Welcome to In Our World Book 9! It was hard to come up with a new plot, but I think I have another good one here. As usual, the symbol rules on my bio apply here. If you haven't read the stories in the order I say to on my bio, you need to or this will literally make no sense. So let's get to this new story, shall we?

CHAPTER 1 – Another Portal Problem

(P to 3rd person) In the 3 months since everyone had been thrown back to 2008 and nearly disappeared, they were all very glad to still be together and that it would not happen again. But little did they know that soon another world would be opened to them.

(P to Emily) "I still can't believe that I really started your relationship," I said to Skipper and Marlene. "I still can't believe it either sis. By doing that, you started all of this," Marlene said happily. She kissed Skipper and hugged her children while I did the same to Matthew and our children.

"Thanks for preventing us from disappearing Mom. I really don't want to vanish again," Julia said to me. "You're very welcome sweetie. I don't know what I'd do without all of you," I said to everyone.

Everyone said the same thing to each other and we hugged and kissed our family members again. "We nearly vanished too, almost two years ago. Thank you Uncle Matthew, for suggesting Back To The Future that night," Annabelle said to him. *

"Thank you Anna. It was really lucky I suggested that. I do not want to know where we would be today if I hadn't," he said, making us all shiver with that thought. "But my prophecy said that you would fight for our independence. And you won," I said happily to Matthew.

"Yes, that problem brought us together. I found the perfect wife, thanks to that prophecy," Matthew said to me, before we kissed. "And you have perfect children right?" Dylan asked us curiously. "Of course. You may be nutty, but we love you too," I said to Dylan and Julia, making us all hug again.

"But thank you Kowalski, for messing up with the original Transporter," Skipper said to him. "Really Kowalski. What would have happened if you hadn't invented that? Surely we wouldn't have all this, with being reunited, married, and having children," Marlene said to him.

"You're very welcome," Kowalski replied to her. Matthew began chuckling at something. "What's so funny?" I asked him curiously. "Oh nothing. It's just that it's still funny to be related to former TV characters and be married to an Otter. How many people can say that? Not many," Matthew said.

We all laughed. "It really is funny to be married to a human from another world. But that's one of the many reasons why I love you," I said happily to him, before we shared another kiss.

"What would our lives be like if we were opposites, though?" Samuel asked everyone. "What do you mean?" Marlene asked him. "Well, what if our species, genders, and roles were reversed?" Samuel asked. "You mean basically if I were the boy, a Penguin, and Otters were the main military species?" Annabelle asked him.

"Well yeah, I guess so," he replied. Matthew switched all our species. "Well, I can easily change the species thing, but as to gender, I'm not going to change that. That would just be strange," he said. I chuckled. "Yeah, it would. I like being a girl. Except for one thing," I said.

"What Mom?" Julia asked me. "Being the one to give birth. That hurt a lot," I said. "That was the single most painful thing I've ever done. But it was worth it to go through all that pain," Marlene said happily. "I completely agree," I said happily. We both hugged our children.

"It's fun to slide around on your belly though," Annabelle said as she and Julia took advantage of being Penguins for the moment. And then Marlene and I started sliding around, too. It was always fun to do that.

But since we weren't used to sliding, we all slid too fast, right into our family. We all laughed at our miscalculation, before Matthew turned us back to normal. "Have fun?" Skipper and Matthew asked us all.

"Yeah, it really was fun. I'm glad you can do that. And if I remember correctly, that was part of my prophecy too," I said happily to Matthew, before we shared a kiss. "I can't believe we forgot about that part, when we met again," Marlene said, as she and Skipper blushed. **

"Well, I wouldn't have known anyway, since you were ordered not to tell me," Matthew said. They chuckled. "Yeah, we couldn't tell you after you proposed, which you did," Skipper said. "I'm still really sorry I almost killed you," Marlene said apologetically.

"As I always say Marlene, you misunderstood the joke, so it wasn't your fault. You were just protecting her," Matthew said. Marlene smiled. "I'm glad to have a brother-in-law that cares so much for us all. I'm sure wherever our parents are, they'd be glad you married Emily," Marlene said to Matthew.

He smiled. "Thank you Marlene. Though I technically didn't ask them if it was ok to marry their daughter. Neither did you Skipper. I wonder how that scenario would play out," Matthew said.

"With the Memory Viewer to prove everything, I'm sure it would be fine Dad," Dylan said to him. "I really hope that would be the case too. But didn't you sort of have a prophecy too Mom?" Annabelle asked Marlene. ***

"I did. I just never got to actually hear it directly. But whatever it was, I'm glad it came true," she said, before kissing Skipper. "You guys are lucky though, that you know one set of your grandparents," Samuel said to Dylan and Julia.

"We are. I like them," Dylan said. "I like them too," Julia said. "Good. Because without them, your father wouldn't exist and neither would you," I said to them. "I like existing. It makes me feel good," Dylan said. "If we didn't exist, we wouldn't feel anything," Julia said to him, making us laugh.

"So do we have any plans for the night?" Annabelle asked us. Marlene pulled down the giant calendar. "Apparently not sweetie. But since we've been talking about the human side of the family, how about we head there for the evening?" she suggested.

"That's an excellent idea Marlene," Skipper said to her. "Thanks Skipper," she said happily to him, before they shared a kiss. "So do you want to be humans tonight?" Matthew asked the children and I.

"Sure. It's been awhile since we were humans," I said to him. "And it eases their confusion," Dylan said, speaking of the family. We all shared a chuckle at that, since it was true. We didn't think they'd ever get used to it.

Matthew then changed us three to humans. "You look adorable children," I said to them. They really did get good genes from us. "Thanks Mom," Julia replied to me. We all got ready by calling our suits to us, in case we would need them and activated the Universal Walkie Talkie's Portal.

"Here we go," Samuel said, before we all jumped into it. We were just floating along when the tunnel started to flicker. "Uh, Kowalski?" Matthew asked him. "I've made sure to put away all my inventions ever since that happened, so I don't know what could be causing this," Kowalski said.

The pink tunnel then flickered, went dark, and then changed to green. We all then panicked and tried to head back to the still pink entrance Portal, but it closed. In its place was a green Portal.

"Not good. Not good at all," Julia said, slightly panicking. We were all panicking as well. Just a few months after we thought we were done with the Portals getting messed up, it happened again.

We all braced for gong through this new, strange Portal, hoping once we went through it, we could fix whatever was wrong and get back to our original objective, heading to Matthew's world.

That's the end of the first chapter. Not an excellent start, but it does work. Please review the chapter, as it still means a lot even after all this time. I have a few notes today.

* Referencing back to Book 4.

** Referencing the start of Book 3.

*** Referencing that one line in Pengotters: The Early Months.