CHAPTER VIII: Space Riders

'That hypocrite! He thinks he can always be on the right side of the king! They have no idea what I am capable of. I will just wait for Asgard to step foot in my axis. I will do what he claims he will do to me...'', ''Cephas'' said Goblin trying to calm him down but Cephas continued saying what he was saying ''before he does. And I know he will be stupid enough to come here because he will want to prove his superiority. And I will show his stupid face who is the king of this axis!'' shouted Cephas angrily as they walked into the corridor. ''Cephas!'' shouted Goblin trying to shut Cephas up. ''You will not succeed if you want to fight against the king! Don't you think he will tell all the commanders to make one army and they will all invade you which will make you look like a powerless idiot! Do not tell me that that is what you want, Cephas!'' shouted Goblin trying to warn him. Cephas was silent for a moment as they continued walking through the long corridor. The silence continued and finally after some seconds, Cephas broke the silence. ''Me looking like a powerless idiot will never happen, never. Not in my lifetime. If they all decide to invade me, I will give them the bloodiest war they will ever see. Just wait...'', ''shut up Cephas! You have become an arrogant bastard! Your ego has overcome you Cephas...'' he interrupted and shouted at Cephas but then Cephas also angrily pulled out his knife and put it on his neck but then saw that Goblin also pulled out his gun and pointed it to his head. ''Dare move that knife even a little and I will blow your head off Cephas and I am not afraid to do that'' said Goblin in a warning voice. ''Whatever you do Goblin, remember, you are just an advisor and I am the commander of this axis. I can finish you off anytime and you can not do one thing about it. So be patient with yourself Goblin'' Cephas said this as he removed the knife from Goblin's neck.

We again travel through space to the new human Utopia, the Elite board is in a meeting and it looks very serious. ''We are gathered here today as the Elite Grand Associates. We have to find a solution. There are many people like us that were left out there on the invaded planet and we have no idea what is being done to them. We have to do something!'' said the Head of the Elites. ''Those aliens made it clear that if any of our people or spaceships get into their atmosphere, they will make us pay. And you know what they mean by that don't you?'' said a woman Elite. ''Are you trying to imply that we should let go of the soldiers who protected many of us and resisted for long to obtain our survival and exile from that planet? In the hands of those aliens? That's what you're saying?'' said another male Elite trying to point out facts. ''That is because we cannot do anything to save them, Carl. Nothing. And if you think this will work, you will have to find a way to enter into the earth's atmosphere without being noticed by those highly advanced alien satellites. And it is impossible to do that'' said the woman Elite also pointing out facts. Silence broke in the room for some seconds as they all tried to think of something. After those seconds, Lucas Morientes, a Spanish and a very intelligent thirty three year old finally breaks the silence. ''My team and I have been working on something these past few weeks and due to the advanced technology that we suddenly have, it has sped up the idea and looks like it can work really efficiently'' he says this and then stands up and goes to the big screen in the room. The image of the demonstration pops up and also some graphs. All the Elites turn to look at Lucas's presentation on the big screen. They all get silent as the presentation starts.

''So here is how this is, the space riders are human-like droids which do not need oxygen. They will move with these highly electric energy filled bikes, that can travel even in no gravity or very high gravity. These droids are equipped with danger in the nearer perimeter trackers, if that is how I can easily explain it. They will be able to dodge those dangers; missiles, bullets, grenades and even bombs. They will be able to get on the surface really fast and rescue as many. Oh and also, one droid is able to single handedly kill approximately a hundred alien soldiers due to the high accuracy of its set aim bot at the soldier's head which we know is their weakness. That is the presentation. The Head is the one left to decide if or if not this project can get into use. Thank you very much'' they all look at the Head of the Elites as Lucas Morientes heads to his seat. ''How many of those have you made?'' asked the Head of the Elites, ''well, we have already made six of them, that is the start we are own. And four are in the works'' answered Lucas. ''We should also be considering our main priority here people, remember, we should prioritize bringing Daniel Watson here. All those space discoveries we have made in recent years are mostly due to his brainchild. I think he would also be able to help us decolonize the planet. He is a very important element in the space agency too. That's why we need to put him first and find him'' said the woman Elite. ''She is right, we need Daniel here. We are going to use those space riders to find Daniel and get a way to bring him here'' said the Head, ''if that is what we are going to do, we need to be sure which country and city he is in, that will make it easier and faster for the two or three droids to spot him and be able to return. But do understand that us sending those droids will be like triggering a war with those aliens and that is very dangerous'' said Lucas. ''It is worth taking the risk you now, we would rather do that than lose Daniel. Plus, we promised his wife we will be bringing him. Let us fulfill our promise as the Elites'' said the Head of the Elites.

