Multiverse Travelling
An albino teenager is sitting on a bench in what appears to be a park. His name is Luke and he's just starting his summer vacation. He is wearing a white shirt along with white jeans, which managed to turn white when bleach was accidentally spilled on it. "No homework for a while, finally!" He leans back slightly and looks around, taking in the view of the park. The weather was warm and he was enjoying the day.
"Hey Luke! What's up?" a voice called out. Luke's head snapped towards the direction of the voice.
"Oh, hey Dameon." said Luke as he moved over for his friend, Dameon. Dameon was someone almost no one would notice at school, though he was a known troublemaker. His black hair in his brown eyes and has a mischievous look in his eyes 24/7.
"Well, summer's finally here then." Dameon said, "I hate school."
"Everybody but bookworms do." said Luke, chuckling slightly.
They sat there for a few minutes before Dameon said, "I'm bored."
"Wanna go to my house and play Mortal Kombat?" asked Luke.
"Sure."
They walked out of the park and got to a crossing. They crossed without paying attention to the sign. If they would've payed attention, then this adventure wouldn't have started in the first place, but that's the joy of the multiverse on another universe two people, same everything as Luke and Dameon, payed attention to the sign and avoided the car that was going the cross at the exact moment that they would've crossed the street.
But, we're not talking about that version, we're talking about this version. Both of them didn't see the car coming and they were both hit at 35 mph. They both bounced off the roof of the car and the same thought went through their minds at once, 'I'm going to die.'
Luke hit the ground first, he was slightly closer to the car then Dameon, and hit the ground with a sickening crunch. He felt his skull dent in before blacking out.
Dameon was about equal, though he landed on his back, breaking his ribs and puncturing his lungs. He blacked out from the pain.
So imagine how surprised they were when they woke up. They both opened their eyes the a white ceiling above them. Luke sat up before realizing that his body was cool, not exactly cold to cause him to shiver, but enough for him to feel a slight chill.
Dameon woke up to a different sensation, he felt as if he was warm all over. Not an uncomfortable warmth, but as if a cozy blanket was covering him up. Then they both said, "I should be dead." Their heads darted towards each others voice and both of their reactions were different. Luke screamed a less-than-manly scream and backed up, while Dameon looked at him in seeming awe. "Luke?" asked Dameon, not believing his eyes.
Luke managed to recognize the voice of his friend and realized that the person in front of him was his friend, though it took him awhile. "Dameon, what happened to your face?"
"My face?" asked Dameon, raising his hands up to his face and felt if felt smooth, but grainy. He accidentally brushed into his eye socket, but didn't feel anything. "What do I look like?"
Luke didn't answer still looking at his face, "What do I look like?!" He felt more warmth going to his head.
"Dude, you're a flaming skull." Then something came to his mind, "What do I look like?"
"You're blue and your breath is crystallized. Also your eyes are blue now."
"Ah, so you two are the two chosen." a voice rang out through the whiteness and echoed through their minds.
"Who's there?" Luke half asked, half yelled.
There was a shimmer and from it appeared a man who wore black robes, a scimitar on his back, and weird markings on the exposed skin, but what caught there attention was the black robes were dotted with white and in some areas had them swirling around each other.
"Is that supposed to be..?" trailed Dameon.
"Galaxies? Yes." The man answered.
"What do you mean the chosen two?" asked Luke, the sentence reverberating through his mind, as if it held some higher meaning, and he was right.
"You two are chosen to create balance between the universes." the man said.
"Universes? I thought there was only one universe, our universe?" asked Dameon, obviously confused.
The man was about to answer, but Luke cut in, "You mean like quantum physics? The multiverse theory? The theory that every decision we make another universe is created if we chose something different?"
