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S.T.A.R.S. AU Samcedes Sci-Fi Fanfiction Chapter 19

Previously at S.T.A.R.S…

Mercedes put Jesse, Joe, Wade, and Emma to work on finding out more about the governing party of their home planet. In the end, she believes that she knows what she needs to know for the sake of her people. But, Cassandra July is trying to get more power to hunt them harder. And now… it may simply be a race against time…

The Orb and The Well

The Heavens:

Giselle smiled as she sat the figurines in the sparkling glass case. Her husband walked in (a spitting image of Jesse, but with hair braided down his back) and as he did, some of the figurines began to glow red. She bit her lip, waved a hand to stop it and closed the case, without turning around, “I told you that when you’re upset, some of us can feel that.”

He retorted, “They wouldn’t have to if you didn’t insist on being so connected to everyone. And I wouldn’t be so upset if you didn’t make me miserable everyday.”

She turned to face him, “I’m sorry. You know that there is nothing that makes me sadder than upsetting you.”

“You didn’t agree with those others, but you decided to go along with them.”

“I decided that my ideas were not confirmed facts, therefore the path of least resistance made sense in this case.”

“You decided that even though you are the head of that table that you would listen to them!” He fussed.

She sighed, “I decided that to add to a court that has been doing so well for so long would be shaking things up in a way that the universe has not tasked me with. It would be an easy decision to grant my seat to you instead of even add you to the Pentalpha. That is nothing that the universe has revealed to me.” He frowned, glowed red and she moved closer to him, “May I take you to our chambers? I think I can persuade favor with you.” She placed her nose against his. He gave her a tight smile, but walked away.

There were Giselles all over the palace, all doing different tasks. He passed several of them. It was almost time for another gathering at the table, and today, he would be heard. He determined that he would, “Cassiopeia!” He roared. All of them stopped and one of them came forward, her sparkling gown dazzling behind her, with a round bump on her belly. He paused and caught his breath, “Excuse my distress. I couldn’t figure out where you were, in all of the clamour.” She simply gave him a soft smile. “I am to be heard, today, at the table.”

“The other queens have agreed to give you audience. We will set up in the throne room and allow you a portal.”

“A portal? You will not have me in the same room?” He asked, glowing furiously.

“I would. The others would not. These are the laws, after all. We were not able to enter before our time, either.”

“You? You have always been queen.”

“Capricornus…”

“There has always been a Cassiopeia incarnation at the head of that table. Likely there is one in there,” he complained, glaring at her swollen womb.

“It is a five sided table, with equal heads. Being Cassiopeia is not some gift. It is a calling, a duty, an assignment by the universe. I would be gracious were this burden lifted from me. Then, perhaps, I could have the heart of my husband, which I would proudly trade all of the love of all of our people for.” She cradled her belly, “And this is your son. Whom you molded with me and compressed your energy into, just as I did.” Tears welled in her eyes and two other Giselles came to gather her. She still had things to do.

“It is because you’re so eager, so thirsty, that they are suspicious,” One of them said to him. The universe calls us to lead. Anything else is of our will.”

“We have will, free will. Why not exercise it?” He asked.

She opened a portal to look into other worlds, “Look at them. Primitive in their awareness. Savage in their practices. They go through the work of creating, only to destroy. They do this in favor of loving nothing more than themselves. Pride. Like the stories of Lucifer, who was banished from the glory of the universe, to reign over a kingdom of hatred.”

“We take far too much stock in stories, and tales, and songs.”

“Perhaps. Or, we have existed for so long, for so successfully, because we aren’t like the stories - the Lucifers, the Zeuses, the Seths…”

“You’re mixing up your characters. Zeus was one of the good ones,” he commented.

She chuckled, “With that type of view, the other queens will never agree to seat you at a table of harmony.” She walked away, too.

***

Sheltered in a secret room of the palace, reachable only through a portal, a troop of Giselles molded as many figures as they could. So many energies had been usurped by Capricornus, forcibly. “This is not working. The Evil King is killing too many of our people for us to be able to save them all this way. What we need is something that will serve as a beacon for all of the energies. If we can create something like that, we will be able to guide them to the safety of it and not into the arsenal of the king.”

“We may also be able to take away from some of the power garnered… To control the levels of those who have sided with him…” They heard footsteps and determined, “He’s coming!” She turned into a ball of light and reappeared in her bedchamber as he walked in. They stared at each other for a moment, then she went to the window and looked out of it. The kingdom looked and appeared peaceful, but she could see everything happening to all of her people, hear it, smell it, feel, it, sense it…

“Are you purposefully withholding my son and heir from me?”

