Cherokee: Ohayo Mina-san! (Everyone looks at the odd girl that looks strangely like Demoonica only chubbier.) Oi, half of you know my real name anyway, I *do* e-mail you under it! I might as well make a proper introduction...
The girl before you has dark brow hair that reaches to her butt, about half why down it changes to a blondish/redish/light-brownish... very mixed up color that was the result of a botched dyeing attempt at the beginning of last summer. She has large dark brown eyes that almost look black and glasses. She is little over five foot tall and her weight is *beep*... err... more than she wants it to be. At the moment she is wearing a tye-dyed T-shirt and tan shorts, no shoes.
Cherokee: *Waves.* Hello, I am the insane one behind the computer. Nice to be known. *BIG SMILE.* And now back to our regularly scheduled authors notes. *Snaps fingers and turns into her anime version, Lady Demoonica Darkmoon.*
*My Kawaii Shinigami, Shi for short, appears out of thin air. This is the first of my muses, he is my Hentai Muse.*
Shi: I though she was going to introduce the chapter herself! Humans! Always making their characters do all the work!
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon: *Blinks.* Oi, that was weird. Ah! New chapter time so here is the 'To you-' part!
To Kimiko Kashibara- I'm glad you love the story so much. Most people don't like stories based around original characters. And does this ever revolve around Demoonica and Zander... *sigh* Keep writing on 'The Kareoke Bar', I want to read more!
To Songwind- hehe *smile* It comes from writing for ten years. I can drop a character into a novel and you wouldn't know it unless you have read the original. Okay, I'm NOT that good. (I have illusions of goddess-hood.) But I want to be! Truthfully though it does come from writing in other peoples worlds all the time (holds up a few hundred stories [This time she's not kidding.] though most are only a few handwritten pages long) and needing to stay within the boundaries of those worlds. I've wrote stories based in Anne McCaffrey's Pern and Rowen novels. To bad I'm not allowed to post them... *sigh* I also do countless crossovers in those worlds. (Holds up a Pern/FFX crossover then a Gundam Wing/Original Newtype World crossover.) I have so much fun with that one! This story is the longest I've ever written to date and I'm glad so many people like it! Thanks for letting me be in your story 'Bishonen and Bishujo!
To Merina- Yeah, poor Allen. I wouldn't wish Relena on my worst enemy, not even her hair style. Relena bugs me, I think it's because she reminds me of very rabid fangirls. The bad kind.
To silv3rang3l- I can't say Songwind and I are working together, more like our fanfics cross paths once and a while. We don't set things up, I just work my story around hers or into hers as needed. Demoonica and company will be moving off in their own direction shortly.
To gimeGohan- Don't worry about the late review. Yep, his demon powers are back. This is bad, very bad. Or not. Yes. No. Maybe. V(O_o)V I'm bugging out!!!... This could be disastrous.
Shi: *looks at LDD* Okay she is starting to frighten me.
To whisper*2*imaginary- Don't worry you know it will be okay after reading Spi Mladenets! It's just a rocky relationship... *sigh*
To crazy Rei luva- Yeay! You're back! Did you have fun in Italy? I hope so. I e-mailed you my info because it was way too much to put into a review. Hehehe... Zander? Well, we will see. I thought Hiromi and Duo were cute too.
To Pudding333- You'll see...
Shi: Thank you to all our reviewers! Now on to chapter twenty three!!!
BETTER Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime, game, or book characters found in this story. I do not own any TV show or movie who's title is in this story. Do not sue me, I have nothing. I'm not making money from this story it is for fun only. The idea of Pocket Bishoujo belongs to Lady Silver Senshi (LSS) who maintains the Pocket Bishoujo Website at http://www.pocketbishoujo.com. The idea of Pocket Bishonen comes from Tokio, who maintains the Pocket Bishonen Website at http://www.pocket-bishonen.com. (Tokio's site is down at this time.) This Bishounen 'world' created by Songwind. I'm only a visitor. Original characters are mine, this story is mine, the word Demoonica is MINE!!! Sorry about that... enjoy the story.
The World of Songwinds' Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
"Demoonica-chan! Wake up!" Hiromi shook Demoonica's shoulder for the umpteenth time.
