The Royals: The Alternate Time

Part V: Speak if it means Protecting her

By

Bocephus Manticore

The training has just past its final phase, Liam and Len enjoy having ranks in the fleet, but how can they recon the palace without getting caught.

Len and Jasper lay in their bed... "When did I start thinking of this place as home" asks Len. "Probably when they saved your life" replies Jasper, "must be that" she says." Jasper rolls over to Len and strokes her hair and just looks at her, "what she asks", "I got a feeling that when we go on this mission, I might never see you alive again after it." She smiles at him and kisses him then says "I'll be careful because I got someone waiting for me at home, and I want to spend many years with him", "What part of London are you gonna be in" he asks, "Canary Warf... you" she replies. "I'll be posing as a reporter by the crowd at the palace", "Jasper Frost, mild mannered reporter, my Superman," she says, "Eleanor Frost, bad ass princess by day, my Black Widow by night" he replies... she looks up at the ceiling and sighs, "Jasper, that bastard has defiled my home, my country, and my people, what if the people don't trust us, even though Willow showed the evidence I can't help but think...", He wraps her up in his arms kisses her cheek and says "like you said your people, you love the people, and the people love their princess, hell #KingLiam is trending again." She strokes his cheek then they proceed to make out for what seems like twenty minutes. Len then clicks on the holoscreen and selects Street Fighter starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. "OF COURSE, you would pick this princess", "why" she asks "umm never mind then" they just sit there and cuddle, because both of them fear the other might wind up dead tonight.

Liam goes looking for Willow in the Arboretum, he finds her sitting on a bench by a miniature waterfall. He sits down "how are you Willow," she kisses him and says "thanks for last night... is this ship really from the future." Liam kisses Willow on the forehead and says "yes and we're hiding out on the bottom of the ocean", she just sits there and looks dejected "I thought he loved me, I was planning to spend the rest of my life with him, but when you told me about the hidden camera in his office and I saw that he caused the blackout I realized I could never be a Henstridge... well not a Henstridge by him" he hugs her and says "none of this is on you Willow, he is an asshole... my brother, but still an asshole, He killed a woman that I loved just to send a message to us." She looks at him with absolute terror in her eyes, and says in a questioning manner "He killed Kathryn?", "No... God, I hope not, her name was Ophelia, the love of my life, the sweetest, most pure, kind, person I have ever met but she could also stand up for herself and fight if need be." "I'll help you get the piece of shit, I'm sorry about Ophelia I wish I had met her" Willow says, she rests her head on his shoulder and cries.

"why are we in the mess hall asks Helena", "I don't know but this is where Ed said for us to meet" replies Cyrus. The see Len, Liam, Jasper, and Willow enter together laughing. "what's so funny" Helena asks, we were telling Jasper and Liam about a few days ago when Willow was tripping balls. "Oh, have you gotten to the part where she tried to drown me in fudge" asks Helena, they all laugh. Ed and Kelly enter the mess hall and sit at a secluded table with the family, "Someone just submitted video of the Orville to the BBC, people are rightly speculating that you guys are here onboard, so now using 21st century tech to overthrow the king is out the window, "why" asks Cyrus. Ed answers with "because we've been exposed now there's no strings attached. "Good now we can topple his tyrannical ass in spectacular fasion. "What about our mission tonight, our faces will be recognized immediately", Ed brings out a small device and makes himself look like a Krill, then turns back into himself and says "personal hologenerators, they'll fool anyone or anything", He passes them out, then Liam says "we should all go get ready." Helena sees Gordon nearby and asks him to come to her quarters for a drink

A few hours go by Helena and Gordon wake up in bed together. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" they both scream. "What the fuck did we do" shouts Helena with her and Gordon standing on opposite sides of the bed. "Apparently IT" shouts Gordon. They start yelling at each other and how this is wrong, how Gordon could be his own ancestor. "Wanna do it again?" asks Gordon, Helena walks to him and gets him in a passionate embrace "does that answer your question." They both get back into the bed and do it again, hopefully this time they will remember it.

