Chapter 22: Battle in the labyrinth

Armin manifests himself as the powerful Warshapian alien that he is, Fiorella intervenes again, disobeying Dae-Hyun

_ I don't know if you're planning to finish us off- said Fiorella- but I implore you to see beyond the situation: your wife's double, that is, me, is human, I'm human! But... your doppelgänger, the one who was on my Earth, died, even, I come to tell you that the doubles of our daughters, are also human, your brother whom you love so much also has a human double.

_ What brother are you talking about?- asked Armin

_ Helmer. His love was so strong and so unconditional that he even came to believe that he had murdered you, well, your double, and they accused me and well, I ended up in jail, it's a long story, which I can tell you later. Speaking of me, I don't know if my double would have really wanted my destruction, I don't know if he thought like you, I don't know if Caitlin's double, because that is the name of Kesil's double, Caitlin, also thought like you and also wanted my destruction, I only know that... "now that I have the opportunity to see you again" please reconsider... try to tear your hatred of humanity from your heart, come back! come back with me! If in our universe one lost the other in death, we have a chance to be together again, because I miss you very much too... as I told you, I can identify your name because my husband, his second name was Armin, his first name was Yoann, only that everyone knew him by his first name but I can pronounce your name by which they know you here, because I have not forgotten you. Come back with me!

Armin still hadn't been able to accept the death of his wife and the supposed death of his daughter, it was logical that Fiorella looked exactly like his deceased wife, like his double, they were twins, which almost led him to beg her too to "come back with him", but pride won him over and he begins to attack and call Warshap's troops, a ship arrives and takes Fiorella and Rachel, it was a ship from The Fighting Cats, Fiorella screamed Armin's name many times, Rachel, screamed "dad" many times.

_ If you want to fight! You'll have to deal with me- said Diana with confidence and defiance

_ You may have taken the conversion but you're still human! - yelled Armin - How did you know about her?

The Warshapians were in position to attack

_ As a line from a movie would say- said Diana- "This is the part where I run away"

Diana started running at an impressive speed of 250 km/h, the Warshapians tried to catch up with her, more INFINITY ships arrived and started shooting at her, Diana ran prodigiously trying to escape, the planet where they were started to have superficial cracks, fortunately, thanks to the speed at which "The Speedster" runs, she could jump and avoid cracks, but other Warshapians were already cornering her, then, other mysterious ships appeared and destroyed many INFINITY ships, which made many Warshapians no longer go against Diana and fight against the ships (they were not allied ships of The Legion of the Sentinels, FIREFLY or The Fighting Cats), not even they could know who they were. Diana lets Armin Blake catch up with her.

_ Armin Blake! Withdraw your men, now! These ships are unknown and seem to be more powerful (Diana begins to suspect who it was)

_ I'm not going to retreat before a human! - When Armin was preparing to kill Diana, a ball that looked like a bomb is thrown at where Armin is, it rings several times and explodes, creating an abysmal hole, in the shape of a circle and 10 m in diameter and 25 m deep, it had been thrown by "The Pilot of the Abyss" (Montgomery Truswell) the bomb did not hurt Armin, it only split the earth, Armin, with his sword that he can create with his arm, buries it in the side of the hole before he could fall to the end, and together with both swords, he can climb the "abyss" created by the bomb.

_ That's what you wanted to do with my sister too! (Fiorella) - Montgomery shouted at him.

_ There was no need for you to come, partner- Diana told him

_ This is the team! - said Montgomery

_ What are those ships? - asked Diana at the same time that Armin manages to get out and attacks again, the two spies will dissipate but the bullets cannot penetrate Armin's powerful shield.

_ Get with someone your size! - exclaimed Cameron behind Armin- Here I come in, do you know hand-to-hand combat?

