章 194: Meeting with Sasha.
Its been a long time since Alexander enter this forest... It was the first time when...
How long was it? Ten thousand years, perhaps even longer... And he lost count due to the issues on saving the imperium...
He almost forgotten her and his lovers in this place... If it not his former lover that propped him up when facing a actual threat...
He could make every excuses to prevent their meeting... Perhaps step in the shadows to see to it, To simply let the Comstock daughters in this place then leave immediately, that they would be safe in this place from the fires of war heading in his home... Perhaps the echo of what was him that longed for them... Beckon him to enter this place.
The place is now lush with greenery and the trees aged for a bit... There are trails of hikers and those that walked to this place that is away from the hustle and bustle of night city... As Alexander delve into the woods he found something.
In a clearing in the woods was a rest stop that overlooks a lake, it allows the people to recuperate their weary eyes as the lake water glisten in the moonlight... A woman sat on a bench facing the lake.
"It's been a while...Sasha. I got your message."
The figure look at the lake as she didn't face him..
"It's been long time... Alexander." She softly spoke.
She patted on the seat next to her. And Alexander simply sat next to her.... Watching the scenery.
"Alexander... Its been four years... When the feather you gave us started to flicker... We were scared... We even asked Misty to divine what happened to you...hell, we search the world since that day..."
"I know... sorry..."
"Why you keep secrets from us... Alex? Are we not married to be trusted?"
Alexander went silent for a moment...
He never told much about himself when he stayed in this place... Not to Mama Wells, Not Jackie, Not even the Valentino's... Not even them.. in a sense he is becoming like Revelation in a degree... A part of him that he so despised...
Keeping secrets as he know how damaging the truth can be... Uncertain of their love... Almost as if he is slowly being replaced by someone he never knew.
Sure, the Eldar Priestess and the Hospitaller is his wives, but he know them... As they are summon to his universe to be almost immortal unless mortal wounds affect them... With his perks that make them survive..
But Sasha and the others? He fear they might die they are netizens in a world of technology they are not bound by his powers or logic... How would he explain that he fought a Millennia of war against Chaos, Traitors, Gods and a multi galactic threats heading his way? And he have to liberate galaxies until the Numbers are to be perish?
For once... He was not a man that laugh at death, not a mass-produced primarch concocted by a version of the emperor that mocked Slaanesh as he lop the skull from the chaos god and broke Nurgles pot of decay, not a Crazed Ripperdoc mercenary that overthrow Night city and conquer this world... Just a tired man that have too many responsibilities, too many commitments and too little time... He kept a smiling facade towards others even his wives in his home galaxy, much like the emperor all knowing image, he kept that image to keep himself from actually breaking down... If he broke that facade... He fear it would be more than just Khorne Knocking at his door, and that one is satisfied of the bloodshed, that he conducted in the emperor name... And he would not have Tzeentch in his head.
If Roboute saw him now, he would lambasted Alexander for being too weak at paperwork...
But he resolved that he be different from the emperor methods and would tell her much as she needs to know...
"I know... It's going to be a long, long explanation..."
"I know... And you got four years of catching up to do. And I am willing to listen to you... I am your wife after all..."
As Alexander spoke his beginning, not where he first died... But in the Starship troopers as he rose in the ranks as a Sky Marshall, how he entered a galaxy that is filled with war and misery that is worse than living in night city...
And his recent adventures and his newest addition to his family....
Sasha listen as his tales ended... Her hand touched his shoulder...
"You been through so much... Why didn't you let us follow you?"
"Sasha... I fear for you and the others safety... There are more worse monsters than Adam Smasher in my journey... If I died... No one would remember me as my influence to this world would be erased... I just can't bear to see you die..."
"Nevertheless, Alexander... Remember our vows we all made in that cathedral you build? Through thick and thin, We are your lights to return to... And you are our beacon... Don't break our hearts once more... Don't you think that you being erased is the end of it... Remember the influence you done to this place? Look at the deeds before you... Isn't it worth protecting? Had you died, David would have died at Arasaka tower and Lucy is banished to the moon, Maine would enter cyberpsychosis and Jackie would have been dead at Arasaka Hands and Gloria would have died of overworking herself... Don't belittle yourself... Trust in us, let us be your strength... Could you Alexander?" Her hands clench tightly on his jacket...
