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a whole planet with gas when needed, usually to release a global antidote for airborne plagues. Now they are using it to spray some kind of evil gas on the humans.
    “What does the gas do?” I demand.
    “You will have to see for yourself.”
    I power down the gun. I raise my hand to strike him, but I pause. “One more thing. Why did The Governors wanted me dead?”
    “Because Cyders, you knew too much, and the redemption program had recorded three failures at that time, and they couldn’t risk it with you, especially when it is you Cyders.”
    I stare at him for a moment, then I hit him so hard he passes out. I throw him on my shoulder and walk out of the room. I carry him into the ship and lock him in a light-cell in a corner. I move to the ship’s main control and power up the engines. I fly the ship and this time it flies because Ra Argadus, the primary object of the active mission is onboard.
    The ship takes off and I fly into earth’s orbit. I search the system for information on the sprayer and the gas, I find nothing that could help counter the effect of the gas, but I find the sprayer-ship's programed path. I follow the path and find the ship. I fire everything I've got at it, but its shield remains active and strong.
    I clench my fist, angry. I open the light-cell, pull Argadus out of the cell and slam his back to the wall. I jam my fist to his face and he coughs out of his slumber with a bleeding nose.
    “I found the sprayer-ship. How do I stop it?”
    “What?”
    I slap him hard on the face. “How do I stop the sprayer-ship?”
    “You can’t. There is only one person with access to the sprayer-ship’s command system,”
    “Lemme guess,” I growl. “He’s not onboard.”
    “No he’s not,” he shakes his head.
    I toss him back into the cell and seal it. I fly the ship side-by-side with the sprayer-ship and maintain the same speed with it. I set my ship on auto-pilot. I open the weapon chamber and take two C-3 plasma grenades. The sprayer-ship’s shield defense should allow me through because I’m arbitron. But if anything has changed in the last three and half years, then I could be wrong, and my plan could fail utterly and lead to my death, but it's the only way I can think of, and I have to try.
    I open the hatch, take a deep breath, run and jump at the sprayer-ship. As I get closer to the shield, I see the nearly invisible grid, and my heart begins to pound so loud it fills my head. I reach the shield and fall through it. I bump into the ship and bounce off, falling toward the tail. My hand finds something and I hold on to it like my life depends on it. Actually, it does. I pull myself up and hold with my second hand to balance up, the whole of my chest pumping as the wind slaps me all around. I let out an insane growl and smile.
    I climb to the top of the ship and when my feet find the surface, I gravitize to the ship. I find a tight space toward the tail and stick a grenade between two flat metals, so it holds. I crawl to the other side, toward my ship, find a hole so deep I can’t see its bottom, I press the grenade trigger button and drop it into the hole. I release my hands from the body of the ship and move to a standing position. I run. Just as I reach the edge, the grenade goes off, setting off the other grenade. I jump and the shock wave from the explosion shoots me at my ship. I bump hard into the ship and quickly find something to hold on to. The sprayer's engine explodes and begins to go down. I find my way to the hatch and get back into the ship.
    I lie on the floor for a short moment, gasping for air. I get up and walk to the window and watch as the sprayer-ship goes down, exploding.
    I may have destroyed the sprayer-ship and prevented the gas from spreading all over the planet, but all I have really done is buy the humans some time to prepare and fight against the darkness that will come after.
    I fly on to Arbitrus at faster than light speed. I take Ra Argadus to The Elders