The control room
Fronzek stared at the newspaper article and immediately saw the giant picture underneath of a giant laser with an odd shape like a misshapen pear, the article was not long but took up half the page, he then began to read 'we have been analysing your requests carefully and seventy five percent of you want to have the planet back and have our beautiful beaches back and our luxurious sites, the remaining twenty five percent of you want the grozan destroyed by, what most said, ripping the head clean off their vile shoulders and fed to the blood thirsty joraz dogs. After much research and tests we have concluded that we can make all your dreams come true with a simple invention, the yaser. The yaser can destroy up to three armies all at once and give them a burning sensation inside making their guts boil and bleed causing a slow and painful way to die, but the yaser will not be fully operational for thousands of years so we have designed the yaser point two, a simple invention worthy of killing four or five people at once and not our intentional idea. It will be strapped to the biggest of our ships, the Hundra now floating peacefully above the nerbin reef near finstralia , as this is the only ship big enough to carry in and it is currently stored there right now for safekeeping, next we must think about the battle plan carefully so we may not lose, we will need armies of hundreds or thousands so I urge over twenties to join our amazing army and help in our greatest war, thank you. We may soon have our planet back. The new age has begun' Fronzek looked up in surprise.
"have our planet back" he whispered, he always remembered his grandfather telling him stories of just sitting on the beach with his grandma and watching the star set go under the calm ocean as it sank round the planet, "wow, our planet" he continued "back".
Fronzek turned into the empty flat and placed the newspaper on his bed, and then he started to laugh to himself quietly as he left the room to look for his mother. He walked out to see Dorax talking to Utgell who was standing in the doorway with his morning robe on. Fronzek still chuckled to himself as he walked down the empty hallway, for the first time ever he gave Utgell and Dorax a faint smile as he passed.
He walked down the hall laughing to himself again; he passed several doors before the laugh came down to a faint giggle. A huge metal door stood in his way at the end of the long hallway with a picture of the coat of arms of the Hundre printed onto the sheet of metal, their world in the shadow of the giant Morgraz star shining on the once amazing planet, the sea had huge jagged rocks spiking out the tops of the waters near the great nerbin reef, on the land was huge trees and plants stretching to the sky like a jungle and on the great star was the huge words Hundre.
He knocked five times slightly hurting his wrist on the metal. A small camera appeared in the corner of the huge door to quickly examine Fronzek quickly and disappear back into his hiding place, the door opened slowly with a loud creak to demand his entry.
About twenty Hundre all stared at him from their workplace as if he was some kind of prey they could feast on for lunch. Fronzeks heart was beating quickly and his other more powerful heart was beating even faster.
"WHAT!" came a voice behind the door to make Fronzek jump quickly. A huge eight foot guard appeared and towered over Fronzek as he stood helpless in his frightening presence, muscles bulged out his arms, legs and torso, Fronzek noticed the ships coat of arms, their ship in the presence of the Hundran planet like their planet was in the shadow of the Morgraz star, and immediately knew he was one of the ships guards.
"I...I...I was wondering if you've seen my mum anywhere?" cowered Fronzek still standing under the frame of the front door.
"No, now be gone" shouted the guard giving Fronzek a push out the door. Fronzek knew that that room was the sub-control room.
The door slammed shut hard by the guard and dents came to the outer side of the metal door. Fronzeks hearts was still beating a mile a minute as he quickly walked back to the empty flat. He looked over his shoulder every couple of steps to make sure the guard would not follow him. He passed Dorax on the way back down to see him still talking about the small article in the paper to his neighbour five rooms down, Kinsak.
He finally came back to the flat to see his mother still out and not in the kitchen. Fronzek decided to have breakfast without her and sat at the table eating his asteroid clumps as he thought of where else in the ship she could be hiding. He quickly finished his breakfast and made his way into his empty room to read the other stories in the paper, he was wondering if he was in their again for his stunt yesterday of getting into the ships torture chamber to see the man eating species, and to play his video game to see if he could finally slay the unbeatable jogre.
Hours passed, Fronzek was watching his Sorman the Hundre emperor clock go round repeatedly as he tried to beat the jogre but kept on failing time and time again. Finally the front door opened, Fronzek went out to see his mother and see if she would make him any lunch now but when he went into the front room he froze as the monster guard stood there instead.
"Follow me", ordered the guard as he turned and walked out the door, Fronzek thought it was a bad idea not to follow him as he thought of what may happen to him if he didn't. Fronzek quickly rushed out the door and after the beast guard as he walked down the hallway back towards the sub-control room, Fronzek firmly shut the door behind him.
