A/N: This takes a while to get back to Jonathan but it does next chapter. I won't keep you guys waiting for too long.
Sean ran back to where he was. He brushed his already wet hair as the water fell from it. Although he tried to keep his mind clear, Jonathan wasn't the only person seeking revenge.
*Flashback a little over 9 years ago, year 2006, Sydney Australia.
An 9 year old Sean was awake in the middle of the night, he heard somebody at the front door. He walked to the door to his bedroom and opened it quietly. It was his parents.
"Why did Carrington want to hide this here?" his mother asked
"Seems to be one of the last places they would look. Wouldn't you think?" His father replied
"I guess so. Anyway let's be quiet in opening the safe, Sean's probably asleep" The mother pressed a few buttons on a safe of some kind. It opened and whatever it was the woman put it in.
Days went by and Sean never worked out where this strange safe was. However about a month later, Sean was awoken by gun shots from weird sounding weapons.
"Lomberson to Carrington… under attack need assistance" his mother shouted through the radio. She was looking through some strange hole in Sean's room.
"Mum what's going on…?" Sean asked. Too young to really understand what was happening around him.
"Don't worry it will be okay… just stay here promise me that." His mother took a gun.
"Mum… what are you doing?" Sean asked. He had no idea his parents were both agents who worked at the Carrington institute.
"Please stay here. Your father and I will be back soon" Sean's mother went out of the room
"MUM! Stay" Sean shouted but it was useless.
Sean heard more gun fire from both laser like weapons and then a regular pistol. It seemed to go like that for a long time but eventually it stopped. Then voices were heard. He looked through the peep hole. Two men in white coats had his parents kneeling both with strange weapons pointed at them.
"We know it's here, stop your foolish act and tell us what we want to know" One of the men said. It sounded dark, uncaring, cold.
"You know we will never tell" His father replied
"Shall we kill them?" Another of the voices said
The man thought for a moment.
"No, let's see how they respond Skedar like torture" The man rubbed his hands and smiled.
The second man left and returned. He held a really strange looking chair.
"Let's see how well you can keep your mouth shut now" The first man said but then some cars pulled up outside and gunshots started again. The two men fired back.
"This is no good, we must surrender" The second man hide underneath a lounge chair and fired a few shots.
"Never…" The first man changed into a strange dinosaur looking thing and then headed for his parents. He then slashed at them and bitted them multiple times, with loud screams. Sean covered his eyes not wanting to watch. He then cried quietly to himself but then the firing stopped and new voices were heard.
"Both Lomberson's dead?" A voice asked
"Regrettably we weren't quick enough, the other one escaped before we could kill him" another replied "Check on their son. I feel so responsible for this" The man said sadly as a few footsteps were heard and then the door was opened and four men came and made sure Sean was okay, he was upset but was uninjured.
"Sean. I guess by now you have worked out your parents weren't telling you the entire truth about their jobs. They were protecting something here, it is unfortunate they had to die protecting it but they still succeeded." The man said "My name is Daniel Carrington and your parents worked for me as agents who did various tasks to help keep peace and other stuff" Carrington explained.
Sean didn't reply. He looked at his parents ripped apart bodies. Another man found the safe which was hidden underneath the lounge chair and then underneath some carpet and headed back outside.
"It is very sad you had to see that, however now you have a choice. Even though you are young I trust you will be able to make this choice. You can stay here and live here, or you can come back with us. Take as long as you…" Carrington started
"I want to go with you… my parents would have wanted that… it will be the only way I will truly get to know the people they were…" Sean said with a bit of tears. Carrington patted him on the shoulder and took him into the car.
*5 years after
Sean went to school near the Institute and lived at Carrington's villa. Although Carrington wasn't often around a few people made sure that Sean was okay. He was one of the few people who was allowed to know what was going on between the Skedar and the Maians. Sean spent a lot of time at the Institute and through picking it up from others and watching as agents took various tests he quickly caught on, and started the Institute training. He wanted to find out for himself exactly how his parents lived.
