Infinity (25 page)

   
Several minutes before, just
above the frozen planet of
Heilix,
Infinity has a stabilized orbit. Her Anti-Planetary Magnetic Field Booster
counteracts the powerful magnetic field of Heilix and keeps her in orbit around
the planet. Cruise has located a signal transmitting from a location below. The
crashed ship’s instruments had been emanating radio waves on a frequency that
Infinity picked up.
 
A life form
that is faint moves Cruise to bring up a 4-D photon-graphic of the vessel and
the contents. He sees what happened to Lebag Kralc and Gynythian Zee and then
focuses on the small space at the rear of the cockpit and the person sitting
there bleeding and mumbling words.

   
We only have a couple of more
minutes before the hull collapses under the weight of the atmosphere,” says Millennia.
No sooner said than done and Cruise is gone and then back again in a flash. In
his arms is Hyukitron, barely breathing.

   
“I’ve got to get him to the
hospital; start plotting coordinates back to Cassiopeia and teleport us back,”
says Cruise to Glorainne. He then teleports himself and Hyukitron to Infinity’s
fully staffed hospital’s emergency room. “His neck is broken, but he’s still
alive. I think he’s paralyzed though.”

   
The head physician orders treatment.
“He’ll need emergency surgery to remove a piece of metal from his neck and his
ribs. He’s lucky to have survived that crash.”

   
Back on Cassiopeia,
Hyukitron is transferred to the Citadel’s hospital and admitted to the Special
Attentive Treatment Care Division for Extreme Severe Incidents. Cruise orders
an around the time gauge guard just in case Hyukitron makes a miraculous
recovery and decides to leave.

   
The head physician took his
case and performed the surgery. He said that with the Quewythian speedy
regenerative eicosanoid hormones, he would recover from his broken neck, wounds
and paralysis in time. But for now he would have to be restricted to bed rest
and then in a few cycles be able to start treatment for rehabilitation.

   
“You should have just let me
die there,” said Hyukitron. “Why risk your life saving a wretch like me?”

“
W
e
all
have to battle with the past and present
,
but
what tests the mettle
of
a
man
,
is
how
he
chooses
to
respond.
How he handles
it all,” replies Cruise. “W
e
can
’
t
make
excuses
for
the
darkness
in
our
minds
. The scars don’t go away, but we are the ones who must decide
our own fate.”

Koupiton had
lengthy conversations with his brother Hyukitron over the next several Solar
Cycles. Dvora did also, as did her daughters. Cruise and Millennia also visited
him and assisted him with his rehabilitation, both biologically and
spiritually. They often read him passages from the Sacred Word.

Whether he would
be prosecuted for his lengthy life of crime or not depended upon his reaction
to those conversations, his attitude now; magistrates, barristers, defenders,
statements, witnesses and most of all and finally, the new Daxu Korth, King of
the Kingdom of Light and his Queen, Millennia.
 

   
After all had been
considered and deliberated, at the closed trial Hyukitron was found guilty as
charged of crimes brought against him; there could be no denial of that.
However, the law keepers, magistrates and all officials connected with law
enforcement inside of the Citadel all agreed with the King and Queen.

   
“Hyukitron Hoxenyth, you
have been absolved of all crimes against you and are hereby a free man,”
proclaimed the high court magistrate. “However, we must assert a probation
period within which time you will be required to perform service to your King
and Queen and your kingdom. Refusal on your part of comply with the specifics
and logistics of this service will result in your banishment from the Kingdom
in which case, nothing would be preventing you to return to a life of crime.
Should you do so, you would be immediately hunted down and brought in for the
maximum sentencing.”

   
Hyukitron looked at the
magistrate and then looked around the courtroom at his brother, and also Dvora.
Looking over to where the King and Queen were sitting, he saw them smiling.
Dvora’s daughters and their husbands were also smiling.

   
“I do accept whatever the
service may be, and for whatever time period it will be for. I do understand
that I have no rights to any inheritances, titles, riches or even houses and
lands. I accept the title of citizen of the Kingdom of Light with no reserves.”

   
After the trial, Koupiton,
who was retired now, but was still living at the Citadel with full benefits,
asked his brother to have a talk. “I was asked to be the one to present you
with your new duties, brother.”

   
“I somehow thought it might
be you,” he replied. “Don’t worry, my promise is good. I will do whatever is
necessary to be reconciled with the kingdom.”

   
“I’m happy to hear that.
Your new job, should you decide to accept it, entails a bit of espionage,” Said
Koupiton. You see, we have a vacancy in that division. The new Daxu Korth and
Regenia Korth want you to take the place of our former top spy Lebag Kralc.”

   
“Why, I never knew he was
your top spy. I thought he was a double agent for our organization...I,”
Hyukitron responded.
  
 

   
“That’s how good you need to
be. We want you to help stop and capture pirates terrorizing the galaxies here
and beyond. You must never let them suspect who you really are.”

   
“Of course I accept,” he
replied.

   
“In that case,” spoke Cruise
walking in the room, “I name you K-2000, your code name, the new director of
our espionage division.”

 
  
The Queen walks in next. “You know
how the pirate system works, and you can do the job well. Beware of temptations
and do not be beguiled as Lebag Kralc was. His problem was jealousy and too
much ambition.”

   
“I have commissioned
InfinityII to be the royal vessel that you will be in command of,” says Cruise.
“It’s a self contained city with a crew of seven thousand.”

   
“I don’t know what to
say...I certainly don’t deserve it, I know,” responded Hyukitron.

   
“It’s not an easy
job,” said Cruise. “Don’t disappoint us.”

And then...they heard the word through the Quantum Cyber Interstellar media
that Gynythian Zee was still alive. Somehow he had managed to escape from the
crushing atmospheric pressure that was pulverizing the spacecraft. Only seconds
after Cruise had teleported with Hyukitron escaping the crushing death trap,
another spacecraft had snatched up Gynythian Zee by teleporting him to their
ship. His extremely damaged body was taken to the healing waters of Ghujik. The
planet’s suns quickly rejuvenated Gynythian Zee’s brain and provided the energy
he needed for a full recovery after being submerged in the pools of Ghujik.

What they did not know was who rescued him from that crushing fate. Unknown
to anyone was the fact that Gynythian Zee had a secret lover from the planet of
Kioxizart, five billion of Earth’s light years away from the icy grave that had
threatened to take his life.

Hylatalai, commanding a highly technologically capable spacecraft, swooped
down and snatched Gynythian Zee up into her clutches.

“I will not see my beloved die; crushed to death upon an icy and forsaken
moon.” Hylatalai could not and would not accept the death of her true love. She
had been secretly following him on his quest and would not let him out of her
sight

Hylatalai hailed from the high mountainous planet of Alair, a true
paradise. There is where she took Gynythian Zee to nurture him back to health.
He was never the same. Though she saved his life, she was not able to cure the
catatonic state the crash left him in. Not wanting to lose him again, she kept
him in a room, in a bed hooked up to life support devices that fed him
intravenously. His brain was hooked up to a monitor that recorded all of his
mental activity. Most of the time he was alone. It was one of these times that
the brain monitor flared up and was very active. The monitor beeps, but there
is no one to hear. No one would hear it until Hylatalai comes the next morning
to check on him. Gynythian Zee opens his eyes and looks around him. He cannot
open his mouth. He cannot move his arms or legs. He doesn’t know where he is.
He feels like he wants to scream, but no sound comes out. His body is in pain,
but he has no relief. He is paralyzed from the shoulders down. Body wracked in
pain, he becomes unconscious.

The End