Get Together 2

By. Alia D'en

(2004)

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Please note the character formally known as Jengi, has been switched to Maya do to the fact she could not stand to be called jengi.

Also note that the first story took place during freshman year of High school this one is sophomore year. Which would have been 03, but this wasn't finished until early 04.

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"When you do it e-bay!" Alia hummed as she upped her bid on the genuine magic ruby red slippers. These were not the movie props that Dorothy wore in the Wizard of Oz, but the real thing. Well, at least that's what the web page said. Of course Alia was not gullible enough to actually believe that they were the real real thing but she liked bidding online especially when she had to up her bid every few seconds just to stay the top bidder. Luckily the auction was about to end in just over 1 minute and the majority of the bidders had given up all hope of owning the shoes. At a bid of 42 she won. She screamed out in joy. Now all she would have to do is wait for the box to come.

On a Thursday afternoon, 42 days latter after much anxiety over weather the package would come at all, or if she had actually won the bid despite the fact an e-mail confirmation came, and a letter in the mail, the package came. Alia jumped for joy, literally, it bought some strange looks from both the UPS guy and the neighbor across the street that was watering her petunias. Alia thought momentary about taking a bath.

Now, I have to tell you, you should pay attention to the idea that Alia thinks about taking a bath because latter on this will have a lot of meaning. Of course you do not have to pay any attention to the petunias or the neighbor watering them because they will have absolutely no significance latter on.

Anyway the UPS guy came up to the door rung the door bell, despite the fact the door was wide open and Alia was standing in the doorway with a strange look on her face that could only be described as "MINE!"

"Package for Alia D'en" said the UPS guy.

"That's me, gimie." Answered Alia as she tore the package from the UPS guy and shut the door in his face without signing the electric thingy.

The doorbell rang.

"WHAT!" Alia screamed as she flung the door open, angry at being interrupted from opening her box.

The UPS guy held up the electronic signing thingy. "You need to sign this."

Alia gave hive such a scowl that he backed away a few steeps and just walked away.

The box was torn open. Alia smiled wickedly, as she placed the shoes onto her feet.

Now what to do? She clicked her feet together, one, two, three. She disappeared. 42 nanoseconds latter she appeared again in a new place. Hawaii, Kalahalo High School on the windward side of Oahu to be exact.

In fact due to the time zone change of 5 hours classes were just starting and everyone was heading to class. So, Alia just went back home. Click, click, click and 42 nanoseconds later she was back home standing in her living room on the east coast of the USA.

Now what to do? "Think, think, think." She said loudly as she taped her finger to her forehead in a surprisingly good imitation of Winnie the Pooh. A bright blue light bulb appeared above her head the moment an idea struck her. She looked up.

"Funny I thought light bulbs were yellow, oh well." She said as she walked toward her room to grab her backpack and a few other essentials. 42 minutes latter after much anxiety over which towel to bring she was packed.

Now she had to wait. This was not something she was very good at, but she had a plan. A vary good plan. She would go back to Hawaii and pick up a couple of friends, namely Elora and Maya.

Alia, Elora, and Maya had spent freshman year of high school together and had been broken up after Alia was forced to move to the East Coast. Luckily they had all kept in contact and were still great friends.

So, Alia would go back to Hawaii pick up her friends and go on a little adventure. One she knew they would never ever forget.

Hours passed, Alia looked at the clock, a few more hours past, Alia looked at the clock again. It was time. Click, click, click, she was off, and 42 nanoseconds later she appeared at the high school just as classes were being dismissed.

She looked around at the typical areas for seeing her friends. They were both standing by the road. Alia walked up to them.

"Hi." Alia said simply with a smile on her face.

Elora and Maya turned around at the same time "ALIA!" they exclaimed in unison.

"How did you get here?" Maya asked a few seconds afterward. Alia pointed down at the red shoes on her feet. Maya looked stunned as she examined the shoes. Elora on the other hand smiled widely as if she had been expecting just something of the sort.

"When do we leave?" Elora asked.

"As soon as you two have packed." Answered Alia as she began clicking her shoes together. Click, click, click and 42 nanoseconds latter they were standing outside Elora's house.

"Quick pack up, Maya and I will be back in no time with here stuff. Don't forget a towel." Said Alia as she began clicking her feet together. Click, click, click and 42 nanoseconds latter Alia and Maya were standing next to the side door of Maya's house. They went inside.

Maya dumped the contents of her backpack out and began packing all the necessities of life. A toothbrush, a change of clothes, a cup, and a towel.

