The elevator door opened and Dante carefully stepped over
the two unconscious soldiers he had defeated earlier. He groped blindingly for
the nearest wall and fond it The light poured through Dante’s closed eyes. it Lit
up his eyelid, like cloth over a flashlight. He ran his hands along the wall of
the hallway until he reached the end of the hallway. “Great, just great. Twenty
five hundred years trapped in a shard of fractal darkness and when I finally
find a way out I get trapped in some dumb human stuck inside some dirt hole outer
rim mining market.” He clumsily felt along the wall looking for a door or a
sign of any kind. He forgot to pay attention to his feet though, tripped over
debris on the floor. He hit the ground hard. He sighed heavily. “I am an
immortal being of pure light and energy, and I have been bested by legs…frickin’
fantastic.” The glasses in his block lit up and began to vibrate. He reached
down and pulled them out and felt them in his hands. “Oooof course this kid is
a shade, because that’s the kind of luck
I have.” He put the glasses on. “Hello?” He asked,
Sonya’s voice came through loud and clear. “What the hell is
your problem Dante! We just got enough power back to find you, let alone bring
you back and all because you got a wild hair up your butt to visit an asteroid
out beyond Jupiter! ARE YOU INSANE!” She raged.
Dante shrugged his shoulders as he pulled himself up off the
floor. “ I don’t maybe!” he replied putting the shades on. Sonya growled form the other end of the call.
The glasses lit up and Dante disappeared from the hallway.
Sonya and the other shades were waiting in this command
center. Dante appeared as the teleport beam faded away. The light from his eyes
was being almost completely held back by the shades, only a little light was
escaping from either side of the glasses. Sonya charged up to him ready to tear
him a new one when she noticed the light. She silently stumbled over the words she was going to say as the
question decided to come out first. “What’s going on with your eyes?” She
asked.
Dantle turned away real quick. “Nothing, just uh, side effect
of gas in the Asteroid market. I guess.” Dante explained, grimacing as he
realized how stupid that sounded.
Sonya looked incredibly skeptical. “There was some sort of
gas in the asteroid marketplace, that turned, your eyes, into flashlights?” She
tried to repeat the guess without laughing or exploding.
Dante nodded still facing away from the others. “Yup, darn
those crazy aliens!” His fake anger didn’t fool anyone.
Sonya got close to him. “Dante turn around we can figure
this out together.” She started.
Dante turned around and took off the shades. “Ok look this
is, awkward. I’m not actually Dante, I’m just hitching a ride in his body for a
bit till I find a place I can safely stay.” He saw Lumarion’s busted light wall
behind the others. “Like that wavelength chamber right there!” He said as he
streamed out of Dante as a giant beam of light right into the light wall. Once
he had transferred over completely Dante held his hands up to his eyes. “ahhhh
That sucked!” He fell to his knees and Sonya knelt down next to him.
The light wall was lit up again but this time by the new intruder.
Gordon and the others were more than a little pissed. “I don’t know what you
are but you need to get the hell out of that wall.” He growled.
The wall flickered. “Would you relax? I just got here. I’ve
been in prison for almost three centuries, I don’t know what your problem is
yet but I’m almost positive I can help.” The light explained.
“Help yourself maybe, you didn’t even ask if I would carry
you.” Dante accused as he got to his feet.
The light wall was twinkling but said nothing for a moment,
then finally. “That was my bad, sorry. I had one shot to get free and I took
it.” From the looks of things here you’re missing a Shimmeron. I think I can
help you find it.” The light explained.
Sonya stepped forward. “You’re skipping a few steps, to even
begin to trust anything you say or do, we need to know who you are, what you
are, where you came from, and why you
possessed our friend.” She demanded.
The light flickered in silence for a moment again, and then dove
right into answering questions. “I’m a Shimmeron, you can call me Spark. I
needed a physical force to pull me the last little bit of the way out of the shard
of fractal darkness I had been imprisoned in. Dante happened to show up at the
right time.” Spark explained.
Dantle glared at the wall. “And by that, you mean you made a
deal with the witness to lead me to you.” He accused.
The like wall showed brighter reds and purples clearly proud
of itself. “Time and the universe are impossibly complicated systems, if you
want them to work in your favor you need to finesse them a little bit.” Spark
explained.
Dante stepped ahead of the others, putting himself between
them and the light wall. “Don’t get to comfortable in there, you’re going to be
looking for a new home once we bring Lumarion back.” He growled.
The light wall twinkled quickly “Lumarion! You lost
Lumarion?!” Spark shouted.
