L`Univers:

New home

   Alexander and Raven explained how Dave`s death is mysterious he didn`t just freeze to death he also had a stab wound and on top of that, the rest of the bodies missing it was a real mystery to all of them. “Well what can we do?” asked Raven, but got no answer as everybody was traumatized and lost for words.                                     

    “Oh my…! Why didn`t you tell me earlier!?” Simon yelled in a sign of happiness that Clara is pregnant.                                                                                            

“I wanted to surprise you!” she replied.                                                                          

“Haha I love you so much,” he hugged her, but Clara changed her expression.                                                                                                                            

“What`s wrong?” Simon asked.                                                                                   

“Behind you,” she told him, as Simon turned only to see Peter.

    Both of them made their way to the other room of the house on which Simon and Clara were now living.                                                                                         

“Azra thinks they are still alive, stuck somewhere, and need our help,” explained Peter as Simon just listened to him.                                                                        

“Look, as much as I want this to be true… but that’s a body we`ve found for crying out loud, Dave`s body how much you want to bet the same thing happened to the rest?” Simon finally responded. “Look I promised Clara that I am done with this,” he finished. “Just as you wanted to get it over with after Ajax so do I, we`ve gone through some things, Caty is closed up, evil has been defeated it`s time to focus on our lives,” Simon looked at him.                                                                                       

“I`ll take that answer as a no then,” said Peter.                                                  

“Don`t get me wrong, I want to help, he was my best friend, but I think that they are gone for good,” it was not easy for Simon to say those words but that’s all he had.                                                                                                                             

“No I understand you, you`ve got a home and a family soon the voyaging life is not for you anymore,” Peter talked to him as Simon only nodded with his head. “Very well I will tell Azra your decision then,” said Peter as he left the house.

                                                                                           ☼☼☼

    Caty shouted to all of them to come outside as she had a surprise for them, as they came out they were all shocked and pleased to see the Star Fury in all its glory all fixed and ready for action. It was made from a darker material now probably to represent that the heroes have turned to the dark side of things furthermore Star Fury had no U.N.E. because it was no longer property of neither Earth nor IASA.                                                                                            

“Damn have I missed this sight,” said Jackson as he hasn`t seen the ship since he left with Soldana. They wasted no time and instantly got on board Benedict was the first one to step on the bridge and took him a while to look around, the material on the inside was also black with flickering lights from the boards and the armrests on the captain`s chair, but the big window was there still magnificent still delivering that terrific sight of what was in front of it, Benedict was so lost into inspecting the ship he didn`t notice the others as they entered the bridge as he turned and saw them all ready for whatever they had to do. “Gentlemen, shall we to our first mission?” asked the captain as all of them looked at him and nodded, they warped the ship and disappeared instantly.

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    As soon as Peter returned to IASA he explained to Azra about the little chat he had with Simon and how he won`t be joining them.                                            

“I cannot blame him,” stated Azra.                                                                               

“Yeah he has Clara and they are about to have a baby so…” Sarah did not finish her sentence.                                                                                                                        

“Are we going to do this without him?” asked Viktor.                                              

“What other choice do we have?” John answered that with another question as they instantly went back to work.

                                                                                            ☼☼☼

    The Star Fury landed on a primitive planet as it managed to stay hidden from somebody seeing it as the crewmen cloaked it with its invisibility device as they landed on the planet and made their way towards a prison. Zack placed the bomb on the wall as Jackson stood behind and shortly after Benedict came up behind them spooking them. “Where the f**k have you been?” asked Zack.                                                                                                  

“Sorry had to make sure no one has seen us,” replied Benedict as he nodded at Zack to detonate the charges as he did so. The alarm started blaring and guards with primitive uniforms and rifles started guarding their posts, but they were no match for the advanced equipment the attackers used as they quickly entered through the hole in the wall and started stunning the soldiers left and right they were inside the prison but who were they after were a real mystery. After a while searching through the cells Alexander finally spotted him, the prisoner that they were looking for, they knew him very well caused them quite the headache to catch him, and now they are here to release him under the orders of Hex. Zack instantly burst into the cell Peter following after him he pointed a gun at his head and yelled at him to stand up. It was Arnold their first mission was to help Arnold break out of prison, they went through so much trouble to put him there and now they helped him escape.                                                                                                      