Back to earth, Daniel and the crew have started working on the Sydney Opera House and the aliens are trying to make the place a supercomputer laboratory where they can innovate and engineer the parts of their highly advanced drones. This was going to take two weeks because there were many workers and the supercomputers were going to be built by robots. ''This won't be as bad as I thought'' said Yoshida while they were working, ''what do you mean? This is like modern slavery, we have to suffer. Its just that we have not been subjected to harsh labor. And I am doubting the people on the other planet will ever think about us'' said Craig sadly. ''We have to understand that even if they do want to save us, it will be like triggering another war and that could be disastrous'' said Nate. ''We are some of the soldiers that fought for the world and resisted quick occupation by the aliens on the world. They managed to escape and that means we should be the ones to endure all this world pain! Why?'' said Craig sadly as they all realized all they had done just to let the rest escape and exile while they became the ones to be subjected to the harsh terms of the aliens. ''You know, now that I think of it, there is no way they can get onto this planet without being noticed by those sadistic creatures, and surely getting brutally killed by those creatures and the heads hanged in the king's castle. We should just accept what has come for us you know. Maybe we humans who are down here on earth will figure something out and break out of these alien chains we are put in'' said Gabe. ''Gabe is right, if the people on the other planet fail to come rescue us, we will do it ourselves and I know we will figure something out. Because we can not do this type of work when we always skip breakfast. We will starve to death, and those stupid assholes think giving us food that can fit in our fists at lunch and dinner will last us long to continue doing this stupid work of theirs'' said Daniel Angrily. ''Calm down man, something will come up. We just have to sit and wait.-sighs- it is really funny how life turns out.

We run across the world, at the most respected place right now, the king's castle. The king receives a call and then goes to the control room, its Hemsin. The king answers the call and a hologram of Hemsin appears. ''Hello my king, I talked to Cephas'' said Hemsin, ''and what did he say?'' asked the king. ''He said many things, about you, about me. He said I was a hypocrite and the king's pet and tat I should stop running my mouth on how he should rule his axis. Oh and he also said I report that to MY king, because you are no longer HIS king. Those are the words he said to me. You should consider bombing him since he can not try to listen, my king. And I will fully agree if you want an army to help you kill him. That will be my best way to kill him since he has been a pain in the head'' said Hemsin, ''thank you Hemsin, you have helped me since you even tried to talk to him. I will see what I will do to him to teach him a damn lesson. But the problem is he is a very important element in the board of commanders and he helps a lot. Anyway, thank you for your aid and have a very nice earth day'' Hemsin nods and his hologram disappears. Right then, the king starts screaming and throwing things around angrily and frustrated. ''That fool, he thinks he has me wrapped across his finger doesn't he? I swear I will show him who can wrap the other on his finger. I will teach him a lesson!'' the king shouted and yelled angrily. After some minutes, the king had calmed down but still angry about the Cephas situation. They are on the table having a meal. ''So...the Cephas situation hasn't been going well I see'' said the queen, ''he has become so proud of himself and arrogant. He is getting on my nerve recently. I can't do anything to him because he is very important in the commanders board and has issued really great help in the past time and in the battle with humans, I just don't know what I will do to him. And I know he is thinking he has me, King Asgard, wrapped around his finger. I mean that must feel intriguing for sure'' said the king looking powerless but he can't forget he is the king and can do anything he pleases. ''Look my love, you are the king. I must remind you that. Cephas is just one of the two commanders that you assigned the African axis and he is one of the commanders that maybe helped you to overcome and take this world, but you are the king and you can replace him but you cannot be replaced. You are a king so act like one!'' said the queen motivationally. ''So what are you implying I should do about it?'' asked the king. ''Get rid of him if he is a pain in the head'' answered the queen calmly.

