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Tex Kogane ain't Dead Au 1/?

Texas Kogane was not a man to live in the past; he found little use if it. But when your wife and unborn child leave you behind to fight a space war and leave you in charge of a lion machine thing? You have your regrets.

But still, Tex found himself living day by day. Hunting small lizards, making conspiracy boards, and being the center of several urban legends.

"Lord all mighty, it's hot as balls today," he griped as he put on a worn pair of leather boots. He cracked his back as he stood from his old couch, "Christ! I'm gettin' too old for this."

He rushed through his normal morning routine, nicking himself on at razor and putting his shirt on wrong twice in his hurry. As he dressed he wondered to himself what exactly was going to happen today.

The cave that Krolia had shown to him before leaving and taking his heart with her had a date inscribed countless times on its walls. For the first few years, Tex had held onto the hope that be wasn't going to have to wait sixteen years to see hide or hair of his family. He had been counting on the fact that some other schmuck would have to deal with...whatever would crash on earth.

Now, nearly seventeen years since he had last seen his family, this was feeling like his last hope. He had been preparing for this day ever since it became clear that Krolia wasn't just taking a short joyride. He had thought of every possible scenario, from joyful reunion to terrifying conquest and had prepared for each possibility in between.

The town's grocer probably thought he was a domestic terrorist with the supplies he had been buying (luckily, being a local cryptid curbed questions).

Text figured the first thing he should do was set up a few distractions, to confuse hostile aliens and alert the government or to confuse hostile government and help the aliens that were hopefully also family.

The Arizona heat made the task of setting bombs and traps near unbearable and the amount of water breaks he was forced to take meant that it was nearing dark before he was done. "Dammit!" he scuffed the ground as he looked at the rapidly setting sun. He had wanted to make it to the blue lion before the day was over just to double check that everything was okay. After all, Krolia had entrusted him to watch it and it wouldn't do to have her return onky to see he had failed.

He was thrown out of his disappointment when he saw a bright light rapidly approaching earth. A ship.

He shook himself out of his stupor and staggered down the path he was on. In his haste, he temporarily lost sight of the ship but that didn't matter when a deafening boom was heard and dust flew up from the impact sight.

He was all but running praying to anything and everything that this was it. That he would see his wife and finally meet his child. He was close to the ship which was still hidden in the crash-made crater when he heard choppers and vehicles rapidly approaching. Not for the first time in his life, Tex cursed the Garrison.

He was too close to give up, he had to see. To make sure that it truly was hos family. He crouched as he ran the last few yards, reaching the crater just as the Garrison did. It was a Galra ship. Two people were being pulled out by Garrison doctors and scientists in labcoats.

Tex couldn't see the people's features due to the dust in the air and his distance but one had the slim, fit figure Krolia had had and the other was a hulking, beast of a man. Something supposedly common in Galra.

It was his family. It had to be. If the ship and two figures wasn't proof enough, the reactions of the Garrison scientists were. There were exclamations of shock that Tex could hear even from his great distance. They were acting as if they were seeing something never seen by man before (discounting himself).

His happiness at his family's return was put on the back burner as he watched the scientists. He almost saw red when they roughly restrained the figure that must have been Krolia and when they approached his child, his son, like he was a wild animal. Tex wanted to throat punch someone when he watched them tranq his family but he took a deep breath.

"I'm comin' for y'all. I love you." He had a shotgun to grab.