A visitor

Her heart raced in a fighting stance and he raised a hand full of light energy and causing a blindness inducement on her.

Bright lights flashed and she stopped and poised her hands over her eyes and by instinct slammed a palm on his chest, he rolled over and stood.

"I'm already blind fool"

"Where's my brother!?" He barked powering up shooting at her, she phased at the light manifesting as fire and drifted to him swiftly and he did the same.

"Stop!" Nova sliced down between them and they rolled away in opposite directions.

...

After the relief

She growled, "How dare you!?"

He was caught between seeing her like that and his brother Astro arriving, he sighed and spread out his arms.

"Stay calm," He said to Darcy as she withered at Astro who adjusted his collar.

He was younger and had silver hair, and wore a star necklace. "My name is Astro"

"I don't care," She said.

His eyes dwindled "Why mingle with such an inferior race?"

"They're my people"

He laughed and held his shoulder "Your people? Ours are dead, we're better off" He tucked his collar looking all over the subterranean spaceship.

"Besides, mom and dad are waiting for us,"

He turned sour at Sirius abandoning him in outer space.

Astro realized it and laughed again wiping his eyes, "I'm sorry, it was a little bit funny"

"Does he always talk like that?" Darcy asked him.

"Oh, you mean Nova?" He pointed a thumb "He's the only one who talks like that, 'our extinction is imminent' Even Sirius doesn't talk that way"

He mimicked Nova and encircled his shoulder when his expression softened.

"Come on, think of it this way, you're a bird being pushed to fly" He waved his hand across the ship.

"I apologize Astro, but it is what is," He said shoving his hand off.

Astro turned critical "Like it or not, he's still your dad."

"I suppose, I'll go to him with dignity"

"But what do we do about the Infernals, the mutagen?" She asked standing up.

Astro frowned "Consider your planet screwed. We have to move" He said to Nova. "Now"

"I don't know about your escape plan but if we don't find an answer quick, they'll be moving us straight into the apocalypse. Some of us don't have that kind of time" Emma said.

Darcy clutched her head at the illusions, she turned around gazing at the two extraterrestrial warheads coming toward earth, she sat back and groaned at the splitting headache.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"I don't know, I'm seeing stuff"

"I thought you were blind," Astro said and brushed it off.

"This is a new strategy coming from Lord Zandak. The mutagen has hypnotic... properties?" He beckoned Nova for help.

"No, once they're transformed, they can only hear at frequencies that we can't thus leaving them under Lord Zandak's influence."

"What a breakthrough in mutagenesis"

"What if anyone tries to resist?" Zeke asked.

"Well...then, how do you call a persistent vegetative state?"

"They don't have a choice," Emma said upset and looked at Darcy as she was recovering.

"It's gonna be fine," She said

"I was talked into joining too but...I don't know, this happened" She waved her hands over her eyes.

"You kinda look like a vamp." Zeke shrugged and her expression hardened clenching her fist, her aura turned destructive and he backed away.

"Whoa, chill!" He raised his hands.

"I remember you," She said darkly and stood up straight facing the others.

They gazed at her in concern except Astro and she looked around folding her arms.

"You're getting a little intense" Astro put it to her straight.

"Oh, am I a little too intense for you lightbulb?"

Depending only on her ability to see in the dark, her powers resurfaced ten times darker but reinforced her.

It was like looking through glasses, her peripheral vision was blocked.

She exhaled "I can't think as much as I want to"

"Just try to get some rest," Emma said and her face darkened sitting down.

"Nova, it's time to take to our heels," Astro said by the reflector.

"Unfortunately, I cannot evacuate, earth is my home"

Astro sighed and shook his head "I thought you were smarter than this, you're supposed to learn by now that the Infernals are unstoppable."

...

Lord Zandax watched from the monitor and grimaced at the group talking through her eyes, he looked from the Andronian to the others, his plans were being deterred by a bunch of fledglings. He grimaced and sat up.

"T'allen, don't waste any more time grovelling. Send the package their way"

He nodded. "With great pleasure"

...

Darcy woke up to him standing at the corner of her space compartment. He stepped out and turned grim.

"Nova," She said then frowned, he threw her off for a moment.

"I'm sorry" He took off his mask "I've been thinking lately, all my schemes don't seem to work," He sounded like he was leaving behind.

"Astro was right, they're unstoppable, we must turn ourselves over to Zandax"

She could see right through him like a dark hollow and blasted him, nothing remained but smoke, touching her head.

"The real Nova would resist that"

Astro stared at the wall with a black stain on it smoking and looked at her.

"Are you nuts!?" He yelled.

"Where are you going?" She asked darkly blinking. Glad that confirmed he wasn't an illusion.

"Leaving my crazy brother on earth? Check. He's already made up his mind."

He said putting his stuff in his backpack, he put a lot of things in there and it still looked small, hanging it.

"He seems to have...better companions" His eyes reduced.

"I'd hate to see you go," She said with sarcasm and he flared up zapping the mosquitoes around him and they dropped.

"Just let me go in one piece, thank you" He waved and muttered at her. "Stupid girl" He scoffed and touched the wall, it opened like apertures and he walked outside raking his hair.

He turned at the alien sniffing around in the tunnel, he closed the door and sighed holding his bag. He tensed everywhere and waited, his ears didn't pick up anything.

'Dang it' He whispered. 'I've gotta get outta here'

"What's going on?" Darcy said.

"Ahh!!" He staggered at the dents.