Chapter 10 is here guys. Enjoy.
Odd was unable to say anything while staring at the young man in front of him. His son. None of this made any sense.
"What do you mean?" Odd asked him "Why did you call me dad?".
Man sighted and looked at him "That's because you are going to be. I know it's a lot to take but I will explain".
He raised his hand and signaled his soldiers "Leave us".
"Sir! Yes! Sir!" soldiers saluted and left the two alone.
Now that they were all alone Odd and his son could finally talk in peace.
"Sir?" Odd asked him confused and man smiled at him.
"What can I say? I'm leader of the Paris resistance. There are many other resistance groups but our is strongest one" man told him "Oh I almost forgot to introduce myself. Name is Connor Odd Della Robbia".
"Connor Odd? How did you get that name?".
"Well you liked the name Connor but mom wanted to name me after you so two of you made a agreement. I would be named Connor but would still keep your name as my middle name. I personally like it this way" Connor explained and smiled at his father "There is a lot more to tell you but we have so little time".
"What do you mean little time?" Odd asked him.
"Travel to the future or the past can last for only thirty minutes and after that time you get back to your time. In the most cases we would erase your memories but this time we need you to remember".
"Remember what?" Odd asked.
Connor looked around himself and checked his watch "Twenty five minutes left. We need to hurry, come on. I bet Estella, Annie and Aleena want to see you as well".
Odd seemed surprised at the mention of the names "Who are they?".
"My sisters".
Sisters. Three sisters. That means that he and his future wife had four kids. Four kids. Just thinking about it made Odd feel strange. Four kids.
"We have no time to waste dad. Come on" Connor signaled Odd to follow him and they walked toward the command room "Girls will probably be waiting for us there".
On their way to command room Connor and Odd talked about current situation.
"You mentioned that there is something I need to remember. Mind if I ask what that is?" Odd asked his son.
Connor sighted and looked at him "Thirty eight years ago you released cataclysm onto the universe and nearly destroyed it. But something happened and cataclysm was mostly interrupted and universe somehow survived it. But damage dealt to the earth was major and XANA was still alive and his goal haven't changed. You and others kept fighting him for all this time until-".
"Until what?" Odd tried to get his answer but it never came.
"We are here" Connor informed him as he opened door and entered the room.
Odd followed him inside and stood shocked. He was expecting small room like their lab at the factory but instead it was really big like the ones inside the office buildings. Super computer was in the middle of the room while many other shelves filled with computer discs were at the every corner of the room. Walls were covered with maps and satellite images from all around the world.
"Wow, this place is bigger than I expected it to be" Odd muttered in surprise.
"You are finally here" female voice said from behind the computer chair and person turned around to face them. Odd was shocked when he saw who it was. It was beautiful pink haired young woman that was probably in her mid twenties just as Connor.
Connor noticed his father's look and smiled "Let me introduce you. Estella this is dad. Dad this is my twin sister, Estella".
Estella smiled at him and raised her hand "Nice to meet you dad".
Odd was standing there spaced out looking at Estella finding it hard to process all of this. He quickly got back to Earth and returned the smile shaking her hand "Nice to meet you too".
"Are Annie and Aleena here? I promised dad that he would get a chance to meet them as well" Connor asked his sister looking around the room.
"Well-" Estella wanted to answer him but another voice interrupted her.
"You ask for the twins, you shall receive" person said jokingly and chuckled.
Trio turned towards newcomers. Odd was shocked this time even more than the last time when he saw Estella. Both of them were pink haired just like Estella is but the both of them were probably ten years older than Connor and Estella.
"Well mom was right. You were really handsome when you were young" one of the twins said and winked at him.
"Lenna" Connor, Estella and other twin said in annoyed tone of voice and facepalmed.
"Well it's true" Alenna said and winked at him again.
Odd stood there confused looking at her "Uh, hello". He was so confused with this that he had no idea what else to say to her.
Other twin walked to him and smiled sadly at him "Please forgive my sister, she gets like this sometimes. It's nice to see you again Odd".
Odd smiled her at her and shook her hand "It's okay, I'm pretty charming so far. It's nice to meet you. You must be Annie".
Annie smiled and nodded "I see Connor told you about us already".
"He did tell me something but not as much as possible" Odd said and looked at his son "It's probably better like this. Less I know about the future the better. But as he told me there is something I still need to know, right?".
Others exchanged looks and nodded.
"We can't tell you much and you know that but we will do our best" Estella told him and sighted "Okay. War against XANA is still going on even after cataclysm that happened almost four decades ago nearly destroyed the earth. You and the others tried to keep us out of it but as you probably know it was impossible to do so and we got involved in this war and now we are the only thing that's standing between XANA and total control over the world. Travis and Maya are currently trying to figure out our next move because we changed the past today".
"Travis and Maya?" Odd asked her.
"Ulrich's son and Jeremy's daughter. They are in charge of planning our missions" Connor answered instead.
"And as you probably know Connor is boss here while me and twins are in charge of internet campaigns against XANA since he is also trying to cut our communication with other resistance groups" Estella told him.
Odd looked at them worried about asking his next question but he still needed to know "What happened to me and others? Where are we?".
They exchanged sad looks and looked at him "You died ten years ago in one of XANA's attacks. It took us all by surprise and we couldn't do anything to prevent that. Jeremy went out first, than Yumi, Jason lead an attack on his compound and died during the same attack and than Ulrich and you. You went out fighting for each other".
