Chapter 17
The Anubis slowly crawled across the New York skyline bombarding skyscrapers with its energy canons. It reminded Harry and Hermione of the Goa'uld ships from stargate. Dozens of skimmers had been released from the belly of the Anubis each with a team of a dozen Mog warriors patrolling on the ground. These ground teams began spreading out and clearing buildings. It took the Mogs a little while to realize that all of the locations they were bombing were empty of human life.
Harry's drones were continuing to tag humans with portkey buttons even as the Mog attack began.
"Fuckers have released Piken," Nine reported across the communicator.
Nine, Marina, Eight, and Luna were in the second Loric transport. Harry, Hermione, Six, Sarah, Sam, and Emily were in the first transport.
"Piken and any isolated skimmers are fair game. Stick close to me and give them hell. Just don't get spotted by the Anubis. The shields on these transports aren't the best," Harry said. "Eight, follow my lead after we hit a target."
Sarah seamlessly took over piloting the transport while Sam manned the controls for the weapons. Everyone had been trained in these tasks.
"Die fucker," Sam muttered under his breath as he fired the built-in PB (Plasma Beam).
Each transport was built with a primary PB and a backup. Most of the components including the power source were housed in a pocket dimension close to the exterior of the ship. The group watched in satisfaction as the PB tore a piken apart. A second piken died just as messily from the second transport.
A minute later they encountered an isolated skimmer. Both transports fired their PBs at the same time. The skimmers were not equipped with shielding. But they did have armor that was fairly
tough. The PBs on the transports were not quite as powerful as the version on the Loric starships Harry and Hermione had designed. But two of them together still did the job. The PBs cut into the skimmer and quickly sliced it in half. The pieces crashed down onto several of the horrified Mogs below. Harry with his arms wrapped around Six teleported down at the same time as Eight with his arm wrapped around Nine teleported in. The Garde made short work of the remaining Eight Mog warriors until none were left.
"I needed this stress relief," Nine declared before they teleported back to their respective transports.
"Stick to the outskirts of the city where the humans are still being tagged and portkeyed out," Harry said over the coms (communicators).
"Understood," Marina said from the controls of the second transport.
They rotated out who was assaulting the Mogs and skimmers. Hermione and Luna would even transport down the assault teams.
"Look," Sarah said in between assaults as she held out her right hand towards her rifle secured in a holder on the wall of the transport.
The others watched as Sarah's rifle floated out of the holder and over to her outstretched hand.
"Your legacies are starting to emerge," Harry said with a grin that Sarah's wide smile matched. "Congratulations!"
Sarah leaned over and kissed him enthusiastically.
"Mine too," Sam said a moment later as he retrieved his own rifle telekinetically. "That was hard to control."
"Fine control is always the hardest at first," Six said even as Emily demonstrated her telekinesis as well.
"You will probably get your enhanced strength and speed soon," Hermione suggested.
From that point on when the ground teams teleported down a few Mogs died from shrapnel impaling them in critical areas thanks to the telekinesis from Sam, Emily, and Sarah. They never left the transports. Yet they didn't need to.
"I think they are getting wise to the fact that they are losing skimmers," Marina said over the coms.
"Agreed," Sarah said as they saw their second patrol with three skimmers.
"I think according to the intel we got from Five that the Anubis has run out of skimmers. We destroyed at least as many as they were carrying by now. My guess is Setrakus ordered in more from orbit. He's got thousands of medium class troop carriers and skimmers up there. Five said he has been ramping up vat born production as he got closer to Earth to be able to fill those transports and skimmers," Harry reported.
"If every human in this city alone had a gun and was able to take out a Mog this fight would be over pretty quickly," Emily suggested. "If they could get past the Mog technology."
"You'd be right," Sam said. "But this is New York. From what I know these people are rather anti-gun in general."
"Maybe this whole thing will change their mind," Emily suggested. "Do we still attack patrols of three?" Sarah asked.
"Yes. Let me handle the third skimmer. Each of our transports should be able to take a skimmer apiece," Harry said.
Harry started teleporting directly into the third skimmer and attacking from within. After he killed the pilot he would seal the cockpit door with his powers, set the skimmer to crash, and teleport out. The Loric transports would take out the third skimmer once the other two were dealt with.
"Something interesting happening in the other world?" Hermione asked. "You seem very thoughtful."
There was a break in the fighting. The Loric transports were holding station near the evacuees fleeing the city.
"Humans with legacies are emerging," Harry said. "Here is it is better just to show you."
Harry projected an illusion up which showed what he had seen. They watched John Smith in that world looking utterly exhausted along with Sam take out a group of Mogs outside a bank. They had thought maybe it was Five or Nine in the bank only to have a girl about their age come out and identify herself as Daniela. What followed was Daniela engaging John in a Q&A session right outside the bank. John and Sam had known reinforcements were coming because one of the Mog pilots had gotten off a distress call. They had not expected the distress call to bring down the Anubis on them. One of the Mogs had managed to say Garde.
