Chapter 35: We are ready!

Iris interviews many scientists to find out how much time the Earth has left, but they have just discovered something surprising: the United States will explode due to a huge volcanic eruption, the entire United States is confirmed by a gigantic crater that will erupt in just a matter of days.

Many people in the United States show their fear, while others show that they do not believe what is being said.

(People speaking to the media)

_ A crater? In the United States? No, that is impossible

_ We must leave!

_ Only God knows if we will survive

_ I want someone to explain to me about the end of the world, will all of the Earth's gravity be lost?

_ Please, I am sure that not all of the Earth will suffer the cataclysm, it is only happening in certain places, but it has not happened in all of them.

What is next? Survive, how? Leave the United States, Iris calls Yadir on the phone.

_ Yes, hello

_Yadir, do you know what's on the news? America! It's a crater that will soon erupt.

_Yes! That's what I see, what are we going to do?

Jawara works very hard on the Airspace-wanderer, fortunately, although he spent several months in the hospital, many engineers rebuilt it, and the best part is that it's now in optimal conditions to be used.

Jawara and Blossom listen attentively to the news

_ Evacuation procedure - said Blossom - I can't believe that there is a volcanic crater under this ground!

_ Me neither - says Jawara - now we have to flee, besides, with so many events that we have lived through, it no longer surprises me that there is a crater under our feet, come on, we must pack.

_ I have a lot of provisions saved, I gathered them for something like this.

_ Well, let's take what we need, in fact, I'm thinking of supporting the evacuation procedure as much as I can.

_ What a great idea! You'll be able to get people out quickly.

Andrei and Yamal talk about the decisions they'll make. Yamal sees how all the doctors join the evacuation process along with all the hospitals in the United States

_ I know I have to be here, but my friends need me and there will be more people who need it too - said Andrei

_ Well, go ahead, I'll do the same, I'll go with my friends, because there are many who will need my work apart from all these people. It was a pleasure, Andrei! - Yamal extends his hand to Andrei

_ I'm talking about you

_ Wait, what?

_ You gave me unconditional support, Yamal, and now you and I share the same siblings (Iris and Yadir), Sharon is my sister! And even though I still have mixed feelings knowing that she is alive and is now face to face with me, I must protect her!

_ Then let's go, but I will tell you that for us, you were already part of the family, you and your wife.

On the other hand, Yadir looks attentively at the sky, in the sky you can see tornadoes spinning above, these tornadoes were not going to hit anywhere on Earth, what were they really?

_ Have you seen that Iris?

_ Yes! They are tornadoes in space

_ Tornadoes in space?

_ So my brother

Now that the Arispace-wanderer is in good condition, he supports the evacuation procedure, Mrs. Harper continues to insist on the underground ark, Jawara does not pay much attention to that.

Blossom is taking out all the provisions she had stored for a case like this, Jawara calls her on the phone.

_ Hello love, how are you?

_ Well, honey, how is the evacuation procedure going?

_ It's going well, although I don't think we can save everyone

_ Why do you say that?

_ It's estimated that the eruption will end all of America

_ What do you mean?

_ The eruption is going to end all of America, I won't be able to save everyone- says Jawara in a sad tone

_ We do what we can, keep it up.

At The Fighting Cats base, Antoinette keeps track of what will happen in America soon.

_ It's not possible! The crater that is under the United States will end all of America, North America, Central America and South America.

_ What about FIREFLY?- asked Beatrice- are you not going to help this time?

_ When they managed to help many in the past, the first time they helped Jawara, even though their ship has a lot of technology, the reality is that they have not yet been able to build ships as complex as the Airspace-Wanderer, or the ships we have. Tyndale told me that now his entire organization would stay in the arks and would not go out anymore. We will go!

_ But this time you will not go without me - said the Fighting Cat who drove the ship that took Joshua from where the Warshapians were (Atziri, Margaret, Ginger and Dorothy) who was none other than Hansel Patterson, Antoinette's husband (The Catstorm) - please Antoinette, I beg you that this time only you and I go, the world will need The Fighting Cats more than ever, this is nothing! And you know it! If we save others, we must make sure that we do not become extinct ourselves.

The couple stares at each other

_ Come on! -said

Antoinette- We'll go with the Felineflyleader

The couple heads straight to Earth, although a gigantic ship crosses their path, the moment it crosses, it makes the Felineflyleader immovable, Hansel tries to get the ship moving again but it's impossible, if they kept forcing the ship, it was going to disintegrate!

_ I try to greet those in the ship in front of us, darling- said Antoinette- but there's no response, there aren't even any signs that they want to attack us!

_ All the plane's functions are off! - exclaimed Hansel maneuvering the FelineFlyleader without any success- why would they stop us here?

On the other hand, Sharon looked up at the sky, it was surprising when the total solar eclipse happened, would another similar one happen? For now, Sharon was stable, so no natural phenomenon was going to occur near her, practically Sharon would become her "alarm" to survive.

_ Are you feeling okay now, my love? - asks Joshua

_ Yes, I think so, I think we're ready, wait, I've got a call, yes, hello?

