Chapter 8: The Sentinels

The Sentinel Legion, an organization of undercover spies created in another universe, its members and its leader, Dae-Hyun Park, arrive through a wormhole, they arrived at a planet with oxygen, food and water, since it was an area of the mysterious planet that had "a part similar to Earth." Its members: Dae-Hyun Park, leader and creator of The Centinels, they also call him, "The Plunderer", Jonathan McMahon, co-leader and co-creator of The Centinels (also called The Legion of the Sentinels) call him "Sky Panter", Allister Truswell, (doppelgänger of Allister, husband of Atziri, sister of Armin Blake), they call him "The Phantom of the Opera", Cameron Townsend, they call him "The Evader of the Darkness", Elaine Park, wife of the Plunderer, they call her "the electric eel", Jackeline Tomlinson, they call her "The Siren", Blake Tomlinson, (a doppelgänger of a Warshapiano), they call him "Wildcat", husband of Jackeline, Diana Tanhauser, sister of Blake Tomlinson, they call her "The Sprinter", Montgomery Truswell, brother of Allister, they call him "The Pilot of the Abyss among others "Sentinels" and a mysterious woman, sister of Allister and Montgomery, who is being fiercely trained to be a sentinel. _ We managed to escape! - said Diana- but everyone here knows that the wormhole using such advanced technology, still, we can no longer return to our universe, leaving behind our Earth, the Earth of this universe... is not... our home. _ The advantage, Sprinter, is that the target is here - said Dae-Hyun- Madam Sand's doppelgänger has already informed FIREFLY from here, what humanity must know by now. _ It must be easy for you to talk about her knowing that you bring your beloved wife with you! - said Allister annoyed and with a lump in his throat. _ Dae-Hyun! I ask you please to let us live our grief for a moment or a few days - said Jonathan- all of us present have reasons to cry! _ That's what I told them when we met again after so many years locked up after the megalodon attack- said Diana- in my case I had my time of mourning for having lost my husband, but I see that many here have not had time to grieve. _ My children stayed on our Earth, on Earth 02- said Blake sadly and worried- I know that... the objective,... is to love... but... there is no way to know about them. _ Many of us, many sentinels are dead- said Cameron- I know that there are many here who still do not understand my condition (Cameron is autistic, as is Jonathan), but you should know that I am very sorry for what you are going through... I understand you... Tomlinson... my children stayed on our Earth too, we are now in the universe of Earth 01, but as for the laws that govern physics and other branches of science, it is not likely now that we will all find our loved ones in this universe, we even know that it would not be the same, because speaking of our spouses, one continues loving whom we lost in death, although I did not lose Sarai when Zoe, my sister Sara, (sentinels) died and well... speaking of Yoann and people who were not sentinels and were relatives of those present... I am very sorry! _ McMahon and I will scan Earth with geospatial AI technology - said Park - to detect if there is a presence of doppelgängers of our loved ones. The leader of The Centinels did as he said along with Jonathan, it took several hours, meanwhile, Cameron tries to empathize with Allister, who still distrusts Cameron because of his autistic condition, _ I'm really sorry Allister doesn't say anything, he's sitting, looking at the floor, several tears running down his face, remembering how he lost his wife, Zoe. _ It must have been very nice to have a wife who never wanted to take off your mask, with the promise that you will keep your dignity. Allister doesn't answer. _ Although... what strikes me is that you never told her when there was time that you had recovered half of your face that had been so horribly disfigured, Park, who is a doctor, although he was partly responsible, of course, in quotes... gave it back to you thanks to high technology, he gave us all 10 years of youth back! curing us even of our illnesses, including chronic or terminal ones... Also... getting back to the subject, you said that she... when she was dying, you wanted to take off that mask that you always wore like that opera character, dressing up as the real "Phantom of the Opera". You wanted to do it in front of her, to reveal to her that you were already cured, but she thinking that you were not yet did not allow you, and died. _ Cameron! Shut your mouth! You are an insolent wretch! Enough is enough, being autistic doesn't give you the right to talk to me like that! - said Allister screaming in great pain. He wanted to hit Cameron, but he stopped, knelt down, covered his face and began to

crying inconsolably, after a while of heavy sobbing, Cameron tried to hug him, he finally gave in and continued crying. Although Cameron still did not understand the "language of the real world", he made a solicitous effort to empathize, although sometimes he said things that were out of place or very aggressive. At one point, when Allister was calming down, Cameron began to speak.

