Welcome back to our next installment! This is a longer chapter, even longer if I keep talking. I hope you enjoy it, leave me a review. I'd love to know what you think.

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CRACK! BANG!

Montay shot up in bed, immediately awake. Leigh was out, exhausted. Montay crept out of bed and armed himself with his bedroom lamp. Footsteps could be heard in the main room, so Montay crept quietly.

"MONTAY AZIMUTH!" A bright light shown into Montay's eyes. Grabbed on both sides he forced to drop his 'weapon'. "GET ON THE GROUND!"

Leigh finally woke up, blinded by the lights. "Montay?"

Montay got on his knees, spots in his eyes. "I'm okay, Leigh."

"Uncle Montay!" Harper's voice carried from down the hall.

The main enforcer signaled to his underlings. "Get her and anyone else in the house."

Leigh was grabbed and dragged out of bed, screaming for Montay. Harper, Franklin, and George's voices carried to Montay's ears. Montay tried to look at the leader. "Let them go."

The leader stood before Montay. "Montay Azimuth you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Harper Azimuth, the murders of Becca, Rolin, Astrid, Zeon, Ginny, Malcolm, Kori Azimuth, Cassius, Stella, Orion Vital, Lance, Grace, Celeste, Dante, and Duncan Watt. And harboring illegal fugitives under the aliases Claire, Franklin, Ian, and Liza Azimuth."

Montay blinked but still looked into the light. "You don't underst-" Montay's head and neck exploded with pain. He fell forward hard and everything went black.

"Mr. Azimuth." A new male voice called Montay, and in his haze, Montay opened his eyes to find his arms chained behind his back and his ankles chained to the floor. "Mr. Montay Azimuth." The voice called, and Montay focused on the lombax in front of him.

Montay groaned and shook his head. "Excuse me, I'm trying to recover from blunt force trauma." His mind cleared and Montay glared at the lombax across the table from him. "What in the world do you think you're doing? Breaking into my home and assaulting myself, my significant other, my family, and my nephew's significant other?"

The Lombax, Detective Watt, kept a straight face. "Mr. Azimuth we have the suspicion that you've been up to some less than wholesome activities. We have miles of footage of disappearances that happened inside your lab at the research facility." He frowned at Montay. "Lombaxes going in and never coming back out again and your accomplice, your supposed nephew, doing the same."

Montay fell silent and looked away.

"Not too chatty now, are we?" Detective Watt mused. He produced a file and opened it up. "It started with your sister, Kori Azimuth. Nearly 36 years ago your sister went into your lab, and then later that same day pronounced dead. No body ever recovered." He flipped through. "Then almost systematically your supposed niece Claire suddenly appears."

Montay nodded. "This doesn't look good for me."

Detective Watt slammed the file shut. "No bodies, no explanation, and no way you can get yourself out of this, Azimuth."

"You hold an excellent point." Montay shrugged.

Detective Watt glared at Montay. "Your so-called nephew is getting questioned too, let's hope he can shed some light on the subject."

Montay sighed and sat back. "Just don't beat him up too much. His mother will hurt me if her darling son is hurt."

"Who is he?" Detective Watt leaned over the table. "Who is his mother?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Montay smiled.

Detective Watt frowned, unamused. "Try me, Azimuth."

Montay rolled his eyes. "His birth name is Franklin Olympic, born on Fastoon in Polaris. My sister, Kori Olympic, is his mother and he is her second child but firstborn son."

"Very funny Azimuth." Detective Watt narrowed his eyes at Montay. "There are no lombaxes in Polaris, especially on Fastoon."

Montay smirked. "Yes, there are." He shrugged. "But what do I know, I've never been there."

Another lombax poked his head into the room. "Detective." He held the door open for Detective Watt.

"We're not done here, Azimuth." Detective Watt slammed his hand on the table before leaving, the door closing behind him.

Montay took a deep breath and lowered his head. He lifted his head again to see none other than Former Commander in Chief Talia Olympic smiling at him. "Hello, Montay." She took the seat across of him. "Perhaps it is time."

"Ma'am." Montay frowned. "If I may, they are not ready." He quickly shook his head.

Talia shook her head. "Look at yourself, Montay." She gently touched his cuffs. "You are chained to a table because they think you killed your family. But we both know where they really are."

Montay took a deep breath. "Get Franklin home to his mother, I'll take whatever they do to me." He looked Talia in the eye. "Oh and let George know that my sister would love him."

