Chapter 52 – Breaking In, Breaking Out
Malus, meanwhile, was confused. They hadn't talked specifically about it, but Malus was beginning to suspect that his older twin was no longer evil, and didn't care about finding and capturing a Mew. What was going on?
Magnus was also confused, but for a much different reason. Being a man of logic, he was more stumped at this place than at Mew's original castle. It didn't make sense – Why was this place here? What purpose did this serve? Why was his chili dog exploding – Wait, what? Magnus turned around to find that his chili dog was indeed exploding. Magnus nearly swore.
Then, after a pause, and looking up, Magnus actually did swear.
Loudly.
Magnus had just met his first guard. It looked like it had once been a Rhydon, but now…now it was something much worse. It had been genetically altered, it's larynx removed so that it couldn't speak, it's hands and feet removed and replaced by tasers and thin strips of metal, and it wore a metal mask over its face, with two very small eye ports.
But these were his guards, back from the time he first met Jeremy.
Who kept messing around with time?
The answer, as I'm sure several of you have guessed, was Dark Jeremy. He was in the camera room, watching everything and listening to death metal. He had taken the guards from an alternate timespan, where Malus had won in his and Jeremy's first battle, as well as Malus himself. He grinned, and settled back, playing Call of Duty 4 on one screen. Soon, he was so wrapped up in the game that he switched it to full screen.
Really bad idea.
Magnus dispatched the guard, to the protests of Malus, and proceeded down the hallway. From what he could tell from a map he had found, he should be almost to the Front Door. Malus noticed a Time Machine in a door to his left. "This is where I get off, and I'm taking the guards with me. Goodbye, walking time paradox." So saying, he left to collect the guards and take them with him to his home dimension. Magnus continued to the Front Door, and saw the reason why he needed the explosive power of all the known elements.
The Door was made of 42,000,000-inch thick Protosteel.
Jeremy passed the elements over to Magnus through a manual mail delivery slot. Magnus worked for about an hour, and finally, the compound was ready. Magnus picked up the glob, hid himself behind a blast shield, and lobbed the thing at the main door. There was a massive BOOOOOOOOM! And the door was blown off its hinges. Then the door vaporized, which set off a chain reaction which ended up doing absolutely nothing. Jeremy stepped out from behind, his hair jet-black (as well as his face). "Wow. Talk about powerful. But where did the other me get the Protosteel?" Magnus, attentive as ever, perked up on this. "Ah, that explains it. Who exactly is this 'other you'?" Jeremy explained, and I won't go into the detail, as you've already read that chapter.
The truth was, Mew wasn't the only one who was dying inside when Jeremy was away. Jeremy, too, was pining for her. After all, life wasn't as fun and random without her.
Jeremy handed Magnus a shotgun. Magnus test-fired, and the result shattered a building, triggering alarms throughout the city. "(insert swear word of your choice here)!" said Jeremy. Magnus uttered a long string of German. Jeremy looked at him funnily. 'I'll explain later, let's go!" Magnus yelled as he sprinted off. Jeremy ran after him. He could've created a vehicle, but that would have taken time. They hotwired a nearby car, and they drove off.
Jeremy, feeling awesome, had the car fantastically explode one minute after they left it. A chunk hit him on the head, and he stooped to examine it. It was the platinum catalyst in the car's lower body. "Sweet, something of worth," he said. They continued on their way.
They found enough stone to create the basis of a teleporter gate, and Jeremy added his new element, teleportinium, to make it work. The only problem was, they needed more electricity than the East Coast. Magnus solved this by hooking Jeremy's gloves directly to the machine, so when they left, no one could use the gate anymore. They stepped in, and disappeared.
Jeremy fell right on top of Kyogre as she was listening to Arceus give an important speech. As some of you higher-ups well know, and those of you in lower positions likely don't, he declared, I am NOT the ultimate being. A collective gasp followed this, with Kyogre gasping because of Jeremy and Magnus's sudden appearance. Nobody noticed, however, as Arceus was still speaking. There was one who helped me along in the path to wisdom, one who even contributed to my very creation, and that is Ero. Arceus pointed to a statue of a man Jeremy had never seen before. In times like this, there are too many enemies for one hero to face alone, declared Arceus. Ero must be found. Go, children. Go and find him, for the enemy is already searching.
Magnus fell some distance away, on top of an ant. No one cared, however.
Jeremy didn't know who Ero was, or why he was so important. He tried to look him up, but there was no information whatsoever. He looked at his glove in confusion, when something caught his eye. On the very rim of his gloves, in the most obscure place possible, the word "Ero" was written. Intrigued, he searched the gloves for more. He found that the gloves were so rubbery, he could turn them inside out, and this is what he found:
"To the person who reads this, you have been accepted as my heir. To find more, go to Arceus's statue of me and place one glove into a slot on the back of the neck."
Jeremy set off for the statue.
A/N: It's been a long time… How have you been?
Portal 2 references aside, I really am sorry for being late. But, here's the next chapter.