"I can wake her up." Kagome leaned down and whispered something into Demoonica's ear. Hiromi and Merina only caught the words 'Zander' and 'ribbon'. The young trainer sat bold up right and looked around frantically. Kagome started laughing. "It's too easy."
"That's not funny Kagome! You nearly gave me a heart attack."
"Ha! The only thing making your heart beat faster is your hormones!"
Demoonica ran a hand through her hair. "It's still not funny... *Is* Zander here yet?"
Kagome shook her head. "Haven't seen him since he went to his room."
Demoonica looked at the floor. "Oh." She said in a meek voice.
"What's up?" Hiromi asked.
Merina looked at her and shook her head. "Don't know."
"She and Zander got into it again. Must have been a big fight, they still aren't talking."
"That's awful!"
"Would you rather we not go out this evening, Demoonica?"
Demoonica looked at them. "I'll come. Though if Zander doesn't show..."
"Then we go with out him!" Kagome said with a humph. She walked out of the room, Inu-chan in her arms. They heard her mumble some thing like, "Men are blind to women's feelings."
*****
"Megami-sama! Megami-sama!" Wufei came running into the dark computer room.
"What?!" She said turning away from the computer.
"The city... of the Shadow Skill Bishi... it's... it's..." The Wufei was breathing hard, obviously he had ran all the way there. "...It's been raided by trainers!... Fire..."
"The Shadow Skill territories are on the southern continent... what could be happening down there?" She turned to her computer and pulled up a video link to the southern continent. A Lady Subaru from .hack//SIGN appeared on the screen.
"Oh! Megami-sama!"
"Subaru, what is happening down there?"
"Happening?" She truly looked confused.
"Have you not been informed?! The territory nearest yours, those of Shadow Skill, have been raided! Haven't there been any of their bishi's being sighted in your territories? I was sure they would have sought refuge within your cities!"
*****
Out in the field...
*Snap!*
"What was that?" Hiromi asked.
"Twig." Merina said.
"No da." Demoonica said. She got looked at oddly. "Well you did state the obvious. So I said no da..." They still didn't get it.
"Why did you use Chichiri's catch phrase?"
"Oi, let me explain... in America it was changed to 'no duh' when people first heard Japanese words and tried to pronounce them. We did a horrible job, ne?"
"I always wondered about that." Hiromi said.
"So who stepped on a twig?"
"Him." Merina pointed to a blond standing in front of them wearing a bishi-belt. He had blue eyes and spikey yellow hair. He definitely wasn't a teenager anymore, looking to be in his late twenties or even his early thirties. He waved.
"Why didn't you say something!"
"I just did."
"Hello! I am William 'Bill' Williams the Third. You can call me Bill." He said coming over to the group. "It's nice to see trainers out in the field. I normally am in my lab or the gym, but I came out looking for an Amy Bishoujo from Sailor Moon, I like bishi's that are smart and inventive. Like me and my B-Ko."
"Well... we..."
"Would you all do me a favor?" They all just looked at him. "Good! Follow me back to my lab in Treah City. I've been looking for people to try out my latest invention!"
Hiromi looked at Demoonica, Demoonica looked at Kagome, Kagome looked at Merina, Merina looked at Hiromi. They all shrugged and followed Bill back to Treah City. It was a little after ten that night when they arrived. Inside the lab they met a woman with red hair and blue eyes that looked remarkably like Britney Spears. Bill introduced her as his wife Heather. (How a geek like Bill got a woman like her to marry him we will never know.)
Heather noticed chibi Inu-chan right away. "Oh, a chibi. One of you girls is very lucky!"
"Chibi?" Bill asked. Then he too noticed Inu-chan. "Looks a little bit *young* for a bishounen."
"Oh! Don't worry. Kagome is his mother, so he was born in captivity." Demoonica quickly explained.
He then introduced his three year old son, Oscar, to the trio of girl trainers, and Kagome. The little boy had blue eyes and curly blond hair. Taking time to read the shirt Oscar was wearing, written on it was: The Future Mad Scientist union #42. At the time the three year old was tinkering with one of his fathers unfinished projects, Bill didn't seem to mind.
