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Part 2!

While one part of me was in the computer lab cursing my own stupidity, another part of me was falling through a vortex of light cursing my stupidity. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!" I squeezed my eyes shut, but that's when the falling stopped and my feet felt solid ground beneath my shoes. I also realized that the screaming wasn't mine, it was Manny's!

"Aaaaaaahhhh!" And another kid. And another.

"Please, step off the transport." A robotic voice said. In front of me was a floating machine the size of a toaster with a detachable screen 'looking' at me. I was scared, I felt like I had just been kidnapped! I was so mad, but I had to calm Manny down. I took him by his arm, noticing me Manny fell into breathing heavily. I guided him off the white platform we were standing on and down a few steps.

The place we found ourselves in was a pure white, high tech, and opened sky court. But the sky… it wasn't the right shade of blue, and even though it was light and clear, there was no sun that I could see. More and more people started showing up on other platforms like the one Manny and I had just been on. All different ranges of age, backgrounds, and everything! "Manny?" I whispered quietly. "Where are we?"

"I-I-I-I d-d-d-don't know!" Manny stuttered. "Th-This isn't anywhere in the city! Angel, do think we've been abducted by aliens?" He seemed almost excited about that.

I hit him on the shoulder. "I think this is a bit more serious than that!"

One of the robots came up to us. Manny quickly grabbed onto me. I know some self-defense, so if these guys think I'll go down easy- "Welcome to The Port Court! May I take your order, Miss?"

I could see that Manny was confused as I was. We looked back at the hovering robot. It said, "We have Barath Beyond Borritos, Onion Rings of Naria, Perim Pizza, Bloogon Burgers, Simark Shakes, Frafdo Fries and Chaor Krunchies for the breakfast crowd."

If I could draw a picture of our faces, they'd probably look like this: 0-o?

Manny covered his mouth and whispered to me. "What's that thing talking about?!"

I answered. "I don't know, but they can't make me eat the onion rings."

"We'll take an order!" I looked behind me. A girl about our age with red hair with blonde highlights came running up waving her arm. She was wearing a bright yellow T-shirt, with a tan vest over it and some capri pants with red sandals. Around her neck was a pair of deep red headphones. "I'd like the onion rings with some ketchup, and a soda! Oh, and one of those burgers for my brother."

"Your brother?" I asked her out of curiosity.

I soon got my answer. "Kat!" Another boy soon came running out of the crowd. "You can't leave me behind like that!" He had similar, spiky hair to his sister, but he was wearing a green shirt without any vest and pair of pink-shaded glasses. Pants too, jeans.

The robot left to get their food. I tired talking to the two of them. "You guys know what's going on here? We get kidnapped and then get a lunch order?" The girl looked right at me when I talked to her. I noticed that she and her brother both had similar brown eyes. They must be twins.

Immediately, the girl came up and shook my hand. "Sorry, 'bout that! I just got so excited. My name's Kat! Katherine Kalinkas, but call me Kat! This!" She grabbed her brother, forcing him to come closer. "This is Kit! Kit Kalinkas. Our online names are Taki-Names67 and All-H'earring53!"

That didn't answer my questions, but I smiled and waved hello just the same. Kat slung her arm over her brother who blushed as he waved back. "C'mon, let's get a table!" Kat got her other arm around my back and dragged Manny along with me and Kit.

We found a table for the four of us and sat down. Some others were following our lead and looking around. Everywhere there where tables to sit and giant screens everywhere in the building. Kat was looking around excitedly, as was Manny as he started to relax and let me go. I was feeling interested too, but poor Kit was practically in a ball looking around nervously.

Feeling sorry, I tried talking to him. "Hey," I said, calmly getting his attention. He looked up at me for a second, then quickly looked back down. I continued talking. "It's going to fine. You have your sister here, don't you? Nothing bad has happened, there's even some food coming right now." He slowly got out of his ball, but Kit still didn't look up.

"It's actually kind of nice here." I said. By now I was talking to both calm myself and the group. "You can see the sky or… whatever I'm looking at. This place looks pretty clean, and it doesn't look like anyone's been hurt on coming over here." I tried to steer my conversation in another direction. "Your sister said your name is Kit, right?" He nodded. Ah-ha! We have contact! "What's Kit short for?"

"Kristopher…." He muttered. "I'm the younger twin."

"And the quiet one." Kat added. "What about you two?"

"I'm The-Man90. That's Nine-Oh! Manny." My friend stated. Kat snorted and rolled her eyes, but she humored him. "We just entered a code cause we won some contest and then we showed up here."

