Serana's path to happiness after tragedy.
Chapter 10
I don't own skyrim. Oh and will someone please tell me if they believe that Naruto and Anko are friends or consider eachother to be like brother and sister. Let me know.
Serana was surprised to see just how fast the scenery went by on the way to wherever they were going. She still enjoyed watching it though. She was getting to see more in a half hour then she normally got to see in 6 or7 days on foot. She was espeacially curious with how fast they were going. She leaned over to see the dashboard which was covered in gauges and switches along with slits for CDs and medium a size computer screen in between the middle of the dash board. She found the right gauge. It said 70 miles per hour. She seemed fine with that.
"I guess we're going pretty fast. I wonder just how much faster we can go?" She thought. She then noticed how the largest number on this specific gauge was 400 so she was now sure they must be going slow for this car. But she was perfectly content at the moment. She saw trees cars houses and very large trucks of all different colors going by as as fast as them. She laughed when she heard Aaron start complaining about how the other people were driving. She held a hand over her mouth when he started cursing under his breath. She looked out her window and watched the trees and land go past. She saw small quaint little towns and farms smiling when she saw families out and about having lunch and running around on errands. She shook her head laughing when she looked back at her mate who was giving some random person the finger for yelling out their window at him when they cut him off.
'Dumb asses drive like maniacs out here. Lucky i'm not a cop or i'd drag all their asses to jail.' He growled out frustrated with the other drivers. He then watched Serana laugh at him. 'What's funny?' He asked her. She just smiled at him. It's kinda funny how you and the others get so angry so easily when you drive.' She said which only got a soft smile and him turning on the radio. She was definitely curious about his taste in music. She quickly found out that she didn't like the songs that played. Apparently he didn't either because he shut it off. She turned and just watched as the scenery went by.
'Ok at we should be there in about six hours. Not to long if we avoid alot of traffic.' He said as they drove. Serana simply nodded quite content with just being here and somewhat alive and watching the scenery. The constant hum of the engine and the heavy metal music made her slowly fall asleep. While Aaron looked over at her peaceful face and how ever so often she would grin or slightly laugh in her sleep.
'She must be pretty happy. Let's hope i can keep her that way.' He said before receiving a call from an one of the aerospace engineers working on the Jackle.
(What's up jimmy?) 'Hello Aaron i have called with news about our destination and some troubleing news about the speed of the craft.' (Ok what's going on with the ship?) 'Well the preparations are going well. She'll be completely prepared for takeoff in about 3 hours. Your family and all your things including you and your families pets have been loaded and are waiting for you. A small forest with gravity and atmosphere shell has been added onto the top deck. All munitions, weapons and vehicles have been loaded and all troops have boarded.' (Good glad to hear it. Now what's the bad news?) 'Well judgeing from our estimates that even with the ship capable travelling around 150,000 miles per hour it would likely take us around 22,000 years to reach our destination with our current technology.' (What?! The human race will likely have wiped itself out or been wiped out by then and all my troops will be long dead. Only me and Serana have stopped ageing. What about that hyperdrive we salvaged from that alien capital ship?) 'Well it may be hooked up to the ship but it can only get us so far. We don't understand it enough to get us more than a few hundred light years before it would burn out considering how we don't totally understand the complete workings and still haven't completely figured out how it all works. It would probably take another twelve years to completely understand and use it to full capacity without ruining it. We have three other salvaged drives but they're mostly ruined.' ('sigh' Is there any way we can get to our destination faster in around perhaps a few years or something?) 'Let me look general. There was a long silence on the end of the line.
'Well Aaron there's something that NASA found a few years ago. It's a wormhole near Neptune. Nasa sent a probe into it two years ago and haven't heard anything back from it. It's no doubt highly dangerous as we don't know what's waiting for us, but seeing as it seems to be in the direction you're wanting to travel it might be worth the risk.' (Soo it can possibly lead to the area of the galaxy that i'm looking for. Alright we'll be doing just that. Thanks for the info buddy.) 'No problem. General.' Said the man as the call ended. Aaron looked over at his passenger noticing she was still relaxed and asleep.