“I am not. He will present his form as soon as he has it. His consciousness has been interrupted by all of the turmoil that he will be born into.”

“I have drained some of the most practiced in the arts of precognition and even they have not been able to give me the strength to see his face.”

“The practice doesn’t dictate the outcome of the power - only the ability to depend upon it. The universe reveals to whom it deems fit for the future.”

“The universe hasn’t stopped me, yet,” he taunted. “In fact, the universe has allowed me to gather up all of our people, take as much away from them as I want, strike them down, if I see fit and claim their possessions for myself. The universe is simply where we exist. I. Am. God. I chose to be.”

She turned to face him, for the first time, and asked, “What am I thinking?” He stared at her. “Of all of those you’ve drained, at least 45 of them were very practiced in the art of the mind.”

He winced, “None like you, of course.”

“Of course.”

“The Great Cassiopeia. The Supreme Queen. She lives as a community, all on her own and when she lays to rest, another rises to life. There has always been a Cassiopeia - my mother once said. She said, ‘She is the one true ruler of all of us. Always has and always will be. There is none who has successfully self reincarnated since the beginning of our time.’ My mother was so honored when I was chosen to be your king, by your mother, another Cassiopeia… But, she was wrong. Always will be? That has already been made into a lie by my victorious ascension to the throne. And as soon as I have my son, the face of Cassiopeia will fade from our people and the memory of the always present entity that you ruled as will be wiped out. They won’t even know your name.”

“The Forgotten Queen,” she said. “That will be my name. You might have known if the power, that makes you strong and formidable was also within your ability to control.”

He chuckled and said, “As it turns out, I have realized something… I don’t need YOU to bear me a son. I have a harem of queens, now.” He lifted his hand to absorb her power and she levitated, with her head and arms fallen back.

“You don’t have the practice or the discipline to wield all of the power that you are collecting. All of our people can do everything that you and I can do. Some of us specialize, just like you do at draining power, we specialize in other things. Some of us, like me - excel in all. Someone will challenge you. Someone will make you fall. Someone will be better at taking power than you!” He dropped her and she crashed to the floor, breathing heavily.

“Was that an assumption, or a prophecy?”

“I would never give you a prophecy, but I don’t make assumptions.”

He split into a dozen forms and said, “Send out command, everyone will be allotted limited power. Drain abilities from everyone, leave them with one and decree that all lives molded will only be given enough energy to hone one ability.” They dispersed, even him.

She laughed and held her aching abdominals, “It worked,” she whispered to her son. “He’s going to do part of this work for us…”

***

Bree entered the bedchamber with a tray of food, “Mother, your energy is low,” she said. She helped Giselle to sit up and then heard her inside of her head, “Where is your father?”

Bree didn’t want to answer, but didn’t want to be caught conspiring, so she said out loud, “He has killed your next Cassiopeia, outlawed mention of even the name and drained me down to nothing more than a pretty singing voice for comfort… and other feelings…” She held the food to her mother’s mouth. “He has collected every baby born with the ability to drain powers and is going to raise them as his soldiers. He has reduced our people to one ability and grown in strength because of all that he has amassed. He has drafted all of our people who are not royalty into a military. He has created treaties with other kingdoms, which are simply him extending the kindness of trusting them not to be foolish enough to cross him and he has made a game of war.” Tears fell from her eyes, “He invites me in. Says he wants all of his children to know how to conquer. He uses your molds of the citizens… as pawns. He invites royal families that are in his alliance to witness and an adversary to play against for absorption of their kingdoms… Those are of the families that refused to sign treaties…”

Giselle sat up straight and said softly, “Andromeda…. Do whatever you think is right. You were one of the youngest queens ever to sit on the court.” She cupped her face, “I could make a million Cassiopeias, almost with the snap of my fingers. I could never make another one of you.” She kissed her on the forehead. “My reign has ended and your sister has been assassinated. By right, YOU are the queen of this castle, now. Do with that information whatever you wish. I will trust the universe, and you.”

Bree nodded and held her mother’s hands, “I’m so sorry. I love you, so much…” She began to drain her mother’s energy from her. If she was going to claim the castle and get the kingdom back, she needed more. When the light left her mother’s body, she crept to the window and leaped from it, landing on the ground below on her feet. Guards spotted her and came running. “HEY!” She raised both hands to open a portal and entered into it, vanishing right before their eyes.

