Kate decided to join me since she was also angry at the boys. It took
only an hour or so to cut down around twenty tree's and strip them of
there twigs and bark.
"Ha! take that you chauvinistic and sexist .." I said shouting and bearing my teeth.
"Whoa! chill...I'm sure they get the picture without needing to ..uhh swear your head off!" she said and smiled trying not to laugh as we got a look at the boys who had there jaws hanging down to the ground and there eye's so huge they looked like bug eye's.
I stopped my rage and looked at them and couldn't help but burst out laughing until my ribs just couldn't take it any more." Oh Kay it's official now we have laughed more here than we did back home and we laughed quite a bit in our life time." I said smiling at Kate.
"Yeah I guess your right this definitely needs to go in the Guinness book of records" Kate said and then we turned back to the boys and put there mouths back up to where they belonged.
"How...How did you do that!" Phil said rubbing his chin and jaw getting rid of the stiffness.
"Do what?" we said in unison wondering what they were talking about. They're jaws once more dropping to the ground in utter shock as they pointed to the tree's.
"Cut down the tree's..." Joe said trailing off as they all tried to pull themselves together.
" Oh that...that was nothing when we get angry we tend to hurt things in this case it was the tree's.. we are truly sorry if we scared or surprised you" I said trying to look innocent but like that would work ever.
" Oy sometimes the lasses can also give ya a big headache" James said rubbing his head trying to massage away his pain. "Well I guess we had better load up the truck then... since the tree's that we need are already cut down...Joe call Charles to haul his butt up here so that we can go to town drop of the girls and then get over to Nancy's so that we can carve the furniture from the wood!"
"Uhhh...Yeah just give me a moment to remember where I last put it." Joe said as he searched his pockets for the phone and after a few moments he found it." Hey Charles get your butt in gear and bring the truck it's time to load the logs for transport ....yeah I know we got a couple passengers that cut them down for us...no I'm serious...yes I'm sure I'm not imagining things...yes I know...uhh they didn't say...you ask them...no...just bring the truck up here...don't make me get Dad on the phone...yeah I thought so, see you in a few minutes" he said and hung up the phone.
"Soooo.....I'm assuming we get to load the logs now huh!" said Kate and shrugged.
"Yeah, we load the logs and then we drive to town and drop you off if that's okay with you, that is" said James.
"Yep fine with us! we need to explore civilizations and ruins and temples and pyramids and etc..." I said smiling and trailing off.
"Although we wouldn't mind getting a meal or something before we go if that's okay with you of course. "Kate said rubbing her belly and thinking please no more fish please.
"Yeah that would be fine, we don't mind giving you a meal" said James as he began to pick up one of the tree's we cut down with Phil and Joe, just as (we assume) Charles drives up with a large lumber truck. Both Kate and I grabbed a log each and began to lift.
"Wow , these are pretty light" I said" for logs that is"
"Yeah I know what you mean" she said as she effortlessly picked up the log swung it over her shoulder and pushed it up into the back of the truck. Just as I imitated the same thing she did and put my log into the truck as well.
"2 down 18 to go" I said as we picked up another 2 logs and repeated the process until there was only the one log that was being held by Charles, Phil, Joe and James.
"Do you want us to carry that for you" Kate said and walked over to pick up the log and quickly put it onto the truck and wrapped them with rope so that they wouldn't roll off the truck.
"I...I...I ....I...I....I...I....I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I..." the men said in unison "can't believe you just did that"
"Ummh...sure whatever you say.." I said looking at them strangely and saying it in a strange voice as well as lifting my eyebrow.
"Can we go, can we go, can we go go go, can we go can we go can we go go go, can we go can we go can we go go go Goooooooooo can we go go go!" Kate said humming along to the words she had just sung.
"Uhh...what she said yesssss!" I said still in strange mode "Let's go" as I jumped up onto the truck and sat on the logs beside Kate as she jumped up "Are you okay you haven't even had a cafe mocha how can you be hyper now, that's my job!"
"Hyper I am Why?" she said and then scratched her head. "Or is it Hyper am I?"
"Uhhh...when did you fall on your head and let what little brain you had leak out" I said tapping her head.
"Oh is that what happened I don't remember" she said still rubbing her head "No wonder it hurts so much" then she smiled and we knew we had to get out of here quickly.
" Uhh...so can we go now!" I said then she elbowed me in the side "ow, please!" I added smiling while rubbing my side vigorously and glaring at her at the same time.
"Yes, I think we should go now to Dad, huh?" Phil said beginning to climb into the 4 seater truck and went into the back and buckled his belt staring like he had seen a ghost. Who knows maybe he had...maybe they all had...Ri-ight. They all agreed and we loaded onto the truck...well actually only three of them loaded onto the truck since we were already on it and so was Phil. We pulled out of the forest shortly and followed a well traveled trail that after an hour of traveling took us to a dirt road that eventually led into a paved road...etc. Anyway what was really important was the scenery...it was beau-ti-ful and I mean it. The forests were huge! Well actually the tree's but yeah anyway the colors are what were really cool and not to mention the breeze rushing through our hair since we were riding on the back of the truck on top of the logs. There were so many colors it was like looking at rainbow in the shape of tree's there were light pink blossoms and baby blue one's and violet and I think you get the picture. Like I said it was pretty but last but not least we had a great view of the ocean from our current position. It reminded me of one of those Japanese romances with the chery blossom tree's blowing in the wind throwing there petals that would dance around the couple who were...
"Amber...Earth to Amber" Kate said shouting at me "Houston we have a problem"
"What? I am allowed to day dream right" I said glaring at her and attempting to remember what I had been thinking about before she had most rudely interrupted my thoughts.
"uhhh...I think so let me check the rule book" she said and pulled a piece of paper from her pocket.
"What are you talking about?" I asked just about ready to strangle her by the hairs on her chiny chin chin ummh well actually more like her long hair which a certain prince could climb up of... I mean her nose...I mean I ...don't know what I mean. I settled for a blank look instead.
"Don't give me that look" she said and then laughed " I can't wait to have food...I think my stomach is going to be causing an earthquake soon or at least break the sound barrier if I don't get some soon"
"Alrighty then....I'll go over here...and you can go over there" I said pointing at no spot in particular.
"Sure thing" she said and acted crazy or at least I think she 'acted' crazy.
"Uhhh...I wonder how much longer it is going to take to get to this city or town or village or whatever" I said getting a tad bit cranky due to lack of food.
"I hope we get there soon I really need to eat some food" she said once more rubbing her belly and imagining really warm food that had nothing to do with FISH for once.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah I know and something that isn't fish. You've told me so many times now I've lost count." I said and glared at her. We continued on like that until we saw a town actually it was more like a small city but we saw a huge...I mean tall city that was very highly advanced and gasp there was a fast food restaurant and other pretty nice food places that weren't grease pits. This place made Toronto's tallest building look like a tiny model. The building's weren't very wide but they were very tall. This place was also pretty crowded too. There were more people here than there were in Olympics including all the fans at home in other city's around the world...a slight exaggeration...yeah whatever. Anyway we continued to head towards the ever looming city heights. Food................................................food.................... ...food... .........food...food..food.food. Food!
"Food Frenzy!" I said yelling as I got excited at the thought of finally being fed.
"Oh yeah...totally cheesy" she said imitating the guy from the cheesy commercial.
"Yip, Yip Yipeee!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled getting restless not to mention I couldn't feel my legs anymore..oh yeah I wasn't suppossed to mention that...oh well...too late!! " I smell Chocolate!"
"Don't inhale, don't inhale!" she yelled trying to cover my nose.