"Sean, are you sure you can do this. Balancing school and your training will not be easy" Carrington said. "In fact that's why I refuse to train people your age"
"Yeah I know but I'm positive, I can do this. I spend more time here then at home anyway" Sean replied and Carrington gave a smile.
"That's true. Listen, I said a few years ago that when you were older I would tell you exactly what your parents were protecting. That time has come, and I am giving what they were protecting to you" Carrington said as he headed over to a safe in his office which contained only two items. He opened it and picked one of the two items up and handed it to Sean. It was a Falcon 2 scope.
"This weapon is what they were protecting. It has accuracy that is unnatural for any other pistol, as it has Maian technology installed in it, this is why the Skedar attacked your home all those years ago" Carrington explained and Sean nodded.
"Thank you. On any mission I go this weapon will come, always…" Sean said accepting it from Carrington.
*Present
Sean had completed his training with 96% an A grade, and his first mission was to back up Jonathan and Natasha should anything go wrong. He tried to keep Carrington's advice in mind to concentrate on the mission and not go chasing after Skedar unless the mission required it. The Skedar were going into various buildings and the security tried to chase them. Sean walked onwards he came to a road block with a guard.
"Hey kid… this isn't safe, we don't need another hostage leave for your own good" The guard shouted
"Agent Sean Lomberson, move aside" Sean showed his identity, it wasn't often used as most would expect an agent from a more well known group and Carrington's missions rarely involved the use of security. Carrington liked to keep missions as secret as possible but in this case there was no way around it.
"You're the agent we were told to expect? You're a bit young aren't you?" The guard replied. Sean rolled his eyes he was sick of hearing that.
"What's the situation?" Sean asked ignoring him, however another man who was listening came to Sean, he offered his hand to Sean and Sean took it.
"I'm Phillip Mensa, chief of security. The enemy have taken people into various buildings, some guy with a metal face on his right side seemed to be commanding them until he got into a car and chased after somebody else who was helping before and got the enemy to scatter" Phillip said "After that they started going into buildings. I don't know how many hostages were taken since a lot of people were evacuated. Worst of all however the British Prime Minister was captured and taken to that train station by two men, we sent four after him but they aren't responding on their radios. I don't know what they plan to do but we are running out of ideas" Phillip shook his head.
"I guess I'll have to go in…" Sean took his Falcon 2 out and headed off.
"Not alone… take some people with you" Phillip said
"No… try to free the hostages, trust me it's easier alone" Sean said and Phillip shook his head and sighed.
"Very well… good luck then" Phillip said
Sean headed across the street and entered the train station, cautious of any movement, as walked down a long tunnel. He doubted whether the Prime Minster was still alive, but he had to do what he could. Soon he came to the end of a passageway and heard talking. Sean looked around the corner and they came into view there were 4 dead guards on the ground as well as 2 men in white coats, one with a Mauler aimed at somebody Sean couldn't see and the other walking in front of him menacingly while interrogating him.
"Now tell us Prime Minster… where is the ship! You must know! Tell us or we will make you!" The Skedar's voice echoed through the tunnel.
"I do not know what you are talking about…" The Prime Minster nervously replied.
So at least he was still alive, Sean thought to himself.
"Why are you so foolish? Stun him, we will interrogate him later" The man said. That cold voice it sounded familiar… but it couldn't be. However the man with the Mauler went to draw a strange grenade Sean knew he had to act now. He drew his Falcon and aimed right at the man holding the grenade and fired.
"Arggh!" The man shouted as the bullet hit him and he dropped to the floor, the other man turned and the Prime Minister took advantage of the distraction and ran in Sean's direction.
"Keep going I'll deal with him" Sean said and the Prime Minister nodded as he kept running down the tunnel.