"What was so important that we needed to come all the way here?" Demoonica asked.
"Bishi-balls, you know how bishi complain about them so much. Right? I've found a solution!" He paused for a dramatic effect.
"Okay!" Said Demoonica. "All I ever hear about bishi-balls is how tiny and cramped they are. You say that you've found a solution. Tell us!" She told Bill who now sat at his computer. 'Oi, Geeks.' She thought.
"I've found a way to create a 'Pocket Dimension' within the ball allowing us to make bishi-balls more like a portable room! It came to me while working with the Capsule Corp. capsules, capsules basically do the same thing only on a smaller scale. The plus side is that I've made a breakthrough that allows us, humans, to enter a 'PD' Sphere without the need to worry about being caught inside. I've found that the entrance will only close when the exact bishi it is coded to is alone inside or if no one at all is in it."
"Can I say: Wow!" Demoonica looked at the ball Bill was holding. "What do you mean by the 'bishi it's coded to'? How do you use them?"
"Well 'PD' Spheres are like normal bishi-balls. You see bishonen only return to a single ball, the one they are caught with, they never mix up what ball they go to."
"Okay. So how do you make them?"
"Each 'PD' Sphere is normally made from existing bish-balls. It's like making normal bishi-balls except we use both the trainer and the bishi's blood. The trainer's blood for keeping the bond with their bishi and the bishi's blood for safety reasons. Of course in the future I'm sure there will be a way to code them to multiple bishi's. Think of it! 'PD' Sphere Apartments, 'PD' Sphere Condos, 'PD' Sphere Town Houses, a time share in Florida!" Everyone was looking at him oddly, but he didn't seem to notice and continued talking. "But that's still being worked on. I can also upgrade all your unused bishi-balls to 'PD' Spheres."
"Yes, but how do you make them?" Merina asked.
"Like this! Hand me one of your bishi-balls. I'll give these ones to you for free. I need to field test them before I put them on the market." Bill held out his hand for the ball. "With this, the 'Pocket Dimension' Bishi-Sphere Maker I can upgrade any used bishi-ball into a 'PD' sphere!" He patted a small machine that was setting beside his computer. "Well it's more like a Bishi-ball Upgrader, isn't it?"
"Who's do you want?" Demoonica asked.
"Doesn't matter. Though give me a used one so I can show you the entire process."
Demoonica took a ball and handed it to her science geek friend. "Here, it's Kagome's."
Bill took the ball and kept a hold on Demoonica's wrist. "All it takes is one drop for a single ball." He poked Demoonica's finger and squeezed a drop of blood onto the top panel of the machine. "Kagome, if you please?" He repeated the process. Then the bishi-ball was placed inside the little door on the front of the machine. Closing it he said, "There it's all set. It will only take a second."
Bill pushed the large green button on the front of the machine, actually it was the only button on the machine. There was a whirl type noise and then a beeping like that of a microwave. "The trick is to leave it until the beeping stops. The hard part is remembering it's one push of the button for making 'PD' Spheres and two pushes for making coffee..." He said with such a strait face no one could tell if he was joking or not.
'Come to think of it, the thing does look like a microwave. The 'PD' Microwave!' Thought Demoonica and she tried not to giggle at the nickname. 'He better not mess up Kagome's ball.'
"...and never push the button twice if you are making a Sphere..." Behind him they could see his B-Ko shiver at the memory of it.
The beeping stopped. "All done. See, fast and easy! Just like I said." Bill opened the door and took the ball out. At first glance it didn't look different. "Here we go, it came out perfect." He turned the ball around. Where it had once only been black and silver with the release button there was now another button labeled: 'PD Door to Kagome's Room, Trainer Number 2016' in tiny letters.
"PD door?" Demoonica asked.
"Pocket Dimension door, it will open to a room that is twenty by twenty by ten feet. Try it. Just push the button and place the ball on the ground."
Demoonica did as instructed, pushing the button and placing it on the floor. "Now what?" She had barely said it when a door magically materialized in front of her. "Never mind."
Demoonica grabbed the handle and opened the door. Looking through it they all could see a plain, empty, white room. Hiromi looked at it, went to the side and looked at the back. From the sides and back the door was just a one inch thick rectangle. "That's just weird." She said.
