Chapter 16

A quick check showed that her weapons were twice as strong, her shields stronger with a few more energy settings. She could now resist several more types of energy weapons. This would help greatly when she went against the last race.

Wren again went over the six races that had attacked the earth; Pescules, the Begules, her father had destroyed. The third, the Eloagones she had enjoyed destroying. The fourth, the Jutrocs, who followed the fifth race, the Zetcrons, like they were gods. Yes, the Jutrocs had begged she could care less, though she had also destroyed many of the Zetcrons.

A smile lit up her features, the Zetcrons were the most arrogant of the six races. She imagined that they and the worse race, the Meltry, would be hunting her now. She was closing in on the Zetcrons soon, she thought.

She took off as soon as the doorway closed. “Alright Trigon, take us out. Last position we were near before we came back.”

“Compliance,” Trigon said as a portal opened, then the ship vanished.

Wren watched as they came out of the trans-warp portal. A small smile lit up her face at the pure carnage, many thousands of destroyed ships.

She had been hoping that there would be a few ships that had investigated. It would make the last two worlds easier to find.

“Alight, I want as far a scan out you can get. If they have been here since we left I want to know,” Wren told Trigon.

“Now working master Wren, I have extended as far as I can. As yet there is nothing on scans. Should I also keep an eye out for you, brother,” Trigon asked.

“Yes, I think that in this instance that would be advisable,” Wren said. “Try to remain outside his senors, maintain a full cloak. The new one should be far more effective.”

“It will be as you say, master Wren. I will also monitor for any odd transmissions. Shall I notify you if we recieve anything from the Masters of Ceti-5?” Trigon asked.

“Yes, I am going to rest some more, for some reason I am still feeling strange. Since the last leveling, things have started to feel out of place,” Wren said.

“Perhaps you should contact the masters? They have never seemed to have steered you wrong,” Trigon asked.

“No, I think not right now, they have enough with the eleven new people there. The planet is already starting to repair itself, they need time to make things right,” Wren said.

“Taking all things into account that may seem plausible. Though I also remember master Wren, they have been doing this for a long time,” Trigon said.

“I know all of that, Trigon, though they are also weak from everything. I know, I know they are a lot stronger than I think, I hope they are. For now, I think we need to let them rest a bit,” Wren said.

“It will be as you wish, master Wren, we should arrive in a few minutes. All sensors at full, all weapons armed at fill. Cloak at full now emerging,” Trigon said.

Wren looked over all the reading, then nodded as she walked out to her quarters. Maybe, just maybe she can almost end this today. Then she thought, with an almost evil smile, she could take care of her bitch of a mother and brother-in-law.

On the master’s world of Ceti-5, things were progressing further than they thought they would. Rena and the other six were pouring over the entire program they now had.

“It appears that she has advanced further than we ever thought she would. The outside has actually started to stabilize. Though we need more of the females, we actually have a thin atmosphere,” Rena said.

“We have been over all the data that we have brought up, it is as we feared. Esmerelda has grown stronger than we thought she would. Even with ten of us, we barely have enough to defeat her,” Tiane said.

“It appears that at the moment we can keep her in check, barely. Even with the other two, it will be difficult, with her added power. I am afraid that we will need more. I just hope that the males can help,” Vassie said.

“From all that I have seen, the addition of the twenty-first male should help. I still think that we need more females to even the balance more,” Lota said.

“All the plans we have worked on indicate that the plan will work. Though, I am afraid, as all of you thought, we barely have enough power to just arrest her,” Effie said.

“It appears that only we first six are at full power,” Terra said.

“Yes, we are trying to increase our power,” Kell said. “Our latest sister is still weak, at the moment we are unsure.”

“It appears that I am indeed far weaker,” another dark-haired female said. Walking in, she sat, “I am trying to grow faster, though it appears that Wren put far too much into reviving us three. I am glad to see as many of our sisters as I do,” the last of the eight females called Chidie said.

“All the data has been combined and processed, for now we have a plan, though we will need more. With the addition of the other two females, more of the balance is returning far faster. Has the atmosphere returned enough to support life?” Rena asked.

