Destiny: Chapter 12
Destiny
Ch. 12/?
By Arus
Disclaimer: Voltron, Defender of the Universe, Voltron 3D, and its characters are copyright © 1984 & copyright © 2000 by World Events Productions, Ltd. and Toei Animation Company. This story is for entertainment purposes only. Original characters and storyline are property of the author, please do not use, reproduce, or repost without permission.
Website: http://www.arus.org/
"Xue!"
Xue turned to Anala as she approached him in the hallway. It was now time for them to leave, to head toward this Planet Lysia, in a part of the galaxy they had no familiarity with. Anala knew that this was important to all of them. To find out what happened to her people, to rescue llura…and maybe to answer some questions concerning her father.
Those same questions she knew that were haunting the man who stood before her now.
"We need to speak," she said.
"We do not have time to talk, my queen," he said as he started down the hall again. "As you know, we are all ready to leave."
"You've been avoiding me since that blow up with my mother," she said as she grabbed his arm and stopped him where he stood. "You have to speak to her."
"Alysson is in a very distraught mood, and I am the last person that needs to talk to her at this moment."
"SHE LOVES you god damnit!" she nearly yelled as he started to walk offagain. "Does that even matter to you?"
He stopped suddenly then slowly turned to her.
"She loves the man whom I represent," he stated. "She will always love him and there is nothing that I can do that will change that."
"Of all people that I know, Xue, you'd be the last person I'd figure who'd be afraid of falling in love…"
Without answering, he turned and disappeared down the hall.
Allura looked up when the door to the room she was in opened. She got to her feet as a young woman entered. She met her gaze then averted when she carried in a small bundle of clothes.
"Master Kelar has asked that these clothes be given to you," she stated. "And when you are done changing, I am to escort you to the main palace."
"Main palace?"
"The Baron has requested your and my master's presence at dinner," shestated. "You'll find all that you need here."
"Baron…Baron Akryl?" Allura asked.
"Yes," she stated. "Please…"
She slowly stepped away then motioned to the bundle she had placed down on the table next to her. She then turned and left the room, closing the door behind her as she left.
Allura could only walk over the table and stared at the bundle of clothes. She let out a sigh knowing that she had no idea where she was, or how she got there, and just to do as she was asked until she could figure out what to do.
She only prayed that her friends would come soon.
"Why are men so damn selfish!?"
Lance turned in his chair as he watched as Anala sat in her seat, with a disgruntled expression. They were already an hour into their flight toward Lysia, and Anala opted to ride with Lance in his lion. For the better half of their time, she was having an argument with the pilot of Red Lion.
"What can you do?" Lance asked as he turned back to the screen before him. "I mean look at it from his point of view."
"I think its stupid," she said.
"I'm not siding with him," Lance stated. "But I can see why he wants to distance himself from your mother right now."
"Damn that Kelar," she muttered.
"Okay, let me get this straight," he said as he flipped on his auto pilot and turned to her. "How did your mother find out that your father was dead all those years ago?"
"When she returned home, she found him and the nursemaid slain," she said. "She immediately informed Galaxy Garison of the murders, put Keith into the care of our Uncle and headed straight back to Vallis."
"But if she saw the bodies, and saw that Galaxy Garison take care of everything, how can he be alive on a planet in an unknown part of the system?"
She met his gaze. "I don't know."
"Well, that is the problem that I'm trying to figure out," he said.
She turned away from him for a bit, as she thought about it herself. Her mother knew he was dead. She knew that her father was gone. She then remembered something that she had overheard years ago, when she was snooping around one of Kelar's labs when she was a child.
"No, it can't be," she muttered.
"What?"
"It never worked."
"What is it?"
"That bastard, he actually did it" she said. "He's a clone."
"Clone?" Lance asked.
She nodded as she met his gaze. "Can you raise Keith?" she asked.
"What is it?"
"I have to talk to Xue."
"After all of this?" he asked.
"He's the only one that fully knows all of what Kelar did," she said.
"But if cloning was something that Kelar did, then wouldn't he have told us?" he asked.