The man in the white coat looked stared at him, he drew his weapon a red barrier flickered around him. Sean activated his own shield and pointed his Falcon at his opponent.
"Could it be… that child… the one who was spying on us through that hole? It has to be, that weapon… the thing we were after in the first place as proof of the Maians contact with Earth. So did you like what I did to your parents, don't worry you too will be able to experience the wonderful feeling of being defeated by a creature of a superior race." The man said with an evil smile
"Superior race? I think not… you Skedar are all talk… you swore to the Maians you'd never back down, and what did your supposedly superior race do, you start talks to a ceasefire purely because you were afraid of losing the war" Sean reloaded his Falcon 2.
"So you know your politics, but what you don't know is the ceasefire isn't real. We will continue with lesser activities with quick weak but annoying attacks, we know the Maians only fight purely to keep peace" The man said. His expression and voice never seemed to change it was always in the same cold tone.
"That sounds pretty cowardly for a race that treats war as a religion. What would your Gods think, then again you shouldn't be too worried they aren't real anyway" Sean taunted. He just knew that his opponent would no doubt be a dangerous enemy and getting angry may not be a wise move but it may make him more careless in his attacks. The man looked at Sean; he badly underestimated his knowledge about Skedar and Maian affairs, it was infuriating having an inferior human taunt him like that, it was time to make him pay.
"Enough talk! It is time for you to die!" The man shouted and transformed into a Skedar.
Sean started to run backwards and fired and the shield predictably reflected the shots, the Skedar returned fire but missed. The Skedar came running and tried to slash Sean but he rolled out the way. The Skedar fired its Mauler and Sean returned the fire. The Skedar suddenly drew a strange weapon and a rocket was heading in Sean's direction, he dived down the stairs to get away from it as it exploded into the wall. The Skedar came running and Sean reloaded his Falcon 2 and took a few shots and ran and the Skedar tried to fire over the stair railing but he missed. The Skedar shield was a yellow colour and he came down the stairs and fired twice but there was nobody there he started to reload and Sean came from behind the wall and shot him 8 times turning the shield to a weak green then a black colour and the Skedar fell down. Sean took the opportunity to reload and fired multiple times again but the shield didn't seem to wear off and suddenly the Skedar stood up again and the shield was back to a dark red.
"What the hell?" Sean shouted as the Skedar just growled quietly and fired another rocket but missed again. One of the monitors crashed down to the ground.
Sean knew he couldn't kill him purely by shooting him he had to think of another way to damage him. He looked up and saw a metal spike monument like thing in the roof, maybe just maybe he thought. However he didn't have much time to think it through as the Skedar began to fire its Mauler yet again as it hit Sean's shield turning it to yellow. Sean fired back and turned the Skedar's own shield to yellow it happened a lot faster this time.
Sean headed back to where the fight started by climbing another lot of stairs and drew the Skedar's attention by firing at him and turning the shield to green. He looked up and tried to lure the Skedar to underneath the monument. The Skedar came running and tried to slash Sean again and it landed hitting him on the forehead. The Skedar growled again but Sean fired forcing the Skedar to drop down, he was in exactly the right position. Sean fired at the monument getting it to drop and it nailed the Skedar right on the head penetrating the shield. Sean breathed a sigh of relief as the Skedar made a few growling noises before dropping both its weapons and collapsing on the ground dead.
"Agent Lomberson, do you copy? Sean? SEAN!? Please reply!" Carrington's voice was heard from what must be his communicator it was on the lower level, he must have dropped it when he went down the stairs. He walked to it and picked it up.
"Yeah I'm here, I just had a had an encounter with a Skedar" Sean spoke into the communicator
"Are you alright?" Carrington asked
"Yeah… I think so… one of them had this weird shielding system, it wouldn't wear off I had to kill it using another method" Sean said, Carrington thought for a moment
"Go get Elvis, he can check it out. He's in the same hotel Jonathan is staying at, he's got a cloaking device so you don't have to worry about him being seen" Carrington said
"Understood" Sean replied
He walked back through the tunnel and noticed that his forehead was bleeding, probably from when the Skedar hit him, the shield didn't protect against hand to hand blows yet. It wasn't too bad it could have been a lot worse. Sean came from the station and the Prime Minister was with a lot of security including Phillip.
