Thank you to those who gave me feedback and inspired me to continue with this story:

Monday

Slash!

Reeny

Tunes

Discord

Tinker

Quipster

Prankster

Patchess

Princess

Lucky

Wish

Loch

Chesa

Quirky

Holiday

Jibajabba

Gemini

Sab

Iris (yup!)

and

meggiebaby81 (Because you put me in yours, I put you in this one, hehe!! Just send me your info—NN (I used Megs for now but I'll change it if you want), guy, looks and personality)

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*****Flying through multi-colored swirls*****

"Where am I????" Jess heard her voice call as everything around her spun in circles. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple- all the colors of the rainbow swirled around her as she flew through a humongous black void. "I think I'm gonna be siiiiiiiiick..."

Covering her mouth with her hand, Jess tried to keep her breakfast down. Cheerios were only good when they went down not when they were coming up.

Just when she thought she would have to say hello to her meal, Jess tumbled forward through a large hole that had appeared out of nowhere.

"Ouch!" she exclaimed, rubbing the sore spot on her jeans where she had landed. Getting up, straightening her white tank top and getting herself ready to bug out on the first person she saw, Jess looked around to take in her new surroundings. The only thing she saw was the color white and blue sticks floating every few feet in the snowy nothing-ness. "Now, where am I?" she moaned.

All of a sudden Jess jumped back in surprise as another figure was dropped into the vicinity. "Ouch!" the figure, a mid-sized girl clad in a light blue baby tee and matching boot cut jeans, with long black hair that was held back with a blue visor and brown eyes that were covered in blue-tinted sunglasses, cried as she rubbed her sore rear ended where she had landed. "Now, where am-- Who are you?" she asked as she saw Jess staring at her.

"The name is Jess. And you?" Jess asked as she extended her hand to help the other girl up.

"My name is Julie. Since you were here before me... What the hell am I doing here?" Julie asked, looking extremely puzzled at having dropped out of the muliti-colored-nowhere into the blank-but-with-strange-floating- sticks-nowhere.

Jess pulled her blondish-brown hair out of her scrunchie and let it flow down her shoulders; The only way for her head to stop pounding when it hurt was to loosen the pressure on her hair. Or so she thought; it never really worked but anyways... onto the story...

"I haven't got the foggiest idea. The last thing I remember was replying to this stupid e-mail from-" Jess started as she absent-mindedly pulled at a lock of her hair. (Cause that really was helping the headache she got from flying through her computer...)

Julie cut her off. "T.A.R.K., right?"

"Oh my gosh! How did you know that? Are you some kind of secret spy that stalks me and watches what I do. Cause I didn't do it, I swear!" Jess said as her green eyes fiilled with paranoid panic.

Julie rolled her eyes before answering. "No, you idiot. The only reason I know that is because the last thing I remember doing before I landed here was checking my e-mail back in my home in Seattle. I replied to a request to be in a fic by this new dude- T.A.R.K.. The next thing I know, I'm floating through a multi-colored swirly place."

Jess was really lost. "Well, that means that you must be part of the NML, right?"

"Yup, it would mean that, wouldn't it." Julie answered, not really paying attention to Jess. She was trying to figure out how she was going to get home.

"Cool, what's your name?"

"I already told you, Julie. Oh, wait, I guess you mean my NN. It's Wish." Julie, from now on in known as Wish, replied.

"Ahhh!!! You're Wish? That is so cool! My NN is Stress!" Jess, who will now be known as Stress, shouted.

Wish stuck her finger in her ear, trying to get it to stop ringing after Stress's unearthly scream. "Stress, this is awesome! But it still doesn't help us. We are still stuck in this wacko place."

Stress got an evil grin. She had an idea to see if it really was Wish that was standing with her in the weird nothing-ness with blue sticks. "Skittery." she said, right behind Wish.

At the mention of his name, Wish jumped up in the air and did a full circle before landing and shrieking, "Where?"

"Yup, you're Wish." Stress giggled as she dodged Wish's pissed-off glare. It disappeared when Wish's face lit up in an evil grin. "Jack."

"Where?" Stress said as she looked over her shoulder, before realizing that it was just Wish's way of getting her back.

Before Stress could come up with a way to get back at Wish, another figure joined them. This time the figure, a taller girl than Wish, but still shorter than Stress, with shoulder length curly brown hair, hazel-gray eyes and wearing a noticeable gold cross over her black t-shirt and jeans, landed and sat there with an awed expression on her face. "Wow."

Wish and Stress exchanged a look. "T.A.R.K.?" Wish asked as she helped the new girl to her feet.

"What?" she asked as she took her backpack off and sat it at her feet.

Wish was about to re-ask her question when Stress jumped backwards and put her fingers in the shape of a cross. "You keep that backpack away from me! There's a backpack out there somewhere that has Snipeshooter inside and it migh be yours!" she cried fearfully as she backed away from the other girl's backpack.

The new girl's eyes widened as realization dawned on her. "Stress?" she whispered as she put the backpack behind her back.

Stress calmed down considerably when the backpack was hidden from her sight. "Who wants to know?" she asked suspiciously.

"It's me, Mandy. You know, Holiday on the NML! Come on, I'm the one that threatened you with taking Snipes out of my backpack, remember?"

