Previously:
"Where is your sister?" Izanami suddenly asks, startling Pizoku.
Pizoku tries to answer but words don't come out right away. "I don't actually know."
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"We're here."
Everyone looks along the desert to see the pyramids of Abu Sir. The crumbling ancient ruins seem rather desolate and pathetic in the early morning hours.
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Marisol of Nine smiles up at the Ancient One. "I have a gift for you." She turns to show them Naoki Takenouchi. He waves.
Episode Ninety-One
"Alice Down the Rabbit Hole"
Pizoku sits on a crumbled stone and watches the people around him. Neah is feeling walls. Taylor is standing with his eyes closed. Ashlee and Reese are pacing the ruins. Jilan is hovering near Ma'at. They all seem to have a focus. So does his mother.
"How do you not know what happened to your sister?" Izanami Takenouchi demands. She is most determined to get an answer.
Pizoku sighs and decides to just be honest. "My sister didn't leave Tokyo with me."
"Nonsense, I watched you both board," Izanami argues.
"That wasn't Hikari," Pizoku counters. "It turns out that Hikari has been replaced by an alien android whose purpose isn't entirely something I want to think about." He shudders.
"Nonsense," Izanami argues again. "There's no such thing as aliens."
Pizoku looks at his mother in disbelief. "Mother, you just traveled from Japan to Egypt via a fireball directed by a little girl," He points out. "You're really gonna doubt aliens?" He looks to his right as Jilan walks over to hand him some water. "Mother, meet Neah, Jilan, and Ma'at." He indicates each girl in turn. "They aren't human."
"Bajoran," Jilan says as she points to herself. Izanami looks stunned. Jilan points to Neah. "She's Chainkan, and I have no idea what she is." Jilan admits as she looks at Ma'at.
"Taylor, this is going to take forever," Ashlee finally snaps. She stops and huffs in a large sand pit.
Taylor opens his eyes and sighs as he looks around. "Yeah, I'm beginning to agree."
"Is there an easier way to locate a Portal?" Reese asks. He stands next to the disgruntled Ashlee, but not too close.
"It's around here somewhere," Neah says. She sounds somewhat distracted. "I can feel it."
Ashlee huffs. "They're always somewhere," She spits bitterly. "They're always hidden. Why can't it ever be easy?" She kicks a rock on the ground and it goes flying into a ruin wall just next to Taylor. There is a clicking and a whoosh.
Jilan tilts her head in amused astonishment. "I think she found it."
In the place where Ashlee and Reese had been standing, the large circular form of a Portal now ripples and glows. Ashlee and Reese are no where to be seen, having apparently fallen through.
"Hmm," Neah smiles as she walks toward it. "Buried."
Izanami is looking at the ground in shock. "What is that?"
Pizoku stands up and walks towards it. "An alien device," He says with a smile at her. "Still in doubt mother?"
Izanami watches in shock as her son jumps in.
A bit later, in India
The Great One paces back in forth. He looks down at the kneeling Japanese man. "You are Naoki Takenouchi."
"Yes, I know," Naoki Takenouchi replies. Somehow seeing this so called Great One, doesn't really inspire him with fear.
The Great One stands in front of Naoki. "What do you know?"
"That probably depends on what you want to find out," Naoki replies. His tone is thoughtful.
The Great One pouts. "He is insolent," He turns to Marisol. "Kill him."
"Wait," The South sighs and directs Marisol back. She wafts towards Naoki who seems quite scared of her glowing form. "You were traveling in the desert. Why?"
"You don't already know?" Naoki is a bit surprised. "Shouldn't you be all knowing if you claim to be gods?"
The East has had enough of waiting. "Link to his mind," he tells the South. "If we can't have him speak the truth, we will mine his memories for it."
The South turns to her companion. "It could break him," She warns.
The East bears down on Naoki, who cowers. "We can hope."
To Be Continued...
