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Chapter 6: Inside the Dreams of Friends

At a park in the Heightenview Terrace area…

"WE'RE BACK!!!" Yolei screamed and jumped around.

"Back where?" Ash wondered looking around him to see if he recognized anything.

"Huh? What are the rest of you still doing here?" Yolei wondered glancing at all the people from the other dimensions.

"Oh, like we know." Misty said dryly and gave a quick glare to Yolei.

Ignoring Misty's remark, the digidestined who had been separated from each other met up again and exchanged welcome backs while all the others standing waiting to be remembered. Once Tai realized they were just standing there, he apologized and brought the point across that staying in a park with some people who obviously looked out of place wasn't the best idea.

"That's a good idea, but where are they going to go?" Matt asked.

"Easy,"  Kari said, "They are all welcome at our houses." Kari gave the people from her world a challenging glance, "Right, guys?" They all nodded to her and houses were given out for everyone to go to. Some people were reluctant to go with them but they really didn't have another choice.

Yolei eventually convinced Heero to go with her and Relena more than insisted on coming as well. Wufei went with Cody.(Have you ever noticed how alike those two are?? It's scary!) Syaoran and Sakura went with Davis while Hitomi and Van went with Kari and Tai. Duo joined T.K. and Quatre went with Ken. Trowa went with Matt, and finally, Misty and Ash went with Sora.

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At Yolei's House…

"Mom!!" Yolei called out, "I have some friends over who will be staying overnight. Hope you don't mind!" Without waiting to be answered back, she turned to her two guests and told them, "Follow me to the room where you will be staying."

"Gee, thanks for consulting me first, Yolei!" her mom called out to her but was ignored.

On her way to the guest room, hey siblings showed up, "Hey, Yolei," Her brother said, "Your friends keep getting weirder and weirder!" She stuck her tongue out at him and then kept walking. Heero, on the other hand, gave the fool a very thorough glare.

Yolei finally made it to the guest room and showed them in, "Here it is. There's only one bed, but it is pretty big. I hope you two don't mind."

Heero looked from the bed to the floor and then back at the bed. It actually wasn't a very big bed. "I'll sleep on the floor."

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At Cody's house…

"Mother, Grandfather, this is Wufei. He's my new friend and I hope you don't mind if he stays here tonight." Cody said respectfully.

"Sure, any of your friends are welcome." His mom said and added a smile for Wufei which he ignored.

Wufei wasn't about to be disrespectful, though, "It's nice to meet you people." He said and added a bow.

"I hope you like prune juice!" Cody's grandfather said and pulled out a prune juice box and started slurping away. Wufei attempted not to get a disgusted look on his face.

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At Davis's house…

"Hello??? Anybody home?" Davis called out.

"Only me!" June answered back.

"Oh, wonderful," Davis said sarcastically, "I have friends over and you had better leave us alone!"

"Oh, not some of your annoying friends again!" June rounded the corner to see Davis and his guests and jumped at the sight of Syaoran than pulled on Davis's arm to get him to follow her hopefully out of ear shot, "Who's the cutie?"

"Ugh, June! He's younger than you and he's not interested! Now just leave us alone!" Davis yelled at her while Syaoran's face started to get a bit red.

"Humph!" She sniffed and then folded her arms across her chest and watched as Davis led the other two away. Syaoran tried his best not to look at her while Sakura passed a glare at her on her way by.

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At Kari and Tai's house…

"Hey mom," Tai called to his mom who was seen with her head in the fridge, "These our some of our friends who'll be staying with us for some time. You don't mind, right?"

His mom took her head out of the fridge to look at the kids and smile, "Of course I don't, honey! This will give me a chance to try out some of my new recipes! I've been wanting to do something with me cheeses and radishes! Not too mention the spinach juice I want to make…"

The four slowly made their way out of the kitchen trying not to be heard. Hitomi controlled the turning in her stomach and asked, "Was she really serious about those foods?"

"Actually, yes." Kari answered.

"Your best bet is to not eat anything she prepares, trust me." Tai said and the other two just nodded.

