It has been one week and seven days since they breached out the Relish Atmosphere. It was as easy as their father told them, surprisingly even for Ana.

She felt discomfort but not too bad as the brothers didn't have to stop the time to ease her pain.

Their father said that their mother doesn't know exactly where the earth is. But they know the coordinate for the galaxy. Galaxy A1 509. According to the computer, they should arrive in another week.

Dom could have speed up the journey but it's the first time this ship flies, so he is taking it easy. The ship is made from a special mix of metal and stone, it's light and reflecting the surrounding, meaning with the naked eye, and heat or metal detector this ship is nonexistent. If radar catches some frequencies from Katherine it will read as some kind of stone or space debris.

Ana has been so excited and explored the whole ship every single day, she saw other galaxies, some planets big enough to her to see, some suns, even other ships zapping from and to a blank space not far from their ship.

What is your plan after we arrived? Lev asks Dom.

I'm planning to become Relish's ambassador for the earth. Dom says.

What if they won't let us in? Lev asks again.

I think they won't pass the chance of getting an ally as powerful as Tar-Zenirian. Dom replies confidently.

There is only a handful of us, Dom. We don't have an army. Lev reminds him.

We don't, but I'm confident we are more advanced in science, maybe the earth population has reached its peak and they need a suitable planet to relocate, I will gladly invite them to our planet.

There are only ten individual life pods, Dom, which I had designed should any human agrees to come back with us, so they won't feel pain from getting inside our atmosphere. That is the maximum number you can take.

I know, but I can take ten with me and send more later, and you can help me making more pods. Dom confidently smiles at his brother.

Lev sighs and only nods, he is always happy to help, but Dom thinks too highly of his brother that Dom believes Lev only needs a day to make one pod.

I'll try my best. Lev said.

In the following days, there isn't much for them to do. Dom checks all the engines, all the machines, the air ventilation, water filter, etc. Lev mostly at the makeshift lab trying to come up with a new invention, Ana wandering around and calls home every day, talking to her father and Nat.

We are here. Dom tells his siblings.

From the ship's hull, they can see the galaxy, Dom speeds up the engine and enters Galaxy AI 509.

Blue Planet, the third of the sun... Dom mumbles.

As they getting closer, three pairs of legs stand up while their eyes are wide. Not a single breath is taken and all of their chests are still. For a moment Dom stops the time and walks oh so very slowly closer to the big transparent wall.

Dom... Ana's voice softly brings her brothers to the present.

This... Lav says, gulping looking at the other side of the glass wall.

We're too late. Dom says in regret, clenching his fists as his eyes cannot move from the debris of what looked like what used to be a planet.

Earth is gone.

***

The siblings are floating for a day still in shock. Why none of them thought about this possibility?

They all are sitting down in the kitchen. Ana throwing worry look between her brothers, she reaches to Lev's hand on the table and squeezes it lightly.

We will split. Suddenly Dom says. Lev, you and Ana stay around here and check if there is any sign, any sign at all that the humans might have left the planet before it... exploded. I will go visit the neighboring planets and see if there is long any sign of them.

Lev nods and stands up, holding Ana's hand in his.

Keep your communication channel open so I can contact you easily.

Yeah, will do.

Dom moves to stand in front of Ana and holds her face in his hands. Stay with Lev. Don't leave his side. Ok? Don't do anything stupid, I mean it, Ana, I know Lev will be here to take care of you and protect you, but it won't stop me worrying you.

Ana feels a pang of anger that Dom spoke to her as if she is a child, never once in her life she had ever cause any trouble, and besides, she always with Lev. On the other hand, she understands her brother, it had been his dream and goal to find earth, and now he found that earth is... no more. His dream vanished as the planet is wiped from existence.

Soon they all are walking back to the ship's hull. The hull has two different areas, Lev and Ana stand on the far left and Dom stands on the right.

On three. Dom tells Lev. One, two, three!

Both of them pull a leaver in front of them and soon a metal wall appears between them. It takes exactly twenty minutes until the ship is fully separated.

I will see you in a few days. Lev and Ana can hear Dom's voice through the speaker attached on the screen on the massive 3D screen in front of them.

With that, they see Dom's ship moves at lightning speed away from where the earth was. And now, he starts to work. Lev steers the ship around the debris of what was earth, looking for any sign of survivors. But it's difficult in the border of impossible.

This has gone for full two days, Lev cannot lie, but he feels that the worst is what had happened here, it'd be a miracle to find any sign at all that some of the humans escaped. It's a miracle the galaxy hasn't crashed yet.

I'm not sure if—

Suddenly the speaker informs. Ana's heart drops to her stomach as she clenching her hands on Lev's arms.

Lev takes a 180 degrees sharp turn of the ship and bolts away in instant, only for the ship to hit another spaceship.

Shit. Lev curse. Activate weaponry.

Lev's element is air, and it's hard to defend himself in a space without any air around. Lev doesn't hesitate to choose the deadliest weapon; Zivi stone.

The ship quickly throws four of the stone in four different directions, and as soon as it hits a surface, it blows. The sound is deafening and the twins have to wince their eyes from the sudden brightness caused by the explosion, but that's not all, as soon as it blows, it retracts its released energy and more, sucking a few spaceships backward creating a mini black hole.

When Lev is optimistic they can get away without any further fight, he then realized, that behind them, there are hundreds of other spaceships.

They are being ambushed.

Fuck!

Lev drags Ana with him right to the pods. It doesn't matter how powerful their weaponry is, they are outnumbered by hundreds. He quickly put his sister inside one of the pods.

Come with me! Ana speaks in desperation.

I will be right behind you. He straps Ana inside the pod and quickly launches her.

Lev tries his best to keep calm but his heart is thumping loudly in his chest. He slipped inside the pod and secures himself.

Lev launches himself.

He takes a deep breath bracing himself for the impact of the explosion he knows about to come, and soon enough, he can see the ship explodes with hundreds of missiles shot at it then he felt his pod being thrown away from the impact of the explosion.

Lev doesn't fully aware of what is happening, but he feels as if he is being sucked into complete darkness.

Oh shit. Lev says to himself. This is a black hole. The last thing he thinks about before he lost his consciousness is his twin, Ana. He prays to all the energy in the universe that she is alive and safe.