"Thank you for saving my life, oh are you okay?" The Prime Minister looked at Sean's forehead
"I'm fine thanks. I'll be back in a minute, I've got to make some checks on the people in there, make sure nobody goes in" Sean said
"Okay, will do" Phillip said as the security put more road blocks around.
Sean ignored the rainfall and ran into to the hotel and knocked on the door of the room Carrington told him.
"Elvis its Sean let me in" Sean said and Elvis opened the door
"Sean? Is it really you?" Elvis asked
"Yeah it's me but we can talk later, I need you to look at a few things down there" Sean said and Elvis nodded and put on the cloaking device and became invisible and closed the door.
They headed back and entered the station again. As they went down the tunnel Elvis turned off the cloaking device.
"So what is it?" Elvis asked
"Two Skedar are dead" Sean started "One is the human form the other is not… he had this strange shield system that would regenerate itself" Sean explained
"Hmm… show me" Elvis said.
Sean showed Elvis the Skedar he had killed before. Elvis examined him he was slightly larger then a usual Skedar but he definitely had that strange shield system.
"Hmm… it seems that this is the Skedar prince, or one of them. He has shielding systems like the King that we haven't worked out how to penetrate but it seems that you've discovered a way of killing them" Elvis said"
"Yeah supposing you have a sharp object above them and you get them to be underneath it" Sean said
"Still it's far better then no way at all. According to our sources it seems this particular Skedar was the leader of things here, or joint leader as the is another Skedar that spends a lot of time in the human form who was present at both meetings Jonathan recorded" Elvis explained "If we could kill the Skedar king and then ambush their secret planet when we find it, we could win the war, however that's a real long shot, but it seems that would be the only way of ending it and finally getting true peace" Elvis said.
"Do you think the fact that they lost one of their leaders will be enough to get them to leave Earth?" Sean asked
"Not likely. It is a condition of the ceasefire but we won't be able to hold the Skedar to it, I've got a feeling the ceasefire isn't going to be as peaceful as it should be" Elvis said
"He did mention something about doing lesser activities, he also said you only fight to keep the peace" Sean said
"Not surprising, but I don't think this is the best place or time to discuss this. How are Jonathan and Natasha doing?" Elvis asked
"Natasha is dead… Jonathan is chasing after this Terrence guy" Sean explained
"Oh no… that's awful" Elvis said
"Yeah we can talk later after this over. You better get back, and how are we going to hide the prince? Got a Maian grenade?" Sean asked
"Yup" Elvis threw a blue grenade at the Skedar who disappeared after 5 seconds.
"Magic that is" Sean said
"Yeah, less messy then Skedar or Earth versions, but not as effective" Elvis said
"Should we hide the other Skedar as well?" Sean asked
"Nah, nobody will be able to tell the difference" Elvis said and Sean nodded
Elvis turned the cloak back on as they headed back. Elvis went back to the hotel room and Sean talked to Phillip.
"Do your checks?" Phillip asked
"Yes, its okay now" Sean said and the road blocks were removed "How's the hostage situation going?" Sean asked
"Good, we've lost a few men but I think we've saved most of them from those guys. However there were a few in the tower but they are slowly coming out, maybe they are getting released" Phillip said
"There is somebody in the tower, he's probably doing it" Sean said
"Another agent?" Phillip asked
"Yes" Sean said
"Sir, majority of hostages have been saved although no enemies were captured. They all seemed to rather die" One of the guards told Phillip
"Interesting, what puts that kind of fear into them?" Phillip looked to Sean
"No idea…" Sean replied but in truth he knew that if a Skedar was captured they would be immediately killed if they escaped or were released and returned.
