Disclaimer: NOT AN ALIEN.
(A/N: Gods I am so sorry. Debate trials got in the way, I'm super super sorry.)
Chapter. 8
"I got Ella back into the Mog base, which definitely made Setrakus Ra really happy," he started. "Then Setrakus Ra offered to lend me his… powers."
At this point he shivered and I had to resist the urge and the teachings of Santa Teresa of handing out a jacket to him.
Then I remembered that the cold one was probably not Five but Adam, so I wrapped my shawl around Adam.
I could see Eight's eyes flash with momentary envy, but whatever. I was just helping a friend.
"Then," Five started again shakily. "He told the lab dude to hook us up in some weird machine, then… then… he slit his wrist."
Ella gasped." So you didn't backstab us then backstab Setrakus Ra! He was the one that set all this up."
Five smiled ruefully. "After that I blacked out, and the ghost of Setrakus Ra was constantly hijacking me and speaking commands. Now he has taken my body for his own and made me a bodiless soul, like he once was."
I nodded. "Then?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Then I had a dream…" Five then recounted how he had seen Ella's dad, Raylen, get killed by his own father, and what happened during the Lorien war was that Setrakus Ra had made Raylen get on the ship to be the Gardes's pilot and that Setrakus Ra had… It was confusing.
Then Adam's whole body shook like a tree on a windy day, and then said, in his own voice, "I'm back."
I could feel the weightless dread fall on my shoulders again. It pushed me away from the living.
The dead are different from the living. From far away I could see Nine punching Adam friendlily in the gut, something I never took as a sign of belonging. I saw Eight give Marina back her shawl, something I'd never be able to do to a girl.
But I had helped, my species, my (once) friends, right? I had done them a good by telling them who Rex was, and his alliance. I hope Grand—Ellagot some useful information that would help them on their quest to restart Lorien. Oh well.
After the tiny welcoming ceremony Nine gave to Adam, we started to discuss the whole Five problem.
"I think Five's right," Ella started. "I do sorta remember Dad acting weirdly that night. How would he have known how to get the spaceship out with the right amount of fuel and at the right time, just to get away from the Mogs? Dad is definitely your spaceship's controller, whatever you guys may say."
Suddenly we heard a voice shout. "Guys, Rex is our spaceship's controller, and he's in cell 128! We have to get him, he's the key to saving Lorien!"
It was John, waking up from his coma.
And he knew the fate of our spaceship's controller.