The Exiled

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“So they want us to go back?” the Exiled said “somehow I’m not surprised”
“Yes” WAE replied “We have the Master and Magnificent, and hopefully you”
“What do you do?” the Exiled looked me “What kind of skills do you have?”
But I drew a blank “He’s a poet” WAE said, “this Wallyroo, number 92”
 
“Just what the world needs, more poets” the Exiled said as he served coffee
“We need your help” I said feeling nervous but also curious as to who he was
“Last time I was there, I did things I shouldn’t have, now they want my help?”
“Yeah” WAE said taking a sip as the Exiled sat in front of us and took a long pause
 
“They’re building a brace, after the one they got from Beta-2 all those years ago
When I was there I saw the plans, but I thought they would never get it to work
Their technology was so behind even if they took it apart it would take decades
But that idiot dictator is persistent, I bet he’s behind all this, that fucking jerk”
 
“How would they get it to work?” I asked but WAE said “they found our alternate
The braces are coded to our DNAs regardless of the universe we come from”
“It was a brace with an oval shape, with an elongated diameter of maybe twenty”
“Feet?” I asked, “no, miles” the Exiled replied “they’ll tear apart worlds and then some…
 
When are the magician and the grand master joining us” the Exiled asked
“Tomorrow” WAE replied, “what about Alpha-1 or Beta-2” he asked frustrated
“Alpha-1 won’t get involved in war, and Beta-2, you know his promise” WAE said
“AAGM is building a war machine, now with a portal every universe may be ill-fated”
 
“If they’re just causing disruptions” WAE said, “their device may not be fully functioning”
“Yes, but they may also be tracking the jumps from all of our alternates” I said  
“Yes” the Exile muttered “which means they’ll know when we’ve arrived there”
“We’ll need to destroy it” WAE added knowing that a hard task now lays ahead
 
WAE took out a brace he had in his Magnificent suit pocket giving it to the Exiled
The Exiled took out another brace he had in a desk drawer and slipped on his hand
“Well, now we have six portal devices” the Exiled said with a mischievous smile
He had a hidden one, he could still teleport, then I knew he had something planned
 
“Do you know how to lasso it?” the Exiled asked me but I was dumbfounded
“Lasso what?” I asked “The portals” he said, “you know you can throw like rope?”
As we walked through that desolate road he said “look, just stand there”
And about twenty feet behind us he lunged a portal while I stood there like a dope
 
He sent me a world parallel to the one all three of us were just in
Then WAE appeared as the portal opened and closed like a light
The Exiled came out through another door about two feet behind me
“Try it” he said “it may take a couple of tries until you get it right”
 
WAE looked at his braces, punch in a code on his right wrist and threw one
I blinked but when I opened my eyes I was standing at the peak of a mountain
The Exiled showed up within a second as the freezing cold air stunned me
He threw one and then I was standing in ankle deep in water in a fountain
 
For the next ten minutes they kept throwing me to many different locations
When I looked at my wrist the brace recorded I had traveled fifty-six times
I felt dizzy but when WAE appeared I was able to throw him out of frustration
Only for him to appear a minute later with a couple of bottles of wine
 
After hours of training we went to a parallel world close to the rendezvous point
As we walked we talked about the worlds we’d been to and some so hasteful
“At least you got chased by ducks” WAE said and I asked “What chased you?”
“Can’t share until after NaPoWriMo” he said “it’s really kind of distasteful”
 
The streets in this city were empty, as if the world in the place had ended
We stood in front of a palace that overlooked the town on top of a hill
“Here” the Exiled said “the Magnificent and Martial Artist were around here
The entrance point will be close but for tonight we gotta stay still”
 
The suits kept us warm in the cold night as we waited in the dark and lonely park
“Are you going to tell me what chased you?” I asked but WAE just said “later, later”
“Check this out” the Exile said as his Magnificent suit made look almost invisible
When he said “I’ll be a floating head when I come face to face with the dictator”…
 
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