Chapter 37: Chapter 36 – Crisis (1)

Four years went by in a flash. Not just Alpha but also Marin has grown up to become lively teenagers. While the former showed less of a rebellious side of his, Marin was causing headaches for her mother almost weekly. The problem was that she was required to attend high-school on the surface of the Moon, yet she refused to be enrolled in it. The main reason was simple; She would meet less with Alpha because of it. She could only visit him only on the weekends. She was uninterested in making any other friends from her age group, which caused Lizzy to constantly grumble, while working with Alpha. 

In the end, it was the boy who persuaded her to at least ‘try out’ school-life, instead of being homeschooled by the scientists. It did not work out. For multiple reasons this time. After the first week, when she came to visit, she was ranting and rambling for multiple hours on end. The subjects were boring, she already knew most of it, the teachers were boring and it was nothing but a drag. Her classmates were also, by her words, complete idiots. None of them were interested in the old holo-movies and shows she loved. They thought it was… stupid. Marin’s favorite books? Childish. Favorite games? Those were extra childish. She quickly came to the conclusion that all of those girls were completely delusional idiots. The boys? Even worse, because they were also fueled by their hormones. Alpha managed to calm her down and at least make her continue to attend school. For now.

“And it would go on for four years…” Marin moaned, wearing nothing but a Warrior Princess t-shirt and a short, leaning on the table in Alpha’s room. By now, it had much more furniture than before. He had not just a couch, a proper TV screen, but an expanded bookshelf for movies, video- and boardgames, and his own table they could play on or simply let Marin watch him draw in a more comfortable posture than kneeling on the carpet. 

“It’s fine!” Alpha chuckled, watching her with surprise in his eyes. It stemmed from a simple reason; It seemed nature was overriding human intervention. Marin was growing up much more blessed than her mother, which was already visible on the outside. It perplexed him at first, but he was interested to see how it would deviate more in the future, compared to her mother’s body shape. Of course, he never told this to her as she may take it… in a wrong way… as she was already fed up with the boys in her class.

“What?” Marin asked, blowing air out of her nose, looking at him. “You are staring at me. Again.” She grinned. “You know… there ARE some cute boys in class…”

“Hm?” He tilted his head. “And?”

“And I am considered a beauty~” She answered with a provocative tone, puffing out her chest. “If I keep growing as I do now, two more years and I will outgrow mom! Hah!”

“Mh.” Alpha nodded. “You are approximately 74.8% of her size right now.” He answered, looking at her breasts.

“...” Marin suddenly felt extremely embarrassed, covering herself subconsciously. She hated to admit it, but her attempted teasing completely backfired… He was still such a blockhead when it came to this. “Haaah! Pervert! I will stop talking to you if you say things like this!”

“Huh? I… But…” He blinked his eyes rapidly, shrugging in the end. “You are so unreasonable!”

“Hmf!” She scoffed, but after a few seconds of silence she just went back to normal. “How’s the tests?”

“The usual. After the top figureheads learnt about my apparent extra ability, they asked for rigorous tests to confirm it. Luckily, we had years to work out the perfect way to do it and knew their results beforehand. So I am just playing along, producing the same results I did two years ago.” He shrugged, referring to the psi-tests he was taking every second day. 

“Hmmm… I am still doubting that you can read minds!” She said, eyeing him with a small blush on her face. “Because if you would…”

“Hm?” He looked at her, tilting his head. “I don’t get it.”

“See?” She groaned. “That is what I mean!”

“Well… I am not actively reading minds!” He tried to explain it. Again. “I just know others’ feelings… It's like… a better version of reading body language!”

“Well, you suck at that too!” She said, suddenly standing up. 

“Wha… what?” He asked, surprised at the edge in her voice. 

“I’m going home!” She turned around and just left, without saying another word.

“What is her problem now…?” Alpha asked, just as Fizzy did at the same time. He and Lizzy were in the main control room, looking at the screens and watching the two teens. Mostly because Lizzy was afraid that her daughter would try something inappropriate. 

Lizzy knew from the start that her daughter fell for Alpha, yet the boy was too thick headed or inept to perceive it. Or he just did not want to. Or didn’t know what to do with it. All were an option when it came to him. 

“Haaah…” Lizzy sighed, shaking her head. “She inherited my awkwardness, it seems. I was in love… once.” She smiled softly. “And I was barely able to string a few words together or give the correct signals… I fumbled every time. Then I got angry… at him. Hah…”

“Heh. So what?” Fizzy chuckled. “I was done with love when I was 19! It was such a tangled mess! So I quickly decided that it is not for me!”

“Well, I don’t think Marin is going to be done with it, but she is going to start annoying Alfy, sooner or later with her antics…”

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It was already nine days later and she hasn't visited him since then. It was the first time since they met that they were apart for this long. It was a… weird experience. If someone would ask, he wouldn’t be able to explain why he felt frustrated. He was flabbergasted by the unease he was feeling which he was unfamiliar with. When the 10th day came, he felt that something was very wrong. It was not just that Marin was not coming to visit, but he didn’t meet with Lizzy either. None of his usual tests were conducted by her and he couldn’t feel her presence at all.

