I left the prison after my talk with Dylan and walked slowly towards the central complex of the Children of Loki Revolutionary Movement. The COLRM home world was located on the planet Valhalla which was located in the Odin solar system which was in turn located in the Milky-Way galaxy. 'This planet looks alright. It is not too green but far from desolate.. yes quite an acceptable planet.' I thought to myself as I walked up to the biggest building on the planet named the Temple of Gods. As I approached the doors, they swung open revealing a room with massive pillars running as far as the eye could see and all the way up to the roof. The roof was located 67.35metres above me and housed a number of differently but brilliantly coloured windows which allowed the light of the sun to penetrate giving the entire room a surreal presence. I walked down the corridor towards the back of the building and towards the office where my masters where anxiously awaiting my arrival. I calmly walked up to the doors and rapped on the wood four times then waited the knocked again once waited again then knocked a final three times before the doors where opened. ' What an archaic mode of identification we used to protect our leader' I thought as I walked in to the room. I started scanning the area to look for any hidden traps or devices and could find nothing except the life signs of six humans, four in front of me and two behind one on each side of the door.
"Ah Mat so you have finally finished gloating over our prisoner and given him our ultimatum?" asked the man seated on a large throne-like chair as he looked up and saw me entering the room
"I have done as you requested Master" I replied
"Good... Good... So how do you expect him to react? will he help us or will he have to be made to help us?"
"I'm sure that once we tell him what we want to do he will have to be made to help us. There is no way he would ever willingly destroy the Commonwealth he helped create." "And he certainly will have no part in the destruction of the Andromeda Ascendant"
"Well not willingly anyway" one of the men to the left of my Master sneered
"I don't think that we should tell him about the plans to destroy Andromeda" I said carefully not knowing how they would react to such a statement " or at least not let him remember the plans once we have performed the procedure on him"
"And why would you advise against such a thing? do you now have feelings for that ship as well?" asked the man to my Master's right I knew this man his name was Narvi and he was the son of my Master.
"No! Nothing of the sort" I said in a tightly controlled voice, it was not a wise move to get angry with my Master's son "It's just that I know how deeply Captain Hunt cares for her and he would never do anything to harm her. And as we all know the device doesn't work all the time especially against such strong emotions."
"You're right Mat we won't tell Captain Hunt all our plans. Tomorrow when you go back to see him tell him only that our plans involve the overthrowing of the Systems-Commonwealth not it's destruction" my Master said and then signalled with his hand that my presence was no longer required so I bowed carefully and left the room. I left the building and walked slowly over to the room that was allocated as my room to power down and recharge for the night. Meanwhile Dylan sat in his prison still contemplating the decision he was going to have to make tomorrow.
I turned on the next morning at 0900 same as always and walked over to my closet and pulled out a clean tunic. After putting it on I made my way over to the prison as it was time to get the answer even though I already know what it will be. On my way there I stopped at the weapons room and picked up a tranquilliser gun and two darts just to be on the safe side. I walked over to the prison and nodded to the guard who opened the door for me allowing me to enter, as I walked through the empty halls of the prison I kept running all the possible scenarios through my head. By the time I reached the door to Dylan's cell I knew we were going to have to do this the hard way. Even if Dylan agreed to help us he was only going to be doing so until he could come up with a viable escape plan, which meant he was going to have to be put through the machine no matter what. 'Oh well at least I'll soon have someone else who will understand what I have to go through' I thought as I put the key in and turned it opening the door.
"Good Morning Dylan did you sleep well?" I asked not really expecting an answer or caring about one if I got it
"Mmmphf" was the reply I got and a slight shrug of his shoulders just like I thought
"Ok so what is your answer? are you going to help us willingly or to we have to force you?"
"Tell me what it is you need help with then I'll let you know" he replied slowly standing until he was standing straight backed and head held high
"Well we are going to overthrow the Commonwealth of course but we need your leadership and tactical abilities" I said already knowing how he would reply to that
"NEVER!" he spat "I would NEVER help you or who ever you work for in doing that."
