The Equalizer Ch.2
The Maternity Ward, the Fertility Prison
Robyn awoke to sterile looking white walls with what she could only describe as propaganda posters promoting mass reproduction with seemingly benign graphics and sappy slogans like "No hood like motherhood" or "A bun in the oven is better than Cinnabon's buns".
"What in the Handmaiden's Tale," She muttered as she rose to sit up and assess the situation.
Marc pulled his phone from his underwear and then frantically tried to browse.
"Did you just hide your phone in your butt like they did with that watch in Pulp Fiction?" Robyn asked.
"Ya dam straight. I knew they would confiscate our phone, so I gave them my burner. Been using it since you were a bit on edge."
"Baby, wash your hands after using that thing please. I often wondered if they washed the watch in the movie before handing it to that boy. I mean it was in his daddy's butt and then his daddy's friend's butt too and they told him that before handing it to a kid," she commented with disgust.
"That's how you get a virus, which ironically is the front for kidnapping us," Marcus said typing away at his phone.
Robyn turned to face him and acted as though she were going to kiss his cheek when she whispered in his ear, "I hope that you activated your location tag to someone before they confiscate the phone. This place has got to be bugged and those tarps around the walls aren't tarps they are to interfere with cell tower signals. Please tell me you are notifying Aunt Vi and all our sources."
"Baby, you're the one that's bugged and no, I didn't let them examine you while you were unconscious in fact you aren't going to believe this but, I'm not who I said I am. Remember how I said that Maybe God destined us for becoming a family and making babies because we are meant to fight forces if evil? Well God isn't the only one who put me on this earth, I'm not entirely human," he whispered.
"They drugged you didn't they hun?" she said rubbing his head patronizingly.
"I can prove it. Because this isn't a cell phone. It's a homing device for my ship. But first let's get that tracker out of you dear," he said.
Before Robyn could say another word he put his palm to the back of her head, and she felt warmth before something rolled down her neck and simultaneously the lights of the room flickered off and on then an alarm bared loudly.
"Take of your birthing center gown and put your clothes on. They're here for all four of us and they have Aunt Vi," he said helping her dress feverishly.
"Who baby who? Rob. We are going to have to move for a little while like another planet little while," he said before they fled the room. See the truth is that I am a genetically mutated human descended from a secret high intelligence society that found live could be sustained on a planet on the other side of a worm whole it's with a quantum physics time travel thing. My grandparents colonized the planet when we found that people of color weren't having an easy time on earth. It was a successful mission and experiment that lost funding between the currencies of the planet. Now Rob we couldn't go back but we needed more women and men to help us breed so I and many others were sent to spy on world governments and then find suitable spouses to plant families with before returning," he explained before lasering a camera with eyes.
"What about your sons and your ex-wife. They didn't want to go back, but they were taken to my home planet of Kush anyways. They are happy now though, she moved on and the quality of life is better. It's like Wakanda actually," he said with candor.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were looking for an intergalactic mail order bride when we were dating?! What about my daughter?!"
"So, she has been unknowingly seeing someone who is also from Kush. They were entertaining the idea of eloping someday if you didn't approve of him so.. I think she's on board with the new life," He explained.
"So that's it? We live in a paradise and let Earth crumble into the judgements of Revelations? What about fighting darkness?"
"We can come back Rob after we have laid low, and the CIA and FBI shuffles out some people. That could be indefinitely!"
"Robyn you talk about how much is wrong with this planet and how you can't imagine birthing out children into a world you didn't help make better but what if their world was more stable? We could help people once we have our house in order."
Marcus scrunched his forehead and his eyes turned purple.
"You really ought to warn someone before you stary glowing up like a glow stick at a rave!" she said after jumping a little.
"I just connected with the other Kushites telepathically they got Mel and Harry on the ship."
"So, the CIA abducts me and then I get abducted by aliens after finding out I'm pregnant with quintuplets what is my life?! You think you're just gonna be an equalizer and then your life turns into a Jordan Peele film, Dang On!"
"If you are a psycho killer who gets off on creating families and killing them instead of this crazy mess, you're going down Marcus," she said.
"I guess this is a bad time to tell you that Marcus is my Earth name, and my real name is Kaleo."
"Kaleo? What language is that what does it even mean?"
"Literally means sound or voice in Hawaiian. My parents honeymooned there, got pregnant and liked it when they heard it from a fire dancer with the name."
"What a world. So, are you why we got abducted? Is there no new COVID strand?"
"One. I don't believe the CIA has a clue. Two there is a new virus but people from my planet are immune because we encountered it through pegasuses. They can't find out about our babies Rob, or you'll get probed and taken like property along with our babies. You have to disappear again."
"Ok," she said with a sigh of resolve.
Just then a laser cut through the ceiling and then a whirlpool of black engulfed both Robyn, Marcus and their babies.
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