"It's empty." Merina said.
"What? You think it comes fully furnished? Decorate it to suite yourself." Bill said as he walked through the door. "You know, I didn't know what size to make the room so I made them on the large side. Lighting, as you can see, is already installed. It can be adjusted with the screen on your right." He pointed to the computer screen on the wall right beside the door. "With that you can change the walls coloring, lighting, temperature, etc. Also note that the walls can be adjusted to have 'windows'."
"There's an outside?" Kagome asked.
"No. I meant they can be programmed to have video widows. Think of it as a real time weather channel. It gives the illusion of an outside, with sound if you like."
"These things are top of the line in luxury! You thought of every single detail." Hiromi said. "Upgrade mine next!"
"They've been in development since about two months after I arrived here. Fourteen years in the making!" Bill said proudly.
"That's a long wait to find out if it would work."
"Well, I've been testing it with B-Ko's bishi-ball. Every time it messed up, I would just release her and catch her in a new ball. Then start testing again. It's great to have Bishoujo who stay loyal after being released. She didn't mind at all. Great girl, and smart!" Bill was grinning. "Would you like to see the first 'PD' Sphere that came out properly?"
"Sure. I guess."
Bill walked out of the 'PD' room, back into his lab, and over to a door that he swung open. Tons of broken bishi-balls fell out, clattering at his feet.
"That's a lot of broken balls there Bill." Demoonica said as a silver half rolled to her foot and stopped.
"Sue me, I'm a pack rat." He said while digging through a box sitting on a shelf within the storage closet. "That's strange. I can't find it.... Oh... I forgot. Oscar, can I borrow your necklace?" The little boy handed over the round pendant. Bill walked over to Demoonica and held out his hand. Setting on it was a *Plaid* 'PD' ball only an inch big.
"Why does it look sea-sick?" Hiromi asked.
"No!!!" Bill cried. "I wanted people to be able to tell them apart from the old bishi-balls. Isn't it great?"
"It's Plaid!" Demoonica said and made a face.
"Everyone says that when they see it..."
"But it's Plaid!"
"It's supposed to be Plaid!"
Demoonica shook her head. "Okay, I give. Why do you let Oscar wear it?"
"Oh, well. It may be the first one to work properly, but the catch mechanism got messed up. It couldn't catch a bishi if they agreed to be caught! Oscar likes playing with it, it's like a yo-yo with an invisible string. He throws it and it always comes back."
Every one was now outside the 'PD' Sphere, Demoonica looked at it. "Bill how do I get it back to just a ball?"
"Easy, close the door. It checks to see what is inside, if everything is in order then 'poof' back to ball form."
"Okay." Demoonica closed the door. A second later she was able to pick up the ball. "Will you do the rest now?"
"Sure."
Soon Bill had all of Demoonica, Hiromi, and Merina's occupied bishi-balls upgraded into 'PD' Spheres.
"Now it's easier for the unused balls." He said. Demoonica rubbed her sore fingers. She had been pricked in the finger six times, once for each ball. (Inu-chan is hers technically, but he isn't caught.) Merina had gotten it four times and Hiromi had it easy with only two. "Easer for your fingers too. For unused balls don't need anything to code to. They will code automatically to the bishi that is captured within them."
It took less time for the unused balls. Each girl was able to put all of hers in at the same time. Bill waved as the girls left his lab. "Remember to tell your friends about the upgraded 'PD' Spheres! I need a few more field testers for them!" He called.
"Okay! I'll put up a sign tomorrow at the tournament! Be ready for a huge rush of people though, because after they see these...!" Demoonica smiled. "Thanks again Bill!"
*****
"Man it's late." Said Hiromi with a yawn. "Demoonica-chan can I crash with you? My hotel is clear across town."
"Sure, no problem. Merina want to stay too?"
Merina shrugged. "Okay."
"Oh and you can meet my Katan and Hiromi's Duo!"
TBC...
