Chapter 9\The way home.
We woke up early the next morning to catch our flight back to Goldenrod City. We were very tired because of all the festivities that had occured the night before. I woke up beside her, she was still fast asleep. It was now 9:00am, and we needed to be at the airport by 11:00am. In light traffic, it would be about an hour drive to get to the airport. I let her sleep for a few more minutes while I took a shower and got dressed, yeah they had showers in the gardevoir city, it was actually pretty advanced. Anyway she was still asleep after I had gotten out of the shower and dressed ten minutes later, so I had to wake her, hilariously, she was still wearing her wedding dress.
Me: "Come on honey we need to get going."
-tired- Phoebe: " Uh wha? Cj?"
Me: "We have about an hour before we have to leave, so if you want to say goodbye and such."
Phoebe: "Oh um thanks Cj."
I kissed her.
Me: "Last night was great."
Phoebe: "You had fun?"
Me: "Yeah."
Phoebe: "Good."
Me: "I already took a shower so, yeah."
Phoebe: "Ok um I guess I'll take one as well."
Me: "Ok."
She stood up and slowly slid off her wedding dress, and the rest of her clothes, I tried to look away, but I couldn't help myself.
-amazed- Me: "Oh honey..."
Phoebe: "Cj we don't have time."
Me: "I know, but...dam..."
Phoebe: "Maybe tonight if I'm not too tired ok?"
Me: "Ok."
And with that she walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower.
She came out another ten minutes later, got dressed, folded up her wedding dress, and we went downstairs together, she said goodbye to her mother and father, and Rath, her brother, and then we teleported to the car and left the gardevoir city, probably never to return. A little hour of driving later and we were back at the airport in Hearthome, we both fell asleep on the plane, James picked us up at the airport in Goldenrod, and took us back to his house once again.
James: "So how did your wedding go?"
Phoebe: "Um Cj, no more talk about me being a princess alright? Can we just keep it a secret, please?"
Me: "Oh Allright, it'll be our little secret."
Phoebe: "Oh Cj..."
Phoebe: "It was great, better then my dreams."
Me: "It was interesting, learning about her culture and traditions and stuff."
Phoebe: "We both had a great time right Cj?"
Me: "Yeah."
Me: "So you have 2 wedding dresses now, what are you going to do with them?"
Phoebe: "I don't know, I'll keep them I guess, as memories."
Me: "Ah that's sweet."
Me: "I love you honey."
Phoebe: "I love you too Cj."
James: "So I suppose you guys are planning to return to the otherworld now correct?"
Me: "Yeah, it's been great."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."
Me: "And thanks James, for the hospitality."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."
James: "Well hold on, wait a minute, I still haven't found a way to send you guys back."
And out of nowhere, the time travel guy appeared in the passenger's seat, scairing James, causing him to slam the breaks, the car behind us beeped loudly at us for stopping so quickly.
Time Travel Guy: "Hello."
-brakes screech-
-car horn-
Me: "What the."
Phoebe: "Ow."
Me: "You ok honey?'
Phoebe: "Yeah I just hit my head on the seat I'll be fine."
-shocked- James: "Who the heck are you?"
Me: "Oh it's you again."
Me: "How did you get here?"
-sarcastically- Phoebe: "Oh great, the teleport guy again."
Time Travel guy: " Time travel of course, in the future, transition between this world and the other one is an every day occurence."
James pulled back on to the highway as if nothing had happened.
Me: "That's crazy."
Time Travel guy: "Yes, but it's true."
Time Travel guy: "Any way I see you are in a bit of a predicament."
Time Travel guy: "I see you destroyed my portal."
Me: "We had no choice it was the only way we could get into the FBPM without getting turned into swiss cheese."
Time Travel Guy: "No matter, fortunately, I have constructed another one."
Time Travel Guy: "Which is active right now."
Time Travel Guy: "Now sir, if you could take us to the experiment, Phase three, portal 145,432"
Time Travel Guy: "That is the portal that corresponds to the cartridge inserted into the machine on the other world."
Time Travel Guy: "Do not ask me how I know that, I spent what seems to have been a year's time trying out all the portals in phase 3 by hand until I found the right one."
Me: "Um thanks man I just wish I knew who you were."
Time Travel Guy: "I have forgotten my actual name, just call me TTG."
