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  Alien Intervention

  The Adept: Book Three

  Author: D. R. Rosier

  Copyright 2022. This is a work of fiction. Names, Characters, Places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission.

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Afterword:

  About the Author

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  Book Description

  Prologue

  “Fire!”

  Two lances of energy cut across the cold vacuum of space, and the beams seemed to go right through the enemy ship without effect. As far as he was aware it was also the last of the enemy ships. They’d been at war for over two centuries now, it’d taken them too long to adapt to the enemy’s technology, which while inferior had been devastatingly effective against their people for too long.

  It was time to end it. The aggressive expansionist race had already been quarantined to their planets for fifty years, the last five decades they’d been hunting down the remainder of their fleets who continued to raid their systems and destroy their lesser ships.

  “Sir, the ship is phasing. They’re also returning fire, shields are holding.”

  Captain Blain of the Lovian starship Seeker, one of their few Universe Class ships looked to his tactical officer.

  “Synchronize the meta-energy as it fires, do not lose that ship!”

  The tactical officer replied, “Aye, sir. Initiating phase resonance field and firing.”

  Two more lances of energy left the ship. That time the enemy’s shields flashed for a moment, then the beam stabbed through and cut into the ship. The atmosphere near the breach plumed out in a large explosion.

  Then the enemy ship exploded violently. Likely from being unshielded in the phase they were in, rather than his ship’s fire.

  Blain leaned back in his chair with a sigh. The war was finally over, but the cleanup had only just begun. They’d lost three Universe Class ships during the war, most of them in the first few weeks until they were able to discern the phase of the enemy’s weapons and exactly what it’d been doing to their ships. Those ships would have to be tracked down, to discover what had happened to them. Or to be more specific, what had happened to the creation energy constructs and energy cores.

  He hoped the ships hadn’t been destroyed within a solar system, but there was no way to know. The ship had disappeared from its last known and reported location over the network during one of the first alien attacks. The attack itself had knocked out its communication system, so wherever it went it hadn’t been able to report its location or what happened to it.

  If it had been destroyed in a solar system, then they’d be responsible for cleaning up the mess. Assuming the energy wasn’t sucked into the star and hadn’t already caused a supernova. The gods forbid if it was in a solar system with intelligent life. Creation energy was used sparingly, since it was so very dangerous, and they still didn’t fully understand how the universe worked.

  There were only twelve Universe Class ships in the fleet, and they were the ultimate guardians of their star empire. The rest of their ships, both military and civilian, used other energy still a hundred times more powerful than anything found in the physical mass phase of the universe. But it was an energy that couldn’t be given purpose by thought and was far less dangerous. It would dissipate immediately upon the destruction of a ship, for instance, and not take billions of years to atrophy as Creation energy did.

  “Well done. Take us to the last known position of the Pioneer. We can track where they went and where they were destroyed by tracing their echo in the entropy phase. Set the search parameters to skip every five light years, eventually we’ll reach a point their entropy tracks aren’t doubled from being forced back along their past movements. At that point we can back trace our trail in smaller jumps until we find their final resting place.”

  It would still take a while, space was vast, but it was their responsibility. Even in the best-case scenario, if the ship was destroyed in the vast gulf between stars, they could clean up the area and reclaim the Creation energy for their own core.

  His navigator replied, “Aye, sir. Bringing up coordinates. Course set.”

  He nodded, “Phase cloak the ship, we have no idea what we’ll be running into. Engage course.”

  Chances were that they wouldn’t run into problems, but why take chances. The two-hundred-year war had perhaps made his people a little paranoid. The Lovians were more powerful than their neighbors by a long way, but they hadn’t been ready for the war. They’d learned that harsh lesson. Power wasn’t everything, and there were a lot of mysteries left to learn in vast complexities of their universe.

  The operations and Helmsperson both replied, “Aye, sir,” and the ship took off.

  Chapter One

  The red planet was no longer red, not with an oxygen rich atmosphere and a third of the planet covered in oceans, rivers, and tributaries. It was a bright sunny day without a cloud in the sky, and I suspected Alina may have had a hand in ensuring our first BBQ as hosts went off without a hitch. Mars was still plagued by random weather events, even if it had mostly equalized. At least there hadn’t been any more volcanic eruptions in the past few weeks.

  It’d only been three days since I’d saved Kelly Reston from herself and her quickening. At the moment I was flipping the burgers and turning the franks and BBQ chicken legs.

  Oracle said, “My new best friend, love the new digs,” as he held his hand out.

  I chuckled, and I shifted the spatula to my left hand as I took his in my right and shook. He did look rather relaxed, and I understood his comment. For two years he’d held the world’s precarious future in his hands, and he’d been struggling to make sure it all worked out right. Between Thea having his power, taking three quarters of the creation energy out of the core, and the titan rollout starting today, it all made his sense of responsibility sit back and take a breath.

