Dreams and Flashbacks

"Let's open them up," Talo's voice uttered.

Two kids were running around playing ball.

"Come on Wally," the girl urged playfully.

"You're goanna have to catch me to catch the ball Carry," the boy answered back.

The girl tried to wrestle young Walter Lawson for the ball. They ended up rolling about on the grass. The wrestle for the ball turned into a tickling match. The BFF's laughed for dear life.

Their enjoyment was ruined when an older boy came marching up to them. "There you are you two. Come on Carol. It's time to go,"

"Come on Joel!" Carol begged.

"You know dad would kill you if you were playing around like that with Walter," another boy said.

"You heard what Joseph said," Walter said sadly, sitting up. "I'd hate for you to get into trouble with your dad,"

"Walter!" another voice called.

The group turned to see a beautiful woman with short orange hair walk forward.

"Come on young man. It's time to go,"

"Okay. I'm coming," Walter offered a hand and helped his best friend up. "See you later Carry. Nice to see you Joseph and Joel,"

"You're a lovely boy to our Carol," Joel ruffled his hair slightly.

Walter wandered off with his mother taking her hand. Feeling her brothers behind her, Carol waved goodbye to her best friend.

"Such a sweet memory of those two," a different voice not in the memory said.

"Switch to another!"

Two wide gates drifted apart. A young woman walked out.

"Where are we?" Talos asked up.

"Stand by," another Skrull said.

The young woman was joined by another woman with short black hair and an older boy with brunette hair and bristles on his chin.

"Where's your head Carol?" the other woman asked.

"In the clouds,"

"Same as always sis," Joel said next to her. "And you Marie?"

"It's Maria you know that Joel," Maria laughed. "Mine's on my shoulders,"

"You two ready to show those other men how they do it?" Joel encouraged.

"More than anything Joel," his younger sister said. "And that doesn't include you,"

"Thanks. I respect you two. Remember that?"

"We do. Let's get flying,"

The Trio entered private jets, giving each other private hand signs and goofy grins.

"This can't be right. Go back even further,"

There were children go-karting at a fairground. One girl was going very fast. Another driver, a boy drove up to catch up with her.

"Carol! You're going too fast!" the boy shouted.

"I have to prove to dad that he's wrong about me Joel!" Carol screamed back.

"Please…I just don't want you to get hurt!"

There was a sudden fastfoward of the memory.

The girl's go-kart went too fast and it slid off the racecourse, crashing into some bushes.

A tall man stamped up to the girl.

"What were you thinking? You don't belong out here!"

The girl tearfully looked up at the giant. "You let Joel and Joseph drive!"

"Doesn't mean you can participate!" the cruel man was literally making the little girl cry.

"Dad, come on give her a break!" another voice rushed. The same boy who had tried to tell Carol to slow down came to her rescue. "Just stop treating her like this!"

The taller man just growled and walked away.

Carol began to cry. Joel bent down. "Hey! It'll be okay!"

"Dad hates me! He doesn't think I'm good at anything!"

"Well he's wrong about you! You're going to prove it one day!" Joel wiped her tears away. "I promise you Carol…I will always have your back!"

The little girl sadness drifted and she threw her arms around her bigger brother.

"Switch to another memory,"

The same woman was in a cadet course, swing on a rope.

"Give up already," a soldier shouted.

"You don't belong here!" another mocked.

"Shut your mouth! You got this Carol!" the same boy from the only one said.

Carol made the rope swing. Then she leapt to catch the next one but she lost grip and fell down to the ground with a thud. All the men except her brother surrounding her burst out laughing.

"A huge rumble throughout the cosmos shook the moon…and the sun and the stars in the sky. And so little Alouette flew up throughout the night," Steve said to his younger brother and sister as they laid on the warm grass under the dark starlight sky at night.

"You guys ever wonder if life is out there?" Joel asked.

Steve scoffed. "Aliens? Now you're just imagining things,"

"Well I believe that there are more than just humans and animals in this universe," Joel folded his arms behind his head. "And I'm going to find them one day,"

"We're going to find them," young Carol twisted her head and took Joel's hand. They smiled.

