live the new life you’ve been given. You should understand that there are no accidents in the universe and that before you could arrive at this place in time, you had to do those things. They made you what you’ve become. You’re here to make a difference and your accomplishments have made me proud to be a member of your species. You are much more than you think. Everyone has forgiven you…except for yourself.
I came here to tell you that, after a lot of thought and soul searching, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I think my father is right; you are the only one that can possibly handle me. I’ve been told no one can and, unfortunately, they’re probably right. I am somewhat strong willed and opinionated. So, when you’re ready to give it a go, you’ll find me waiting on Burke with my family.” She stood and kissed Grang on the cheek, turned toward the door and said, “Please don’t make me wait too long. I really don’t have much patience.”
Grang watched her walk away and heard, “Grang, it’s time to live.”
Grang saw Madeline in his thoughts and felt his agony return. He saw Madeline smile, “It’s time to live again.”
Grang ran out the door and ran up to the huge Magrum Female and looked down on her, “Why me? What do you see in me that you want!?!”
She turned and smiled, “I have very high standards. I’ve been told that you’re the only one that could possibly handle someone like me. I want a Warrior for my mate and you are all I heard you were. The Zord confirmed it. However, I refuse to be here with you unless you can open your heart. Can you do that?”
“What if I’m not what you think?”
She stepped back and slowly looked him over from head to foot as she slowly walked around him, “Ohhhh, I think you’ll do.”
Grang smiled, “What’s your name.”
“Geena.”
“I promise not to hurt you.”
She smiled coyly, “I’d like to see you try.”
Grang laughed for the first time in years, “Please stay. I do want to see if we can make a go of it.”
Geena smiled, “I thought you’d never ask.”
Grang swept her off her feet and carried her back to his home.
Scotty and Julie peeked around the small house and Julie jumped into Scotty’s arms. “Oh Scotty, how did you make this happen?”
The Planet Leader on Burke contacted me about a rather hard to handle Magrum Female and wondered if I had a place for her in our military. I contacted her father and he confirmed that she is a rather strong willed Daughter. I told her Father about Grang and asked him to mention to her that there was only one Magrum in this universe that could handle her and she had better hope she didn’t run in to him. He’d teach her a thing or two. She took it as a challenge and decided to find out all she could about Grang. Vring just happened to be around when she started her search.”
“Just happened to be around?”
Scotty smiled and looked up at the sky, “Ohhh, it was entirely an accident. Her father told her to ask the Zord about the Magrum on Bristone that could teach her a thing or two. She couldn’t resist. Vring showed her the ongoing duals between Grang and the Northern Cats and she was impressed. I think his pet Torg sealed the deal.”
“She is a rather strong personality.”
“And Grang isn’t?”
She punched him in the ribs laughing, “We’ll see.”
Scotty picked her up and tickled her, “I guess we will.”
Julie laughed uncontrollably and said, “Stop, please stop.”
“I will if you behave.”
“I will, I will.”
Chapter Fourteen
Seventeen year old Jenna Talben watched her display as the giant black ship moved toward another planet to conquer. “Gilene, are we going to intervene?”
“Jenna, they have learned how to handle our attacks. It was easy at first but now they fire all their beams as soon as we hit their force field destroying the hornets. If we continue to penetrate them, they’ll reach a level that our full Zeta Beam would not penetrate.”
Jenna thought a moment, “Gilene, do you have the information from the first probe that Alex used to spy on them.”
“Yes, why?”
“Show me the information in a download.” Jenna put on the head band and Gilene downloaded the information. “So the probe was able to get to the ship when it lowered its force field.”
“It appears so.”
“Why did they lower it?”
“To receive a communication.”
“Do you have the frequency of that communication?”
“Just a moment.” Jenna waited and pulled up the structure of the huge ship on her display. “Yes, I do.”
“Let’s try something new. Move up next to the force field and hit it with that frequency. If they drop their force field, hit them with your main beam just below the bottom of the main control room. That’s where their reactors are located”
Gilene thought about it, “It might work. Are you ready?”
“Just keep the teleport board hot.”
“You don’t have to ask. Here we go.”
Gilene moved up next to the force field in stealth mode and sent the frequency intermittently. She paused and sent it again. The force field came down and Gilene hit the giant black ship with her main beam. The giant ship exploded so fast that Gilene was barely able to teleport away from the blast before it struck them.
“My, my but that was dramatic. I can also assume from the immediate explosion that they were unable to send a message out.”
Gilene smiled, “You are a genius. Let’s tell the others.”
“Tell them to only use it on ships that are alone and attacking a planet. We don’t want them to think we’ve used a more powerful beam.”
“Good idea. We still need them to keep their attention on this universe.”
“This event should get their attention.”
Gilene teleported away. Ten black battleships appeared ten hours later when the destroyed ship failed to report its progress. A message went out to the Fleet Master and he directed his ship to the scene of the attack. As he viewed the destruction he began to feel something alien, fear.
Three weeks later Varner and James were moving in on a giant black ship that was moving in toward a civilized planet. The giant ship was destroying the ships coming from the planet to defend it and was moving inexorably on the defenders. Varner moved slowly toward the ship. “I don’t believe they will lower the force field until that fleet is eliminated.”
“You’re probably right. I hate to see those ships destroyed but we don’t have much choice.”
Suddenly five giant black ships appeared in the system. James looked at his display and said, “Why are they here? They don’t need that firepower to defeat that fleet.”
Varner said, “I don’t like this.”
All six ships suddenly opened fire on Varner with their main beams. James yelled, “Get us out of here! They can see us.”
Varner sent a message warning the other Searchers that their Stealth mode no longer worked when he saw that the beams had knocked down the screen and overloaded the collection panels. The teleport system was bypassed to expel the additional energy flooding the system. James saw the needles on his board race across the