Len and Liam are in the shuttle bay they are soon joined by Jasper, Alara, Gordon, and Kelly. They drop off in their designated positions in London, Alara, and Len in Canary wharf, Jasper and Gordon posing as reporters interviewing protesters, and Kelly and Liam attempt to sneak into the palace. Things go from bad to worse the city is in chaos, Len and Alara are nearly killed by a bombing in Canary Warf, Jasper and Gordon are nearly trampled by a stampede of people, Liam's hologenerator fails and he is captured along with Kelly who was trying to help him, they are both taken to his bedroom on orders of Robert. Robert enters and Liam tries to attack him but is held back by guards. "Why did you kill her, Robert why, she's completely innocent in all of this." Robert slaps Liam and says "You went around with common trash, making a mockery of our bloodline, how I hired a hitman, where, I knew where she lived, why because she was a convenient message." Liam struggles with the guards and says "you killed her because she was convenient, if you did not know where she lived you wouldn't have done it." Robert gets nose to nose with Liam and says "Thats right sparrow, to think I made sure the Pryce family paid for their crimes against this family, and sent a message to you in one swoop, now the only thing is to get information out of you, but that is not a road to take so I'll just torture her", "I won't give you anything" says Kelly, to which Robert replies "not you we have Len down in the basement, I've put her to the rack Sparrow." "Your bluffing Robert" says Liam, Robert simply gets out his phone says "start" and plays recordings of Len screaming. Liam breaks and tells Robert where the Orville is, "now let her go Robert, you gave your word", shouts Liam, "I don't believe I did Sparrow; I'm going down to the basement to stretch her myself" says Robert through a maniacal laugh and leaves, keeping Kelly and Liam locked in the prince's bed room." Of course, Robert was bluffing, Len and the rest are already back abord the Orville having declared the mission a failure.

The family is on the bridge with Ed and his officers, "we have to bust them out" says Len and Ed agrees to make preparations for a full assault on the palace. "Captain we've been discovered, two royal navy submarines they've fired torpedoes" says Alara. "Yellow alert, deflector screens to full, Gordon get us outta here set a course of the dark side of the moon." "Current is knocking us around more than usual and slowing us down" says Gordon, just then a torpedo explodes against the deflectors, not enough to cause damage but enough to knock everyone off their feet, the crew get back into position when Ed says "Lt. Malloy" he hesitates "Engage Quantum Drive," Gordon also hesitates but complies, the ship's quantum drive on the outside of the ship glows bright blue, and in a flash the ship is traveling faster than the speed of light toward the moon. Just then two torpedoes impact each other where the ship was, as they can no longer detect it the subs assume the ship was destroyed.

Jasper and Len are in their quarters just looking out of the window. "I've never seen so many before, those little twinkly bits so far away" says Len, Jasper puts his arm around his wife's shoulders. "This is the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life, do you know why" Jasper asks Len, "Why" she replies, he kisses her cheek and says "I'll let you guess", when the realization hits her "oh me" she says, he smiles moves to her back puts his head on her shoulders and his arms around her stomach. "I was thinking if we did have a daughter, which I know is not possible, I would want to name her after my mum", "why" he asks not because he thinks it's a bad idea, he just wants to know. "I guess you have a right to know, remember when I asked you to keep my mum away from me when we go to take the Palace." "Yeah, but why" he asks, "In the original time line she died taking a bullet for me", "I'll keep her away, but be careful I don't want you taking a bullet." She turns around grabs the back of his head and kisses him passionately then says, "Thanks for trusting me with this", "I think we're past not trusting each other on any issue" says Jasper. She jumps up wraps her legs around his torso, he backs her up against a wall for support and they start kissing each other deeply.

The ship needs 24 hours to repair the impulse engines and then the Orville will bring a full 25th century assault on Robert's 21st century forces.