Sean ran back to where he was. He brushed his already wet hair as the water fell from it. Although he tried to keep his mind clear, Jonathan wasn't the only person seeking revenge.
*Flashback a little over 9 years ago, year 2006, Sydney Australia.
An 9 year old Sean was awake in the middle of the night, he heard somebody at the front door. He walked to the door to his bedroom and opened it quietly. It was his parents.
"Why did Carrington want to hide this here?" his mother asked
"Seems to be one of the last places they would look. Wouldn't you think?" His father replied
"I guess so. Anyway let's be quiet in opening the safe, Sean's probably asleep" The mother pressed a few buttons on a safe of some kind. It opened and whatever it was the woman put it in.
Days went by and Sean never worked out where this strange safe was. However about a month later, Sean was awoken by gun shots from weird sounding weapons.
"Lomberson to Carrington… under attack need assistance" his mother shouted through the radio. She was looking through some strange hole in Sean's room.
"Mum what's going on…?" Sean asked. Too young to really understand what was happening around him.
"Don't worry it will be okay… just stay here promise me that." His mother took a gun.
"Mum… what are you doing?" Sean asked. He had no idea his parents were both agents who worked at the Carrington institute.
"Please stay here. Your father and I will be back soon" Sean's mother went out of the room
"MUM! Stay" Sean shouted but it was useless.
Sean heard more gun fire from both laser like weapons and then a regular pistol. It seemed to go like that for a long time but eventually it stopped. Then voices were heard. He looked through the peep hole. Two men in white coats had his parents kneeling both with strange weapons pointed at them.
"We know it's here, stop your foolish act and tell us what we want to know" One of the men said. It sounded dark, uncaring, cold.
"You know we will never tell" His father replied
"Shall we kill them?" Another of the voices said
The man thought for a moment.
"No, let's see how they respond Skedar like torture" The man rubbed his hands and smiled.
The second man left and returned. He held a really strange looking chair.
"Let's see how well you can keep your mouth shut now" The first man said but then some cars pulled up outside and gunshots started again. The two men fired back.
"This is no good, we must surrender" The second man hide underneath a lounge chair and fired a few shots.
"Never…" The first man changed into a strange dinosaur looking thing and then headed for his parents. He then slashed at them and bitted them multiple times, with loud screams. Sean covered his eyes not wanting to watch. He then cried quietly to himself but then the firing stopped and new voices were heard.
"Both Lomberson's dead?" A voice asked
"Regrettably we weren't quick enough, the other one escaped before we could kill him" another replied "Check on their son. I feel so responsible for this" The man said sadly as a few footsteps were heard and then the door was opened and four men came and made sure Sean was okay, he was upset but was uninjured.
"Sean. I guess by now you have worked out your parents weren't telling you the entire truth about their jobs. They were protecting something here, it is unfortunate they had to die protecting it but they still succeeded." The man said "My name is Daniel Carrington and your parents worked for me as agents who did various tasks to help keep peace and other stuff" Carrington explained.
Sean didn't reply. He looked at his parents ripped apart bodies. Another man found the safe which was hidden underneath the lounge chair and then underneath some carpet and headed back outside.
"It is very sad you had to see that, however now you have a choice. Even though you are young I trust you will be able to make this choice. You can stay here and live here, or you can come back with us. Take as long as you…" Carrington started
"I want to go with you… my parents would have wanted that… it will be the only way I will truly get to know the people they were…" Sean said with a bit of tears. Carrington patted him on the shoulder and took him into the car.
*5 years after
Sean went to school near the Institute and lived at Carrington's villa. Although Carrington wasn't often around a few people made sure that Sean was okay. He was one of the few people who was allowed to know what was going on between the Skedar and the Maians. Sean spent a lot of time at the Institute and through picking it up from others and watching as agents took various tests he quickly caught on, and started the Institute training. He wanted to find out for himself exactly how his parents lived.
