The shockwave reverberated throughout the planet, causing a rise in tides, however, Kiala managed to maintain it within a ten-kilometre radius. A feat that resulted in multiple internal ruptures and damage within her body, as a consequence.
She coughed up large amounts of blood, then wiped her mouth with her sleeve, as she looked down at the massive burning crater, clouded with ash and smoke. Leftover, flaming debris continued to fall out of the sky, causing small explosions, as they landed.
Kiala searched, but felt no more life at the center of the crater, then looked over towards the direction of the city. A massive broken wall of stone and ice, circled the entire city, completely crumbling apart.
Large pieces of ice fell, as small figures in the distance ran to safety. She gritted her teeth, furious with herself. "I guess I wasn't strong enough to control it." She murmured, then powered down and healed her wounds.
She reached into her pack and pulled out a more futuristic booster, dozens of times stronger than the ones the Novas use. Then punched it into her thigh, alleviating the pain and wounds she couldn't reach, as nanites raced to fix her internal organs. She shook herself awake, then gathered enough energy, and began flying towards the city.
Back at Krojun...
"Is everyone ok!" Norah called out, as Carina helped Amaara up, while Nur and Tobi treated everyone.
"I'm good... What the hell was that?" Jacira asked while coughing out dust. She was one of the newest Novas, a native of Canada
Large boulders broke off, falling in chunks, as the wall they raised began to fall apart. She redirected a few boulders of ice and stones from falling on Kayed, who was still struggling to recover from protecting the city, then she continued to treat his injuries.
"Let's get away from here," Amaara spoke up, finally regaining her composure.
A bolt of electricity jetted through the sky, as Kiala appeared above them, then ominously dropped her right palm facing them. "Frost: Shock Cage ." Five large strings of electricity raced out of her fingers surrounding Tobi, Kalista, and the Novas.
"What... what's going on?" Nur called out.
"Who are you?" Tobi asked the girl floating above them.
Suddenly the air frosted up between the strings, while massive white-hot sparks of electricity zapped out of them, then into the ground and air. Tasing all those within and paralyzing them as their mouths started to foam. She then transformed, with her hair glowing full silver, along with purple lavaish veins marking her body.
Then, she vanished in a blur, leaving the cage up while reappearing right behind Tobi. Unsuspecting, as she injected him with a syringe, that she retrieved from her belt and plunged the contents through his neck. Allowing it to course through his body. "The name's Kiala and according to my mother... you're my Pops." She whispered in his ear.
He instinctively grabbed after her hand, too late, as she jumped back, while Nur and Jacira fainted from her attack. The others were still frozen in place, unable to move, for the amount of energy she was outputting was much greater than they could handle. Thus forcing them to shift into first gear and shatter the cage.
Tobi dropped to his knees, as his blood pressure began to rise, with the veins all over his body, pulsing unnaturally in short intervals. Kayed looked at him, then charged at her first, leaping into the air and trying to enclose her within a metal dome.
She vanished and reappeared behind him. "Half of you died today." She yelled out loud, startling him.
"Wait.. wha-" Kayed tried to say, then quickly decided to brace himself, before he was sent flying hundreds of kilometres away, demolishing a few hills, before rolling over unconscious.
Amaara followed up right behind her throwing a right hook into thin air, as Kiala had vanished once more and appeared above her knocking her back down to the planet, completely unable to move.
"How dare you!" Norah yelled out to her, as she, Kalista, and Carina shifted into second gear, realizing she wasn't someone they could underestimate.
Sarah tuned into their comms. "Guys I'm not sure, who she is, but her strength reads at just over 400, 000. She may be hiding something we haven't seen before, be careful."
"Got it." They replied in unison.
Tobi was still keeling over on the floor, fading in and out of consciousness. Kalista and Norah charged at her, as Carina created hundreds of angelic golems, made of different stones and minerals, taking flight over Kiala.
