This is an odd chapter, and no teaser this time. When you're done, you wonder...WHAT HAPPENED?!
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The Time Machine
"They're all gone out of the room." Doughboy said. "Except that boy."
"Jack." Nakita whispered.
"Whatever. I think he's going to take first guard." Doughboy looked at the moon, and me, who was still perched up on the sill.
"That's right." Reni said. "And he doesn't look too thrilled bout it either."
"Hey, I wouldn't be too thrilled if they were going to burn Doughboy's house and I wasn't going to be there to watch it." Snowy said, winking at Doughboy. "Just messing with you."
"Hmm." I sighed, staring through the window.
"Calm down Yuki." Reni said, looking at me with a sense of wonder and accomplishment. "We'll get out of here. You too Nakita. They're only making the preparations."
"She's right." Snowy said. "We're just wasting our breath." The other four started to talk. I started out the window.
Oh, Kero, where ARE you?
"How are we going to get out of this place?" Nakita asked.
"Perhaps a Clow Card." I mumbled. "But which card would get us out of here?"
"I really don't know." Nakita said, worried. "We have to hurry and get back to Grandmother before it's too late."
"Vash and Kelli will take good care of her, along with Rene and Kanari." I said. "Our purpose is to get out of here. Perhaps if I used the Sleep Card, and then the Lock Card, hmm?"
"Sounds like it could work." Nakita bent down and picked up a handful of small pebbles on the floor. "But first, in order to summon the key and the cards, you need a distraction." She hurled the rocks at Jack, who stood up in a start. He looked at us one by one, and then came up to us and unlocked the door. Grabbing Doughboy by the collar, he led him to a corner and started to beat him.
"That wasn't in the plan." Nakita mumbled, trying to hide me.
"Key of Clow, release." I whispered. "Okay, got it. Sleep Card; make Jack fall asleep before he even sees you. Sleep."
Jack turned his head, but caught sight of Doughboy's heavy blubber rolling past him before he felt his eyelids growing heavy.
"So we didn't need the Lock Card." I said, peering around the area through a crack in the door. "Clear. Sleep Card, return. All right, let's get out of there."
"Yuki." A tiny voice said from the window.
"Kero!" I said, running over.
"Quick Yuki, I hear voices." Reni urged. I nodded, snatched Kero, stuffed him into a pocket and we disappeared from the prison. Watching from the corner, we saw two men talk in front of the door.
"Got to get out of here." Kero said. "Kelli and Vash are trying to see the best way to get you out, they're in the air, and Kanari and Rene are by the mansion, very nervous.
"Wings." I said. Nakita sprouted her blue wings; mine were white, like Snowy's, only with a different tint at the base.
"All right." I said. "C'mon Reni." Nakita and I supported her and launched off. Snowy grabbed Doughboy's hand, (he was in the bubble, that slow thing) and pulled him towards the sky as fast as she could.
"I'm telling you, Doughboy." She said. "You are SO slow. That bubble has GOT to go."
"Ha, never." Doughboy said. "Look! There's Kelli and (his face darkened) Vash."
"Kelli!" Reni said. "Is Rene all right?"
"She's fine." Kelli said, smiling at the little girl who looked up to her.
"Hm." Vash said. "Okay, operation time machine. We have to get back to the mansion."
"So let me get this straight." I said. "We're supposedly going back into time, but first we have to go back home."
"Just for a few seconds." Vash said. "Can't afford to waste any time."
"Yeah, we can just spend a few seconds with our family, eh?" Doughboy sneered. "Yes, and have the fun of your life seeing them for a fraction of a minute."
"Doughboy shut up and be grateful." Snowy said. She shook her head at him. "All right, we're all ready to do whatever is needed." I glared at Doughboy, and sighed.
"Okay." Rene said when we had reached the mansion. "Let's make this quick, groups of three, please."
"I'll stay behind to go last with Rene and Reni." Kelli offered. "To make sure they're safe."
"I am not going with Doughboy." Vash said.
"I could." Nakita offered graciously.
