And I'm back with another chapter sorry for the long wait but life happens. I want to thank guest, reece0123 and Hello for reviewing. This chapter will focus on Mira's point of view.
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Originally the chapter would have been longer, but I decided to split the point of views into at least three chapters! Oh yes the cliffhanger the answer to that is….
Mira pov
Mira felt helpless as she struggled just to do something as simple as breathing. Air was leaving her space suit at a rapid pace and nothing could slow it down. There were voices in the background arguing and even though whomever was speaking were probably yelling she couldn't hear a word.
"Mira?! Mira please hang on!" One of the voices was pleading with her, she wished that she could tell that person that she was doing the best she could. "Stay with me please."
But Mira couldn't stay as much as she wanted to, as much as she tried to fight it soon everything faded to black…and then there was nothing.
Mira woke up with a gasp trying desperately to breathe again. It took a few moments for her heart to stop racing so that she could calm down. "Well, that's one way to wake up." Mira groaned to herself as she laid back down on her bed. She glanced at her clock and much to her dismay she saw that it was only 0530. A whole thirty minutes before her alarm would be due to go off, not enough time to go back to sleep and yet still too early to really want to try to get out of bed. It was always a thing that Mira did every morning though waking up before her own alarm. Of course, the times varied each day from two hours to five minutes before the alarm.
"Now should I just get an early start on the day or should I just lay here until my real alarm goes off?" Mira asked herself.
Mira didn't feel up to getting out of bed just yet though, so she just continued to lay there reflecting on her recent dream. It wouldn't have been the first time she'd ever dreamt about her own death; in fact this had happened quite a bit after future Buzz had saved her life but this dream felt different somehow. "Mira? Mira please hang on!" Wait that wasn't Buzz's voice? Mira thought to herself as she went over the dream. No, it hadn't been Buzz with her in the dream begging her to hold on like he had when she nearly died, so then who was it? (Ring!) The sound of the alarm cuts off Mira's thoughts and she sighs knowing that she'd have to let it go for now so that she could get out of bed and get ready for the day.
"Mondays are the worse." Mira proclaims as she got out of bed at 0600.
With a yawn Mira heads for her bathroom to take a shower, forty-five minutes later she walks back to her bedroom so that she could put on her outer suit. Ten minutes later she walked from her room towards her kitchen. She walked up to the stove and set the burner to low before moving to a cabinet and pulling out a teakettle. Mira then fills the teakettle with water from the sink and sets the teakettle on the stove.
"What favor of tea do I feel like having today? Ginger would be good for waking up. But peppermint would do the same thing while also being more soothing? Of course, there's always jasmine?" Mira ponders to herself out loud for a while until her wrist phone started to vibrate. "Just make green tea! Luv Luna." Mira read the text out loud to herself. "Green tea does sound like a good idea." After sending Luna a quick thank you text, Mira took out the green tea teabags. Once the water came to a boil Mira removed the teakettle from the stove and poured the hot water into a mug.
After drinking her tea and eating a quick breakfast, Mira sat down on a mat in her living room floor so that she could clear her mind and do her morning mediation at 0700. Mediation had always been a normal part of Mira's morning routine, it helped her clear her mind before the workday began. And with everything that had been thrown at her lately mediation was needed more than ever. Wide field big open spaces filled with wildflowers. It always helped Mira focus more if she visualized a location in her mind. Some place where she could just relax and forget about all her troubles. Mira shut her eyes as she projected herself to the wide-open field of wildflowers.
When Mira opened her eyes again, she found herself laying in a bed of flowers as the warm sun beats down from above. As she breathes in the warm scent she felt as if she was in a state of complete relaxation. Nothing else matter in that moment, not the looks she would no doubt be getting from the people working at Star Command throughout the day (probably throughout the week) not her father who would probably be calling sometime soon to lecture her about her life choices. Her thoughts were empty of everything not even dwelling on what Buzz said about her being un-datable.
"Bad news for you Warp, I guess you're not going to be born after all." Mira says out loud.
"I would feel incline to agree if I didn't continue to you know…exist!" Warp says sarcastically much to Mira's surprise. "What am I doing here? And why am I…what is this a flower tree, tree flower?!"
Mira sat up quickly from her bed of flowers and saw Warp standing there next to her. And just as he had said he was a tree with blossoming flowers. More specifically Warp's form was that of a tree with magnolia flowers minus his head of course. Instead of arms and legs it was just branches with magnolia flowers on them though.
"Wow, you know if I could just take a picture of this from inside my mind-" Mira begins to say with a laugh.
"I'm sure this is hilarious for you." Warp says darkly rolling his eyes. "But I'd like to know how I got here?! One minute I'm having a very pleasant dream about me, Luna and some whipped cream-"
"Ew! Warp stop I do not want nor need to hear about that!" Mira proclaims turning away from him in disgust.
