Dawn of a New Era
Chapter 20: Hiding in the Blizzard
Jasmine's Point of View:
The team had a hard time digesting the idea of us waiting for our parents to come to us, but at the same time, they somewhat welcomed it. They wanted to know their destiny just as badly as I did. And now, we had a way to find out.
Well that does include the fact if Antauri does in fact know of our destiny, or if he may know nothing and all of this waiting would have been a waist of time, but we have no way of knowing until we give it a try.
So now we've been out here for several days, holding our position until we saw any signs of our parents, and so far there was none. I thought they would have caught up with us by now, could we have truly lost them? No. That evil woman still has a hold on my father; she'll make him hunt us down until we're dead. But still I have to wonder, what could be taking my father so long?
"Any signs yet guys?" I asked my team quietly. They all looked up at me sadly and shook there heads.
"Sorry Jazz, nothing been up on radar." Rose said. I sighed, looking back at the rest of my team. I just- why can't they be here already! I just want to get this over with!
I threw my unsteady hands onto a seat in the command center with a hard impact, the whole team turned back to me, seeing the now heavily dented seat. When I pulled back my hands, they were shaking so much; I saw it spread to my arms and then my body. I was so unsteady that I fell to the ground.
"Jasmine! You need to calm down!" Gabriella yelled, she rushed over to me, trying to help me calm down, I still couldn't stop my anxiety from making me freak out. I just wanted this to be over with already. "Annabel, she's not listening."
Annabel looked at Cobi. "Take her back to her room and Gabriella will put her under for a while so she can get some rest." He nodded, and she saw his tired expression. "You should also get some rest Cobi, you've been up for nearly all the night, go with them and get some rest." He nodded and I felt Cobi pick my up in his arms, still shaking. Gabriella ran to her lab with Rover on her tail. Cobi had carried me all the way into my room and set me down on my bed. He was going to move away when I grabbed his arm with the little strength I had.
"Stay Cobi, I don't want to sleep alone." It was that one sentence that made him turn around and climb into the bed with me. He was protecting me from my fears, and he was tired too.
I then just saw Midnight come out of her corner on my bed she always slept on. She turned to me immediately and for once she was wide awake. She sense my fear and worry. It was practically rolling off of me. She walked into my side curled into my stomach that was facing Cobi's body.
Gabby soon came in with drug to knock me out for a while; she slowly and silently while I had my face in Cobi's chest, inserted the drug into my system. It wasn't long after that, I let myself worries leave me and I drifted to a restful sleep.
June's Point of View:
I felt so sorry for Jazz as Cobi carried her out earlier, she was so scared, I saw her entire body shaking in fear. Was she really so afraid of her father.
"Jasmine and the rest of us ran away from our families when we first set out over half a year ago. We've come in contact with her and Rover and Rose's mothers, Jinmay and Nova a while back, after we met you and Cobi for the first time on Swaton and Yourux 4. Since then, we've been on the run from them, because Jasmine's father and she have a bad past because of the Skeleton Queen. She took over her father's mind before he left the team and has been controlled since then. So Jasmine grew up not knowing her real father, or even whoever he became. When we see them, it will the first time she's seen her mother since a space station we went to with her there with Nova, and her father she hasn't seen since she attacked her father on Occa when we were gathering supplies." Annabel explained to me.
"Will she be ok, with all that's happened and what's about to?" I asked her.
"We've been wondering that since we met her J." Rose said as her eyes drifted from the computer. "She's been okay since then, and this is the first time we've ever, and I mean ever, seen her break down."
"Then it's really bad, isn't it?" Olivia asked.
"Yes Olivia, it's very bad." Annabel said. "Jasmine was able to hold her own on Occa, but now I'm not sure."
"Man you guys are let downs!" Rover yelled at us as he re-entered the room with Gabriella. "The two of them are under, but the more important matter is that what the hell is going threw your heads? What happened to your faith in the kid? I for one, believe in her, that she'll pull threw, she's just having a breakdown that she should have had months ago."
"I agree with Rover." Gabriella said. "Jasmine should have had this breakdown the night after we left Occa, after she attacked her father, but she held it in so that we wouldn't worry about her. That is what I can see from her behavior. We need to believe in her and help her threw this, and this isn't helping."
"Your right Gabriella." Annabel said, her smile back on her face. "We must not give up on our commander. We have to believe in her, and hope for the best."
"And help her in every way we can!" Olivia shouted. The others all 'shh'ed her.
"We get it Olivia, but do you want to wake them up?" Rose asked her sarcastically, crossing her arms. Olivia laughed quietly and folded her hand behind her back in embarrassment.
"Sorry." We all chuckled at her behavior.
"So now that Jasmine is okay, what do we do while we wait for our parents' get here?" Rose asked.
"I guess we just have to keep our eyes out, take turns on watch while others go off and do other things, rest, repair, prepared for any kind of battle, anything like that." I said.
