I'm alive!!! Which may come as a shock to people that have been reading this fanfiction since the beginning....
Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men....as I've said in the past 19 chapters...But, the name 'Transdimensional Gateway' was not my idea. Came off an episode of 'Justice League', lol. Just the name though, how it works and looks is my invention.
Shout outs: Heh. I love you all? Sorry, really don't feel like doing this....but thanks go out to everyone who reviewed, you have no idea how much your reviewing helped me finally post this chapter.
An Apology: To my beta readers, sorry that I didn't send this chapter to you. But, I figured if I did, you'd be confused since I haven't updated for a...year? And I think it would be unfair of me to expect you to beta read it since it has been so long. So, thanks so much for your help in the past. : )
Oh, btw, Rogue's accent might be more pronounced then it has been in previous chapters.
Chapter 20: The Transdimensional Gateway
"I still think we should have trounced him," muttered Logan.
The X-Men were back at the Institute, and were in the room Evan had dubbed "The Council of War Room".
"Hm," said Ororo.
"It would have been an useless attack on our part," the Professor said, "we would have gained nothing and only antagonized our enemies."
"I would have gained somethin'," muttered Logan.
"Professor we can't just let them get away with this," started Scott.
"Get away with what? As far as we can gather Magneto did not mean to kidnap Kitty and Kurt. That was an accident. And he built the machine himself, he did not steal it. Being his property, he had a right to destroy it if he so wished to."
"He destroyed it out of spite," said a voice. Kitty was sitting on the couch, her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. She hadn't said a word since they had returned to the Institute.
"Oh, I have no doubt of that," responded Xavier.
Forge stuck his head into the room. "So you're all back? Where'd you guys go? I was looking all over this place for you."
"Why were you looking for us, Forge?" asked Jean.
"I finished," said Forge proudly, as if he had just announced he had solved world hunger.
Silence.
"Finished what?" Kitty finally asked.
"The Transdimensional Gateway," Forge said, exasperated. "Jeez, what do you think I've been working on all this time?"
Mouths popped open but no sound came forth. The Professor's eyebrows shot up.
Finally Rogue asked "Ya made anothah othah dimension people suckah?"
"That's one way to put it. Yeah, but I made a gateway, not exactly like the machine Magneto must have used. Though I still don't know how he did it...." Forge trailed off pondering how Magneto made something he himself didn't know how to make.
"Forge...." The Professor started. He had a vague recollection that Forge had said he would try and see if he could make something like it, but didn't think he could without some sort of guideline.
He must have been working on it ever since then, and no one bothered to check up on him. We all were wrapped up in getting the original back from Magneto.
Before the Professor could continue, Kitty leaped off the couch and jumped on Forge, hugging him quickly and then running out of the room, heading for Forge's lab.
Kurt leaped over to Forge and shook his hand vigorously saying "Danken Sie Gott! Sie sind eine Antwort zu unseren Gebeten!"
Then turning to the others he said "Come, let us see Herr Forge's wunderbar invention!" With that, he teleported.
Coughing slightly from inhaling the purple smoke from Kurt's' 'port, Forge asked "Is it just me, or are they very excited?"
"Come Forge," said Ororo, taking the clueless boy's arm and leading him to the lab, "Let us see your invention."
The others followed them.
x
Kurt and Kitty stood before a giant circular archway of metal and wires.
Forge's working tools lay nearby, and included a ladder, rolls of wire, screw drivers, and duck tape among other things that they couldn't guess the use for.
"Do you think it will work?" Kitty asked softly.
"I hope so."
Kitty laughed. "I don't want to get my hopes up, but I think it's to late."
"Do you have faith in Herr Forge's abilities?"
"Yeah, I worked with him that one day. But he didn't tell me he would keep working on it. We talked about his other inventions, and we speculated on how Magneto could have invented the machine. I told him about how we got here, about the door."
"That's what inspired me to make this," said Forge, who had just walked into the room, with all the X-Men following. "I figured I'd have to make a door for you to go through, since know one was going to suck you back."
"Huh?" said Kitty.
"You mean even if we had the original machine we couldn't get back?" asked Kitty.
"Well, it could send you back, but we'd have to suck someone out of your dimension to open the portal."