What followed as Daniela, Sam, and John fleeing for their lives into a subway tunnel. The Anubis fired on the tunnel. John with the help of Daniela and Sam managed to telekinetically hold up the collapsing ceiling of the tunnel long enough for the group to get to safety. That was where Harry let the illusion collapse.
"Let me get this straight," Sam said. "One of the first things Daniela does after getting her powers is to rob a bank?!"
No one had missed the bags Daniela carried out of the bank or the hundred dollar bill that floated out when they were running.
"Looks like it," Sarah confirmed. "On behalf of humanity I'm embarrassed."
"Same here," Emily agreed.
"Well we Loric aren't exactly doing much better," Six said. "My counterpart along with Marina and Adam are stuck at the sanctuary unable to even get a skimmer started thanks to the Mog they are chasing. And," She glanced at Harry.
"My counterpart is running around New York exhausting himself when he should be fighting smarter like we are," Harry finished for her realizing Six didn't want to badmouth his counterpart. "Seriously, he just had that skimmer cockpit open. Instead of burning those Mogs to ash he should have jumped in and killed them with his pistol before taking control of the skimmer. That would have gotten them around a hell of a lot faster if they were smart about it."
"Yeah. He didn't exactly project confidence to Daniela. I don't exactly blame her for not jumping to go with him," Emily pointed out. "Not like our Harry at least."
Harry nodded and pointed out, "And then there's Nine and Five. The Mogs are literally invading the planet and those two are fighting to the death."
"I'm so glad we aren't living in that universe," Six said.
"It does make you wish we could help them a little bit," Hermione mused as she shared a glance with Harry.
She and Harry had already discussed that on several occasions. Doing so would disrupt their understanding of what the future could possibly hold. He had already pushed it by helping Six a little in the desert. They had learned a lot from his visions of that universe.
"What was the deal with Ella?" Six asked.
"Her telepathy is growing in strength because Setrakus Ra is pumping her full of his experimental black sludge to augment her," Harry said. "She has been retreating into her telepathy to hide from the pain."
"Is that happening with our Ella?" Sarah asked with alarm.
"He's been trying. But he has only been doing it to her golem. We deadened Ella's perception of pain in the golem," Harry answered.
"I know he has done a lot. But it is still hard to believe he is doing that to his own flesh and blood," Sam said.
"I think he probably doesn't see it as something bad considering he has done similar augmentations to himself," Hermione said. She glanced to Harry after getting a message from his subconscious mind. "I think we could all use some downtime. If we teleported back to LuLoric and use our personal rooms we can get hours or even days to recover our strength while only minutes pass here."
"That sounds wonderful," Emily said.
The others agreed. They used the Loralite stone in the back of the transport to teleport back to LuLoric. Eight did the same for those in the other transport.
"Come see me in a minute," Hermione sent to Harry telepathically before vanishing into her personal room while activating the time dilation feature.
What was a minute for Harry was much longer for Hermione. When Harry entered the room, he found the human girl Daniella. In another universe Daniella had received Loric powers. In that universe when she had met John Smith for the first time she had asked him a very leading question. That question spawned a fantasy for Subconscious-Harry that even then Hermione was endeavoring to play out as she wore Daniella's form, Subconscious-Harry having given her everything she needed to play it out to the fullest. Subconscious-Harry had taken an imprint of Daniella's mind/personality and had fed it telepathically to Hermione.
"Why John Smith? Why did you choose me to have these powers?" Daniella-Hermione asked.
"My abilities reached out across the planet," Harry said. "They looked for human women roughly my own age who can help me continue the Loric race."
"Continue how?" Daniella-Hermione asked with a knit brow, intentionally playing dumb.
"By having my children," Harry answered as he took a step closer. "My powers found women who were receptive to giving me many children. There simply aren't enough Loric women left to give my race the best chance of survival. I'll breed them all to be sure. But I need more children, many more. My powers made all of you women genetically able to carry a fully Loric child and protect it. It chose other males to help raise those children in my place. But it is up to me to breed those children with willing females. So are you a willing female Daniella or did my power choose unwisely in giving you powers?"
Daniella-Hermione swallowed nervously as Harry stepped into her personal space. "What...what do I have to do?" Daniella-Hermione asked.
"You only have to get fucked but in a good way," Harry said before leaning down and kissing her.
Daniella-Hermione submitted to the kiss. She went along with it as he bent her over the couch, lifted the skirt she was wearing, and drove into her until they both climaxed. They repeated it.
A Few Minutes Later
Daniella-Hermione stood in the exact same position as about a half hour before. She asked the same question again.
"What do I have to do?" Daniella-Hermione asked. This time she got a different answer.