LDD: Well that was chapter twenty three! You like? V(^_^)V
© 'Pocket Dimension' Bishi-Sphere, 'PD' Bishi-Sphere, and 'PD' Sphere copyrighted to Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
© 'Pocket Dimension' Bishi-Sphere Maker, Bishi-ball Upgrader, and 'PD' Microwave copyrighted to Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
The girl before you has dark brow hair that reaches to her butt, about half why down it changes to a blondish/redish/light-brownish... very mixed up color that was the result of a botched dyeing attempt at the beginning of last summer. She has large dark brown eyes that almost look black and glasses. She is little over five foot tall and her weight is *beep*... err... more than she wants it to be. At the moment she is wearing a tye-dyed T-shirt and tan shorts, no shoes.
Cherokee: *Waves.* Hello, I am the insane one behind the computer. Nice to be known. *BIG SMILE.* And now back to our regularly scheduled authors notes. *Snaps fingers and turns into her anime version, Lady Demoonica Darkmoon.*
*My Kawaii Shinigami, Shi for short, appears out of thin air. This is the first of my muses, he is my Hentai Muse.*
Shi: I though she was going to introduce the chapter herself! Humans! Always making their characters do all the work!
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon: *Blinks.* Oi, that was weird. Ah! New chapter time so here is the 'To you-' part!
To Kimiko Kashibara- I'm glad you love the story so much. Most people don't like stories based around original characters. And does this ever revolve around Demoonica and Zander... *sigh* Keep writing on 'The Kareoke Bar', I want to read more!
To Songwind- hehe *smile* It comes from writing for ten years. I can drop a character into a novel and you wouldn't know it unless you have read the original. Okay, I'm NOT that good. (I have illusions of goddess-hood.) But I want to be! Truthfully though it does come from writing in other peoples worlds all the time (holds up a few hundred stories [This time she's not kidding.] though most are only a few handwritten pages long) and needing to stay within the boundaries of those worlds. I've wrote stories based in Anne McCaffrey's Pern and Rowen novels. To bad I'm not allowed to post them... *sigh* I also do countless crossovers in those worlds. (Holds up a Pern/FFX crossover then a Gundam Wing/Original Newtype World crossover.) I have so much fun with that one! This story is the longest I've ever written to date and I'm glad so many people like it! Thanks for letting me be in your story 'Bishonen and Bishujo!
To Merina- Yeah, poor Allen. I wouldn't wish Relena on my worst enemy, not even her hair style. Relena bugs me, I think it's because she reminds me of very rabid fangirls. The bad kind.
To silv3rang3l- I can't say Songwind and I are working together, more like our fanfics cross paths once and a while. We don't set things up, I just work my story around hers or into hers as needed. Demoonica and company will be moving off in their own direction shortly.
To gimeGohan- Don't worry about the late review. Yep, his demon powers are back. This is bad, very bad. Or not. Yes. No. Maybe. V(O_o)V I'm bugging out!!!... This could be disastrous.
Shi: *looks at LDD* Okay she is starting to frighten me.
To whisper*2*imaginary- Don't worry you know it will be okay after reading Spi Mladenets! It's just a rocky relationship... *sigh*
To crazy Rei luva- Yeay! You're back! Did you have fun in Italy? I hope so. I e-mailed you my info because it was way too much to put into a review. Hehehe... Zander? Well, we will see. I thought Hiromi and Duo were cute too.
To Pudding333- You'll see...
Shi: Thank you to all our reviewers! Now on to chapter twenty three!!!
BETTER Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime, game, or book characters found in this story. I do not own any TV show or movie who's title is in this story. Do not sue me, I have nothing. I'm not making money from this story it is for fun only. The idea of Pocket Bishoujo belongs to Lady Silver Senshi (LSS) who maintains the Pocket Bishoujo Website at http://www.pocketbishoujo.com. The idea of Pocket Bishonen comes from Tokio, who maintains the Pocket Bishonen Website at http://www.pocket-bishonen.com. (Tokio's site is down at this time.) This Bishounen 'world' created by Songwind. I'm only a visitor. Original characters are mine, this story is mine, the word Demoonica is MINE!!! Sorry about that... enjoy the story.
The World of Songwinds' Bishounen and Bishoujo:
Demoonica's Story
by
Lady Demoonica Darkmoon
"Demoonica-chan! Wake up!" Hiromi shook Demoonica's shoulder for the umpteenth time.