_ I know how you feel, my wife, Sarai, was the love of my life since I was 12, I was separated from her and 10 years later I saw her again, I almost lost her forever because another man set his sights on her, for your information, he was your brother-in-law, and well... I fought for her to the death because I knew she was the love of my life, although to be honest, deep down I also knew I had to let her go if she loved that man, and well, she did choose me, and we also had a beautiful marriage even though I was a sentinel, we had 4 beautiful children, and now, she died, she died before we were confined, she died around the time of the megalodon attack, and now I'm like Blake, same my children stayed there, on our Earth, although they have already grown up, still as a father I am worried about them. And I'm sure you are too worried about your son, although, you should know... that I'm sure he will be fine. But I carry in my conscience, the death of a woman, a young woman who was appointed director of the FBI, who died in a strong earthquake that hit 65% of the United States.

Flashback

Heather, a 25-year-old woman, white skin, tall, wavy brown hair and light blue eyes, Sharon's doppelgänger, was on the road, watching how it shook, the buildings fell, but especially, how the whole road opened up for her, in all dimensions it opened up, so she couldn't find a way to run from one direction to another, she began to run while the whole street opened up, swallowing the whole city, her father, Agnar, was desperately looking for her in an FBI helicopter, the signal had been lost, there was no way to contact her and know where she was, her brothers were also looking for her with great fear of losing her and desperate. Heather looks terrified as a meteor with a diameter of 10 m fell to the City, then, she began to climb a building, with all her strength, there were meteors falling, they were smaller, 2 m in diameter, she tried to avoid them, but those meteors caused the earthquake to be stronger, the Earth opened and swallowed everything in its path, and at the same time it closed, which gave Heather time to continue climbing, she realized that her father was there waiting for her, and she tried to climb and climb, her husband, Aubrey, surprisingly, appeared and held out a hand to her, she held him, and when they finally began to climb and were able to meet her father, the earthquake shook harder and she fell into the void, both men shouted her name when they saw her fall, but Cameron, the Evasive of Darkness, reached her, he asked her to hold on tight and they began to climb again, with his strategies, but in a carelessness, she let go but Cameron managed to take her hand again, the thing was, Cameron was about to fall into the void too, if he didn't let go of Heather, he would fall too, but he didn't want to do it, because he knew what it was to love a daughter, he had two daughters, and he watched the terrifying look of Agnar, begging him to save her, Heather's brother, Andrei, appeared on the scene too to help, her other siblings too, Jaidev and Josephine (a sister that Sharon doesn't have on her Earth), Aubrey came down to help both of them, but he would soon realize that it was too late. A strong jolt from the earthquake occurred again, causing him to let go of Heather. Heather fell into the void where the Earth swallowed everything. The helicopter took everyone up except Heather. Time stopped for Cameron. It passed slowly and he watched as his father screamed and cried desperately as he saw his daughter fall. Heather's gaze emanated a lot of fear. Although they were able to save themselves, she was not. The Earth opened up, swallowed the entire building and the entire city, and then the Earth proceeded to close. Cameron, up in the helicopter, told his father that he did everything he could, but that he could not overcome the forces of nature. Sadly, Heather passed away, leaving Aubrey, her husband, her brothers, Jaidev, Andrei, who was the one who expressed the most grief for his brothers, and Josephine, in terrible pain. In particular, his father, Agnar, his beloved daughter, his firstborn, had passed away.

