Author Notes: ARGH! Stuck for ideas! Exams have put my brain into neutral and I can't come up with anything except depressing songfics! Okaaaaay…well, I'll have a shot at this people…DODGY!!!

Disclaimer: Look at the first chapter and the last one for the bloody disclaimer I am SO not writing in again…

'Okay…so you said that one of your friends has a grey box she calls her laptop?' Izzy clarified, opening his own laptop. Lina nodded.

'That's right. You've got one too-'

'They're a kind of electronic device-'

'What's electricity?'

Izzy sighed as the other Digi-destined looked at each other. 'Never mind, Lina.'

Lina snapped her fingers, recalling something L'risia had said in one of her more patient moments, trying to explain her 'laptop' to her.

'Oh! Like a Mono-bolt!'

'a WHAT?' the boy who'd introduced himself as Davis said. Lina grinned rather nastily and spread her hands, the yellow electricity dancing on her limbs. Jaw dropped.

'This is a mono-bolt. It's a magic spell.'

'There's no such thing as magic.' Izzy said. Lina turned to Mono-bolt on him, knocking the redhead out.

'Hey!' Mimi shouted, 'That wasn't nice!'

Lina shrugged. 'He'll wake up. It just strings a bit- wasn't enough to kill him-' she looked around. 'Where's Gourry?'

Tai pointed wordlessly to where Gourry was carving up a tree with his sword.

'He's good.' Matt observed.

'One of the best.' Lina nodded proudly. Sora looked sidelong at her.

'Lina, are you and Gourry-'

'WHAT A ROCK!' shouted Davis, pointing at the ring on Lina's finger and echoing Val's exact words. Lina sighed. She was beginning to wish Gourry hadn't had so much money spare. Of course, it was nice to know that the man she was marrying was loaded-

'Hey!' Izzy's voice said, startled. 'Lina! I think you'd better look at this.'

Lina ran back to the teenager and looked over his shoulder as the kids gather around. On Izzy's computer lay a three-dimensional image of the digi-world, drawn in just lines without colour. It was squashed up into the left of the screen, then the world the digi-destined recognised as their own, but next to those two familiar diagrams, were four other diagrams, similar but different…

'Izzy?' Kari asked quietly.

'I think they are other worlds. Other parallel universes. And I think we've been linked but Lina and Gourry coming here, bring a little piece with them, her friend's laptop and just the intrusion of her friends into the separate worlds.'

'We didn't ASK to be here you know.' Lina said. 'Can you find out friends?'

'I'm working on it.' Izzy said, sweatdropping as he noticed the growing fireball in her hands…

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Kai'ila looked with interest at the fake landscape, and then out the windows into the stars of the universe beyond.

'It's so pretty, don't you think?' she asked her companion. He followed her gaze.

'…yeah.'

'What's up?'

'I'm not used to appreciating that kind of thing- why the hell did you do this to me?' Casper demanded a little scarily.

'You were being a psychotic bastard. And you wrecked L'ri's computer. THAT HAD A REALLY GOOD STORY ON IT!!'

Casper sweatdropped.

'…at least you're honest.'

She gave him a bright grin.

'Of course.'

'ATTETNION OUT-WORLDERS' Ruri's bored (and she sounded VERY sarcastic at this point in time, Yurika had really been getting on her nerves…) 'THE CAPTAIN REQUESTS YOU PRESENCE ON THE BRIDGE IMMEDIATLEY. I REAPEAT THE CAPTIAN-'

'We've got the point.' Muttered Casper, kicking open the door. He looked over his shoulder at Kai'ila. 'Where the HELL is this bridge anyway?'

'Maybe we can ask someone.'

'IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!!'

A few hours Later…

'Oh YES report to the bridge IMMEDIATLEY well that wouldn't be a problem if we knew where the hell the fricking thing WAS!' shouted Casper, reminding Kai'ila of L'ri. She wondered where her friend was.

'Have you seen a map?'

'No!'

'Calm down- maybe if we just wander around aimlessly we'll find it.'

Grumbling, Casper followed the girl down the corridors. And opened a door. And found themselves in the same place as where they had started from. Kai'ila's eye ticked as Casper slammed his fist into the wall.

'I need a drink. I really strong one.' He said to her. 'Didn't we pass a bar back there?'