"And we'll do exactly that." Annabel said. "I will take the first watch-"
"Oh no you don't Annabel, remember what Cobi and Jasmine told you about resting your body? Besides, you were already up since nearly… wait, when did you even go to bed?" Annabel looked away from us. "That's what I though, go to bed Annabel, and don't argue or I'll get up two very cranky and worried people who are sleeping now." Annabel sight at my words, but did as I told her and moved off to bed.
"Wow J, you handled Annabel well, seeing as you're not even in the commanding line." Rover said.
"Well Rover, I knew that Jazz would kill me if she found out that I let Annabel overwork herself again after the last few times. She never gives up on that, does she?"
"Nope, but that's our second in command for ya." Rose said. "So who's on first watch?"
"Does anyone want to be?" I asked.
"We'll stay up." Gabriella said, reaching for Rover's hand behind her. "We slept in this morning anyway. And we'll have each other for company or incase anything happens."
"Alright then, everyone else get some rest, or if you can't rest or sleep, try to do something that requires little energy from you."
"Night, night then!" Olivia shouted, running off in the direction of her room.
Rose yawned as she followed after Olivia. "Night!" She called.
"We'll see you later guys, wake me up for the next watch in a few hours or get us all if something goes bad." I told the two of them before heading off.
"Leave it to us June!" I heard Rover shout as I got to my room. I got down under the covers and snuggled into their warmth, letting sleep overtake me.
Jasmine's Point of View:
I felt the drug finally letting me wake from the long needed rest I had. Where I was, I was warm. I felt Midnight's fur against my stomach, but my pillow, it didn't feel like a pillow. I turned my head upwards and saw Cobi's face just inches from my. I felt his soft breath on my face as he slept. It made me turn a bright red, and I quickly sat up, causing Cobi to stir. He sat up next to me and looked at me tiredly while yawning. Midnight woke up too, climbing onto my shoulder and going to her normal spot behind my hair.
"You get enough sleep Jazz?" He asked. I nodded and got out of bed. When I stood, I didn't feel myself shaking anymore; my hands were steady as I held them up in front of me.
"I can't believe I broke down." I said quietly.
"I can," Cobi said, getting up and pushing me back down onto the bed next to him. "Jazz, when I head about all that you went threw, and never let your true emotions show about it, I was surprised and shocked. I imagined that you would have just gotten the anxiety attack over with so it wouldn't come in the future. But no, you held it in until it built up so much that you had no choice but to break down under the pressure on your body and mind." He sighed. "It reminds me a lot of Annabel, how she over works herself."
"I just couldn't deal with breaking down or having the team worry, so I pushed my worries back. I guess they finally got the best of me." I told him.
"Just don't do that again. You made me freak out because you were freaking out. I feel that if you lose you cool Jazz, then I lose mine. If your not there to keep me going, I would fail every time, just like I did before I met you." He told me. When he said that, my body instantly turned to look into his eyes. They were so filled with worry, it shattered my very core.
"Don't worry Cobi, I won't." I told him. I then jumped off my bed and pulled him to his feet after me. "Now come on, we have to get up to the command center and take our shift of looking for our parents." Cobi's smile returned to his face after that and held onto my hand as we ran to the command center. When we got there we saw June watching the screen, the robot's scanners facing an icy blue planet off in the distance.
"Hey June." I called to her. She looked up at me and cried before she ran into my arms, knocking me over and making my hand slip out of Cobi's. Midnight jumped out from behind my hair just in time and landed on Cobi's shoulder. She whined in complaint, but Cobi hushed her and walked over to me, grabbing my hand and pulling me to my feet with June still clinging to my body.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again! Please Jazz, I was so worried!" I nodded and gave her hug back to her before she finally released me.
"I won't June." I said. I looked over at the monitor and the planet once again caught my eye. "June, can you give me the stats on that planet?" She nodded and ran to the computer and started looking at what she could on the barren ice planet.
"It's called Glacia. It's a barren ice planet, constant blizzards swirl around the planet. No life lives there because there is no food. Although, for those who are lucky enough to get inside the caves of the ancient people who lived on the planet before it became a waist land, there is a special kind of crystal that lays dormant there, they can't be destroyed, but they can be broken up. Power flows threw them and they work best with wilders of the power primate. That's all we have Jazz, but why did you need to know about that place?" June told me.
"Reasons regarding our parents' arrival." I told her, leaving her very in the dark. "She cocked her head at my speech before turning around back to the computer. Cobi place a had on my shoulder and placed his lips by my ear.
"Your going to use that planet to escape your parents aren't you?" He asked.
"No." I whispered back to him in his ear, he shivered. "I'm going to use that planet to capture our parents." He nodded and sat down into one of the open chairs.
"Jazz, are we really going to land on that barren planet?" June asked me from the computer screen.
