A/N1: Here is the next chapter. Our heroes finally reach the temple of the Axis where they are going to see what is needed for them to complete their quest (though not everything and not in exclusive details so they have no way of knowing how difficult it really is going to be but they'll get a glimpse of that too). Anyway, enjoy!

Disclaimer: The characters of Stargate belong to MGM. The characters of Farscape belong to Jim Henson Productions.

Chapter 12

The Temple of the Axis

"Four are the elements that formed the universe. Four are the directions of the world. Four is the number and four is the balance, the balance of the universe.

Four will have to find their way towards each other though they are two, the opposites coming from two alternates but work together they must. The fifth is going to show the way. And the sixth is going to protect the rest. Together they shall free the other two for the faith of the universe presides on their shoulders. " – Silvae Seer Vera 'Visions'

"Have you visited the strangest place? Have you looked up the greatest mystery? Have you known the biggest secret? So clueless they were when they ventured into the Axis – the place the Gods themselves created." – Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Extract from the book 'Universe Wonders', (for reference – see in the upcoming chapters of Selleyra)

The atrium in which Sheppard led his people was so enormous that you could fit in at least a hundred cities like Atlantis. Its height was staggering, so far up was that the ceiling was virtually invisible, instead all that they could see were tiny lights as though they were under the sky itself. The walls were far from each other yet they seemed to be just hundred meters apart.

On the walls there frames of pictures or at least it seemed that way but in fact were doorways. Each was portraying a force of the all mighty nature – a hurricane, a lava eruption, a maelstrom, an earthquake – rise and fall – and it was all vivid. It was not just a picture that stood still – it was process that knew no end. And the sound of it was deafening, the scale of it frightening (for the frames were big and wide as though opened to other worlds).

The floor felt quite odd not very rocky or any kind of material they were usually accustomed to. It was the strangest of all feelings. Rodney even suggested barely audibly that they could be walking on energy (though technically everything is energy but I guess he meant energy in its purest form, which is rare). It felt like they were floating and soaring and walking at the same time.

As they moved further in, the contours of the walls began to fade and slowly being replaced by twinkling lights (as though they were in the all mighty cosmos not some old building). At first, they thought this must be advanced holographic technology (understandable mistake). But with time they came to realize that whatever it was it was not a hologram.

Sheppard who was at the lead noticed in the distance of the twinkling lights the glimmer of silvery light. He remembered what General Hammond had told him 'Follow the silver star' and so he headed towards it with the others trailing behind him.

The walk towards the star was filled with all kinds of surprises along the way. One of those surprises would the passing by mountains of gold, silver and all kinds of gems and other precious stones that were just a hand away. Rodney had almost grabbed one when Mitchell stopped him. "Remember, touch nothing no matter how tempting" He reminded him of Hammond's words. But resisting the stones was only part of the challenge. And it became quite difficult when Rodney and the others spotted the cylindrical orange objects known as ZPMs. They were lying by the hundreds. Just two of them could solve a whole bunch of problems (well maybe a bit more than two). Next to the ZPMs they could see the very blueprints of Atlantis itself, the making of ZPM, the drones and the warships; information so tempting that it was difficult to resist. Mitchell and Sheppard had to throw in all their energy to resist grabbing those things and just as well controlling their friends of the same.

They passed (of course) by many tempting objects and even places. There were even different realities as it seemed from first look. And Mitchell almost lost it as he saw SG-1 alright and healthy going again on missions. He wanted to join them but this time he was stopped by Crichton who had quickly recognized what they were seeing – an unrealized reality. He barely managed to pull Mitchell back.

The Silver Star, their guide, shifted position and Sheppard adjusted. They were now moving right (or rather left but it was very difficult to tell actually for in space finding the direction with or without compass is rather impossible). The list of tempting objects and events vanished and was replaced by all those objects and moments none of them actually wanted to ever relive again (for they were their somewhat good and worst experiences).

(Crichton's moments :)

Crichton grief stricken saw Aeryn dead in that glassy coffin after Scorpius neuron clone, taking over his consciousness landed his module in midair on Aeryn's prowler (the ejection system malfunctioned and Aeryn died in the freezing water of the icy lake beneath).

Then the images shifted showing him the time he had not seen with his own eyes – the time when Aeryn was tortured by the Scarrans on her way to Katratzi. The way she defended her unborn child was staggering and moving. His heart was now full of even bigger love towards his brave and beautiful wife (whose location was still unknown).