"Too Late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I said my voice all high pitched and then I went crazy. " Ohhhh... look at the colors, aren't they beautiful" I said off in another world.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooo, it's not allowed...your not allowed to be hyper. It's evil I tell you EVIL" she yelled trying to close her eye's so that she wouldn't have to see me anymore at least when I have gone crazy. She even tried to plug her ears by sticking her fingers in them. Yeah, like that would work. "LA, la la la la I'm not listening, I'm not listening la la la la la"
"Hhehhhehhehhehhhhehhehehhehehhehhehehe.....poking time" I said evillly and crawled over to her mindful that we were still on the truck moving inside the city at the moment.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...run away" she said and began to crawl away.
"You can crawl but you can't hide......" I said just as she reached the end of the truck" well... I guess you can't crawl either...Poke attack" I said just as I started to poke her and the truck stopped making both of us fall off of it.
"Well I guess that puts and end to that... o" I said and rubbed my sore skull for all the good it would do me.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!" she yelled and grabbed me and ran to the front of the truck jumping up and down trying to get them to come out so we could eat. "Hurry up, hurry up! please please please please pleaseeeeeee!"
"Put me down!!!!!!" and let go of my arm I said yelling at her to let go of my arm.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!" she repeated.
"Okay now your just getting annoying stop it" I said and slapped her across the face WHACK!" Now pull yourself together! K Kiro"
"Uhh...Yeah that would be good thing" she said rubbing her cheek it wasn't a hard slap but a slap to snap her out of her hyperness. "Okay I am calm now but I am still hungry"
"Yeah...I know and let's just leave it at that" I said as we followed the boys into the restaurant as they ordered food for us to eat and no it wasn't greasy it was a good healthy meal that didn't have one piece of fish in it. Which was good enough for us. Since we were so sick of fish that the mere mention of it's name disgusted us. Sigh
"Well we brought you to where we promised we would and we will depart from you now. Unless you need further help" said James as Phil, Joe and Charles left and piled into the truck.
"Uhh...No actually that was all we needed. thank you for all your help" I said and smiled a rare thing that very rarely occurred. Hence it being rare.
"Yeah we both thank you for your help in getting here. I hope you have fun with the wood carving and furniture stuff" she said also smiling, a thing she did way to often.
"All right thank you for helping us cut down the tree's and load them up" he said reaching into his pocket" here, this is what I owe you for the work you did with us earlier" he forked over 250 dollars each to both of us. We stood there with our mouths swinging off the hinges by our ankles at the sight of 250 dollars for work that took us less than two hours to do." It's about time we got your mouths to hang down. Hahahhahhahhahhaha" he laughed as he got into his truck and drove away.
"That was anti-climatic" Kate said and stared at where they used to be.
"So where to next?" I said after we had picked up our mouths and pocketed our cash.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" she asked.
"I don't know. Where do you want to go?" I said.
"If we keep doing this we won't get anywhere" she said and began to think, a process that with us was a visible thing.
" I don't care let's just well walk around and go window shopping!" I said and began to walk around.
"Hey! Wait up....okay we can go window shopping but no buying anything...we don't have anywhere to put it except our knapsacks and sorry to say but it's kinda full of binders and school crap" she said and glared at me. "Promise me you won't buy ANYTHING"
"Oh...all right I promise I will not buy anything....except for food when we need it...plus the only reason why I wanted to shop was so that we could try to find like a psychic who could maybe tell us where to go from now.." I said and glared right back at her.
"Sigh...Okay...so where do you want to go from here....were kinda surrounded by well food places right now lets try to find an antiquities section...or the library so we can research this world's history." she said thinking again.
"Thinking is hurting me...So stop it!" I said and began to move towards what I hoped was a library area.
"Why don't we ask someone to direct us to a library?" she asked.
"Now where's the fun in that?" I stated like a question.
"Must we always have fun" she said.
"I am so not going to dignify that with an answer" I said and kept on walking.
"And your supposed to be my friend" she said shaking her head sadly.
"Oh please don't turn this into a soap opera" I said " I don't think I could survive one of those things"
"Oh okay!" she said and laughed. Somehow no matter what we said it always went weird I would be very surprised if someone could someday understand what we said to the full extent
"I don't no why I put up with you" I said and grinned "I don't want to know this worlds history... do you?"
"No not really it was just something to do while we figured out what to do from here" she said and shrugged "Not like we have any better ideas...or do you"
"Hmmh.... well no not really but a Library....plus we don't have library cards or anything...lets just try to find the...Hey a bookstore!" I said and ran towards it at top speed. It took me 2 seconds to get there...that was a record even for me. Oh well like I cared when I could look in books...hehhehheh
"EERRRRRRRRR...Get back here you little ..ehehhhehhe" she said and ran after me waving her fist in the air as she went.
"Yeah books and books and more books and infinite knowledge of the past present and future of all things great and small. Muh ha hah ha" I said staring at the sky in a ruler of the universe kind of pose.
"Sometimes I could really hate you, you know that" she said and sighed cause she was a book fanatic too.
"Meh, don't care! Well look on the bright side we found books but now what do we do...we need to find a person who can help us find away back home...like a technical genius" I said to no one in particular "Give us a sign"
"Oh hello there! I couldn't help but overhear that you need someone to help you...what exactly is it that you need help with" a tall woman said to us.
" Uhhh...okay thank you Lord and Lady ..I am quick to think this is your sign" I whispered so no one could hear...well except Kate because well you know she's in my head all the time so it's kinda hard for her not to hear what I say...anyway.
Kate shook her head and said "Well maybe you could tell us where we could find a scientist or someone in charge who could tell us where to find a...well I guess like a fortune teller...we kinda need to ask a couple of questions about stuff"
"What kind of stuff do you need to know about" the lady asked patiently.
"Ummh...well you wouldn't believe us if we told you" I said and started to look at my shoe which had become very fascinating at the moment.
" My name is Martha and I am a scientist at the local university...and I would believe just about anything you would tell me...trust me and try me...I promise I won't tell anyone else about it...all I want to do is help" she said.
"Your a scientist?.....Kool.... Okay I'll give you the short version....but could we go somewhere...well quite so that no one around here will think we are crazy or something" I said.
"Sure thing we can go to my lab and then we can talk over a cup of coffee-" she said.
"No coffee! We don't drink it...sorry to yell but we don't like coffee or tea...Ummh how about hot chocolate instead" I said and smiled.
"Hahhahhahahha...that's okay I can get you both hot chocolate-" she said.
"Actually could you get me a cafe mocha instead" Kate said also interrupting.
" Hahhhhhahha...okay okay okay...I'll get you both whatever you want when we get to the lab...it's just a little ways away" she said and started to head away from the bookstore.
"So much for shopping" I muttered under my breath.
"Thank you Lord and Lady for that one" Kate muttered under her breath and walked along side of me.
"I heard that" I said and whacked her on the back of the head.
"I don't care" she said and whacked me right back. We kept on following her and yes we did realize we were following a complete stranger but we knew she was a good person. Don't ask we don't know how. We followed her right into a museum of science that had a giant C within a C....and walked into an office that had M J. Fromell printed on it and that weird CC symbol or logo printed on the door in the office. We kept on following her until we reached the inner rooms where they had a great big Personnel only cafeteria with food that smelled so good our mouths began to water. Maybe we could get another bite to eat...even though this would be like our second meal in like what and hour max. and 30 minutes at the very least....well while we are here maybe we could get our blood tested cause eating this much this soon was beyond normal....
"Ummmmmh......Do you think we could get some food while we are here too....if that wouldn't be too much trouble that is....along with my hot chocolate and Kate's cafe mocha" I asked trying to look somewhat pathetic to get a free meal after all we only had 250 dollars each...we had to save as much as possible.
