Darkness had engulfed him that Jeremy had no idea where he was at that moment. He was aware of just one thing, Jeremy was in the midst of the lake bed. Struggling through the water, he could not even hear Axela guiding him this time.
[Hold on, the dragon is arriving. Stay with me Jeremy, we will get through this.]
Artemis Corbyn felt his body numb and was not being able to move, considering that Axela was right in his head he was unable to hear her.
It was the moment when a light emerged and the silent waves caught a motion. Artemis saw that something had jumped into the water, but don't know what it was.
His vision went bank soon after the dragon had dived into the lake, and a surge of energy was stirred.
[Jeremy, wake up! You are saved, we are inside the gateway.]
Axela exclaimed seeing the dragon's mouth opened, she could witness the glorious sight of the galaxies inside its roaring mouth. The dragon engulfed Jeremy, precisely ate him.
Now that he was out of the planet Nrutas , he landed in some cosmic stream which had numerous planets and milky ways.
[Whoa! I can see my homeland.]
Axela saw the whole scenario from Jeremy' dizzy eyes, she could recognize the gateway towards his master's territory.
[Wake up, you lazy ass! You are close to the gateway.]
She wanted him to cross the world to meet her master, but as Jeremy was out of the range something happened back there.
Back there on the planet as soon as Jeremy crossed the world, the potioneer got back his own appearance. Their look swap got lifted and the chief realized his blunder, he had lost the original target.
Barthes rubbed his eyes after coming to his senses, when he saw the temporary portal awaiting in between two trees.
'How the heck did that brat manage to pull this stunt?'
He was amazed after seeing the swap and felt guilty that his attacks had caused injury to him.
'It's fine as long as he can escape. I believe he really found the gateway after all.'
Barthes was happy for him and looked towards the sky knowing that somewhere soon they might meet again.
-.-.-.-.-.-
Back there on the earth Jerome had gotten the news of Jeremy's trickery and was somewhat amazed at the act.
"It seemed that after all he was not a failure clone. I'm sure you must be proud of me, doctor. I have successfully revived your son after killing him."
He stood in front of the window and sounded so proud of his own horrendous deed. Jerome was not even slightest ashamed of his own killing and cloning Jeremy Grayson.
He wanted to give the kid a second life in order to put his father (the scientist) to the shame of not being able to achieve it. At first he had eradicated the kid in fear of rebellion but then his malicious brain and greed overpowered him that he cloned Jeremy.
He made sure that Jeremy did not have any clue of his past or anything, using same brain could risk it. So he ran a memory transplantation on him and that's how he woke up in the hospital as planned.
Jerome scurried towards the table while his own clone stood nearby him, as usual he was a mute mule Jerome had built to keep himself alive in any emergency.
"Now I have to see where does he go after escaping from my clutches,"
The man sat on his chair and sipped his tea with an amused expression. He was somewhat satisfied with the outcome, although the whole team was suspended as a result of their failure.
"Sometimes it's better to loose the restraints to test the abilities. I want to see how far my dog can run!"
Undoubtedly Jeremy's reins were in his hands, he had numerous ways to track him down. Apparently there was no chance that Jeremy could escape from him, even after the chameleon command Jerome caught him.
-.-.-.-.-
There was no way Jeremy could find the portal to reach his father, well the doctor was alive and had sent Axela to guide Jeremy to him. How did he do that was still a question, considering that Axela was an AI!
[Jeremy?]
Artemis groaned at the voice in his head which seemed to disturb him, while Axela kept calling him. Jeremy had fallen on some unknown planet which definitely was not the one Axela had wanted him to.
[Wake up you jerk! We are in dire situation here.]
Her yell finally worked and Jeremy rubbed his eyes while gaining consciousness.
"Where are we now? Am I alive?"
He had to ask her the question knowing that everything could happen in that world, after witnessing the weird yet magical stuff on planet Nrutas; Jeremy realized that he had known nothing about his world!
[Yes, you are alive. But might not stay for long because we are a great misfit here, my friend.]
Axela floated in front of him while Jeremy skimmed around and found himself in a luxurious room. Everything sounded human and seemed normal to him, which contradict with what Axela spouted.
"Thank goodness! I really thought I would die back there, but what had happened?"
Jeremy inspected himself and found his body intact, which made him curious what had happened. Axela floated closer to him and whispered.
[Nothing much, my friend. Our unfortunate thread of luck had played its card, and we have landed on a planet who is planning to invade earth soon!]
"What the heck!? Why? Are we on Mars, good grace!?"
Axela sighed and gestured at her own neck.
[No! I wish we were, at least we would have been safe there. The people here are invading earth to snatch the greatest weapon ever created.]
"And? What's the need of creating a chaos just to steal one measly weapon? I'm sure you are hiding something from me."
Jeremy sat on the bed after crossing his legs.
[Well...the weapon is you!]