'Good idea-'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ you get the idea

Amelia noticed Zel was starting to look irritated about two days after their initial encounter with Ash and Misty

'What's wrong Mr Zelgadis/'

'That kid and his girlfriend have been following us for TWO DAYS!'

'I know.' Amelia sighed. It was unjust, she thought. She was the one who had to put up with Zel's bad mood- Zel suddenly stopped walking. Amelia, with dull terror, realised he hadn't had a cup of coffee for several days. Mentally she screamed in horror. Zel turned around in time to see Misty and Ash duck behind a tree.

'Those other three are over there.' Amelia said, pointing to where a long tail of hot pink hair could be seen sticking out from a bush. Zel sighed.

'All right. HEY KID! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE!'

Ash stepped out from the tree, looking slightly nervous.

'What?' he yelled back.

' What do you want? I'm getting fed up with you following us so lets sort this out right now!'

'Yeah!' Amelia said, joining in. 'It's unjust of you to keep following us around!'

'Fine then! I challenge you to a Pokemon Battle!'

'A Pokemon WHAT?' Amelia and Zel said together. Amelia looked surprised at herself. Lina must be rubbing off on her…

Ash looked surprised. 'You- don't know what a Pokemon battle is? Never mind! I want to battle that! If I win the match I get to keep it!'

'It?!' Zel demanded, noting Ash's finger on him. 'Okay kid you're on.' He said. Amelia, noticing the sinister grin on Zel's face, backed away slightly and wished Xelloss or one of the priestesses were around so she could put on an army hat.

'GO….SQUIRTLE!' Ash shouted. Misty smiled. Rock Pokemon were weak against water Pokemon- if this new Pokemon was a rock type as it looked, then Ash should be able to win. Zel folded his arms and looked at the turtle.

'I'm fighting a turtle?'

'He's NOT A TURTLE!'

'Okay- a turtle who doesn't know it's not supposed to wear glasses OR have a read shell-'

'Grr…SQUIRTLE! Water gun attack now!'

'Windy shield!'

The water gun glanced off the shield and hit Ash full in the face. Misty's jaw dropped and she looked at Pikachu. Ash ground his teeth. He didn't know what kind of powers this Pokemon had…but he WOULD catch it!

'Fireball!' Zel smirked.

'Squirtle!'

Squirtle's shell rattled on the ground. Ash growled at Zel.

'If that's the best you can do you'd better like being beaten!'

Amelia covered her mouth to hide her giggles.

'I really don't want to have to hurt you kid.' Zelgadis said, and raised his eyebrows as Charasaurd towered above him. He looked around the orange dinosaur.

'I've fought demons, dark lords and Mazoku and you expect me to be frightened of a lizard with orange peel for skin?'

'Charasaurd! Fl-'

Zelgadis sighed, not wanting to really hurt the kid's pets or whatever they were, opted for the air magics again.

'Bomb di wind.'

Charasaurd went flying off into the sunset, a little anime sparkle in the sky.

Ash gaped at Zel, who examined his fingernails. Amelia giggled.

'You've only got one Pokemon left Ash.' Misty said. Ash growled.

'Pikachu!'

Zel looked at the fuzzy yellow rabbit with rouge on. Oh. The electricity creature. Interesting-

'Fireball!'

Pikachu was finished. Ash fell to the ground, sobbing.