For a brief moment, his mind was in utter chaos...
Let them follow him in his journey and have them a risk of death... Or let them stay in this time bubble that he erected to keep them safe, unaware of his struggles against his foes. His mind is clashing what left of his humanity and his directives of safety...
He gave a decision... He gaze at the moon as if finding a answer...
"Okay... Sasha... I hope you and the others can be my lights once more, for a weary traveler like me...For now... Let us spend this time for the two of us alone... Before others find us." Alexander placed his hands next to her and clutch to her ..
"Yes... I will..." She clung to his waist as they both watch the moon descended into the distance and the sun is slowly rising up.
(A moment after Alexander left his bedroom)
Liz or Columbia Elizabeth sighed as she looked across the room...
"Eliza... I didn't heard that he got three wives. This place..." Liz pouted as she cling to the bedsheets.
Eliza sighed as she patted her younger self.
"You have a crush on him do you?"
Liz sighed as she watch the ceiling...
"I do... Eliza... When I heard he adopted hundreds of children and saving us ... He was like a prince from the stories I read... Something in me... Wanted to be part of that family..."
"I am sure you do... But he have a lot more on his plate... He already see you as a little sister that he needed to protect."
"But I want him to see me as a woman!" Liz cried out.
"How many times you told me that my fate had changed .. by my father's... Mishaps... Sometimes I wanted to have some longing with him..."
"Even though he said that five is already enough for his plate."
"At least let this little childish notion of mine kept alive... He gave us so much... But demanded so little..." Liz tossed to a side..
"I know how hard you feel... But I see that he is facing something more dangerous than what we could fend for ourselves... I looked around in his home universe and it is a constant war... And most of the weapons that we saw below that headquarters is more than just killing bugs. In a sense he wanted to send us here, knowing that it would keep both of us safe."
"I want to be by his side... I want to go on a adventure with him and see more sights than going to Paris!"
Eliza patted Liz head...
"He already consider you as family... So am I.. as I am you. We do love the man that save both of us... But he have a drive that might distance to us compare to the rest of the women he have by his side... So please understand Liz. Next week we are going to France like you wanted." She cling to Liz hoping for her younger self sleep peacefully.
She woke up and find that Liz disappear from her sight... She panicked as she attempted to call Alexander...
"Alexander, Liz is gone!"
"Alright, Eliza stay there while I search for her."
It was blunt but the night city came to life once more. Arbites began to patrol the streets more frequently... And the Techpriest Skitariis and NCPD is sortied out.
Liz opened her eyes and found herself in a warehouse and gagged up. She looked around and it was a defunct warehouse and there was a weak light that shows her surroundings.
'Where am I?' she struggle the ropes.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A voice spoke behind her. In her corner of her eyes she saw flickers of shadows that is behind her.
"You are a perfect bait to lure out Midas. So be a good little toy." The voice chuckle darkly. And a mechanical hand pat her shoulders.
"Alexander... Please save me..." Her eyes teared up...
(Alexander pov)
I heard the news of the kidnapping... How the hell that kidnapper manage to grab Liz and not Eliza?... Unless it was a alert for me.
"Alexander... What is wrong?" Sasha noticed my demeanor changed.
"One of my family is stolen..."
"Theseus, Location?"
<She is somewhere in Pacifica, Seems like she is in a warehouse.>
"Great, now to commit a smokescreen."
He logged in his voxcast to the Adeptus Arbites and his forces station in this place.
"Attention all forces, someone have committed a grave sin to kidnapped my family and I want the person head, look for the person that is uploaded in your Pict and search for the individual in question. She is my family." He stopped the message.
He heard the rumble of machinery in the distance.
He smiled as he take Sasha with him.
The night city came to life as every alleyways and warehouses as the soldiers and techpriest flooded Night city, the residents know that it never happened like this... Unless it was few years ago that a man conquered the world had done it.
"Alexander had returned." Was the census of the people living there.
