Freedom Hunters

Chapter 3

Start had fallen asleep in his desk while doing the homework, but he woke up when suddenly a neon green explosion appeared in the sky, shattering windows with the sound, and blinding the people that looked for too long. Right as he looked out the window, the Earthquake alarm went off since there was no official alarm for an interplanetary attack. He quickly went to his parents room and shouted:

--- Wake up! Something happened to the military space station!

The mother and father instantly stood up and grabbed the sleepy Miram. The whole family ran outside and looked up as a piece of the space station crashed into the building next to their house. The big screens on the streets that pointed towards safe areas were all cracked, the TVs that had the news tuned in and reporting the attack were smashed by the sound and the debris, and the entire city was in chaos since they didn't know what to do in this situation. While the family was witnessing the destruction of their homes and the deaths of known friends, a random stranger appeared from around the corner of their street and shouted:

--- Gentho family! Follow me!

Start had never seen the man and he looked very creepy; he had a cybernetic leg and his hair was so long that it covered almost all of his face, but for some reason, he seemed familiar, like if he had met him before. Maybe it was his middle eastern accent, but Start wasn't sure. They followed the bearded man down the main avenue while everything around them exploded into pieces by the HellHound's cannons or got smashed by the falling fragments of the hallways of the space station that made it into Earth's atmosphere. They turned various corners until they reached a landing zone for the areal police station where instead of having a parked cop car, there was a spaceship that, by judging the size of it, Start guessed it was equipped for traveling around the planets in a solar system. Right as they were reaching the ship, the building next to them collapsed, separating the group into 2: The bearded man, Start, and Start's dad were on one side while Start's mom was holding the tiny Miram on the other side.

--- Kila! --- Shouted Clow

--- Clow! Take Miram! He can fit through this hole! --- Said Kila as she passed the little boy through a hole in the debris.

--- But what about you mom? --- Whimpered sadly the little Miram.

--- Don't worry sweetheart, I promise I will see you later. --- Said Kila with her sweet voice, but knowing that the words she said to her child might not become true.

Miram squished his way through the tiny hole until he found himself in the arms of his father, who quickly grabbed him and put him inside the spaceship. Once she saw that the little boy was safe, Kila shouted:

--- I am going to go to a safe zone. I heard they are picking up civilians and taking them to Saturn.

--- Ok. We will meet you there. --- Said Clow, and with tears in his eyes, he finished by saying --- Be careful. I love you.

--- I love you too. Take care, my little princes. Do what your father tells you to do. --- Replied Kila with a weak voice as she started running down the street to catch a spaceship that had just landed and was picking up people around it.

Once they were inside the spaceship, Start sat down next to Miram as he watched his dad and the robotic, bearded man started up the spaceship. What called his attention was that his dad looked like he knew what he was doing and knew where every button was, but he ignored this and went to see around the spaceship. It wasn't as big on the inside as it looked like on the outside. The spaceship was consisted of the main cockpit where there was 2 seats surrounded by lever and buttons, a sort of living room area behind the cockpit where 2 couches at a side of the room were facing each other with a table in the middle, 1 hallway that led to a bathroom, and another hallway on the back that went to the exit. After a couple of seconds looking around, all the lights turned into a bright shade of blue and turned on, and, as this happened, a very soft and kind robotic voice said: