Kanden was in a giant dome cave with a small opening that he could see the stars through, and it was filled with the bluish liquid metal like substance that his scanner couldn't identify. "Now do as I've commanded!" said the omnipresence. Kanden looked up into the fading stars and his vision telescoped beyond the yellow atmosphere, far into space and stopped at a curious galaxy. "Come to the cluster by any means and free us, once you have done so you shall have your reward." 'Thank you," "wait there is one more thing look to the left," he did so and he saw something familiar in space, three battleships of space pirate origin were heading here again. As Kanden was about to leave the entrance to the cave was shut off by the liquid which crystallized and hardened, he was confused and faltered for a few seconds. "What's going on why has the cave closed?" he shouted into the sky. "First you must pass a test to prove you are worthy." Kanden couldn't believe what had just happened, and as the voice finished blue cords of the liquid plunged their sharp-end into Kanden's spine drawing the life force from him. He writhed in pain and fear trying to get them off, the longer they stayed in the thicker they got and as a last resort Kanden used the pointed tip of his arm cannon to shred the tendrils off. When at last he did they massed themselves together to form an entity identical to him except in color, its skin was pale and of sickly texture and his armor was a dark blue almost the shade of black. He was astounded at what just happened when the doppelganger attacked him mercilessly smashing his face into the wall which burned him and clouded his thinking, he shot a missile at his clone in blind fury but the copy deflected it easily with its hand and it floated in the air and redirected at Kanden which also hit him straight in the head knocking him down, if that was any one else that would have killed them just by the blow. "This is your walking plague your living abomination, it is immortal like you but if you beat it then you are truly worthy." This was getting out of hand fast and there was nothing to make it stop. Kanden made a move toward it but it did the same. Now he couldn't take any more of this, he went into a full blown rage and struck wildly at it and shot missiles randomly, he took note that the blue crystals were pointed like spears now toward the inside of the arena. He morphed to Stinglarva and shot his stingers at the fake to get it to do the same; it did "now to end this." He said he quickly morphed back to his normal form while jumping over his clone and shot a missile at it which shoved the other into the spikes which impaled it through the softer part of its body. The doppelganger was wiggling off trying to get free, so Kanden with his bare hands broke off another spike and hurled it at the glowing energy generator on its forehead, (as his instructors told him to do so in the past.) now it couldn't get off the spear and was stuck there for eternity but alive. The blue crystals that burned to the touch melted away letting him free and he morphed into his Stinglarva to save time.