Even the Warshpian troops continued to fight against the mysterious ships, which made few approach Diana and Montgomery to fight, Montgomery launched more and more of his bombs to stop the Warshapians, giving them more time because there were many against them, another Centineka appeared to fight, it was Idris Ackermann (brother of Agnar) known as "The Boomerang", who, with a boomerang, destroys enemy weapons and returns to his hand if he manages to do so, but the weapons of the

The Warshapians were almost impossible to destroy, but instead, The Plunderer appears on the scene and manages to disarm some Warshapians without them noticing (hence his pseudonym) (weapons that were not their natural weapons)

_ Were you looking for this? - said Dae-Hyun mockingly

_ Now you will be boomerangs, because I will use your weapons against you - said Idris (phrase)

The Sentinels use the weapons that Dae-Hyun managed to take from some Warshapians and use them against them, using theirs too, meanwhile, Cameron makes his game with Armin.

_ His name is Cameron Townsend, but you can call me "The Dark Elusive."

_ I know who you are! - said Armin - I know who your doppelgänger is!

Cameron looks at him strangely at the revelation and Armin attacks him, but to his frustration, he did not count on the nature of autistic people: repetitive movements, and that makes Cameron very skillfully able to evade all attacks with knives or firearms, also all hand-to-hand combat blows, moving from one place to another evading for a long time, although Armin feels frustrated of not being able to hurt him, he continues attacking him until Cameron takes out his gun to shoot him, but in that carelessness one of Armin's swords manages to almost cut his arm, Cameron making a movement to protect himself, does not succeed but something strange happens: he does not manage to do any damage, in fact, it sounds like when a sword collides with another when Armin's sword collides with Cameron's arm. Cameron, who is gifted, tries again if he cannot hurt him on both arms. Armin shows his fury when he realizes this and continues attacking.

_ Wow! I thought I'd have to get a bionic arm, but we'll see who wins- Cameron kept evading all of Armin's attacks, who pulls out other weapons and shoots at him, but Cameron keeps evading and can't hurt him in any way.- Stop it, you can't do it with me!

Another very skilled Warshapian makes an appearance and attacks the Sentinels, Cameron is stunned by his presence.

_ Christopher? - said Cameron shocked, who turns around and looks at him stunned as well but knowing how to witness Cameron's nature (which is a doppelgänger of the one they know and who is a human) In that carelessness, Armin almost penetrates his heart with the sword, but is stunned by a space plane that passes very close to the planet, it was Jonathan McMahon. He gets off the plane and confronts Armin

_ Armin! Did you miss me? Are we going to play wolf again? - (mocking and sarcasm)

The Warshapian that appeared, whom Cameron called Christopher, and Armin go against Jonathan, who, with a remote control, launches his ship against them. Armin and the other Warshapian, with their swords, try to split the plane in two but they can't, but Jonathan keeps it away from them, since it's not his purpose to kill them.

_ You know? - said Jonathan - I call this "keeping a child's heart", I always loved playing video games with war planes as a child. Hey, Christopher!

_ I don't know you! - exclaimed the Warshapian

_ I do!

The mysterious ships move away and several Warshapians who came out alive return to the planet, then, Elaine and Jackeline appear for combat.

_ Love! I'm ready! - Elaine said

_ You know what to do! - Park said

Elaine takes out two weapons in the shape of an electric eel, like real electric eels, these move and can bite and electrocute those who touch them, cleverly, a Warshapian before he turns on his shield, from behind he manages to catch him with the two weapons in the shape of eels, who bite him and electrocute him to the point of killing him. Armin manages to see what Elaine had done.

_ What are you? - Armin asked her.

_ A faithful fighter - Elaine answered while pointing her weapons at Armin, but again although the eel-shaped weapons when pointing them and they bit and took out their electricity, Armin's protective shield was impossible to penetrate, Elaine stands firm and continues to discharge the electricity that her weapons can emanate, while they are biting Armin's shield.