"I can wake her up." Kagome leaned down and whispered something into Demoonica's ear. Hiromi and Merina only caught the words 'Zander' and 'ribbon'. The young trainer sat bold up right and looked around frantically. Kagome started laughing. "It's too easy."
"That's not funny Kagome! You nearly gave me a heart attack."
"Ha! The only thing making your heart beat faster is your hormones!"
Demoonica ran a hand through her hair. "It's still not funny... *Is* Zander here yet?"
Kagome shook her head. "Haven't seen him since he went to his room."
Demoonica looked at the floor. "Oh." She said in a meek voice.
"What's up?" Hiromi asked.
Merina looked at her and shook her head. "Don't know."
"She and Zander got into it again. Must have been a big fight, they still aren't talking."
"That's awful!"
"Would you rather we not go out this evening, Demoonica?"
Demoonica looked at them. "I'll come. Though if Zander doesn't show..."
"Then we go with out him!" Kagome said with a humph. She walked out of the room, Inu-chan in her arms. They heard her mumble some thing like, "Men are blind to women's feelings."
*****
"Megami-sama! Megami-sama!" Wufei came running into the dark computer room.
"What?!" She said turning away from the computer.
"The city... of the Shadow Skill Bishi... it's... it's..." The Wufei was breathing hard, obviously he had ran all the way there. "...It's been raided by trainers!... Fire..."
"The Shadow Skill territories are on the southern continent... what could be happening down there?" She turned to her computer and pulled up a video link to the southern continent. A Lady Subaru from .hack//SIGN appeared on the screen.
"Oh! Megami-sama!"
"Subaru, what is happening down there?"
"Happening?" She truly looked confused.
"Have you not been informed?! The territory nearest yours, those of Shadow Skill, have been raided! Haven't there been any of their bishi's being sighted in your territories? I was sure they would have sought refuge within your cities!"
*****
Out in the field...
*Snap!*
"What was that?" Hiromi asked.
"Twig." Merina said.
"No da." Demoonica said. She got looked at oddly. "Well you did state the obvious. So I said no da..." They still didn't get it.
"Why did you use Chichiri's catch phrase?"
"Oi, let me explain... in America it was changed to 'no duh' when people first heard Japanese words and tried to pronounce them. We did a horrible job, ne?"
"I always wondered about that." Hiromi said.
"So who stepped on a twig?"
"Him." Merina pointed to a blond standing in front of them wearing a bishi-belt. He had blue eyes and spikey yellow hair. He definitely wasn't a teenager anymore, looking to be in his late twenties or even his early thirties. He waved.
"Why didn't you say something!"
"I just did."
"Hello! I am William 'Bill' Williams the Third. You can call me Bill." He said coming over to the group. "It's nice to see trainers out in the field. I normally am in my lab or the gym, but I came out looking for an Amy Bishoujo from Sailor Moon, I like bishi's that are smart and inventive. Like me and my B-Ko."
"Well... we..."
"Would you all do me a favor?" They all just looked at him. "Good! Follow me back to my lab in Treah City. I've been looking for people to try out my latest invention!"
Hiromi looked at Demoonica, Demoonica looked at Kagome, Kagome looked at Merina, Merina looked at Hiromi. They all shrugged and followed Bill back to Treah City. It was a little after ten that night when they arrived. Inside the lab they met a woman with red hair and blue eyes that looked remarkably like Britney Spears. Bill introduced her as his wife Heather. (How a geek like Bill got a woman like her to marry him we will never know.)
Heather noticed chibi Inu-chan right away. "Oh, a chibi. One of you girls is very lucky!"
"Chibi?" Bill asked. Then he too noticed Inu-chan. "Looks a little bit *young* for a bishounen."
"Oh! Don't worry. Kagome is his mother, so he was born in captivity." Demoonica quickly explained.
He then introduced his three year old son, Oscar, to the trio of girl trainers, and Kagome. The little boy had blue eyes and curly blond hair. Taking time to read the shirt Oscar was wearing, written on it was: The Future Mad Scientist union #42. At the time the three year old was tinkering with one of his fathers unfinished projects, Bill didn't seem to mind.
