Everybody gets naked, part 3

Yesterday, MINIMCOM and his son Junior took aboard all the Darwin zealots, naked, to ferry them to Helome. It was the happiest of resolutions to what could have been a deadly crisis. This is effectively the end of the action portion of the novel. It is time to wrap up all the hanging threads in the narrative:

     “If that’s the case, Dad,” Junior said, “I’m ready to go. I’ll be standing by.” The little gray livetar vanished.
     OMCOM’s livetar surveyed the area. “Things appear to be under control,” he said. “I shall be waiting for you.” With that, OMCOM’s shell disappeared as well.
     Rome turned to MINIMCOM. “In all of the confusion, I didn’t get a chance to ask you. How did you ever find us? How did you rescue my son and mother?”
     MINIMCOM pointed to the starship which was Junior, sitting on the far end of the blacktop. “I was on my way back from the sun when I saw Junior leaving the Earth. The very fact that he was there meant something was wrong. But I could not alert him to my presence due to my damaged transmitter. Based on his vector I knew he was headed back here. It would not be possible to follow him in null-space so I just came back on my own. I was surprised to find that you had not arrived yet.”
     “You still didn’t answer the question,” Rei said. “How did you find us? How did you rescue our family?”
     “I was hovering over New Ark City. I was close enough to overhear your conversation with Junior after the Overmind discovered their whereabouts. While you were coming here, I was going there.” MINIMCOM brushed his hands along his chest. “I sent this livetar down to the cave and was able to extract Aason and Binoda. Then I removed the guards to prevent them from contacting this group.”
     “Why didn’t Aason tell me?” Rome asked. “I was so worried.”
     “I asked him not to,” MINIMCOM said. “I did not want you to change your behavior and possibly tip off Captain Keller that something was amiss until I arrived.”
     Rei sighed. “Next time, can you just trust us and at least give us a hint?”
     “After he takes these awful people to Helome, there won’t be a next time,” Rome said confidently.
     “Agreed. In fact, I will take my leave now,” MINIMCOM said. “I will see you in two days.”
      “Make sure you warn Virga that they aren’t the nicest people,” Rei said. “It’s OK to treat this first group as prisoners, despite what I told her earlier. But she wanted primitive DNA so this is the best I could do on such short notice. When we get real volunteers, we’ll send them along, too.”
     “And please send my regards to Virga as well,” Rome interrupted. “We could never have accomplished our goals without her help. I want her to know there are no hard feelings.”
     “Absolutely,” replied the livetar and then he was gone.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. See what I did here? I tied up all the loose ends. Rei got rid of the enemies of mankind and provided Virga with some fresh genetic material to pull their race back towards humanity. And I even let a few Darwin nuts run free so I could write Rome's Evolution. Am I clever or what?