"I forgot about him, we may have to take a slight detour, Xiang."

"You know I don't mind, father."

"I'm sure you don't. Enable docking, Idiot."

"Docking manifold in creation, Jim."

"Very good."

Within a matter of minutes, John entered through a freshly created docking portal. Although he was delighted to see his son and grandson once again, the urgency and critical nature of the upcoming mission reminded them of the difficulty that the times shortly ahead would present. Yet their next mission would actually be one of incredible joy, but they knew that not yet. "I don't know what it is, Jim, but my flight solution required us to merge our flight path."

"That is interesting. Idiot did suggest that your arrival was expected. I was not aware of the exact nature of your visit. Is this part of your mysteriously downloaded instructions?"

"Mysteriously?" queried John.

"Yes, after you recharged us, we left but had a very difficult rematerialization. We were permitted to rematerialize only after some necessary reprogramming. Apparently much of this flight itinerary is unknown to me, and I am supposedly the pilot."

"You have Genie under instuctions not to create paradox nor to inform you of upcoming events, do you not?"

"Of course."

"Well so far, so good, son. Our systems are still working in good order, and the error matrix has us on avery low power demand. So where are we going?

Jim did not know. Idiot obviously did. "You have something you need to tell us, Idiot. Where are you taking us?"

"Well, if you recall Jim, we must reenter the Earth continuum at exactly the same point in space-time that we had our collision. You shall be passing through the same interval again. Remember that collision point, your memories, and the required solution?"

"You were interfered somewhat with at that time, Idiot, were you not?"

"Yes, I received instructions then to make a flight correction in two minutes our time."

"What is this, Jim? What is Idiot talking about? Interference, as in instructions received and you know nothing about them?"

"I know something about it, John, just not enough."

"Well what do you know?"

"Ninety seconds to warp engagement, Jim."

"Hold idiot!" cried John.

"Invalid password, seventy-five seconds."

"Can't you override, Jim, at least for a couple of minutes. I would like to know where we are going.".

"Idiot, what is going on?"

"We shall be approaching singularity in sixty seconds via the 'no-name's' programmed instructions. Prepare for immobilization."

Immobilization was always necessary for hyperwarp travel through any singularity. No motion could occur since the matter being transferred or transformed would be subject to intense gravitational rifts. Genie would effectively keep all contained electromagnetic fields in equilibrium as they were accelerated through the event horizon. At this point, John, Jim, and Xiang were beyond the point of no return. Genie had already engaged full power and was in the process of approaching criticality for an infinite space-time jump. The trio scrambled to a securung station, full well knowing that there was no point in arguing with Genie at this point. John had been on board but a scarce few minutes before hyperspace was crossed.

Preparing himself, Jim reflected that the three of them were together for the first time, perhaps the only time. Their very existence itself was also a remarkable oddity as well. Jim knew very little concerning the facts of John's conception, but was fully aware of the oddness of the circumstances concerning the birth of Xiang and himself. Jim knew very little concerning his birth, and of course could remember nothing. Jim also was full aware of Who it Is that had programmed Idiot to make this next flight detour. He would keep silent concerning this, for perhaps his son and father may also know as well, but were advised as he to keep silent. While approaching singularity, the universe does very odd things to any living creation. Jim would have to approach a very intense meditative state to even remember a semblance of the interval's events. Though his body was immobile his mind was very conscious. He received no external light, but focussed only on his own existence just to maintain a peaceful inner stability. He was there, Jim could sense the presence of the nameless God that he served. He knew that the three of them were to be privileged to witness the child Yaohushua and to give him honor. They had been selected to be the three magi, the three kings of the orient, for kings they were indeed.

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