"Yes." the man answered, slightly annoyed. "Now do you want me to explain more or do you want to do it?" Embarrassed Luke decided not to talk, while Dameon was still trying to grasp the multiverse theory. "Anyways the multiverse theory is, as Luke explained, a theory where anything you do, another universe creates itself where you choose to do something differently. Say, for example, you didn't pay attention to a stop sign and walked right through it, which resulted in getting hit by a car. Another universe would create itself where you did pay attention to the sign."
Both of them winced at the example. "Now I know what you're going to ask, 'but aren't we dead?' Well, yes you are."
They both started to freak out, like a normal person would when they were told they were dead. The man waved his hand and their cries were silenced. "I believe you also noticed your new appearance." They both nodded, they were still silenced. "You're like that because your old bodies were destroyed and would be of no use for the jobs you're going to do." He un-silenced them so they could ask questions if they needed to.
"What jobs?" Both of them asked simultaneously.
"As I said before, both of you are supposed to create balance in the multiverse, one world at a time." The man said, "Your old bodies would be of no use in those worlds. Luke, you have power over ice and lightning, Dameon you have power over fire and metal."
"Cool, how do we use them?" questioned them both in perfect sync.
The man started to explain their powers to them as they tried do something basic, for Luke he tried to summon a spark, but failed horribly and caused a bolt of lightening to strike him. Dameon didn't have that much luck either, he managed to create a small fire in his hand, but that escalated until his entire body was covered in flames.
The man looked at some of their progress and let out an exasperated sigh. "Focus!"
It took all of Dameon's concentration to put out the flames. Luke wasn't that lucky, he did manage to stop the lightning to stop hitting him, but it kept striking down at random around the three.
"No! Luke calm down, Dameon keep focusing!" exclaimed the man, trying desperately to help them gain a grip of their powers. 'At this rate,' the man thought, 'they'll destroy each world they go to.'
After what felt like hours, but was actually minutes, Luke managed to stop the lightning strikes. Dameon managed to get the flame back to his palm before extinguishing it by clenching his fist. "I have a question. How am I supposed to save worlds with a skull for a face?" asked Dameon, an annoyed tone in his voice.
"Easy. Remember what your face was like before. After you master that, you can go between your skull and your normal face. It's good for intimidation. Before you ask, you'll get your weapons later Dameon, Luke you can summon weapons because of your ice, so you don't need any."
Dameon tried to focus and his face started to slowly turn back to normal, before it was interrupted by a static shock. Luke had figured out how to make a small spark and decided to test it on Dameon.
"Damnit! Luke, you bastard!" shouted Dameon.
"Sorry! I had to test it!"
Dameon sighed and continued to concentrate on turning his face back to normal. After a few minutes he succeeded.
"What about me? I'm blue for one and my breath is crystallized how am I supposed to hide that?" asked Luke.
"Do the same as Dameon." instructed the man.
Luke did as instructed and manage to turn back to his pale color and his breath was no longer creating ice crystals. "Now how do I do my ice powers?"
"First, you need to think about anything that is cold and focus it. Focus it on your hand." instructed the man. After a few tries Luke got a pale ball the size of his palm in his hand. "Now focus on a target."
A dummy appeared a few dozen feet away from Luke. He focused on the dummy and fired a shot, but it missed by a mile.
"Keep at it until you hit the dummy." ordered the man.
Luke fired repeatedly, each time the ball was getting closer and closer to the target. Finally Luke hit it's chest and froze it solid. He smirked for a second before saying, "Luke used Ice Beam, it was super-effective."
Dameon face palmed, while the man looked bemused. "What about my weapons?" asked Dameon.
"Ah, yes. First you can choose what you want to fight with. I have many choices." said the man as an entire arsenal of guns, swords, bows, and even some warhammers appeared along with dozens of table to hold them.
"Wow, badass." said Dameon in awe.
He looked over the weapons before grabbing a random sword and pulling it out of it's sheath. "That is a Ninjato." said the man as Dameon swung the sword.
"It feels nicely balanced." murmured Dameon. "I'll take it."
"You can choose one more if you like."