"Glad she didn't hear anything. I have no idea how she'll react to going into space or the possible dangers of entering the wormhole. But i have a good feeling that we'll make it through. Going to need to lift off as soon as she gets settled in though. I hope she'll be ok with it. Espeacially since her and everybody else will be going into cryo storage for about a year or two till we reach neptune. So many factors to take into account. Our child should be fine though. They've tested the cryo on pregnant woman before and them and their babies came out fine and there were never any complications with the births. I wonder how long it will take us to reach our destinations when we go through the wormhole?" Just as he thought about that a beeping sound emitted from his dash. He quickly pulled up the radar screen and saw about 100 yellow dots on it right a few miles from his location. He immediately pulled over on the next hill and got out with a pair of 30x magnification binoculars and looked off into the distance.
The door slamming woke Serana as well and she quickly got out of the car and walked over to him. She could easily tell something was wrong as she could see his lips curled into a snarl revealing 2 very sharp canines and the vein popping out on his forhead. She could feel heat radiating off him as his anger rose. She quickly took the binoculars from him and looked into the distance and she saw what was slowly enraging him. In the distance there were cars and trucks wrecked and burning filled with holes and people skinned skeward and obviously tortured in a small pile beside a large group of creatures. It took a second for her to recognize them but they wore the very same armor and their exposed skin was just like the alien that he destroyed about two weeks ago.
Serana suddenly heard 4 loud thumps along with 4 explosions coming from behind her. She turned on her heels and looked seeing the road was just blown up by none other than Aaron. She was about to ask what on earth was he doing before he yelled at everyone behind them.
(Everyone turn around immediately! This area is now under martial law! Leave now!) He yelled pointing his weapon at them. The people in their cars just laughed and started to drive by but immediately stopped when He shot three more rounds onto the road to accentuate his point. (I said leave now! Leave or die!) He yelled more forcefully now.
Serana watched as people went over the median into opposite side of the interstate and took off the other way. He made sure they kept going that way by firing three more shells from his grenade launcher and immediately pulled out his phone and called the closest military base.
(Give me Colonel Wallace immediately!) He basically yelled into the phone. It was obvious to Serana that whoever had answered was probably scurrying around in shock. She soon heard a older voice. "What is it General Baker?" (We have a major situation here. I need roadblocks and a 20 mile quarentine zone with in my location. The creatures are here. Civilian casualties are moderate for now. I need everyone out of here now!) "How many General?" Aaron looked at the screen and saw it had grown. (Two hundred and growing. Get troops out here now. I'll try to skirt the edges and delay their reinforcements. Marshal law is being declared as of now.) "Yes sir we see them on the satellite we'll get on it." (Good.) Aaron said before closing the phone and making Serana get in the car and strapping her in. She didn't bother protesting. It would be useless when he was like this. She then saw something she didn't expect and was quite shocked by it. Weapons of all different sizes came out from the sides top front and rear of the car. She noticed him with his finger over a small red button on the steering wheel before he took off front rammer coming out of the bumper and spikes coming from the sides of the car. She sank into the seat a little after he put a flak jacket and thick steel helmet on her he hit the clutch and then put his foot onto the accelerator and they took off.
'Here i come you alien filth.' He thought as they sped towards them. He looked at the speedometer 150 MPH he read. He'd be there in under thirty seconds. He didn't even need to look at Serana to see she was holding on tight to the seat. He smirked a little as thay got into firing range. He grinned like a maniac as he pushed and held the red buttons and the 4 miniguns starting spitting hot lead straight into the heart of the aliens. Filling them with thousands of holes. He smashed the car through the alien formation at 175 MPH his ramming device cutting through aliens and alien light armored vehicles like they were butter. Continuing to fire as the spikes and blades on the wheels and doors of the car sliced a few legs off. Serana was terrified she'd never seen anything like this. The constant flashes from the miniguns' muzzles and red burning rounds comeing from them. Along with the red, blue, yellow, and green flashes from the alien weapons and the clanging sounds on the outside the car from the alien rounds and empty shell casings bouncing off. She noticed he had stopped firing them. She guessed the bright red barrels was a bad sign. She noticed he turned a switch and the guns dissapeared under the hood of the car only to be replaced by another set of guns that instantly tracked their targets where Aaron was looking and fired away again.
