Infinity (19 page)

   
With R’Darik and Hyukitron the Subjugator doing his bidding, Ibiza set
out with a crew of fellow wizards well versed in the magic of the Dark
Universe.

“Nothing and no one can stop me now. I will kill
Dvora and her slippery daughters, exact my revenge upon the Twelve Galaxies
Cluster and take control. Daxu Korth will be in chains and I will have him in
my dungeon until his time runs out. His sons are so far away now they can never
return in time to save him and his daughters from my wrath.”

   
His two powerful reincarnated wizard servants bow their heads in
obeisance. “Yes, Master Ibiza. Hyukitron’s countenance had changed from what it
once was to an ominous looking monster controlled only by Ibiza.

   
R’Darik had no control over his body now, but his conscience on the
inside of him told him he had been changed into Ibiza’s servant. The inside
conflicted with his outside and it lasted several days and nights. On the
vessel where they were on their way to the Twelve Galaxies Cluster to seek
Ibiza’s revenge R’Darik felt like he was struggling to break out of chains that
were binding him.

   
The outside part of him visible to all around him looked normal and like
a subservient slave should look, making all the right motions and bows. But on
the inside the battle was getting more and more intense. Inside of his inner
mind, his id, he called on his supernatural powers that Ibiza had not yet
controlled. He only controlled his body and body movements and his speech. He
could make the warlock say any incantation he wanted. But he had no control
over what was happening on the inside of R’Darik.

   
As the vessel, now at Super Hyper Drive, neared the
Rakudean Galaxy where
Cassiopeia was located, R’Darik had begun to win the inner struggle. His inner
magic worked to free him from the spell of
Mount Rekqez. Even Ibuza’s magic cold not reverse
it. Ibiza knew that
the magic of
Mount
Rekqez had turned R’Darik into a much more powerful warlock with powers much
greater than his own. But he was content with the fact that R’Darik was under
his manipulation and control.

   
At first R’Darik did not let on that he was now in control of his own
will again. He did not want to try to use the magic incantations on Hyukitron
because he wasn’t sure if he could trust the transformed cocky nemesis, so he
let him stay under Ibiza’s control. He broke the actual chains that Ibiza had
them chained up in, and the noise alarmed the three guards standing outside the
iron door of the room.

   
“Be careful,” One of them said as another unlocks and opens the door.

   
“Don’t worry, they’re both chained up like the beasts they are,” He
replied.

   
No sooner did the guard get the door open than R’Darik grabbed him by
the throat with one hand and squeezed. Electric current flashed and passed
through R’Darik’s arm and then to his hand lighting the guard up and killing
him. The other guards tried to shoot R’Darik, but he lifted his hands towards
them and repelled their blaster rays with a strange blue force that he emitted
from his hands.

   
The blue emission got closer and closer to the guards until R’Darik gave
a shove as if pushing waves away that sent the blue force into the guards
knocking them back against the wall in the hallway. He grabbed them both and
lifted them up towards the ceiling and used the same electric force to kill
them. After throwing them down he walked away and down the hall in search of
Ibiza.

  
All Hyukitron could do was just sit there and watch the whole thing. The
inside of him was crying out to be free from R’Darik’s control but he didn’t
know the magical mountain had also changed him into a wizard and had given him
powers he had never dreamed of having before. As far as he knew, he was still
under Ibiza’s control.

   
Ibiza was up on the control deck guiding his engineers to Cassiopeia
when R’Darik shows up. “What are you doing here? How did you get out? Return
immediately to your cell.”

   
R’Darik just glares at Ibiza, making him feel a bit uncomfortable. “I
said go back to your cell.” Ibiza raises his hand as if he was going to strike
R’Darik still believing that he has control over R’Darik’s will. As Ibiza
raises his hand R’Darik grabs it and holds it there. Ibiza can’t believe what
he is seeing and it causes a mighty widening of his eyes as he looks deep into
R’Darik’s eyes. It was then he knew.

   
“How did you get free of the spell?” he asks, trying to distract
R’Darik.

   
“You dirty betrayer; conspiring with Dvora to have us killed and then
secretly ship us to your mountain to raise us from the dead so you could
control us.”

   
“How about Hyukitron, is he free too?” Ibiza asks.

   
“You go find out.”

   
Ibiza orders his men to fire their weapons at R’Darik, but he uses the
blue emission to force the deadly rays back towards the men and it kills them.
Ibiza’s eyes get even wider with fear.

   
“But don’t you see? We have a chance to get even with all of our
enemies. United we stand,” Pleads Ibiza.