"I knew you would say that and so did my Master that's why we have a contingency plan" I said as I slowly removed the gun from my pocket and loaded a dart into it
"Oh I'm so scared are you going to threaten me saying "If you don't help us we will kill you" is that your contingency plan because if it is I would rather you killed me now and saved us both the trouble"
"Oh don't worry we aren't going to kill you... At least not in that sense. The only thing in these dart's are sedatives"
"Ok so now you're just going to put me to sleep? are you hoping that when I wake up my mind will be changed?" he said laughing and still laughing as the dart hit him in the neck. He flinched and pulled it out and looked at it then stopped laughing as he slowly lost consciousness
"That's one way of putting it" I replied smiling. He looked up and saw the smile on my face and I saw the look of horror entering his eyes just before they closed. I laughed as I unlocked the chains picked him up threw him over my shoulder and took him down towards the lab. As I entered the lab I threw him down on one of the two bed's in the room then looked at the other bed that had a sheet draped over it "When you wake up your mind will be changed" I said as I sat down and waited.
"Ah Mat so you have finally finished gloating over our prisoner and given him our ultimatum?" asked the man seated on a large throne-like chair as he looked up and saw me entering the room
"I have done as you requested Master" I replied
"Good... Good... So how do you expect him to react? will he help us or will he have to be made to help us?"
"I'm sure that once we tell him what we want to do he will have to be made to help us. There is no way he would ever willingly destroy the Commonwealth he helped create." "And he certainly will have no part in the destruction of the Andromeda Ascendant"
"Well not willingly anyway" one of the men to the left of my Master sneered
"I don't think that we should tell him about the plans to destroy Andromeda" I said carefully not knowing how they would react to such a statement " or at least not let him remember the plans once we have performed the procedure on him"
"And why would you advise against such a thing? do you now have feelings for that ship as well?" asked the man to my Master's right I knew this man his name was Narvi and he was the son of my Master.
"No! Nothing of the sort" I said in a tightly controlled voice, it was not a wise move to get angry with my Master's son "It's just that I know how deeply Captain Hunt cares for her and he would never do anything to harm her. And as we all know the device doesn't work all the time especially against such strong emotions."
"You're right Mat we won't tell Captain Hunt all our plans. Tomorrow when you go back to see him tell him only that our plans involve the overthrowing of the Systems-Commonwealth not it's destruction" my Master said and then signalled with his hand that my presence was no longer required so I bowed carefully and left the room. I left the building and walked slowly over to the room that was allocated as my room to power down and recharge for the night. Meanwhile Dylan sat in his prison still contemplating the decision he was going to have to make tomorrow.
I turned on the next morning at 0900 same as always and walked over to my closet and pulled out a clean tunic. After putting it on I made my way over to the prison as it was time to get the answer even though I already know what it will be. On my way there I stopped at the weapons room and picked up a tranquilliser gun and two darts just to be on the safe side. I walked over to the prison and nodded to the guard who opened the door for me allowing me to enter, as I walked through the empty halls of the prison I kept running all the possible scenarios through my head. By the time I reached the door to Dylan's cell I knew we were going to have to do this the hard way. Even if Dylan agreed to help us he was only going to be doing so until he could come up with a viable escape plan, which meant he was going to have to be put through the machine no matter what. 'Oh well at least I'll soon have someone else who will understand what I have to go through' I thought as I put the key in and turned it opening the door.
"Good Morning Dylan did you sleep well?" I asked not really expecting an answer or caring about one if I got it
"Mmmphf" was the reply I got and a slight shrug of his shoulders just like I thought
"Ok so what is your answer? are you going to help us willingly or to we have to force you?"
"Tell me what it is you need help with then I'll let you know" he replied slowly standing until he was standing straight backed and head held high
"Well we are going to overthrow the Commonwealth of course but we need your leadership and tactical abilities" I said already knowing how he would reply to that
"NEVER!" he spat "I would NEVER help you or who ever you work for in doing that."
"I knew you would say that and so did my Master that's why we have a contingency plan" I said as I slowly removed the gun from my pocket and loaded a dart into it
"Oh I'm so scared are you going to threaten me saying "If you don't help us we will kill you" is that your contingency plan because if it is I would rather you killed me now and saved us both the trouble"
"Oh don't worry we aren't going to kill you... At least not in that sense. The only thing in these dart's are sedatives"
"Ok so now you're just going to put me to sleep? are you hoping that when I wake up my mind will be changed?" he said laughing and still laughing as the dart hit him in the neck. He flinched and pulled it out and looked at it then stopped laughing as he slowly lost consciousness
"That's one way of putting it" I replied smiling. He looked up and saw the smile on my face and I saw the look of horror entering his eyes just before they closed. I laughed as I unlocked the chains picked him up threw him over my shoulder and took him down towards the lab. As I entered the lab I threw him down on one of the two bed's in the room then looked at the other bed that had a sheet draped over it "When you wake up your mind will be changed" I said as I sat down and waited.
