Medusa walked down the flight of stairs in the dark sewers approaching her henchmen that stood there in fear.
"Hey, boss..." He said grunting a bit.
"Free." She told him directly to his name and walked passed him.
"Wine. now!" She said and he quickly gave her a glass and she threw it away breaking the glass.
"Clean it up now." She ordered and he did so and quickly ran back to her side walking by her as she walked deeper into the sewer.
"Mistress, I think the device is ready for a test drive yeah?" He asked her cocking an eyebrow and she pondered it then stopped walking looking at him.
"Fine but we need to test it on a living being." She said and he just grinned.
"Oh do I got the perfect one... found him trying to sell me shit that I don't need, aka a solicitor!" He said to her giving her a thumbs up and she just sighed.
"Very well is he tied up to it or no?" She asked and Free opened a door near them as there was a man tied up and gagged trying to move.
"Good work Free, alright let's take him with us. the poor dear will be the first experiment." She said and looked down at the tied up man.
"If you live, yay. if you die, then well ain't my fucking problem." She said shrugging and letting out a sigh with a smile and walked off with Free following carrying the man he captured.
Inside her secret base was many technology type devices attached to the wall and on the floor. Weird looking guards stood around having robotic stuff attached to them. Medusa typed in a few buttons on a console on the wall which opened a room having wires and large tendril shafts through the walkway that she had to walk over with free and the captured man. Soon they made it to a big tube that Free jumped onto and threw the man inside the liquid.
Above the liquid, there were tubes that ran through the room to the main source, a red crystal stone known as the Reality Stone.
"Alright! He's in! Best hurry or he'll drown!" Free said looking toward Medusa standing on the top of it shutting the lid of the tank.
Medusa pushed some buttons and grabbed the lever slowly dragging it down as some green glowing stuff flooded the liquid water of the tank where the captured man was inside. Soon the man's body began to puff up and down a few times as the green glowing stuff traveled into his body and surfacing his skin. Soon he stopped struggling only to float midway in the tank.
"Damn it... testing didn't work." She mumbled.
"Wait!" Free said looking at the man inside the tank moving a little.
"Hmm..." Medusa thought.
The man in the tank was able to undo his binds and surface up where Free pulled the lid out and the man jumped out of the tank naked. Medusa approached the man with her arms crossed.
"What are you." She asked him as the man stood there like a zombie.
"I am, all." He said and Medusa just nodded.
"Everything is going into plan." Medusa said grinning walking out of the room as two other guards come to put robotics on that man they re-made.
"So now what?" Free asked walking with her.
"Now, we will synthesis everyone." Medusa said grinning looking at a monitor where it showed thousands of captured people behind cages in the sewers that was ready for testing.
"I with a synthetic army will prove we can make everyone in this galaxy synthesis! and soon everyone shall be one!" She laughed out as Free stood there and began to laugh but she smacked his chest.
"Shut up." She told him and he looked down.
"Sorry." He said.
She just smacked him again. "Don't be sorry be quiet." She said and he again said.
"Sorry." She smacked him again.
"Don't be sorry be quiet!" She yelled and he just nodded not saying anything.
Then a girl walked up having an odd expression on her face.
"Mistress Medusa, the magnitude emulator is ready for another test firing in about ten minutes, fire again?" She asked her tilting her head. "
Yes hun do and please do not make it too strong, last time some bricks fell from the sewer here." Medusa said to the girl who bowed and leaped into the sewer water to get to where ever that machine was.
"Do you think the Empire will send more teams down here?" Free asked and Medusa just nodded and grinned.
"I Hope so that way we get more little pawns again like we been getting." She said looking at him.
"I just hope my Son appreciates what I am doing for him and everyone to make everyone equal is the true way of life." She said tapping a few things in a device near her.
"Ever since my mother died, I and my sisters have separated and did things our own way to this universe. Arachne died, thankfully... she tried to control the universe through the politics and leaders and acted as a de-facto leader to control everything in the background but I can just synthesis everyone on this planet first, then let it spread to other planets... then the galaxy, then the universe." She said laughing and turned her attention to the monitor as she frowned.
"Hold on, there is an intruder at the fifth side near our crates of supply... I will handle this." She said walking off as Free just nodded and went to whatever he was going to do.
"At least the Reality stone will change the guys we bring in, but I wonder where she even got that stone." Free thought to himself.
Back up top at the Empire at the space dock was a passenger freighter coming in and landing. The aliens and humans came out to the customs officers who was checking their ID's and Luggage. One old woman was beating her cane on a man who she thought was wanting to grope her ass and kept beating him with her cane as two guards had to stop her but she grabbed one guard into a choke hold and took his taser to taze the other officer's balls.
Soon there was a customs officer who stunned her with his blaster rifle only set to stun. Behind the crowd was James and Milque who was looking at that.
"Wow, what a tough geezer." Milque said smirking and James with a sigh.
Then there was Captain Hann with them as the three of them were incognito. Captain Hann was a leading superior Captain who has been in many wars giving orders. He has many medals and a reputation in the Alliance as the youngest superior Captains which made others feel uneasy of his decisions but his reputation and decisions were the best, except it costed more lives than there should have been lost in his divisions.
Milque and James were sent with him on this undercover operation in the Empire to find out what's going on with the transporting of centrifuge that contained much powerful radiation.
"Okay while the guards are busy let's go around them." Captain Hann said leaving the scene as James and Milque follow.
They make it out of the spacedock in disguise with their suitcases with their weapons in pieces that can be rebuilt and other stuff for their mission. They get into a transport bus that unloads passengers and loads up new ones from the space dock. Soon they get in and await their next assignment. James looks at Hann with a stare.
"So, what happened on the mission of delta que?" James dared ask as Han just looked at him with a frown.
"None of your business and it best stay that way." Hann said with a tone of his voice as he smiled looking at two women nearby staring at them checking them out.
Soon Milque did the same thing to mimic the Captain just raising his head when the women looked at them to give them a nod and a wink. One woman frowned at Milque but smiled at the Superior captain who had the looks and Milque leaned to James whispering saying.
"I fucking hate him too... but for a completely different reason now." he said as James rolled his eyes looking out the window.