GWB08E

53. Chapter 8. Leval's Secret is uncovered

The days passed and Roy trained the boy thoroughly, in an isolated place, free of curious people. They both fought to exhaustion and recovered their strength with a bean. So day after day. Beruche cared a lot for both of them, especially for the boy and that had not gone unnoticed by Roy. Her boyfriend noticed that she was always watching the boy in a very inquisitive way and it seemed strange. Perhaps captivated by her story, his personal drama, or something he could not understand. The truth is that he did not care at first. He himself was intrigued by this mysterious boy, but now that was bothering him more and more. It was nothing that could qualify as a suspect in the behavior of his girl but he had a strange feeling that increased day after day. He watched the glances between them, the growing sense of empathy the two seemed to have to each other and sometimes he felt out of place when he was next to them. He mentally told himself that none of this was happening, that they were his imaginations, but little by little his thought was being dominated by jealousy more and more accused. Until one afternoon something happened that could be perfectly defined as "the drop that filled the cup of his patience."

After a hard training day Roy was more nervous than usual. The growing evil thoughts that assaulted him were increased by his next game, he would have to go on tour with his team and leave them alone. He could not stop twisting his head. In the meantime, the boy next to him sweated after the fight. He had removed a T-shirt with weights that his training partner had lent him and still breathing with agitation. Bertie reached them as he usually did each time they both paused. With hand towels in hand she offered one to each and Roy again had that nasty feeling. His girlfriend gave him a smile but offered the other to the boy with a look too inquisitive, allowing her to travel his chest and torso descending to the abdominals, well-marked, that went down wildly and climbed to the beat of the breath.

- Do you want a towel? - She said very kindly to him, reaching for her hand. -Yes, thank you very much. - The boy replied by grabbing it while his hands came in contact with the Beruche under the complicity of the fabric. -

The girl smiled widely, clasping her hand to the boy's, instinctively stroking his hair with the other. He felt a shiver run through his neck to his back. That's what his mother did, too. When he looked depressed or tired. Of course, Beruche was his mother, or she will be. He wish that girl in front of him, oblivious to that future, did not think of him any other way! Roy, who was only a few yards away, was perfectly aware of all this and a gust of fury seized him.

-What the hell did that little brat think? He does not even stop in front of me!

Unable to contain himself, he strode towards them. Leval, on the other hand, was completely oblivious to the suspicions of his future father, he only noticed Bertie, and she looked back at him with an indeterminate expression of tenderness and affection. Or was it more than that?

-No more rest! - Roy snapped, pushing him away from her so hard that he threw him to the ground. –

The boy came out of that kind of dream when his body hit the grass. He did not understand that abruptness, maybe his father was testing him to see if he was progressing in terms of the ability to see the opponent's movements. He gave no more importance but Beruche gave her boyfriend a look of disapproval. More when he told her with rather unkindness.

-Back off! - Let's continue and we will not fight in jest. -

He did not know what to answer, he noticed Roy angry and did not know why, and lately he was very rare. He was not himself, he often replied with monosyllables or with bad manners without justification. Surely the pressure of knowing responsibility for the future once again when he believed all that was overcome was playing tricks on him. He decided to let it run. The fight began, Leval attacked willingly to show that his progress was remarkable but his opponent did not return the attacks as he expected. With a quick, instantaneous translation, he reappeared on the back of his rival and struck him unintentionally by slamming him into a concrete wall that the unprepared boy smashed with impact.

-But what is Roy doing? - Bertie wondered with surprise and concern. -

At that moment Tom and Cooan arrived, they had been to meet there to continue talking about the next steps to follow. As they parked the jeep they saw the fight and it was he who could see that this was beginning to be more than a mere training.

-They fight with desire. - Cooan naively declared, oblivious to what was happening. -

-At least Roy. - Tom mumbled, really surprised by the attitude of his friend. - I'd say with too many.

Indeed. Although Leval was just backing away, blocking the blows as best he could. His father was angry, he had never fought like that, probably decided to move to a more advanced stage of training.

-Hi, Bertie. - Cooan greeted her sister who also witnessed that fight with growing concern. -

-I do not know what's wrong with Roy. - She replied by all greeting observing that fight with visible concern to sentence. - I think he's going too far.

-Yes, I think so too. - Tom agreed without disguising his uneasiness. – He is forcing that boy too hard.

Leval demanded a break. But his coach did not give it to him. The boy had to ask for a truce in the middle of the battle, not caring to recognize him.

-Enough, I'm still not up to you...

-That is true. - Roy retorted furiously to sentence. - You should not forget it.

The boy could not quite understand the reason for that defiant tone, and he parted company with the others. His appearance was deplorable since he had struck several blows in the face that now appeared a string of bruises and bruises. He could feel the taste of blood in his mouth and he had to spit to get rid of it.

-What barbarity, how he beat you! - Beruche smiled at him, hurrying to wipe the wound with a clean cloth. -

Tom and Cooan watched the natural scene without worrying about anything until they could see Roy approaching. Just as Bertie approached the boy's lips, he had submissively lowered his head so she would not have to stretch too much, given the great difference in stature. But from Roy's perspective that position seemed quite different, and the most absurd ideas flashed through his head. Situations that anyone would have immediately dismissed as ridiculous took control of his mind, given the aggressiveness that ran through his body because of the fight.

-Hey Roy. - You're training too seriously, are not you? - Tom said when he saw him walking at such a fast pace.

To his surprise his friend ignored him completely and attacked the boy. Leval had moved a few feet away from Bertie and was turning to look at the area of ​​the fight when the punch of his aggressor gave him full thrown dozens of meters in the air until he fell to the ground where he bounced several times until lying without being able to get up. The faces of the others went from the surprise to the fear in the case of Cooan and Tom and even more to the bewilderment and the indignation in Beruche that went to her boyfriend. He was panting and tight with fury, standing with his eyes on the place where his rival had fallen...

-Are you crazy, Roy? What did you do to him? - He was unprepared!

Leval spat out blood more abundantly, and Cooan soon ran to him to assist him. Tom himself came up to the boy and was horrified. The beating he had suffered was excessive. That was not a training match. Rather it seemed like a death fight against an enemy. What the hell was Roy planning? He was going to kill him if he continued like this.

-Quickly, give me a bean. - He asked his friend that he did not even seem to listen to him. - Oh, for God´s sake! This kid is badly hurt!

Bertie gave his partner a furious and incredulous look and wanted to get the bag where the beans were kept but he stopped holding her by an arm.

