Help From the Large Man and his Assistant

By now the sun had set a few hours ago and the night was chilly, with two moons in the atmosphere giving them the light they needed to know where they are going.

They walked, for what seemed to be hours and only took breaks when Kendall couldn't hold Logan anymore. The others told him they could carry him, but he declined. He didn't want the others help him right now. He felt like all of this was his fault. He felt like that the only reason Logan was in this state was because of him. He knew it wasn't. He knew Logan knew what he was getting into when he used the drones, but still couldn't help but feel like it was his fault.

Carlos went up ahead; he still amazingly had energy to run around, while the others could barely walk. But, they all knew the importance of this mission. To save Logan. So no matter how tired or exhausted they were they kept on walking. Carlos came back running to them from around a large boulder.

"We're here!" He said jumping up and down, and pointing behind the boulder. The others rushed around the boulder to see the large house carved into a mountain about a mile away from them.

Kendall whispered into Logan's unconscious ear. "We're here Logie. Now we just have to get Gustavo to help you… I love you." Kendall spoke louder for everyone else to hear. "Let's get going." The others nodded in agreement and headed down the small hill to the barren stretch of land between them and the saving Logan's life.

Carlos was the first to reach the sand filled stretch of land. And luckily for him, because of what was about to happen he was holding onto the personal shield of Logan's. Carlos ran into the middle of the area of sand when he felt rumbling under his feet.

The others were still barely about to get down the small hill they were on when they felt quaking under their feet. All of them looked up and saw that Carlos lost his balance by the shaking and the sand in four places around him were moving.

"Carlos! Run!" James said. He seemed to understand what was going to happen before any of the others could.

Carlos looked up at James and tried to get to his feet but stopped when four small bursts sounded around him. He looked up and gulped. He was surrounded by four very large guns on stands each with a laser targeting system pointing at Carlos.

"Target Locked." The mechanical voice paused. "Fire."

"Carlos!" His friends shouted and started running to him. It was hard for Kendall holding Logan bridal style but he was determined to get to his friend, but could only watch in horror as the guns fired so hard the sand around Carlos poofed up in the air, stopping them from seeing if their best friend was ok, or if he wasn't.

They all sighed when the sand cleared and saw the light surrounding there friend. They've seen it enough to know what it was. The personal shield.

"Automated defenses activated." A smaller robotic voice said, and from they could tell it came from the crystal that Carlos was now holding in his hand. Carlos put the crystal on his chest.

"Target re-locked." The bigger sounding mechanical voice said. The guns pointing back at Carlos.

"Offensive systems activated." The voice from the crystal said.

The small blue shield around Carlos glowed and changed into a yellow and burst out in waves hitting the four guns surrounding Carlos. The guns stuttered trying to fire but turned off in a whine.

The others made it to Carlos who was still in shock to understand what happened. Carlos stood up looking at the four guns around him then at the crystal he put on himself.

"That was so cool!" Carlos said jumping in place.

"Cool!" That was cool!" Camille said stomping up to him. Before Carlos had time to reply she slapped him hard across the face. "You idiot! You could have gotten yourself killed!"

"But I didn't." he said rubbing his cheek that was already starting to sting. "Thanks to Logan's crystal thingie I'm ok." Camille wanted to yell more, and slap him even harder, but she hadn't had the energy to do so. "Idiot." She said shaking her head disapprovingly at him.

Jo and James ran up to him both pulling him into a three way hug. Jo grabbed Camille and forced her into it ignoring her mumble about how her friend was an idiot. Kendall only stood a foot away from them, not being able to hug his best friend and punch him for being even more then idiotic because he was still holding Logan in his arms.

"Come on we should go, but this time together. So no one gets shot in the face." Kendall said to his friends once they separated.

They all agreed and this time were more cautious as they headed to the building. Carlos was still in front of them, but this time was still close enough so James could grab him and pull him back to them just in case something happened.

They walked the rest of the way with nothing bad happen, and once they got to the cliffside of the mountain they were stuck.

"How do we get in their?" Carlos said pointing up at the building up a couple hundred feet above them.

"Target's locked." The same robotic voice sounded from before and six bigger guns burst from the sand and boxed them up into the wall of the mountain.

"Crap." James muttered looking at the guns.

"Wait I'll save us!" Carlos said jumping in front of his friends with one hand out at the guns. "None shall pass!" Carlos shouted.

