Disclaimer: ok, I don't own any of these characters at all. They belong to AIC, Pioneer, and anyone else that might own them-so PLEASE don't sue me! The only characters I do own are the ones you don't recognize.

Note: This is long before Ryoko became a space pirate. She is only 14 years old in this story. This is my very 1st fanfic and story, so PLEASE go easy on me!

Tales of the Time and Space Dimensions Chapter 1: The Mirror

Ryoko sat on her bed listening to some music. "Oh, how I long for some adventure!" she thought, "I'm always sitting her doing nothing while Mom works on her stupid inventions! And why is she doing her latest experiment in my bathroom?" I don't like the other bathroom and I really got to go!"

Just then there came a loud bang followed by a crash. Then smoke started pouring from beneath the bathroom door. "What now?!" Ryoko thought angrily. She walked into her bathroom only to see smoke and charcoal everywhere. Washu was nowhere in sight. "Where the crap is she???" Ryoko thought.

Just then, Ryoko noticed that her bathroom mirror looked strange. It had a strange blackish tint to it. She put her finger up to touch it, but instead of feeling the cold, solid glass, her finger just went right through!

"What the.." Ryoko stammered. It felt a lot like she put her hand through a liquid barrier. "What has Mom gotten herself into this time," Ryoko wondered, "I wonder what's in there?" Ryoko thought as her curiosity began to take over her, "Maybe if I just went in there for a few minutes…." For a mirror, this one was extremely large and a person could easily fit through it. "What the heck," Ryoko said. And with one big leap, she passed right through the mirror porthole.

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All of the sudden, Ryoko was falling through a great swirl of nothing. Colors and memories raced through her vision and she didn't know what to think!

She landed on a soft floor of sand (like the kind at a beach). She sat up, but everything just swirled around. She shook her head vigorously until her vision finally came back to her. She looked around. She was sitting on a floor of sand and all around her were quiet lakes and pools of water. There were many stalactites hanging from the ceiling, but you couldn't see the top because it was so dark that it didn't even look like there was a top! All around it was black except for spots and dashes of different colors here and there. It reminded Ryoko of space-a place she had always dreamed of going ever since she was a little child.

She then noticed Washu, her mother, observing the place and typing on her see through laptop. "Mommy, where the heck am I?" Ryoko asked. "Well, Ryoko, we are in a dimension that I accidentally stumbled upon. My computer was indicating that there was a strange world located in your bathroom but it couldn't exactly pin point where. "So that's why you've been invading my bathroom!" Ryoko said sarcastically. "Yes," Washu said, "I began to examine your mirror and I found that it was containing a hidden porthole. I just had to find a way to open the porthole. When I did it caused a terrible explosion. I call it The Time and Space Dimensions!" "That's nice and all, but how do we get back?" Ryoko asked with her teenager smart allek tone. "Well," Washu said, "I haven't quite figured that out yet." "Great, so we're stuck here!" Ryoko said and began to stomp around in an enormous rage, "Now I'm gonna miss "Galaxy Wars"! That's my favorite show!" "Well not exactly," Washu said, typing busily on her computer, "You see, time is stopped here so when we get back, it will still be the same time as when we left." "Well this still sucks!" Ryoko said with a smirk. "I'm sorry, but you'll just have to wait," Washu said paying more attention to her computer than Ryoko.

Ryoko sat down with an angry look on her face, "I know I shouldn't have jumped into the mirror!" she thought angrily at herself.

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  That was kinda short, but I'm working on it! Please review this 'cause I need to know how good I'm doing. But don't judge the story on this one chapter 'cause it gets a lot better-TRUST ME!!!!