Alright, Chapter 2! XD Let me say this is going to be long, I plan for it to be, if it's not I plan for a chapter 3. But that'll probably be the last chapter for this until someone adopts or helps co-write this. ^^;
"Genesis, don't touch that!"
"Ah, sorry Eve..." Gene immediately flinched back from the square frame of the new TV they'd gotten. it was a lot better than the old one. "So are we ready?" Eve sighed, looking around.
"I guess, it's the best we'll get for now..." She watched Gene sit down. "I'm just worried..."
"Why? It'll be fine."
"But this isn't something we were able to test on the Rabbids!"
"I know. But my sixth sense isn't going off. I think we'll be fine."
"You think. Gene, this is a lot stronger than before, it really has to scan your brain activity. And unlike the Dream Reader it's not as accurate..."
"I know, I know," Gene responded, rolling her eyes as she got the wired helmet on. "You told me already. This had to focus on a different part of the brain, the part that processes imagination and sound and imagery inside the head."
"Yes, and that means you need to focus. Close your eyes." Gene did as instructed. "Alright, I'm starting it up." Eve pressed a few buttons. After a moment the black screen shifted a bit. "Alright Gene, imagine standing in a field."
"Got it," came the reply. Gene was very creative and imaginative. This'd be no problem for her. The biggest challenge for this Daydream Reader was the fact that it needed to scan the brain differently than the Dream Reader, which only really focused on the REM sleep.
Seconds later there was green. It was a bit of a blur, and things went by fast, but it was clear. Her hand, the grass, the cherry tree on the hill, the forest... It was like a dream world. Yellow flowers started to appear everywhere. "Gene..."
"It's working?"
"Yeah." Eve continued to stare at the screen before the image shifted to be her, sitting in her chair, on the hill, staring at the screen. Her eyes widened, and the her in the TV's eyes widened. Her mouth opened a bit, and suddenly the field was replaced with the garage.
"What are you doing?" Gene asked. Eve looked over at Gene, then back at the TV which was now black.
"I think... It works more than we thought..."
"Huh?" Gene walked over.
"Focus on me sitting here, think about it, but, like, add... Make the place be on fire or something."
"Oh, OK," came the reply. Gene continued to stand there, closing her eyes.
"No, with your eyes open," Eve interrupted, watching her. Gene's eyes widened.
"Wait, that works?" Eve nodded her reply. Gene grinned. "Cool!" She imagined it with her eyes open. It worked. On the screen was her and Eve, sitting in the garage, which was on fire. However the garage itself not in the TV was perfectly fine. The Eve in the TV moved just like the Eve in real life did. The two grinned at each other.
It was more than a success. After a couple months of intense daily work and hardly any sleep, the two had done it. They'd created the Daydream Reader.
"So no sharing this with anyone, OK?" Eve said to Gene. Gene nodded.
"Yup! Don't want them to steal our hard work again." The two sighed. "So what's the next step?"
"Next step?" Eve asked.
"Yeah. This can't be the end. I mean, what's next? Which big invention now?" Eve thought a while, staring at the screen. She hadn't thought of it... What was she going to do now?
She didn't know.
"I don't know. Let me think a while."
"Alright. I'll go restock us on food in the meantime," Gene replied with a grin, turning to leave with a wave. Eve sighed and ran her fingers through her shoulder length hair tenderly. What now? What more was there to do?
It wasn't until the next night she discovered it.
The two were watching some anime crack, laughing their butts off. The TV they had still functioned as a TV, it wasn't like it was only good for recording daydreams now. In fact, they had rebuilt a Dream Reader too, so they could record dreams, daydreams, and watch cable and Netflix.
"Man, it'd be so fun to mess with Death the Kid~" Gene said with a laugh.
"You're so mean!" Eve replied with a laugh.
"You know you'd want to," Gene continued, nudging her.
"Yeah yeah, but it'd still be mean~"
"Well than what would you do, if you went into an anime?"
"If I- Hmm, I think it really depends which one. But I think in general I'd try to fit in and follow the storyline and have fun, maybe get a boyfriend~"
"We all know you will go after any guy who looks cute and loli, so give it a rest, it's not happening."