The images shuffled again showing this time his son and Molalla, rulers of the world on which they landed. He saw their entire life on the planet with all the successes and failures. But it showed something more. It showed how they died and it was not the way he thought – peacefully – they were tortured and killed by young man with glowing eyes. Tears filled his eyes, which were then replaced by anger.

And again everything faded and reorganized itself. He saw himself standing above his dead wife on the ladder of landed transport pod (in the timeless zone). They were both very old as they had been stuck on a planet in another dimension.

They were on a planet where a certain bug bit them and Aeryn killed a clan leader that almost got her in the world of trouble. Unfortunately, he got bitten too and they almost killed each other. There was also another such moment when they were both delirious and almost killed themselves.

Then at the time when Aeryn needed skin graft and he had to infiltrate the PK base where Scorpius captured and tortured him for days. And Aeryn came to the rescue after recovering. She couldn't let him be in enemy's hands. She had to return the favour.

When she left as he learnt she might be carrying his child and as she returned with heat delirium and was wearing Scorpius' cooling costumes. It was painful for him to see her like this. The time when she was killed on his wedding (as he was imaging it would be on Earth).

This time, the images showed Aeryn on a lonely planet inside a prison her hands bound to the walls. The prison dissolved and its place appeared a courtroom where a judge was testing Aeryn with an odd device (probably for saying the truth or something like it). Then as the images began to fade, Crichton was a glimpse of blast fire.

The images went back in time almost at the beginning of his journey as they visited a crazy scientist who by the simplest extraction of DNA could make a map of your home world. In that mission, Aeryn was transformed into a pilot herself (well almost). But seeing her again brought bitterness.

Then it moved to the time when they swapped bodies. This actually brought Crichton a smile. It was a very curious experience (except the time when Rygel inhabited his body that was a bit painful).

The images resolved on Talyn in one of the chambers where his duplicate was dying of radiation poising. Aeryn was sitting by him, eyes full of tears (who can blame her?). Of this show, he saw all their missions together and Crichton understood better what had happened (words alone sometimes are not enough unless eyes can see and feel).

The images moved to the Shadow depository where he was captured. The neuron clone was taking over as he had left Scorpius for the dead. But Aeryn came for him after he had sacrificed himself for the others. Aeryn showed why PKs are dangerous.

Then everything transformed into a planet that no longer existed and saw his friend Ka D'Argo shooting at the hordes of incoming Scarrans and then slowly dying as the planet was coming apart. Crichton closed his eyes he did not want to continue to see these images. All they were bringing in him was pain. But even through his closed eyes he continued to see them in his mind. His eyes then sought the silver star among the images and stayed fixed on it. That was helping but not by much as he sensed his eyes slipping over his control and returning back to the pain (which continued with the experience of his friends on Moya before he had even met them).

(Mitchell's moments :)

Next to him, stood Mitchell, for him the images were just as painful. It started with the loss of friend, the one called the Priest, during the Anubis attack, and then it continued with his fall on the icy grounds (where he almost died). Then in the hospital where in the intervals in which he was awake he was seeing either his parents, either General O'Neill (telling him he could have any job he wants within the system, of course), and the all of SG-1 – Jackson, Teal'c and Carter (giving him the medal of high valour).

The images shifted revealing this time a planet where SG-1 had come to the rescue of people formerly subservient to Ketesh (Vala) when an ORI prior arrived and started killing (himself included – Dr. Lam couldn't save him). Vala then was doing everything to save these people but nothing worked.

Then the images went backwards and showed the first day when Vala arrived. The moment, they were all stuck in Merlin's caves and almost to be crushed; the sword-fight with the guardian and the finding of the odd device. Jackson and Vala took the stones and this time Mitchell saw everything that actually happened until the time Vala was burnt alive and then the time when both were about to be burnt if not the brilliant idea to throw the device into an open wormhole.

The images shuffled and came to a village where Carter was to experiment with Merlin's dimensional device and hide an entire village. But the plan backfired; he and Carter were the only ones that managed to hide. But Carter was severely injured but she never gave up. She was brave enough to guide him through the complex process he had to make in order to safe the village. Cam thought that this must be enough of this torturous place but he was wrong as he experienced everything Carter did when she vanished into a parallel reality and left them two weeks speaking to an empty room.

