Here We Go

chapter 5

When we got back to the Meta-transport ship Marcus tried to talk to me but I took off fast before he could catch up. I had avoided talking to him the entire way back and had kept busy by catching up with Enyo. After going to the room Iron Arm assigned me and changing clothes I met up with Mark, James, Alexandra, and Enyo in the meeting room and that's when we all sat at the table to watch on camera as Ames talks to Eris as she stood in a glass container.

"In case it's unclear. You try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass..." Ames started to say and pressed a button on the desk next to him opening up a trap door beneath Enyo’s glass cage that revealed nothing but sky beneath her feet, all that separated it was a sheet of glass she was standing on.

"Forty thousand feet, straight down. You get how that works?" Ames said and then pointed at Eris. "bug." He said and then pointed to the button. "Boot." He said. "It's an impressive cage. Not built, I think, for me." Eris said. "Built for something a lot more powerful than you." Ames said. "Oh, I've heard" Eris said and then looked into the camera.

I look over at Campbell to see he's uncomfortable at that. I think we all know the cage was built for him except for Enyo maybe. I give him a sympathetic look not sure if he notices or not before I turn back to the screen. "The mindless giant, makes play he's still a man and not a monster. I would say this cage was for the one who controls the elements too. Yes she is the best out of all of you really but this cage wouldn't hold her would it? She could probably destroy the planet if she wanted. How desperate are you, that you call upon such lost creatures to defend you?" Eris said smirking.

I tensed up at his words but didn't show any emotion since I felt the others watch my reaction. Everything Eris says just annoys me and when she says something about me, that just ticks me off even more. "How desperate am I? You threaten my world. You steal a powerful force you can't control. You’re a hypocrite that talked about peace and then killed cause you wanted to. You have made me very desperate. You might regret that." Ames said.

"Ooh. It kills you to come so close. To have the Messer Cube, to have power, unimaginable power. And for what? A warm glow for humanity to share, and then to be reminded what real control is." Eris said.

"Well, you let me know if Mrs. dramatic wants something." Ames said and walks off leaving Eris in her glass cell. Eris looks back at the camera, smirking, I feel like she's looking directly at me, and that's when the screen goes black.

I sat back in my chair beside Alexandra and sighed. James and Campbell were sitting across from us and Enyo was standing at the head of the table all of us in our own thoughts for a second. Luckily Marcus hasn't showed up yet. He was probably running late because he doesn't care about anyone but himself so this meeting or the world for that matter doesn't really matter to him, as usual.

"What a great guy, huh?"Campbell said sarcastically talking about Eris and filling the silence in the room. I smirked at him in agreement. "Eris’s gonna drag this out. So, Enyo, what's her plan?" James said. "She has an army called the Macania. They're not from my planet or any other known. She means to lead them against your people. They will win her this planet. In return, I suspect, for the Messer Cube." Enyo said.

"An army...from outer space?" James said wide eyed. "So she's building another portal for the army to come here. That's what she needs Erin Joseph for." I said putting things together. "Joseph?" Enyo said. "He's a scientist." Campbell said. "I know him, he’s my friend." Enyo said. I looked at her in sympathy knowing how she felt, Jake and Erin are both of my friends. Which makes me hate Eris even more for brainwashing them.

"Eris has him under some kind of mind control, along with one of our agents." Alexandra said explaining it to Enyo. "We'll get them back." I said determined and trying to assure them. "I wanna know why Eris let us capture her. She can’t take out her plan in here." James said.

"I don't think we should be focusing on Eris. That girl is a bucket of walnuts, you can tell she’s insane." Campbell said. "Watch how you speak. Eris isn’t reasonable, but she is of Olympus, and she's my family." Enyo said trying to defend her sister some. "She killed eighty seven people in three days." Alexandra said. "Yeah not to mention how many he brainwashed." I said. "She’s had a troubling childhood." Enyo said.

"Sapphire, what did they need the sapphire for?" Campbell said changing the subject. While we were capturing Eris the brainwashed Jake was in a museum in Germany stealing rare sapphire diamonds. I was about to answer Campbells question. "It's a stabilizing compound." Marcus said waking in with Carter beside him talking. He muttered something to him quickly writing him off before talking to us again. "Means the portal won't disappear like it did at the Iron Arm base." He said.

Of course he had to come in. There goes my day. I rolled my eyes looking at Lexi and she smiled at me. She just found it so hilarious how much I hated Marcus and he was here right now. He walked further in the room and grabbed everyone's attention. "No hard feelings, warrior princess" He said patting Enyo on the arm before passing her to head straight over to me.

"Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Eris wants." I said to everyone rolling my eyes again wishing Marcus would skip the dramatics. He then walked over to the other head of the table and looked around. "Uh, raise the anchor and change course. That man is playing Mario. Thought we wouldn't notice. But of course we did." Marcus said pointing to one guy who quickly turned it off the video game and back on the regular screen.

"No one cares." I said acting bored. "I care." Marcus said. Then he squinted o his eyes looking at the monitors. "How does Ames see this?" He asked looking at the controls. I saw Marcus move his hand under the desk and I squinted my eyes at him in suspicion but he moved too quickly for me to see anything.

"Well, the rest of the components, Agent Brant can get his hands on pretty easily. Only major component he still needs is a power source" Marcus said talking about Jake. "A high energy level, something to start the cubes power." I said looking to Campbell. "When did you two become experts in nuclear physics?" Agent Hall asked.

"A lot of the treatments and chemicals in my science division my company work on are based on it." I said. "Impressive." Campbell said. "Well I did yesterday. The files, Erin Joseph’s notes, the Nuclear-astro papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" Marcus asked. "I've read it before when I met Erin years ago since he asked me to." I said shrugging.

"Does Eris need anything particular besides the materials?" James asked. "He's got to heat the cube to a hundred million Kelvin just to break through the barrier." Campbell said. "Unless, Joseph has figured out how to stabilize the nuclear effect." Tony said. "Well, if he could do that he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet." Campbell said. "I'm pretty sure if he hasn't figured it out yet he will soon just by looking at the data and research he's already achieved." I said.

"Finally, people who speaks English." Marcus said. "Anyone else not understand any of that?" James asked toward Lexi and I confused as Marcus went to shake Campbells hand. "A form of it I guess you could say. I thought you would be used to this, didn't you hang around Edward Bolton?" I said. Edward Bolt was Marcus’s father and my grandfather. I never did get to meet him but everyone said he was a genius. I heard James knew him from the 1940’s. "Yeah but we talked...normal." James said.

"It's good to meet you, Dr. Campbell. You're work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I admire the way you lose control and turn into an uncontrollable angry giant ." Marcus said obviously not hearing James and I's conversation and being his normal annoying self. "Thanks." Campbell said a little uncomfortable with him bringing up his alter-ego but flattered at the other stuff.

"Dr. Campbell isn’t here to fight he is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you and Bailey might join him." Ames said walking in. Oh great I have to work with Marcus now. "Let's start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a weapon." James said. "I don't know about that but it is powered by the cube. And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal slaves." Ames said. “Like walking zombies.” I muttered.

"Zombies? I do not understand." Enyo said confused. "I do! I understood that." James said so proud and Marcus rolled his eyes at him. I smiled at James. "That's good James and Enyo I'll explain it to you later okay?" I asked. Enyo nodded her head and James smiled at me. "Shall we begin doctor? Bailey?" Marcus asked. "Sure, let’s start." Campbell said. Then Marcus turned to look at me questioningly I just rolled my eyes at him and walked in front of him and Campbell to the lab.