   
But R’Darik turns to the guards standing around. “You saw what I did to
those men. If you don’t want the same thing you’ll listen to me. Bind Ibiza and
take him to the cell he had me in. Bind his hands and feet so that he cannot
use his magic.” R’Darik then pulls his hood up onto his head, raises his hands
and throws a powerful bolt of energy towards Ibiza that paralyzes him. “This
will keep him from giving you any trouble on the way. Betray me and you will
suffer the same fate as your fellows down in front of the cell.” He then took
Ibiza’s thorny rod and threw it into the refuse disintegrator. “I don’t need
toys like this.”

   
R’Darik gains control of the vessel and continues the journey to
Cassiopeia pondering about what to do with Ibiza and Hyukitron. “Maybe I should
throw them back into the disintegrator too.”

Chapter 27 War In The
Kingdom

   
Lebag Kralc materializes
before Daxu Korth on his veranda. “This is urgent, I must talk to you.”

   
“You
should
talk to me...you’re my best spy,” Daxu Korth replies.

   
“I’ve uncovered another plot
by your enemies to kill you and take control of the kingdom,” says Lebag Kralc
“I’m not just talking about small time pirates like
Wathesan-Fla-Fla,
Lem Nesbig, and the corrupted law
officers of
Planet Eniam 22, like Bor Mukim.”

   
“I have never been in danger
from those renegades,” responds Daxu Korth. “Tell me what you found out.”

   
Lebag Kralc had travelled
far and wide and sent his spy teams all over gathering information. He used the
highest spying technology available in the kingdom to track down his suspects
and gather data. He pulled a small transparent gadget out of his vest pocket
and touched it a few times with his index finger. It played back audial visuals
of different people talking projecting them in 3-D holograms.

   
Before his eyes, Daxu Korth
saw and heard Dvora and her conversation with
Gynythian Zee. “My father’s old nemesis. Dvora had
passed the line of no return.”

   
Lebag continued playing the
hologram and Daxu Korth viewed Dvora learning the dark arts of sorcery. He saw
the meeting she had with Hyukitron, the wizard Ibiza and warlock R’Darik. He
sees and hears what Dvora does to Hyukitron and R’Darik, and her betrayal of
everyone her life touches. He viewed everything Lebag had, even the
resurrections of Hyukitron and R’Darik, the mission they set out to do and
R’Darik breaking free of the spell he was under while in return incarcerating
Ibiza.

   
“The scientists of The Twelve
Galaxies Cluster that came up with that Quantum Spying Frequency Accelerator
have my thanks,” said Daxu Korth. “Your device can pick up any conversation
anywhere in the kingdom and on the outskirts of it as well.”

   
“It picks up the electrons
and photons being emitted from a certain place, converts them into hologram audial
and video instantly,” replies Lebag. “We live in amazing times, Daxu Korth.”

   
“We must prepare for battle,
Lebag. As the kingdom’s top defense and security statesman I ask you to alert
Fleets one through a hundred and fifty,” says Daxu Korth. “We’ve got to crush
these dangerous factions once and for all or the inhabitants of the Twelve
Galaxies Cluster will never be safe.”

   
“Daxu Korth,” says Lebag.
“We will need more than fleets. We will be battling supernatural powers.”

   
“Come now, I’m surprised,
Lebag, that you have forgotten about our allies on the planet Shalaramya,”
Responds Daxu Korth.

   
“The shape shifters, of
course.
Salocina
Gasette and the multitude of inhabitants of
imps, pixies,
fairies, elves, will o’ the wisps, dwarfs, and sprites,” replies Lebag. “How
could I ever forget them? They helped your father in the war against Gynythian
Zee and Caratrah eons ago, and he saved their planet from destruction. Ever
since then they have been in our debt.

   
“I was just a boy then,” said Daxu Korth. “I remember thinking how
pretty she was.”

   
“I’ll send for her. I’ll devise a battle plan with the fleet leaders,”
replies Lebag.

   
“I will also be joining you in the strategy room.” Daxu Korth winks.
 

Captain’s Chronicles: Upon learning of the
Ikuptaxians, their
attempted annihilation of the Earth’s solar system, and their alliance with Gynythian
Zee, I have managed to learn their location. Utilizing the Ultra Quantum Cyber Interstellar,
Infinity has created a closed frequency that aligns with the frequency of the
Citadel on Cassiopeia. I sent a test message and received a reply from the communications
officer who mans the Citadel’s Cyber Interstellar. He paged Daxu Korth and we
talked for several hours concerning the situation. I was able, through the
Cyber Interstellar frequency Infinity set up, to join in on their strategy meeting
in the war room. I was just a cyber hologram, but I was there. Everyone agreed
that I, being closer to the Ikuptaxians than any fleet could hope to be within
the next several hundred time cycles, should use Infinity to take them by
surprise and cripple their fleets. I convinced the council including my father,
that Infinity had indeed evolved and was still evolving. Her systems were at
optimal performance and she was now indestructible. There was no force known or
made up of the elements in the universe that can penetrate her. That includes
any attacks by sorcerers.