"We're dead." Jo said to Camille who nodded.

"Fire." All the guns fired giant blob of red energy at them. Kendall turned around shielding Logan from the blast with his eyes closed waiting for the pain to come, but it never came. Kendall looked back and saw the blue shield from the personal shield extend around all of them in a small dome. Like before the shield changed to a yellow and bursts outwards causing the six guns pointed at them to shut down.

Kendall sighed, he was so grateful for Logan creating that crystal. Carlos turned back at his friends with a wide smile.

"See I told you I would save us."

James looked like he wanted to shit his pants but simply nodded. Camille and Jo were holding onto each other and when they noticed the six guns powered down they squealed in joy jumping up and down.

"WHO ARE YOU! AND WHY DO YOU KEEP SHUTTING DOWN MY DEFENSE SYSTEM!" It took all of them a second to realize who the booming voice belonged to. He must have been speaking through a speaker system, because they didn't see him anywhere.

"Hey Gustavo. It's been awhile." Kendall called out.

"DOGS?"


The side of the mountain near us opened up and I smiled when I saw Kelly walk out. She still looked the same after all these years. Frustrated by working with Gustavo for so long.

"KELLY!" Carlos shouted out to her and before she could respond he tackled her into a hug. "I MISSED YOU!" He said as they both lay on the sand.

"James." I said, he got the message and went and pulled Carlos off of her. She dusted her white coat off and smiled when she saw all of us.

"Hey guys." That huge smile faded away when saw Logan in my arms. "What happened?" She said walking up to us.

I looked down at Logan and sighed. "It's a long story." She nodded and told us to follow her inside.

We walked in through the carved out hole in the mountain. Once we all entered the wall closed behind us and we were standing in a white hallway with Kelly leading the way. None of us spoke as she led us down the hall and around a corner and then into a door on the right into a giant medical lab.

Standing in the center of the lab with the same glare and sunglasses he never takes off was Gustavo.

"Gustavo!" Carlos shouted running at Gustavo. He jumped at Gustavo and tried to give him a hug, but Gustavo never recuperated and he fell to the ground with an oomph.

"Dog." He said looking down at Carlos, then at us. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"We came for your help, and to rescue you." Once he saw Logan in my arms his glare faltered.

"Over here." He said leading us to a bed near the wall. "So you only came here to save Logan?"He sounded bitter and sarcastic. I missed that.

"Yes and no. We did come for Logan, but to rescue you too. The only reason we could do that now was because the drones Logan created were able to get us through that area in space that is filled with nothing but Lancian ships." I said laying Logan down on the bed.

Kelly pressed a button on the wall and a light from the ceiling was lowered and flashed a green light over Logan. A screen on the wall turned on and there on it was a scan of Logan's body. I cringed the second I saw the black vainy blob where his brain was at.

"That's…" Kelly trailed off then looked at all of us. "How did this happen?" I sighed and took a seat near the wall.

"You guys need to sit down for this story."

I told them the story, when it came to parts of where I wasn't there the others filled in those portions. Gustavo seemed impressed, but skeptical when we told him about the drones. When the entire story was done the sun was barely starting to rise back up above the horizon. Gustavo sat back in his chair.

"We'll do what we can." He said. He stood up and walked away. "Get them settled in rooms and then I'll tell them about what I have to do for the dog!"

"Come on guys. Let's get you settled in and something to eat."

"Food!" Carlos said running passed me to who knows where.

"Kelly?" James asked Kelly getting her attention.

"Yeah?"

"How did you guys do this?" He said looking at the hallway. She smiled at us.

"Before we got stuck here Gustavo had this place barely up and running. This was going to be a research lab, but then the Lancian separated us from you guys. Since then we've been staying here, hoping that someday someone will come, and look you guys came." She said looking at us.

"It's all possible because of Logan." I said. She must've noticed the way I was acting.

"Don't worry," She placed her hand on my shoulder "Gustavo will be able to help Logan. If anyone can he can. I nodded.

She led us each to a room telling us which is which before she walked us to I guess the kitchen was. We all ate quickly and then went back to the lab where Logan was.

He was still unconscious on the bed, but now there was a heart monitor that displayed on the TV on the wall. He seemed ok; he just hasn't woken up since I knocked him out.

