Back at base

MB's head hurt. I guess from trying to take in all the information he had recently acquired.

"You don't look so good, do you want a drink or anything?" Mike offered his half drank diet cola.

"Meh, I'll be ok. How come you're so chipper? Doesn't any of this boggle your mind?"

"Not really, I've always had a hunch there was something more to life. And here's your proof."

MB looked around the room at all the teenagers and moaned. "Get me something for my head."

Mike shook his head and wandered over to Rain, "what have you got for a headache? and what do you guys eat around here?"

"Ask Jared, he's the one in charge right now. I think there are some chips or something in the kitchen." she pointed to a door behind him. "Oh, and when you see Jared ask him how Daila is doing."

Daila, the girl who had apparently rescued us, was now being held in one of Jared's hospital beds recovering from her power surge earlier.

"How come you don't get tired, Sterling?" one of the kids asked, they were all gathered around him listening to storied of his home planet and his adventures in space.

"Well, I've been magic my whole life. It's like, walking I guess. You just do it automatically and it isn't that strenuous anymore. Especially after spending so long in stasis, I had a lot of time to practice my magic without anyone to interfere."

"Gosh you must have been lonely." Allison said sympathetically as she slyly inched her way closer.

"Yeah, it was boring, but I did spend a lot of time sleeping. Anyway, that's enough of that, where's Jared? I'd hate to waste time when our species on this planet is pending extinction."

He got up and wandered down the hall just behind Mike. They passed Cali on their way. Mike tapped softly on the door, "hey, do you want me to order a couple of pizzas or something?"

Jared mumbled something and barely looked up to reply, "take Rain with you to pick them up, we can't have them deliver here, she knows how to get back in."

"Alright, any requests?"

"no." Jared said quietly, his mind preoccupied by everything that was going on.

"Hey, is this a bad time, brother?"

"brother?"

"Well, no we're not related. But at home that's how we refer to others with the same power. At least, that's how things were done when I was there last, it could be very different now. I haven't received a transmission in a very long time. I don't even really know how long I've been gone. I am not even sure that returning is an option anymore. But anyway, that's not why I am here."

"go on."

Sterling closed the door, "This planet is a hostile environment for our kind. We have very few options if we are going to succeed. Otherwise our kind will become extinct here. Well actually, with the exception of you and the baby they already have. The others are a new breed, you know? Anyway, I was sent here to either convince you to vacate this planet and return home, or to destroy it and create a new planet. Those aren't the only options, of course, those were just my orders. I'll let you think about it, and you get back to me. Oh, and of course we'll have to dispose of any traitors like Alex. I had been doing a lot of research on all of you before I came down. I know pretty much everything, don't worry I won't tell the others she's your baby. But we must find the others before Alex corrupts them. Are you sure it was wise to send the man out for pizza?"