Me: TTG?"
TTG: "Time travel guy."
Phoebe: "Crazy."
Me: "Seems that way."
Who the time travel guy really was, was always a mystery to us, but he always seemed to appear in the nick of time whenever we needed help.
James: "All right so, we're going to the experiment again?"
Me: "I guess so."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."
James: "Allright."
About 20 minutes later we entered the huge complex which was the base of operations for the experiment. After James was granted clearence at a small security booth at the entrance, unlike last time we were here, this place was going back in business now, and many workers were walking around the area, inspecting the equipment.
Phoebe: "Hey TTG, I have a question."
TTG:" What?"
Phoebe: "How come you can't just teleport back to the otherworld?"
TTG: "First thing, I can't teleport, I time travel, second thing is, these two worlds exist on separate universal planes, so teleporting between them is impossible."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Oh."
Me: "Did that answer your question?"
-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."
We were now entering the Phase 3 building, which housed portals to every generation 3 cartridge in existence. Although it looked exactly like the Phase 4 building on the inside.
TTG: "Allright James, make sure we enter portal 145,432, any other one won't work."
James: "How did you know my name?"
TTG: "I know alot of things."
TTG: "For instance, Phoebe, you were born on what is equivalent to March 23, 1994 on the other world, Cj, you were born on (My actual birthday), 1994. James, you were born on April 26 1982, yet I don't even remember when I was born."
Me: "Wow that has to hurt."
TTG: "Not really, I don't have any friends to celebrate my birthday if I had remembered when it was anyway."
Me: "hm."
Phoebe: "Oh poor guy."
Me: "Wait a minute."
Phoebe: "What?"
Me: "Are you god?"
TTG: "Oh no, no, I'm not god."
TTG: "I'm actually completely human, I just have a knowledge of things no one else seems to understand, which is how I'm able to time travel."
TTG: "There's these places in the world that function like wormholes, and each one grants accesss into the fourth dimension which allows one to travel through time, but that's the easy part."
TTG: "The hard part is knowing where each of those wormholes end up and where each one is."
TTG: "And the exact moment at which to leave the forth dimension and enter the physical plain of existence once again."
Phoebe: "Should I read his mind?"
Me: "Not unless you want to go crazy like he has."
Phoebe: "Good point."
Me: "Besides we have more than enough power already."
Phoebe: "Yeah, you're right."
James slowed the car to a stop, aparently we had arrived.
James: "Alright to the left is portal 145,432."
James: "Um Cj, Phoebe, this is were I get off."
James: "I have to stay here I can't go with you."
Me: "Allright, thanks man."
Phoebe: "Tell Melissa I said goodbye."
James: "Will do."
Me:"Perhaps we'll meet again?"
TTG: "Actually you will, but not for quite awhile."
-sarcastically- Me: "Thanks for the spoiler TTG."
Phoebe: "Cj, fourth wall?"
Me: "Um honey, I didn't break it, but you just did."
Phoebe: "Oh c'mon, again?"
Me: "Yep."
Me: "Allright anyway, bye James."
James: "Bye."
James turned his car around and left.
TTG: "Allright c'mon."
The TTG entered the portal, we followed soon after.
We found ourselves in I think it was a Ruby or Sapphire cartridge, in the game's representation of LilyCove city. The exit portal was nowhere to be seen.
Me: " Ok TTG where's the exit?"
TTG: "Just a second."
He pressed a button on his watch, and another portal appeared in front of us.
TTG: "Follow me."
We followed him through the portal. We found ourselves inside another house in Tokyo, Japan, walking out of another portal machine, this one had a Ruby cartridge inserted into it.
TTG: "Alright follow me, I'll take you guys home."
Me: "Wait."
-concerned- Phoebe: "We need to get my car."
TTG: "Well I can't fit a car into the time stream, I can take you back to the FBPM headquarters, but I can't take you home from there, with your car anyway."
TTG: "You'll have to drive home by yourself."
Phoebe: "Cj?"
Me: "Honey, I'll leave it up to you."
Phoebe: "Ok."
Phoebe: "I want to get my car."
TTG: "Allright then, follow me."
So we followed him through the next door way, and we were taken to the doorway of the FBPM headquarters, which was now in ruins, it was barely a doorway any more. It was night time now, even though neither of us were tired.