"Forge, why didn't you tell us this before?" asked the Professor very calmly. Logan looked like he was going to kill someone.
Forge looked blank. "I thought you guys knew that. How else could you open the portal? That's the way that machine worked. I doubt I could have changed it's rudimentary function."
"I should have thought of that," muttered Kitty.
"So you would of had to take someone from your dimension, so you could get back. And that person would have been stuck here?" asked Jean.
"Well, yeah. And that might've not worked either, because, Kurt and Kitty are here, not there."
Evan said "Huh? What does that mean?"
"He means that since Kurt and Kitty are here, in our universe, they could not pull any doubles from their own universe, since there are none there. Magneto's machine only works if the doubles are in the right spot, and they can only pull their counterparts through the portal," explained the Professor. "Am I correct?"
"Exactly dude," Forge gave the Professor a thumbs up.
"Then why," Logan said, rather loudly, "didn't you tell us that we couldn't use the machine?!?"
"It would have helped. I could have learned a lot about transdimensional travel. Plus, it would of been a lot of fun to take apart." When Logan took a step towards Forge he quickly added "Hey, man, like I said, I thought you all knew that it couldn't send them back."
"Okay, lets forget about that now. Vill your transdimensional thingamabob work?" asked Kurt.
"Yeah, totally. It's just pointing it in the right direction, that's the hard part."
Jean sighed. "Explain please."
Forge gestured to himself. "I'm living proof there are other dimensions besides our own and there's. We can't have them walk through into just any dimension. We have to find their's."
"But there could be thousands," said Kitty.
"Tens of thousands," said Forge, not looking particularly worried.
"I think he has a plan as to how to find our dimension," said Kurt. He turned to Forge. "Vould you care to enlighten us?"
Forge smiled. "You know how I borrowed your image inducer?"
"Ja."
"Well, it had your universe's signature on it." Feeling that an explanation would be wanted, Forge continued. "Everything from another dimension carries that place's signature. Under certain radiation you can even see the aura. It's even brighter on a nonorganic subject."
Kitty suddenly got Forge's point. "So you can pinpoint our dimension by the 'signature' on Kurt's holowatch?"
"Yep. But we have to surf through all the universes out there until we find the right one."
"All of them?" asked Scott.
"Yeah, but it shouldn't take more then a couple days. Or a week. Or two. Or a month. Definitely not more then a month."
"I thought you said there were tens of thousands," said Evan.
"There are. Probably more, actually. But that's the beauty of my invention," Forge said, turning to look at the gateway.
"What is?" asked Rogue.
"This," said Forge walking over to a piece of metal about the size of a shoe box that had been sitting on the floor by a pile of scrap. "This is the control for the gateway. Kinda like a VCR control in a way."
Forge pushed a button and the gateway suddenly made a sound like a television turning on. The space in the middle of the archway crackled, like a small lightning storm, and slowly spread untill it covered all of the area in the archway.
All the X-Men came forward, as a picture formed, just as the electric sparks had done, until it filled the space in the archway. The scene was of a meadow. A deer walked past. The sky was a purplish blue color. The smell of grass came through the gateway, carried by a gentle wind.
For a full minute it stayed that way. Than it flashed and was replaced by another scene. It looked like the backyard of the Institute, except there were slight differences.
A girl could be seen, reading on a lawn chair. She had long brown hair, except for one white streak that came from her forehead. She was wearing a long sleeved shirt and gloves.
"Rogue! That's you!" said an excited Kitty.
Rogue had realized this and turned to Kitty and Kurt. "Is this your dimension?"
"No, it is not," said Kurt. Kitty added "And that's not what you look like in our universe."
Rogue unconsciously touched her short hair and leaned closer to the scene.
The other Rogue had looked up, as if she had heard them. A brown curly headed boy walked up to her.
"Oh, hey Bobby. Did you call me just now?"
"No. Why?"
"I thought I heard something..."
The scene changed. Once again it looked like the backyard of the Institute. No one was in sight.
"As you can see, there are many dimensions, and maybe in each one, a counterpart of one of us. In the first scene, there didn't appear to be an Institute. Or maybe it wasn't built in that location in that dimension."