But he was not even near the end for the images continued. It went back in time when O'Neill was a captive of Baal. He saw the general die over and over again (alongside with all the torturing methods). He saw his pain and assumed it as his own. This experience was not a pleasant one and he knew what the general must have felt as he had come almost to giving up.

But he had no time to ponder as the torture started again. This time it went somewhere in a very dark place where he saw SG-1 hanging. Their hands bound with ugly looking chains (those Goa'uld are real monsters, Cam thought), blood ensuing. Their faces contorted with pain as some not so nicely looking and pointy objects moved towards them. A wave of pain crossed their bodies and Cam heard their cries and felt their pain, which was agonizing that it was hard not to shout himself. But there was no one that could hear them.

Then it went back again to the time General Landry was the one dying on the quarantine bed. Over him was his daughter, Dr. Lam doing her best to save him but unsuccessfully. Carter and the child were working day and night. He felt all of Orlin's pain while trying to withhold the knowledge.

The images showed a lonely planet. Vala was marching through the woods looking for something or maybe someone. She stopped as though she had heard something but then continued. The scene dissolved and reformed to a village (it looked like the ORI villages). She was moving cautiously until she reached an old barn building. She peered in and smiled, took off her Zat gun then marched in blasts first. The scene faded.

It reformed to the time they were stuck on the Odyssey. He knew not what had happened as it was an unrealized reality. But nonetheless he experienced all those years spent within the second. He saw his bitterness of being stuck on a ship with no way out – alone. Alone? Was he indeed that alone? He had his work but was this enough? The answer came quickly up – no, it wasn't, and it never is.

The images shuffled again moving this time forward back to the Odyssey where he was fighting with the Replicators in the ORI galaxy. Oh, boy, he was bruised and beaten up after this confrontation. The stream of images however showed him what Jackson, Tomin and Vala experienced while they were captured.

The image show moved to more present time as he made the crazy jump from one part of the precipice to the other, nearly missing the spot he was aiming at. But he got up and ran as fast as he could but came too late nonetheless. Vala and the rest of the team except Sergeant Mehra were already stone cold, dead. He carried them, one by one, and then buried them. He took off with Mehra and as he was reaching the Daedalus, the planet exploded sending a shockwave of an unknown origin throughout space (that almost tore apart his craft).

(Rodney's moments :)

Rodney was sitting alone in a dark room. His sister appeared out of nowhere and scared the hell out of him. She always liked the good laugh on his behalf but things had changed since. Later, it was his father and the darn book – Moby Dick, every single night until he started having nightmares about it. The images also showed his experience with that alien entity that had taken the form of Colonel Sheppard. He was on a boat trying to reach for Atlantis. On one side stood that alien and on the other the real Sheppard encouraging him but nonetheless the darn whale came and ate him, and he almost died in the process.

Out of the darkness, he emerged into another nightmare. He was at the back of a damaged jumper sinking deeper and deeper into the ocean. He was severely injured and his consciousness (or imagination) had conjured an evil McKay. No, Rodney shook his head. It was Colonel Carter he had conjured to help him out though he was not listening. But the images did not accept Rodney's input and continued. It was then when he realized that this was an unrealized reality (of what could have happened).

The images reorganized into Atlantis and into the precise moment when Dr. Beckett was burnt alive by the explosive tumour (a technology the Ancients had devised long ago for the war with the wraith). Seeing it happen was even more horrifying than Rodney had imagined.

Then they moved to the point where Atlantis was under siege by the Replicators' beam and as they were taking off the beam grazed the tower. Elizabeth was shot backwards by the exploding glass. She was in critical condition when he had to act. He reactivated her nanites and she came back to herself. Then they went to the city of the Replicators where they lost her. Elizabeth then reappeared but she was merely a copy. And at last she returned as a consciousness and took the body of Fran but they had to dispose of her and her companions for they were a danger and sent them to open space. But the truth was that Rodney always had the feeling (or maybe the hope) that wasn't Elizabeth.

The images shifted to a totally unknown for Rodney place. It was a city in the clouds or a city built of clouds, Rodney wasn't sure. He was standing on a hill where there was one tree but a big tree. Its bark had the most unusual color – silver and its leaves were mat. The fruits were golden orange and looked really juicy. Suddenly a light blinded his eyes but as he noticed the light was moving towards him. In the light he saw the outlines of a figure. He blinked once then twice. Were his eyes playing tricks on him for what he was actually seeing? The figure was dressed upside down in black clothes and had a mantle reaching nearly the ground. The figure smiled at Rodney though he still couldn't see the face well. It moved closer to Rodney and whispered a few words in a language unknown to him.

