Chapter 3: Expedition begins
Helga stayed at the inn for 1 week, spent no little time in laser shooting. Jim is very excited for the coming expedition, Amelia and Delbert agree to travel with him for assistance. Ben stay behind to take care of the hotel with Sarah, as morph turns into little Jim to cheer up Sarah when she misses her son.
"How are we travelling to earth?" Jim asks, "the crystal will activate a portal for us to travel secretly." Helga answered. Jim is no stranger to portal travelling, he opened one on treasure planet which saved his life. "Solar arms ready, you sure we need that firepower?" Delbert asks Amelia when he helps her load her boxes of solar arms and gears on the boat "I got a feeling we need lots of firepower for this expedition, it will make me feel better if the laser cluster could make it on time.", "Least we need information to the place"Dr Doppler has his books on a big luggage and throw on the boat. "Come back in one piece, sang don't blow up Atlantis!" Sarah sees Jim enter the boat. "I won't let you down mom, I'd never let you down again." Jim release the solar sail, the boat levitate and ready to depart.
There's a slot on the control of the boat, looks different to any standard boats. " place the ring here" said Helga. Jim place Sarah's ring into the slot, the crystal ring shoots a beam, create a portal in front of the boat, to an oceanic planet. "Once we set foot on earth, you will all remain dead silent to what's happened here." Said Helga. The group sail into the portal, Jim sees his mother and Ben waving hands before the portal close behind him. Once the portal closed, the ring turns into dust.
The four sail to a small old harbour, an old man waved his hand at them. "Mr Whitmore, I brought you the boy." Said Helga, "Good, return to Rourke tonight before he grew suspicious." Jim heard the old man whispering to Helga. "Ah! what's your name boy?" Mr Whitmore turns to Jim, "Jim Hawkins, sir. And here's Captain Amelia Doppler and her husband Dr Doppler." Jim reply.
"Greetings and welcome Doctor, and Ms Captain." Whitmore kisses Amelia's hand "it's Mrs. Captain if I may" Amelia replies. "Ah, son of old Hawkins. He's an old friend of mine, I even had a crush on him at my young days." Whitmore tells Jim the history of three-man seeking Atlantis on their way to the mansion, Jim realises the old man is wearing an earring on his right ear, with the same stone made Sarah's ring. "Where did you get that Mr Whitmore?" Jim asked the old man. "It's the last thing your father left behind." Whitmore was Pleiades's assistant long ago, he was also on the ship when the incident happened. "I was the operator of that ship, the last thing I remembered is old Pleiades knocked me off and throw me on a boat, young Helga was on my side when I regained my consciousness," Whitmore recalled the night of chaos, he was the one who found the body of Thaddeus, and he is the last survivor of the founders of the expedition.
The group enter a mansion, "A decent place, decent and functional" said Amelia. Jim takes his seat on the floor next to the fire stove. "I built the portal with old Pleiades, yet I lack the blood to open it, the time Helga enters the portal was the only chance." He handed out a bandage with dried blood on it. "A genetic identity device, we don't see this kind on Montressor." the cloth and the devices on the ship gain Delbert's attention. "Pleiades knows one day you will return to his job if he fails. He kept this cloth and a fraction of the crystal in the mansion. Glad it has not been a waste of time." Whitmore looks at Jim, the boy has his father's face, with his mother's sky-blue eyes, tears drop from the old man's eye "I wish to stay on that ship, with the two I value most." The old man has his hands leaning on the boy's face. Old memories flowing over the two, Jim barely remembers his father, as he spent most of his time travelling to earth. Now he seats on the planet his father travel most, he has a strange feeling of familiarity around here.
Whitmore opens a file and put on a phone "Milo! Come downstairs!" He yells at the speaker and hangs up immediately. One minute later, a skinny young man rushes into the scene "Good evening Mr. Whitmore, what's the company. . . Mr. Hawkins!?" Milo screams taking out a crucifix from his neck and points towards Jim "I thought you're dead!". "Ha! It's his son you moron!" Whitmore laughed " Jim, here's your roommate on the trip."