A/N: Hey guys! I'm uploading chapters 2 and 3 along with one so there's that bonus.
Reviews and comments are always appreciated.
And it also looks like I might be able to upload the first chapter of the sequel to 'Blank Slate' either tonight or tomorrow.
We'll see.
Anyways, it's going to be a bumpy ride ahead. And BTW, this is Stacie's chapter (alt world's Dr. Conrad that is).
I don't own pitch perfect.
The night wasn't supposed to be like this.
It was supposed to be a wonderful evening filled with fun and a whole lot of festivities.
So when Stacie received Beca's call and heard the whole end of the conversation, she was quite unpleased to say the least.
Right now though, she was worried.
Just that she wasn't sure which of the multiple things that could possibly go wrong at any given moment was causing her the most worry.
It's been three hours since the whole incident, the party wrapped up and although it abruptly ended, Aubrey managed to handle everything with ease.
Now if only Aubrey could handle Chloe and her incessant worrying with ease too.
Not that the worrying was unfounded, because it was definitely not that.
It's just putting a heavy toll on her at the moment.
They found Beca and Jesse unconscious, the lab a whole mess after the explosion that happened. Stacie was quick to commandeer the situation, setting up both Beca and the troublesome Treble on the next room, her assistants quick on their feet to monitor their vitals.
They were both alive and breathing, which was good.
But the spikes indicating their brain activity wasn't looking good.
To be honest, to say they were looking grim would be an understatement.
At least for Beca.
Jesse's brain activity was just incomprehensible.
Chloe's been restless ever since that. She hasn't left Beca's side, which made it quite a handful for Stacie as she tried to sort everything out especially while Aubrey was preoccupied with wrapping up the party.
They had to keep with closely monitoring the two, fixing up the instrument, sorting out the whole lab.
Everything was a mess.
And even after tidying things up, Robbie – Stacie's favorite assistant – on high alert on both Beca and Jesse's conditions, and Stacie all caught up with what had happened, things were definitely still in a mess.
On epic proportions as a matter of fact.
"What's the matter?" Aubrey asked, Chloe right behind her, as they strolled into the main room of the lab.
Stacie looked up, her face betraying her emotions, especially when she caught a glimpse of Chloe stealing a glance at Beca through the glass walls that separated the other room.
They were all alone in the lab at that point, with only Robbie staying behind to keep an eye out on their current patients.
"Stace, what is it?" Aubrey pressed on.
"Well, for one thing, they're gone." Stacie finally said out loud.
"Define gone Stacie." Chloe immediately demanded as she rushed closer to her friend, the redhead's hands grasping her shoulders firmly as tears threatened to fall.
"Not dead Chloe, relax. But that doesn't mean things are looking good either."
"Really need to elaborate Stace." Chloe demanded before letting her go.
And so Stacie had no choice but let her two best friends know what was going on.
"Okay, so do you remember when I explained why we can't physically travel through worlds and visit other Beca and friends?" Stacie started.
"Yes, it was kind of a long day Stacie, what with the explanation of the whole other Beca thing with it. Anyways, didn't you say that the pace of their world was delayed or something?" Chloe replied and Stacie nodded.
"Right, since everything froze on their end. Well, we've been monitoring this strange occurrence of thunderstorms around worlds near other Beca's world. They were affected by the whole incident too, experiencing the same delay in time. It's because of the discrepancies with time that we can't just jump in and say hi. That and the fact that we'll be opening rifts through the time and space continuum and get everything all entangled, causing a collapse of the thin fabric that's separate our worlds and we don't want that."
"What does that have to do with anything Stace?" Aubrey asked and Stacie sighed.
"After those thunder storms occurred the pacing of time was corrected for all other worlds. And it's stopped happening for a while. Problem is it started happening again, on a whole lot of different earths after temporarily freezing for a moment or two, and it's been jumping around too." Stacie explained, pointing at the different blips of red on the monitor.
"The blips are appearing at random and the thunderstorm had just recently hit other Beca's world too. I've been trying to contact them but nothing."
"Hang on Stace, are you trying to say what I thing you're trying to say?" Aubrey said a she jumped in.
"Based on both our Beca's brain activity, same for psycho Treble over there, I'd say yes."
"Yes to what?" Chloe asked confused.
"Our Beca, is out there somewhere, in one of those worlds. Sadly our Jesse too. From the looks of it, some other Jesse is temporarily invading our Jesse's head or something before switching out again, suggesting that our Jesse is jumping in between worlds and our Beca just got brought along."
"But there's no ghost in our Beca's machine?" Aubrey asked.
"No. The temporary ghost in Swanson's machine is what's keeping our earth from freezing." Stacie edified. "That's all."
"Then where on earth is our Beca? My Beca?" Chloe demanded to know.
Stacie shrugged.
She didn't know.
And it was times like this that she hated the most.
The times when she didn't have the answer, the times when she didn't know.
Because she always knew.
Some fritzing sounds were coming from one of the monitors in front of Stacie before the group of former Bellas heard a rather familiar voice. "Maybe I can help." the other Stacie they've come to know said as she popped up on the screen, the signal completely unstable but it was holding.
"Stacie. What's going on? You're line seems a little shaky." Dr. Conrad said.
"Well, it's not exactly like we only have miles between us, now is it?" Stacie retorted as a response to her other counterpart's question. "We have a little situation. And FYI, you're signal's all crappy on our end too."
"Wait, what situation? What's happening at your end?" Chloe asked.
"Did you connect? Chloe? Hey! Are you there? What's happened to Jesse? He didn't hurt you did he?" Beca asked as she suddenly appeared on screen with the other Stacie.
It was just then that it occurred to Dr. Conrad that they were in a hospital, the other Beca wearing a hospital gown and all.
Except it wasn't exactly the other Beca in her body at the moment.
"Oh dear God." Stacie let out.
Their Beca was in the other earth.
The earth that after a rather long confusing argument with the other Stacie they decided to call earth 1 while they're earth 2.
But nevertheless.
"We have more pressing problems than that." earth 1 Stacie said. "I've tried doing my own evaluations, I don't think our own Beca's in here with yours."
Earth 2 Stacie groaned.
Earth 1 Beca's gone missing on an interdimensional journey again thanks to the little mishap that began in her lab.
Which is how the whole mess started in the first place the last time too.
Only this time earth 1 Beca's on her own.