-Can you tell what you're doing? - She chided. -

-Tell me what are you doing, first? - He replied accusingly. - Let him! Let him learn to suffer like a true saiyajin. He is no child. Or that have you not noticed? - He finished with a sarcasm. -

-What are you implying? - Beruche replied, meeting his gaze with genuine indignation. -

Leval had laboriously stood on his feet, helped by Tom, and they both looked at each other with a startled, fear-filled look toward Roy, who faced the boy.

-You're a very slow boy and too weak. And you call yourself a super warrior? You would not last me for two minutes in actual combat. So far I've been very soft with you, but get ready! Because I will fight seriously.

-I ... I do not understand, what ... what ... have I done ... wrong? - The boy visibly desolate could babble, as well as being physically damaged. –

-Of course you know!" - His attacker accused him stared at him, while he dedicated another to Bertie. -

She began to realize what was going on there. Tom also noticed, keeping his mouth open. The only one who did not find out was Cooan who had run for a bandage to plug the poor boy's blood.

-But what are you saying, Roy? - The girl snapped, taking him by the arm. - Can you tell what nonsense you're going through? - Will not you think I?

He did not respond but his anger far from remitting for that reproach increased. More when Bertie came to the aid of the boy to whom she could finally offer a bean. Leval barely could chew it since his jaw was seriously damaged, so she gently pushed it into his mouth, not caring to stain. That put Roy out of his mind and was already preparing a new blow. Fortunately the closeness of his girlfriend discouraged him enough time for Tom to intervene.

-We need to talk. - He urged his friend.

-You got into your affairs! - He spat at him. -

-You do not know what you're doing. - Tom reproved him. - And I assure you that you will regret it.

-You dare threaten me when I'm seeing it with my own eyes? - Roy shouted at Bertie and Leval. -

The boy was stony, he had not understood anything until then, but now it was clear. What horror! He could not allow this situation to continue or perhaps he himself would be in danger. Both now and in his future birth. But what could he do? He only chose the only exit he saw at that moment, he rose in the air disappearing from there...

Then Beruche burst into tears and ran away, her sister had the right time to see her and to leave behind her. Tom had read the anguish in Leval's eyes. And he told Roy with a mixture of disapproval and despair...

-You do not know what you've done!

-I do not know! - He replied angrily. - You're the one who did not understand anything, you idiot. Have not you seen how they look?

And he was turning to leave when Tom in a fit of fury grabbed his arm and snapped.

-You're going to listen to what I have to say! ...

And Roy easily let go throwing his friend to the ground. But then he could master himself enough to realize that he could have hurt him. Tom was not a saiyan like that boy and he had not measured his strength. Luckily, he got up unscathed.

-I'm sorry - He could tell by looking down and trying to temper his anger. -

But his friend did something that he did not expect, he turned to him and struck him with a hard slap in his face and forehead. Roy did not get hurt, but he did raise a look of rage and surprise. Nevertheless he restrained himself, in the end he deserved it. But he would never have expected that reaction from Tom that used to be very quiet. But that was not there.

-And you're going to lamented it!" - His friend said visibly angry. - You have no idea of ​​anything. You are a fool! I would never have expected it from you. Do you know who you were about to kill? Hey! Do you really know!

Roy gave him a look of surprise and bewilderment, the anger had been displaced and he even began to feel fear. He had not seen Tom in that desperate tone of voice since he'd been crippled.

-I've only seen a boy and my girlfriend flirting in front of me. I do not care if he comes from the future. As much as I want to save the Earth Bertie is not included in the lot. - He explained more focused to his friend but still with a clear nuance of threat when he added. - And I'm not going to let this go any further or I'm capable of killing him. Let him go back to that time of which he says he's coming and we'll take care of everything!

His interlocutor shook his head, was really angry and could not understand that blindness in Roy. Everything would be ruined, they would fail and be exterminated! And what for? Because of a stupid, unfounded jealousy.

-I never thought you were so mean! - Tom insulted him with contempt. -

The man grabbed his chest in a reflex action, almost had his hand raised to hit him and snapped.

- Be careful what you say! I do not consent to anyone who speaks to me like that, apologize or...!

-Or what? Are you going to kill me too? - He challenged his interlocutor with the bravery which come from who knew the truth. - What else are you capable of? Ho ahead! - He provoked him by sentencing then out of his squares with a mixture of bitterness, sadness and disappointment. - I would not be surprised if you did, if you threatened your own son's life.

Roy shuddered inside. What the hell did Tom mean? Was Bertie maybe pregnant? No, she had not said anything. And lately they had had few relationships because of all that. So, was that boy? He shook his head as if to shake off the idea that had been kindled in his mind. He was now looking at his interlocutor in complete disbelief. He immediately guessed the surprise in the face of his enraged friend and far from stopping, finished without question, confirming that.

-Where do you think that boy is coming from? He will never tell you even if you kill him. But he did tell me. It comes from the future and is your son.

The man was paralyzed. He could not believe it. He shook his head and released his friend smiled wryly, he replied.

-Are you crazy? But what are you saying? ... My son. That's absurd!

-Is it? - Tom replied, counting him closely. - How many living saiyajin do you know, eh? How many of you have that big resemblance to you? Well not so much, the eyes are deep blue, what a coincidence! - He exclaimed with sarcasm to rectify with force and subtle irony. Rather than causality, they are like Bertie's, the very eyes of her, for she will be his mother.

Roy could not stop shaking his head, but the truth took possession of him and a flurry of awakening and guilt swept away all other emotions. He fell on his knees, his hands on his head as soon as he heard the last. In his head they saw more memories of that talk with his master Trunks. The two of them, seated in an apart of the Corner. Roy commented.

-It must have been hard to travel back in time to try to stop that.

-Yes, but I was very excited to meet my father. I could not do it. He died as a baby. And well…. When I finally managed to fulfill my dream, at first I was disenchanted. He did not seem to care about me. What is more! He treated me in the worst possible way....

-What an idiot! - Roy said, yes, in a low voice. - Well, I do not want him to hear me. Vegeta is not one who has too much sense of humor.

-No, of course, my father is like that, - he said. - I know he was more jealous of my strength than anything else at first. But in the end he showed that he cared. Cell almost killed me in that tournament I told you about and he wanted to take revenge then. I barely could tell I was half unconscious.

-I do not know. - Roy said with a reflective nod. - If I had a baby, that for me it would be the most important thing in the world alongside Bertie. I would try to be for him as my own parents went with me...

Trunks nodded approvingly. Now all that crossed Roy's mind that he could only groan on his knees on the floor.

-OMG! - He said again and again. - What have I done?

His friend felt sorry to see him like this and sweetened his tone by adding more conciliatory but perhaps even more lacerating.