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A T.K.'s house…

"Hey mom!" T.K. yelled out and kicked off his shoes by the door.

"Hi there!" His mom answered from around the corner somewhere. Nancy entered the hallway to see a friend with T.K., "Oh, I didn't know we had company. Hello, and you would be…?"

"The names Duo Maxwell, nice to meet ya." Duo said and took T.K.'s mom's hand to shake.

"Oh, I forgot to mention. Mom, he'll be staying here the night, I hope you don't mind." T.K. said and grabbed a glass of milk from his refrigerator.

"That's fine as long as you two don't keep me up! I've been working so hard I need a good night's sleep." Nancy said and stifled a yawn.

The two nodded and T.K. ran to his room followed by Duo. T.K. kicked a few of his clothes out of the way and scratched his head, "Uh, you can probably sleep on the couch if you can find it under this mess."

Duo looked at where the couch should be and shook his head, "I don't think it will ever be found again!" He joked and started laughing.

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At Ken's House…

"Mom! I'm home!" Ken walked through the door and called to his mom as she came rushing towards him with tears threatening to drip from her eyes.

"Ken, honey! I was so worried; you hadn't called for quite a while and I was afraid that…"

"You don't have to worry." Ken said stopping his Mom from bursting into tears. "I've just been busy with friends. Oh, I made another new friend, this is Quatre. He'll be sleeping over too, O.K.?"

Tears started streaming from his mothers eyes but this time she cried for a different reason, "Oh, I'm so glad you're making so many new friends, Ken. You don't know how happy it makes me."

"Right, Mom." Ken motioned Quatre to his room, "I'll be in my room for awhile, so there'll be no reason to worry." He said and went to his room.

"Your mom seems really great, it makes me miss my family a lot." Quatre said with a weak smile.

Ken nodded, "Ya, she is a pretty good mom. Although she sometimes worries too much, I wouldn't give her up for anything in the world."

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At Matt's house…

"Hello? You here, Dad?" No answer confirmed Matt's suspicion, "He's probably still at work," He said to Trowa, "You hungry?"

Trowa shrugged for answer but Matt took it for a yes and started to prepare something to eat. He grimaced after looking in a few cupboards, "We don't actually have, well, food, so I hope you have a strong stomach!" He grabbed a bunch of items in the kitchen, some possibly food, and threw them all together. He divided the…stuff…into two plates and put them on the table, "Bon appetite!"

Trowa eyed the food suspiciously but sat down to try it anyway. They both took a taste at the same time and were both disgusted at the same time. "This is terrible, what did you put in it?"

"Who knows," Matt got a grin all of a sudden, "I dare you to eat it all."

Trowa returned the grin, "You first." They both ate down the food as quickly they could without choking and ran to the bathroom even faster. Trowa vowed to never eat anything he couldn't identify again.

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At Sora's house…

Sora placed the key in the lock of her front door and opened it, "My mom's not home; she's out of town for the week. You two can make yourselves at home, though."

"All right…can I go to sleep somewhere now?" Misty asked rubbing sleep from her eye.

"Can I eat now?" Ash asked rubbing his stomach as it growled.

Sora chuckled and nodded, "Sure, go right ahead." The two looked at her clueless for a couple of seconds until she realized why, "Oh, right, Misty, you can use my room. Second door down the hall to the left. Ash, you can follow me, I'll make you a snack."

Neither of the two hesitated to go their destinations and were content in minutes.

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Back at Yolei's House…

"Heero…"

"Hm?"

"Oh…nothing." Relena shifted to her other side atop the bed she was lying in. She felt bad about Heero sitting on the floor and wanted him to join her on the bed. She definitely wouldn't have minded the company.

"Hm?" Heero pressed expecting an answer.

"Well…why don't you just join me on the bed? It's a lot more comfortable than the floor. Besides, I don't bite; I'm a pacifist, remember?" Relena chuckled at the last comment and wasn't surprised when Heero didn't find it amusing also.

"Hn."  Heero shifted on the sheets he had as a bed on the floor. He couldn't let anything else distract him; everything that had happened recently was already more than enough.

