The Ones Against Us

CHAPTER 5

Meanwhile at the monument, Nazarath, who was watching the clip on the enormous blue holographic screen in front of them with her soldiers behind her, she stared at them with disgust and in rage.

"They were here..."

"THEY WERE HERE! AND NONE OF YOU KILLED NOR STOPPED THEM?!" the Matriarch yelled,

"Your Excellency, we were out assisting our Captain on locating this energy," one of the Delta Cavillers' troops replied.

Their superior moved around to face her men, taking a long breath and calming herself down, Droid then closed the clip afterwards he turned the screen off,

"I forgot to inform all of you that the energy has already been discovered by the Proximanians," Nazarath said.

"Would you mind me asking, your Excellency, why are you so furious at the Alpha Centaurus crew?" the Jovians' Captain inquired,

"Well...they attempted to steal something that isn't even theirs..." she answered.

"Which is?" the Delta Cavillers' Captain questioned.

"The energy," Droid responded.

Her soldiers were stunned, Nazarath grinned and looked at Droid, praising him for replying.

"Your Excellency, I apologize if I offended you, but Zire Castelo would never do such a thing." the Delta Cavillers' Captain said,

"We can sometimes admire individuals because we love them, we care about them, and we trust them...but in reality, their just going to turn their backs around on us...even after the things we've done for them... sometimes, we thought we do really know the person, but we don't" the Matriarch responded as she held her grudge back,

"Nazarath..." Droid whispered as he leaned towards her.

She fought her tears back because everyone in the room was viewing, she took another long breath and calmed herself down.

When an unexpected bang had slammed the doors open, everyone was surprised, Garrett, who's running towards their superior with scratches and wounds on his face,

"Goodness gracious, Garrett, what happened to you?" Nazarath asked in a monotone voice,

"They blew my ship and they got away, I have no idea where they are heading, I tried to stop them but I failed, your Excellency." Garrett stated as he salutes before her,

Their superior enraged and had shouted saying

"Find the energy! Execute all of them! And do not come back here without it!"

All of her soldiers yelled 'Yes Maam!' in response as they saluted before departing,

Cydee though, wasn't able to sleep, he persisted, though his body wouldn't give in. The injector, still angeled through his immobilised forearm, was whirring. Cydee felt weaker and weaker as it went on. It was sucking his energy.

He could see the miniscule, subtle particles arising by the syringe's tip. He knew he was powerless to stop it from continuing. The boy, in a helpless manner, got up, he left his bed, looked left and right, observing the hollow corridors in a curiosity-stricken manner.

He walks slowly, until a peculiar phenomenon grabs ahold of his attention. A huge, curved window, almost occupying the entirety of the ship's edges. He walked towards to the window rather slowly, waryingly.

Looking through the window, he was presented with a view unlike anything.

The cosmos, galaxies, hundreds, no, thousands of stars! All gleaming in their eternal beauty.

Nebulae, planets, he could even make out the tiniest details of individual asteroids as he looked through the vast space, occupying his entire vision.

The junior, in all awe and euphoria, started tearing up.

He had remembered a memory, a specific, touching memory, of him, his sister, and his grandma, watching the stars from above a rooftop. As he reminisced, his crying grew audibly. His legs had collapsed and knelt as he cried, still having the awe-inspiring view of the galaxies.

Cydee had heard footsteps growing more and more audible, coming his way. In a rush, he quickly wiped his tears as he continue to sob.

The Captain took a short break, exiting the plane's cockpit as autopilot turned on. He eased off the room.

He wanted to make sure that each of the crew was past asleep. It is a big day tomorrow, after all. He grabbed ahold of his coffee mug for a refill.

As he was walking, he heard a subtle wail from the distance.

"Is someone crying?", he thought. He took a closer step to see his brother, he was hesitantly wiping his tears, and he asked.

"Still awake?" the boy had turned around and had seen Zire.

"I can't sleep", the boy replied.

"But you have to go to bed. We have things to do tomorrow, time is of essence." The man had ordered, he had left as quickly as he had commanded, only shortly after did the boy follow.

Cydee was having a peaceful sleep when something had startled him, he gradually opened his eyes, seeing nothing but the ray of the sun, flashing through his face.

"Sorry! Did I wake you up?" Furia had shouted as she replaced the ship's engine,

"N-no, no you didn't!" the boy replied, he then stood up as he walked towards the big opened doors, while he groaned in pain, as he held at back of his head,

"Hey! You're awake" Cydney said as she handed him a cup of hot chocolate,

"Thanks, wait...where are we?", the junior questioned as he gazed around.

"Not familiar?" Furia asked,

Cydee then stepped down the aircraft, to take a closer look out, his expression was priceless, as he viewed the buildings and trees from a distance.

"Wait!...are we?!" the boy questioned,

"Yep, back at your planet, too bad you were sound asleep when we crashed down here in the forest" Furia responded,

"Okay! That's it I'm done, no matter what engine we use, we won't be able to fix this ship" Furia said as she stood up while dropping the wrench on the grass.

