Free The Fight for Creation: Book 01 - Life Warrior by Saxon Andrew

“You’re right. They’ll select themselves.”
    Tegen said, “All that time wasted changing the commands.”
    Jon smiled, “It wasn’t wasted. We just don’t know when we’ll have to do it manually.” Suddenly all three turned toward the far wall. The power packs for the armor were in containers next to the wall. They looked at each other and went to the packs, pulled out a new unit, and changed them into their armor. Their systems immediately had a higher illumination. “Tegen, what’s going on with the power?”
    “According to my analysis, these packs are different. The circuits operate at a much higher speed.” Tegen said, “Quiet my beauties. We’ll sing together soon.”
    Jon and Dern repeated what Tegen said and the music faded far into the background. Tegen looked at them and said, “Now the penetrators.”
    • • •
    Two weeks later Admiral Mandel received a call from the Central Armory, “Hi Steve, what’s going on?”
    “Admiral, I have an issue here that I’ve not been able to resolve and I was wondering if you might help me.”
    “What’s the issue?”
    “We are missing sixty thousand mini-penetrators. Have any of your fleets received any recently?”
    Mandel looked at his computer and said, “None of my fleets have come back in the last four weeks.”
    “I thought as much but according to my inventory, I’m short sixty thousand.”
    “Have you looked at who’s taken inventory out?”
    “We’ve been arming the new Life Warrior graduates for the last eight weeks. We don’t show any warships during that time.”
    Mandel slowly shook his head, “Then the mistake must have happened more than eight weeks ago.”
    “That’s just it; the count was accurate five weeks ago when we scanned inventory. I just don’t know if this is a computer error or something else.”
    “Steve, do you honestly think a Life Warrior could take one mini-penetrator, much less sixty thousand? It’s nine feet long.”
    “No, but I’m grasping at anything at this point. They were here and now they’re not. I can’t explain it.”
    Mandel had something playing in the back of his mind, but couldn’t get a grip on it. He looked at Steve and said, “Let me know what you find out.”
    “Yes Sir, I will.”
    Admiral Mandel knew there was something that he was missing but he just couldn’t see it. Four weeks later he remembered the three brothers had been in that armory. The next day is when the question about the missing penetrators was answered in a rather startling fashion.”

Chapter Six
    “J on, what do you think about the Cat saying we’re not part of Creation?”
    “I don’t know, Teg. I’ve tried to get my mind around it but can’t. There are too many questions that just confuse the issue.”
    Dern added, “Not the least of which is if we’re from another Creation; what about our parents?”
    Jon nodded, “I’ve also learned that Teg’s house was the only one on the planet with a hidden passageway under it. Why was it there? Did they know what was going to happen? If they did, why didn’t they just leave the planet with us?” Jon paused and said, “I could go on but I think you get the picture.”
    “I tried to give myself a shot.”
    Jon and Dern turned toward Teg instantly, “You did what?”
    “I wanted to see what would happen, so I tried to inject some water into my arm.”
    “What happened?”
    “The needle flattened and wouldn’t penetrate. Do either of you ever remember being cut?”
    The Three looked at each other and they shook their heads. Jon said, “What are you suggesting?”
    “I’m not sure. I know that if our bodies rejected everything in Creation we would have starved to death. We eat, drink, and nothing appears out of the ordinary. However, I’ve never been sick. I’ve never had a physical injury. I’ve never even had a headache.” Teg paused and said, “I remember the day Jon fell out of that tree and hit the ground without a scratch. Now I think