Chapter 21 – Sani's Plan In Action
Eva woke up. She got her disguise on and looked across at Sani's bed. It was empty already. Sani came through the door.
'Good, you're up. We're leaving now,' she said.
'Already? What about the others?' Eva asked.
'Oh don't worry. They will be coming in half an hour. Your friends will be on the next one. It will catch us up and land five minutes after we land, is that ok?' Sani smiled at her.
Eva shrugged. She guessed it was ok…
She followed Sani to the planetary shuttle. She got on and then in a few minutes, it had gone.
Jordan knocked on her door. Rue, Danny and Aikka were waiting with him as well for Molly to answer the door. After a few minutes for waiting, Jordan slammed open the door.
It was empty. Her bag was gone and everything.
'Are you really sure this was her room?' Danny asked.
Aikka scowled.
'Yes, where has she gone?' he asked.
Rick passed by and heard them.
'You mean Ruby? She left with Rush and Sani on the planetary shuttle just a few minutes ago. It was a change in plan,' Rick told them.
'She's what?' the others all said.
Rick sighed.
'We are leaving in a short time. Our shuttle is faster, so we could catch up. Is that ok?' Rick asked.
The others nodded sadly.
'Look guys, I know you all know about the plan by now. The thing is, I don't really believe Sani either. Ruby seems too genuine to be a traitor. The rest of us humans feel the same way. So do Canaan and Rush,' Rick sighed.
'Then why aren't you stopping it?' Rue asked him.
'Because we have no proof. If we did, we would have used it by now. The letters seem like fakes, but they are very good ones. They're signed by Dark and everything. If I had something, I would have anyway used it,' Rick said.
'Actually wait! I do have something!' Danny yelled.
Everyone stared at him.
'Wait here,' he said.
He ran off.
'Any clue what he has got?' Aikka asked.
'Erm, no,' Rue said.
The other humans and Canaan came by.
'Hey! Danny says he has proof to prove Ruby is innocent!' Rick told them.
They all stopped in their tracks and stood by them.
'He does? Great! We'll stay here then,' Don said.
They all stood there for ages, waiting for Danny to return with whatever he had. After what seemed like forever, Danny came running back, panting and out of breath. He was holding something.
'I had…found these…a few days…ago and I knew…these would…be…really important,' he puffed.
He handed Jordan the slips of paper.
'This is what is going to help her and prove she isn't a traitor?' Koji looked at the blank sheets of paper.
'If you…want…the truth, then…Ruby showed me these…and she was going to show…them to Rush but…she lost them…I had…forgotten I had been looking…at them and forgot to…give them…back,' Danny said breathlessly.
'Oh! I know what he's talking about! Open the papers up!' Rue said.
Jordan sighed and opened the papers up. He looked at them for a moment or two and sighed.
'But these are just letters…' he said.
'You haven't read them!' Rue muttered.
Jordan sighed but looked at the letters. He gasped after he had finished reading them to himself.
'This is just what we need. If this stuff won't work…then nothing will. Read them for yourselves!' he gave the letters to Aikka.
After a few minutes everyone had read the letters and almost everyone was shocked and surprised. Danny took the letters back.
'These were dated before the Ruby letters had been. I just can't believe it to be honest,' Stan said.
'Yeah well you have to! We only have a certain amount of time to get there before Ruby is turned over to the Crogs for doing something someone else did!' Danny tugged them.
They grabbed their stuff and ran on to the planetary shuttle. They told the pilot to go as fast as he could.
'We have to make it…' Rue whispered.
'We will,' Aikka told him.
They all sat down and the shuttle blasted off really quickly. The pilot swerved and turned.
Everyone sat in their seats, feeling confused, worried and upset.
'How could Sani?' Canaan asked.
'We don't know. But we don't care. She has gotten away with betraying us all for too long and she knows it. It wasn't fair,' Danny muttered.
There was a silence for a few minutes. Jordan and Aikka were the most tense and worried out of the lot.
'We should have known something like this would have happened to her,' Aikka mumbled.
'But we didn't know Sani would do that, did we?' Jordan said.
Aikka shook his head.
'I don't want to lose…'
'I know.'
There was a long silence. It lasted so long but no one noticed. They were all too worried about where the other planetary shuttle was. They were all scared about what was going to happen to Eva.
They felt a sudden bump. They ran out as soon as the shuttle had completely stopped in its tracks. They saw the other shuttle.
They saw Eva, Rush and Sani in the distance near the Crog Imperial Palace. Sani smiled weakly at Eva.
'Look, we are here because this is my planet, Hunana. There are one or two humans staying in the palace, so we are checking, ok? Then we are waiting for the others and discussing our next plans,' Sani told her.
Eva could tell it was lies. This place looked so much like something she had seen before…if only she could remember.
The guards outside the palace wore cloaks. This was their traditional uniform. Eva couldn't be more annoyed. If they didn't have cloaks on, she would be able to tell what alien race they were.
The palace doors opened. Eva stepped inside. Sani was next. Rush took a deep breath and was about to step inside when…
'Stop!' all the others yelled.
Eva spun around. She was happy and surprised. She saw everyone standing there, looking worried about her. It was nice to see them all.
Sani turned around and cursed.
She then sent a telepathic message. She then turned around.
'What a nice…erm, surprise it is to see you all here,' she smiled.
Her smile was really fake but she knew if she could keep them busy for a few minutes…
'Yeah, well we are about to ruin your fun!' Danny stuck his tongue out.
Canaan whispered in Rush's ear what was going on and showed him the letters. He gasped.
'Sani!' he yelled.
Sani shrugged.
'What can I say? The secret has been obviously revealed by the way you are all here now and from what Rush just said,' Sani didn't seem bothered.
Everyone stared at her.
'So you are just going to sit there will we ruin your plans?' Aikka asked.
Sani laughed.
'Are you kidding? Me, against all of you? Yeah, I don't want to see that happen. But I guess you could handle something first,' Sani smiled evilly.
'What?' they all asked.
'This,' she said.
A whole hoard of Crogs piled out. They had heard Sani's telepathic message and were ready to attack.
'Bye!' she grinned and she pulled Eva away.
'Let me go!' Eva yelled.
But the others were being surrounded by Crogs.
'It did seem a bit too easy,' Rick muttered.
'Shut up,' Danny hissed.
And as the Crogs got closer and Eva was dragged closer to the Supreme Ruler's room, things seemed more impossible than ever.