Lens of Time (37 page)
RV walked into the back yard and saw a small white ship dropping out of the clear night sky. The ship stopped eighteen inches above the lawn and hovered without movement. RV walked forward and embraced his son as he stepped out of the side port. “It’s good to see you. How long before you’re shipping out?’
“I’ll be leaving in a week and be gone for just six months. I should be back in time to visit you in your new home.”
RV smiled, “Actually, it’s my old home.”
Junior said, “What are so many in your generation moving back to Earth?”
RV looked up at the stars and said, “These stars are strangers. I miss the stars I know.”
“Is it safe, Dad?”
“The Brescic have a device that eliminates radiation. The levels had already dropped below dangerous levels but they swept the planet and removed all traces anyway. We’re going to join the Moet and the people of the former Alliance in the Milky Way our real home.”
“Where are you going to live?”
RV smiled, “You already know the answer; Kenny and I are going to be neighbors just outside Havana.” RV looked at the small ship and said, “Is this one of the new Rover Ships.”
Junior turned and looked at the ship with pride, “Yes it is.”
“I understand that it is more powerful than ten of the Blue Giant Ships and only our best warriors are allowed to command one.”
“Actually, that number is really not accurate.”
“Oh?”
“This ship could not be defeated by millions of those ships. The new reactors developed by the Federation operate with the absorption of dark energy. No one else possesses this technology.”
RV shrugged, “I also understand that we’re not going to share it with anyone else?”
Junior frowned and said, “You should understand better than anyone that events can change instantly and a good herbivore makes sure their territory is always defended properly. We support our new agreements but we will not allow anyone to ever endanger us again.” Junior nodded toward his ship and said, “These ships will make sure we live in peace.”
“I understand they use the new sensor fields developed by Chris and Jillian.”
“They do; however, the technology to go into the past has been destroyed and erased in all our data systems by our leaders. We can still look at light but cannot go into the past to change events.”
“That’s a good thing, Son. I understand that you have a thing for their daughter.”
Junior’s face turned red and he said, “We like each other.”
RV decided to let him off the hook, “Where are you headed?”
“I’m going to take a look at M-83 to see if there are any dangerous civilizations. That is going to be the prime mission of the Rovers. We will determine if there is a danger to the Union out there.”
RV looked at the bow of the small ship and saw Havana II. He smiled, “The first Havana was a great ship.”
“It was for its time. My ship is the second ship in its class to carry that name.”
“Oh, where’s the first?”
“It’s being delivered to your new home in Havana in three weeks. The engineers will show you and Mom how it operates.” RV stared at Junior as he said, “The President insists that our former admirals will always have a ship to defend us.”
Cyanna came out and said, “Leigh Ann is dropping in momentarily.” She looked at Junior, “She requests that you move your ship over to give her room to land.”
Junior slowly shook his head, “Older sisters; they never get over being bossy.”
RV leaned over and whispered, “I think it’s a female thing.”
RV glanced over at Cyanna and saw her leaning down to put war medals in a box. He turned back to Junior and heard her say behind him, “You had your time giving me orders; now it’s my turn.”
RV moved his eyes to the left and right and mouthed, “See.”
Cyanna stood, walked over, and lifted RV’s arm around her shoulders.
Junior laughed and saw Leigh Ann’s ship come roaring in overhead. He boarded the Havana to make room for his sister. He was going to tell her about his wedding plans before he told his parents.
Cyanna looked at RV as Junior boarded the Havana and said, “Junior’s in love.”
“I know. Love is something this family does best.”
They looked up and both of them longed to see the stars that brightly shined in the skies above Earth.
The End
Excerpt from
The Fight for Creation
Life Warrior
T
he Zord flew in and saw that they had arrived too late. Billions of dried out husks covered the planet’s surface. The Dremor had attacked the planet in force and none of the population survived. Vremel felt his anguish at the brutality of the invaders and worried that they were growing in strength and expanding their conquests into the galaxy this planet was in. A Cat arrived and looked around the dead city. Vremel thought, “I guess fighting the Demons was just a warm up for the really dangerous forces we’re facing.”
The Cat gave a mental shrug and thought, “The Demons were dangerous.”
“Not like the Dremor.”
“That’s true. We still have a struggle to win and the fight is just really starting.” The Cat paused and said, “Why does the destruction of this planet bother you so much?”
“They all bother me.”
“But not as much as this one; why?”
“This planet was settled by the settlers that left the Stars Realm in its early history. This planet was inhabited by Human, Cainth, and Glod settlers that had built a peaceful civilization. They didn’t deserve this.”
“None of them do.”
Vremel heard, “I’ve found something. Get over here.” The Cat and the Zord looked at each other and teleported to the other side of the planet. They arrived at a home outside a large city where another Zord stood.
The Cat thought, “What?”
“Listen, you can barely hear it.”
The Cat and Zord listened and didn’t hear anything. The Cat said, “I don’t hear anything.”
“Don’t try to hear it. Just clear you mind and tell me what you sense.”
The two closed their eyes and then they heard it. Vremel said, “Someone survived.”
The Cat said, “They’re under the house.”
The three ripped the door away and rushed in. They looked around and saw six bodies that were dried out husks lying close to the windows. There were several lasers next to the bodies. They stopped and listened again and then the Cat took its giant paws and ripped the flooring apart. After a minute they found the passage way and the three giant creatures called in a White Warrior. He arrived in his armor, ran into the passage, and began handing three infants up to the waiting Zord and Cat. There was a Human, a Cainth, and Glod infant that were crying with hunger. He went back down into the passageway and came out holding a small disc. He inserted it into the player on a table and they saw the images of three couples in the room firing their lasers out the windows. A Human female said, “We’re hiding our babies under the house. If you find them, please take care of them.” The video stopped as the female moved over to a window and began firing a laser.
The Vremel looked at the three crying infants and said, “There’s no way these children could have not been detected by the Dremor.”
The Cat looked at the three infants and said, “We didn’t detect them.”
They looked at the dead husks and then back at the three babies and wondered what had allowed them to survive. The three all stopped crying at the same moment and the White Warrior saw the babies had their eyes open looking at the beings surrounding them. The Cat said, “These three are obviously linked mentally. I can’t detect how they’re doing it.”
The Zord and Warrior knew that if the Cat couldn’t detect it; no one could. What was going on?
Books by Saxon Andrew
The Annihilation Series:
Ashes of the Realm:
Lens of Time:
The End of Time
The Fight for Creation
Life Warrior (January 2013)
About Saxon Andrew
S
axon Andrew is the author of the number one bestselling Annihilation Series. All seven books of the series have been a number one bestseller on Amazon’s kindle Science Fiction Series. Ashes of the Realm is the second series created by him and continues the history of the Stars Realm after its destruction. A third series, The Lens of Time, will be published in early 2012.
His books are written so that anyone can enjoy them and not worry about their children picking them up. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and looks forward to each day so he can write the stories that his fans enjoy.
Copyright © 2012 by Saxon Andrew. All rights reserved. Screen Writers Guild no. VQEA3E380432.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.
First Electronic Edition: November 2012