  There would still be crises to deal with, each one with millions of lives on the line, but far less and with far more resources to tackle it. Not to mention backup, if he ever wanted a vacation. It also didn’t hurt that as a last resort, if he still couldn’t find another way to stop a city’s destruction, I was willing to put an entire endangered city into stasis for the duration of the fight. Hopefully, that would never be needed. The world was terrified of me enough as it was. The governments, anyway.

  “Thanks. I’d love to take the credit, but Thea is my builder and decorator.”

  Thea was a good fifty feet away chatting with our Alina and Faith, along with Oracle’s Serena, Sara, Kate, and Janice. Kaya was over there as well looking like a young goddess in a simple white sundress, but she didn’t belong to any of the groups, and she was our newest family friend. I hadn’t helped her out of selfishness, but I admit I felt a little pride at just how things had turned out. Through her efforts, but I’d been the one to heal her and show her that path.

  Th
ea must’ve heard my comment, because she sent me a saucy smile and wink.

  “Thanks for coming. Anything going on today?”

  Oracle shook his head, “Nothing on the world stage. Janice has to leave for about twenty minutes later, to take down a small threat, bank robbery.”

  I snorted, “You’d think they’d learn to avoid Lonestar like the plague.”

  In truth I was rather impressed by what that implied. I knew Janice as Shadow Weaver could move between Shadows, I just didn’t know she’d be strong enough to use that power to step across worlds. Even just ten light minutes, which was the space that separated Mars and Earth at the moment, give or take a few million miles.

  Oracle snickered, “Supervillains aren’t known for their intelligence, save the mad scientists, and we haven’t had one of them in years.”

  Daniel teleported in at that moment, with Rose, Mara, Alyssa, Tina, and Carol. The five ladies moved over to mine and Bill’s, while Daniel moved our way with an easy smile.

  Daniel shook his head as he shook our hands, “I can’t believe the governments are building ships, when they could come here the easy way for a much smaller expense.”

  It was true, I offered teleportation relocation as part of one of my Mars packages. Even if I was charging millions, which I wasn’t, it would be far cheaper than the billions they were spending on building ships designed by government employed mad scientists.

  I nodded, “They don’t want to deal with me anymore than they have to. The billionaires that bought parcels did ask for my help in getting here and establishing permanent power sources and teleportation hubs, but none of the governments have. I think they’re just sending the basics in the ship, along with mad scientists in their own employ. Once their teleporters are setup, they’ll start doing it the easy way to get the colony going.”

  Daniel nodded, “The U.S. tried to hire Mara, so be wary. Of course, she laughed at the idea of leaving our team.”

  Mara had worked as a teleport specialist, moving things and people around the United States in the blink of an eye, until she’d turned eighteen and joined the Silver Seraphs. She was telekinetic, empathic, teleporter, and had strong psychic and telekinetic shields.

  I sighed. My government as well as others still hadn’t bought any land on Mars, and instead had continued to demonize me in the press. It was what it was, and the warning was salient. If they wanted to get here, it wasn’t to shake my hand.

  Bob’s arrival a moment later paused the conversation, along with the rest of the Incandescent Guardians. Serina, Carolina, Amber, Angel, and Ashley. Bob headed his way, while the ladies headed over to the group that now numbered eighteen, and that was just the women in the circle. There were a handful of kids and babies about as well, playing in the yard or in their mother’s arms.

  Serena was the only one that really stood out, with her golden tinged skin, Angel’s android body and Rose’s conjured body looked and would feel completely human, and of course Thea’s body was human flesh and blood save her mind which was a meta-energy construct. Honestly, they looked like a model convention come to town, all attractive in their own ways.

  Bob paused and looked back, as we all heard Serina’s gasp, and she was suddenly surrounded by lightning coruscating around her black jeans and light blue sweater.

  Kaya blushed and waved, “Nice to see you again?”

  Bob looked back at me with an eyebrow raised, “Pain Blossom is here?” while Thea stepped between the two women. It hung there tensely for a second, then Serina let her power go.

  “So, I should’ve mentioned? She’s a family friend.”

  Bob frowned, “We fought her during a Supermax breakout. She disabled Lady Lightning, who almost died in another sadistic supervillain’s fire. Not a good memory.”

  I nodded, “She’s not that person anymore. The true Kaya Azami has more empathy than most. It was her quickening that twisted her mind, Pain Blossom doesn’t exist anymore.”

  To be fair, that wasn’t easy to see. Kaya was extremely empathetic, and cared about others, but she didn’t as a rule wear it on her sleeve. She was also a soft spoken and serious young woman, that was hard to read. A lady, in other words, who didn’t push her emotions on others and assiduously avoided drama. She was no longer that cold cruel emotionless woman, but her face was still reserved, and you’d have to look carefully to see the difference in her carriage. Her face was relaxed and neutral, not cold and dissociated.

