Chapter 52: Racing Time to Save Dora

"Are you satisfied now?" the Immortal asked while gesturing towards the scepter.

"I will be when I get the two of them filled with those light seekers' souls," the traitor replied as she was observing the scepter closely before adding:

"Let's return to our little play, and tell your men out there not to obstruct her. If anyone killed her, then everything here will be meaningless."

"Sigh, I will stress over this for the one hundredth time. You shouldn't be this stressed," the Immortal said.

"Don't act like you have nothing to do with it. If you don't screw up in the first place, that phoenix guardian blood would have been inside the final scepter by now," the traitor said with a complaining tone.

"Fine, it was just a single miscalculation, who would have thought that guardian to have another ally? Even you, his wife, didn't know back then," the Immortal said defending himself.

"Hmmm, never mind then, let's focus on this mission and try not to screw things up again. Make sure your men stay out of the way, or else I would love to be repaid by one of yours," the traitor said.

The Immortal snorted before heading outside for a moment. James was still watching all of this as his mind was processing all the info he heard.

"Rigo, have you heard that?" he asked.

"Yes, supreme leader," Rigo answered with a second delay.

"Where is the scepter?" James asked.

"It's still in the commanding deck," Rigo said before adding, "Don't worry leader, I'm the only one who can see and hear you."

James was satisfied by Rigo's response, as his humanoid was really smart to glue some clues together.

"Good, I want you to keep a close eye on the scepter. There is a mole there at your place, and her job is to secure the scepter and bring it to here."

James noticed from before that the traitor mother was concerned about the scepter in this cruiser, but she wasn't worried at all regarding scepter at Dora's little cruiser.

That meant only one thing, she trusted that scepter to one of her trusted; which made James suspect the presence of a spy inside Dora's small team. Regarding the current position of the scepter, either that traitor was one of the two main aides of Dora, or she would try to move the scepter out of the deck by any means.

James also knew as long as the scepter was in that small ship, nothing would happen to it, but the moment they lost the scepter, all of them would die.

"If you can't protect the scepter, then take it and move outside of there at once. You can survive the space, right?" James said after giving more thoughts about the possibilities of such a complicated situation. The main target for him was to prevent the fall of the scepter into the hands of those two.

"Affirmative, however even if I could survive in space, being alone there won't make a difference," Rigo said as he paused.

"Do you want to bring the boys in this mess?" James knew what his humanoid was referring to.

"They have to do something, or else why did we bring them with us, right?" Rigo said jokingly. James knew he was telling the truth, as he also needed someone to pick him and Dora up. He will rescue her, and in doing that both needed an effective escape route.

"I need them anyway to secure our escape route. Arrange things with them, and synchronize with me here. Once I managed to snatch that scepter and retreated with Dora, you should be ready to move as well, so we both would be picked up by our fleet in preparation to escape," James ordered.

"What about our small cruisers inside that world?" Rigo suddenly asked what James almost forgot; he even slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand. He totally forgot he left Eli and the other sleepy youngsters at his cruiser inside that world.

"Issue an order for retreat, they must catch up with the rest of the fleet before we wrap things here," James said with a hurry.

"And the rescue mission?" Rigo asked.

"Abort that mission, we will rescue them by taking the two scepters from those two, by this we should be able to save everyone."

"Good point supreme leader, I will relay the plan to them now," Rigo said.

James then started to move as fast as possible towards the commanding deck. Although the map showed there was a small distance between his place and the deck, his flashing point didn't nearly move a lot from its original place after all that running.

He was frustrated by this; however he knew that was so logical. This cruiser was like a huge city, he couldn't pass from east to west this rapid.

"Where is Dora? What is she doing now?" he suddenly asked.

"She had found an armory a few minutes ago, but she had some trouble opening the lock. Do you want me to help her?" Rigo asked.

"No, try to delay her further and make her unable to open the armory," James hurried to say, "Keep also an eye over the places around her, if there is danger then unlock the armory at once and let her gain some fire power."

"Affirmative."

"How about our boys, have they regrouped yet?" James asked.

"The small cruisers are on their return journey now, in less than two hours they will meet the fleet," Rigo replied instantly. James was really content with his efficiency, and he wondered what he would do if he didn't gain this help from droids.

That made him rethink again about the old prophecy and all that arrangements of the last supreme leader of this empire. things didn't seem that simple as he thought, perhaps he was meant for something bigger.

James had no mind to work his mind on this right now, so he postponed this for the future, then he began to focus more on his surroundings. He knew from the words of the Immortal and the traitor that their men here wouldn't interfere with Dora.

That traitor mother didn't trust the words of the Immortal, and so did James. He wasn't worried about Dora, as he knew she could handle herself better than him. He was worried from the confrontation she was about to have with her mother.

Something like this was enough to break anyone, parents shouldn't behave in such a way, however he wasn't in a position to judge, he wanted only to save Dora from such a cruel fate.

He sat his eyes on that scepter and began to wonder, why there were two of them instead of one? And why did that mother talk about having Dora's blood? What did she intend to do with it?

There were many questions lurking inside James' head, but he had zero answer to any of them. He also doubted he would know enough answers to settle all this dilemma in his mind.

Amidst all this, and as just he passed another long passage and turned to enter another, Rigo's voice came abruptly cutting his line of thoughts:

"There are some of those Immortal men approaching Dora, and from their pattern of movement I assume they are purposefully surrounding her."

"That's what I was worried about, how long do I need to reach her?"

"At least half an hour,�� Rigo replied, "I could manipulate the separation doors to delay them and guide Dora away, but this won't buy you a lot of time."

"But it will help, just do it, and unlock the armory for her now," James nearly yelled anxiously as he tried to run faster.