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Jake stared with wide eyes. It was like things had repeated themselves. But instead of going back in time, Spike, Natalie, and Specter went to Dimension X. A highly dangerous place in which they knew little about, not including Specter. He just sat there staring at where he had last seen Spike and Natalie before they had gone through the portal to Dimension X. He got up completely forgetting about his sore foot, he could whine about it later. Right now he had to get help; he rushed to the phone and looked on the piece of paper taped to it. Natalie had informed them of the Professor leaving town and that they can only call him if it was important. This seemed important enough to him. He quickly dialed the number that was on the paper and waited for the Professor to pick up the phone.

The Professor had been sleeping when the shrilly sounding phone rang next to his bed. Unlike Spike who fell from his bed, the Professor just sat up and answered the phone.

"Hello" the Professor said tiredly

"Professor, quick you gotta come back as soon as possible!"

"Jake? What's wrong?" the Professor asked worriedly.

"Specter came back! And he, Natalie, and Spike are all in another dimension!" Jake said hurriedly, completely forgetting the X.

"Are you joking or are you telling the truth?" the Professor asked.

"It's true! Their all in another dimension!" Jake yelled.

"Okay, okay I'll be there as soon as possible." the Professor said reassuringly.

"Hurry!" Jake urged.

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Spike fell through the portal to Dimension X. It felt weird, bright colors were all around him (like when Casi tells you how many monkeys you have to catch), and he could see his scared reflection in the sides of the walls that formed kinda cylinder shapes. It felt warm and at the bottom of the pit there was a black hole. He slowly came closer and closer until he had gone through it. He landed on his face in a bizarre room; it was the same color as the other place. He looked around the room. It was empty, and he began to worry if he would be stuck there forever. He sat down and tried to collect his thoughts. He was stuck in some weird dimension, Natalie was depending on him to save her from Specter, and he had no clue where he was to top it all off. Spike tried not to panic, but his efforts were in vain. The fact was he would rather be in his warm bed at home than here scrunched in a little ball sitting on the floor trying to think of a way out of this bizarre room, was much more tempting. Oh well......, he and Natalie's life now depended on Jake and the Professor. He just hoped Jake wasn't still on the floor holding his foot.

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Jake had waited for four hours for the Professor. The sun was just coming up making the sky a purplish color. There was the sound of a car parking in front of the lab, and Jake ran out side. The Professor was getting out of his car when he heard someone call his name. He looked toward the voice only to be greeted by a blue haired boy all but pouncing on him.

"Professor!"

"Jake? Have you been here this whole time?"

"Come on, come on! You hafta hurry!"

"Hai, hai"

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Natalie sat in an energy field. It was pink and shaped like a circle. She watched as Specter started fix his lair and update information. She scowled as she did, not being able to stand being kidnapped not once, but twice! Natalie sat there and tried her best not to worry about Spike. She had seen him come after her, after Specter went through the portal and saw him disappear into another portal. Natalie hated to worry about other people, especially Spike, and Jake. She hated to worry about them because they would always distract her. Like when Spike got into a fight with some kid that was three times larger than himself. It was over some kinda pokey, and the kid stole it from the two boys. Spike being a bit of an idiot, started yelling at him only to get punched in the face. Though Spike didn't come out of the fight in one piece, neither did the kid. And of course Spike got his pokey back. She ended up getting suspended and missed a ton of work, because she beat the heck out of the kid who hit Spike. Though she didn't always get along with the red head NO ONE, and she meant NO ONE hurt her friends. Once her memory was over, she found herself worrying even more. Please let Spike be okay....., was all she thought before bringing her gaze back to the little white monkey in front of her. Once again she was scowling. Why'd she have to go to the lab......?

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Jake had told the Professor about what happened to Spike and Natalie. All he got out of the old man was a 'Oh my....' the Professor started to type something into the computer. Jake looked over at the computer, only confusing himself.

"Hey Professor what's with the letters on the screen? They don't make any sense." Jake said looking at the screen.