On the alien side the commander of the alien regiment commanded several large vehicles to fire on the smaller but very quick vehicle. The commander spoke in a unintelligable language to the other troops. (Aim about 10 feet in front of that vehicle and fire as soon as it slows down for a turn. Whoevers driving has most likely called for reinforcements.) The car smashed through a couple more of his troops and the commander got a good look at the driver of the car and recognition appeared in both their eyes. (YOU!) It said as the man whose family he slaughtered stared at the commander with the claw marks on his helmet as he went by.
Serana shrunk into a seat as a large blue round landed to the side of the car creating a large explosion. Knocking the car around a bit but he kept control of the vehicles. She noticed he had turned the car and was firing to the side at the larger vehicles. With a total look of rage in his eyes. She'd never seen anyone soo angry and enraged before. She had also managed to get a good look at the enemy commander. She saw the distinctive claw marks on it's helmet. It took a minute before she remembered his story. Every detail he told her including the claw marks on the commanders helmet was true. She could tell he wasn't about to retreat when reinforcments showed up.
Aaron threw a couple of switches and 2, 4 barrel missle launchers armed with hellfire missles emerged from the trunk. He got the look of an insane man in his eyes as he sped straight at the alien commander hitting almost 200 MPH. The missle launchers followed the large targets as he hit the other red button and all 8 missles shot out over the car and hit the large armored vehicles leaving 7 destroyed and 1 severly damaged. He wasn't about to stop now. Even with more alien armored vehicles showing up and firing at him he was determined to destroy the commander who had ruined his life before he retreated.
Aaron was mere feet from the commander as it frantically typed into the little keyboard on it's arm and just as he reached the commander and his rammer started to cut through his armor and into his skin he teleported away right onto his small ship which proceeded to take off through a gap in earths defenses and into the depths of space.
Serana watched as Aaron flew into a blinding rage putting the car on auto pilot as he prepared to jump out and attack the aliens with his bare hands. It was suicide for him to do so. She could tell he wasn't thinking at all but instead letting his rage direct him. When he opened the door even while speeding and began jumping out at one of the aliens she grabbed him and yanked him back in and decided that there may be only one way to break him out of his rage. She made sure her venom was in control before she bit his neck as hard as she could. It was nothing like the love bite she had given him yesterday. The pain from the hard bite managed to break him out of his rage and bring him back to his senses grunting in extreme pain. Feeling like he had just been hit by white hot shrapnel and it left when she removed her teeth and delivered a hard smack completely snapping him out of his rage.
"Have you lost your mind?! You would have died by jumping out going that fast!" She screamed in his face with tears threatening to fall from her eyes. The tears were so close to falling. She loved this man but how could he possibly let that rage control him like that. 'I won't lose another mate.' She thought to herself as she watched him shut the door and take back control of the car.
(Yes Serana i do lose my mind every time i think about coming across that basterd. Not to this extent but i lose it often. I'm sorry.) He said as he made a sharp turn. Skirting the edge of the alien line. A medium sized blue round nailed the rear of the car causing the car to swerve and go through two cars before he managed to stop it. He knew he was a sitting duck so he immediately gunned it and sped off the twin 50. cal machine guns on the roof firing at the enemy as he sped through their lines.
All weapons suddenly stopped firing as he drove. Something bad happened to cause them to stop firing and the ammo counters to go to zero. He pulled up the diagnotics of his car speeding at over 150 mph. It showed a certain device that kept making the ammunition for the weapons when they ran low had been irreversibly damaged. He knew that he had to get it off the car now or it blow if a small blast or hard bump came around and destroy the car. He got out a assault rifle and yanked Serana onto his lap and had her put her feet on the pedals and kissed her before opening his door slipping from under her and out the door climbing ontop of the roof before she could even register what he was doing.
On the roof of the car he held onto a set of railings ment for carrying ground to air missles. Alien rounds flying past him as made his way to the rear of the car. Lifting a hatch and getting hit by a small wall of flames. He got a fire extinguisher from the roof of the car and put the flames out. Once they were out he pointed the assault rifle at the aliens and fired nailing five of them but not before six blue and yellow rounds went through his body. He grunted as he grabbed his arm and stomach. 'That's going to need to be fixed soon. Serana can heal it hopefully. ' He thought as he ripped out the mass fabricator.
Meanwhile in the car Serana was trying her best to keep the car from swerving or turning over. "This is madness. Did he really have to do that? He knows i've never driven before." She said outloud to no one. The car phone rang and she picked it up.
