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Through The Looking Glass

Suzy's POV

Both of us, the intruder and me, were discombobulated (Yes, it's an actual word. One of the few things I learned in English 101). I felt nauseous, and was vaguely reminded of the one time I was transported to the Watchtower. An experience I never wanted to repeat again. The intruder recovered more quickly then I did, for he grabbed the watch from my hand and sprinted out the room.

A couple seconds later and I followed him, with his wallet still in my hand. I stowed it in my pocket for later, like when he was arrested. He ducked behind a corner, and I smiled since it was a dead end. I might not be an engineering major, but I had been to the engineering building often enough with Stuart and Eugene to become somewhat familiar with the layout.

I rounded the corner, expecting the intruder to be there, plotting what to do next. Except he wasn't. It wasn't a dead end; in fact, it opened to three different hallways. I couldn't be wrong. I had remembered this hallway since I had gotten lost once in the dead end, and made sure to remember where it was so I wouldn't repeat the mistake again. So there was no way I could be wrong.

Then I noticed other subtle changes. Instead of red brick walls, the walls were painted white. The posters on the bulletin board I had passed were different, for groups I had never heard of. By the time I was done taking in the subtle changes and had started to suspect something was wrong, the intruder was long gone. I had no way of knowing which direction he had went, or just how long the hallways were and where they lead. This clearly was not the engineering building I was use to.

I wandered back the direction I had come from, when I heard footsteps. "Hello?" I asked tentatively. Surely, the intruder would be gone by now, wouldn't he?

I continued toward the footsteps. If it was the intruder, I would sneak from behind and grab him. If it wasn't, I could find out where I was. At the end of the hallway I was now in I could make out a figure that clearly wasn't the intruder. For starters, he was just a bit shorter, and had a backpack like a student would have.

He snuck one quick look at me and then continued toward the door, but I wasn't about to let him get away that easily. I strode toward him and asked, "Can you tell me where I am?"

Looking at me like I was an idiot, he said, "UMKC."

Was that an acronym of a place? Chat speak? An insult? Fighting against my sarcastic nature, (just as hard as it sounds) I managed to get out, "Which is where exactly?'

He rolled his eyes at me, still thinking I was an idiot. "University of Missouri at Kansas City, located in Kansas City, Missouri."

Where the hell was Kansas City, Missouri? I had heard of Kansas City, Kansas, it was close to Central City. Then all the little things that had been nagging at the back of my mind slowly fell into place. Eugene's device. The lack of a dead end. The strange paint and posters. I then asked a question, which I was unsure about whether or not I wanted to hear the answer to. "Kansas City, Missouri? Are you sure it's not Central City, Missouri?"

"Central City?" he asked, "Like from the comics?"

Comics? No, please, don't let that mean what I think it means, I begged silently in my mind. After everything I just went through with Annie, I didn't deserve another weird situation barely a year after the last one. There should be a minimum five year requirement between weird experiences at least. "Yeah," I managed to get out, while my voice was threatening to do that choking noise that it does when I'm nervous. "With the Flash?"

He looked at me, like I was crazy. Which I guess, I was coming off as. "I'm pretty sure if some guy was running around in a red suit fighting crime, I would know."

Deciding to take the risk, I said, "You don't understand, I'm from that world, and..." And nothing. He was gone. Jerk.

Eugene's POV

"MY SISTER IS WHERE?"

There's nothing like having somebody scream in your face to wake you up. Specifically when said someone is taller, and stronger than you. Granted Gary had every right to be angry, but it wasn't like I knew what was going to happen. If I did I would have asked Annie to come along instead.

Speaking of Annie, she was currently between me and Gary, trying to keep him from beating me to a pulp for sending his sister to an alternate dimension. It wasn't on purpose though. I had just wanted to make a device that would let Annie meet her author. Our one year anniversary was coming up, and I knew she still had some unanswered questions about her origins. Wanting to surprise her, I had come up with the idea of such a device for my senior design project. Might as well kill two birds with one stone.

At this point, the device should have still been theoretical, since the first semester of senior design is more about proposals and paper work than any actual designing. I couldn't wait till next semester, so went ahead and started creating the device anyway. It was a rather innocuous looking everyday object, a watch. For portable use, comfort, and style.

I first realized that somebody was trying to get the device a couple weeks ago, when a regular scan of my computer revealed somebody had managed to hack into it. Hacking into my computer is no easy task since I hacked in my spare time, and had a number of preventative measures in place to prevent someone like me from doing the same. Further investigation revealed that they had copied my plans for the device.

I was worried, but at that point the device still wasn't built. I tried tracing back the hacker with no luck. Whoever it was, was skilled and knew what he was doing. Deciding that computers were no longer safe, I started keeping my designs in a notebook. Eventually, I felt like my design was solid enough to start actually constructing the device.