"But it can~!" Eve complained, holding the TV carefully, pouting. "I can just hook myself up to the Daydream Reader and imagine Killua standing next to me, holding me~"
"But you can't feel it. It's not real. It's all just on a screen," Gene pointed out. "Anyways, I wish I could go into an anime but it's not happening anytime soon. If ever. So for now we-"
"Wait." Gene was cut off by Eve who was staring at her with wide eyes.
"Wait?"
"I got it," Eve replied, facing her, grinning. She started to cackle like a mad scientist. "I am mad scientist, so cool! Sunofabich." Gene laughed so hard at Eve, who'd done the poses as well that went along with that quote from the anime Stein's Gate. "I will create a machine that'll let people walk onto someone's dream!"
Gene stopped laughing, face contorted into shock. "What."
"I will create-"
"No. What. The. Fudge Evangeline?! That's brilliant but how?!" Eve thought a moment, then shrugged.
"I got no clue."
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Gene tacked Eve. "THEN WHY THE HELL GET MY HOPES UP?! THAT'S A BRILLIANT PLAN AND IF ANYONE CAN DO IT YOU CAN! So make me a goddamn magical dream portal."
Eve stared at her a moment, then grinned.
"OK~"
I'd like to say this was the end. That we'd failed. But no, if I did I wouldn't have written this letter. If we'd failed the two of us would probably be somewhere in the history books by now, with our Daydream Reader, sticking our tongues out at the so called 'brilliant' men who stole our original prototype. Maybe still working on mayhaps a way to make some kind of teleporter or machine to bring us into some kind of anime fantasy.
But no. I'm here to tell you.
WE SUCCEEDED.
"Alright, that's the last touches!"
"Damnit, it needs to work this time!"
The two girls stared at the square electrical frame for a moment before Eve went over to the cage of rats and went to pull one out.
"No, not Velveteen the 5th! She's my favorite!"
"Fine!" Eve responded, dropping the rat and pulling out another. "Alright, take this guy, we're onto the next test." Eve handed it to Gene then pulled out another and hooked it up to the new machine. After a moment imagery showed up, some kind of hologram inside the six foot tall square. It was as clear as if they were staring at the cheese themselves.
"Alright Rabbid Junior the 132th, good luck." Gene tossed him into the hologram.
Before, every test ended in failure one way or another. At first nothing would happen. The rat would go through the hologram like nothing happened. When it finally managed to do something it'd go through and come out dead, shredded, burst, something. Either way it was dead. After they finally got it to move both it and the transporter rat would die. The rat that went through the hologram would appear in the transporter rat's head, making both explode. This result stalled the experiments a while, and continued to happen. The two thought this would continue, but Gene's sixth sense said it'd work out in the end. So they continued, tried many things, until...
A squeak.
The two looked over expecting the worst but after so many failed attempts...
Rabbid Junior the 132th sat there, eating the cheese, in the hologram...
And in the room.
They'd just created a teleporter.
"Ne, Gene, you sure this'll be fine...?" Eve hesitantly secured the helmet on Gene's head, and the black haired girl nodded.
"Yes. I trust you." Eve took a deep breath.
"OK then," she said nervously. "I guess... Start."
Gene looked forward. Eve looked at the portal, watching it as the image of them in the lab, Gene lookng forward, looked back at her. Eve gulped, then walked forward.
When she opened her eyes she was met with Gene's shocked and excited face in a huge smile.
"You just... Materialized out of the wall," Gene said. Eve stared at her.
"Well shit."
"We just created a teleporter."
"We just created a teleporter."
"Can we... Go other places?" The two girls looked at each other. Gene closed her eyes, and the portal showed the outside of the garage from the street. Eve gulped and walked through. It was kind of tingly but, she was out there. She gasped, excited, then ran back into the garage. "It worked, it worked!"
"I know! I saw you!" Gene replied, ecstatic. "Through the portal!"
"Oh my fudging goodness."
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The two started to screech in excitement, jumping around each other.
"Holy shit." Eve said.
"What?" Gene replied.
"We need more tests."
It wasn't long before they found out that they could poke their head into the portal and be a floating head wherever they wanted to be, and that quickly lead to them tying a rope around Eve and after a while Gene pulling the rope back and pulling her back into the room. They also learned that Gene could shift her point of view, and the rope would move accordingly.
It was like magic. Some unexplored neurological phenomenon. It was amazing.
