Here we go. The first spin off. enjoy!
Chapter One: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE!
WHOOSH!
She was surrounded by darkness, her body felt like it was trapped underwater, she could hardly move. Her senses finally came back to her and she could feel it wasn't water but sand. She had to force her way free before she suffocated.
Susan pushed her head out of the sand as she forced her stinging eyes to open; she coughed as the sand had gotten in her mouth. Gradually, she pulled her arm free and crawled out of the ground. As she got up and brushed the sand off her she looked around, all she could see was endless desert and the flickering horizon from the sun's heat.
She tried to gather her thoughts and try to remember what happened, she was back in Area 52 with her sister Sarah, they were looking on the large computer monitor in the common room where they are their friends hung out, they had been looking up details for Sarah's wedding to Matt.
The next thing she knew there was a bright light and she found herself buried under a ton of sand. She must've have teleported somehow, but who? And why try to bury her in what she guessed was the Sahara?
Then a thought struck her like lightning, if she had been sent here then maybe Sarah…
"Sarah? SARAH?" she called out.
Movement some 200 feet away (or 20 feet away from her perspective) caught her eye; there was a moving lump in the sand followed by a hand reaching out for anything it could hold onto.
Susan rushed over to the mound and took the hand, it gripped hers firmly in response, "Don't worry, sis! I got you!"
With a mighty heave, Susan pulled the dust covered body out and the two fell to the ground, Susan waved off the sand that was caught in the wind and stood up, the person coughed and spluttered as they stood up, to Susan's shock, it wasn't Sarah; it was a completely different person.
She had cropped hair that was coloured deep red, she had green/blue eyes and she wore the exact same monster outfit as Susan's but hers was blue instead of black.
The woman finally caught her breath and looked up to see Susan; her reaction was exactly the same.
The two continued to stare at each other till the mystery woman finally broke the silence.
"Did…I just shrink…or something?"
"What? No…I don't think so," said Susan, "Our surroundings still look miniature….who are you?"
"My names Roxanne, Roxanne Wells. And you?"
"Susan Murphy."
"Well, know any reason why we're in the middle of desert?" asked Roxanne.
"No idea, one minute I'm indoors, the next…whoosh!"
"I haven't seen you around before, where are you from?"
"Modesto, California."
"I'm from California too."
"Guess that confirms it, we're from different dimensions,"
"Is that possible?"
"It's not the first time for me." Said Susan.
"Well…how did we get here…and where exactly is here?"
The two looked around; all they could see was endless dunes and an ocean of sand.
Then another bulge appeared ahead of them, Susan pointed to it, "Look!"
"There must be someone else under there!" said Roxanne.
The two rushed over and began digging away until hair began to show, then an arm, then a face. Susan and Roxanne pulled out the new figure; again it was not Sarah but someone different. This one seemed younger, maybe early/mid-twenties, she had long, curly brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail, she also wore a violet coloured outfit.
"Anyone you know?" Roxanne asked Susan.
Susan shook her head as the new girl coughed into life, "Ack What the hell?" she said as she spat out sand.
"It's alright; you're with friends, what's your name?" Roxanne asked her.
"Michelle Sanders." She gagged.
Finally she opened her eyes and saw the two women looking at her, "Where am I? How did I get small again?"
"We don't know and you didn't." Susan replied.
Michelle stood up and looked at the two new faces, "I didn't know there were more of me?"
"You're from another dimension, like us." Susan told her.
"Whoa! So you two are different versions of me?" said Michelle.
"Yes, as are you to us," said Roxanne, "Know anything about how we actually got here and why?"
Michelle looked around, "Not a clue,"
The three giantess' stood silently for a moment, only the sound of the wind whistling along the dunes could be heard, till the sound of someone groaning caught their ears.
"Another one?" asked Roxanne.
"It's coming from behind that small hill!" Michelle pointed to the source of the noise.
The three ran to the top of the hill and looked over to see a familiar blonde.
"Sarah!"
There was Sarah, lying on her front with her mouth opening and closing, letting out small groans.
"You know this one?" asked Michelle.
"She's my sister, well she's actually from another dimension but she and her friends get stuck in my world so we kinda adopted the idea that she was my sister, technically we are…being different versions of each other." Said Susan.
"Guess that makes us all sisters then?" Roxanne said thoughtfully.
Susan took her sister by the shoulders and helped her up, Sarah held her head as it would not stop spinning, "Uh…where…where am I?"
"That's a good question," said Michelle.
Sarah looked up and was greeted with the sight of Susan, Roxanne and Michelle all standing over her. She looked to Susan as she didn't know what to say.
"Alternate versions like you and me." Susan put simply.
She helped the golden blonde to her feet and held her steady till her head finally finished spinning, looking around, her expression matched the others.
"What happened? We were in the facility and the next…"
"That's all I remember too." Said Susan.
"Same to me," said Michelle, "I was in my back garden when a bright light appeared all around me!"
"Me too," added Roxanne, "I was in the middle of filming when it happened!"
"You're an actress?" Susan asked.
"Not quite, it's a long story,"
"Well are there any others around, I mean, people like us?" asked Sarah.
"Don't think so," said Susan.
"Er, you're speaking too soon," Michelle interjected, "There's something happening over there!"
The four looked back down the hill from where they were originally, a bright light had appeared out of nowhere and was crackling with lightning, there wasn't a cloud in the sky so it couldn't be caused by the weather.
"You think that's what brought us here?" asked Susan.
"Let's check it out!" said Roxanne.
They slid down the hill till they were near to the entity; Roxanne then held the others back, "Careful, it might be dangerous, that lightning could reduce us to a crisp for all we know!"