Talia frowned and nodded to Montay. She was allowed to take Franklin home on one condition, she and he be accompanied by armed guards. Should the boy try anything. Montay was placed in solitary confinement, pending the safe return of Talia.

They went to Montay's lab and Franklin set to set up the machine, a nice large gun pointed at his back. No pressure, you know. When the portal opened Franklin gestured to the armed gunmen to go first. Talia rolled her eyes and pushed them through the portal. Franklin followed his aunt and walked through.

The armed gunman came face to face with little 9-year-old Rosie, 3-year-old Simon, 90-year-old Kaden, and the newborn baby. They lowered their weapons and looked around.

Simon and Rosie hid behind Kaden, who handed the newborn to Rosie. "Support his head, Rosie." He told her before steeling himself. "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Talia stepped forward and smiled at Kaden. "Brother, we come in peace."

"You, I'm not worried about." Kaden frowned. "But pointing weapons at my granddaughter and great-grandsons I find offensive."

Franklin approached his youngest sister. "Give me Baby, Rosie." He bent down and took the infant. Franklin rocked the infant. "Now, gentleman. Can we not attack my nephews, grandfather, and younger sister?"

Unseen Rosie ran off to find their mother. She was yet to get her hoverboots but she we quite the runner. The little girl dragged her mother back, claiming up and down that men with guns were threatening Grandpa Kaden and Baby.

This attracted much more attention then she wanted. Orion, Zeon, Lance, Ian, Malcolm, and Genie joined Kori and Rosie. The armed gunmen went back to pointing weapons at the large group as they approached.

Kori steeled herself. "I request that you vacate the area immediately." She took Rosie's hand and put the little girl behind the force behind her.

Orion got Simon and put him with Rosie. "You better listen to her."

Franklin joined the force. None of the force had brought weapons with them. So they stood tall against these armed gunmen. One of the gunmen took notice that most of the members of the force were some of the missing lombaxes that had mysteriously disappeared. Including the supposedly kidnapped Harper's siblings. Plus one of them was holding a newborn, hardly what one would call a threat.

Talia nodded. "Now that we have this settled." She embraced her brother. "It's been good to see you, Kaden." She took the gunmen and brought them through the portal, closing it using the machine.

After his sister disappeared into the portal Kaden and the other men decided in case anything happened the female lombaxes and children needed to be kept safe. Stella held her grandsons as Claire was carried into the bunker. Orion kissed his wife possibly for the last time, hugged his mother, and told his sons how much he loved them. Zeon forced Celeste to join the other females in the bunker, and he apologized that might never get to know if he'll be a father. Lance told Grace how much he loved her, he gave a big Daddy hug each to Dante and Duncan, and a brief hug from his sister Celeste. Ian, Franklin, Ratchet, and Kaden hugged Kori, Claire, Liza, and Rosie. Malcolm hugged his sister. Cassius kissed his wife, hugged his daughter-in-law and his grandsons then joined his son. Rolin kissed his wife before embracing his last daughter and hopefully future daughter-in-law.

With the females and children safe, the males armed themselves for the worst.

Talia took the gunmen back to the police department and made sure that Montay was released from solitary. The gunmen made their reports to Detective Watt. Montay soon was back in the interrogation room, chained up again to the table and floor. "What are you trying to pull, Azimuth?"

Montay yawned and looked at Detective Watt. "I don't know. What am I trying to pull?"

"Well," Detective Watt frowned at Montay. "My guards claim they've been to Fastoon and they've seen some of your family members and others."

"I do hope they had a good time." Montay shrugged. "I hope my sister is well. Did they see her?"

Detective Watt slammed his fist on the table. "I've had just about enough of your games, Azimuth."

"I've had to lie for almost 30 years to protect my sister and her way of life." Montay smiled and looked Detective Watt in the eye. "I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

"Celeste, please sit down," Grace told her, holding onto her sons. "You're making me nervous."

Celeste continued to pace. "Nervous, why should we be nervous? There is nothing to be nervous about." She wrung her hands. "What do we have to be anxious about?"

Astrid sighed and grabbed Celeste. "Celeste are you okay?"

Genie nodded. "Yeah, you're not usually this...excitable?" Genie looked to Grace. "Is that the word I'm looking for?"