_ Hey! - said Jackeline to the Warshapians - come and get me

There was a lake on the planet, she, without any fear that something could happen to her if she got in, dives in and swims as fast as she can: 150 km/h, many Warshapians follow her, although what she didn't count on was that her own shields protected them like diving suits, but she still swam at superhuman speed to lighten the number of Warshapians in combat. Jackie swam underwater for a long time while more Warshapians followed her.

Jonathan brings his plane closer to where Armin was and with the force of the plane he made both (Elaine and Armin) lose their balance and fall. Armin gives up on continuing to fight against the Electric Eel and goes to where Jackeline is.

A Fighting Cat swims to where Jackeline was and brings her to the surface.

_ Hey kitty! -

Jackeline exclaimed- I can hold my breath longer than you can imagine

The Fighting Cat takes off her cat mask

_ Ginger? - said Jackie surprised

_ Yes, but I'm not the Ginger you know, I only know that you are the doppelgänger of my deceased aunt, sister of my deceased father. In fact, there is more you should know and The Legion of the Cenrinelas, but later they will know.

The Warshapians who came out of the water, begin to yell at Ginger.

_ Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!

_ I do not fight with those of my race! - said Ginger (Phrase)

_ Defend yourself, outsider! - yelled Armin at Ginger

_ I already told you, Admiral! I do not fight with those of my race, and that is my only warning.

Another 4 Fighting Cats enter the scene, they were: Antoinette (The Fire Cat, Leader of The Fighting Cats), Kiara (The Earth Cat), Gretel (The Air Cat) and Iris Hauer (The Ice Cat)

_ If your sister were here - said Gretel - I would ask her to listen to me.

_ Why would she listen to you, lunatic human? - Armin answers furiously

_ Because when these people you fight with, including my father, Sky Panther, didn't want to listen to me at first, I gave them an order, and your sister's doppelgänger, who on my Earth her name was Zoe Truswell, said: "You heard the feline." - Ginger smiled sarcastically

_ If it weren't for the presence of those mysterious ships, you and your men would have already killed all these people! - exclaimed Antoinette. - You'll have to face us if you want their lives!

Armin goes straight to combat against The Fighting Cats, while they take out their weapons and shoot, Iris, shoots ice streams, Gretel, a very very strong air that makes whoever she shoots at fall to the ground, Kiara, shoots towards the Earth so that plants and herbs grow which make Armin get stuck when stepping on the ground, Antoinette, shoots fire, Armin resists as much as he can with his shield although it was weakening from so much attack, other Warshapians went straight towards The Fighting Cats, but Montgomery was in charge of continuing to launch his abyss-creating bombs towards them, Ginger did not want to fight with the Warshapians because of her powerful ideal that does not fight with those of her race (warshapiana). The other three by order of Antoinette fight against the Warshapians together with the Sentinels. Leaving Antoinette and Armin face to face.

_ You have the chance to get back with the woman of your life! - said Antoinette

_ You have no idea what it's like to lose the love of your life! - answered Armin with rage and pain - You don't know what it's like to lose a daughter either.

Antoinette feels a little guilty, since she knows that her daughter Kesil was alive.

_ But you have the chance to get your wife back, not the one you met here at the Multiverse Base, but the one that comes from Earth 02, where I come from, which is the next universe in the Multiverse, she misses him a lot!

_ She misses her husband, not me!

_ But you are her doppelgänger, just as you saw your wife in Fiorella McGregor, she sees her husband in you, because both of you lost each other in death, but in this universe, you have the chance to be together again. And from what I see, because I met his double before he died, there is not much difference in his personality, I see the same personality: rigor, rigidity, method, virtue, justice, systematic, very attached to the rules, organization, authenticity, strategy, reason and logic before emotion, emotional warmth towards his partner, tenderness with his daughters, instilled with solid principles, truth, honesty, but also love.

_ You who can know how I am in my person!

_ Well, I observe human behavior, which is part of the nature of women with autism, I can also see the strengths of others.

