L`Univers:

The professor

   Benedict woke up and strongly gasped for breath, he touched his face he was cleanly shaved he looked around the room which reminded him of IASA with the white marble tiles and white walls. He stood up and walked a few steps around the room.                                                                                                            

“What?” Zack was standing in front of him; he was also clean and shaved.                                                                                                                        

“What?” Zack and Alexander asked each other as they were awakened as well “Wait you can walk?” Zack noticed his leg that was fine, but Alexander was still confused.                                                                                                                             

“Hope you like how we fixed your leg,” the guy who shone the light on the planet came into the room.                                                                                      

“What`s going on?” asked Alexander.                                                                            

“I`m Professor Hex, and your understanding about the universe is about to get a whole lot bigger,” said the guy.                                                                              

“Yeah, you`ve said that already,” Benedict walked toward Hex. “We were on a planet? What happened?”                                                                                          

“You froze to death,” Hex smiled at Benedict. Hex had a short on the sides long on top brown hair and black squared glasses with sliver handles and had a constant sinister look with him, he also sported black leather boots, black jeans, a black jumper, and a long black coat everything black.                                                                                                                       

“Wait where is Dave?” Zack noticed that he was missing.                                      

“Dave is still healing up, he is going to need some time but the important thing is that I saved you and brought you here,” answered Hex. “You are living your second life congratulations,”                                                                                      

“What do you mean second life?” Alexander asked him.                                        

“As you can see I happen to have this formula here,” he showed them a vial with green liquid inside. “That brings things back to life, don’t want to brag but it`s not much, just a thing that repairs your body and gives it enormous amounts of energy,” he smiled as everybody watched him with their jaws dropped. “Well I did tell you, your understanding is about to get a whole lot bigger,” he smiled again.                                                                                                                                  

“Well can we leave now?” asked Zack.                                                                       

“I`m afraid I cannot do that,” Hex stood proudly.                                                   

“Why not?” Zack looked angrily as he moved closer to him.                                       

“I have been ordered,” Hex just kept staring at Zack both of them still not flinching.                                 

“Yeah well, whose orders?” asked Benedict.                                                            

“My orders!” a voice from a woman cried out behind him. “Did you enjoy being dead?” asked the woman, as soon as they turned they saw a face they hoped they will never see again which had a beautiful brunette hair and a bossy attitude it was Caty alive and well. Zack immediately started running toward her as Benedict stood in between Zack and Caty to prevent stupid things from happening, but it wasn`t enough Zack broke free and caught Caty on the neck and pushed her against the wall.                                                                                                    

“I`ll kill you!!!” he shouted at her face.                                                                            

“I would not do that if I were you,” warned Hex as he pulled a gun and pointed it toward Zack.            

“How did you do it? What happened to Soldana?” asked Benedict he probably meant how Caty managed to escape.                                                                         

“It was a nice plan, you managed to outsmart me… but it wasn`t enough, you played my game, I projected the mysterious lady telling you riddles and all about what will happen to you, but getting out of there well let`s just say I pulled some strings,” she finished.                                                                                                         

“Who helped you,” Alexander was getting frustrated.                                                   

“See for yourself,” Caty pointed at a door, and shortly after Jackson showed up in cuffs and torn clothes.                                                                                                                             

“Hello fellas,” Benedict just looked at him in disbelief. “The queen Soldana she escaped with some Derbians, the rest of them... they are all dead... I`m sorry there`s nothing I could have done,” his voice broke down.                                                                                                                             

“You are a monster!!!” shouted Alexander looking angrily at Caty.                                                           

“Oh… come on now, we are not so different, they were all there… on Mecha-1 ask them! Ask them if they knew about the Decimator, and did nothing to stop it,” Caty stopped talking. Alexander turned toward Zack and Benedict who was just standing still looking suspiciously guilty.                                                                     

“Is this true?” he asked, but got no answer. “Huh… I cannot believe you guys,” as he turned away from them and sat down on a chair rubbing his hair.                                                                                                           

“Tell me now, what is Azra going to do when she finds out? You know she is crazy and powerful, now that she is the director of IASA she has unlimited resources against you, it seems you basically dug your own grave captain Lenov.”  Benedict now had a moment to think was this it? Is this the downfall of his previous actions? Or perhaps there is a way out?        

"I can offer you a way out..." said Caty. 

"You b***h! Dave was right we should have killed you!" Zack was furious, what is she thinking that she has them in their palm? That their lives depend on her? 

"Right then, well you see..." Hex started pacing around them. "Now that liquid I showed you... I added a little bit of magic," he moved toward a computer screen, pressing a bunch of buttons on the keyboard, and a couple of mouse clicks he got to the screen that he wanted. On the screen there we four figures each colored green, next to the figures there were statistics showing the health status of each, on top of the figures there were names one each: Zack, Jackson, Alexander, and Benedict. Beneath the figures, there were some words in red saying: 'Kill chip: Active' Hex didn`t need to bother explaining himself what the screen meant, it was simple enough to send a message to them. "Follow my orders, or you will be killed."       

"As I said, I can help you with that," Caty pointed at the screen. "If you help me with Azra."                       

“You are right, she must be dealt with!” Benedict finally snapped.                           

“What!!!” Alexander burst out of the chair.                                                                     

“If she finds out, not only you but the whole human civilization will be in jeopardy because of her,” warned Hex.                                                                         

“We will do it,” agreed Zack.                                                                                           

“And then you set us free,” demanded Benedict.                                                     

“What!?!? No!! I can`t allow you, Captain, please!!!” cried out Alexander as Hex pushed him on his knees and pointed a gun on his head.  

“Captain what is going on!? You cannot possibly be considering this!” he burst out in tears as Benedict stood in front of him and just looked at him from above.                                

“Let him be, we will need him,” said Benedict to Hex as he withdrew his gun and Benedict left into the other room to prepare as Alexander stood up and started asking himself what has become of Benedict? He is not the same person, did he just threw away all the things he fought against and joined them?       

    “What the hell?” he entered the room and looked at Benedict with anger almost ready to attack him.                                                                                                      

“We need to get our freedom,” Benedict looked at him. “One way or the other.”                                            

“Well I am not doing his errands,” Alexander looked at all of them.                                                                 

“No of course not,” Zack instantly replied.                                                                       

“We just need a plan to get out of here,” said Jackson.                                          

“Meanwhile we will do some errands for her,” added Benedict.

    “Why did you do that to Alexander?” asked Caty.                                                        

“It would have seemed too obvious,” Hex looked at her. “It thought it would spice things up if there was one at least that does not agree to everything, and it did, they are already arguing,” he smiled.                                                                                

“Let`s just hope that this ‘arguing’ does not jeopardize anything we planed.”                                                                                                                                    

“Not to worry, they yet have no clue who I am or what I am capable of,” he looked at his reflection on the window crossed his hands behind the back, and smiled.

    They got out from the room all ready for action as Hex looked at them.

“First you will need some allies,” he proposed.                                                                

“Whom do you have in mind?” asked Benedict, Hex explained to him as they soon left.                                                                                                                          

“Azra is the only thing standing between me and destroying them its crucial that she dies,” explained Caty to Hex as Hex only nodded at her.