Grace agreed. Astrid held Celeste in place. "I know you're worried about Zeon." She sat Celeste down and sat next to her. "I understand that completely, but we need to have our heads about us. I would be out there with them if I wasn't to be here as a second line of defense." Astrid smiled. "Like Kori, Stella, Genie, and you."

Celeste shook her head. "Actually I think Zeon would be very upset with me if I helped." She lowered her head and crossed her arms over her stomach.

Astrid's face fell. "Celeste….are you-"

"We don't know for sure yet." Celeste sniffled. "But we did the math and it's a big possibility."

Astrid smiled sadly. "Then I'm going to have to put some sense into my son because he did the same thing his father did." She gently hugged Celeste. "Right now though, we need you to relax. If you are pregnant we don't need you to be extra stressed. It's not good for you."

Grace shooed her sons over toward Celeste. Dante looked at Duncan, Duncan looked at Dante and they both decided to tag team their aunt. The little ones begged Celeste to play with them, and they cheered when she agreed.

Little Simon sat in Claire's lap, inconsolable. He wouldn't even let Baby share Mommy but it broke Claire's heart when she had to make Simon go to Stella so she could feed Baby.

Kori watched the door, dreading hearing anything from the other side. She wondered if this is how the women and children felt all those years ago when Tachyon attacked. Scared, anxious, and full of dread. Astrid was only 3 when it happened and Stella wasn't even conceived. Kori longed for her mother and father, but knowing Alister he would have been out there with Kaden. Who really should have been in the bunker with women and children, but he was a stubborn old Lombax.

Kori steeled herself and kept watch over the door. She had to protect her daughters and grandchildren.

"Azimuth." Detective Watt groaned. "That story doesn't make any sense."

Montay nodded. "But it is the truth."

"Stop saying that." Detective Watt yelled. "There are no lombaxes in Polaris."

Montay sighed and slowly nodded. "Yes, there are, your guards saw them for themselves." He struggled to move his arms. "Go there yourself, see that I'm telling the truth."

Detective Watt turned to leave. "You obviously need a physiological evaluation. I'll be back, Azimuth. Try not to crack."

Franklin stood next to his father. "How long are we going to stand here? We don't know if they can work Uncle Montay's machine."

Ratchet sighed but still stood guard. "We don't know but that doesn't matter, we'll be waiting for them if they are going to come."

Franklin took a deep breath. "Okay. So while we're waiting, and I don't know if we're going to survive being attacked anyway." He turned to his father and frowned. "Dad, I…"

"It's okay, Franklin."

Franklin closed his eyes. "Dad when I came back they forced me to leave behind the love of my life."

Ratchet frowned. "I'm sorry Franklin. We'll see about getting him back for you."

Franklin sighed. "Okay…" he looked up at his father, surprised. "You said him."

"If I got the wrong pronoun, sorry." Ratchet shook his head and looked at his RYNO.

"No, it's just…" Franklin shook his head for a moment. "How did you know?"

Ratchet smiled. "Some things were…. different for you then I remembered them being for me and Ian was an oddball but not in the ways you were." He wrapped his arm around Franklin. "Plus when you were three you had some….crushes that spoke for themselves."

Kaden nodded, gently butting into the conversation. "Like the one time Quark visited us and you followed him around telling him how much you liked him."

Franklin shuttered, his eyes serious. "I was young and stupid."

Ratchet laughed and patted Franklin's shoulder. "Not stupid, just misguided."

Rolin went up to Kaden and held out his hand behind his back. Kaden rolled his eyes and gave Rolin 60 bolts.

Detective Watt dropped Montay's evaluation on the table in front of him. "Congratulations Azimuth." He sat down. "You're sane."

"Thank heavens," Montay said, extremely sarcastic. "I was worried there for a second."

"Don't give me any of that Azimuth." Detective Watt jabbed a finger at Montay. "Just because you're sane doesn't mean any of this makes sense."

Montay nodded slowly. "You think I don't know that? I didn't believe my brother Rolin for a long time so I developed a path for interdimensional travel myself, with what I could get for premade technology." He scooted closer. "And when I succeeded I found out my brother was right. My sister was rebuilding Fastoon and at the time she was pregnant with her daughter, Claire."

"Yes, the chimera girl with heterochromia." Detective Watt sighed and rubbed his forehead. "We've been over this already, Azimuth."

Montay pulled against his chains. "Yeah well, think of how I feel." He groaned. "I'm tired of lying, tired of being one of the few who has kept an entire world from my kind because we weren't sure how anyone would take it." Montay pulled harder on his chains. "Obviously not well."