Me:" Now I have a question."
TTG: "Yes?"
Me: "How come we always time travel after walking through a door?"
Me: "And how does time travel allow us to move huge distances?"
TTG: "That's two questions."
Me: "I know."
TTG: "Well the first one, I do just for dramatic affect, the second one is because of the earth's rotation."
TTG: "In one hour this place's relative position changes on the universal scale."
TTG: "Timezones have no meaning."
TTG: "Now safe travels, and good luck."
And with that he walked through the doorway again and disappeared.
Me: "Well, I'm confused."
Phoebe: "I don't get it."
Me: "Me neither."
Me: "Ah well, cmon honey, let's go get your car."
Me: "You driving?"
Phoebe: "Of course."
We found her Camaro in the parking lot, got in and began the long trip home.
Me: "Ok if you want to just drive until you get tired, then I'll drive while you get some sleep in the back, ok? We'll just take turns driving so we can get home faster.
Phoebe: "Ok sounds good."
So she drove for awhile until she got tired, and then we switched spots, and then I drove while she slept. So we only had to stop for food and fuel. 2 days of solid driving later, we stopped in that town next to the pirate area. There, we got something to eat, and learned that what was left of the pirates were completely destroyed by the local guards, so this time they gave us no trouble. Another 1 1\2 days back on the road, and we finally made it home. We informed my parents of our return and the jist of what we experienced on our journey, excluding any mention of her being a princess like she asked. The afternoon of the day we returned. We returned HellBlade and Mouser to their pokeballs, thanking them for keeping our house safe while we were gone. After turning on the generator, which hadn't been run for while, I had a bunch of questions I wanted to ask her.
Me: "So your birthday is March 23?"
-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."
Me: "Why didn't you say something? We could've celebrated it."
Phoebe: "Because then I would of had to give away my status as an original."
Me: "And what was with all of the crying that you were a copy?"
Phoebe: "I had to make it believable didn't I?"
Me: "Yeah I guess so."
Phoebe: "Look Cj I'm sorry."
Me: "I know."
Phoebe: "I'm not going to lie to you anymore I promise."
Me: "Ok."
Phoebe: "I really love you Cj."
Phoebe: "I just wish you would understand how much I love you."
Me: "Honey, I understand more than you realise."
Phoebe: "Oh Cj."
Phoebe: "You can't."
Me: "Yes I can."
Me: "Come here baby."
I hugged her.
Me: "I love you."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe, I wuv you too."
Phoebe: "Wait,do you think the transfers would work now?"
Me: "I have no Idea, want to try?"
Phoebe: "Yeah."
She went upstairs to get our DS's.
Phoebe: "Here you go Cj."
Me: "Um thanks."
I turned it on. She turned hers on and then we went outside, we tried to transfer one of the miltanks, and sure enough it worked.
Phoebe: "Oh good, it worked."
Me: "Yeah, except where are we going to keep it?"
Me: "We don't have a fence."
Phoebe: "Well go make one."
Me: "Um, I don't know how."
Phoebe: "Me neither."
Me: "Fine I guess I'll just go ask my parents."
I got in her camaro, since the skyline didn't dirt roads very much.
Phoebe: "Why are you taking my car?"
Me: "Cause the skyline doesn't like dirt roads."
Me: "Look sometime I'll get another truck, but right now, I need to borrow your car ok?"
Phoebe: "Ok just don't wreck it."
Me: "Honey, c'mon, you know I'm a good driver."
Phoebe: "Yeah...sure."
Me: "Like you could do any better."
Phoebe: "Wha?"
Me: "I love you bye."
Phoebe: "Can't I go with you?"
Me: "Um someone needs to stay here to make sure the miltank doesn't run off."
Phoebe: "Oh yeah ok."
I kissed her.
Me: "I'll be back in a little bit ok?"
Phoebe: "Ok."
So I went to my parents and asked them how to build a fence, they asked why, and then I told them about the miltank, and then they asked what a miltank was, so one long and extremely boring explanation later, they finally showed me how to build a fence. So they gave me some fence post, but I also needed some barbed wire, which I didn't have. So I returned home with about 20 post in the back of the camaro. Phoebe was standing outside, the miltank was nowhere to be seen.
Me: "Where did the miltank go?"
