The Pastamancer is back! I am really sorry about being gone for so long. There are a million excuses I could use but it was my fault for it.
So this is my first story in a long time and I am very sorry about that. I deleted my other stories because I started them when I had no idea what I was doing. Perhaps one day I'll get back to them.
This story is a one-shot based around a fan theory I've been thinking about for a while.
Yumi woke up in a cold sweat. She had had another nightmare. As she laid there staring at her ceiling she tried to get back to sleep, but her nightmare haunted her until she decided to try work her dreams out.
It had been a simple trip to the Cortex to find more data about Tyrone. Yumi had been the one driving the megapod due to Odd strangely being absent. The others had been devirtualized and it had just been her and Aelita in the Megapod.
As she turned around a corner a shift occurred. As the various sections raised and lowered, the area she was just about to drive onto split apart leaving a gap which the megapod fell into. Fortunately the Megapod managed to catch itself in the gap.
The gap continued opening slowly as she forsaw her doom. She begged Jeremy to devirtualize her.
Jeremy seemed to be choking up as he replied "There's nothing I can do."
Suddenly the hole opened up and they fell through. After that all Yumi could remember was her and Aelita seemingly endlessly falling to their deaths before she was awoken from her nightmare.
She could remember having nightmares about the digital sea since what she considered the worst day in her life.
It had been the time when she was dangling over the edge and Ulrich had just came short of saving her. She looked into Ulrich's eyes right as she fell. At that moment all she saw were his eyes in shock.
After she hit the sea it was almost as if she lost consciousness; but she still was aware of what was going on. All she could do was stare into the black void.
She had no certain idea how long she was in that state but she knew it couldn't have been more than an hour or two. For her it felt like she was trapped for days.
The first time they had entered the digital sea using the Skidbladnir she had closed her eyes and clenched her teeth right as they entered the sea. It was a moment of pure terror.
Every subsequent entry was terrifying; once they were in the sea she was fine, but right as they entered she panicked.
Of course, there was also the time when she got lost in the digital sea. As she tumbled through the sea she was panicking.
She was all alone in the digital sea. She was surrounded by her greatest fear.
That's what it was: a fear. She hated to say it but the digital sea scared her to wits end.
It was something that she couldn't tell anyone. Her friends looked up to her as the mature one, the one who always kept a cool head. She didn't want her friends to think any different of her.
She really didn't think any of her friends would understand. How could she describe her experience to them; none of them understood what had happened.
Aelita might have understood what it was like, but she had only been in the digital sea for a few seconds. For all Yumi knew Aelita didn't even remember it.
To her this conversation with herself was pointless and she had to go back to bed.
As she lay there she tried to get back to sleep despite knowing she could not.
So yeah here is my new story tell me what you think of it if you want. I think the ending was awkward but besides that little stood out.
Hopefully I'll be able to update much more now if I manage to manage my time better.