"Dogs! And ladies." Gustavo said walking up to us. "After what you told me about what happened, and what I found out from the tests I did on him while you were all being lazy. I concluded that I can help him, but it's not without risk."

"What the risk?"

"Sixty-five percent he won't make it out alive from the operation, and thirty that he will."

"What about the other five?" Gustavo looked at me and sighed.

"The other five is that he'll make it out of surgery alive but the damage done will be irreparable and he'll be a vegetable for the rest of his life." I only sighed. I was about to tell him my answer when the heart monitor on the screen started beeping rapidly and then Logan just seemed to jolt awake.

"Logan!" I grabbed his hand and it took him a few seconds until he noticed where he was.

"What happened? The last thing I remember was that we were resting and you were making a fire."

"You went all crazy and jumped Camille! Don't worry Kendall knocked you out and then we got here and found Gustavo and Kelly!" It seemed like it took Logan longer to process what he said.

"I'm sorry."

"Logan you don't have to be."

"…but none of this would have happened if I didn't just update the drones like I was going to." I kissed and he melted into it. When I pulled back he tried to go back into it but I stood up.

"No it isn't. Logan, Gustavo says he can help you, but the chances aren't in our favor." Logan nodded.

"Do it."

"Are you sure?"

"…I don't want to hurt anyone else." He gave me a determined look. "Do it."

"Ok, Logan?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you." He gave me a huge smile I gave back.

"I love you too."

He's been asleep for a few days now. Gustavo said everything was ok but I still couldn't help but feel worried. And what was worse was that we still don't know what happened to Kyle, Stephanie, Dak, or Jett. We don't know if they were able to escape the hoards of Lancian's attacking them.

Right now we were in I guess you would call living room. It's huge for one, it's bigger than Logan's lab and on facing away from the mountain was a just a huge wall of glass so you could see onto the dessert. There were three couches one facing the glass wall and two on the side of it facing each other.

Kelly was telling us about what happened for the past year when we lost connection. All the stuff she had to put up with Gustavo. Sometimes I wondered why she wouldn't just quit, but she actually told us when we were younger. It was because we were like her family that she didn't quit. We grew up around her and she took care of us when we weren't near are parents. She was like a mother to me.

"Kendall?"

"Huh? Yeah?" They brought me back to reality.

"You ok?" Jo asked me.

"Yeah." She said her lips in a line.

"Come on" she grabbed me by my arm "We are going to go spar. You look like you need it."

"Jo," I said as she dragged me away from our friends to the training room they had "I'm ok, I was just thinking."

"Sure, and I'm a brunette."

Logan did say she's just as stubborn as I am. We walked into the training room and were about to start, but the lights flashed red, just like the Station does when there is an attack.

"Jo, Kendall! You guys need to get to Gustavo's lab! Now!" Kelly's voice rang though the speaker system. We bolted down the halls, it was still a little confusing but we made it to Gustavo's lab, which was also the control room.

"What's going on?" Jo said as we walked up to Gustavo who was surrounded by glass podiums and holographic screens above them lit up.

"It's Logan's uncle!" Carlos said with glee.

"What?" We moved around to see the screens and it sure was.

It was the Aurora orbiting the planet. It looked beaten up, but it was still intact.

"Can we talk to them?"

"We don't know. Our deep space communication burned out, and we've never had a chance to use short range communication since we were split off from you guys." Kelly said. There was a loud click and then a voice that calmed me down.

"Hello?"

"Logan's uncle!"

He laughed on the other side. "Carlos, I've told you, you can call me Kyle."

"Oh ok. Well Kyle! You're alive!"

"Barely. We were able to get out of the jamming area in space the Lancian put up, but by then a lot of our systems were shot. The only thing that kept us from dying out there was Logan's drones."

"Yay!" Carlos said. "How's everyone else?"

"There was a small explosion that made Jett hit his head and got a small concussion, but other than that were all fine. Is there any way we can land? Our systems are close to dying and we need to make a few repairs until this baby is going to be able to fly again."

We looked at Gustavo. He pulled up the surrounding area around the mountain and the only area big enough for a mother ship to land is in the area that Gustavo's guns almost killed us, twice.

"I sent you the coordinates to land." Gustavo said.

"Thanks, and I guess we'll see you in a bit. Mitchell out."