"What was so important that we needed to come all the way here?" Demoonica asked.
"Bishi-balls, you know how bishi complain about them so much. Right? I've found a solution!" He paused for a dramatic effect.
"Okay!" Said Demoonica. "All I ever hear about bishi-balls is how tiny and cramped they are. You say that you've found a solution. Tell us!" She told Bill who now sat at his computer. 'Oi, Geeks.' She thought.
"I've found a way to create a 'Pocket Dimension' within the ball allowing us to make bishi-balls more like a portable room! It came to me while working with the Capsule Corp. capsules, capsules basically do the same thing only on a smaller scale. The plus side is that I've made a breakthrough that allows us, humans, to enter a 'PD' Sphere without the need to worry about being caught inside. I've found that the entrance will only close when the exact bishi it is coded to is alone inside or if no one at all is in it."
"Can I say: Wow!" Demoonica looked at the ball Bill was holding. "What do you mean by the 'bishi it's coded to'? How do you use them?"
"Well 'PD' Spheres are like normal bishi-balls. You see bishonen only return to a single ball, the one they are caught with, they never mix up what ball they go to."
"Okay. So how do you make them?"
"Each 'PD' Sphere is normally made from existing bish-balls. It's like making normal bishi-balls except we use both the trainer and the bishi's blood. The trainer's blood for keeping the bond with their bishi and the bishi's blood for safety reasons. Of course in the future I'm sure there will be a way to code them to multiple bishi's. Think of it! 'PD' Sphere Apartments, 'PD' Sphere Condos, 'PD' Sphere Town Houses, a time share in Florida!" Everyone was looking at him oddly, but he didn't seem to notice and continued talking. "But that's still being worked on. I can also upgrade all your unused bishi-balls to 'PD' Spheres."
"Yes, but how do you make them?" Merina asked.
"Like this! Hand me one of your bishi-balls. I'll give these ones to you for free. I need to field test them before I put them on the market." Bill held out his hand for the ball. "With this, the 'Pocket Dimension' Bishi-Sphere Maker I can upgrade any used bishi-ball into a 'PD' sphere!" He patted a small machine that was setting beside his computer. "Well it's more like a Bishi-ball Upgrader, isn't it?"
"Who's do you want?" Demoonica asked.
"Doesn't matter. Though give me a used one so I can show you the entire process."
Demoonica took a ball and handed it to her science geek friend. "Here, it's Kagome's."
Bill took the ball and kept a hold on Demoonica's wrist. "All it takes is one drop for a single ball." He poked Demoonica's finger and squeezed a drop of blood onto the top panel of the machine. "Kagome, if you please?" He repeated the process. Then the bishi-ball was placed inside the little door on the front of the machine. Closing it he said, "There it's all set. It will only take a second."
Bill pushed the large green button on the front of the machine, actually it was the only button on the machine. There was a whirl type noise and then a beeping like that of a microwave. "The trick is to leave it until the beeping stops. The hard part is remembering it's one push of the button for making 'PD' Spheres and two pushes for making coffee..." He said with such a strait face no one could tell if he was joking or not.
'Come to think of it, the thing does look like a microwave. The 'PD' Microwave!' Thought Demoonica and she tried not to giggle at the nickname. 'He better not mess up Kagome's ball.'
"...and never push the button twice if you are making a Sphere..." Behind him they could see his B-Ko shiver at the memory of it.
The beeping stopped. "All done. See, fast and easy! Just like I said." Bill opened the door and took the ball out. At first glance it didn't look different. "Here we go, it came out perfect." He turned the ball around. Where it had once only been black and silver with the release button there was now another button labeled: 'PD Door to Kagome's Room, Trainer Number 2016' in tiny letters.
"PD door?" Demoonica asked.
"Pocket Dimension door, it will open to a room that is twenty by twenty by ten feet. Try it. Just push the button and place the ball on the ground."
Demoonica did as instructed, pushing the button and placing it on the floor. "Now what?" She had barely said it when a door magically materialized in front of her. "Never mind."
