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I also have a survey list that will help you find just the right locations.  The first place you must find is one that can support the natives of this world that will be prepared to be transplanted.  The other nine, you will find after you have brought back the location to the Archones team.”  He looked at Jax, Gren and the Archones.  “You may go and good luck.”
    Without a word, the four beings left the room and headed out to begin their missions.  Jarrod was alone in the room with the final two Worlders.   Bellator and Gladio remained silent and watched Jarrod as he pondered his next words carefully.
    “For you two, I have the most important job of all.  And the hardest decision you will ever have to make.  I need you two to set up a society within your own to prepare for the return of my people.  It will take tens of thousands of years for our return, but return we will.  I am making sure of that.  You must instill the importance of this job into each group you train.  You must make it the highest honor that any of your people could ever receive.  This war will not be won by us here and now.  But we will endeavor to set the Esii back so far as to render them impotent for hundreds maybe even thousands of years.  Can you do this?”  They both nodded yes.  “I need you to remain alive to ensure this happens.”
    The Worlders looked at each other in confusion.  Before they could voice the obvious question, Jarrod waved them to silence.  “It is possible but difficult.  My people can live up to two thousand years before our bodies can no longer be repaired, and we succumb to death.  Yours is about two hundred.  I have discovered a way around this.  Because of your unique bond and how you share so many particles that are bound through space and time, I can help you to live forever.  It requires one of you to sacrifice your mortal body and join physically and mentally with the other.”  It all hung now on the Worlders.  He had either just insulted them or offered them the perfect bond.  It was up to them to choose which.  They never even spoke out loud.
    “We will undergo this bonding and thank you for it.”  Bellator, the smaller Worlder, said.
    “I will sacrifice my body and join within Bellator.”  Gladio moved forward as he spoke.  “It will be an honor to forever be with my bondmate.”
    “Then let us not waste any more time.”  He stood and led the two Worlders from the room and to his laboratory.  All told, the procedure lasted only a day and the unified Worlders were up and about in two.
    “What shall I call you now?”  Asked Jarrod.  “Bellator or Gladio?”
    The body that once had solely belonged to Bellator looked up from the recovery bed and gave Jarrod a smile.  “Neither, we prefer to be called Split.”
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    Cole was mentally kicking himself.  All of this time in space and this was the first time he had gotten to experience zero gravity.  He should have done it much sooner, and with a better companion.  He used the small control jets on his Second Skin to rotate him, so he was facing back the way he had come.  God she was beautiful.  The Retribution was all sleek lines and deadly curves.  He was hurtling away from her at a high rate now.  He zoomed his optics in on the upper rear of the ship.  Where was she?  She had to have made it to the pod by now.  Ahh, there it was.  Cole smiled broadly as he watched the last escape pod shoot free of the doomed ship.  Sky was safe.  The Esii could do whatever they wanted to him now.  Sky was free of the ship and safely on her way back to her home.
    He refocused his attention onto the massive Esii super ship called the Sun Eater.  His heart ached as his ship smashed into the side of the behemoth.  She didn’t penetrate very far on the initial impact.  Cole counted down in his head.  Ten…five…two, one, bingo.  The retribution’s engines fire to life and thrust the small ship deep into the bowls