The man in question arrived in Pacifica, he held memories of this place, where the Voodoo boys started a guerilla war against him, and Shado Arasaka sent weapons to aid them... Now its a gothic theme district of building made of rockcrete and ceramite that touch the skies. Where pilgrims and church goers visit. A flaming tree bask in the dawn light.
They both ended up in front of the warehouse where Liz have been detained.
Alexander looked at the dilapidated Warehouse.
"Sure, she's here?"
<Yup, her bio signal is getting weak though.>
He turned towards Sasha and spoke.
"Sasha, you guard the entrance... Something not right in here..." He could feel the fluctuations of the warp that shouldn't be in this place.
"I will... David and the gang is heading here."
"You called them?"
"Seeing how serious you are... Alex, you need all the help you can get."
"Thanks." He gave a kiss to her as he left.
Alexander looked around and found a opening in the second floor. And jumped into it. And it was a walkways that observe the situation below.
He found something is wrong...
Liz is unconscious as she is strapped to a chair.
He looked around and check his Auspex... There was no signs of anyone in this place except for her.
As he silently went across towards her. A blade struck just to his skull, forcing him to dodge it.
As it swept by he looked at the figure that was next to Liz.... A being that is fully borg out clown waited for him
"Greeting Midas... How's your workout today?"
"There are only two organization called me that... And I guessing, Numbers?"
The mechanical clown shook his head exasperated.
"Midas, Midas oh you poor fool... A little puppet should not be concerns of the master choices... I am not Numbers or the round table... I am on my own." The clown giggled. He touched the unconscious Liz...
"What a fine specimen you got here... Oh... I sense your hatred... You know she just a character that should have been dead by my brother right? The clown caress her face.
"You mean that sick fuck of a angel that stitch her heads? She is my family, Guess you are not what First claimed to be."
The clown laugh maniacally. There was a tinge of madness erupting within hum.
"First? Is that what he called himself? When he took what should have been rightfully mine? We held a vote and our father loved me the most. Should have voted for the best ruler and guess what, I should have been the Leader of that kingdom, not you, not him, but me! I lost that gambit to defy him and he stuffed me into this wretched body!" The clown went on a tirade. Alexander could goad the clown for more information... But Saving Liz is important. He ignored the ramblings as he approached her. He felt a bloodlust from the clown.
"That's why... I have to kill you... Brother, by killing you, I shall eat your flesh and ascend to my rightful place as a god." The clown began to lunge at him.
"Why do I get the feeling that my supposed brothers are more fucked up than the traitor Primarchs? Even Konrad Curse doesn't even eat the flesh he flayed." Alexander used his power bat and swung at the clown sending him in the depth of the warehouse buying some time.
Alexander rushed to where Liz was held and ripped the ropes around her...
"Alexander?" She weakly spoke...
"I will bring you home, to our family, just don't die on me."
"Home? Yes.... Family." She fainted.
Alexander placed her in his Subverse to keep her safe from the danger. And the clown lunged forth once more
"MIDAAAAASSSSS" the facial features was more horrifying as half of his skull was bashed and he still retain some cognitive functions...
"Just die already... Brother." Alexander readied his faithblazer and this time there was no lengthy battle, no shit talking... He just want to end the suffering of what was once a part of the mass produced primarch, of his kin... He erased the wounded soul of the being that trapped within it.
And the mechanical clown collapsed... Perhaps there was a tear that fell from this construct...
A clapping was heard from the walkway. Alexander looked up and saw a hooded figure cheering on what just happened.
"Bravo, Midas... You gave me quite the entertainment... The Corpse Emperor Puppet against the foolish clown that's been lied to. Make a great headlines don't you think?
"You..." Alexander growled.
"Don't mind me I just here to enjoy what suffering you two should have inflicted... But you gave him a easy way out... Boring, make it more flashy, more explosion and theatrics! But you are a killjoy. I will be leaving-" He paused as there was a fire sword close to the figure neck.
"Who's thinking about leaving?"
"I will, and I can..after all chaos is fun and seeing you... You grown old."
"I am more wiser in my tenure with the emperor, now speak."