"Yes, why?" I questioned her back.
"I want to look for that crystal, I want to bring it back and making into the best weapons we've ever had. I could make them into something unbelievable with Olivia's help. Please Jazz!" She begged me.
"I don't mind June, but if you do go, I want you in constant contact with us, giving us a position and visual of your area. So that we know that you're still alive and not freezing to death somewhere." I told her.
"So I can go?"
"Yeah, but remember what I said." She nodded quickly and ran off.
"Don't worry Jazz; I don't want to freeze out there!" I heard her yell form down the hallway. I watched as June left and flew down to the planet below. I honestly was just as excited as her to see those crystals. It would be interesting to see how they came out as weapons.
One June was out of sight and I knew she had gotten safely on the planet with her every five minute report; I turned the screen back to the direction Gabriella predicted our parents to come from. The alarm went off. What we had been waiting for has finally arrived, in the mist of space, I saw my father's Super Robot.
Chiro's Point of View:
The alarm went off as the guys and I raced to the bridge, what kind of trouble do we have to face now? But when I got there and saw what my wife and Nova were looking, I didn't know if I should call it trouble or great luck. There was my daughter's Super Robot, right in front of us, only a few miles away from us.
"Set course after them!" I yelled at my team as they hurried to their stations. Sprx took over the auto pilot and raced toward them. Antauri stood next to me as we got closer. My daughter didn't put up a fight as we got closer, something's wrong. What is my daughter planning?
"I sense it too Chiro, something is amiss here." Antauri said. "Our children are planning something. We must be careful as we approach."
"Try to communicate with them." I told my team. Gibson got up a transmission and sent out a signal to them.
"They seam to not be responding to our transmissions Chiro." Gibson told me. "What do you want us to do?"
"Keep trying, when we get in close enough, we'll board them and take them down." I told them. My team got strait to work; we got close enough that we could grab them, when their robot rose its feet in front of our robot's face and turned on its rockets and blasted off toward a barren ice planet off in the distance. "After them!" I yelled as my team recovered after the impact to our robot.
We raced after our kids until we hit the outer atmosphere of the ice planet as our children flew into the heart of a blizzard. It was to powerful for them to ride threw it and they lost power and fell. I watched helplessly as they feel to the surface below.
"NO!" We all screamed. The kid's robot still continued to fall into the blizzard, until we could no longer see it.
"We have to go after them!" Nova shouted.
"If they die this is your fault Chiro!" Jinmay yelled at me. "I will never forgive you if my daughter is dead!"
"Calm down Jinmay! The blizzard as much as it caused them harm, helped them when they fell. Their robot was slowed down by the winds so the impact would have not been as bad, plus, this being a blizzard; they would have landed in a lot of soft snow. We just have to find them." Gibson said.
"Team, prepare for search and rescue!" I called. They ran off to get ready and I grabbed my snow gear, getting it on over my Hyper Mode. Once that was done I hurried down to the foot of the robot where the others were waiting for em, all set and ready with the gear we'd need in case any of them were hurt.
"We have little time to get there, they could be in critical condition, so be sure to be quick in pace and we should pass threw the blizzard with in the hour." Antauri said. We all nodded and hurried out into the blizzard outside our door. I was instantly hit with the harsh winds that froze my very being, even though I was layered thickly. Nova had the hardest time moving threw the snow and cold harsh winds, Sprx and Otto finally grabbed her hands and pulled her forward faster to build up more heat and keep her at the pace of the team.
As Antauri has said, the blizzard blew over after a short while and we walked a lot faster without the wind blowing against us, and it helped us greatly in keeping us warm. Within a few minutes after that, we came in sight of their robot. Our pace quickened at the sight of it until we got to the front of the entrance at the foot and I used my power primate to open the door.
It was dark in here, their robot. All power must have been knocked off line in the crash. As we walked further inside toward the command center, where we assumed the children to be, we saw that not much had been damaged in the crash, in fact, nothing looked really out of place.
Once we reached the command center, we saw a body lying on the floor in the dark. We rushed toward it and saw that it was a young man, short black hair that was long enough to get into his eyes. He had a communicator on his chest; Jasmine had made him apart of her team. Gibson pulled out his little gizmo that he brought with him and checked the boy over.
"He seams to be fine." Gibson said. "He's just knocked out; he should wake up in the next few minutes."
"Hey Chiro!" Otto called. "You gotta see this!" I walked over to the male pine green monkey and looked at what he wanted to show me. He showed me the wires that sent power to everywhere in the robot, but they weren't scratched or burned or anything from the crash. "That's not the worst part Chrio." Otto told me. "These setting are shown to be only set off, or in other words, everything is just turned off, not broken from the crash."
"Beware team; I sense danger all around us." Antauri said.