Phoebe: "The stupid thing charged at me."
Me: "And?"
Phoebe: "I accidently killed it."
Me: "What?"
-sad- Phoebe: "I accidently killed it!"
-sad- Phoebe: "Cj I'm sorry."
Me: "It's ok."
-sad- Phoebe: "I would've used a max revive on it but they won't transfer."
Me: "Really they still won't?"
-sad- Phoebe: "No."
Me: "So we still have limited max revives?"
Phoebe: "Mhm."
Me: "What happened when you tried to transfer them?"
Phoebe: "The pokemon made it to your game like normal."
Me: "Dam."
Phoebe: "I went ahead and transfered the rest of the miltanks."
Phoebe: "I kept them in their pokeballs."
Me: "Ok."
Me: "Honey it will be fine."
Phoebe: "But why won't they transfer?"
Me: "I don't know honey."
Me: "Maybe because no one is supposed to live forever?"
Phoebe: "Oh Cj, I hope that day never comes when you."
She started to cry. I hugged her.
Me: "Honey we've been through this before."
-crying- Phoebe: "Gardevoirs live for an extremely long time Cj, like 400 years or so."
Me: "Honey it's ok, sweety, we can still die together, you know that."
Phoebe: "I know."
Me: "I love you honey."
Phoebe: "I just wish we could spend all 400 years together, instead of just your 50-60 or so."
Me: "You wish I was a pokemon don't you?"
Phoebe: "A little bit yes."
Me: "Honey, that's not possible and you know that."
Phoebe: "Yes it is."
Me: "What do you mean?"
Phoebe: "Ciona, heartswap."
Me: "Heartswap?"
Me: "But we don't know where the hell manaphy went."
Me: "Honey, how many revives do we have left?"
Phoebe: "50 something."
Me: "Then what are you worrying about? That's plenty."
Then the TTG appeared once again out of nowhere.
TTG: "I see you two noticed you can't get max revives anymore."
Me: "Yeah."
TTG: "Well don't worry about it, they just haven't decided if they want people on this world to have that kind of power anymore."
Me: "But why?"
TTG: "A max revive is a very powerful medicine, capable of bringing the dead back to life, they also grant youth, but only if you've taken the first dose at a young age."
Me: "What does that mean?"
TTG: "The Max revive returns you to the age you were when it was used on you the first time."
TTG: "That is all I have been able to figure out so far."
TTG: "Those fifty that you have stashed should last you two until they make a final decision."
TTG: "However it looks as though it won't be long until they decide to allow them on this world once more."
TTG: "So try again tomorrow."
TTG: "You can also no longer transfer nuggets, but you can transfer full restores, and all types of potions and other items."
TTG: "Now goodbye you two, for that is all I have to tell you."
TTG: "I assure you we will meet again in the future."
Me: "What happens in the future?"
TTG: "I can't tell you, it's a secret."
And with that he left.
Phoebe: "Well that was weird."
Me: "Are you done crying now?"
Phoebe: "Yeah."
Me: "I guess we should keep those revives a secret."
Me: "Now that they're in limited supply."
Phoebe: "Mhm."
Me: "They will be another one of our little secrets, right princess?"
Phoebe: "Oh Cj."
Phoebe: "What about the TTG?"
Me: "What about him?"
Phoebe: "He said we would meet him again in the future."
Me: "Well then we probably will."
Phoebe: "Who is he?"
Me: "I don't know honey, but apparently he isn't god."
The TTG was a very suspicious character though.
Phoebe: "And when do you think they'll allow us to transfer more revives?"
Me: "I don't know honey, I just don't know."
Me: "Allright we have to get some barbed wire, and then we can set up this fence."
Phoebe: "Ok where are we going to get that?"
Me: "I don't know."
Me: "Its been a long day Phoebe, why don't we just take a break for awhile?"
Phoebe: "Yeah you're right Cj."
Me: "You look tired honey."
Me: "C'mon let's go inside, we can build the fence tomorrow."
Phoebe: "Ok."
So we went into the house.
Me: "So what do you want to do? Watch tv? Play pokemon? Cards?"
Phoebe: "I don't know Cj, I kinda just want to relax."
Me: "Oh alright."
Phoebe: "Can we just lay down for a little while and talk?"
Me: "Yeah ok."
So we went to the bedroom and layed down.