The door opened again. Detective Watt stood quickly. "Commander in Chief Hounder."

The old Lombax entered the room, looking down on Montay. "What have you gotten yourself into now, Azimuth?"

Montay shrugged. "Talia believes they are ready."

Hounder smirked. "I am inclined to disagree with her, though we can't tell her that." He waved off Detective Watt. "What did they do to you?"

"Broke into my home in the middle of the night, assaulted myself, Leigh, and the kids. And nearly cracked my skull." Montay nodded. "And they took Franklin home, and they saw Fastoon with their own eyes and they still don't believe me."

Hounder rubbed his chin. "That's unfortunate." He looked to Detective Watt. "Release General Azimuth, and drop any charges he has."

"Sir," Detective Watt stated. "I can't just let him go, he's under investigation for kidnapping and murder."

Hounder nodded. "I understand that but as a witness to Kori Azimuth's disappearance I can tell you he's telling the truth." He clasped his hands together. "We sent an extraction team to Polaris to get her but she refused to come back. So we let her go, she has been thriving."

"With all due respect, sir," Detective Watt replied. "How can you be sure of that?"

Hounder looked at Montay. Montay smiled. "Who would have thought my freedom depended on my mother's stills collection?"

Talia started up the machine as George and his parents were standing close by. "We haven't much time." She frowned. "Knowing my brother he's assembled a task force out of their small male population." Talia flipped some switches. "They'll be expecting an army so George has to go first."

George's father stepped up. "If they're expecting an army shouldn't we prepare ourselves?"

Talia shook her head. "George is our first line of defense, plus if we come through armed they may open fire on us." The portal opened and Talia pushed George forward. "Go on George, you should be fine."

George took a deep breath and pushed himself through, coming nose to nose with Ratchet's RYNO.

Franklin dropped his weapon. "Don't shoot!" He yelled, running up to his father. "He's a friend, Dad."

Ratchet lowered his RYNO to see an unarmed, shaking, and pale George in front of him. "Oh, sorry kid."

Franklin hugged George. "It's okay George, it's me. Sorry about my dad."

George clung to Franklin. "Your dad almost shot me."

"We weren't expecting you."

"Your dad almost shot me."

Franklin pulled George away from the portal. "Yeah, I won't let him do that."

George was pulled off Franklin and sat down on the ground. "Your dad almost shot me."

Franklin tried to smile at his dad. "So this is my boyfriend, George," he smoothed out George's hair. "We can just let him recover."

Rolin leaned over to Ratchet. "Kaden choked Kori, you put a gun in your son's boyfriend's face." Ratchet elbowed Rolin.

Talia walked through the portal, looked around and saw the defense line of lombaxes. "Hello, boys. Where is George?"

Franklin still stood next to George. "Here, Aunt Talia."

Kaden lifted his hands. "Unharmed," He shrugged, "if not a bit shook up."

Talia looked at her brother. "What did you lot do to him?" She frowned.

Orion lightly elbowed Ratchet. "He somehow got a RYNO in his face." Ratchet rolled his eyes.

Talia facepalmed. "Sometimes," she shook her head. "I can't handle you, boneheads." She straightened up. "Anyway, Montay is being held with charges of murder and kidnapping."

Rolin shrugged. "Why?"

"Because people believe that he killed all of you, your wives, and children." Talia sighed. "While I'm thinking of it, where are your wives and children?"

Kaden sighed. "We put them somewhere safe."

Talia glared at her brother. "At your age, you should be there too," she held up her hands. "Women, children, and the elderly." She sighed. "We need to get Montay out of his charges, I called in a favor with an old friend but my faith in him is not as high as I would like it to be."

Detective Watt went over Becca's stills, especially the ones of Kori's family. "So your sister left to live on Fastoon. She met Kaden Olympic's son and they started a family."

"That is correct."

"Why?"

"If I knew that, I would have the answer to everything."

"And over time your sister has been essentially growing her family and making repairs to Fastoon."

"Yup."

"Then your family decided to join her. And some of her children came to live with you temporarily before they went back to Fastoon themselves."

"My grandsons were born there and my daughter felt they belonged where they were born. My mother passed away on Fastoon and my son chose to stay with his sister."

"Yet every time you came back here."

"This is my home. Plus someone had to keep an eye on Franklin and Harper, my nephew and niece."