"Why not?"

"…hn."

"O.K., now that's just enough, Heero Yuy. Just get on the bed and stop fussing about it!" Relena was sitting up on the bed with her arms crossed waiting for Heero to get on the bed. Heero may have no fear in dying but an angry woman was another thing. Heero reluctantly got up from his shits and sat on the corner of the bed. When Relena's glare and stance didn't change, he slowly lied down into the bed.

A few minutes after he was there, Relena slowly made her way closer to him in the bed. Heero was about to get out of the bed but something came over him and he just didn't feel like getting out. 'I can put up with one night of this,' He thought, 'but just one.'

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At Cody's house…

Wufei was panting and sweating a bit from his sparing with this young kid, "Your skills are quite impressive for someone of your age." He commented.

Cody, panting and sweating more than his sparing partner, nodded in appreciation, "Ya, my Grandfather teaches Kendo well, he started teaching me at a young age."

Wufei nodded, "You still up for more?" Cody's fighting stance told the answer. The two continued their spar late into the night.

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At Davis's house…

"I'm going in the shower FIRST!"

"Nooo!! I wanna go first!"

"But it's my house!"

"But I'm the guest!" Sakura and June had been fighting for hours, it seemed, over who should get the shower first. Davis was watching the fight with a sweat drop hanging from his head.

"Let me go first or else!"

"Or else what?!"

"I'll scream!"

"Go ahead! I'm going first!" Glares were on their faces and a match could be lit with the tension in the room. Neither were planning on giving up the shower anytime soon. While they were too busy glaring at each other, Syaoran walked by with a towel in his hands and went into the bathroom and locked the door.

Sakura paused from her glaring competition to glance at the door, "Syaoran!!!" She yelled at the door and started sending her rage there. Syaoran then decided to take a really, really long shower.

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At Tai and Kari's house…

The four youths found themselves sitting in front of dishes covered in stuff that almost reminded them of food. Somehow they had found themselves sitting at the dinner table with Tai's mom's cooking. His mom was muttering in the background while she prepared the next coarse about vitamins and protein. The four looked at each other with the same thought. While the two's mom wasn't looking, they slowly and quietly got away from the dinner table.

Tai exhaled from in his room, "That was close; I think my mom's cooking is getting more disturbing by the day."

"Did she really mean for us to eat that?" Van wondered as Tai gave a slow, pained nod. "Then does she plan to poison us?"

"I've asked myself that question many times before.

"Knock it off, Tai." Kari interrupted, "She just wants to make sure we eat healthy food."

"I believe she can do that AND make it taste good at the same time."

A calling was heard from outside the bedroom and the four youths grimaced. They had a feeling they would be eating that food one way or another.

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At T.K.'s house…

Beeping noises were heard escaping T.K.'s room along with yelling, "I can't believe you beat me again!" T.K. nearly threw the controller from his playstation across the room, "Are you sure you've never played any video games before?"

"I've never even heard of them." Duo answered truthfully and shrugged.
"They are pretty fun, though." He said with a grin.

"O.K., O.K., this next game is my best; I've even beat Matt at it!" T.K. set up the next game and within minutes of play, had already lost. "What???" T.K. said and dropped his jaw, "Did I say that was my best game? I meant it was my-"

"Give it up! You lost, and you're never gonna beat me." Duo mocked and grinned at T.K.

"Keep it DOWN in there!" The two boys heard yelled at them. The two looked at each other and them broke up laughing.

"All right, the next game I'll beat you at!" T.K. said and picked up the controller again.

"In your dreams!" was all Duo answered as they continued their gaming.

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At Ken's house…

Ken was sitting at a round table with his parents to either side of him and his new friend at the other side of the table. He looked down at the cards fanned in his hands.

"I didn't even know any boy's Ken's age still learned how to play bridge!" Ken's mom commented breaking the silence of concentration.

"Oh," Quatre looked up from the cards he was concentrating on, "I was taught when I was young." He answered and continued studying his hand.