"And the next thing I know I'm some kind of talking…what kind of flowers are these anyway?" Warp asked while darkly glaring at his branches.
"Magnolia's." Mira states as she begins to chuckle again. "And I don't know why you are a tree right now, but hey I'm not going to complain about it. I mean it's not like it's happening to me or anything!"
"And again what am I doing here? And why am I this…thing right now?!" Warp asked forcefully glaring at Mira, but with the way he currently looked she couldn't take him seriously. "Would you stop laughing and tell me what's going on?"
"Well to answer the first part of the question I must have accidently linked to your mind and summoned you here while I was mediating." Mira finally calmed down enough to answer. "As for you being a magnolia tree well…your guess is as good as mine?"
"How in the cosmos were you able to link into my mind in the first place?" Warp very nearly yells.
"Hey, don't you take that tone of voice with me mister!" Mira says forcefully glaring back at Warp.
"Sorry MOM didn't mean to upset you." Warp says sarcastically rolling his eyes at her. "I've only been summoned against my will into your mind as a flower tree! I shouldn't have lost my cool."
Mira rolled her eyes at her 'son's sarcasm' but decided that he should be inform on what was happening. "Well, you already know some stuff about the powers Royal Tangeans have?"
"Right the ghosting, and the messing with people's brains or whatever." Warp says nonchalantly.
"It's a bit more complicated than that." Mira says in a deadpanned tone. "But the main point is that the basics of our abilities start from mental willpower and-"
"Blah, blah, blah I get it you're mental now can we get to the point already!" Warp interrupts much to Mira's annoyance, suddenly Warp found that his mouth was zipped shut. "Hmm! Hmmah!"
"Now as I was saying." Mira begins to explain again ignoring Warp's antics. "Messing with people's brains as you so boldly stated is actually a form of telepathy. What most people don't know however is that we can use that same telepathy to form mind links with other Tangeans. Mind link bonds almost never goes away. Which is how I'm guessing you got here."
"Hmm hmmd mmm hmm?!" Warp angrily mumbled still not able to speak.
"How did we form a mind link without knowing about it?" Mira continued to explain not removing his zipper. "Well for a mind link to truly form there has to be a lot of trust built between the two Tangeans, so the first person you'd most likely have a mental link with is your parents. So, at some point in the future…I mean in 'your past' you formed a mind link with me...who is your mother…somehow."
"Hmmm ghmm rhhhh?!" Warp mumbles loudly.
"I'm sorry I didn't quite get that." Mira says in confusion finally removing the zipper.
"We've interacted with each other for years!" Warp said bitingly. "How is it that we're just now finding out about this mental link?"
"We didn't know." Mira answered.
"Excuse me?!" Warp fires back glaring at Mira.
"Well, there was always this Tangean hypothesis, but I never thought there could be any merit to it cause it sounded like your typical Tangeans are better than other species thing and that's just so annoying and not true-" Mira began to babble.
"Princess could you please just get to the point!" Warp interrupts in a frustrated tone.
"A lot of Royal Tangeans believe that mental bonds can actually transcend through time; like you can actually communicate with someone living in the past or future as long as at some point in your own present you were mentally linked. You didn't know I was your mother until recently so therefore any mental connection we had was subconscious because you forgot about it." Mira explains. "But now you do know that I'm your mother so the subconscious part of your mind that was linked with me is now in the conscious part of your mind. It's sort of like an 'I think therefore I am' situation! We know therefore we link."
"Wonderful." Warp said in a deadpanned tone. "NOW SEND ME BACK TO MY OWN MIND!"
"No need to get grumpy Warp, it's not like I wanted you here or anything." Mira states glaring at him.
"Right because clearly, I summoned myself to this field that is inside of your mind." Warp said sarcastically. "Explain this to me MOM. Why is there a giant empty field inside of your mind?"
"Well, I like fields like theses they're usually really nice and peaceful, which makes it a good place to meditate." Mira explained with a shrug. "It helps keeps all the different you know Tangean powers in check."
"Imagine what I could get away with once I have control of that kind of power?" Warp says thoughtfully. "I can really get my hands on some big-ticket items and-"
"Okay yeah no, I will not allow you to abuse your Tangean powers…wait do you even have any Tangean powers?" Mira asked, Warp had always been sneaky but she didn't think he had any powers then again maybe he has hidden his abilities.
"Well, considering that I'm not the richest man in the galaxy I'd have to say no." Warp says rolling his eyes. "But since I hadn't known about this interesting possibility until recently though it's anyone's guess?"
"Hmm, well there is a way to know for sure." Mira ponders out loud. "We'd have to be face to face in real life in order to do it but-"
"What are you babbling about this time?" Warp interrupts in an irritated tone.