"Sure that's fine.....my treat!" she said and kept on walking till she went up to the cafe lady, pointed at us and then brought a tray full of stuff and our hot drinks. "Here! I don't know what you two like to eat so I got the special for both of you and your drinks that I promised" she said and sat down with us.
"Kate...why are you silent?" I asked looking up from her before I dug in to my food.
She shrugged " No reason in particular just kinda going scientific like, you know kinda excited about getting help and then kinda going crazy not wanting to go...you know the usual.....Boy am I hungry...I don't know why though we ate like 30 minutes ago and that was a huge meal just on its own"
"Yeah I know exactly what you mean...I wonder why we are so hungry...By the Way Martha, I noticed that this place is owned by CC or is that just like a nickname for this place?" I asked simply out of curiosity.
"Oh that's the founder of the building it stands for Capsule Corporation...it's a big name around here...now I am really curious about you two...How come you don't know that logo. Everything around this world knows or has a CC logo in the city. That corporation invented a lot of things that we use today such as the capsules" she said saying it like she couldn't believe we didn't know what it was.
"Ummh okay.." I said and looked at Kate and then said "so they are like a major pharmacist company selling pills to people to cure diseases!"
Fump! Martha was sprawled on the floor face first in a face vault then she slowly go up dusted herself off and sat down. "No! That is not what a capsule is...you seriously don't know what one is do you?" she asked and looked at us in a new light. " When you said you were having a problem you weren't kidding were you?"
"No and No!" Kate said finishing her food as quickly as possible.
"Yep what she said" I said eating my food and drinking my well drink.
" Well now I am absolutely in need of understanding your problem...like I said before I am one of the best scientists in the world next to Dr. Briefs his daughter Bulma and Dr.Gero and a few scientists in the past. Such as Dr.Wheelo etc... I am pretty sure you don't want to know about them but since you don't know anything about the Capsule Corporation you should know about Dr.Briefs and Bulma Briefs...What are you two laughing about....you had better not be pulling my leg" she said getting angry as we were laughing our heads off.
"You...hahhahha...said...hahhhaha....Dr.Briefs...hahahaha...and Bulma......hahahaha.....where we...hahahaha...come from...that...that means...under....underwear..." I said almost unable to finish my sentence due to my laughing hysterics. Kate wisely kept silent...well at least from talking cause she was laughing too.
"Oh!...Oh....I'm sorry I thought you were laughing cause you knew who they were" she said staring at us "You two are lively aren't you...I've never heard anyone laugh that loud or hard before."
"Uhhhhh.....sorry" I said wiping my eye's dry "but you got to admit that is funny"
"Well I suppose it would be but they are very rich and smart people and have made many inventions in our time.......Dr.Briefs invented the capsule which is a small "pill" like case that when you press the button on the top! It will expand into something like a car or house or fridge. Whatever you need can be out into a tiny object which makes carrying things a lot easier and convenient."
"Are you serious?" I asked in surprise cause what she was saying was near to impossible well at least where we come from apparently. "Cause what your saying is that big massive things can be put into tiny little things"
"Yes that's right....to some extent except that the capsule actually changes the mass of an object to fit into the capsule... so it does make sense scientifically and can be proven....Here I'll show you what I mean" she said taking out what could only be a capsule, walking over to an empty cafe table and pressing the button on the top in full view of us and Poof!!!!! On the desk was a giant portable experiment set. "See it does work!"
"Okay! well I guess I have to believe what I just saw cause I did see what I just saw right Kate?" I asked pulling on her shirt and staring at the experiment set.
"Uh-huh!" she said her mouth hanging open and once again bug eyeing the set. "Yeah, that's what I saw that is if that's what you saw"
"Okay...How about you both just forget about the capsule's until you can accept the facts" Martha said understanding that we really couldn't believe our eye's. "Now do you believe me! Now can you trust me to tell me what your problem is so that I can attempt to help you"
"Okay! Amber give her the Short version...please so that we don't have to be here all day" Kate said taking our trays to the cafe lady.
"Okay, here's the really quick version... We were walking to school when the floor opened up beneath us and sent us to this world where we have been for quite awhile and are trying to find our way out of here....well at least Kate" I finished just as Kate walked back from dropping off the trays and throwing out the garbage.
"Oh is that all..............................................................." Martha said and stared at us blinking.
"Well! that went right over her head" I said and laughed and sighed.
"Uh-huh, you said it" Kate said watching Martha trying to see if she was still alive. Martha shook her head and closed her eye's and began to think a very difficult pass time for us anyway. "Okay so your saying that your from a whole different world....and that you don't know how you got here or why?" she asked beginning to assimilate the knowledge.
"Yep that about sums it up" Kate said.
" Okay so your problem than is getting back to where you came from!" she said.
"Well I don't want to go but she does and I think I want to go back to get a couple of things from where we come from and bring them here" I said smiling.
"Uhhhh....your scaring me Amber...stop smiling" Kate said.
Whap! "Shut Up!" I said and then glared at her while sticking my tongue out at her.
"No you shut up!" she said returning the glare and the sticking out of tongues.
"How about both of you be quiet! While I attempt to figure this out" said Martha rubbing her temples.
"Sorry!" we said in unison while silently laughing.
" I don't know if I can personally help you on that one....I think it would probably be better if you got help from someone else...but I would like to help you understand your physiology since you said you had an increase in the need for food." Martha said smiling " and maybe if your lucky I may be able to get a hold of someone who knows Bulma and you can talk to her about your problems"
"Okay but I warn you now I hate needle's" I said.
"I second that" Kate said.
"Okay! Well you don't have to look at the needle while I take a blood sample and I promise it will be quick" she said and smiled as she put away her set and walked us to her laboratory...well actually it was everyone's laboratory but she had booked it so it was technically hers and it was empty! That was all that mattered.
"Wow...this is a big lab" I said looking around at all the high tech stuff in here like telescopes and computers and lots of those things that spin around with the test tubes in them. This place was huge and had lots of equipment but it was neat and clean and very dull since all the walls were gray and black and didn't have much color. "This place sure is....drab"
"Well this particular lab was created for a lot of the police department research in solving murders and there lab testing so don't mind the room" she said simply and went off into a room to get a couple of syringes and some swabs as well as glass plates to go under the microscope.
"Uhhh do we have to do that now" I said my voice getting a little strained.
" Yeah can't we do that like later! Really later" Kate said beginning to edge away.
"Yeah, What's the rush" I said fake laughing.
"Now you two want to know why you need to eat so much and this is the only way to find that out! Now both of you sit down in the chairs and let me keep my promise" she said and sat down in a chair facing us and between a table so that she could take a blood sample. She also had a rubber tube that she tied around our arm to cut the blood flow and then she attached the needle to those tube things and pressed it into our flesh. Whoa way to much detail I am just going to ignore the big metal thingy draining my blood away....I said I am going to ignore it
"Ow" I said as she finished with the blood draining. A few moment's later I heard a repeated "Ow" by Kate as she was finished as well.
"How long does it take for you to run all the tests and figure out why we are eating so much?" I asked as I put a Band-Aid on my little puncture mark.
"Well, it will take a couple of days sometimes weeks but I think I can get all the tests done in about 2 days since I have this lab to work with which just happens to be the crime lab with all of the chemicals I need" Martha said and smiled as she took the samples and began to work on them immediately.
"Uhhhhh, your doing that now?" I asked " I mean like right now when we are here! Do you want us to go or something?"
"Oh, yeah I forgot that you two don't come from here...Don't touch that Kate it's very delicate and I don't want it broken" Martha said as she noticed Kate looking at the telescope and then moving onto some of those spinning test tube things. "Well how about I give you the number to my office and you can call me in a day or so and I can give you the information that I have at that time"
"You mean that you are going to let us out! Even though we could possibly have a disease or something that could destroy the universe!" I said exaggerating a wee bit.