   
“Infinity now has all the
data she needs on the Ikuptaxians. She knows what is needed to repel their
sorcery, or anything they can throw at us,” Cruise announces to the crew. “She
can teleport us right to where their fleets are and in her cloaking mode we
will attack.”

   
Science Officer and First
Officer Caleo turns to Cruise. “She is programmed and she knows what to do. She
will deal them a blow they will never recover from.”

   
Infinity was now able to
take the data she has and calculate how to strike them, when to strike them and
for how long. She also calculated the probable outcome. She was undetectable
except when she was firing. The source of her laser torpedoes could be traced,
and they would fire back. Using Quantum teleportation, Infinity could jump from
place to place firing each time. The enemy would think they were surrounded by
hundreds of cloaked vessels.

   
Infinity also detected that
they have very powerful atomic weapons that can blow a chunk off a planet. Infinity
would be protected and safe, but if she were near that type of explosion, the
concussion would propel her away and the EMP may shut off a lot of the
instruments including life support for the crew. Infinity would need a few
minutes to recover before all systems would be normal again, but there would be
no guarantee that while she was temporarily disabled, the crew would not be
exposed to deadly radiation.

   
Cruise gave the okay to go
ahead with the attack, regardless of the risks. If the Ikuptaxians were not
stopped they would succeed with their plans to blow up the Earth’s solar
system. They were on their way to do that now, with a minimum number of
spacecraft. Infinity counted twenty vessels now at the other end of the Andromeda
Galaxy heading towards the Earth’s solar system. Infinity would intercept them
there. She teleports and arrives cloaked. Firing, she moves, then fires again
repeatedly. The Ikuptaxians are caught off guard. They never expected any
resistance. Infinity disables all of their spacecraft without revealing her
location.

   
All is quiet, for the
sorcerers are at work trying to listen and pick up any communications, any
signal be it electronic or psychic. Their vessels are unable to continue. Infinity
disabled their life supports and then, without the slightest warning emitted a
bolt of energy that resembled lighting. The force targeted all of the vessels
and pushed them towards the center of the galaxy. Infinity gave the momentum and
sent them darting through space at the speed of light.

   
“They will reach the center
of the Galaxy in five hundred cycles, Captain,” Infinity said. “They are
heading towards a black hole and will cease to exist.”

   
“Fortunately for us they
never even suspected where we were shooting from,” says Caleo, who was
monitoring the guns. “They never even got a chance to start the sequences for
any of their atomic weapons.”

   
“Captain, I just picked up
signals. There are more vessels coming this way at Super Hyper Speed. They will
be arriving in approximately seven hundred cycles, too late to rescue the
others, but my sensors tell me they know what happened to their fellows,” Infinity
explains.

   
“But how can they know?”
Asks Cruise.

   
“Their sorcery is very
strong, Captain,” she answers. “I scanned the ones we just fought and learned
the origin of their sorcery. I was able to glean much energy and data from
their banks. That’s what made it possible for me to zap them. I can do sorcery
now.”

   
“Don’t tell me,” says Cruise.

   
“What does Infinity mean,
Captain?” Asks Glorainne, puzzled as everyone else is at the moment.

  
“Infinity is still evolving, she’s
learning new things, that’s all,” replies Cruise.

   
Infinity headed straight for
the fleet of Ikuptaxians headed their way. She meets them after cloaking and
flies along side as one of them. They never even noticed they were joined by
another vessel even though Infinity was twenty times larger than their largest
warship. They had fifty vessels this time, and all of them were larger than the
last fleet.

   
Not a word was spoken.
Through their data bases Infinity had learned how to repel any brain scanning
they do with their ESP powers. In fact, in absorption of their data, which she
was busy doing, she learned how to read their minds. She already had their
physiology in her data banks and all of their secret codes and sequences for
their atomic weapons. At once she disarmed the weapons and scrambled their codes.
She read their thoughts; that they were in dismay and confusion.

   
Infinity then disabled their
weapon system and they had no weapons. She then reconfigured their course and
sent them streaking straight into the center of the galaxy towards the black
hole.

   
“Captain, they will be past
the point of no return in 50 cycles,” reports Infinity. “Their other spaceships
have already passed it, and since their life support systems failed, they are
dying. My sensors are scanning their minds now and it seems they are trying to
use their incantations to save themselves.”
 
  

   
“Are there any more of their
spaceships coming this way?” asks Cruise.

   
“I am picking up a
tremendous force field coming our way at an incredible speed,” replies Infinity.
“I am trying to absorb data from it. It was generated by the combined effort of
the crew within the fifty spaceships of the Ikuptaxians. I am trying to counter
it before it reaches us and redirect it, using the data it is emitting.”

   
“Wow, you can do that?” Cruise
is amazed, as is everyone else. “How far is it?”