"Sean, are you sure you can do this. Balancing school and your training will not be easy" Carrington said. "In fact that's why I refuse to train people your age"
"Yeah I know but I'm positive, I can do this. I spend more time here then at home anyway" Sean replied and Carrington gave a smile.
"That's true. Listen, I said a few years ago that when you were older I would tell you exactly what your parents were protecting. That time has come, and I am giving what they were protecting to you" Carrington said as he headed over to a safe in his office which contained only two items. He opened it and picked one of the two items up and handed it to Sean. It was a Falcon 2 scope.
"This weapon is what they were protecting. It has accuracy that is unnatural for any other pistol, as it has Maian technology installed in it, this is why the Skedar attacked your home all those years ago" Carrington explained and Sean nodded.
"Thank you. On any mission I go this weapon will come, always…" Sean said accepting it from Carrington.
*Present
Sean had completed his training with 96% an A grade, and his first mission was to back up Jonathan and Natasha should anything go wrong. He tried to keep Carrington's advice in mind to concentrate on the mission and not go chasing after Skedar unless the mission required it. The Skedar were going into various buildings and the security tried to chase them. Sean walked onwards he came to a road block with a guard.
"Hey kid… this isn't safe, we don't need another hostage leave for your own good" The guard shouted
"Agent Sean Lomberson, move aside" Sean showed his identity, it wasn't often used as most would expect an agent from a more well known group and Carrington's missions rarely involved the use of security. Carrington liked to keep missions as secret as possible but in this case there was no way around it.
"You're the agent we were told to expect? You're a bit young aren't you?" The guard replied. Sean rolled his eyes he was sick of hearing that.
"What's the situation?" Sean asked ignoring him, however another man who was listening came to Sean, he offered his hand to Sean and Sean took it.
"I'm Phillip Mensa, chief of security. The enemy have taken people into various buildings, some guy with a metal face on his right side seemed to be commanding them until he got into a car and chased after somebody else who was helping before and got the enemy to scatter" Phillip said "After that they started going into buildings. I don't know how many hostages were taken since a lot of people were evacuated. Worst of all however the British Prime Minister was captured and taken to that train station by two men, we sent four after him but they aren't responding on their radios. I don't know what they plan to do but we are running out of ideas" Phillip shook his head.
"I guess I'll have to go in…" Sean took his Falcon 2 out and headed off.
"Not alone… take some people with you" Phillip said
"No… try to free the hostages, trust me it's easier alone" Sean said and Phillip shook his head and sighed.
"Very well… good luck then" Phillip said
Sean headed across the street and entered the train station, cautious of any movement, as walked down a long tunnel. He doubted whether the Prime Minster was still alive, but he had to do what he could. Soon he came to the end of a passageway and heard talking. Sean looked around the corner and they came into view there were 4 dead guards on the ground as well as 2 men in white coats, one with a Mauler aimed at somebody Sean couldn't see and the other walking in front of him menacingly while interrogating him.
"Now tell us Prime Minster… where is the ship! You must know! Tell us or we will make you!" The Skedar's voice echoed through the tunnel.
"I do not know what you are talking about…" The Prime Minster nervously replied.
So at least he was still alive, Sean thought to himself.
"Why are you so foolish? Stun him, we will interrogate him later" The man said. That cold voice it sounded familiar… but it couldn't be. However the man with the Mauler went to draw a strange grenade Sean knew he had to act now. He drew his Falcon and aimed right at the man holding the grenade and fired.
"Arggh!" The man shouted as the bullet hit him and he dropped to the floor, the other man turned and the Prime Minister took advantage of the distraction and ran in Sean's direction.
"Keep going I'll deal with him" Sean said and the Prime Minister nodded as he kept running down the tunnel.
The man in the white coat looked stared at him, he drew his weapon a red barrier flickered around him. Sean activated his own shield and pointed his Falcon at his opponent.
