Chapter 48

"Are you guys sure you want to remain in planet demo?" John said to the new alien leaders

They were now at the hangar, where the alien leaders, the captain, and john was all sitting at benches at the side of the hangar.

"What about you? Are you sure you dont want to join the council?" Hormus said

"With your powers and wisdom, you can easily be the king of your own planet." Ikit said

"Well, that is a tempting offer, but I have to decline. I will first report to my leaders, so that they can reach a decision on who to send here as representative." John said as troy agrees

"Humans also have their own rules to follow. But nevertheless, we will also follow the councils rules once we also go out of our planet." Troy said

"Alright then. Its a shame really, we could have easily been comrades in arms." Pixie said

"But rest assured, if the arachs or octoguys will ever attack, we will be there to assist you. Just give us a call." Ikit said to john. "No offense hormus." He said to hormus

"None taken. Though we will also be taking some of your people along with us, to live on earth as part of cultural exchange." Hormus said

"No problem at all." Anut said

"Though we are still a bit hesitant in taking froggers with us, all cause of their features. If you know what I mean, since most froggers are increadibly fat, and eats a lot." John said as the new council agrees. "No offense." He said to the frogger

"None taken. Though we pride ourselves as wise sages, we mostly have problems with our appearance." The frogger rep said

"John, its time for us to go." Troy said, as he looked at his digital watch

"You are right. Well then my fellow sentients, farewell for now." John said as they all stood

With that, they concluded their meeting and bid farewell with the other alien leaders. All before john and troy got back to the bridge, as the girls were busy with taking care of their children.

"Prepare for warp sequence!" Troy said as heand john sat on their seats

"Preparing for warp sequence!"

"Initiating countdown and informing the citizens!"

"Countdown starts at 50!"

The computer then started the countdown, where all citizens were ordered to find a seat and strap themselves as part of procedure for warp.

"Well, when we get back to earth, we must probably stay there for a while." Troy said

"Why is that?" John said

"You will see when we get there. Ever since I called earth about some time ago, there has been unrest in the people." Troy said

"What?! Whats the actual details of this?" John said

"That, I dont yet know. But we will find out when we get there." Troy said

"Alright, I will trust you with this." John said

Then after some time, the countdown went down to 10, where all the citizens were now secured in their seats.

"All hands, get ready for warp!" Troy said before all of them wore sunglassess to prevent light from warping to affect the eyes

"Location, planet earth, confirmed!"

"Placing warp point to be at distance near earth!"

"Beginning warp at 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.."

"Lets warp back home." John said

After that, they successfully warped back near earth.

"NASA this is hercules fleet, do you copy?" Troy said

"This is NASA, please confirm captain QR code."

"QR code sent." Troy said

"Confirmed. Welcome back captain troy, its been 4 years now ever since your parting."

"Roger that, will discuss everything later. Right now, we need info." Troy said

"Good timing. There is currently a session in the UN right now, you can just watch it or watch the news on the internet while you are still there in space."

"Got it." Troy said before they ended the transmission

"The news huh.. will head back home for now, what will you do captain?" John said after he unfastened and stood

"I will check everything on the ship for now. Go, be with the girls." Troy said as john agrees, before john left at lightning speed

Meanwhile, back at the mansion inside the hercules ship.

"Im back! How are the children?" John said after he got back

The girls, hormus, and the children were right at the playground where the kids were playing with hormus. As the girls were at the table enjoying some tea.

"Glad you are back john." Beth said as john was walking towards an empty seat beside frey and beth

"Yes, there is a news thats all over the internet right now." Frey said as she let john watch the news on her phone

"--its been almost a year ever since the attack from russia, and there are no signs of stopping! Prices of goods in other countries has skyrocketed, world market is in chaos, and sanctions has already been in place. All while other neighboring countries are sti flooding with refugees from those countries that have been attacked.--" said the reporter

"And here are the list of countries that has been attacked by russia: Ukraine, belarus, latvia, estonia, moldova, lithuania." Alex said as she read the article she was reading out loud

"Damn..why did this ever happen though?" John said

"From the article im reading, it says that from last year, those countries tried to enter the alliance made for european countries and the US. And until now, no clear solution has been made for this." Alex said

"That is bad. Since if they enter the alliance with them, it would mean that weapons or nukes can be sent to those countries, which are very close to russia." Frey said

"Yes, it would be like the west will now be close to the east. And the current president is afraid of that, which may be why they are attacking first before anything else happens." Silk said

"What should we do john?" Aya said

"I think our stand in this should be neutral." John said as the girls agree

"Why is that?" Aya said

"Normally, I would like to step in and stop all the chaos, but its just too messy right now. Firstly, its a neighbor problem. Where your neighbor suddenly has weapons, then you have weapons, so you wouldnt know the possibility of when each might attack. Then there is the problem of western influence. Its true, that the world is what it is now thanks to the west, but thats all now the things of the past. What the future holds would depend on each person, specially the leaders of those countries." John said

"What about replacing the leaders of the neighboring countries? That they would also be neutral, so that the war will stop." Claire said

"That wont work. Things would just become very complicated for both the government and the people, and it might cause some kind of civil war." John said

"What about just stepping in to stop the chaos? Like a warning and such." Silk said

"Hmm.. a warning would be good, but it just wont solve the root of the problem." John said

"Which are the leaders of the neighboring countries right?" Alex said

"Yes. Russias concern is very well founded, and even I think that the neighboring countries are just moving based on their pride and belief." John said

"A very dangerous combo indeed." Aya said as the girls agree

"So you girls agree that we will only take a neutral stand in all this?" John said

"Whats the merits if we can stop the war?" Aya said

"None. The only good thing is that the war will be stopped, but some problems will still surface along the way." John said as frey agrees

"But at this rate, world war 3 might happen!" Alex said, concerned

"World war 5 you mean. We already had world war 3 with the arachs and world war 4 with the previous council." Frey said

"Anyways, no one is mad enough to make another world war though. Ever since the bombing of heroshima and nagasaki, literally everyone is very conscious of the possibility of a dystopia when all the nukes are used." John said

"Plus we already have suffered through 2 consecutive world wars with the aliens." Beth said

"So unless if mutants and nukes are used in the war, thats when we step in. Cause it might get too dangerous. Is that alright with you girls?" John said as the girls agree

"Time and time again, im astonished at how much wars your race always do during the years." Hormus said as he just finished playing with the children and has put them to sleep on the grass

"Yeah, im even ashamed of it sometimes." John said

"Well, some other races are no different from yours anyways. Though just like you said, peace is better than war." Hormus said

"In any case, lets all rest for now. We have a lot of things to do by tomorrow." John said as they all agree

After that, john and the girls got the children and rested inside the mansion, while hormus rested in the pool.