"Carol?!" a young man jolted up breathing heavily. He rose up from the bed, rubbing his eyes. He looked to the side to see his wife Maria rumbling in her sleep

He walked over to a picture of four people. They were him, his younger sister, his wife and a red-haired lass who he and his sister had been best friends with since childhood. Then he picked up another picture. It was a portrait of him and Carol in cadet uniforms. They were smiling and holding up thumbs. HE sighed sadly remembered glorious days gones.

"I miss her too," a voice spoke up sadly.

Joel turned around to see his wife Maria with sad eyes. She walked forward, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and lean her chin on him.

"It's been six years. And still a day doesn't go by that I don't miss her. And Walter too,"

Joel held back his grief. "I really thought they could have made a good couple. I always shipped them all the time when we were kids,"

"And Carol always used to rant at you saying it was going to happen," Maria joked.

Joel laughed a bit but his sad emotions clouded his thoughts again. He opened a small box on the chest and took out a broken rusty half of a dog tag with the letters: CAROL DAN…inscribed on it. "What could have happened that day?"

"You still think there's more to it than that? Even after all this time?" his wife spoke up.

"I know there is. I just wish there was a sign,"

"I say we try the boy. He's bound to have more memories that we need. But don't hurt him. I promised Lawson i would protect him if any harm befallen her,"

Two men and two girls were having dinner at a bar together. They were teased by a bunch of soldier's cadets. They sung out loudly with awful voices off key.

"Hey! I bet we can sing better!" a young man with light orange hair goaded.

"Oh really?" a soldier questioned mockingly. "Let's see you sing and see you make the place party…Lawson!"

Lawson smirked. "Oh we'll make the place party! Let's hit it Joel!"

Him and his best friend marched up, took the microphones and sung out a loud piece of rap music. Soon the two girls joined in and they burst out laughing, dancing around, laughing with everyone.

"Hold on go back a bit,"

There was a young boy standing with his mother. "Albright now…" she bent down to talk to her young son who was just starting prep school. "If ever you see anyone get bullied. Do not try and stop that bully,"

"Why?"

"Because you'll become the bully's next target. And you'll get hit!"

"I don't care if I get hit! It isn't right for that kid to suffer!"

"Just please don't bleed or get yourself hurt!"

"Who cares if I bleed a bit?!"

"Just promise me!" the mother gripped her child's shoulders desperately. "Just don't! Please,"

"Okay mum,"

"That's a good Walter," she leaned forward and kissed him.

"Go forward,"

A orange-haired teenager was camping with his close friends. She and a blonde haired girl were roasting marshmallows over a fire whilst her brothers were inside snoring like pigs.

"So…your mother ever tell you anything about your father?" the teenage girl asked.

"No. Still nothing,"

"Why does she never talk about him?"

"I don't know. She probably thinks since he left us, I shouldn't need to know about him. I…I got into an argument about it and it hurt her so much,"

His best friend consoled him. "You have a right to know about your father. Things will work out,"

The male teen smiled back. "You're the best Carry,"

"You're the best Wally,"

A young handsome man was standing outside. A cat came purring and walking up to him. "Hello Goose," he knelt down and stroke it. "I really wonder mum calls you Goose,"

"Early morning Walter," a cheerful voice approached him.

Walter knelt back up and saw his mother. "Ahh you know me mum. Just want to help you get work done when I can before I head out with Carol, Rambeau and Joel,"

He noticed his mother smirking. "What?" his eyebrows furrowed.

"You know you really oughta tell her how you feel?"

"Tell who,"

His mother just smirked and raised her eyebrows.

"Oh. No no no. Carol and I are just friends. It's always been that way,"

"Not from the way I see the chemistry between you two,"

"Enough with the love stuff. This is a really serious question I need to ask you mum. Why are we building this light speed engine thing?"

"Because…" his mother walked closer. "…this is the way to end all wars,"

Walter was more confused than ever.

"Go forward again,"

Walter, Carol and Walter's mother were inside a jet.

"That's it. Get the cooridnates,"

"I can't…the memory's too fuzzy,"

"Try another memory,"

Walter were near his mother who was fatally injured and worn out.

