Chapter Two
by
angelinhell
angelinhell: So, here we go with chapter two. *falls into chair*
evilemmylou: Hey, Em, you sure you're up to this? I could take over for you.
ririchan: Yeah! I'll help.
angelinhell: No way you and Beth are getting your hands on my story! Security!
Security: *arrive*
angelinhell: Take these two away!
Security: *leave* *without evilemmylou or ririchan*
evilemmylou: Some security.
angelinhell: *pouts* I'm still working out the kinks.
ririchan: So, lets go! I want to read more!!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
laaanessness: Slow down, girl. Give her time to write!
angelinhell: Okay. Before we start, I want to make two things clear.
evilemmylou: Shoot.
angelinhell: Firstly, I don't own LOTR.
laaanessness: Yes, yes, Smith, we know that one.
angelinhell: All right already! And secondly, in payment for continuing the story, I get to torture one of you until you tell me exactly what you want to happen to you!
(angelinhell: For those of you who didn't understand that comment, [i.e. most of you, I think] Morgan is based on me, Autumn is based on evilemmylou, Alli is based on laaanessness, and- you guessed it- Bethlehem is based on ririchan.
ririchan: Why does my name have to be Bethlehem?
angelinhell: Because my other option was Elizabeth. In which case I'd call you Lizzy.
ririchan: Gack! *dies*
angelinhell: We call you Lizzy sometimes anyway, though.
ririchan: Gack! *dies* *again*
angelinhell: *ends lengthy parentheses*)
laaanessness: *exchanges a glance with evilemmylou* Do we get to pick who it is?
angelinhell: Sure.
ririchan: Oh, no, I'm not that stupid! I pick- *thinks* -ME!!!! Haha! I've outsmarted you!
laaanessness: Well, I can say I wasn't expecting it.
evilemmylou: Then I suppose we must bow to Beth's superior intelligence. Let's take her to the back room.
angelinhell: Thank God for peace and quiet.
evilemmylou: *from back room amid strangled cries* Who said anything about peace and quiet?
angelinhell: *sighs* Here we go.
* * * * * *
"All right," Elrond said slowly, "explain it to me again, please."
Morgan sighed. "Okay. You get the BOOM thing."
Elrond looked confused. "Get?"
Morgan sighed again. "You understand it?"
The elf shook his head. "Not really, no."
"The unnecessarily loud booms are like holes- or warps- in space-time. It happens when two universes- of which there are an infinite number- collide, and whoever or whatever is at the point where they intersect sometimes falls through into the other universe. Understand?"
Elrond nodded. "I think so. What is space-time?"
Morgan caught herself sighing again and cleared her throat instead. "Several prominent scientists where we come from have tried to figure that out, and none of them have even gotten close so far. But, in general, it is the four dimensions in which we exist- height, width, depth, and time."
"All right." Elrond sat back. "Continue."
"When there are an infinite number of universes, everything that can be imagined has to exist, I assume because the universe runs out of ideas. Just accept it. It's the truth."
"Because of this law," Autumn began with a glance at Morgan, who promptly nodded and shut up, "everything that the people in our world imagine exists somewhere in the multiverse- what we call all the universes together. And this world, where we are right now, just happened to be imagined by a man named J.R.R Tolkien. The universe just filled in all the holes in his idea."
"So what you are saying is that technically we don't exist," the elf commented bitterly.
"Not at all!" Morgan exclaimed. "Of course you exist! Just because we happen to know this world because someone in our world imagined it doesn't mean the world doesn't exist. There are millions- billions- more worlds than you can count out there. Just because our world happened to contain someone who knew your world doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means that we know your world." Morgan looked at her feet. "I'm not explaining this very well, am I?"
"Not really, but thank you. I am reassured."
"Also, in our world we have something we call movies and what is actually called moving pictures- which are exactly what they sound like. And this particular world- among the myriad similar worlds- happens to be from a movie based on the book- you are a book in our world," Autumn explained.
"Oh," Elrond answered thoughtfully. "Now I understand it. You are from another world that knows of this one and was able to record someone else's version of as a form of- entertainment?"