"You will not either." Vash said. Leaning close, he whispered, "Doughboy would enjoy that." Nakita blushed. Snowy glanced from Doughboy to Vash.
"Please Snowy?" Doughboy asked. "Yuki will definitely hurt me if I have to go with her."
"Good thing too." I said. Kanari sighed.
"I think it's settled." She said. "Let's go first, gang."
"Uh-huh." Vash said. "Okay, Rene."
"All right, tunnel open!" Rene said, opening the computer. "This is retarded, but it works."
"Hm." I said, as Kanari, Doughboy, and Snowy vanished from view. "Have you guys arrived yet?"
"It takes longer than that." Vash said. "All right, let's go." We held out the little glass crystals and waited. Around us, noise seemed to disappear, and the world seemed to turn white.
"Vash, get between us in case something happens." I said, forcing him between Nakita and me.
"I'm a big boy." Vash said, taking position between Nakita and me. "What's going on?"
"Huh?" I looked around. "Hey."
"What?" Nakita asked, worried. "Where ARE we?"
"We should've stopped by now." Vash said. "Oh!" There came a big drop. Like parachutes, Nakita and I spread our wings out and tried to go back up.
"Rene, can you hear us?" Vash asked. Kanari's face popped up on the crystal.
"Vash?" She asked frantically. "Where are you?"
"I don't know, where are you?"
"We fell down a big hole, and now we're surrounded by darkness."
"Darkness?" My stomach did a big belly flop.
"Of course, that was after we went down several drops and then into this weird land."
"Something's obviously wrong."
"Ah!" A voice came from above.
"Reni!" Three voices called at once.
"Hang in there, Kanari." Vash called. We ascended, only to see Rene and Reni hanging at the very edge of the drop.
"I don't understand it, Vash." Rene said.
"The good thing is, ever group had two set's of wings." Vash looked around sharply. "Where's my sister?"
"Coming." Kelli replied. "Guys, I--whoa!" She spotted Reni and helped her up. "I went all the way to the end of the trail, and this seems like the only way to anywhere. There's a brick wall up ahead."
"That makes no sense." Vash said. "C'mon, we still have to rescue those three though, as much as I'd like to forget about them."
"Vash!" Nakita said reproachfully. Vash grinned.
"Let's go."
"We're off!" I said, making my wings disappear and upsetting the balance of the whole team. "C'mon."
"All right." Nakita said, letting her wings go too."
"Kanari said there were several drops." Vash said. "What could she mean by th-hey, there's um, GROUND!" Nakita and I got out our wings just in time to break the fall.
"GROUND AHEAD!" I yelled. Kelli didn't hear we, and we could see them coming down. Rene's wings were tiny, so naturally she kept them out. "Windy Card, break their fall! Windy, Release and Dispel! WINDY!" I yelled urgently, whipping out the card and hitting it. "Okay, there we go." Kelli and Rene were caught.
"This doesn't look like anywhere." Rene said, glancing around. Reni whimpered. "It's okay, we've been in situations like these before."
"The fog and the practically no floors and the big drop back into earth was Nothing, remember?" I asked. "When we came across the battle with you two (pointing to Vash and Kelli) and Eriol and Colton.
"Yeah." Nakita said. "This is a strange place."
"Kanari, can you hear me?" Vash asked, shaking his crystal.
"I'm still here." Kanari said. "It seems like something's gone wrong again. We're still in this everlasting darkness, okay, it seems like the Fourth Dimension. Wish we had Anora to see the constellations for us. Monsters and weird people keep drifting past us."
"Sounds like the Fourth Dimension all right." Vash said. "We're heading there. If you see Eriol or Ariel, give us a call. We seem to be in the clouds, in Nothing."
"Be prepared to meet some monsters." Kanari said. "There were quite a few hard to dodge ones when we arrived in that foggy land. You have to find that big drop again."
"Hm." I said, frowning. "This is so confusing." I looked off in the distance. "Ms. Jewel?"
"It's an illusion." Reni said. "It's got to be. I don't see anything but a three headed monster with twenty tales."
