DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY! NADA!
Oh yeah, If some of the words don't make any sense to you, the explenations for them is at the bottom of the page
THE MEETING OF THE WORLDS.
A LITTLE NOTE FROM THE NARRATOR
First, the happenings.
Then, the words.
That's usually how I see things.
Or at least, that's how I try.
Here Is a Small Fact
I know your deepest, darkest secrets.
Please, do not be frightened. I am in all truthfulness a great keeper of secrets, although most people might cringe at the thought of me finding out what happens behind their closed doors. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be secretive. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the As. Just don't ask me to be unimaginative. Unimaginative has nothing to do with me.
Of course, an introduction.
A beginning.
Where are my manners?
I could introduce myself properly, but then, you could be hurling a crystal glass or a china pot at me if I do so. But then, as the Royal Scribe to the Topkapi Dynasty, It is my job to record the events that occur thought the planes and hills of my world. Sometimes though, my duties have forced me to delve into your world, and it didn't help that I am one of the rare few in my family to have a sixth sense; the ability to read other people's minds.
So, inadvertently, I have known about what you have done, and if you feel angry or disgusted at me, you have all the rights to do so. This gift of mine is beyond my control, and I am sorry if it has made you repulsed or disgraced. Lately though, this sixth sense has been proven to be a lifesaver for me, especially during the time when our worlds meet a few months ago.
Which in turn brings me to the story that you shall read if you turn this page. I have scoured the land for weeks and have interviewed the people for months and I have compiled their testimonies in the pages behind these paragraphs. I want to tell you much more of this, but I can see that were' running out of empty places to write more sentences. So, as my last words, I wish for you to enjoy this tale as much as it enjoys me.
P.S. : It dosn't matter if you don't understand some of the words that I am saying, for you will understand them as you read the following pages.
***
PROLOGUE
"Something's amiss!" said the Director General of CERN as the entire facility began to shake.
"We must get out of here!" replied a scientist as cracks started to appear on the walls and ceiling.
"NO! I will not leave my research!" said the Director.
"But sir, we have to leave immediately!" said another scientist as alarms rang across the entire facility.
"No!"
"But sir!"
"You may go, but I'm staying here!"
"But-"
"Go!"
BOOM!!!!
***
Molly Sloan was walking through Times Square on a cold October evening.
To an outsider, she may appear as an ordinary 10 year-old girl, walking along the sidewalks. But for someone who knew her well, they would see a distressed, heartbroken girl who had a divorced father living in Queens and a sick mother lying on a bed in a hospital in the Bronx.
Molly could not believe that her mother, the light of her life, would be gone in six month's time for contracting leukemia and that she would be staying forever with her father. Already, the thought of her mother dying reminded her of her sister, who died in a car crash just over a year ago. Every day, she prayed hard, hoping for her mother's miraculous recovery although it all appeared rather bleak. Little did she suspect that very soon, her wish would be granted in an unbelievable way…
*
Meanwhile, halfway across the galaxy, in a planet called "Lusutupamia…"
The Grand Chairman of the United Universal Federation (U.U.F.) was doing her usual business in her grand office in the Federation's headquarters. For an alien, she was extremely humanoid except that her skin was too fair, her height exceeded the average human and her eyes were too big with blue irises and yellow pupils. And yes, the Grand Chairman was an alien woman.
She looked at her reflection in the huge mirror which hung on the opposite wall and felt rather pensive as a no nose and no haired alien looked back at her. She was just ending a call with an alien ambassador through the intergalactic phone network (the aliens have invented phones 450 years ago) when she could feel a tremor as if they have been hit by an earthquake and the air in front of her shimmered and rippled as if it had been heated up by a few degrees…
*
Meanwhile, in an unknown dimension, a young Japanese woman in a black kimono is staring to the garden of her strange shophouse when she too sees that the air in front of her shimmered and rippled. The woman knew that in a few minutes time, the alien planets and the dimensional universe will collide in a most unimaginable way...
*
Molly Sloan thought she was dreaming.
Suddenly, the entire city shook as if an earthquake had struck. All around her, everyone was screaming as the entire city shook. Then, the air in front of her shimmered and rippled as if someone is heating it. Suddenly, a bright light like an explosion blinded her eyes and when she could see through her hands again, she thought that she was really dreaming.
