Everything Changes (In Space)
A holographic screen manifested for the guards and the rioters to see. It showed Zing in the bathtub.
"You know this weekend I think we can go out with Derek and Tommy, what do you think?" The bathing emperor asked to the person in the other room.
There was a moment of silence, worrying the alien.
"Honey?" Zing asked a bit louder. "Hello?"
Deciding to check it out, the emperor put on his robe and got out of the bathtub, walking into his bedroom.
What he saw shocked him to his core.
It was his lover making out with a human male.
"Roger?!" Zing said in shock.
"Roger?!" was the collective shock response of everyone in the room.
"Please tell I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing." Globgor said in shock.
"I think you are." Eclipsa said as she couldn't take her eyes of what she was seeing.
Roger turned around and saw Zing and his eyes widened in shock.
"Oh my god, okay, wow can we please be grown ups about this?" Roger asked in concern, before then stating smugly. "Cause I can't."
Roger went back to making out with his new lover, all while Zing could cry as he felt his heart break.
The room grew silent as the Majestic released the once proud emperor from his slimy grip. Everyone was glaring at him but for different reasons. Dan and the others fighting his guards were glaring at him that his war on love was essentially a child throwing a temper tantrum because he got heartbroken. His citizens were glaring at him for his deception for eons.
"You got your heart broken..." one of the aliens said angrily. "That's why you told us there's no such thing as love! YOU LIED TO US!"
The crowd began to boo at the emperor as some of them began to throw food at the platform that the saddened Zing was on.
Despite the shocking news, the battle still raged on down below as the crowd above began to take out their anger on the various shops that they were forced to work at, the result was some of them were being set on fire.
"Wait, why are all of you continuing to fight us?" Eclipsa asked as she block a guard's staff with her parasol.
"It's nothing personal." The guard said. "We could take him out if we wish, but fighting you guys is just more fun."
"C'mon tough guys, let's do this!" Dan exclaimed as he cut some of Zing's guards staffs in half with his newly transformed chainsaw hands.
The sociopath was having the time of his as was enjoying getting some well, long deserved payback against some of the alien oppressors after three weeks of pent up aggression, and what he was doing to them at this very moment was completely warranted.
"Dan, don't go too crazy." Chris instructed as he flew over at battlefield with his large bird wings. He then focused his mind as he felt his arms morph into those of a gorilla as he grabbed two guards by their heads and threw them into the fountain, breaking parts of it when they slammed into it.
Just then, the entire ship began to shake as the Iron Giant busted out of the ground like a Japanese giant monster and began to swat away at the guards charging at them.
Suddenly, a light blue streak began to blitz all over the place, hitting whoever guard was in the wrong place at the wrong time in their pressure points, mostly in the back or in the kneecaps.
Jumping off the giant robot's shoulder, the blue alien mercenary took out a pair of laser pistols and began to splatter the area with the guard's blood.
Zing could could only be on his knees in tears as he saw his once proud empire, devolve into a state of anarchy and he was powerless to stop it... that was until he felt a surge of anger flow through him.
Meanwhile with Lincoln and the others...
As soon Lincoln and his teammates were done kicking the teeth out of the guards blocking their way of getting to Roger... and after fighting through one wave after another of guards one elevator ride afterwards. They were almost to the throne room when suddenly Lincoln got tackled through the wall when something collided into him.
"Lincoln!" was his friend's collective concerning yell.
"I'm fine." Lincoln began to before he felt whatever tackled him grabbed him by his shirt collar and pulled him up, causing him to look into her eyes.
It was some sort of gem fusion, she has an azure complexion with red and mint patches, a single navy blue eye and burgundy hair stylized in a bowl cut. She has six limbs, consisting of two arms and four legs. Her gemstones are embedded in her left eye and cheek respectively. She was wearing informal clothing; a long-sleeved suit that is red on the right and teal on the left, a white collar and a blue tie. She also wears pants that match with said tie and four burgundy boots.
"Who are you? Why are you attacking me?" Lincoln demanded.
"Oh, don't play innocent with me. Lincoln..." The fusion said in rather familiar British tone in her voice before throwing the boy in her grip to the floor. "You should KNOW!"
She then pulled a cutlass made of ice and attempted to stab her enemy with it while he's down, luckily Lincoln managed to block it with his own blade he managed to summon just in the nick of time. As he trying to push the fusion off of him, he got a good look at who his assaulter was, more specifically where the placement of her two gems were.