-For God´s sake, Roy! That poor boy escaped from a nightmarish future with two dreams, one to avoid that atrocious world in which he grew up and the other to know his father. He is the son you will have Bertie and you. He even showed me some photos he brought. - He added with fogged eyes and the voice taken by pity towards that poor boy. - Some were picture of you from when you were supposed to play in the team. And he talked about you with such admiration ...

Only a hoarse sob came out of his companion.

-No! - He could say, sunk in the misery that now seized his soul, repeating without ceasing, sobbing. - What have I done, my God? Please! Try to understand me. I knew nothing. - He added with so much bitterness that it touched his interlocutor. - This is crazy. How would I know? Why did not you tell me? Why did not you tell me? Damn you, you're my friend!

Tom took a deep breath, looking up at the sky, and at last he could reply in a patient, even sympathetic tone.

-I could not tell you. He made me promise that. Do not you understand that it would not be the same for him? He wanted to meet you and learn from you, like two good friends. How will you tell them that you will be their parents? That would have marked you, his very existence would be in danger. Roy you has put him in a dare strait situation. Now instead of a father, he thinks he has a fool jealous who tries to kill him. What will he think of you?

His interlocutor felt terribly wrong. Possibly he would have shattered all hopes of that boy. It had shattered his confidence...

-I will not be able to look him in the face. - He wept through tears. - I'm a fucking son of a bitch, I know! But I was afraid Tom. What if Bertie falls in love with him?

-Do you think Leval would allow it? - He knows that she is destined to be his mother. - His calmest friend answered him already. -

-Is that his name? - Roy managed to say, trying to stand up again and face his embarrassed look at his fellow man. -

-I did not want to tell you anything, his safety was at stake. - Only God knows how bad I've been through these days. So I beg you, I beseech you, to fix things without telling him that you know.

-I swear! - Roy was quick to reply, eager as anyone to amend his shameful behavior. - But Bertie will never forgive me.

-Do not tell her either. - He shook his head, imagining the temptation it would be for his friend to do so in order to discharge his conscience. - Connie does not know who that boy really is. - Now you're the only one apart from me.

-I will not do it. I have caused enough damage already. - His interlocutor with a whisper and walked away head down but Tom stopped him resting his hand on one of his shoulders and encouraged him. - Although Bertie hates me ... I will try to apologize anyway.

-Everything will get fixed. I´ll speak to Leval.  -He tried to cheer him up.-

His companion smiled at him gratefully, fortunately he could count on his friend. But things would never be the same again.

-No thanks, Tommy. - Roy said with calm recovery. - I must solve it since I was the only one to blame. - I'll get him. I have his energy and I will transport myself next to him. Fear nothing and thank you very much for being a much better friend than I deserve.

And Tom nodded pleased, eager for everything to be fixed. In the meantime Beruche was relieved with his sister, and Cooan tried to encourage her as best he could.

-I've never seen him like this! He seems to be possessed by a beast! It's even worse when he was dominated by that demon. She sobbed. -It is that I cannot understand it! What does he imagine of me!

-That's because he loves you. - Cooan said gently. - It is necessary that you speak both and clarify this situation. You cannot go on like this.

-Maybe it's not a good idea for us to go on, - her sister said, leaving her astonished to confess in a fear-tinged voice. - I do not know, he is different, since this kid came, it's not the person he was before. Sometimes I think he considers me as a possession, that damned warrior heritage dominates him to such an extent that he is not able to control his actions and I am afraid.

Cooan cradled her sister with all the affection he was capable of and whispered.

-You love him and you've been through much more difficult things together. You have to give him an opportunity to explain himself. I know deep down you're the most important thing to him and maybe Roy is afraid to lose you. You should not give in to the first serious difficulty in your relationship. Remember what happened to Usagi and Mamoru. And our sister Petz and Sapphire.

Bertie sighed, pulling away from her sister, pacing with her hands entwined as if she wanted to be able to make a decision. She remembered in fact all the adventures and tests that her friends as well as they had surpassed to return to be together. So she was not going to let something like this get away from them. She nodded slowly and muttered.

-You're right, but please, I need you by my side. - She begged her interlocutor. -

-You know you'll always have me for whatever it is. - Her sister assured her, taking her back to the place where the others were. -

Leval had flown for a while trying to get as far away as possible. He was not afraid for his physical integrity, but he was spiritually sunk. He had failed. He could not go back again. He remained absorbed in those thoughts when he landed by a nearby rock. He sat with both hands on his head trying to decide what to do. He would fight, at least he could die with dignity and not see the horror that awaited them in the future. It would be the only way to join his father and the others in battle. His father! He never thought it would. Although perhaps he had made a very serious mistake. Roy knew nothing and was sure he thought he was interested in Bertie. What a great irony of fate! He himself had contributed that his parents might never beget him.

-Boy. - He heard Roy's voice a few yards behind him. -

Leval reacted by standing up quickly, but not to defend himself, he felt defeated. In his depression he would not be able to return a single blow, if that was what his father intended. He could scarcely look at him and prepared himself mentally to be punished again, and nothing mattered...

-Forgive me. I'm sorry. I've been too brutal. - Apologized then the newcomer confessing with concern - I am very scared! The pressure of all this overwhelms me. Perhaps I have tried to accelerate your training beyond your current possibilities and I have become enraged at my own mistake, making you responsible for my frustration. I have no excuse! I know that I have disappointed you, but I beg you to give me another chance.

The boy could hardly believe it. He wish that were true! His father seemed very worried, hurt and ashamed of his previous course, so he looked at him and tried to cheer him up.

-It's all my fault, I'm not prepared enough. And you're right. The enemy is not kind, does not give rest and fight to kill. The destiny of the world is in our hands and we must not fail.

Roy smiled at last and could look into his eyes gratefully and look at those pupils really as blue and clean as Bertie's.

-You are very brave boy! I'm sure your parents would be very proud of you if they saw you. I would be if it were a child of mine. -He declared in all sincerity, though he seemed unconcerned in his tone. -

The poor boy did not know what to say. He wanted to cry, to hug him and to confess so much to him ... but it could not be. More, when Roy insisted.

-You have to tell me many things and I have to tell you a lot too. Because like you, I also lost my parents years ago. I know how it feels.

Leval nodded with emotion. His interlocutor realized and avoided putting him to the test, he added with serenity.

-Let's go back, it's too late to continue training and we have to go home.

-I'm so sorry, I hope you did not create problems for Bertie and you. - The excited boy stammered, remembering that annoying affair again. -

-The only jerk that has created problems here was me. I am  the one who just screw it up. - Roy confessed smiling to add in tone that was truthful more than it seemed. - Now I'm afraid to stand in front of her. More than I could be in front of any demon or android. When she gets angry you do not know how  she can be like. Not even a super saiyajin is safe! And I have angered her a lot and she is right to be. - He smiled to add in complicity. - But she will forgive me. She always does, deep down is a very good girl. If I told you the trouble I gave her at the University!