  It was just… I’d seen her break down during our sessions, and she showed more of what she was feeling in small intimate groups of friends she was comfortable with. All the new people she was meeting today had her looking serenely distant, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. I could see how nervous she really was, as no doubt Elegant Prodigy could, but I didn’t think anyone else would.

  Serina sighed, “It’s fine. I was just startled to see her face. It wasn’t a good day, not only because I almost died, but it was also the one time Mythic ever took a life, even if by accident.”

  Bob waved that away, “I’m okay if you are,” then continued toward me, “I knew you had programs to repatriate supervillains back into society, but that was a surprise. She was one of the worst I’ve ever seen.”

  I answered his unasked question, “Only the ones that are mentally effected by their quickening. The ones that turned sadistic or supervillain out of simple rogue ambition and corruption can rot in there. Those that are weak of character, but with otherwise healthy minds, deserve to be in there.”

  He chuckled, “Understood, and I agree with you.”

  The tension in the ladies’ group seemed to have gone down as well, hopefully it would disappear entirely once they got to know her. It was something I hadn’t anticipated, but hopefully just a small snag. I had faith in my friends and allies, that they’d see the truth and they’d bother to try to.

  Serina must’ve been stubborn and kind, because she was already pulling Kaya to the side to chat with her. As if determined to get past it as quickly as possible.

  “Next time I’ll send you a guest list when I invite anyone outside the circles, but I doubt there’ll be any more surprises that way. Thea’s going to feed me the ones that can be saved before they kill anyone from now on. The unfortunate few left stuck in the system will have to stay there, since the government won’t let me near them anymore.”

  Bob nodded, “Regrettable, but we can’t save everyone.”

  Oracle nodded too, “The hardest lesson we have to learn to live with as superheroes.”

  Daniel nodded, “We’re not gods.”

  I snorted, “Speak for yourself,” and then chuckled to let them know I was joking.

  Daniel said, “Are you sure about today? I’ve thought about strengthening Tina, Carol, and Mara a bunch of times. It wouldn’t be any harder than strengthening my meta-energy storage enchantments, but I always thought it would cause more problems than it would solve. Even if it would make me feel better from a protective angle on the personal side.”

  I nodded, “I’m sure. We, my circle I mean, all live on Mars now so are out of their reach, and my entire territory is shielded from even titans if I wish. Just like the other things, I can act in the open when you have to hide that ability to keep peace with the government and keep your city safe. My focus is on the world and on the individual level as a superhero, just on the two extremes, so I don’t follow the mold of safeguarding cities. The idea of a titan mad scientist is already out there too, so it won’t do any further damage. While controlling meta-energy directly as a power is not known yet, so better left that way.

  “There’s also a much larger learning curve for someone like me. If another titan mad scientist shows up then I’ll be way ahead of them on knowledge and capability, and also be able to shut them down fast as a result, if they go bad. Someone with your power however would have a very small learning curve and it would come naturally, which is a larger threat.”

  Daniel nodded, “I can see it now
that you’ve spelled it out in that way, and the more superhero titans that we can depend on the better. I certainly trust all my ladies with it, and I know Alyssa is looking forward to having more titans around to share the load and especially the attention.”

  “Me too,” Bob and Bill said in stereo.

  Bill said quickly, “You owe me a beer.”

  Bob snorted, then nodded.

  “Ash is also curious if Kate will be able to fold space like she does, once Night Star’s control over gravity is titan level like hers. Since their powerset is identical save that one thing and strength.”

  Oracle shrugged, “I won’t know until she has the greater power, and I see her in a vision fighting a supervillain.”

  Daniel narrowed his eyes in that direction, then shook his head, “Their meta-energy constructs are extremely similar, so maybe? It’s possible that Kate will have the power to create a singularity, but her power might not have the ability to target a space fold. The power handles the space fold after all, to Ash’s wishes. I can’t say for sure, super energy constructs are far too complicated to read for me. My enchantments are simplistic by comparison.”

  Bill nodded, “We’re going to wait, it’s safer that way than experimenting. I can tell her if she has any new abilities, all of them, after I see them in a vision. Their power should prevent them from doing anything deadly to them, but it might not care about saving whatever is near them if they experiment.”

  Daniel tilted his head, “Would you mind?”

  Bob said, “Me too.”

  Bill laughed, “Yes, I’ll let you know through Serena what I see, as soon as I see one, for your new titans. Including you, Daniel. You might get more powers than simply being able to enchant an item in seconds instead of a quarter hour.”

  Daniel frowned, “I doubt it. My power is singular. You probably won’t get new powers either, but I’ll bet you can see farther out than a week, like Thea can.”

  Bill shrugged, “That’s rare, and only for major things, often I don’t see something until the future is more concrete, and my power wouldn’t feed me things that may not happen. The farther away an event the more choices and more people making those choices that could influence it one way or another. I think. Otherwise, I’d always see fights coming a week away, instead of a day, hours, or sometimes even minutes before the incident.”