exist as well.”
Ali: (looking down at her in a satisfied
manner) “Always remember this,
‘However bad the world may be, the good
shall never be overpowered by the evil.’”

Violet and Ali neared further but all of a

sudden, they felt a quake and the alarm
went blaring, at its noise they rushed to
the cockpit. They found Necron
panicking, while Zenith and Kaishin
reached following them.

Ali: “What happened?”

Necron: “One of our engines has been
damaged.”
Violet: “You said that we will be safe
from asteroids, didn’t you?”
Necron: “It was not an asteroid but the
magnetic field of a magnetar.”
Zenith: “Can’t we fix it?”
Necron: “We can but it demands one of us
to be left out, in a hazard with the
potential to get one of us annihilated. He
may be chained to the ship but the risk is
also great.”
Zenith: “I will go.”
Necron: “No Zenith.”
Zenith: “Necron, let me go…”
Ali: “Zenith, you should listen to her, you
are a very useful asset for the Executrix, if
something were to happen to you, the
Executrix will suffer.”
Zenith: “Then, whom we should send?”
Ali: “Let that be me.”
Kaishin: “Don’t try to be a hero in front
of this girl, even I can go for repairing the
engine.”
Necron: “Well, we should rather send no
one than you.”
Kaishin: “That was a joke, wasn’t it?”
All others went silent for some minutes.
Ali: “Not bigger than you.”
Kaishin: “Name one thing in which you
are better than me, if you are.”
Ali: “Which one!”
Violet: “Don’t give him a hard time. It is
hard for him to find one reason out of
thousands of them.”
Kaishin: “Am I so useless?”
Ali: “Well, no.”
Kaishin: “Then let me go.”
Ali: “Your usefulness is what makes you
so important to lose.”
Kaishin: “What do you mean?”
Ali: “All of you are a great asset for the
Executrix, Necron you are the smartest of
all of us, you are too valuable an asset for
us to lose. Zenith, you lead the Elite
Forces, you are also too valuable for the
Executrix. Kaishin, you have spent your
entire life with the Executrix, you have
carried out some of the most important
missions for them which earned you your
now-gone Generalship. Violet, your father
will be left alone and you have the
greatest potential among all of us… That
leaves me, who hasn’t got so great
qualities as you, if any.”
Zenith: “Are you sure about this?”
Ali: “Yes, neither have I anything to lose
nor am I too valuable for the Executrix.”
Necron: “Then I guess it’s decided. Get
your spacesuit along with the equipment I
told you to pack.”
Ali: “As you say, I will have my spacesuit
on as soon as possible.”
Ali left for his room, he unhung his
spacesuit from the stand and put it on. As
he was complete, he took out his bag and
checked all the equipment. Violet came
inside and stood up to him.

Violet: “Are you sure you will be safe?”

Ali: “Remember, the Almighty is always
by my side.”
Violet: (with tears) “You may think that
you aren’t important for the Executrix…
but you are important to me, I don’t want
to lose you after however less, yet
beautiful, moments we have spent
together.”
Ali: “Imagine if I refused to go and one of
you goes and gets into a risk then even if
we accomplish the mission, I will remain
depressed for the one whom I could have
saved, and my conscience will never
allow me to do that.”
Violet: (crying) “Promise me, you will
come back.”
Ali: “I promise that I will come back, if
the Almighty permits it. Don’t you
believe in him.”
Violet: “I do…”
Ali: “I have my own goals, my own
targets, but they come after friends I will
even put my life on the line for my
friends, but for me above all of them is,
The One Above All.”

Ali walked up to the door and Necron

sealed the bridge. Ali chained his suit to a
rod on the exterior and got out. He then
used his tools to repair the engine while
Necron instructed him how. In an hour or
two, the engine as good, Necron powered
it up and it as working. She instructed Ali
to come back inside, Ali began to swim
towards the bridge. All of a sudden, a
large metoroid with high velocity was
nearin towards Ali, he tried to dodge but
couldn’t. The chain which held Ali and
the Bridge together was shattered, Ali was
being dragged away by the meteoroid,
while Chimaera followed them.

Zenith: (transmission) “We are heading

towards you, we will save you.”
Ali: “Don’t worry about me…It’s too
small a price to save three galaxies, you
must save the galaxies…I will be okay.”
Violet: “You promised me that you will
be okay…”
Ali: “I will be, The Almighty is always by
my side…”
Chimaera didn’t follow him further, all
were sad. Kaishin ran to his room and
shut the door, Zenith and Necron stayed
in the cockpit, sitting on their seats, while
Violet’s tears dropped one by one, there
was no expression on her face except
shock, while each tear rolled down her
cheeks as she sat on her seat looking
towards the phenomenon which was not
believable for her. “Why…it has to be this
way…?”
 Chapter 9: The
Land of the Gigas

SWAP:
Ali was unconscious due to the impact,
when he woke up, he was himself sitting
on a chair with darkness all around and
his limbs held by cuffs on the chair. Ali
tried to break through the cuffs but he
wasn’t able to, they were very hard.
“Gigo-Chadé”echoed around and he was
startled, all of a sudden, a mechanical arm
came towards his ear and inserted a
device which seemed to be a hearing aid.
“I am not deaf.”
After some time, he heard a deep voice.
???: “Looks like you have installed the
Universal Language Communicator.”
Ali: (to himself) “What is he speaking?
Well it’s quite understandable, unlike the
first words Gigo-Chadé.”
???: “My name is Gigadhar-Rao Gupta.”
Ali: “Only your name is understandable,
you Gigo…Giga-Chad!”
Gupta: “Giga what?”
Ali: “Shoot it, just tell me why have you
brought me here.”
Gupta: “OK, we have brought you here
because we want to do experiments on
you.”
Ali: “What are you saying? Listen, I need
to go, I have very important work to do.”
Gupta: “You are not going anywhere, you
will be our test subject.”
Ali was then injected with some kind of
drug, which made him feel dizzy,
gradually his vision started to become
blurry and ultimately he was unconscious.

Some time later:

Ali wakes up lying in a closed room with

no window and only one metal door, he
thought of cutting through the door with
his Talwar, but he realised that his bag
and space suit were missing. “Of course,
why would they leave me with my
equipment? They aren’t fool enough.”,
thought Ali. He looked around with blurry
vision, resultant of his starvation. In one
corner, he found a tray with a mug, he
crawled towards it with all his remaining
energy, he focused on the contents of the
mug but found only a transparent and
viscous substance. He drank it and his
distorted vision was clearer but not as
clear as he used to have. He didn't have
the strength he had before. “Looks like
they are ensuring that I don’t die, but they
won’t feed me properly so that I don’t run
away.”.

