Chapter 25: Planning for survival

Jawara and Dorothy stare at each other for several minutes, Dorothy doesn't want Jawara or anyone else to know the truth, now that she knows that Antoinette and her team know about her, the truth that she hides from Jawara and the others, she is more worried and even scared, but even that same rejection that her father feels for humans, she does everything possible to hide the truth, but Jawara is determined to know who Dorothy Webber is.

_Who are you? - Jawara asks her

_My name is Dorothy Webber, I am an automotive engineer, I am very sad - she wipes her tears - my mother and my sister died in the earthquake that destroyed New Jersey, can I help you with something?

_I'm sorry - Jawara expresses his condolences - my deepest condolences, I heard that you created an innovative car, by the way, I am Jawara Malenfant, I built the Airspace-wanderer. As you may know, a catastrophe is coming, we can't wait to see everything that is happening, and even more so when it is something beyond our understanding. I even heard of a megatsunami that devastated Hong Kong, a 2000 m high one reached there and no one even knows how they saved so many, and I couldn't do anything or even found out! Seeing that you are an innovative engineer, could you help me create a plan to survive?

Dorothy stares at him, she needs to find a way for no one to know the truth, much less that she now knows who already knows her truth, given the circumstances, she has already realized that she cannot go unnoticed, so she decides to accept.

_Of course, it will be a pleasure.

Dorothy is now against the wall, many believe that she is a mysterious girl, given the events that have occurred since Antoinette told her that she knew very well who she was, as well as the Fighting Cats that went with her, the fact that Armin now knows that she (Dorothy) is his daughter, the powerful doubts that he has now, even the fact that many know that Dorothy is an alien, but this goes beyond what they believe.

_Very well, Mr. Malenfant- says Dorothy- my greatest recommendation is that we buy a ticket on the underground ark that the United States government ordered to be built, it is the safest.

_Please call me Jawara, we'll talk about it later, right now I want to take care of other problems I have- Jawara is very worried about his sister's health, he knows she's in serious danger now that there are many natural disasters and because of that she has convulsions and loses her memory, even worse, she could lose her life, although Melanie and Andrei have already given strong hope to both her and Joshua, Jawara is skeptical of Melanie and Andrei's word, and more so when he discovers that Melanie has Asperger's Syndrome, it makes him doubt his abilities as a nurse, he's also worried about his mother, he doesn't know what to do with the situation- I'll see you later, oh and Dorothy, I apologize for the way I spoke to you, it's that it shocked my friends and me a lot when you saved my wife twice, seeing the capacity of the Fast Sea Car. That technology of yours is not yet seen, and it seemed strange to us to see something like that (In his mind, Jawara wonders if he should (I tell her about her eyes and the ships, but she decides to keep quiet). Also, I want to thank you, thank you very much for helping us.

_You're welcome, I'm here to serve you, so I'll see you soon, we must be ready, because this is not over yet, see you later.

_Goodbye- Jawara watches Dorothy walk away with a lot of intrigue, even with a certain degree of mistrust, there is still a doubt that has not been dispelled: Who fixed the electricity in the United States? Storm Leslie was the one who caused that, and he suspects that it was Dorothy, because it happens that Dorothy arrives with Iris to the United States and the light suddenly returns, in addition, many have investigated and there is no evidence that human hands have fixed the light. It is evident that it was alien hands, but, who? Now he was more worried about his sister and his best friend Yadir, he decides to go see Yadir at the hospital, on the way, he contacts Joshua.

_Yes, hello?

_Joshua, hello, can you pass me Sharon please?

_Yes, of course, Jawara....

_Hello brother!

_Sharon! How are you, sister? You have me worried

_You're calm, I'm nervous, I'm stable, you know, only natural disasters affect me, so since there hasn't been one here, I'm calmer. I'm in good hands! I had already mentioned it to you, although it will be several months that I will be like this, I will recover!

_I'm glad you remain optimistic. I want you to be well, so I will make sure that you are in safe places while all this happens.

