Chapter 3 - Plans and Their Execution

Evil-Lyn ran for her life, Skelitor's evil warriors running after her trying to capture her. Taking the odd pot shot at them with her magic she soon made her way next the Eternian Palace...

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Mekaneck was sitting at one of the palace look-outs, wishing he had better powers than his neck again. They have not seen nor heard of Skelitor and his minions, so they where long over due of an attack. This always made Man-At-Arms jumpy, causing him to double the guard. Seeing a cloud of smoke in the distance, he extended his neck, then used his goggles to have a look at what was going on. Seeing some trees on fire he looked over to the cause. There in a circle was some of Skelitor's evil warriors, and a pregnant woman in the middle. At closer inspection he was shocked to find the woman was Evil Lyn, and raised the alarm.

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Evil-Lyn looked at the people that she new so well in horror as they came closer in on her. She had tripped over a rock and stumbled, giving the others a chance to catch up on her.

"That's it Evil-Lyn, Skelitor wants you and his child back. You should know better than to run off like that," Beast Man snarled.

Looking around helplessly she saw her dropped staff lying feet away. Concentrating hard she managed to use her magic to bring her staff to her and got up and used it to blast Beast-Man. "Never! I am not letting Skelitor use this child for his own evil purposes!" Hearing a roar she turned to see none other than He-Man, and the evil warriors turned to attack him. When they where all beaten he moved in on Evil-Lyn who immediately lowered her staff. "Please He-Man, you must take me away from here! Help me! I am pregnant with Skelitor's child and he intends to use it to make a sacrifice to a demon from another realm in order to increase his power. Please I cannot let him!"

"How do I know this isn't some sort of trick?"

"You can't, I mean you just got to trust me. I may have done awful things in the past, but the child is innocent in this!" Noticing the other masters for the first time she looked at Man-At-Arms who was in deep thought.

"She has a point He-Man. She maybe lying but we can't risk an innocent child." He looked at her curiously. "We better take her back to the palace and keep her under guard to make sure she's not up to anything."

They chained her up, made her give up her staff and took her off on the back of one of their transports, but none of them noticed the smirk on her lips as they headed off to the palace.

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Lyn sat on an examining bed in the palace medical lab, two guards on the door, and Man-At-Arms fooling about with some peace of equipment. They where going to give her and the baby a check-up just to make sure they where both ok after her 'ordeal.' She was kind of glad at the same time anyway, she really did want to know if those idiotic buffoons caused any damage to her baby. Skelitor had made them all believe she was running away from him just to make it seem so much more real. So far everything was working out to plan.

"Ok, this is going to give us an accurate picture of what your baby looks like, it's development, and vital statistics."

Hearing those words tears almost formed in her eyes, "you can show me what it looks like."

"Can tell you it's sex too if you want. There is away of blocking that part if you don't want to know, lots of mothers want to keep it a surprise."

This time she was overpowered at the thought and a few tears of joy did fall down her cheek, "please, I want to know what it is, so I know what to name them when the time comes. It's a tradition to know before birth among my people, but I am banished and can't go home to find out. I thought I was going to be denied the knowledge till the baby is born."

"Yes, I have heard of them before, your people can live hundreds even thousands of years, your still young to be having children though, are you not?"

"Yes I'm only thirty-seven of your years. It makes me still a little girl to their standards. It is possible for us to have children from the age of seventeen but is frowned upon until the age of one-hundred and fifty. I couldn't go home now even if I wanted. I was only a foolish little girl when I joined Keldor's forces, in many ways I still am."

Man-At-Arms connected some contact pads to her abdomen and a picture came up on a screen in front of them. "Well looks like your going to be the proud mother of a baby boy, and he seems perfectly healthy."

Evil-Lyn really was weeping with the joy of seeing her son for the first time. 'If only his father could see this.' "That tail doesn't come from my side of the family."

Duncan remembered back to when he was a boy and a man he once knew that had a monkey tail like that. He was probably one of the few people that knew of Randor's secret brother Keldor. "No, that comes from his father's side. Keldor's grandfather had a tail, he was a great Saiyan warrior named Goku, came from another universe, and stayed here a while before he went home again." He looked lost in thought remembering his childhood and the happy time he had at Goku's place and how Keldor was Kaldor and was a happy child back then.

"You knew his grandfather?"

"Yes I knew his grandfather all right. Taught me most of my wilderness survival skills. He went home because he was home sick, he said he will be back some day though, and I hope he does soon. We could really use his help, he's more powerful than Hordack, Skelitor and King Hiss combined."

"That's a lot of power." She looked once again at her little boy on the screen wondering how much he will have. Power or no power, she knew one thing, she really was going to be a mother; seeing her son for the first time made it seem more real, like it was all some vivid dream before. There was one thing for sure though, she loved this child and was going to do anything to protect it.