"Could it be… that child… the one who was spying on us through that hole? It has to be, that weapon… the thing we were after in the first place as proof of the Maians contact with Earth. So did you like what I did to your parents, don't worry you too will be able to experience the wonderful feeling of being defeated by a creature of a superior race." The man said with an evil smile
"Superior race? I think not… you Skedar are all talk… you swore to the Maians you'd never back down, and what did your supposedly superior race do, you start talks to a ceasefire purely because you were afraid of losing the war" Sean reloaded his Falcon 2.
"So you know your politics, but what you don't know is the ceasefire isn't real. We will continue with lesser activities with quick weak but annoying attacks, we know the Maians only fight purely to keep peace" The man said. His expression and voice never seemed to change it was always in the same cold tone.
"That sounds pretty cowardly for a race that treats war as a religion. What would your Gods think, then again you shouldn't be too worried they aren't real anyway" Sean taunted. He just knew that his opponent would no doubt be a dangerous enemy and getting angry may not be a wise move but it may make him more careless in his attacks. The man looked at Sean; he badly underestimated his knowledge about Skedar and Maian affairs, it was infuriating having an inferior human taunt him like that, it was time to make him pay.
"Enough talk! It is time for you to die!" The man shouted and transformed into a Skedar.
Sean started to run backwards and fired and the shield predictably reflected the shots, the Skedar returned fire but missed. The Skedar came running and tried to slash Sean but he rolled out the way. The Skedar fired its Mauler and Sean returned the fire. The Skedar suddenly drew a strange weapon and a rocket was heading in Sean's direction, he dived down the stairs to get away from it as it exploded into the wall. The Skedar came running and Sean reloaded his Falcon 2 and took a few shots and ran and the Skedar tried to fire over the stair railing but he missed. The Skedar shield was a yellow colour and he came down the stairs and fired twice but there was nobody there he started to reload and Sean came from behind the wall and shot him 8 times turning the shield to a weak green then a black colour and the Skedar fell down. Sean took the opportunity to reload and fired multiple times again but the shield didn't seem to wear off and suddenly the Skedar stood up again and the shield was back to a dark red.
"What the hell?" Sean shouted as the Skedar just growled quietly and fired another rocket but missed again. One of the monitors crashed down to the ground.
Sean knew he couldn't kill him purely by shooting him he had to think of another way to damage him. He looked up and saw a metal spike monument like thing in the roof, maybe just maybe he thought. However he didn't have much time to think it through as the Skedar began to fire its Mauler yet again as it hit Sean's shield turning it to yellow. Sean fired back and turned the Skedar's own shield to yellow it happened a lot faster this time.
Sean headed back to where the fight started by climbing another lot of stairs and drew the Skedar's attention by firing at him and turning the shield to green. He looked up and tried to lure the Skedar to underneath the monument. The Skedar came running and tried to slash Sean again and it landed hitting him on the forehead. The Skedar growled again but Sean fired forcing the Skedar to drop down, he was in exactly the right position. Sean fired at the monument getting it to drop and it nailed the Skedar right on the head penetrating the shield. Sean breathed a sigh of relief as the Skedar made a few growling noises before dropping both its weapons and collapsing on the ground dead.
"Agent Lomberson, do you copy? Sean? SEAN!? Please reply!" Carrington's voice was heard from what must be his communicator it was on the lower level, he must have dropped it when he went down the stairs. He walked to it and picked it up.
"Yeah I'm here, I just had a had an encounter with a Skedar" Sean spoke into the communicator
"Are you alright?" Carrington asked
"Yeah… I think so… one of them had this weird shielding system, it wouldn't wear off I had to kill it using another method" Sean said, Carrington thought for a moment
"Go get Elvis, he can check it out. He's in the same hotel Jonathan is staying at, he's got a cloaking device so you don't have to worry about him being seen" Carrington said
"Understood" Sean replied
He walked back through the tunnel and noticed that his forehead was bleeding, probably from when the Skedar hit him, the shield didn't protect against hand to hand blows yet. It wasn't too bad it could have been a lot worse. Sean came from the station and the Prime Minister was with a lot of security including Phillip.