"You have to bend over and let me bugger your butt," Harry said. "My kind breed through anal sex."
"I've never done that before," Daniella-Hermione said. "I've heard it hurts?" "Not with my kind," Harry assured. "You're going to love it." Daniella-Hermione submitted and let him have his way with her.
Back in the Loric Transport a Few Minutes Later Real Time
"Damn girls. All three of you are positively glowing," Emily said to Sarah, Hermione, and Six.
The three ladies exchanged glances and it was Six who said, "Harry had some pent up energy he needed to burn off. We were only too happy to help."
"Very happy to help," Sarah agreed.
"I think Sam has started to get the strength and stamina of a Garde. He certainly just showed some of it," Emily said as she glanced back to where Sam and Harry were spending a few minutes just chatting like she and the girls were while waiting for the next engagement.
"Lorien thinks you will be about half as strong and have about half the endurance of a Garde," Six cautioned. "Which is still a lot more than a human."
"Definitely," Emily agreed. "I can already feel some increased strength myself. If this is what it feels like to be with a Garde, then I can see why you ladies are always smiling."
"And thus Emily has discovered the real reason the Cepan had cause to be jealous of the Garde. It wasn't their prowess in battle but their prowess in bed," Sarah teased her friend.
"I'll agree to that," Six mused. She looked amused for a moment. Then she said, "Lorien says that a lot of sex went on between Cepan and Garde, a lot."
"It's a bit strange you having an ancient entity in your head," Hermione mused. "But I have to admit I'm a little jealous how much you must be able to see of its experiences."
"It does take some getting used to," Six said.
"So does this mean every time you and Harry have children now that an entity like Gaea will be born?" Emily asked.
"No. They have to be consciously trying to do that. And Lorien has to be in full control of my body. I don't think they are going to do that too often if ever again. The dimension that Lorien and Gaea draw their power from is vast and has more than just Lorien can draw from. But eventually if they made too many like Gaea then there wouldn't be enough power to go around," Six answered.
"What is Ella showing you now?" Hermione asked as she noticed Harry's distracted look.
Hermione, Sarah, and Six exchanged a look. They could all three read Harry very well now and knew when something interesting was going on elsewhere from his expression.
"She's giving a tour of the Anubis," Harry said as he projected what he was seeing for the benefit of the others. "Ella just revealed that the warships have skeleton crews right now because the Mogs are down in the cities invading."
"How many Mogs came with Setrakus Ra?" Six asked.
"Less than 20,000 trueborn," Hermione replied. "His ability to grow disposable vatborn is impressive. Those are his throwaway soldiers. Meanwhile Mogadore is teaming with many billions. The question is how many mogs Setrakus Ra will allow on Earth if he gets his way."
"Does he have a choice?" Emily asked. "I mean I know he is powerful. But he can't stand up to all those Mogs."
Harry and Hermione exchanged a look and said, "We think he has some kind of plan to significantly power himself up. We aren't sure yet what it is. But his actions all point towards that. It has something to do with all of his experiments."
It was then that the illusion showed Ella and John pausing in front of a glass window that separated them from a laboratory in the bowels of the Anubis. Within the laboratory the floorspace is consumed by a vat of the same black liquid that was common in Setrakus Ra's experiments.
"That what he uses to grow the vatborn?" Sam asked.
"That's it," Hermione confirmed.
"Something feels familiar," Six said before trailing off. She looked far away for a moment. "Lorien says that black sludge is what Setrakus Ra was exiled from Lorien for making. It's made from Loric energy. Somehow he is imbuing the liquid with Loric energy. The other Elders were horrified when they found him doing it."
"Where is he getting the Loric energy?" Sarah asked.
"My guess is that he is using himself. His energy will recharge from the higher dimension. So he is probably slowly charging up the liquid before he sleeps every night. This sludge is probably weaker than what he hopes to make if he gains access to a greater source of Loric energy," Harry speculated.
"Look," Hermione said while pointing to the illusion.
Over top of the vat were several catwalks set up with controls, monitoring equipment, and blasters.
"It looks like some of his experiments have been dangerous," Six said.
"What the fuck is that thing," Sam said as they all eyed what looked to be an enormous egg- shaped object of some sort covered in dark purple mold and throbbing black veins.
"For now I'm calling that thing WTF for What the Fuck," Harry declared.
"As good a name as any," Hermione agreed.
Setrakus Ra held the stolen Loric pendants over the WTF. He then dropped them. When the pendants land in the vat four tiny mouths opened up in the side of WTF and ate the pendants.
"Well that is about the creepiest damn thing I've ever seen," Emily said. The illusion faded.
"It was at that point that Setrakus caught Ella observing and made her leave. He's keeping WTF very close to his chest," Harry said.
"Is our Setrakus Ra making the same thing?" Sarah asked.