"The technology for us to clone was impossible," she said, "but Kelar was considering in developing it for another type of – resource – to sell to his buyers. Breed your own line of soldiers."
"Damn, that is crazy," he said. "But if this guy…Alex is a clone, then how was he able to clone him?"
"Before I was born, even before Kelar took over Vallis, there was a strange blood disease that affected my people," she explained. "The doctors were collecting blood samples from all over the galaxy, to try and find a cure. The sampling continued well into Kelar's rule, until a cure was found.
"It wouldn't be strange if the assassin he sent to find my mother collected some samples of blood," she finished.
"And the name Alex?"
"Coincidence maybe?" she asked. "Or whoever the Assassin was told him Kelar. I don't know."
"But even the technology for cloning on Earth was at its most, archaeic."
"With Kelar, anything becomes possible," she said.
"Well, let's see how much Kelar was able to develop," Lance said as he opened up a channel to Black Lion.
Allura stared up at the huge painting that was on the wall before her. She figured that it must be the portrait of the many who came before this Baron Akryl. She stared into the eyes of the woman, who was immortalized in the painting and quietly thought to herself if she'd approve of what Akryl was responsible for.
"That is the portrait of the Lady Nera."
Allura turned around and watched as an older man entered the room she was in. She watched as he rounded the small table and came to stand near her in front of the portrait.
"She was our first ruler here on Lysia," he stated. "Nearly 1000 years ago."
"Was she the last woman to be ruler?"
He turned to her and then smiled . "Actually, there were many more to follow after her," he stated. "Are you the first to rule your planet, princess?"
"Actually, I'm the fifth," she answered.
"Kelar is waiting for us in the dining room," he said as he turned to her and offered his arm to her. "I would love to escort you there."
Allura looked at his offered arm but met his gaze.
"I would think you'd understand that I do not wish to be here, Baron," she said as she started pass him. "And that I will do everything in my power to be sure that I leave."
"Kelar has great power here," the Baron said as he turned to her. "Even I don't have the command he holds over Lysia."
"You're the rightful heir to Lysia, yet you cannot even control your own people?" she asked.
"The army that guards my planet, princess, all belong to Kelar," he simply stated. "The soldiers are all of his creation; he developed his science here so he could use it elsewhere."
She turned to him. "The soldiers?" she asked. "You mean they are not your people?"
"The soldiers were all created in the laboratory adjacent to this palace," he stated. "Science I myself have never seen before."
Allura met his gaze one last time. "Exactly what do you mean by created?"
The Baron smiled as he offered his arm to her again, and this time she accepted it graciously.
"I believe he called it cloning…"
"Pidge, did you get all of that?"
"Yeah, Im still trying to digest all of it," the young member said as he stared at the viewscreen before him. "Xue, exactly how was Kelar able to replicate the process of cloning? All attempts on Earth to do that were always met with disasterours results."
"I don't know," Xue stated. "When Kelar started this, he had moved all of his operations off of Vallis to Lysia. Exactly what he does is unknown to me."
"So what do you think?" Lance asked as he appeared in Pidge's viewscreen.
"Do we stand a chance against Kelar's army?"
"It's hard to say, but I would advise against a full frontal assault until I figure out how he was able to do it," he said. "And the only way to do that…"
"Is find one of these clones," Xue stated.
"Well, we'll have to decide that quick," Keith interrupted. "We land in 5 minutes."
Allura was quick to remove the dress she wore and slip into her own clothes. As much as she admired the work that went into the dress, what it represented to her had made her feel uncomfortable to wear it longer than she had to.
She then fell onto her bed as she closed her eyes as she mulled over the thoughts in her head and what she had learned from the Baron over dinner. Much to her delight, she saw that it irritated Kelar that she was giving Akryl her attention that to him. It only made her smile knowing that she had somehow unnerved him.
She knew that the whole situation had her confused, and the biggest confusion for her as it was, was how Kelar could look like Keith and how was Keith involved in all of this. She had the oddest feeling that she knew the answer, but could not place her finger on it. And the more she thought about it, the more it unnerved her.
