Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I sadly own none of these characters, they all wipes eyes belong to Diane Duane
To buy some time for themselves, Nita answered, "You want to trap all the Seniors of the universe."
"How right you are, but I'll do better than that! Before I annihilate you two annoyances, I'll give you some mental anguish in your last minutes."
Kit! Start the spell we use to get through walls; we need to get out of here!
No duh, Kit thought back, as she felt him begin the spell.
The Lone Power continued, "I suppose I could have just done away with the Seniors quickly when they stepped through the worldgate, but that wouldn't have been any fun now, would it? I have trapped them all in an inescapable and unenterable caging spell directly under your school."
"What, are you going to let them starve to death or something?"
"Oh no, much better than that, you see, I've made the spell selectively unenterable. Only one thing will be able to get through."
"And what's that?" Nita retorted, shooting a quick nervous glance at Kit. She needed to buy more time, it took longer to prepare the spell for two people.
"The nuclear warhead I will be taking control of. I'll cause it to launch from a base in Russia and crash into your school. It's funny, some of the weapons of entropy humans made are almost as good as mine!"
"Why into the school?" Nita cried in a panic. "None of our friends did anything to you!"
"Entropy my dear, it's my specialty. This will only speed it up a little more. You see, it may even start a nuclear war. So there will be one more sliver of the universe in my grasp."
Nita paled; this was far worse than anything she could have imagined.
Kit! Hurry up!
All right already! I'm done! On my go, ready? Go!
Nita and Kit dived toward the nearest wall, feeling the familiar tingling sensation as the atoms of themselves and the wall moved around each other and tumbled onto the empty street outside. Or, almost empty.
"Oh no," Kit moaned as a pack of snarling yellow cabs screeched around the corner toward them. "Run!" They sped down the street to what would have been Central Park in their New York. They stopped in the middle of the sinister group of statues they had seen on their first visit here.
"Nita! I've got an idea; talk your skin cells into losing their pigments!"
"Why?" Nita inquired frustrated.
"Just trust me!" They both concentrated, speaking the fluid syllables of the speech, talking to their cells. Nita looked up at Kit and almost laughed. He was stone gray. She looked down at herself and saw the same thing had happened."
"Quick, pose as a statue!" Kit yelled.
"WHAT?!"
"Just do it!" Nita sighed and picked out a group of statues, positioning herself in a pose of absolute horror at the statue of the Lone One on his skeletal steed. It didn't take much acting. The group of carnivorous cabs sped by on the street, snarling and rumbling past them.
Kit, this is most definitely not the most glamorous camouflage you could have found.
Well, it worked didn't it?
Come on, we've got to get to the school!
"Ahem, may I interrupt?"
Nita and Kit stared around wildly, trying to find the source of the voice. It sounded somehow familiar, but they couldn't quite place who it belonged to.
"Chao!" Nita exclaimed, looking down to see the familiar form of the Transcendent Pig at her feet, "You're here too?"
"You have no idea how many people say that to me do you?"
"Oops, sorry."
"Listen," the Pig said hurriedly, "I think I can help you, but I need to come too."
"Um, aren't you everywhere and everywhen at once anyway?" Kit asked skeptically.
"Yes, usually, but somehow he blocked me off from being in your universe that way. I have to transport there like everyone else."
We need to be careful, he might be a fraud. Nita thought to Kit.
Yeah, but we need any help we can get, we'll just keep an eye on him.
Nita sighed inwardly, she hoped he was right. "Come on, we need to make the transit circle."
About three quarters of the way through the diagram, they heard a rumbling in the distance.
"Um, Nita, d'you hear that?"
"Come on Kit! We need to hurry; something's coming!" They both paled as a huge screaming semi-truck roared around the corner toward them.
"Finished! Come on!" With the truck's bumper only three feet away, Nita, Kit, and the Transcendent Pig stepped through the transit circle, off to save the world. Again.