"Okay, so at this point I'm tired mehn."
Bolt exhaled as he walked into the main room, Death Rider following him from behind and who they saw put them both in shock.
"Mary!"
Both exclaimed as they set their eyes on Mary in front of a monitor.
"M-M-Mary."
Death Rider said muffling as he walked up to her and placed his palms on her face.
"Hey Jason, what's wrong? Is everything alright?"
Mary asked before Death Rider stepped back composing himself.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just that my sister, my Mary, died in my world."
"Oh I see, you are from another dimension, a Paradime."
"First of all, what? Secondly, what are you doing here, and thirdly, how are you here?"
Bolt shot out with confusion and surprise as Mary just chuckled before replying.
"You know the infinite parallel dimensions, I call them Paradimes. I've been studying about it for a while now trying to know if it really existed and he is proof… Then to your other questions, I am your sister, I know everything about you, including you are Bolt. I've been watching you."
"What the?!"
Bolt then fell on a seat head facing the ceiling.
"Always the smart one."
Death Rider commented as he took a seat.
"What?!"
Bolt on hearing that screamed out with jealousy.
"Okay, so why he's here is because of a quantum divider."
Mary putting up some images on the screen.
"Yeah, yeah. Angel told me that."
Bolt scoffed
"I'm lost here."
Death Rider raising up his hand to indicate.
Angel suddenly came out of Bolt rising up into the air and levitating.
"Woaw! Give me a warning before you do that Angel!"
["Oh well my bad jelly beans."]
["I am Angel, a sprite from a far away world. I am the reason why that big baby over there is Bolt."]
"I so hate you Angel."
Bolt fumbling and wiggling on the seat like an intoxicated person.
"Awwn, the love between them is so cute."
Mary said with a soft voice, while Death Rider just laughed.
["As I was saying. A quantum divider defies most laws of physics and tears a hole in the fabric of space-time and reality itself. It creates a gateway to other dimensions."]
"And how Black Slinger was able to open a gateway was through DNA."
"DNA? How so Mary?"
"If he's searching for a particular dimension, it has to be based on the DNA of either him or somebody else. That makes the list of dimensions that meets his criteria shorter."
["She's right. Because that explains why you, Death Rider, are here from another dimension. You see, Jason here, our Jason got caught up with the divider and his DNA definitely got mixed up with the divider changing the chain of commands and bringing Jasons from other dimensions."]
"So that means the chances of other Jasons being here in our dimension is high?"
Bolt asked and Mary replied
"Yep, exactly."
***
TwoYearsAgo
"My name is Alexander Cage. For over ten years I've been known as the ruthless hitman, The Black Slinger."
"I killed, slaughtered, murdered all for money, all to live a better life. The life I was denied by my parents before I killed them."
"They made me do it, involving their 6 year old in robbery. I couldn't take it anymore so I just did it. And it felt really good, it gave me a taste of the fact that peace wasn't a charade."
"So I wanted more."
"Over the years of my life I fell in love. Sophia, she was beautiful, voice like an angel and she made me feel something other than bloodlust."
"We got married, I never told her I was the most wanted hitman in the nation."
"We had a son, Micheal who had the eyes of his mother."
"My wife found out eventually that I was The Black Slinger due to that damn hero Bolt. He caught me off guard and I was arrested finally."
"Sophia was broken, she spat on my face and told me she hated me the last time she came to visit me in prison."
"That made me think of it all. All the sins I had committed throughout my entire life, my search for peace and true happiness."
"I thought I found it in my family, but it turned out that we can never truly run from the past nor run from our sins."
"I finally understood that the peace I seeked all my life, lies within death."
"And fate answered my prayers. I was sentenced to death for having countless murder cases tied to me."
"The day before my execution Sophia came. I couldn't believe it, but it was her. She came with bad news though."
"My son Micheal had been killed. There was nothing I could do behind these walls, I didn't say a word to her and just returned to my cell."
"My execution came. I was to be injected with the lethal dose that would put me out of my misery."
"I can't remember what happened, but I lost consciousness obviously because I died, but I woke up in an alley."
"In my trouser left pocket, I found a card, containing an address and so I followed it going to the house, ringing the door bell and you Owei Samuel responded, and that is how we met."
"Not bad for a history lesson Alex."
A dark skinned man wearing a tuxedo and holding a wine glass, sitting on a luxurious chair said.
"So why did you break me out of prison and bring me here?"
Alex standing before the man
"The man who killed your son, his name is Jonathan Will. I will give you his location and every info you need, but on one condition."
"If, if I was interested what would that condition be?"
"I want the infamous Black Slinger to be the one to do it and stand by my side."
"I guess I'll pass with this offer. I have sinned enough and this life you want me to return back to, it can't work out."
"Oh you think dying will give you redemption? Or not being who you are meant to be is your way out? Now that's foolish. You can't run from your past kid. And if Will killed your son, what's stopping him from taking out Sophia, deep down you and I know that you still love her."
"That's enough!"
"No need to get all feisty. This is inevitable Alex, your fate has been written, destiny awaits."
Alex left the mansion and got to his crib.
Picking up his old outfit, an all black tuxedo, black inner shirt, black trousers and shoes, then his guns sheathed by the sides of his waist alongside knives.
"Just one last time and for Michael."
Alex left to the location of Will.
He was faced with lots of armed forces, but those were nothing in the eyes of the infamous Black Slinger.
Killing them all, a bullet between the eyes, he got his revenge.
Alex made up his mind and went home to meet his wife, but he was welcomed with a dismembered corpse of his wife, and with her blood was written on the wall saying—
'Everywhere you go Black Slinger, death follows'
With rage he stormed to Samuel's house, killing any guard that tried to stop him till he reached his office.
"You caused this! If I had been in jail, faced my sentence, my wife wouldn't have been killed."
His gun on Samuel's head.
"Calm down kid. There is a way you can still be with them."
"What do you mean?"
"What if I told you that you could go far away to a world and be with your wife and son, and finally have the peace you seemed all your life."
"Go on?"
Alex lowering his gun and listening to Samuel.
"With a quantum divider, and syncing the DNA of your wife and son, you can open a gateway to another dimension where they are alive and you can be with them till the end."
"And how do we get this divider?"
"My team is currently working on that."
TheDayTheDividerWasActivated
It took two years for the divider to be completely built.
In a camp on the outskirts of Lagos State, there Samuel made base and Alex by his side.
"You see Alex, you can have your wife and son back, a whole new world."
"Yes you are right, but…
"You don't get to live in it."
BANG!
Without a moment to think, Alex pulled out his gun and blew the brains of Samuel.
All the scientists in the room and everybody gasped with shock, panic and distress began to rise slowly, but Alex gave the order.
"Phantom, Viper, Wraith, and Crawler. You work for me now… Keep them under control, we activate the divider in thirty minutes."
"To Owei Samuel—
In another lifetime, do not play with forces you can't control. Always let sleeping dogs lie.
Yours truly—
The monster they made, The Black Slinger."