The air seemed to split in two revealing some sort of portal which shows a Japanese shophouse that is surrounded by tall buildings. But, it was the look of the house that was strange. The house looked two-dimensional as if it was picked from a cartoon and placed there, in front of Molly's eyes. Then, as suddenly as it happened, the air seemed to have closed itself and a gateway between the two worlds was gone, for now.
As Molly recovered herself after seeing the strange sight, she heard screams from the crowd in Times Square as in mid-air; more portals were opening and closing like mad eyelids. As one portal close, another one opens as Molly said to herself "What the HECK is going on here?"
*
(alien language…) - (translated)-"WHAT'S HAPPENING!!!??"
The Grand Chairman stormed through the Science and Astronomy Department of the U.U.F.; Her 3-fingered reptilian hands turned into balls of fury after what she saw minutes earlier in her office. Right in front of her, the air ripped apart with a tremendous force, revealing a huge square with a huge pillar at its center. After a few seconds, the portal closed and right on cue, she received a phone call from the Sky Watch Department about what was happening on Planet Earth.
"How can there be portals appearing all over the galaxy!!!" She bellowed.
There is chaos all around her as many alien scientists scrambled around boardrooms and computers (invented 589 years ago). As the pandemonium continued, there were other reports coming in that more portals have appeared in other planets across the galaxy.
"Your Honour, we are still pinpointing the source of this occurrence but early reports are suggesting that it may have a connection with an experiment on Planet Earth" a crablike alien scientist said.
"Get me lines to Vampiriana, Himenoptera, and Dinotopia. I need to see Them NOW!!" she screamed.
"Also, get my spaceship ready in 5 minutes". She then took out her cell phone and contacted a person who was so powerful that even the great Grand Chairman of the U.U.F. respected.
*
The telephone rang in the shop house.
The woman in the kimono picked up the receiver and said "Yes?"
"Yuuko-san, I -" the voice of the Grand Chairman blared through the receiver.
"- Want to know what is happening?" the woman called Yuuko replied. "Well, it is happening in our worlds too".
"What!?"
"The others have already called me for an explanation. It is happening in our worlds too. There's even a portal that appeared in my garden earlier."
"Oh, what is happening to our worlds now? Just a few minutes ago everything was fine!"
"Calm down. I think I know who is responsible for this mess" said the Dimensional Witch in a grave voice.
(note: The aliens have known about the existence of cartoon and anime worlds for a long, long, long time.)
*
Back in Times Square, a new portal opened up, revealing a herd of carnivorous dinosaurs charging violently at the bystanders and forced Molly to run for her life. All around her, there were people frantically running, shouting, and screaming. Across Times Square, the world-famous huge plasma screens towering over their heads now showed incredible footage of the same occurrences, now happening around the world.
Then, a new portal opened up right in front of Molly. She managed to sidestep the portal but the Velociraptor chasing her didn't. Then, just as she felt that the worst is over, a new portal opened right under her feet and she literally dropped into another world.
*
Meanwhile, in a dimensional world called "Himenoptera…"
"Marya! Marya!" shouted Prince Ahmed, calling to his sister, Princess Marya as the Topkapi palace rumbled and groaned as more portals opened, bringing with them the strange-looking peoples and creatures from other worlds.
Incredibly, this also includes the creatures from the anime and cartoonian worlds.
"Over here! I finally found it!" said a voice as a figure ran past Ahmed. He couldn't see the figure clearly through the dust filling the air (could it have been Conan Edogawa? –OMG!!! –) but he was sure that the figure couldn't see him either. Like the aliens, the dimensional peoples had also known about the existence of cartoon and anime worlds (This explains the Grand Chairman's conversation with Yuuko Ichihara. Yes, Yuuko Ichihara.)
"Where have you been!?" cried out Ahmed towards her sister as the whole palace shook again.
"Finding this! I managed to find the last one!" she replied, showing a strange short rod-like device in her palm. It was an emergency portal maker. For a human (or alien) in trouble, they could use this device to create an emergency portal to get out of harm's way.
"Come on!" said the princess, pressing a button on the device and instantly, a new portal emerged revealing Yukko's shophouse and both of them passed through just as young Molly Sloan dropped into the palace.
*
When Molly recovered herself, she thought "Now I'm REALLY dreaming!"
She was standing in a long corridor with huge windows to one side. There were carvings on the walls and intricate carpets laid on the floors. But before Molly could experience the true splendor of the corridor, she heard a growling sound behind her.
