BXBX NOVEL Chapter 281: Come With Me.
"Sol Vestic\'s latest feat, something incomprehensible-"
"I told you I\'ve been keeping tabs on everything that happens, of course I know, I didn\'t know he was that powerful but I was sure he\'d be able to do something so over the top the entirety of the Grand Collective would stop and stare in fear and horror," Jenifer huffed a d stood. "Mom, you broke my door-"
"Never mind that," Chey shook her head and activated a small spherical device she had been holding on to, causing a pulse to vibrate through the entire apartment and knock out everything electric.
"Listen, I\'ve been thinking, they say he\'s able to pick up on every communication passed across the Emporium, I don\'t know whether it\'s true or not, but it\'s worth a shot if we want to get on his good side, right, we should surrender before shit really hits the belt."
"What?"
"I\'m saying we try becoming allies with him, he\'s made several things disappear off the face of reality without a trace I\'m sure there\'s somewhere he\'d be able to freely leave us, this isn\'t a fight worth dying over, the Emporium has met its match, we need to get out while we\'re able to," Chey made gestures flashily with het hands as she explained, missing how her daughter seemed to go through several emotions of excitement before settling on her usual stoicism.
"Are you sure about that?" Jenifer asked and her mother huffed and dipped into her pocket, taking out a keypad for her personal ship and gesturing through the window.
"I already have everything packed and I\'m ready to get the fuck out of here; Jenifer, all that truly matters to me is your well-being, if not for you I\'d join the fight against him death by an enemy of his calibre is a great way to die; it\'s an opportunity that defies time itself another may never show up again, but I don\'t care about any of that; not now."
She scratched her head and gestured to the window again. "I\'d rather live under someone\'s thumb than see my most beautiful achievement get killed for the sake of an empire we\'ve never met and a war we didn\'t start." Experience more content on mvl
"Mother..."
With a gesture of impatience, Chey shook her head and held up her hand. "Don\'t think too hard, just pack whatever you want, we can leave in an hour, there\'s a station built into the ship that will disable and remove our trackers and turn off our augmentations permanently-"
"I think she\'s ready now." Jenifer suddenly spoke up and at doing so, the clone alpha had left with her appeared before her in the form of a child and looked up at Chey.
"It appears she is." Alpha nodded seeing Chey slowly raise her hand toward the weapon on her waist. "Chey Law, by the powers vested in me by my original self under Master\'s orders; I welcome you into Master\'s care, please note that I may become intangible at will so you might end up harming your daughter if you attack me."
"Who the hell is this, what Master is she talking about?" Chey\'s hand trembled as she lowered it and looked up at Jenifer.
"She means Mr Vestic, mother, the ship is unnecessary, when we leave we\'ll be shown a whole other world, nothing from the Emporium is of importance," Jenifer answered with a chuckle placing her hand on Alpha\'s head as the system closed her eyes and smiled childishly, Chey didn\'t miss the bit where alpha actually looked like Jenifer\'s child, but that aside-
"You... you\'ve been allied with him this whole time?" Chey\'s mouth slowly hit the floor while her daughter smiled and walked over to the side picking up a small bag of her most treasured childhood items and then turning at her.
"Sir saved my life and exposed me to the evils of the Emporium; originally I was supposed to be a spy, but after Alpha made it inside of the Khalla-Nova Collective and they connected to my mainframe the entire Emporium became accessible at just a thought to her, she\'s been feeding them information this whole time.
"Alpha...?" Chey looked at the child again.
"Focus, Mom," Jenifer snapped her fingers at her. "Are you serious or was this a bluff?" She asked.
"Jenifer, what if I had decided to turn you in to the Emporium?" Chey stared at her, shocked.
"Thanks to Mr Vestic\'s intervention, I have already become many times more powerful than anyone from the 3795th ever was, that includes the General, currently, there\'s nobody on this planet and nobody above the rank of 500 that could overpower me, I\'d be fine," Jenifer answered.
"Come on, make up your mind, you\'ve brought an opportunity to my doorstep and I plan to exploit it; if you don\'t answer now you\'ll probably never see me again, Mom, I\'m leaving, will you come with me?" She asked and Chey lowered her gaze with her shoulders relaxed and then looked up at her again, smiling.
