SLIDERS:
THE WAY IT SHOULD AND THE WAY IT WILL
"Hello. My name is the Seer. I'm not the Seer on the last world that you traveled to."
Maggie looked up from the table, "What?" She jumped up, ready to pull her gun from her side. "My gun, what did you..."
The Seer put his hand on her arm but she pulled away from him, "Get your hands off..." Then she noticed the bodies of her friends on the other table, "Diana! Mallory!" She jumped off the table, not really mindful of almost hitting the Seer down, "What have you done to them?"
"It wasn't me. Don't you remember?" He seemed smug, as usual. He laughed a bit.
"Listen," Maggie ran to the tables and started to wake up Diana, "Diana. Diana Davis, wake up!"
Diana looked, "What hit me?" She sat up and held her temple. "Oh God. That last slide..."
"We're supposed to be dead," Maggie remembered, "I remember now. You....! You told us we would die."
The Seer shook his head, "No, no. That was not me. Rather, I'm afraid, my counterpart on the last world you were on."
"Remmie!" Maggie recalled, "Mallory!" Maggie and Diana both revived Mallory, by shaking him.
"What? Who? Oh no,not him. Did the slide fail?" Mallory asked.
"No," The Seer walked between the tables, "It did not."
"We made this new timer from the one that that other Quinn gave us," Maggie said, "Or rather Diana did."
Diana looked at her, "That other Quinn. Where is he?"
"He is dead I'm afraid." The Seer said, "He was quite mad. But in the end, he gave his life to save you. All of you. As it is now, your other friends are in trouble."
"What? Friends?" Maggie said, "There's only Rembrandt and he's..."
"Stuck on the Earth, the Earth your Quinn and Rembrandt are from. The real Earth that they, Wade Welles, and the Professor named Arturo started from. The one that the Kromag have successfully invaded."
"And Remmie went through having injected himself with the virus that will make them sick or kill them," Diana added. "But how did we get here?"
The Seer waved his hand, "If you will allow me. The security forces were on their way to kill you four and Mrs Mallory, not the real Quinn's real mother by the way...the one who raised him also gave birth to him was Mrs Mallory from the Kromagg invaded Earth. When Quinn and you, Mrs. Beckett, were there, that Earth was not the Earth Quinn thought it was. That Mrs Mallory was also not his mother. She thought she was though and she told him he was adopted as was his brother Colin."
"No, no," Mallory slid up from the table, "That's not right."
"Yes, yes it is," The Seer laughed, "I am the Seer in this world and unlike the one who died, I am psychically stronger. That last slide would have killed all four of you but Rembrandt Brown is alive. He slid alone and that is why you are all still alive." The Seer paused, "I'm not sick in this world. Nor do I have a daughter."
"THAT is good news," Mallory said, "Seeing how the Seer's daughter Claire was a real..."
"Yes," The Seer stopped him. "Mrs Mallory that you encountered was not lying to you. She did not raise the real, your Quinn, Maggie Beckett's Quinn, Wade's Quinn, Remmie's Quinn. The Professor's Quinn. That Quinn does not have a brother. However, there was another Mrs Mallory, the same Mrs Mallory Quinn met in that prison on Earth and the same one you met and calmed, Mr Mallory."
Mallory nodded, "My head hurts."
"The point is that the Quinn and Colin brothers were not the Quinn you started out with, Maggie. They were adopted. But there is a real Mrs Mallory somewhere that comes from the first Earth that Quinn started from and she did indeed give birth to him."
"And he's inside me," Mallory said, "All mixed up, just like his brother Colin is stuck or rather unstuck in time and space and parallel worlds. Lost, both of them."
The Seer put his hands up, That is not, uhm, entirely true."
"Wait a minute," Maggie came to him, "What are you saying?"
"The way you got here, do you remember?"
"Oh my God!" Diana yelled as a familiar figure walked in. "Dr Oberon Geiger!!!"
Mallory and Maggie rushed him but the Seer blocked their attack with his own body, "NO! STOP!"
"He's the one responsible for killing Colin and Quinn," Maggie yelled, "Just let me at him!"
"No, young lady, calm down," The Seer said.
"They reacted this way when I helped them get here," Geiger said, "I am not your Dr Geiger, Miss Davis."
"You're...." Diana's resolve fell along with her shoulders, "You're not?"
"NO!" Geiger talked over the Seer's shoulder, "I am not."
"It's true," The Seer turned to Mallory and Maggie.
