(A/N): Hey Guys! I know it's been absolutely forever since I've updated for the Universes Unite story (or at least it feels like it) and I'm really really really really sorry! Please please please forgive me!
I was reading through it, and I can't believe how horrible it is, so I'm rewriting it, hopefully a lot better. So, without further ado, here it is!
Sophie POV
Why, oh why does it always have to her?
She was just lying on her bed, doing homework while she waited for Dex, Biana, Keefe, and Fitz to come over and, out of nowhere, there was a woosh sound and this black spinning thing appeared! It was actually pretty similar to the voids she created when she teleported, but still.
If she'd done that, she would have known.
The day had been an ordinary Saturday before that. It was sunny outside, Grady was giving Verdi a bath, and Edaline was making mallowmelt for everyone. It was an even better day, because the day before had been the day she found out what she got on her finals, and she had gotten some pretty good grades.
If you were wondering, Hey, Sophie, how come you have homework when you literally just took your finals? Well, no one else had homework over the break, but since she had so many special abilities, her mentors gave her some work to do so she was ready for the extra hard curriculum of the next year.
Keefe was first to arrive. He looked dirtier than unusual. His hair was artfully tousled, as usual, but his white tunic and pants had dirt stains, and he was slightly out of breath.
"Hey, Foster," He greeted her, moving to jump on her bed.
"Nope," She pointed toward the floor, sitting up, "Gross boys aren't allowed on my bed."
He rolled his eyes, plopping down on the floor, "That's not fair!" He whined, frowning like an adorable 5 year old who wasn't allowed to get a popsicle.
"If you want to sit on my bed, be-" She looked him up and down, frowning, "-cleaner."
"Hi, Sophie!" Biana walked in, smiling gleefully. Fitz was right behind her.
Biana's hair wasn't as perfect today as usual, Sophie noticed, and there were grass stains on her leggings. She still looked like a model, though, wearing a lavender tunic with golden embroidered flowers on the neck, and black leggings. Her hair was curled into a half bun, clipped by flower golden pins.
Fitz, on the other hand, looked like he'd just gotten ready. His red short sleeve shirt wasn't so much as wrinkled, and there was no dirt or grass on him.
He smiled at her when he entered the room, "Hey, Sophie," He said, sitting on her bed.
Biana moved to do the same, but Sophie stopped her, "Uh uh. No dirty people on my bed."
"Then why is Fitz on your bed?" Biana asked, gesturing at her brother.
"He doesn't have dirt and grass stains all over him. How did that happen, by the way?" Sophie asked, razing her eyebrows at her friends.
Fitz smiled wider, "Biana tackled Keefe."
When no one elaborated, Sophie asked, "Why?"
"Oh, no reason. Just a dare," Biana smirked at Sophie, knowing she would understand.
"Oh my gosh, Biana. I forgot about that! You actually did it? And I missed it?" Sophie asked, pouting in exasperation.
The day before, Biana had come over for dinner, and Sophie had dared her to tackle Keefe and pin him down for a full thirty seconds the next time she saw him. Biana had left right after dinner, though.
She nodded, an evil smirk forming on her glossed lips, "And you still have to do yours."
Sophie groaned, her smiling dissipating in an instant, "Do I have to?"
"Yep! I did mine, you do yours!"
The night before, after Sophie dated Biana, she had gotten her back by daring her to... she didn't even want to think it, it was so embarrassing.
"Hey, did you guys notice the giant spinning void?" Sophie asked, trying her best to redirect the conversation.
"No no no, you still have to do it," Biana said, the same time Fitz said, "Yeah, what's that about?"
Choosing not to respond to Biana, Sophie turned to Fitz, "No clue. I guess it's a portal or something."
"Oh, come one, Sophie! Be glad it's not in front of a bunch of people!" Biana encouraged, still smirking more evilly than a villain in a fairy tale could.
"No," Sophie moaned, holding out the syllable for much longer than necessary.
"Just get it over with," Biana insisted, tilting her head toward Keefe.
"Do you have any idea what they're talking about?" Keefe asked Fitz, keeping his eyes on the girls.
