Later life

Sophia had noticed the gazes from the footmen and scientist would linger on her body more and more. Sophia was terrified, in the base she barely had any rights, she could kill the men who touched her and get away with it but if the higher ups or some of the scientists who were very important decided that they wanted her body, who would be able tos top them.

During, Sophia's training period, she was taught the art of seduction and the human body, so she knew what the perverted looks meant and what they wanted to. Her body was developing rapidly and she had inherited the best parts of her mother and fathers appearance. It wouldnt be long till Sophia would have an hour-glass figure that sent mens blood flowing like a tsunami and the looks to seduce even women.

So over the year, when Sophia went out on her asssassination, she would normally have very wealthy as they are the hardest to deal with, and thats what made Sophia so important. Sophia on one occassion was lucky enough to catch a target who had their banking account open for her to access. So Sophia knew she had only a few minutes so she made a call to her contact on the outside that she had met that was also going to assassinate one of her previous targerts.

He went by Marcus, with no surname. That man was a top assassain and hacker, so they had come to an agreement that she would help him, if he helps her and he agreed, but Sophia didn't trust, he was an assassain, its in his job description. Sophia used the only she could bargain at the time which was money. she let him take whatever he wanted from her targets as longs nothing linked back to her. ]

Sophia had made the call because she didn't have enough time to deal with the money herself, so she left Marcus to do what he wanted and left. That was 4 months ago and Sophia had heard a word from him since. She had told him about root and gave the location of the facility she stays at, and she knows it probably wasn't the smartest move but she had very few options available and that one was the most likely to work.

So she waited and waited and waited, till the day finally came for her to escape. It was night time and most of the occupants in the facility and left to get some shut-eye leaving the bare minimun to night-watch. But don't let that decieve you, the base was equiped with the latest defence mechanisms available in the universe, from the automated plasma turrets hidden in every corridor, to the trap floors that would literally eat u alive and if u were lucky you would die a very quick, painless death.

A siren echoed throughtout the base before an explosion happened in the east wing of the base. That was where the main entrance was. Footsteps running could be heard in the corrider just ouside her locked room before the gun-fire wa exchanged between the two sides. She knew the invadors were winning by the lack of their very weird sounding guns. Normally, the blasers would have a *pssh* sound but the root members guns would have a *wap* sound.

Sophia knew the time had come, so she hacked into the base and de-activated the plasma turrets while releasing the experiments one by one. This would help her as some the of the experiments had been heavily disfigured, so it wouldn't be wrong if they had mistaken them for monsters. When she knew that the experiments had done their part in being cannon fodder, she waited before she was sure that someone was walking past her door to shout "Hello, is anyone out there." Sophia's voice sounded rough from not speaking for more than 2 years

The movement outside stopped a moment before, the sound of people talking ouside and more people started to gather around the door to her room.

She was smart enough to make it look like she was being kept against her will, and had put a collar on her neck while her leg was connected to the bed with chain. It wasn't long before she heard a familiar voice on the other side but couldn't remember who "is anyone inside,"

"Thank god, are you here to rescue me," replied Sophia.

"Yes, were gonna get you home. Is there anyone else with inside that is *sign* unstable." it was easy to tell that he was disgusted by that he had witnessed.

Sophia's view of the man increased a little. "No, one of the scientists told me that all the failed experiments were hold downstairs, so others wouldn't be disgusted by looking at them and could do their day to day job"

"All righty, hold on a second, the door will open in a second, im gonna ask you to walk out very slowly" explained the man behind the door, his caution was well-deserved as they are in a base filled with human experimentations.

The door slid open and the soldiers outside had their guns pointed towards the door and watched as a captivating women walked through the door. They all gasped as they sae the uncanny resemblance towards the women in front of them with the supreme commander's wife. At first they were suspicious as but when they saw the women collapse into tears while the commander ran over to her and cradled her as if she was the most precious thing in the world.

When Sophia had walked out of the room and saw the guns pointed at her, she was calm. She had beem through worse but what had set her off was the man that stood in fromt of them with an imposing aura. The same beautiful, blond, short hair that was coiffed to prefection. Those same clear blue eyes that had a hint of gold at the rims of the pupils. The aquiline nose he had complimented his prominent cheekbones. his lips had turned from a imassive smirk to a wide smile that reached his eyes, bringing up his sharp jaw. Those same handsome features seemed all too familiar with Sophia.

Theordore Alvarez.

Her father

Sophia didn't know what it was, She had thought that she had cut off her emotions from her body but seeing her father again, made the emotion she was bottling up inside explode.

Theodore didn't know what to do, he had ben reunited with his daughter after she was kidnapped and could now give her the unconditional love that she deserved. Looking at her now, he realized she ain't no little girl and his paternal instincts kicked in. His daughter had been crying for 3 hours straight, he knew that humans had alot of water inside of them, but by the way she crying should've passed out from dehydrasion by now. Even if humans had gone far along the evolution path, they still some had some of the their ancestors traits like amount of water inside our bodies.

