Not much to say right now, except that I'm writing at 2 in the morning… So most of this chapter will be set on a dark night, simply because my brain cannot process bright lights right now.

EDIT: The last couple of paragraphs were done at 9am, just before doing a simple lecturage... Qualatative Skills is the easiest module EVAH.

Speaking of EVAs, I need to watch NGE in one sitting... It makes no sense if you leave a week between watching each one.... Maybe in Reading Week, the university equivalent of a half term week off before the exams...


I went over to the restaurant. I was beginning to piece together who this 'Lucy' could be. I had quickly changed into a casual suit before leaving, unsure how formal an arcade/restaurant would be.

Effectively knowing everything I know…

Probably of similar build…

Most likely another Slider…

Probably into the same things.

But just… Different gender and aligned themselves with L rather than Light.

This might be… Fun.

I walked in. Hmm.

Went over to the Donkey Kong machine, and had a shiver.

One of these days, I'll probably end up in the real version of this… It's going to be horrible, since I can't get past level 2…

I walked away from it.

I felt… Something in the air.

If I was a poet, I would call it love, but it felt slightly more like a challenge.

I looked around and saw it.

Super Smash Bros.

The original N64 game.

And an amazingly… hot woman was playing on it.

Down boy, this isn't the time for that. Let's just GAME ON!

I walked over.

"Fancy a game?" I asked, trying to sound cool. I most likely failed. I tend to do that a lot.

"Hmm? Oh, y-yeah, sure!"

Hmm. stammer. Interesting, especially on a woman who's holding herself as confidentally as this. Usually on women you can tell their mentality by how they stand. This woman is clearly used to giving orders, or at least being in command.

This might not even be Lucy. But SSB is something I haven't played for a long time.

I picked Link.

She picked Jigglypuff.

"Seriously, you're picking the pink ball?" I asked, looking at her face incredulously.

Note here people: I am not looking at her breasts, as lovely as they may be: one, I'm not a pervert, much, and two, I need to have blood in my brain, not anywhere else.

"And you're picking the pretty fairy boy?" she asked, her face similar to mine, except somehow more… well, obviously feminine.

I hope I'm not your opposite… Seriously, If I'm as masculine as you are feminine, I'd have a lot more beardyness. Not to mention that I would probably resemble a Lumberjack, or something that muscley.

We fought.

Her jiggles proved her well in my first two lives in our three lives each match, but eventually my skills returned to my mind.

I… Remember how to always win against the computer, and she's playing a lot like it.

Hookshot! Body! THROW IT AWAY!

Right, she's winning by 1 life.

Hookshot! Body! THROW IT AWAY!

Good, we're tied. 1 life each. Now it's going to heat up.

Hookshot! Miss! Get hit in the face!

Hmm. I'm making a note here, HUGE FAIL… Damn Portal appearing in my mind.

We both looked at each other.

The slightest grapple move would send our characters flying off into nowhere.

We were perfectly matched.

It was… interesting.

Especially since my last major villain was perfectly matched against me for a long time in Oarim Kart, a cheap copy of Mario Kart.

This is rather… fun.

"So, your name is Lucy, then?" I asked, after we both mutually decided not to play any further, due to us both being so equal.

"Yeah… And you're Dylan."

We were both silent for a bit.

"So… What were you named after?" She asked, looking at me with her eyes half closed in a way that made me wish she was naked suddenly.

"Dylan the rabbit."

"OMG that is SO cool! I was named after that Beatles song…"

"What- I am the walrus, kookookachu? I don't see how Lucy resembles a walrus… Except physically… Seriously, you is well fat, girl!" I said, trying my best to convey that I was trying to joke.

"How gentlemanly of you to say so. Also, did you know that walruses are pretty damn deadly?"

"Oh… Cool. Like hippos then."

"Yeah… cute but deadly…"

"Like care bears!" we both said, and then it lead into a conversation about the various universes we had both been to.

Apparently, she had been in a complementary set of universes to me. Apart from my own, each one was identical, except for her own, which had everyone's gender opposite.

As I told her about it being Neil and not Neilette Armstrong [trust me, there's weirder women's names out there in our world than Neilette… Consider that you can have a man called Marie in France.], she ordered some food at a table I didn't even know we were sitting on.

"I'll have a gammon steak with an egg and a pineapple slice on top, with chips and a coke." she ordered.

"I'll have the same." I said.

We waited. We both pulled out our phones and played Super Mario on them.

That was an interesting feature of both universes- most fictional characters were the same gender as their interdimensional counterpart, except for Tedd from the webcomic El Goonish Shive… In her universe, he was a she, called Tess, but other than that, a lot of the interwebs was the same.

We chatted for a while about random things like that, then our food arrived.

Then we both cleared our throats at the same time.

I let her begin, being the gentleman that I am.

"So, I suppose you want to know why I invited you here, right?" she asked.

I mused the answer for a second.

"Not really. It's standard rules of fair play in combat. Let your opponent know who you are and their motives for fighting. However, you appear to be almost identical to me, except for the gender and who you landed nearby. Therefore, I expect that this is some kind of a mental guise you're taking on to prevent me from getting close to the real you. Similarly, I am doing a Sherlock Holms impression right now to make myself seem cleverer than I am, and also to prevent myself from finding you attractive. In addition, I suspect you have brought me here in order to prevent me from gate crashing the meeting between L and Light's father, which may or may not be occurring in the same hotel which I am staying at, which is suspiciously convenient, I daresay, because the hotel in the series where L meets the team had more gold colours, not the steel monstrosity that I'm staying at…"

She began to clap.

