I don't own of the characters in this story, except for Kit Kat, Katie Kat, Mettaiah, Foo Manchu (aka FM). Any other characters are owned by their respective creators. I don't usually act serious, but in this story something occurs to me. Also, since it's almost Christmas, I've been inspired to do a short story on this.
Enough chit chat lets get on with the story.
Doubts
Okay this is a continuation of the 'Where Am I?'. This takes place the day after our adventure to the HQ Site, that is now ours to use as a club house or a hang out place. My friends Bell, C-4, Nokame, Rahn, Dan, Foo Manchu, Mettaiah and I are walking back from a temporary portal that was used to get us back home from, what all of us decided to call HQ. I looked back to where we were before, how we got to be together and what would happen if we weren't there, and why we were there in the first place? I continued my thoughts. My friends continued their chatter. I couldn't remember who was the youngest of the group, Bell or C-4? In fact I the only thing I know is I'm the oldest of the bunch. Between Serena, Rahn and Nokame I don't know who is the oldest of them. But frankly I really don't care. These guys are my friends. Young or old, I really don't care. There are my friends and I'll always try to be there for them when they really need me. To tell you the truth, I don't know what's gonna happen in the future. As I looked in what has happened to the past, there are times I really wished I wasn't who I am now. I looked at myself and began to think. Why is it that I am with these guys who gets transported to different worlds, becoming the Mobians we have become? All I wanted to do is have fun with others on-line chatting away about how cool it would be to in Sonics world. Well I've done it. I have been there, with others at my side. The adventure and exploration was great, but how many times have we came close to death having these adventures. That big ghost that yells out 'Bra!' and chases us around. That time when we were almost cooked in that cargo crate. When Shade came into view. All those times were not fun. Okay, so maybe when I we were fighting Shade, I was having a little fun making those faces during the fight, when those words keep popping above our heads after we talked.
Just as we were just about to walk in the town, I noticed something in our surroundings. The sun is shining bright. The are hardly any clouds to be seen anywhere. The trees is a healthy shade of green and the birds are in the sky frozen in mid-air. I continued to walk. I then realized what I just thought. Birds. Frozen. Mid-air. MID-AIR! I shot back looking back to where I saw the birds. There they were just floating there in the air. I looked around some more. My friends they are all there just smiling at each other. Yet, there is no sound. No movement. No..... nothing. Just frozen statues.
I begin to panic a little.
"What's going on? Why is this happening? Why doesn't anything normal every happen? I just want my friends to be left alone!!"
After saying this a voice can be heard besides mine.
"You ask so many questions. Why?"
I looked around trying to find the person who's voice this belongs to.
"Who's there?" I asked. "What do you want with me?"
"The question is not who, but why?" the voice answered.
"Oookkaaayy... Why?" I replied, not knowing what else to say.
"What if I gave you a chance to not enter the site, but I just closed that portal that would of happened to suck you in if you did? What if you had a change of course? What would you do?"
A second chance? What's this person up to? Why would I be given this kind of a opportunity?
"You are asking 'Why I am doing this?' you are probably thinking? I am here to show what could of happened if you didn't go the path you have already taken."
Everything then went black around us. The slowly a small light appeared, slowly growing until everything was in light. I then saw myself again. Only slightly older. I was back in the past, only this time I was logging off the computer to go upstairs to eat supper. Just then I appeared in a different place and time. I was in college and this time a girl was walking with my older self. Apparently they cannot see me so I decided to follow them around.
"How long has it been since we've been going out now Kate?" my older self asked the girl, who of course found out to be named Kate.
Kate was just a little bit shorter than me, and had brunette hair. The clothing she was where is a white t-shirt with a light blue vest. She also wore white shoes and a pair of dark blue pants.
'Dang, she's hot!' I thought to myself. 'I wouldn't mind be in his shoes! OH wait I am him. I not gonna be lonely in the future! Whoo hoo.'
"Well Kit, it's been three years now. And tonight is the officially the day we first dated. What are we going to do tonight?" she asked.
"Well I was thinking we should go out for dinner. Then if the night is warm, we could go star gazing or something."
"Sounds okay to me!" she smiled as she said this.
We all walked until we were at the bank.
"I just have to go in there and grab some money for tonight." Older Kit Kat said.
They both go in and she sits on the chairs near the entrance. Everything was great. I had a girlfriend, by the looks of things I'm doing alright in school. I smiled. Maybe I shouldn't become Kit Kat THE Cat. I just want to live a normal life. Just then a man came in with assorted weapons.
"This is a hold up! Get us the money quickly and everything will be alright!"