SWAP:
???: “You should move to the main HQ,
the city administration is already
acquainted with our presence, if they find
out that this old building is our base, we
are doomed.”
Gupta: “You are right sir, I also think that
we should move now, the cops are
suspicious.”
???: “What about that boy?”
Gupta: “He possesses immense power and
his equipment is far more advanced than
ours.”
???: “They are that metal right?”
Gupta: “I am afraid that they aren’t, it
seems to be a more developed form of the
same metal.”
???: “Couldn’t you replicate them?”
Gupta: “I have already, but because of the
limited resources of this lab, I will only be
able to make two katanas.”
???: “Then as soon as you move to the
main HQ, I want you to start mass
production, and once you are able to
duplicate his cells, inform me.”
Gupta: “As you wish sir, with these
reinforcements for our army, we will rule
over the whole galaxy.”
???: “I guess that I should tell you, we
have already headed for the edge of the
galaxy where the 3 galaxies touch each
other.”
Gupta: “I am well-acquainted with that
fact.”
???: “As you already know that a
regiment of our army is stationed at Alpha
Centauri, once we extract enough energy
from the galactical conjunction, we will
leave and start with our plan of Galactic
domination.”
Gupta: “Ok sir.”

In a distance:

¿¿¿: “So that’s their plan, we need to

make our move fast.”
Almost 3 month later:

SWAP:
Everyday Ali’s cell was opened and two
Giga-Guards came in, they had black
clothes all over, were very tall, and
possessed a very amazing physique with
grey skin. They held him by his arms,
dragged him all through the long corridor
and put him in the laboratory, where he
was tested, his blood was taken out, his
DNA was synthesised using his blood. He
was then thrown back into his cell.
“What misery I have been put into… No,
I shouldn’t think like this, the Almighty
has always been by my side, he will get
me out eventually. He is just waiting for
the right time, and so will I…”. All of a
sudden, then there was an outbreak in the
corridor. Ali could hear many thumps of
large feet, he assumed that there had been
a security breach and that all the guards
were approaching the intruders. Ali
thought, “The Almighty has made his
move, he will get me free…”. Suddenly,
he heard a lot of screams and shouts of
the guards. In a few minutes, he grabbed a
hard piece of debris which he had been
breaking for one month.
Some days ago, he had got a piece of the
hard wall come out, he was just waiting
for the right moment to strike. He then hit
the door lock with all his might using the
rock, to his surprise, the lock broke and
the door was open. He ran along the
corridor and found a map, using the ULC,
he deciphered the directions to the exit.
He then ran as fast as he could and got
out.
He found out that he was on another
planet, as the sun and the environment
seemed different, however, the structures
were like they were on Earth, just
gigantic. He looked around and
fortunately, he found a large garbage bin
at the other end of the road. He then
dashed towards it and hid himself inside.
“No garbage? I didn’t even find any
littering on the streets and the road. They
might be evil, but at least they care for
their planet.”.

The Next Day:

Ali was still hiding in the garbage bin, he
didn’t come out of it, and only took a
peek around. All of a sudden, the lid was
open and he saw a large man about 7 feet
tall with a very amazing physique and
grey body, trying to dump his garbage. He
was startled upon finding Ali, while he
was in a terror of being threatened by
him.
???: “What are you doing here, you
dwarf?”
Ali: “I will tell you, but firstly tell me, are
you anyhow related to Gigadhar-Rao
Gupta.”
???: “Well…No.”
Ali: “Ok, I want to say that I am Ali, and
that I am an inhabitant of a distant planet
Earth. I was on a galactic mission but on
the way, we were disturbed, and I
somehow reached this planet. When I
reached here, a man called Gigadhar-Rao
Gupta tortured me, he did experiments on
me and I was treated as an Alien. I ran
away yesterday and hid in this garbage
bin.”
???: “Well, that’s difficult to believe, but I
guess that in this situation, it will do no
good to you if you spoke lies. So I will
introduce myself, my name is Giga-ul-
Abdali, I work at Chadbucks, and live in
Gigaty City along with my son, now your
turn.”
Ali: “I am Ali, I live on Earth and work at
the Executrix.”
Abdali: “Well, I am just a coffee waiter,
and if you think that I can help you get
back to your planet, then you are a fool.”
Ali: “Well, I don’t, but I guess that you
could help me survive.”
Abdali: “I live at the outskirts of this city,
the garbage truck only comes here in the
early morning, so that’s why I came here
to throw my garbage, that’s when I found
you.”
Ali: “Would you let me live with you
while I try to get back to my home? I
promise that I will work really hard.”
Abdali: “I am a god-fearing man, it’s my
duty to give shelter to the needy, you
don’t need to work for me, I don’t
promote slavery. This is no place for a
conversation, come with me, be my
guest.”
Ali: “Thank you, Mr. Giga-ul-Abdali.”
Ali got out of the bin as Abdali discarded
his garbage, he followed him back to his
home. “As I thought, however bad the
world may be, the good shall never be
overpowered by the evil. I must believe
this man, if he intended to harm me, then
he would have already, I have no other
choice. Yet, I am not surprised that the
concept of God has reached here, as God
is omnipresent…”
 Chapter 10: Giga-
what?
Ali increased his pace to catch up with
Abdali, either he was very fast because of
his physical features or Ali was too slow
because of malnutrition; whatever be the
case, Ali was lagging behind. Inside, he
was very happy, he finally found a man to
trust.

At last, he reached Abdali’s house, it was

quite big, as big as the mansion where Ali
used to live, yet the reason was different.
Abdali came inside, he offered Ali a seat
and then called out to his son, “Come here
Zafar! We have guests from space…”. A
relatively shorter and younger version of
him came out with a large tab in his
hands. He came and sat on a chair, then
he looked towards Ali and he was so
shocked that his Tab fell from his hands.