I guess you can see where I'm going with this. If you're smart you know where this is leading to. You might have already guessed it long ago. But yes, we finally got curious if we could go someplace that wasn't our world. Into a dream, into a different reality. We'd tested enough and felt confident in this. Gene had a really good imagination, and after all this activity she was even better. I was afraid her reality was being pushed to the extreme, as many times she'd jump at sounds or see things that weren't there. I was worried for her sanity. She had assured me she was fine, but... I always knew somewhere, sometime, something would go wrong.
I guess I always knew from the beginning something would go wrong. But don't take me the wrong way, something did in fact go wrong, as you can see from this letter, but it was our own fault and we were the ones who put ourselves in this situation. And by now, we probably don't regret it. I admit we were scared when we realized this is what we were going to do in the end, but... I don't think we'll ever fully regret it at all. We never really felt like we belonged anyways.
Maybe you understand now what happened, but let me explain this the rest of the way...
"Ne, Eve..."
"Yeah?"
"Do you think... We can go into an anime?" The two stared at each other in thought. Eve had just gotten back from spending some time in the 'Twilight Forest' as they called it, a forest where there was a clearing of grass and a pond with rocks, and in the center was a willow tree. It was beautiful, always midnight, always a full moon. It was relaxing, peaceful, and the perfect place to experiment.
And whenever Eve wanted to come back Gene would just real her back through the portal.
"Into an anime...?" Eve replied, blinking a bit. "I guess... We can try..." Gene smiled big.
"Ah~? Really~?"
"Shut your mouth or you'll eat some flies," Eve said, watching her. She herself, though sporting a cold attitude, was excited herself, and couldn't help but smile. "Before though, we need to eat. Relax a bit. Rest up. Afterwords we can try."
"Yay~!" Gene was so excited.
The two rested up and ate a meal before starting to make plans. "Where should we go?" Eve asked.
"Hmm~ How about..."
"Please be an anime that's fun that we both like and that you can imagine." Eve thought. "And has cute boys."
"Like Kurapika~?"
"H-hey! You know all the boys there are cute!"
"Then let's go into the world of HunterXHunter. It'd be fun, don't you think?"
"I guess, yeah... But it's like two years..."
"Exactly!" Gene responded. "Two straight years of action! Fun! What do you say?"
"Fine, sure." Eve chuckled a bit at Gene's enthusiasm.
After the two finished eating they rested up, sleeping. They wanted to make sure they had everything all ready and weren't going to be distressed in any way during the exam. Yes, that's where they'd go. They'd appear in the exam site.
Gene got ready and all hooked up, sitting in front of the portal. She would set it up, since she was better at it. The two would take turns.
Yes, it wasn't always Eve inside and Gene hooked up. The two had switched occasionally, though not often, to practice, to give the other experiences.
"Alright, I'm hooked up," Eve said, making sure the rope was tightly tied to her.
"Alright. Inside the exam building, right?" Gene asked. Eve nodded. The portal shimmered a bit, then showed the scene. "Be careful Eve."
"If you sense anything wrong, just tug me back in, OK?"
"OK," Gene replied. Eve waved and walked into the portal.
There was a weird pulling sensation, and then... She was there. She was at the Hunter Exams.
Holy shit.
There were sounds all around, murmurs and grumbles from people. It was impossible to hear through the barrier, and they'd tried walkie talkies. Walkie talkies worked only in their world. When it was an imaginary place like the Twilight Forest the walkie talkies hadn't worked. So the two learned Morse Code and would use it to communicate through the portal, with pulls from the rope or, on Eve's side, with sign language or blinking. Any way to communicate.
The only problem was the rope itself. If it got cut or in the way... There'd be issues. Big issues. The two had to be careful.
Eve looked down at her hand, then back around, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. She noticed most were already in the room. Gon and friends were nowhere to be seen. Would it even happen? Would it play through? Was she even here or was this just a small area that looked like the HunterXHunter world where nothing would happen?
So many questions...
The answers seemed like they'd never come...
Eve walked around a bit, exploring the small area she'd appeared in, staying away from the mass of people and trying to stay near the walls. It felt too real... Scarily real... Amazingly real. The rope followed her as she walked, until finally stopping back near where she appeared and tugging on the rope. Suddenly, she was pulled back by it and seconds later she was back on her side with Gene.
"I think... We did it."
"Yeah. You want to become a hunter?"
"HELL YEAH!"