Hey guys! I'm back! Finals are finally over, and it's now the holidays! I may be posting more, but you never know, as we all have seen where my previous promises have gone. There may be a few copyrighted brands in this story, so I will just say that they belong to their respective owners and are not mine. This chapter has 1,400 something words, so I hope that's long enough. So let's get to reading!
"Find a mirror large enough in size for you to get through." The female voice instructed.
"A mirror?" Veida asked.
"Yes, a mirror."
Veida looked around her room, looking for a mirror that fits the female voice's description.
"I guess we could use my dressing table's mirror…" She thought aloud. Her dressing table was bare, covered with only a few stray scrunchies and Goody hair ties. While her other friends' dressing tables were covered with cosmetics sporting brands such as Sephora, Maybelline, or even Chanel, Veida's dressing table was bare except for the scrunchies, hairties, and the occasional used pajamas. The dressing table was there only for show, or sometimes for folding clothes she didn't want to wear.
"Very good. Now stand in front of the mirror."
Veida got off her bed and briskly walked to her dressing table. She stared at her reflection in the mirror, and what she saw a girl with crazy, messy hair that stuck out in about a million different directions, was wearing pajamas with a giant umbrella on it's front, and a very sleepy expression, eye bags included. She stared at it for a minute until she asked, "So what now?"
"First, put your hand on the mirror. Anywhere is fine, so long as it's on the mirror."
Veida put her right hand on the mirror, feeling the cool and smooth surface of the glass. "And then?"
"Now repeat after me. 628-180-701."
"628-180-701."
Nothing happened.
At least for about 5 seconds.
Just beneath the mirrors surface, glittering sparks started to gather. At first, only a few started to gather. But slowly, more and more joined the swirl, making her mirror look like a galaxy. She watched in awe as the galaxy-like swirl slowly move.
"Now your mirror looks like a real dimensional portal, doesn't it?"
Veida pinched herself on her right arm. It hurt, and the pinched area started to turn into an angry red color. This wasn't a dream.
"Now step through the mirror."
And Veida did.
She seemed to fall through a void, one that never seemed to end, or showed signs that it was going to. When she opened her eyes, she was falling through…"Space?!" She watched as blue and yellow stars, nebulas, black holes, and galaxies whizzed by. Then all of that ended so abruptly, and she found herself lying on the floor, a cold and iridescent metal floor.
"Vitals?" Said the voice she had heard in her bedroom. The female one to be exact.
"Normal." Replied another voice she didn't recognize.
Veida sat up, and she felt her own heartbeat. It was beating very rapidly, thanks to her little trip through space.
The female voice from her bedroom said, "Good. Furi, see to it that she gets what she needs, and explain to her how the dimension rifts work."
There was a crackle as the intercom shut down. Then Veida felt herself get pulled up to her feet by two tanned arms. When she was on her feet, she found herself staring at a pair of cyan blue eyes.
"Hi! I'm Furi, and I will be your android helper!"
"Android helper?"
"Well, clearly, you can't learn how dimensions rifts work if no one is there to explain it to you, can you? And that's why I'm here! To show you how everything around here works!" Furi replied to Veida's question. "Wait, so doesn't that mean you're an android?"
"Well yes, I am an android. I mean, humans can't do this, can they?" Veida watched in awe as Furi's eyes quickly zapped through every color in the color spectrum before changing back to bright cyan.
"Well then let's start!" Furi wrapped her hands around Veida's wrist and pulled her through the room. The walls were made with the same kind of metal the floor was made of, and there was a ceiling-to-floor window that showed the view outside, which was, unsurprisingly, space. Furi set Veida down in front of a large screen. "Here," she said as she shoved a keyboard into Veida's hands. "Just in case you need to be specific. The voice recognition may get weird sometimes." Veida stared at the small grey keyboard in her hands and pressed the biggest button. The holographic screen sprang to life, and there was only a single sentence that said: Please say "Hello." Awkwardly, Veida said "Hello." The holographic screen showed a chart that went:
MARVEL Universe
Veida Karansey
Super-human
12 years old
Ability to control time and water, enhanced speed and agility
The list went on and on, but Veida checked everything just to make sure. Everything was correct, exactly how Veida herself envisioned her own character. And all that from a simple "Hello" ? Amazing.
"All done?" Furi asked. She didn't wait for an answer though, instead immediately walking towards the ceiling-to-floor window and began typing away on the glass. After a few taps and knocks, the window transformed into another swirling galaxy. A portal. That's what I(The author)meant. A portal.
Furi stared at Veida, while she just stood there staring at it. "Well, what are you waiting for? Aren't you excited to go meet your favorite heroes? What were they called again? The Avengers? I think there was a Captain Canada? Or maybe Steel Man? I don't really know. But go! This portal will close in 30 seconds."
Upon hearing the word '30 seconds', Veida immediately ran towards the portal. Passing through the portal feels like passing through water, minus the wetness. And then she was whizzing through space again, except this time, she was going so fast the stars look like luminescent lines, not speckles. All Veida could think of was how she was in space without a suit.
Seconds later, Veida was no longer in space, instead she was in a bright red telephone booth, holding the phone up to her ear, hearing the beeping sound after the call disconnected. She put the phone back on the machine, and looked down at what she was wearing. A t-shirt and a hoodie with jeans. Good. At least she was comfortable. In one hand she held an iPhone 6, just like the one she had back at home, and there were earphones in her hoodie pocket. She turned around, and people were bustling by, talking on their phones or listening to their music.
Obviously this wasn't Jakarta.
The moment she stepped out of the phone booth, New York hit her like a bus. Or maybe a bright yellow cab or subway, because it's New York. 'I hope my powers work.' Veida thought. 'Maybe now I can control water?' She stared down at a puddle before her. She flicked her hand upwards, and the water followed, creating an orb of water that moved the way her hands did. 'Aw yiss,' she thought. 'And now for time.' She lifted both her hands up, palms open, and whispered a single word: 'Stop'. And time stood still. A pigeon froze midflight, a boy's ice-cream suspended in midair after falling of the cone, and pigeon poo stopped right above a poor man's bald head. Then time went running again. The pigeon flew to another building. The boy's ice-cream landed on the hot pavement, triggering a tantrum. The bald man started cursing.
'Great. Now I can control time too. Actually I'm rather lucky. Unlike those heroines in novels, I can easily control my powers. Ha, guess I'm not stereotypical.' Then her thoughts were interrupted by sudden clapping and screaming that went "Iron Man! We love you Iron Man!". Veida looked up and saw a red and gold figure standing in midair, waving and asking people to clap more, before entering a huge building with a giant 'A' on it.
'A' for Avengers.
'I guess I'm in the right New York.' Veida thought, before entering the Avengers tower.
Guys, I made this one super long, although it may not suffice because I don't upload even once a month. Yes, I'm a horrible human being. But believe me when I say that the next chapter is already being written. If you have reviews, send them! I may not always answer, but I swear I read each and every one of them. Bye, and see you very, very, soon!