"I guess," Morgan said.
"And that is the world we are in now."
"Yes," Autumn answered definitively.
"So, in effect, you can tell the future?"
"No," Alli answered. "We know what would have happened if we hadn't appeared here. Now that we're here... we have no idea what's going to happen."
Elrond nodded. "Your method of speaking is strange but I understand you. What may have happened?"
"Well," Morgan said, reasonably anxious, "personally I think your daughter is going to show up pretty soon with a soon-to-be-friend of yours."
"What?" Elrond asked as Arwen rushed into the room.
* * * * * *
Sauron may have been a pretty large eye, but even he was blinded by the light of the second boom. The first had brought him the man quivering before him right now- the second was outside Mordor. Too bad- it might have proven interesting.
More interesting, at least, then terrifying the already terrified man cowering at his (metaphorical) feet.
"What are you doing in my land?" Sauron boomed.
The man cowered and groveled. Sauron sighed. They just didn't make warriors like they used to. He signaled his guards to kill the man.
"Please... don't hurt me... I can make you anything... weapons!" The cowering person seemed to become desperate as the Orcs came closer.
Sauron signaled them to stop. "Weapons?" he asked, interested in spite of himself.
"Yes!" the man shouted, sensing he was close to saving his life. "Weapons of a kind this world has never seen before, weapons of mass destruction!" The scientist considered that this was entirely unethical, but didn't really care if it saved his life.
Sauron would have smiled maliciously, if he had had a mouth.
* * * * * *
angelinhell: Ooh! Cliffhanger! I-
evilemmylou: If you say "I haven't done one of those in a while" I swear I'll strangle you.
angelinhell: Oh, well! *to back room* How's it coming back there?
laaanessness: *amid shrieking sounds* Okay. I think we'll get something out of her by late afternoon.
angelinhell: Good enough for me. *to evilemmylou* You want to go have lunch?
evilemmylou: Sure! *grabs coat*
laaanessness: Wait for me! *grabs coat and runs after them*
ririchan: Guys? *pause* Guys? *long pause* GUYS?!!!
angelinhell: So, here we go with chapter two. *falls into chair*
evilemmylou: Hey, Em, you sure you're up to this? I could take over for you.
ririchan: Yeah! I'll help.
angelinhell: No way you and Beth are getting your hands on my story! Security!
Security: *arrive*
angelinhell: Take these two away!
Security: *leave* *without evilemmylou or ririchan*
evilemmylou: Some security.
angelinhell: *pouts* I'm still working out the kinks.
ririchan: So, lets go! I want to read more!!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
laaanessness: Slow down, girl. Give her time to write!
angelinhell: Okay. Before we start, I want to make two things clear.
evilemmylou: Shoot.
angelinhell: Firstly, I don't own LOTR.
laaanessness: Yes, yes, Smith, we know that one.
angelinhell: All right already! And secondly, in payment for continuing the story, I get to torture one of you until you tell me exactly what you want to happen to you!
(angelinhell: For those of you who didn't understand that comment, [i.e. most of you, I think] Morgan is based on me, Autumn is based on evilemmylou, Alli is based on laaanessness, and- you guessed it- Bethlehem is based on ririchan.
ririchan: Why does my name have to be Bethlehem?
angelinhell: Because my other option was Elizabeth. In which case I'd call you Lizzy.
ririchan: Gack! *dies*
angelinhell: We call you Lizzy sometimes anyway, though.
ririchan: Gack! *dies* *again*
angelinhell: *ends lengthy parentheses*)
laaanessness: *exchanges a glance with evilemmylou* Do we get to pick who it is?
angelinhell: Sure.
ririchan: Oh, no, I'm not that stupid! I pick- *thinks* -ME!!!! Haha! I've outsmarted you!
laaanessness: Well, I can say I wasn't expecting it.
evilemmylou: Then I suppose we must bow to Beth's superior intelligence. Let's take her to the back room.
angelinhell: Thank God for peace and quiet.
evilemmylou: *from back room amid strangled cries* Who said anything about peace and quiet?
angelinhell: *sighs* Here we go.