"It can't be an illusion." Nakita said. Reni, sweet tempered Reni, clenched a fist.
"You have to force yourself to thing past it." She said, in a very urgent tone. "And we have to find that drop."
"Let's get out of here." Vash said. "This doesn't seem like Nothing."
"Didn't she say that we were never to return to Nothing?"
"Yeah, something of that sort." Kelli said. "Illusion, go away! We CAN see through you, through our fears!"
The illusion faded, turned the other way, and disappeared. Suddenly, we felt ourselves dropping.
"They must have not passed the first test." Rene said.
"We owe it all to Reni." Vash said. Reni shrugged.
"No biggie." She said.
"Look." Vash said. "The world is getting lighter."
"We're in the park?" I asked. "Kanari? Snowy? Where are you guys? Kanari?"
"Yuki, where are you?" I seized my crystal from my pocket.
"Goodness, Kanari, where are you? We're in the park!"
"Park?" Kanari asked. "We're in the door to the Third Dimension. We're right beside it. Open it for us." I nodded and went to open it.
"All right." Kanari, Snowy, and Doughboy tumbled out, and landed in a bush.
"Ow." Kanari said, holding her head.
"Meet back here in five minutes." Vash said. "Goodbye." He took a seat on the grass beside Kelli and started to wait. I turned around and gasped.
"Rene!" I said. "Where do your parent's think you are right now?"
"With my Aunt Susie and Uncle Gregory in the Caribbean." Rene said. "They don't know that I was in Norway. And my aunt and uncle think that I'm at home."
"And how are you going to explain this when your mom asks?"
"Um." Rene said. "Well, I was supposed go on the cruise with Reni. They (my aunt and uncle) think that Reni and I took another boat and absolutely trust us."
"WHAT?" I asked, getting more confused by the second.
"We have it under control, don't worry, Yuki." Reni said. "As long as the trip doesn't take more than two months, we're perfectly safe."
"It won't." I promised. And then, looking up at the sky: "Hopefully."
Vash, Kelli, Kanari, Nakita, Reni, and Rene waited while I ran home, and conjured an image of myself with the Mirror Card inside my room.
"All right, pretend to be another me!" I smiled. "Perfect." Conjuring the Fly Card, I went out the window and back to the park. Snowy said already there.
"Did you already tell the Illusion Card that it only had to play you now?" I asked. Snowy nodded. Doughboy was seen hurrying to the park from down by the street.
"Okay, I know of the minor glitches that have happened with the laptop so far ("Yeah, right, minor." Scoffed Kanari), but we have decided to still go on our journey with the Time Machine." Vash said, glancing at Kanari to his watch. "It's midday here, and almost midnight in Norway. We have no time to lose. Rene, do the honors."
Rene tapped into the laptop. "All right." She said. "Let's go." She picked up the laptop, and shoved it into Snowy's face, who was sucked in.
"You must enjoy that." I mumbled as she used the computer to suck up Kelli, Doughboy (and caught him off guard), Vash, Kanari, Nakita, and now, me. It was rather a pleasant experience to be minimized and teleported, and impossible to explain. I felt like I was riding in a roller coaster, and then, another second, I was in a deep forest.
"What took you so long?" Kanari asked. "According to that big clock (she pointed to the clock on the top of a tower) we've waited twenty minutes for you."
"Wow, that was a split second after you left." I said. "We have a time difference again."
"That might make things easier." Nakita said. "But girls, I think we've gotten separated from the others."
"Oh." I said, looking around, and then taking out my crystal. "Hello? Anyone, come in!" I looked at the others. "It's not responding."
"Odd." Nakita said.
"Whoa!" Kelli said. "What is this place?"
"Perhaps it would've been better if we had gone to Norway first and THEN activated the Time Machine." Rene said, tapping away at the laptop. "That way, we couldn't know where we are."
"This is my house however many years we went back ago." Snowy said.
"Uh-oh." Rene said.
"What's wrong?" Reni asked.
"I messed up." Rene said. "I typed in an extra zero. Instead of 50 years, we've gone back...500!"