She ran. The wolf behind her ran too. Its jaws snapping close to Molly's ankles. As she ran, Molly noticed a portal showing the same strange Japanese shophouse she saw earlier in Times Square. Molly figured that she could sidestep the portal but she was going too fast and Molly went straight into the portal just before it closed.
*
Back in Lusutupamia, within the walls of the U.U.F., the Grand Chairman is having a heated discussion with the top three rulers of the dimensional worlds in her private office.
"So it was the work of the people on earth?" questioned the High Chancellor of Dinotopia, Zipeau Stenesaurus.
"Yes. Apparently the scientist's of that planet were doing an experiment to create what many called "The God Particle"." Replied the Grand Chairman.
"But, the scientists should know that tampering with the molecular structure of atoms would be a dangerous thing?" asked the sultan of Himenoptera, Mehmed the Fifth.
"Apparently most of the scientists who worked on the experiment are atheists. They do not believe in god." said the Chairman.
"No wonder their experiment went horribly wrong. Tampering with the most fundamental law of the universe, I wouldn't be surprised that something from our worlds would terrorise them." said the king of Vampiriana, Count Dartand the Third.
"Indeed. My scientists who working here and my armada in space have pinpointed the cause of the dimensional rips. It seems that the scientists on Earth have lost control of their facility when their "God Particle" experiment instead tore apart the very fabric of time, space and reality. Listen; by now the portal activity has slowed down although it will never stop completely unless the facility itself would be shut down. To make sure this absolutely happens, I propose that we should bomb the facility!"
*
"You do realize that I would require compensation for staying the night here."
"Don't worry, Yuuko. We would pay you right after this whole thing is over." Said Ahmed.
"Yuuko, brother, I think you need to see this." piped up Marya from the dining room of Yukko's shop house.
Puzzled, Yuuko and Ahmed went into the dining room to see Marya, Maru, Moro, and Mokona looking at the television. Remarkable as it sounds, Yukko's television was connected to nearly every television station in the alien and dimensional worlds. (The aliens invented television 549 years ago)
On the television screen stood a dinosaurian anchorwoman from Dinotopia. She would have looked like a beautiful woman from earth if it weren't for her blue scaly skin and slightly reptilian face. The network seemed to be making a live broadcast. (Who wouldn't be if there are lots of portals opening everywhere and most of them were connecting with planet Earth).
"This just came in a few minutes ago." said the anchorwoman in her strange voice of her race. "The Grand Chairman of the United Universal Federation has…" she hesitated. "…has announced that she would be making the first ever alien - dimensional contact with planet Earth."
Ahmed's jaw fell.
Marya dropped the remote control.
"By the Tychan Treaty of 1789," said the dinosaurian. "The alien races and dimensional rulers have declared that no alien or dimensional beings would ever set foot on planet Earth indefinitely due to the human's violent nature and their view of being superior to all of life there. However, the Grand Chairman announced a few minutes ago that she would personally meet the greatest ruler of the said planet to explain the situation that the humans themselves have created. So far, the news network has not received any information from the other members of the U.U.F."
"Impossible." said Marya.
"Maybe not." said Yuuko.
"Meanwhile," said the anchorwoman "a great number of calls have reached us that the dimensional rip is not only bringing races and creatures from the alien planets and dimensional worlds, but also bringing races and creatures from the anime and cartoonian worlds."
"WHAT!!??" shouted Ahmed.
"Shh!" cried Mokona.
"We have received many unconfirmed reports that the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother are at a city on planet Earth called "New York", Detective Conan and Ran Maori are at the Seventeen Falls in Vampiriana and Shaoran and Sakura are at the Grand History Museum at Baghdad, Himenoptera." said the anchorwoman.
"Anime worlds…" said Yuuko with a small laugh.
"Baghdad..."said Ahmed.
"I wonder. I really wonder…" said Marya, her voice trailing away as the three of them were in their own thoughts after what the anchorwoman said.
*
Molly Sloan had been resisting the urge to go in for at least 5 minutes.
She was holding to a streetlamp as her feet were pulling at her body to follow it into the strange shop house. Ever since she arrived at this world, she felt as if the shop house was pulling her in. A few seconds later, she realized that the shop house is pulling her in. Since she was afraid of going to a place, any place, in an unfamiliar world, Molly had been able to fight off the pulling effect (temporarily) and grabbed the nearest thing she could find, a streetlamp.
