It was so close he could taste it. Just a few more feet he told himself, then I will be safe on another earth. The war of the worlds were getting out of hand, there were only a few safe places left. He just needed to jump through the time portal. Sprinting the rest of the way trying not to get shot in the crossfire of the battle. He jumped and was spun round and round. He felt as if he was on a roller coaster being operated while falling off a cliff. Smack, his feet hit the ground. He looked at his new surrounding. He was in a cloudy new world full of concrete with a purple skye. He was so entrapped in the beauty of his new safe home he did not notice the woman walking up behind him. She grabbed his solder and spun him around so they could see eye to eye. "Are you James Jefferson?" the woman asked. He had thought about saying no but thought that he could not get out of this by lying so he simply said the truth "yes" he said to her. She reached into her pocket and started to pull out something long and shiny. She put it on his hands and said "You are under arrest, for coming to our earth when we have banned everyone from all other earths." He was stunned, he was on Earth 17, the safest of all the earths in the multiverse. "There has to be some mistake" he stammered "I am on earth 17, am I not? This is the safest of all the earth's." "You must have breached to late," she said "You are on earth 97 now." No, no, no he thought. This was the worst of all the earth's. They killed everyone who broke a simple law. They did not care about anyone. They thought everyone that broke a rule deserved to die. "No," he said "There must be some mistake just let me leave and I will never come back here again, I promise." He was so worried he was not ready to die. He came here to see if it was a good place for his wife and daughters. "I have a wife and three daughters. You have to let me go back to them. They can't be fatherless. I won't let that happen." He was pleading and begging he needed to get back home to his family. "Come with me Jefferson, I must take you to an official ruler, to decide your fate." she said to him while blindfolding him. He did not want to go, he had to leave. He started to be pulled forward. He walked for a while with her guiding him. Suddenly they came to a hult. She pulled off the bag from his head. He tried to focus on where he was. He realised he was in some sort of chamber with chairs at the end and something that looked bad in the middle of the room. "We are here because this man broke the law, he traveled here from another earth." She said to the room of people. He had realised this would be where his punishment would be dsited. He was grabbed again and led to the structure in the middle of the room. Once he got there he realised what it was. Many traders from the war were killed by a device just like this. Then slowly he realized what would happen to him. He started to struggle around, trying to free himself from the guards clutches. "Stop moving" the larger guard said. He immediately went limp. They tied his hands to the thick leather side straps on the guillotine. They then grabbed his head and stick it through the home at the bottom and strapped his back in so he could not move. He tried to think of a plan that would get him out of all of this. He realised he just had to try. He kicked out and hit one of the guards. He then pulled up as hard as he could and got his back out. He pushed his wrist against the frame of the guillotine until he heard a loud got his hand out of the cuff and pushed his wrist back into position. He then fiddled with the strap until it broke and freed him. He pushed everyone out of his way and ran out the door. There was a hall with 7 possible exits. He did not know where to go. He just decided to run to the nearest one and hope it would lead outside. He started running through the tunnel. Soon he was completely emerged in darkness. His legs were screaming at him to stop, but he just kept on running. He wanted to get back to his wife, Gabby. He smacked into a wall and fell to the floor. He slowly stood back up and felt around the wall. He was trying to find door. He finally felt the door knob. He twisted it to the side and ran out. It was so bright he had to close his eyes for a moment and adjust to his new surroundings. Once his eyes had adjusted he realised he was outside. He was in the forest. Suddenly he heard yelling and foot steps. He knew that they were after him. He ran into the forest and climbed up a tree. He hid within the branches watching down to see when he was safe. After a few moments three men in black suits came ripping through the branches. They passed his hiding spot without even a glance. He waited for a while after that to make sure they are really gone. He lowered himself from the tree and ran off into the woods. He ran and ran until he reached a long, wide, plain field. He thought this would be the perfect place to create a breach to get him back home. He closed his eyes and held his hands out thinking of where he wanted to go. He imagine scenes of his wife and daughters. He opened his eyes and saw the blue mass in front of him he ran to it and went through. He went back into the dark spinning and falling sensation. He then landed both feet on the ground in front of his home back at Earth 9. He looked at his home took a few steps toward it. He opened the gate and ran through. He ran until he reached his house. He got to the door. Opened it and stepped inside. "I'm home" he yelled through the house. "Daddy" he heard one of his girls yell. Then all of a sudden his wife and three kids came running down the stairs. His wife reached for him, SMASH. The blade fell and his head came off and rolled over to Jane, his captor. She put her long dark red heel on his head to stop it. She watched the guards pick up his body and take it out of the chamber. She then picked up the head and said "you won't be a problem any more, will you?" She then threw it over her shoulder into the basket with all the others and walked out.