Infinity (6 page)

“W-what?” Cruise turned
his head towards Caleo.

“Explosions,” the
physician said, “came from the ships in orbit.”

Cruise looks up to see a
gigantic fireball falling towards the ocean in the distance.

“Where’s Geyruk? Where’s
my first officer?” He was nowhere to be seen. The first explosion was followed
by another and then another until there had been six explosions in all. Five
more giant fireballs enter the atmosphere careening and spiralling across the
sky in bright yellow, surrounded by pink balls of radiant white light. They
follow the first one in their death parade into the crystal sea.

“What’s going on?” Cruise
shouted. “Those explosions were the pirates’ vessels. Our troops had boarded
them; one thousand troops.”

Cruise stood there in
shock, but was brought back to reality by Millennia as she places her soft hand
on Cruise’s strong shoulder. “My Commodore’s agents saw your first officer.
First he was there and then he was gone.”

“I’m sorry, Your
Graciousness. I must return to my vessel right away. I think someone just
started a war.”

Attempting to
teleport back to Infinity, Cruise found that the Teleporter had been shut down
and locked. Even Infinity’s controls cold not override it. He tells Caleo to
scan Infinity and locate Geyruk.

“Scanning now, Captain.
There he is, on the control deck. He seems to be giving orders to the crew.”

“Thanks, Caleo,”
Said Cruise. “I’ll use the teleport function on my wrist band to get there. He
can’t lock that down.”

Cruise appears
on the control deck behind Geyruk. He’s not noticed. Drawing his Exust brand
Star Flash Blaster, he stuns Geyruk before he even knows what hit him and calls
security. “Get him to the borstal.” He then orders Infinity back to real-time
and she brings all mechanisms and instruments back to standard. “Infinity, give
me a damage report.”

“Welcome back,
Captain,” speaks Infinity in her pleasant and calm female voice. “No damage has
been done to any part of me, but the six Ergaddi pirate vessels have been destroyed,
one thousand and twenty four of our troops killed, as well as three hundred
Ergaddi pirates.”

“How did that
come about?” Cruise turns to Glorainne.

“He...uh...First
Officer Geyruk that is...just appeared here on the control deck.” Glorainne
wipes her brow with a disposable towel and throws it in the waste
disintegrator. “Ah...that feels better. Anyway, he ordered Infinity to fire on
the pirate vessels overriding all other controls and then...” she rolls her eyes
and looks up at the ceiling, “he pulled his blaster and killed communications
officer Jera. He then laughed and said he was going to do the same to you when
you finally got here.”

“So he knew I
was coming, but just didn’t know when,” said Cruise.

“Yes, Captain,”
replies Glorainne.

Cruise sits down
in the captain’s chair. “Teleport the remainder of our crewmembers still on the
planet’s surface back here now, Infinity. Also...teleport the Ergaddi pirate
prisoners to the extra large secure holding cells.”

“It’s done,
Captain,” responds Infinity. Cruise had her choose a team of six people, the
best choice, to go back down to the surface with him. Teleporting back down to
the same coordinates, the team appears in front of the Queen again as the feast
seems to have broken up by intruders.

“I wondered what
happened, Captain,” Says the Queen. “You left so fast” In her eyes was a look
of longing and endearment as she grabbed Cruise’s forearms and rubbed them with
a slow and gentle up and down motion. “We had intruders, but my security guards
were able to catch them. Shockingly, it was Commodore Selrahc.” Cruise listened.
“He was the one responsible for your first officer’s behavior.”

“So he has some
kind of manipulating drug or chemical that poisons the mind?” replies Cruise.

“Oh, you know
about such things?” Millennia looked surprised.

“Your Highness,
I’m Cruise Liberty; Sovereign Prince of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster,” he
replies. “It’s my job to know everything.”

Tears well up in
Millennia’s eyes. “Then you are more than a prince, my love. You are like a
deity.”

“To tell the
truth, I never actually thought of it quite like that before,” Chuckled Cruise.
“But I do know that a serious crime has been committed, and according to our
laws, the guilty must be punished.” Cruise then commenced to explain the law of
quick judgement, and that the guilty must be brought to trial immediately. The
Queen had no choice but to listen and comply. But she did it with enthusiasm
for Cruise and the Twelve Galaxies Cluster.
 