She smiled, at their attempt, finally taking her seriously. She raised one hand out and closed it. Forcing each of the golems to crumble and fall back to the planet with unnatural speed. Then they suddenly, gathered together, rushing at Carina and trapped her in a dome. Surging with billions of volts and almost instantly knocked her out.
Norah charged her, throwing dozens of strikes, each blocked and countered with ease. "You know..." Kiala started to say, as she pushed her back with a light shock from a palm thrust.
Kalista followed up by reinforcing her arm, with titanium and other tough metals to strike Kiala, from her blind spot. Yet, she still managed to block it with one hand and shatter the Nova's gauntlet. Then, Kiala followed up, by spinning around to kick her into Norah.
"Technically I'm genetically related to the both of you, but I only have one mother... and she died because of you all." She spoke, with complete contempt, but was distracted by Tobi yelling out in pain and rolling over, holding his chest. She gritted her teeth, as her anger, boiled over to the top. "And him!"
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Immediately she started making her way towards him, while Norah and Kalista leaped closer to try and stop her. However, she turned around raising one hand towards them, and clutched her fist, then then dropped her hand down. "Kinect: Great Pressure."
Suddenly the air around Norah and Kalista cracked, as they plummeted, straight to the ground. Paralyzed by an invisible force. They struggled to get up, but their faces just slammed back down to the ground.
"What is this? I can't move my body." Norah said as she tried to raise her head once more to look at Kiala. Kalista yelled out, as she struggled to push herself up in a push-up position, and draw out all of the energy she could muster, to break out.
"It's no use, the more you resist, the more you'll hurt yourself. I'm not interested in you guys. Just stay put." She said, pointing her palm at them once more. "Frost: Prison."
A cage made of ice, manifested around them, making them both feel fatigue, as the heat from their bodies dropped drastically. In moments, the combination had knocked them out, leaving them completely immobilized.
She powered down, realizing she was running out of stamina. "It still takes too much out of me, I guess... I still have one more job to do, I've got to conserve some of my energy." She said to herself before injecting her arm with a less intense adrenaline booster to keep her going. Then she descended in front of Tobi, who had just recovered and stood back up.
Over the skies of Australia...
Three Cerian ships had just descended out of camouflage. They managed to stealthily find their way in, by using the commotion from the invasion on Dargan. All to catch the enemy by surprise.
The monitors and consoles in the Command Center at Beyond HQ, blared, warning of the incoming threat. Leaving Sarah frantic as she sent Nirro and the androids to dispatch their remaining forces, stationed on the Moon and in the Republic of Rennaya.
Back on Dargan...
"If what you say is true, then I've got a lot of questions to ask you." Tobi finally spoke up after regaining his composure.
Kiala sighed, then allowed her anger to take over. "I've got, some questions myself..."
Even streaks of silver popped up all over her hair, with light purple veins, flowing with the viscosity of lava, throughout her body. Sensing the danger, Tobi didn't hesitate to shift into second gear as well.
"What makes you so special?" She growled.
"What do you mean-" He tried to ask her, as she lunged at him.
Instinctively he raised his arms, blocking her strike, as the collision, rippled shockwaves throughout the field. He took a deep breath, realizing this girl had some grudge against him. Then enclosed the unconscious Novas in domes of ice and dirt, leaving ventilation for them to breathe, while both of them broke apart to make some distance. She raised her hand summoning dark clouds together, then struck herself with quick strikes of lightning.
"Why are you doing this?" Tobi asked her.
She glared back at him, then pointed at the Novas. "Half of them died today because you were too weak to stop this invasion. Six months later, while saving a civilian child, you were assassinated by some top leaders and conglomerates, who were blackmailed, and given the technology to kill you, from a child of Atlas. Who infiltrated Earth, during this invasion." She explained, as she pointed one palm at him and fired a few electric volleys.
Which he tactically diffused, by manifesting ice and clay barriers all around him. She continued to berate him. "For your sake, my mother went to extreme lengths, to bring you back to life, and she gave her life doing so."