He started to run at the length of just one of the guards steps but all he could do was get behind him as he ran. The guard could only just walk down the hallway with his head down and pushing his body to the right to avoid the left side door handles going into his side.
What felt like hours, they finally reached the tall door as the guard pushed the dented side to open in and in opened with immense force causing it to slam against the metal wall. Once again all the workers stared at him as he walked though being silent as he took a step into the room. The guard pointed to a chair facing the wrong way.
"Go and talk to her" he said sounding angry for some reason. Fronzek slowly walked to the chair seeing everyone now getting back to their work some levitating plastic for the controls and wires, others were levitating paper in huge piles. Fronzek turned back to see the guard sleeping by the dented door in a small chair which looked like it would fall and break at any minute.
Fronzek turned his attention once again to the backwards chair he walked slightly faster now he knew no one was looking at him anymore. He placed his arm on the chair as he reached to it to have it immediately grasped by someone sitting in the chair.
"Hello Fronzek" said the voice. Fronzek turned to the chair to see a beautiful women sitting there.
"H...how do you know my name" said Fronzek nervously. The women began to laugh.
"Number one, you are always in the local paper, and number two, you mother always talks about you" laughed the beautiful women. One of Fronzeks hearts jumped.
"Do you know where my mother is?" said Fronzek hopefully. The Woman's face changed to a serious frown.
"There will be time for that later" she said as she turned to face the door which led to the main control room. "First I would like to discuss the matter of the war that will take placed on the thirteenth of Smay, the war with the yaser" she exclaimed "we have come to a conclusion to use your one of a kind power...".
"One of a kind" noticed Fronzek "I thought there were others with my power?"
"NO, you are the only one, now listen" she had gotten angry very quickly "this war has decided to take you as a recruitment along with a thousand more Hundran which can control some metal, some fire and others electric, these are the most powerful powers but they are nothing compared to the water ability, their powers special abilities will stop after learning so much but yours will go on until you want their power to stop"
"I've never used it before, there's no water on the ship" Fronzek exclaimed.
"Yes we are aware of that that is why we will train you with the water later, now stop interrupting and listen" she hissed as she carried on "we have decided to transfer you to the Hundra for fighting against the enemy armies, your water ability will be useful for us as the vile grozan have a bubble of water inside them to help them stay alive on land, your ability will be able to blow up this bubble and scare back to the ocean where they belong, we have been talking to your mother..."
"My mother!" said
Fronzek.
"Shut up and listen" shouted the women "she has
agreed to let you go to the planet to fight in the war, on the
condition that you are well protected and not in the front line.
Don't worry you will not come out dead"
"That's lovely" said Fronzek hesitantly thinking of the fright of the battle.
"Now what we ask of you is that you make up your mind quickly and to step this way" she gestured towards the door in front of herself showing the ships coat of arms on the door just like the guards outfit. Through there was the main control room that Fronzek had never seen before.
She stood and walked to the door quickly.
"May I ask your name?" asked Fronzek hoping to get a good answer.
"Isgral" said the women as he walked under a flying piece of paper. Fronzek smiled, she looked about the same age as Fronzek and he was a couple of inches over her as she opened the control room door to reveal a long dark corridor filled with pictures, most empty for future years but it also showed past leaders a few generations back, at most five pictures hung on the walls.
"Wow" said Fronzek as he looked at the captain's pictures, then he came to the last picture to see a smart picture of his own mother. "What?" he said as he gaped at the photo. He turned to see Isgral about half way down the dark hall. Fronzek rushed after her.
"Why is my mother on your wall?" asked Fronzek. Isgral stopped and looked at Fronzek.
"What, you don't know?" asked Isgral startled.
"Know what?" he asked paying close attention.
"Your mother is the leader of all of us" she laughed, Fronzeks mind stopped as he stood there, his mouth still open wide, he stood there frozen solid. "I guess you never knew as you were always out on weekdays getting in trouble with the police and she doesn't work weekends except for now".
This was all big news for Fronzek; she had another life that he didn't know about. She continued to walk down the hall followed very slowly by Fronzek as he walked with his mouth still open wide.
At last they reached the end of the hall where bright light was beaming through the door. The door opened without Isgral even touching it. It must be someone of the other side of the door. Fronzek looked in to see at least ten more of the monster guards walking around the office and grunting at Fronzek. About twenty other people were walking around the office doing work and occasionally looking up at Fronzek at the door. Windows and controls were placed all around the walls of the ship; the window was facing directly at the Morgraz star making the room incredibly bright. A small bubble of a chair was facing the star.
It turned slowly as it revealed his mother in a coat of silver and blue with the ships arms as the logo.
"Good afternoon, Fronzek" said his mother smiling towards him.
