Evil Stars
Summary: Carlos always wanted to be free and see the stars but being trapped on the Isle makes those dreams impossible at least until he finds an underground lab when he's six. Now almost ten years later he waits for the fruit of his labour to come to take him away.
Disclaimer: I don't own Descendants.
Chapter 1
Carlos looked at the computer screen in barely concealed joy as he took in the countdown. The clock was contently ticking down in bright green lights in the right-hand corner letting him know that he had less than fifteen minutes until he had to launch the Archangel-class ship Legacy.
With trembling fingers he found himself alternating between pushing and pulling himself against the stainless steel counter while he waited. The table was for once clear as to make sure that nothing got in his way at the last second before the launch.
He knew he was being paranoid as even if he were to launch the ship on the other side of the sun, it would eventually make it's way to him but he couldn't help it. He honestly felt that if he were off even by a second Auradon would be able to stop the Legacy from getting to the Isle.
Not that Carlos was wrong. If Auradon knew what he was doing, they would stop at
nothing to take control of the Legacy if not outright destroy it for the threat it posed.
The Archangel ships were a relic from the end of the golden age of man or as some called it the era before the fall. The Fall as it was often being referred to as the age of warring peoples.
What created the fall was a group of events that fell out of control. The first being the rising tensions around the world as resources began to run out. This was quickly followed by a horrid drought that crippled the worlds food supply. The next two events are never apparent as to what happened, but Carlos doesn't care too much either way as they both resulted in what is now called the dead land. Anyway, these events were the reemergence of magic and a massive war being launched. These two events left much of the world as unusable land due to either poison, radiation or curses.
The final event that insured that humanity didn't merely rebuild better than before was a man-made plague. This plague was able to kill everyone over the age of twenty-five and most of the people between fifteen and twenty-five.
The fallout left almost all technology as impossibly complex things that no one knew how to make or use. Two hundred years later we find that technology is only just getting back to what it was before the Fall and then that is only in some areas.
The Legacy represents the raw military and technological power that humans once welded.
The timer ticked down the last few seconds before Carlos pushed the launch button. In fifteen days the Legacy would crash into the ocean and enter the underwater harbour bypassing the barrier around the Isle of the Lost. Finley after eight years of work, planning, and waiting he would be free: no more pirate and no more terrible trio but most importantly no more insane mother.
He had never been more grateful to the ancients then the day he learned that he could test if his mothers' insanity was genetic and came back positive for her but negative for him. The code for her madness was on one of her x chromosomes that messed with her brain hormone production going thru puberty.
It was after learning this that Carlos decided that he would be a scientist like the ancients. Someone who unravelled the mysteries of the universe one painful experiment at a time.
After that, it was a matter of how. Carlos had the lab but couldn't bring anyone into nor could he gather from the world around him. As much as he wanted to believe that Auradon was an all right place the simple fact of the matter was that they abandoned everyone on the Isle. It would have been fare kinder to merely kill them then place them in this undying open prison.
This lead to Carlos learning about first the food sores then the hydroponic station. After learning about the library, Carlos stopped venturing into the town and only ventured to the world above when he needed to.
From his discovered white and steel lab he grew and learned for the next two years until he could understand just what the place he called home was built to make.
He had honestly thought that the place was merely an over prepared bunker for scientists in the hopes that they could cure the plague but after two years of living there, Carlos was able to clear the collapsed tunnels enough to get thru. Surprisingly it didn't lead to only the main entrance but to the lower and shockingly the upper floors.
It was on the lower floors that Carlos learned about what was being researched and built in the lab. The answer: space travel. To be more precise the landing probe that would make everything was being built hear and to be honest it was almost done. Really the only thing Carlos needed to do was put the outer casing on and input all the data that was on the central computers. Carlos was laughing for weeks when he learns that it took him over a year to figure that out. Meaning that by the time he was done there were only seven months of waiting to launch the package thou he did need to fire a missile first to make a hole in the barrier before sending up his package and a satellite to monitor everything progress.
This lead to him leaving his safe haven for the first time in years. He did, after all, need a satellite dish to pick-up incoming transmissions.
It was after he set up the dish that he met the terrible trio and the pirates. Thinking back now Carlos couldn't tell you why he chose to try socializing with the other kids from the Isle, but it was something that never happened after he was stabbed by the purple haired girl named Mel. Thankfully an older boy named Harry had saved him from bleeding out. Harry took his watch thou, so Carlos guesses it wasn't purely out of the goodness of his heart. After that Carlos never went close to town thou, he did meet with Harry a few more times on the cost while making sure everything was excellent on the far side of the island.
If for no other reason then to pay Harry back Carlos was going to bring down the barrier so that Harry and his friends can get away from the Isle.