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Chapter Four: Don

Charlie had killed someone.

That was the major theme of all the thoughts running though their head as they approached him carefully on the CalSci campus.

Charlie hadn't just killed someone, he'd killed five people in two weeks.

They almost didn't connect the deaths to Charlie, except that someone had seen him at the last crime scene.

A young teenager had positively identified Charlie as the murderer.

Charlie wasn't denying the accusations. He wasn't confessing either but it worried them all because he was being way to calm for all of this. Don wondered if the numbers had led him into some kind of psychotic break. David wondered if this was even real at all, or if he was just dreaming. Colby wondered if they were being subjected to some more high security bull shit like his triple agent spy gig. Megan and Liz were just hoping to get to the bottom of all this.

They still couldn't believe Charlie had killed anyone.

Charlie himself was screaming at Don, asking how he could approach him without his gun drawn. The evidence was all there, so why wasn't he being cautious like he normally would. Khefre was smirking at them all, loving how unprepared they were and how much they underestimated him. If his plans weren't to get off the planet then he would have so much fun killing them.

He could just see it. He'd go up to Don first. He'd be the easiest to take out, the most unprepared and whose death would deliver the most initial shock. He'd shoot Megan and Liz next using Don's gun. If luck was with him he'd be able to get david as well, but he doubted it. David and Colby would hesitate in shooting back, but they would and it wouldn't be to kill. He would, and he would leave Colby last. Colby would be the most difficult to kill. He had the most combat training and was the only one of the team who even stood a chance against him, but he would still end up dying.

The only problem with his desire was that he wouldn't have the time to kill them and be in the prepared location for his pick up by a set of Ring Transporters. So he pushed away his desire to kill these annoying humans and stayed where he was. The parking lot was virtually empty leaving a wide open space and nothing to get in the way. All he had to do was wait just one more minute. How coincidental was it that they'd connected the murders to him just as he was about to leave.

"Hello Don," Khefre said smiling, kicking his toe at the symbol he'd left there days ago when they'd made this arrangement.

The FBI Agents stopped, fanned out and standing ten feet from him. Khefre glanced down at his watch then back up at them.

"Charlie," Don replied. "Buddy, what the hell is going on?"

Khefre smirked, "W whole lot more than you could possibly imagine. None of you are even remotely intelligent enough to comprehend what I have accomplished. You should thank Professor Fleinhardt for his little mishap aboard the ISS for without him none of this would have happened."

"What are you talking about Charlie?" Don demanded. "How does that justify the murders of five people?"

Khefre glanced down at his watch again. When he looked back to them they all flinched at the abnormally cruel smile on his face and the hatred in his eyes.

"Charlie…" Don started to say but was cut off.

There was a loud sound of metal lightly sliding together, a ring of light surrounded Charlie then five metal rings dropped out from the sky. He watched in stunned bewilderment as his brother was covered in light then taken away with the rings up into the sky where they just disappeared.

"What the hell just happened?" David asked after several minutes of silence.

"Alien abduction?" Colby ventured, then added, "too soon?" after the looks he got from everyone.

"If we don't find Charlie it'll always be too soon," David whispered to him.

Colby's look said he was more than aware of that fact. Together they approached the area Charlie had been standing.

"He knew that was coming," Megan said. "And where."

"How do you know that?" Don snapped. No one held his anger against him, this was hard on all of them.

"He kept glancing at his watch," Megan explained. "And there's this."

She pointed down at her feet where on the pavement, painted in gold was an eye. Don recognized it, only because it was probably the most well known Egyptian symbol.

The Eye of Ra.

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