By now, the main thing in Molly's brain was not the pulling effect, but the sheer strangeness of the world that she is in. She was 3-dimensional but everything around her, the road, the sky, the shop house, even the streetlamp that she was holding seemed was as if she has been plucked from the real world and put into an animated movie.
Then, Molly could feel the pulling feeling again but this time she felt that she could shake it off this time. Then, with a shock, she realized that she had used almost all of her strength on holding the streetlamp and that she has very little to spare. Just a second after Molly thought of this, her strength failed her. She lost her grip on the streetlamp and started to walk towards the shop house.
*
"Taipodong missile launch code accepted." sounded a computerized voice.
The Grand Chairman, the leaders of the dimensional worlds and the Galactic Senate and the Democratic Wing looked in awe at the huge plasma screen that hung to one side in the Grand Meeting Room. Usually, the Room is used for annual meetings for the rulers of both universes. This time, however, the Room was used as a viewing post for the elites of the worlds.
The giant 25-foot screen was showing a proton-positive neutronic warhead with its cargo of high-energy electricity and plasma situated at a military base in Mu Areare. The experiment, on Earth, is still running even though it is running out of control; And following the Grand Chairman's self-formulated strategy, the missile is loaded with conventional explosives from Earth to mask the gigantic effects of the unearthly self-repairing of the fabric of time, space and reality.
Now, as chaos swept through the world and the setting Lusutupamian sun shone its sunset glow behind the huge windows of the Room, the leaders of the U.U.F. watched with their breaths held as countdown begins.
… - (translated) - "10, 9, 8, 7…"
*
Meanwhile, at the border between France and Switzerland…
"Everyone, this way!" cried out the Head of Particle Physics.
Nearly every scientist has fled from the building complexes that made up CERN (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire) (European Organization for Nuclear Research), the largest science facility on Earth.
The beginning of the day started with an exciting experiment that involves using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unfortunately, several seconds after the experiment started, the entire facility started to quake and portals started appearing out of thin air everywhere, bringing the strange creature from the Other worlds into the facility.
So far, there had been three Velociraptors, six huge leathery birds with three eyes that the scientists nicknamed "luptodons", and two "Grywolves" as the scientists call them. In reality these grywolves looked just like ordinary wolves except that they were twice as large, have no tails, and had eight eyes.
Anyway, the scientists were running from the facility as the alien mammals started to destroy everything inside it. But at the command center of the Large Hadron Collider, the Director of CERN was trying to control the experiment that's creating havoc around the world…
*
Molly Sloan walked right into the shop.
"Welcom -" shouted Maru and Moro in Japanese as they ran to the shop house entrance but they stopped when they looked at the customer. Molly stared back at Maru and Moro in shock as both girls looked two-dimensional, just like the rest of the world that she's in.
"A customer?" said Maru.
"A customer?" said Moro.
"Well, it seems that we have a customer."
Yuuko Ichihara is walking down to the door with mokona at her shoulders. Amazingly, even though she was Japanese, and that Maru and Moro spoke in Japanese, Yuuko just spoke to Molly in English.
"I take it that you don't speak Japanese. If not, I won't be speaking in English now, wouldn't I, Molly?" said Yuuko to the shocked Molly.
"H-h-how do-,"said she.
"How do I know your name? Well, let's just say that in this world, there are no coincidences. As for me speaking English, well, let's just say that I know a little pet that could translate our languages." Answered the witch while patting mokona.
"Come." Said Yuuko while holding her right hand out to Molly. "I think you will find that I may have something that interests you…"
*
"Now we must tell the greatest ruler of Earth what is happening."
The Grand Chairman and the dimensional rulers were having a meeting in the Grand Meeting Room. The giant Plasma-screen that a few minutes ago, showcased the missile launch, is now switched off. They were discussing about who shall be the envoy that would tell the greatest rule on Planet Earth (the President of The United States) what was happening a few hours ago.
"Since this is the first time we are establishing contact with Earth, I would think that the envoy would be someone who wouldn't frighten him." said Zipeau Stenesaurus. "So, I would think that you, Mehmed, would be the most suitable one for the job."
"I disagree with that." Said Mehmed. "What happened a few hours ago may not sound plausible if it is told by a human envoy. I should think that it would be you, Chairman, that would be the most suitable one for the job."
"But, what would happen if I would scare the President instead of telling him what happened?" said the Grand Chairman. She is now having second thoughts about her plan to hold the first ever contact with Planet Earth.