_ Sharon, you have to leave the United States - says Jawara - scientists have just discovered that it's a matter of hours before the United States erupts

_ Very well, then I'll be waiting for you... (Sharon turns to look at the sky) look at that Joshua! - Sharon leaves her house to look closer - that looks like a spaceship?

_ Really? Let's see, let me see... if it's true, I'm going to contact my sister to ask her if that's what the spaceship that attacked her in space looked like. It doesn't have the design of the ship you already know, at least it can't be seen from here.

_ Are you referring to those people or aliens? Who knows what they are! Do they have cat suits with very advanced technology and design?

_ That's right.

Blossom was communicating with her little one who has not yet been born, she is happy, but she is very worried about her son, since there is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen tomorrow, and now that they know that there will be an eruption where the crater is the United States, that makes fear and doubts increase in a fierce way, her cell phone rings and she answers.

_Yes, hello?

_ Blossom, have you seen what's in the sky? - says Joshua

_ No, not really, let me go out to see - Blossom managed to see very large spaceships, all the people look at them with amazement, but also with fear, Blossom fears that they will attack.

_ So with this I prove that what I said is true - says Blossom with conviction

_ Just remember that there are things that we must hide yet! Jawara cannot know everything yet.

_ That goes more with regards to the family, why hide the thing about the ships? I don't feel comfortable hiding all that from my husband!

_ It has been said a lot that everything has its time

Suddenly, something strange happened: the day stopped, and began to go backwards, it was 12:00 pm in the United States, and it began to go backwards at 11:59 am and so on

_ Hey Joshua - says Sharon - Have you seen that time is going backwards?

_ How does time go backwards?

_ Look at the sky and look at your watch - Joshua listens to her and checks his watch

_ Hey, that's true! Let's tell Jawara, I'll contact him

Everyone is amazed by what they see: Time is going backwards, the Earth is spinning in the opposite direction, although it only does so for an hour.

_ Hello Jawara - says Joshua - with the news that time is going backwards

_ How does time go backwards? - asks Jawara confused

_ Yes! The Earth spins in the opposite direction, if you look at your watch, the minutes no longer move forward, they now move backward.

Jawara looks at his watch, although he is traveling in the Airspace-wanderer and passes through other parts of the Planet leaving people, he can see that he is right. What will happen next?

_ Joshua, yes, I already saw - says Jawara - How is my sister? Did this event not cause convulsions?

_ Fortunately not, but I fear that she could have convulsions at any moment, but don't worry, we have Andrei and Melanie here with us.

_ Take good care of her! I will continue with the evacuation procedure, I will come for you in a moment

_ Very well! Hey, another thing, have you seen the "ships" that are seen in the sky?

_ Yes! And that reaffirms what Blossom said, many did not believe what she said although others supported her idea, although, to be honest, I was also incredulous, but I think that with this people will believe it.

Yadir, who was co-pilot, was listening to the conversation that Jawara had with Joshua, he was very surprised by the part about time going backwards, he also heard the part about the ships, that reminded him of Dorothy, who saved Blossom from an attack by possibly alien ships. Many things were at stake, many things they still did not know, not everyone among them knew about The Fighting Cats and they were still in doubt about whether Dorothy was an alien, but Blossom already knew the truth, Joshua's memories were erased as to what he saw in the aliens

(Atziri and the others), but everything was mysterious like a labyrinth, it was not possible to know where another supernatural disaster would break out, it was not possible to know what kind of disaster would happen, everything was beyond the understanding of scientists, although by this date there had already been many advances, what was happening nobody could decipher why, the predictions of the scientists were confusing, the population no longer knew who they could trust.

_ Hey Jawara- says Yadir- how is this about time going backwards?

_ The Earth is spinning backwards, Yadir- answers Jawara- with so many events it should not surprise us anymore.

_ Oh my God! What's next? Hey by the way, can you believe that the existence of extraterrestrials is possible? Now with the "ships" that are seen in the sky.

_ To be honest, my good friend, I do believe it. Now I wonder if they are alien ships. Will they attack us?

_ Well, Blossom was shot, we must find a way to protect ourselves from those ships.

_ Yes, that's what we'll do.

Sharon looked at the sky in surprise. They were two large spaceships (one of them was the one blocking the path and immobilizing the Felienflyleader, and the other was invisible to Hansel and Antoinette). The ships looked like warships. They didn't do anything. Were they going to attack humanity? To her surprise, they began to move away.

_ The ship is moving away! - said Hansel - I think we can now maneuver the ship.

When they tried to start the spaceship, a black hole attracted them with great force and speed.

_ The ship still doesn't respond! - exclaimed Gretel - look at that hole! It's very small compared to the one that caused gravity to be lost in New Jersey!

The desperate couple tries to turn the Felineflyleader back on, but it was impossible. During the journey in which they were sucked into the hole, they could see that another ship was also being sucked in. It was Jonathan's space plane (Sky Panther) where he and his daughter Gretel (Air Cat) were going. Neither of the two ships could avoid being sucked into the black hole. The union of several stars much larger than those known to science could be observed, mixed with strange colors that not even the best artist has been able to create until now. Colors that, far from being pleasant, even made even the most powerful warrior scream in terror at seeing those colors and those stars, far from seeing with wonder and joy at the wonder of the universe.

