Okay I just wanted to point out that you do not have to read the other stories in this series that I collaborate with Call her Angie she likes that to read this story.
Laura's Pov.
Four years had gone by. Four years since the incredible battle. Four years since I lost so much I loved. Two years since I went to college and two years since I had seen my best friends. And finally, six years since I got into all this mess. Now I'm stuck here, in college, studying writing and engineering, almost opposite things. Now I'm stuck here, and I'm still depressed. I've been depressed for four years and it hasn't killed me. Yet.
When I was only fourteen years old, (now I'm twenty and a half) a young age to start a dramatic life, my two closest friends (Eowyn and Angie) and I were having a campout sleepover. Before I get into the story let me describe them a bit. Eowyn was fourteen and she had tanish skin and very long brown hair that had a few blonde highlights in it. I was about three inches taller than her, being 5'5, and I had much lighter skin than her, almost white skin, and my hair was in a bob and it was lighter than her's. Angie was about two inches shorter than me and she had tan skin, dark brown eyes and long dark brown hair. She was sixteen years old. While we were sitting around the campfire, we heard a noise and went to it, finding a portal. Thinking it was just an illusion, we went through. Instead of just ending up on the other side we ended up in Middle Earth, a fantasy world created by J. R. R. Tolkien. We joined the Fellowship to help bring The Ring to Mordor. On the way I fell in love with Legolas, and even though I was fourteen I believe he developed some feelings for me as well. Eowyn fell for Merry the Hobbit and he fell for her. After The Ring was destroyed, we stayed in Middle Earth for four more years. Legolas and I never got into a relationship because we both agreed that it would be best that way. Eowyn and Merry did approach a relationship though, and were much more saddened when we had to leave M. E.
Not even a year later did we end up in Narnia. We were thrown into the deep water of the ocean. Luckily we could all swim so we survived until the Dawn Treader took us on board. There we met Caspian, Edmund, Lucy and Eustace. We all soon became close friends. Well, with Eustace it was more or less. Angie ended up falling for Edmund and Edmund seemed to have feelings for her as well.
While still in Narnia, the three of us got into a fight. Eowyn and I were together against Angie, which was extremely rare since Angie and I were even closer than Eowyn and I were. Eowyn and I were sick and tired of being on sea, we were homesick, we were tired of having hardly enough food to survive and we were tired of searching for the dark islands. Even though we knew how the story would end (mostly) we weren't entirely sure, since things could change when new characters and plot twists were added to a story. Later on though, we realized how wrong we had been in our thinking and we all made up and became friends once again.
After Narnia came Ninjago. This time my brother came with us. His name was Ethan and he had dark brown hair and skin a bit darker than mine, and being nearly two years younger than I made him only thirteen. I was fifteen at the time and so was Eowyn. Angie was seventeen. When we were taken to Ninjago we gained Elemental powers. I had the power of light, Ethan had lava, Eowyn had color and Angie had shields, or force-fields. Soon after we arrived, we met the Ninja, (Jay, Cole, Kai and Lloyd). That is, most of the Ninja. We joined the Tournament of Elements with them and helped them find their friend, Zane who was a sentient android. Once Zane was found, we helped them to defeat Chen, a madman who wanted snake people to rule Ninjago. Along the way, I fell for Lloyd and he fell for me. Before we left we kissed and promised to be together if we ever met again.
A couple months later we were taken to California, and the portal dropped us right in Mr. Davenport's living room. We met the Lab Rats, (Adam, Bree, Chase and Leo) and soon became their friends. We discovered we had bionics as well. Other than having bionics things went pretty normal. We went to school with the four and hung out with them. Angie quickly was in love with Chase and I could tell he felt the same. Things went from normal to not-so-normal when Marcus, the android that Adam Bree and Chase's father had created showed up. He had turned from his evil ways and came to warn us of a mad bionic man's plan to attack with bionic soldiers. We began to prepare and I again fell for someone, this time, Marcus. He loved me, but I later found, we weren't truly meant for each other. I broke up with him a year ago. And Angie and Chase is something that I will speak of more during this story.