"He does look alittle different," Mallory squinted, "Than the Dr Geiger I knew. Less..."
"Crazy," Geiger put in as the Seer moved aside. He put his hand out and Mallory took it. "I helped you get away from Claire's security forces. Remember that on that last Earth, the Seer there told you there were refugees from other Earths and indeed other times and planets?"
"Vaguely," Maggie said.
"Yes," Diana shot her a look, "I do."
"I was one of those. I followed your pursuits on the television there," Geiger said, "And Knew how evil I was toward you all, especially you, Quinn Mallory. TV also alerted me to your problems and the Seer there asked me to come forth, he knew of my existence but I feared you all, thus I took a long time coming forth. I am sorry."
"Well, you eventually came," Diana said, "Didn't you?"
"Of course, that's why we're here. I came to Claire's attack on you, before she got there, and I, I opened a worm hole for all of us. You, and you two besides. I expanded it and we broke through it and the force field. I destroyed the force field."
"You did?" Mallory turned to look at Diana. Diana shrugged.
"It was the least I could do," Geiger came forward to Diana, "I am nothing like the Geiger you knew."
"Can you?"
"I can."
"What are you two talking in code?" Maggie asked.
"I was about to ask the same thing," Mallory said, "What can you do?"
"I can, with the help of the Seer's fortunes, separate Quinn from Mallory."
"That again," Mallory said, "I don't...we've tried it..."
"Not with me you haven't."
"Trust him. He's the most brilliant mind I've read in all the dimensions I've come across in my exploring," The Seer said, "He can do it."
"Let's get started."
"Wait a sec," Maggie said, "You have your own timer?"
Geiger nodded, "I sure do, Commander Beckett."
"Well, I know this is a long shot but...can I use it to get Remmie back?"
"He's alive and well, the virus killed the Kromaggs and made the rest who did not die, sick. Almost all left," The Seer said.
"Almost?" Maggie said, "Please, give me the timer, Remmie may need my help."
Mallory said, "Our help."
"There is no need. He is safe. There were Kromaggs that helped him. He and Professor Arturo found a way to keep them safe from the virus. And by the way, the Kromagg that first helped them on that Earth was Wade Welles' child's father."
"WHAT????" Maggie gasped. "WHAT?"
to be continued...
THE WAY IT SHOULD AND THE WAY IT WILL
"Hello. My name is the Seer. I'm not the Seer on the last world that you traveled to."
Maggie looked up from the table, "What?" She jumped up, ready to pull her gun from her side. "My gun, what did you..."
The Seer put his hand on her arm but she pulled away from him, "Get your hands off..." Then she noticed the bodies of her friends on the other table, "Diana! Mallory!" She jumped off the table, not really mindful of almost hitting the Seer down, "What have you done to them?"
"It wasn't me. Don't you remember?" He seemed smug, as usual. He laughed a bit.
"Listen," Maggie ran to the tables and started to wake up Diana, "Diana. Diana Davis, wake up!"
Diana looked, "What hit me?" She sat up and held her temple. "Oh God. That last slide..."
"We're supposed to be dead," Maggie remembered, "I remember now. You....! You told us we would die."
The Seer shook his head, "No, no. That was not me. Rather, I'm afraid, my counterpart on the last world you were on."
"Remmie!" Maggie recalled, "Mallory!" Maggie and Diana both revived Mallory, by shaking him.
"What? Who? Oh no,not him. Did the slide fail?" Mallory asked.
"No," The Seer walked between the tables, "It did not."
"We made this new timer from the one that that other Quinn gave us," Maggie said, "Or rather Diana did."
Diana looked at her, "That other Quinn. Where is he?"
"He is dead I'm afraid." The Seer said, "He was quite mad. But in the end, he gave his life to save you. All of you. As it is now, your other friends are in trouble."
"What? Friends?" Maggie said, "There's only Rembrandt and he's..."
"Stuck on the Earth, the Earth your Quinn and Rembrandt are from. The real Earth that they, Wade Welles, and the Professor named Arturo started from. The one that the Kromag have successfully invaded."
"And Remmie went through having injected himself with the virus that will make them sick or kill them," Diana added. "But how did we get here?"
The Seer waved his hand, "If you will allow me. The security forces were on their way to kill you four and Mrs Mallory, not the real Quinn's real mother by the way...the one who raised him also gave birth to him was Mrs Mallory from the Kromagg invaded Earth. When Quinn and you, Mrs. Beckett, were there, that Earth was not the Earth Quinn thought it was. That Mrs Mallory was also not his mother. She thought she was though and she told him he was adopted as was his brother Colin."