_ Hansel! I saw who they are! It's McMahon and Gretel! I'm so scared now! It's too much!

Hansel was also terribly scared, what they saw did not even compare to what was seen on Earth, from the desperation and panic that dominated him as well, he decided to get out of the cockpit and go for a sedative so that both would fall asleep and the astronomical events and the inevitable suction of the black hole would cause something bad to them, the ship was designed to protect them from all the radiation emanating from the black hole, what about Jonathan and Gretel? Would they still survive? The black hole inevitably swallows both ships leaving in total suspense everything that was happening in outer space.

Meanwhile

_ This is already a real mystery, isn't it Mrs. Dellinger? - said Jacob innocently, he arrived with his mother to see Sharon, who was a little scared, since she was very focused on seeing the spaceships.

_ Jacob? Hello! How nice to see you, it's also nice to see you Mrs. Henderson

_ I already saw that aliens do exist! I'm going to take pictures of them!

_ Look! The ships are moving away- said Mrs. Henderson- why would they do that?

_ I don't know- said Sharon- what I do know is that we need a good shelter to hide from everything that is happening

_ Hey, where is my friend Jawara?- said Jacob

_ He is collaborating in the evacuation procedure- answered Sharon- and he will come for us soon.

_ Don't let the ships destroy him!

_ No, I don't think so, besides, the ships have already moved away.

_ I hope you've already found a way to hide- said Madeleine Harper, who has just arrived to challenge Sharon again.

_ Madeleine, what are you doing here? I didn't make it very clear that I don't want anything to do with you- said Sharon furiously.

_ Is that what you think- says Mrs. Harper challenging her- you need me more than you think, swallow your pride and arrogance, I have passes for the underground ark, even here your friends need those passes, I will give them to them too if we fix things.

_ You are a cynic and shameless, you take advantage now that I need help to come and want to negotiate with you, and I will tell you that: love cannot be negotiated, it only comes out naturally, and I have been many years without having that affection for you. I still do not know the whole story! But I already know that you are not my biological mother and I know who my real parents were!

Madeleine is in shock by what she heard.

_ My love?

What's going on? - Joshua arrives wanting to enter the conversation

_ It's nothing out of my control, darling, could you please leave us alone?

_ Yes, of course - said Mrs. Henderson - we'll see each other later

_ Goodbye Mrs. Dellinger! - said Jacob

_ My brother will come for you, be ready! - said Sharon

After they walked away, Sharon and her mother stared at each other, Sharon tries to find out Madeleine's sincerity, she wants to know if she is really sorry or if she is taking advantage of them, she also wants the truth about how she was unjustly separated from her biological family, she knows that she has taken advantage of the situation to ask for forgiveness, that's why she wants to get the hidden intentions of her heart and the truth out of her in the middle of the silence.

_ Very well, now I hear you - said Sharon - why are you showing up now?

_ Because I realized that I was wrong, that I was stupid to have abandoned them, it was many years, but what matters is that I am here now, right?

_ Don't try to take advantage of the situation, I know you, you always instilled materialistic goals in us.

_ And your brother did listen to me! Look at him now! He is an engineer famous for building a space plane, he has a lot of money, but what about you?

_ I studied to be a physicist and mother, in fact, I was about to finish my PhD in astrophysics, but then I decided to start a career as an interior designer, I like to lead a quiet life with my family, I got married and I plan to have children, children that I will not abandon for materialistic goals like you abandoned me!

_ That is why I want to beg for your forgiveness my girl, forgive me, I should never have left, I do not want to imagine the damage I did to them

_ It's late Madeleine, how do you want me to believe that you feel love for me if you were not with me when I was a child? I needed my mom to come and give me a goodnight kiss, I needed my mom to be there for me, to advise me, to give me her love, to be with me in my achievements, and much, much more. Do you think it's just a matter of asking for forgiveness?

_ No, of course not, but I'm willing to start from scratch, to gain your trust gradually, even if it takes many years, I'm willing to reconcile with you. Come on, daughter, accept it.

_ I'm not your daughter! I stopped being your daughter when you abandoned me- says Sharon with much anger and indignation- I'm sorry Madeleine, but I won't give you my forgiveness. Besides! I already know that I'm not your daughter! I knew that my parents thought I was dead! How did you have me with you? Does my adoptive father know?

_ Focus on the fact that I gave you a home, little woman! What they told you about your parents supposedly giving you up for dead is a lie! It's pure fiction! You are my daughter!

_ Madeleine! What are you doing here? - said Mr. Edward Malenfant, who came to see his daughter and joined the conversation - my daughter has already been very clear with you, we do not want you!, not now or ever, so get out of here!

_ I will not give up so easily, Edward

At that moment, Sharon looks at her watch, it was 11:00 am, time went backwards for an hour, now again the clock was moving forward, like the Earth began to spin normally too.

_ Look, dad! Again the clock is going forward, and so is time

At that moment, she receives a call, it was from Jawara

_ Hello Sharon, I'm coming for you

Now what will you do with Madeleine Harper?