The Earth After Rebirth

He smiled and kissed her on the forehead, "She'll be alright for a few days. I'll be back before she notices and please, take care of yourselves." He emphasised looking at her belly.

Freya smiled brushing her stomach and gave him a 'are you serious right now' look. They both knew the first thing Alora would ask was 'where's daddy.' Sekani replied with more kisses then ran off to take care of business.

He felt good and grateful to his son for giving him the opportunity to realise his dream that he was sure had died. He gave himself a mental note to thank his son when he next sees him.

'Now that I have money and standing, I could potentially look for my father.' He thought to himself. 'Surely, they can't bury me before I even act, since my family lives up there now?' He wondered.

He had three kids coming, that would add up to a whole half a dozen. And only one from his six kids knows his father, it was sad. Sad that this world took something so precious from their family.

He never looked before fearing for his family, now that fear was slowly waning and he had a strong wish to look for his father, dead or alive he wanted to bring him home.

He rode the jet with these thoughts swirling through his mind. There was a lot on his mind, not just one thing. A truly troubled man.

When he got there, Wilfred told him to get some rest, he noticed he didn't look so good. But he wanted to get things done immediately. There was no time to rest now, get the job done and rest later.

So he was ushered to a hall thousands of his employees occupied. They had waited, that's how much they needed the jobs. Everyone obviously caught wind of the lawsuit, nobody knew how, so there were concerns amongst them.

Sekani suspected that the Blakesons had something to do with leaking the lawsuit to his people. He also knew that, the media outlets wouldn't be allowed to run it, so he was relaxed in that aspect.

He took to the stands and stood in front of them, he looked at how worried and dishevelled they all seemed. They clearly hadn't had a wink from the previous night.

"They look so dead." He whispered to Philip.

"You should've seen them yesterday, how are things at home?" He whispered back.

"They're good, doesn't seem like Blakeson's have the guts to attack head on but I'm grateful for their cowardice nonetheless."

Philip nodded, and pointed his eyes to the crowd. He turned to look at them once more, they looked like people who had lost their last hope to live. It wasn't pretty.

"I'll take questions if you have them, sorry for making you wait." He spoke in such a commanding tone, it grabbed their undivided attention.

Nobody wanted to ask. They were too used to rich people doing whatever they wanted, none of them wanted to offend him and risk getting fired before they even started. So they stared at him, their eyes and lips unmoving.

"No one will get in trouble for asking, rest assured." He was too used to them, he was once one of them after all. He learned to keep his mouth shut to keep his job.

That was the reality of their society. Even Philip lost his job for speaking up for himself, ended up on the streets for it too. The world lacked empathy. That was another thing Sekani wished to change.

Apathy was the worst thing a society could have in his eyes.

He looked around, they were all just looking at him not saying anything. He sighed. The mistrust ran deep after all, they wouldn't just take his word for it. But he decided not to force them, he had already decided to be a different kind of boss.

"I know you've heard about the lawsuit, I won't ask how. But I can assure you, we've done nothing wrong. We own the patent, they're likely trying to scare us.

"I want you guys to focus on nothing but your training. It's crucial. We have to be done with this mass production within months. I want your all, your mental to be in this 100%."

"Yes sir!" They all said at the same time.

"Now, I want you to rest a bit. You'll need to be focused for this next part." He told them as they nodded to him, "Come back next thing in the morning. You'll be coming in as if you've already started, of course you'll be paid."

They filed out of the hall one by one. Going home for a full days rest. Their heavy burdens felt lighter, the concerns they had a minute ago had gone from their shoulders.

They even had the energy to chat amongst themselves as they went.

"He doesn't seem like your typical rich guy." One commented.

"You're right, I was so scared to even utter a single word but he seems alright."

Over the next few days Sekani and Philip were in charge of training them in how to build the pods from scratch. It wasn't too hard, since most of them had experience building electronics.

Installing the software was a bit tricky, so they both decided they'd personally be doing that themselves. They couldn't afford having problems with the software while they were already in stores.

Wilfred was cleaners, cooks and security people. He was very strict, the people he taught often looked more tired than those who actually built the pods.

"What do you do to them?" Sekani asked.

"Light training." He smirked.

[Breaking news, a kid from area one has been kidnapped. It's said he was walking with his friend in the middle district when they were snatched off the road. Details are currently unknown... Wait, we're getting something... We have names, Kiro Waynworth and Felix—]