When Sophia had finally stopped crying she passed out from exhaustion, the last thing she remembered was her father ordering the base to be searched from top to bottom. When she had woken up from her slumber, she saw that she was on a really comfartable bed, sge felt like she melting into the mattress and she rolled back and forth, moaning from the comfort.

She froze, when she heard a barealy contained *pfft* from her left. When she looked up to see a younger version of her father but this one was thinner. He looked like he worked out regularly, from the the way his military uniform hugged his muscles, it did make him look appetizising.

"Hey sis, we finally meet again after 6 years, *sigh*, what mum and dad did was bad but can you at least listen to their story, when you hear it all you will realise that it was done for your sake. I don't know what you went through there but i want you to know that the whole family is behind you." Charles had come in hopes to gauge his sister's attitudes towards their parent, but when he didn't get a reaction, he kissed her on the forehead before leavng.

When Charles left, Sophia had reached up and felt the spot that Charles had toyuched and she felt warm, it was the kind of familial love that Sophia had been craving her entire life and she felt like she was so close to getting it.

Sophia had got off the bed and walked past her the floor to ceiling mirror. she paused before walking back and looking at her relection. to say she was shocked would be an understatement, she was bedazzled as to how to the men in the base could keep their hands to themselves. it sounded narcissistic to say but it was the absolute truth.

She was attracted to her pair of arched eyebrows framed her enticing, constellation-blue eyes that glowed in the natural light from the two suns. The glow was barely hidden being her velvety eyelashes, her dainty nose accentuated her pink, plump, parted lips, that screamed seduction, displaying her luminous, heavenly white teeth. Her sun-rise golden hair was tucked behind her sea-symph ears. molded together on her diamond like face. Her body was a work of art in itself. Her long hair cascaded down her plump breasts to her wafer-thin waist. Which sprouted again to reveal her curvacious hips and round and full buttocks. Her lithe legs and her compelling made Sophia look like a Godess but she had a bewitching aura around her.

While Sophia was admring herself in the mirror as if it is the first time she has seen herself while striking poases, the whole family had walked in and saw her posing in front of the mirror. Sophia's mother, Lydia couldn't help but admire her daughter's looks. but it did raise a dew alarms that she was sure her husband and son had thought of. And they would definitely question when they all are more familiar with each other.

"Sophia darling" Sophia was interrupted from her admiring session by Lydia's voice so sounded so loving that it brought tears to her eyes.

Sophia turned to face her mother and leapt into her arms. She doesn't hate her parents for neglecting her because she put it behind her and wants to look forward. "Mother, father," she said it such a way that it sent relief through Lydia's back while Theodore was just grateful she was back. "I don't want to know why I was neglected" when those words came out her mouth, the family froze. "because, I no longer care about it ,what i want right now is a family that will care for me." Those words felt cringey to Sophia but she felt that she needed to tell them this.

The family felt relief soon after those words and Lydia broke out into and hugged Sophia who responded by hugging back. To Theodore and Charles, they looked like sisters but Sophia had gotten her eyes from Theodore.

It wasn't long till they stopped spilling out each others grievances. Sophia told her story to them, starting from the kidnapping, to the experiments, to the training, to the assassinations. the whole families emotions were taken for a roller coaster ride from the beginning of the story, and when she finished the story, it was deadly quiet. No one was sure how to respond, it was hard to process especially when you find out your daughter was elusive ghost that woth the right price would kill your target.

Charles looked at Sophia with a burning passion. It was the look that meant he found a target to torment for sparring. His parents to sigh as they knew what it was about, but on the inside they were curious about their daughters capability.

Theodore took this chance to say his piece. "Sophia, how about you have something to eat , you slept through the entire trip home and must be hungry. honey, I am really sorry, I didn't realise it was suck a big thing till your mother brought it up while I was sober. You have to be there for the third princes coming of age banquet."

Sophia managed to get her emotions under control to realise something wrong with her fathers tone. She looked up with a glare,

"what do you mean."

"Before you were born, your father and the emperor had a drinking contest, because they have been competitive friends since they were young. the bet was that if we have a daughter, she would have to marry one of his sons because the emperor didn't want the trouble of having to look for a suitable one, or let his son choose someone who wasn't worthy of the royal family, while your father would be given a system in the glory sector to have which would have seen our finances quadruple. But your father was never the best at drinking and lost the bet so your engaged to the third prince because he was born a month before you." Lydia explained to Sophia and Charles, who hadn't been privy to that information.

"Mother, does that mean if we hadn't found Sophia, the third prince would marry someone, like the daughter of the jun family. I heard her and the prince are really close and the rumour was that she was going to be engaged to the third prince at on his birthday." mentioned Charles with narrower eyes, no one could cheat his sister especially, when they just found her.