(does it go eccie-eccie-eccie first?)

By CmptrWz

Amy was glad for the enhanced senses and durability granted to her by the Ianthe construct as she listened to Taylor describe what she was going to try and do, if only in anticipation of how badly this could go. She assumed Lisa was just as happy to be in the Metis construct for the same reasons.

"Thus, by bouncing off of the extra-multiversal energy field we should be able to overcome the limitations of the portal spells Varga knows best," Taylor concluded.

"So, to summarize," Lisa stated after a moment of thought. "Because Varga's best portal spells are interdimensional in nature you want to bounce off of something even further out to exit and re-enter the same dimension, thus making it technically an interdimensional trip. Because for some reason you can't just turn around in the space between dimensions and making two portals to leave and return is quite difficult or requires stopping somewhere else first."

"Yep!" Taylor confirmed. "It should make everything trivial from a targeting and energy consumption point of view. In fact, if it uses more energy than expected it should automatically draw some from the extra-multiversal energy field without any extra effort being required! Oh, and avoids the potentially nasty issue of the join point for two portals cutting things, living or otherwise, in half and/or collapsing into each other and destroying all of reality."

"I think it is a very bad idea, but can't come up with a good reason why right now," Lisa stated, already trying to forget that last bit. "Also, my power has, as far as I can tell, started looking for a new notebook and a fresh pen to take notes with."

"Here," Taylor absently said as she handed a freshly made FamTech® MegaBook™ (5000 pages but only uses 100 pages of space) and a FamTech® EverPen™ to Lisa. Kindof. Maybe. Possibly. Probably not. Amy couldn't figure out what just happened, she now had a migraine, Lisa didn't look any better, and the MegaBook and EverPen had both vanished.

"So that's a thing," Lisa finally muttered. "My power now has new toys, new things to try and figure out, and Taylor has new ways to induce headaches. But at least it has a decent notebook and pen to take notes with now."

"Not to interrupt your preparations or anything Brain," Varga interrupted from the mini-dragon form he was watching all of this from. "But how exactly did you just do that?"

"Do what?" Taylor asked, not really paying attention.

"You handed my power a notebook and pen!" Lisa shouted, grabbing Taylor and spinning her around. "THAT SHOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE!"

"But your power's physical form is at the end of the tether in your head," Taylor pointed out and gestured in the 8th dimension, reinforcing both Amy and Lisa's migraines. "I think it ends a couple of Earths that way."

"I can see it," Varga said after a moment. "I don't know how, but now I can see it. You handed the items to the existing link, didn't you?"

"Yep!" Taylor confirmed, going back to her portal preparations, no longer caring about what had happened. Or, more likely, no longer caring that Lisa and Varga cared because it was a distraction from her portal project.

"And I thought I was the bad influence on reality" Varga stated after a few minutes of thinking about it. The mini-dragon form then blinked out of existence.

"Let's get this show on the road," Taylor said, stepping back from the portal anchor she had just finished working on. Before anyone could say anything else she did something and the entire BBFO building started to shake slightly. A few moments later and the opening in the anchor shimmered. "It's open!"

Lisa very carefully approached the anchor, circled it once, and then backed away. She did not let her eyes leave the anchor at any point in time.

Amy sensed that something was seriously wrong and backed away as well, and was considering locking herself in her lab until Taylor was done. But EDM or not that may not be a safe enough distance. But opening the BBFO door to leave may be considered breaking containment and dooming the rest of the planet with her. Decisions…

Taylor apparently decided enough time had passed for the portal to stabilize and promptly stuck her head through it.

Two Massive Entities were approaching their target planet, setting up the cycle that would run there. One was distracted with a new toy and did not notice the slight shimmering of space in front of it. All of a sudden a head appeared from the shimmering point in space, and an Unknown Entity Error crashed all of the thinker abilities the Entity was running.

The head made a surprised expression and pulled back, the shimmering point vanishing a moment later as the Massive Entity's thinker abilities, including the ones that were assisting with the planetary approach, started to recover. They would not do so in time.

The other Massive Entity had not seen any of it and thus did not realize anything was wrong until it was too late to help.

Taylor suddenly pulled her head back out of the portal and frantically closed it. Then stopped for a moment and dismissed the entire anchor as well.

"I appear to have miscalculated," Taylor finally said after staring at where the portal had been for a bit. "For one, I missed Earth entirely. For two, I think that wasn't the correct dimension, meaning the ricochet isn't accurate enough. And for three, I think I missed the right time as I get the feeling that was thirty years or so off target. Which is just more evidence of the ricochet not being accurate enough."

"What was the first clue that you missed?" Amy finally asked. Lisa appeared to have gone into a thinker-fugue or something. She was likely going to be unavailable for the next few hours.

"The giant space whale coming at my face in the middle of the void was a good tip-off" Taylor replied. "Maybe I should stick to methods that don't rely on bouncing off of an energy field outside of known spacetime. Or unknown spacetime, for that matter."

Lisa chose that moment to faint. "That's new, she doesn't usually have that kind of issue when inside of Metis" Amy commented after a moment.

"Was it something I said?" Taylor asked, poking Lisa with a stick she wasn't holding a moment before.