"Aquamarine, Ruby?" Lincoln asked as he managed to knock the cutlass out of his fused enemy's hand, causing it to turn into sparkles.
"Bluebird Azurite, killing your organics since a few hours ago, at your destruction." The fusion stated like she was doing a commercial as summoned another cutlass. "You die now!" She attempted to slash Lincoln diagonally, only for the boy to block it again.
Before the fusion could strike once more, she let out a scream of pain as she was tied up and electrocuted at the same time.
"Holly?" Lincoln asked, confused.
"Go Lincoln, I'll stall this war machine." Holly said, gripping her whip tightly.
Lincoln quickly got up and ran towards the others before running passed him. "Let's go!"
The rest of the crew followed him.
As they were running to the throne room, Lincoln's earpiece went off.
"Lincoln, it's Chris." The animal man said from his own earpiece. "It's utter mayhem on our end, how are things going for you and your guys?"
"Well, I found out that Aquamarine and that eyeball Ruby have fused into this sort of British fusion named Bluebird Azurite. Despite that little annoyance, we're we're almost to the throne room now. Meet at the ship in five minutes."
"Copy that!" Chris said.
Kicking the doors to the throne room out of their way, Lincoln and his team were surprised by what they saw. There were three battalions of Zing's guards and Foster with some injuries from before was standing in front of them.
"Kill them, make sure they don't get to Roger." The injured alien demanded.
His army let out a battle cry before charging at the prisoners.
"C'mon everyone, let's free Roger!" Martin said as his crew charged at the legion of guards.
Leggy slid underneath some guard's legs before using her small size to jump on one guard's head before jumping on another one, just barely dodging the spears being thrown at her.
Martin almost instinctively ducked under a group of guards when they tried to stab him from all sides before sweeping their legs almost like something out of an action movie.
Emerald struggled against a guard as she tried to either gain control of his weapon or trying to stab him with it. Since she was more of a pilot gem than a soldier, this was all she could do. And since she was an Era 2 gem, she didn't know if she could summon a weapon of her own to fall back on in case of almost dying in a situation like this battle.
Sara kicked a staff that a guard was using up into the air before catching it and using it to bat as many guards away as she could as they got up in her grill. Her mother was with her, batting away the guards trying to jump her daughter from behind by using a staff of her own that she managed to get her hands on in the resulting commotion.
Lincoln, still having his sword from his earlier confrontation with Bluebird, slashed a guard's staff in half before kneeing him in the face, knocking him backwards into a group of other guards, knocking them all down. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he ran towards another group of guards. But instead of wasting his time by engaging them, he focused his energy into his legs as he manifested his aura's combat boots but their was a small twist, instead of having spikes on the bottom, there were springs on the bottom instead as he used them to jumped up into the air, avoiding the spears thrown at him with some difficulty as they cut into his skin as they passed by him but the young boy still made it to the ceiling regardless.
Noticing his legs were going to go numb quickly, Lincoln took a few seconds to look over the battlefield to see where Roger was. He saw him being held on the far right side of the room, looking worse for wear as two guards were protecting him.
Focusing his energy into his legs and with a yell of determination, Lincoln jumped towards the captive alien as far as he could get.
As Lincoln was flying over towards Roger, he was just about to reach him when he felt something electrifying slam into his side and sent him flying across the room as he slammed into the throne of the now exposed emperor, breaking a chunk of it upon impact.
Rolling onto his side, he saw that it was Foster who had electricity flowing around his body.
"You really think it was going to be that easy, Linky boy?" Foster said mockingly. "Submit, and I might be mericful?"
"Oh yeah, you and what lighting hands?" Lincoln snidely remarked.
"Oh, now you done it." Roger commented.
Foster then stuck his hands out as electricity blasted from and onto Lincoln's downed body as the boy let out a series of painful screams, ones that were loud enough for the whole room to hear.
"Lincoln!" Leggy said as she tried to get to her lover but a group of guards got in her way.
"We have to help him!" Martin said, throwing a guard over his head into a bunch of other guards.
"Move it!" Sara said, slicing a guard's arm off. Another guard shot electricity at her from behind knocking her to the ground.
Foster stopped for a moment to gloat. "Oh this is just hysterical. You thought you and your gang could just waltz in here and take Roger. And yet here you are now, on the floor crying like a child."
"I... am a child!" Lincoln shouted as he he quickly manifested a crossbow and fired a arrow at the alien.
Foster simply moved his head slightly to the right, allowing the arrow to go right passed him.