"Jenifer, you\'ve been doing well for yourself, I was worried for nothing..." Chey chuckled with her eyes teary and her lips quivering. "I\'d never stay behind if you wanted to leave, I always hoped you\'d quit the army so I could finally have a reason to do the same, y\'know."
"It is settled then," Alpha clapped her hands drawing their attention to herself again. "Wonderful, I have already relayed the information to my original, she will take over from here, Jenifer, Chey, please relax for a few seconds and try not to scream, the Master is not fond of pointless noise." She smiled at them before the world around them started getting strangely bright.
"What\'s happening?" Chey asked covering her eyes when the light became unbearable.
"Finally," Jenifer laughed with her eyes wide open. "It has been worth the wait!"
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"Cecelia," Viktor was in his chair staring into the void before them, upon calling her both Lina and her sister looked at the Vatui captain and General, they\'d noticed her uneasiness around the man, which made no sense seeing how they were partnered for longer than most universes had been in existence, then again they also knew that he didn\'t treat her well, on the surface she was a good actor, she played the role of subservience perfectly, but there were small hints every now and then which pointed to him being abusive toward her.
"Yes sir?" Cecelia looked up from her tasks.
"Can you still sense nothing?" He asked.
"...I\'m sorry, General," Cecelia answered sitting straight and looking at him. "Currently the entire space has residual bits of his power but nothing has changed, he has shown no sign of resurfacing," She replied.
"What about else-wise?" General Flint asked, and Cecelia\'s pupils contracted into dots for a few seconds before she regained her composure and huffed.
"Nothing sir, the Godslayer remains a mystery, I\'m sure we\'ll find him as soon as he shows his face again, and when that happens... We\'ll strike." She responded and relaxed in her seat again.
"I suppose in the meantime we have no choice but to wait patiently, there\'s the added bonus that every moment passed is an advantage given our numbers grow." Lina spoke up from her seat next to the 100th general passing him a note on a piece of paper. [The Vatui woman is lying]
"Cecelia," Viktor called her again, and Cecelia looked at him a second time, this time evidently concerned as she had noticed his strange behaviour as well, not to mention Sal had been giving her side glances since she returned.
"Yes, General."
"I heard that Sol Vestic has means to contact anyone he pleases, this is also backed by the fact that he has repeatedly sent messages throughout all our systems, what do you think about this?"
"If he\'s in our systems then there\'s a chance we can reverse-engineer whatever program he\'s using once we manage to intercept-"
"I was thinking the same thing," Captain Stark nodded from her seat close to Cecelia. "Have your analysts been trying?"
"They have but so far the technology he has used is beyond our grasp," Cecelia answered and then looked to the captain who had spoken.
[Cecelia, stand.]
She stood upon hearing Sol\'s voice directly into her head.
"Is something wrong?" Flint looked at her, resting his hand on the hilt of his sword and narrowing his eyes slightly.
"No sir, I grew tired of sitting."
[Walk to take ten steps forward and two to the left]
She obeyed once more without batting an eye, standing in the clear and staring out into the void.
"Cecelia-" General Flint was about to say something again but he and the entire cockpit froze in shock when a sudden flash of light revealed Sol standing next to Cecelia. "Vestic!" The man snapped, destroying his seat and the surrounding monitors in a mad dash towards his enemy.
Along with the 100th, the 95th General rushed from her seat as well, drawing her weapon and striking, but the two of them found themselves in the back end of the ship crashing through cargo as they were teleported away, leaving Sol there with Cecelia and captain Stark who was so shocked she had failed to move.
"Cecelia, you\'ll come with me-"
"Saviour..." Cecelia took several steps away from Sol and started falling to her knees but he caught her shoulder and pulled her to her feet again and then looked at Sally who was on the floor in horror and then at the captain who was frozen in fear.
"One week, I\'ll return in one week\'s time, I\'ll kill you, and everyone aboard this ship, and the ship flying next to it, you\'re free to run and hide, but you\'ve all been marked," Sol gestured to her hand and the captain looked at her palm in another round of horror when a circular sigil was suddenly burned into her skin.
"I\'ll be back."