“For the moment, we now have a thinner than we need, though with the addition of the other two, it has increased,” Tiane said.

“Might I suggest that both of you two rest so you can increase your power. I hope that Wren can bring more of us out soon, we need more to help us and the planet,” Vassie said.

“We all hope that is true, that Wren can indeed bring us back without sacrificing herself,” Lota said.

Onboard Thomas’ ship, he and the engineers were trying to increase the trans-warp energy. The only thing they had accomplished so far, was a one-minute duration. They had also managed to get it down to a half day.

Over the two days, they had managed to get almost back to where they had started. So it wasn’t really all that much of a surprise when he saw Wren’s ship appear.

As soon as the alarms started to go off, Thomas tried to portal out. This almost took too long as Wren had started to fire on them.

“What in the hell was that?” Wren asked of Trigon.

“It appeared to be a fairly early and weak form of the trans-warp. At the moment they are outside normal space. It appears that they have at least a three-minute window. That will put them far past where we last stopped,” Trigon said.

“Are they that easy to track?” Wren asked.

“Yes, master Wren, as I said, this is a weaker, earlier form of our trans-warp. Do you wish to be there when they emerge?” Trigon asked.

Wren stood there a moment thinking, then shook his head. “Track them, stay with them, I want a constant lock. He just might actually lead us to the fifth race. It might help us to get them a lot faster,” Wren said.

“Compliance master Wren maintaining a lock on them now. They should be coming out of trans-warp in thirty seconds,” Trigon said.

“I want us within two million miles, keep us as far from their sensors as you can though,” Wren said.

A minute later, Wren’s ship was in trans-warp only a minute, then emerged near a star system.

“Master Wren! I am detecting a small fleet of fast-attack Zetcron ships. For the moment, they haven’t detected us, now moving to avoid detection,” Trigon said.

“Can you tell if they are the main system?” Wren asked.

“Not that I can tell, scanning.” Trigon said. “No, it appears to be an outer colony world. Master Wren?” Trigon asked. “I am detecting strange energy readings. Wren! Those are human em fields!”

Wren ran to the console, staring at the pure human brain waves. Wren shook her head there had to be at least a hundred there! She had to come up with a plan to free them.

She started to go through everything that she had on this type of function. She sighed, she had her work cut out for her.

“I want you to see if we have the room for all of them,” Wren told Trigon. “See if they need anything extra equipment wise.”

A few moments later, Trigon answered, “Master Wren, we barely have enough room. At present, I am not detecting any need for special equipment. We will have to have a place to put them though, afterward.”

Wren sighed as she went through all the places she knew of. The new imperial planet was out for sure. There were a few places, though they weren’t that safe, no good atmosphere.”

“Give me a moment,” Wren said as she opened a portal in front of her. Stepping through, she saw several of the masters there. “I need a safe place to put a hundred humans I discovered on a Zetcron colony world. Are any of the Decacon habitable?”

Several of the masters were in thought a few moments, then the first master spoke up. “I believe that the one that still has a breathable atmosphere is Decacon-one. The only problem I can see is the fact there is hardly much heavy plant life there.”

“I believe that I can remedy that problem, as well as a few others. As long as my mother can’t get to them,” Wren said.

“We also need to test your levels again. We are afraid that you might have harmed yourself after the last that you brought out,” the first master said.

Wren just shrugged as several of the masters started to scan her, then their mouths dropped open. Wren started to grow worried when she saw this. “Is anything wrong?” She asked.

“This is astounding,” several of the masters said. “Last time you were barely level twenty-six. Now you are almost to level thirty-one.”

“Oh, ok,” Wren said as she left the room. The door of the Chrysalis opened as Wren walked straight in to the Chrysalis. “So please back up, I hope it will be easier this time.”

She had just put both her hands on it when six of the first eight females walked in. “Wren, don’t try to exhaust yourself,” Rena said.

Wren looked back a minute, “no, don’t intend to knock myself out again like that.”

She then turned back toward the huge brightly glowing crystalline structure. Less than a moment later, three distinct orbs of energy broke free from the structure. For the first time ever, Wren felt no strain at all.