Tiny Toon Adventures Presents
Parallel Realities
by TTADude
2002

Chapter 1: The Mysterious E-Mail

It was a sunny afternoon when the insanity started. Caroline and Timmy were playing at the tree house. Caroline, an 11-year-old brunette, was seeing how high she could go on the old tree swing. Timmy, Caroline's blonde 9-year-old brother, was busy inside the tree house trying his hardest to beat whatever he was playing on his Game Boy. Just then James, a pudgy 15-year old with messy black hair, entered the scene.
"Guys!" he yelled out, out of breath from running as fast as he could, "You won't believe what I just got".
"What?" Caroline asked as she stopped what she was just doing. James took a minute to catch his breath.
"I just received the weirdest E-mail", James replied, holding out two pieces of paper he had printed out. Caroline took the paper and began to read:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
THE FOLLOWING IS A MAP OF YOUR LOCAL LOCATION. AS YOU CAN SEE I HAVE MARKED AN 'X' ON IT. I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD GO TO THAT SPOT AND START DIGGING. DON'T WONDER TO YOURSELF HOW I MANAGED TO GET A MAP OF YOUR AREA, OR WHERE YOU LIVE EITHER. WHAT YOU FIND IS TOO COMPLICATED TO EXPLAIN IN LAYMEN TERMS, JUST GO. ANONYMOUS.

Caroline looked at the other page. It was in fact the map that was described in the letter. And just as it said, It had an 'X' marked on it.
"So who exactly sent you this?" asked Caroline. "Or is this just a lame joke you set up?"
"It's no joke, Caroline," replied James. "Look at the E-mail address."
On the top of both pages was the address "What type of E-mail address is that?" asked Timmy, who finally came outside.
"I have no idea," replied James, "but I have a feeling we're about to find out".
"WE," said Caroline.
"No, the other WE, the ones who live next door," James answered sarcastically.
"Do you even have a clue to what that 'X' leads to?" asked Caroline.
"According to the map, somewhere in the woods to the back of us," James replied.
"Duh" said Caroline quite rudely. "I meant as in what's at the 'X'!"
"I hope it's some sort of buried treasure," piped up Timmy. Caroline rolled her eyes at her deluded brother.
"Or it could be some sort of trap set up by some psychopath that escaped from the mental institution," said Caroline. "Have you told your mom about this?"
"No," replied James. "She's not home." "You're not seriously going to do this, are you?" asked Caroline.
"Why not?" answered James.
"I have at least a thousand reasons why not," Caroline replied.
"C'mon, Carol, quit worrying and help us with the shovels," said Timmy.
"Timmy, you're not planning to help James with this, are you?" said Caroline. However, there was no use in trying to talk them out of it. They had already headed of into the backwoods with shovels in hand. Caroline gave a deep sigh.
"Wait up, you two!" she shouted to them.

James, Timmy, and Caroline had been wandering in the woods for at least five minutes.
"Let's see, according to this map, we should be at the 'X' right about...now" said James as he halted suddenly.
Caroline and Timmy fell to the ground at James' sudden stop.
"Does this mean we start digging now?" asked Timmy.
"To your hearts desire" replied James as he lent Caroline and Timmy two shovels.
They started digging franticly. About 2 hours later, they had dug a hole at least 6 feet deep.
"So exactly when do we know when to stop digging?" asked Timmy.
"I dunno" replied James, "I guess until we reach what we're searching for".
"And that is...what?" asked Timmy.
"Gee... I dunno... I really have no clue," replied James.
"This is completely stupid," remarked Caroline. "Here we are in the middle of nowhere digging for something we don't even know what it looks like. I dunno James; this could be some prank, or worse, a trap planned by a maniac to kill us. I say we quit while we're ahead".
With that, she drove her shovel hard into the ground. The shovel gave off a loud 'clunk' sound.
"What's that?" said Timmy in astonishment.
"Sounds like we hit something," replied James.
Suddenly, a light grew from the ground beneath them, which was followed by a sensation of swirling dirt under their feet. The light grew brighter and brighter, and the movement of dirt became faster and faster. The three were becoming quite panicked now. but, before anyone could react to anything, the three were sucked into the ground beneath them. Resist and scream as they could, nothing could save them from this...whatever it is that had now formed in the hole. Finally, the three youngsters became completely engulfed into the ground. They were now in a situation of falling in complete nothingness. No one had an idea of what was happening to them. Then, they blacked out.