Chapter 15:

The Snake in the Grass (3/3)

The Zypher: The Four Season


Cal spoke too soon... Like any other overconfident character.

The bounty hunter, that was after Cal when he was abandoned by the fleet, found Cal and connected his ship to Cal's to which how would he know where to connect the ship? Both the bounty hunter and the man with the deep voice entered the ship and Cal pointed a blaster in their faces. "I don't know nor do I care who you are but if you don't leave I'll shoot you."The deep-voiced man deactivated the blaster and told Cal to calm down, "we're aren't for anything special, we came here looking for you Cal. My bad, my name is Reeve, and this here is Echo, we were a part of an order that is now gone and it has changed for the Circinus Galaxy." Cal didn't believe what Reeve was saying nor why he should trust him, "you killed my boss so tell me why should I trust you when you not only killed Venom but destroyed Bêydia?"

"Because... He didn't kill him, it was the ECHO he was sent to eliminate any survivors of the Order and exterminate them on the spot, Reeve here went into your workshop to kill him, he succeed but the ECHO had killed your boss, look I don't care what happened back then but what I want to do is to find some peace and Reeve here is a pain in the ass." Ku woke up to find Reeve and Echo in the ship, he shrieked, "why is this fleet member here?" Cal explained everything to them and they can relate to that, "how can we relate? We were lower ranks and we thought about escaping instead of being abandoned but I will comment that we despise them."

"I know you don't trust me now but I want to have a chance in which you can trust me soon, but right now I'm asking you to help us find the key." Cal was too confused about what Reeve was implying, "the key to the galaxy core, 9 planets has parts of the keys that can open and show us where the 'lost shard' is... The lost shard is the lost artefact that can restore our order but others are after it and if they get to it before us, they have powers of ruling the galaxy... It's kind of funny you know, I remember this story about an armada of highly advanced robots that wanted to rule the universe but were unfortunately thwarted by a 17-year old, I heard that he made the sky of a planet burn bright amber, I've got to say heroes like that, it would be awesome if it were true."

"Enough of the fairy tales, we need to get going, this your map?" Echo opened the map and it showed the location of where they had to go or where Cal had to go, "let's see here, you have been to Bêydia, Chenghuia, Yookʊ̃ia, Lenin and Aaakwla, only four of the nine planets that you must visit, we have been in the remaining planets and we found nothing." Reeve then pointed out something, "what if we were not meant to find it but someone else." Reeve pointed at Cal, "I honestly don't believe that to be true, I mean come on... Since you two are in the order, it would work for you guys right... Right?" Reeve didn't believe in something like that, "maybe we should ask Sister Bertana." Cal didn't know who Bertana was, "she's smoking hot, she has abilities in knowing things that even mankind can not understand, she too was a part of the order."

"Shouldn't we get going?" Echo felt eager in meeting Sister Bertana again but Phen woke up and she pointed her blaster at Echo, "listen, hunter... I don't care what you doing here but I'm not..." Cal ensured her that they were not attacking them, "We are here to restore the order but in doing so we need Cal. We need to arrive on the planet of Zaizal, sister Bertana will help us there." Phen lowered her weapon but she didn't trust them so she took the princess and went back. Echo went back into his ship and Reeve activated an overdrive that combined both the ships, "I didn't it could do that." Reeve chuckled and told Cal, "there are things that you have to learn kid, but if not, you'll be risking the loss of your head."

Cal took that in mind and they rerouted their coordinates to Zaizal, "it will take us an hour and the planet itself is very hostile, many of the creatures in space will try and eat us." Echo returned and realised that there was audio, he played it. "My friend, if you are reading this then I have met my end, first I had to go into hiding because of the war and I abandoned and erased my student's memory, I can only hope that someone can fix the order, many of my brothers and sisters died by the hands of them and many remain, I fear my rime will end soon in Aaakwla, whoever you may be, I entrust my message to you." Phen listened in and saw that Cal was hiding something, "Cal isn't hiding something Phen, he doesn't understand it, that's why he seems to know it but he doesn't...."