"So how long until we arrive?" Elizabeth asked a bit concerned for the plight of whoever it was that called for help.

Currently, the group was in the Quinjet, flying across the North Atlantic Ocean at speeds that the human technology of today could not manage.

Zeel had managed to create a faster quinjet, but even with his World-eclipsing intelligence, Zeel could only manage to make the bare minimum with all his creations.

The Forbidden Cube had sealed most of his knowledge, leaving him with the bare minimum to get by. That was still enough considering the primitive worlds he had visited so far, but Zeel was ever-cautious about being watched. Don't do anything to gain attention and nobody will give you attention.

"Feels pretty secure for mock 3," John said feeling no discomfort while traveling at such speeds.

"Isolation barrier courtesy Alice, I studied her and built it," Zeel replied.

"How long until we get there?" John asked feeling the need to express his frustrations physically.

"About ten minutes or something. I am trying to track the battle; they're running as we speak," Zeel replied as a couple of dots pop up onto the screen at the center table.

Elizabeth watched for a while before asking "Can't we get a better image?"

"Yeah, it's kind of hard when the technology isn't on par with what we can use. We can access almost anything but it's like using crystal clear lenses to see through blurry ones. Gets frustrating, that's why I don't use my nanites when it can be helped," Alice replied as she clarified the reason Zeel was more technologically inclined than herself, even though they have access to the same information at all times.

Truly, Alice had a slight aversion to the nanites in her system. There was nagging suspicion in her mind that the nanites were constantly trying to warn her of something. At first, Alice felt like a beta to Zeel's alpha when it came to the nanites, but the more time passed, the more control she had over the nanites.

Though, since then Zeel's intuition abilities that she had access to through the nanites had been faintly ringing. This meant that there was a constant danger to her life nearby, but she never strayed from Zeel's side for too long, hence the nanites were obviously as paranoid as Zeel.

"What's the plan after this?" John asked, hoping for a detailed plan of just how everyone was going to survive. At the very least, Zeel was someone who is always too prepared for anything.

"Gather the numbers, there should be eight of you left?" Zeel replied ending his statement with a question.

"Seven," John replied wondering how it was possible for someone like Zeel to make such a mistake.

"Eight," Alice said as she directed everyone's attention to their ankles, where they could see the scar representing number one fading.

"How?" John asked in disbelief.

Alice replied "A story for another day my friend,"

"Okay, we got satellite imagery. Seems the Mogadorians are chasing two numbers?" Zeel said in a questioning tone.

"Awesome hot stuff, you not only have a lucky dragon, everything else about you is lucky as well. Finding two numbers for the price of one," Elizabeth said patting Zeel's butt, a gesture which made Alice burst out laughing.

Zeel made a weird face, not knowing how to react as this was the first time this had happened to him. Ever since Elizabeth joined him and Alice, he had been feeling a new budding emotion. Something pleasant but not as intense as love, it felt like contentment? Happiness?

"That woman looks as if she is going to die," Alice noted as she saw the heat signature of Adeline began to fluctuate rapidly.

"Her biological processes can aid with Lexa and Henry since they got stabbed by a Mogadorian weapon, while she is just severely injured from fighting a couple of Mogadorians," Zeel said after careful examinations of Adeline's biological signatures.

"We should help her," Zeel commanded, to which John pressed a button off to the side, sending a stasis pod from the bottom of the quinjet to Adeline's location.

Zeel was never one to make the same mistake twice, so he added stasis pods components everywhere on the Quinjet.

"Now, prepare for battle," Zeel said as his attire shifted from casual to combat.

Zeel had created a way to combat the energy-draining property of their nanites changing into clothing. That was to create a separate ring of Zeelinium that acted as a separate charging pack specifically for the nanites covering their bodies.

Zeel had a hard time calibrating Zeelinium to this Universe, but his effort paid off in the end.

Noticing he was forgetting something, Zeel stopped and looked towards Elizabeth for a moment "Here drink this!"

He then passed her a vial of his blood, this was of course the process by which his nanites are passed from one host to another.

"What is it? A weird ritual of you making me bleed now I have to make you bleed?" Elizabeth said jokingly referring to the previous night as she was still a bit sore.

"Drink when everything is finished, it's my nanites integrated blood, helps Alice and I connect more, now you too if you want that is,"

"Nothing I'd want more in this life than to see into your mind and find out where you got those bed skills from, since I doubt Alice was enough to practice on," Elizabeth replied drinking the blood while also shooting Alice a challenging stare as if saying 'Prove me wrong'.

"Takes a couple of hours to become active," Alice said paying no mind to the earlier provocation.

"Oh! And a gift," Zeel said as he waved his hand.

Two pairs of boots were strung together from various components around the quinjet. The boots were similar to the ones Zeel used to glide on the ground. John quickly took a pair, he had been begging Zeel for his own pair since he first saw them in action.

"These are anti-gravity boots, and yeah it can make you fly but it runs by a series of complex differential equations that manipulate gravity. I can use it to fly through the sky, stick on a wall, glide on the ground, and anything else flight related, but it takes practice.

At most for you guys, it can allow you to glide on the ground like a skating ring and slow your descent from high places. The higher you go, the more difficult the equations are, but you'll get used to it after a while," Zeel explained patiently not wanting them to constantly ask him for help or advice on how to make progress faster. Sometimes the slow way was the sure way.

"What I don't get one?" Alice asked jokingly.

Zeel shrugged answering with certainty "For you these would only hinder not help. Your telekinetic powers can even bend gravity to your will if you focus hard enough,"

Zeel did not add that her nanites could easily replicate the Antigravity boots now that it had an external power source. For some reason, Zeel's intuition was warning him against allowing Alice to discover just how naïve she was about the capabilities of the nanites.

"I know, I know I was just kidding," Alice said as she kissed Zeel on the cheek, showing a cheeky smile to Elizabeth who gritted her teeth.

The two had become as close as sisters but they also had their womanly pride and Elizabeth knew she would always be second to Alice. Such a thing put a lot of pressure on her since she planned to be with Zeel and Alice permanently.

Zeel was strong, dependent, and decisive. Handsome and his other qualities were secondary objectives as far as Elizabeth was concerned. Loriens also had soulmates, and Elizabeth knew that Zeel was hers from the moment they met.

So the connection she shared with Zeel was beyond what he initially thought, for a moment Elizabeth could see what Zeel tried so desperately to hide.

Elizabeth was slightly scared when she perceived Zeel's beyond calculative nature, but she soon dismissed those thoughts after the nanites were introduced into her system.

"Let's go!" Zeel said as the bay door opened, allowing the ranging winds to enter.

Then a random thought entered Zeel's mind – Was man meant to fly in the first place? Of course, this was only a random thought that quickly disappeared as he sailed through the skies towards the next battle.

John and Elizabeth shot through the clouds using their telekinesis to aid in flight, alongside the anti-gravity boots gifted by Zeel.

"He wasn't playing when he said these things are hard to fly," John yelled at the nearby Elizabeth.

Elizabeth shrugged as the differential equations and theorems came surprisingly easy to her "Maybe you're just stupid,".

The pot calling the kettle black... in this case the pot had nanites.