"Elementary, wasn't it, Dawson? You really, really, do think like me. And thanks for the compliments, you're a bit of a sexy fellow yourself. However, you and me cannot shag, as I wish to do so with you, because we are so close on a genetic level that we are like doubly brother and sister."

"Great. So we're like Luke and Leia. totally into each other to begin with, then find out related, then, BAM! Keeping away from each other." I said, sounding rather bitter.

"Not really… I mean, we could do stuff together, but it would have to be with a condom, and it would be like an intense version of masturbation, technically…"

"Okay, shall we just keep things to business then, for now, as hearing a woman speak exactly the way I think is rather creepy."

"Same towards the way you speak."

We ate some more lasagne. It was EPIC.

Then I began to choke on coke.

Then I was okay.

Then I finished my food. Had a mint.

We split the bill between us.

Then we exchanged phone numbers. Our phones had apparently coped with the same two phones on the same network by assigning each one a special code, which differentiated the two.

I decided to ask something.

"Hey, has Light done the Raye Penbar thing he did in the anime? I was certain that he did kill him, but I haven't heard a single word off of him about it… Is Raye dead yet, since he should be… At least, well before we see L…"

"Yeah… It's kinda weird that Penbar is alive…"she said, looking worried, "I would have thought that if it had happened, L would have known…"

"Do you have the same problem as I have with Light?"

"What problem would that be?"

"That they don't listen, and they expect you to be the font of all wisdom when they fuck up…"

"Oh, yeah, L was practically begging me to tell him where Light would be… It didn't really hurt the plotline when I told him it was definitely in Kanto…"

"Yeah, especially as it was kinda obvious that it wasn't a worldwide broadcast."

"Hmm." She said, scratching her hand as she thought, "It's difficult to say what is obvious and what isn't, with all the retrospective knowledge we have here…."

Her phone rang.

"Yes? Okay. Right. Right. What? No! Huh? Yes…. Hmm. I'll be back soon, I've just got some unfinished business to do, okay?"

She hung up.

"Who was that, boobie-me?"

"Eurgh I hate the Austina Powers movies so much… Flower Power gets annoying after a while. Anyway, it was L. He wants me to come back, there's apparently some drawings, just as I predicted… I suppose you had better call Light…He'll probably be starting to get his crazy eye on…."

"Heh."

We walked a little longer, and then I realised something.

"Hang on… If L is in my hotel tonight, then… The entire investigation is in the same hotel as me!!!"

She giggled, something which sounded weird coming from a female me. I suppose it's no different from my occasional chuckling…. I suppose.

"Yep! L even ordered lots of porn as a cover as what he's doing in there…"

"Wait, you mean the alleged couple in the room next to me, who go at it for more than 6 hours straight…. Were fake? GODDAMNIT, I DIDN'T SLEEP AT ALL THE FIRST NIGHT I HAD TO LISTEN TO THAT CRAP!"

"heehee." Lucy giggled, "And I get to live in a mansion with L…"

There was a bit too strong amount of emotion when she said that.

"Luce… You're not falling for L, right? I mean, he's fictional!"

"Oh, Dylan, don't be such a prude. I'm not falling in love with him, I just want to strip him naked and have fun with him."

"Ah. Apparently you can do one without the other then. Good for you."

"Oh, Dylan, we share mostly the same memories, except that I had a reason for being bad tempred some days…. So I know that you are fully capable of being able to sleep with a person without loving them."

"Oh really?"

"Ya, really."

"NO WAI!"

"Well… You haven't already been doing it with him, have you? Think of all the billions of fangirls back home who would herald you as the chosen one if you got pregnant with his kid…"

"Heh. The chosen one, hmm?"

"Besides, in keeping with the identical thing we've got, if you got pregnant, then would have the problem of finding an opposite to L to get pregnant… Which wouldn't work. Light would be too male to be able to be, and Misa… Is slightly creepy, although admittedly I haven't met her yet."

"Oh, chill, man! I haven't done anything with him yet… Although, admittedly we are sleeping in the same bed…"

"What?"

"Well, there's apparently an issue of trust he has with me that he doesn't sense around anyone else- he suspects that my intentions aren't good."

"So he sleeps… with you? To check his suspicions?"

"Yep!" she smiled cheerfully and suspiciously innocently.

I looked at her. I thought about it from her perspective.

"You're a virgin, aren't you? In my universe, I once had sex with what was probably the most manliest minded girl ever, so I'm not, but in yours, it would have been a guy, so… Guys are always naturally shy, thus, you would not have had any action."

She looked at me, her eyes tearful.

"NOOO! You have uncovered my secret! I'm melting! I'm melting! I'm meeeeeeeellllltttiinnnggg…"

She actually really did melt then, giving off bits of steam.

I watched as she faded into nothing.

"Okay… That was… Weird."

I decided to go home and sleep a lot.

Yeah… Working with L, Lucy has a lot of resources at her disposal, so she can do completely random crap like this as much as she likes… Interestingly enough, can you imagine a gender-swapped Death Note? Light Yagami… As a girl?

For some reason, I can imagine a female L and a male Misa rather easily, but most of the Yagamis are quite difficult to imagine.

Also, isn't an arcade restaurant the bestest idea ever? The tables themselves are arcade machines!!! But they have the usual kind too...