Click, click, click. They both appeared in front of Elora's house.

"Ready?" Alia asked.

"Yeah. So where are we going?" Asked Elora.

"Montana." Alia answered tersely as she clicked her heels together. Click, click, click and 42 nanoseconds latter they were standing almost 42 stories beneath the earth in the control room of the Stargate.

Elora and Maya gave Alia a sidelong glance.

"What!" Alia exclaimed.

"Ok," squeaked Maya, "Where are we going?"

"Dune." Said Alia.

"Arrakis?" Elora asked.

"Desert planet?" finished Maya.

"That's the place. I hope you brought sun screen." Said Alia as she went to put in the symbols. Sadly she was stopped by the fact she now had several guns pointed at her and her cohort.

"Hands up." One of the guards said.

"Who are you?" asked another.

Just then General Hammond and the entirety of sg1 walked in the room.

"What's going on here?" General Hammond asked.

"We just need to use the Stargate, you see its just a little difficult to get were we are going because I would have to click my heels together 42,000 times. Which means I would probably lose count before I got to that number." Alia answered.

The reason, although few know this, and those that do not know this, strangely don't have to click their heals together 42,000 times to go beyond the sphere of Earth, is that due to the way the general mish-mash of the universe works in order to go beyond the ionosphere of the earth or to exit the general flow of the 4th dimension as perceived by the peoples of Zimbabwe an excess of clicking is required. And, the farther away in the multidimensional space time continuum a destination is the more clicking is required. Dune is very far away in the multidimensional space-time continuum, and it takes a lot of heal clicking to get there.

"Click your heels together?" asked Jack O'Neil "What do you think your Dorothy or something?"

"Its called e-bay, hello! You can buy anything, including Dorothy slippers. Now we really need to be on our way if you just allow us to use the Stargate well be fine." Alia answered.

Elora looked at Alia slyly as a wand suddenly appeared in her hand. "Okay" she said, "weapons down or someone gets it."

One of the guards took a steep forward toward her. "Immobilus!" Elora exclaimed as she move the wand through the air. The guard froze mid steep. "Anyone else?" Elora asked

"When did you get that?" Maya asked

"Um, I sort of borrowed it." Elora said hesitantly.

"Right, and Qui-Gon Jinn is my uncle" Alia added sarcastically.

"He is?" Elora asked. "Kewl!"

Maya rolled her eyes. "No Star Wars, please no Star Wars!"

"What's wrong with Star Wars?" Alia and Elora asked in perfect synchronization.

"It's not so much what's wrong with Star Wars as what's wrong with the both of you." Maya said.

"I think she just insulted us." Elora said.

"I believe we resent that." Alia added.

"Yes, I also believe we resent that." Elora supplemented.

"Oh well." Alia said.

"Yes, oh well." Elora finished.

"What I'm not going to be turned into a frog or banished to some far away land?" Maya asked.

"No" Alia answered, "We have learned to accept your contempt for Star Wars."

"Really?" Maya asked.

"Yes really." Elora answered.

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"Wow, I don't believe it." Maya said.

" Believe it." Elora answered tersely.

"Do you two realize that between the both of you, the word really has been said 132 times?" Alia asked.

"I hate to interrupt your party but you do realize that you are standing in a top secret military base that no one is even suppose to know about?" O'Neil asked.

" We just want to use the Stargate." Alia said. "Just let me put in my coordinates and we will be on our way."

"See that thing around the stargate?" O'Neil asked as he pointed to the iris covering the stargate. Alia, Elora, and Maya nodded. "If you go through you're not coming back. That thing will kill you. You will go splat like a bug on it if you try to come back." He finished.

"I know. That is why we are not coming back through the stargate." Alia answered. " See this." She pulled an object out of her bag that looked vaguely like a thumb and had several buttons on it. " This is a sub-eitha device that will get us a ride on a highliner." She looked around at the blank eyes of the people surrounding her; only Maya seemed to know what she was talking about. " Do I have to explain everything? Don't answer it was a rhetorical question. In short, this device is the equivalent to sticking out your thumb and saying can I have a ride?"

Maya smiled. "Every intergalactic hitchhiker needs one."

"Just let us use the stargate, and we'll be out of your hair." Alia said impatiently.

"We can not let you do that." General Hammond said, trying to put as much authority as he could behind it.