_I appreciate your concern, my brother, and yes, I must be in safe places, but you know? I am under control, I have medicine that helps control seizures and amnesia, my husband bought enough and its expiration is far away. Andrei is now our primary doctor and Melanie is our

primary care nurse, then we have Yamal and you know he is a psychiatrist and psychologist, so we already have enough. Now what matters is that we must plan to survive.

_How would you like us to plan?

_Dorothy recently contacted us, she told us that the government ordered the construction of underground arks to survive what is coming. Although the price is very high

_What is the price?

_Two billion euros per person

_Oh my God! And how are we going to raise all that money? It is true that we have a lot of money, but you know what I am talking about.

_Somehow my brother, yes I know... the money is enough for us, but you still want to use it to save as many as you can, even if they are not one of us, I know you really care about people and you love them sincerely, I love that about you, it's not for nothing that you created the Airspace-Wanderer, I'll be honest with you, our mother came to see us

Jawara was shocked by what Sharon told him, why would he go to see her?

_Hey... brother... are you okay?

_Not really!

_I'll be honest with you: I told her no, that I didn't want anything from her, she also told dad, and he told him the same

_When did that happen?

_It was yesterday

Flashback

_Two billion euros, per person, you don't have that amount to save yourselves, I do-said Madeleine Harper

_Do you really think I'm going to depend on your money?-said Sharon.

_ And do you have it? Open your eyes Sharon, now is not the time for grudges, it is time for us to be united, I can pay for your pass for all of you, along with your families. Even if you are an astrophysicist, there is a limited quota in the coffers, not all the powerful, intelligent, wise people of this world are going to be saved!

_ Yes, of course! Right now it suits you that the situation at a global level is at rock bottom to want to make peace.

_ It is not that I take advantage, you know that the end is coming and we must be united. So this is my proposal: reconciliation in exchange for passes to save each other

Mother and daughter stare at each other for several minutes, until Sharon breaks the ice

_ Well, I will tell you what - said Sharon - my answer is no, you did not love me in the past, nor do I think you love me now, so get out, I do not want your money or anything from you, I will find how to survive on my own. Also, don't forget this: If it suits you, my brother has a lot, the success that you wanted from dad, and he will be able to buy those passes to the coffers.

_I'll take that as a maybe, since I know you very well, as I told you, young lady, the passes to the coffers are limited, and I already know that you are very sick because of a natural disaster-Sharon lies down on her chair upset

_And so what? Don't think that I go around begging for medical attention, I even have excellent doctors and a good family nurse! And I have treatment.

_You really act like a child without parents! Don't you realize that everything is being lost as the end comes? Everything that is happening on Earth is depleting the resources that both those of us who are healthy and those who are sick like you need, everything that you need is in the coffers, and the longer they take to get into them, the chances of them getting in are considerably reduced and the more likely you are that something bad will happen to you, and then at the hands of that Asperger! Who they now even call neurodivergent?

_ Mother! If you are referring to Melanie Winterhall, I will not allow you to speak like that about her! Now, she is one of my best friends, watch your words!

_ You watch your mouth, young lady! - Madeleine leaves

End of flashback

_Oh what the heck, you know Sharon, I think that...

Jawara pauses because he looks at the sky and something phenomenal is happening: a partial eclipse of the Sun, although suddenly, the moon turned a very intense blood color, even more than when the eclipse before the apocalypse happened, red like scarlet, and the stars began to look dense navy blue, giving the appearance that the stars were going to fall, suddenly, some of them went down abruptly.

At the base of the Legion of the Sentinels

Jonathan approaches Cameron

_ Hey! Cameron, look! I brought you a drink, it's a Frappuccino, just like you like it.

_ Thanks, friend!

Moment of silence

_ You're thinking about Christopher, right?

_ That's right, the reality is that we left our Earth, and I never knew if he survived or not, I only know that the rest of my brothers were killed, but Christopher left me with doubts, you know, if speaking of Fiorella McGregor and her brothers they were given up for dead, and look, they are alive! And two of them are our colleagues... that's why... I think that he, my brother, could be alive, with evidence that his death could have been fictitious.