"Probably something to do with what they did yesterday," Fitz said, also mesmerized.
"Ughhhhh fine," Sophie said, getting up.
She knelt before Keefe and grabbed his face.
"Woah, Foster, what are you doing?" Keefe asked, totally confused.
She moved closer, but stopped inches from his face, "Biana, do I have to?" She asked one last time.
"Just do it already!"
Quickly, Sophie moved in to kiss Keefe on both of his cheeks and his nose. They were surprisingly warm. Sophie wouldn't have expected him to blush at something like that. She got up, keeping her eyes on her feet. When she reached Fitz, she quickly did the same thing.
Frantically, she scooted to the other edge of her bed, almost falling off.
When she looked up, both Fitz and Keefe looked totally shocked. Keefe shook it off more quickly than Fitz, shaking his head and asking, "What was that all about?"
"Nothing," Biana responded before Sophie could even open her mouth, still smirking deviously.
Biana had dared her to go up to Fitz and Keefe and kiss their cheeks and nose. After that, she would have to go up to the first guy she saw that she didn't know and do the same.
Sophie cleared her throat and said, "Moving on, do you guys have any idea why this thing is here?" She gestured to the void.
"Hey, guy-woah! What is that?" Dex walked in at that point, carrying what looked like a charm bracelet, but knowing Dex it was probably something entirely different. He quickly shoved it into his pocket, before anyone could ask what it was. He looked like he hadn't had a good nights sleep in weeks, but his stature was completely energetic.
"Nobody knows. Should we check it out?" Keefe asked, getting up.
"Probably," Sophie replied. What else should they do? It's not like it'll just disappear. It was silent for a few minutes while everyone pondered what to do.
Dex was the first to cut through the silence, "Well, I can make a camera or something to go see if it's safe?" He said it like a question, but was already pulling out tools and sett8ng up on the floor.
"I'll go tell Edaline," Sophie opened got up and started heading downstairs. She was trying desperately not to look at either Fitz or Keefe. Their expressions afterword made her wonder, especially Fitz's. He seemed... kind of happy? Or shocked? She didn't know how to interpret their faces, so she just decided to not think about it.
"Hey, Edaline?"
"Sophie, what's up?" Edaline was cutting up some mallowmelt when Sophie came downstairs, wearing an apron that looked like it was from I Love Lucy.
"There's a portal thing in my room and we don't know what to do," The funniest thing about that statement was the fact that Edaline, her adoptive mother, didn't even look surprised. It used to be that if Sophie said something like that, she would have dropped everything in her hands and paled to an almost ghostly white. But her expression said something more like 'I wonder what's gonna happen next.'
"Ok, let's have a look," Edaline sighed, wiping her hands on the apron, grabbing a platter of mallowmelt, and following Sophie upstairs.
"Wow. You weren't kidding," Edaline said when she saw the void, handing the platter to Keefe absentmindedly, "Did it just appear?"
"Yeah. It kind of just showed up a few minutes before everyone got here. What should we do?" Sophie asked, pulling out an eyelash.
"There!" Dex said proudly, holding up what looked like a robot with a Go Pro on it and a modified Imparter. He seemed to realize that he just burst out randomly and explained, "It's a bot that'll go explore the other side of the void. I'll be able to control it and see what the camera picks up from here."
"That should work. I'll be right back," Edaline said, not looking at anyone, but kind of pointing at Dex and leaving.
"Uhhh ok. This mallowmelt is really good," Keefe has already eaten all of it except for maybe 3 pieces. He seemed to notice veryone glaring at him and said, "What? Did you want some?"
"Just put it through, Dex," Fitz said, rolling his eyes at Keefe.
Dex proceeded to double check to make sure it worked right, then started to direct the bit through the portal.
"Wait!" Sophie said, grabbing a pice of notebook paper and a pen. She wrote, 'please don't destroy me. I'm friendly!'
"Good idea, Soph," Biana said, and Sophie blushed, taping it to the bot, and said, "Ok. Now put it through."
i hope you enjoyed it! Please review what you think, and I'll do my best to update as soon as possible. Also, what shops do you want this to be?