I Fall In Love In Another Dimension
Chapter 21

The security measures were extreme, many soldiers of the special forces watched his back, while the locals threw stones and boos at them, one of them hit Estiben's helmet, who bending down more, hurried the step while he asked the commander in charge of the mission of transporting him: -Isn't it supposed that these people lived in misery caused by the cruel yoke of the dictator Pontoon and that the heroic emperor Rodriguez freed them from their long suffering?

The commander named Lían, a tough guy, forged in the heat of battles, with muscles as hard as stone even in his square face, his dark complexion from the sun made it clear that he was not a desk man, with his manly voice of command answered him: -The problem is that the transfer still needs to be normalized, there are still many people fanatical about the overthrown regime, which is fed by the rumor that their leader is still alive and that he acquired supernatural powers, they do not care that they had to eat garbage or drink water from the pipes, they defend it because it was instilled in them for many years, that is the only reality they know.

Estiben sighed, he knew that Lían was right in part, there are people who believe that their reality is the definitive one, they would defend it even with their lives; those people who harassed them were the ones that when the dictator was cruel or wrong, they excused him or blamed it on plots of the opponents.

The rain of objects did not stop, only the arrival of the war tanks with riot soldiers shooting rubber bullets, causing the mob to divide, one part retreated while the other, enraged, confronted them like angry beasts, the commander had no choice, according to him, ordered the use of lethal force, thus:

-that the vest has no sleeves left.

Estiben running, got into an armored car, he was very disgusted not only because they had thrown eggs and other crap, but by the way many died, only by the clash of egos of a few, again the commander looked at him raising his right fist, smiling, looking for a topic of conversation, because not every day you meet a great scientist so famous, he said:

-Mr. Estiben excuse us, the truth is that even I thought that here they would receive us as heroes saviors, but for them we are not, but invaders, that is why the ancient Vikings when they invaded a town they killed everyone, even the babies, they threw them down a hill or something, it is very difficult to fight against an ingrained idea, sometimes it gets so deep inside you that it becomes part of you, it is like in Germany when Hitler committed suicide affirming the loss of the war, many of his followers, civilians gathered with their families to commit suicide, that could be called fanaticism, of course it is not far from what we do to serve our country, do you think that the best thing would be to withdraw, leaving them to their fate? Or to make a witch hunt where most of them would be exterminated?

Estiben was horrified; however, pretending to be strong, he tried to raise his voice to a tone like the captain's, but what he got was an ugly sound similar to a tin can when it is hit, I answered this:

-well the truth, each one of them has his life, his family, this suddenly is while they get used to it, now they shouldn't kill more people, we have enough with that the supposed pandemic ended with a great amount of humanity, although there are people that don't resist the change, which always produces that a foreign occupation has its rebel counterpart boycotting its plans until it succeeds, or is corrupted, anyway captain "life is never easy".

The captain stuck out his chest even more showing off his well-deserved medals, took off his helmet showing his shiny bald head to wipe off the sweat, and at the same time asked him another question again:

-I heard that you were in the other world and came back, tell me what is it like there, is it a world of light, did you see angels?

Estiben smiled, lowered his head and then raised it, opened his mouth without saying anything to make a dramatic pause, which worked, because the general stretched his neck to listen to him better, until he let these words come out of his lips:

-I only met one Angel, Dr. Yací, whom I have to go to save, if I was in another world, only it is not the so renowned beyond, it is only another world that vibrates at another frequency from us, that for reasons that I am investigating are in conjunction, and because of that its inhabitants whom we see as monsters through glasses that I designed, in turn they can see us without the need for devices, when touching us they altered our system causing those deaths that were attributed to a virus.

The general opened his eyes as wide as he could, along with his big mouth, to continue asking him:

-So the vaccines were a lie and the quarantines were useless. Even more, they have told us the half truth.