"They had all the freedom to stay or go."

"Yup."

"You were not forcing them to stay here?"

"Nope. My nephew Franklin had someone here, while my niece Harper is attached to the science community."

Detective Watt frowned. "We may have to analyze these stills to see if they aren't doctored."

Montay nodded. "As long as you don't damage them, my mother loved them quite dearly."

Detective Watt nodded. "I can see to that." He grabbed the ones of Kori's family, leaving several behind. Montay saw one on the stack that interested him, so he leaned onto the table to get a look.

It was one of the first stills they had made when they came to the Lombax Dimension. Before Kori got her stripes, before Rolin fully understood that boys had tails but girls didn't, before Montay started school. Grown-up Montay couldn't help but smile, remembering his own children when they had been that small. It didn't help that not too far away was a still of his family. Little nine-year-old Grace, and seven-year-old Mac.

"Dad?" A voice made Montay look up. In the doorway, he saw his son Malcolm.

"Malcolm Azimuth, what are doing here?" Montay hissed at his son. He fought against his chains.

Mac shrugged. "Come to set you free." He ran over to his dad and looked at the bonds. "Any idea how?"

Montay glared at his son. "I'm doing it myself, now go back home before someone finds you here."

Mac laughed and moved away from his father. "No way, Talia and Kaden have a plan."

"That is the last thing I want to hear from your mouth." Montay groaned. "Those two old Lombaxes will be the death of me."

"Hey, you!" An armed officer pointed at Mac. "Get out of there!"

Mac turned around and showed the officer the dark side of the moon. Montay groaned and hissed at his 22-year-old son to pull his pants up. Mac did and took off running calling for all the lazy lard officers to catch him.

This caused quite the upset, including several officers chasing after Mac out the door and down the street.

Montay groaned and had a face of disdain. "One of these days I'm going to hurt that kid." He grumbled to himself.

Mac kept running until he hit the street and then activated his hoverboots. Teasing the officers to keep them chasing him. Soon Genie appeared out of a side alley, Mac jumping onto her board for a ride. Mac continued to tease and belittle the officers. As the officers rounded a corner Talia activated the portal and sent the officers running through the portal, closing it behind them. Mac jumped off Genie's board and she went to the police station herself.

Genie sauntered up to the desk and smiled. "Hello, my name is Ginny Azimuth. I'm here to see my darling uncle Montay." She leaned on the desk. "As it turns out I'm not dead, shocker."

Montay still grumbled to himself. "One day…" he shook his head. "Just one day."

Genie created her own source of excitement, getting a group to follow her, and this cycle regularly continued until the entire police force was on Fastoon. All except Montay and Detective Watt.

Detective Watt looked around before going back into Montay's interrogation room. "It looks like your stills are good…" he said. "How strange."

Montay frowned. "My darling niece Ginny and son Malcolm stole your police department."

"What?"

"Just go ahead, look around." Montay nodded. "I'll wait."

Detective Watt backed out the door and quickly ran around to try and find someone else in the police department. He came back to Montay. "How?"

Montay shrugged. "Distraction, I guess. But don't ask me where they took them." He nodded. "Though happily enough my son was the only one showing extra skin. I still don't like that he was doing it, but at least it wasn't Genie."

"Your family is strange." Detective Watt said.

"You get used to it."

Kori stood before the pile of police officers. "Welcome to Fastoon." She smiled. "My name is Kori, you need not to be afraid of us." Kori sweetly took the new baby into her arms. "For we are not a threat to you, in fact, we welcome you home."

Ratchet looked at the wide-eyed police officers. "That might have been a bit too much, Kori."

Kaden looked to his sister, who opened many portals all over the lombax dimension. The older folks knew what they were but the youth were fascinated and curious. The first individuals that came through were wide-eyed and looking all around.

Kori gave her grandson back to his parents. "Welcome." She climbed up onto her house. "Please, come." Kori looked out onto the crowd that was accumulating under her. "The place you stand is the place of your ancestors. If you so choose you can come here and live on Fastoon." She steeled herself. "Tachyon and the Cragmites have no power here, they are gone. We can finally return home or build a completely new one." Kori gestured grandly. "This is our world, it is the Lombax homeworld. Together we can make it greater than it ever was."

Orion cheered and held up Simon, who cheered with him. Many of the youth picked up the cheer together. The cheer spread like wildfire, and soon organization was established, homes were found for everyone who wanted to stay.

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