Chapter 20: Labyrinth Line, Part 2

Jawara stares at his mother, he can't believe what he's seeing: the woman who abandoned him when he was a six-year-old boy is now here. All his pain, all his suffering, and now she appears as if nothing had happened. Jawara was stunned, he felt like he couldn't breathe, so many mixed feelings were overwhelming him at that moment. He misses her too much, but everything was already broken, he didn't feel any kind of love. That natural affection had disappeared, the memories came like a movie that played over and over again. But he had to face her, she had to know the damage she caused to her children, she had to know, but Jawara couldn't take it anymore.

_Jawara, if you like, I'll see you later-says Joshua- excuse me

Mother and son stare at each other for several minutes, Jawara is frozen, he feels like he has lost the faculty of speech, his mother on the other hand, is surprised to see her son up close.

_You just decided to show yourself? - says Jawara with rage and pain

_I miss you son- says Madeleine- I want us to recover our lost time.

_You haven't answered my question! Why do you barely let yourself be seen?

_It was my wish son, I wanted our family to be economically prosperous, it was the dream of my life.

_More important than your children! - answers Jawara with great fury.

_This goes beyond what you can understand son, in fact I came to tell you something that all of you have to know.

_Oh what the hell! now it turns out that you barely make an appearance to tell us something extremely important- says Jawara in a mocking tone but also in a tone of frustration

_Let me tell you son, it's a matter of life or death

_Don't call me son, Madeleine! I stopped being your son a little more than twenty years ago. Don't you understand? Where were you when I celebrated my wedding? Where were you when I graduated? Where were you on every date that was important to us?

_Son, I would have wished it, but...

_There is no excuse! The truth is that I missed you too much, but I don't think it's an act of good judgment for me to forgive you now!

_That's why I came son, to ask for your forgiveness, forgive me for having abandoned you, I was stupid, but I want us to start from scratch.

Jawara felt a lump in his stomach and a lump in his throat, he felt a lot of hate and resentment towards his mother, but deep down, he wants to forgive her, since one of his greatest weaknesses is that he is a person who is easily carried away by sentimentality and is quite sensitive.

_Come on son, let me give you and Sharon the life you deserve, I know you already have a family, but I seek a reconciliation with you.

Suddenly, Jawara's cell phone starts ringing, it was Joshua

_Jawara! You have to see this: A thunder tornado is sweeping across the United Kingdom!

_What are you saying! A thunder tornado! How do you know that if no one can predict the supernatural phenomena that are happening?

_I know thanks to Iris, I'll tell you later, you have to come!

_Okay, I'm on my way

_Jawara-Madeleine tells him- remember that right now you are not in a condition to pilot the Airspace-wanderer. Remember that I also told you that I know something that is life or death, it's up to you.

_We'll see-after that, Jawara goes to meet Joshua.

Joshua tells Jawara that the reason he knows there's a thunder tornado in the UK is because Iris hooked up a secret speaker to the Fast Sea Car, so she can hear everything Dorothy says when she's on top. Jawara is shocked, why would Iris want to spy on Dorothy? Due to his health condition, Jawara can't fly it, plus the Airspace-wanderer isn't in optimal condition for Blossom to at least pilot it. A Dorothy can be seen flying in the Fast Sea Car in the UK, people look out the windows of their homes, and upon seeing such a thunder they get very scared, they start to run away, but the thunder tornado electrocutes them very quickly, Dorothy takes some people up to take them to a safe place. More thunder tornadoes form in the UK, but a strong storm also begins to fall, so strong that it began to flood everything. Dorothy activated the "small" function of the Fast Sea Car to make herself small like a bacteria so that no one would see her, since she does not want anyone to know of her existence. A 9.6 magnitude earthquake also begins.

_9.6 magnitude earthquake in the United Kingdom! - Blossom exclaims

_There is a very strong storm! - says Joshua - I do not think anyone will survive.

_I think Dorothy Weber can - says Blossom

The brothers carefully observe the record of the storms, this time, in this earthquake, no hole is formed, but it does extract people into outer space, and the thunder tornado also goes out into outer space, electrocuting the entire United Kingdom, it is twenty times larger than usual tornadoes. Dorothy is extracted into outer space as well, although now, that extraction took her straight to the sun

_Oh my God, if I don't do anything

I'm going to die! - says Dorothy a little scared - I'm going to contact Jawara to come help me

Dorothy contacts Jawara, but he tells her that he can't help her because he's not in good enough health yet to drive the Airspace-wanderer.

_We have to save Dorothy, and I know someone who can help me drive the Airspace-wanderer! - Blossom remembered Jannaly, so she contacts her to go help Dorothy. Dorothy saved them, and she wanted to return the favor

Dorothy feels a deep guilt for not having helped the others, her mind at that moment was full of the scenes of how people ran scared, but she couldn't save more, no matter how much technology the Fast Sea Car had, she couldn't help anyone else, at all costs she tried to save herself from being extracted towards the Sun, but she couldn't. Would Jannaly and Blossom arrive in time?

