Remember the Past
"What's your name?" I ask him once I've got my breath back. Might as well know who I'm dealing with.
"Rexicus Saturnus," he answers after a minute. The name sounds vaguely familiar. - The Lost Files: The Forgotten Ones
Rexicus Saturnus, son of Geruna and Harrian Saturnus, spent most of his childhood at Ashwood estates. His father was the second hand to the General himself, and as such his family was held in high favour, respected by the upper true born and feared by the lower true born and vatborn alike.
From birth he was raised to respect and follow the orders of the Mogadorian regime, expected to cater the whims of the General (and his family, as they were perfect examples of the purity of Mogadorian society under the direction of the Beloved Leader Setrakus Ra).
From the moment he learned to walk and talk he was placed next to the second Sutekh child (though originally birthed by Shu-Ra's, he was the Generals' Ward, and therefore, to be treated as royalty). Ivan's company had been tolerable at first, but as the years went by he seemed to realise the amount of power he held, and so he abused it by ordering people about and using it to do whatever he wanted. He reminded Rex of a spoiled brat, which he was, but he never spoke out against it, because to do so would be a blow on his family's honour.
His close connections with Ivan meant he often saw his older brother Adam, who was the General's son by blood, and his first born. Unlike his brother, Adam was rather quiet and reserved, not really speaking out much. He certainly didn't abuse his power like Ivan.
He never really saw much of Adam, but the few times he did speak with Rex, he came off as a charming, respectful young Mogadorian. Rex often felt he was holding back sometimes, but never mentioned it. He did that himself.
Rex remembers the celebration of the death of Number One. He certainly remembers Ivan's bragging, his elaborate tales of the Mogadorian ambush and his exaggerated tales of how he took part in the action himself, distracting the Loric scum just enough so that one of the vat-born could run her through. Rex didn't believe that, though he didn't mention it.
He remembers a few days after that, when Adam is taken by his Father for a 'special mission'. Remembers a few weeks later, just enough time that there were whispers of Adam's disappearance. Remembers the announcement of his coma, of the atrocity committed against him by Dr Lockham Anu.
Soon after this announcement, Rex's father was stationed to another base, located somewhere in Europe. They were given a week's warning in which his father was to gather what he needed and prepare for his next mission.
Rex remembers being sent down to the labs to gather some files for his father.
Rex remembers standing in shock at the sight of Adam hooked up to a wide range of IV's, a heart monitor, with an oxygen mask over his face. The boy looked dead. Rex remembers standing there, realising that Adam looked vulnerable as he lay on the bed. He stands there watching his unmoving form for another minute before he remembers why he came down and departs with files, the General's son on his mind.
Three years and two months after his father is repositioned, he is killed in action in a confrontation a Loric in London, an event now labelled The Second Mission. Rex is a wreck, but he doesn't show his grief. Grief has no place in Mogadorian culture. He hears rumours that Adam finally woke up, and Rex doesn't know and doesn't care if it's true. He puts Adam out of his mind and focuses on his training, desperate to live up to his father's name.
He doesn't think about Adam again until a few years later, when he's brought back to the forefront of his mind because Adam's a traitor and has blown up Ashwood and escaped with a high level human prisoner, and is a Level B fugitive
Three of his childhood friends, friends who had known Adam themselves, are killed in the wreckage. It angers him that Adam would do this. It angers him that anyone would turn against their entire species. It's just wrong.
Adam remains like that in Rex's mind, a traitor, and something wrong.
Until, that is, Rex ends up meeting him.
And then his entire world view changes.
Adam is nothing like the boy he knew as a kid, and yet, he's exactly the same.
Somehow, Rex finds it him to respect the Mogadorian holding him captive, despite knowing he's killed people who should have been his friends, knowing he's killed family, because there's no way Ivan survived the blast, being at the front of the troop. At first he puts it down to a temporary development of Stockholm Syndrome, but that pretence doesn't last.
The thing was, every time Rex looked at Adam, he couldn't help but see that boy in the bed all those years ago, now. He can't help but be afraid of how strong this being is compared to that vulnerable child he had last seen, and can't help but respect him for this.
Adam is a mystery to Rex, and he's thinks he's amazing. Rex has no idea what happening between them, but he likes Adam, and doesn't want to lose what relationship they appear to have developed.
But in the end they separate, as Rex knew they must. Rex parts with Adam as an equal, knowing that if they were to encounter each other again, they would be enemies.
Yet, some part of him hopes, they could meet again in the future, on the same side, perhaps when the war was over. He knows though, that if the Mogadorians do win, Adam won't live to see the end of it.
Still, he hopes that one day they will meet again, and look upon each other as equals.