“How can I possibly cause this coming attack you’re describing?”
Valerie stood up and refilled her cup, “Your psychic ability protects you even when you are unaware of it operating. Do you ever wonder why Robby was caught and you weren’t?
Jake’s expression turned serious, “Every day.”
“It’s because your psychic self directed the merchant’s attention away from you. You have survived because you have not been ready to release your power. Whenever you have been in trouble, things were made to happen to insure you survived. How many close calls have you had with the security forces on Gambian?”
“Before Robby died, there were numerous times that I wondered how I wasn’t caught. Are you saying that these skills you say I possess protected me?”
‘Yes, I am. It may have been necessary for another to face the security forces instead of you, but your psychic self will do whatever is necessary to insure your survival.”
“Why?” Jake asked.
Valerie shook her head, “Because you had to be kept alive and away from the one that would release your powers.”
Jake just stared at her. Cynthia asked, “I’m not sure what you mean.”
“Jake has an initiator somewhere, either in this universe of another and we suspect it is in another universe, that when he touches her it will break the barrier that is keeping his psychic power locked inside him. He can only come into contact with her when his psychic self reaches maturity. If he makes contact before he is fully mature, then both of them could be killed by the contact. In all of the prior super psychics, this usually happened between the ages of eighteen and twenty four. Jake has entered the time of his skills being released. He should also start showing some of his skills as they are released due to stressful situations. His full power can only be released by his designated initiator.”
Cynthia asked, “What makes you think it is in another universe?”
Valerie looked at Cynthia, “Because all of us are sensing a coming attack and there is no force in our universe that could threaten us. It has to be coming from another universe. That is what makes us suspect that is where the initiator is located. We hope that we can go there before the attacker comes here, but with billions of possible universes, we have to hope we get a clue as to which one has the attacker and is also the location of his initiator.”
Jake stood up and said, “This is ridiculous.”
Valerie stood and put her hand on his shoulder and appeared to wait for something to happen. When nothing did, she sighed and said, “No it’s not, Jake. I can see your aura and you will be developing stronger psychic skills immediately. I can see the blue flashes that indicate that your power is seeking release.”
Jake didn’t know what to think. Then Valerie said something that made him wonder if she was right. “Jake, I saw the recording of when the first psychic scanner exploded. You dove for the floor before it blew up. How did you know to do that?”
Jake looked at her and said, “I didn’t do anything; my body just suddenly moved to the floor.”
Valerie could see the confusion in his face; then she saw him realize a truth he had missed, “You’re saying I caused Robby to die because of my psychic abilities?”
Valerie sighed, “Why was Robby outside that merchant’s office wearing the same tunic you had on when you decided to take that bag? I’ll bet if you asked him he wouldn’t be able to explain why he came there.”
Jake was almost losing control, “He didn’t know. He just wandered to that location. He didn’t know what I was doing.”
“Jake, your powers do not care about anyone else but you. If someone you love has to die to protect you, they will die. If a planet has to die to insure your survival, it will die. It does not care. If a Realm has to die to make your powers active, it will die. If a dangerous enemy has to attack the Realm to get you to where your initiator is located, the enemy will attack. The most powerful force in the universe is psychic power, and until your power is released and you take control of it you could cause unimaginable destruction.”
“But I don’t want to hurt anyone.”
“Neither does your power, but it will if it is necessary for you to find your initiator. The first rulers of the Stars Realm caused a war with the Alliance of worlds just to insure that they would not be separated. The end result of that war was the formation of The Stars Realm. The Royal Family has been searching for you for five years. Why do you think we have eight hundred teams at the casinos trying to capture anyone with psychic ability? We were looking for you. Thank the creator, we’ve found you.”
Jake looked at the beautiful young girl and did not want to believe her, but something inside him told him she was right. Then he could hear her thoughts. He looked at her and thought, “Does this mean that I am now telepathic?”
Valerie jerked, then thought back, “Yes. We have to get you to your initiator. We know that high levels of stress will cause your psychic skills to manifest themselves.”
Cynthia was telepathic, and she was amazed. Then she asked, “How do you do that, Your Highness? I mean, how do you find this initiator?”
“We wait for something to happen that is totally unexpected, then we follow up.”
Jake thought, “What do you mean, unexpected?”
Valerie smiled, “It wouldn’t be unexpected if I knew what it was, but this much I can tell you: it won’t be long.”
Chapter Four
The probe teleported into the mainframe at Fleet Control and immediately downloaded its information. A loud siren went off, along with bright flashing red lights. The Spider in command that day pressed a button and announced, “We have the destruction of a Searcher. All command staff report in immediately. The Spider then toggled a switch and said, “It’s starting; both of you come here now.”
A silver screen appeared and two more spiders stepped out. “What’s happened, Newton?”
“We’ve had a Gamma ship destroyed.”
The two spiders were shocked, “How is that possible? Those ships are the most powerful ships we’ve ever created.”
“I don’t know, Edison, but from what I’ve initially seen from the escape probe it wasn’t even able to fire its weapons before it was killed.”
The third spider asked, “Do you think this is what the Royal Family has been sensing?”
“It has to be, Einstein. Any ship that can destroy a Gamma is a real threat. We at least know what universe the ship was located in when it was destroyed.”
Edison sat down at a control board, “Do we know anything about that universe?”
“There’s nothing in the Realm’s data on explored universes.”
“Have you looked at our data?” Einstein asked.
Newton leaned right, indicating he had not, “I was hoping you and I would do that while Einstein assimilates the information the probe brought back and try to get our analysis organized.”
“I’m on it.”
“Have you notified the Royal Family?” Edison asked.
“I just sent a message to the King.”
Edison thought a moment, “We’d better have our information ready quickly. According to the Castle, we are going to be attacked soon.”
Newton looked at Edison’s control panel, “You’d better call in the Algeans to help organize the information from the probe.”
“Already done; they have the data downloaded to them and they are going to work on the information gathered from the planet the Searcher was scanning.”
Newton rose and moved toward the teleport screen, “I’m going to try and determine how those ships were able to see the Gamma through its invisibility screen. I’m going with Einstein to see what we have in our records. “
