"Tetrax!" Max shouted and pointed outside the large window of the command center.
"I know, I'll send a pod out!" he said urgently. Pressing a few buttons on technological wrist watch, a small buzzing sound came from the ship.
Soon, the three adults in the command bay of the ship watched as a circular pod navigated its way to the floating body of Ben Tennyson.
"Oh please...please...be alright," Max pleaded with odds - although he knew it was imposible for anyone to survive in outer space without protection.
The spherical craft used mechanical pinches to take hold of the man's lifeless body in the void of space and load it into itself. Tetrax punched in a few more coordinates in his watch and shouted a command.
"Come on, let's head down to the medical bay."
Max nodded and followed the tetramand back down the ship hallway. There they hopped into an elevator, but before the doors closed a small hand stuck itself in the way - causing them to open up again. There were only two other people with human hands aboard.
"Kenny, why don't you and Devlin go back to the training room?" Max asked, not wanting them to see what could possibly be the body of their father.
"Nah, it's boring over there. I'm coming with you guys." Kenny said as he and Devlin moved into the elevator with the two original passengers.
"It would be best if-" the white-haired man started but stopped when a cold, rock-like, hand landed on his shoulder. Max turned and looked up at Tetrax, who was shaking his head. He was signalling that they should be shown the truth.
Max swallowed hard and turned back around in agreement. The elevator doors then slided shut and the four could feel the odd sensation of moving downwards.
The elevator was simple and covered in a dark blue metal - similar that of the command bay. It was slick and highly reflective, as well as a bit uncomfortable.
Soon though, the movement of the large box stopped and the metal doors swung, once again, open - leading out to a room with much hardware. Everything looked like it belonged in a hospital. There were enormous screening lasers, something that reminded the humans of a C.A.T. scanner, and quite a few other pieces that were obviously medical supplies.
Docked at a pod station, the same spherical space craft that had loaded Ben's body into itself was sitting tightly in a port. Max looked away as Tetrax walked towards it - planning on retrieving the body for examination.
"Grandpa...what's going on. Why are we in some hospital room?" Kenny asked innocently and confused.
Not answering, Max continued to face a different direction and pretended to occupy himself with the many gadgets hanging on the walls.
Tetrax removed the pod's capsule cover and stared hopelessly at a blue-skinned man. It was definitely Ben, as he wore the same style of clothes - white T-shirt with black outline on the collar and a black stripe down the middle. The diamond-made man sighed and lifted the body of his long time friend.
Devlin spotted what was in Tetrax's arms and tapped Kenny on his shoulder. "Dude...look."
Kenny spun around and allowed his gaze to meet with the horrible scene that Devlin had been glued to. His father, now completely lifeless, lay in the arms of a weird machine. Tetrax had placed him down in order to inspect his body.
"Dad..." he barely managed to breathe the words from his mouth.
Running up to his father's side, he took hold of Ben's hand. It was cold, and frozen as ice.
"Careful!" Tetrax shouted, which caused Kenny to jump back. "He could have high amounts of solar radiation."
"But..."
"No buts. I don't need someone else getting hurt around here too." The tetramand's voice was cold as steel - feeling no emotion. It was bad enough to know that one of his friends could be dead, but seeing it was completely different.
"Is...can you...do anything?" Devlin asked, tears forming in his eyes. He never thought that he would care about "Mr. Tennyson", his pseudo father. But all the times that he could have been sent to the null void, he wasn't. Ben had understood his actions enough to let him go - as he would always say that he was like him when he was a kid. To Devlin, Ben was just another adult who wanted to restrain him. That was until Kevin had shown back up.
Devlin had helped his paternal father, Kevin, escape from the null void. However, Kevin had tricked him into thinking they would simply be a normal father and son companionship. He had even struck him.
Even though he did a horrible deed, Ben and Max both agreed that he could live with them. Ben had taken him under his own wing, and cared for him. Both him and Gwendolyn were like parents - who actually cared about their kids. Gwendolyn had been a bit skeptic about taking in Kevin's son, but she eventually came to terms with it. But now...his father, the real father he had wanted in all his childhood, might be ripped away from him.
To make matters even worse, Kenny was completely devastated. The young boy's lips trembled with uncontrollable emotion. Aunt Gwendolyn, and now his father? His father who he had said horrible things about, and said that he wouldn't need?
The brunette boy was in complete shame for what he had said and all of the juvenile acts that he had performed in his presence.
Tetrax stared at the broken children, feeling completely for their loss. "I think it would be best if you three went back to the upper deck. I will finish up things here."
Max, who had not looked once at his grandson's body, took both of his last lifelines by the hand and pulled them back towards the elevator. The shaft doors closed and Tetrax could hear the mechanical noise of the box rising back upwards.
He now turned his complete focus to his fallen comrade, and friend. "Computer," he shouted aloud, "run bodily diagnostics and health check on subject B."
In minutes the computer had returned results on a computer monitor right next tot he tetramand. Ben's veins had been crushed under the vacuum's air-pulling pressure and his lungs had also collapsed; however, his other organs were basically unharmed.
Tetrax grabbed a probe and a micro tube which injected oxygen extract as well as a nitrogen supplement. Sighing heavily, he began to cut slits in different locations of Ben's body and inject different chemicals into his unmoving bloodstream. It would take hours to complete it in the correct sense.
No one on Earth could perform such a task because of the lack of medical equipment, but being a mercenary, Tetrax had acquired different pieces of medical supplies as well as a high amount of procedural knowledge.
The whole time he was performing the injections, a monitor kept watch on his heartbeat as a mechanical pressure plate attempting to perform pseudo CPR on the body. Small heat probes also began warming parts of his body in order to return his temperature to normal.
After finishing the passive injections, he began to send a virus throughout Ben's dead bloodstream. They would attach themselves to every single one of his blood cells and attempt to inflate them, as they had all cringed up and collapsed.
This resurrection process had been tried hundreds of times, and had never once succeeded. Even though Tetrax was sure it wouldn't work, he would at least try. It was the best help he could offer now.