It was another beautiful day in Russia for the Kanson family, as they had finally been able to take a vacation from the chaos of everyday life. Yes, life was good for Jaiden, his wife Marissa, and their ten year-old daughter Emily. "Daddy, are we going to be at the city soon, I'm getting hungry," Emily said, while rubbing her belly. "We will be there in a couple of hours, honey," Jaiden replied, "Then we can eat wherever you want to."

"I'm glad we got to take this vacation, dear. Finally a chance to relax and not care about anything else besides fun," Marissa said throwing a mischievous wink towards Jaiden. He laughed, "Definitely, and I'm going to have to follow up on that later," as he leaned over and kissed her and hearing a disgusted "eww" from his daughter. They both laughed at the look on her face and Marissa piped in, "One day you are going to want to kiss a boy too, right sweetie," looking at her husband as she said that. "Oh no, not on my…"

Guardian

Jaiden stopped speaking and looked around.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Marissa asked looking concerned. "It sounded like somebody was speaking to me and…wait, why are the cars stopping?"

They looked ahead on the highway and saw all of the cars coming to a halt, with some people stepping out of the vehicles. Jaiden pulled the car to a stop, "What's going on?" "I don't know Jaiden, maybe we should as someone." Emily started sniffling, "What's happening?" Marissa turned back to their daughter, "Everything's okay sweetie, maybe there is roadwork ahead and everyone has to stop."

Jaiden stepped out and moved to see what was happening, and that's when he saw what everyone was looking at: in the sky were many ships moving towards them. Where did they come from?

As he looked on, he saw something under the ships glow purple and only then did he realize what they were: cannons. "Get out of the car! Hurry!" he yelled. "Daddy, what's happening?" Emily was in tears now.

Guardian…

He looked back up at the ships and saw a large blast of energy speeding towards his family. Cars ahead of him were being engulfed in black and purple energy followed by a cascade of explosions. Jaiden tried opening the backseat door, but the child safety locks were engaged. He looked back and the energy pulse was nearly upon them, "Marissa, Emily, listen to me: I lo…." An explosion engulfed them and everything went black.

…eyes up Guardian.

Then Jaiden saw a blinding light…