Destiny
Ch. 12/?
By Arus
Disclaimer: Voltron, Defender of the Universe, Voltron 3D, and its characters are copyright © 1984 & copyright © 2000 by World Events Productions, Ltd. and Toei Animation Company. This story is for entertainment purposes only. Original characters and storyline are property of the author, please do not use, reproduce, or repost without permission.
Website: http://www.arus.org/
"Xue!"
Xue turned to Anala as she approached him in the hallway. It was now time for them to leave, to head toward this Planet Lysia, in a part of the galaxy they had no familiarity with. Anala knew that this was important to all of them. To find out what happened to her people, to rescue llura…and maybe to answer some questions concerning her father.
Those same questions she knew that were haunting the man who stood before her now.
"We need to speak," she said.
"We do not have time to talk, my queen," he said as he started down the hall again. "As you know, we are all ready to leave."
"You've been avoiding me since that blow up with my mother," she said as she grabbed his arm and stopped him where he stood. "You have to speak to her."
"Alysson is in a very distraught mood, and I am the last person that needs to talk to her at this moment."
"SHE LOVES you god damnit!" she nearly yelled as he started to walk offagain. "Does that even matter to you?"
He stopped suddenly then slowly turned to her.
"She loves the man whom I represent," he stated. "She will always love him and there is nothing that I can do that will change that."
"Of all people that I know, Xue, you'd be the last person I'd figure who'd be afraid of falling in love…"
Without answering, he turned and disappeared down the hall.
Allura looked up when the door to the room she was in opened. She got to her feet as a young woman entered. She met her gaze then averted when she carried in a small bundle of clothes.
"Master Kelar has asked that these clothes be given to you," she stated. "And when you are done changing, I am to escort you to the main palace."
"Main palace?"
"The Baron has requested your and my master's presence at dinner," shestated. "You'll find all that you need here."
"Baron…Baron Akryl?" Allura asked.
"Yes," she stated. "Please…"
She slowly stepped away then motioned to the bundle she had placed down on the table next to her. She then turned and left the room, closing the door behind her as she left.
Allura could only walk over the table and stared at the bundle of clothes. She let out a sigh knowing that she had no idea where she was, or how she got there, and just to do as she was asked until she could figure out what to do.
She only prayed that her friends would come soon.
"Why are men so damn selfish!?"
Lance turned in his chair as he watched as Anala sat in her seat, with a disgruntled expression. They were already an hour into their flight toward Lysia, and Anala opted to ride with Lance in his lion. For the better half of their time, she was having an argument with the pilot of Red Lion.
"What can you do?" Lance asked as he turned back to the screen before him. "I mean look at it from his point of view."
"I think its stupid," she said.
"I'm not siding with him," Lance stated. "But I can see why he wants to distance himself from your mother right now."
"Damn that Kelar," she muttered.
"Okay, let me get this straight," he said as he flipped on his auto pilot and turned to her. "How did your mother find out that your father was dead all those years ago?"
"When she returned home, she found him and the nursemaid slain," she said. "She immediately informed Galaxy Garison of the murders, put Keith into the care of our Uncle and headed straight back to Vallis."
"But if she saw the bodies, and saw that Galaxy Garison take care of everything, how can he be alive on a planet in an unknown part of the system?"
She met his gaze. "I don't know."
"Well, that is the problem that I'm trying to figure out," he said.
She turned away from him for a bit, as she thought about it herself. Her mother knew he was dead. She knew that her father was gone. She then remembered something that she had overheard years ago, when she was snooping around one of Kelar's labs when she was a child.
"No, it can't be," she muttered.
"What?"
"It never worked."
"What is it?"
"That bastard, he actually did it" she said. "He's a clone."
"Clone?" Lance asked.
She nodded as she met his gaze. "Can you raise Keith?" she asked.
"What is it?"
"I have to talk to Xue."
"After all of this?" he asked.
"He's the only one that fully knows all of what Kelar did," she said.
"But if cloning was something that Kelar did, then wouldn't he have told us?" he asked.