Oh NO! I watched as everyone dropped to the floor. Just as everyone did, he took Kate by the hair and dragged her to the center.
"NO!!" both, the older me and myself yelled out.
The guy jerked over to him and quickly shot Kate in the process, and then to me. I was only shot in the shoulder, but Kate was dieing. She took a hit, what appeared to be the heart.
Tears came to my eyes. How can I not help here? Why didn't I transform into Kit Kat the Cat?
"Because Kit Kat, you didn't take the course of events that you have done before." the voice echoed.
I felt hollow. Am I actually to be destined to be lonely? My eyes felt blank as I just stared into space. The man who has shot my future love, has already ran away. This must not had been the plan for him. I watched as myself ran to Kate and held her tightly to his body. Kate brought her hand up to his face, but before she could touch it, her hand slowly dragged back down to the floor. I could hear the screams of agony as I watched myself mourn in agony of my lost. Other people have gotten up to help me and my love. But they all knew that they lost a soul.
I broke away from the horror, and something new took within me. I did not know her well now, but I knew that I must of loved her to stay with her for at least three years. Rage began to build within me. I ran. I ran after the man who has done this to her. I saw him running two blocks down. I began my mad sprint after him. I was catching up to him. Each step bring me closer to avenge the death of Kate. I jumped at my enemy ready to tear him apart, but instead of tackling him down. I simply with right through him.
"You cannot interact with anyone. No one can see you. No one can hear you except for me."
"Who are you? What do you want? Is this some kind of a sick game you enjoy playing?" I screamed to the air. I still cannot see my taunter.
"The reason why I am doing this Kit Kat, is to show you what would happen if you hadn't taken the path to become the red cat. I am giving you a second chance to change things around."
Is this person joking. I then realized that I could stop this from ever happening. I could live a normal life. I could be with someone and not be taken as a freak.
"I cannot allow you to change to course of time. Once you make a decision you will not remember anything."
Then it's simple. I will not simple take that course. I did not want that pain again. Although the pain of being alone is just as great as losing someone you love.
"Then why show me this?" I yelled out. "Why show me this and tell me I cannot change the future if I chose this path that you have shown me?!"
"I am here to show you that the path you have made is the best and you should be glad on what you have. I have been sent here to save you from sorrow and doubt. I am here to help you re-iginite the fire of hope within you. You will need it in the future."
What is this person or thing talking about?
"So what if I stay on the course I am on now?"
"Everything will stay the same. You will still be able to transform back to Kit Kat the Cat, but you will still not remember anything that has happened."
Well good choices.
"What about Kate?" I continued my interagation of questions.
"She will be fine. But she will not remember you or know you at all."
Well of course she won't.
"Well I guess you leave me no choice. I pick to stay the same way I am going now. At least I have my friends."
What choice do I have? This meeting was a waste of time. I thought to myself. I am curious though why I need my hope to be re-iginited.
*Flash*
"Whoa." I said.
The group stopped and stared at me.
"What's wrong?" Bell asked.
"I don't know. I have a feeling something has happened to me, but I can't figure out what it is." I replied. I didn't know what has happened, but something inside me has given me hope to the future. The question is, what has given me hope. We continued our walk to the town
"Excuse me?"
We all turned to the voice. It was a young girl. About our ages. I just stared at her. She is one of the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
"Yes. Can we help you?" Rahn said.
"Yes. I was wondering if you can help direct me to 'Sleepy Sage INN'? I was doing a little site seeing by myself and I got lost." she said.
"Um... yee.... duhh.... ehh....I like cookies?" I just babbled.
Everyone stared at me.
"Don't mind him he's always like that." Rahn said trying to make an excuse for my strange behaviour.
"Kat what's wrong with you?" C-4 nudged at me from behind and talking in a hush voice.
"I don't know C. I felt I know this girl from somewhere." I replied.
"Is everything okay?" the girl asked.
"Um.. yeah. My name is Kit Kat. This is Bell, Serena, C-4 and Rahn. We are actually heading up there ourselves, we would be happy for you to join us on our way up." I said with more confidence and a lot better language structure.
"Thank you. My name is Kate. Kate Lane." she said with gratitude.
"Why does that name sound familiar." I mummbled to myself.
I then could over hear what the others were saying about me.
"I think Kat is in love with Kate." Bell said to Serena.
"You think. I never seen him act this way before." Serena told Bell.
"So you think Kat is gonna ask her out?" Rahn asked.