"Thank you for saving my life, oh are you okay?" The Prime Minister looked at Sean's forehead
"I'm fine thanks. I'll be back in a minute, I've got to make some checks on the people in there, make sure nobody goes in" Sean said
"Okay, will do" Phillip said as the security put more road blocks around.
Sean ignored the rainfall and ran into to the hotel and knocked on the door of the room Carrington told him.
"Elvis its Sean let me in" Sean said and Elvis opened the door
"Sean? Is it really you?" Elvis asked
"Yeah it's me but we can talk later, I need you to look at a few things down there" Sean said and Elvis nodded and put on the cloaking device and became invisible and closed the door.
They headed back and entered the station again. As they went down the tunnel Elvis turned off the cloaking device.
"So what is it?" Elvis asked
"Two Skedar are dead" Sean started "One is the human form the other is not… he had this strange shield system that would regenerate itself" Sean explained
"Hmm… show me" Elvis said.
Sean showed Elvis the Skedar he had killed before. Elvis examined him he was slightly larger then a usual Skedar but he definitely had that strange shield system.
"Hmm… it seems that this is the Skedar prince, or one of them. He has shielding systems like the King that we haven't worked out how to penetrate but it seems that you've discovered a way of killing them" Elvis said"
"Yeah supposing you have a sharp object above them and you get them to be underneath it" Sean said
"Still it's far better then no way at all. According to our sources it seems this particular Skedar was the leader of things here, or joint leader as the is another Skedar that spends a lot of time in the human form who was present at both meetings Jonathan recorded" Elvis explained "If we could kill the Skedar king and then ambush their secret planet when we find it, we could win the war, however that's a real long shot, but it seems that would be the only way of ending it and finally getting true peace" Elvis said.
"Do you think the fact that they lost one of their leaders will be enough to get them to leave Earth?" Sean asked
"Not likely. It is a condition of the ceasefire but we won't be able to hold the Skedar to it, I've got a feeling the ceasefire isn't going to be as peaceful as it should be" Elvis said
"He did mention something about doing lesser activities, he also said you only fight to keep the peace" Sean said
"Not surprising, but I don't think this is the best place or time to discuss this. How are Jonathan and Natasha doing?" Elvis asked
"Natasha is dead… Jonathan is chasing after this Terrence guy" Sean explained
"Oh no… that's awful" Elvis said
"Yeah we can talk later after this over. You better get back, and how are we going to hide the prince? Got a Maian grenade?" Sean asked
"Yup" Elvis threw a blue grenade at the Skedar who disappeared after 5 seconds.
"Magic that is" Sean said
"Yeah, less messy then Skedar or Earth versions, but not as effective" Elvis said
"Should we hide the other Skedar as well?" Sean asked
"Nah, nobody will be able to tell the difference" Elvis said and Sean nodded
Elvis turned the cloak back on as they headed back. Elvis went back to the hotel room and Sean talked to Phillip.
"Do your checks?" Phillip asked
"Yes, its okay now" Sean said and the road blocks were removed "How's the hostage situation going?" Sean asked
"Good, we've lost a few men but I think we've saved most of them from those guys. However there were a few in the tower but they are slowly coming out, maybe they are getting released" Phillip said
"There is somebody in the tower, he's probably doing it" Sean said
"Another agent?" Phillip asked
"Yes" Sean said
"Sir, majority of hostages have been saved although no enemies were captured. They all seemed to rather die" One of the guards told Phillip
"Interesting, what puts that kind of fear into them?" Phillip looked to Sean
"No idea…" Sean replied but in truth he knew that if a Skedar was captured they would be immediately killed if they escaped or were released and returned.