We travel back to the new human Utopia, in Melanie's home. The community phone rings and she picks up hoping it is the Elites about to tell her good news especially about her husband, Daniel Watson. ''This is Melanie right?'' the voice on the phone asked, ''yes, yes this is Melanie''. ''Well there is something we are going to do and it would be good if you were here to spectate it. It would be a pleasure to have you here for sure'' said the voice again from the phone. ''I will be there. If this is about my husband, can I bring my kids with me? I know they would love to see their father too'' said Melanie. ''It is okay, you can bring them. Just make sure they are not stubborn. Kids can be stubborn these days'' said the voice on the phone. ''No problem sir, I will make sure of that'' said Melanie happily, ''okay then, see you there'' said the voice and then they hanged up. Melanie quickly went to the kids and prepared both of them for what she could think of really good news about her husband, she also prepared herself really quick and they all went into the car and drove off the Elite Headquarters. After some minutes, they reached the headquarters and got out of the car and headed into the building. They went into the huge room a man led them too and were shown where to sit. We are shown Lucas Morientes on the other hand, who is in the control room. They are going to launch three space riders to earth to look for Daniel. ''Ladies and gentlemen this is Lucas Morientes speaking. We are going to launch three of our space rider droids; Tristan, Bruno and Eugene to earth in search for Daniel Watson as he is recently discovered to be somewhere in Sydney, Australia. Ladies and gentlemen I must make it clear that we are going to search for him and see if he is still there and the operation of rescuing him will take place after studying the perimeters he has access to. Now let the launch begin'' the Elites with also Daniel's wife Melanie and her kids are watching from the bot view of the droids. The highly electrical bikes if the droids start and they are launched into space. The droids are riding through space at a very high speed. They continue their speedy run, the three of them then reach the view of the planet earth. Now they are prepared to get into the earth's atmosphere. ''Now this is where things are going to start getting complicated. Okay team, prepare the droid aim bots. Prepare also the tracker, some missiles are going to be hitting on those three. Now prepare the droids for road action, we are going down to earth'' said Lucas telling his control room team.

The droids penetrate into earth's atmosphere and at this point, the alien satellites had already spotted them and had been triggered. Missiles started to be released to the bots. Immediately at the control room, they start seeing red triangles marking the incoming missile, they were able to make the droids dodge them until they made their touchdown on a Sydney highway. ''Okay touch down, we have made it on the surface'' said Lucas as everyone in the other Elite room gazed in amazement to see how earth is after sometime. Melanie on the other hand, was praying to spot her husband . Just to make sure he isn't dead and he is okay. This would make the kids happy too and they would have hope that their father would one day be home with them. The droids are running the roads analyzing every space to check for Daniel, in the meantime, the alien soldiers in Sydney have been alerted about these three-what they thought to be-humans running around on very advanced bikes and ere becoming a really big threat. Th control room activated the three droids aim bots and they started shooting at any alien soldier in sight while also looking for Daniel. Many alien soldiers in Sydney are informed and fighter alien drones are sent above the three droids. One of them shoots at one of the droids and it is blown up immediately. ''Sir, Eugene declassified, he is blown up, remaining Bruno and Tristan'' reported a worker in the control room. ''Ah shit, split the rest up, it will be easier to find Daniel and fight the drones, do it now!'' said Lucas looking at the screen in the control room anxiously having a feeling that the droids will not make it. The droids split up and the alien soldiers split up also and there is another drone brought there for the two of the droids. It is really hard to shoot either of the droids and the aliens knew immediately that the things they were seeing weren't human, they were too good to be human. This caused the alien soldiers to call for emergency trapping mission. They were going to lure these droids into a trap and demolish them from the trap. ''Sir, Daniel isn't being spotted, the more time we use running around in this area, the more aliens will gain control and over take us! We can't do this for long!'' said a worker in the control room. ''Be patient Roy! We are going to find him. Continue resisting that alien fire, we will spot him and I know that'' said Lucas but right then, another one of the droids got blown up after being continuously shot. ''Sir, Tristan also declassified, he also blew up, Bruno is the only one remaining, our chances of finding Daniel have lowered up to twenty percent!'' said the worker

But just then, the droid showed a green triangle on a human face, it had surely flashed Daniel in that instant.