"We were young when that happened and we were afraid that we would be left alone but luckily Annie and Lenna came back and took care of us and now here we are" Connor said and placed his hand on Estella's shoulder.
Odd noticed that they were trying to avoid telling him something and he knew what it was "What happened to your mother? What happened to Aelita?".
Estella looked at him surprised "You know she is our mother?".
He smiled sadly at her and nodded "I guessed so and I could never misrecognize that hair of yours. And besides you look exactly like her. Her spitting image".
"I guess so" she returned the smile and looked at the ground "She, uh-".
Connor looked at his sister and noticed tears appearing in her eyes and placed his hand around her shoulders reassuringly "She died the same day we were born because some complications happened during the labor. She lost a lot of blood. It was nobody's fault".
Odd was stunned by this "Oh my god. It's all my fault. If it wasn't for me she-".
"Odd stop it" Annie touched his arm and interrupted him "It wasn't anyone's fault. Not yours nor it was doctor's. It simply happened and there was nothing anyone could do to prevent that. Don't do this to yourself, not again".
"And besides if it wasn't for you Connor and Estella wouldn't be born and we wouldn't stand any chance in this fight" Alenna joined her sisters statement "It's like dominos. If you change something in the past whole future might end crushing itself down".
Estella joined the conversation again "We changed it already and we can't risk more changes".
"Wait. What do you mean?" Odd asked her.
Connor answered instead "This didn't happened last time. We interfered with the past by sending Jeremy the program in order to stop the cataclysm and we brought you here to tell you this. By doing this we changed part of the past and we still need to figure out what consequences it can cause".
"Then why did you do it? And most importantly, why did you bring me here?" Odd asked again.
"It was my idea" Connor informed him "We needed you to know what the fight against XANA can do to everyone so you can stop that. And yeah we know that preventing the cataclysm is going to make minor change but it was the only thing we could to make XANA weaker in our time".
As soon as he said that computer started beeping "Five more minutes. You will soon get back to your time dad. Listen closely now. We will need to stay in contact with you so we can see if anything you do is going to change our time".
"How are you going to do that? It's not like we can call each other" Odd said sarcastic.
"Actually" Estella said and walked towards the computer "I need you to put your hand inside this device and please don't ask why. Just do it".
"If I need to" Odd said and walked to the device and placed his hand inside of it. Estella typed some commands and machine started beeping and blue light appeared. Odd felt pain like something got inserted inside his hand and he gritted his teeth. Minute later process was over and he pulled his hand out of the machine. He looked at his hand and notice some blue light blinking.
"What is that? What did you do to me?" Odd asked Estella.
"Calm down dad" She reassured him "It is the only way we can stay in contact".
Odd looked at the others and saw that they had raised their hands up and that the same blue light blinking from them.
Computer beeped again.
"Okay Odd now listen" Annie told him "Whenever this light starts blinking that means that someone is calling you and when that happens you need to find some kind of mirror or a glass or a window to answer it. I will show you".
Light blinked and Odd walked towards the computer screen since it was the only thing he could think of and placed his hand on it. When he did that image mirror with Annie's face appeared on the screen. Odd looked at her and than back at the screen.
"See? This works just like calling someone on Skype or whatever program you use in your time" Annie explained "And if you want to call us just think about calling any of us and you will successfully do so".
"Wow" Odd said amazed by this "This is so cool".
Suddenly Odd started to slowly disappear.
Connor looked at the screen and back at Odd "Thirty seconds. Dad, I need you to remember this. Don't do anything to change the future as you know it right now, okay? I know it might be hard but please let things go normally like they are supposed to and don't change your relationship with others, especially with mom. Let everything go it's own way and everything will be okay".
Others stood next to him "We will stay in contact as much as possible dad and remember that you can call us too if you want".
"And dad" Estella said getting his attention "We love you, don't forget that".
Others nodded in agreement and smiled at him. Odd looked back and fourth between them and smiled "Thank you". Five seconds later he was gone completely.
As soon as he disappeared black haired young man ran inside the room "We did it! We did it! XANA is weaker and we are much stronger! Uh, by the way, where is Odd?".
Others facepalmed and sighted "He left just now Travis".
On their way out of the room each of them hit Travis softly on the back of his head "You lost your chance man".
"Oh come on man" Travis complained to himself "I really wanted to see him and ask for some advices. Ugh! Nevermind, maybe some other time".
And with those words he left the room and went after others "Where are we going?".
"Well considering that XANA got weaker and that we talked to Odd, I think that deserves the toast" Aleena suggested.
"I totally agree" Estella agreed with her sister and turned to Travis "What about Maya? Is she going to join us?".
Travis sighted and shook his head "No, I think she isn't going to. She said that she needs to check more things about state XANA and other resistance groups for few more minutes".
"More like few hours" Connor groaned "Just like her father".
"Well it's still her choice Connor" Travis defended his friend "Anyways, I'm going to get her some coke when we get back".
Annie stood between the two boys and wrapped her hands over their shoulder "He is right Connor, there is no reason to be mad over such a thing. This should be a celebration, not a fight. So let's celebrate while we can".
Two of them exchanged looks and smiled at each other. And with that group walked together to celebrate.
Warrior's children. Second generation.
This is it for this chapter guys. I understand that it was a long waiting but I wasn't able to find enough free time to finish this earlier and I apologize. Anyways, as always I hope you enjoyed it and until next time peace out.