Adventure into the Unknown

Chapter 3: It’s you?

The two troops were looking concerned at my face. I was trying not to be looking confused and shocked. But it failed horribly.

“Josh? Zach?” I asked. Chris looked surprised. Ry and Robbie were both confused. They were too young to remember our brothers. Dom however, was angry. He was raging. And this wasn’t good.

“Dom, just breathe, there might be a logical explanation for this.” I attempted to re-assure him. This however, didn’t go too well.

“TEN YEARS AGO! YOU JUST ABANDONED US IN THE WOODS! FOR US TO NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!” He exploded shoving Zach and Josh. Chris and I both went to try and restrain him. Our brothers however, weren’t reacting at all.

“Listen, guys we had no choice.” Zach attempted to explain, but it wasn’t doing any good. He glanced over and recognised the droids.

“XE? AD?” Josh asked and walked over to them. Robbie blocked their way. “Robbie, you’ve grown. Last time we saw you, you were just a baby.” Josh said, walking over to him. Robbie was taking none of it.

“Step away from these droids.” He ordered and Josh and Zach both stood down.

“Miss Bex, if I can explain.” I glanced over to XE and the droid knew it was his cue to start. “Ten years ago, when your older siblings disappeared, your mum sent out a rescue team. This team was with the tri-force. We managed to get them back, but there were plans that the tri-force needed from the base. So we sent them back in. This time, they were Exo-Squadron troops. We thought we lost them. We never heard from them after we sent them away. This had meant that me and AD were sent into the base to recover the plans ourselves. We were then run out by a group of troops, who knew that we had stolen the plans.” XE finished explaining and we were shocked. They were sent undercover.

I took myself back to the cockpit and sat in silence. Maybe they had seen Eliza and Max while they were undercover. I missed those two the most. But that was because they were my older sisters and I looked up to them. The ship had steadied and I had realised why. We needed co-ordinates for our location.

“Hey Zach.” Was all I could say as I could see my brother’s reflection in the windscreen.

“The tri-force base is on a planet called Nagar. It’s in the Alpha system, so there’s some information.” He told me. “Look I know that you’re mad at us for not being there, but please hear me out. We were always looking out for you. When the Exo Squadron tried to kidnap you earlier, we told them that you were already dead. This meant that they couldn’t harm you, as it was impossible in their eyes.” He explained.

“Is mum there? At the base?” I asked. I haven’t seen or heard from her in years.

“Yeah, she should be.” He replied. I then went over to him and gave him the biggest hug ever. I still thought about him every day for the past ten years. I teared up and he just hugged me back, re-assuring me.

Ten minutes later, the alarms started to go off. This had caused us all to go into panic and we all felt something hit us.

“DOM! TAKE CONTROL!” I yelled at my twin. We all knew what to do and went into action stations. Ryan and Robbie both strapped into the seats in the lounge. Dom was on his own with the controls in the cockpit. Chris and I were both in the gun turrets. Our dad had come up with this idea in case we got attacked by Leap Fighters. That was the Exo Squadron’s fighter ships.

I strapped myself into the chair and placed the headphones on. The headphones were so you could hear the other person in the other turret. There was also a microphone to communicate with one another. I looked around in the turret using a joystick as a control. This had allowed me to look around the area by moving it left or right. The button in the middle was used to shoot the gun. It seemed simple enough. But it wasn’t.

I looked around and saw a huge fleet of Leap Fighters coming towards us.

“Bex, Leap Fighter coming your way. On your left.” Chris told me. I pulled down the targeter and locked down on my aim. I pressed the button numerous times and all of the shots hit the fighter.

“One down, lots more to go!” I yelled in delight. As we shot the Fighters down, more and more started to come towards us. However, as we got to the edge of the Bravo System, the Fighters turned around. We found their weak spot. Finally.

I ran up the ladder to celebrate with Chris and Dom. We were all jumping around looking very pleased with ourselves. I headed back to the cockpit with Dom in tow and we both sat down looking relieved with ourselves.

“The computer recons we have another two hours before we reach Nagar. So I can finally sleep.” Dom announced and headed off to one of the bedrooms. That left me on my own again. I looked up out of the cockpit and saw lots of stars as they passed us. I thought it was beautiful, especially that I was on my own looking at them. I turned around as I saw the door open. I expected it to be Dom, but instead it was Josh.

We talked for the remainder of the journey. We only stopped when he said,

“Up there, straight ahead. Nagar. Home.” He said. I stopped smiling and my head dropped. We also now had different places that we called home. As well as more step-siblings and no-one would recognise us. Of course they would recognise our older siblings. Who wouldn’t? Especially if they were considered heroes to their home.

I started to panic. What if no-one wanted us there? What if they didn’t know that we existed even? I tried to turn the ship around, but it was too late. Dom had gone in to land on a new, unknown planet for us. And we didn’t know what was going to happen next.