"Don't wanna, oh look, your supposed friend is under attack... You wanna save them? Or simply lop my head off?" A mirror appear before Alexander showing the outside the warehouse is under attack by monsters... David is struggling as his bullets is not working against them. And Rebecca was among them shooting at a beast jaw.
"I can't kill you... But I will not leave without taking something from you..." Alexander swiped his blade and lopped off the stranger arm, and he screeched like a banshee.
"How dare you! what the hell?!" The figure found himself surrounded by a series of melta charges ready to explode. He fled Into the darkness before the explosion erupted. As he thought he managed to get away from the crazed lunatic, he felt his back something was beeping and it erupted in a flash of plasma fire. If that doesn't kill the figure, it would simply maim him to prevent his interference in the near future.
Alexander went out and promptly aided them.
Rebecca came barrelling towards him like a cannon shell.
"Alex! I missed you!"
"Ah, my adorable little gremlin...it's been so long."
David approach him.
"Gramps... Are those the things you mentioned?" He pointed out the dead monsters at the wayside.
The techpriest and their incinerator servitors is burning the corpses.
"David... I fought much more worse than that. We have a lot of things to discuss." Alexander sighed.
(Later)
In the hospital, Liz woke up in the bed with Eliza clinging on her hand.
"Eliza..." She whispered.
"Liz... You are safe now." Eliza clung to her arm.
"He saved me again..."
"Are you okay now?"
"I am... He did...called me a family...before I passed out."
"I see... Well then let's meet him before we head to France."
"I will... "
(3rd pov)
In a lounge, Alexander friends gathered around and hear his tales.
"So let me get this straight, Alexander, you are a leader of the Ten thousand sector of space, of a spanning Empire against aliens that hunted humanity and a sky marshal of a galaxy that is filled with bugs, and you lived more than ten thousand years, fighting a almost eternal war, and you wander into hell itself to get your Stepbrothers back from the devil himself? And you are a creation of a literal god that walked amongst men? And you have a intergalactic threat heading your way? And I was supposed to be dead?" Maine looked at his benefactor strangely.
"That sums it up I guess."
"Damm, this Choom hitting it big. I would have gone crazy if I didn't have misty for so long... Thanks man for actually saving me." Jackie joked as he held Misty hands.
Alexander smiled sadly.
"That's the point... I wouldn't be here.. if said individual that supplying my enemy army is hiding In Arasaka."
"So, you have a actual reason why you wanted to destroy Shado Arasaka " Johnny silverhand now aged, looked interested in his endeavors.
"So that does make me a queen?" Rebecca that sat on his lap look at him gleaming.
"If so, that does make me a royal brother-in-law, Sis stop the bullets!" Pilar joked as his hands stopped Rebecca bullets.
"So what now? What you planning to do next?" Dorio asked.
"I am building a link to this place... So that at least you can visit my world and back once the situation is safe... I can only travel through in a portal... By the time I come back, we will be ready for them. I want you to keep this place safe... There are actual monsters than Adam smasher..."
"How do you define the threat of the enemies heading your way?" Maine asked.
"Adam smasher is just a common fodder. Some of them can bend time that even a sandy is worthless, others warp reality, others are more thicker tin cans than what the corporation producing here. Infact one of them tried to nuke night city a few years ago...I ended the threat."
"So you been saving us... All this time? " David spoke softly...
He learned what would have happened if Alexander wasn't around... That he died fighting Adam smasher and so close to the edge... And he looked at Lucy... What life would she had lived in the moon without him?
Lucy clutch his hands tightly... The life she had now... Sometimes she fear that potential future Alexander spoken... Her daughter would have not been born. Arasaka hounds chased after her. Living a life of fear. Not able to shop and go on dates with David.
"I did... Cause David.. you are pretty much like a son to me... Ever since the day I met you and Gloria, I wanted you to reach further than the towers you should have perished... I wanted for you to reach the stars and tell your mother that you made it. That you become the successful man you are today. Same thing for the crew... I wanted to keep you safe, because you are my family in this place..."
There was a pause here as he glanced around.