"Okay Forge, now how are you going to find their universe?" asked Kitty.
"I've imprinted the aura of Kurt's holowatch into the control. When I turn it on, the gateway will search through all the dimensions and find the one that matches the aura. It will be like we're fast forwarding through all the dimensions, but it will stop at theirs.
But that dimension will only stay open for a minute. So once it appears, Kurt and Kitty will have to jump in fast."
"What if we miss it? Won't the gateway find it again?" asked Kitty.
"Yeah, but who knows how many millions of dimensions it will have to cycle through. It may take another month, and did I mention the major electric bill this is going to cost Professor Xavier?"
The Professor waved his hand, as if to dismiss the problem. "That doesn't matter. What will happen once it has used up enough power to blow the generators?"
"Well..." for once, Forge looked uncomfortable. "This is mostly a one chance thing. When the generators go, I'm 93 certain that it's possible the gateway will also shut down. And the damage would be extensive, what with being shut down that way."
Kurt had been keeping an eye on the gateway, to see if his dimension was shown. So far it hadn't, but Kurt was a little worried he might not recognize it when it was shown.
"Forge, vhat if Kitty and I don't recognize our dimension vhen it is shown? Or vhat if ve think it is, and jump through, only to find that it is not?"
"Oh, don't worry about that. I set an alarm, so when the gateway does find it, there's going to be blinking lights and noise. It won't pass us without our knowing."
Forge started to flick a switch but paused. "Once I switch it on, the dimension portals are going to accelerate, so we won't even see them. But when it finds your's it will stop and be available for one minute. Ready to begin the search?"
Kurt and Kitty looked at each other. Kitty nodded. Kurt answered. "Ja, ve're ready."
Translation: "Danken Sie Gott! Sie sind eine Antwort zu unseren Gebeten!" "Thank God, you're the answer to our prayers!" Or there abouts, lol.
And, yes, one of the dimension scenes was of Rogue and Bobby from the movie. Couldn't resist.
I know I said this fic would only have 20 chapters....well, I lied...One more to go.
Don't know when I will ever finish the next chapter (I have half of it finished) but reviewing would help the outcome.
:b
roguehobbit
Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men....as I've said in the past 19 chapters...But, the name 'Transdimensional Gateway' was not my idea. Came off an episode of 'Justice League', lol. Just the name though, how it works and looks is my invention.
Shout outs: Heh. I love you all? Sorry, really don't feel like doing this....but thanks go out to everyone who reviewed, you have no idea how much your reviewing helped me finally post this chapter.
An Apology: To my beta readers, sorry that I didn't send this chapter to you. But, I figured if I did, you'd be confused since I haven't updated for a...year? And I think it would be unfair of me to expect you to beta read it since it has been so long. So, thanks so much for your help in the past. : )
Oh, btw, Rogue's accent might be more pronounced then it has been in previous chapters.
Chapter 20: The Transdimensional Gateway
"I still think we should have trounced him," muttered Logan.
The X-Men were back at the Institute, and were in the room Evan had dubbed "The Council of War Room".
"Hm," said Ororo.
"It would have been an useless attack on our part," the Professor said, "we would have gained nothing and only antagonized our enemies."
"I would have gained somethin'," muttered Logan.
"Professor we can't just let them get away with this," started Scott.
"Get away with what? As far as we can gather Magneto did not mean to kidnap Kitty and Kurt. That was an accident. And he built the machine himself, he did not steal it. Being his property, he had a right to destroy it if he so wished to."
"He destroyed it out of spite," said a voice. Kitty was sitting on the couch, her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. She hadn't said a word since they had returned to the Institute.
"Oh, I have no doubt of that," responded Xavier.
Forge stuck his head into the room. "So you're all back? Where'd you guys go? I was looking all over this place for you."
"Why were you looking for us, Forge?" asked Jean.
"I finished," said Forge proudly, as if he had just announced he had solved world hunger.
Silence.
"Finished what?" Kitty finally asked.
"The Transdimensional Gateway," Forge said, exasperated. "Jeez, what do you think I've been working on all this time?"
Mouths popped open but no sound came forth. The Professor's eyebrows shot up.
Finally Rogue asked "Ya made anothah othah dimension people suckah?"