"Well, you must have been taught well because you two are beating us and doing a fantastic job at it!" Ken's dad commented.

"1 club." Ken said trying to continue with the game.

"Oh," His mom picked up her hand again, forgetting they were still playing, "Pass."

Quatre looked between the three and smiled to himself, 'Just like old times.' He thought and then refrained a frown from appearing. "2 clubs."

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Back at Matt's house…

"Ugh…" Matt groaned from on the couch in the living room.

"Ugh." Trowa answered on the other side of the couch. The two were so stick to their stomachs they could barely move. An empty bottle of Tums was on the table in front of them along with an almost empty bottle of Peptol Bismol.

"I think there was something very wrong with the mayonnaise in that…" Matt moaned and shifted his seat on the couch.

"I think there was something wrong with that whole…thing!" Trowa grumbled and placed a hand on his stomach.

A key was heard turning in the door as Matt's dad entered after a long day of work, "Oh, company, hello!" He yelled at the couch where he saw two people in front of a TV. He entered the kitchen and immediately saw something wrong, "Matt, please don't tell me you ate that bottle of mayo. It went bad about…a year ago, I'd say."

The two's eyes widened and looked at each other. The both mouthed the words, "A year" and ran to the bathroom yet again.

"I guess you did…"

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At Sora's house…

After finally being able to zone out Ash's snoring, Sora and Misty sat together on the floor and were having a girl talk. "Guys really are too dense!" Sora agreed with Misty and chuckled.

"I mean, I've been dropping hints to Ash for…I don't know how long!…and he hasn't even noticed!" Misty said and shook her head.

"Yup, that's pretty dense. Although, he might have noticed and just not shown it." Misty shook her head and Sora shrugged, "Well, it could be true. Did you know Tai got me a hair clip once for my birthday? And then he had the nerve to insult my hair!"

Misty laughed at that, "Ya, that's pretty bad. Well, our friend Brock makes a move on every girl we've ever met! It gets so very annoying." She said and rubbed her forehead. "So how come we don't hate them all?"

"Who knows," Sora looked out the window of her room, "Some things are just not meant to be known."

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Back at Yolei's house again…

Yolei yawned and made her way to the guest room. She knocked on the door and didn't get and answer so she just walked in. She wasn't expecting what she saw. Relena was curled up in Heero's arms and he was freely keeping his arms around her. She was reluctant to wake the two because they looked so cute, but she didn't want to be late for the meeting with the others. "Wake up!" Yolei screamed in there ears and Heero jumped up while Relena slowly opened her eyes.

Heero glared at the girl when he realized he was put off guard for no reason, then froze when he realized where he was. He all but fell out of the bed and tripped on the bed sheets. Relena rolled her eyes but then grinned. She stepped out of bed, crushing Heero's hand on her way out.

A yelp escaped Heero as he glared at both of the girls; this was going to be a very long day.

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 At Cody's house…

Cody's mom and grandfather peaked their heads into the boy's room while the two were asleep. "They look so cute!" His mom squeaked looking at the two.

"It's good to make friends, especially when they are good sparing partners." Cody's grandfather said nodding, "Now let us leave before we wake them." The boy's mom nodded and they slipped their heads out of the room quietly.

Wufei, who hadn't quite been asleep, grimaced, 'I'm…c-cute?!' He thought to himself and then shook his head and tried to get back asleep.

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Back with Davis…

Sakura and June still hadn't finished their glaring competition and were still glaring at each other from outside the bathroom. Davis was snoring away on the couch and Syaoran still hadn't left the bathroom.

Sakura, without looking away from her rival, yelled tot he bathroom door, "Get OUT, Syaoran, NOW!" She growled under her breath waiting for an answer.

A meek response came quietly eventually, "…no…"

Sakura tapped her foot impatiently on the floor, "I need a shower, so get out!"

"No!"

"Fine!" Sakura finally paused her glaring to snatch something from her pocket, "Windy!" A strange windy figure flew out of the Sakura card and blew down the door. It hit Syaoran on the way down and he fell over with swirls in his eyes. "Oops." Sakura said innocently and shrugged.