'Amelia- perhaps you should heal it-' Zel sighed to the girl, feeling sorry for the kid. 'And while you're at it- ask him what the hell Pokemon are!'

~~~~~~~~~~~(anyone guess I don't like Pokemon?)~~~~~~~~~~

Val looked over L'risia's shoulder.

'Are you working on that story again?' he asked. L'risia paused.

'Yep.'

'Don't you DO anything else?' he asked her, sitting down on the riverbank. L'risia appeared to think about this, and actually took her hands off the keyboard.

'Eat- sleep- um…and talk.'

'Rarely.' Val supplied helpfully before lying down with his hands behind his head. L'risia snorted.

'Hey you two!' Yahiko said, skidding down to where the pair was sitting.

'Hey Yahiko.' L'risia said, and added innocently, 'where's Tsubame?'

'Eh? Why would she be with me?'

'Oh- just wondering, that's all-' L'risia said lamely, focusing on the story again. 'What's another word for complete?'

'Absolute. Why?'

She blinked at Val and looked at the screen. 'Hey! Thanks!'

'What're you writing, L'ri-san?' Yahiko asked, reading over her shoulder. Like all the other victims of L'risia's story, he felt it necessary to snatch it out of her hands and continue reading. L'risia sighed and showed him how to move the page up and down. She skipped a stone across the lake.

'How long d'you think we'll be stuck here L'ri?'

'Dunno. Someone will find us I suppose.'

'We're just going to SIT HERE?!'

'Have you got a better suggestion? This is where we came in and besides, if all the others are in this show- then at least Kai'ila will be intelligent enough to come to Tokyo where the main characters are.'

'And if they aren't?' Val asked, batting a strand of aqua-blue hair out of his eyes. L'risia looked into the river and grinned to herself.

'Some of them will probably end up in Digimon- which means they'll run into Izzy, and the kid's a genius anyway.'

Val blinked at her.

'Could you run that by me again L'ri?'

L'risia sighed and turned around again to face him. 'Okay…'

Val leaned of the wall of the dojo.

'I thought they were supposed to be training?' he asked Sano. The other man nodded and rolled his eyes in the direction of the squabbling Kaoru and Yahiko.

'This always happens. Do you fight kid?'

'Uh- a little-' Val admitted. Actually he'd never trained but he had a disturbing gift for being able to use anything in self-defence (or, as Zel remarked, violently. Filia said it was because Xelloss had kept on visiting, but at that point she had shut up when everyone had started to ask for an explanation for that…)

'How about the girl? Kenshin said she was pretty good.'

'L'risia? Well-' Val thought about the cobalt-haired girl. '…she does as well- only when she has to though, I don't think she'd really interested. Where is Kenshin?'

Sano grinned around his fishbone as Kaoru started chasing Yahiko.

'Probably cooking.'

'Cooking?' Val blinked. 'Really? Can I help?'

L'risia, just walking in with said redhead, overheard and gave Val a funny look as she passed with the laundry basket.

'You cook?'

Val tinged pink. 'Um-'

Kenshin smiled. 'That's good. Val-san, why don't you help me with dinner? L'ri-dono has asked to do the rest of the washing so I can concentrate on cooking.'

'Since we kinda dropped in on you like this-' L'risia said apologetically, hoping Val wasn't going to get mad. The boy grinned.

'Cool! Lead the way Kenshin!'

L'risia breathed out. Sano waved a sheaf of paper at her. 'Yahiko said you gave this to him- you wrote this?'

'Argh-'

'YAHIKO GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE BRAT JUST WAIT UNTILL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU-'

'HAH! NEVER HAPPEN BUSU!' shouted back Yahiko, sticking his tongue out. 'Catch me if you can!'

'OOOH-'

Sano and L'risia sweatdropped and backed out of the dojo before something exploded.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~more squiggles….~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

'So- you're from WHERE?' Goku said again. Xelloss exchanged an exasperated look with Filia before the black-haired Saiyan laughed.

'It's okay I get it Xelloss.'

Xelloss breathed out again and Filia, who'd looked like she was expecting the apocalypse at any moment, relaxed.

'So- are you and Miss Filia-'

'NO!' shouted the pair in question loudly. Chichi fell back a few steps.

'Okay-okay- just asking-'

'Yeah, they argue too much.' Trunks agreed from where he was watching television. 'When we woke up they were practically killing each other.'

He laughed, amused at the memory. Filia smiled wryly. He reminded her of her son- where was he? He was with L'risia, one of the Priestesses. Well, she'd look after him- or would it be the other way around? Who would protect whom, and from what?

Filia chewed her lip nervously, the possibilities of what could be happening to her 'son' becoming worse and worse.

Xelloss looked at Filia's expression with curiosity. It was becoming more and more terrified. He could feel the raw fear radiating off her- not fear for herself, he sensed, but fear for someone else-

