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“We’re not getting out of here, are we?”
“We will,” Kren said.
He placed his hands on the door and focused. I could see it now. The way he accessed that ability buried deep inside him. If anyone could get us out of here, it was him.
“Hold it right there!”
We spun around to find the Supervisor standing in his tripped-out armor. It was no longer cut up into pieces but welded together somehow.
“Why can’t you just let us go?” I said.
“Because you are carrying my property,” the Supervisor said, jabbing a finger at my stomach.
Kren stepped in front of me.
“If you want her, you’re going to have to go through me first.”
“Fair enough.”
The Supervisor swung out an arm. It struck Kren so hard, he flew across the room like there was no gravity. He collapsed to the floor in a mound of body parts.
“Kren!” I screamed.
I ran to him and fell to my knees.
“Are you okay? Kren?”
He muttered under his breath and struggled onto his feet.
“You were the missing piece in my Ability Armor,” the Supervisor said. “You were the link that tied everything together. Without your ability, I couldn’t fuse the pieces together. Have you ever tried to bring molten fire and shards of ice together? It’s not pretty. But you and your species have no special ability on your own. Only when you come in contact with others do you become dangerous. It’s the ultimate defense. You use your opponent’s strength against them. The more of you there were, the more powerful you became.”
Kren shook his head and struggled onto his feet.
“Kren, don’t,” I said.
But he ignored me and forced himself up.
“That’s why my species had to wipe out the neb,” the Supervisor said. “You were too powerful. Eventually, you would challenge us and declare war. It’s better your kind dies out now than billions of shrale lives. Your ability is the key against any hostile species we come against. We can drain them of their strength and turn it against them. Give me Ivy and no one else needs to be harmed.”
“He’s right,” Kren said, shaking his head. “We can’t beat him. None of us can.”
“What are you saying?” I said. “I can’t lose you. If I don’t have you, I don’t have anything.”
He pressed a hand to my belly.
“But you do. Take care of the baby. Bring it up to know love and warmth. Never let it have the life I had. I didn’t have a life until I met you.”
He wrapped his arms around me and held me close.
No, I thought. This can’t be right. This wasn’t how our story ended. Not after everything we’d been through.
Once again, I felt that soft thump in the pit of my belly.
I took Kren’s hand and placed it there so he could feel it.
“Can you feel it?” I said with tears in my eyes. “That throb?”
Kren’s smile broke, he was so happy.
