Bon Voyage

"Are you sure it's going to work ?" Deathstalker asked while his eyesmstill lingered on the screen in front of him.

"It worked on you, didn't it ? The same technology we used to you has been advanced for more than 25 years and it has been done to more than ten persons since," Mrs. Rauss said in calm tone before sipping water from the glass on her hand.

Deathstalekr said no more word. The procedure he had when he was five indeed worked. After the procedure he lost all his previous memory, including traumatic events he had.

Dr. Gladimoore, a researcher that was the leader of this Memory Adjustment procedure convinced him that the lastest technology they used in this procedure was now able to erase or alter specific memory. Thus, hopefully after undergoing this procedure, Jennifer would still have all of her memories, except him. In fact, she would believe that she had been ,arried to Peter Thompson and Sophie was their daughter.

Jennifer had to go through this procedure because infortunately Charlotte with all of the power she had couldn't bend her.

"If only I had you two as my childhood friends back then, my life would be beautiful," Charlotte said in excitement despite sulking for her failure. She was only able to control her ability in the age of nine. By that time all of her friends were afraid of her. Thus, she grew up without afriend except for her lunatic trainer.

"Has Peter accepted the deal ?" Deathstalker asked Mrs. Rauss again.

"Of course. Persuade him was an easy job," She answered with a thin smile. She then turned her sight to look Deathstker in the eyes. "Our souls has bounded. If you don't trust me, trust the bound we had, I won't betray you."

Deathstalker sighed heavily before glancing at his watch. "I need to ptrpare for the trip," he excused him self.

"Please, do."

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About one and half hours later, Deahstalker was tailing Mrs. Rauss, stepping some stairs down into some kind of a basement. He wore a long dress like clothe with a golden cloak as his outer. His nowwaist-length hair wasstyled into a single braid. 

Behind Deathstalker was Bruno, dressing a cery simple and seedy dress, with no cloak. Bruno seemed to struggle carrying one huge ancient like suitcase while his shoulder already carried a dirty clothe bag.

"Why do you need to carry this amount of stuff and why am I the one who carry it ?" Bruno grumbled. He eventually put the suitcase down and just hragged it though it had no wheel.

"Beat me," Deathstalker said unchantantly. "It contains gold and stuffs I can use to barter there. Anf you need to practice your muscle to carry it all the time when we're there. It's you who insisted to come, right ?"

Bruno said no more word. It was true. He was the onewho insisted to jpin Deathstalker to this journey. Lily hag gone couple of months earlier, all alone, and he was so worry for her. At first, Sara rejected his request. The place they were about to go was a unicultural, Eastern culutral. And with his brown skin, he defintely wouldn't fit in. But then, with the help of Fred, Bruno found out that the nobles there had servants and slaves. Some nobles had slaves from other races, including black continet. Thus, he pursued the idea of him being the slave of Sir Ming Huo, the characterDeathstalker played.

The three of them only stopped when Mrs. Rauss had to punch few buttons to unlock the door in front of her. When the door was opened, it was abvious to be seen that the room behind that door was only occupied by one thing. This thing was a huge machine that had a circular mouth. The mouth was around ten feet in diameter. and was closed with iron plates that shape like teth attached around the moth of the hole.

"This machine will teleport you to a ship that is on going to your destination," Mrs. Rauss said to both of men.

"Why can't I just teleport there ?" Bruno asked.

"Because this destination is in different universe," Mrs. Rauss answered.

"What ?!" Both Deathstalker and Bruno exclaimed in shock.

"It is still in earth, but not exactly on earth."

"So... it is beneath us ?" Deathstalker asked.

Mrs. Rauss nodded. "Sara may have informed you, that is why we can not use any equipment or technology there, since we don;t even know how high-tech theirs are or how everything works there."

"The people there, are they even..." Bruno exchanged glance with Deathstalker, "Human ?"

"Their apperance and even their anatomies are like human, but they are strongr and more powerful than human. Let's just say, they are ... super human," Mrs. Rauss' explanation made two men in front of her exchanged glances again.

"Uh hu... So this ship... how it can sail there ?" Deathstalker asked after back from his stunned.

"Actually, we found a path to enter that universe. This machine will bring us up to the end of the path. But the end of the path is actually in the middle of some kind of ocean."

For the third times, Bruno and Deathstalekr exchanged glances. This time they did it with a dry gulp. 

"Just like on earth, they have ships for their transportation. And about five more minutes from now, a ship that sailing to a land of your destination will across the mouth of the path. If we miss it even for merely a second, you both may end up in the ocean."

"And how will we suppose to come back ?" Deathstalker asked.

"On the land of your destination, there is another path into this world. Viper has the coordinate," Mrs. Rauss answered. "You are not just to go out from that door, but also destroyed the way to it so no one in that universe can across to our world again."

:How many paths they have to come to this world ?" Bruno asked.

"Several paths to come to this world, very few to go there. But only one path on that land," Mrs. Rauss answered.

"Two minutes, Madam," A man informed Mrs. Rauss.

"Turn on the machine," Mrs. Rauss ordered him.

Right after she closed her mouth the machine was started and soon a loud and noisy sound of the machine was filling the room while the teeth of iron plates that covered the hole were started to open up.

"Ninety seconds," the man again informed.

"Well, get ready, gentlemen," Mrs. Rauss said while patting Deathstalker's shoulder. "I believe you are able to accomplish your mission and return soundly."

"Sixty seconds." 

Deathstalker approached the mouth of the machine that was wide opened. He then sat on the edge, helped Bruno with the huge suitcase and put it behind him. Few seconds later Bruno sat beside him.

"Bon Voyage, Gentlemen !" Mrs. Rauss that had half of her body outside of the room said goodbye before sending her self out of the room and closed the door.

"10..."

The machine started to suck. Deathstalker and Bruno instantly held onto the mouth of the machine while their other hands grabbing the suitcase.

"9..."

"Do not let go until I said so," The man warned them while the machine sucked them harder.

"5..."

"4..."

"3..."

"2...."

"1...."

"Let Go!!"

Once they let go of their grips, they were being sucked and disappeared into the macchine."