Boss 302 - Chapter 12
With the car returned to it's previous condition before the water fiasco, Gerry took a quick inventory of his gear and supplies. Straight from the repair shop's doors, he was to take a hard right as soon as he left the relative safety of the refinery and then travel a few miles to the only continent on Minnea. The land mass was due south of his current location. Once ashore, he would need to maintain flight for as long as possible, since he didn't know if there would be a fueling station anywhere around. Galack assured him that the Boss 302 would not be the only vehicle in the air, and it would probably not attract too much attention. The citizens of Minnea had become used to technological contraptions of all kinds since his father's arrival. That was one thing in his favor, at least. Another was revealed when Gerry asked Galack if he knew about the Thorlacks. Galack didn't know what he was talking about. Gerry had finally found a world without Thorlacks! Amazing. That would seem to make his quest so much easier, if he didn’t run into any more problems along the way.
Gerry shook hands with Galack one last time and sped off to find his mother. What a shocker that had been. When he saw that picture of his mother’s face hanging on the wall, Gerry almost had a heart attack. He had been told his mother had died in a car accident a few weeks before Gerry’s last day on Earth. His father had just taken his mother’s car to a repair shop in the days before her supposed death. Was it possible that the car Gerry thought his mother had died in was another gate-jumping vehicle? That must be it. The repairs had been at the hands of his father, adding the gate generating equipment to his mother’s car. His parents had been secretly crossing time and space before he had. They must have come here lots of times and established themselves well, if the Minnean people thought of them as some kind of gods. Of course, with the ability to time travel, they could jump back to Earth on the same day every time, so no one would miss them. His parents had affected a century of this planet’s society in their travels.
The only explanation Gerry could come up with is that his father sent his mother to this planet alone the last time, most likely when he felt the Thorlacks were getting too close, and he meant for he and Gerry to follow in the Mustang soon after. If not for the surprise attack from Admiral Latrec and his men, the plan would have worked fine. How was it possible that his mother was alive? There had been wreckage and a funeral service. It was too much to contemplate right now. Lost in thought, he had failed to notice that land was coming quickly into view.
Gerry shook hands with Galack one last time and sped off to find his mother. What a shocker that had been. When he saw that picture of his mother’s face hanging on the wall, Gerry almost had a heart attack. He had been told his mother had died in a car accident a few weeks before Gerry’s last day on Earth. His father had just taken his mother’s car to a repair shop in the days before her supposed death. Was it possible that the car Gerry thought his mother had died in was another gate-jumping vehicle? That must be it. The repairs had been at the hands of his father, adding the gate generating equipment to his mother’s car. His parents had been secretly crossing time and space before he had. They must have come here lots of times and established themselves well, if the Minnean people thought of them as some kind of gods. Of course, with the ability to time travel, they could jump back to Earth on the same day every time, so no one would miss them. His parents had affected a century of this planet’s society in their travels.
The only explanation Gerry could come up with is that his father sent his mother to this planet alone the last time, most likely when he felt the Thorlacks were getting too close, and he meant for he and Gerry to follow in the Mustang soon after. If not for the surprise attack from Admiral Latrec and his men, the plan would have worked fine. How was it possible that his mother was alive? There had been wreckage and a funeral service. It was too much to contemplate right now. Lost in thought, he had failed to notice that land was coming quickly into view.
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