Because of the heinous nature and
magnitude of the mass murder, both the Commodore, now striped of his title, and
Geyruk, because he allowed himself to be weak and doubtful and was thus subject
to dark powers, were brought to trial.

Cruise met and
talked with the magistrate who would try the case. The witnesses were brought
in and testified. The death sentence was carried out on Dekkonia, but only in
the case of a mass murder or series of murders. The magistrate sentenced their
former Commodore and all of his accomplices to death.

The Dekkonian
law stated that they must suffer the same manner of death as their victims did.
The Magistrate, with the Queen’s intervention, declared Geyruk to be sentenced
by his Captain, the Prince of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster. Cruise sentenced
Geyruk to be banished from the Kingdom of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster and sent
to the
Yuhenia Star System as Dvora was.

Cruise
had not yet heard about his stepmother’s and stepsister’s severe crime and
punishment. It was the most heinous of all systems consisting of volcanic
planets, icy cold planets, and barbaric planets with races of vampire-like
creatures that were challenged in knowledge. It would be survival of the
strongest. No one had ever escaped from that prison planet before. Its name was
Shakalah, meaning gravestone.

Cruise
summoned the rest of his fleet. After forty-five earth minutes of Super Hyper
Drive, they appear in the sky. The three pink suns reflect off of the
mirror-like Platainium, the hardest and most beautiful element in the known
universe, to reveal the armada of one hundred space vessels. The vessels, with
their oval shape, glitter like majestic diamonds in the sky as they lock into
orbit around Dekkonia. The largest and brightest of the vessels was Infinity,
which had uncloaked and was now visible. Its shape appeared to be saucer-like as
seen by the naked eye. From the surface of the planet, Infinity looked like a
small sun or yellowish-pink star, even in the brightness of their three suns.
Its reflection of the triple suns’ light covered the whole color spectrum.

The
view was so splendid, that even the Queen was awed by the ornamental array of
space vehicles now parked at her very doorstep. “I have never seen such a
display of beauty and power all at once, and in one place. And that large one looks
like a Quasar.”

“It’s
Infinity, my vessel,” Cruise said proudly. “The size is three times larger than
your great city.”

“Oh...I...cannot
even imagine a vessel that size,” replied the Queen, still mesmerised by the
sight, “let alone how powerful it must be to have travelled here.”

“We
will talk more of this, and what happened here today over the evening meal
perhaps?” Cruise says with all the graciousness and elegance of the prince that
he was. He was obligated to take care of the business at hand first. That was
to assign one of his vessels to transport Geyruk to Shakalah.

That
evening after the three suns had set, Queen Millennia had one of her maiden
helpers show Cruise to the dining area lit up by Munariege perpetual candles.
The colors were in contrast to each other unlike Cruise had ever seen.

“I
thought we had everything in the Twelve Galaxies Cluster,” he commented while
sipping the wine of the Firtu Grapes, only native to Dekkonia. “You didn’t put
any of that mind altering poison in my wine now did you?” He chuckled.

“If
I did you would have already known it,” she laughed. “I need no such persuasive
chemicals. Either I am obeyed or I’m not.”

“Either
you’re loved or you’re not,” he mimicked.

“My
extra sensory perception tells me that you are on a mission; a quest,” the
Queen said. “Please divulge to me this quest and I will help you to accomplish
it.”

“You
have the power to do that?” Cruise was impressed.

“I
have the power to do more, actually,” she replies. “I could easily read all
that is in your mind, but I prefer it if you told me yourself.”

“All
right, I’ll tell you, but I doubt if you can be much help to me in fulfilling
it.”

“If
I can,” she followed, “Will you become my soul mate?”

“Tell
me what that is and I’ll tell you if I can become it or not,” Cruise laughed.

“It
is not unlike the shallow marriage vows a man and woman take. Except it is even
more meaningful and binding.” Millennia told Cruise of the ancient tradition. A
man and woman make a promise to love and honor each other and they are bound
together by the chords of Aleilda, the everlasting angel and spirit of love.
Nothing could ever break those chords, for they are bound to each other in the
unity and bond of love. The ceremony is simple, and is presided over by the
Pure Priestess of the White Citadel.