CCS does not belong to me
SO GO READ and please please please --Enjoy--
The Time Machine
"They're all gone out of the room." Doughboy said. "Except that boy."
"Jack." Nakita whispered.
"Whatever. I think he's going to take first guard." Doughboy looked at the moon, and me, who was still perched up on the sill.
"That's right." Reni said. "And he doesn't look too thrilled bout it either."
"Hey, I wouldn't be too thrilled if they were going to burn Doughboy's house and I wasn't going to be there to watch it." Snowy said, winking at Doughboy. "Just messing with you."
"Hmm." I sighed, staring through the window.
"Calm down Yuki." Reni said, looking at me with a sense of wonder and accomplishment. "We'll get out of here. You too Nakita. They're only making the preparations."
"She's right." Snowy said. "We're just wasting our breath." The other four started to talk. I started out the window.
Oh, Kero, where ARE you?
"How are we going to get out of this place?" Nakita asked.
"Perhaps a Clow Card." I mumbled. "But which card would get us out of here?"
"I really don't know." Nakita said, worried. "We have to hurry and get back to Grandmother before it's too late."
"Vash and Kelli will take good care of her, along with Rene and Kanari." I said. "Our purpose is to get out of here. Perhaps if I used the Sleep Card, and then the Lock Card, hmm?"
"Sounds like it could work." Nakita bent down and picked up a handful of small pebbles on the floor. "But first, in order to summon the key and the cards, you need a distraction." She hurled the rocks at Jack, who stood up in a start. He looked at us one by one, and then came up to us and unlocked the door. Grabbing Doughboy by the collar, he led him to a corner and started to beat him.
"That wasn't in the plan." Nakita mumbled, trying to hide me.
"Key of Clow, release." I whispered. "Okay, got it. Sleep Card; make Jack fall asleep before he even sees you. Sleep."
Jack turned his head, but caught sight of Doughboy's heavy blubber rolling past him before he felt his eyelids growing heavy.
"So we didn't need the Lock Card." I said, peering around the area through a crack in the door. "Clear. Sleep Card, return. All right, let's get out of there."
"Yuki." A tiny voice said from the window.
"Kero!" I said, running over.
"Quick Yuki, I hear voices." Reni urged. I nodded, snatched Kero, stuffed him into a pocket and we disappeared from the prison. Watching from the corner, we saw two men talk in front of the door.
"Got to get out of here." Kero said. "Kelli and Vash are trying to see the best way to get you out, they're in the air, and Kanari and Rene are by the mansion, very nervous.
"Wings." I said. Nakita sprouted her blue wings; mine were white, like Snowy's, only with a different tint at the base.
"All right." I said. "C'mon Reni." Nakita and I supported her and launched off. Snowy grabbed Doughboy's hand, (he was in the bubble, that slow thing) and pulled him towards the sky as fast as she could.
"I'm telling you, Doughboy." She said. "You are SO slow. That bubble has GOT to go."
"Ha, never." Doughboy said. "Look! There's Kelli and (his face darkened) Vash."
"Kelli!" Reni said. "Is Rene all right?"
"She's fine." Kelli said, smiling at the little girl who looked up to her.
"Hm." Vash said. "Okay, operation time machine. We have to get back to the mansion."
"So let me get this straight." I said. "We're supposedly going back into time, but first we have to go back home."
"Just for a few seconds." Vash said. "Can't afford to waste any time."
"Yeah, we can just spend a few seconds with our family, eh?" Doughboy sneered. "Yes, and have the fun of your life seeing them for a fraction of a minute."
"Doughboy shut up and be grateful." Snowy said. She shook her head at him. "All right, we're all ready to do whatever is needed." I glared at Doughboy, and sighed.
"Okay." Rene said when we had reached the mansion. "Let's make this quick, groups of three, please."
"I'll stay behind to go last with Rene and Reni." Kelli offered. "To make sure they're safe."
"I am not going with Doughboy." Vash said.
"I could." Nakita offered graciously.