Me: "So what did you want to talk about?"
Phoebe: "Um, I don't know. hehe."
Me: "You're really cute, you know that?"
Phoebe: "Awe, Cj cut it out."
Me: "Well you are."
Me: "Just look at you."
Phoebe: "I can't."
I kissed her.
Me: "I love you."
Phoebe: "I know."
Me: "So what did you want to talk about?"
Phoebe: "I don't know, the future I guess."
Me: "What about it?"
Phoebe: "What do you want to do?"
Me: "Spend the rest of eternity with the cutest girl I've ever seen."
Phoebe: "Oh, Cj enough of that."
Me: "What?"
Phoebe: "I know you think I'm cute ok?"
Me: "Oh I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about this other gardevoir."
Phoebe: "What?"
Me: "Relax I'm just kidding around."
-cutely- Phoebe: "You better be."
Me: "Honey, I love you, I would never even think of leaving you for someone else."
-cutely- Phoebe: "Good."
We kissed.
Me: "So seriously, what do you want to talk about?"
Phoebe: "I've made up my mind."
Me: "About what?"
Phoebe: "I want to have children with you."
Me: "Are you sure?"
Phoebe: "Well I want to try."
Phoebe: "That's ok right?"
Me: "Yeah."
Phoebe: "I should be in heat again in just a few weeks."
Me: "Yeah I know."
Phoebe: "But if you're not ready Cj, that's ok, I can wait."
Me: "I d-don't, I don't know."
Phoebe: "You want to wait a little longer?"
Me: "I don't know if I, if I can..."
Phoebe: "If you can be a father?"
Me: "Yeah."
Phoebe: "Ok, Cj if you don't think your ready I'll wait."
Phoebe: "I love you."
Me: "That and I just like being alone with you."
Me: "What made you decide anyway?"
Phoebe: "I don't know, I just felt like we were in the clear for once, and could have a somewhat normal life."
Me: "Honey, our lives will never be normal."
Me: "But that's not such a bad thing."
Phoebe: "Like how?"
Me: "We have eachother, and we'll always have eachother, we don't need to be normal to be happy."
Phoebe: "Yeah, but other people have children."
Me: "That doesn't mean we have to."
Me: "Honey, I told you before I didn't want children, but if you want children then I guess we could try."
Phoebe: "No, Cj no, not if you don't want children."
Phoebe: "I don't want to force you to do things you don't want to do."
Me: "I just want to be with you."
Phoebe: "If that's enough for you then I guess it's enough for me as well."
Me: "I love you."
Phoebe: "I love you too Cj."
We kissed.
Me: "Now is that all you wanted to talk about?"
Me: "Or are we going to have this same conversation a week from now?"
Phoebe: "No Cj, its final unless you change your mind."
Me: "Ok."
I felt like I let her down.
Me: "I'm sorry honey."
Phoebe: "No its ok, I understand."
Phoebe: "Look Cj, if we're going to have children I want us to both want children, not just me, ok?"
Me: "Ok."
Phoebe: "It's allright Cj."
Me:"Good, cause I just want you to be happy."
Phoebe: "Oh Cj, you've already made me so happy."
She kissed me.
Me: " Good."
Me: "So what do you want to do now?"
It was about 6:00pm, too early to go to bed, and too late to do alot of other things.
Phoebe: "I don't know."
Phoebe: "You want to go mess around in the timber?"
Me: "It's getting too late for that honey."
Phoebe: "Oh, ok then, um cards?"
Me: "What do you want to play?"
Phoebe: "I don't know, we need to get some more games."
Me: "Yeah I'll agree with you on that."
Phoebe: "You want to play video games?"
Me: "What do you feel like playing?"
Phoebe: "Super Smash Brothers?"
Me: " I feel more like racing than fighting right now."
Phoebe: "Halo?"
Me: "NO."
Phoebe: "Why not?"
Me: "Because you cheat."
Phoebe: "I do not."
Me: "Honey last time we played halo you beat me twenty five to zero, most of those times you killed me with a sniper rifle, the rest of those times you waited for me to walk by and then you killed me with the sword."
Phoebe: "So?"
Me: "Honey, come on, you were cheating."
Phoebe: "Well, I, um."
Me: "Just admit it..."
Phoebe: "Fine I was reading your mind, but Cj, I just wanted to win."
