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hoping you would not want to do this the
hard way.”   Turning her head she called
out. “Brennae, Marcael …run for the port
pad. It is active.”
    Kenzie swung her eyes to the couple who just stood there shocked. Brennae broke out of her stupor long enough to yell, “The port pad isn’t active for another
three months.”
    There had been multiple small forms landing all around them, their armor
shimmering in the light. There were now as many small figures as MAN units. The
small female who arrived first absorbed her helmet long enough for her face to
be seen. All Kenzie could make out was luxurious black hair, amber colored
eyes, full pouty red lips and the face you would see carved in marble. “I have
my ways. Trust me!” The small female yelled.
    “Star!?” Kenzie could see Knacayn’s sister take a small step forward.
    “We found others like us Brennae! The male I called Kynan is the MAN unit that was originally
programmed with your grandfather’s memories and likeness. These units call him One because he was the first to
achieve self-awareness . He was right
behind us in a ship he named The Hedal .”
The smaller female forms were somehow holding off the MAN units. Either the
women were better fighters or the MAN units weren’t authorized to hurt them. Kenzie watched as Star ran to Brennae and
hugged her. “I am not sure how Kynan will
take me stopping the MAN units from killing you. Take your people and get to
Terraneu! I will keep the MAN units from using the port pad to follow you. They
only want Earth, so it should not be hard to keep them here.”
    Brennae looked uncertainly around, then let her go. “Thank you, Star!”
    It was all the encouragement the crowd needed. Everyone made for the
portal dome. Kenzie was swept into the crowd as the males pushed all of the
females behind them and toward the dome first. Before she could protest, she
was in the porting dome, waiting in line
to go through the somehow working portal to Antilles .
    “I can help.” She yelled and struggled to get out of line so she could
run back outside .
    “Kenzie.” She heard Amber over the crowd. “Be reasonable. We are going to
need your help on Antilles keeping
everyone calm. A lot of these people are Rebel faction and are going to follow
your example.”
    Kenzie noted there was a lot of shoving and yelling going on. All of it
from the people she knew, Rebel and Government. Taking a deep breath, she demanded ,
“Everyone remain calm.” She had to do some pushing of her own to get the crowd
to listen. Soon enough she had a reasonable line of…well, refugees from Earth
heading through the portal to Antilles .
Keeping everyone moving fast was an imperative because you could hear the
fighting getting closer. Her friend Steph had just gone through with a group
when the building was rocked by some type of blast.
    “You have to go through!” Kenzie yelled at Amber, Gwen, Mairi and
Brennae. They were the only females left. The rest of the Earth refugees had
already gone ahead. “They won’t know what to do on Antilles . You four need to get them organized.”
    “I can’t go without Kniam.”
    “Knollig…”
    “Kneus…”
    “Marcael…”
    “You have to go!” Another blast shook the building. Kenzie hated to do it
but grabbed Amber and pushed her into the swirling portal. Before Mairi could
react she had dragged her over and into the portal as well. Turning to Gwen and Brennae, she raised her eyebrow, “Do I
have to drag you?”
    “What about you?” Gwen yelled over the sound of fighting.
    “You have to come with us.” Brennae insisted her eyes huge in her pale
face.
      “I am right behind you.” Kenzie
lied. The females believed her and ran
onto the port pad and were swept away in the portal.
    Turning and running toward the door, she ran into what felt like a brick
wall. Strong hands steadied her and she looked up. It was Knacayn with the
other males of Terraneu right behind him.
    “Kenzie.” His voice