"Ellentia An Dame vervau. Vir Atlant nest on'amen. Veil Mortis und hales een Gallean." – then spoke in English – "Remember them for the time when you'll need them." And it repeated the phrase as did Rodney trying to remember it (and he did but for that later).

Rodney quickly asked back – "How would I know when the time has come?"

The figure had smiled and said – "You will know when it is right."

"Who are you? Are you…? Elizabeth?" – Rodney couldn't resist but ask as the figure had become clearer and looked remarkably like Elizabeth despite the unusual outfit (and though he had not recognized the voice but truth to be said the voice was coming from all directions so it was difficult to make it out). But he received no answer (instead a gentle touch by the dew falling off the tree) as everything around him faded away.

He was back at the Arcturus Project lab where he witnessed the death of his colleague by the deadly radiation when he was trying to make it produce zero point energy from our own universe space time. He saw that again and again and again. And then the blast of the whole solar system.

These experiences in the whole were not horrible or particularly painful for him but it reminded him of his pride and mistakes (except the one of the cloud city, which was the strangest experience for him).

(Sheppard's moments :)

He was flying over the desert. He had just disobeyed orders. But he couldn't simply stand and do nothing while his friends were in danger. Then he was again in the desert – with Holland heading west. But he bumped into the enemy – he had to shoot otherwise he would be the one shot. Nonetheless, Holland didn't make it though he did somehow.

The images shifted. He was flying to the Antarctic with General O'Neill aboard when a bright light appeared in the sky – a missile he had never seen in his life. O'Neill ordered him to evade it and for some time he did before landing and the darn thing was deactivated. He then entered into the place that later propelled his career and found the one who had shot that darn thing at him – a med doctor named Beckett. He told him of the Ancients, an advanced civilization that has built the stargates (what the hell is that – he asked himself). And then he sat on the chair and an image of the solar system appeared, and his life changed forever. He joined Dr. Elizabeth's team and went to explore another galaxy.

Then the images zoomed to the very first mission. The city shields were about to fail. They went to a village and found Teyla who told them about the wraith. Teyla's pendent drove the wraith there. And then he was on the wraith ship searching for survivors. He finally found them but went to look for Colonel Sumner. He found him already aged by the touch of the wraith. He had to kill him. He had no choice but spare him the pain. Sheppard closed his eyes for he was seeing that every time he went to sleep (looking and asking himself could he have saved him but now he was sort of at peace so this memory did not bother him much).

The ship faded only to be replaced with the next sequence. His worst enemy in the galaxy has taken hold of the city – Acastus Kolya. He had killed two guards and threatened to kill Rodney and Elizabeth. Sheppard took the matters into his own hands. As the city was close to be wiped by a giant wave he made his moves and saved everyone. Then it went to another time when he met Kolya again. They were trying to retrieve a ZPM but failed. Then Kolya captured him and made to Atlantis a demand for jumpers but Elizabeth refused and Kolya let a wraith feed on him. But the whole thing backfired on the genii. Then in a village where Lucius Lavin was playing the villagers, Kolya appeared again and Sheppard shot him thinking he was done with him. Unfortunately, Kolya reappeared again on New Lantea and he had to deal with him again. But this time he did care of him. He wasn't going to come back again. The quest of vengeance is complete but the experience was the most unpleasant one.

The last sight of Kolya vanished to be replaced by the beautifully seductive Larrin. The woman he could safely say was his match. She was beautiful, smart and quite dangerous. She had kidnapped him, and then threatened to kick him off in space unless he helped her. Of course, he did nothing of the kind. He tried to escape but ran into wraith and had to save her. And he did but she captured him again. But afterwards they did work together on many occasions.

Larrin vanished and Sheppard went back in time when they discovered two shuttle pods. They contained dying members of two races that were enemies. Elizabeth became then (temporarily host of one them) and he too. That was a very unpleasant experience too as his consciousness; his essence was pushed deep while the other was controlling his body. That individual almost got killed and himself alongside. The feeling of total helplessness was not lost upon him.

