Posted Wednesday 11-15-06

No reviews yet, -sigh- but I guess that's to be expected when no one knows about the anime. Which makes me sad. Anyway, Remember, this is a shameless self-insert fanfic, meaning you won't get up close and personal with the actual characters from the show for a little while longer. And BTW, Natsumi isn't even really a main character in this. Which reminds me; I don't own Generator Gawl, it's characters, places or anything else related. I do however own Crystal and Jewels, and my story, and the crappy writing that comes along with it. Meh. Go ahead and read Chapter1 if you haven't skipped my rant to do so already.

CHAPTER 1: THE DREAM

Crystal woke with a headache that could kill. She groaned as she lay in her bed, still and not moving, as was her custom when she tried to remember a vivid dream. This time though, it was because of the headache, for some reason she could recall her dream exactly down to the last detail. The headache subsided moments after she finished going over her dream, and she snorted as she sat up, her short black hair bobbing about her face. 'What a weird dream.' She thought as she grabbed a hairbrush from her nightstand. 'I hope like hell I'm not precognitive.' She stopped in mid-brush, remembering. Crystal let herself fall back again to her pillow, closing her eyes and whispered, "Hell…"

Suddenly a considerable weight was dropped on her, causing Crystal to lose her breath. "Morning Crystal!" a bubbly feminine voice sung happily.

Crystal's eyes flew open as she fought for breath with a glare. "It's not so good now." She wheezed, shoving her sister off of her. "Jesus Jewels…" She said clutching her chest. "What're you doing in my room? I was just getting ready for our hike, shouldn't you be doing the same?"

"You looked asleep to me." Jewels scoffed. "Why are you always so sour in the mornings? I just wanted to tell you about this wild dream I had."

"I'm not a morning person because I am being forced to wake up." Crystal pushed her long bangs out of her eyes. "Go ahead. I always love to hear what wacky shit is going on in your head."

"Well, it was more like a nightmare than a dream for most of it. Oh, and you were in it too."

"Aw, thanks sis." Crystal said scathingly. "Why don't you tell me how you really feel about me?"

Jewels blushed slightly, causing Crystal to smirk inwardly; it was always so easy to fluster her twin. "That's not what I meant. The beginning was the nightmare, you were in the last bit." Jewels said slowly. Crystal's left wrist itched, but she let it be, devoting her attention to her sister. "It was apocalyptic in the beginning though. I thought," she paused as if something had caught in her throat. "I thought I was dieing."

Crystal straightened slightly, remembering again what it felt like to have her flesh burned away from her, and shivered. She wondered if they had the same dream. 'Probably not.' She thought. 'We haven't shared dreams since we were kids.'

"The next part was kind of hard to follow." Jewels continued, oblivious to Crystal's contemplations. "It had these three guys in it." She coughed. "Three really hott guys." She coughed again. "Erm, and two of them were really smart, the other one scared me a little. He-"

"-Generated?" Crystal finished quietly. Ugh, her wrist still itched. She figured it was worth asking. If Jewels didn't know what she meant by 'generated', Crystal would just be obligated to tell Jewels about her dream.

Jewels eyes lit up as her demeanor changed. "Yeah! You didn't have the same dream, Crystal?"

"Well I had my doubts, but I guess so. Pretty cool, huh?" Crystal said with a smile. "I'm sorry that you had to go through that beginning too though. It was as awful as anything I've ever even heard of." Crystal stretched, her cat-like movements loosening her muscles and joints. "My dream kept going on though. I was in this white room, it was totally empty."

"Except for a mirror." Jewels reminded her. The two just looked at each other for a few moments, not saying anything. Then they both slowly erupted into a fit of giggles, clutching at their sides. "So, the whole bracelet/cyborg thing, you dreamt that too?" Jewels asked breathless once their mirth had settled itself enough to allow speech.

"Cyborg..?" Crystal stopped. Well… the term made more sense than calling what she'd changed into in that room a generator. Though in the dream she and her sister had looked extraordinarily like the thing he had changed into in their third forms, she somehow knew even in the dream that they were not the same as the black-haired one that she had found so attractive. Crystal automatically forced herself back onto the subject before she blushed. The colors had corresponded directly to the color of their gems, and the transformation was smooth and easy for them were it had been quite painful looking for him. It was like the bracelets were the main computers or power sources of the powerful machines that were their bodies, even though they were still at the most important level, humans. "Ah. Yeah. I did. …Argh! Stop itching!" Crystal reached for her left wrist in annoyance to scratch but stopped short when she was the silvery glint of metal. Both she and Jewels gasped as her sleeve pulled away to reveal a beautiful cuff-style bracelet, a large dark-green gem shimmering at its center. Jewels let out her breath in a sigh of wonder as she turned her attention to her own wrist and found a bracelet identical except for the gem, blue.

The sisters stared silently at their new appendages for a long time. "At the end of the dream," Jewels said, though her voice seemed to catch in her chest. "I was practically attacked with information. It was like a voice was telling me all these things that I- we need to do. It's the one that called us cyborgs. And a lot of images surrounded me, like some kind of overly realistic movie. I thought it was all some really weird dream, but now…"

"What are we to think but that it was real?" Crystal's voice was suddenly husky. "Oh Christ, it has to be. How else could we suddenly have the exact bracelets from our dream like this? It's the only explanation there is." Crystal's headache was coming back. "I guess… that means… we're going to Japan."

"But we only know about the first few days!" Jewels choked, referring to the knowledge of the future they had been given. "Barely enough to know where and when they're going to come. More importantly than how it begins, we don't know how it will end. What if Kubare wins? If they manage to cause World War III again? We. Will. Die!"

Crystal grabbed her terror-stricken sister by the shoulders and forced her to calm. "We will not. Jewels, Onee-San. I don't know how we got like this; I really don't know why it was us that were changed. But I do know that there's a reason we were changed. Kubare must be stopped. World War III can't be allowed to happen. Besides, won't we die if it does? You saw what happened. The whole world was nearly destroyed by the nuclear war. If I'm going to die because of Kubare, it won't be because I sat back and let them create this war. It's going to be because I was trying to do something! If I'm going to die, I'm not going without a fight!" Crystal clenched both teeth and fists as she made her speech. Then, taking a deep breath she tried to raise Jewels' spirits. "Besides, it's not like we'll be going it alone. We'll have three guys from the future arriving in the fall to help us. Or rather, they'll be arriving, so we have to help them."

Jewels looked unsure, but smiled apprehensively back. "We have the rest of spring and summer to prepare… to learn how to fight."

Crystal forced herself to sound and look more confident than she felt to reassure her elder sister as she said, "We will survive."

END CHAPTER 1

heh-heh. Hope ya'll aren't turned off by the fact that none of the anime's actual characters are in this chapter. Got to set the story up, you know. Most of the next chapter will be about them though, so happy days when I post that. Which I won't for a while.

BECAUSE I WANT MY GODDAMNED COMMENTS.

Thank you. Soul-Mage