Unknown to you, as you slept, dad feverishly worked on the manual break in your own world. It had broke below the floor panel, which was not good, still, he was trying his best to get the machine running again as quickly as possible.
"You have to fix it, Max!" screamed mom, hysterical. "Who knows where Eric ended up!"
"I am fully aware of that, Natasha!" yelled dad, sobbing. "I'm working as fast as I can!" he then thought, "He could already be dead but I dare not say that to her or Tonya."
Just then, Tonya returned home from a short shopping trip and immediately panicked as she saw the house in shambles, due to the portal pulling everything towards the basement door. She scrambled over the pile of furniture and entered the laboratory to find mom by the main control panel, crying.
"Mom, what happened!?" she asked, running to her.
"It... It's Eric!" sobbed mom, hysterical. "He... He walked in on one of our experiments!"
Tonya turned pale. "Where is he!?!"
Mom began to cry louder. "I don't know!" she wailed. "We were working on a parallel portal, trying to reach a world parallel to our own!" she coughed, choking on her tears. "Eric.... He... He... got pulled in! He could be anywhere!!"
Mom then completely broke down, screaming in tears on Tonya's shoulder while Tonya stood in shock. "I only left him alone for a few minutes!" she thought, then broke down herself, hugging her mom.
Securing the new brake into place, dad released the mechanism and quickly gathered his tools before running up to the main control panel. "I'm ready to try to bring Eric back home." he said, placing his tool box down. "Everyone, cross your fingers and pray!"
Mom and Tonya broke the hug but they were still crying as Dad then quickly worked the main controls, causing the machine to come back to life with the two rings spinning in opposite directions. He then increased the power, not wanting it to reverse on him again and watched as an energy portal appeared in the center of the two rings. "Come on, Eric!" he whispered. "The portal is open, come home!"
Inside the parallel world, Max, inside his laboratory, let out a loud gasp. "Natasha, the portal is activating on its own!"
Natasha quickly ran into basement and gasped herself as she saw the objects they had pulled in were being drawn back through the portal. "It must be someone from the baby's world!" she said. "They are trying to get him back!"
Max, having seen the deep cuts and bruises on your body, knotted his jaws in decision. He quickly took a pen and pad then wrote down the coordinates of the world on the other side before making a run for the manual brake.
"The baby is too badly hurt, Natasha!" he screamed, grabbing the handle, near the glass chamber. "A return trip now would kill him!"
Just then, the glass chamber shattered with a monstrous sound and the pieces were drawn in, through the portal as Max struggled to keep his balance against the vortex. Thinking of your mom, Natasha quickly wrote a note onto a piece of paper then folded it into a paper plane and threw it into the wind. The paper plane was instantly caught and pulled in just before Max engaged the brake, shutting down the machine.
"I am sorry, honey." Max said to Natasha. "I know the boy belongs with his real parents in his own world but I have to think of his safety above all."
Natasha nodded. "I understand." she said. "Can we send him back?"
Max nodded. "I wrote down the coordinates on a piece of paper near the control panel."
Turning pale, Natasha turned to the controls and was relieved to find that she had not used it for her note to your mom.
"I better check up on him." she said.
She then left the basement to a spare bedroom where Tonya had set up a crib from the attic. Natasha smiled gently as she looked inside it to find...
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