Leval made a gesture of great interest. His mother had once told him what was it like when they first met, but now he had a chance to listen to his father directly.

-I would love it if you did. - He could say full of genuine curiosity. -

His interlocutor smiled more broadly, patted his back, and they both rose in the air to the training camp. There Tom and Cooan were waiting with Beruche, the latter restless and very worried. So she was very surprised that his partner and the boy arrived in such good company, even laughing at something that Roy was counting. Now they looked like a couple of old friends. What would have happened between them so that her boyfriend had given that change?

-Yes ...- he was saying to the boy who was laughing when he heard. - And I got a binder on my head! -You see, for some jokes of nothing! ... but do not see how she was when I threw her in the pool, ha, ha, ha! The mark of the slap she gave me remained on my cheek for a long time ...

However, as they landed next to him, Roy became serious again and approached Beruche. There were no words, only a strong embrace between them and the affected whisper of a "sorry" on his part. She didn´t say anything, this time there was no room for the temper tantrums she adopted when the quarrels were less important. The girl could not help crying and he squeezed her even harder against his chest. The others stood cautiously on the sidelines.

-I promise you, I swear by the memory of my parents that I will never do this to you again. Sorry, I'm sorry I doubted you. - He mumbled. -

Bertie did not know what to say. This had been a great test of their relationship, and they both knew it. Besides, Roy's sense of pain and remorse in his eyes helped her forgive him sincerely. But she was still intrigued by this sudden change. Maybe later she could ask, but time should be given. So, after a while alone the two, without saying anything else, they returned to their friends. No one wanted to comment on that incident again. Things were fine and they went back to the house. Cooan offered to help Beruche with dinner. Tom and she had been invited to stay. The presence of both was necessary, as support and mediation to finish closing that wound. But Bertie admired, and above all was astonished, the complicity that had arisen between Roy and the boy. With Tom now they talked animatedly as if that afternoon had never happened. He was glad that it was so, that this misunderstanding between all had been clarified, but still did not understand such a radical change. It could be that the warriors of space were like that. Of being about to kill himself to smile sharing jokes in a matter of minutes. Anyway, she sensed that there must be something else. Cooan watched her, surprising her with those thoughts and asked.

-What's wrong?

-Look at them. - She said thinking aloud. - So similar and so different at the same time. And when I look at that boy I feel something beautiful and very strange inside me. I cannot explain what it is ...

-You have not fallen in love with him, have you? - Cooan demanded, afraid that deep inside Roy's suspicions were true. -

But her sister soon refuted that in her reply and there was security in that refusal when she added.

-No, is not that. I cannot express it. It's more like ... - She looked disoriented and unable to find the words, then looked at Cooan and the inspiration came. - It's like what I feel for you or for our other sisters ...

-Seem to brotherly or motherly love? - Her companion suggested sharply. -

-Something like that, besides, I see so much sadness and longing in his eyes. - She confessed she tried to explain to her sister. - It's like a child in need of love. Like a little brother.

-Be careful. - Cooan warned her taking advantage of what she learned in her subjects of  psychology. - You may feel attracted to him but, knowing that is not right, your own subconscious would be sublimating it.

-No, I love Roy, I know that. - She asserted, trying harder. - Even though he sometimes acts like a jerk. And change so fast his attitude.- She added without hiding her surprise. -

Cooan looked at her quizzically, she had noticed that too, and it surprised her just like her sister.

-Tom must have told him something. – Beruche guessed. - He knows him as a brother. But what? She added, casting that rhetorical question. -

-Do not ask me, - her younger sister shrugged. - He did not tell me anything. If they have spoken. The truth is that lately these two are very rare.

Her interlocutor agreed with a slight nod and without further comment they finished preparing the dinner and served it. They all sat around the table. It would have been comical if it had not been to stun, the way Roy and Leval had  to devour the dishes. The conversation was not at first lavished by hunger, then by the inability of anyone to break the ice, until Beruche was encouraged to say.

-Do you progress? - She asked without explanation to which matter was being addressed. -

-The boy has a lot of talent. - Her boyfriend said  talking about the training ground. – He progress well. And he will do even better.

-Roy taught me how to concentrate my energy more effectively. - Leval proudly added.-

-And now Roy was telling you some funny tactics! - Bertie questioned again with her usual fun cynicism in these cases, which this time revealed with a smile of complacency. - I've seen you laugh.

-Good. – The  embarrassed Leval answered. - To be honest he told me some things he did to you in class.

-Some bullshit of his. He had an inexhaustible repertoire! - Tom termed to encourage the conversation, getting the prize of Cooan's laughter that nodded corroborating that. -

-You will need days to hear them all. - The sister of Beruche said waving a hand .-

-It was not so much. – Roy justified putting a hand back his neck and turning red, adding with tone of comic complicity. - Stop slandering me, you Kansas peasant! If I remember correctly, you did me some to me as well.

- Yes. But always in response to one of yours.

And Tom laughed, now backed by the girls, as the boy watched them in astonishment and amusement.

- What can I say. -The alluded admitting that. - Touched ... and you boy, you have come to the right place, besides training I will teach you many of my favorite jokes.

Beruche shook her head with feigned reproof. And even more so when her partner added by placing a hand on the boy's right shoulder.

-And I have to tell you tricks to date girls. Or do you already have a girlfriend in your future?

Everyone noticed that the boy's face darkened. Roy cursed himself for his slip.

-I've screwed up again! I'm an idiot! -He lamented. -

-No, - Leval returned, cheering his face back. - I just did not have time to worry about those things. – He tinted now with visible shame.-

-So you do not have any special girl? - Cooan asked with obvious interest. -

- Not good, there were some that I liked but I did not decide. - The embarrassed boy admitted thinking about that brunette girl he met in what was left of New York in his future. -

-Well, you have to be more determined. - Roy said, trying to cheer him up. - You're a handsome boy, not as much as I am, but you're not bad. You have to like the girls. I'll tell you what we'll do, when we solve this I'll take you around ...

- Stop being silly! - Bertie admonished him and now her boyfriend could not say if she was joking or serious, more to add with a look of disapproval. - Do not even think about filling that poor boy´s head with the nonsense you have in yours ...

- Little cube. Do not get mad at me. -He could reply, as she looked at the boy and shrugged his shoulders to whisper to  Leval in good mood, as if Bertie was not in front. - We'll go there without her knowing.

