Hop In Losers, We’re Going On An Expedition!

[King Axorn]

Axorn felt his sword knocked out of his hand and launched off behind him with a clatter as it hit the floor of The Nexus. Axorn snarled at the hulking armors response, but assumed a less aggressive stance anyways. Why did I have to run into this idiot again. Axorn thought. And he thinks he deserves my respect. Funny. I'm not the one that launched an armed robbery on a museum in the middle of a high-tech city.

"As if you deserve my respect." Axorn spat. "I'm not the one that stole from a museum."

Axorn turned and walked away, picking his sword off the ground and sheathing it. "If you want my respect, you're going to have to earn it, but I'm not letting this get in the way of the rest of my relationships here."

Axorn didn't like where this was headed, but he wasn't going to let this encounter spoil his experience with the rest of the group.

Axorn flew over to the young, dog-eared lass just as she began directing that they would now set out. Axorn complied, walking with the rest of the group to get his mind off of the encounter with the walking, metal hulk, that looked like he belonged in a completely different universe than the draconian. Axorn began pondering Omni's reasoning as he walked with the rest of the group towards the icy portal looming up ahead.

Axorn stopped all of a sudden and looked quite surprised. All of a sudden he had felt a strange sensation inside his head. Max was stirring from his unconciousness. The draconian smiled, genuinely exited of being able to contact his home. But as Axorn tried to reach out with his mind, using the invisible, form-fit mask as a conduit, he was suddenly blocked off on Max's end. Max was essentially putting him on hold for the time being.

He probably needs time to process what just happened, Axorn thought, trying to underrstand why Max had just shut him off at their first connection since his arrival in the Omniverse. He'll contact me when he's ready.

Axorn suddenly realized the group had reached the portal already and were passing through it. The draconian picked up the pace and ran through the swirling transportation device, and an all-too-familiar feeling tingled his bodily senses.