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Zeethra watched her brother vanish into the black hole.
Due to an interesting quirk of space-time near black holes, she could still see a ghostly image of him right outside the event horizon even though he was long gone. His body crushed to a single point. The image would fade away over the next few minutes.
She looked over at Kentra. Her in-law was on her knees, watching her husband vanish in slow motion. Tears ran down her cheeks, but her face was calm. Zeethra said nothing until Cryos was totally gone.
"He was brave." She said. "I'm not sure if I could have done that."
"I know I couldn't have…" Kentra said softly. "When we met, I was an even bigger coward than I am now. Cryos taught me everything I know about being brave. He trained me to make me strong and he loved me to give me more strength."
"No," Zeethra told her, "your strength comes from yourself. Not just anyone could do what you do, not with any amount of training. If anything, you made him stronger. He sacrificed himself to save you and your daughter. I'm not sure I could have done that to save any amount of people."
Draco and Draca chose this moment to make their reappearance.
"Hi!" "What'd we miss?" They asked.
Zeethra shot them a glare that would melt concrete and they curled up, trying to hide behind each other.
Kentra seemed to not notice. She was cradling Yamna in her arms and stroking her hair. "He promised me that he'll come back to me, no matter how long it takes. I'm going to wait until he does. But until then, I'll live on and survive. This Universe needs us. Seems like a new danger crops up every other week. We're the only ones who can defend it until Cryos gets back."
Zeethra was impressed. She was probably just as close to Cryos as Kentra was (in a totally different way of course) and she didn't want to do much of anything again for a long time.
She smiled over at the lizards and they uncoiled from each other and looked over, still a little leery.
"Let's get out of here," She said. "We can go get something to eat."
"FOOD FOOD FOOD FOODFOODFOODFOODFOODFOODFOOD!" They chorused and flew up into the air before transforming into their spaceship forms.
Zeethra decided to hang around for a while, until she was sure Yanma and Kentra were going to be alright. She would have to send Mewtwo back to her world to take care of things till she got back. She didn't trust the new Federation of planets or their Enterprise-class ships quite yet.
She tossed Pahrac and Mewtwo into Draca and then climbed aboard with Kentra still carrying a sleeping Yamna.
This place didn't seem too bad, she could really learn to like it here.
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Somewhere, in the vast, cold interstellar space of one of the Universes in the infinite expanse of the Multiverse, a being awoke.
He was alone, naked, without weapons.
He wasn't sure who he was, where he was, or how he'd gotten there.
He sat in the darkness and looked himself over. He had two strong arms, two strong legs with long toes, and he had a long prehensile tail.
In his mind he other people. One kept reoccurring. A young face with silver hair and purple, pupil-less eyes that glowed in the dark.
A long time passed as he thought about her. Finally, his lips formed a word even without air to carry it.
"Kentra…" He said.
That word was somehow associated with that person in his thoughts. He reached out with his mind, searching for her. But it was useless, the energy he was trying to sense wasn't there.
A new picture entered his mind. It was a swirling vortex of energy. Somehow he knew that if he went through one of those he might find the person he was looking for.
More images bubbled up in his thoughts, be he squashed them for now. It was all too confusing right now. He needed a place to sort through everything.
Not too far away was a star with a few planets around it, he started to move towards it. There was a world there with life. He wasn't sure how he could tell, but he knew it. There he could find food and a nice warm place to sleep.
When he woke up he would figure out what these pictures in his head meant.
