Your Enjoyment Feeds Us.
A sword placed against Xavier's face, a painful wound crippling Xavier and a madman wanting to kill him is at his feet. Jell is watching in the her chair, lost in her mind, all say is Xavier's name. Her sanity was broken not too long ago, her being able to fight will be a miracle in Xavier's eyes.
"So? What are you going to say?" he said vigorously.
"I don't want it to end like this. Just... Please don't kill Jell or Shey. I don't want them to die."
"Oh! Good thing it's opposite day!" He screams in excitement. Two men enter the room. "You two! Grab the girl in the chair and bring her to me." The two men uncuff her from the chair and drag her by the hair to bring her to Nicholas. He grabs her by the arm and pull out her pistol and points it to her head. A blinding hate and fear began to rise in Xavier's soul and Jell's emotions began to show fear. He pulled the trigger and her blood hit Xavier's face. He screamed an everlasting no into the heavens. He body fell to the floor. In Xavier's eyes, it was a tragedy. To Nicholas, it was pleasure. The grin grin back on Nicholas's face.
Xavier tried to lunge an attack at Nicholas, but his blade punctured Xavier's right shoulder. It pushed through and exited out of his back, being pinned to the floor again. "Now, give me the other girl." Xavier was struggling to get out of the blade's embrace, but the pain prevented him from getting any closer to escape. "I want you to feel the same pain I felt before I kill you," he said in a sinister voice. "I want you to die along the memories of your friends' death." The men drag Shey's unconscious body across the room and place her at Nicholas's feet.
He grabs her by the hair and hold her by the neck. He places the pistol against her head and him a grew on his face. Time slowed for Xavier. Everything in his mind started to fade. The pain was gone in his shoulder. He managed to get out as quickly as he could the amount of time he had to save her was minimal.
A small quake hits the ship dramatically. It hits again, making Nicholas drop his pistol on the floor. It hits again leading to an explosion on the left wall. The explosion pushes Xavier and Nicholas holding Shey. A gaping hole is revealed on the side of the ship where Xavier and Nicholas are. A ship is hovering a little ways above the hole showing it clearly made it. The cockpit hanger door opens as a man jumps out of it and into the ship. Nicholas fires at him, but each bullet ricochets off him. Before Nicholas could react, a bullet pierced his chest and skull.
Xavier was frightened to see who this mysterious man was. His very presence haunts his soul as Tareen does. Once his appearance is shown, he is dressed in Federation armor and clothing. The code on his chest was stange. It was like as if it was a prison code, 314 it reads. He removes his helmet to reveal himself. "Ralph?" Xavier cried.
Xavier pulls out Nicholas's blade out of his shoulder and hugs him. He finally felt safe. He felt the embrace of home again. The warm and clean feeling he missed so much. "Yes, it's me. I'm going to take you somewhere nice, okay?" His deep voice soothed Xavier. His only friend back to save him.
A tear almost dropped from Xavier's face. He tried not to cry. He did make a bet with Ralph he would cry for months. "Is Shey okay, Xavier?"
"She is just unconscious," Silas limps toward them as Xavier still hug Ralph. "I checked her vitals just now."
"Then she's okay." He said softly.
"Yes, yes she is." A smile finally grew on Xavier's face. It has been almost 2 weeks and he hasn't smiled with the passion he had now. A warm feeling started to erupt in his stomach it was a soothing feeling. It grew to his chest and he felt his heart race. Then the pleasant feeling hit his head. It turned from warm to hot, making this pleasant feeling turn to pain. He looked down and finds blood is spilling out od his stomach. A compressed pistol was in Ralph's hands. Xavier took a look at Ralph's face and mouthed the words "Why you."
Xavier fell over on the floor, his head was filled with disbelief and sadness. A betrayal of his last friend. His blood was filling the floor once more, three tears fell from his eyes. His eyes began to see darkness as his soul began to fade. This was his end for him. He could not defy death once more.
Ralph put his helmet back on and shot Silas multiple times in the eye blinding him, he walked towards him and shut him down. He went back to the ship and left out of the planet's orbit. His comms start to ring. He answers with silence. "Pi, is the mission a success?" Ralph was in silence. His anger began to grow. "Pi, is the mission a success?"
"I command to be relieved from my duty."
"You don't deserve it yet." Ralph, in anger, closes the communication with the Admiral.
***
The room was white and a dark, grey-ish green. There was one window in the room revealing the beautiful spring day outside. A UV was standing next to a bed. Shey was laying in it. Her arm was in a purple cast and her eye was replaced with a robotic one. A few bruises on her face and leg, but she was still living. She gains consciousness and looks around the room. She doesn't realise she is in a hospital until she looked at what was attached to her arm.
A nurse walks in to bring her the medication to withstand the pain she took. "Where am I?" Shey says.
"You are in a Federation Medical Center, Shey. One of our agents brought you in."
"Do you know who it was?"
"Sorry, but that is classified to you." She begins to leave the room, but Shey grabs her arm before she could.
"What about The Invaders?"
"I am sorry to tell you this, but they passed away during a mission." Shey began to shed a tear. She didn't want to cry.
Just outside of the medical center, is The Invader Memorial statue. Xavier was mounted as the savior of the team, and Jell as her encouragement. Ralph stood in front of the statue with flowers in his hand.
"I'm sorry." He said softly. "I didn't want to do this to you Xavier." he placed the flowers with the rest of the others on the memorial. "Why You. I don't know. Why me is the question I ask myself everyday." He reaches in his vest and pulls out a 9mm Pistol. "No need to grieve. You don't need to feel angry for me anymore." He pulls his arm up and places it against the side of his head. "I won't be coming your way, but at least I will relieve myself of my pain." He pulls the trigger. The sound of the gun enters the medical center to reveal his death to them.
So ends the story of The Invaders, the infamous team of the Federation. Their lives will be remembered. The Arch crystal is obtained by the Federation, leaving it back in captivity for someone to recapture for their own desire.The Admiral retires and leaves his position to whoever recieves it. Night Crawler produces some minor depression and is left with just a picture of Jaelen to remember her by. A tragic end indeed, but we all have to find one, even a tragic hero like Xavier.