His girlfriend could not help smiling and moving her head with amused resignation. Although before she could add anything, Cooan had already prepared another question no less interesting.

-What does it feel like to travel through time? How is it?

-It sounds as if  you do not know it! - Tom smiled. -

-No, I do not think it's the same in my case as in hers. - Leval commented. -

-You did not come in a spaceship, did you? -Beruche asked, confessing without hesitation. - My sisters and I did so.

-No, - the boy smiled, shaking his head, to explain. - They sent me with the sum of the powers of several people. They enveloped me in a kind of enchantment. If I can call it that. I had nothing to protect me. Except that kind of mystical energy.

-And did you notice anything then? - Roy wanted to know. -

The boy looked at all the diners and sighed trying to find a way to explain something so strange.

-At first you hardly notice anything strange. Then you start to wander around and around yourself, faster and faster. Things are blurred and you see yourself floating in a sea of ​​indescribable colors, like a kind of iridescent kaleidoscope. But the best is the soft tinkling you can hear. It is something like beautiful music that goes beyond one's own time, as if centuries would sigh and lull you on the road. And you can feel it with every fiber of your being. In the end everything is back to normal, things move at a dizzying pace but are slowing. You stop circling until you stop and it is just like turning on yourself. Everything is still moving slowly around you until it stops and you are again in normality. But you are already in another time and place other than the one you left. And that song. I still remember ...

-Song? - Roy asked, as surprised as the rest.

-Yes, one my teacher sometimes put on. He always said it was very sad and beautiful. The end of the seasons it was called. From a group ... I do not remember the name, but It started something like ...

And then the boy chanted a stanza, and he had a beautiful voice. The girls listened to him, captivated. Even Roy and his friend Tom did it with amazement.

Getting close to season´s end

I heard someone say

It may never snow again

In England…

Then it was Tom who added ...

-I know that song. I love it! Denounces climate change. The ruin to which we take to the Earth by our bad actions.

-Yes. - Roy agreed. - It's familiar to me too ...

-My teacher always said that, although it was dedicated to what you say, the situation of our world reminded him that lyrics. It was as if that music and lyrics reflected our sense of pain and sadness at the loss of the world at the hands of those monsters. For all the evil and destruction they had brought.

Now it was Bertie who was crying without being able to avoid it ... Her sister soon did the same. They both felt real pity for this boy and for those who would have lived with him in that terrible future. Then it was Roy who got up from the table, and looking among his CDs he found the one he was looking for.

-This is.- Announced, putting it in the chain of music as he asked.- Listen to it well, because it is very beautiful ...

So everyone could hear that song and during those minutes that lasted, no one spoke ...

Snowflakes in a newborn fist

Sledge on a hill

Are these things we will never see

In England

We will tell our children´s children why

We have grown and come to such and reach so high

We leave our footprints on the ground

And we pierced a hole right through the sky

We will tell them how we changed the world

And how we tamed the sea

And the seasons they will never know

In England

So watch at the old world melt away

A last regret that can never be amend

We never miss until it's gone.

So say goodbye

Say goodbye

We will tell the our children´s children why

We have grown so high and reach so high

We never miss until it's gone.

So say goodbye

Say goodbye

At seasons ‘end

So watch at the old world melt away

A last regret that can never be repaired

I will never forget

Say goodbye

Say goodbye.

(Seasons End. Marillion credit to author)

Then, the final part of the song, only with instrumental music, made the boy to cry, then he barely mumbled closing his eyes.

-That clink. It's something like that, traveling through time ... you hear something like this! ... it seems that the very same time you cooed. At least that was what I heard when I came here ...

Everyone was in an astonished silence. The girls on the other hand were amazed by that description. They never experienced something like that, of course, as they had commented, they were traveling in a spaceship and this boy had been transported by a kind of enchantment. Surely he felt all this when he was deprived of a vehicle that would isolate him. Roy and Tom were equally astonished. Especially the first one who realized the mixture of pain, sadness, beauty and serenity that those experiences of life and that journey seemed to have transmitted to the boy, the boy who would be his son!

- It's incredibly beautiful! Your journey, your courage and your reasons and I think it's time for you to tell us something more about yourself. - The still excited Beruche intervened gently so as not to corner him. - If it's not really problematic. Something you can say.

-Yes. It would not hurt to say your name. – Tom agreed, also anxious to atone one of his indiscretions. -

The boy sighed at length. He saw in the eyes of all his interlocutors the plea that he would give them some light on his own person. Nodding at last, he replied with a half-smile.

-My name is Leval.

-How beautiful!- Bertie exclaimed. - I remember that word. Hope, in the language of the ancient world, is the perfect name. If I ever have a child, I would like it as a name for him.

Only Tom and Roy noticed the tremor that shook the boy.

-Really? - Inquired the boy, being answered by a nod and a bright smile on the part of Beruche. -

-Could you tell us something about your parents? - Cooan asked. -

And this time the boy controlled himself admirably well to respond without hesitation.

-I did not know my father. I remember my mother as a fighter, a very brave woman who raised me in an oasis of peace amidst the chaos and horror of the world around us. She was so beautiful and sweet! The only thing that affected her face was the pain, the tiredness and all the suffering she had to endure. But she was always there for me, when I felt depressed or without strength, she comforted me. She always caressed me and meshed my hair comforting me with her words and her love.- His eyes had clouded with tears when he concluded. - She sacrificed for me, like the rest of my relatives and friends, so that I had the opportunity to come to this time. That's why ... I cannot disappoint them.

There was no one who did not feel affected at the table. The girls could barely stop crying and both Tom and Roy felt a knot in their stomach. Especially the latter who kept cursing himself for his stupidity. He now understood in its totality the pain of that boy deprived of parents and hope. For the most sacred thing he would help him!

-Your mother is or will be a wonderful person. - Roy said, not daring to look at Bertie so he would not report himself. - That's for sure.

-It's so sad and yet so beautiful! - Beruche sobbed, wiping some unrestrained tear. - You must have suffered a lot, having to leave your family to come here.

-I had no choice. - Leval retorted, his tone calmer and resigned. - Only then will I be able to save them and, above all, knowing my father. Maybe I can get it. That's what I want most. I pray for it, from being very a small child, every night.

Roy felt as if a huge dagger of guilt was stuck in his heart. He did not look at the boy or anyone to avoid collapsing. Luckily for him, as if from a ring bell, the phone rang. He immediately got up to answer that call. Although this was far from being reassuring.

-What? – He answered after have been listening for a while. -

After a few seconds more of listening, he added...

- We are ready, do not worry....

Then he hung up to explain to the expectant audience....