They all continued their chatter behind Kate and I as we continue on our way to the hotel. Luckily Kate hasn't heard a word they said. I quickly gave them a glare that must of scared them, because they quickly stopped talking behind me and began to catch up to us. They all smiled as they did this. C-4 even gave me a wink and a thumbs up to me.
I'm gonna get them for this. I don't even know the girl.
Questions were asked about her. The others all asked. I knew what they were up to. They were trying to help me get a girl, by finding out the info. They all asked innocently as they could. Eventually they all knew that I was catching on to their scheme and gave them another death stare. They smiled and quickly backed off. Well I found out she lives quite close to my town, and that we might be going to the same college. The group left us behind to go upstairs to tell the good news. At least that's what they say. I figured they did this intentionally to get us both, Kate and I, alone together. Fortunately their plan worked and we started dating for a while.
* few days later*
It was December 25. We WBM crew and the New Group decided to have a Christmas celebration altogether. We decided to have the party at HQ. Almost everyone one was there. Everyone kept in touch with each other by Messenger or e-mail. But to meet up with each other again in our Mobian forms was even better.
"Hey man sorry to hear about the break up. You gonna be okay?" Gen sat down in front of me as I prepared the food. Ckoas also joined in.
"So you got girl trouble. I got some girls that might be interested in you. If you know what I mean?" Ckoas said with a smile.
"A girl from you? I rather be lonely than to date one of your girls you choose for me." I said with a grin on my face. "Don't worry about it. We are still friends. It's just, neither of us thought that this was a very strong relationship anyways to begin with."
"I'll let that insult go Kat because of your condition. But you know denial is one of the symptoms of...." Ckoas continued.
"Shut up Ckoas."
"Oh that's it time for some paintball." He yelled out.
C-4, Ckoas and Gen brought paintball guns to the party. Although I don't know how they got those in here I agreed with the others on this. Apparently these three were planning on this and did some arrangements to HQ. They built another room specialized in their game.
"You're going down Kat!!" Gen yelled out wielding his paintball gun.
It was greens versus red. We divided up into teams by a random draw from the hat. It looked like the draw was rigged or something, because in the end it was Mettaiah, Serena, Sena, Bell, Neko Julee, TF and I are on the red team. C-4, FM, Ckoas, Gen, Dan, Rahn, Nokame and Cross were on the red team. The area we were gonna battle in is a small maze that had several housing that could be used for snipers. TF took hold in one of these quickly as the battle began. It was agreed in our group to split up in groups of two leaving TF to snipe the enemies by himself. Bell and I were teamed up with each other. I could hear the others people of the opposite team yelling out that they are looking for me. The goal. To find the a certain person of each others team and eliminate them. Unfortunately I was picked for our team for the Kitty Target. Nokame was then our target for green team. He didn't look to happy on this.
And so it begins. Bell I quickly hid behind a wall. We waited there for a moment. We both then heard Rahn and C-4 talking or whispering.
"Wait I think I see someone." Rahn said.
"It's Kat!!" C-4 yelled out.
"Oh crap!" Bell and I both said.
"Get out of here!" She ordered me. At first I hesitated, but I could hear C-4 and Rahn closing in fast on us. Bell then shoved me and took out her paint ball gun.
"I'll take care of them while you escape lover boy." she said giving me a wink.
Oh great a new nickname. I then watched as she came out of hiding and came out shooting at C-4 and Rahn.
"AHHHHH!!!" she screamed.
She shot Rahn down, but unfortunately she got shot by C-4. Two are out. One from both sides. I continued to run. I then ran into a dead end. Oh dear. The game is over already. I prepared myself for this. Waiting for C-4 to come running in.
"HA HA HA HA HA!!!!" I heard his maniacal laugh as he approached closer. Then "OW!!!"
This confused me. I turned and saw that C-4 had a red splat right across is chest. I then looked around and saw that TF sniped him from above. WHOO HOO!! We have an extra person now. C-4 left the arena. Just then TF just got shot. Dan, FM, Cross, Ckoas, Gen & Nokame were altogether and they cornered me. I saw that Nokame was the one who shot him.
"Well, looks like we finally cornered the cat!" Cross said with a smile.
"Looks like we win." Dan said, also with a smile.
All of them were grinning.
"Any last words Kat?" Ckoas asked.
"He doesn't but we do!!"
Several shots were fired from behind the green team. Each shot making their mark on their backs.
"You shouldn't be so cocky you guys. Otherwise you could of seen that you were walking in our trap that us girls set for you." Julee yelled out.
Neko and Serena were up above taking out the red team with a barrel of shots. Sena and Julee were behind them taking crack shots at their backs.
"We won!!" Sena yelled out.