"Listen Walter. There's…so much I've wanted to tell you. So much. Know you this…everything I did, I did to protect you,"

"From who?"

"From your father,"

Walter's lips parted.

"What are you talking about?" Carol asked, confused as much as Walter.

"Your father…would have raised you to be a tyrant just like him. It's up to you to save them now,"

"Save who? Mother! Save who?"

Yorgoth's eyes flashed opened. The first thing he felt was blood rushing through his head. He realised some of his hair was handing down. He was upside down.

The next thing he realised was there was purple electricity touching the sides of his head. And his wrists were restrained and his feet without boots were too. He was trapped.

He heard voices. Looking ahead, he could see an upside down Talos and his lieutenant talking indistinctively. He remembered Vers. He twisted his head around searching for her. He saw her from the corner of his eye. She was restrained upside down like him too with electricity touching the sides of her temple.

"Vers…is that you?" he uttered. "Pss…"

"Mmm.." mumbled Vers in her trance. She turned her head towards the source of Yorgoth's voice and he saw him. "Is that you?"

"Yes. Yes it's me,"

Vers twisted her head to make sure Talos hadn't heard them. HE was still talking. She turned back to him. "What did he do to you?"

"He…he put some sort of image in my head. It felt so real. I could almost swear I saw you in it,"

Vers frowned her eyebrows. "Me too. I saw flashes in my head. We have to get out of here,"

"You got an idea for these?" Yorgoth's pointed upwards with his eyeballs at the restraints on his feet, then sideways at his cuffed hands.

Vers didn't have an answer.

"Do we have any information we can act on?" Talos demanded, stomping around, looking at the screens.

"Just that Lawson was somewhere on planet C-53. With her son," another Skrull said holding up a purple crystal item. "We're on our way,"

"Then dig deeper. Lawson is our link to that light-speed engine!" Talos commanded impatiently. He walked closer to his restrained prisoners. "And everything we're after,"

The two prisoners glanced at him. Talos turned around to them. "Check them," he ordered his subordinate. A younger and shorter Skrull approached the upside down prisoners. He had his attention on Vers. He raised a finger.

"Don't poke her!" Yorgoth shouted. He was ingorned.

Vers felt a sharp nail prod her forehead.

There was a blink on the screen.

"That did something!" Talos said. "Try it again!"

Vers grew annoyed as the Skrull kept poking her. The sight of her being touched like that Yorgoth more uncomfortable. He suddenly felt his wrists heading up. His cylinder restraints were burning. They became hotter and hotter…

Vers saw what he was doing. And she did it too. Their captors saw what they were doing. Before they could do anything, there was a violent bang and metal came flying everywhere. The pair still had cylinders covering their wrists, but they were still free. They banged their feet restraints, and they were free. Landing on their feet, they struck all the Skrulls in the room before Yorgoth pinned Talos to the control consul.

"What do you want from us?!" he demanded.

"Just a little information Lawson Jr," the Skrull leader cackled.

Once again the name he gave him made Yorgoth frown in confusion.

"What did you do to us? What did you put in our heads?!" Vers demanded the next question.

"Nothing that was already there," the Skrull said.

"Those aren't our memories,"

"Yeah, it's like a bad trip, isn't it? I'm quite surprised they can't keep you two straight. You two have no idea what damage was done to you two. They really did a number on you,"

"What do you want from us?!" Yorgoth pressed his burning cylinder restraints into Talos's face, making him grunt until he gave in.

"We're looking for the location of a Dr. Lawson and her light speed engine,"

"We don't know any Dr. Lawson," snarled Vers. "

"Then why was she in her head?" Talos focused solely on Yorgoth. "I'm quite surprised you can't remember your own mother,"

Yorgoth was slightly stunned by the outcome of his words that he didn't realise that more Skrulls were coming right into the room.

"Yorgoth!" Vers shouted.

Quickly Yorgoth threw Talos at some Skrulls and he and his partner made a run for it through the corridors. They tried blasting the cylinder restraints off their wrists, but they were too thick.

"These stupid restraints! We break out but they don't break off!" Yorgoth cursed. They came to a hallway where they were discovered by more Skrulls.