Me: "You can win without using your powers, you know that."
Phoebe: "Ok fine."
For video games, I had my Xbox, Xbox360, a Wii, and a PS2. With various games I had collected throughout my childhood, we played occasionally, although she had a tendency of using her powers to cheat. Other than that, she was actually not too bad at most videogames.
Phoebe: "Um, midnight club 3?"
Me: " Have I ever even showed you how to play that?"
Phoebe: "Um no."
Me: "Well I guess I have to eventually."
Phoebe: "Mhm."
So I turned on the Tv and started up the ancient Xbox console, I inserted the Midnight Club 3 disc. And the logos appeared as well as the intro movie. I skipped the movie and went to the menu, for a moment I was filled with nostalgia. The menu was projected on the side of a building on one of the ingame cities.
Phoebe: "Allright so multiplayer?"
Me: "well hold on honey."
Me: "Do you want to make your own car or just use on of the ones I already have on here?"
Phoebe: "Oh, yeah I think I'd like my own."
Me: "Well which one do you want?"
I went to the garage and then to the purchase car screen.
I handed her the controller and she started scrolling throught the many available cars and motorcycles.
Phoebe: "Hm, there's a skyline."
Me: "Yep, can't have a racing game without a skyline."
Phoebe: "We'll see."
Phoebe: "Um Charger? What's a charger?"
Me: "Classic muscle car."
Phoebe: "Can we get one in real life?"
Me: "Good luck finding one."
and then she started to figure out the game.
Phoebe: "Lets see these are all class C, lets see class A"
Me: "You can't customize class A cars very well."
Phoebe: "What really?"
Me: "Yeah, its one of this game's limitations."
Phoebe: "Oh, I guess I'll go class B then."
Phoebe: "Hey look another Charger."
Me: "Yeah that's the newer one."
Phoebe: "Hm its a four door that's strange."
Me: "Yeah I know right?"
Phoebe: "A truck?"
Me: "Yeah they have trucks in this game too."
Phoebe: " Let's see theres a viper, a corvette, another corvette, and another Corvette, why are there three corvettes in this game?"
Me: "One is a 1960's one another is a 1970's one and the third is a newer one."
Phoebe: "Why is there no 1980's one?"
Me: "Because the 1980's ones sucked."
Phoebe: "Really?"
Me: "Yeah, they were the worst."
Phoebe: "Oh look a camaro."
Me: "Yeah."
Phoebe: "hmmm."
Me: "You want the camaro don't you?"
Phoebe: "Yeah, but which one? There's two of them."
Me: "I don't know just pick one."
There were two camaros in the game, one was a 1960's one and the other was I think a 1978. The one she had in real life was neither of those, but she didn't seem to care.
Me: "I'm getting the feeling you like camaros don't you?"
Phoebe: "Um, maybe."
Me: "Just pick one."
Phoebe: "Well this one has better stats but its uglier."
Me: "The stat difference won't matter too much trust me."
Phoebe: "Ok I'll go with the other one then."
She scrolled to the other one and purchased it. And then I took the controller back.
Me: "Ok now I'll just maximize the performance."
Phoebe: "Ok."
I maxed the car out, and then gave the controller back to her.
Me: "Now you can customize it see."
Phoebe: "Um ok."
She messed around with the options for a little bit, thankfully I had lots of money in game. Finally she was done.
Phoebe: "Ok I think I'm done, can we race now?"
Phoebe: "How's it look?"
Me: "Cool enough."
Me: "Come on."
I took back the controller, and motioned for her to plug in the second one. I went to multiplayer mode and showed her how to select her car. I selected my car as well, a black gto i had on my save for several years it was a class b muscle car just like the camaro she was using, so it was a pretty fair match up.
Me: "So where do you want to race?"
I was scrolling through the 4 cities you can race in on the game. Tokyo was one of them.
Phoebe: "Um Tokyo?"
Me: "Sure, why not."
Phoebe: "Let's see if we can identify any of the places we've been."
Me: "Um honey, its not that accurate of a representation of Tokyo, just saying."
Phoebe: "Oh ok then, it should atleast look familiar though right?"
Me: "I don't know, maybe."
I picked a longer circuit race in tokyo, and set the lap count pretty high, so it would be a long race, plenty of time to teach her how to play.
