Battle for the Photon Core WATTPAD VERSION [Inter-Universal Protectors: Book 1]

Chapter Four (Amneris)

The pair zapped to Amneris' townhouse and landed on the carpeted floor of the living room with a thud. Amneris groaned. She was glad for the carpet. Teleportation had never been her forte. She used to fly wherever she needed to go, enjoying the feel of the air currents on her wings. Alas, despite the fact she could still use her power to fly, she was long since wingless.

Colt stood, looking around. She watched for his reaction but nothing happened. "So, this is your place?" he asked.

"While I'm on Earth, yeah," she replied, hauling herself to her feet. "It's usually cleaner," she added, noticing the various book piles leaning against the walls. She had meant to take them back to Lyriumia but . . .

"I still do not understand why you suddenly trust me. You do not seem like that kind of person." I'm not that kind of person, she thought. Colt was looking at a small row of pictures on a shelf. She squealed and forcefully pushed him away.

"Knew I should've got one of those 'no touching' signs," she muttered, pulling a picture off the wall and pushing the button behind it. The floor they were standing on lowered. Colt whistled appreciatively. She rolled her eyes.

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The pair approached a silver door after arriving below the house. There were a few others further down the hall. This particular door had a small indentation in it that was the shape of an ankh. Amneris pulled at the three chains around her neck until she found the right one and took it off. The charm dangling on the silver chain was a golden ankh with a small amethyst in the head. It also had a carved swirling pattern and several small emerald and sapphire stones covering the rest. She held it it up for Colt to see. Something like recognition crossed his features. Perhaps he's seen a similar one before. "I got this in Kemet."

"Kemet?" he repeated.

"It's the Egyptian name for Egypt. Well, for the ancients." Like me. "The Greeks renamed it Egypt, you know."

"I did not know." Liar.

She played along. "Well, now you do." Amneris placed the charm in the indentation. It glowed momentarily before the door swung open. She took the charm out and placed it around her neck once again. She gave Colt a dramatic bow as he entered. "Welcome to the portal room." she said, flipping a switch. The room lit up in pale yellow light. Inside were various large rounded doorways of many different colours. Writing adorned the circles and four different coloured buttons were on a small silver panel beside all. Sometimes, when she was seriously out of it, her first thought upon seeing them would be Since when do I own Stargates? It had taken a lot of effort to not tell the producers that they actually existed...

"I am going to go out on a limb here and say that these are the portals," Colt stated, pointing at one of them. She could almost hear him asking, Why do you even have these here?

She gave him a tight smile. "Yep." Amneris swept a hand towards the room. "Those are less than one percent of the multiverse's portals owned by my people." It's not like we actually use them, or anything. She gestured to a red button next to her. "Whatever you do, don't press that. Things will go boom and there will be no more of this Earth left."

"Should I be afraid?"

"Probably, but you're not." She swore in Kemetic, batting his hand away from one of the portals. "No touching."

He gave her a scathing look. "If I cannot touch, then why did you bring me in here?"

"To gloat." He gave her a harsher look and she threw her hands up. "Come on." She muttered under her breath in Kemetic as she drifted out of the room. When he did not follow, she grabbed his hand and dragged him.