"The technology for us to clone was impossible," she said, "but Kelar was considering in developing it for another type of – resource – to sell to his buyers. Breed your own line of soldiers."
"Damn, that is crazy," he said. "But if this guy…Alex is a clone, then how was he able to clone him?"
"Before I was born, even before Kelar took over Vallis, there was a strange blood disease that affected my people," she explained. "The doctors were collecting blood samples from all over the galaxy, to try and find a cure. The sampling continued well into Kelar's rule, until a cure was found.
"It wouldn't be strange if the assassin he sent to find my mother collected some samples of blood," she finished.
"And the name Alex?"
"Coincidence maybe?" she asked. "Or whoever the Assassin was told him Kelar. I don't know."
"But even the technology for cloning on Earth was at its most, archaeic."
"With Kelar, anything becomes possible," she said.
"Well, let's see how much Kelar was able to develop," Lance said as he opened up a channel to Black Lion.
Allura stared up at the huge painting that was on the wall before her. She figured that it must be the portrait of the many who came before this Baron Akryl. She stared into the eyes of the woman, who was immortalized in the painting and quietly thought to herself if she'd approve of what Akryl was responsible for.
"That is the portrait of the Lady Nera."
Allura turned around and watched as an older man entered the room she was in. She watched as he rounded the small table and came to stand near her in front of the portrait.
"She was our first ruler here on Lysia," he stated. "Nearly 1000 years ago."
"Was she the last woman to be ruler?"
He turned to her and then smiled . "Actually, there were many more to follow after her," he stated. "Are you the first to rule your planet, princess?"
"Actually, I'm the fifth," she answered.
"Kelar is waiting for us in the dining room," he said as he turned to her and offered his arm to her. "I would love to escort you there."
Allura looked at his offered arm but met his gaze.
"I would think you'd understand that I do not wish to be here, Baron," she said as she started pass him. "And that I will do everything in my power to be sure that I leave."
"Kelar has great power here," the Baron said as he turned to her. "Even I don't have the command he holds over Lysia."
"You're the rightful heir to Lysia, yet you cannot even control your own people?" she asked.
"The army that guards my planet, princess, all belong to Kelar," he simply stated. "The soldiers are all of his creation; he developed his science here so he could use it elsewhere."
She turned to him. "The soldiers?" she asked. "You mean they are not your people?"
"The soldiers were all created in the laboratory adjacent to this palace," he stated. "Science I myself have never seen before."
Allura met his gaze one last time. "Exactly what do you mean by created?"
The Baron smiled as he offered his arm to her again, and this time she accepted it graciously.
"I believe he called it cloning…"
"Pidge, did you get all of that?"
"Yeah, Im still trying to digest all of it," the young member said as he stared at the viewscreen before him. "Xue, exactly how was Kelar able to replicate the process of cloning? All attempts on Earth to do that were always met with disasterours results."
"I don't know," Xue stated. "When Kelar started this, he had moved all of his operations off of Vallis to Lysia. Exactly what he does is unknown to me."
"So what do you think?" Lance asked as he appeared in Pidge's viewscreen.
"Do we stand a chance against Kelar's army?"
"It's hard to say, but I would advise against a full frontal assault until I figure out how he was able to do it," he said. "And the only way to do that…"
"Is find one of these clones," Xue stated.
"Well, we'll have to decide that quick," Keith interrupted. "We land in 5 minutes."
Allura was quick to remove the dress she wore and slip into her own clothes. As much as she admired the work that went into the dress, what it represented to her had made her feel uncomfortable to wear it longer than she had to.
She then fell onto her bed as she closed her eyes as she mulled over the thoughts in her head and what she had learned from the Baron over dinner. Much to her delight, she saw that it irritated Kelar that she was giving Akryl her attention that to him. It only made her smile knowing that she had somehow unnerved him.
She knew that the whole situation had her confused, and the biggest confusion for her as it was, was how Kelar could look like Keith and how was Keith involved in all of this. She had the oddest feeling that she knew the answer, but could not place her finger on it. And the more she thought about it, the more it unnerved her.