-They were the federal agents. They have detected them, they are coming! I have been informed that some meteorites like you indicated Leval, are heading towards Earth. They have an unambiguous course of collision and it will take about two months to arrive.

-They're coming. - The boy mumbled with the pale face. - God help us! I will destroy them or I will die in the attempt. So that history does not happen again.

-There is no time to lose. - Roy agreed. - We will go to the Corner of the Soul and Time to train and I will teach you the technique of instantaneous Translation that I learned from the teacher Son Goku.

-I'll let the others know. - Tom added. -

So they agreed. They finished dinner and went to bed. Tom and Cooan to a guest room arranged next to that of their friends. Leval agreed to sleep on the sofa in the living room. Despite the pleas of his hosts to occupy another room, he refused. Finally they all went to bed. Bertie and Roy made amends in the best way possible and then fell asleep...

At about four in the morning Bertie woke up. She was thirsty and went down to drink water. She was in the kitchen when she thought she heard a voice. It came from the room and indeed it was Leval who was shaking in his sleep. Or what must have been a nightmare.

-No, you bastards! I will not allow you to harm these people. - He claimed to be moving his arms. -

The boy remembered, he was in that terrible bad dream. Around him the remains of countless victims. Full of horror and rage he tried to protect the few survivors by attacking these terrible creatures. He threw balls of energy that destroyed several of them but at the moment they reappeared others that projected a shield that avoided any damage that he, in his desperate attempts, did to eliminate them. Its rays were now crashing harmlessly against that protection. He turned then at the sound of laughter behind him.

-Who are you? Leval asked, looking at a strange man with a bluish complexion, wearing a sort of breastplate and carrying a strange monocle of color. -

-I am the commander of the troops of the great Gralas. Miserable human. - He smiled funny. -

To the horror of Leval the androids at his command fired a multitude of lightning bolts at the few survivors who were incinerating them in seconds.

-No! - The boy shouted, attacking that despicable guy by throwing himself to hit him.-

Although he could not make to him, at the moment two of those machines, emitting that nasty buzzing, blocked the passage throwing him blows that threw him to the ground.

-Pathetic! - That alien spit -

 Leval became a super saiyajin but that did nothing more than provoke a smile of contempt in his interlocutor who simply ordered his robots.

-Get on that trash...

The boy was shaking his arms and legs as if he were defending himself from an invisible attack, Beruche worried went in search of Roy and woke up immediately despite his resistance.

-What's up? - He murmured half asleep. -

-It's Leval, he must be having a nightmare and talking in his sleep. - She told him provoking his curiosity and restlessness. -

Her boyfriend wore a robe and accompanied his girlfriend. Tom and Cooan were still sleeping and did not know. They both went down to the living room and listened to that poor boy stammer with growing desperation.

-Damn! How is it possible? No matter how much I destroy you, you appear again. What are you going to do? Oh my God! Everything is full of skeletons. You did not even like the kids. I cannot stand it!...

Horrified Bertie covered her mouth with her hands, unable to stop her tears. Roy was hugging her tightly, he could not bear it either. Bertie wanted to wake him then, but his companion refused, holding an arm and shaking his head with regret. Possibly it would not be good for the boy and as painful as it turned out they should know more. But he kept sobbing non-stop, adding now mad in the midst of his nightmare...

He barely defended himself from the beating and lightning of his rivals, luckily a big explosion illuminated the site and blinded everyone, at that moment the boy noticed that someone was grabbing him and dragging him to a ruin.

-Damn! He heard the voice of his cousin, whose gleam was red. - I told you not to expose yourself. Thank God I detected your aura.

-I could not let them continue to slaughter innocents. - He could answer -

-You know we cannot do anything about it!  -His interlocutor answered with obvious anger and regret. - Not you. Not even I, not ILaya, nor her daughter, or Jane and the others ... Expose you like this, put in danger to us all. I know it's very hard but you must understand. You are our last and only hope! You must survive...

And without giving him time to answer he forced him to run and hide inside the sewer networks. The few remaining survivors were crowded there. Leval sighed with relief, but as soon as he could see them close, he shuddered in horror, that vision was etched. Now both Bertie and Roy could hear him scream in the midst of that nightmare.

-What made you child? Mazoui, look at her, she has no eyes! She’s got her eyes out! My God, those bastards. I hear their humming, they are here! They have discovered us! Help me, they're going to finish me!

Beruche was frozen with horror, Roy did not utter a word until the boy jumped suddenly and woke up abruptly. Leval, bathed in cold sweat, was panting violently and could only cover his face and vent his tears as she hugged him.

-It is over. Quiet. You're safe here. - The girl consoled him as sweetly as she could, not letting herself cry. - It's only been a bad dream.

The boy could control himself enough to look at them even with fogged eyes and mutter.

-I'm sorry, I suppose I said horrible things, but this nightmare is repeated over and over again. I cannot get out of my head what I saw. - He grunted between his teeth, adding in the same way. -And the buzz of those damn machines! - I do not know if I can get rid of it someday.

-Nothing happens. Roy said firmly. - You're safe here. - And I swear to you that we will not allow these bad dreams to be fulfilled!

-There was another song. - The young man could say, still trembling. - Another that I remember ... From my father's favorite group ... Every time I heard it, I remembered all that horror, in the end I stopped ... I could not bear it.

-What was his name? - Roy wanted to know. -

The boy whispered it to one ear. Roy went to his cd area. Of course he had that record.

-Do not worry. Everything will be fine. We will never allow that to happen. -Beruche said sweetly.-

Leval nodded hopefully as the young woman cradled his head gently in her lap and it made him shudder. It was the same sensation he had when he awoke in his time and his mother comforted him. It was her, of course, but now he was nothing more than a stranger to Beruche who would not even have even considered the idea of ​​having a child. Slowly he calmed down and whispered ashamed.

-I'm sorry ... I'm sorry I woke you up, that's why I did not want to be around. I...

-That is not important now. - She smiled, advising him with true maternal affection. - Now you have to try to sleep...

-Yes. - Roy agreed with the same kindness. - Tomorrow will be a hard day. You must rest, boy. You will need it.

- I want to progress. Please! - He asked for his shocked instructor, almost sobbing. - Help me. I have to be worthy of my father, I must fight against them and defeat them.

- Do not think about it now, sleep and recover your strength. - Bertie replied softly in the voice and visible compassion in her countenance. -

He nodded gently and went back to bed, the boy was wrapped in his sheet by Bertie. Roy let her do, even watched as she kissed him on the forehead and noticed the grateful eyes and tears that assaulted the poor boy. Now it all fit him, that scene was more like a mother's love for her son, and made her own remorse and shame come out again.