"That's one way to put it. Yeah, but I made a gateway, not exactly like the machine Magneto must have used. Though I still don't know how he did it...." Forge trailed off pondering how Magneto made something he himself didn't know how to make.
"Forge...." The Professor started. He had a vague recollection that Forge had said he would try and see if he could make something like it, but didn't think he could without some sort of guideline.
He must have been working on it ever since then, and no one bothered to check up on him. We all were wrapped up in getting the original back from Magneto.
Before the Professor could continue, Kitty leaped off the couch and jumped on Forge, hugging him quickly and then running out of the room, heading for Forge's lab.
Kurt leaped over to Forge and shook his hand vigorously saying "Danken Sie Gott! Sie sind eine Antwort zu unseren Gebeten!"
Then turning to the others he said "Come, let us see Herr Forge's wunderbar invention!" With that, he teleported.
Coughing slightly from inhaling the purple smoke from Kurt's' 'port, Forge asked "Is it just me, or are they very excited?"
"Come Forge," said Ororo, taking the clueless boy's arm and leading him to the lab, "Let us see your invention."
The others followed them.
x
Kurt and Kitty stood before a giant circular archway of metal and wires.
Forge's working tools lay nearby, and included a ladder, rolls of wire, screw drivers, and duck tape among other things that they couldn't guess the use for.
"Do you think it will work?" Kitty asked softly.
"I hope so."
Kitty laughed. "I don't want to get my hopes up, but I think it's to late."
"Do you have faith in Herr Forge's abilities?"
"Yeah, I worked with him that one day. But he didn't tell me he would keep working on it. We talked about his other inventions, and we speculated on how Magneto could have invented the machine. I told him about how we got here, about the door."
"That's what inspired me to make this," said Forge, who had just walked into the room, with all the X-Men following. "I figured I'd have to make a door for you to go through, since know one was going to suck you back."
"Huh?" said Kitty.
"You mean even if we had the original machine we couldn't get back?" asked Kitty.
"Well, it could send you back, but we'd have to suck someone out of your dimension to open the portal."
"Forge, why didn't you tell us this before?" asked the Professor very calmly. Logan looked like he was going to kill someone.
Forge looked blank. "I thought you guys knew that. How else could you open the portal? That's the way that machine worked. I doubt I could have changed it's rudimentary function."
"I should have thought of that," muttered Kitty.
"So you would of had to take someone from your dimension, so you could get back. And that person would have been stuck here?" asked Jean.
"Well, yeah. And that might've not worked either, because, Kurt and Kitty are here, not there."
Evan said "Huh? What does that mean?"
"He means that since Kurt and Kitty are here, in our universe, they could not pull any doubles from their own universe, since there are none there. Magneto's machine only works if the doubles are in the right spot, and they can only pull their counterparts through the portal," explained the Professor. "Am I correct?"
"Exactly dude," Forge gave the Professor a thumbs up.
"Then why," Logan said, rather loudly, "didn't you tell us that we couldn't use the machine?!?"
"It would have helped. I could have learned a lot about transdimensional travel. Plus, it would of been a lot of fun to take apart." When Logan took a step towards Forge he quickly added "Hey, man, like I said, I thought you all knew that it couldn't send them back."
"Okay, lets forget about that now. Vill your transdimensional thingamabob work?" asked Kurt.
"Yeah, totally. It's just pointing it in the right direction, that's the hard part."
Jean sighed. "Explain please."
Forge gestured to himself. "I'm living proof there are other dimensions besides our own and there's. We can't have them walk through into just any dimension. We have to find their's."
"But there could be thousands," said Kitty.
"Tens of thousands," said Forge, not looking particularly worried.
"I think he has a plan as to how to find our dimension," said Kurt. He turned to Forge. "Vould you care to enlighten us?"
Forge smiled. "You know how I borrowed your image inducer?"
"Ja."
"Well, it had your universe's signature on it." Feeling that an explanation would be wanted, Forge continued. "Everything from another dimension carries that place's signature. Under certain radiation you can even see the aura. It's even brighter on a nonorganic subject."
Kitty suddenly got Forge's point. "So you can pinpoint our dimension by the 'signature' on Kurt's holowatch?"
