The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 41 Markus Bauer Meets Keila.

Markus Bauer was sitting in a holding facility on the dark side of Eden with his fellow scientist abductees from Proxima Thule. He was dearly regretting what he had done and felt a deep shame for indirectly causing the death of the security staff due to Keila Eisenstein’s violent raid. What was he thinking? Alerting the enemy about a weakly-defended research base could only lead to one thing, bloodshed. While the loss of life was regrettable, Markus Bauer’s biggest concern was his own wellbeing and he sincerely worried about it. He had hoped to be introduced to Keila in high regard when they attacked Proxima Thule. Instead, she and her cronies had grouped him together with the rest of the science staff and put him to sleep with gas. He had then woken up in this holding facility with no idea where he was or what day it was.  Suddenly he felt someone’s presence, and Keila appeared out of nowhere in the centre of the room. Was he losing his mind? Markus Bauer concluded he wasn’t as the rest of the room also were staring at the woman in the middle of the room.

Keila:

-          Greetings, dear Scientists from Proxima Thule. You are my prisoners of war and will be treated as such. While you were asleep, you were implanted with Divine Technology human chips, an experimental technology that only I have access to. This technology allows me to see your every thought as well as communicating to you, like I am now.

-          I am going to give you a choice. Either you can defect and join my faction and thus eventually win your freedom, or you can stay loyal to the Terran Council and remain here as prisoners. Choose carefully, because if you join me and betray me, I will know about it and you’ll die a terrible death.

Markus Bauer decided to answer to Keila’s message. Not knowing how the implanted chip worked, he opted to scream out his words instead of just relaying it telepathically.

Markus Bauer:

-          I am Markus Bauer, and I am the one who informed you about the weak defences on Proxima Thule. I pledge myself to your cause, and I require that you treat the captured scientists well.

Hearing about Markus Bauer’s betrayal was too much for some of the other prisoners, and it prompted them to attack him. Keila had to intervene and sent psionic blast against some of the attackers to keep him safe.

Keila:

-          Prisoners! I wish to speak to this prisoner in private. Do not try to harm him or you’ll pay the ultimate price. Markus, go through the door I just opened, the rest of you stay where you are.

After that Markus Bauer walked through a remotely opened blast door to enter a waiting area. As he came in the door closed behind him. He was anxiously waiting there for what felt like forever until finally one of the Angels came to escort him to a shuttle. The shuttle flew to the divine control centre floating over the bright side of Eden. The Angel escorted him to the meeting room where Keila was sitting in an armchair overlooking Eden through a large panorama window. The Angel left, and Markus Bauer was left alone with Keila in the room. She turned the chair around and looked at him.

Keila:

-          So, Markus, why are you here?

Markus:

-          Because I am your prisoner and you summoned me.

Keila:

-          While technically correct, that doesn’t answer my real question. How did you know I was still alive and why did you want to join me?

Markus:

-          I knew you were alive because I was the one who carried out the autopsy of your “corpse”, and the reason I am joining you is that Bjorn Muller tried to kill me to cover up the fact that you weren’t dead.

Keila:

-          Fair enough. Did you ever wonder why Bjorn Muller was so afraid of the truth coming out?

Markus:

-          I suppose it would be embarrassing to admit that you are still alive after announcing your death by his hand to everyone.

Keila:

-          No. That’s not it. I will tell you the truth.

-          When I was 18 years old, I was taken prisoner by Bjorn Muller. He never took down my details as he wanted me as his own unregistered s*x slave to abuse as he wanted. I escaped and mutilated him in the process.

-          Shortly after that I infiltrated the Terran Council Headquarters and assassinated Bjorn’s grandfather Hans Muller, who was the chairman of the Terran Council at the time, and that’s how the latest rebellion started.

-          Because of Bjorn’s incompetence and s****l depravity, his grandfather died, and House Muller got weaker.

-          Bjorn is terrified that my corpse somehow would reach the Terran Council, they would find a way to revive me, and the world would know about his failure.

-          That’s why he never questioned it when my men delivered him a non-functional clone that was damaged beyond revival, because he never intended for me to be revived and interrogated in the first place.

Markus:

-          So, all of this is because Bjorn Muller r***d you?

Keila:

-          No. All of this is because I want justice and freedom for my fellow Martians. If my only goal were to kill Bjorn, I would have blown up his ships with Eden’s weapon systems when I had the chance. That would have exposed me and destroyed my only opportunity to reignite the insurrection against the Terran Council.

Markus:

-          Reignite the Rebellion? Are you kidding me? We managed to wipe out the entire leadership for the rebellion and kill tens of thousands when we destroyed the rebel base on the asteroid Sylvia. What you have here on Eden is nothing compared to what you had on asteroid Sylvia, and you were no match back then, so what’s different this time?

Keila:

-          While what you are claiming is factually correct, I have something you lack: faith.

-          And do not refer to the Terran Council as “we”, you are working for us now.

Markus:

-          Understood. What do you want me to do?

Keila:

-          I have acquired highly advanced alien technology. I need you to assemble a group of scientists obliging to our cause, and reverse engineer this technology so we can mass-produce it here on Eden. 

Markus:

-          Interesting. I will get on it at once.

Keila:

-          Good.  Build a good team, Metatron will show you to your site on Eden.

-          Dismissed.

As Markus Bauer left the meeting room, he was filled with disbelief. What on Earth had he got himself into and what was this talk about alien technology? For over 800 years of space, exploration humanity had never come across any advanced alien civilisations, and the probability that Keila against all the odds had managed to access technology that the rest of mankind hadn’t was minuscule and unbelievable. Then again, she had seemed very sure of herself and whatever mind control probe she had inserted into his, and the other scientist's brains were new technology. Markus Bauer decided to keep an open mind as he set up a list of scientists who were likely to be obliging and willing to become Keila’s followers.