-You do not have to be worthy of being called my son. It is I who should become worthy to be your father. You are much better than I will ever be. - He told himself with a firm intention to achieve it and to banish once and for all from that terrible complex of guilt. -

He went up to his room and Bertie followed him once leaving the boy resting. Once in bed Roy was unable to fall asleep. He could only think of the boy and the threat what was about to come. She asked him...

-What happens?...

-I cannot Bertie, - he confessed quietly. - I think of his face when he woke up. He was terrified! What could he have seen to be like this? What are those damn droids like? He's no coward, I'm sure of that. But he's ... so traumatized.

-It must have been very bad. - Said his companion full of compassion. -Poor boy, so far from his family.

-I'm very scared, knowing the horror that awaits the world if we fail. – His partner confessed. -

-Do not even think about it. Beruche countered with conviction. - You will not fail, I am sure you will win and that nightmare will never take place.

-Yes, I want to believe that too, - the boy said while he had that cd in his hand. -

-Is that the song you were referring to? - Bertie asked. -

-Yes, she's here, - her boyfriend admitted. -

- Please, I'm curious. Put it without raising the volume too much ...

The boy nodded, in a mini-box they had in the bedroom. Shortly after looking for the track the music began to ring, and also the lyrics, which, as it could not be otherwise, was very beautiful and touching. That, despite not having perhaps much to do in large part without it being very revealing in some stanzas that made both of them cry. Especially Roy, who knew her well ...

I do not want to sleep with you

I do not need passion too

I do not want a stormy affaire

that makes me feel that my life is going somewhere

All I want is comfort and care

Just to know that my woman gives me sweet mother's love

I walked a long time on this lonely lane

I've had enough of this always the same old game

I am a man of the world and they say that I am strong

But it weighs my heart and my hope is gone

Out in the city, in the cold world outside

I do not want compassion, just a safe place to hide

Mother please let me back inside

I do not want to shake you

But you can give me all the love I crave

I cannot take it if you see me cry

I hope to be in peace before I die

All I want to know is that you're there.

And that you're going to give me all your sweet love, mother's love

My body is sick but I cannot sleep

My dreams are the whole company that I keep

I have a feeling that the sun is setting

I return home with the sweet love of mother.

(Mother love. QUUEN, credit to the artist)

-Mother, please, let me go back inside you! - Repeated the boy, sobbing and moaning as he whispered to himself. - My God!

-Are you okay? - Bertie wanted to know, looking at him worried. - Come, - she said, offering his her arms to give her support.

Roy left her to comfort him. He could sense the kind of mother she would have been to the boy and that made him love her even more strongly. He could not help bursting into tears, full of compassion for the boy, and of genuine contempt for himself. His future son! he had gone through time to warn them of all that horror, giving up his life and his only family known to live among strangers, Yes, strangers who would take years to be their parents! And Roy almost killed him accusing him of something that had only existed in his jealous imagination. He felt that he had failed, even if they succeeded, the image that that boy would have of him now would have broken that of his dreams and longings, which he would have forged since he was a child, those whom Bertie would have remembered when she spoke of these same year. She was helping to create those ideas in his mind! The same woman who now embraced her bewildered and trying to cheer him up. Now he understood. She was much stronger than he could ever be! He, in any case, fought and died against those bastards. That was going to be what happened unless they could stop it. But if so, his suffering would end. He could not resurrected again and would go to eternity. Instead, Bertie would raise and take care of that magnificent boy amidst those nightmarish horrors, and not only would she do it without collapsing, she would also give Leval strength and presence of mind. The same as the poor boy had shown in the face of the situation where his irresponsible and stupid father had put him today.

-What's the matter, honey? - She asked softly, holding his head to her chest with both hands. - Calm down, please…

Roy could hardly reply with a groan. He collapsed for a moment, and the sweet, affectionate tone of Beruche was the final lace. He wish he could share all those thoughts with her! But he had promised Tom and he was not going to do any more harm to that boy. Totally seized by guilt he could only answer.

-I'm so embarrassed! I'm a cur! Forgive me! I've failed you all! You, the boy, Tom ...

Bertie stared at him in astonishment and excitement. Though she overcame it and gently and tenderly stroked her boyfriend's cheeks to respond comfortably and cheerfully.

-Do not worry. You've had to endure a lot, I know it's hard for you to have to fight again. But I am convinced that we will all succeed. As long as we are together, nothing can defeat us.

-I love you. - He mumbled visibly grateful when he was able to look up and tear the tears apart. - You are my real strength! Everything I can do, I do thanks to you.

Beruche did not say anything, she did not need to, although she also wanted to cry, she control herself and only smiled cradling him with love, with half a body of him gathered on her lap. She gave him that expression of tenderness and serenity that she knew to adopt as if she captured his thoughts and shared them. Whatever the problem, she would not leave him alone. And Roy knew, now he was quite sure he could face anything. She would always be there, stay there and if fate would repeat itself in spite of his efforts, he would have the consolation that her fiancé could become the best of mothers, like the one he had on Earth. Only then did he dare to ask his partner.

-If I did not get it. Remind me just the way I was. Even in my stupidity. - He said with total seriousness despite an attempt of humor in those last words.-

But the girl shook her head at that statement. Roy was moodily sunk, perhaps the pressure so immense fall on him would have crushed him. This was worse than the battle against the demons. On that occasion he died leaving them to fight until he could rise again. Although he did not know he could do it. At least then he had faith in the final victory, in preventing that invocation and giving time to others with his sacrifice. When he also returned, he did it with his friends from Heaven and prepared to face his enemy. Now it was different! He knew the consequences of his defeat and the inability to return to life. They should win or die, without second chance. Dying would only serve to destroy everything! She knew that her boyfriend was tortured only by thinking of a fate worse than death itself for the survivors of that battle. Bertie could not afford to collapse with him. She had to be strong and pull him out of that! And above all make him strong as the boy was asking.

-Do not you think you can go to Heaven on a perpetual vacation." - Beruche replied with a cheerfulness and integrity such as they surprised the boy, even made him smile at last, when she added with a pretended threatening tone. - I would go for you myself and bring you grabbed by your ears, Robert Malden. You will not quit as easily as when it was our job to study or do some class work.

-My little cube, I know you'd be able to. - He managed to smile and respond with renewed encouragement. -

-So do not forget. You'll finish those cans and you'll be home soon. - She ordered him with all her marvelous determination and her chirpy laughter ending the sentence. - And there is not more to talk. Ha, ha, ha, ha

            They gave one long kiss, finally Roy was calm enough and both embraced could sleep. The night passed without further incident and the next day Tom took charge of calling the others. Then they showed up there with their respective girlfriends and partners. When they arrived and were informed of the arrival of the meteors, Sapphire was the first to say.