“Okay,”
was Cruise’s answer. “Even if I search forever, I doubt very much that I could
find a soul mate as...lovely, gracious and perfect as you.”

Millennia
was overjoyed. “I knew you were the one the first time I saw you. Now you must
tell me your quest.”

“My
quest is twofold. I search for Earth, the planet of my ancients. I wish to
recover the relic that was either lost or stolen. It contains a pure book of
truth that was called “The Pure Scriptures”. I believe it expresses the very
voice of God, the creator of everything.”

“And
the other? You said there are two.”

“I
also search for my brother. Though half brother he is, still we share the same
father and so we’re brothers. He disappeared into a worm hole on his way to
search for Earth.”

To
Cruise’s surprise, the Queen discloses that she is also part Earthling. The
Dekkonians were all part Earthling. Only her grandfather was human and her grandmother
a native Dekkonian.

She
was also about to begin her quest for the scriptures of truth, for her people, but
was told by the Pure Priestess of the White Citadel to wait until the divine
one appears in the sky with a vehicle of such radiance that one could not look
directly at it without being blinded.

“You
are noble and brave. You love your brother and love cannot be defeated. When I
saw your vessels shining so brightly, and then yours, as big as three of our
cities, I had to turn away my face, as to look upon such a bright sight for too
long would have harmed my eyes. That’s when I was positive that you were the
one who was sent.”

The
mood as well as the wine was quite intoxicating for Cruise and Millennia both. Cruise
was usually a good judge of character, and from what he had seen and heard from
Millennia, he was convinced of her truthfulness and sincerity and her love,
which they consummated that night. He decided to take her with him, on his
vessel. The Dekkonians had spacecraft, but they were not very powerful, nor
could they travel the distance or speed required to reach Earth.

It
was all set. Cruise would leave behind a security force of five warships to
protect the planet from anymore of The Subjugator’s pirates, and she would
leave the ruling of Dekkonia to her three siblings; two brothers and a sister.

Cruise
ordered two of the vessels back to Cassiopeia. One reason was it was too far
now to communicate a message seeing as they were out of the quadrant, and when
the vessels did get within communication range, they could send a message to
the king explaining the situation and asking for more vessels to be sent. They
may run into more planets that need their help on the way to Earth.

Koupiton
Hoxenyth, who was the Daxu Korth in the Quewythian language, or “Liberating
King”, received his son’s message as soon as the two vessels he sent were
within communication range.

“My son is noble
and righteous. He veers from his quest to help the race of another planet.
Surely I will help him and send even more vessels than he asked.”

Communication
within the Twelve Galaxies Cluster was instantaneous by Quantum Cyber
Connection. The Quantum Matrix technology had been set up eons before and had
only gotten better with time. The Interstellar, as they called it, was quantum
cyber space. Friends and relatives communicated with each other and even
socialized, sent images, audial and video, not to mention key letters. This is
the system the vessels Cruise sent used. As soon as they were within range of
the Quantum Matrix, they sent their message from Cruise. The signal wasn’t as
strong as it was when they got closer, but by the time they reached the borders
of the Twelve Galaxies Cluster, the spacecrafts that Cruise had asked for were
well on their way.

Daxu Korth
requested one hundred vessels from each galaxy bringing the total to one
thousand two hundred. Seven hundred and fifty crewmembers would be on each
spacecraft. All vessels were made of the same metal as Cruise’s vessels, Platainium.

Platainium was a
metal so precious that pirates had been seeking it for eons. They could never
get their dirty hands on it because it was only mined within the well-guarded Twelve
Galaxies Cluster. Some pirates had tried in the past, including The Subjugator,
but were either destroyed trying to obtain it, captured and sent to a prison
planet, or escaped with nothing in hand but their lives.

When it is
mined, the ore is ninety eight percent pure. A minimum of refining is needed
and the “full of life” metal is ready. It takes a certain process to prepare
the metal for forging and shaping into vessels and weaponry, which is what the
metal is used exclusively for. Only the scientists of the Twelve Galaxies
Cluster know the process and are avowed never to disclose the secret under pain
of a fate worse than death. Fortunately for the Twelve Galaxies, the secret of
the processing has been kept for ages.