"And what that supposed to accomplish?" Foster asked smugly. "I completely dodged that arrow."
Lincoln said equally smug as he slowly began to get up. "I wasn't aiming at you."
Before Foster could asked, he felt someone's hands wrapping around his neck and before he could do anything to prevent this...
*CRACK!*
With a single 140 degree twist, Foster got his neck snapped not all the way as his eyes rolled into the back of his head and his now motionless body then fell face first onto the floor, the person behind that did the deadly deed was none other than Roger himself, who had absolute pissed off and utterly done look on his face.
"Payback bitch!" Roger said as he then spat on his fellow alien's corpse.
"You... killed him..." Lincoln said in a shell shocked tone as he backed away from the rescued alien a bit.
"I didn't kill him, just knocked him out. He'll be fine in a few hours, but it's fine but he was trying to kill us." Roger said, remorselessly. "You ready to get out of here?"
Hearing that question caused Lincoln to snap out of his shocked state, instead responding he nodded.
"Your general is dead." Roger announced to the battalions of guards, causing everyone in the room to stop fighting and look towards him and Lincoln. "So if the rest of you want the same thing to happen to the rest of you, you'll let us leave, no funny business."
The guards look at each other as decided on what to do. On one hand, they could continue fighting a meaningless fight and probably kill the traitorous prisoners. On the other hand, they were be fighting just for the sake of fighting now that Foster is "dead".
So one by one, the guards all either dropped their weapons or let go of the prisoner they were fighting and stood down.
"C'mon ya'll. Let's blow this pop stand!" Roger said as he and Lincoln led the others out of the throne room.
Lincoln was walking when suddenly he felt a sudden numbness in his legs, causing him to fall to the ground.
"Lincoln?" Leggy asked as she turned to the white haired boy, who was faced down. "Lincoln!" She ran to him and leaned him on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"I think I'm exhausted." Lincoln explained. "Can you carry me, sweetie?"
"Sure thing." Leggy said as she felt her face heat up as she ran with the group carrying Lincoln on her back.
"Milo, it's your father." Martin said into his earpiece. "We rescued Roger and are making our way to the rocket now."
"We're having a bit of a problem of our own." Milo said from his own earpiece. "There are guards at the rocket and Sigh is inside, we're trying to get to her but it's difficult."
"Great, as if we didn't have enough to deal with." Martin grumbled. "We need to get to the ship now, the others are engaging guards at the rocket."
"Then let's go help them out and get you all home." Emerald said.
With that, the gang began to rush to the rocket as fast as they could.
One tense elevator ride later, the rest of the Exiles made it to Milo, Sinbad, and the others were in the middle of fighting some guards.
"All of you going to Earth get in, we'll hold them off." Sinbad ordered as he kicked a guard in the chest, knocking him to the floor.
"What about you guys?" Milo asked in worry.
"There's too many of them man, I know you don't like this but right now it's the only way." The comedian explained as stabbed a guard with his own spear. "Now, take your friends and get out of here!"
Leggy handed Lincoln to Chris, who's forehead had a rhino's horn on it. "His legs are numb." The Ruby explained. "His stamina must be pretty low."
Jasper headbutted a guard's helmet, causing it to shatter from the impact and send the space man flying. "You heard the funny human, all of you get going, we'll hold down the fort here!"
The Murphys quickly ran into the ship, Leggy ran in as well, Meteora was being carried by Eclipsa who was in turn, being carried by Globgor as they went inside the ship as well, and Chris who was still carrying Lincoln went in too.
Only Dan was left outside, as raining a firestorm on the guards surrounding the ship with his flamethrower arms.
Noticing that the group going to get overwhelmed soon, Leggy turned towards Lincoln, who looked back at her.
"Leggy?" The white haired boy said with a hint of concern.
The soldier gem looked at her lover sadly with a bittersweet smile before she spoke. "Well, Lincoln. It's been quite the ride."
Lincoln's concern soon turned to fear. "Leggy, wait! You don't have to do this! We'll keep fighting! There has to be another way! I love-mph!"
Leggy quickly shut the man with the plan up with a slow but deep kiss for a minute. Lincoln couldn't resist as he wrapped his arms around the short but tough soldier's back and smooched her back as tears went down to his face.
Pulling her lips off of his once the minute went by fast, the ruby continued. "Lincoln, you know as well I do that this was going to end with some of us staying behind."
