Earth has become a dangerous place to live. The infectious disease agency has decided the best way to slow the spread is by taking the firstborn from each family. Dannon and Alayna Higgins and Judah and Bekah Greenberg are expecting the first, and have already joined the Space and Science Experiment Agency to help settle another planet. Their commander's time transporter broke several hundred years in the past, and another takes his place. It is believed by most that the planet is unpopulated. They were wrong. War breaks out. Only the friendship between the Higgins, Greenbergs, and the planet's native races and a return of the commander will stop annihilation of both sides.

Invaders on Akron

Maz gathered his son into his arms, and did a visual scan of the area. 


 “What are you looking for, Daddy?” Came a whisper from Maz Younger. 


 “More security droids or Carsonites,” he said. 


 From his peripheral vision, he noticed movement. The tech’s eyes were wide, and he snapped his fingers. A door opened in the distance, and a formation of androids advanced. Their footsteps echoed. Maz set Maz Younger on the ground and shooed him away. Then readied his plasma-sword and sank it into an android that had gotten ahead of the rest. It collapsed, and the rest began their march faster than Maz’s reflexes. Maz felt a burst of heat as laser bullets skipped his shoulder by less than a short-measure. Another android collapsed at the back. Scion waved his plasma-sword, and Wren waved her blaster. 


 “Thanks for letting the bodyguard in,” he said. 


 “Rowan!” Maz said into his implant. 


 His bodyguard had slipped from his mind. 


 “Coming, Master!” Came Rowan’s reply. 


Chapter 18: Maz is Questioned