Davis woke up abruptly from the loud thud of the door hitting Syaoran's head and his eyes widened at the site of the door, "AAAH! What did you do to my door?! My parents will kill me for this one!"

"Well, yes…but now I can have a shower!" Sakura exclaimed brightly.

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At Tai and Kari's House…

"Hey, Hitomi…?"

"Yes?" Hitomi wondered and looked over at the younger girl lying beside her in a sleeping bag.

"Well, I was just wondering something." Kari said and got up on her elbows to talk to Hitomi, "You and Van seem really close. Are you two…in love?"

Hitomi sat up and smiled at the girl, "Yes, we are. But it was funny, it took us both a while to realize it."

"So then…how did you know? Eventually, I mean?" Kari wondered and sat up as well.

Hitomi shrugged and then got a thoughtful look, "I don't know…I guess you just…know."

Kari stared at Hitomi a while processing the information for a while and then nodded, "Thank you. Goodnight, Hitomi." She smiled and crawled back into her sleeping bag.

Hitomi smiled at Kari and then crawled back into her sheets as well.

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At T.K.'s house…

"I…will…beat you…" T.K. stated determinedly with baggy eyes and ruffled clothes with his playstation controller practically glued to his hand.

"Forget it!" Duo said, "I've beat you at every game you own at least ten times already."

"But…but…"

"We should probably get some sleep now."

"No, not until I beat you!"

"All right, I can stay up if you can stay up." T.K. nodded and popped in another game to try and win at least once.

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At Ken's house…

Sweat soaked Quatre from head to toe as he tossed and turned in his given bed. He was trapped in a horrible nightmare. Ken stirred awake from Quatre's disturbed muttering and decided he had better wake him. "Quatre, wake up! You're just having a nightmare." Ken gently shook the boy awake until he finally opened his eyes.

Quatre finally sat up with a pained loom on his face; he clutched his head in his hands and was visibly shaking. "No…no…no, no, no…" He kept repeating the same word over and over.

"Don't worry, it was just a nightmare." Ken said soothingly, hoping the blonde haired boy wouldn't go into hysterics.

"No…it wasn't a dream. It wasn't a dream at all." Ken raised and eyebrow and Quatre shook his head and sighed, "It's coming."

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At a nearby hospital…

"I still don't think we need to be here." Matt grumbled from on a bed in a hospital. He was sharing the room with Trowa. Remembering what was done to get the food out of him made him queasy and he tried not to think about it once again.

"Forget about leaving, Matt," His dad said from a chair hear him, "When I showed the bottle of mayo to the nurse she was surprised you were still alive!"

"Funny," Mat said and tilted his head to one side, "I thought you said she was really busy checking you out."

His father's eyes widened and then narrowed into a glare, "Ya, well…I have to go to work now. You'll be fine here, bye!" Matt's father picked up his things and was soon out he door.

"I can't believed you poisoned me." Trowa said dryly after the door slammed shut.

"I didn't poison you, how was I supposed to know how bad the mayo was?"

"Try checking the expiration date next time!" Trowa all but yelled at him.

"Gee, sorry!" Matt yelled back and threw one of the pillows from his bed at the guy lying in the bed to the side of his. Trowa caught the pillow and threw it back at him. Trowa grinned despite himself, and Matt grinned back They kept throwing the pillows back and forth until all four of them were lying on the floor.

Their fun was ruined when a nurse rushed into the room, "What's happening here? Why are all the pillows on the floor?" The nurse wonders frantically. The two look at each other and then shrug. "Oh, very funny. I'm sure you two can go home now!" The nurse said fuming.

The two grinned again hoping the nurse really meant they could go home. The looks on their faces just enraged the poor nurse more.

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Back at Sora's house…

Screaming filled the house as Misty woke up from a terrible nightmare. Her scream easily woke both Sora and Ash. Sora was instantly by her side trying to comfort her, "What's wrong, Misty?" Misty ignored Sora and pulled her knees close then buried her head in them, shaking. "Snap out of it! Misty? Misty, what is it?" Try as she may, Sora couldn't get Misty to move.