Lincoln took a moment to look away with a sadden expression. Part of him was sad that his new girlfriend wasn't coming with him and wanted to protest, but deep down, he knew that Leggy was right and knew she was going to go through this and he couldn't really stop her even if he tried. After all, this is essentially a war right now and sadly in war everyone's a casualty during such hardship.
"I love you, Lincoln. I really do and will never stop doing so, but to get you home, I have to stay behind. I know you don't want me to, but for those we care about, we must take the riskiest of opportunities to keep them safe and out of harm's way." Leggy said as she embraced the person who gave her a purpose once more.
The two released each other as Leggy gave her significant other one more sad look before smiling as she then rushed out of the ship, tackling a group of guards back, allowing Dan to get inside the ship.
"Sigh, get us the hell out of here!" Dan demanded as his close the doors.
"Of course Dan." The robot said as she restored full power to the rocket, causing the space traveling vehicle to fly out of the massive ship by blasting the rocket's engines to full power as it began to move into a straight line, which cause three things to happen.
Cause Sinbad and the others to get out of the way of the vehicle in motion, accidentally run over the guards who couldn't get out of the way and destroyed the elevator by running straight as the rocket tore through the bottom level of the ship before exiting through a makeshift hole they created in the process.
"We did it!" Martin shouted in joy. "We escaped!"
"Thank god!" Chris said as he dropped to his knees and cried tears of joy.
"Earth, here we come!" Sara shouted in joy.
As the others began to cheer, laugh, cry tears of relief and joy and embrace each other as they began to grasp the concept of going home, Lincoln just dropped to his knees as tears of joy and yet sadness flew down his face. On one hand, he managed to him them escape from Zing's army, but on the other hand, all they did was delay the inevitable.
The question on the boy's mind was:
What exactly was the inevitable?
Zing coming to Earth?
Bluebird coming after them?
Or worse, both of them working together and coming after them?
Any one of those scenarios were bad enough.
Another thing in the boy's mind was that what exactly was he going to do when he got back to Earth?
Reunite with his friends and tell them what happened?
Report his family to the authorities? Of that there was no need to ask that question.
If he did, what would happen next?
Would his parents face jail time? If so, good.
Just good.
If so, what going to happen to their daughters?
Would Bobby break up with Lori again?
Would Leni get fired from her job at the mall?
Would Mick Swagger be disappointed in Luna and make her not want to play music anymore?
Would Luan continue to pull pranks but more mean spirited as he knows that comedy is like an outlet for coping with intense situations?
Would she who shall not be named have her sports career ruined?
Would Lucy have to give up her darkness and embrace the light within her?
Would Lana have to give up her numerous flea ridden animals?
Would Lola have to stop her pageant career?
Would Lisa have to give her little lab because of her love for the subject of science?
His eyes widened as another thought crossed his mind?
What was going to happen to Lily?! Sweet, innocent, baby Lily? The only only out of that rowdy, obnoxious, selfish family he considered a sister? Okay, technically, she is his sister but still.
He didn't even want to imagine what was going to happen to her. But whatever it was, he knew that it wasn't going to be anything good!
On top of that, what was going to happen to the others that did the same thing.
Would they be prosecuted for this crime as well, if so what would happen to them? He didn't know them that much aside from the stories that Milo, Dan, and the others had told him during the campfire they had. Regardless, he hoped that justice would be done for what happened to them.
He hoped that justice would get done.
Man, did he wonder was what was happening on Earth right now.
"Lincoln?" a voice said, bringing him back to reality.
Looking up at the direction that the voice came from, he saw Milo looking down at him with a sympathetic look on his face. "Are you... feeling okay?"
"I... don't know, Milo." The confused boy said as he briefly looked behind the teen and saw Dan smacking his forehead in annoyance that the Murphy boy actually asked him that question. Shaking out of his confusion a bit to continue, he then said. "I'm just feel... so conflicted."
"Really, but why?" Milo asked, oblivious to the boy's plight. "Are you happy that we're finally going back to Earth?"
Before Lincoln could speak up, Dan let out a groan of annoyance, gaining the attention of the two. "I'm sure he's happy Milo, but that isn't the issue here!"
"What is the problem?" Milo said, still oblivious.
"Are you not reading the room, Murphy?" Dan asked in irritation before gesturing to the rest of the ship as the rest of the group gathered around the three, ready to intervene just in case things got physical.
Milo looked around the room as he saw the concerned looks on the faces of his family and his new friends before looking at the confused yet saddened look on Lincoln's face.
