Sparrowflyaway: Yay! Another fanfiction! This one will probably be the biggest story that I've ever written, so I hope you like it! By the way, I would like to encourage readers to tell me movies that you would like me to put in. You never know, I may end up using your idea!
Serena: This sounds really interesting! I've always wanted to live out some of the fairytales in the movies.
Sparrowflyaway: It won't be exactly like that, Serena.
Serena: Really? Then what will it be like?
Sparrowflyaway: It'll be fun, Serena, but there may be a little danger involved, and it might be a little different to what you're expecting.
Serena: OK... Well, it sounds exciting either way!
Sparrowflyaway: Well, I think I'll do the disclaimer now. I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the movies in this Fanfiction.
Serena: That'd be pretty cool if you did, though.
Sparrowflyaway: Yeah, that'd be awesome!
"Hey, guys!" Amy said, stepping into Lita's apartment, where Raye, Mina and Lita were gathered.
"Hi Amy! We've been waiting for you! So what's your big surprise?" Raye asked. Mina and Lita nodded and smiled at Amy.
"Shouldn't we wait for Serena?" Amy asked, putting down her laptop bag and a bag of metal tubing and wires.
"No need, Amy, I'm right here," Serena said, walking out of Lita's kitchen with a bag of chips in one hand and a can of lemonade in the other.
"Hi, Serena! OK, well, remember how a couple of months ago you said that you wished that you could jump right into a movie and experience it?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, I remember. That was after we watched Pokemon 2000 at my birthday party," Serena said. Amy nodded.
"Yes, well, I thought, why don't I try to make that wish come true? Sort of like a late birthday present. Well, surprise! I created a computer program that allows us to go into the movie and walk around, watching what goes on for ourselves. I didn't really want us to get hurt in dangerous scenes, so I made it so that we can explore the movie as though we're transparent and invisible," Amy smiled.
"What do you mean?" Serena asked.
"We'd be kind of like ghosts. The movie action will play out with us in the middle of it, and we preset a timer as to how long we want to watch the movie for. After that time has elapsed, a portal will appear, and we can take that back out," Amy explained as she took out and set up her laptop.
"Wow! Sounds pretty awesome! So all that's left to do is set the program up and pick a movie, right?" Mina asked.
"Exactly. Which movie shall we try first?" Amy asked, taking out the complicated mess of wires and tubing and fitting it together into a large hexagonal ring in the middle of the living room floor.
"Are you sure this thing works, Amy?" Mina asked, staring sceptically at the ring.
"Oh yes. I tried it out a couple of days ago, worked like clockwork. I watched Up. That bird was pretty crazy. Do you mind if I hook up to your network, Lita?" Amy asked, smiling and plugging the ring into her laptop.
"No, that's fine, go ahead," Lita said. Amy took a blue internet cable from her laptop bag and plugged one end into Lita's modem and the other into her own laptop. After a few minutes of tinkering, the screen went white and started flashing.
"OK, we're all set, which movie should we watch?" Amy asked.
"What about Pokemon 2000? That was the one that Serena said she wanted to live out, so let's go watch that one," Raye said.
"OK, pass the DVD here and we'll put it on," Amy said. Lita pulled out the DVD and passed it to Amy, who inserted the disc into her disc drive.
"How long are we going to watch it for?" Serena asked, leaning forward to watch the computer screen's flashing. Doing so, she accidentally knocked over her can of soft drink, sending fizzy bubbles of lemonade all over the table and the laptop, which turned off with a pop. Simultaneously, the lights went out and the girls were plunged into darkness.
"Nice going, Meatball Head," Raye said sarcastically.
"It was an accident!" Serena wailed.
"How about we get these lights back up instead of arguing. It looks like a fuse has blown," Lita said, using her phone as a torch to find a proper torch. She then used that to find and open the fuse box in the hallway. "Uh-huh, we've got a blown fuse here, alright. Never mind, I'll have that fixed right away," Lita said, taking a box of spare fuses out of the fuse box. She removed one from the box and swapped it for the broken one, then flicked the lights back on. "There we go, good as new."
"I hope my computer is in a better state than that fuse," Amy said nervously as she mopped up the lemonade with a napkin.
"I'm sorry, Amy, I didn't mean to," Serena said feebly.
"I know, it's OK. Accidents happen. Just try to be more careful, OK?" Amy said, throwing the napkin in the bin and rebooting the computer.
"I'll try." Amy nodded in acknowledgement, watching as the screen flashed a little, then returned to the normal display.