A half hour, that was how long it took for them to land the ship and get settled. And, still by then nothing with Logan changed. We set him up in a private room where I would spend most nights asleep against the bed or in a chair. We led them to his room while Gustavo went to the ship to see the damage. Gustavo's the second smartest person I know, and well obviously Logan's the first. I always knew he was brilliant, but with the drones and the crystal, that was just something else.

"Is he going to be ok?" Stephanie said looking down at him.

"Yes." I said sternly. I wanted him to be the same person I fell in love with.

"Do you know why he's been asleep for so long now?"

"Gustavo said it was because the surgery and the tumor physically drained him."

"How are you guys? Kyle explained some things of what happened but were still kinda vague." Dak lit up when James asked that question.

"It was amazing!" That got everyone except for Jett and Stephanie to look at him weirdly.

"Sir our weapons are down!" Jett shouted over the tiny explosions coming from all over the control room from the panels and controls.

"Fuck! The drones are out of weapons too!" Dak shouted.

"Energy reserve, switching to defensive offensive capabilities." The robotic voice said from the portable drone controls.

"I don't know what that means! You stupid robot voice!"

"Sir." Stephanie said getting Kyle's attention.

"Yes?"

"The drones, they're doing something to the ship."

"What do you mean?"

"They're draining all non-essential systems of their power."

"Dak?"

"I don't know why it's doing that. I lost control of them when they switched to automated defenses!" The ship groaned and came to a stop.

"What now!" Kyle said.

They all looked up at the hologram coming from the black object that came with the portable control system. It showed the ship and all the drones surrounding it.

"Energy wave activated." The voice said. The shield outside coming from the drones changed to a dark angry red and started to ripple on itself. Before any of them could say anything the shield exploded outwards furiously in a boom, destroying all the fighter's and Lancian mother ships in the vicinity.

"…shit."

"After that the drones moved us out of the jamming field and here we are. It took us so long to get here, because the hyperspace system was badly damaged and the speed was drained down." Jett said.

"Holy shit." Carlos said breathlessly. "I never knew Logan made something so…so…"

"Amazing?"

"Yeah."

"Just like he is."


Have you ever had those moments of complete disorientation, where you remembered nothing, and had no idea where you where? Well I was having one of those right now, and then it slowly came back. Gustavo, Kelly… Kendall. I opened my eyes slowly and looked around the room; it looked like an infirmary room on the Station, but was different. I sat up and looked around.

I smiled when I noticed Kendall's jacket he was wearing when we left on the chair right next to my bed.

I was alone. No one was here with me, and it was completely quiet, even outside the door. I gingerly put my feet on the floor, testing if I could walk without falling to the ground. Once I deemed myself ready I slowly walked to the door. I opened it to a long white hallway. I leaned against the wall just in case my legs gave way and made my way down the long hallway.

I was lost, that's all I knew. I passed by a kitchen, and I guess Gustavo's lab, but now I was going down another long empty white hallway, to an opening. Light shown through the end of the hallway. I knew it led somewhere and a smile came on my face when I heard voices.

"Carlos you try and kiss me and I will punch you in the face!" I chuckled when I heard James voice.

"Come on, just a quick one! You won't even know it's me if you close your eyes!"
"Yes I will!" I walked to the end of the hallway to see everyone, and I mean everyone sitting at table eating. My uncle, Dak, Camille, Jo, Jett, Stephanie, Gustavo, Kelly, James, Carlos and Kendall. All of them were laughing except for Gustavo (he never laughs), James, and Carlos. "I am not going to kiss you!"

"Poor Carlos." Everyone froze when they heard my voice. They all slowly turned to look at me. It seemed like they were in shock by me just standing there. No one spoke for what felt like an eternity. Well not until Kendall jumped from his seat and to me.

"Ken-" He didn't let me finish. Instead he threw me up against the wall into a rough heated kiss. The kiss was the most intense kiss I have ever had with him, other than the times we had rough crazy animal sex. But this kiss felt like if he let me go I would float away, and he didn't want that. When we finally ran out of breath and the need for air was too great we both pulled apart. We leaned on each others foreheads getting are breath back. He had his eyes closed but once we calmed down he opened them to look at me.

"Hi."

"Hi." I looked at everyone then back at him. "So, when can we go home?"


Only about two more chapter and then this story is over. *wipes away tear* I'm almost sad that this story is going to end. I hope you liked this chapter. I had a lot more time to work on this then the one from before. I hope this one was better.