ARC OF THE IMMORTALS Book 2
Time Rifts 47/A Path through Chaos
Three to six forces seeking control…
Recap TR46 Gypsums in Control: The Gypsums’ surprise move — assembling the Emergency Third Bridge extended off the ship.
The two Gypsums transported Jac’s limp body and the Lingam Egg to the Emergency Third Bridge.
The captain and crew on the secondary bridge are in an uproar about the shutdown of their bridge.
Suke asks if anyone can receive or send thoughts. No — is the answer.
Jax Kristos remembers who he is. Griz Ack programming takes over. He loses his Antarian humanity and becomes a full Griz Ack. He sends a communication to Atlantis Sub 2 which activates the heaters in each of the five frozen Griz Acks. Jax transports to Atlantis Sub 1 and takes charge of the Griz Ack fragments.
Jac with his body and spirit partitioned transports his spirit to Touzdae but goes to where the Lingam Egg once was. He absorbs the anchor glyph and is shown the destruction of the 6 billion Gypsums. Only 3 million survive. It is too much to bear.
A third of the Gypsum-controlled Third Bridge shorts out. The body of Jac is transported away to the Griz Acks somewhere on the Mu-1.
Current Episode: Touzdae reached out with support from Suke and Maia. Together they snatched Jac’s body from the Griz Ack transport. His body went into a secured Half-Life chamber. Touzdae adjusted the controls to let the tether act as an antenna for Jac’s Spirit return.
“How did you do that?” Suke wondered.
“I felt Jac and reached out for him.”
“Keen sense and lightning-fast reflexes,” Suke stated.
Touzdae beamed.
“Captain,” an engineering tech began, “watch this!” He flipped a few switches. And rebooted the circuit breakers for three control panel modules.
The controls began a reset cycle. Within eight minutes a third of the bridge began to function.
“It will take twenty to forty minutes for the panels to reboot.” The tech said.
“How did you do that? Unless…” Tommalar said.
“Meaning what sir?”
“Is it possible that a part of the emergency bridge went down?”
“Internal and external sensors are coming online,” Reypat reported.
Griz Ack Jax boarded the Atlantis Sub-1 tug. He killed the scientific team in a few minutes. And started work on heating the Griz Ack fragments. Within forty-five minutes fragments assembled into two Griz Ack soldiers. An activation cycle began…
Rasis and Ourus first released eleven warriors from the Lingam Egg. Then six system specialists, and five time-bender monks, birthed from the Egg and set to work. The five monks went into meditative spaces. Three of the system specialists worked on restoring the transporters. The remaining three specialists worked on the bridge controls.
The warriors deployed in the long passageway back to the Mu ship proper. They crouched or dropped to one knee with long javelin-type weapons at the ready.
Jac was reeling from the Gypsum flashback vision. His picture thinking diverted into a near future.
How did that happen? He thought.
He felt relieved and delighted. They were free of the time spheres in open space. He saw their destination and how to get there in one jump.
How? He wondered. A feeling came with a message — “not important how…”
Jac was pulled out of the Mu to Earth. He and Touzdae found themselves in a hovercraft flying toward the Bridge of Gibraltar. Shisla was at the helm. They traveled along the coastline — south. A fine debris fell in columns striking the hovercraft. The engines sputtered and Shisla set the craft down on a beach. He cautioned Jac and Touzdae to stay in the umbrella. Lest you burn by holes in the ozone. Shisla sent the thought to them both.
Yanked out of Earth to the Mu, to underneath the port sphere. The downsized tug was rotating at a slow pace. The two Griz Acks were cycling into a fully functional action mode.
Jac felt an urgent need to exit. Pulled out by some outside force — into clear space above the Mu. He watched as a jump was in prep mode. Back to the beach. I have no control over this jumping. Jac thought to himself.
Back on the beach with Touzdae and Shisla she started speaking. “Other than the ozone layer danger, this place is sweeter than any of the Antarian systems. The vibration is so high here.” Touzdae twirled on the beach under the umbrella.
Jac went back to the Mu. Am I weaving a web of energy? he wondered.
I go to Touzdae, Jac thought. He jetted out to the Gypsum-controlled Emergency Bridge. His body wasn’t there. But where is my body?
By intuition, he found the transporter link to the Griz Acks in the sphere above where he had been. He fell into the beam. He was pulled into the scaled-down tug in a slow rotation at the center of the sphere.
He observed three Griz Acks. One of them he knew to have been Jax. As soon as he knew, the Jax Griz Ack turned its head towards Jac.
The half-life chamber slammed into the upper chamber of the healing center many times. Suke, Maia, and Touzdae bilocated into the locked chamber. They used their electromagnetic-chi energy to force it to the deck. Others came in with an electromagnetic dock.
Touzdae covered the tether in three layers of shields. She was sure his body would not be discovered and/or pulled away. Other members of the healing team erected aggressive covert shielding around the chamber. It designed to throw off whoever was searching for Jac’s body.
Tommalar retrieved paper copies for a contingent plan to retake the third emergency bridge.
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