Zafar: “It can’t be…have you escaped

from Gupta’s lab?”
Ali: “How do you know?”
Zafar: “Was there any raid at the place the
day before yesterday?”
Ali: “Yes, there was, I am thankful for
them, they helped me get out, though I
escaped before the raid ended, so I didn’t
see them.”
Zafar: “That’s why we didn’t find you
there, we did find some alien equipment
for a short sized man and also photos of
you, but not you.”
Abdali: “What is going on? Won’t you
people introduce yourselves?”
Ali: “Oh sorry, my name is Ali.”
Zafar: “And I am Zafar, Giga-Abdul-
Hanan-Zafar.”
Ali: “Why do you Giga-Chads have Giga
in front of every name?”
Zafar: “What do you mean by Giga-
Chads?”
Ali: “You people, your species, your race,
it is called Giga-Chads, right?”
Abdali: “We are called Hoomans.”
Ali: “Ok.”
Zafar: “Well, I was asking you whether
you saw us when there was a raid at
Gupta’s lab?”
Ali: “No, I only heard loud thumping of
many boots, like a whole army were to
march together during a breakout at their
base.”
Zafar: “Yes, there were many soldiers for
us to take down…”
Ali: “Well…What’s that on your wrist?”
Zafar: “It’s a bracelet I found there…”
Ali: “It’s no mere bracelet, in fact it’s not
even a bracelet; it’s my pendant.”
Zafar: “Well, ok; but how can you wear a
pendant when you are a man.”
Ali: “You do realise that you were
wearing this just a moment ago/”
Zafar: “Yeah, but I was doing research on
it, and this pendant is so lame that I doubt
that even girls will wear it.”
Ali: “You may be right, but it’s precious
to me. It saved my life.”
Zafar: “And how is that?”
Ali: (sadly) “Well…I was hanging with
the support of my arms, on my balcony
floor. It was on fire, my mother was half
trapped in debris, down on the surface,
firemen had installed the safety net, I tried
to save my mother, but she insisted on me
fleeing away, as soon as the whole
balcony was about to fall, she…threw her
pendant, her prized pendant towards me,
so that I fall and be saved.”
Abdali: (with some tears) “Well, it must
mean a lot to you then. Return it, son.”
Zafar: (crying) “Here, take it, it’s your
mother’s last sign…right?”
Abdali: (depressed and sad) “Don’t cry
son, real Chads don’t cry.”

But even Abdali couldn’t stop his tears

from falling. Along with his son, he burst
into tears.

Zafar: (crying) “So…your mother also

died in an accident?”
Ali: (depressed) “Well…No.”
Abdali: (crying) “What do you mean?”
Ali: “The fire…it was…intentionally lit
by my sworn enemy, in order to pulverise
me and my family. I was saved but they
couldn’t make it.”
Zafar: (crying) “You must take your
revenge…Even if it costs you your life,
you must do it.”
Ali: “That I will, once I complete my
galactical mission, I must stop the 3
galaxies from colliding but how?”
Abdali: “Well…You must be starving, I
will make you coffee.”
Ali: “Thank you Sir Abdali.”
Abdali went to the kitchen and not even 5
whole minutes passed, and he can be seen
coming back with a tray in his hands,
which had 5 mugs of supposedly coffee.
Ali: “You took 5 minutes?”
Abdali: “Sorry, usually it is done faster.”
Ali: “No, I am flabbergasted that you only
took 5 minutes for 5 cups of coffee, while
we need at least 10 minutes for one cup.”
Zafar: “So slow, aren’t you?”
Abdali: “Or rather, you people spend your
scientific knowledge somewhere more
important.”
Abdali handed out a mug to each of them,
and took one himself. Ali drank it
instantly, and reached out for the other 2
mugs. He devoured them as well.
Ali: “This coffee…it is spectacular.”
Abdali: “Thank you, I made 2 extra mugs
just in case, as you were dying of
malnutrition and starvation.”
Ali: “I have had my fill. Now I must go
train…Wait, Zafar, did you find my bag
and spacesuit there?”
Zafar: “Yes, but I gave the bag to my
friend, and the suit to another friend. But I
will ask them to bring those, just wait.”
Ali: “Thank you.”
Zafar took up his Tab and dialled to his
friends.
Zafar: “Hello, Raj, Rudra are you there?”
Raj: “Hello, Zafar. We were just thinking
of calling you.”
Rudra: “Yes.”
Zafar: “Well, you people remember the
bag and the spacesuit we found in Gupta’s
lab?”
Raj: “Yes, and about them…”
Zafar: “I have found the owner, please
bring those here ASAP.”
Rudra: “Well, we are also bringing Anand
and Nyasa with us, if you don’t mind.”
Zafar: “What do those girls have to do
with our matters?”
Raj: “Don’t forget that they played a
major role in the raid. Hadn’t they been
there with us, you would have been
killed.”
Zafar: “Ok, bring them along.”
Zafar ended the call.

Some time later:

Ali and Zafar were in his room, where

they seemed to be working on a weapon.
Ali: “Isn’t this the same weapon which
Gupta’s guards use?”
Zafar: “Yes, but now they have been
modified by me.”
Ali: “What can they do now?”
Zafar: “Initially, they can shoot bullets
which can pulverise on hitting. Now, I
have changed the mechanism. I was
studying a glove I found there which I
found to gather electrons when forced
with power.”
Ali: “That was mine.”
Zafar: “I used the same principle, but this
gun can do more than just gathering
electrons. It could force them into a
cluster, and upon pulling the trigger, it
will be launched. On impact, it will cause
an explosion, which is enough to paralyse
and even make targets unconscious which
fall in the radius.”
Ali: “Won’t it be dangerous?”
Zafar: “We have special suits, which can
protect us.”
All of a sudden, the bell rang. Zafar ran to
open the door, while Ali followed him. As
the door opened, 4 giant figures, larger or
equal to Zafar, were standing at the
doorstep.
Zafar: “Hello, Raj and Rudra, did you
bring what I told you to bring?”
Raj: “We even brought Anand and
Nyasa.”
Rudra: “You said that you have found the
owner…wait, who is that behind you?”
Nyasa: “Is he your son?”
Ali: “Why you Gigas try to act cool in
every single situation.”
Zafar: “Meet my friends, Gigaditya-Raj,
Giga-Paridhi-Anand, Giga-Nyasa, and
Gigaarav-Rudra.”
Ali: “All your names sound familiar.
Well, if you don’t have any problem, then
please return my belongings, I have to
train.”
Rudra: “Ok, here you go.”
Raj: “We don’t have a reason to distrust
you.”
Ali: “Thank you.”
Zafar: “Well, what was the need to bring
the girls along.”
Nyasa: “About that, we wanted to ask
whether the equipment is ready or not.”
Zafar: “Well they are, but why all of a
sudden.”
Anand: “Thanks to Pyare-Chad, we have
just learnt that the Gupta’s lab has been
abandoned. He is following them, his last
message said that they are heading
towards the outskirts of the city.”
Zafar: “Looks like their main lab is
somewhere in the middle of the desert.”
Ali: “You mean Area 69?”
Zafar: “Hmm…What?”
Ali: “Area 69, when I was in their
custody, I heard the guards talking about
moving to a place called Area 69.”
Anand: “69 you say? That’s interesting.”
Zafar: “What do you mean?”
Anand: “Nothing…Nothing. Well, how
did you reach Gupta’s lab?”
Ali: “Well, it’s just that, I was on an
intergalactic mission to the conjunction of
the 3 galaxies.”
Anand: “What do you mean?”
Nyasa: “He is speaking of the legend,
didn’t you hear it?”
Zafar: “Oh that one, That Legend by the
legendary writer Giga-Yash.”
Nyasa: “Yes that one.”
Raj: “Well, if it’s happening then what
can we do about it?”
Ali: “Well, we had devised that if we
combine Quark-Gluon Plasma with
Antimatter at the conjunction’s centre,
then the energy release might be enough
to drift these galaxies away.”
Zafar: “Then we should focus on getting
you to space.”
Ali: “That’s what I am saying.”
Rudra: “That’s why we came here, to
discuss how to raid Area 69.”
Nyasa receives a notification on her
watch.
Nyasa: “Friends, did you receive it as
well?”
Zafar: “What…Oh my, it cannot be
possible.”
Ali: “What happened?”
Anand: “It’s just that, Pyare-Chad has
been annihilated, his last message said, ‘I
couldn’t make it, I am ready to die for the
cause I was built for, yet I think it’s my
end. Take my location, it may help
you…’, It’s emotional, Thank you Pyare-
Chad.”
Zafar: “Well, his last known location is in
the middle of the desert outside the city.”
Raj: “We should strike now.”
Ali: “No, if they have found our rover,
then they might be aware of our presence,
we must wait until tomorrow.”
Zafar: “We will attack when the sun sets,
they will think that we will be coming at
night, and we will use that to our
advantage.”
Ali: “Well, I am heading off for training.”
Ali left for training in Abdali’s backyard,
while everybody else along with Zafar
went to his room or rather his lab. Ali
took out his Talwar and began swinging
it, he worked out with it. “I will show you
Michael, I seek my vengeance.”

Several Hours Later:

Ali was drenched in sweat due to hours of
training, he was panting heavily. At last,
he decided to take a break. He found a
chair in the backyard and decided to sit on
it. Well, it was very large for him, but he
managed. He looked up and gazed at the
night sky. He thought, “How beautiful the
night sky is…It reminds me of the night
when I and Violet observed the night sky
together, I couldn’t forget that time, or
rather her. I am love-struck, yet I fail to
show emotions. I don’t know, I can’t
afford to lose someone again, but that
won’t make me any better…”
 Chapter 11: The
Invasion
Midnight, on the highway:
A car driven by Zafar carried all the Gigas
and Ali, it was approaching the border of
the city and on the highway it was driven.
An hour later, it reached a desert and a
signboard saying “Area 69: Trespassers
will be shot”.

Ali: “Stop!”
Zafar: “What?”
Ali: “Now, we must go by foot.”
Rudra: “Why?”
Ali: “A car will be an easy target for
them, so we could use it as a trap, a
decoy.”
Zafar: “I think I get it.”
Ali: “Firstly, we will scatter and pick one
side of the Area and hide behind the rock
nearest to it. Then at my signal, the empty
car with our decoy images should
approach the boundary commanded by a
remote control panel. Once it comes
under the security supervision, they will
annihilate it. Once annihilated, it will
explode because of dynamite implanted.
When the soldiers/security will notice the
blast, they’ll rush to the scene and it will
result in lack of security on other sides.
When the security gets loose, one of us
will shoot down the remaining guards at
the watchtowers with my sniper…”
Raj: “That would be me.”
Ali: “…Ok, then after that we’ll sneak in
but one of us will remain to inform us of
danger through the Radar…”
Rudra: “Count me in…”
Ali: “…It suits you evenly, well then, I
will leave my sniper here. Then I’ll go in
first, as I’m hard to detect, I’ll inform you
if the sector is clear. Then we must find
Gupta and force him to get me to space.”
Anand: “Brilliant plan.”
Nyasa: “But, there is a slight problem,
your weapons are small and weak.”
Ali: “Are you sure?”

Ali holds both blasters and starts shooting

on a nearby rock. It was drilled by the
blasts.

Ali: “Still weak is it?”

Zafar: “Comparable or even more
powerful than our Giga-blasters.”
Ali: “So let’s do it!”

Some time later:

Zafar was working on the control panel of
the car while Raj was working on the
engine.
Zafar: “Now, it can be controlled
remotely.”
Raj: “I have made it so that the dynamite
will be ignited once we press this button
on the remote control.”
Nyasa: “This radar can detect our position
as well as the car’s position with different
symbols. Car for car, Star for Ali, Heart
for me, Lightning for Raj, Smile for
Zafar, Plane for Anand and Gear for
Rudra.”
Ali: “Firstly let’s scatter and our
destination is the hill at the south of the
barricade. I’ll go first and plant the radar,
then I’ll guide you on the way through the
transceiver.”
Ali bent a little and set his suit’s colour to
black. He then dashed while hiding
behind some random rocks on the way.

An hour later:
Ali: (on the transceiver) “Hello, hello
Zafar, hello…”
Zafar: “Yes, I can hear you.”
Ali: “Ok, now set the car towards the
barrier, a bit towards north-east and wait
behind a rock and don’t forget the decoy
images.”
Zafar: “Ok.”
Ali: “And now release the car.”
Zafar set the direction, stuck the
accelerator and set it free towards the
barrier, as the car approached, a soldier at
the watchtower noticed it and announced
its presence. The soldiers began shooting,
but Abdali’s car was strong enough to
resist the barrage. Soon, it crashed into
the barrier, demolishing it with the
impact. A large number of soldiers rushed
towards the car, surrounded it and began
shooting.

Ali: “Zafar, NOW!!!”

Zafar: “Ok!” (to himself) “Sorry father.”
Zafar activated the dynamite and
everyone began to run randomly. 3…2…
1…the car exploded and the blast was so
large that every soldier surrounding it was
pulverised.
Ali observed the radar and all heat signals
around the car were gone.