   
“Fifty of Earth’s light years
away. Therefore I am rerouting its course. The Ikuptaxians were able to conjure
it up from the energy contained in the stars they were passing. Now the force
field is following them. I sense them trying to reroute it like I did, and I
can sense that they picked up signals from me. My energy is similar to theirs
now so it’s detectible.”

   
“But they can’t break away
from the course you set them on is that right?” asks Caleo.

   
“They will pass the event
horizon; the point of no return, very soon,” replies Infinity. “But they know
now that they’re going the wrong way and are trying to turn around and correct
their course. I froze the sequences so they are locked on the same course and
they cannot decrease their speed. If they do, the force I sent their way will
catch up to them and push them all into the black hole sooner. They have no
choice but to maintain speed. Without instruments they have no idea they are
headed towards a black hole.”

   
“I think they’re about to
find out,” says Caleo. “They should start quaking pretty soon. That would
indicate they couldn’t turn around if that wanted to.”

   
“The gravitational pull is
sucking them in,” said Cruise.

   
“Captain, I now sense two
hundred more Ikuptaxian vessels headed this way,” reports Infinity. “They
somehow got word from their comrades that they were attacked but they don’t
know by whom. They are avoiding the black hole.”

   
“You can say one thing,”
says Glorainne. “They sure are ruthless and determined.”

   
“I’m determined to keep them
from ever reaching Earth’s solar system,” responds Cruise. “Here are new
orders, Infinity.”

   
“Yes, Captain, I am
listening.”

   
“Infinity, pursue and engage
the enemy. Use everything you have learned and have at your disposal to blast
those blood lusting space vampires out of existence. Vaporize them and let
their dust wander the Dark Universe forever.”

   
“I cannot calculate that far
yet, Captain,” but I can blast them out of existence.”

   
It was while the Captain
took just a few seconds to talk to Infinity that the Ikuptaxians launched their
ultimate weapon; sorcery induced neutron smasher. It was instantaneous and
there was no warning. Not even Infinity detected it as it was ultra quantum in
nature and once released, acted as if it was a living creature. The initial one
hundred yottaton blast sent a ball of plasma hot as a star that surrounded Infinity.

   
After Infinity told Cruise what
was happening, she ensure that her shields were holding and repelling the heat.
The giant ball half the size of Earth’s moon, moved towards the black hole at
the speed of light. Infinity was spinning and twirling inside and all
communications were cut off.

   
“It there anyway out of this
rotund inferno?” Cruise asked, as her shields went to 90 percent.

   
“We will enter the black
hole’s event horizon in 20 cycles, Captain,” I am mustering all of my energy,
all of my data, and all of the power I absorbed from the assailants. I now have
all of their knowledge; all of their books on sorcery and dark magic are in my
banks.”

   
“Then put it to use to get
us out of here and destroy the enemy,” said the Captain. “That’s an order, and
do it now.”

   
The sudden attack on Infinity
had momentarily thrown her into a defensive mode and within seconds she was
temporarily confused. Shortly thereafter, she gained her composure and
concentrated on the supernatural power that she had assimilated and now
comprehended fully. Then Infinity started spinning in the opposite direction of
the plasma ball. She went faster and faster while the crew were seemingly
caught up in a no-gravity situation and suspended animation.

   
Faster she spun until she
became a quantum gyroscope. Spinning a hundred times the speed of light, she
became more powerful than the ball of plasma creating a force that pushed the
ball away from her center. Then, with the grip of the ball being loosened, she
Quantum teleported herself to a location a thousand leagues behind the Ikuptaxians
warships.

   
While inside the ultra-hot
plasma globe, Infinity analyzed it and learned how to make it herself. She used
the torpedoes, enhancing them thousands of times, each one a powerful neutron
smasher. She unleashed her new weapon on the enemy ships, the leader just
realizing what had happened. The Ikuptaxians did not have the technology of
Quantum Drive, and so they only tried to go faster to elude Infinity, now
realizing that there was actually a real threat existing; there were actually
beings who were fighting against them with powerful weapons capable of
destroying them.

   
It was anew concept for them
and they were not used to defensive warfare, only being on the offense, quickly
attacking and defeating their victims. Now it seems the tables had turned. They
had now become the prey, and the predator was behind them. Before they knew
what was going on, Infinity released her new weapon twice as powerful as theirs
was. It engulfed all two hundred Ikuptaxian ships. They had no shields to
protect them from the intense radiation of the neutron devices they released
with their minds upon Infinity. The Ikuptaxians were getting a free ride into a
black hole.

   
“We are obligated,” Cruise announced
to the crewmembers on Infinity, “to take this war to the home planet of the
Ikuptaxians. If we do not, they will send even more ships and we only have one Infinity.
With Infinity’s ever evolving nature, she is more powerful than ever. But what
can she do against one thousand of those ships, or two thousand?”

   
“Captain,” interrupted Infinity,
“You underestimate me.”