"You wouldn't know how these things come off would ya?" Vers asked.

Her answers were growls.

"Fine!"

The pair took out their enemies surrounding them. Vers suddenly came across a Skrull who roared at her. She roared back and kicked him in the gronk-nutts. She noticed her partner staring at her with an impressed expression.

"What?" she slammed her restrained hands by her side.

"You're so cute when you growl,"

Vers just scoffed and punched his shoulder.

"Oww!"

"Now does that make me cute?!"

The pair just kept running on. They came to a room with a hand button. Vers pressed her foot to it and it opened. A much taller Skull stood out with an electric taser with a purple light. Vers tried to stun him, but her punches were more like pats. Two more Skrulls appeared and Yorgoth couldn't handle them either.

In less than five swipes they were knocked down the floor. They to blast their restrains off but only puffs of smoke came out.

"Oh! What's it goanna take to get these stupid things off?!" Yorgoth groaned.

Vers felt her hands heating up like fire. The metal restraints around her wrists melted and boom! They blasted off.

"Power up your fists!"

Yorgoth tried it and kaboom! His metal restraints exploded, and he blasted every Skrull around them. "Fire power!" he cheered.

Their luck was cut short when the walls around them began cracking.

"Now we did it," Yorgoth muttered.

Suddenly a hole exploded in the wall and everything started being sucked out into space. Vers and Yorgoth felt the space vacuum sucking them out the ship. Quickly Yorgoth grabbed a bar and Vers grabbed his hand. They watched as Skrulls were sucked out into space along with numbers of objects.

Quickly they activated their masks but struggled to climb up. Vers looked down at her glowing palms. "Yorgoth! I got an idea!"

Yorgoth immediately got her idea. "Got it. I'm goanna let go then boom! We shoot out,"

Vers let go of his hand and she was the first one to shoot out of the room with her energised fists which acted like engines on a rocket. Yorgoth followed her and they managed to make it to safety. Quickly they dashed down the corridors again to the room in which they were imprisoned in. They saw two short Skrulls standing in front of the memory screen.

"Move," Yorgoth ordered.

Fearfully they moved aside. They grabbed their uniform boots and stalked off, heading towards a pod ejection room where already numbers of Skrulls were pushing past one another to board these single seat ships.

"Looks like we're not sharing one together," Yorgoth showed off his shrugged expression at Vers.

"Good. Because I'd throw you out," Before Vers could even give off a sarcastic reply, she jumped into a pod and threw a Skrull out before taking off.

Yorgoth boarded one. He was just about to press the controls to take off when there was a sudden blast at the control pad.

"Leaving so soon?" a voice cackled behind them. It was Talos with a smoky gun. "We were just getting started,"

"Stay away from me" Yorgoth fired up his hand again.

"Come on. I'm just trying to protect you," Once again Talos's words were bringing deep confusion to Yorgoth. "I promised her I would find you if any harm came to her,"

"Who's her?!"

"Your mother,"

Yorgoth still wouldn't believe a single world uttered from that shrivelled green face. He shot a blast at Talos, and he ducked. He closed the door again. He pressed a button. A rumble emitted and he felt the pod moving through a tunnel and then popping out of the ship and into space.

"Vers?" he called. "Can you hear me?"

"I can hear you. Loud and clear! What took you so long?"

"I was a bit preoccupied with Talos. Are you nearby?"

"Yes. I'm right near you,"

Yorgoth looked outside and saw her pod. She waved through the window.

"You're looking good," he joked.

"Ha ha,"

"We've got to get back to Kree headquarters," just then Yorgoth tried to get control of the pod's steering, there was a strange siren blaze. The lights inside his pod were glowing red. His controls were jammed. Abruptly his stomach flew into his throat and gravity was overtaking his body.

"Vers! I'm going down!"

Vers looked outside her ship and gasped. She steered her pod down after her partners. But he was falling faster and faster, too fast. Then kaboom!

The ship exploded.

Another chapter done. Sorry for taking long. Please, please send reviews and let me know what you all thought. I would love to hear your opinions. I hope you all are enjoying this.