Stress jumped backwards again and knocked over one of the floating blue sticks. "Holiday, then Snipes really is in that backpack! Keep it away from me! You know how much he scares me." she pouted as she sent death glares to the backpack she knew was hidden behind Holiday.

Wish stepped between the girls and faced Holiday. "Hiya Holiday. You're right, that nutcase over there is Stress and I'm Wish. We're both on the NML with you. Don't mind her," she added when she noticed Holiday looking at Stress questioningly, "I think she hit her head when she got sucked through her computer. That is what happened to you, right? I bet you replied to T.A.R.K.'s e-mail and the next thing you knew you were here."

Holiday nodded. "Yup, that's exactly what happened to me. Are you sure that she's O.K.?" Stress was staring with her mouth opened as she started to point at a black speck.

Both Wish and Holiday mimicked her gesture when the black speck turned into a black hole. All three of the girls jumped back when the black hole convulsed and spit out three more girls. There was a tall girl with long straight brown hair and bright green eyes, a short girl with shoulder length red hair and blue eyes and a medium sized girl with curly brown hair and blue eyes.

The taller girl stepped forward and started cursing up a storm at the black hole that was still looming overhead. The black hole let out a mournful cry, shrank back down to a black speck and disappeared. The red-head girl looked over at her foul-mouthed friend and sighed. "Good job, Molly. You just upset the only way that we could have used to go home."

Molly stopped shaking her fist and faced her two friends. "I'm sorry Marissa. I'm sorry Katie. But what do you expect? That thing just spit us out into this place and now we are stuck here and who the hell are you?" Molly questioned when she spotted Wish, Stress and Holiday standing together.

It was Holiday's turn to try to explain. "T.A.R.K.? NML? E-mail? Reply? You girls? Here." Holiday wasn't much of a talker after being thrown out of her home and landing with a bunch of girls, especially one that kept shooting fearful looks at her schoolbag.

When Katie and Marissa just stood there with their mouths open, Molly walked forward with a smile on her face. "Yup."

Katie looked at Molly in amazement. "You understood what she meant?"

"Certainly. What this girl here just asked was if we replied to the e-mail that T.A.R.K. sent to us through the NML. I take it that's how we got here." Molly turned to face the three strangers in front of her. "I take it you girls are on the NML as well. I'm Quipster, this is Jibajabba and that shortie over there is Squibble, Davey's *gag* Darling."

Stress, carefully avoiding Holiday's backpack, darted forward and squealed "Quipster?"

"Ummm... Do I know you?" Quipster looked doubtful and shoved Jibajabba in front of her in case the girl that had approached her was someone she had pissed off by posting her rated R fic that time without it's rating.

"It's me Stress. Did you bring any of your fic with you?" she asked eagerly. She couldn't wait to see what happened to her in the story.

"Well, when that giant blue hand shot out of my computer and snatched me, Squibble and Jibajabba up, I never thought to bring some of my story. Sorry."

"You're hand was blue? The one that grabbed me was orange." Wish added, feeling left out of the conversation.

"Oh, I almost forgot. Quip, Jibajabba and Squibble meet Holiday and Wish. They got snatched through their computers too!" Stress added as if they were all incredibly lucky to be snatched through their computers.

"Hi. Just to let you know, she was like this when we got here. I don't know how long she's been like this. I hope just recently." Holiday added under her breath. Stress had never seemed so off when she had posted. Well, actually, anyone who claimed a fictional character as her minion may not be all there.

But then again, they aren't fictional are they? I guess we'll have to see about that.

Anyways, about six hours later, Stress, Wish, Holiday, Quipster, Squibble and Jibajabba had been joined by twenty-five other confused, lost, puzzled and even befuddled NMLer's.

"O.K. Let me just see if I get all your names straight. I'm just going to use your NN because it's easier for me, K?" Stress said as she looked at all the girls that stood around her. "And can I just say, that it is so great to be meeting you all in person!"

Many of the girls rolled their eyes. "This is the girl who we voted leader?" they seem to all want to ask.

But it was true. They had let Stress be the leader of their group while they were stuck there only because she had been the first one there. Besides they had a way to control her. All Holiday had to do was begin to unzip her backpack and Stress would stop what she was doing in a second.

"O.K., we got Wish, Holiday, Quipster, Squibble, Jibajabba, Braces, Princess, Discord, Feisty, Chesapeake, Reeny, Slash!, Prankster, Moneybags, Tunes, Sab, Briar, Frizz, Lucky, Tinker, Loch, Patchess, Pisky, Laces, Monday, Satine, Iris, Dice, Megs, Quirky and in case you weren't listening, me, Stress. Wow, that's a lot of us. I wonder why we are here?"

"Don't forget, where are we?" added Slash!. The other girls nodded their heads and murmured their agreements. Just because they knew how they got there didn't bring them any closer to figuring out where they were or why they were there.

"I kin answah dat question, Missy." came a voice that seemed to appear from nowhere as another black hole appeared .

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See, now I've introduced all the girlies who are gonna be in it… Next chapter brings in all the guys and the kind of plot to the story!! Review please! I need to know if people are liking this!!