Episode 2: Target Acquired

[Xavier Turano]

Xavier came back into the palace after going through the living nightmare that was Gamma City. He tried to hide his frustration about what happened down there, but, as usual, he wasn't doing a very good job. His first sight upon his arrival were the Spartans standing across from Dasia, which wasn't a very good sign at all since he was about to get exposed. He was spotted before he could come up with a good excuse as to why the Spartans didn't do him a favor of not letting Dasia seem them before he got there, which was something he probably should have specified before leaving in the first place.

"See...now they're about to get me in trouble...again..." he said to himself as he was walking towards Dasia by the look in her eyes that basically said, "Come here," without having to tell him anything. "They're doing this on purpose. No wonder why I despise all of them..."

"It's a good thing I hid the report about what happened in Gamma City. I may be able to use that to get her off of my back this time..." Xavier walks past the Spartans and confronted Dasia in arms reach of her. "Well. You look mad," he started off.

[Dasia Turano]

"I'm tired, actually," she corrected, "but I'll get to that level in a second if the Spartans didn't just come in here by themselves without anyone else telling them to."

Dasia's attention was swiftly interrupted by an unexpected yawn, further establishing the notion that she needed some sleep. "I'd like to believe it wasn't you this time, X. I'm always hoping that you take our talks about this issue seriously and actually stay within the boundaries of your own power instead of trying to do things you know you shouldn't be doing. It's getting really annoying to have to say the same things over and over again. I don't want to have to do this to you, but you'll eventually have to experience actions other than words to get the idea if this was your doing."

Knowing that she implied she was going to place negative sanctions on him - something she never wanted to do to her brother - in a way she probably shouldn't have again, she quickly retracted that statement by approaching it from a different angle, one that wasn't so bossy and more sister-like (at least from her perspective). "If it was you, you called them because something happened in Gamma City, right?"

[Xavier Turano]

"That law is dumber than fornication being illegal where most of the Resistors are living..."

Xavier wanted to roll his eyes so bad at the fact that him summoning the Spartans is illegal. The law only allows a king or a queen to call on forces such as them. There lies the problem with what Xavier did, but didn't want Dasia to know: he wasn't a king. He was a prince, so he didn't have that same luxury. He found it ridiculous that the second most important person on the planet could not have the planet's elite group of brawlers that are assigned to protect both him and the queen according to the orders King Richard gave them himself. Such was the flaws of policy that he couldn't do anything about, unless he wanted to become king through very evil or disgusting means.

"Yita was here before I left for Gamma City earlier. The rest of them apparently followed suit," he partially lied. "It's convenient that they're here though. I could use one or two of them whose names aren't Roxy because someone messed up while they were taking a closer look at Krakix and Siege."

As expected, Roxy wasn't all smiles about what Xavier said about her. Dasia agreed with Xavier about excluding her based on what he said about the situation, which meant that there was an underlying issue with her rather than her being targeted like Xavier may have expressed unintentionally. Still, thanks to Xavier knowing all about his sister's over-protectiveness of him, she gave him full control over the Spartans to resolve the issue. She went to her room to go to bed shortly afterwards.

Xavier pulled all of them into a meeting room. Damian sarcastically congratulated him on being such a good liar. Xavier noted that half of it was true since someone actually did something stupid with Krakix and Siege, but he didn't need their help with it since they already resolved the situation. He announced that they were going to Earth. He traded a few words with Damian over how sweet it was that they were going on an unauthorized mission. Deon complained about having to go back to that "hellhole" of a planet, but Yita told him that he didn't have to go since she'll happily take his place to see her "long lost Noland." The dumbstruck look on Xavier's face when he couldn't figure out how Yita could have possibly known who Noland was caused everyone else to have the same look. Niko casually remarked that she didn't think the people of Earth would like that behavior.

Xavier responded that they didn't like a lot of things. He placed his pad on the table to project holographic photos of every member of the Resistors. Once Jamal laid eyes on Alana, he was smitten by love and insisted that they have to go to Earth now. Roxy wondered what Xavier was trying to say by showing them their faces. Xavier wanted them to see what they look like and, after revealing some information about each of them, wanted this to be a scrimmage for them just to see how strong they are in comparison to a very similar group of individuals in terms of power. Roxy was a bit skeptical of this command as if that was the only thing Xavier wanted them to do, but she was game anyway. Xavier told them that was all he wanted them on Earth for, but told them not to do anything that could put them in legal trouble since he doesn't want to go through their justice system and Vestal's when Dasia finds out one of them got in trouble.

Xavier instructed them all to await his summoning once he gets to other side since his destination may be a bit hostile, especially from what happened when Farbros first showed up. Because he didn't want anyone in the palace knowing that he was about to make the jump to Earth, Xavier went all the way near the outskirts where no one was looking. He opened a dimensional tunnel in a dark alley using his pad and walked on through. He was unaware that a hooded individual that looked very similar to the one that confronted Dasia earlier followed closely behind him. He/she carried a capsule that had a steady electric current flowing on the inside. A closeup revealed that it was a plethora of Hurranians flowing through it. One of them paused to grind their front legs together in an evil manner.

[Noland Hardy]