" What planet is this?" The lady asked. She was laying on his lap. He was sure that she was in the verge of death. He also did not know any treatment methods. Her question itself was odd but he realized that she was from another planet.
"Earth," Marx replied happily. The lady was silent for a while as if contemplating whether she had heard that name before.
"Never heard of it." The lady said. Marx was shocked. How could one forget about their roots?
"And may I ask who you are and why you are here?" Marx asked.
The lady was silent and spoke.
"I am currently a fugitive. The UPA has declared me a fugitive. This is after I won the competitions for the entropy called After Entropy. Whatever you just saw is the After Entropy.
"It is the only one of its kind and worth a fortune of a hundred planets. I thought that I was lucky but it turns out that I was destined to use it once. After Entropy has the ability to operate on its own and choose its owner.
" I have less than two minutes left to live and would like to give it to you. In return, I ask you to avenge me. That is all I ask of you. Also, my daughter out there will be in danger.
"They will try to arrest her and try to use her to lure me out. My daughter could die. This is her photo." The lady said. The lady paused and gave him a photo. Marx stared at it shamelessly and he fell in love with the picture.
"I will accept to do your revenge only if you give me your blessings to marry your daughter," Marx shamelessly spoke.
"You..." The lady stopped and coughed a mouthfull of blood. "Fine. If you ever find her, her name is Mia. I would like you to bring her to this planet and visit me."
Marx almost cursed. It was like she was giving him the task to burry her. Well, there was no way he would leave her there. If the villagers found her body they would be alarmed. There were never cases of murder in the village.
The lady seemed to be close to her end when he remembered an important question.
" What is your name?" He asked.
"Kelly Julie. In my wallet, you will find a black card. It has a diamond mark on it. It is a UMC. It is limitless. Sorry I couldn't give you the details. Hopefully you will find them on your own..." She went still and her hand dropped.
Marx lamented the death of his newly found 'mother-in-law'. Her eyes closed gradually and he body went pale. She was gone. Marx unconsciously shed a tear. The lady had said that she had offered After Entropy but had failed to give him the most important details.
How could he get it into his body? He was frustrated and forgot to let go of her. But as the last of her life dissipated, her chest glowed bluish. He thought that that was his chance and greedily reached for it.
He shook violently as his body was electrocuted. He tried to retract his hand but he failed. His greed had led to his downfall. He had died even before he could know whether it would accept him or not.
In the woods, one could see a dead lady and a boy. He appeared to have fainted but something strange was taking place. Blue electric currents were leaving the lady and entering the boy through his hand.
With progress, his entire body glowed bluish and he was levitated two feet aboveground. Then, from the chest of the lady, something came out. It appeared metallic and crab-like. It produced a brighter blue glow.
It floated for around one minute and flew towards the unconcious boy. Goldish rays came from it and scanned the boy's body. It then floated on him for two minutes and shot into his chest.
His shirt was turned into shreds and a faint crab tattoo appeared on his chest. Still, the blue electric currents were leaving the dead ladies body and entering into the boy. It took thirty minutes when the last of it entered him.
Both appeared to be the same way and only the lady appeared to have turned paler. Then inside the boy's body. The crab passed through his chest as if it was water. It then went to his heart and stuck itself inside there.
Then, it produced extensions that blended into the arteries leaving the heart. The extensions would mutate and became one with his arteries. It then entered the veins and blended with the veins and capillaries.
His nerves also mutated with the extensions. The current finally reached his brain and the same happened. His body was strengthened tenfold. Then, the blue glow disappeared from his blood vessels and bones but if one was to cut him, the blue glow would be seen. It was like he was storing the electricity in his body.
It took another whole hour before Marx opened his eyes. He stared at the tree tops and the sun which was already setting. He must have slept for long. He sat up but he realized that he had sat up quick.
He looked at Kelly. He felt bad for her. He also had to burry the body quick before it begun rotting. It was a hard task digging with sticks. He finally dag a decent hole and buried her.
He looked for stones and placed them above the ground. He sat there going through the lady's purse but only the black card was there. He was leaning on the stones staring at the photo. Talk about beautiful.
He was going to preserve it like a treasure and set out soon to find her.
"You are my wife," Marx said pointing at the picture.
***
In another planet, a girl in a house sipping a drink choked and coughed like someone who was ill.
***
Marx was unsure whether he had gained the entropy whatever or not. He could feel some changes in his body but he could not directly assume that it was the After Entropy. He went to his bike.
It was already night time and he had just realized he had no shirt on. He opened his backpack and removed a black shirt. He then bowed to the grave and declared.
"I promise to find your daughter, Mia, and marry her. I will also bring her to this safe planet where we can live peacefully," Marx said.
***
In another planet.
The girl who had choked on her drink had dropped it and was now heading to get a rag to dry the floor. On her way, she tripped and fell face first. Luckily, she was not injured.
Suddenly there was knock on the door. She remembered the warning email her mother had sent her and she went to the door and looked at the camera. It was a delivery man. She did not remember asking for a delivery.
She tip toed and went to different room. She left the door open and pressed a switch. On the ceiling, an square tile opened and a rope ladder dropped. The knocking on the door became violent.
The male voice threatened to break the door if she did not open it. She finally reached the ceiling and pressed another switch. The rope was pulled up and at the same time, the main door was broken.
She heard hurried footsteps moving from room to room. The man was heading to the room and the square tile was only beginning to close. She hoped it would be locked before the man reached the room.
The opening was almost closed when the man got in. He went and searched under the bed and in the wardrobe. He then looked up immediately the tiled sealed the opening. The man stomped his foot and cursed.
"That cunning bitch is not here. I think they had an escape route. Secure the perimeter and look for her. Also keep someone on guard to make sure no one enters the house," she heard the man say. She smiled when she heard his footsteps leaving. The door closed but she did not even bother to come out.
Above the ceiling was a room large enough to fit three people. It had enough food to last them for six month and so alone, she could last a year without leaving. She laughed at her pursuers who thought maybe by securing the perimeter she would have to go buy supplies.
If they wanted to do so, they would have to wait for a whole year and few months. At the moment, she was laying on a bed. She had to know what had happened to her mom and why they were after her.
***
Marx rode swiftly back to the village. This was actually the first time he was entering the village at night. He needed a closed room in order to study whether there were changes in his body or not.