"Us too!" Kate squealed. "Isn't this great?!"

"Not the word I would use." I told her.

She looked at me questioningly. "What? Are you kidding? Do you guys have any idea where we are?!"

"No! That's why I don't like this." I said.

Kat huffed, but it was Kit who answered. "Our Dad used to tell us about a place like this that closed while he was in college. He met a lot of friends here, and spent practically all his time playing Chaotic."

"So don't get any ideas that this is a hostage situation." Kat added on. "We can go home when we want, but you'd be missing all the fun if you leave now~!"

My first impression of Kat is that she's a little crazy, or at least as crazy as her brother is shy. They both seem to have arrived only a little after Manny and I did. Wait… She said something about the Chaotic game. The same game Manny and I entered the code for just before….

Addressing pretty much everyone in the group, (even Manny though he won't know) I say, "So we're here because of those codes?"

"Bingo!" Kat points at me. "Daddy told me about this. It's like our brain-waves have been have been sent over and put into weird digital bodies that are just like the originals. Basically we're the codes or something. But we can eat, sleep, and get hurt over here and still feel it. But in the matter of fatal injury, we just become code and-"

While Kat was speaking and alarm suddenly went off. We all looked up, noticing that the screens had some kind of silver target with a red center. The outer part of the target began rotating around the red center for a few seconds. Then the image was replaced with the strangest, whitest, full-head mask I have ever seen. It kind of reminded me of a car.

"Welcome, Chaotic Players all!" The voice was male. Deep, and robotic, but somehow nice at the same time. A lot of other people standing around us in the court were angrily shouting as they looked up at his every image. Then he spoke again above the noise. "It is understandable that many of you are angry and confused by this occurrence. But let me assure you, no harm is meant to come to you here. You each entered your own code, thus you accepted our invitations." So he's telling us that if we're here, then we got what we asked for. My thoughts were snarky, I was still mad. He continued with his speech. "And we shall deliver on our promise. You are the first wave of a new generation in Chaotic. While many have moved on or forgotten the game, all of you have proven to be worthy players of the game. Currently you are all waiting in what is called the Port Court, any time you wish leave simply stand on the transport and press the activation button on your scanner. One of the robots here in the Court can assist you. Your Earth-selves will know you wish to return when a light flashes on your scanner. Your online cards will be locked until you return. But your full decks are available on your scanners here. Your individual memories will be preserved and sent along with you.

"As promised, a great adventure awaits all of you here in Chaotic. Here in the seven Battle Dromes, you can play the very characters you admire and have won to be accepted here! If any player manages to beat seven challenges in a row, he or she will receive a challenge from a Codemaster of that Drome. Upon defeating a Codemaster, a rare and valuable scan will be rewarded. What's more… the actual world of Perim is at your fingertips!

"Those same transports which take you home, also can take you to the world of Perim. Your scanners have the updated ability to scan 5 Creature, Mugic and Location scans at a time. Lock them once you have the ones you want or the older scan will be erased. Also, a fair warning: You are not protected beyond your own skills while in Perim. You can be injured by the Creatures or the Locations. Any personal injury here will code you and instantly send you back to your Earth-selves, and you will be locked out of this Chaotic forever.

"Good luck to all of you. Time to get Chaotic!" And the screens turns to that rotating symbol.

The whole room is dead silent.

Then an uproar of cheers and mixed screams filled the room.

Manny was among those cheering as he stood up on his chair. Our new friends Kat and Kit were looking on with slightly amused, but already aware faces. "Well," Kat said, leaning over the table and resting her face on her fist. "That was preachy."

"But informative." Kit said. He turned and met eyes with me. "All that he said is true. You can go to Perim for real using your own location scans. The scanner thing is new though."

"Which one?" Manny asked. "It felt like we just got a school lecture."

"The multiple scans thing." Kat clarified. "The way Dad told us, it used to be just one of each and you had to save them back here. Hey, our food!"

Sure enough, an order of onion rings and a burger were put in front of the twins. "We got lunch detention when we activated our codes, so excuse me while I fill up!" Kat began rapidly shoving the onion rings into her mouth.

"You have detention for giving that guy a bloody nose." Kat pointed out, picking up his burger. "I'm still studying for the Calculous test in the library."

"That test isn't for another week." Kat said between bites. "Kit's a math wiz. And an English expert, History-nut, and Sci-freak. The only place he falls short is P.E.."

Kit sent an annoyed look at his sister. "Well, if we're telling our new friends about our flaws already: let's talk about your detention record, prank-streak and failing grades!"