When word got back to the Wicked King, he rushed into his wife’s bedchamber to see her lying, still in the bed. He knelt next to her and checked her for signs of life… “Andromeda bested you… I am proud of her.” He reached his hands through her flesh and pulled from it the baby boy, then closed her back up. The boy was as lifeless and he panicked. “No… Andromeda… She…” He held a glowing hand over the boy, but was unable to grant him awakening. He rested him on Giselle’s chest and she gasped and awakened. “Andromeda tried to collect from you… she only managed to kill my son…” He took a deep breath, “I specifically took that ability away from her. You must have given her yours, or some portion.” Then he yelled, “You killed our son!” And came towards her. She lifted her hand to deflect the attack that she felt coming on.

The baby was cradled against her neck as she stood up, with one hand pointed at Capricornus and one hand shielding the baby. “You dare attack me as I hold him in my arms!”

With both hands extended towards her, he wondered, “How are you still this strong?”

“You never knew how powerful I am. Because, I knew that you would betray me. I had to let it happen. The universe didn’t give me a means of escape.” She cried and violently flung him outside of the door and sealed it. She frantically molded the orb with her hands, knowing that she couldn’t keep him shut out for very long. She held her hands over it and it glowed, then she took it and held it above her son. “They will not speak of the Forgotten Queen, but always know, Mirach - Your mother loved you.” As the orb was secured inside of his body, his eyes opened and Capricornus bursted into the room. She looked at him, storming towards her and she lifted the baby in her arms. “You need to practice using your powers if you ever expect to continue to reign,” she said.

He was relieved to see the baby and she handed him his son. Whenever he held the boy, he felt weaker… like he was being drained and he set him in the carriage, “What is happening?” He asked, but when he turned to look around, Giselle was gone. He called for a caretaker to come in. When she picked up the baby, he seemed fine, but each time he touched his father, the king got that feeling… “What did she do to him? Have him examined by everyone. See what it is that she did to him…”

Earth:

“So, you see? Cassiopeia told me when she revealed herself to me that she was the well. That she was the place that all of the energies to go. The Wicked King was killing our people, stealing their powers, enslaving everyone else and many were dying on battlefields. The well was so that he wouldn’t steal those energies. He didn’t even know how to use them. The Queen, however had a form every generation. She had the rebirth mastered and kept it in her genetic code each time she created a new self.. She did the thing that I did. I lost my memory when I did it, but it was all still inside of me! That is what she was able to do up until the moment that she vanished… She vanished because she just changed forms. She became this, orb… to protect her people.” She held the orb in her hands, “And it is hard to gather information on it because she didn’t tell people. She only let you know about the orb if you needed to hide it… Which I did. I hid it. And we didn’t get the memories associated with it because it was outlawed to speak of her. She didn’t even give me her name when she visited me, I think as to protect me from accidentally revealing her.” Sam stared at her. “I know, it sounds crazy.”

“Yeah. It sounds like something that makes no sense whatsoever. She became the thing, then she hid the thing and what? She was showing her husband an illusion of herself?”

“She showed me an illusion of herself and she was so powerful that she blocked Emma in her OWN DREAM to give me a prophecy. She wasn’t alone. There were others seated with her, but I don’t know if they were conscious or resting, or on some Queen of the Damned, sitting and thinking about life and the ways of the world type stuff, but.. If I am not right about this, where is all of this suddenly coming from? If I am not right about this, why is all of this inside of my head?”

Jesse approached the two of them, and said, “I know why.”

Mirach woke up in the middle of the night to see a woman at his window. She picked him up and held him. She kissed his nose. She called him by name, she pulled out a ball of energy and stuck it inside of him. She left him to sleep. This happened throughout his childhood and one night he asked, “Are you my guardian angel?”

She smiled at him and shrugged. “You can say that, maybe when you’re a little bit older, I’ll tell you for sure.”

Years passed, until he thought that he dreamed her up, but she visited, the night before his wedding and she had a gift with her, for him. “I’m old enough, aren’t I?” He questioned.

With a sigh, she nodded, “I’m your sister. I fled the castle long ago. You may have been told that I was a murderer. You may have been told that I was a traitor. I believe in the universe and I couldn’t live here with our father and his evil. I’m Andromeda.”