_ You said it yourself! In the case of Allister and Montgomery, we knew it when we were captive, but in the case of Fiorella, we didn't know, nobody knew, she was one of the last ones we knew that were faked deaths or people who escaped from

the claws of murder. I just know that not all of them are or were faked deaths.

_ Yes, I know, the only thing I do know is that the fact that I have seen my brother's doppelgänger, that does not mean that... perhaps... we are blood brothers here at The Base of the Multiverse. Studying these science topics in depth, it is not possible that in all universes, timelines, your relatives are also family.

_ Ai I have discovered a lot about what the Multiverse is thanks to you, although you know that I am very intelligent, it does not mean that I know everything... Cameron, friend, you were with me, by my side in good times and bad, when my reputation was blatantly stained, when I believed for so many years that my daughter, my Gretel, was dead, when my niece Kiara disappeared, the pain that it also caused me and having to see my dear brother suffer so much because of it. .....let me be the shoulder you can cry on now, and let me help you too.

Moment of silence

_ The rejuvenating injection will have given us back 10 years of youth, the conversion will have made us aliens and even able to live thousands of years.

_ Not as much as Armin Blake! - said Jonathan laughing.

_ Yes, but it won't give us back what we lost, death is imminent.

_ I've also had very hard times since Leylani died, so I know what it's like to lose the love of your life and...

_ But you have your daughter here in this universe! My children stayed on Earth 02 and I don't know anything about them! And you know very well why that has me very worried! Adding to that, for now we don't know how to return to our Earth.

_ You're right, I can't understand it... I'm sorry.

_ No! Jonathan.....I'm really sorry for yelling at you, the truth is that...

_ Calm down, we all make mistakes, but what I know now is that we have to learn from them and move on, calm down Cameron, it's okay.

_ You're so understanding, Jonathan! You weren't like that in the past, but now it seems that you've cultivated that virtue very well, thank you for being so understanding with me! I know that I've been there for you too, I was in the past, but don't think that I did it out of self-interest.

_ You're welcome! Yes, I know, but still, as I've been an eyewitness to people who have been grateful, I know that I should still show my gratitude to you, I hadn't shown it to you in the past, you know, many autistic people find it hard to express what we feel, but now I make an effort to do so and show gratitude.

_ I wish people were more understanding with autistic people!

A wormhole opens and someone arrives where The Centinels are

_ I'm looking for my wife!

_ Ronnie? - said Diana impressed- Wh... how could you get here?

_ Well, I have my intelligence, I must be with Rachel, where is she?

_ It's dangerous for you to be here! - said Diana- your father would have wanted you to stay on Earth 02, the end of the world has already arrived here! Besides, here it's not like on Earth 02, your father's enemies here are much, much more powerful.

_ Well, even so I already had the opportunity to work for a little while for an organization that fights evil, besides, I wasn't going to stay there on Earth 02 if Rachel is now here.

_ The problem Ronnie... is that once you enter here, in The Base of the Multiverse, you can't return to our universe, we're trapped here for the moment! There they may need you more than here!

_ Diana, you were a great support for us when my father was in hiding in the time period after the megalodon attack and the whole catastrophe that happened in the United States, and everything else, you know!, and also because Mom died before that. But I can't leave Rachel alone, she's my wife! Besides, it helps that I support my father.

_ I understand because of your marriage, Ronnie, spouses should always be together, but because of your father, he would have wanted you to stay on Earth 02 and support Aidan Tancredi, but given the circumstances for which Rachel is here, I understand that you must be with her. Come with me

Diana takes Ronnie to where Rachel is, she was talking to Fiorella and Allister.

_Rachel!- exclaimed Ronnie

_Ronnie?- said Rachel confused- Ronnie!- they both gave each other a big hug and a kiss- I didn't think I'd see you again so soon!

_ I had to come! You know, in sickness and in health.

_ I know love, I know, but Tancredi may have needed you more than the Sentinels may need you now.