'Filia?' he asked, and was shocked to hear his voice sound concerned, gentle. 'Filia!'

Her lip was bleeding now.

'What's wrong with her?' Goku asked. Xelloss put his mouth close to Filia's ear. 'HEY, LIZARD LIPS!'

That got her attention, and it got Xelloss smeared across the wall again, but he was grinning and back to his normal three-dimensional self within seconds. He adjusted his clothing.

'Feeling better, Fi-chan? What got you so scared?'

'Namagomi! I wasn't scared!' Lied Filia.

'You're lying.' He said simply. 'Now come on Fi-chan, what's wrong?'

Filia stared at him, the icy fire in her blue eyes melting in the face of his amethyst gaze. She slumped in the chair.

'I'm worried about Val-chan.'

'Filia,' Xelloss snorted pulling out his chair and straddling it to look into her eyes.

'Val is a grown dragon, he can take care of himself!'

'You're right-' Filia admitted grudgingly. Xelloss grinned, back to fruitcake-mode, much to his relief. He couldn't have Filia bugging out on him like that, and being the Amelia-type counsellor made him feel quite ill.

'But of course Fi-chan! Aren't I always right!?'

'Namagomi!'

'Lizard-lips!'

'Er-' Gohan interrupted looking at his little brother over the muffin he was eating. 'Did I her "dragon" in there.'

'And I could have sworn he calls her "lizard lips"-' Bulma mused as she finished loading the dishwasher.

'You did,' Vegeta confirmed. 'All right Miss Filia- explain to us this business about dragons and raw garbage-'

Filia grinned and adopted the exact same expression as Xelloss.

'Sore wa himitsu desu!' they grinned. Before everyone could pick themselves up off the floor, Filia and Xelloss exchanged a scared look and edged away from each other slightly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~you get it.

Dynast was confused.

As a matter of fact he was downright clueless.

And that was the understatement of the century.

'It's just a pair of SHOES!' he said, standing on the lakeside. The surface was completely quiet, not a ripple. It looked as if the presently powerless powerful Dark Lord was talking to himself. Suddenly a blonde head appeared, and a shoe rocketed out of the water and hit him on the head.

'I LIKE these shoes!'

Dynast rubbed his head, looking at the silver and blue sandal he now held, and wondered what Cleo's reaction would be if he threw it into the woods surrounding the lake.

For the first time Dynast decided he really didn't want to piss anyone like Cleo off, and carefully put the shoe down where it wouldn't get dirty.

Soon the girl re-surfaced, and swam easily towards the shore. 'You're good at swimming.' He observed as she climbed out. She snorted, tossing the shoe to its mate and wrung out her curls.

'I like swimming. Honestly you'd think Ryoko would do this for me it's not like she would get wet-'

'Actually,' Dynast smirked, 'she said something about beating Ayeka for Tenchi's wake up call-'

Cleo snickered. 'Poor Tenchi.'

'Oh yes.'

The amount of sickening devotion in that house was disgusting. Dynast turned green within a ten-metre radius of the house if all three were in there. He hardly slept, last night in particular when Ryoko and Ayeka were trying to decide who was going to bring Tenchi his hot chicken soup because the poor angel (cough- sorry about the pun ^_^) had caught a cold…

Cleo noticed Dynast's lime-green face. 'Dynast? Stop thinking you'll hurt yourself!'

Her hostile emotions made him feel slightly better.

'Could you hit me, Cleo-san?'

With a sigh, Cleo backhanded him. 'Ooh- thankyou-'

Cleo rolled her blue eyes. 'I will never get used to you Mazoku-'

'TEEEEENNCHHIIII STOP RUNNING YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR SOOOUP!'

Cleo and Dynast looked in the direction of Ryoko's shout.

'Why don't you stop harassing him Ryoko!' demanded Ayeka's voice, 'Tenchi-DEAR come back-'

'AAAAAAHHHHH!'

'You know he looked perfectly fine to me-' Cleo commented as the two girls run past, pushing and shoving each other and leaving smashed branches, settling dust and the lingering smell of hot chicken soup in their wake.

'Me too. And I know when someone is sick.' Dynast said firmly.

'Yes. I suppose you do.' Cleo said nastily. Dynast grinned nastily and Tenchi burst out from behind them.

'Have they gone?' he gasped.

'I think so, but their Tenchi-radars are still operating on maximum, kid.' Dynast grinned.

Tenchi paled and then went anime-blue as there was the sound of Ryoko and Ayeka turning around violently and coming back. Ryoko teleported.

'There you are Tenchi DEAR- YOWCH!' Cleo hit her over the head with a shoe.

'Run Tenchi!'

Tenchi disappeared at light speed.

'I feel sorry for that kid.' Dynast said.

'Really?'

'No.'

Back to random insanity with no direction whatsoever I promise to get back 2 writing now that exams are over!!! (ideas are welcome on how to get the couples 2gether!! ^_^)

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