He did this twice before it then clicked into his head.
"Oh..." Milo said, rather embarrassed before looking back at Lincoln. "I'm so sorry Linc, I didn't know."
"It's fine." Lincoln said. "I am glad we're going home but Jasper and Leggy, Sinbad and Bubbles and the other prisoners. They all are risking their lives right now just to get us home." He stopped a bit to breathe. "And even if we do get home, Zing's just going to come after us with his army and that financial backer of his. So if anything, I think we've just delayed him following us."
The group looked at each other as they began to process the the boy's words. On one hand, Lincoln had a point. Even if they demolished the alien's credibility as a emperor, what was stopping him from calling up his benefactor for backup and coming to Earth for payback and who knew what said benefactor has at his or her disposal to what kind of damage to whatever planet he wants to blow up just for sadistic kicks?
On the other hand, they didn't know what to do now that they had escaped from Zing after three weeks of slave work and struggling to stay alive. What could they do? If they went back, they would be either killed or recaptured, super healing and magic space powers and tenacity be damned! If they went back to Earth, Zing would just bring his wrath there by starting a war or just doing something to lure them out of hiding and make them submit to his demands of surrender.
"What are you saying, Lincoln?" Sara asked in concern, not liking where the kid was going with this.
"I think we need to stop Zing before he gets the chance to get to Earth." Lincoln said, a bit hesitantly.
"Wait, you're saying that we should go BACK?!" Chris said in shock that Lincoln was actually suggesting such a thing.
"I guess I am cause I have a plan." Lincoln said a bit more confidently. "It's a long shot but I think it has a chance of working."
"Are you out of your mind, kid?!" Globgor said. "But we barely managed to get out of there by the skin of our teeth!"
"Globgor's right!" Brigette said. "If we go back now, we would pretty much be signing our death warrants!"
"Now, now, everyone just chill out." Eclipsa began, gaining everyone's attention as she spoke. "I think we should listen to Lincoln's plan first before we make any rash decisions."
"Well..." Dan began as he thought about it. "His plans hasn't gotten us killed so far."
"I guess we should hear him out." Roger said. "Let's hear what you've got, kid."
"Thank you." Lincoln began as he turned to Eclispa. "Now Eclipsa, do you any teleporting spells?"
"Hmm," The exiled queen began she thought about it for a bit. "I do, but it all depends on the amount of people I have to teleport, how much magic I need to use in order do so and where to teleport them to."
Taking a moment to look out the window of the rocket, Lincoln saw a planet that appeared to be grassy on the surface but for some weird reason, it had a giant rocky spike that went straight through the planet just a distance away. Lincoln nodded as he spoke. "What about that planet over there?" He said, pointing to the spike embedded planet as the others looked at said planet in wonder.
"Hmm," Eclipsa began to think as she placed a hand underneath her chin. "I guess that could work."
Lincoln nodded as he then turned to Sigh with a look of utter determination. "Okay, Sigh, is there any that can like scan Zing's ship for the power source."
"Lincoln, you seriously can't be thinking what my database says you're thinking?" Sigh said in what seemed like concern. " Though judging by that determined look on your face, I can tell that you are fully intent on going through with this. Lincoln, I beg you, for the sake of our concern and your own safety, please reconsider."
"I'm sorry Sigh, but my mind is made up!" Lincoln said, undeterred. "Besides, it's the only option we have in order for us to a chance even a remote one, of stopping Zing, at least for the time being and save everyone else. Do I really need to go over every reason about why I need to do this right now?!" Lincoln said a bit annoyed as he turned to the group he was currently talking to. "Unless anyone else has an idea they liked to share."
No one spoke up as not a single idea was thought up.
"But who's going to stay behind and direct the ship into the power core to break it?" Milo asked.
"I will." Lincoln volunteered, much to the group's shock.
"But Lincoln, you could die!" Chris pointed out. "Not to mention, you'll kill Zing too, I don't want you to become just like him!"
"I can regenerate remember?" Lincoln reminded them. "I'm willing to take that risk. And besides, I know Zing's kind can also regenerate, I don't know if he's immortal but still I'm taking that chance."
"Because of what short leg said to you about risking yourself to protect those you care about?" Dan asked in realization.
"Yeah," Lincoln said before turning back to the feared queen. "Eclipsa, I suggest you get your spell ready to go."
"Alright, but just to let know that this plan is probably your riskiest one you came up with." Eclipsa said as she raised her parasol over her head as she felt her cheek marks glow as she felt the purple magic flow through her Mewman body to the tip of the parasol.