_ I know, but I want to be with you, wherever you go I will go, I learned from my sister Margaret that the family should always be united, take care of it, and more so now with the mission you have now, that's why I still want to see my father.

_ Go with him! I'll wait for you here, so you can talk

_ Come with me, Ronnie- said Diana- you'll bring your father a big surprise

Park and Tomlinson approach where Jonathan and Cameron are.

_ We have more information

- said Dae-Hyun- Cameron, the reality is that just as we know of the existence of doppelgängers, doppelgänger is Warshapian, or was, and yes, the Warshapian you saw in the Combat is your brother Christopher's double, but here, you and he are not brothers.

Cameron stares at him

_ And why did he look at me too, then? - asked Cameron

_ They were good friends - said Blake- we have no information if your double is alive here now, we only know that your brother's doppelgänger and yours were good friends, only that, here they are not carnal brothers. But there is more...

Montgomery, Allister and Fiorella join the conversation.

_ Wait! - said Jonathan- Now that you mention it... if Truswell and Fiorella are siblings, and Fiorella's deceased doppelgänger is Armin Blake's wife, why did Armin Blake banished his sister Atziri? If she also married Allister's double.

_ Because here at the Multiverse Base, she's not my sister- said Allister somewhat melancholy- and neither is Montgomery- my doppelgänger is completely human, Fiorella's and Montgomery's doppelgängers are, and they are Warshapians.

_ Were they brothers? - asked Cameron

_ Yes- answered Dae-Hyun- and in the case of Blake and Diana, they are not brothers either here, speaking of you, Cameron, that is why when you fought with Armin Blake, when he attacked you and you put your arm and it was heard when they collided as if they were two swords, it is because we have the following theory: if your double is Warshapiano, you can become one, or even you are already one, subtly.

Moment of silence and suspense.

_ For God's sake! - exclaimed Cameron- anyone else here? From the Legion of the Sentinels, their double is Warshapiano?

_ Mine, logically- said Montgomery.

_ I'll tell you Montgomery, your double is alive and has a great rank in INFINITY- said Dae-Hyun- returning to Fiorella and her people, now that Fiorella's double is dead, her brother is very resentful of Armin Blake, he thinks it's his fault that she's dead.

_ It doesn't surprise me- said Montgomery- Yoann and I never had a good relationship as brothers-in-law, I never agreed with the marriage forged by him and my sister, despite the long past behind. So now it doesn't surprise me that my double doesn't want to see my brother-in-law's doppelgänger.

_ There is a lot to take in! - said Fiorella disappointed.

_ Sorry to interrupt you! - exclaimed Diana arriving- Cameron! Look who came to stay at the Multiverse Base!

_ Father- said Ronnie- I know you would have wanted me to stay on our Earth, but out of loyalty and unconditional love for Rachel, as I saw you show loyalty to my mother, and for you, that's why I'm here.

Father and son hug each other tightly, while Cameron hugs his son, his mind quickly processes and grasps the meaning of something important.

_ We must plan to survive! - said Cameron out loud- Thank you son for coming! Seeing you made me grasp something of utmost importance.

_ What are you talking about, father?

_ About your sister Margaret. Fortunately, she is on Earth 02 "safe" for now, but her doppelgänger is not and I'll tell you why: if my doppelgänger is a Warshapian, then she is, Dae-Hyun, has FIREFLY given you information or The Fighting Cats that she is an Outlander-Alien?

_ No- answered Dae-Hyun- but I will tell you or I will tell them the information that Antoinette Newman gave me: Margaret Townsend is on Earth, and yes, she is totally Warshapian (father and mother Warshapian), but she works closely with FIREFLY.

_ I don't like to be guided by intuitions but I have captured the essence: my little girl's double is a spy, or was, I think Armin Blake sent her so that no human being can know about the alien existence, I know my daughter, she inherited a lot of my intellect, she is very good at hiding, when she was a child, I used to play hide and seek a lot with her and my other children and it was almost impossible or even impossible to find her, Margaret, she knew how to hide very well, she was very clever at that.