"You should be careful Hyper Force." An unknown voice said. We all turned to the boy we had saw earlier on the floor, now wide away, a green sword of the power primate in his hands. He smiled at us. "Looks like Jazz was spot on."
"Who are you and how do you know my daughter?" I questioned him angrily. He just laughed.
"Hey Jazz, the whole family's here!" He shouted. It was then that it went pitch black and I felt myself get grabbed from behind and tied up. The next thing I knew, I saw my daughter in front of me, holding the rope to my ropes around me and the team, the rest of her team around us.
Jasmine's Point of View:
"I honestly have to say kid, I didn't think your plan would work, but man did you prove me wrong big time!" Rover said. "We got 'em good!"
"It seams we have the upper hand this time." Annabel said, looking sadly over at her father.
"Nice acting back there Cobi." I told him. "You fooled them real good."
"I'm glad I could be of service." He said, bowing the team. Olivia and Rose erupted in a fit of giggles.
"Release us Jasmine!" My father yelled at me. Both teams went silent as I approached him.
"You don't have the power here Dad, I do." I told him firmly, right up in his face. "Do you really think we just suddenly got caught by you back there? We've been waiting here for days for you to show up and find us so we could catch you all."
"And what would be the point of catching us?" Gibson asked.
"Our destiny Father." Gabriella said, taking Rover's hand in her own to give her courage. "We know that Uncle Antauri knows about our destiny or at least knows something, and we want to know now."
"Antauri, don't tell them anything! That's an order!" Chrio shouted at him. Antauri looked away from us, saddened.
"Well if you won't tell us, then we'll find out on our own. Annabel, you know what to do." I said, motioning my second in command forward. Annabel stood in front of her father and brought out her claw, turning blue to phase into his mind.
"I hope you can forgive me one day Daddy." She said. Antauri looked up at her with fear in his eyes and Annabel forced her hand into his brain. He screamed as she searched threw his mind for the answers we needed. She was then blown back into Olivia and Rose who stood back to catch her when she was blasted back. The two of them, father and daughter, breathed heavily.
"Did you get what we needed Annabel?" I asked her. She nodded and sat down to get her energy back. "I guess that means we're done here. Cobi, you and two others of choice take them back to their robot. Untie one of them and then leave; I would suggest Auntie Nova or my mother Jinmay. Then get back here as fast as you can, the rest of us will get prepared for launch and get June back here with the crystals she's found."
The team nodded and set off to work. My father's team was placed into Olivia's newest buggy and she, Cobi and Rose took them back to their Super Robot. Annabel went off to rest for the lost of energy she used to get the information from her father, and I contacted June to get her to come back while Rover and Gabriella got the ship up and running again. June soon came back with a large bag full of crystals that was just about as big as she was. Then a few minutes later, Cobi came back with Olivia and Rose and they hurried into the robot and we blasted off.
"Well that was a interesting day alright!" Rose said.
"I have to agree with you Rose, it was quite a fun day." Gabriella said.
"Hold up, you agreed with me?" Rose asked her. "That, like never happens!"
"I guess that this is indeed a special day then." Annabel said, coming into the room. "I came here before going back to tell you all where to set the coordinates for to find out our whole destiny."
"Speak girl!" Olivia shouted.
"Our destiny has to do with something on the planet Renelle. A very lushes planet that is powerful, there is only one building on the planet, a temple to the six elements. That is all we know." She said.
"Then that's where we're going, set a course for Renelle." I declared as my team cheered.
Chiro's Point of View:
We had finally caught up with the kids and the tricked us, stole information and left us in the dark. She's now on her way to Renelle and we have no way to stop her.
We were still tied up in the dark of our Super Robot. Jinmay had been untied and had freed Nova, who was still freeing the rest of us while Jinmay got the lights on. Once we got the lights on and were free, we set a course after the kids. We were well behind them by a few hours, and that distance is only going to get further apart if we're not careful.
"Chiro, just go just some rest." Antauri told me. "We're not going to catch up with her anytime soon, so get some rest and well take over things here." I nodded to him.
"But you need your rest too Antauri, after Annabel got into your mind." Gibson told him.
"I know Gibson; I was just going with Chrio." The rest of the team got to work tracking down the kids and I went to bed with Antauri going into his room. I laid down in my bed and thought of toady.
The next time I see my daughter, I'll put an end to this game of her's. I thought before falling asleep.
Witch's Note:
Holy! My god that girl is defiantly the daughter of Chrio and Jinmay. What did you think of Cobi's act? Cool right, Daddy got to met future BF if Jazz! Now if only they could get together, Jazz and Cobi.
Question of the Chapter: What do you think is going to happen next chapter?
My Answer to the Question: I can't tell you guys or else it would ruin the surprise, but I can tell you this. There is going to be extreme Jazz x Cobi action next chapter, let your minds run wild and tell me what you think may happen!
Halloween Witch