In the room where the power source was, Zing, covered in a bunch of food that was thrown at him, stood in front of a giant, red crystal that was surrounded by electricity. He had smile that just spoke of his ill intentions.
"Well, if I can't be allowed to win then nobody does!" Zing began as he spread his arms out, electricity manifesting from his body. "After all, the only way to win is wipe the board clean."
All of a sudden, Zing's body began to grow as his muscles began to get stronger and his body began to grow a bit taller due to all of the electricity that he's using in his body.
Once he was done, the former emperor's body was rather big in muscles and tall in size.
"We're all going down to the depths of hell together, here's the train there!"
Bringing his hands together like some sort of anime reference, Zing shot a big beam of electricity at the crystal.
Focusing on the single spot Zing fired at, the crystal slowly but surely began to crack. The crack slowly began to expand due to the alien's sheer power.
All of a sudden, he heard something coming from behind him. Taking a second to look behind him and not stopping his assault on the crystal, he was instantly slammed by something big and fast... ramming him right into the cracked crystal, shocking him with untold amounts of electricity.
As Zing was screaming in pain from being electrocuted and the rocket was being assaulted by the massive energy surge, the others tried to maintain their balance within it.
"Alright everyone," Lincoln began as tried to maintain his stance. "Get out of here and Eclipsa use that spell."
"But Lincoln, we can't just-" Eclipsa began but was cut off almost immediately.
"NOW! PLEASE!" Lincoln cut her off by shouting his response at her as he was then slammed into a wall by an explosion.
"Come on! We got a job to do!" Globgor said as he picked up his wife before looking at Lincoln and nodding. "Well find you on that planet, okay?"
"Got it!" Lincoln gave a thumbs up as Globgor, Eclipsa and Meteora ran out of the ship the boy then turned to SIGH. "Sigh, if the controls aren't toasted, set the ship to auto pilot. If they are, I'll drive the ship myself into that monster."
"Sorry to be the barer of bad news, but the controls to the autopilot are fried, you'll have to drive it manually." The robot said as she was then picked up by Chris and Dan.
"C'mon, we got to go!" Chris said as he and Dan rushed past him.
"Good luck man." Dan said as he rushed out of the ship. "Survive this!"
Brigette, Martin and Sara ran out the ship as it continued to be torn asunder, but just as Milo was about to join them, Lincoln grabbed his hand.
"Milo, wait. I need to tell you something!" He said, urgently.
"Make it fast, the ship won't last much longer." Milo said he felt electricity run through the vehicle's corridors.
"I don't know if you'll be able to find a ship to get back to Earth on that planet, but in case I don't come back and Zing comes after you and the others..." Lincoln stopped speaking for a bit to catch his breath. "Bring him to trial, he needs to be be punished for the things he's done. Whatever that punishment he gets is your guy's choice."
"Anything else?" Milo asked quickly.
"Yeah, if you guys do end up going to Earth, do me this solid." Lincoln quickly dug into his pocket and took out a photo that had blood soaked on the bottom of it.
It showed him with his family and a group of his friends in a group photo. "Tell these jerks," He began as he pointed at his ex family. "that what happened to me, whatever does end up happening to me, is on their conscious!" He then pointed at his group of friends. "That I went out protecting others like a hero! Tell them what we've did up here. But more importantly-"
Another explosion cut him off, so he quickly rushed through what he needed to say as he pointed towards the baby in the picture. "Don't let what happened to me happen to her."
"Who is she?" Milo asked quickly.
"Her name is Lily and she's the only one I consider my family. So when you and the others get back home, get her away from them!" Lincoln desperately revealed as fast as he could. "I know this is a lot to ask Milo, but promise me you'll do those things if and when you get to Earth."
"Don't worry, I won't break this promise!" Milo swore.
"Thanks, now run!" Lincoln ordered as Milo got the hell out of there.
Running to the control room and sitting down at the captain's chair, Lincoln manned the controls as best he could.
"Alright Emperor Zing, a captain's job is to go down with the ship," Lincoln said, a confident tone ever so evident in his voice. "Let's go down like captains, shall we?"
Setting the ship's engines to full power, Lincoln was electrocuted as was the room he was in.
Outside, Eclipsa raised her parasol high above her head and closed her eyes as she tried to focus her mind. She tried to focus on transporting everyone but Lincoln and Zing to that planet she saw.