SWAP:
Gupta: “As I expected, he will return…
are you ready?”
???: “Yes master…”
Chapter 12: On the
other side

SWAP:
Violet was sitting on her bed, holding her
pillow, sinking deep into depression. Dr.
Necron was standing by the arch.

Necron: “Still thinking about him?”

Violet: “Yes, it’s been a month since…”
Necron: “I understand that feeling. But
shouldn’t you let go of it?”
Violet: “I am not able to…the memory
dominates my mind, and the pain eats
away my heart.”
Necron: “I know, you’ve been cheated on
& lost someone who is precious to you
once. You can’t bear the feeling again.”
Violet: “Don’t talk of him, I don’t want to
hear a word regarding him.”
Kaishin: “Mind if I join?”
Necron: “You may if you want to.”
Kaishin: “What were you talking about?”
Necron: (whispers) “Michael Cruz.”
Kaishin: (exclaims) “Michael Cruz!”
Violet dashed from the bed with a knife in
one hand and held Kaishin’s throat to the
wall in the other, pointing at his throat,
the blade was slid across the neck.
Violet: “Utter the name, and I will send
you to Jesus.”
Kaishin: “Forgive me please. I just got
surprised at his name as he had been a
threat to me, Aki, Abhijeet & mostly Ali.”
Violet: “Elaborate.”
Kaishin: “Ali joined our school during the
final semester of third grade. He didn’t
have a friend. We thought of him as a
gangster because of his looks. It was the
3rd week since he joined that I found him
unconscious in the bathroom. There was a
lot of blood near one of his kidneys. I
recalled that he used to drink lots of water
due to his damaged kidneys. There were
no bruises yet his body felt cold, as if he
lost a lot of blood.
When he regained consciousness, the
principal called him and punished him for
violence. He had to stand out everyday in
every period except one. Our maths
teacher back then was lenient with him
and let him sit. She was a nice woman but
sometime later, she was fired, the cause of
which was unknown. It was rumoured
that many girls were probably led by
Michael and he himself complained
against her.
When she was fired, her loss became a
trend to talk about for days. We were
discussing her when all of a sudden
Michael reported us as disturbing and the
real reason for this was rumoured to be
our finding of Ali and taking him to
safety. I, Abhijeet, and Aki stood at the
opposite side of the corridor, for we were
afraid of Ali. Aki felt something, he was
facing the wall, and he approached him.
After approaching him, Aki too stood
there, and so I and Abhijeet took it upon
ourselves to find what’s going on. We too
walked to them and found that Ali was
crying silently, and Aki was caressing
him so that he may stop. As for Shubham,
he was inside, as no one cared about him
till Ali came. I asked why he beat up
Michael on that day, he replied that he
didn’t. We asked to elaborate, and as
every word slipped out of his mouth, we
were filled more and more with shock.”
Violet: “What did he say?”
Kaishin: “He said these words, “I was
using the bathroom when he came. He
asked me to leave but I made him wait 5
seconds till I was done. He asked me to
do his assignment as a penalty. I refused,
saying that I am no slave of his. His gang
held me. He then took out a compass from
his pocket and began drilling slowly into
my kidney, the damaged one, it was very
painful. At last, he stabbed very hard and
blood poured out. Then his friends
stitched my wound with a sharp needle,
and a metal wire connected to it. I would
have screamed like crazy but Michael
forced his shoe into my jaws.
Afterwards, his gang melted the wire and
left me there. I fainted due to the pain and
blood loss.””
Kaishin wept as he said this and so did
Necron and Violet.
Violet: “I can’t help crying.”
Violet fell in Necron’s lap crying.
Kaishin: “That’s when Ali came up with
the idea of the United Alliance. To form
an alliance with those who were
threatened by Michael Cruz, and to
destroy his life potentially. That was then,
when his suffering began increasing, as
they suspected the Rebellion. Even then,
Ali endured it all, and never complained.
He never lost hope for 5 years until…”
Necron: “Until what?”
Kaishin: “Until he set Ali’s house on fire
and burnt alive all of his family. That’s
when Ali gave up all hope, he just sat
beside the hill of ash and mourned all day.
We used to eat with him and give him
hope, like he did to us before, but it was
all futile.
One day, we came to have lunch with
him, but he was gone, and Zenith
messaged me that he had found a boy
with a lot of potential. Somehow, I felt
this was connected, and coincidentally but
fortunately, Zenith brought Ali to the
Executrix. I quickly message Aki,
Abhijeet and Shubham that Ali is in safe
hands. Afterwards, we were met with the
same fate. Aki lost his parents in a car
accident. He left the school, and Ali
brought him to Executrix. After some
days, Abhijeet’s parents were assassinated
while he was asleep. When he woke up,
he found that his family was no more, so
he shifted to my house. Before my parents
were threatened, I left my home with
Abhijeet and we shifted to the Executrix
Residential Colony. Even now I wonder
how they are struggling to find me, but
they don’t know it’s for their own good.”
Kaishin began crying again, thinking of
his family.
Violet: (crying) “And…I thought, I was…
the only one.”
Kaishin: “What did he do to you?”
Violet: “He…He cheated on me…”
Kaishin: “That’s it?”
Violet: “No, when I pointed out his guilt,
he did nothing. But the very night he
murdered my mother, and before he could
touch my father…”
Kaishin: “I remember, I, Zenith and
Necron arrived and fought them off. But
we were late in saving your mother…I am
still sorry for that.”
Violet: “No need to be sorry. You saved
my father at least.”
Zenith: “Get ready with your space suits
and head to the cockpit, we are about to
land in 10 minutes.”
Necron: “The time has come at last.”
Necron left and Violet opened her
cupboard to get her spacesuit out, she then
looked at the smiling Kaishin and
shouted, “Get out you pervert!”, and
slammed the door shut.
Some time passed, and they were in the
cockpit. They all fastened their belts and
Necron deactivated hyperjump. Slowly,
land began to appear.
Necron: “A dwarf star I see…”
Kaishin: “Can we sustain the heat and
gravity?”
Necron: “According to my calculations,
yes, it’s the same mass as that of Earth
and heat will not be much as it’s almost
newborn.”
Within 10 mins, Necron landed Chimaera.
The others came out but Necron remained
inside. Zenith puts off his mask.
Kaishin: “Are you crazy!!? You’ll die!”
Zenith: “That’s odd.”
Violet: “What?”
Zenith: “There’s Oxygen, but no sign of
life.”
Necron: (shouts from inside) “Everyone!
Come inside fast!”
All went to Necron, she showed them the
monitor.
Kaishin: “That’s just a satellite.”
Necron: “Exactly. How?”
Zenith: “You are right, even Voyager 1
will take millions of years to come this
far.”
Kaishin: “You have a point.”
Necron: “Remember the jerk when we
were entering the atmosphere?”
Kaishin: “Yes.”
Necron: “I felt the presence of a force
field because there isn’t any atmosphere
& only a force field can be the cause of
the Oxygen being still here. I think there
is someone here, who opened the force
field on purpose…
 Chapter 13:
Breakthrough