At the Fighting Cats base, before Fiorella, Rachel and Armin Blake's encounter, where Diana was also. Antoinette Newman and Ginger are talking

_ I've already alerted the 5 fighting cats about the fight we're going to have! The truth is that this alien's personality has me very perplexed and without foundation because of the fact that he's not a human. It's true that I'm very intellectual! Numbers, science, technology, engineering, computing, they're my life! As well as technicalities and terminology. But to be honest, the research that LUCIÉRNAGA has done on INFINITY leaves a lot to be desired, because they mention the behavior of the warshapians, they seem to live in their world! They accuse us autistics of living in our world! But if the real world is lived in their world, the world is inexplicable!

_ And why don't we talk about: how did you write your reflection as a part-time autistic? - said Ginger Tancredi, known as The Water Cat.

_ I don't understand your purpose of wanting to talk about that now, although I would like to rub it in Armin Blake's face when I see him.

_ I understand you, and you have many bases for that, the reality is that the powerful intellect that you have is not synonymous with not being autistic, the reality is that you suffer from autism and you must deal with it for life.

_ Ginger! You know well that I have had to be covering you already know that you are from here, from the Base of the Multiverse, you are the only Fighting Cat who is not from Earth 02. And although I already know a powerful truth about you, it does not mean that you know everything!

_ No, it's not that, I will try to be as literal as possible because I know that a large percentage of Asperger's and autistic people only understand literal language. Or well, maybe all of them, to be more precise: Have I told you... why... I decided to be a health scientist and study ASD apart from studying oceanography in the first place? It was because of your published reflection on "Part-time Autists", it's fantastic!

Antoinette starts walking and with body gestures agrees with Ginger

_ That was the first article I wanted to publish in order to establish "a peace pact" with those who live in the real world, but also so that they would treat me with justice and empathy.

_ If that is true, and because of that, it is that I can know, although perhaps never understand what autism is, but I can know...

_ Sorry to interrupt you, since when can you use correct words to address an autistic person or an Asperger?

_ Because my uncle's doppelgänger, Jonathan McMahon, known as Sky Panther, is autistic, but you should know that my mother's doppelgänger, who was his sister, was also autistic, but she was autistic grade 2, it's logical! From what I've learned here, my father's doppelgänger had a very hard time having to live with a wife like that, and my double too, his life was very difficult, and I don't deny that autism continues to escape my understanding, but despite that, I decided that I should empathize with you, and that was thanks to seeing the powerful character you have, you never give up!

_ I have needed... a lot of willpower on my part to keep going, my brother has Asperger's, and well, although I have been able to get to know myself, to see my powerful abilities that I have, beyond what they might call "hallucinations", which I know are real in patients with other types of illnesses, what I do know is that psychiatric patients, maybe all or at least most of them, are very intelligent.

_ That's right! Don't forget that Bill Gates and Albert Einstein, who were prodigious minds, were Asperger's, in fact, you are the most cerebral woman I have ever met, although it is true that sooner or later one gets carried away by emotions or feelings, I see that you make a serious effort so that this does not happen to you, you fight so hard for it to be like that as it is a natural virtue of yours. Armin Blake is too cerebral too, and although his sister Atziri is too, I see that she is more emotional and can be carried away more by sentimentality, also Armin is more emotional and more prone to sentimentality, of the three you have the number 1 of being cerebral and logical

You are very intelligent and very wise, you have accumulated too much knowledge, but despite that, you are too kind, caring and even very affectionate, you are even a very good wife. And that is something too worthy of imitation.

_ Ginger, you know that my husband does not like to talk about it, but he gave me the confidence to tell you anyway, you know that he is infertile. And yes, many ungrateful women end up leaving their husbands for having that condition. In my case, although I had never thought about the possibility of being a mother, I still never discriminated against Hansel for that, for not having the ability to procreate children.

_ And that is great! Sometimes I have even wondered what would happen if for some reason, my husband could no longer have children, or even lost the ability to have sexual relations, it is true that the latter is not your husband's problem but it is a problem that you cannot be parents. And I see that you continue to love him even though you cannot have children together.

_ Yes, I know, I remember that after a year we went to the doctor because we saw that I couldn't get pregnant, and I was fine but he wasn't, and I decided at that moment to give all my support to Hansel, as I told you, since being a mother never crossed my mind, it was something like: it doesn't matter if I have children or not, but Hansel did want them and was dying to have them, and it was devastating for him to know that he could never become a father.

