CHAPTER IV

"Hank! Hank, are you alright?" Justice shook his shoulder.

Hank slowly awoke from his slumber, "Terrance! He's... gone!" he looked around.

Gauntlet slammed the door open, a look of anger on his face, "Can someone please tell me just why the hell that alarm's goin' off?!" he growled, his full lips sneering and showing his teeth.

"Trauma's gone. What happened, Hank?" Justice asked.

The nurse pulled the lever again, shutting the alarm off. Hank pulled his now tilted glasses from his face, cleaning them on his shirt, "He was awake.. He kept saying something about going to find a man, then he must have used his new powers to make me fall asleep." He paused looking up, "Are we sure he's a mutant?"

Justice raised and eyebrow and looked back to Gauntlet, who gave him a blank stare.

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"He is coming." Margali looked to the sky, "I can feel him."

"As do I. By the eye of Agomotto, he is..." He turned to look over his shoulder.

Trauma stood in the middle of the pathway, his fatigues hanging loosely around his ankles. Margali held her hand up, "Hello, Terrance."

Trauma suddenly gained emotion back, quickly looking around in shock, "What?! Where am I? Why am... I..?" he looked at his hands, "What am I...?" He looked up, "You! You were in the hallway at Hammond! Where am I?!"

"Calm down." Amanda stepped in front of Nightmare, "This is Nightmare, I am Jimaine, and this is my mother, Margali." Margali gave Trauma a half nod. Trauma eyes the three wearily, "Don't worry. We brought you here to keep you safe. The government in your dimension was planning to use you as a weapon and--"

"Wait a second!" he held his hand up, "I'm in a different dimension?"

Margali walked forward, "My apologies. Welcome to Limbo." She held her hand out to the area toward the castle.

Trauma shook his head, "Whatever... Forget it... Who is that guy? Why do I look like him?"

Nightmare looked down to the side, "Your mother, her name was Mary Cooper-Ward, correct?" Trauma nodded slowly, "Then you should already know why you look like me."

Trauma remembered what his mother had told him. His eyes widened with shock as he tried to form a sentence, "... Then... that means... I'm... your...?!" he was speechless, "And... and..."

Amanda walked over to Trauma, "It's alright. Calm down." She put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "We're going to take care of you until things calm down."

Trauma knocker her hand away, "Calm down?! I'm sorry but there's no earthly way after being brought here and finding out that guy is my-... ehhh... That I'd be likely to calm down so easily! Send me back home, where I belong."

Margali lifted her chin, "What home do you have, my child? You have been exiled from your homeland by your past, and your government officials are less than caring about your well being." She walked up to him, "You have much more power than you know. You are the connection between all of our worlds. We are only here to help you. If you wish to go back to your dimension, then I will not stop you. But realize this, young one, The way you are being treated now will only worsen upon your return."

Trauma looked to her, "... What will I need to do?"

"Many things. But right now, you will learn." she smiled holding her arm behind her and opening the door to her palace.

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/Yeah, I know it was a short chapter, but this is just the quick end of the story. The next story is yet to come!/