"At the very most you would have a eating disorder not a disease and I highly doubt that you would have a disease that could hurt you or the universe so I think you'll be okay" Martha said smiling.
"Oh-Okay if that's what you think is best that's fine with us right Kate" I said and dragged Kate out of there and began to walk out the door.
"Ooooo, that's not fair I want to play with the metal objects and do experiments and stuff...." she said and pouted as I dragged her out.
"Oh by the way here is the card with my office number" said Martha as she tossed the card to us and continued on her experiments.
"Thanks Martha see you around" I said and let go of Kate to catch the card "Huh, Cap-Corp. what a number so that's 227-2677 how original"
"Yep, it sure is.... now let's go somewhere I am seriously bored and don't have anything to do now ! We just reached another dead end *sigh*" she said and exaggerated the sigh as we walked out of the building.
"Meh, what do you want to do? It's not like we have anywhere to go now you know!" I said and stared at her.
"Well we could try to find somewhere to sleep since she said it would take a couple of days for her to run all of the tests or we could get a job and try to buy a car or we could do...." I said trailing off on purpose.
" Well now we really are lost, what are we supposed to do now" she said.
"Whoa, I am having deja vu...are you?" I asked.
"Whoa, no way man" she said in that weird dumb voice.
"I guess we just wait for the couple of days to pass and then maybe we can go to...Hey I got an idea! She said that Lady was called Bulma Briefs," Kate nodded at that "well if she is this big time person maybe we could find out where she is and head over there and ask her ourselves?" I said with a bright light bulb appearing over my head to signify my brilliant idea which didn't happen to often but when it did, it really did.
"Yeah! why not, we should be able to find her in a phone book or even by some other people who would know where she lives....I wonder what city she lives in or if we are even in the same city as she is in, after all we don't exactly have transportation" said Kate trying to plan our next move.
"Well than I guess we get to find a phone book...OH NOOOOO...we don't have any change to make a call" I said staring at the ground.
"Oh yeah! Duh I completely forgot well I guess we will just have to go get some change. Want to get something else to eat?" she asked.
Fump!!!!" Is all you think about food?" I asked from the ground.
"Currently but then again I know you are hungry too" she stated and pulled me to my feet.
"Darn! and I thought I hid that so well too" I said as we started to walk toward a shopping mall which we thought would have a food court.
" Can we buy something pretty please, please, please, please. Can we, can we, can we!" I begged and pleaded with Kate.
"No! We are only getting food. You understand that" said Kate as we walked into the food court and began to figure out where we wanted to eat. Today the place seemed fairly empty but that was our standards from our home. We didn't know, but like we cared all we wanted was something to eat anyway sooooo we ignored the shops and they didn't have anything overly interesting except for a kimono store but the dresses were like 400 dollars each. No big surprise there but you know. We decided to go wash up before we ate cause it had been awhile since we had had water and soap. We had washed our hands at the restaurant with the 4 weird men but that had been hours ago. We went into the stall and noticed how bad our clothing was so we decided that we really needed to get some clothes. Well at least one new set if we wanted to be presentable for this Bulma person. We looked at all the shops but it was apparent that they had nothing that we overly liked. I was personally tired of both track pants and jeans, so I decided to compromise and get something in-between so it was baggy cotton pants that were black in color. So much for only getting food. Anyway when we were finished shopping we both looked really kool but we only had 100 dollars left each. I had black baggy pants with a light blue belt along with a spaghetti strap tank top as well as a black leather jacket and leather boots that reached up to my knees. They were really nice to as well as flexible. Along with that I had a long skirt like thing in appearance that was slit up the sides all the way to the start of my thighs, it was blue and silver which I thought was really kool. Kate decided to pick up some black jeans and a black v-neck T-shirt with a silver hoop belt and a black leather coat. We were both extremely happy with our purchases and were amazed that we found them, it only took us about half the day to find them and to actually find a place to eat. In the end we decided to eat some Chinese food it was the best food place in the mall. You can take our word on that we searched every inch of the place trying to find our clothes.
"Well that was fun" I said after we had finished our meals.
"Yep you got that right" she said and leaned back relaxing after her filling meal.
"I second that, well it's like 8 o'clock now so what do you want to do now? We have the change needed to make quite a few phone calls and it's getting late. We should probably try to find somewhere to crash for the night" I said as I got up and threw away the garbage.
"I love our new outfits they are so kool" she said with a high pitched voice.
"I know aren't they just the greatest" I said imitating her.
"Grrrrr" she said and got up from her spot.
"Well let's go then cause I am actually getting tired now" I said and yawned to prove my point.
"Oh, all right I guess we can go and try to find a place to sleep." she said as something began to beep.
"Hey where is that coming from" I said patting my self down trying to find the source of the noise.
"I think it's coming from your purse" she said and pointed at my purse.
"Yeah, but I don't have a cell phone" I said
"What a bout a beeper or something.....did Martha give you anything besides the card?" she asked.
"Well, only one way to find out" I said and reached into my purse and pulled out the card that was attached to a cell phone.
"Okay? I thought you said that she didn't give you anything...hey wait did it have a capsule attached to the back of it maybe" she said trying to figure out why there was a cell phone in my purse.
Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring "Hello?" I said.
"Hi Girls, it's Martha sorry I forgot to tell you about the capsule I gave you along with the card. Anyway I also forgot to tell you that if you guys need a place to sleep then you can go to the Orange Star hotel! I have made arrangements for you to stay there for as long as you need to and when you get there, you will also be given a capsule set with some money and some clothes and transportation just call Orng Str which is 676-4787 when you guys want to. Okay" she said.
"Are you psychic or something?" I asked" Cause we were just talking about going to sleep"
"No, I'm not psychic it's just that it's 10 and I wanted you to know that you could go somewhere when you wanted to go to sleep" she said.
"Oh okay, thanks that's very nice of you. We won't forget this ever and Kate says Hi" I said.
"Okay say Hi for me to her and I hope you guys have fun. By the way I haven't gotten any results yet on your DNA so don't ask" she said and laughed "Bye"
"Bye Martha" I said. Click the phone went dead. "Martha says Hi"
"Oh okay, so what did she say?" asked Kate.
"Well she made arrangements for us at a hotel called Orange Star, so we don't have to find a place to sleep and she said she left us money and capsules there too" I answered.
"Oh okay, more capsule thingys" she said and began to laugh.
"O-kay, sure whatever you say! Anyway lets go over to the hotel I'm beat and really need to sleep" I said and smiled. "The only problem is that we have to find them, so I guess I'll call them and they can tell me where they are and we can get like a taxi or something to take us there"
"Sounds like a plan to me.....Okay that's it who are you and what did you do with Amber" she said and laughed again.
"Oh boy, I can see this night is going to be a very long one" I said and smacked myself in the face. "Why do I put up with you again?"
"Because you love me" she said stressing the love part.
"Ummh, I'm leaving now" I said and began to slowly walk away.
"Not without me you aren't" she said getting all serious again.
"Okay, lets get out of the mall and then make the call so we don't have to have people staring at us inside the mall" I said as we exited the mall.
"So are you going to make the call?" she asked.
"Yeah, I will just give me a sec to think" I said and began to think. "Okay so what was that number again?"
"Wasn't it Orange Star hotel so that would be Orng Str which is 676- 4787" she said and knocked me on the head. "Anyone awake in there?"
"Blink, Blink, Blink...What are you talking about?" I asked " You know there's no one in there"
"Oh yeah" she said pretending to not remember.
"Okay lets just go the hotel" I said as she nodded and I picked up the phone preparing to dial. (the end for now....)