"You will not either." Vash said. Leaning close, he whispered, "Doughboy would enjoy that." Nakita blushed. Snowy glanced from Doughboy to Vash.
"Please Snowy?" Doughboy asked. "Yuki will definitely hurt me if I have to go with her."
"Good thing too." I said. Kanari sighed.
"I think it's settled." She said. "Let's go first, gang."
"Uh-huh." Vash said. "Okay, Rene."
"All right, tunnel open!" Rene said, opening the computer. "This is retarded, but it works."
"Hm." I said, as Kanari, Doughboy, and Snowy vanished from view. "Have you guys arrived yet?"
"It takes longer than that." Vash said. "All right, let's go." We held out the little glass crystals and waited. Around us, noise seemed to disappear, and the world seemed to turn white.
"Vash, get between us in case something happens." I said, forcing him between Nakita and me.
"I'm a big boy." Vash said, taking position between Nakita and me. "What's going on?"
"Huh?" I looked around. "Hey."
"What?" Nakita asked, worried. "Where ARE we?"
"We should've stopped by now." Vash said. "Oh!" There came a big drop. Like parachutes, Nakita and I spread our wings out and tried to go back up.
"Rene, can you hear us?" Vash asked. Kanari's face popped up on the crystal.
"Vash?" She asked frantically. "Where are you?"
"I don't know, where are you?"
"We fell down a big hole, and now we're surrounded by darkness."
"Darkness?" My stomach did a big belly flop.
"Of course, that was after we went down several drops and then into this weird land."
"Something's obviously wrong."
"Ah!" A voice came from above.
"Reni!" Three voices called at once.
"Hang in there, Kanari." Vash called. We ascended, only to see Rene and Reni hanging at the very edge of the drop.
"I don't understand it, Vash." Rene said.
"The good thing is, ever group had two set's of wings." Vash looked around sharply. "Where's my sister?"
"Coming." Kelli replied. "Guys, I--whoa!" She spotted Reni and helped her up. "I went all the way to the end of the trail, and this seems like the only way to anywhere. There's a brick wall up ahead."
"That makes no sense." Vash said. "C'mon, we still have to rescue those three though, as much as I'd like to forget about them."
"Vash!" Nakita said reproachfully. Vash grinned.
"Let's go."
"We're off!" I said, making my wings disappear and upsetting the balance of the whole team. "C'mon."
"All right." Nakita said, letting her wings go too."
"Kanari said there were several drops." Vash said. "What could she mean by th-hey, there's um, GROUND!" Nakita and I got out our wings just in time to break the fall.
"GROUND AHEAD!" I yelled. Kelli didn't hear we, and we could see them coming down. Rene's wings were tiny, so naturally she kept them out. "Windy Card, break their fall! Windy, Release and Dispel! WINDY!" I yelled urgently, whipping out the card and hitting it. "Okay, there we go." Kelli and Rene were caught.
"This doesn't look like anywhere." Rene said, glancing around. Reni whimpered. "It's okay, we've been in situations like these before."
"The fog and the practically no floors and the big drop back into earth was Nothing, remember?" I asked. "When we came across the battle with you two (pointing to Vash and Kelli) and Eriol and Colton.
"Yeah." Nakita said. "This is a strange place."
"Kanari, can you hear me?" Vash asked, shaking his crystal.
"I'm still here." Kanari said. "It seems like something's gone wrong again. We're still in this everlasting darkness, okay, it seems like the Fourth Dimension. Wish we had Anora to see the constellations for us. Monsters and weird people keep drifting past us."
"Sounds like the Fourth Dimension all right." Vash said. "We're heading there. If you see Eriol or Ariel, give us a call. We seem to be in the clouds, in Nothing."
"Be prepared to meet some monsters." Kanari said. "There were quite a few hard to dodge ones when we arrived in that foggy land. You have to find that big drop again."
"Hm." I said, frowning. "This is so confusing." I looked off in the distance. "Ms. Jewel?"
"It's an illusion." Reni said. "It's got to be. I don't see anything but a three headed monster with twenty tales."