"We need a place to stay," Zire muttered,

"You guys can stay at our house, but, since we're in the forest, we're going to take the train to get to the city" Cydney suggested,

The quartet siblings then proceeded their way as they approached the railway station, the moment they headed nearer to entry of the train, the people who are walking past by them gazed at them from top to bottom suspiciously,

Zire and Furia stood between the passengers while Cydney and Cydee sat on their seats, the doors had slided closed as it began moving.

The boy had heard a baby crying with its mother, standing close to the exit, the junior gazed his head left and right to see if there were any vacant seats.

Cydee had stood up while approaching the lady, allowing her to sit in his seat. He gave the woman a smile as he stood beside Zire,

"How about you?" the mother asked as she sat down.

"You need it more than I do" the boy replied serenely, Cydney formed a smile on her face as she glanced at her little brother.

After an hour of traveling. The train finally made it's stop, the quartet siblings then took themselves out of the rail-carriage. They proceeded on their way down the stairs as they continued on their walk.

"We'll catch the bus, then walk a bit more and we'll be there." Cydney said as they waited for the bus,

The four then moved their positions inside the motorcar, standing in an awkward silence. Furia was just looking by the window when she noticed a girl being harassed. She gazed around and saw that not a single person was willing to help.

She groaned and rolled her eyes before approaching the girl and stated

"Sorry for interrupting boys," she said with a smile as she grabbed the man's shoulder and punched him straight in the face.

As the boy next to her was about to attack her, she kicked him in the stomach while grabbing someone's base ball bat knocking him in the face, as his nose began to bleed.

The man in front of her yanked her hair, she swiftly kicked the man's groin, while grabbing his collar, and she smacked his face against the window, causing the blood to stain through the glass.

Furia swung the bat at the boy's leg as he was about to stand up, causing him to scream in pain as he fell down.

The three men were whimpering in agonizing pain on the floor.

"Never touch someone in front of me if you don't want to get your bones wrecked. Are we clear?", she said in a petrifying tone while she handed the bat back to the student,

"Get out of here, perverts" she said while the gentlemen rushed out of the bus.

"Well trained." Zire complimented,

"I didn't know she could do that!" Cydee said in amazement.

"Thankyou!" the black haired girl obligated as she glanced at Furia,

"Not a problem" she replied back with a smile, as the crew dropped themselves out of the vehicle.

The junior couldn't stop complimenting about his elder sister's actions earlier, as they strolled along the street with the citizens passing by.

"That was awesome! It's legit amazing! I mean the way you swung the bat at his face! - damn! To be honest, if I were any of them, I'd rather run away!" Cydee stated in a astonishing manner.

"H-How'd you do that anyways?" the boy asked curiously,

"It's nothing, part of the training, I guess?" Furia replied.

"Didn't your knuckles hurt?" Cydney murmured attentively.

"I'm used to it. No worries" Furia responded,

They sat down at the table, in a Denny's restaurant, in full awkward silence, staring at each other as the waiter placed their order at their table.

"You guys eat pancakes...?" with a smirk on his face, Cydee questioned.

"Let me see the crate," Zire inquired as Cydee handed him the crate.

"It's not quite full yet," he stated.

When two random people approached them and asked,

"That's cool, are y'all doing a robot cosplay or something?"

The Captain drew his weapon and pointed it towards the two strangers.

"Yes! It's a cosplay!"

Cydney said as she hesitantly took the firearm from Zire's hands, the two strangers got frightened as they fled away.

"Don't shoot, they can be curious at things sometimes," Cydney explained.

"I only did that to scare them away," Zire responded.

Once they finished, they departed and continued on their route, every step they take is echoing throughout the street. Their village is deserted, and Cydney is escorting the two humanoids to their home, with the boy following behind.

The moment Cydney grabbed her keys and opened the front door, they forgot to clean the house,

"I'm sorry it's a little dirty," she said as she welcomed her guests into the house.

"And our room is upstairs, over there," she said, pointing through the hallway. "And if you guys need anything, I'm just in the kitchen," Cydney added, smiling before she leaves.

"Looks like our two-way radio is destroyed as well" Furia said as she showed them,

"How are we going to contact my crew?" Zire questioned.

"Well, we'll just going to fix it" she said as she hands the other radio to Cydee,

"What? What am I going to do with this?" the boy asked.

"Fix it" Furia gazed at him as she sat down at their dining table.

"I don't have any knowledge about these mechanical stuff" Cydee said.

"The only broken thing in there is the battery, so go find one and replace it, easy as that" Zire glared at him,

"Oh! Why didn't you tell me then" he says politely and went looking for a replacement. The three elder siblings are busy doing their own work, Cydney who's cleaning at the kitchen, while the other two are repairing their broken stuffs.

The captains of the Proximanian, Jovian, and Delta Caviller stood in their prospective positions, observing the city's boisterous noise and the crowds below.

"How are we going to find them? I mean, they could be anywhere" the Jovians' Captain inquired,

"Yeah...Baron is right, and we definitely can't just place a bomb in here and call Zire's name and he'll appear out of nowhere," Cassius responded.

"Who knows what will happen if we don't try, I'm in command here and the two of you will do exactly as I say", Garrett remarked as the three captains moved down on their way.