Ash came to Misty's side as well and put a hand in front of him to touch her, "Misty…" His fingertips reach her shoulder just as she erupts.

 Misty clings to Ash and starts ranting, "Ash, my dream!" She yells, "It was horrible, Ash! No…don't let it…don't let it come…Ash!!" Ash and Sora exchange confused looks but both continued trying to comfort the whimpering redhead.

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At a park where the group first arrived back in this world, a meeting is held for all of them. Everyone made it, amazingly enough. The group sat in a circle, but it wasn't a very neat circle. Some people were sitting as close as they could to someone else while others were sitting as far away from anyone as they could. Some of the people in the group looked very shaken up, more often than not the ones avoiding people or doing the exact opposite. Trowa and Matt were looking considerably better with ginger ale in their hands. T.K. and Duo were sitting slumped back and had big bags under their eyes. Despite all that had happened, new friendships had clearly been made.

Davis, oblivious to most things as usual, looked around the group wonderingly, "What's wrong with everyone?"

"Misty had a very terrible nightmare." Sora states, still trying to comfort Misty who had re-taken up the position with her knees to her chest.

"Really? So did I." Quatre says and shudders at a thought of it.

"You guys are kidding!" Tai exclaimed, "Kari had a nightmare, too. Hitomi, as well."

"Wait, wait, wait," Izzy said putting his hands in front of him, "Are you all saying that someone from every house that people stayed at had a nightmare?"

"No," Yolei said with her finger under her chin and thinking back, "no one at my house. At least, I didn't."

"Me neither." Relena said shaking her head.

The group turns to Heero who gives a level stare to the rest of them before finally nodding, "I…did."

"O.K., what about you, Matt?" Izzy asks turning to him.

"We didn't get sleep." Matt says and Trowa adds, "We spent half the night lying on a couch in pain and the other half in a hospital." At the looks everyone was giving Matt he continued, "Let me answer this with advice; always check the expiration date on mayonnaise." He said and then clutched his stomach at remembrance.

Izzy looked at the group from Davis's house and noted Sakura, "O.K., by the looks of it, Sakura had the nightmare?" Syaoran nodded confirming Izzy's suspicion. 

"Wufei and Cody?"

"I did." Cody said and then worked off a shudder.

"Well, then that's everyone." Izzy said with a nod and then started to wonder as to why this happened.

"No, what about T.J.?" Davis asked looking at the near dead guy.

"We didn't get any sleep," T.K. said with an annoyed tone and then added, "And it's T.K."

"And why did you have no sleep?"

"…Never mind." T.K. said hoping they would leave it at that. No luck, Duo answered instead, "He kept losing to me at these video games and wouldn't give up 'till he won."

"You stayed up all night playing video games?" Izzy half wondered and half yelled.

"Well, Matt stayed up all night, too." T.K. said for his defense.

"That's because I was sick, baka!" Matt said and hit T.K. on the head with his can of ginger ale.

"O.K., never mind," Izzy said shaking his head, "I just would like to know what you all dreamt about."

Sakura opened her mouth to say something when she couldn't think of what she was going to say. Misty ignored Izzy and wouldn't answer anyone else. Quatre tried to be helpful as well but nothing seemed to come to mind for him to say, either.

"Can't anyone say anything?" Davis yelled out at the group.

"I'll tell you," Heero said and opened his mouth to say something when the sky filled with a blinding light. A voice, the one that was heard before, boomed, "Enough! Phase 3 is still in progress and as for phase 4, well, it's your worst nightmare!" The voice snickered and the group disappeared to a new dimension once again. The nameless voice paused to think to itself, 'An annoying group, these people are, but no matter. Soon they will bring me my army.' The voice snickers more to itself in remembrance of it's plans.

                                            -End Chapter 6-

Phew, that one took up my whole afternoon. O.o Oh well, as long as my readers enjoyed. ^-^ (which I hope you did!) And without further adieu, I bring you Chapter 7! Insert dramatic-type music here