"Massive group teleportation!" She shouted as all over the ship, the people fighting were beginning to disappear.
She could feel her arms began to cramp up due to the amount of magic she was using as she began to feel herself get lightheaded and begin to pass out.
"No!" Eclipsa thought as she opened her eyes. "I can't pass out now! I go under now, Lincoln will have stayed behind for nothing!" She then felt a sharp pain into her arm she holding her wand in, causing her to let out a shout of pain as she felt it cramp and crack underneath the magical pressure.
Just before she could feel her arm go limp, she felt Globgor grab a hold of it.
"Don't give up, my darkest star!' Globgor said determined. "Everyone's survival is counting on you, keep going despite the pain."
Hearing her monster husband's words gave the queen the courage to continue the spell.
Back at the battle, the contestants fighting amongst each other were enveloped in purple aura before disappearing.
"What the hell?" Sinbad questioned before he suddenly vanished off the ship.
"What's going on?" Jasper said before she also vanished from the ship.
"Oh shards!" Leggy said as she was also teleported off the ship.
"Huh?" Bubbles said before being teleported.
"What's happening?" The Majestic asked before he was teleported.
The Iron Giant was blasting his chest laser before he was teleported.
"I don't know where we'll end up, but stay together." Eclipsa shouted through the pain her body was currently going under.
Sara soon vanished, followed by Dan, Brigette soon went through the same thing as Martin did. Roger disappeared too as did Chris.
Milo was next to go as Globgor held onto the two as they all vanished from the ship as well.
Once everyone sans Lincoln and Zing were off the ship, the power source blew up, causing Lincoln to get caught in it as a massive flash of white light engulfs his as he then blacked out.
In his mind, Lincoln talking to his other half.
"You're really going through with this, huh?" Lincoln 2 asked.
"If it's to save everyone else, yes." Lincoln Prime answered. "You with me?"
"To the end." Lincoln 2 said. "Until you want to be rid of me or my powers.
"On my terms that is." OG Lincoln said. "Just not now."
The rocket then exploded sending the unconscious hero into the wall as the massive ship began to go down toward the gravitational pull of a distance planet...
Out in the distance, a certain blue, former terraforming, gem was watching the ship go down.
"I hope whoever's on that ship is alright and survives that." Lapis said before she flew off, knowing that this wasn't her problem.
On a distance planet...
On another planet, a massive crowd of extraterrestrials were currently running for their lives as man sized robots were firing red laser from their turret hands.
"For Zeenu!" someone shouted as she raised her big, steel handled, orange crystal axe that was glowing with energy as big, burly, purple skinned and yellow armored guards with blue crystal tipped swords in their hands charged into the battle that was currently taking place outside of what appeared to be some sort of alien palace.
"Go, my minions!" a figure with green skin and a dark blue robe shouted in a deep yet hurt voice as he ran towards the guards with a sickle and chain type of weapon as he kicked one in the chest, knocking him to the ground before stabbing him in the head, killing him instantly. "Let us tear the palace apart!"
A guard slid under a robot's punch, causing it to punch the ground and crack it. The guard then dug his arms into the robot's back and with a mighty yell, he tore the mechanical menace in half.
The two opposing forces continued to brawl it out in the streets... until a giant shadow appeared from above all of them.
"What on Zeenu?" One of the robots said before it looked up.
Everyone else stopped kicking the crap out of one another to look at what was coming down from the heavens.
What they saw caused them to gasp in terror.
It was a giant spaceship that was currently going down and the battle was going to crash there...
"Run away!" one of the guards shouted as everyone then ran in different directions in order to not get squashed by the thing falling out of the sky.
"Run for your lives!" a random citizen exclaimed as the freaking out populace all scattered to preserve their lives.
The spaceship finally landed somewhere within the large city, more specifically it crashed by landing in the rooms of the top of a skyscraper miles away from the battlefield.
Once it stopped, some guards began to observe the strange vehicle.
"What is that?" a guard said as he gazed onto the mysterious vehicle..
Suddenly, one of the doors to the palace opened up as someone stepped out rather cautiously.
It was a wrinkly, almost corpse like squid type of alien with purple skin and was wearing what appeared to be royal attire with a red cape that was dragged across the ground and a crown was on his head.
"What happened out? Why did everyone..." The emperor began before he saw the ship in the distant building. "Why is that-"
Suddenly, the ship exploded in a massive fireball, taking out the building as the explosion became taller as everyone instantly ran away to protect themselves from the explosion.