'I need something that will pull them in closer to me to use my Ninjato, yet also do some damage.' thought Dameon, looking for anything that could be used to pull an opponent closer. He found just what he was looking for. On one of the tables there was a whip attached to a gauntlet, at the end of the whip was a three-pronged kunai. He picked it up and put it on his right arm.
The man summoned a dummy. Dameon gripped the kunai and threw it straight at the dummy, impaling it through the chest. A thought ran through his mind as the kunai sunk in and he smirked before shouting, "Get over here!" He pulled and the dummy came flying at him, the kunai dislodged itself and Dameon caught it, before pulling out the Ninjato out of it's sheath with his left and slashed repeatedly.
The Ninjato went through the dummy from the shoulder and stopped above where a living human's heart would be. With a tug, Dameon pulled out the Ninjato and kicked the dummy in the chest, it flew back a few feet before collapsing against the ground.
Luke looked at him and the dummy before saying, "Hope Midway isn't mad."
Dameon chuckled before replying, "I don't think they'll be that mad."
"Oh, why did we look like that before? I mean, why was I blue and Dameon a flaming skull?" asked Luke.
"I made a mistake, I put a little too much power in you. Your ice powers turned you blue, Luke. Your fire powers melted some of your face, Dameon, so that's why it was a flaming skull." explained the man.
"So where are we going to go first?" asked Dameon, itching for some action.
"I don't know, the void takes you wherever there is no real way of knowing where you're going to end up." the man said, "So you must always be prepared. Oh and before I forget, Luke you'll feel something wrong when there is too much good, Dameon you'll feel something wrong when there's too much evil. If it's neutral, then you'll both feel something wrong."
There was then the sound of ripping paper behind them. They both turned just in time to see a black hole grow larger. They didn't even have time to cry out before it pulled them in.
"Well this is boring." said Luke.
They were both floating, all around them were blue and white swirls. "When are we-" Luke was cut off as he dodged a blue police box.
They stared after it before it disappeared. "You don't think that was?" asked Luke, disbelieving what he just saw.
"I think it was." answered Dameon. He was feeling the same disbelief before a blue van with, what appeared to be, a giant clock on top drove towards them. Deciding to see who was in it, Dameon and Luke managed to grab onto it and pulled themselves up to the window.
Again disbelief washed over them. In the front two seats was an anthro purple hippo and what looked like an anthro racoon. In the back was an anthro turtle and an antro fox. All four anthros stared at them, while the same was going for Dameon and Luke. Then Dameon and Luke looked at each other before pushing off the van. The van sped off, but they heard a voice saying, "Let's not speak of that again."
"The fuck we just see?"
"Sly Cooper?"
Before they could contemplate anymore, there was another sound of ripping paper and they were pulled into another black hole. They both fell with a thump! face down against soft ground. Luke was the first to recover. He rolled onto his back and looked around. All around him were trees.
He sat up and pulled Dameon to his feet. "Where are we, or should we say when since the TARDIS?" asked Luke, then there was a tingling in his stomach.
"I think it's more of a where instead of a when."
They both looked around the area they were in. While Luke was looking around a clearing a shadow went over him. He looked up and saw a... Pegasus! "Dameon! Come here."
Dameon appeared behind him and asked, "What is it?"
"There's a magical pony going on a magical adventure." They both looked at each other, "Shoot it down. It'll be good practice."
Dameon smirked before making a ball of fire appear in his palm. He focused on the pegasus and shot the fireball. It missed and it seemed to give the pegasus a scare. "Let me try." said Luke, preparing a beam of ice. He shot it at the pegasus and clipped its wings, causing it to spiral out of control and hit the ground.
"That was surprisingly effective." murmured Dameon.
"Of course it was. It was a flying type. Ice beats flying. It's obvious pokemon logic." said Luke as he went to look around more, but before he got far Luke called back, "It seems this world has too much good in it. Let's even it out by causing chaos later."