Then from the light came a distant scream, a sudden flash and what sounded like something heavy hitting the ground. The flash had temporarily blinded everyone so they couldn't see what happened. As the brightness faded they could see the light had gone and something was on the floor.
It was yet another woman, Susan and Sarah helped her up as she groaned from hitting the ground hard. She pulled her curly light-brown hair out of her face brushed the dirt off her green outfit as the group got a good look at her.
Out of all of them, this newcomer was the least like them; her face bore no resemblance to any of them. Susan could have sworn she'd seen her look from a 1950's movie she saw some time ago. She was also bustier and curvier than the rest as well as the oldest, mid-thirties or so.
The woman rubbed her eyes and then looked at the crowd gazing on her, "Am I on medication without knowing it?" she said.
"No no," said Michelle, "We're all from different realities and have been brought here for reasons we don't know!"
The woman stared blankly at her for a moment then looked at Susan, "Believe me…it's the truth." She said. "I'm Susan and this is Sarah, Roxanne and Michelle. What's your name?"
"Er…Natalie Archer," she said, "So, you are me?"
"We're all each other if that makes any sense?" said Michelle.
"Not really." Said Natalie.
"Right, so now there's five of us." Said Sarah, "But why? Who brought us here?"
"That would be me, ladies," came a muffled yet familiar voice.
The five women looked over to a patch of sand where the voice had come from, then a section of sand blew away to reveal a secret bunker, a tarpaulin had been covering it. From the bunker came a man on a jet pack, he looked exactly like General Monger except he had a goatee and a scar down the left side of his face.
"Er, General Monger?" Susan inquired.
"The name is General W.R. Craft." Said the general, "Welcome to my dimension."
"Why have you brought us here? What do you want?" Natalie demanded.
"I've not brought you here just for my world, I've gathered the five of you together so you can…" he took a big sniff, "…SAVE THE WORLDS!"
"Come again?" asked Michelle.
"There is a great threat that could wipe out all of reality as we know, or don't know, it." Said Craft.
"You kidding right?" said Roxanne, "You brought us to a desert to tell us that all reality is in danger?"
"You are not in a desert, Miss Wells." Craft scolded her, "You are standing in the middle of L.A.!"
The women looked around in shock and disbelief, this general couldn't be serious about them standing in the middle of a city.
"What happened to this place?" Susan asked the general.
"What happened to the entire planet is what happened. Everything was reduced to dust, buildings, cars, plants…people." Craft told them.
"Dear god!" cried Michelle, "I've got people in my shoes!"
"Alright," Natalie frowned, "If everything was disintegrated, how is it you're still here?"
"I took refuge in my facility; its shielding protected me from the attack. Though there are times I wish I had been taken as well." He said quietly.
"Oh you poor thing," Susan said sadly, "You've been on your own all this time?"
"Not exactly, my chief scientist survived also. He was the one who designed the Dimension Scoop that brought you here!" Craft looked behind him, "Doc, they're here! Get yourself topside!"
Michelle and Sarah screamed as the scientist jumped out of the bunker wearing his lab coat, he had the head of a praying mantis. Michelle and Sarah did not like bugs one bit, Sarah had managed to get use to Dr Cockroach but anything else freaked her out.
The bug headed scientist suddenly fell over at the response as Michelle jumped into Natalie's arms; she too was disturbed at the sight before her.
"Please, please," The Doc raised his arms, "I promise I don't bite! I mean you no harm!"
"This is Dr Mantis PhD." Craft introduced him.
Michelle finally calmed down and let go of Natalie as Sarah let go of Susan's arm. Susan looked at Roxanne who just rolled her eyes.
"Have they been briefed General?" Dr Mantis asked.
Craft landed next to him and switched off his jet pack, "I'm just about to get to that part. Could you get the holographic projections ready?"
Mantis nodded and scurried back into the bunker. Craft looked back at them and motioned them to sit down; they were hesitant now they knew it wasn't sand they were sitting on.
"We've been scanning the multiverse for a long time now, looking for a force that is capable of defeating the evil that ravaged our world. Out of every universe we observed, you five are the most powerful beings to take this threat on," said Craft.
"How can you be so sure?" asked Susan.
"Because there are trillions of worlds, and there are only five of you in existence. Any others were either returned to normal, killed or appeared only in science fiction movies. We've seen all of you in action and are certain you can save everyone and everything!"
"From who exactly? What did this?" Roxanne asked.
"Aliens."
"Aliens?"
"Believe us, Roxanne, they are very real!" said Sarah.
"So was this one," Mantis brought out a metal disc with a surface covered in what looked like solar panels, he laid it on the ground and the panels lit up, giving an enlarged projection of the alien. Susan momentarily flinched; the alien was a dead ringer for Gallaxhar, except his skin was red.
"He called himself Cosmar, the devourer of life!" said Craft. "He came to earth in a machine that seemed to be forged by the devil himself!"
Dr Mantis tapped the machine and the projection changed to an image of what appeared to be a metallic scorpion, its left pincer was the head of a tyrannosaurus and the right the head of a lion. Its stinger was replaced with the body and head of a cobra and it had a shark's head for its actual head.
"Man does he like animals?" Michelle said quietly.
"Yet he has no regard for any life but his own. He calls his machine: DeathBite. It can bore into any planet and absorb every ounce of life, leaving a dead world. Even our oceans have dried up leaving nothing but lifeless sands!"
"What's this got to do with all of creation?" asked Natalie.
"The DeathBite absorbed enough energy from this galaxy that Cosmar has managed to charge his latest device that allows him to travel to other dimensions. We managed to trace him and discovered he's heading for Earth Prime, the very first earth that created every other earth afterwards. If he bleeds that world dry, there will be no world left in the multiverse in which to call home."