"Yep. But we have to surf through all the universes out there until we find the right one."
"All of them?" asked Scott.
"Yeah, but it shouldn't take more then a couple days. Or a week. Or two. Or a month. Definitely not more then a month."
"I thought you said there were tens of thousands," said Evan.
"There are. Probably more, actually. But that's the beauty of my invention," Forge said, turning to look at the gateway.
"What is?" asked Rogue.
"This," said Forge walking over to a piece of metal about the size of a shoe box that had been sitting on the floor by a pile of scrap. "This is the control for the gateway. Kinda like a VCR control in a way."
Forge pushed a button and the gateway suddenly made a sound like a television turning on. The space in the middle of the archway crackled, like a small lightning storm, and slowly spread untill it covered all of the area in the archway.
All the X-Men came forward, as a picture formed, just as the electric sparks had done, until it filled the space in the archway. The scene was of a meadow. A deer walked past. The sky was a purplish blue color. The smell of grass came through the gateway, carried by a gentle wind.
For a full minute it stayed that way. Than it flashed and was replaced by another scene. It looked like the backyard of the Institute, except there were slight differences.
A girl could be seen, reading on a lawn chair. She had long brown hair, except for one white streak that came from her forehead. She was wearing a long sleeved shirt and gloves.
"Rogue! That's you!" said an excited Kitty.
Rogue had realized this and turned to Kitty and Kurt. "Is this your dimension?"
"No, it is not," said Kurt. Kitty added "And that's not what you look like in our universe."
Rogue unconsciously touched her short hair and leaned closer to the scene.
The other Rogue had looked up, as if she had heard them. A brown curly headed boy walked up to her.
"Oh, hey Bobby. Did you call me just now?"
"No. Why?"
"I thought I heard something..."
The scene changed. Once again it looked like the backyard of the Institute. No one was in sight.
"As you can see, there are many dimensions, and maybe in each one, a counterpart of one of us. In the first scene, there didn't appear to be an Institute. Or maybe it wasn't built in that location in that dimension."
"Okay Forge, now how are you going to find their universe?" asked Kitty.
"I've imprinted the aura of Kurt's holowatch into the control. When I turn it on, the gateway will search through all the dimensions and find the one that matches the aura. It will be like we're fast forwarding through all the dimensions, but it will stop at theirs.
But that dimension will only stay open for a minute. So once it appears, Kurt and Kitty will have to jump in fast."
"What if we miss it? Won't the gateway find it again?" asked Kitty.
"Yeah, but who knows how many millions of dimensions it will have to cycle through. It may take another month, and did I mention the major electric bill this is going to cost Professor Xavier?"
The Professor waved his hand, as if to dismiss the problem. "That doesn't matter. What will happen once it has used up enough power to blow the generators?"
"Well..." for once, Forge looked uncomfortable. "This is mostly a one chance thing. When the generators go, I'm 93 certain that it's possible the gateway will also shut down. And the damage would be extensive, what with being shut down that way."
Kurt had been keeping an eye on the gateway, to see if his dimension was shown. So far it hadn't, but Kurt was a little worried he might not recognize it when it was shown.
"Forge, vhat if Kitty and I don't recognize our dimension vhen it is shown? Or vhat if ve think it is, and jump through, only to find that it is not?"
"Oh, don't worry about that. I set an alarm, so when the gateway does find it, there's going to be blinking lights and noise. It won't pass us without our knowing."
Forge started to flick a switch but paused. "Once I switch it on, the dimension portals are going to accelerate, so we won't even see them. But when it finds your's it will stop and be available for one minute. Ready to begin the search?"
Kurt and Kitty looked at each other. Kitty nodded. Kurt answered. "Ja, ve're ready."
Translation: "Danken Sie Gott! Sie sind eine Antwort zu unseren Gebeten!" "Thank God, you're the answer to our prayers!" Or there abouts, lol.
And, yes, one of the dimension scenes was of Rogue and Bobby from the movie. Couldn't resist.
I know I said this fic would only have 20 chapters....well, I lied...One more to go.
Don't know when I will ever finish the next chapter (I have half of it finished) but reviewing would help the outcome.
:b
roguehobbit