Estiben, trying to calm him down, also realizing that maybe he was exposing him by revealing this information, told him very softly:

-sometimes the less you know the better, sometimes you can't stand the truth like those fanatics who can't stand that their leader was killed.

The captain was even more astonished, he leaned back against the wall of the vehicle, exclaiming, "No!

-No! So the dictator was killed.

Estiben smiled, this time the one who stuck out his chest was him, although he had no medals to show off, he told him this:

-yes sure, he is well dead, the last thing I remember is when I was punching him in the face and suddenly he turns out to hit the hard floor.

The captain could not fit so much astonishment in his body, he stood up, hitting his head with the roof of the vehicle, he approached his face as if he was going to kiss him, looking at him fixedly, with dramatic gestures he said: -I can't believe it!

Estiben raised his shoulders, twisting his head a little, bent his elbows to the middle height, showing his palms extended upwards and slightly twisted his mouth, and then answered him:

-well, I don't have to lie to him, you are not a beautiful woman I would like to sleep with, what I can tell you is that although he is my first dead, I don't feel even a little bit of conscience charge, that wretch deserved every hit I hit him, moreover I consider that it must be little for him, if there is an afterlife, he must already be in a very ugly one, well if the divine justice is not like ours, because suddenly he repents at the last or converts or maybe he was sent as an agent of chaos, or like our judicial system where the rich and powerful rarely pay jail or pay a little bit in a mansion, sometimes even the victims owe him, like a rapist who said that it was the woman's fault for dressing provocatively or a politician who stole a fortune that served him to buy the verdict and then sue the nation for a higher sum, getting his approval by giving commissions to the judges.

The captain remained motionless for a few seconds and then knelt at her feet to kiss her hands, saying between kisses:

-you are great, I already know the reason why the emperor highly recommended your safety.......

Suddenly some explosions sounded, Estiben saw stars for a moment, he felt something very big that hit the vehicle that transported them, then he was thrown against the roof and he could see through a window how the sky was turning, when at last the turns stopped the tank was upside down and they were very beaten, the captain enlisted his weapons, he proceeded to open an escape hatch because the doors were blocked;

He grabbed Estiben placing him on his back so that first the other soldiers would get out to make a security perimeter, then they would get out, that was what he was thinking, another thing was that the vehicle was rammed with another bomb, which made them leave in disorder, the enemy bullets whistled in their ears, they ran like marathon runners, they shot backwards without seeing the target, the enemy bullets buzzed like mosquitoes in their ears, little by little the heads began to diminish, the captain thanks to his experience could think clearly, he observed a vehicle parked with the driver underneath it who was trying to get out of the bullets, he was asked to borrow it without words, the captain accelerated at full speed the vehicle whose cans sounded like a popcorn pot due to the rain of projectiles, he began to drive in zigzag fearing the bombs or the missiles, while a soldier with the radiotelephone was incessantly asking for air support. In an instant happened what the general feared, a missile appeared on the horizon that although an expert sniper soldier hit it with a shot that made it explode the shock wave hit the car sending everyone flying out of the vehicle, for a moment Estiben only saw himself flying in the direction of a ravine, then he felt himself spinning, He saw his companions doing the same, for a few seconds he lost consciousness, but he woke up soon, he got up very bruised and disoriented, he looked back where he could see that the transport was on fire, and that a group of mercenaries dressed in civilian clothes were arriving, who told him this:

-quiet doctor, we have orders to take you dead or alive, although the difference is that the leader is going to kill you anyway, what seems to me is that they are all tuned up, they already smell of formaldehyde.

Estiben thought about jumping into the ravine, even if it offered him a small chance to survive than with these barbarians who began to execute the soldiers, only that the sky opened up vomiting planes that in turn spit fire cigarettes that destroyed the body of their enemies leaving clouds of dust, fire and a big hole in their place, Estiben threw himself to the ground covering his ears, thinking that hopefully it was all a bad dream, wanting to wake up.