SWAP:
Raj reached first, Rudra after him, then
Nyasa & Anand together, and Zafar at the
last, but guided by Ali and thanks to their
enormous stamina they reached the cliff
in under 30 minutes.
Ali: “Raj, take this sniper and help me
shoot down the watchtowers.”
Raj: “As you say.”
Raj took the sniper from him and they
both set their targets at the watchguards
on the southern edge. Within a second
two of the corners were cleared in one
shot from each sniper. The third, which
had two soldiers, was cleared the next
moment.
Raj: “Now, here we part.”
Ali, Rudra, Nyasa, Ananad, and Zafar got
towards the barricade.
Rudra: “How to get through?”
Ali takes out his Talwar, turns the blade
on and slices through the barricade.
Anand: “Good.”
They dashed in, they found a tunnel
leading inside, deep down. Somehow,
they had a feeling of Gupta lurking inside.
They ran inside, and till an intersection
where they encountered 10 soldiers
coming from the left lane. Nyasa jumped
from the middle to the left lane’s wall, did
a horizontal wall run and began
oscillating from one wall to another in the
lane while doing the wall run and
shooting all the soldiers to their demise.
They ran down the left lane and at the end
they reached Gupta’s chamber. Gupta was
sitting on his chair with his back towards
the heroes. He claps as he rotates slowly
towards them and stops smiling.
Gupta: “So you came at last?”
Ali: “Yes, I did.”
Nyasa: “We have surrounded you, we
have high-level weapons, we have killed
your soldiers. It’s better for you to
surrender and listen to our demands.”
Gupta: “So ambitious you are, you may
have defeated my soldiers, but can you
defeat them?”
As he said this, 2 shadows appeared and
dashingly trapped the heroes, Ali dashed
to save himself, but the Gigas were
trapped. Then they stood on either side of
Gupta with their hands folded.
???: “It’s been a long time, isn’t it?”
Ali: “No…You can’t be…”
???: “Yes, yes it’s me Ali, it’s the reality.”
Ali: “How is this possible?”
The 2 revealed their looks and they turned
out to be someone who Ali could not
imagine in his wildest dreams, they
were…
 Chapter 14: Trinity
Ali: (in tears) “Why Samarth, why? You
were my best friend!”
Samarth: “You know how much I missed
you. To see you again, I faced a lot.”
Ali: “Even you Shub, I loved you like my
brother.”
Shub: “I know.”
Samarth: “Join us Ali. We will serve
Master Gigadhar-Rao Gupta. We will rule
the galaxy together.”
Ali: “I am sorry, I can’t join you ever.”
Shub: “Then fight us!”
Ali: (dropping guard, looks down) “I
won’t fight you.”
Both: “But we will!”
They took out their swords and jumped
towards Ali. Ali played defensive while
his adversaries were more on the
offensive side. After each strike, Ali’s
heart pounded like crazy, he was petrified
and couldn’t even believe that they were
alive. The music made by the clashing
blades filled the room with terror, and
Gupta’s heart with joy. The slashes and
strikes made by the two were blocked by
Ali, with one hand on the handle and the
other, under the blade. Alis sighed, he was
panting and a bit tired.
They were very powerful and fast, but Ali
was no less. He was as agile and reflexive
as his friends-turned-enemies.
As the fight moved on, Ali was moved to
a corner. Samarth striked hard but Ali
dodged it, and the strike landed on the
corner behind him, making a narrow slit
to a secret room. Inside the room, Ali
could see two cells, but not the cellmates.
The slit isn’t wide enough for him to go
through. “If I drive them mad enough and
get them to break this wall, I can buy
some time, and meanwhile I can hold
Gupta as hostage.”, thought Ali. He ran
here and there and everywhere, driving
his opponents crazy. At last, he stranded
himself in the very corner with the slit and
appeared to be helpless. Seeing Ali
helpless, Shub striked but Ali ducked and
the slit was wide open now. Ali got
through it and saw the 2 cells, what he
saw, filled him with agony and pain. He
dropped down his sword in shock. “Now
you’re mine…no! No! It’s not possible.”,
Shub tried to say, but was shocked by the
sight of the first cell. His family lay dead
in the cell, and with katanas going
through them, their corpses lay facing
down. Shub dropped crying on the floor,
seeing his family killed by someone he
trusted. Samarth approached later, “What
happene…NOOO!!!!!”, he exclaimed.
Samarth saw what shocked him the most,
he saw his family murdered in the second
cell, with them hanging from the chains
on the cell and blades and thorns going
through them. Samarth picked up Shub
from the floor, and they began to cry
together. “Tell me brothers, will you still
serve him? He, who killed your family?”,
asked Ali. “We…were betrayed…
betrayed to be used…”, said Samarth. “I
am not the only one after all…”, thought
Ali to himself. “Shub, come, let us seek
our vengeance.”, said Samarth. They
began to retreat in rage towards Gupta,
Ali jumped in front of them and said,
“Wait for me brothers.”. “You are joining
us?”, asked Shub, “After all we caused
you?”, said Samarth. “Didn’t we promise
to always be there for each other,
brothers?”, asked Ali. “Yes, we did…”,
said Shub. Ali raises his sword, interrupts
them and says, “Then what are we waiting
for? It’s an eye for an eye.”. They walk
coldly and approach Gupta with teary and
angry eyes with the fire of revenge.
“I thought of it before, if I can’t have you
kill him, then I will make you.”, says
Gupta and takes out a control panel. “No!
Ali run! Before he…”, Shub was
interrupted as he fell silent after Gupta
pressed a button on the control panel, so
did Samarth. Then they looked him
straight in the eye, with a straight face and
no expression. They started attacking him.
Ali asks, “What are you doing?”. Gupta
replies, “I installed this device on them
long before. It forces the body to work
according to the will of the controller,
which in our case, is me.”
Shub and Samarth pressed a switch on
their gloves and bullets began to be shot
out of their fingertips. Ali used the
glowing lamina and cut every bullet in
half as it approached him. But gradually,
the speed increased, and to that point that
Ali was not able to dodge even one bullet,
all bullets began to hit him now. But
fortunately, his suit prevented most
injuries. If it wasn’t for the suit, he would
have been killed. “You leave me no
choice now.”. Ali uses the button on the
wrist of right glove. He then concentrated
on his right palm, while the bullets were
still hitting him, slowly a glowing ball
began to appear in his palm. It seemed to
get bigger and brighter as time passed on.
Gupta is flabbergasted, he asks, “What is
it?”. “This device gathers electrons from
surroundings and condenses them into a
ball of energy. Gupta ordered, “Stop him
fast!”. Shub and Samarth took out their
katanas and ran towards Ali, but Ali
jumped high up in the air and landed the
ball on Gupta’s chest, the impact was
huge, Gupta was thrown off in one
direction and his panel in another. Ali
hastily takes it and presses the ‘Release’
button. Then Shub and Samarth recovered
their senses and Shub asked, “You’re
alive?”. “More than you my friend.”,
replied Ali. Gupta was severely injured,
he couldn’t get up. “Let’s kill him.”, said
Samarth. “I have a better idea.”, said Ali.
They chained Gupta, taped his mouth, and
put him in one of the cells, then they put
the fragments of the wall back so
intricately that it looked untouched.
Afterwards, they released the Gigas, or
rather Hoomans, as they called
themselves. Zafar exclaimed, “Thank
God! We are safe.” Nyasa said, “Let’s
escape now.”. “Don’t forget why we came
here. We have to get this man to space.”,
said Anand. “Oh yea, I forgot, Sorry?”,
said Nyasa. Shub said, “I know the best
spaceship here.” Ali thanked him. All of
them began to walk towards the spaceship
area. That’s when Shub asked, “Why do
you need a spaceship, Ali, to get home?”
“No, to save our home.”, replied Ali. “I
don’t quite understand your point of
view.", said Samarth. Ali explained the
cause to his friends-turned-enemies-
turned-friends. “That’s a big problem to
deal with.”, said Shub. As they were in
the centre of the area, thousands of
soldiers began to assemble from nowhere.
When the heroes tried to strike, they
couldn’t. They were trapped in a small
circle, “A force field?” exclaimed Ali…
 Chapter 15: The
Giga-Rebellion
A screen appeared and a black silhouette
appeared behind it. “What makes you kids
think you can escape so easily?”, said the
figure. The heroes were surprised at this
statement, all of a sudden Gupta appeared
out of nowhere, clapping and laughing,
and stood in front of the force field.
“Gupta! You failed one task, you had to
capture the boy. You better not spare
them alive this time.”said the figure and
disappeared. Gupta waved his hand in the
air, and then a large tuning fork with
electricity coming out of it began to get
inside the force field slowly. Ali tried to
tear through the force field, but his glove
and sword were drained from the fight, he
couldn’t use them anymore. As the fork
almost reached them, an explosion took
place and thousands of Gigas began to
rush in and started fighting with the
Soldiers. Among them was Abdali, who
quickly rushed in front of the force field
and turned the lever off, which turned the
force field off, and the heroes were free
again. Gupta smiled and said, “Long time
no see Abdali.”. Abdali was furious, he
said, “Children, remain behind, this is
between me and Gupta. Get to space, save
our home. If you don’t return, you will be
martyred as heroes.”. Zafar hugged his
father one last time and rushed towards
the largest spaceship following Shub and
Samarth, with him others followed
behind. Nyasa exclaimed, “Get inside
ASAP!”. A voice echoed and it said,
“Wait for me!”. The heroes looked
behind, and it was Raj, he brought all the
stuff and was running through the Rebel
Forces. Raj came running and got inside
the spaceship as soon as he could. Attacks
began to take place on the ship. Shub
rushed to the pilot’s seat and Samarth to
the co-pilot’s. They turn on all switches,
but the attacks continue. The ship shakes
due to the attack. As soon as possible,
Shub and Samarth take off without a
countdown, for it was a luxury they could
not afford. In a moment, she was in space,
Shub turned on hyperjump and the ship
rammed through space-time towards the
conjunction. “Ironhawk, her name is
Ironhawk.”, said Shub…
 Chapter 16:
Backup