_ Yes that's right- said Ronnie- when we played with her it was impossible to find her, and it was impressive how she hid, she always beat us at that. I think dad has a theory here.

_ If my daughter's doppelgänger is just as intelligent and has that gift of hiding, then she has been very good at hiding that she is a Warshapian, because FIREFLY has only said that they have one Warshapian in FIREFLY, just one!

_ I agree with that! - said Jonathan- they will call us literals, there is another alien, and that is Ariche Noumair, but he is not a Warshapian and we found out the day of the fight.

_ What literals! - exclaimed Fiorella

_ But thanks to this literal it was known that - said Cameron- my daughter's double is a Warshapian and is working closely with FIREFLY, she has hidden very well that she is and the Leader of The Fighting Cats did not say that she was an Outlander-alien.

_ What are you getting at? - asked Allister

_ As I said At first, she is a spy, I think she is a spy who went to Earth to find a way to prevent humanity from knowing about human existence, my daughter was also very curious about astronomy and whether there was life on other planets.

Flashback

_ Dad - said Margaret, 6 years old from Earth 02 - I love planets! I asked how things on Earth move in outer space.

_ That's my intellectual princess! You can study that at university.

_ But I also want to be a spy like you! In fact, how do you think it will be to work for a spy organization and then realize that spying on another organization results in a better cause and you decide to work for it! Hey, what if there were aliens who didn't want us to know about our existence and invented ways for us not to discover them and that's why we haven't discovered them?

_ You understand a lot of things for your age! You are gifted

End of flashback

That is why, with that, I suspect that she could be a spy, a Warshapian spy that perhaps in my theory, the Warshapians or INFINITY, have sent to Earth, my daughter had that theory, or she would not be surprised by this: Armin Blake sent Margaret to hide his existence as best as possible, but she, seeing that humans are not all bad people, in her big heart, has decided not to continue with the operation, and although she may be a double agent, she no longer wants to be a Warshapian who hides or be a Warshapian who regretted wanting to overshadow our existence and has even given details of the aliens and now wants to fight for our cause, as my little girl told me when I was little in what I told you.

Antoinette arrives with the Sentinels and tells them a revealing fact exactly as Cameron said: Margaret Townsend (Base of the Multiverse) is a Warshapian, a high-ranking member of INFINITY who can even win the promotion of Vice Admiral that Armin Blake sent to Earth in order to prevent at all costs that humans know the existence of aliens with her powerful intellect, but Margaret, seeing that there are good-hearted humans and not all of them are a threat, decides not to continue with the mission, but due to her powerful ability to hide, she manages to completely hide that she is an alien from FIREFLY, but she does it with the noble intention of protecting humanity from an alien attack, and she also hides because she knows that if Armin Blake discovers that she betrayed INFINITY, she will be killed. She is so smart at hiding, that not even Atziri could detect her presence.

At such a revelation, everyone is shocked that Cameron hit on his theory.

_ What are you going to do now, Cameron? - said Park

_ She is now in danger in both worlds: the alien world and the Earth world, because from what Antoinette said, FIREFLY doesn't know that there is a spy among them, a spy so cunning that not even Madam Sand's double could detect her. I'm going to create a plan to survive, Lara, let her and us survive, because this will infuriate Armin Blake and put her in danger.

_ But your real daughter is on Earth 02! - reproached Fiorella.

_ But as a father I want to protect her, she's my daughter! And more plan to survive not only the end of the world of The Base of the Multiverse, also because now there are more questions: my double, is it a Warshapian who has a good reputation before INFINITY? Is he alive or dead? Even, will he be an outlander-alien?

Faced with Cameron's powerful questions, his theory confirmed by what the Fire Cat told them, leaves everyone in suspense. What is the reason for all this suspense? Partly because of what Cameron mentioned about his double, and because of Margaret's revelation, but also because no one is prepared for what is to come. This is deeper and more dangerous than they can imagine.