* * * * * *
"All right," Elrond said slowly, "explain it to me again, please."
Morgan sighed. "Okay. You get the BOOM thing."
Elrond looked confused. "Get?"
Morgan sighed again. "You understand it?"
The elf shook his head. "Not really, no."
"The unnecessarily loud booms are like holes- or warps- in space-time. It happens when two universes- of which there are an infinite number- collide, and whoever or whatever is at the point where they intersect sometimes falls through into the other universe. Understand?"
Elrond nodded. "I think so. What is space-time?"
Morgan caught herself sighing again and cleared her throat instead. "Several prominent scientists where we come from have tried to figure that out, and none of them have even gotten close so far. But, in general, it is the four dimensions in which we exist- height, width, depth, and time."
"All right." Elrond sat back. "Continue."
"When there are an infinite number of universes, everything that can be imagined has to exist, I assume because the universe runs out of ideas. Just accept it. It's the truth."
"Because of this law," Autumn began with a glance at Morgan, who promptly nodded and shut up, "everything that the people in our world imagine exists somewhere in the multiverse- what we call all the universes together. And this world, where we are right now, just happened to be imagined by a man named J.R.R Tolkien. The universe just filled in all the holes in his idea."
"So what you are saying is that technically we don't exist," the elf commented bitterly.
"Not at all!" Morgan exclaimed. "Of course you exist! Just because we happen to know this world because someone in our world imagined it doesn't mean the world doesn't exist. There are millions- billions- more worlds than you can count out there. Just because our world happened to contain someone who knew your world doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means that we know your world." Morgan looked at her feet. "I'm not explaining this very well, am I?"
"Not really, but thank you. I am reassured."
"Also, in our world we have something we call movies and what is actually called moving pictures- which are exactly what they sound like. And this particular world- among the myriad similar worlds- happens to be from a movie based on the book- you are a book in our world," Autumn explained.
"Oh," Elrond answered thoughtfully. "Now I understand it. You are from another world that knows of this one and was able to record someone else's version of as a form of- entertainment?"
"I guess," Morgan said.
"And that is the world we are in now."
"Yes," Autumn answered definitively.
"So, in effect, you can tell the future?"
"No," Alli answered. "We know what would have happened if we hadn't appeared here. Now that we're here... we have no idea what's going to happen."
Elrond nodded. "Your method of speaking is strange but I understand you. What may have happened?"
"Well," Morgan said, reasonably anxious, "personally I think your daughter is going to show up pretty soon with a soon-to-be-friend of yours."
"What?" Elrond asked as Arwen rushed into the room.
* * * * * *
Sauron may have been a pretty large eye, but even he was blinded by the light of the second boom. The first had brought him the man quivering before him right now- the second was outside Mordor. Too bad- it might have proven interesting.
More interesting, at least, then terrifying the already terrified man cowering at his (metaphorical) feet.
"What are you doing in my land?" Sauron boomed.
The man cowered and groveled. Sauron sighed. They just didn't make warriors like they used to. He signaled his guards to kill the man.
"Please... don't hurt me... I can make you anything... weapons!" The cowering person seemed to become desperate as the Orcs came closer.
Sauron signaled them to stop. "Weapons?" he asked, interested in spite of himself.
"Yes!" the man shouted, sensing he was close to saving his life. "Weapons of a kind this world has never seen before, weapons of mass destruction!" The scientist considered that this was entirely unethical, but didn't really care if it saved his life.
Sauron would have smiled maliciously, if he had had a mouth.
* * * * * *
angelinhell: Ooh! Cliffhanger! I-
evilemmylou: If you say "I haven't done one of those in a while" I swear I'll strangle you.
angelinhell: Oh, well! *to back room* How's it coming back there?
laaanessness: *amid shrieking sounds* Okay. I think we'll get something out of her by late afternoon.
angelinhell: Good enough for me. *to evilemmylou* You want to go have lunch?
evilemmylou: Sure! *grabs coat*
laaanessness: Wait for me! *grabs coat and runs after them*
ririchan: Guys? *pause* Guys? *long pause* GUYS?!!!