"I would have just killed my target right then and there and simply left. But I spent time with you chooms, I wouldn't have met my friendly merc Jackie, I wouldn't known Viktor that showed me ripperdoc work, I wouldn't have met my lovers in this place ... And I wanted to protect this place as much as I could."
"So there are places you have to go next then?"
"True, I was supposed to simply leave the Comstock daughters in this place as it supposed to be safe from the fires of war... Turns out I was a bit wrong... I need to beef up the security here."
"This is so much to take, wow... My grandparents is upset that you didn't contact me for four years... That explains why the feather suddenly flicker a bit."
"I died twice Judy... Against a foe that is overwhelming." Judy looked worried, Alexander smiled.
"When it is safe...I will bring you and your grandparents there to see my parents okay?" He calmed Judy a bit.
After having this revelation, His friends left and leaving Alexander alone.
The Elizabeth duo approached him.
"Hey... Uh Alexander... We need to talk... About Liz..."
"Alexander I-"
"Liz... I know that you have some feeling for me... But you are still too young, you are still sixteen... So forgive me not able to accept your feelings..." Liz began to tear up... As Alexander wiped her eyes. He whispered in her ear.
"However... If you manage to reach the Age of 20 and still remember me and have not find anyone fancy... Perhaps you have a chance..." He smiled as he stepped back.
"Can you do me this one favor?"
"Yes?"
"Can you princess carry me to the room?"
"Okay.."
After Alexander place Liz in the Hospital bed. And left the hospital ward with Eliza.
Eliza know something and muttered in her breath...
"You are a cruel man...you know that you would pause time here as you disappear once more... What happens if it was a thousand years or even a millennia that passed by and she only remember the man you are today?"
"I know... I just don't want her hopes dashed to the ground Eliza... If she still loved me....then I would consider her feelings. However, she is having puppy love at me and the shaking bridge effect... I was the man that save her than her father... If her feelings is still pure after all this Years... Then she is real..." Alexander headed out.
Eliza saw the back of Alexander as if he bore the burden of responsibility in his back... And the trials he would face is more dangerous than either her and Liz would faced...
"May I wish you safe travels... Alexander Solair..."
After a week in the hospital and series of checkups, The trio arrived in the Airport as they head to France.
Liz looked at the futuristic city and gaze in awe. But Alexander knew... She was trying to keep the memories of him alive. Somewhat touched, he left a memory shard in their luggage, on how they first met...
After having accomodations In the City of lights, secured, a Two Story house that is fully furnish with daily essentials and security is a base that he raised nearby and several Calidus Assassin Operatives tasked to protect them in the shadows.
To train their rift powers, a Thousand Sons was dispatched to learn and improve her powers.
They were tasked to handle the Wondertainment branch of the french division, Where Liz and Eliza is the Corporate job.
And he ensure that the Manager of the branch does not have any funny ideas towards them and not spoil them rotten or he would replaced him and his entire family, the manager nervously shook his head as he knows who actually owns the company. And there was no board of directors or shareholders in his company to sway his decisions.
On the last day Alexander leave this place as he erect a portal his lovers watch as the portal was raised up... He was stopped by Liz...
"Don't go..." She clutch her hands on his jacket.
"Liz... I do this to save everyone..."
"Couldn't you just stay and live with us?"
"I can't they will soon find this place as well... Remember what I said to you Liz... If you feelings have not waned, I will consider your feelings." He placed her hands away from his jacket as he proceed to leave this place.
He worry about the little chick left behind, but he hopes that she would be better than before.
He looked back at his wives and gave a assuring smile as they know that he is going to fight in a war so far from them...
As soon as he arrived in the star ship trooper and ended up in his office.
<Initiating Time stasis lock in CYberpunk 2077>
"I hope she forgets about me..."
He looked around and saw the memorabilia and sighed...
"Ready the next drop. What's the next location?"
<Initiating search.... Complete>
[Fallout universe]
[Gears of war]
[Starcraft]
[Star wars]
[Halo]
[Alien]
[Hell divers]
[Doom]
<I suggest that you should enter the low technology tier universes to consolidate their technology.>
"Alright let's enter fallout universe, what could possibly go wrong?"
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