"As far as I can tell he is," Harry answered. "I didn't feel it worth the risk to Ella's cover by sending her down there to verify. Let's just assume he is."
"Ella's telepathy is growing pretty powerful in this universe. Is our Ella's growing this strong?" Six asked.
"She is training to grow stronger with Henri's help," Harry said. "Ella has also been developing another legacy. Henri said it is called Foresight. Eight and I both have a form of it as well."
"In one form Foresight manifests as extra sensory perception. We can simply perceive things without a good explanation of how we can perceive it. In the most advanced levels Foresight can be used to see probable futures. Ella can perceive millions of possible realities our decisions and the decisions of our enemies could take us to. It's a very difficult legacy to master," Harry explained.
"And your extra sensory perception is really your subconscious mind perceiving the realities and filtering it to your conscious mind through instincts," Hermione said.
"Exactly," Harry answered.
"So does Ella have a clue what Setrakus Ra's next move is?" Sam asked.
"She said that he will most likely take the Anubis to the sanctuary," Harry answered. "He wants to get a richer source of Loric energy. I think we should let him."
"Why would we do that?" Emily asked.
"For all of his faults Setrakus Ra is a brilliant innovator. I want to see what he actually comes up with," Harry said.
"What if what he comes up with turns out to be something really bad that we can't handle," Sam pointed out.
"I get the feeling that it shouldn't be an issue," Harry said. "We can handle a lot." "How do we know that that isn't just getting a little overconfident?" Sam pressed.
"The one who facilitated me coming here from my universe says he doesn't think it would be an issue. He's able to perceive a lot more about the universe than most beings," Hermione said.
"You know I'd feel more confident if we knew who this being was," Sarah said. "I know, I know. We can't press it."
"Lorien vouches for the being in question. That's good enough for me," Six said. "I'll have faith," Sarah said.
"So we let Setrakus Ra 'steal' a bit of Lorien's energy which Lorien will recover," Sam said. "Then what?"
"Then we kick Setrakus Ra's ass to drive him away," Six answered.
"That part I can definitely get behind," Sam said.
"I agree with Sam," Nine said.
The coms were used to relay holographic images between the two transports. "When we do head down to the sanctuary?" Eight asked.
"We will wait until the Anubis itself leaves New York. In fact I think from my tracking they are getting ready to leave soon," Harry said.
"Are we leaving the transports here or taking them down with us?" Marina asked.
"We're leaving them here and teleporting down. I've already got another set remotely piloted down there waiting for us with a Loralite stone in the back," Harry answered.
"That will make bouncing back and forth easier," Nine agreed.
"It sounds like we have a good plan," Hermione mused.
"Should we be trying to help in the other cities under attack?" Eight asked. "Most of the other cities except Beijing have given in," Hermione answered. "We can't be everywhere at once unfortunately," Six pointed out.
"What's happening in Beijing?" Marina asked.
Harry mentally ordered a hologram of the events in Beijing to be shown.
"I've had drones tagging the residents of all of the major cities under attack and transporting them out. The loss of life has been greatly diminished because of that. But the city of Beijing is being raised to the ground to make an example," Harry explained.
A Mogadorian warship identical to the Anubis was destroying buildings in Beijing on the hologram.
"You portkeyed most of them out?" Luna asked while looking directly at Harry.
"As many as we could get. The most at-risk people are still being portkeyed out. In a city that was severely overpopulated it is hard," Harry answered.
"The best thing we can all do is rest and recover to check Setrakus Ra himself," Hermione said.
In truth they all felt like they could be doing more. But doing more would mean that Earth wouldn't learn as much. It was a hard lesson for Earth and for the Loric to allow to happen.
"I'll alert everyone when the Anubis reaches the sanctuary. It shouldn't be until this evening since he is stopping over to West Virginia. Adam has been keeping tabs on his movement with the help of Matt and Ella," Harry said. "Take this time until then to rest and recover. Do whatever makes you happy. We have some hard battles ahead."
The groups broke up. The two Loric transport would remain camouflaged in New York as their operating base there. Eight facilitated transport back to LuLoric. With Loralite stones in both the transports and on LuLoric any Loric with a teleportation Legacy could cover the distance between the two. Henri was able to help Eight learn how to sense and target which destination stone he wanted to travel to without resorting to randomly jumping from stone to stone. Having Henri around to help train everyone had paid major dividends. It was one of the reasons why Henri, Adelina, and Crayton were rarely ever out of LuLoric. Harry had also taken the precaution to make sure that Henri, Adelina, and Crayton had clones with copies of their memories sitting in reserve in case they were killed. The precaution was definitely necessary with how thorough the Mogs had been in wiping out Cepan.
When it was just Harry, Hermione, Six, and Sarah in the transport it was Sarah who broke the silence, asking, "So what are we going to do until then?"
