"12th of March, 2030, 60 KM outside Tehran, 2:00 PM."

"How much time we've left until we reach the test area?" I asked the driver.

"Just extra 10 minutes and we will be there." He replied.

"Good, add more speed." I ordered.

"Yes sir." He then did as I ordered.


"Welcome General! I h-hope you had a good tri-"

"Cut the crap Benjamin! How is the Hydra? Is it usable?"

"Y-yes sir! You w- will see ever- everything in the testing today." He said in a cracked voice.

"Good job Benjamin." I patted on his face. "Let's see your good work, shall we?"

"Y-yes sir, w- w-we shall." Then he led us to the testing area.

David Benjamin is a Jewish scientist that we captured in Tel Aviv after the end of Israel, unlike many others, he was the one to offer us his services for the safety of his and his family. He thinks that we will kill him the moment we don't need his knowledge or if he didn't comply. This won't happen for sure. Not the way he thinks it will happen, if we don't need him anymore I won't kill him like an animal. But he will be other things waiting for him.

"Are John, Ali and Kido here?" I asked.

"Ye- yes sir. They are here right now."

"Good, I'd like to see them."


"The general has arrived!" The soldier guarding the gate declared, everyone turned their attention to me and gave a salute except for a few Japanese soldiers (Many Japanese mercenaries didn't leave and stayed to serve in the normal army) who instead bowed.

"You! Come here!"

"Yes sir!" they stood in front of me

"I think I warned you many times before about not bowing! Am I right?"

"We're just following the traditions of our peop-"

"You aren't in Japan! You are in the Middle East! And bowing here is a sign of weakness, not respect! This shall be your last warning! Understand!?"

"Hai! (Yes!)"

"Good! Ensraf! (Dismissed!)"

And we continued in our way to the testing site.


"This the 26th time we test the Hydra Benjamin, I've wasted too much time and money on this project. If it didn't work this time we will cancel it!"

"It will work this time I promise! Please don't do that!"

"We will see. Then I will decide after that."

"The sky is clear today, isn't it?"

I turned around to see who said that, it was the three companions of mine, John, Ali and Ching.

"Yes, it is." I said coldly.

"Aren't you happy to see us? We didn't meet for 4 months."

"I'm just too focused on the tests of today."

"The Hydra? Nah, don't worry about it, things will be fine."

"I've spent 200 million dollars and 7 years of waiting, I really want it to work."

"It will work sooner or later, don't worry about it." John said.

"Why're you so sure?"

"I checked it, it is the most stable prototype so far, I am positive that it won't explode this time or dysfunction this time."

"I can only hope that you're right." I replied.

Then I felt the ground under me start to shake violently!

"Earthquake! Evacuate the area!" I cried, everyone started to run into different directions, so did I.

One of the cars stopped and the driver cried:"Sir! Quick! Over here!"

I ran with all the power I got to reach the car and in the last second, the ground cracked and I fell into the crack to fall unconsciousness.


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"... General Ahmed d *shshshshshs* copy!... Anyone there? Hello?"

I hardly began to wake up hearing the voice of the man screaming in the radio, I tried to stand up and managed to hardly, then I grabbed the radio to answer.

"To whoever is there, this is General hearing you loud and clear, over."

"Thank god! We thought you were dead, where are you now? Over"

"Ummmm... No idea actually, just hang in there until I try to figure it out, over."

"Alright sir, over."

I putted down the radio, now where am I?

First time I fell into a crack, I found 16,500 tons of gold. What will I find today?

There was no need for a flashlight since the sun light was illuminating everything, but there was something that was really odd...

An old chest half buried in the ground.

"What do we've here?" I got closer and got it out of the dirt.

"Opening the chest can wait later, now I need to get out of here." I said to myself.

I opened the radio again:"Hey, you still there?"

"..." He disconnected, great!

"To all units, this general Ahmed, does anyone hear me?!"

"This B-120 tank from the 4th tank division, we hear you loud and clear sir, over."