"Okay," Alia said. "Let me put this another way. If you don't let us go through my friend" Alia pointed at Elora who still had her wand in hand. "Will do what she did to him," She pointed to the frozen guard. "Or something much worse."

"Yeah, and don't think any of your weapons are going to help I have already made them useless." Elora said threateningly.

All of the SGC (Stargate Command) personal looked at them wearily and dropped their weapons. Alia walked back to the computer and input the 7 necessary symbols to get where they were going. A second later the iris retracted and there was a load flushing sound. The stargate had connected. Before them was the shimmering event horizon of the wormhole that would take them to Dune.

Alia, Elora, and Maya left the control room and entered the embarkation room (where the stargate is.) They walked up to the stargate and went through, 42 seconds later they were standing on the crest of a sand dune with the disengaged stargate behind them.

"We should head for that rock outcropping over there." Alia said.

"Why?" Elora asked.

"Because Shai-hulud will come and gobble us up if we don't." Alia answered.

"Who is Shai-hulud?" Maya asked.

"Giant sand worm big enough to eat a building, and I have a feeling that one will be headed this way vary soon." Alia paused as a rushing sound started in the distance. "I have a feeling that we should hurry. And try to make sure there is no pattern to your steeps." They headed off toward the rock outcropping.

They barely made it, before the sand worm reached them, rose from the sandy earth to show its myriad of teeth and screamed out into the distance in the most horrific cry. They paused to take a breath.

"That was pleasant." Maya said putting more sarcasm into her voice than most would believe possible.

"Sorry." Alia answered.

"What next?" Elora asked.

"Just count down from 42 and follow me." Alia said as she began climbing the rocks towards a nearby ridge. 42 seconds latter, the exact moment they reached the ridge they were surrounded. Ten freman (the desert people of Arrakis) with there crysknifes flashing, and nasty looks on there faces that might bring a grown man to tears appeared in front of them.

Actually the Freman often did much worse. They lived for the sole purpose of survival and in the harsh desert climate of Dune killing another was a way of life. Alia, Elora, and Maya had intruded on their territory.

Of course few, namely Elora and Maya, had no idea that Alia had planed this. Well she had planed on meeting the Freman, being captured, killed by them was another matter entirely.

" Greetings freman, I am Alia of Earth, we are here to meet Muad'dib." Alia said confidently.

The freman looked at each other, then looked at one of the older men. He had a smart sort of look about him as if he knew much more then he let on, or at least knew how to look as if he knew more than others knew.

" I am Stilgar, Nieb of Sietch Tabr. Why do you wish to see Muad'dib?" He asked.

Maya looked at Elora. "A whatca of a what?" she asked quietly. Elora looked back at her if she was a total idiot. "Stilgar is the Nieb of Sietch Tabr." She answered in a whisper.

"That's what he said but what's a Nieb, and for that matter, a Sietch?" Maya asked.

"You're an idiot. I told you to read Dune, but would you, no." she sighed. "A Nieb it like a Chief in a tribe. A Sietch is where the tribe's people live. It's a place of safety. Got it?" Elora answered impatiently.

"Oh okay." Maya said back slightly happier.

By then all the freman and Alia were looking at them with slightly angered and quizzical faces.

"What!" they asked in unison. Several of the freman raised their weapons.

"Please let down your weapons they are insane Mu Zein Wallahz, they don't know any better." Alia said coolly.

"MU ZEIN WALLAH!" Elora shouted as she gave Alia the Dune equivalent of the finger. Which was three fingers so it packed just a little bit more of a punch. "I'll give you Mu Zein Wallah, right up your desert kulon!"

Suddenly out of thin air, a three-foot dart gun appeared in Alia's hands. Also, although none of them knew it, that same moment a small necklace appeared around Maya's neck.

The necklace that Maya is now wearing will become important later because, although they don't know it at this time, (note: at this time none of them have even realized its existence.) this necklace will save all of their lives and get them all home before dinner.

Also, it should be known that Alia (only moments after the dart gun appeared in her hands and the necklace around Maya's neck,) thought, very extensively, about how wonderful taking a bath would feel.

Anyway, Alia held up the dart gun. "Padawan," Alia said as she, without realizing it, referred to Elora as her Jedi apprentice. You see, at that moment, yes the one were Alia wanted to take a bath, a multidimensional flux in the space-time continuum between the realities of Earth Alia and Elora and Jedi Alia and Elora occurred. This flux was caused because earth Alia and Jedi Alia just happened to be standing at the same spot, at the same moment, thinking about how wonderful taking a bath would be.