"I think we should just take a week in our private suite to get away from it all," Hermione suggested.
Hermione and Harry had recently set it up so their shared suite could go under time dilation. They could take their week off and have minutes pass for the rest of the universe.
"That sounds like a very good idea," Six agreed. "The little bit of time we just had wasn't nearly enough."
Sarah could see what the other two ladies had seen. The destruction in Beijing had been hard on Harry.
"We'll only slightly alter the flow of time. We'll let a couple of hours pass on the outside world while a week passes inside the field," Hermione decided.
Hermione didn't want them to have to kill a bunch of time while waiting for the Anubis to make it to the sanctuary. She took Harry's right hand. Sarah took his left hand. And Six wrapped her arms around him from behind. He teleported them back to LuLoric.
Harry stepped into the refugee camp and forward operating base for the military to see what was essentially organized chaos. The week of relaxation with his ladies had helped calm him
considerably. Hermione followed invisibly beside him. They headed straight for the tent where Karen Walker was housed and operating out of.
"Harry," Karen said with surprise when she spotted him.
By now many of the refugees and soldiers had realized who was walking in their midst. There was some pointing and conversations. Many of the looks were of awe. It was like a celebrity was walking in their midst.
"Hello Karen," Harry replied. "May I come in?"
"Of course," Karen said as she went into her tent.
The inside of the tent was a single cot, a card table, and a laptop computer.
"I'd offer you a chair. But I don't have one," Karen said.
"I am fine standing," Harry assured.
"I take it you know about the ultimatum video Setrakus Ra sent," Karen said. Before she even allowed him to answer she continued, "Of course you do since you responded."
Setrakus Ra had sent a video through supposedly secure communications channels to the leaders of every major country demanding their surrender within 48 hours including the turning over of any Garde they were harboring or he would take over by force.
Harry's video had been memorable. The video had opened to footage of the attack on Lorien. The scenes had been horrific to say the least. Then it had cut to footage of Harry speaking as he walked about apparently on Mogadore. Harry had used an AI to manipulate footage in the Loric archives of the Mogadorian planet.
"Hello world leaders. My name is Harry Smith on Earth. I was born on the planet Lorien. The Mogadorians were our closest advanced neighbor. My people believed in living within their means. Our population was kept low in numbers to accomplish that. Loric made the choice aided by our technology to limit how many children we had. The Mogadorians did not make the same choice. They overpopulated their planet and burned through its resources. In order to survive they decided to take our resources. The video you just saw was the result. They wiped out my people. Few of us have survived. Now they are at Earth. What do you think their plans are? I don't know about you. But I'd rather die fighting than be enslaved by beings that would do that," Harry said. "That's just my personal beliefs. I believe we will find a way to push the Mogadorians back. You have vastly superior numbers to them. They cannot win a ground campaign. They have air superiority for the moment. But I plan to continue taking their skimmers out of the equation. That only leaves their warships. They only have a small number of those. Think about it for a bit," Harry said.
That was all the video had said.
"Have you gotten a sense of the reaction your leaders have had to everything?" Harry asked.
"Your actions in teleporting people away from he hottest fighting along with taking out the skimmers in New York has earned you a lot of good will. Your trick with the cell phones was much appreciated too. It gave a lot of people hope," Karen said.
Harry of course had tapped into many world governments and was monitoring the situation himself using an AI dedicated to the task. But it was nice to get a sense from one of the citizens.
"That is all good to hear. But they are still considering all options of how they would turn my kind over if they decide to capitulate," Harry mused. "Not that I particularly blame them."
Karen appeared surprised for a moment before saying, "I shouldn't be surprised that you know. They haven't officially told me yet. I heard it from friends. I don't honestly think they have a good idea of how to take you and your kind."
"They really haven't got a clue," Harry confirmed.
Harry's AI was analyzing all the plans to take him and the other Garde. The AI had already summarized it all for the Garde and countermeasures were in place.
Harry was happier than ever that Lorien in this universe hadn't immediately gone out and started granting legacies to humans at random like in the other universe. In the other universe, John Smith was uncertain on how much to reveal to his Agent Walker. He had held back about the humans having legacies. But Setrakus Ra already knew. The issue was if the human government knew there were humans with legacies they might very well decide to not deal with the Loric. They would much rather deal with members of their own species.
Harry was waiting to reveal the electromagnetic field generator technology which allowed Mogadorian skimmers to pass through the shields of the warships. He and Hermione were already thoroughly analyzing the technology. It would be inconvenient and dangerous to drop a warship's shields anytime a skimmer had to leave or enter a warship. So the EMF generator allowed a skimmer to pass through the barrier unharmed. The specific waveform the EMF generated was a closely kept secret you couldn't just pick up with a scanner, even a Loric scanner, for the brief duration it was generated as the skimmer produced it in flight. You needed an actual EMF generator.