"Here's the thing if I ghosted my hand through to your brain and take a look around-" Mira begins to explain.
"GHOST YOUR HAND INTO MY BRAIN!" Warp shouts backing away from Mira as much as he could in his flower tree body.
"I know it sounds bad but really this could help it might even jog up some lost memories-" Mira continues to explain.
"No!" Warp yells much to Mira's surprise.
"No? How could you say no to finding out about your past…or the future or WHATEVER?" Mira asked.
"Hey just because you want to hash out the events that led to you failing as a mother-" Warp begins forcefully.
"FAIL?! HOW DARE YOU-" Mira interrupts in an outraged tone.
"Well let's look at it this way." Warp says bitingly. "Which do you think is worse, losing track of your son in a store for a few minutes or losing track of your son through time travel for a few decades?" Mira was shocked into silence. "While you try to come up with an answer for that 'riddle', I'd like to finally return to my own mind Mother."
After that sentence was said Warp was finally gone leaving Mira alone in the field again.
"So much for a peaceful mediation." Mira states with a huff as she opened her eyes again. "I just…the nerve of him to say…calling me…saying that I failed!" Mira grumbled as she started getting ready for the day.
Failed as a mother…Failed as a mother? Warp's words rattled Mira more than she would have ever liked admitting to. Ever since the truth had come out about Warp one of the things that was always on her mind was how and why Warp was living in a time before he was even born. According to Buzz, Warp hadn't known that we were his parents. And Warp's been living in this time period for most of his life. So what could have happened to make Warp forget who he was? The only thing anyone knew for sure was that time travel was somehow involved the why though was still a mystery. Future Buzz created the watch to save my life, said it took him years to perfect so Warp must have gone back in time when the watch wasn't perfected yet. So then why wouldn't Future Buzz bring his son back to the right time when the time watch was perfected? Maybe Warp has a purpose for this time period?
Failed as a mother!Mira hadn't known if she would ever be a mother, she always knew she wanted to be one someday and it was her duty as the Tangean princess to provide another heir eventually but a life as a Space Ranger meant that it could easily never happen. This was made painfully clear the day she almost died but when the truth came out, she was kind of happy to know she'd have at least one child at some point even if the child would grow up to be Warp Darkmatter. Failed as a mother!She had always hoped that she'd never be like her father when she had children of her own. Some people may complain that Mira can be bossy but she'd never be as controlling as her father, who tried to dictate where she'd go, who she could socialize with and her career path ect…Unlike King Nova she'd always picture herself as being a supportive mother, she wanted to be the kind of parent who'd truly listen, who didn't push her child into what she believes is acceptable but considered what they wanted in life. Well as long as it's legal I'm still an officer of the law no matter what! Warp is a wanted criminal though…maybe I did fail as a mother.
Mira was still completely rattled from what Warp had said when she made it to Star Command and it didn't help to hear everyone taking bets on her relationship with Buzz. But at least they had come to an understanding that morning before their shift started. So for the rest of the day, she was able to put the whole thing out of her mind.
"Alright team, great work today!" Buzz said near the end of team Lightyear's shift, it was now 1645 when he had parked 42 at the launch bay soon the group would punch out and be on their way home.
"I'm just glad this day is almost over." Mira mutters mostly to herself, though the workday had been overall standard there was still some awkward and annoying moments. Between the few citizens that would randomly come up to her and congratulate her on her pregnancy and Booster and XR's stupid comments she was ready to put the whole day behind her and get back to the safety of her apartment. All she'd have to do was get her things out of her locker and she'd be home free, so you can image her surprise when she opened said locker and was greeted by two sets of flowers one bundle was red roses the other bundle were… "Magnolias." Mira says out loud as she picked up a card that was attached. "This is not an apology this is only an acknowledgement that my words may have been harsher than they needed to be it's not as if I even remember what your parenting style was like to say that you failed. P.S. The roses are for Luna…obviously Warp." Mira shook her head as gather up her things and headed out of the locker room. At least he's capable of some kind of apology even if it's really a backhanded non-apology that gives him an excuse to hit on Luna again. Mira was so wrapped up in the surprise of Warp's non-gesture that she forgot that the rest of her teammates would be waiting for her and no doubt wondering about the two bundles of flowers she was now holding.
"Well, well, well, and here I was so sure that Buzz didn't have a romantic bone in his body." Booster begins to say in excitement he was the first to see Mira as she came out of the woman's locker room.
"What are you talking about Booster?" Buzz asked in an unamused tone glaring at the larger Ranger.
"He's talking about those big, beautiful bundles that Mira is carrying." XR proclaims. "Nice touch by the way sneaking them into her locker."