"Listen up, I've fallen into a crack from the earthquake earlier, the crack is in the west side of the base, I want you to come and get me out of there now! Understand?"

"Understood, coming to you now, over and out."

I turned off the radio and put it back in my belt and sat down waiting for the rescue.


"30 minutes later."


"Hello! Anyone here?" A voice cried, that must be the help!

"Over here!" I shouted.

One man appeared from the top holding a rope.

"Is that you general?"

"Yes, drop the rope now!"

"Coming to you now sir!" And he threw the rope to me, before I climbed I hitched the rope with the chest, then I tied it around me.

"pull me up now!"

"Yes sir!"

And they slowly pulled me to the surface, and when I was close enough for them one raised his arm.

"Take hold of my hand sir!"

I quickly grabbed his arm and he lifted me up to the surface. I sat on the ground since I was really tired.

"Oh God, you have a quite big injury in head and arm sir! You must be treated now!" The soldier said, he turned to the tank crew:"Does any of you have a first-aid-kit?!"

"I do, let me help him." A voice came out from behind of the crowd, they cleared up the way to reveal a bit short Japanese-corporal-ranked-soldier, he was one of the soldiers I shouted at earlier because of the bowing thing.

He went down to my level, then he brought some bandages, Antiseptics and cotton then he spilled some of the Antiseptics on the piece of cotton.

"Stay tight sir, this will hurt a little." He said.

"It's not the first time to get injured, I know this will hurt like hell."

He chuckled a little and said:"Just hold still sir, I'll be quick."

He gently putted the piece of cotton on the cut on my head which send a burning feeling through my body, I tried so hard not to shiver but it happened anyway.

After he purified the wounds he warped the bandages around my head and my injured arm.

"Thank you..."

"Hirohito." He said. "My name is Hirohito sir."

"Are you named after who I think he is?"

"Yes, he is."

(A.N: If you somehow didn't get the joke, Hirohito is the military leader of Japan during WWII, he has quite history.)

We both gave a small laugh.

"You don't seem really angry from what happened earlier."

"I can't, I must obey my master and never complain."

"Part of the traditional Japanese culture that I thought has extincted."

"It didn't."

"Let's get to more serious topic, what's the damages that happened to the base?" I asked.

"Half of the buildings collapsed, but no one was killed or injured." Hirohito said.

"Very well." I said. "Help me get up now."

He helped me to stand up.

"And grab that box if you don't mind." I said.

"Yes sir." He said.

I sat on the top of the tank and said:"Get us to the HQ now."

"On it now." The tank commander said

"What's in the chest sir?" Hirohito asked.

"We will find out."


"Tehran base's HQ, 7;30 PM"

I was being checked by a doctor to make sure there was no serious issues in hand.

"Is everything good doc?" I asked.

"No need to worry sir, you're good, just remember to change the bandages once a day."

"Okay, you're dismissed."

"Sir!" He gave a military salute then left the room.

The moment he left, Kido, Ali and John entered the room and gave a military salute.

"Rest." I said, they lowered their hands.

"How're you sir?" John said.

"Fine, thanks for asking." I said, then I stood up and walked slowly to a table that had the mysterious chest on it.

"You see this chest?"

"Yes sir, what about it?" Ali said.

"I found it buried underground where I fell into, and I think it has something special."

John started to look to the chest in a weird way.

"Why I feel like I'll be part of the strangest fiction story the world ever faced?" He said.

"Maybe because we'll be soon." Kido answered.

"Less talking, more lock picking." I said then I pulled some tools to open the chest's lock.

After five minutes the chest was ready to give us his secrets.

"Everyone's ready?" I asked.

John:"Yes."

Ali:"Eftah el-snodouk ya fandim (Open the chest now sir.)"

Ching:"Kako no himitsu o misetekudasai. (Show us the secrets of the past.)"

Me:"Alright, here goes nothing."

Craaakkkk*

"What's in it?!" The three asked at one voice.

"There's a... Book, envelope and a map."

"That's it?" John said

"Yes, that's it. I will open the envelope and see what's in it."

