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 everyone 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…

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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?”