The hardest part wasn't getting it to narrow in on the universe of Annie's origins (every dimension has it's own vibration frequency, so I had to simply match the vibration frequency of a sample of Annie's hair with the vibration frequency of her original universe/dimension), but actually getting the portal to remain open long enough for a person to pass through safely. The portal would open sure enough, but no bigger than the size of a softball, and only for a few milliseconds. I kept the device hidden in a classroom at school, hoping it'd be the last place somebody would look for it.

It was, for a while. Then one day I noticed that somebody had been messing with it because the settings were slightly different from when I had last left it. Whoever it was had quickly discovered what I already knew; it still needed some work. But the same person would be back eventually, to see if I had made progress.

I guess I should have gone to my adviser at that point. But, for all I knew, he was in on it. I debated about planting a camera, but realized it wouldn't help if the person took my device the next time he visited. I'm not a hands on kind of guy. I'd much rather take down my enemies from behind the protection of a computer screen where the only attacks I might endure would be virtual ones. I admit that I've never thrown a punch before in my life.

But Suzy had. Not only had she punched her ex-boyfriend and knocked him out, but she also slapped Annie. Suzy had a bit of a temper (not unlike her brother) and was more than capable of taking someone down while I watched from a safe distance. Annie would have been my first option since she actually has powers, but that would mean spoiling her surprise.

Suzy also wasn't the type to do something out of the goodness of her heart, there had to be something in it for her. In this case I recalled the Togepi plushie Annie had found in her room one time. Suzy, a closeted Pokemaniac? I pocketed that information for a later date. Blackmailing wasn't much of an option since that would probably just piss Suzy off and she might hurt me. But I could bribe her with the new game that she probably was too much of a wimp to buy herself.

And that's how we ended up alone, in engineering. I could tell she was getting impatient, but then somebody entered the classroom. I thought they might since I had pretty much bragged to all of engineering I had fixed any and all issues with my device, a full semester ahead of schedule. I was pretty much begging for my device to be taken at that point.

Not acting scared in the least, Suzy stood up and went after the intruder. Me? I sat, cowering in a corner. Not my proudest moment, but it looked like she was doing fine on her own. I would probably just get in the way anyhow. She somehow managed to wrestle the device away from the guy. But then he got back up and tried to take it back. And then they were gone. A portal opened quickly sucking them in, and closed just as quickly. The only evidence it had even been in the room at all was the huge bang sound it made as it left the room.

I was left behind in a state of shock. The whole, I had fixed the device thing? Nothing but a big fat lie. Or so I thought.

Suzy's POV

Couches were meant for naps, not for actual, deep, restful sleep. After the jerk had taken off, I realized that I had no idea where I really was and going out at night in an unfamiliar city wasn't the safest thing to. I found a copy of the campus newspaper and started to read it, trying to calm my mind down enough to get some sleep.

Which was hard, since my mind kept whirling around. Is this really happening? Why didn't I ask if he saw a guy like the intruder? Would I ever get back home? Why couldn't I have brought some food with me? And if Gary doesn't kill Eugene for this, I will once I get back. If I get back.

I had also been cursing the guy for leaving me stranded, not even bothering to listen to my story. I knew I shouldn't; listening to some crazy person rant and rave probably went against the Rules after all. But still. When I encountered somebody that clearly did not belong in my world, I listened to them, took them in. Of course, it was only because she had totaled my car... but still, I did it, I went against the Rules.

The newspaper wasn't helping much. I didn't recognize any of the places, or people, mentioned in the stories and quickly lost interest. I couldn't even do Sudoku or the crossword since I didn't have anything to write with. I suppose at one point I must have dozed off, for I woke to light shining in from a nearby window. Students were walking to classes, clearly not bothered by the sight of a girl sleeping on a couch.

I got up and soon found my way to a computer lab. The idea had occurred to me last night, but after several failed attempts to log on I realized I needed an actual student of the university to log me on. It couldn't be that hard to do.

"Excuse me," I said, tapping a guy on the shoulder. "This is kinda embarrassing, but I really need to print off a paper for a class, except I can't remember my password, and my printer at home keeps freaking out on me, and I was wondering if you would be nice enough to log me in?" I even attempted Annie's puppy dog look she gives when she wants something. It must have worked, or maybe the guy felt sorry for me, but less than five minutes later I was logged in.

**Author's Note**

I'd like to start off by thanking my wonderful reviewers, monkey see, Loki's Son, Dark Thunder27, and Fox Alder. Reviews help motivate me to write more, so keep them coming.

Next chapter will have more of Suzy's reaction to the world she's in, and meets the jerk for a second time.

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