Me: "Do you want to race against the computer or just me?"
-cutely- Phoebe: "Just you."
Me: "Awe."
Ok so finally after a loading screen the race began, except I had to show her how to control the car first.
Me: "Ok right trigger is gas, left is brake, A is handbrake, X is nitrous, and down on the d-pad activates hydraulics, although I don't know if you put hydraulics on your car or not."
Me: "Y changes camera view and B is two wheel driving."
Anyway the race finally began, I pulled ahead after awhile because she made some ridiculous mistakes, she overshot a lot of turns and other typical begginer errors. Half-way through the first lap.
Phoebe: "Oh no I totalled my car."
Me: "You'll get a new one just wait, there see?"
Phoebe: "Oh ok."
I was just starting the second lap at this point. I slowed down a little so she could catch up. That was a big mistake, she learned really fast and by the time we started the 3rd lap she could keep up with me, and on the 4th lap she got ahead of me for a little bit before I passed her again because her car totalled out, and by the fifth lap I had stopped going easy on her completely, but she caught up to me once again because my car totalled out. The rest of the laps were pretty much neck and neck, we each made mistakes on occasion that allowed the other to get ahead, I used nitrous too close to a corner and overshot it, usually sliding into a wall. She played with the two wheel driving feature too much and rolled her car several times,which although it didn't total it, still wasted enough time for me to get ahead, and then occasionally either one of us would collide with a traffic vehicle. Each one of those incidents damaged our cars, and caused them to total out every few laps or so, once their damage levels got too high.
Phoebe: "Getting tired yet Cj?"
Me: "No."
Phoebe: "There's one more lap left."
Me: "Yep."
Phoebe: "And I'm right behind you."
Me: "Yep."
Phoebe: "And you're almost totalled."
Me: "Yep."
Phoebe: "You're going to lose."
Me: "Nope."
A bus came out of a blind corner, there was nothing I could do to avoid it. My car crashed into it and because it was already heavily damaged, it totaled once again. Allowing her to get ahead.
-annoyed- Me: "Oh come on!"
Phoebe: "Hah, told you."
Me: "It's not over yet."
My car reset and I continued down the road, trying to catch up to her.
Phoebe: "Like you could catch me in time."
Me: "Honey these are like four minute laps, I have plenty of time."
I kept driving fast, trying to avoid collisions with traffic vehicles.
Part of the track had a sharp turn, positioned shortly before a ledge next to the highway. She made the mistake of over shooting it, which caused her to careen over the ledge onto the highway, it didn't total her car, but now she was way off course.
Phoebe: "Oh no."
Phoebe: "Cmon, this isn't fair."
Me: "hehehe."
By the time she found her way back onto the track I was comming up the road. Then something hilarious happened. I overshot the curve out of excitement, barreled into her and knocked both of our cars over the ledge and onto the highway. She totaled out this time.
Phoebe: "What?"
Me: "That was cool."
So, after her car reset we both hurried to get back on the track. A minute later, the red corona that marked the finish line was in sight, we were still neck and neck.
Phoebe: "Well, I still have a nitrous left."
Me: "Oh cmon what?"
She used her last nitrous to pull ahead of me and won, just by a few seconds. I had used my nitrouses to catch up to her from that mistake I made earlier on.
Phoebe: "Ha, I won."
Me: "So it's just a game."
Phoebe: "I'm tired how bout you?"
Me: "Yeah."
We had raced on that same track for almost 2 hours.
Phoebe: "Let's go to bed.
Me: "You're pretty good at this you know?"
Phoebe: "I know."
She used her powers to turn off the tv and xbox.
Phoebe: "Come on, I'll make it up to you."
Me: "Oh honey, that's ok."
Me: "It was fun."
Phoebe: "Oh, ok then."
Phoebe: "You want me tonight?"
Phoebe: "You know it's been awhile."
Me: "I know but, I'm pretty tired, and we just got home."
Phoebe: "Yeah."
Me: "You look pretty tired too honey."
Me: "Let's just rest for now."
Me: " We'll see what happens tomorrow ok?"
Phoebe: "Ok."
So we went to bed, she snuggled up to me like usual and we kissed eachother goodnight. Tomorrow we could sleep in, and then get to work on the fence, and then who knows what we would do after that.