"No, no," Mallory slid up from the table, "That's not right."
"Yes, yes it is," The Seer laughed, "I am the Seer in this world and unlike the one who died, I am psychically stronger. That last slide would have killed all four of you but Rembrandt Brown is alive. He slid alone and that is why you are all still alive." The Seer paused, "I'm not sick in this world. Nor do I have a daughter."
"THAT is good news," Mallory said, "Seeing how the Seer's daughter Claire was a real..."
"Yes," The Seer stopped him. "Mrs Mallory that you encountered was not lying to you. She did not raise the real, your Quinn, Maggie Beckett's Quinn, Wade's Quinn, Remmie's Quinn. The Professor's Quinn. That Quinn does not have a brother. However, there was another Mrs Mallory, the same Mrs Mallory Quinn met in that prison on Earth and the same one you met and calmed, Mr Mallory."
Mallory nodded, "My head hurts."
"The point is that the Quinn and Colin brothers were not the Quinn you started out with, Maggie. They were adopted. But there is a real Mrs Mallory somewhere that comes from the first Earth that Quinn started from and she did indeed give birth to him."
"And he's inside me," Mallory said, "All mixed up, just like his brother Colin is stuck or rather unstuck in time and space and parallel worlds. Lost, both of them."
The Seer put his hands up, That is not, uhm, entirely true."
"Wait a minute," Maggie came to him, "What are you saying?"
"The way you got here, do you remember?"
"Oh my God!" Diana yelled as a familiar figure walked in. "Dr Oberon Geiger!!!"
Mallory and Maggie rushed him but the Seer blocked their attack with his own body, "NO! STOP!"
"He's the one responsible for killing Colin and Quinn," Maggie yelled, "Just let me at him!"
"No, young lady, calm down," The Seer said.
"They reacted this way when I helped them get here," Geiger said, "I am not your Dr Geiger, Miss Davis."
"You're...." Diana's resolve fell along with her shoulders, "You're not?"
"NO!" Geiger talked over the Seer's shoulder, "I am not."
"It's true," The Seer turned to Mallory and Maggie.
"He does look alittle different," Mallory squinted, "Than the Dr Geiger I knew. Less..."
"Crazy," Geiger put in as the Seer moved aside. He put his hand out and Mallory took it. "I helped you get away from Claire's security forces. Remember that on that last Earth, the Seer there told you there were refugees from other Earths and indeed other times and planets?"
"Vaguely," Maggie said.
"Yes," Diana shot her a look, "I do."
"I was one of those. I followed your pursuits on the television there," Geiger said, "And Knew how evil I was toward you all, especially you, Quinn Mallory. TV also alerted me to your problems and the Seer there asked me to come forth, he knew of my existence but I feared you all, thus I took a long time coming forth. I am sorry."
"Well, you eventually came," Diana said, "Didn't you?"
"Of course, that's why we're here. I came to Claire's attack on you, before she got there, and I, I opened a worm hole for all of us. You, and you two besides. I expanded it and we broke through it and the force field. I destroyed the force field."
"You did?" Mallory turned to look at Diana. Diana shrugged.
"It was the least I could do," Geiger came forward to Diana, "I am nothing like the Geiger you knew."
"Can you?"
"I can."
"What are you two talking in code?" Maggie asked.
"I was about to ask the same thing," Mallory said, "What can you do?"
"I can, with the help of the Seer's fortunes, separate Quinn from Mallory."
"That again," Mallory said, "I don't...we've tried it..."
"Not with me you haven't."
"Trust him. He's the most brilliant mind I've read in all the dimensions I've come across in my exploring," The Seer said, "He can do it."
"Let's get started."
"Wait a sec," Maggie said, "You have your own timer?"
Geiger nodded, "I sure do, Commander Beckett."
"Well, I know this is a long shot but...can I use it to get Remmie back?"
"He's alive and well, the virus killed the Kromaggs and made the rest who did not die, sick. Almost all left," The Seer said.
"Almost?" Maggie said, "Please, give me the timer, Remmie may need my help."
Mallory said, "Our help."
"There is no need. He is safe. There were Kromaggs that helped him. He and Professor Arturo found a way to keep them safe from the virus. And by the way, the Kromagg that first helped them on that Earth was Wade Welles' child's father."
"WHAT????" Maggie gasped. "WHAT?"
to be continued...