It also required a certain level of technical know-how in order to figure it out. Harry doubted any of the humans had the experience. It was actually kind of sad. It was the same weakness exploited against the aliens in the movie Independence Day. Setrakus Ra had gotten overconfident. The humans may not have the science to understand the EMF generator. But Harry did.
Meanwhile, Onboard the Anubis
"You will be the one who will leave the solar system," Setrakus Ra said as he pointed at one of the much younger clones standing before him.
The clone, named Clone Ra One, merely nodded and then left the room. The clones had all of Setrakus' memories including his plans when he had them made.
"Have your plans for us changed?" Clone Ra Two asked.
"They have not," Setrakus replied. "From now on it will be you three who engage the Garde. Until they actually become a threat enough to prove lethal only one of you will face the Garde."
"Which of us?" Clone Ra Three asked. "You," Setrakus replied.
Setrakus Ra had made three clones of himself. One was being sent in a ship with a copy of Setrakus' research database back to Mogadore. He wouldn't risk all being lost. He would stay himself and fight as a last resort. But first the Garde would have to kill Clone Ra Three if they proved capable of it. Then Clone Ra Two and Setrakus himself would kill whatever Garde became that much of a threat. Together two Setrakus Ras should be enough to end a threat in addition to the Mogadorian forces. The reason he had implemented this plan was the loss at Dulce base and the general feeling of unease he had experienced since those fateful dreams about the purple being. Setrakus still shuddered at the memories that made him sleep uneasily.
Hermione "woke up" to find herself in Harry's mindscape. He sat in a throne in his mind looking even more powerful than the last time she saw him.
"Hello my dear," Harry said. "Come sit in my lap so I can tell you why I brought you here." "Of course," Hermione replied immediately.
Hermione was wearing a skirt in the dreamscape with no panties. The moment she sat in his lap she felt his hardness pressing against her bare bum. She knew she wasn't going to leave the dream without being screwed. She was fine with that.
"The Setrakus Ra of this universe has shown some cunning. He has created three clones of himself. All have his full memories and abilities. One clone is being sent back to Mogadore with his research database. Setrakus plans to send one of his other clones at the Garde for all future conflicts. If the Garde manage to kill the clone then Setrakus the original plans to attack that Garde or members of the Garde along with his second clone," Subconscious-Harry explained.
Hermione was alarmed and said, "Oh shit. How does this change plans?"
"I've been thinking a lot about that. For now I don't want you to say anything to the others. I just want you to be aware of what is going on. We'll play it by ear on what we tell them. Obviously I'm not going to allow the Garde to die after they kill the clone. It certainly makes things more interesting. Setrakus is upping his game. The version in the other universe never felt threatened enough to do this even though he is capable of it," Harry mused.
"Thank you for making me aware of it," Hermione said.
"Of course my love," Harry said. Hermione felt herself get instantly wet as his power washed over her. Before she knew it he was inside of her. "Enough talking. It's time for you to do your duty."
"Yes Master," Hermione whispered while biting her lip, instinctually knowing what he wanted. Hermione enjoyed her visit with Harry's subconscious.
Harry and Hermione's Lab
"Commencing trial run twenty-eight," Hermione stated.
As Harry and Hermione watched their model Loric starship flew through the shield generated by a model Mogadorian warship floating in their lab or tried to. The moment the Loric shield met the Mogadorian shield there was an explosion contained by the larger shield surrounding the experiment.
"That confirms it then," Harry said. "Our starships employing our new EMF generator can go through the Mog shields with shields down. But not with our shields up."
"Pretty damn risky," Hermione said.
"Yeah...too risky to have our shields down," Harry said.
When Loric shields wanted to allow something to pass through they opened up a small window the size of the object to pass through. It took more advanced shielding to do as much. But anything that could pass through normal space could pass through the opening and the whole shield didn't have to be dropped. It also didn't leave a way through the shields lying around. The ship with the shield around it had to allow something through. The Loric and Mogadorian shields did not act well together.
"What we need is a small breach craft or a missile," Hermione said. "A missile could be shot down by the canons. But if it were quick enough or we fired enough of them that wouldn't be an issue."
"We would only need the breach craft if we were intent on capturing the ship or an asset within the ship," Harry mused.
"True enough. Let's see what we can do about the missile," Hermione said. The pair continued to work under time dilation.
Lorien
Harry was the first to step off of their starship which they had named the Marauder. Six was right behind him. The rest of the Garde, Crayton, Adelina, and Henri were right behind them. Adelina wasn't the only one that had tears in their eyes as they saw what the capitol of Lorien had become. The ruins of the capitol Aloria were heartbreaking.