One week later:

Ali was installing backup batteries on his
backpack, in case his Talwar and Glove
run out again. He charged his weapons to
the maximum and wore his pendant, he
looked at it and thoughts flashed through
his mind. “Mother…”, he thought. Shub
came in out of nowhere and stood in front
of Ali. “What do you want?”, asked Ali.
Shub replied, “We will be reaching in an
hour.”. “Good, what else? I know this
wasn’t the only reason you came here.”,
said Ali. “Yes, I wanted to ask
something…How will we stop the
crunch?”, asked Shub. “One of my
friends, Necron, has a crystal which
contains super-hot plasma, she will use it
to cause a large explosion, enough to drift
the galaxies away for another 5 centuries,
or she said like this.”, replied Ali. Shub
asked, “Oh, is she hot?”. “Yea, a lot in
fact.”, said Ali. “Can you ask her out for
me?”, requested Shub. “She is a woman.”,
said Ali with a sigh. “What the?”,
exclaimed Shub. “Ever since I have
known you, you are like this only, you see
a girl and say, “Bro look at her.”.”, said
Ali. “You know me…”, said Shub with a
little laugh. Ali said, “Yes, yes I do.”.
“Well, they could have reached before.”,
said Shub. “I received Chimaera’s signal
on the way here, they are already here.”,
said Ali. Zafar, now the pilot, announces
to the speaker, “Everyone! Back to the
cockpit. We are reaching earlier than
expected.”. The speaker goes off. “Wow,
your ship is fast.”, said Ali. “I know.”,
said Shub.
Some time passed, and till then, all were
in the cockpit. Zafar was the pilot, being
taught by Samarth, who was on the co-
pilot’s seat. Ironhawk was about to land,
but Ali felt something odd and shouted,
“Stop!!!”. To which, Zafar responded
recklessly and stopped the ship. All were
thrown to the front, and Zafar had a taste
of the window.
Shub asked, “What now?”. Ali pointed
forward and said, “See, a force field. It’s
faint but you can see it’s there if you try.”.
There was indeed a force field. Samarth
puts his head in his hands and says,
“Now, what will we do?”. Zafar had an
idea, he said, “Ali, you will go outside
and gather electrons from Ironhawk. After
that, use them on the force field, the force
field will be overloaded and then open.”.
Ali agreed to the plan and put on his
spacesuit. He was ready again to save
another ship by risking his life, but this
time with magnetic boots, which he forgot
last time. Ali walked to the nose of
Ironhawk and turned his glove to full
power and gathered every single electron
he could. The ball of energy was
enormous, almost the size of Ironhawk, or
maybe bigger. Ali said on the transceiver,
“Full speed!”. To which Zafar and
Samarth responded by putting the highest
speed on Ironhawk except hyperjump, as
it would crash the ship. The ball of energy
collided with the force field, and a faint
but big opening, big enough for Ironhawk
opened and Ironhawk rushed in before it
replenished. Ali said, “I am getting
Chimaera’s signals nearby, she is…
near.”. Ali was shocked to find Chimaera
in fragments, when they landed there, Ali
rushed to the broken Chimaera to see
what took place. Ali couldn’t figure out
who or why, but he was sure that the one
who did this did not hurt his friends. Or
rather, he wanted to think that way. Ali
saw a satellite in the sky and thought,
“That’s odd. Wait. I got it! Shub!”. Shub
ran towards Ali and he asked Shub, “Can
you locate where this satellite is sending
its signal?”. Shub calculated and said,
“100 miles to the west.”, “Then we should
get there as soon as possible.”, said Ali.
Ali tried to walk but Samarth came out
with a large cyberpunk bike and said,
“Get on…
 Chapter 17: The
Final Chapter
They departed from Ironhawk on
voltbike, and dashed towards west at top
speed. “Violet, I am coming.”, thought
Ali.
As they reached, Ali saw tents and
spaceships in front of them. There were 4
poles on which people were tied. They
were no other than, “Kaishin, Purple,
Zenith, Necron!”, exclaimed Ali as he
saw them. Ali ran towards them without
knowing he had his hood on. Shub tried to
stop him, but Ali didn’t listen. He ran and
ran, but before reaching his friends, he
was surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.
“Hands up! The special forces have
surrounded you. Surrender and live in
custody for the rest of your life.” Says the
General.