My friend Katelyn joined us sometime after Marcus did. She was about the same height as Eowyn and she had light hair that was something close to dirty blonde. She had light skin, but still not as light as mine (see the pattern here? My skin borders on albino!) and many freckles. She discovered to that she had bionics and she began to train with us. We defeated Krane and his army together. Angie helped the most by destroying Krane with her plasma blast. After that we were sent back. I stayed in a long distance relationship with Marcus and Angie did so with Chase.
We thought everything would be normal after that, but gosh, we were so wrong. When I was sixteen, I had recently gotten my driver's licence and I was taking my friends (all including my brother) for a drive. Another one of my friends, Ariel, who was the same age as Ethan joined us. Ariel had reddish blonde hair and slightly tan skin and freckles. She was also the same height as Eowyn. While we were in the car, Katelyn appeared there. Immediately we knew something was going on. We checked the news and all the dark lords and madmen and their armies had appeared on Earth. That only meant terrible trouble. Our friends form those other worlds came to join us and we fought together with them in an epic battle. Many lives were lost. Eowyn was killed, so was Kai, Bree, Leo, Legolas, Merry, Pippin (Merry's friend), Peter (Edmund and Lucy's brother), Susan (their sister), Oliver and Skylor (friends of the Lab Rats) and two people who almost became my adoptive siblings. Chase was never found, so it was assumed he was dead.
We were and still are heartbroken from that horrible experience but we made it. Not long afterwards, Angie went to her first year of college. Katelyn went to her first year a year later and I went for mine a year after that. Once I went to college, I nearly lost contact with everyone and now I haven't seen anyone except family for two years. The last time Angie and I talked was a year ago.
That's pretty much my backstory. It's all you really need to know.
I lay on my bed trying to study for my next engineering test. It was 11:34, a little less than a half an hour to midnight. I was having trouble keeping my eyes open and I continuously dozed off on my textbook. I wanted to ace the test, but I didn't have much time since I had a part time job along with classes. Engineering was hard, very hard, but I did good in it and I didn't want to fail this test. It was the last test before the summer and I wanted to do good on it. Maybe I was overworking myself, but it didn't seem to stop me.
Just as I dozed off once again, my phone rang and I was immediately alert. I sat up and reach for it. Checking the number, I looked in surprise to see that it was one I hadn't seen in an entire year. I clicked answer and put it to my ear. "Hello?" My heart was beating just slightly faster since I was nervous about talking to the friend I hadn't talked to in so long. I didn't want it to be awkward.
"Oh Laura, thank goodness. It's so late, I was worried you wouldn't pick up," Angie's voice said over the phone. A slight smile appeared on my lips but there was something off about the tone she used. She seemed worried - excited.
"Well, I'm studying for engineering so yeah, I'm awake. Mostly," I replied in a joking manner. Angie chuckled.
"Good. Ethan and I need you over here. This question is gonna sound weird, but you gotta trust me. And I understand if you are confused that I suddenly called you but this is urgent. Are you...fully dressed?" My eyebrows raised in surprise and confusion over the odd question but, then again, I was used to weird so I answered.
"Well, yes. I am. I never get changed from my day clothes to go to bed," I replied. "Why do you ask...?"
"No time. Ethan is gonna teleport you over here. He's still working out the bugs so you may end up a little ways off the coordinates," she said. I nodded my head and braced myself to be materialized into nothingness but instead, I was materialized six feet above the ground. Screaming, I fell to the ground with a thud. I picked myself up and groaned as I rubbed the side of my head. I turned my head around and saw Angie and Ethan. Katelyn and Ariel teleported just as I looked. Their teleportation ended up fine. I began to walk over to them but halted when I saw what they were standing in front of. It was a...a portal.
Not even stopping to greet the girls and my brother, I grabbed Angie by the arm and pulled her over so we could talk privately. "Angelina! I cannot believe you would call me at 11:45, ask me if I am dressed, and teleport me six feet in the air just to get me to go through another portal! I will not go through that. I made that mistake one too many times and I do not plan on doing it again!" I felt many mixed emotions at that moment. The the biggest ones were guilt and fear. I was afraid of what might happen if that thing sucked us into it, and I was guilty because I had helped cause the death of many people.