"It can't be an illusion." Nakita said. Reni, sweet tempered Reni, clenched a fist.
"You have to force yourself to thing past it." She said, in a very urgent tone. "And we have to find that drop."
"Let's get out of here." Vash said. "This doesn't seem like Nothing."
"Didn't she say that we were never to return to Nothing?"
"Yeah, something of that sort." Kelli said. "Illusion, go away! We CAN see through you, through our fears!"
The illusion faded, turned the other way, and disappeared. Suddenly, we felt ourselves dropping.
"They must have not passed the first test." Rene said.
"We owe it all to Reni." Vash said. Reni shrugged.
"No biggie." She said.
"Look." Vash said. "The world is getting lighter."
"We're in the park?" I asked. "Kanari? Snowy? Where are you guys? Kanari?"
"Yuki, where are you?" I seized my crystal from my pocket.
"Goodness, Kanari, where are you? We're in the park!"
"Park?" Kanari asked. "We're in the door to the Third Dimension. We're right beside it. Open it for us." I nodded and went to open it.
"All right." Kanari, Snowy, and Doughboy tumbled out, and landed in a bush.
"Ow." Kanari said, holding her head.
"Meet back here in five minutes." Vash said. "Goodbye." He took a seat on the grass beside Kelli and started to wait. I turned around and gasped.
"Rene!" I said. "Where do your parent's think you are right now?"
"With my Aunt Susie and Uncle Gregory in the Caribbean." Rene said. "They don't know that I was in Norway. And my aunt and uncle think that I'm at home."
"And how are you going to explain this when your mom asks?"
"Um." Rene said. "Well, I was supposed go on the cruise with Reni. They (my aunt and uncle) think that Reni and I took another boat and absolutely trust us."
"WHAT?" I asked, getting more confused by the second.
"We have it under control, don't worry, Yuki." Reni said. "As long as the trip doesn't take more than two months, we're perfectly safe."
"It won't." I promised. And then, looking up at the sky: "Hopefully."
Vash, Kelli, Kanari, Nakita, Reni, and Rene waited while I ran home, and conjured an image of myself with the Mirror Card inside my room.
"All right, pretend to be another me!" I smiled. "Perfect." Conjuring the Fly Card, I went out the window and back to the park. Snowy said already there.
"Did you already tell the Illusion Card that it only had to play you now?" I asked. Snowy nodded. Doughboy was seen hurrying to the park from down by the street.
"Okay, I know of the minor glitches that have happened with the laptop so far ("Yeah, right, minor." Scoffed Kanari), but we have decided to still go on our journey with the Time Machine." Vash said, glancing at Kanari to his watch. "It's midday here, and almost midnight in Norway. We have no time to lose. Rene, do the honors."
Rene tapped into the laptop. "All right." She said. "Let's go." She picked up the laptop, and shoved it into Snowy's face, who was sucked in.
"You must enjoy that." I mumbled as she used the computer to suck up Kelli, Doughboy (and caught him off guard), Vash, Kanari, Nakita, and now, me. It was rather a pleasant experience to be minimized and teleported, and impossible to explain. I felt like I was riding in a roller coaster, and then, another second, I was in a deep forest.
"What took you so long?" Kanari asked. "According to that big clock (she pointed to the clock on the top of a tower) we've waited twenty minutes for you."
"Wow, that was a split second after you left." I said. "We have a time difference again."
"That might make things easier." Nakita said. "But girls, I think we've gotten separated from the others."
"Oh." I said, looking around, and then taking out my crystal. "Hello? Anyone, come in!" I looked at the others. "It's not responding."
"Odd." Nakita said.
"Whoa!" Kelli said. "What is this place?"
"Perhaps it would've been better if we had gone to Norway first and THEN activated the Time Machine." Rene said, tapping away at the laptop. "That way, we couldn't know where we are."
"This is my house however many years we went back ago." Snowy said.
"Uh-oh." Rene said.
"What's wrong?" Reni asked.
"I messed up." Rene said. "I typed in an extra zero. Instead of 50 years, we've gone back...500!"