Now I don't know much about siblings, but the tension in the air wasn't making me comfortable. I looked over at Kat, taking a guess that she would be mad at him, like he was. She was just eating away one ring at a time. "Yeah." She confessed with a relaxed grin. "But you know most of those are because I don't let anybody mess with my little brother, right?"

Aww! She does those things to protect her brother? That's sweet. I looked across from me at Manny; I could tell he was thinking about the same thing. Manny was the freakier of the two of us. His dad is part of a rock band and has never really set solid boundaries with his son, wanting him to be free creatively. So in school he says and does some odd things, and he was picked on until I started stepping in. These guys are okay, they can be friends.

"So, you guys are twins, right?" Manny asked the most obvious question. I sent him a look.

"Yep!" Kat told him. "Fraternal. I'm an hour older than Kit. What're you're guys' names again? And give me your screen names too!"

"Kat!" Kit reprimanded.

"Chill, bro! It's all good." Manny said to him. It doesn't matter how many times Manny introduces himself, he loves the attention. "The names Manny. As in The Mannny. Or The Mann. Or The-Man90. That's nine-oh." That's…my best friend for ya.

"As long as you don't call him Manning Rosen, it's fine." I said with a quick laugh.

"Angel!" he whined. "Every time, man…. I mean wo-man."

I smiled and then gave my own intro. "My name is Angelina. But Manny and everyone else calls me Angel. My online name is PerimPride."

"What color is your scanner?" Kit asked holding up his pale green one.

It was still in my hand and I held it up for him. "Purple! I like blue, but this one seemed right for me."

Simultaneously, Manny held up his dark green scanner and Kat held up a red one. Something was different about Kat's though. While all three of our scanners were slim and fit in the palm of our hands, hers was the older version that was bigger than her hand. Like the one my Dad had saved.

"Um, Kat, can I ask you something?" I said pointing to her scanner.

"It's a hand-me-down from Daddy-dear." She said putting it back in her pocket. "I outfitted it to do the same things as the new ones though." She got kind of a nostalgic look in her brown eyes. "It just meant so much to him, he always looked so alive when he talked about Chaotic."

Memories of my own dad came flooding back. He seemed to enjoy those old stories even more than I did. Was Dad a Chaotic player too? "Mine too." I confessed to Kat. "At the time I thought he was just making up something to tell me about. Mom would get mad at him for getting me so riled up before bedtime."

Kit and Kat laughed. "Ours too!" Kit said. "Dad used to keep old boxes and help us make the backyard look like mountain ranges and caves in the Underworld. His stories would get kind of scary though…"

"But they would always be exciting!" Kat finished. "That's why we both made our screen names after Underworld Creatures."

Manny asked. "So you're both Underworld players?" The twins nodded. "Sweet! I'm a Mipedian maniac and little Angel here likes to crash in the Overworld."

I rolled my eyes good-naturedly. "But I also work Danians and the other tribes into my deck."

With a confident grin, Kat stood up from my seat. "Then in that case, since the four of us are now friends… I think our first Drome matches should be with each other!"

"Huh?" The rest of us looked at Kat shocked and confused.

"They'll be one-on-one matches. Me versus Angel, and Kit versus Manny!"

Kit's shoulders fell, he said to us, "Best to just go along with it. Once Kat gets fired up, it's best to just let her burn out."

Kat's eye narrowed as she smirked wide. "Hey, if I don't mean to decide everything. This is just the longest I've seen you talk to a girl and figure you wouldn't want to fight her."

Kit immediately blushed. The he glared angrily at his sister. "Alright, that's it, Kat! You and me in the Dromes for a one-on-one."

"Okay, by me!" Kat said. "But now I want things to be even more interesting."

"More?" I squeaked out. I was honestly feeling a little afraid of this.

"I don't want to leave our new friends out. So we'll make this a competition between the four of us." Kat explained while the rest of us listened. "After I beat Kit," he growled at her arrogant assumption. "I'll fight either Manny or Angel. And whoever wins after that faces the next person. You guys in?"

Manny got a big, excited smile on his face. He said to me, "Let's do it, Angel!"

I had thought before that I was the adventurous one. But Kat here is on a whole other level. She seems pretty confident in her skills as they are now. I don't like physical fighting, and that mask-guy said we would be playing as Creatures. What does that mean? Is he serious? I haven't lost my confusion, but a Chaotic game is definitely something I can understand. Irony not lost on me.

"Okay, Taki-Names!" I said, determinedly smiling. "I'm in too!"

A/N: There will be a Bio for my OC Angel on my page. If you want an idea for what she look like.