"But I didn't…" Buzz begins to say but trailed off as he finally looked in her direction and saw Mira carrying flowers that he knew he hadn't gotten for her. "Where did you get those?!"
"Oh it's nothing really these are from-" Mira starts to explain sheepishly.
"Romac sent you flowers again Mira?" Luna interrupts before Mira could explain coming up from behind team Lightyear. "Although it's kind of weird that he didn't have them sent to your apartment like he normally does?"
"They're not from Romac this time." Mira explains to her friend handing the attached card over to Luna.
"This time?" Buzz asked in an annoyed tone. "Since when has he been sending you flowers?"
"Well…isn't that something?" Luna says dryly after reading the note. "I feel like there's a story here? Is it at least interesting?"
"What story?" Buzz asked having tried to read the card over Luna's shoulder and failing to do so. "Who sent the flowers then?"
"It's certainly not a typical story." Mira said with a shrug ignoring Buzz's question.
"You must have made some kind impression to warrant flowers." Luna proclaims with a raised eyebrow. "Last I checked your relationship was rocky at best?"
"Who sent the flowers?!" Buzz very nearly shouts.
"Hot Rockets Captain Buzzkill, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that you were upset?" Luna questioned as she gave Buzz a look.
"Well…I ah-" Buzz strutters his face turning a bit red as everyone stared at him.
"Forget about him!" XR interrupts before Buzz could come up with an excuse. "Do you how much damage could be done to the pool now that Mira has another suitor. I mean wasn't it already bad enough that Buzz was going up against Romac?"
"I'm going up against Romac?" Buzz repeats back in disbelief. "Wait you're still dating Romac?"
"Well…I mean…it's a bit more complicated than that?" Mira says with a nervous chuckle as she looks away from Buzz. "I mean technically Romac and I aren't together…but we're also not NOT together sooo…(sound of a clock ringing) oh would you look at the time it's 1700 already! Well, time to punch out see you all tomorrow! Luna could you help me get the flowers to my car thanks! Bye guys!"
Before anyone else had time Mira and Luna were gone leaving the rest of team Lightyear confused as they stood in the middle of the hallway.
"Hey, did we actually get an answer on who sent those flowers to Mira?" XR asked after a moment of silence had passed.
After Mira had felt she had gotten enough distance between herself and the rest of her teammates, she let go of Luna's arm and started walking at a regular pace.
"Well, if your plan was to make it so Buzz isn't suspicious than mission accomplished." Luna commented dryly once Mira had released her.
"Why would Buzz be suspicious?" Mira asked in confusion.
"Because he's jealous." Luna said in an even tone.
"He is not!" Mira said defensively. "Why would he even be?"
"You just got flowers from another man." Luna reminds her.
"That doesn't count." Mira said shaking her head at her friend. "Warp's my son and was doing a non-apology, that's hardly anything to get jealous over."
"Yeah, but Buzz doesn't know that." Luna reminds her. "And on top of that you took off after basically saying that you and Romac weren't uninvolved?" Luna said shaking her head at her friend. "So, yeah Buzz was most certainly jealous back there."
"I'm sure he wasn't." Mira said as they made it to her spacecraft. But the reminder of Romac did complicate things a bit. Like she had said back in front of the locker rooms, her and Romac weren't together…officially anyways. It had always been so tricky with his work as a bounty hunter and her job as a Space Ranger. And now she's got this whole business with Buzz and Warp…at least she still had time to get things straight with Romac that is if he was still willing to speak to her. "Besides, we agreed to not talk about our paperwork right now."
"Paperwork?" Luna repeats back in confusion.
"That's just a code that we came up with." Mira explained with a sigh. "So, we wouldn't have to you know-"
"Talk about your future life together." Luna finished for her. "I hope you know that you can't avoid this forever. Lives are on the line…but even more serious my stake in the pool is on the line."
"You know I'm starting to understand why my so-why Warp likes you." Mira said in a sarcastic tone, tossing the red roses in Luna's direction. "You're both equally money-minded."
"Come on, Mira you know this isn't about the money for me." Luna proclaims as she catches the roses. "This about something way more important, this about me being right about you and Buzz."
"Craters Luna, you act as if I would die without Buzz or something?" Mira said rolling her eyes at her friend as she opens the door to her spacecraft. "I'll see you later okay!"
Little did Mira know as she drove away from Star Command and made it back to her own apartment after driving for twenty minutes that her words would come back to haunt her in a big way later that same day. Of course, part of that may have something to do with the shadowy figures hanging in the background she hadn't noticed as she entered said apartment…
And that's the end of this chapter a bit shorter than I would like it to be but I've got a really good idea for the next chapter and I want to save it for then. Okay now see you next chapter and remember to please read and review!