“I am Canum Venaticorum.” He bowed.

She waved a hand, “No, you’re not. You’re Mirach,” she said, in her mother’s voice. And when he heard the voice, his eyes lit up, and he remembered all of these things about his mother… “Our father killed her and our sister, who was meant to one day… become her. It is probably an alien concept to you. No one is allowed to do it anymore. They don’t want another one of her. But, they don’t know… she never truly died. She did lose her body, but that is only because she had to… to give you back life.” She cupped his face. “You are her. You are exactly as she was. She put everything that she is into you before releasing her energy into the well.” He had memories of his mother placing an orb inside of him. “That’s right,” his sister said and reached inside of him to pull it out. “Thank you for holding this for her. I will keep it safe, now.” She opened a portal and left.

Jesse finished saying, “And legend says that the next day, Mirach drained his father, and became the king.”

Mercedes added, “He sang songs that his sister sang him about the Pentalpha. She was the fifth seat at the table. I’ll bet it angered the king that his daughter was on court and he was not.”

Sam pulled his hair and insisted, “Both of you are just talking, now!”

“No!” Jesse snapped. These… these events, these histories have been given to us, either through memories that our ancestors embedded in our genetic energy or through the universe and prophecies. None of these things are things that we’re just making up. They are things that we are remembering, from even before we existed as our own entities because according to Danica’s report… all of the energy is stored in one place and dispersed through all of these bodies that we compose during gestation! When it is destroyed, it goes into the well.”

“Everyone used to be able to do everything,” she added.

Sam held out his hands, “Ok, so did they give you what to do next?”

Jesse shrugged, “Some idea…”

Bree had the orb seated on her mother’s shrine. It had been a shame that they weren’t given proper dedications, but she made certain to create them. She had taken all of the figures of the fallen. Whenever the game board cleared, she channeled those pieces back to her castle. Whenever a royal released their energy, she withdrew it from the ord and gave it its own orb. She kneeled at her mother’s shrine, “Mother, I am so tired. I have been doing this work for so long. I need someone to reign in my stead. I want to pass this duty to my daughter. I am so afraid that our world will never be as it was and I don’t want to leave until it is, but I need to…”

She heard her mother’s voice as the orb sparkled, “You have every right to leave. Pass on this duty to your daughter and join me, in the well.”

“And this haven that I built, will it continue to stand?”

“Yes. Leave it to your daughter. Tell her everything that you know and guide her, that when the time is right to tell her child everything that she knows, and so on. I will stay here and assist them, just as I have assisted you. Our world will be restored. I don’t know when, but I saw it. I saw her. I saw your descendant. I saw her as clearly as I did your face the first time I laid eyes on you. She will make peace with the enemy kingdoms. She will bring them all together and she will restore the energies to the universe, that they might fairly be granted where they belong.”

Mercedes gasped, as though awakening from a nightmare and looked at Jesse, “Did you see that?” Sam and he both nodded. She held herself, “I’m… I’m related to the Evil King too…”

Sam shook his head, “That means nothing. Auriga has always known and it never made him bad. You two are I don’t know, super watered down cousins, or whatever. That makes sense, as there were two seats in the court from the same household.”

“That world,” Jesse said. “The one that Andromeda created… How do we get there?”

“A portal is in my parents’ castle. It is the same place that my parent’s throne room is in.”

“Could we…” Sam thought for a moment, unsure if he wanted to say it out loud… “Create a portal…” It sounded worse the more he thought about it, “From where we are to get back to our world?”

“Andromeda’s practice was to take the royal energies out of the orb and give them their own orbs in the shrine room. Her power to do that wouldn’t have been carried with us on the journey. It may be in my DNA, but I can’t seem to detect it inside of me,” Mercedes said.

“But… what… if… A baby has it?” Sam asked. “If a baby has it, can you tap into it and magnify it to proper scale to get it done?”

“Why would I do it? Why wouldn’t you just do it?” She asked.

Jesse snapped, “Who gives a shit who’s to do it, can we do it and do we have the access to a baby with it?”

Sam widened his eyes and quietly answered, “Aphasia, yes.” Jesse walked away.

Mercedes commented, “I’ve put him under a lot of stress lately.” Sam just nodded. “So, we what… jump through a portal and go home and then what, try to charge the palace and see when the opening to THAT portal to Andromeda’s hidden world? I mean… It’d probably be easier to fight the human and take all their things.”