I pulled a dagger from my belt and carefully opened the envelope to find a folded letter inside of it. I unfolded the letter and started to read loudly:

"To the fellow human who reads this, you're about to find out about something that no one could believe, yet it's true. This is something that humanity didn't discover until the moment you started to read this modest letter, far, far away, there's another world. A world that has a complete other life away from here, the world of Mobius, its habitats call themselves Mobians obviously, and... ... ... they aren't humans, but as intelligent as humans, even more sometimes. They are animal-like but they are just like us, they walk on two legs, have two arms, wear clothes, and of course, they don't have mating season or anything that makes them like the animals, they are different spices, hedgehogs, wolfs, foxes, bats, echidnas and chipmunks, but life stock animals and horses are still what they are, mindless animals, the realm of Mobius is ruled by the Acorn dynasty keeping the realm strong and united. Mobians are good people, I've enjoyed their company and you'll do too! But you shouldn't go as your human form, I've putted a book that will let you master the inner powers of the body, and from it you can transform into one of them, and from there you can learn about a lot of things about the inner powers and its many abilities you can inquire. Learning takes time but some people are gifted and can perform the abilities without the need of learning, and of course we can't forget that you will use the inner powers to teleport to that world, and to anywhere...

There's no more here from me to tell you, you should go and find out for yourself.

Love: unknown, 1968."

I carefully put down the letter and looked to my companions, they were as confused as I was.

"Before we decide anything about that, who thinks that's just a dumb fairy tale?" I asked. They all raised their hands.

"And who wants to see if that's true?" They hesitated for a minute but they agreed in the end.

"Let's see what in the book then." I picked the the book and I cleaned the dust of him then I opened it carefully.

"Chapter 1: The transform.

Welcome to the book that will give you the secrets of the inner power of the body, you will master it for sure. But First of all, there's no weird spells to say or some sacrifice to be done,that only happens in the movies my friend. What do you only need is focus, do something that helps you to focus and isolate you from the outside world. After that, you need to clear your mind from any negative ideas as much as as you can, make your mind look like a blank white piece of paper. After that, keep repeating in your mind:'I'm a Mobian' for a plenty of time, and when you feel the right moment, pop your fingers and PAM you're a Mobian now and you're welcome!

(Note:1- if you want to turn someone else into a Mobian form you should hold his arm and do the same steps before. 2-Do the same steps to return human again. 3- If you're gifted with the inner powers you can turn large numbers easily from a distance. 4- at advanced levels, you can make a portal to Mobius and automatically turn people who enter the portal into Mobians, but it's really complicated (again, if you are gifted you can do it easily.))

End of chapter 1"

"Alright, I want from you total silence you three so that I can focus." I said, they nodded.

I sat on the ground on my knees and closed my eyes.

"So, what was it? Oh yes, I want to be a Mobian. I wanna be a Mobian."

I suddenly felt some sort of energy in my body for some reason. That must be working!

"Just a little more, almost there! I can feel it!"

Then a bright golden glow surrounded me, I felt like I was floating in the air.

The guys was panicking from what was happening.

"Sir that's enough! Please stop now!" John shouted.

I can't stop now, I'm so close.

The glow was getting brighter. And the energy flow was getting stronger.

"That's it, just a little more..."

"Sir please stop! That's too dangerous!"

"A little more..."

"That's it! I'll stop him myself." John approached me.

"And-"

*trick*

*explosion*

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*Consciousness recovered*

I opened my eyes to find a big cloud of smoke in the whole room that prevented me from seeing anything.

"Wow... that was crazy, right guys?" I asked.

"Yeah *cough, cough* you sent us flying across the room." John groaned.

"It's not my problem that you weren't careful enough." I said.

"Did that even work anyway?" Kido asked.

"There's only one way to find out." John said.

The moment he said that the smoke faded.

They were just staring at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Well sir... you've gone from 185cm to around 148cm, and there's a... fur on your skin." Ali said.

I looked at my hand to see what happened to it, it was covered with fur.

"Oh... My... God... That actually worked."

