Matrix by Katryn Ali (read any book TXT) 📕

No Place but To Roam

Tiel picked up the crystal necklace that AAyaelees had dropped after she escaped away from him down some portal chute.

“I have to go after her and see that the job is finished,” he spoke. I have to study this and see if I can't retrieve the same spacial worm hole she used,” he told Thomas and Samuel.

Just then, Tiel's supervisor appeared. “Tiel, we need to talk,” Sidneed Michaels spoke. He was the one who had ordered Castiel to kill AAyaelees. It was really a demon who had ordered Sidney, only he hadn't known that because he was an undecided angel in the dark here just as Tiel, Thomas, and Samuel were.

Tiel knew he was in BIG trouble for letting the rogue angel AAyaelees escape.

“She outsmarted me, I'm afraid, sir,” Castiel spoke.

“Tell me how it happened,” came Sidneed's reply. Tiel then showed him the crystal.

“We could use this to re-track her steps. I'll help get the materials needed to cast the spell. Don't worry, we'll find her,” he said. He was then gone.

He reappeared soon after and got busy getting the spell ready. He and Tiel had to use their blood to activate the spell.

“We'll go too,” Thomas told Tiel.

“No Thomas. You and Sam are not angels. Only angels can go through the portal safely,” Cas replied.

When Tiel and Sidneed went through the portal they didn't exactly arrive to the dimension AAyaelees was at.

But their minds began to clear at once. “Tiel?” Sidneed spoke. Tiel just looked at him. “Sidnee?”

Then Tiel remembered everything, all the horrible things that had happened back at that last dimension. “I have to go back and bring Flanagan and Cetera!” he barked.

Before Sidneed could protest, Tiel was gone retrieving all the things he'd need to reopen the portal.

“Wait! Tiel! It's too dangerous for an Angel to travel the dimensional portals without devices!” his con-rad protested.

Tiel then remembered what had happened the last time he had done this. He almost was too weak and hardly recovered. If he had been at his old colony he would not have survived. But somehow, he had regenerated.

“Oh no! I stabbed AAyael!” Tiel recalled. He then moaned loudly. He sat on the ground and covered his head with his hands. He was so ashamed!

Sidneed bent down to him. “Maybe she survived? It was why we came here to begin with. You were sure she had,” he reassured him.

“But Sidnee, she isn't well and I may have killed her!” Tiel bellowed.

“First things first, we'll get back Flan and Cetera, here where they will be safe from that place,” Sidneed spoke.

“How? With what?” blared Tiel.

“You still have that crystal?” Sidneed then asked. Tiel had put it into his coat packet. He handed it to his con-rad.

“What happened to you Sid? Back at the Matrix,” Tiel had to ask. Sidneed had been in charge the first 6 months they had arrived at the colony, but then he had disappeared and Matricks, Flan's brothel, had turned bad.

“Matricks discovered ways to travel the dimensions,” Sidneed told him.

“Yeah. I had his spell book. I left it back with Flan and Cetera,” Tiel said. He could just kick himself.

“I don't need it. I memorized the coordinates but I need to use a device to safely get back there. This crystal can help magnify the residue from the last dimension where Flan and Cet are,” Sidneed explained.

Sidneed needed to find a power plant that used a nuclear reactor. This planet or where ever they were, seemed to be another alternative Earth. There should be power plants here. So, they began to scope out the land and try to find one.

It took 2 years. Tiel got a job as a doctor and Sidneed, a scientist. He constructed a doorway and a body suit where the suit would absorb all the power not the angel's body, like the last time that happened to Tiel and he almost died.

Tiel went through the device first. He was anxious to find Flanagan and Cetera. The body armor would also protect him from the chaos around him from getting into his head again tricking him.

“Your what? Who?” Thomas said after Tiel went to him.

“Ok Cas, let me get this straight. We're not humans. We are Angels like you? Is that correct?” Sam replied making sure he had heard right. Thomas looked at Sam and rolled his fingers over his head in the gesture meaning Castiel had lost his marbles.

“That portal traveling must have messed him all up, upstairs,” he whispered to Samuel.

“No, I'm actually sane again, finally,” Tiel blared. Sam crept up behind him and hit Cas over the head with a frying pan. Tiel now lay knocked out at his feet.

“Sorry buddy but your absolute nuts right now,” Thomas spoke looking down at his poor unconscious angelic friend.

