Kids~Virgil (31)

Bermuda. A fitting code name, considering the fact how many dissappeared into that most mysterious bit of geography, and how we will seem to pop out of existence in a very similar fashion. Perpendicular universe travel is a strange business. Wondering how the recruits would handle it, I decided ask them. Ellen and Greg looked distracted with each other, perfect time to check up on the new recruits. Seeming to wake up, I turned around to Ian and Scarlet.
"So, do you know what you are doing here?"
Ian looked somewhat surprised. Scarlet almost started to answer, but Ian beat her to it.
"Well, um, not really. I know time travel is involved. I think we're supposed to save the world," Ian stammered a bit. "I... we make things happen? We keep them from happenning?"
I smiled.
"They didn't really tell you anything, did they?"
Scarlet took Ian's pause to interject her own thoughts, which hadn't seemed to amount to much so far.
"Ellen told us not to talk to you. Who are you? Why don't they trust you?"
Clever girl. Ellen told her not to trust me, and she asks me why.
"We have had our differences. It's a long and exciting story, but I think we'll save that for another time. I was asking Ian a question. Obviously, none of you have an answer yet. Do you atleast have any idea of where your going?"
Ian tried to raise his eyebrow, failed, and just frowned.
"I thought you said we were going to Bermuda."
"That would be lovely, wouldn't it. A quick vacation, perhaps a little send-off party for the new recruits before they begin their dangerous and exciting time-travel adventure through the multi-verse. No, that's just what they're calling it right now. To be perfectly literal, we're going to a dis-continuum gate set up near the south pole. It's been gathering magnetic energy for the past year to send us through a perpendicular universe to HQ."
"Through a what?"
"Ellen atleast told you about parallel universes, didn't she? How do you think we cross over? It's simple geometry, really."
Ian tried to wrap his mind around this, and Scarlet looked like she already gave up. The pilot came on the intercom and announced that we would soon be landing.