After the 16th day, he did something that perplexed the scientists. He simply refused to do anything. Tests? He wasn’t cooperating. Medical examinations? Any device they tried to use on him malfunctioned. Almost 60% of their equipment went up in smoke in a single day. It was getting worse and worse. By the second day they started to find that years of data was getting corrupted, deleted, seemingly out of nowhere. Some of the backups were also gone. Luckily, a place like this had many layers of security, so they still managed to save them but if this would keep up, they would be in trouble. There was no question that this was something that Alpha was doing, throwing a never before seen tantrum. They didn’t know how he was doing it, but nobody had a doubt it was him. It was a silent fit of a child, but a very dangerous one at that. In the end, it was Fizzy who visited him.

“Hey…” He walked in, nervous as Alpha was usually only conversing with Lizzy. The most he talked with the others was when he answered their questions.

“I want to talk with Liz.” He said, without waiting for him to continue.

“She can’t come.” He answered, gulping loudly, standing close to the door, ready to escape if he must. 

“Why?” Alpha asked, standing up, which made Fizzy flinch.

“He is with…”

“What happened to Marin?” He asked, his voice a pitch higher, his pupils growing twice their sizes. He was already deducting Fizzy’s thoughts by the fluctuations of the strings in his body.

“How… I…” He stuttered, now twitching more than he ever did before. 

Alpha was not waiting for him to collect his thoughts and for the first time in many years, he moved his finger, tapping onto one of the strings connected to him. He immediately was assaulted by flashing images, sounds and voices but he was expecting it this time. He managed to narrow it down to what he was looking for, hearing a short exchange between Fizzy and Lizzy.

“She is not good…” Lizzy’s voice said. She was tired and heartbroken. “The doctors say that parts of her DNA strings are simply… failing! She is falling apart, Fizzy… right before our eyes! I am barred from checking the details because of my connection to her but… DAMN IT! I AM THE BEST DNA ENGINEER IN THE HEGEMONY!” She cried out loudly. “AND THEY DON’T LET ME DO MY JOB!”

“Liz…”

“Don’t Liz at me! For fucks sake, my daughter is DYING!” She sobbed “They say it is because she was artificially conceived but… I… I didn’t screw it up! That… Can’t be! I WAS CAREFUL!” 

“...” 

Alpha didn’t hear more as he couldn’t bear it. He quickly let it go, faltering backwards, falling to his butt. Fizzy came closer, saying something, looking at him, but at that moment he heard nothing. He could only see that his lips were moving but he was unable to make anything out of it. His ears were ringing and he lost all colors from the world, going completely numb in seconds. In the end, after Fizzy didn’t get any response from him, he just left. He didn’t know what to do but to make a report to Lizzy. She really should come and speak with him. This was getting out of hand, real fast. And he was yet to realize how quickly it would spiral out of control…

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It was a few hours later when Alpha’s body twitched. In the past hour he was doing nothing but trying to locate Marin’s position on the Moon. He knew that all of the strings he saw were connected, one way or another. The moment they touched, they resonated ever so slightly. Like two vibrating strings on a guitar, trying to get into sync with each other. If she was on the Moon, he could find her. He memorized how hers felt, since a long time ago.

“Find you…” He started to blink his eyes, finally watering them as they were bloodshot beyond recognition. 

He didn’t hesitate anymore and just stood up, walking to his door. It never opened up for him, but he had no inclination to ever leave, without the scientists escorting him. Not until now. With a wave of his hand, he cut apart the many strings inside of it as the door itself crumbled into its raw materials that made it up originally. It was like a kicked over puzzle set at that brief moment. The alarms remained silent as he walked out from his room. He already disabled those before anything. Reaching the elevator on the long, white corridor that was connected to his room, he repeated the same thing, demolishing its doors. He looked into the dark shaft, simply stepping into it without hesitation. Turning his head upwards, he couldn’t see the end of it or the bottom of the elevator which was somewhere up there, at a different level. 

“No matter.” He said, breathing out and for the first time, he grabbed onto multiple strings, pulling on them as hard as he could. What happened next, surprised even him.

Every color left his sight, turning the world into a black and white mixture. As he was holding them, he realized that, when he concentrated, those thin lines retained their colors. All of them that he was holding, changed into the same color to his touch. In this case, into a deep crimson color. He could feel that somewhere else, where all of them were leading towards, where they were intersecting with another cluster, also has changed its natural color into that of crimson. Alpha felt it clearly that THAT exact point in space was only a step away. When he took that step, he was no longer in the research complex, under the Moon’s surface, but he was standing in the lobby of a luxurious hotel. 

The dozens of people who were around him were flabbergasted. A teenage boy, wearing nothing but a white shirt and trousers, appeared from seemingly nowhere. It was the first time for him to see so many other humans and even some alien species. There were tall, wolf-like creatures, standing in line to check in. Blobs of slimes, similar to those he knew from the Warrior Princess movies coming out from the elevators… but he had no time to look around and inspect them. Marin needed him and time was of the essence. He just stepped onto another string, focusing the same way and he was gone as if he was never there before. 

Nobody knew in the lobby what to make out of it before a quick announcement rang out that the hotel’s AI’s projector malfunctioned and projected itself wrongly. It was a simple explanation but logical enough to ease their immediate thoughts. But not for the secret service agents who were in a full panic mode at that moment and raised red alert, on the entirety of the Moon.

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