“They deserve it, but this was a mistake. We never should have left home. We need to go back and whatever happens, we know that at the very least, eventually, we win - because you have been exposed to the same prophecy two different times.”

“I don’t know how. What if I lose everyone? What if I lose you?”

“I mean, I’m hoping the universe isn’t through with me yet. I still got plenty to give her.”

“And we were attacked. Someone didn’t want us to escape. Most likely my parents, since we were in their space and now I know that at least one of them has some Wicked King in them.”

“It’d have to be your mom if they’re over there handing legacies down through the queens. I say that we get ourselves ready to portal there. Probably go in spurts. I’ll get with Mu Draco and Eridanus to sort out plans for that.”

“In the event that it is a thing that we can actually physically do… There are so many considerations…”

“We’ll figure it out.” Jesse came back with Aphasia, Joe, Wade, and Emma. Mike and Tina were heading that way from a different directions. “For the moment, I think that we’re good keeping all of the Pentalpha and the Orb things between those of us right here.”

“Do we not need the other pregnant women?” Aphasia wondered.

“You can catch them up in the maternity bunk,” he told her.

“Ok. Well… Auriga mentioned that the baby I have can have some kind of space travel power?”

“I actually said spatial manipulation, but…”

Sam offered, “Your son will be able to create portals. Now… We know that in the olden days when our people weren’t so stifled by oppressors and programmed to hone whatever gift they were created specifically for, that at least one person created a portal and built a world within the space that she went into.”

“And what, we’re gonna question my baby in utero on how to do that?” Joe chuckled. She frowned, still looking confused.

“We are going to borrow his energy to try to do it.”

“Couldn’t we just borrow his energy to try to create a safe space, here? And then work from there? I’m feeling nervous about how long we’ve been here without any interference. Cassandra July is on TV talking about how they need to find and destroy the alien menace…”

Mercedes mentioned, “Cassiopeia did have that underground place where she made the figures…”

“Cassiopeia? The Greek chick? Wait, are we…?”

“I think that all of the legends have some truth to them, but no - we aren’t and we aren’t talking about her. Our queen, when trying to stop the king from taking her energy and taking over.”

“And she failed. What other plans do we have?” Aphasia asked.

“We have none. We have to try them all,” Mercedes told her.

“Look, I appreciate that you’re a princess, expected to be queen and all, but the rest of us have royal heirs too. I’m not just giving my baby up to you for experimentation. That’s exactly something the humans would expect.”

“You know we would never ask you to put your baby in harm’s way.”

“I know that you don’t even know if what you want to do can work. You want to siphon energy from my growing child to SEE if it can help. How are you any different than Dr. Schuester?” Mercedes guffawed and folded her arms.

Jesse rubbed Aphasia’s arms and said, “It’s okay. Thank you for at least hearing us out.”

She confessed, “I want to help, I do… But, I’ve gotten attached now and this all sounds like speculation. I know that your baby reached out into the universe from the womb to make things happen, and if mine DID, I would be in full support, but with this uncertainty from our leaders, I don’t feel comfortable signing on for that.”

He nodded and squatted in front of her, face to belly, “Hi. My name is Auriga. Centuries ago… Our people were friends, colleagues. My family destroyed that and I want to help fix it. So, if you have the consciousness, the desire and the ability to see if you could help me, help all of us, your mother included; please…” There was a cracking sound in the sky and they all looked up.

There appeared to be some sort of tear, like light piercing through the space. Aphasia touched her belly and it glowed as the portal opened, slowly. Mercedes reached for her hand and when she took it, the sky opened and swallowed the two of them, then closed.

“JAEL!” Joe screamed. Sam grabbed Jesse’s shoulder reflexively. Joe asked, “Where did they go?” Sam and Joe both shook their heads and shrugged. Joe covered his mouth with both of his hands.

Tina scanned the length of the area, “I am not locating them anywhere.” Now, Joe sat down on the ground. Tina sat next to him and said, “I’m sure that she’s alright. The baby did this. For the most part, if the baby is only you and hers, not some human bred type, he should be fully conscious and capable of wielding his ability on instinct for survival.” Joe opened his mouth to speak, but Jesse interfered.

“Cygnus,” Joe looked up at him. “She is with Danica. They will be safe. They all will be.” Joe nodded his head, content with that. Jesse, Tina, Mike and Sam huddled and Jesse admitted, “I haven’t the slightest clue where that baby could have taken them. I mean… They have to be safe though, right?”

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