_ Now I can understand the beauty behind the reflection of a part-time autistic! The reality is that there you are asking not only to be understood, but you are also asking that each one see the beauty of the other. That we mutually see that there are beautiful things beyond what the eyes can see, humanity only sees what is before its eyes. I don't know how you have been able to get ahead despite the fact that there is still so much discrimination towards autistic people, I only know that you have been able to show more love to the real world even if one doesn't realize it, and of course, it is painful for you that you are so generous and they return it to you with more discrimination. But you should know that you have my full support, I don't think I have that prejudice towards autistic people.

Antoinette is in tears at what Ginger had told her.

On Earth

Andrei was dreaming about the moment he was given the news that his sister Sharon was dead, but he begins to feel that she is alive.

_ Sharon! - Andrei wakes up in the middle of the night shouting his sister's name

_ Honey, are you okay? - said Melanie who woke up to her husband's scream. - Calm down, that dream again, right? I think the therapy hasn't helped you as we thought.

_ It's something else, my love, I feel that.....Sharon is alive

_ What are you saying?

_ I think she is possibly alive, Jaidev, who is more emotionally stable than I am in the face of Sharon's grief, said that he thought he saw her, it was Sharon Malenfant! And yes! Physically, she looks a lot like her... maybe she's right... although I know it could have been a hallucination or a memory of her, what if she's alive?

_ Honey, I'm going to give you something, wait, come with me if you want to clear your mind...

_ No, I think Sharon is alive, she's alive!

Melanie is stunned, she knows that Andrei is right and her blood sister is alive (Sharon) but she can't tell her the truth, will she ever tell her?

Michael Tyndale contacts Margaret.

_ Margaret, you have created extraordinary things, together with my wife, in the face of a possible alien attack, what do you have?

_ I have this: I call it the force remover, its purpose is to make weapons created by aliens no longer able to shoot or lose their strength or capacity for which they were created. Starting with the weapons used by the Warshapians, although the "natural weapons" of the Warshapians are the only ones so far that the Force Remover cannot take away their strength and vitality.

_ There are many types of weapons, Margaret, yes there are many types of weapons that humans have created, now imagine the countless alien races! How many weapons do you and Esmeralda calculate that this new invention can take away their strength or capacity?

_ Many, according to the information we have accumulated.

Esmeralda arrives

_ Hello love, the reality is that we do not know all the aliens, we have met many, mainly the most powerful that exist, which are the Warshapians, the thing is that we have not been able to see how to take away strength and vitality from the natural weapons of the Warshapians, such as when they transform their arms into swords or when creating their protective shield. What we have discovered is that they may have more natural weapons than we can imagine.

_ Or more weapons that are not natural weapons that they can manipulate- said Margaret- the only thing I know is that although we have prepared a lot, we already have the alliance with the Legion of the Sentinels and with The Fighting Cats, do not forget that my sister Pilar is a Fighting Cat, as well as my brother-in-law Jaime.

_ We must proceed at our discretion- said

Michael - Now, we will continue with our operation, the three of us and Alexander Newman, for whatever comes. By the way! Alexander is coming

_ There are other aliens that you should know about! It is logical that Ariche did not tell us anything, but in my investigation and in his contribution, I want to let you know this fact: they are the outlander-aliens, they are banished aliens, either banished for not obeying the laws of their planet or not obeying the laws of INFINITY, Ariche is one of them. For a broader definition, let me explain: this name was given because there have been many generations of law that an alien cannot marry a human, and that humans must never know of the existence of aliens. The Outlander-Aliens broke the first law and then INFINITY had to kill them, but out of compassion for them, they decided to call them that and never again recognize themselves as an alien race. Armin Blake made these two laws the primary ones to comply with for the Federation, then, there began to be marriages between aliens with humans, in fact, relatives of Armin Blake, and that infuriated him so much that he made the Outlander-Aliens as hated as we humans are for them, whether they were Warshapians or from other alien races.

_ If Ariche is an Outlander-Alien, what law must he have broken to be on Earth now? - asked Margaret.

_ They call them The Invisibles, which fits with Atziri Blake, they are practically aliens that can't be detected by humans here on Earth, we, LUCIÉRNAGA, have already figured out how to detect them, Atziri Blake has been a great help, but we all know that Ariche is an The Invisible, also an Outlander-Alien, and that's because he wanted to reveal to humanity the existence of humans but Armin Blake didn't allow it and that's why he became an Outlander-Alien.

_ The thing is that if they could realize it- said Margaret- it could get worse, because Qriche fell in love with Kesil, Armin Blake's daughter, and if he finds out that Ariche now works for us, and not only that, he's co-leader and co-creator of LUCIÉRNAGA, that would put us at more risk of an apocalypse! An Apocalypse not only like the one we are living, but also caused by INFINITY, by Armin Blake, because we must not underestimate the Warshapians, they are the most powerful alien race that exists! And Armin Blake is the most powerful alien that exists,

_ That is why we are preparing- said Esmeralda- and we will continue our preparation even in the face of the terrible inclement weather before the arrival of the end of the world, we will do what we can, what I can tell you is that I feel that something worse will come.