"Ha! take that you chauvinistic and sexist .." I said shouting and bearing my teeth.
"Whoa! chill...I'm sure they get the picture without needing to ..uhh swear your head off!" she said and smiled trying not to laugh as we got a look at the boys who had there jaws hanging down to the ground and there eye's so huge they looked like bug eye's.
I stopped my rage and looked at them and couldn't help but burst out laughing until my ribs just couldn't take it any more." Oh Kay it's official now we have laughed more here than we did back home and we laughed quite a bit in our life time." I said smiling at Kate.
"Yeah I guess your right this definitely needs to go in the Guinness book of records" Kate said and then we turned back to the boys and put there mouths back up to where they belonged.
"How...How did you do that!" Phil said rubbing his chin and jaw getting rid of the stiffness.
"Do what?" we said in unison wondering what they were talking about. They're jaws once more dropping to the ground in utter shock as they pointed to the tree's.
"Cut down the tree's..." Joe said trailing off as they all tried to pull themselves together.
" Oh that...that was nothing when we get angry we tend to hurt things in this case it was the tree's.. we are truly sorry if we scared or surprised you" I said trying to look innocent but like that would work ever.
" Oy sometimes the lasses can also give ya a big headache" James said rubbing his head trying to massage away his pain. "Well I guess we had better load up the truck then... since the tree's that we need are already cut down...Joe call Charles to haul his butt up here so that we can go to town drop of the girls and then get over to Nancy's so that we can carve the furniture from the wood!"
"Uhhh...Yeah just give me a moment to remember where I last put it." Joe said as he searched his pockets for the phone and after a few moments he found it." Hey Charles get your butt in gear and bring the truck it's time to load the logs for transport ....yeah I know we got a couple passengers that cut them down for us...no I'm serious...yes I'm sure I'm not imagining things...yes I know...uhh they didn't say...you ask them...no...just bring the truck up here...don't make me get Dad on the phone...yeah I thought so, see you in a few minutes" he said and hung up the phone.
"Soooo.....I'm assuming we get to load the logs now huh!" said Kate and shrugged.
"Yeah, we load the logs and then we drive to town and drop you off if that's okay with you, that is" said James.
"Yep fine with us! we need to explore civilizations and ruins and temples and pyramids and etc..." I said smiling and trailing off.
"Although we wouldn't mind getting a meal or something before we go if that's okay with you of course. "Kate said rubbing her belly and thinking please no more fish please.
"Yeah that would be fine, we don't mind giving you a meal" said James as he began to pick up one of the tree's we cut down with Phil and Joe, just as (we assume) Charles drives up with a large lumber truck. Both Kate and I grabbed a log each and began to lift.
"Wow , these are pretty light" I said" for logs that is"
"Yeah I know what you mean" she said as she effortlessly picked up the log swung it over her shoulder and pushed it up into the back of the truck. Just as I imitated the same thing she did and put my log into the truck as well.
"2 down 18 to go" I said as we picked up another 2 logs and repeated the process until there was only the one log that was being held by Charles, Phil, Joe and James.
"Do you want us to carry that for you" Kate said and walked over to pick up the log and quickly put it onto the truck and wrapped them with rope so that they wouldn't roll off the truck.
"I...I...I ....I...I....I...I....I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I...I..." the men said in unison "can't believe you just did that"
"Ummh...sure whatever you say.." I said looking at them strangely and saying it in a strange voice as well as lifting my eyebrow.
"Can we go, can we go, can we go go go, can we go can we go can we go go go, can we go can we go can we go go go Goooooooooo can we go go go!" Kate said humming along to the words she had just sung.
"Uhh...what she said yesssss!" I said still in strange mode "Let's go" as I jumped up onto the truck and sat on the logs beside Kate as she jumped up "Are you okay you haven't even had a cafe mocha how can you be hyper now, that's my job!"
"Hyper I am Why?" she said and then scratched her head. "Or is it Hyper am I?"
"Uhhh...when did you fall on your head and let what little brain you had leak out" I said tapping her head.
"Oh is that what happened I don't remember" she said still rubbing her head "No wonder it hurts so much" then she smiled and we knew we had to get out of here quickly.
" Uhh...so can we go now!" I said then she elbowed me in the side "ow, please!" I added smiling while rubbing my side vigorously and glaring at her at the same time.
"Yes, I think we should go now to Dad, huh?" Phil said beginning to climb into the 4 seater truck and went into the back and buckled his belt staring like he had seen a ghost. Who knows maybe he had...maybe they all had...Ri-ight. They all agreed and we loaded onto the truck...well actually only three of them loaded onto the truck since we were already on it and so was Phil. We pulled out of the forest shortly and followed a well traveled trail that after an hour of traveling took us to a dirt road that eventually led into a paved road...etc. Anyway what was really important was the scenery...it was beau-ti-ful and I mean it. The forests were huge! Well actually the tree's but yeah anyway the colors are what were really cool and not to mention the breeze rushing through our hair since we were riding on the back of the truck on top of the logs. There were so many colors it was like looking at rainbow in the shape of tree's there were light pink blossoms and baby blue one's and violet and I think you get the picture. Like I said it was pretty but last but not least we had a great view of the ocean from our current position. It reminded me of one of those Japanese romances with the chery blossom tree's blowing in the wind throwing there petals that would dance around the couple who were...
"Amber...Earth to Amber" Kate said shouting at me "Houston we have a problem"
"What? I am allowed to day dream right" I said glaring at her and attempting to remember what I had been thinking about before she had most rudely interrupted my thoughts.
"uhhh...I think so let me check the rule book" she said and pulled a piece of paper from her pocket.
"What are you talking about?" I asked just about ready to strangle her by the hairs on her chiny chin chin ummh well actually more like her long hair which a certain prince could climb up of... I mean her nose...I mean I ...don't know what I mean. I settled for a blank look instead.
"Don't give me that look" she said and then laughed " I can't wait to have food...I think my stomach is going to be causing an earthquake soon or at least break the sound barrier if I don't get some soon"
"Alrighty then....I'll go over here...and you can go over there" I said pointing at no spot in particular.
"Sure thing" she said and acted crazy or at least I think she 'acted' crazy.
"Uhhh...I wonder how much longer it is going to take to get to this city or town or village or whatever" I said getting a tad bit cranky due to lack of food.
"I hope we get there soon I really need to eat some food" she said once more rubbing her belly and imagining really warm food that had nothing to do with FISH for once.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah I know and something that isn't fish. You've told me so many times now I've lost count." I said and glared at her. We continued on like that until we saw a town actually it was more like a small city but we saw a huge...I mean tall city that was very highly advanced and gasp there was a fast food restaurant and other pretty nice food places that weren't grease pits. This place made Toronto's tallest building look like a tiny model. The building's weren't very wide but they were very tall. This place was also pretty crowded too. There were more people here than there were in Olympics including all the fans at home in other city's around the world...a slight exaggeration...yeah whatever. Anyway we continued to head towards the ever looming city heights. Food................................................food.................... ...food... .........food...food..food.food. Food!
"Food Frenzy!" I said yelling as I got excited at the thought of finally being fed.
"Oh yeah...totally cheesy" she said imitating the guy from the cheesy commercial.
"Yip, Yip Yipeee!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled getting restless not to mention I couldn't feel my legs anymore..oh yeah I wasn't suppossed to mention that...oh well...too late!! " I smell Chocolate!"
"Don't inhale, don't inhale!" she yelled trying to cover my nose.