"The general is now a real furry!" Kido was really excited.

All of us gave him the 'what the fuck' kind of look.

"I mean..." He lowered his head. "Looks like it's real after all."

"If I searched your stuff, I'm sure that I will find furry stuff. But that's a topic for another day."

I checked myself carefully to see what have changed.

"The uniform shrank to the new body or am I imagining?"

"No sir, it's a perfect fit for some reason." John said.

I took off the bandages of my head.

"Careful sir you wwwwwhaaa...?" John was lost when he saw that the head injury has fully recovered.

"Like it never existed." They were as confused as fuck.

I took off the jacket and the shirt and remained topless.

"What am I supposed to be now?"

"I think you should be a hedgehog now, given that you have quills on your head and back." Kido said.

"Quills?" I felt on my head to sense some quite sharp quills.

"This is really crazy." I said.

"Did I mention that your eye pupils are merged?" John said.

"WHAT!?"

"See by yourself." He opened a drawer and brought a small mirror then he gave it to me, I looked into it to find that was true.

"That could be the greatest science fiction ever, except it's a reality." I said.

To get a clear image how did look like, imagine this: a 148 cm hedgehog with golden fur and with a big dark brown stripes on my back quills and arms, the colour of my eyes is yellow. For some reason I don't feel there's nothing wrong about me now.

"Alright, looks like I can do the inner powers thing without training, who wants to try next?"

"Me." Kido raised his hand.

"Ten minutes of instructions later."

"You know what to do Kido?"

"Yes sir, I do."

"Ok, wait until we take cover behind the couch then you can start." He nodded, we then took cover to be safe.

"Okay, do your ma-"

*BOOOM*

The smoke cloud filled the room again.

"*cough, cough, cough* Holy shit did you finish it already!?" I stood up to see what did he transform into.

When the smoke faded away, Kido appeared from the smoke, as a fox.

"Ta Daaaa!"

Kido transformed into a fox, with dark orange fur and a white long tail with a white end, his eyes was yellow as well, he had a white stripe on his right eye like a scar, and his eye pupils wasn't merged.

"Hey! Your eye pupils are normal."

"Really? That's good!" He smirked.

Ali then turned into a fox with a black fur but some of his head and ears was white, he had a black colored eyes.

And finally John took the form of a really white colored wolf. his eyes was green.

After each of us discovered his odd new form we returned as humans.

"Now let's check the map." I said.

We unfolded the map to see the world of Mobius, apparently it was made of 4 big islands, South island, Middle island, Floating island, is it actually floating? And the island of the great Mobian desert. They are really big (each one is half size of Asia) and there's very big areas of ocean between them.

"What do you think of all of this? Should we check it?" I suggested.

"Well, there's nothing urgent happening, the federal governments are stable, and you practically don't really rule anything. So why the hell not!" John said.

"We gotta organize an expedition." Ali said.

"Yeah, an expedition. I like the sound of that." I said. "200 elite European light infantrymen, 70 armoured trucks, 10 drones and maybe couple of the 'Fatih' tanks. Not to mention a few rearchers to study the area, sounds like a plan?"

"Sounds like a plan!" Everyone said.


"15th of April 2030, 4:00 AM, 50 outside Baghdad."

"Troops?"

"Armed and ready."

"Supplies?"

"Enough for 5 months."

"Research team?"

"They know what to do."

"Do they understand that they will become into?"

"Yes, they do."

"Then it's time for the expedition to go." I said, then I grabbed my rifle and got out of the tent to face the 200 soldiers army standing in square formation.

"You ready men!?"

"Yes we are Sir!" They all replied in one voice.

"In 3... 2... 1..."

*Trick*Gold bright appeared and almost blinded us, when it faded, everyone turned into that Mobian form.

And finally, I opened that portal.

It was a half circle shape. Its width was about 50 meters, and the other world could be seen through it.

"Follow me my soldiers, today... We will face the biggest discovery that the humanity ever came across. You must be proud! MARCH!"

We all one by one entered the portal to the other side.

If only I had known what was I getting myself into...