Angie sighed and ripped her arm out of my grasp. "I knew you would say that. That's how well I know you. I just needed you to be here. Ethan, Katelyn and Ariel have all agreed to go. They all agreed that each time one of these has appeared it's because we're needed somewhere," she told me. I nodded.
"Well, it didn't exactly call me. It called you. I cannot, I just cannot go through there!" I exclaimed. I felt my eyes tear up. "Going through those portals has caused me nothing but pain. Nothing at all. All the relationships I had because of them were destroyed. I lost some of my best friends. I almost lost my family. We all grew apart because of it. Marcus and I left each other. I'm not going through there. I can't." I looked down to conceal the tears that were nearly beginning to fall. Even as an adult I was still pretty emotional at times, especially when those times involved memories of the past.
"I just wanted to have one more adventure with my friend, before she grew up too much to want too. I guess this portal was too late." Angie turned from me and began to walk away. Part of me wanted to walk in the opposite direction. That was the cold, unforgiving, depressed side of me. There was another side of me, warmer, brighter and ready for adventure. Suddenly, that side seemed to break through the ice of the other one and I called after her.
"Angie... I'll...I'll go," I said. Angie turned to me and she had...a smirk! She had a sly, devilish smirk on her face. She wanted to make me feel bad, she wanted to get me to come because she knew I would eventually give in. Even as an adult, she could still be such a little kid.
"I knew you would change you mind. Come on." She gestured for me to follow and I went with her. "I'm sorry for all the pain this has caused you..." she said. I nodded and sighed. "It's alright. Really." We all gathered together and joined hands. Just as I did back when I was fourteen, I counted down to when we would jump. When we did, I saw this portal was different than the others. It was darker, I couldn't see space. Instead, I saw a big clock in front of us, spinning forward and I saw images of past events. This was a time portal.
We hit the ground, each of us landing on our rearends. We quickly stood up and looked around the area. I almost immediately knew where we were. If I had been younger, I might have screamed, I might have even cried or laughed, but I kept my composure and turned to the other four. "My friends, I am delighted to inform you that we are on one of the decks on the Starship, Enterprise." Everyone except Angie gasped.
"I figured as much. I bet you're excited to see Commander Data, aren't you?" she asked with a teasing tone. I cleared my throat as me cheeks turned slightly red. When I was a young teen, I had an enormous crush on Data. Now being here, on the starship that he was on, was beginning to bring it back to me.
"You know I let go of that crush a long time ago, Angie," I replied stiffly. The blush didn't fade away and I began to think that maybe that statement wasn't true.
We began walking down the halls of the Enterprise and when we reached Ten Forward, I was glad I knew where we were. This was the one place on the Enterprise that everyone came to, so there would obviously be many people coming in and out. We did not want any people seeing us yet so this was the last place we wanted to be. I turned to my friends and began to whisper, "We need to be very, very quiet. This is Ten Forward, where everyone comes for break." I turned quickly but since I had been talking before, I hadn't heard the doors open and I bumped right into a guy's chest. I stumbled backwards and nearly fell but Angie held me up. I shook my head as I regained balance and I looked directly ahead. My mouth dropped open and after about five seconds I shut it. I had bumped right into...Data.
"I uh...I am sorry, I was uh just coming through here with um, my friends. We're uh, going now," I stuttered. 'Can you even speak normal in front of an officer? You're twenty for goodness' sake!' I turned to them to quickly follow me but before we were even two feet away Data stopped us.
"I do not believe you are members on the Enterprise," he said. I quickly thought of an excuse. I was glad my brain was working.
"We've um, just been reported on board uh, last week," I replied. I smiled smugly but I should've known Data was smarter than that.
"There have been any new recruits for more than three weeks," he informed me. I felt my confidence drain as I tried to think up another excuse but I realized there was no outsmarting an android, especially if that android was Lieutenant Commander Data, creation of Dr. Soong. He looked at us for a few seconds and then pressed his comm badge. "Data to Captain Picard." "Picard here." "I believe that there are intruders onboard. They appear to be human." "Send security." "They are not fighting me. I believe I can escort them to you without protest." "I would rather you have security with you." "Of course. Data out." After that Data contacted security. I leaned over to Angie.
"I think we are officially screwed."