The body armor each person wore contained a field which would provide oxygen in the currently thin oxygen of Lorien. One of the last things the Mogadorians had taken after raiding Lorien was the atmosphere. They had collected as much of the breathable atmosphere as they could and taken it back to Mogadore. Harry had been aware of this. From the moment he and Hermione had sent the portal platform heading towards Lorien they had been preparing for this day.
Harry and Hermione had come up with a runic cluster which permanently conjured breathable atmosphere. It had taken Harry powering it and going all out with his power to conjure enough stored atmosphere to get Lorien at least habitable again. The probe containing that stored atmosphere had been the first thing they sent through the portal to Lorien. Right after that had been probes ready to reseed the planet with life including what was needed to revive the soil and plants. The plants were actually clones of plants native to Lorien engineered from the files in the Loric archives.
"The bodies still look so fresh," Adelina said as they approached the ruins and saw many bodies of fallen Garde and Cepan alike.
"Without the atmosphere decomposition wouldn't have happened," Henri said.
"Why is there still so much technology around?" Eight asked as he looked around at the flying cars and other examples of Loric technology.
"All Loric technology had a DNA lock. It would only work for Loric. The Mogs probably would have taken it for material as well. But from what Adam has said they needed to keep the fleet moving. They sent some things back to Mogadore for study. But the fleet moved on to Earth as soon as possible," Henri explained.
Hermione closed her eyes and initiated mental contact with Subconscious-Harry.
"Their bodies are still so fresh. Do you think we can do a resurrection combined with a healing ritual and bring them back?" Hermione sent. "I have the Deathly Hallows."
"Not even that would be needed. I have the power to pull their souls out of the afterlife and send them back to their bodies while healing their bodies. That is if I wanted to pull them from there. I could also reach back in time and collect their souls from just after their bodies expired bringing them back to the future. Being able to traverse time is rather new to me. It is within my capabilities. I would need to fake the meetings between the souls and the living Garde using the resurrection stone techniques. That wouldn't be exceptionally hard to do. It's not a matter of if they can be brought back. It's a matter of should they be brought back. Frankly I don't want all of these Loric meddling in the rebuilding. This is a matter I will think on. I think we are doing a great job on our own," Subconscious-Harry sent. "I have a better idea."
"We have a lot of Loric to lay to rest," Crayton said.
"My patron who sent me here wants to help with that," Hermione said. "Help how?" Six asked.
"Like this," Hermione said as she began to glow while raising her hands.
Hermione's skin began to glow brighter and brighter with power until she was almost painful to look upon. As everyone watched over one hundred thousand corpses floated into the air above the city. Even as they floated up the damage to their bodies was repaired. Semi-transparent crystal coffins grew around them. It was Loralite. Each coffin was marked with the name of the deceased, their birth date, and their death date. The coffins were floated to a mass graveyard several miles from the city. In cities and villages all over the planet similar scenes were taking place. A few minutes after it had started the glow faded from Hermione's skin.
"I think I need a nap," Hermione said before she passed out.
Harry caught her and picked her up.
"How the hell did she do that and who the hell is her patron?" Nine asked.
Harry carried Hermione back into the ship and laid her in one of the beds available.
"Given what we just saw I wouldn't be surprised if it was some god or goddess from our home universe," Luna said.
"Whoever it was they have my thanks," Henri said with tears in his eyes.
Unknown to everyone but Hermione the crystal that had been conjured around the corpses contained a stasis spell. Their bodies would be preserved indefinitely. The option to revive them still existed.
"Let's look around," Six suggested, much happier at not having to walk through mounds of what looked to be fresh corpses.
Harry had launched a time dilation satellite around Lorien. It projected a time dilation field over the whole planet to speed up time so that they could spend some more time here exploring without losing ground on the war back on Earth. The plan was to leave the satellite running while they returned to Earth. The planet could experience years of recovery under the tender care of the probes that were even now still coming in through the portal.
Sarah and Hermione stayed nearby. But they gave Harry and Six their space since Lorien had been their home. For Harry it was strange. He had Four's memories of Lorien brought into crystal clarity thanks to some occlumency. He also had his memories of growing up on Earth in his universe.
"I remember everything about this place," Six said as she looked around the home where Four had grown up. Harry had telepathically helped Six to remember in vivid detail her childhood memories. They were memories she treasured growing up loved on Lorien. "This place looks mostly untouched. The Mogs probably went through. They must not have found anything they much liked."
"The fighting mostly took place near the big cities," Harry said.
Aloria was a twenty minute flight by one of the Loric flying cars. Harry followed Six up the stairs to the second story. He couldn't help but admire her rear as they went. Even after all this time he still thought his girlfriend was gorgeous. She took his hand and led him into his childhood bedroom. It was similar to how it would have been set up on Earth. Except the materials were all advanced compared to Earth. And there were technologies that Earth hadn't even yet dreamed of. Six pushed him back onto the bed and then dropped to her knees.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked as she worked at his pants with practiced hands. "I want to feel something other than the loss," Six said.
