The three men from before arrive back at the Proffesor's lab and head straight to him. Down hallway after hallway, staircase after staircase, they eventually meet a giant vault door with a camera pointed toward them. Garrett waves to it and shows the camera his I.D.
"Hello! Proffesor were back!" The giant door lets out a loud hiss and slowly creaks open. On the otherside is an elderly man with a large snow-white beard, sporting a large blue lab coat and a pair of white scrubs. The men step in the large room filled with a lot of scientific and magical equipment. The overly excited proffesor eagerly walks up to the men with an odd device in his hands.
"What did you find?" Garret takes out the device from before and hands it to the Proffesor. He claps his hands and walks over to a large machine and inserts the device. A large map of the city appears with many different colored blots and blobs. Many numbers flash on the screen and the proffesor stares at the screen expectingly. A few loud beeps later and the Proffesor pulls out a small device that looks like a phone.
"Yes, yes! It seems something or someone has made it through!" The two men with Garret throw their hands in the air, waving off the Proffesor.
"Alright were done! Cya Garret, good luck with this lunatic!" Garret gives them a fake smile and sits down in a chair. As the two men leave, Garret addresses the Proffesor.
"Alright, what'd YOU find?" His voice jumps up, emphasizing the you in his sentence. The Proffesor throws the phone-like device to Garret and he catches it. He taps the device and it shines to life. Not sure of what he's looking at he rubs his eyes and goes back to rexamining it, confused.
"What am I looking at here Proffesor?" The Proffesor pulls up a little ball and throws it in the air. A disco ball-like effect covers the room and he points at different colors.
"The brightest spots are the most powerful mages in the city and where they currently are." He runs over to a spot on the map and points to a glowing red orb. "Thats you. Quite powerful indeed young prince." The Prince stands up and examines the map with intrique.
"What does this all mean?" The Proffesor claps his hands and points to near the portal.
"No,no,no that's toooooo easy." The Proffesor seems to dance around and grabs Garret, whom is smiling at this point. The two do a small dance and The Proffesor motions to the entire map.
"You tell me! Where on this map is the rose amongs thorns? The sun amonst stars?" Garret looks at the map carefully and eventually sets on a large blob that is pulsating white. He points to it and the Proffesor begins clapping.
"Good! Goood! Now, do you know what that spot means?" Garret shakes his head. "These blots and blobs come in 10 colors. From weakest to strongest its: grey, brown, black, purple, yellow, green. blue, orange, red and silver. Tell me where on that scale is white?" Garret shakes his head again.
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"No where?" The Proffesor vigorously claps again.
"Exactly! White was the same color as the portal, which means?" Garret's eyes widen and he crosses his arms.
"Which means someone came through the portal!"
"YES! YES! I can't map them in real time, but I can tell where they've been. They seem to be able completely mask their magic, which is just unfair! It's cheating!" Garret raises an eyebrow to the Proffesor.
"Hide their magic? What? How?" The Proffesor throws his hands in the air.
"I DON'T KNOW! Isn't it fascinating?" Garret begins pondering a few things then comes up with an idea.
"But, can you track negative mana levels? Someone that powerful has to use up a lot of mana." The Proffesor smiles and shakes his head.
"Nope! Already tried that. Whoever they are, they seem to have some sort of high-natural mana regeneration that isn't dependant on the environment like the rest of us." Garret tilts his head back and stares at the glowing white spot.
"Who are you?"
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Following the signs Cal had left behind, Ellie eventually finds the room the two are hiding in. Knocking gentley she slowly opens the door and sees Cal pointing a metal rod in her direction. Ellie smiles and crosses her arms.
"My my, aren't you full of surprises? Now pute that little thing away," Cal lets out a deep sigh and lowers the metal rod.
"Jesus Christ woman. Scared the hell out of me."
"Good, keeps you on your feet. Anyways did you grab my clothes from the alley?" Cal nods and fetches a small bag and tosses it to the door way. A few minutes later, now fully dressed Ellie uncloaks and rubs her arms.
"Oooh, it was starting to get chilly." Sarah soon runs out from a room and hugs her moms legs.
"Mommy!" Ellie smiles and picks up her daughter.
"Mommy's okay." She puts her forhead on her daughters and the two giggle. Cal smiles and shakes his head.
"Alright, so what'd you find out?" Ellie's smile fades and she takes on a more serious tone.
"Were not on Earth anymore or atleast OUR Earth anymore." Cal squints his eyes and crosses his arms.
"What do you mean?" Ellie shrugs and tickles her daughter, whom giggles.
"According to what I could look up in a short time, the date is 05/27/2019. That's 5 years later then our time. Also, the city we are currently in is New York. There's also this strange presence that i'm sure you can feel as well." Cal nods to this.
"That's mana or atleast a mana rich environment. On our Earth the mana was there, but it was much less potent. Here it's like it's in the very atoms of the planet." Cal leans against the wall and closes his eyes. A small bluish aura seems to surround him.
"You're not wrong, but what do we do about it? If this isn't our planet, what does that mean for us?" Ellie frowns.
"I don't know? Do we stay here? Do we look for a way back?" Cal slams his fists into the wall.
"NO! I got you two out! There is no way i'm letting you go back!" Ellie smiles and walks over to Cal, forcing him into a hug with the two of them. Cal smiles and embraces them.
"Alright, so I guess we make our life here then, but where do we start?" Cal moves from the hug and looks out a nearby window.
"Well were going to need documents that say were from here, for that we'll probably need money, but before all of that we're going to need a place to call home." Ellie scratches the side of her head and sighs.
"Pfffffh, I'm not sure what I can do to earn us money? I mean unless they have mercenaries or some sort of military, i'm pretty sure I'm lost." Cal shakes his head.
"We need to lay low for awhile, so no governmental type things. There's a diner nearby, see if you can't get a job there and i'll worry about the housing situation." Ellie nods and puts down Sarah.
"Alright it's settled. We'll call this new world home."