When the chaos and catastrophe that struck had passed, his father Agnar had isolated himself, he did not allow the consolation of anyone, not even that of his children, he had been the beneficiary of the "rejuvenating injection" that returned 10 years of youth to a human being and cured him of the illness he had, whether chronic or terminal, but of course, the person would end up dying or getting sick again. Thanks to it, Agnar was now 43 years (he was 53, but the injection took 10 years off), but for him that was worthless, what good was that if his beloved daughter was dead? Andrei was the most affected and the one who could deal the least with Heather's death of the brothers, Aubrey, having lost the love of his life, found it practically impossible to love again as he had loved Heather.

End of Flashback

_ It's impossible to explain so much past! - exclaimed Cameron with great anguish - but that's how I remember it. I only know that carrying the conscience of someone's death is one of the hardest things that can happen to you in life. And now I feel the need to protect her doppelgänger from this universe, if she is here, that's what I'm going to do. I don't know why I'm telling you all this, I only know that maybe it's so you can see that you're not alone in your suffering... now, here we are all very heartbroken.

As the two continued to talk, and meanwhile, the sentries continued to wait for Dae-Hyun Park and Jonathan McMahon about the Earth scan report, Elaine approaches Jackeline to talk.

_ What a wait! - said Elaine - The reality is that it was very difficult to face all this, but I know that we must move forward.

_ I'm afraid I'm not good company now, engineer.

_ Elaine, tell me Elaine, how curious! You're a naval engineer, I'm an electrical engineer, but now we know that these skills or professions are of no use to us now in the face of the end of the world, because the end of the world has arrived.

_ We have no control over nature, if the end of the world has come, we can't do anything, and although you know that I am a naval engineer, for me, apart from my extraordinary gifts, as we all have here, you know very well that my thing is to drive all kinds of ships, but speaking of the end of the world, as you said, they are of no use to us now, in the face of the end of the world, no one is prepared.

Moment of silence

_ People who cannot leave -said Jackeline- are lost, right?

_ Humanity has polluted the Earth a lot, we complain too much about climate change and natural disasters, but we know very well that in large part we are to blame for polluting it so much, although I am not involved in that area of study of environmental care, I know that in large part.....we are guilty.

_ That's true, but...if you notice, even when we acknowledge the world's problems, like ozone layer pollution and its effects, we are in a maze, we can't find the solution to that problem, we think we are the best! But if you notice even if that happens and it seems like things are getting better, look what's come! The end of the world! No one is prepared... no doubt..... no one is prepared.

A Sentinel approaches the women

_ Electric Eel, Siren... Park and McMahon are back to give us the Earth report, come on!

As the Sentinels gather, Park and McMahon give their reports

_ Thanks to Skyline and the geospatial scanning, we have the results - said Jonathan - they are these: The Earth will come to an end, before giving the reports of the doppelgängers, we will talk about the Earth: as I said, the Earth will come to an end, but it is curious because it will not be in a few days or a few weeks, it can take more than a year, just like on our Earth, the United States government made a project to build underground arks to survive, many passengers are already entering the arks, although many people have already lost hope and are now taking refuge in their philosophy of life and other convictions. What we must tell them is that there is something very sinister on Earth, in the center of the Earth, something that they cannot know now a doppelgänger that we now know of his creation of an organization to fight evil, as I said, in the center of the Earth there is something sinister, something that we will gradually reveal, and we well know why. Now... we are not only Sentinels in our purpose, we are also Sentinels of the Earth, and of the Universe and to be precise... of the Multiverse.

_ What about the doppelgängers? - said the mysterious woman and Alister unanimously.

Jonathan lets out a sigh.

_ I will tell you that - said Dae-Hyun - Zoe Truswell, our dear colleague who we came to know as Madam Sand, to begin with, as I told you from the beginning, her doppelgänger is still alive. Her name here is Atziri, but she is not a human here, now thanks to Skyline, who was able to acquire her Sky Panther, we saw that she is an alien.