223yhu7s4h6kj56jn67-tuh

That's all Jake saw, and just scratched his head as if it would give him some sort of answer.

"That's a code. Its like another language, it all means something in computer." the Professor said not looking up.

Jake tried to figure it out, but still couldn't understand. Instead just thought as it like a song. He started to fall asleep when the Professor spoke.

"There, now we just have to contact Spike." the Professor said.

Jake yawned and looked at the screen. Now there was a picture of a bed and fridge, and another room that had a door. Then there was a screen with some buttons. Jake still didn't understand. The Professor picked up a strange looking phone, and dialed some numbers.

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Spike was getting hungry, he hadn't eaten in hours. He wished he was at home in bed sleeping. Suddenly several things fell from the sky. Spike jumped up to dodge what looked like a fridge. He landed on his bottom only to go scrambling back to his feet as another object that looked like a bed fell and landed right where he had just been. Then the mother of all large heavy objects came. Spike looked at it with huge unbelieving eyes his jaw dropped.

"You've got to be kidding me! How the hell do I dodge that?!" Spike yelled clearly worried about his fate at this point.

The giant object hit the ground and smashed Spike. Spike crawled out from underneath the object and reinflated (like a cartoon). The objects fit snugly into corners. The fridge to the right of him, bed to the left, and the object that resembled a room attached to a wall. Spike looked around confused. This was so freakin strange. One minute he's sitting there minding his own business the next he's attacked by falling furniture! After a few minutes of no more falling objects, Spike sat down. But just when he thought it was safe, another object fell this time landing on Spike pinning him down. He lay there with swirlly eyes for a second before coming to. Spike pushed the object off himself. He sat up and looked at the object. It looked like a wide, long computer. It had a large screen and buttons all along the bottom. Spike leaned closer to get a better look at the object; suddenly an alarm went off from the strange object. Spike jumped away from the object frightened. Then Spike heard a voice, he crept closer to the object and listened closely. It was a voice! But....who did the voice belong to? He was snapped back to reality when a familiar voice spoke.

"Spike, are you there?"

Wait a second that voice wasn't who he thought it was. Was it?

"Spike it's me the Professor. Are you there?"

"Professor! Oh thank god!" Spike said nearly crying.

He was more than happy to hear the man voice. He thought he'd never hear anyone's voice again.

"Spike? Are you okay? Where are you?"

"I'm fine, and I don't exactly know where I am..."

"What dose your surroundings look like?"

"Lots of colors, it like when I used to go back in time."

Silence.

"Spike I'm afraid I don't know exactly where you are. According to the scanners you're somewhere close to Specters old hideout."

Spike was silent for a second.

"You mean you don't know where I am?"

"Hai"

"Spike you must go finds Natalie, and defeat Specter. In the mean time I'll try and find your whereabouts."

"Hai"

"Everything here is yours to use. The room I sent was the bathroom, so you can have some privacy"

"Hai"

"I'll set up a portal for you to travel through. I'll update you on everything afterwards."

"Hai"

"Spike are you okay?"

"Hai, I'm fine"

"Alright then, whatever you say. Jake says hi"

"Hai, tell him I said hello back."

"Well I must go, but I'll be backing soon, just hang in there. Okay Spike?"

"Hai"

"Good bye"

"Bye"

That was the whole conversation. Spike just couldn't believe it. He just couldn't believe it. He gets back from one journey, only to be started on another forced journey only months after he arrived home. Now yet again, he, Natalie, Jake, and the whole human race now depended......

On him......

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Well that's that. What did ya think? Good bad? Well anyway, if you don't know who Casi is, she's the girl who tells you how many monkeys you have to capture. A fitting title to this chapter, ne? Well if you have any questions about anything just ask. Well JA ne! R&R

Translations

Hai yes, okay, alright.

Other

The sun rises around 4:30 around November. This book takes place just 6 months after the first game, it takes place around November. Sorry I keep changing the time setting.

Lin