Living in Another Dimension

Chapter 1 Rift

Alex flew high over the snow-covered city towards the outskirts to the forest. Snow fell and landed on her fifteen foot raven wings and the icy wind kept her wings cool. Ahead she could see a figure with long blonde hair and wings larger than her own but just as dark. She knew it was Sally.

"You okay? You seemed as if you were distressed when you called." Sally asked.

"Erasers." Alex answered.

"Erasers?" Sally asked confused.

"The guards from the school. They hunt us down for the white-coats." She explained briefly. She didn't talk about where she came from any more than Sally did herself. Both were fairly young to have the problems they did. Alex was sixteen and had been born/created in a lab she calls The School and has been hunted by the guards ever since she escaped. Sally on the other hand is half dark witch and half demon. Her mother is the witch while her father is Lucifer, ruler of Hell. She did not share the same views as her family so she left when she was fifteen and her brother has been hunting her down as well as a number of others.

"Ah, okay." She answered as they landed next to a fast rushing river.

"Hm. I've never seen this river before." Alex commented.

"Yeah. I was right here yesterday and there is no way it was here. I would have noticed." Sally agreed.

"That's weird." She said and knelt at the edge and looked at the water.

"This is strange. Rivers do not just appear overnight." Sally said walking down the river looking for anything to indicate how it had appeared overnight when she heard a splash of the water.

She spun around to see that Alex was no longer where she knelt but in the water fighting it to keep her head up and get to the edge.

Sally grabbed a branch and snatched Alex's wrist to pull her out but the current was very strong and the branch broke, causing both of them to fall into the water and that was when Sally truly understood why Alex had been having so much trouble. The current was unnaturally strong but she refused to let go of Alex.

They dropped into a pond that sucked them to the bottom like a whirlpool and everything was black.

They both woke up at the same time coughing up water. They were in the middle of an unfamiliar forest. It was dark out and the air was thicker. They heard the sounds of a city not too far away so they both got up and followed to see an unfamiliar city.

"Where are we?" Alex asked.

"A parallel dimension." Sally answered.

"What makes you say that?" Alex asked.

"Hell exists in all dimensions, being Lucifer's daughter gives me this knowledge." She said shortly and started walking. Alex followed and walked next to her. They stopped when they found themselves at a park. No one was around which was good.

"What are we supposed to do about living? Can we even get back?" Alex asked.

"I think the real second question would be, do we want to go back?" Sally answered.

"Good point. So do you know anything about this place?" She asked.

"Not really, only that it is more technologically advanced and most of the people are fairly stupid." Sally answered.

"Let me guess those who are smart, are extremely smart." Alex said.

"Yes there is that as well." She answered.

"So maybe if we find someone who is very smart, we can explain what happened and hope they can tell us about this world and weather we can live here or not." Alex said.

"I don't have any other ideas so we might as well try. It seems that we can blend for the most part the way we are." Sally said and they started walking and found themselves in a neighborhood.

"These houses are so weird." Sally commented after looking around the circle that ended the road.

"Looks like someone is trying too hard to blend in hu?" Alex asked pointing to a small purple house with several lawn gnomes and a flag that had "I 3 Earth" on it.

"No kidding but these people are too stupid to see that. Maybe we can ask for help from them." Sally said.

"Might as well." Alex said and walked right up to the door and rang the doorbell. Almost immediately the door opened and robotic parents stood there. They were fairly good, but it was still easy for them to tell that they weren't real.

"Yes may I help you?" The female asked.

"Hi, um is there anyone else who lives here?" Sally asked.

"Why yes, there is our son and our dog, our son is busy right now but would you like to meet the dog?" The male asked.

"Sure." Alex said so they let them in and a green dog that walked around on two legs sat on the couch watching TV, obviously a fake dog.

"Hi people!" The dog said.

"Um, hi, what's your name?" Sally asked the "dog."

"Gir!" He said.

A boy who looked around their age walked in from the kitchen. He was taller than even Alex who stood at a good 5' 8" while Sally stood at 5'6." Sally guessed he was about three inches taller than Alex. He also had green skin, no ears, black hair and blue eyes. Obviously not human but that didn't mean he was a threat.

"Hello, my name is Alex and this is my friend Sally, we need some help, and I believe that you could help us." Alex said politely.

"Why should I when you just walk right into my house?" He asked.

"We didn't, your fake robot parents let us in to meet your fake dog." Sally answered.

"Fake? What makes you say that?" He asked.

"Well we aren't exactly from here and we don't think you are either considering the flag. But we think that you're at least from this dimension." Alex explained.

"You're lying! I am a perfectly normal Earth-monkey." He said.

"See? Earth-monkey, we've been here for one hour and we already know that no one says that. Cut the crap dude, we don't want to expose you're act or anything to the world we just want to know what you know about this world or if there is anyone we can talk to, someone who is actually smart enough to since most of the people on this planet are stupid." Alex said.

"You've been here for an hour?" He asked.

"Yes. We aren't from here; we aren't even from this dimension okay? We just want to know what it's like here, if we'll be able to live here without really having to worry about anything. You know live here normally they way you seem to be able to and you're obviously smarter than the other's who live here." Alex said exasperatedly.

"Hm. Well you are right about my intelligence Earth-monkey." He said.

"Alex." She corrected.

"What?" He asked.

"My name is Alex, I told you this and this is Sally our names are not Earth-monkey." She said.

"Fine, fine, Alex. You are correct about my superior intelligence and I suppose I should say that you two are correct about not being from here." He said and peeled off the eyes and pulled off the hair to reveal antenna and ruby eyes.

"Cool. So you're from anther planet?" She asked.

"Yes, yes." He said.

"So how long have you been here? Do you age the same way as humans?" Sally asked.

"I have been here for six Earth years and typically I do not age the same way, but it seems while being here I have aged, or seem to, age the same." Zim said.

"Why are you here?" Alex asked.

"To blend, gather information and prepare the Earth to be invaded." He said. Over the past six years Zim was still fairly eccentric, but he has matured a lot as well and knows how to calm down and several of his plans have succeeded, but they weren't big enough to actually cause much damage.

"Invade? So you do mean to cause harm." Alex said.

"If he hasn't yet then I don't think he will anytime soon." Sally said rolling her eyes.

"Silence! I will destroy all of you pitiful humans!" He said dramatically, which seemed unnecessary to Sally but Alex seemed to find it funny.

"We aren't exactly human ourselves." Sally said.

"You're lying!" He said.

Alex took off her windbreaker and spread out her fifteen-foot wings filling up most of the room. She folded them back up and Sally turned a dial on her watch and her waist length blonde hair grew so that it was about at her calves, her crimson eyes became brighter and literally glowed and her own wings grew from her back at about fourteen feet in wingspan. She had a watch that neutralized her magic and power but now that she has switched it so it was released she even had a black aura around her with what looked like a silver and red shimmer swirling in. Alex always guessed that that part was magic or something.

"You were saying?" Sally asked.