HEY-O! Theo here, this is a small story I wanted to write, it might or might not be all that serious, who knows : D

LET'S SEE WHERE THIS LITTLE TRAIN TAKES US.

Note: I don't own any cultural references. Some of the obvious, Homestuck and TF/TF2.

Her name was Sam.

Or rather, most of her friends called her Sammy, and that sat just right with her.

Today, was supposedly like any other day, normal cubed breakfast, normal artificial morning. Sammy drove her own car and would make her way to the super secret science facilities where she and her friends work. Not before disconnecting her self from the IV bag next to her bed which contained copious amounts of internet. Today's flavor, Classic Team Fortress from 2012, the Man V.S Machine zing to be exact.

Swiping up a book about psychosis, Sammy waltzed into her car and a rather happy manner, today was the day that she and her friends were going to cosplay as Homestucks, an extremely ancient and highly praised literary work about the trials of a young boy and his 3 other friends that faced an extremely powerful Time Lord. Just a light read for most intellectuals. Sammy was the lovely Rose Lalonde, she was going to hit it out of the park today with this white outfit, she brought her Flthulu plush and everything, it's gonna be HELLACIOUS.

"SAMMY!" As Sammy entered the testing building, she heard the chimed voice of her lively and animated friend Aes. Aes was a 5 foot american tomboy that Sammy had suspected liked flannel shirts, leather jackets and straight denim a little too much, but today Aes aced a green pogo monster on her shirt and white shorts. Sammy covered her face playfully.

"Hey! Did you hear? The machine is going to be online today!" Aes exclaimed, eyes wide. Sammy's pale face sported large amber eyes as she clapped her hands on her cheeks, almost resembling a cute little fish.

"Really?! No way!"

"HELL YEAH! I signed us up to be the first to test that baby out! Can you believe it? Travel through dimensions! It's going to be swanky!" Aes's habit of being fidgety overcame her, jumping up and down.

Of course time travel was not a new thing, it's been around ever since the mid 2000's when a curious and brilliant scientist made it possible, no one knew who it was because the scientist died in the opening of the first portal, but hey! Left the technology behind, and finders keepers.

Sammy's smile was contagious, only a select few privileged get to even sign up for inventions testing, let alone testing the inventions themselves. Time travel was old news, about 300,000 years old, but dimension jumping?

Berserk.

"Go ahead and go to the testing chamber, I need to put away my stuff!" Sammy uttered excitedly, Aes flounced away as Sammy herself wandered quickly to the employee's lounge. It was of course empty, with nothing more than a couple of hydro-powered tables and a vending machine everyone always fights over. It was the only one that didn't sell the shit-health packs the company tries to push on them.

Sammy didn't mind them that much, she was kind of a awkward closet hipster.

As she was about to set her little Flthulu inside her own cub-space, the lights started to flicker. Rapidly at first, then shut down completely.

"Piece of shit lights." Sammy cursed under her breath, it was extremely dark and a bit unsettling to be by herself. She continued close the cub's door, watching the blue light go out from the inside. The lights above however, still did not come back. She held her book of psychosis tightly, reminding herself that the building had safe lights for such an occasion. It wasn't the dark that she feared, but the facility had a bad habit of accidentally letting experiments loose once in a blue moon.

Today seemed to be one of those moons.

From the tips of her fingers she felt a charge. A warning. Something was here.

Turning on her heels, nobody around. Silence. She didn't dare speak aloud. Out of the corner of her eye however she saw a tall figure on the other side of the room. It looked solid but obscured at the same time. She froze. Slowly letting a small sound escape her. She turned her head slightly in the same direction as the figure.

Just as the figure turned sharply in her direction.