_ What? What! - Allister exclaimed in shock

_ She's an alien and your doppelgänger, Allister, is alive, ours, speaking of the Sentinels, are dead, only the one from The Phantom of the Opera lives, and well... forgive me for saying this Allister, but obviously they are united in marriage as you were with Madam Sand, and your son, Cillian, is also here.

_ And why would my brother's doppelgänger want to marry an alien? - said Montgomery said in a tone of rejection, while Allister closed his eyes in a tone of mixed feelings knowing that the doppelgänger of his beloved deceased wife is here.

_ Wait! - said Diana- first: on our planet, the possibility of alien existence has always been studied and theorized a lot, but they had not directly proven anything, even FIREFLY from our Earth, had not been able to do something like that, this Earth, do you know? Do you know that there is an alien on Earth? And above all: with an appearance very similar to that of a human?

_ Only FIREFLY knows, Tanhauser- said Jonathan- FIREFLY of this universe, because here is the universal base, but that is not all... I will tell you much more about that later, but I will tell you more about it: for the comfort of the Evasive of Darkness, Heather Ackermann's doppelgänger is here, her name here is Sharon Malenfant, but soon she will be Sharon Dellinger because she got engaged.....

_ She lives! - exclaimed Cameron- And what about her parents?

_ Her parents are dead- said Park- in fact, they did not procreate their youngest daughter, speaking of Agnar Ackermann and his wife Miriam Dayacely Ackermann.... They did not procreate their youngest daughter Josephine here, their other children did, and they are alive as they are in our universe. But... speaking of Agnar and his wife from this universe, they died without knowing that their eldest daughter, Sharon was alive, because supposedly, they found her dead after being kidnapped when she was a child, but in reality she was stolen. And just like in our universe, the most affected of his brothers was Andrei, with the difference that Andrei from this universe, is still very angry with Sharon, because he blames her for his supposed death.

_ I have never understood stupid sentimentality! - said Jonathan- it is true that losing your sister is something too tragic! And I know that one of the stages of grief is also blaming the deceased for having abandoned them, but... Blaming him for his own death when it was not like that?

_ I agree with you, Jonathan- said Cameron- the pain of losing someone you love is inexplicable, but having the nerve to blame him for his own death, she being a child, a child who cannot defend herself like an adult, was the parents' responsibility!

_ Where's your empathy! - Elaine exclaimed furiously - being autistic doesn't give them...

_ Now, now, now, now! Being autistic does not give us the right to... Who knows what - said Jonathan now annoyed - we are proving right, Electric Eel, and of course, saying this does not mean that we do not know the pain they suffer....

_ They do not know the background of the reason for their pain and that resentment! - exclaimed Diana

_ Resentment is destructive! - said Cameron - much more destructive than the offense itself if Andrei wants to see it that way, in fact, each head is a world, the Fire Cat would say: "each human being is an individual culture, so we are surrounded by more cultures than we imagine"

_ Don't go reciting "Part-time Autistic" by the leader of the felines....- said Diana

Suddenly, a wormhole opens and a woman and her daughter arrive by surprise, everyone is shocked to see who they were.

_ In the name of my daughter! - said one of them - I am here to find her at "The base of the multiverse", Sharon was the second name that my husband and I gave her, so wherever she is, she is my daughter, Sharon is my daughter! And if she was taken from my doppelgänger and my husband's, I am here to get her back. - it was Dayaceli, Heather's mother in the universe where The Centinels were.

_ And I, knowing now that I was not born here, but my beloved older sister lives here and does not even know of the existence of her real family, I am here not only to get her back, but to prove the truth to my brother Andrei of this universe, that she lives, and to tell Sharon that she has a sister - it was Josephine, the unborn daughter of Agnar and Dayacely Winterhall who came from Earth 02 to meet her sister.

Moment of silence

To be continued...