Demoonica grabbed the handle and opened the door. Looking through it they all could see a plain, empty, white room. Hiromi looked at it, went to the side and looked at the back. From the sides and back the door was just a one inch thick rectangle. "That's just weird." She said.
"It's empty." Merina said.
"What? You think it comes fully furnished? Decorate it to suite yourself." Bill said as he walked through the door. "You know, I didn't know what size to make the room so I made them on the large side. Lighting, as you can see, is already installed. It can be adjusted with the screen on your right." He pointed to the computer screen on the wall right beside the door. "With that you can change the walls coloring, lighting, temperature, etc. Also note that the walls can be adjusted to have 'windows'."
"There's an outside?" Kagome asked.
"No. I meant they can be programmed to have video widows. Think of it as a real time weather channel. It gives the illusion of an outside, with sound if you like."
"These things are top of the line in luxury! You thought of every single detail." Hiromi said. "Upgrade mine next!"
"They've been in development since about two months after I arrived here. Fourteen years in the making!" Bill said proudly.
"That's a long wait to find out if it would work."
"Well, I've been testing it with B-Ko's bishi-ball. Every time it messed up, I would just release her and catch her in a new ball. Then start testing again. It's great to have Bishoujo who stay loyal after being released. She didn't mind at all. Great girl, and smart!" Bill was grinning. "Would you like to see the first 'PD' Sphere that came out properly?"
"Sure. I guess."
Bill walked out of the 'PD' room, back into his lab, and over to a door that he swung open. Tons of broken bishi-balls fell out, clattering at his feet.
"That's a lot of broken balls there Bill." Demoonica said as a silver half rolled to her foot and stopped.
"Sue me, I'm a pack rat." He said while digging through a box sitting on a shelf within the storage closet. "That's strange. I can't find it.... Oh... I forgot. Oscar, can I borrow your necklace?" The little boy handed over the round pendant. Bill walked over to Demoonica and held out his hand. Setting on it was a *Plaid* 'PD' ball only an inch big.
"Why does it look sea-sick?" Hiromi asked.
"No!!!" Bill cried. "I wanted people to be able to tell them apart from the old bishi-balls. Isn't it great?"
"It's Plaid!" Demoonica said and made a face.
"Everyone says that when they see it..."
"But it's Plaid!"
"It's supposed to be Plaid!"
Demoonica shook her head. "Okay, I give. Why do you let Oscar wear it?"
"Oh, well. It may be the first one to work properly, but the catch mechanism got messed up. It couldn't catch a bishi if they agreed to be caught! Oscar likes playing with it, it's like a yo-yo with an invisible string. He throws it and it always comes back."
Every one was now outside the 'PD' Sphere, Demoonica looked at it. "Bill how do I get it back to just a ball?"
"Easy, close the door. It checks to see what is inside, if everything is in order then 'poof' back to ball form."
"Okay." Demoonica closed the door. A second later she was able to pick up the ball. "Will you do the rest now?"
"Sure."
Soon Bill had all of Demoonica, Hiromi, and Merina's occupied bishi-balls upgraded into 'PD' Spheres.
"Now it's easier for the unused balls." He said. Demoonica rubbed her sore fingers. She had been pricked in the finger six times, once for each ball. (Inu-chan is hers technically, but he isn't caught.) Merina had gotten it four times and Hiromi had it easy with only two. "Easer for your fingers too. For unused balls don't need anything to code to. They will code automatically to the bishi that is captured within them."
It took less time for the unused balls. Each girl was able to put all of hers in at the same time. Bill waved as the girls left his lab. "Remember to tell your friends about the upgraded 'PD' Spheres! I need a few more field testers for them!" He called.
"Okay! I'll put up a sign tomorrow at the tournament! Be ready for a huge rush of people though, because after they see these...!" Demoonica smiled. "Thanks again Bill!"
*****
"Man it's late." Said Hiromi with a yawn. "Demoonica-chan can I crash with you? My hotel is clear across town."
"Sure, no problem. Merina want to stay too?"
Merina shrugged. "Okay."
"Oh and you can meet my Katan and Hiromi's Duo!"
TBC...
LDD: Well that was chapter twenty three! You like? V(^_^)V
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