Then he appeared in the ascension zone where he became trapped. He had crossed a time dilation field. He stayed there about six months (zone's time) and was starting to think that his people might not come. And in the same time, he was fighting something that nearly killed him several times.

Then he was in a forest and fighting the half wraith girl. She injured him and several days later he started to turn into wraith himself. But he emerged alright for his friends and colleagues did not give up on him when he had almost given up himself.

Then all shifted to a forest planet with lovely colors as probably autumn had come. Sheppard was at the lead, followed by Rodney, Teyla and Ronon. Somewhere behind was Crichton starring at the beauty of the surrounding environment. Ten wraiths appeared out of woods. A battle ensued but they were losing and badly and then out of nowhere two figures wrapped in dark green robes appeared. They were hooded and bore bows. The arrows that flew struck down the wraith so quickly that he had barely seen them taking them out. Sheppard was relieved as he was about to be sucked dry (well the wraith was getting to the point but an arrow took away his chance) but his smile faded quickly as the bows turned into their direction.

Everything faded away. He was in a space suit floating freely in space – totally alone. There was nothing but the stars on the background. His ship was in shambles though he wasn't in danger of one of those pieces hitting him. His air was running out. He was soon going to pass away. Help wasn't coming. He felt alone just as he was when he was propelled 48 thousand years into the future and with the help of McKay's hologram managed to return back to his time. But this time there was no one to help him out. And then hope crept into his spirit. A strange looking shuttle appeared near him and in it was the most beautiful woman. Her hair was shinning like the sun on a bright day. Her glimmering green eyes met his. She smiled and beamed him on board. He was in heavens but his heaven. It was his woman, his life and heart. How he knew that he did not know. Sheppard shook his head and the question popped up – who was that woman – but he had no answer. Maybe he was seeing into the future or was it simply a possibility – there was no answer.

As the image was fading he noticed a strange distortion in the space ahead. The Silver Star was peering from the other side. Sheppard turned around and said: "Follow me! Grab each other's hands and after me!"

The others as though waking up from a dream obeyed. Each grabbed the hand of the person before him and behind him. The group entered into the distortion and found themselves into a place only one Ancient has ever reached – Janis.

Janis was right about this place. They were so amazed and stunned that to be honest with you words can hardly describe the place (though I shall certainly try). Among all the stars in space, they were standing between so many torrents and currents that can hardly give even an approximate number. Maybe it's like being in the ocean but instead of vast blue field you see only the beds with the flowing rivers, torrents and currents crossing each other forming a complex web of a tunnel like system or even better a giant labyrinth. And in each current you see 'the faces of countless people and creatures like embers into the fire that pass and go', just as Janis had described it (though this only gives you an idea of the grandeur and massiveness of the sight they were seeing).

Then as they crossed one of the torrents, it took the whole space of space itself and began shifting, fading and shuffling all kinds of images before Rodney realized they were crossing incredulously fast between the different realities or dimensions of the torrent. This realization made them believe that each of the torrents might be a universe in itself.

They continued crossing from one torrent into the next following the Silver Star. And the same experience continued to happen every single time until they reached the Silver Star that grew bigger and bigger as a portal, which Sheppard ventured even without a second thought.

The group found themselves into a large and spacious room. In the center pending from the ceiling was a sort of chandelier. It was in shinning crystal or diamond and its beauty unchallenged. Under it on the floor laid engraved four stars, the outlines of each shinning in silvery light.

Sheppard somehow knew what to do though he wasn't sure how.

"Mitchell, step into that one." – Sheppard pointed and Mitchell perplexed obeyed. "Commander into this one." – Sheppard gestured to the one opposite of Mitchell. Crichton obeyed though just as puzzled as Mitchell. "And Rodney, you and I into the other two."

"Do you have any idea what's the purpose?" – Rodney inquired.

"No, but we're going to find out." – Sheppard shrugged.

Rodney stepped a bit reluctantly into the star shape and the moment he did the shining outlines faded but the four felt stuck and as though rooted to the floor (and part of it). Light appeared under their feet and started climbing their bodies. They felt their bodies' sort of dissolving, no transforming and combining with the light. They tried to move out of the star shapes but unsuccessfully for they had no longer bodies they have become light and they had no control of it.