As they ran to cover, none of them noticed that two silhouettes being blown across the sky in different directions...
Meanwhile on another part of the planet, Eclipsa, Globgor, Meteora and many others suddenly popped up in some kind of dessert like wasteland.
Speaking of Eclipsa, she felt completely exhausted as her eyes closed and would've fell to the ground had her husband not catch her.
"Eclipsa!" Globgor shouted in concern for his wife.
"Mama?" Meteora babbled in concern for her mother.
Globgor placed a his ear to his wife's chest to hear a pulse.
It was a faint heartbeat, but a strong one.
Hearing that, made Globgor sigh in relief as took his ear away from his wife before turning to his infant daughter who was safe in his right hand.
"She's going to be okay, sweetie." He said, relived. "It's just using all that magic caused her to... fall asleep."
Suddenly, they all heard of a massive explosion in the distance.
"Lincoln..." Globgor said as he was speechless at the size of the explosion.
On another part of the planet, Zoe, Dan, Sara, Sinbad, Milo and some of Zing's former citizens all began to appear thanks to the queen's spell.
In what appeared to be some sort of valley on this strange planet, Jasper looked around in confusion as to how she ended up there and why? She didn't have time to dwell on those questions she had as she was soon attacked by some of Zing's still loyal guards.
And she was just fine with that...
She wasn't alone as the rest of Milo's family, Bluebird, the two Zircons, the still unconscious Foster, Bubbles and some of the alien prisoners also appeared in the valley.
Suddenly, the fighting suddenly came to a stop when they all heard the sound of a massive explosion behind them...
"What just happened?" The blue Zircon said.
"Eclipsa used her magic to teleport us all off the ship and on this planet." Milo explained, through the ringing in the distance.
"What about Lincoln?" The yellow Zircon asked.
The rest of the Murphys stood silence as they didn't want to answer that, much to both of the Zircon's concern.
All over Zeenu, multiple people began to suddenly appear in a variety of different locations...
As this was happening, in what appeared to be some sort of cave, sounds of mechanical tinkering could be heard from within.
"Okay, now to seal this metallic plating here..." Someone was heard in the cave saying as the sound a blowtorch was heard fizzing. "Attach the pipes here and there..."
Before whoever was in the cave could continue tinkering with whatever he was working on, he was startled because he heard something going on outside.
"Whoa!" He said as he felt the cave shake. "What was that?"
He then ran outside as his eyes widened in shock at what he saw.
Out in the very distance, there was a massive explosion that happened.
"Oh my goodness." The stranger said in shock.
Suddenly, his eyes caught something coming out of the explosion... and it was heading right towards him.
Running back to his cave and ducking behind a rock, the thing fell out of the sky and crash in makeshift crater a few feet in front of the stranger.
Deciding that it was safe, the stranger cautiously approached the crater, and he was in disbelief by he saw...
It was a certain white haired boy in orange pajamas, and looked looked like he's been dragged through hell, back and the got dragged all over the place.
His clothes were in complete tatters and his whole body got a series of what appeared to be lethal burn marks along with what appeared to be pieces of metallic shrapnel in his arms and legs. Most of his hair was burned away.
But that wasn't even the worst part...
The right side of his face's skin was burned off!
"A human? He must be from Earth!" The stranger said in joy as he grabbed the boy by the torso before gently taking him out of the crater.
Once he was out, the stranger then gently placed him on the ground before placing a ear to the boy's scorched chest.
Much to the stranger's shock, the immensely injured boy's heart was still beating strongly.
"My word, you're still alive! Positively astounding!" The stranger said in shock. "Wow, you must be either incredibly lucky or must have incredible high tolerance for pain."
As the stranger then began to drag Lincoln inside his cave, he didn't see that he was being watched from a cliff in the distance...
To be continued...
So what do you guys think will happen next?
Did Zing survive the crash?
Is Lincoln going to be okay?
Is Eclipsa going to be okay?
Will the others find a way to reunite when their on different sides of the planet?
Where is Roger?
And why is the planet Zeenu at what appears to be war?
Also, have Leni and the others with her made it to Zeenu in time to save Lincoln and the others?
Find out next time on "The Exiles"!
Okay, I know you guys are going to be really mad at me for saying this but... I'm to take a bit of a break from writing this story cause writing these two chapters were so freaking exhausting to write I swear to God. I'm going to update some other stories of mine before coming back to this one. Sorry to do this, but it has to be done.
Anyway, this is the Reality Shredder and I'll see you all next time.