"Phew, it seems to be working fine," Amy said.
"Great! For a moment there I thought I'd have to buy you a new laptop, Amy," Serena said, smiling with relief.
"Let's get going!" Mina said enthusiastically.
"Wait a sec, I should probably run checks on all of the programs, just to make sure everything's OK," Amy said.
"How long will that take, Amy?" Serena said impatiently.
"To do a thorough check, which I probably should do, would take a couple of hours," Amy said.
"Is there a check that you can do that won't take as long?" Serena asked.
"Well, I could run a basic check, which takes about ten minutes and will just check that nothing's corrupted," Amy said.
"OK, run that one. Lita, I reckon that any movie needs some good snacks to go with it. Is there some things that we could pack in a bag, since we're going to be in the movie?" Serena asked. Lita nodded.
"Yeah, we could pack some chips, popcorn, fairy bread, that kind of thing," Lita said.
"Great! Let's go get that organised while Amy's checking for glitches," Serena said eagerly. She and Lita walked through to the kitchen and began pulling bread, butter, chips and popcorn out and organising paper bags for everything.
"I'm not sure we should be doing this, guys. I mean, what happens if there's something really wrong with the program? We could get stuck in the movie for good!" Amy said nervously as she ran the shorter scan.
"We'll be fine. If there is something wrong, I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to fix it," Mina said.
"I hope so," Amy said, just as Serena and Lita returned with a backpack full of food.
"Are we all set?" Mina asked.
"Food-wise, yes, we're all set. How's the program looking, Amy?" Lita asked.
"Well, I can't find any problems with the computer's programming, so I'll check the actual program next," Amy said, tinkering away.
"How long will that take?" Serena asked, putting down the backpack.
"About a minute," Amy replied, beginning the scan of the movie-watching program. Once the scan had finished, the computer beeped and Amy's brow furrowed.
"What's the matter?" Serena asked.
"There's a slight glitch in the program," Amy said.
"What's happened to it?" Mina asked.
"I'm not sure, but the timer's been affected. I'm not sure what's wrong with it, though, or if there's anything else wrong with it," Amy said.
"Oh, who cares! Let's just fire up the program!" Serena said impatiently.
"Well, everything seems to be in working order, but just in case it isn't, and there's trouble, I suggest we keep one hand on our transformation items," Amy said, checking to see that her Transformation Pen was in her pocket. Raye, Mina and Lita did the same, while Serena touched her locket and watched the screen eagerly. "How long do you think we should go into the movie for?" Amy asked.
"Let's say fifteen minutes. That should be enough time to get a bit of a test-run in to check that everything's working properly," Raye said. Amy nodded and set the timer, then frowned as it reset itself to zero. She set the timer again, and again it reset itself to zero. Amy opened the program's information file and tinkered with it a little, then saved and set the timer again, and this time, it stayed on fifteen minutes.
"OK, shall we go?" Serena asked, picking up the backpack and handing it to Lita, who put it on.
"Let's go!" Mina cried. Serena, Raye, Mina and Lita stepped into the ring and watched as Amy set up the flashing white screen again, pressed a button on her computer and then stepped in too. The girls watched and counted along as the computer began counting down.
"Three! Two! One!"
"FZZZZZT" went the computer as the ring flashed bright silver, and the girls disappeared. None of them noticed that the timer was playing up again, this time randomly flicking through numbers at an incredible speed...
"Whoa, this is weird!" Serena yelled over the wind that was swirling through the brightly coloured tunnel that the girls were travelling down.
"This is normal, don't worry!" Amy called back. The girls looked down and saw a bright spot of light fast approaching. "Here it comes, everyone! We're about to land in the heart of the Orange Islands!"
"Where do you think we'll be? On Shamouti Island? Or maybe one of the islands where Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno live?" Serena said thoughtfully.
"Wherever we land, it'll be interesting to watch the movie's action in real time," Raye said.
"Yeah, this'll be so awesome!" Mina exclaimed as the bright light enveloped them, then faded into a cloudy grey.
"Whoa, this is really weird! The snow feels totally real!" Serena gasped in amazement, looking around at the ice-covered ocean. Amy gasped in horror as the truth hit her.
"Guys? I don't exactly know how to tell you this, but... The program didn't work the way I meant it to. We're not ghosts. We're really here, in the Orange Islands," Amy said. The others gasped.
"What? You mean..." Mina trailed off.
"If we don't get moving and find the exit portal, we could be in real danger," Amy said grimly.