The light reached the chandelier and its beauty became all dark, pitch black. All the light in the room vanished. It was even darker than pitch black darkness. Then slowly, without warning, tiny lights appeared right where the chandelier was. As it appeared it weren't small lights but one. And it grew and grew until it reached the size of a small ball. Then it exploded. The explosion illuminated the whole room for a split moment.

What was left of the explosion now looked like a very intensely lit mass without form that was expanding, at first slowly then with more speed until it formed another formless mass. And then another and another, and as the others understood they were witnessing the creation of the universe (or at least the way they thought of it).

Thus they saw the formation of countless galaxies with billion layers not only of subspace but of realities, dimensions and planes. The sight to anyone would be staggering and to them was just as stunning. The grandeur of the universe had no limit (and this is a concept the humans and most of all the other species have a great difficulty with).

The universe was formed now. Billions of galaxies floated in the room, their light illuminating their faces. The chandelier reappeared and under it the four men – Mitchell, Rodney, Crichton and Sheppard.

"Wow! That's a hell of a thing." – Mitchell exclaimed.

"Come to agree with you!" – Sheppard said. "Rodney?"

"I'm fine." – Rodney replied. "This was amazing. But there are no words for it…"

"Especially for a scientist." – Crichton completed his pattern of thoughts.

"Why are we here? And what are we looking for?" – Rodney asked.

"We are looking for the next clue of course, if there is any." – Mitchell said.

In answer to Mitchell, a galaxy group enlarged itself just near them. It was the Local Group of galaxies – Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum. A dark spot appeared in the Milky Way. And Mitchell recognized it immediately. It was the fatal planet for SG-1 – P99-999. Then the local group doubled, tripled, quadrupled and so on into so many layers that it became totally shocking and just as big as the universe itself. But those were the different dimensions, planes and realities within the local group. The dark spot seemed to be present everywhere (everywhere – well no – not everywhere). There was only one place where the spot wasn't present. And shockingly enough it was in a place that was very familiar for Crichton – his own reality.

The local group then vanished only to be replaced by a new one. This one they had never visited. It was further than they have ever reached (some four hundred million light years away). Rodney tried to remember its configuration so he can find it later. He had the distinct feeling they will have to go there. And he was right. Out of that local group, a galaxy enlarged. It was a cat eye galaxy. The galaxy then showed it in the reality of Crichton. From it, a solar system came into view. It had sixteen planets and the twelfth planet grew larger. A silvery dot appeared near the North Pole and as they understood it was the place they had to go. From there the dot zoomed and crossed into another reality and as they understood an alternate reality and back to their local group. But the dot was not in the Milky Way, it was at Andromeda. And as they saw the shape of the local group was very different.

"This is in the future." – Rodney noticed.

"How far into the future?" – Sheppard inquired.

"Oh, I'm not sure but I'll say somewhere between a thousand and ten thousand years." – Rodney answered.

At the image of a planetary system in the Andromeda appeared two different sets of writings and as they assumed logically they were names but the letters were unknown. The planetary system was quite unusual though. It had one star, only one planet and one moon. And it appeared cut off from the rest of the galaxy as though it was an entirely separate entity.

A sign of freedom appeared and they understood it. They had somehow to free the entire solar system out of its bubble. This task was to say the least close to impossible (but then again if they'd thought their quest will be an easy one they were certainly mistaken).

The Andromeda galaxy moved aside to make place for the Pegasus and back into their own reality. It showed them a solar system. It contained the largest amount of planets they've ever thought possible in the Pegasus – twenty four. On the sixteenth, the silver dot pointed towards the equator and for their biggest help it provided the star address.

"I guess this is our first stop." – Sheppard remarked.

"Why?" – Rodney asked.

"I think that would be because it showed the sequence of where we have to go backwards." – Crichton replied instead of Sheppard who nodded.

"Yes, I think so too." – Mitchell said. "First we have to visit this planet. Then reach in Crichton's reality and go to that galaxy. From there we will appear into the future of Andromeda galaxy and then back to Crichton's where I guess everything will come to an end."

"Yeah, that sums it up!" – Sheppard concluded.

And as he said it everything went dark. As the light reappeared they blinked unbelievingly. They were in the puddle jumper floating in space and before them New Lantea. They were back home.

A/N2: Just a point – the temple of the Axis is much larger and vast in its wonders and our heroes had the pleasure of seeing a tiny part of it. But more of the temple will be seen in a later chapter.

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