A blast from the past

"Where are we going?" Sterling was awoken in the middle of the night."

"We are sending you to a far away place where our ancestors went. There will be good people there to take care of you."

"But why aren't you coming with me?"

"Our place is here, we need to save the kingdom."

"is that why are we sneaking out in the middle of the night?" Sterling asked.

"Sweetheart, our lives are in danger. If you leave during the day you will surely be killed." his mom explained.

"Who would want to kill us?"

"I really don't know, son. But I suspect Deothanos."

"Uncle D? No, that's impossible. He loves us, he'd never..."

"Shh, go inside your ship now and be very quiet." his mother urged.

Sterling climbed into the driver's seat and cried as he watched his parents screaming and running from a dark figure.

"I love you." his voice cracked as little Sterling put the ship into gear and flew off invisibly into the night.

--the next day--
"What have you done with the jewl, Balthasar?" Deothanos demanded of the king.

"It's gone and you'll never find it." the queen spat at him.

"Ah, so you didn't destroy it." and evil grin came across his face.

"Well, then we'll just have to find whoever is hiding it for you and kill them."

The king's face went pale, "We'll never tell you where he is, you tyrant!"

"Well, you're no use to me now, I should just kill you."

"Please, no!" the queen cried out, "we'll give you the jewl if you spare our son's life."

"That won't be necessary." Deothanos grinned all the more evilly. "Kill them, I have what I need. What a shame, you were such a beautiful queen."

---the aftermath---
Deothanos convinced all the people that Balthasar and his family were traitors and took over both planets. He sent scouts to look for Sterling and to spies to find anyone who may be in contact with him.

Sterling's parents had programmed the computer to send him automated messages from home until he arrived to Earth (they hadn't anticipated it taking so long), the messages of course were fake, but sent to give him hope. They had also hidden the jewl in the controls of the ship.

The Jewl's main purpose was the enhance the powers of the user. It only worked for the royal bloodline. Sterling's parents had given him their powers before he left. He is unaware of this transaction. His mother's power was the ability to see time (past, presence and future). Balthasar's ability was much like Deothanos' (because they were brothers) he could manipulate time or rather the speed at which time passes and the effect if has on someone.

This would explain why Sterling did not age more than he did, in addition to traveling faster than the speed of light, he was unconsciously trying to remain a child. Because he had his mother's power he could see what was happening on his home planet until he was too far away. And then as he neared the earth he could see what had happened there. Since his power was mechanical, he unconsciously manifested the other two powers through the ship.

Currently, he is convinced that the ship was programmed to give him information from history and the future.

Before Deothanos had killed the king and queen, he stole their memories. That is how he knew that Sterling had been sent away. Unfortunately, he did not have the ability to trace Sterling as long as he was cloaked. Once Sterling revealed himself to earth, Deothanos was able to find him.

He had one of his minions devise a teleport strong enough to span the gap of space and get him to earth without losing any time. Though, he hadn't anticipated the strength of the teleport to kill his minion. Deothanos was now stuck on earth until he could get the Jewl and enhance Jeff's powers enough to get home. Though, his new plan included taking the whole earth this time, so it would take a lot more power to accomplish.

Once he had manipulated all the magic users on earth, he would take the norms back home to be slaves. Why risk having slaves with Magical powers?