Phase 6: Truth revealed!

"Julie, take me to the museum, I must..." Jedi was trying to speak, but Julie could tell that he wasn't left with much. He had ran nearly the length of the North American continent at a speed he should have been able to. The drain from trying to hold a body together during that must have been great. "...get something. It's time we tell the kids....who they really are as well." He said as the last bits of energy gave out, and he completely went limp.

"JEDI!! Stay with me!" Julie took her poly morphic arm, and shoved into Jedi's back, initiating a power transfer, but there was just too much damage. All she could do was keep enough energy in him to power the mental capabilities. "At least I won't lose him." Julie said to herself. Jedi was basically a robot now. Only about .05 off his mass was of anything resembling human physiology, and that was all in the brain. It was dangerous for either her or Jedi to be without power long, as had been found out shortly after his head had been found near Black Ghost's tattered remains. Some of Jedi's memories had been erased, only a few, small things, but still the fact that such things happened proved to the both of them that they had to take very good care of each other. Through that, they had finally found the feelings for each other, and had been married. BUt they didn't have a honeymoon, no, the UE had a different plan.

"What are you doing here!" Joe said, anger and hate dripping from every syllable. This thing had escaped death yet again, how!?

"Cyborgs! I am here because you are the enemy of my enemy, and therefore, my ally. As much as I hate to say it, I need you more than you need me."

"Your pretty correct on that one." Ivan said.

"These four are minions of my son, he has taken over my organization, and now wishes to destroy the universe, by any means."

"And that makes you different from him how?" Jet accused.

"I wanted to rule, not destroy. There is a way for him to destroy the universe from within my organization, but he needs my daughter to do so!"

"Well aren't we the family man?" Albert this time put in his stab.

"You don't understand! My daughter is in Jedi! That is why he was attacked!"

"How?" Beta inquired.

"Not now. First, let's take care of them!" Black Ghost took one of the old style blasters and held it up. "That's better. Do we really have to kill you? I admit your pelts would make a good ornament on a wall, but I wouldn't pay the money to do so."

"EVILEST VILLIAN!!! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO US! YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF YOUR CYBORGS, THE BLOOD OF ALL!"

"See, I told you." Black Ghost said matter of factly.

"Oh just get this over with! I have a comic book that should be here in a few minutes. Charlie, the child minded one was tapping his toe."

"Fire."

Three Days Later--February 26, 2075
Main power restoredRebooting main systems

"AH! Where am I? Back in the Lab? No not there! Any where but there!"

"Jedi, calm down, pal. You are home." Albert had been at his bedside. He had relieved Julie so she could take care of the kids.

"Albert? But you were destroyed...oh, yeah. Sorry, but being out for a while does that to me. I just don't handle long stretches of sleep well anymore." Jedi moved as though he were going to get up.

"Whoa pal, Julie said you needed at least a week in bed. That is why I am here, to keep you there."

"What makes you think that you can keep me here?"

"Well, that's how long until most of your artificial muscle systems repair, so you wouldn't have the strength to do so until then, or at least that is what she told me. So I am supposed to keep watch, and just make sure you don't do anything rash. Besides, I have a few questions to ask."

"Hmm, I suppose I am going to have to answer a great deal of questions in these next few weeks, huh? And since I can't go anywhere, shoot 'em at me."

"Why did you go to the trouble of reviving us? I....mean...why? We were dead. The last thought on my mind was that I was finally going to be reunited with Hilda, but then I find myself living and breathing twenty years later."

"Straight to the difficult question, huh? Well, as you know, we found the nanobots, or rather, they found us, so you would have been rebuilt eventually. See that is the miracle of nanobots, as long as there is one, it will rebuild the entire body. So, we decided that we would just help along. Besides, with things the way they were going, we needed some glimmer of hope to keep us going."

"What do you mean?"

"At the end of the Reformation Wars, there was about 1.2 billion people left on the Earth. I was at the mercy of the United Earth government formed at the end, since they rebuilt my body, and supplied the materials, they thought it only right I pay them back. I signed a series of twelve contracts. In return they guarented me that Julie, our kids, who were becoming real inside Jule, and you Cyborgs would be granted citizenship. But, this came at a great cost. During the course of the contracts, they forced me to do things I am ashamed of. They made me kill a fourth of the people in mass genocides. They thought that only the best were going to be needed to rebuild mankind. So the infirm, and the old were grouped into the more isolated areas, and I was guided by remote control to destroy them."

"Mein Gott! Why would they do such a thing?"

"They were just like Black Ghost. All they wanted was power, so on the news nets, they called it the 'executions of the unwilling' It was so sad. I came home everynight, and I cried on Julie's shoulder." A tear dropped onto the pillow below. "I kept telling myself that I would be able to stop the next time, but everytime I refused, they activated the remote control, and forced me."

"I still can't believe this, so what is the population on Earth now?"

"There are currently 1 billion humans on Earth, 250,000 on the moon, and between the two, there are 500,000 Dortde colonists."

"COLONISTS!! Wait we defeated them, so why did they get anything from us?"

"Albert, Earth was worn out by then. We had nothing left to fight with, so what could we do? We had to give in to their demands. They settled Antartica, we got their help in the rebuilding process."

"Daddy! You've awaken!" A squeal came from the door as a teenage girl rushed in and hugged Jedi. "Mom said that you got really sick."

"Actually dear....I didn't get sick."

"Mom lied?"

"In a way, yes, but it was to keep you safe."

"Safe from what?"

"The truth about what you really are. Which I think both you and Tony need to find out about now."

Herald: Sorry about the long wait. I got a little too distracted during break, but some extra snow days gave me a chance to redeem myself, so enjoy!