Tobi was shocked, suspended in disbelief. Part of him didn't want to believe it, but her energy felt familiar, although they had never met. It was a tough pill for him to swallow, as he never thought he would have a child this early in his life. One that could call meteors as well.
"Who is your mother?" He asked, with curiosity.
Kiala stopped firing and dropped her hands to her sides. "Saphyra!" She called out.
Moments later, Saphyra descended on a hovering platform, with an unconscious Sarah replica, overlooking the Dargan operation and a large coffin-sized box. "Yes, Kiala." She answered.
"Open it," Kiala ordered.
Tobi watched as Saphyra plucked out Sarah's core as if she'd done it before. Then sliced the box open, standing it up, with an exacto knife. Styrofoam fell out revealing the body of an exact copy of Sarah from the future.
A tear fell down her cheek, as Kiala glanced at her mother's face. Saphyra proceeded to place the core into the future copy. Its eyes began to whir like they did when Sarah was first booted on. It then placed one palm out facing upwards, as it opened up, revealing a lens within, beaming out a high-def, holographic recording.
The recording presented Sarah from the future sitting in a chair, at the empty Command Center in Beyond HQ. It looked run-down, with low maintenance, gloomy, and echoed times of better days.
The Sarah in the recording began to speak, sipping a glass of water, before she did so, leaving Tobi confused."If you're watching this, that means, my message finally got to you... Tobi..." She smiled. "First I want to apologize, I know I have crossed many boundaries and lines to accomplish this mission, but I saw no other way to a peaceful future..."
She took a deep breath and shifted in her chair. "Thanks to Nirro, I was able to have Kiala, my pride and joy. I love her more than anything else, and I hate to entrust such a mission to her, but you were the only person I could think of, that she would be safe with. It was wrong of me to gamble her life as well, but it was the only way."
Her expression switched into a grim but faint expression. "If Kiala and Saphyra are still there, that means Nirro's Theory was correct and another timeline has been created. Which means no change happened in our timeline. If that is the case, please take care of Kiala and Saphyra for me. They're my precious children after all." She gave one last smile and began to cry.
"I'm sorry for failing you Tobi, Osei... I regret it every day. However, I hope this will give you guys another chance. Goodbye... I wish you luck on your adventure and make sure to never lose sight of your goal. Lastly, Kiala, if you're there, keep your head up, and never let your emotions rule you. Blossom into the amazing woman, that I know you will one day grow to be."
She waved and the hologram phased out, as her copy dropped her hands to the side, and finished downloading the rest of the files. All forty million clones of Sarah and representatives stationed around Earth, Sonara, and Dargan, shut down and stopped their movements, except for emergency essentials.
Sarah, in her new body, gasped and took a deep breath, looking around. "What... What's going on?"
Saphyra looked at her. "You're alive, Sarah. The future you, made this body for you... For the next step."
Sarah shook her head. "There's no way, I would do all of this."
She looked at Tobi, who just stood there in disbelief. Then she looked down in shame, and leaped up, leaving behind cloud rings, as she disappeared into the sky.
Selvin tapped into Tobi's comm. "Tobi, it's Selvin. All of Sarah's androids have shut down. Markets are crashing and it's chaos."
"Got it," Tobi responded.
Saphyra looked at Tobi and Kiala. "I think she'll need some time, to adapt to the situation. Anyways I'll be taking over all operations Sarah used to conduct, while she focuses on development." She paused as her pupils began to spin within themselves.
She connected to the Prometheus and shot signals across the three planets. Each of the androids that went offline, restarted and resumed their responsibilities.
Once she was done, she looked back at them and spoke. "Anyways, you guys should cease your family bickering-"
She was rudely cut off, as a dome of dirt and ice sealed her in and shut her up. Kiala dropped her hand down and faced Tobi. Glaring at him, with a deadly expression.
"Now do you understand, what you put my mother through?"