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Two Months later...

Evil-Lyn is now 7 months pregnant and is very big. She has been gathering vital information for the past two months she's spent at the palace, and three times since has given them information to beat Skelitor in a number of dummy attacks on Grayskull to throw them all off. After the third time they decided to trust her enough to move freely through un-restricted areas of the palace with no guards, and even has her own room. This new freedom has only helped her along in her plot, and her baby has been developing really well from the extra food around. She has been in regular contact with Skelitor secretly to relay information.

She lay down on her bed looking up at the ceiling knowing the final attack will happen later on. Part of her didn't want to go ahead because everyone here has been so nice and made a welcome change from Snake Mountain. But the biggest part of her missed being by her husband's side, and the power and magic that came from being his most valued ally. Her ever so unstable hormones made her even miss the others, even the stinky one. Sure they where all fairly stupid and incompetent but they where all like one big family to her, after all they had all been through a lot together over the years. Most of them wasn't really evil, just misguided.

There was one thing she really was missing though, being next to her husband at nights, like they have been for the past twenty years. They had their own rooms but most of the time they spent the night together. When Keldor became Skelitor he had rejected her but still kept making excuses to sleep in the same bed. She knew he always loved her still deep down, even if he didn't know how to show it anymore. It was two years after, they started their sexual relationship again out of frustration and passion, they even had their own odd way of kissing. But after the time she told him she was pregnant it was like it healed some old wounds between them and he was gentle and loving to her in bed again.

She was brought out of her revelry by a knock on the door. "Come in."

Queen Marlena popped her head around the door and smiled at the white-haired woman. She took Lyn in as her personal responsibility to make sure she went through her pregnancy comfortably. After all she'd been there herself and knew what it was like normally, so she could only guess at the emotional turmoil the young woman is going through. "Getting in some rest I see. Am I disturbing you?"

"No it's fine, I just in here to keep me away from the kitchen. I feel like eating a whole lb of cookie doe again, and after the last time I really don't want to do that."

Marlena cringed remembering the last time and how she had to help her out of the kitchen and to the medical lab from the allergic reaction Lyn had to the ingredients. "That was a lovely shade of orange those rashes broke out into, but best not do that again." She laughed, "when I was pregnant with Adam I had a really bad craving for gingerbread men."

"Gingerbread men? Who are they?"

"No dear, they are a biscuit, they are called men because they are shaped like little men. It's an old treat my grandmother gave me back on Earth. Well there is none of the main ingredient ginger on this planet, so I used a substitute. Needless to say it didn't agree with the cuckabo eggs very well, Duncan and Randor ate some before I had a chance to try them."

"What happened?" Evil-Lyn asked in an amused tone wondering if she could get the recipe and feed them to Skelitor and the rest of the goons.

"They both grew yellow feathers and even magic couldn't get rid of them. Had to weight three months for their feathers to moult."

Lyn couldn't help herself and burst into laughter, only managing to stop herself when she started gasping for breath. "Sorry, was just thinking about the two of them with feathers. Then Skelitor with feathers. You really need to give me that recipe."

It was now the queen's turn to burst into a fit of hysterics as she imagined Skelitor trying to make a threat looking like a giant cannery. "You know I should write it down. We could bake some and leave them at his door as a gift."

"I could imagine Beast-Man finding them and eating them all on site as well. Would be just like him," she laughed back.

"Have you thought of any names yet?"

"No, not really. It's just so hard to find something I like and stick to it." She did have a couple ideas she was talking to her husband about it a lot. He wanted to call the child Goku after his grandfather since the boy had a tail, but Lyn really didn't like it as a name. He also suggested Kaly which she didn't know where it came from but it was her favourite one so far. Other options was Keldor, David, Ross and James; one after the boy's father, the other's where male relatives of hers. "What you think of the name Kaly?"

"Kaly?" Marlena froze hearing the pet name of Randor's brother as a child. Recovering quickly she answered, "I think it's a lovely name... where did you come up with it?"

"I duno really, I must of heard it somewhere before. Came from my head, I like it, just wanted another opinion."

"It really is nice, Adam was named after my father, that's how I got the name." She got up and straightened her robes a little, "anyway dear, I have to go get ready for dinner. Glad to see your alright." Marlena told her and walked out the door leaving Lyn alone once more.

Evil-Lyn pulled out her communicator, it was time. She was going to regret doing this to Marlena who took her in and looked out for her, but she had a job to do. Besides she could always make sure no real harm comes to her.

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A/N: Well had to leave it at a cliff hanger, after all what's the fun in not keeping you wondering how things will go next? Anyway please review! I refresh like 20 times a day to see if someone has at least shouted at me for something lol!