On top of that, that same moment Obi-Wan Kenobi was by pure coincidence crossing the dune sea of Tattoine. The Dune sea of Tattoine if you looked into it and understood multidimensional space-time mechanics turned out to occupy the same place in the multidimensional space-time continuum as the Funeral Plain of Arrakis. These two places by shear coincidence, and a little backwards-temporal engineering, happened to be affected by the multidimensional flux caused by the two Alia's and Obi-Wan suddenly, without realizing it appeared on Dune rather than Tattoine where he intended to be.

"What?" Elora asked quizzically.

"What?" Alia asked.

"You just called me Padawan."

"No I didn't, I don't think I said anything. I was thinking about how wonderful a bath would be."

"No. You called me padawan."

"I did?"

"Yeah, you did."

"Strange"

"Kill them." One of the freman suddenly shouted.

"They are all insane." Shouted another.

"Take their water and send them back to shaitan." Said a third.

Then just as death seemed imminent and Alia was attempting to click her heals together 42,000 times Maya at the vary top of her lung screamed.

"HELP US OBI-WAN KENOBI YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!"

Alia and Elora looked over at Maya. "Now that's one I would never have expected to come out of you." Elora said vary matter of factly.

"No really. HELP US OBI-WAN KENOBI YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!" She pointed out towards the funeral plain. Obi-Wan Kenobi was running very, very, very fast at force added speed. Behind him 42 giant sand warms attracted by his thump, thump, thump were following him. He was screaming vary, vary load for some help of his own.

In turn Alia, Elora, and Maya started screaming. "HELP US OBI-WAN KENOBI YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!"

Luckily Obi-Wan reached the rocks before the 42 sand worms got him. However, when he did reach the rocks the entire group of freman started advancing on him. Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber and after chopping off one of the freman's arms they all ran off screaming like babies.

"Thank you Obi-Wan you have saved our lives." Alia, Elora, and Maya said in unison.

Obi-Wan looked at them and suddenly started backing away towards a ledge. "Oh no not you again." He said with much bewilderment and kept backing up. Just as he would have fallen off the ledge he disappeared.

Alia put down her dart gun. "Well that was polite."

"I know he just went and disappeared on us. It wasn't very nice at all." Elora added.

About 42 seconds of silence passed between them.

"Now what?" Maya asked.

Alia pulled out the Sub-eatha 'thumb' and handed it to Maya. "We wait for a passing ship." She pulled out her towel, laid it on the ground. "And get a tan. Why else would I have asked you to bring a towel?"

Maya and Elora both brought out their towels and sat on them. Maya activated the thumb, 42 minutes of relative sun tanning bliss passed.

"Hay shouldn't that thing be lit up?" Elora asked as she looked at the 'thumb.'

"Yeah." Alia said.

"Well it isn't." Elora said.

"Turn it back on, probably just turned its self off just to have a laugh."

Elora fiddled with it for a few seconds. "The lights won't turn on." She said.

"Check the batteries."

"There dead."

"What I thought I put in some Energizers earlier."

"They are Duracell."

"WHAT!" Alia shouted.

Silence passed between them.

"Why Energizer?" Maya asked.

Alia and Elora looked at her as if it was the most obvious answer in the universe. "Because they keep going and going and going." They all laughed.

42 seconds of somewhat uncomfortable silence passed between them.

"Now what?" Maya asked.

Alia took a deep breath and looked down at her shoes. "I need someone to help me keep count." They all sighed and began.

About 42 minutes passed.

"What number are we on?" Alia asked.

"I don't know I lost count at 1,042." Maya said sadly.

"Wow you did better than me!" Elora said with both sadness and admiration.

"You tell me I have been clicking my heals together for who knows how long without anyone counting?" Alia asked.

"Well weren't you counting?" Maya asked.

"I was trying to keep clicking my heals together without falling down, and keeling over in pain. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MY FEET HURT?" she sighed. "I need to sit down."

Silence passed. Maya began to fiddle with the necklace she was wearing. Strange. She thought. I didn't realize that was there. She continued to fiddle with the necklace for some time.

She sighed. "I just wish we were home."

Blackness, then a bright blinding light. Suddenly they were all sitting vary comfortably on the couch in Maya's living room with popcorn bags in each of their laps. The TV was on, the air was clean, and there were no freman around. It was vary pleasant, they all sighed ate their popcorn and watched TV.

NOTE: 9 times 6 42 (base 13!)