“Captain we have him,” said Zack over the radio.                                                            

“All right get him on the ship,” responded Benedict who stayed outside on guard duty. When they boarded Benedict immediately ordered to warp the ship.                                                                                                                                    

“But… you…?” Arnold was confused he knows who they were and remembered their little chase around town with the carriages.                                                      

“Yeah us!!!” Alexander yelled at him as he turned his angry gaze toward Benedict, he was still not okay with all this even with Benedict he was still not square with him.

☼☼☼

    “It`s okay,” said Clara to Simon who stopped all of a sudden as the humans who moved on Soldana`s planet watched at him angrily.                                            

“He was your friend and you abandoned him!!!” yelled someone from the crowd.                                                                                                                                     

“You have no right to call yourself a friend of Benedict!!!” yelled somebody else as Simon was just passing by in the crowd.                                                                   

“You don`t deserve a reward in your name!!!” they kept yelling.                           

“They will never understand,” Clara comforted. “They will never understand the struggle you went through to find him.”                                                                       

“And still failed,” Simon looked at Clara and walked away as he saw a little girl struggling with a shovel. “Let me help you with that,” he walked toward the girl.                                                                                                                    

“No! get away from me” the girl screamed. “My parents told me to keep away from you,” she ran away.                                                                                               

“Hey! Leave my daughter alone you coward!” yelled her father as Simon just walked away and ignored everyone, at that moment he realized that his future here with Clara was not meant to be.                                                                             

“Clara pack up we are leaving,” said Simon as he burst into the house.                       

“But where are we going?”                                                                                                

“We are going to find a peaceful planet and live alone.”                                        

“You know you can`t run away from your problems,” she told him.             

“That`s exactly what I am doing, but I am not the problem they are!!!” he yelled. “No matter what I do for them is not enough,” he stared at Clara. “We found them a planet for them to survive during the plague, we helped them build a new colony and somehow Benedict gets all the credit, well I am done with people,” Simon sat down and covered his sad face.                                                                                                                                             

“I`m sorry,” Clara hugged him. “I understand you, and that`s why we are going to leave, I`ll come with you,” she kept hugging him.                                                  

“Thank you,” he said quietly.                                                                                   

“There are some things I must do on Earth first,” said Clara.                          

“Sure,” Simon stood up and walked in the other room.

A couple of days later

    “Police on the planet reported that they used weapons that seemed to them out of this world,” Viktor explained at IASA.                                                             

“Could it be? They freed Arnold?” asked Raven who was shocked.                       

“Wow,” said a voice from behind.                                                                          

“Simon?” John was surprised to see him.                                                                 

“Yeah Clara forgot some stuff here so we came to pick them up,” explained Simon.                                                                                                                                 

“Yeah I will just go grab my stuff,” said Clara as she left toward the office.

“You guys still do this kind of stuff?” asked Simon, at this point he thought that every single one of them was crazy.                                                                                       

“Look whatever it is I want to believe it`s real,” explained Raven.                       

“How do you explain Dave`s stabbed body?” Peter asked him.                          

“A bunch of nonsense!!!” Simon yelled. “Did…did Azra tell you all of this?” he asked.                                                                                                                                   

“Yes I did,” she showed up from behind him. “Hi, Simon how are you doing?”                                                                                                                                

“I`m fine, thank you,” he answered.                                                                             

“I`ll be in my office,” said Azra as she just walked past Simon.                               

“Clara I`ll be waiting outside,” he told her.

    As soon as Simon stepped outside he surprisingly pulled out a cigarette probably it`s because it helped him with all the things that happened to him recently, but as soon as he reached for the lighter a big explosion echoed to his ears and pushed him away from the building and onto the ground. “What the hell!!?” he stood up and saw the top floors of IASA being engulfed in flames.