The rifles hovered in front of their previous owners as if by magic, because that was exactly how Seth was doing it. It was a shame that because of how his personal magical abilities worked, that it was a completely empty threat.

He couldn't shoot them if he wanted to. His threads only allowed him to levitate the guns. Even if he wrapped one of them around the guns trigger, it wouldn't allow him to pull it. They just didn't work that way. But the soldiers didn't need to know that.

"No? Is no one willing to speak up?"

He raised his eyebrow at the gathered force, ignoring the presence of more individuals stepping through the portal behind him. That was, until the portal letting out a few sputtering thrums before cutting out completely.

Seth quickly glanced over his shoulder, finding Bob stuck half way through the portal. Of course since it was Bob, it didn't really matter. He simply rearranged the particles of his body into a looser formation to make up for the arm and a leg that had been left behind.

But it also meant that half of his gathered force was left behind. Fox, a few Dead Men including the ghost girl, and half of Bob. That was all. Carnifex and the rest of the Dead Men were missing, trapped on the other side of the portal.

As for the little gremlin Nugget, if he was around then he wasn't making himself known.

Seth sighed softly, leaning close to Astra and whispering to her,

"See, this is why we should have brought Lee. Still, if we-"

BLAM! BLAM!

A pair of bullets spun horizontally in the air, pressing against the side of Seth's forehead and so rudely interrupting his thought process. He narrowed his eyes, sending a glowering stare towards the soldier who was holding out his side piece, the pistol trembling in his hands as he stared at the man who had stopped a guaranteed kill shot.

However at his terrified and baffled reaction, Seth lazily gestured to the rest of the rifle bullets that were still hovering in the air in front of him. Stopped by Astra's electromagnetic abilities, just like the ones that had shot towards his head.

"Really? Really?! What did you actually expect to happen?"

Without a word from him, Astra twirled her finger, causing the bullets to spin around and face the direction they came from. The rifles dropped, his bluff officially called, as lightning sparked around the bullets before they were returned to sender with express shipping.

Grunts and cries of pain sounded out as limbs were pierced and soldiers were sent spinning or simply thrown backwards off their feet from the force of the projectiles hitting against their bullet proof vests.

In a blink of an eye, Seth appeared in front of the soldier who had made the idiotic shot. He reached down, clapped his hand around the mans throat and lifted him into the air like he was completely weightless.

The man's legs dangled and kicked helplessly in the air, his hands clawing at Seth's, which was wrapped around his throat like an iron vice.

"P-please... Stop this. We apologize for our mistake. We didn't mean to antagonise you."

Seth glanced to the side, his eyes landing on the lone scientist in the room, who hugged her chest and trembled in abject terror. Tears welled in her eyes as she looked at him like he was nothing more than a monster that had crawled out of the shadows.

But his heart, which had once been full of empathy and kindness, had been beaten into submission by this new world, so those tears were useless against him now.

"You say that only because I didn't die. Because I am stronger than you. But no matter what you think of me, I am a kind man at heart. I really am..."

Hope blossomed in her eyes, a small smile appearing on her lips, before his next words completely crushed that hope into a fine paste.

"However I recently made a promise to myself, about second chances. I could accept you trying to kill me once, out of fear. It wouldn't be the first time it's happened. But this man has used his second chance."

With a simple twist of Seth's hand and a pinch of his fingers, a sickening crunch sounded and the mans arms fell down by his side. His head lulled backwards as all of his struggles ceased, along with his life.

Like it was a worthless broken toy, Seth tossed the body to the side and let out a disappointed sigh.

"I suggest you use your second chance better. Now, where are we?"

"Y-you are on Planet Earth. It's the third planet from the sun in our solar system, in the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Home to human beings, the dominant-"

Seth held up a hand, cutting off her practiced introduction with a very confused expression on his face.

"Yes yes. I know that. I figured as much when I saw other humans. Last time I checked we haven't colonised other planets yet. I mean where on Earth."

This time it was the scientists turn to look confused. She frowned deeply, looking at him like he was speaking Martian, before glancing at the security camera in the corner for a split second.

"That's Classified. You're trying to tell me that... you are human?"

"Well... yeah. Isn't that obvious? I know my face is a little burned, but I still look human enough. Honestly, I'm surprised you're all so weak. I would have thought soldiers like these, strapping lads that they are, would have been primed for a bio mutation in the least."

"Mutation? What are you talking about? Did something happen on the surface?"

"Wait... are you trying to tell me that you are all... mortal? That none of you evolved or aberrated? None at all? How is that even possible?"

Seth glanced at Astra, who shared a concern look with him, before closing her eyes and focusing on her senses. Her hands rested by her sides, her fingers dancing through the air as if she was feeling its current as it blew past.

Seth quickly followed her example, spreading out his senses only to feel... Nothing. There was nothing strange in the slightest, everything was simply ordinary. Completely and utterly ordinary.

But that was the issue. Since when could anything in their lives now be considered completely ordinary? Ordinary was a concept that got kicked in the nuts as soon as the first words were uttered by the system.

Ordinary was something they had left behind long ago, and although they had grown to develop a new and shifting sense of normal. Ordinary was something they would never feel again. Yet here it was.

The air simply contained... air. There was no mana at all. Not even with the portal powered down, there was nothing in the air. As an experiment, Seth let a little leak out of his body, only for it to be sucked away immediately like a candle light being snuffed out.

His first instinct was to think that this was like the mana dampening ability of his brother, Woe. But when Woe did such a thing, he completely nullified all abilities, and clearly they could use those. So this had to be something different. But what?

Snapping his eyes open, Seth glared at the confused, nameless scientist and said with a resigned sigh.

"I can't believe I'm saying this but... Take us to your leader. We have some things we need to discuss."

The scientist glanced nervously at the security camera once more, staring at it for a few seconds, before nodding softly to herself. With a wary look towards the rest of Seth's party, mostly at the inhuman looking Bob, the scientist left the room and gestured for them to follow.

She led them out of the dark coloured, metallic chamber they had arrived in and stepped out into a pure, clinical white corridor and came to a stop at a door, which she opened with a hand scanner. The sight of which stumped Seth even more.

'They have working technology too? That shouldn't be possible... What in the world is going on here? And where on Earth did the Heaven's Gate send us? Why even call itself Heaven's Gate if you're just keeping us on... Woah...'

Seth's train of thought screeched to a halt before skidding off the tracks as he glanced over his shoulder. The pure white corridor was broken up by a wall sized window that looked out onto where the Heaven's Gate was stored.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see the archway. Because filling the inside of the stadium sized room the window gazed out over of, and containing within it the other side of the Heaven's Gate within one of its multiple rooms, was a colossal, dark purple shuttle forged of strange, unseen metals that simply didn't exist on this planet.

It had sent him to the inside of an Alien Space ship.

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