“Help me get him to the bed,” he then said. Each took hold and holstered Tiel up on top of one of the beds in the hotel room they were staying in during an assignment.

“Ok bud, what do we do now?” Sam asked.

“I don't know? Ask for an angelic head shrink?” Thomas replied.

An hour later Tiel began to come to. “Why'd you hit me?” he asked. Samuel felt sorry for him. Thomas sat by him now on the bed. “Because Cas, you’re talking off your rocker. You need help. Those portals have scrambled your brains, and what's with the get up your wearing? Are you Castiel, Super Caper, Avenging Angel?” Thomas asked. Sam was trying not to laugh.

Tiel looked down at his attire. “Oh, you mean this. It's to protect me when I'm here so the chaos doesn't take me over again like it has you two.”

“Now come on, Cas! Stop it!” Thomas spat not liking how Tiel was sounding. Tiel rolled up his eyes. “Look you two knuckle heads! I'm trying to explain this to you!” he roared and then took a breath trying to calm down. Flanagan and Cetera did not realize but they would.

“Listen, just come along with me now and you'll see,” was all he said next and got up off the bed. He began to use a device he had in his pocket now to reopen a portal.

“Oh no Cas, I'm not going through that,” Thomas protested.

“Oh yes you are,” Tiel said adjusting on the dial.

“Oh no I'm not!” Thomas spat and gestured for Samuel to do something. Sam picked up the frying pan again. But Tiel used his hand and stopped Sam in his tracks knocking him out using power. Tiel had just remembered he had certain powers when he had been here last.

Thomas pulled out his gun. “Tiel! I said to cool it or I'll put every bullet I have into you from this gun! I swear I will,” he horned. Tiel stopped. He knew Flan meant it too.

“Thomas, please, try to listen to me,” Tiel spoke. If he could just get the gun away from him. He had to take a chance. “Go ahead and shoot me, Flanagan,” he spoke.

Thomas just looked at him. Where had he heard that name before? Tiel took the opportunity to slug Thomas in the side of the face.

As Thomas slumped to the floor Tiel took his gun. He then tossed Thomas into the portal. He then picked up Cetera and off they went next.

Flanagan and Cetera were back to their senses. They hugged Tiel. Thomas spoke first, his voice cracking, “man Ti, it's so good to be back!” he roared. Tiel put his arms around his boys. “I know. I feel the same,” he spoke.

“I'm so glad you didn't give up on us, that you healed from that terrible ordeal and came back to find us,” Cetera told him next.

“So where to now, Tiel?” Flanagan asked. Tiel had just paid for a ritzy hotel room for the night. His boys needed rest and TLC. So, did he for that matter. He explained everything to them. And told them about AAyaelees.

“Oh yeah. I vaguely remember her,” Cetera said.

“Well I sure do. I stabbed her and I must find out if she is alive or not. I must take responsibility if I have killed her,” Tiel said.

“Cas, it wasn't your fault. You were influenced by that dimension,” Flanagan said.

“I have searched high and low for her here. This is not where she was from. She is from the original Earth, and she told me she was also partly from another dimension, a nice one fellows, but it is not in this universe. This is a parallel earth, like the one we just escaped from, but this one isn't near as chaotic. I go as Castiel Grant here. You two can go as Thomas Flanagan and Samuel Cetera. From now on that is our new identities. I've made us all ID cards. I got you both all set up,” Tiel told them handing them the information.

“No more Tiel for you, uuuh, Grant you said?” Cetera spoke.

“Yeah, well, you boys know me by it and so does AAyael, but anyone else we meet here besides Sidneed that is, we must go by our new identities,” Grant explained to them. He then got busy showing them their new roles they'd play while being here. They'd play detectives while Tiel played Dr. Castiel Grant.

Look for the 2nd Book - MATRIX: Dimensions.

Also read the book SCI-FIED, book 3 of HOUSE OF MAZES for more adventures with Grant, Thomas and Samuel. Read HOUSE OF MAZES 1, 2 and 3 to know more about the character Matrix, also found in this story.

Katryn Ali has devoted her entire life to writing. She likes to write about many characters. She has written a lot of books on many different subjects. Science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and even children's short stories.

Her company’s main principle is family values which, sad to say, is growing ever scarcer these days. But know that in her books you will find no indecent language or sexual behavior. She believes in honoring her Savior that way. In all she does.

Publication Date: 10-05-2017

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