Ali begins to unsheathe his blade, and as

soon as he nears completion, the General
says, “Looks like we have no other
choice…Open fire!”

All the soldiers, scouts, snipers &

helicopters began shooting at him and the
process made it all dusty that no one was
able to see anything but dust and smoke
all around.

The General announces over his

transceiver, “He wasn’t even a match for
us, sir. The sector is cle… Not clear! Not
clear!”
As the smoke subsided, Ali reappeared,
he was intact with his glowing blade. The
General shouted, “Retreat! Retreat…”, in
a moment Ali dashed towards him leaving
the soldiers in the path, cut in half
horizontally from the waist. He slid his
blade through the General’s heart slowly
and steadily. He said this to the groaning
General while sliding the blade through
him, “No matter what you do, you will
lose all you love. The day you find
another reason to live, you are done for.”
As the statements were over, he slid his
sword forcefully and stroked him down.

He looked at the General while he took

his final breaths, groaning and with blood
spilling out of his heart.
Ali reached the poles after slaying away
the remaining soldiers. His 4 friends were
unconscious. Ali untied Zenith. “Zenith!
Wake up, it’s me!”, he exclaimed. Zenith
woke up and said, “Son? Is it you?
How?”. Ali said, “Long story.”. Before
Ali could reach Necron, Shub came
running and released her. She woke up
and said with faint eyesight due to
malnutrition, “Who…are…you?”. “Your
prince.”, replied Shub with chivalry, but
Necron didn’t listen. She got up, saw Ali
and hugged him. “Ali, you’re back!
Thanks for saving us.”. Shub was left in
despair. Ali released Violet and Kaishin.
She woke up in his arms and said,
“Welcome back Ali.”. Ali felt good after
a long time. Zenith said, “Actually, when
we reached here. We were attacked, I ran
to spy the attackers and meanwhile, they
destroyed our ship and held Necron
hostage. I had to give in, I too became
hostage to save her from getting killed.
Well, there is a large army of a million
robots, a fleet of hundreds of thousands of
spaceships and a large mothership.”.
Meanwhile, the Gigas also came on
voltbikes. Ali signals everyone to come
near and introduces everyone. “Nice to
meet you Mr. Zenith.”, said Zafar.
“Pleasure to meet you as well, Mr.
Gigabdul-Hanan-Zafar.”, said Zenith.
“This isn’t a time to rejoice, we must
divide and use guerilla warfare against the
head of this area, if we have him hostage,
we can destroy their plans.”. “So eager,
huh?”, came a mysterious yet known
voice. All looked behind, the voice
shocked everyone, it was no other than
Michael Cruz with Harlo and Jentzen.
“Zenith, take the Gigas and run to the
facility. Necron, take Shub, Samarth and
Violet. While I will fight him alone and
buy us time.”. As said, they began to
leave. But Michael shot a lighting bolt
from his katana and said, “You aren't
going anywhere.”. Zenith said to Ali, “I
can help you fight.”. “No Zenith, you are
not in the condition, plus it’s my battle.”,
said Ali and rushed towards Michael with
his sword turned on.
Ali said, “Once and for all…”. He dashed
towards Michael. The spar was intense.
Michael gave a right blow, Ali ducked.
Ali gave a left blow, Michael dodged. A
kick from his side, he missed. The spar
continued till the point they were panting.
All the heroes were out of sight, Ali saw
around to confirm none of them was left
behind. “Now you’re mine!”, said
Michael, seeing Ali drop his guard and
rammed towards Ali, but a mysterious
blade stopped his katana. It was Violet.
Ali sat down on the ground, seeing the
intensely acrobatic and reflexive spar, he
could only see swift bodies. Ali meditated
for some time and then a loud voice came
into his ears, “The Almighty is by your
side…”. Ali’s concentration broke, he
looked around to find no one, “Hello?
Who was it?”, he said. No reply came, all
of a sudden, Violet began to lose, as
Michael was holding back. Ali ran to save
her but it was late, Michael stabbed her in
the chest. Ali looked down and began
shedding tears. Michael laughed at her
body and was ready to strike, but Ali
understood the meaning of the mysterious
voice. He screamed, and said, “Now it’s
time TO PAY!!!”. As he screamed at the
top of his lungs, the ground began to
crack and then the next thing Michael saw
was mountains coming out of the cracks,
they came up and stood between Ali and
Michael separating them.

SWAP:
On one side of a mountain pass, Violet
awoke her senses. Someone came to her
and said, “Where is your battlesuit?”