"Too Late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I said my voice all high pitched and then I went crazy. " Ohhhh... look at the colors, aren't they beautiful" I said off in another world.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooo, it's not allowed...your not allowed to be hyper. It's evil I tell you EVIL" she yelled trying to close her eye's so that she wouldn't have to see me anymore at least when I have gone crazy. She even tried to plug her ears by sticking her fingers in them. Yeah, like that would work. "LA, la la la la I'm not listening, I'm not listening la la la la la"
"Hhehhhehhehhehhhhehhehehhehehhehhehehe.....poking time" I said evillly and crawled over to her mindful that we were still on the truck moving inside the city at the moment.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...run away" she said and began to crawl away.
"You can crawl but you can't hide......" I said just as she reached the end of the truck" well... I guess you can't crawl either...Poke attack" I said just as I started to poke her and the truck stopped making both of us fall off of it.
"Well I guess that puts and end to that... o" I said and rubbed my sore skull for all the good it would do me.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!" she yelled and grabbed me and ran to the front of the truck jumping up and down trying to get them to come out so we could eat. "Hurry up, hurry up! please please please please pleaseeeeeee!"
"Put me down!!!!!!" and let go of my arm I said yelling at her to let go of my arm.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!" she repeated.
"Okay now your just getting annoying stop it" I said and slapped her across the face WHACK!" Now pull yourself together! K Kiro"
"Uhh...Yeah that would be good thing" she said rubbing her cheek it wasn't a hard slap but a slap to snap her out of her hyperness. "Okay I am calm now but I am still hungry"
"Yeah...I know and let's just leave it at that" I said as we followed the boys into the restaurant as they ordered food for us to eat and no it wasn't greasy it was a good healthy meal that didn't have one piece of fish in it. Which was good enough for us. Since we were so sick of fish that the mere mention of it's name disgusted us. Sigh
"Well we brought you to where we promised we would and we will depart from you now. Unless you need further help" said James as Phil, Joe and Charles left and piled into the truck.
"Uhh...No actually that was all we needed. thank you for all your help" I said and smiled a rare thing that very rarely occurred. Hence it being rare.
"Yeah we both thank you for your help in getting here. I hope you have fun with the wood carving and furniture stuff" she said also smiling, a thing she did way to often.
"All right thank you for helping us cut down the tree's and load them up" he said reaching into his pocket" here, this is what I owe you for the work you did with us earlier" he forked over 250 dollars each to both of us. We stood there with our mouths swinging off the hinges by our ankles at the sight of 250 dollars for work that took us less than two hours to do." It's about time we got your mouths to hang down. Hahahhahhahhahhaha" he laughed as he got into his truck and drove away.
"That was anti-climatic" Kate said and stared at where they used to be.
"So where to next?" I said after we had picked up our mouths and pocketed our cash.
"I don't know where do you want to go?" she asked.
"I don't know. Where do you want to go?" I said.
"If we keep doing this we won't get anywhere" she said and began to think, a process that with us was a visible thing.
" I don't care let's just well walk around and go window shopping!" I said and began to walk around.
"Hey! Wait up....okay we can go window shopping but no buying anything...we don't have anywhere to put it except our knapsacks and sorry to say but it's kinda full of binders and school crap" she said and glared at me. "Promise me you won't buy ANYTHING"
"Oh...all right I promise I will not buy anything....except for food when we need it...plus the only reason why I wanted to shop was so that we could try to find like a psychic who could maybe tell us where to go from now.." I said and glared right back at her.
"Sigh...Okay...so where do you want to go from here....were kinda surrounded by well food places right now lets try to find an antiquities section...or the library so we can research this world's history." she said thinking again.
"Thinking is hurting me...So stop it!" I said and began to move towards what I hoped was a library area.
"Why don't we ask someone to direct us to a library?" she asked.
"Now where's the fun in that?" I stated like a question.
"Must we always have fun" she said.
"I am so not going to dignify that with an answer" I said and kept on walking.
"And your supposed to be my friend" she said shaking her head sadly.
"Oh please don't turn this into a soap opera" I said " I don't think I could survive one of those things"
"Oh okay!" she said and laughed. Somehow no matter what we said it always went weird I would be very surprised if someone could someday understand what we said to the full extent
"I don't no why I put up with you" I said and grinned "I don't want to know this worlds history... do you?"
"No not really it was just something to do while we figured out what to do from here" she said and shrugged "Not like we have any better ideas...or do you"
"Hmmh.... well no not really but a Library....plus we don't have library cards or anything...lets just try to find the...Hey a bookstore!" I said and ran towards it at top speed. It took me 2 seconds to get there...that was a record even for me. Oh well like I cared when I could look in books...hehhehheh
"EERRRRRRRRR...Get back here you little ..ehehhhehhe" she said and ran after me waving her fist in the air as she went.
"Yeah books and books and more books and infinite knowledge of the past present and future of all things great and small. Muh ha hah ha" I said staring at the sky in a ruler of the universe kind of pose.
"Sometimes I could really hate you, you know that" she said and sighed cause she was a book fanatic too.
"Meh, don't care! Well look on the bright side we found books but now what do we do...we need to find a person who can help us find away back home...like a technical genius" I said to no one in particular "Give us a sign"
"Oh hello there! I couldn't help but overhear that you need someone to help you...what exactly is it that you need help with" a tall woman said to us.
" Uhhh...okay thank you Lord and Lady ..I am quick to think this is your sign" I whispered so no one could hear...well except Kate because well you know she's in my head all the time so it's kinda hard for her not to hear what I say...anyway.
Kate shook her head and said "Well maybe you could tell us where we could find a scientist or someone in charge who could tell us where to find a...well I guess like a fortune teller...we kinda need to ask a couple of questions about stuff"
"What kind of stuff do you need to know about" the lady asked patiently.
"Ummh...well you wouldn't believe us if we told you" I said and started to look at my shoe which had become very fascinating at the moment.
" My name is Martha and I am a scientist at the local university...and I would believe just about anything you would tell me...trust me and try me...I promise I won't tell anyone else about it...all I want to do is help" she said.
"Your a scientist?.....Kool.... Okay I'll give you the short version....but could we go somewhere...well quite so that no one around here will think we are crazy or something" I said.
"Sure thing we can go to my lab and then we can talk over a cup of coffee-" she said.
"No coffee! We don't drink it...sorry to yell but we don't like coffee or tea...Ummh how about hot chocolate instead" I said and smiled.
"Hahhahhahahha...that's okay I can get you both hot chocolate-" she said.
"Actually could you get me a cafe mocha instead" Kate said also interrupting.
" Hahhhhhahha...okay okay okay...I'll get you both whatever you want when we get to the lab...it's just a little ways away" she said and started to head away from the bookstore.
"So much for shopping" I muttered under my breath.
"Thank you Lord and Lady for that one" Kate muttered under her breath and walked along side of me.
"I heard that" I said and whacked her on the back of the head.
"I don't care" she said and whacked me right back. We kept on following her and yes we did realize we were following a complete stranger but we knew she was a good person. Don't ask we don't know how. We followed her right into a museum of science that had a giant C within a C....and walked into an office that had M J. Fromell printed on it and that weird CC symbol or logo printed on the door in the office. We kept on following her until we reached the inner rooms where they had a great big Personnel only cafeteria with food that smelled so good our mouths began to water. Maybe we could get another bite to eat...even though this would be like our second meal in like what and hour max. and 30 minutes at the very least....well while we are here maybe we could get our blood tested cause eating this much this soon was beyond normal....
"Ummmmmh......Do you think we could get some food while we are here too....if that wouldn't be too much trouble that is....along with my hot chocolate and Kate's cafe mocha" I asked trying to look somewhat pathetic to get a free meal after all we only had 250 dollars each...we had to save as much as possible.