We all celebrated our victory while the others came back. Even though the red team lost they laughed about it and shook our hands.
Our group was giving hugs to each other, well except for me and TF, we didn't do any hugging with each other. TF was about to, but then I stopped him by point my barrel of the paint ball gun at his stomach.
"Don't even think about it." I said.
He just smiled and gave me a high five. I found out that Julee made the plan up, so in return for saving my hide twice, I gave her a hug too because I didn't really give her even a thank you for trying to save my life. Everyone had presents for everyone else. C-4 got duct tape and some things that explodes. Bell got a stuff bear. Sena and Serena got sweaters. I got a cook book and a new yo-yo. FM got a book on "How You Know You Are a Pyro.". C-4 got more duct tape. Mettaiah got one of those "Chicken soup for the Soul" books. Gen and Ckoas got these sword maintenance kits. Ckoas also got explosives also. (uh-oh). Dan got "Hackers delight" book. C-4 got more duct tape. Nokame shell polish. Cross a chain necklace with a.... cross? Neko a new bow with a book of Robin Hood. TF um...... "How to Manage your Time Properly" book. Julee got a special edition "Worst Case Scenarios: English Class Survival Handbook". Unfortunately Mr. Rusty & Lighting did not make it for some reason. OH yeah, and C-4 got duct tape and explosives.
"Too bad Katie couldn't make it." I said. I knew she helped me a lot in the past.
Just then Katie appeared.
"Merry Christmas you guys!" she yelled out as she made her appearance.
"Hey Katie, we were talking about you." Neko said with a smile.
Everyone was glad Katie made it.
"Sorry you guys I don't have any gifts for you. I've been a little busy." she said.
"That's okay." Bell said.
"Although I do have one present for yah Kit." she said with a smile.
I looked at her through her helmet. She was smiling really hard that even her eyes seem to smile.
"What's that?" I asked.
Everyone looked at Katie. Wondering what it was that she had for Kit Kat.
"You remember those friends of yours what where they called. Well surprise!" She said pressing a button on her arm. Another portal opened and two figures came into view. A red hedgehog and a kitsune with nine tails came into view.
"Klim, Lynx you made it!!" I cried out. Klim is the red hedgehog and Lynx was the nine tail fox.
"Yeah Kat. We succeed in finishing our mission. We got a lot to tell. Katie here came and told us about your party. Sorry we didn't bring anything for yah." Klim said.
"It's been awhile now hasn't it Kat? Why don't you introduce us to your friends there?" Lynx said.
"You betcha. Guys these are the people who help take care of one of my personalities while I was a divided up. They too got sucked into the computer into another world." I explained.
They all shook hands and we continued our celebration.
"Well I guess time for home." I said. We all gathered around the computer.
"WAIT!" Gen and Ckoas yelled out.
"What?" Dan asked.
"We still have one more thing to give to you all. Including you Klim and Lynx." Ckoas said. He went to the next room and came back with a box. Gen taking the lid off presented us all a small machine.
"We call it NWDIP. New WBM Dimensional Internet Portable. Or DIP2 for short." Gen explained.
"We upgraded it and made new ones for everyone. Since Mr. Rusty and Lighting aren't here you can have theirs Lynx and Klim." Ckoas said.
"We've added new options on it besides the chat room and the ability to surf the web. This has now video chat room with new headphone attachment. The DIP2 can download music and be used a MP3 player. You can watch DVDs on it as well. For the final touches we were able to create it so that you can come back to HQ with the DIP2s. Also another added feature is that once you are here in HQ you can transport yourself to the other's positions in the world if you both agree on it." both Gen and Ckoas took turns saying the new features and explaining what they can do.
We all were very excited to receive the new DIP2s.
In the end everyone said their farewells and left one by one by their DIP2s.
I was back home.
"Wow those two guys are great. I can't believe how much of an upgrade these things went. Time to test the video chat with one of the people to make sure they got home." I said.
I clicked on the screen buttons to video chat, but something went wrong. I got sucked into the DIP2. I was in a strange new land. I looked at my DIP2. Battery is low. Dang that must of been using a lot of energy to transport me where ever I got to. I looked at myself.
"AHHHH!!! I'm still both human and cat!!" I cried out.
I had my cat ears and tail but everything else was still human. Just then, a huge robot grabbed me from behind. And a familiar voice I could hear. Talking to another giant robot. From what I could understand, is that I'm a hostage and the if the other robot didn't stand down she would kill me. OH dear what have I gotten myself into this time? And where am I?
*Cliff-hanger*
Sorry mates, but this story is the end. There will be new story going along with