Work was the same for the next few weeks. Hawk checked the signs of the test subjects and the boy. Sometimes he took him out to do something besides being in his room.

For the boy it seemed like the space station was abandoned but the truth was that Hawk was told to keep him away from any people.

Hawk tried to follow his master's command but somehow it couldn’t be stopped. Questions were starting to come in Hawk’s mind and slowly Hawk became attached to the boy as he enjoyed his time playing with him.

The boy also confirmed it one day when they tried to hunt some space bugs.

‘You know, professor. I think you are my best friend,’ the boy said while they ran after some bugs.

Hawk could feel his chest getting heavy. He didn’t want to go there because of his master's command but he couldn’t stop it. He tried to laugh it off with a joke.

‘That is because I am your only friend,’ he said with a smile.

The boy laughed. ‘So we are friends?’ the boy asked him.

Hawk was afraid he couldn’t deny it. He really hadn't had a good friend in a long time and as he tried to reject it, he became more attached to the boy.

‘Yes. We are friends, ' he slowly said.

One evening, after returning the boy to his bed, Hawk saw something on the way back to his room.

A transporter team came by to the lab Hawk walked away from and they were ready to take the last test subject with them as they always did.

Normally, Hawk would pass by and not pay much attention but this time he was curious. He wanted to know what was happening with the subject. He blamed his professor's mind for wanting to know more answers.

When the little purple aliens that were the transporters didn’t pay attention, Hawk sneaked onboard of the transporter in the middle of the tubes filled with water and the test subjects.

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He looked at them, recognizing the facial structures of the boy he just put to bed.

‘They are literal copies,’ Hawk whispered to himself.

He had known when he checked the older subjects and it was clear where the blood was for but now looking so closely, it didn’t feel right for Hawk.

The transporter moved all the way to the other side of the station.

When they arrived at their destination, Hawk jumped off and found a hiding spot as he watched what the aliens did.

They moved the tubes to a large hole but they soon stopped and Hawk tried to see what was going on.

Suddenly a large hologram appeared and if his memory was correct, Hawk recognized the professor, his master, in the hologram. He had seen so many interviews and articles when he was studying.This was professor Khalcazar.

An older man with his last bits of long gray hair hanging loosely behind him as the man was standing bent forward and his arms behind his back.

‘The latest subjects,’ the crispy voice said that Hawk recognised as his master’s voice.

The purple aliens didn’t respond but they jumped a little which seemed as an interaction.

‘They are still not perfect,’ the professor said and the hole in the ground that had been shut suddenly opened.

One of the aliens activated the transporter and the tubes were taken off, falling into the hole where filthy air came out, followed by an explosion.

‘They are destroying them,’ Hawk thought, shocked as he looked at how the subjects were destroyed. The professor continued talking.

‘I fear that the results are dreadful. Time to move up the plan. Tomorrow you start to destroy the rest of the subjects and take the boy to my private station.’

One of the aliens jumped, making a squeaky sound.

‘The assistant?’ the professor asked and the alien responded by jumping.

‘No one must know our true plan. He has seen the boy and he knows too much. Luckily, I have a plan with him. Bring him down and take him with you.’

The professor laughed with an evil tone before the hologram disappeared.

Hawk took his eyes off the aliens, retreated and thought about what he just heard. His heart pounded in his chest.

They were gonna destroy the subject and take the boy with them. What were they gonna do with him? Then he thought about how he was marked as a target. He couldn't believe they would just take him with them after the experiments went wrong. Why was the professor like this? This was not the man Hawk looked up to since he was a young boy. In fact, it was a totally different man then he showed himself to the rest of the galaxy.

Hawk tried to stay calm and breathe slowly while he thought of a plan.

‘I have to get out of here,’ he thought to himself and then he thought of the boy.

‘We have to get out of here.’