by Narrator » Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:58 pm
He shook his head. "No... was that the first time that someone had tried to abduct you? It was us... always us. At first, we simply tried to take you to have you brought up... Skrull families were screened, evaluated for it, to find families that would raise you well, not as a tool of the state... that was insisted by my people, when our word actually carried weight in the matter. But the Phoenix wouldn't allow you to be taken off the planet easily... it had defenses in place, foiling these efforts. Later we tried to take you, to show you our plight... against your will at first if necessary, because many... if not all were so desperate that the chance you would refuse before seeing our need could not be risked. But... yes, it was always us."
He shook his head. "It was... never supposed to go as far as it did recently. No one was supposed to be hurt... we never wanted the children of the Teacher to be hurt, but they... stopped listening to us."