This is a serial, first part HERE

Chapter 23: Spears from Beyond and Echoes of Treachery

They quite clearly didn’t belong. I’m not referring to Dr. Bones and Miss Fern, though they certainly didn’t belong in the cakeland.

No, what we’re talking about here is the holy ruins of the savage Draggy Tot tribe!

It wasn’t like mountains rising from the ground. No, the ruins were as supermassive spears, twisted horns piercing the soft cake, as if they had been thrown across dimensions. What colour these shattered towers were was difficult to tell, since they had long since been covered by frosting. However, one could tell they were of mechanical construction, and the realms of metal foods tend not to mix with the more common forms.

Spears from beyond…

Miss Fern was chattering away, but Dr. Bones could not hear her as he gazed upon the towers. He was being swept along by a memory of life, though he knew not now if they were truly his memories.

“Hahahahaha It worked Bones, it worked, You didn’t notice a thing!”

<Countdown to dimensional Toss activated: Ten>

“…what are you talking about? Where are you? Why are you using transmission to speak?”

<Nine>

“Well, you see, we’re in different ones, You’ve been so focused that you didn’t notice that I’ve shifted over all of your work, and then you yourself”

<Eight>

“Are you ok Teach? You aren’t making any sense. You are letting the stress of the pursuit get to you are you?”

<Seven>

“I’m more than ok, I’m free, you see, I discovered something, it’s just after you”

<Six>

“What do you mean its just after me, what about all those times…”

<Five>

“So, we’ll be parting here, I’ll be going to our original direction, and you’ll be flung into the void”

<Four>

“Hold on, what? What are you doing, what about our work? What about the…”

<Three>

“I’ll continue the mission of Latent Corpentsis, you can just spend your time dealing with your little problem”

<Two>

“Aren’t you a doctor! What about saving lives! How can you do this to me?”

<One>

“Goodbye, taking you out of picture will save lives”

“Ah, Doctor! The light in your eyes returned! I was a bit worried! Don’t scare me like that!”

-Hmm, ah, yes. Miss Fern. My apologies- Dr. Bones said without thinking!

“Really going limp like that and acting like you’re really dead and not oncedead, you sure know how to frighten a lady. I was worried I was going to be alone you know, hey I can’t even get back to the coffin…”

Dr. Bones rather than paying attention to Miss Fern’s stream of worries, was mulling over one thing in particular from the memory he experienced.

Latent Corpentsis.

He remembered correctly now, the sigil on the coffin he awoke in. The sigil hidden in the lab. It wasn’t a unicorn resting on a blue cross.

A white serpent with the head of a unicorn. The Corpentsis. A Chimera of two of the most medically potent beings throughout dimensions.

A near mythical creation. Serpents and unicorns, even when the serpent is medical and pure in nature…

The two beings could scarcely be more opposed.

-Was it an ambition? Still, Why have I so much knowledge, but Latent Corpentsis has been scrubbed from it? Its the name of the organization. I’m sure… but, something doesn’t seem quite right- Dr. Bones silently considered.

Were there two Latent Corpentsis Organizations, one headed by his past self and one by the traitorous mentor of his memories?

“Doctor? Are you listening? How are we going to go to those towers, there’s swarms of savage jelly tots around them!”

Broken from his reverie, Dr. Bones responded.

-We’re going to sneak by of course. I’m quite experienced in hiding!-

He knew he was. Even if Dr. Bones was someone else, he still had the experience of the man called Bones. Just how long had he been hunted across dimensions… did the hunter still exist?