Nights Apart
Chapter 5
"Come on people! We have to finish this!" Dexter yelled out. they were down to half the personnel they had started out with and not even halfway done. Dexter was slave-driving them like a tyrant.
Hell, he was aiding the rebuild personally and threw in some construction bots. There were only four days left.
But two days later everyone was reassigned and the work was still incomplete.
He couldn't believe it. All that work and cursing at personnel was all for naught. They had missed the time limit, and no-one was working on Offworld Plaza anymore. Dexter had failed to fulfill his promise to Ben.
-Nights Apart-
LOCATION:MOONBASE
COMMUNICATIONS_DOWN:2_WEEKS_3_DAYS_11_HOURS
INFECTOIN_SPREAD:65%
DEAD:50%
2_WEEKS_5_DAYS_10_HOURS_UNTIL_DESTRUCTION_OF_EARTH
HAVE_A_NICE_DAY_
Ben woke up strapped down in a lab. He knew he'd been there for a week, but he couldn't remember any of it. He didn't know if he'd woken up before or if he had been sedated all this time. But he was awake now, even if a but out of it. But he noticed a few things. 1.) the metal sleeve was off and 2.) the cuff around the wrist that he wore the omnitrix on was undone. Perhaps that was the work of the same unknown ally that threw him the note. He could get out of this. He quickly dialed Nanomech and got the hell out of there. The place was a fucking mess, to say the least. No fusions or infected thus far, which was weird. the place was basically abandoned.
He quickly made his way through the maze of halls until he reach the containment unit where the KND were being held. He had to slip into the controls and mess up the locking mechanisms as quickly as he could for each individual cage. After that they all set out to find where the others were hiding, which meant a lot of time and sneaking, but the place still looked abandoned, as if this was all arranged. Was this another favor from his unknown ally? Whatever it was he was going to take advantage of it. But the place was desolate and he couldn't help as his skin crawled with suspicion.
When they finally found the other KND in the higher left levels they were sure to make haste to the escape pods and set course to Earth and be off ASAP.
Something felt wrong. Maybe it was that all his limbs were attached. Maybe it was that he woke up and the metal sleeve was gone and his cuff open. Maybe it was the disbelief that he was currently in an escape pod on course for home. Whatever it was, it was wrong, Ben Tennyson would bet his life on it. This was too easy. And then it hit him.
Those monitors he hated so goddamn much were wrong. The destruction of Earth wasn't beginning in nearly three weeks, it was happening now. This was a set up.
-Nights Apart-
The flying objects to Earth weren't picked up until the last minute. They were Moonbase escape the was caution and suspicion, then cheers and heartfelt relief. The Moonbase personnel hadn't needed them after all. They were safe and sound back home now.