-The Millionaire Ian Masters has confirmed that the meteors are preferentially heading north.-

-Are you sure about that? - Roy asked. -

-They have the best operating and technological systems in the world. -His friend assured that, once visited the facilities, had to surrender to the evidence. - And those calculations are also endorsed by the greatest experts in those fields, including Professor Tomoe and myself.

-And cannot you specify more? - Tom asked for details. -

-Not yet. – Sapphire said and adding. - We have to wait until they are closer to confirm and clarify the calculations.

-And if we fry those bastards before they get here? - Nephrite proposed. - Roy, you could do it. - He added in a tone that made it convincing for everyone.-

-It is not that easy. -Ail said.- Explaining by being more knowledgeable of matters of a cosmic nature than proceeding to argue his refusal. - The shock wave would affect the Earth and to do that in such a far distance he would not have perhaps the necessary power or aim. Also, if they are clever wits as the boy said, they will be protected and their speed will make them a target difficult to hit. They could even do evasive maneuvers by noticing that we have discovered them. It would be very risky, we would spoil the element of surprise. Do not forget that they do not expect us to be aware of their attack.

Leval nodded approvingly, that was complicated. The same thought his friends Diamond and Sapphire and even Roy himself saw in that an impossible.

- We'll split up in pairs. - Diamond now proposed. - And we will travel the Earth to be ready when the time comes for them to land. Perhaps we can reduce the range of possibilities and familiarize ourselves with the terrain. That would be an advantage.

- But first we must train. - Roy reminded him and the others. - Leval and I will go to the Corner. -

- You can do that later. – Diamond advised to him. - Remember that, in a day of the outside, it spends an entire year there inside. You only need to enter the day before ...

-We will not hurry so much, -Roy said. - It will be enough to spend a month there. Then we will rest here.

- We should tell the warriors to coordinate the action. - Recommended Sapphire. - Masters has told us that your help will be very valuable to calculate the meteorite's trajectory.

-Whatever Ami takes care of, she's a wonder for mathematics and for everything which need to be studied. - Annie said. -

- We must observe them without pause. To avoid surprises. -Esmeralda added. -

- There is no time to lose. - Petz decided, adding that she was already dialing Ami´s phone. -

- There are still two months left. - Amanda sighed looking at Heaven as if she could not believe that such horror came from her clear and heavenly vault. -

- We must not be negligent. - Nephrite warned without losing his usual aplomb, crowned with his British sarcasm. - There is a lot at stake and certainly would not be fun to die again. Nor would it be original anymore and I do not like melodramas. I already had enough with one.

- I agree with that. -Sapphire corroborated with the approbatory assent of the others. – What is more. - He added making public the fear that everyone had in mind. - Now I remember Landar telling us that we could not be resurrected again.

- Well, when it's time to go to Heaven, I'll ask. - Roy intervened trying to think of a possible "trap" in that, if they needed it. Though in the depths of his thinking he knew it would not be possible. For that reason, he changed his tone by encouraging the rest with his recovered determination. - Now we just have to worry about working hard!

Everyone applauded that phrase as one man. Leval, quiet for a long time, looked around and felt full of satisfaction and hope. This was a formidable group of men and women! It had been worth bearing all the hardships and sufferings since making the trip to the past just to feel part of them. Although in his future, he knew his aunts and mother well, their courage and their strength, now he realized that they were perfect and complete with her boyfriends and fiancés. In the future he could only see the pale reflection of that unity he now shared. A group of strong people, determined and willing to do everything to save their world. No wonder they were capable of beating those demons. Against Gralas' Gbards, they would have lost because of the surprise of the attack, but now, with the help of God, it would be different. And he would fight from his side and from the beginning. He only wished that Mazoui could have been there too to witness it!

-You would have liked to meet them. - He thought with a smile. -You, cousins ​​Alan and Idina, and Robert's family. All together we would surely win ... And now I begin to believe that it is possible to achieve it. Thank you for your sacrifice, cousin. Thanks to you and the rest ...

And while he was thinking about all this, the meeting was adjourned. They all set off and after a month of training and calculations, Roy and the others decided to go to Heaven. However, shortly after their departure, the warriors who had been warned by the girls and devoted themselves since then to investigate that threat in every field, were going to discover something very disturbing.

In the observatory that the special organization with which they collaborated had in the north of Japan, Setsuna scrutinized the skies. She paled when she checked her observations several times.

-It cannot be! - She said in a loud voice, really livid. - This cannot be happening ...

She ran to call the others, then they communicated with Usagi. The girl appeared with Mamoru. Next to them came a medium-sized man in his mid-thirties who wore glasses. He had brown hair and blue eyes expressed concern. He was the first to ask the Pluto Warrior who answered.

-So it has been confirmed. It's even worse than we thought.

-It's not the same as that guy told our friends. -Mamoru intervened. -

-Then we must go to alert protocol one.- Affirmed that man.-

-Masters. - Mamoru said addressing that individual .- It is clear at this point that the previous sightings were not a coincidence.

-No.- He agreed to this.- They have been preparing the ground, the previous ones were a mere force of recognition. Now we get the first serious expeditionary wave.

-Yes, this is the force of invasion. -Usagi added declaring frustrated. - I just hope we can deal with them. The bad thing is that we have not yet managed to close the whole defense device around the Earth. And that worries me ... we will not be able to count on some very powerful allies that we had in mind ...At least not yet.

-With or without them we will have to do what we always did. Fight for what we believe and defend the innocent.- Her boyfriend encouraged her. -

The girl nodded slowly and pointed to Setsuna.

-We have to summon all the others. The rest of my team is waiting in Tokyo. Are you busy calling the other outside?

-I´ll take care of it.  -Pluto nodded at the questioning woman and came out of the room quickly.-

-Miss Meioh is a valuable acquisition. - Masters commented as she left. -

-She is a brave and loyal fighter, and an intelligent and very beautiful woman.- Mamoru retorted in admiration. -

-Hey! - His girlfriend called his attention, frowning in spite of that situation.- It's worth giving a compliment to another girl who is not me.

-Good. Do not get jealous. I will not do it anymore Usako. - He gave his partner a funny smile, which was good despite everything to reduce the tension. Although he added now with a more serious tone .- And she will be a key to the accomplishment of all our projects ...

-Yes. If we get away with this. - Usagi stated this time with seriousness. - We'll have to demand a lot from her. It will be a great sacrifice, but she is the most indicated and I fully trust her.

Mamoru nodded and Masters simply shrugged, then left the observatory room to meet the rest ... It was time to see the moment of truth

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