"Sure that's fine.....my treat!" she said and kept on walking till she went up to the cafe lady, pointed at us and then brought a tray full of stuff and our hot drinks. "Here! I don't know what you two like to eat so I got the special for both of you and your drinks that I promised" she said and sat down with us.
"Kate...why are you silent?" I asked looking up from her before I dug in to my food.
She shrugged " No reason in particular just kinda going scientific like, you know kinda excited about getting help and then kinda going crazy not wanting to go...you know the usual.....Boy am I hungry...I don't know why though we ate like 30 minutes ago and that was a huge meal just on its own"
"Yeah I know exactly what you mean...I wonder why we are so hungry...By the Way Martha, I noticed that this place is owned by CC or is that just like a nickname for this place?" I asked simply out of curiosity.
"Oh that's the founder of the building it stands for Capsule Corporation...it's a big name around here...now I am really curious about you two...How come you don't know that logo. Everything around this world knows or has a CC logo in the city. That corporation invented a lot of things that we use today such as the capsules" she said saying it like she couldn't believe we didn't know what it was.
"Ummh okay.." I said and looked at Kate and then said "so they are like a major pharmacist company selling pills to people to cure diseases!"
Fump! Martha was sprawled on the floor face first in a face vault then she slowly go up dusted herself off and sat down. "No! That is not what a capsule is...you seriously don't know what one is do you?" she asked and looked at us in a new light. " When you said you were having a problem you weren't kidding were you?"
"No and No!" Kate said finishing her food as quickly as possible.
"Yep what she said" I said eating my food and drinking my well drink.
" Well now I am absolutely in need of understanding your problem...like I said before I am one of the best scientists in the world next to Dr. Briefs his daughter Bulma and Dr.Gero and a few scientists in the past. Such as Dr.Wheelo etc... I am pretty sure you don't want to know about them but since you don't know anything about the Capsule Corporation you should know about Dr.Briefs and Bulma Briefs...What are you two laughing about....you had better not be pulling my leg" she said getting angry as we were laughing our heads off.
"You...hahhahha...said...hahhhaha....Dr.Briefs...hahahaha...and Bulma......hahahaha.....where we...hahahaha...come from...that...that means...under....underwear..." I said almost unable to finish my sentence due to my laughing hysterics. Kate wisely kept silent...well at least from talking cause she was laughing too.
"Oh!...Oh....I'm sorry I thought you were laughing cause you knew who they were" she said staring at us "You two are lively aren't you...I've never heard anyone laugh that loud or hard before."
"Uhhhhh.....sorry" I said wiping my eye's dry "but you got to admit that is funny"
"Well I suppose it would be but they are very rich and smart people and have made many inventions in our time.......Dr.Briefs invented the capsule which is a small "pill" like case that when you press the button on the top! It will expand into something like a car or house or fridge. Whatever you need can be out into a tiny object which makes carrying things a lot easier and convenient."
"Are you serious?" I asked in surprise cause what she was saying was near to impossible well at least where we come from apparently. "Cause what your saying is that big massive things can be put into tiny little things"
"Yes that's right....to some extent except that the capsule actually changes the mass of an object to fit into the capsule... so it does make sense scientifically and can be proven....Here I'll show you what I mean" she said taking out what could only be a capsule, walking over to an empty cafe table and pressing the button on the top in full view of us and Poof!!!!! On the desk was a giant portable experiment set. "See it does work!"
"Okay! well I guess I have to believe what I just saw cause I did see what I just saw right Kate?" I asked pulling on her shirt and staring at the experiment set.
"Uh-huh!" she said her mouth hanging open and once again bug eyeing the set. "Yeah, that's what I saw that is if that's what you saw"
"Okay...How about you both just forget about the capsule's until you can accept the facts" Martha said understanding that we really couldn't believe our eye's. "Now do you believe me! Now can you trust me to tell me what your problem is so that I can attempt to help you"
"Okay! Amber give her the Short version...please so that we don't have to be here all day" Kate said taking our trays to the cafe lady.
"Okay, here's the really quick version... We were walking to school when the floor opened up beneath us and sent us to this world where we have been for quite awhile and are trying to find our way out of here....well at least Kate" I finished just as Kate walked back from dropping off the trays and throwing out the garbage.
"Oh is that all..............................................................." Martha said and stared at us blinking.
"Well! that went right over her head" I said and laughed and sighed.
"Uh-huh, you said it" Kate said watching Martha trying to see if she was still alive. Martha shook her head and closed her eye's and began to think a very difficult pass time for us anyway. "Okay so your saying that your from a whole different world....and that you don't know how you got here or why?" she asked beginning to assimilate the knowledge.
"Yep that about sums it up" Kate said.
" Okay so your problem than is getting back to where you came from!" she said.
"Well I don't want to go but she does and I think I want to go back to get a couple of things from where we come from and bring them here" I said smiling.
"Uhhhh....your scaring me Amber...stop smiling" Kate said.
Whap! "Shut Up!" I said and then glared at her while sticking my tongue out at her.
"No you shut up!" she said returning the glare and the sticking out of tongues.
"How about both of you be quiet! While I attempt to figure this out" said Martha rubbing her temples.
"Sorry!" we said in unison while silently laughing.
" I don't know if I can personally help you on that one....I think it would probably be better if you got help from someone else...but I would like to help you understand your physiology since you said you had an increase in the need for food." Martha said smiling " and maybe if your lucky I may be able to get a hold of someone who knows Bulma and you can talk to her about your problems"
"Okay but I warn you now I hate needle's" I said.
"I second that" Kate said.
"Okay! Well you don't have to look at the needle while I take a blood sample and I promise it will be quick" she said and smiled as she put away her set and walked us to her laboratory...well actually it was everyone's laboratory but she had booked it so it was technically hers and it was empty! That was all that mattered.
"Wow...this is a big lab" I said looking around at all the high tech stuff in here like telescopes and computers and lots of those things that spin around with the test tubes in them. This place was huge and had lots of equipment but it was neat and clean and very dull since all the walls were gray and black and didn't have much color. "This place sure is....drab"
"Well this particular lab was created for a lot of the police department research in solving murders and there lab testing so don't mind the room" she said simply and went off into a room to get a couple of syringes and some swabs as well as glass plates to go under the microscope.
"Uhhh do we have to do that now" I said my voice getting a little strained.
" Yeah can't we do that like later! Really later" Kate said beginning to edge away.
"Yeah, What's the rush" I said fake laughing.
"Now you two want to know why you need to eat so much and this is the only way to find that out! Now both of you sit down in the chairs and let me keep my promise" she said and sat down in a chair facing us and between a table so that she could take a blood sample. She also had a rubber tube that she tied around our arm to cut the blood flow and then she attached the needle to those tube things and pressed it into our flesh. Whoa way to much detail I am just going to ignore the big metal thingy draining my blood away....I said I am going to ignore it
"Ow" I said as she finished with the blood draining. A few moment's later I heard a repeated "Ow" by Kate as she was finished as well.
"How long does it take for you to run all the tests and figure out why we are eating so much?" I asked as I put a Band-Aid on my little puncture mark.
"Well, it will take a couple of days sometimes weeks but I think I can get all the tests done in about 2 days since I have this lab to work with which just happens to be the crime lab with all of the chemicals I need" Martha said and smiled as she took the samples and began to work on them immediately.
"Uhhhhh, your doing that now?" I asked " I mean like right now when we are here! Do you want us to go or something?"
"Oh, yeah I forgot that you two don't come from here...Don't touch that Kate it's very delicate and I don't want it broken" Martha said as she noticed Kate looking at the telescope and then moving onto some of those spinning test tube things. "Well how about I give you the number to my office and you can call me in a day or so and I can give you the information that I have at that time"
"You mean that you are going to let us out! Even though we could possibly have a disease or something that could destroy the universe!" I said exaggerating a wee bit.
