“Yeah, I’m here,” Jay spoke aloud, as he connected his communication receiver to the mothership remotely.
“Oh, thank God,” Jack sighed relief of happiness that he was alive. “What the hell happened in the Obelisk I in there? Is Timemaster gone?”
“Yeah, everything is fine. I am on my way back to the Traveler. What happened in there is confusing story. Jack, we may have stumbled onto something big,” Jay continued.
“How big?” Jack spoke as Luis, Aiden and the others got very curious.
“Very big,” Jay spoke. “Silver Ny is not alone.”
“Not alone?” Jack spoke in confusion. “What do you mean?”
“He’s here in this timeline,” Jay spoke. “I read it in the database of the Obelisk I, he’s not the mastermind behind this entire invasion nor is Kimon. There’s a third person that we are not aware of that is orchestrating all of these invasion plans to the past, to be able to conqueror the universe in the far future.”
“That’s not good,” Jack spoke as he watched Jay’s escape pod coming closer to the Traveler. “Have any leads on who it is? Anything vaguely? What happened to Timemaster in there?”
“No leads unfortunately,” Jay answered through the comms. “The clock-head self-destructed and destroyed the Obelisk I, which destroyed the time machine within it. We just lost our ticket back home, Jack. We can’t get back to 2999 directly.”
“That’s a bummer,” Jack sighed in depressed tone and was saddened to hear that.
“But I may have something,” Jay spoke as the comms started to malfunction as he finished his sentence. “An overdrive I took from Timemaster, it might lead us somewhere.”
“Oh nice,” Jack said as the comms signal on the HUD interface began to malfunction back and forth unexpectedly. “What the heck is happening with the comms? You still there Jay?”
Inside Jay’s escape pod, a surge of electrical purple energy began to take over the pod, powering it up with neon dark purple glow to it. Jay was beginning to panic on what was going on in his escape pod, as he was losing control of it, trying to head back to the mothership. Jay spoke in the comms quickly.
“Something is taking over my ship!” Jay yelled through the comms for help, but his voice was barely caught.
“Sandra check out what is going on out there!” Jack spoke aloud through the comms.
“Alright will do!” she replied as she flew in space nearer to Jay’s escape pod, seeing an electrical surge of purple energy taking it over. “I see something odd about Jay’s vessel.”
“What do you see?” Jack attempted to see it himself but could not tell what it was, as he adjusted the interface of the HUD on the computer within the Traveler.
“Purple surge of energy,” Sandra spoke in concern. “I don’t think that’s Jay doing that. There’s someone controlling his ship, its drifting away from us!”
Inside the escape pod, Jay began to panic as his heart sank, seeing the purple electric energy redirecting his spaceship vessel away from the Traveler. He attempted to maneuver the steering, pedals, buttons of the spaceship but it was doing nothing. His heart began to pace faster and faster, that something was taking over his spaceship.
“What the hell is happening to my ship?” Jay shrieked.
“Calm down Jay,” Jack spoke. “Sandra will get you out of this. What is going on? Who’s taking over your ship?”
A sudden AI electric modulated voice spoke aloud in Jay’s ship as it went through all the comms including the Traveler’s and Sandra’s; “You will do as I say, stay in this vessel, you will live, leave it, you will die.”
“Who are you?” Jay demanded, as the rest of the League heard the conversation transmission through. “What do you want?”
“I am Nexus,” the modulated AI voice echoed in the Traveler, Jay’s ship, and Sandra’s earpiece as she was approaching Jay’s pod. “You will do as I say. I will take you where I have been waiting a very long time to get my true form back.”
As Sandra went near Jay’s ship, the electric purple energy shocked her, causing her to scream as she floated in space. The team got concerned as they were all worried on what was going on, as the AI continued speaking, “You will not intervene with me ever again! If you do not comply or leave me be, I will kill your precocious friend Lemer right now in his shipping vessel.”
“Alright,” Jay spoke. “What do you want?”
“I’m taking you where I belong,” Nexus said. “You will do as I say, help rebuild myself into my true form where I can harness the power of true Crystallite power.”
As Nexus finished that line, Jay’s escape pod began to accelerate to top speed going into space. After a couple of minutes of silence, Veronica called out loud through the comms, “Sandra you okay?”
“Jeez guys,” Sandra said as she walked behind them as she threw away the earpiece. “I’m right here.”
“You okay?” Tracy asked. “What the heck happened out there?”
“Yeah, I’m fine,” Sandra said. “That electric shock from that mysterious voice attacked me, it looks like he does not like company.”
“I could not make it out what he said to Jay,” Jack cried as he rushed through the controls on coordinating the escape pod. “Could you make it out what he said Sandra?”
“He said something like Crystal, Crystallighter, Crystal ite, Crystal-,” Sandra tried to remember what the AI said after being attacked by him.
“Crystallite,” Jack pulled up settings and interface menus on the HUD within the Traveler’s computer. “I know where he’s taking Jay.”
“Wait, what the hell is going on here?” Aiden spoke aloud. “What is Crystallite?”
“Its not a what.”