'Hello this is Colonel Wallace. Who is this?' (My name is Serana i'm General Bakers mate.) "Riiight. Ok tell the general that the government has overrode the presidents decision and a nuclear strike has been authorized on the alien positions you two discovered in death valley where you two are. You need to get out of there now. You've got 1 minutes till launch and another 20 seconds before detonation. Get out of there now!"
'Nuclear strike what does that mean?' she thought before she heard a large explosion from where Aaron had just thrown the damaged mass fabricator killing a large amount of aliens and knocking 3 alien tanks out. The door opened 30 seconds later and he got back into the car and Serana got back into the passenger seat buckling herself back in. She saw the blood and was about to heal him before he buckled himself in and drove through the lines away from them. She piped up and quickly told him what the Colonel had told her.
(Are you sure about that Serana?) He asked and just got a nod from her. He immediately turned the car around and headed away from the aliens. He looked at a timer that set by itself when it detected missle launches it said 20 seconds. He flipped a switch and Serana heard the engine roar even louder as he activated the remaining 4 cylinders, and the car shot off even faster. She noticed he activated a system that said NOS. She watched as he puit his finger on a red button preparing to push it. The timer said 10 seconds. They were speeding at over 300 mph trying to get away from the where from the area. She was scared by the look of fear on Aarons face and in his eyes. Whatever was going to happen was bad if he was afraid.
10 seconds. Aaron put the pedal to the floor as they approached 350 mph. He could see the missle flying towards the ground. You could see it in his sharp eyes.
5 seconds. He'd never been so afraid of something. He'd lose his new family if they didn't get away.
4 seconds. They reached 375 mph. He activated an energy shield to shield the car from the Inevitable EMP that would come with the nuclear detonation.
3 seconds. He started to pray that they would make it. Finger still over the NOS button.
2 seconds. Serana was looking at the mirror on the side of the car watching for signs of the explosion.
1 second. They reached 400 mph. The sheer weight of the car keeping it on the ground. As well as major G forces pushed them back into their seats as they watched the mirrors on the sides.
The timer hit zero. There was a small pause before a blinding white light blinded them for a second luckily his hands were steady. Serana looked in the mirror and saw a massive mushroom cloud shot into the air and a large cloud came shooting from the bottom of it. Heading straight for them. She didn't know why but she did know that cloud meant death for anyone and anything it touched.
She screamed. "It's right behind us!" Aaron looked into his mirror seeing it heading for them at a much faster speed and saw the energy shield fail as it took the EMP took it out. The shield and weapon systems were completely fried so he couldn't use them now. If you looked behind the car you could see the cloud of hot death closing in more and more.
As he shoved the peddle to the floor even harder soldiers and officers were watching them via satellite. Most yelling for him to escape death cloud. Some placing bets on whether or not he would make it out alive.
Aaron wasn't about to let him and Serana be overtaken by the cloud without trying everything to get away. He hit all three NOS buttons and the car shot forward at an unknown speed as the speedometer shatterd and spu like crazy. The G-forces nearly knocking Serana and Aaron unconcious. They could barely breathe as the car must have been going over 500 mph. They thought they were about to escape but even at that speed it wasn't working. There was only one thing left that he could do.
He sighed, time to reveal my greatest secret to Serana. It's the only way to live through this.' She'll be shocked at what i am. At least i'm not Jesus or anything like that. I'm just a protector of the human race from even itself.' He thought as he hit four switches and the roof of the car flew off melting into the cloud behind them as it kept getting closer.. He put the car on auto-pilot and unbuckled himself and Serana before ripping his shirt off and putting the seat back while leaning forward as the skin and muscles ripped open on each side of his shoulder spraying blood everywhere as thick bones rose out of his back.
Serana looked at him from hearing his gasp of pain. She was absolutely astounded as she saw the bones that had came from his back had started to formed muscle and skin and soon were covered with feathers. She was soo shocked she didn't notice him pick her up until she was on him and instinctively wrapped he arms and legs around him. He stood on the seat and pulled a cord and the seat rocketed up into the air where he spread his wings and flew skyward high enough to get above the cloud just as a the cloud overtook the car a large explosion was seen and heard from inside the cloud as the car was destoryed. Aaron flew with Serana latched onto him into the distance. She closed her eyes hoping that she'd live to see another day.
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