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Harry could only groan approvingly as she fished out his hardening prick and fell upon it. Her lips slid down his length along with her tongue massaging the underside. Her eyes were filled with hunger and lust as she bobbed her head up and down several times on his length. Meanwhile he telekinetically undid her own pants and slid them down over her butt followed by her panties. With her kneeling on the floor he only took them to just above her knees. He let her suck upon his shaft for a few minutes getting his prick nice and wet. He could tell she was getting wetter as well.
"Lean against the wall," Harry ordered.
Six stood in a fluid motion and braced her hands against the nearest wall. Harry came behind her as she looked over her shoulder. He brought the tip of his prick to her tight gash and slowly pushed into her.
"Fuck," Six groaned. "That hits the spot."
Harry held her hips as he slowly drug his shaft from her quim before reversing direction and plunging his length back into her depths. Her insides gripped him tightly as he pushed through her resistance.
Six braced herself against the wall and settled in for a nice long dicking, just how she liked it. She knew how much her man enjoyed taking his time. He wanted maximum enjoyment from her body. As she felt his hardness filling her, stretching her in all the right ways, she thought she wouldn't have it any other way. She felt his power inside of her, stoking her desire and pleasure. It felt like a buzzer made of Loric energy was vibrating right inside her clit. The levels of intensity varied. Meanwhile he continued to pump her pussy over and over. Occasionally she felt his hands shift up under her shirt and play with her breasts. Six once again marveled at the support charms Hermione had cast on their shirts so that Six didn't need to wear a bra. She and Sarah swore by this charm. Best of all it gave Harry free access to their breasts whenever he wanted.
Six's breasts felt so soft and good in Harry's hands. But he found he enjoyed more leaning back and watching her butt bounce off of his groin every time he drove inside of her. Her inner muscles were slick with her juices as they squeezed and massaged his manhood. Her wrinkled star looked inviting to him. He knew she would happily let him bugger her. He might just do that later. For now he was perfectly happy being buried in Six's womanly core, the heart of her femininity. Nothing made him feel more masculine than driving himself into Six's softness. She was incredibly beautiful. He felt a surge of affection for her. As if sensing it Six turned her head over her shoulder and looked back at him.
"Enjoying the view?" Six asked, knowing how much he enjoyed watching her take his dick. "More than words can express," Harry said.
"Oh I think I can tell just how...much...you...like...it," Six said as she punctuated her last several words by clenching down her kegel muscles.
Harry pressed himself against her and captured her mouth in a hungry kiss. His tongue delved into her mouth sliding against hers. She sucked on his tongue just like she had his dick a short while before. When they broke the kiss he brought his mouth to her ear.
"You were simply made to take my dick beautiful," Harry said.
"I was," Six agreed. "Any time and any place," Six said as she pushed her hips back driving her passage onto his length.
The two lovers were silent for a while then, focusing on their mutual enjoyment. All there was in the world was his cock pounding into her receptive pussy. Her pliable flesh molded around his length, giving away for his every deep thrust inside of her body. Six took him deep inside her body feeling him touch her most intimate depths. The tip of his prick was hitting her g-spot every several thrusts. Sweat began to bead on her brow not from the physical exertion. The sweat was from the intensity of sensation she was experience. She felt herself brought to the edge of beginning to orgasm and held there by his power. It felt oh so incredibly good. She felt his dick swell several times within her, also at the edge of climax. But his orgasm didn't quite come out. She was ok with that. Something deep inside of her yearned to be filled with his seed, to possibly grow pregnant and have more of his babies. But she would also be fine if another pregnancy didn't happen. She just knew the moment he came should would lose her mind for a time, coming undone around his deliciously thrusting cock.
"Fuck, so close," Six said with a groan.
"You are," Harry agreed. "So am I. Are you ready to take my hot load?"
"Yes. Yes I am," Six said. "Pump your creamy load deep into my belly. I can't wait to feel it spurting inside of me. I was made to take your loads. Please Harry. Please cum inside of me. My pussy needs it. My pussy needs to be injected by your fat prick until it's overflowing out of me."
Harry groaned one final time and then thrust his shaft as deep as it would go within Six. She felt his seed pumping through his prick and surging within her. He groaned as he pinned her to the wall. The surge of power in her pussy sent her over the edge. She screamed and thrashed against the wall as her ecstasy surged again and again from her cunt. Her inner muscles milked his creamy load into her gash. It was only his cock within her that was holding her up as Six went weak with the intensity of her orgasm. He held her as he continued to cum within her. True to form she felt his hot liquid over flowing their connection.
Harry felt Six pass out from the intensity of her release. He let the last of his seed drain into her and used his newer flight legacy to float them both over to the bed. A quick transfiguration made the bed big enough. He conjured a fresh sheet over them and pulled her tightly against him.
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