"At the very most you would have a eating disorder not a disease and I highly doubt that you would have a disease that could hurt you or the universe so I think you'll be okay" Martha said smiling.
"Oh-Okay if that's what you think is best that's fine with us right Kate" I said and dragged Kate out of there and began to walk out the door.
"Ooooo, that's not fair I want to play with the metal objects and do experiments and stuff...." she said and pouted as I dragged her out.
"Oh by the way here is the card with my office number" said Martha as she tossed the card to us and continued on her experiments.
"Thanks Martha see you around" I said and let go of Kate to catch the card "Huh, Cap-Corp. what a number so that's 227-2677 how original"
"Yep, it sure is.... now let's go somewhere I am seriously bored and don't have anything to do now ! We just reached another dead end *sigh*" she said and exaggerated the sigh as we walked out of the building.
"Meh, what do you want to do? It's not like we have anywhere to go now you know!" I said and stared at her.
"Well we could try to find somewhere to sleep since she said it would take a couple of days for her to run all of the tests or we could get a job and try to buy a car or we could do...." I said trailing off on purpose.
" Well now we really are lost, what are we supposed to do now" she said.
"Whoa, I am having deja vu...are you?" I asked.
"Whoa, no way man" she said in that weird dumb voice.
"I guess we just wait for the couple of days to pass and then maybe we can go to...Hey I got an idea! She said that Lady was called Bulma Briefs," Kate nodded at that "well if she is this big time person maybe we could find out where she is and head over there and ask her ourselves?" I said with a bright light bulb appearing over my head to signify my brilliant idea which didn't happen to often but when it did, it really did.
"Yeah! why not, we should be able to find her in a phone book or even by some other people who would know where she lives....I wonder what city she lives in or if we are even in the same city as she is in, after all we don't exactly have transportation" said Kate trying to plan our next move.
"Well than I guess we get to find a phone book...OH NOOOOO...we don't have any change to make a call" I said staring at the ground.
"Oh yeah! Duh I completely forgot well I guess we will just have to go get some change. Want to get something else to eat?" she asked.
Fump!!!!" Is all you think about food?" I asked from the ground.
"Currently but then again I know you are hungry too" she stated and pulled me to my feet.
"Darn! and I thought I hid that so well too" I said as we started to walk toward a shopping mall which we thought would have a food court.
" Can we buy something pretty please, please, please, please. Can we, can we, can we!" I begged and pleaded with Kate.
"No! We are only getting food. You understand that" said Kate as we walked into the food court and began to figure out where we wanted to eat. Today the place seemed fairly empty but that was our standards from our home. We didn't know, but like we cared all we wanted was something to eat anyway sooooo we ignored the shops and they didn't have anything overly interesting except for a kimono store but the dresses were like 400 dollars each. No big surprise there but you know. We decided to go wash up before we ate cause it had been awhile since we had had water and soap. We had washed our hands at the restaurant with the 4 weird men but that had been hours ago. We went into the stall and noticed how bad our clothing was so we decided that we really needed to get some clothes. Well at least one new set if we wanted to be presentable for this Bulma person. We looked at all the shops but it was apparent that they had nothing that we overly liked. I was personally tired of both track pants and jeans, so I decided to compromise and get something in-between so it was baggy cotton pants that were black in color. So much for only getting food. Anyway when we were finished shopping we both looked really kool but we only had 100 dollars left each. I had black baggy pants with a light blue belt along with a spaghetti strap tank top as well as a black leather jacket and leather boots that reached up to my knees. They were really nice to as well as flexible. Along with that I had a long skirt like thing in appearance that was slit up the sides all the way to the start of my thighs, it was blue and silver which I thought was really kool. Kate decided to pick up some black jeans and a black v-neck T-shirt with a silver hoop belt and a black leather coat. We were both extremely happy with our purchases and were amazed that we found them, it only took us about half the day to find them and to actually find a place to eat. In the end we decided to eat some Chinese food it was the best food place in the mall. You can take our word on that we searched every inch of the place trying to find our clothes.
"Well that was fun" I said after we had finished our meals.
"Yep you got that right" she said and leaned back relaxing after her filling meal.
"I second that, well it's like 8 o'clock now so what do you want to do now? We have the change needed to make quite a few phone calls and it's getting late. We should probably try to find somewhere to crash for the night" I said as I got up and threw away the garbage.
"I love our new outfits they are so kool" she said with a high pitched voice.
"I know aren't they just the greatest" I said imitating her.
"Grrrrr" she said and got up from her spot.
"Well let's go then cause I am actually getting tired now" I said and yawned to prove my point.
"Oh, all right I guess we can go and try to find a place to sleep." she said as something began to beep.
"Hey where is that coming from" I said patting my self down trying to find the source of the noise.
"I think it's coming from your purse" she said and pointed at my purse.
"Yeah, but I don't have a cell phone" I said
"What a bout a beeper or something.....did Martha give you anything besides the card?" she asked.
"Well, only one way to find out" I said and reached into my purse and pulled out the card that was attached to a cell phone.
"Okay? I thought you said that she didn't give you anything...hey wait did it have a capsule attached to the back of it maybe" she said trying to figure out why there was a cell phone in my purse.
Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring "Hello?" I said.
"Hi Girls, it's Martha sorry I forgot to tell you about the capsule I gave you along with the card. Anyway I also forgot to tell you that if you guys need a place to sleep then you can go to the Orange Star hotel! I have made arrangements for you to stay there for as long as you need to and when you get there, you will also be given a capsule set with some money and some clothes and transportation just call Orng Str which is 676-4787 when you guys want to. Okay" she said.
"Are you psychic or something?" I asked" Cause we were just talking about going to sleep"
"No, I'm not psychic it's just that it's 10 and I wanted you to know that you could go somewhere when you wanted to go to sleep" she said.
"Oh okay, thanks that's very nice of you. We won't forget this ever and Kate says Hi" I said.
"Okay say Hi for me to her and I hope you guys have fun. By the way I haven't gotten any results yet on your DNA so don't ask" she said and laughed "Bye"
"Bye Martha" I said. Click the phone went dead. "Martha says Hi"
"Oh okay, so what did she say?" asked Kate.
"Well she made arrangements for us at a hotel called Orange Star, so we don't have to find a place to sleep and she said she left us money and capsules there too" I answered.
"Oh okay, more capsule thingys" she said and began to laugh.
"O-kay, sure whatever you say! Anyway lets go over to the hotel I'm beat and really need to sleep" I said and smiled. "The only problem is that we have to find them, so I guess I'll call them and they can tell me where they are and we can get like a taxi or something to take us there"
"Sounds like a plan to me.....Okay that's it who are you and what did you do with Amber" she said and laughed again.
"Oh boy, I can see this night is going to be a very long one" I said and smacked myself in the face. "Why do I put up with you again?"
"Because you love me" she said stressing the love part.
"Ummh, I'm leaving now" I said and began to slowly walk away.
"Not without me you aren't" she said getting all serious again.
"Okay, lets get out of the mall and then make the call so we don't have to have people staring at us inside the mall" I said as we exited the mall.
"So are you going to make the call?" she asked.
"Yeah, I will just give me a sec to think" I said and began to think. "Okay so what was that number again?"
"Wasn't it Orange Star hotel so that would be Orng Str which is 676- 4787" she said and knocked me on the head. "Anyone awake in there?"
"Blink, Blink, Blink...What are you talking about?" I asked " You know there's no one in there"
"Oh yeah" she said pretending to not remember.
"Okay lets just go the hotel" I said as she nodded and I picked up the phone preparing to dial. (the end for now....)