_ You already said it! Human behavior. But I am not a human, you lunatic human!

The next ally attacks Armin from behind, it was Ariché, but Armin gets rid of him quickly.

_ Hold him back for a moment! - Antoinette told Ariché as she runs in another direction to fight the warshapians

_ Yes you? You leave me here, when, what one wants is to win them over when you want to be part of their family! And now you leave me here fighting with my father-in-law!

_ What did you say!? - Armin said very angry and jealous to Ariche, the latter putting on a "Sons of a bitch" face and covering his face.

_ (I already got it) I said that will be his punishment... for having made me an outlander-alien - Ariché transforms his hands into weapons by joining them and shoots at Armin, while he protects himself with his shield, speaks in a threatening manner and interrogates Ariche.

_ Do you work for that woman?

_ No! I don't even know who she is, I just know that you can't call your sister an outlander-alien, and I don't think you would be able to do it if another member of your family became one! By the way, Atziri Blake is not the only one, there is another one of your family who

And it is and you don't call it that! Why do they call me and others who deliberately broke the laws of INFINITY that way and not the members of your family who did the same?

A gigantic ship that brings back painful memories to Armin makes an appearance where they are, Armin Blake calls a ceasefire for that reason and they retreat, although this ship also wanted to destroy the The Fighting Cats and the Sentinels, but a ship of anti Fighting Cats appears and teleports them, they were two male The Fighting Cats, among them Hansel, Antoinette's husband (Catstorm), at the same time they take Jonathan's ship with a ray of attraction and flee, the mysterious ship does not follow anyone, it just disappears.

On the ship

_ We have a lot to thank them for- said Dae-Hyun

_ Tell my husband, he was the one who came for us- said Antoinette.

_ I think that all of The Fighting Cats- said Jonathan- you know better than anyone, Patterson, that a leader works in unity with his team and that's how they achieve success.- Gretel runs and hugs her father.- you don't know how proud I am of how you've grown, daughter, and what you decided to be.

_ You set the best example for me, father, but the best example is that you never give up even though everyone at the time turned against you, by the way, I'm very happy that the rejuvenating injection gave you back 10 years of youth!

_ It's what I've been able to create the most- said Dae-Hyun- but now, what saved us the most was the conversion, have you already taken it?

_ No, not yet- said Kiara

_ They must do it!- said Diana- we were in serious danger and we already took it, even if they are skilled... the alien conversion will be needed too, more now because we know that sooner or later it will come, something that on this Earth, in this universe, in the Base of the Multiverse they do not know.

_ So it will be- said Antoinette

_ Uncle Jonathan, where is my dad?- asked Kiara somewhat sadly.

_ That's the question, I don't know- said Jonathan- I only remember that we were on our last mission on Earth 02 and I didn't hear anything from him. I only know that he is alive, and he will return.....-Jonathan turns to look at Cameron- just as Christopher will return, I also have hope that Atziri Blake will come to replace Zoe Truswell, she is her doppelgänger, I know that she can be her substitute, and although I know that Fiorella is not here, I still hope that she and Armin Blake can be together. I know what it is to lose your wife in death, and although I do not like Armin Blake at all, I do not lose hope that he will recover her with the doppelgänger of his deceased wife.

Moment of silence

_ Jonathan- said Dae-Hyun- you know better than anyone that Yoann McGregor never wanted to be a Sentinel, of his brothers he was only Zoe, why would Armin Blake want to be our ally one day?

_ Because we will need him- answered Jonathan

_ I wonder how long it will take him to trust us- said Jackeline- because apart from the whole truth that he doesn't even know the Earth from here, he also doesn't know who I am the daughter of, and who my double is the daughter of, although she is dead.

_ And also who took care of me like a daughter even though I was taken away- said Antoinette.

_ Whatever it is, we will need him- said Jonathan, while the others look at him with indifference- and he will need us, just as we will need Jawara, also Michael Tyndale with , and they will need us.