"Well, there is one last candidate that would do perfectly for the task, but I think that The Dimensional Witch would have the President gaping in wonder instead of understanding what has happened," said Dartand. "Also, I would think that for me, a vampire, to be the envoy would scare the President even more." He added.
"So, all in favor for having the Grand Chairman as the envoy?" said Zipeau.
"I" said Mehmed and Dartand.
"But - but - oh well. Maybe I could be the envoy. But not one word of this to the press, alright? Or they would be having a field day." Said the Chairman.
"Don't worry. Besides, I think that the press would be having a lot of field days after what has happened." Said Zipeau while looking at the beautiful sunset vista of the city through one of the huge glass windows. The other leaders soon fell silent as the setting Lusutupamian sun's golden light is slowly flooding the Grand Meeting Room.
*
"Take this."
Molly Sloan could not believe her eyes. For months she had been praying for a cure to her mother's disease. And now…
"Is this a dream?" She questioned inside her head.
You see, a few minutes ago, after finding out that Yuuko Ichihara grants people wishes, Molly said to her that she wished for a cure that would save her mother. Yuuko said that it can be done, but (as always) compensation would be required for the wish and the price for the cure would be something that Molly treasures the most.
In Molly's wallet lies a picture of her with her only sister, who died in a car crash a year ago. For month's afterward, whenever Molly felt sad or angry, she would just look at the picture of her sister's - and hers - smiling faces an it would calm her down.
But when Yuuko requested the picture in exchange for the cure, Molly felt that her heart would burst with sadness as she felt that to save a life would mean losing the only memory of another. But then, she realized that (if alive) her sister wouldn't want to be loved more than their mother, even if it means losing the only memory of her. And so, she accepted.
"Grief can be great." Said Yuuko. "But sometimes, something good can be created out of it." Yuuko then reached into the folds of her kimono and took out a small glass bottle filled with clear liquid.
"Mix this cure with your mother's drink. By a few hours, I am sure that her disease would be gone."
"Oh, thank you, thank you!"
"That's alright. Now, Marya!"
"Hai!" said Marya as she pressed a button on the strange, rod-like device that she was holding. With a flash and a boom, a portal appeared in the garden showing the entrance of a hospital in New York.
With happiness in her heart, Molly ran towards the hospital doors and soon, the cold air of an October evening was felt on her face as she turned around to see the shop house with Yuuko, Mokona, Maru, Moro, Ahmed and Marya all waving at her. Then, the portal closed, and they were gone.
As Molly ran through the entrance doors, she knew, somewhere in her heart, that her mother would be alright in the end.
*
BOOM!!!
The ground itself shook and sound was deafening as the missile from Mu Areare has done its work in destroying CERN and stopping the Dimensional Rip as many of the scientists watched from afar.
"Well, there goes 4.6 billion francs." Said the Head of Particle Physics as he and the other scientists watched the fireball.
"At least we escaped with our lives." said a female scientist.
"But what are we going to do now?" Said another scientist. As he spoke, a whopping sound came from above as from the horizon, about a dozen helicopters with searchlights flew towards the crowd.
"Do I have to say the answer?" said the Head as the helicopter searchlights found the scientists.
Then, a shrill sound pierced through the noise of the flying machines blades as one of the female scientists reached for her hand phone.
"Hello, oh hi Mom! Yeah, I'm OK. Yes…what? WHAT!!!!!???? OK, I must go now. Bye."
She switched of her cellular device and turned to the crowd.
"Everyone, you're not gonna believe this, but the President of the USA has been kidnapped!" she shouted.
"WHAT!!??"
"Yes, It's true! My mother is in D.C. and she said that she saw this huge UFO coming out of nowhere and it shot this beam at the White House. After that, there's been nothing but news about this everywhere!"
"But that's impossible!" said the Head. "But then again, after what happened at CERN…" his voice trailed off as the helicopters landed in front of them.
So that's the story for now. For the meaning of the strange words in my story earlier, here are the eplanations:
Alien Worlds: Tycha (Tychan Treaty), Lusutupamia.
Dimensional Universe: Dinotopia, Himenoptera, and Vampiriana.
Anime/cartoonian worlds: XXXHOLiC, Detective Conan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tsubasa Reservoir.
So that's it. My first fanfic that involves chapters. Don't forget about this just yet, for you have not known about the fate of the President of the USA. What will happen to him? Until then, goodbye!