After several minutes of silence, he sighs as he starts to think of what they were going to do now that he had let her know what was happening, sighing he also wonders about food, sure they could raid the store for the other caned good's but they may only get a few months' worth of food from it and he didn't know how much longer the built up pressure in the water system would last with the pumps no longer keeping up the water pressure, he guessed he could find a pick-up truck and hook up a trailer with water tanks, that would solve their water for the RV at least for a time.
As he was thinking over the food and water Emma was thinking nearly along the same lines as he was, but her thoughts were also on a few other things as well, one thing that ran through her mind was that how long would they last here on this island, or would he turn on her as the people in the last place she was at had done?
As she thought she let her eyes wonder around the beach and the gate, her eyes fell on a piece of paper being held on the pedestal by a rock, standing she walks to the DhD and picks up the paper knocking the rock to the ground, the sound of the rock hitting the ground pull's his attention to Emma, seeing what she was holding he shack's his head.
"I already tried that, I couldn't tare it, so I stuck it here and forgot about it." he says startling Emma a bit as he spoke.
She walk's back to the table and lay's it on the tables and sit's back down while looking from the paper and then to him then ask, "Have you tried it after you felt that Cyoa thing react to us kissing even if you didn't try to bind me, whatever that means?"
He looks to the paper and then to Emma and shack's his head, reaching for the paper he shrugs and then tried to tare the paper getting a surprise as it rips in half and then disappears in wisp of smoke causing them to jump back and rolling out of their chair's.
Picking themselves up off the ground they looked around to see if there was any change but as far as they could tell nothing else had happened, sighing he righted his chair and sat in it as she did the same, he then looked to her and shrugs.
"Well, that sucks but I really didn't expect anything after that guy screwed me over on the Gamer system, mostly I'm worried about food, sure we can get the canned food from the store and maybe the jerky as well but that would only last us a month at most before the stuff would." He said while looking back to the gate, before suddenly standing up.
She followed his gaze, nodding in agreement about the canned food when he stood, she nearly jumped out of her skin from his sudden movement, patting her chest she sent a glare his way, causing him to give her a sheepish smile.
"Sorry about that I just remembered blanket's and well a few other things that we will need almost as much as the food." He said as he started walking the gate and walking through the portal the opened as he neared.
Emma shook her head as she watched him walk through the portal, standing she too went for the portal stopping just before passing through, looking through she could see a street empty of people and cars but there were lots of clothing laying around, and he was walking around the clothes, stepping through the portal she follows him toward a store, she found him standing just inside the door.
He was looking around slowly as if he were looking for something then he walked to where some shopping carts were, pulling one out he turns his head to face her. "Go ahead and grab what you need I will go for some blankets and stuff; we can come back later for more food, but it is getting near nightfall and without power we won't be able to see what we are doing." He said while pointing up to the evenly spaces skylights in the celling.
Looking up she nods slowly then getting a cart for herself she looks around for clothing, pushing the cart she disappears into the cloths section, shaking his head he pushes his own cart toward bedding, once he gets to where the blankets were he just threw several into the cart and then he sees some comforters that were rather thick and would be better for cold nights taking two he then heads to a rack of pillows, looking over them he shrugs and grabs a two of each firmness and heads back to the front of the store.
Not finding her there he finds a bench and sits down to wait for her, as he was sitting there he kept trying to get something out of the Cyoa thing until he felt another click in his mind as something like a virtual screen appears in his view causing him to jump from its sudden appearance, waving a hand that passes through the screen he growls at it before he really looks at it to see that it was some kind of starter list that was mostly greyed out except two items, another problem was that he couldn't read the language on the screen.
So focused on the screen he hadn't noticed that Emma had returned, pushing her own cart that while not full it was loaded with all sorts of things, when he finally noticed her return, he looked over her cart and blushed and looked away at a package on top, her laughing at him made him smile.
Standing up he smiles at her and nods to her, he then frowns as the screen is still in his view and blocking about half of his sight, waving his left hand at the screen he hit two of the things on the list hat were not greyed out, when he saw that they were highlighted he frowns as he tries to read what they were.
As he focuses on the screen it blinks out of his view then he feels his body shifting and his cloths seem to be growing, when his jeans fall to the floor and Emma gasp while covering her eyes as she turns to look away from him, looking down he looks himself over, he was no longer slightly overweight but rather he was well muscled and the few scars he had from childhood were gone, but the biggest change was his package it seemed to be bigger, it was as he looked himself over that it hit him he had gone commando, quickly he stoops and pulls his jeans back up to cover himself
"Sorry." He yelled over his shoulder as he ran back into the store and to the clothes section and took a few minutes to find fitting jeans and then he grabs a few pair of boxers. 'No more sleeping in the buff.' He thinks to himself as he returns to Emma and the carts, he notices that she is still blushing which highlight a light dusting of freckles across her nose and cheeks.
Seeing that she was not paying attention he lay a hand on her shoulder to get her to notice he was back but as he touched her there was a rushing feeling from his fingers as she also changed, while she didn't grow much in height her chest area did grow a size or so causing her to grab her breast and then squirm, turning away from him again she reached under and up the back of her shirt to unclasp her bra, she then turns and glowers at him, all he can do is give her a sheepish shrug.
"Sorry, don't know what that was, there was a screen I couldn't read then I hit something and then this." He says while gesturing at himself then her.
Huffing she crosses her arms under her now larger breast, while not too much larger than they were before they still jiggled in a way that caught his eye, quickly looking away he can feel his own blush crossing his face as she looks him, she shakes her head then heads back into the women's clothing section to find some new bras.
Once she was back holding several bras they grab ahold their carts, pushing them out of the store and through the portal that appears as they walk, once back at the RV and unloading their things they go to the sitting area, she takes the couch as he turns a chair that is anchored to the floor on its swivel.
After sitting he reaches over to a switch and flips it causing lights to turn on, Emma jumps at the sudden lights and turns to him with a question on her face, he shrugged and smiles.
"This thing has a gas-powered generator built in that feeds off of the propane tanks, that world is based off of a remake of the movie Night of the comet instead of being in the Eighties it was close to 2020, I guessed that if the gate can open up to the world of Blue lagoon why not try a place based on a failed remake, it worked." He said shrugging.
Emma was nodding along with him then she looks down to her chest and then to him again seeing that his eye followed her own, he shrugged with a goofy grin spreading over his face as he looks down to his own body.
"Can you explain this then and why it happened?" she asks while gesturing to her breast.
Shaking his head he frowns, "No I really can't some kind of screen popped up as I was waiting for you, but it was greyed out mostly and I couldn't read what it said then two of the things it listed flashed, and you know from there what happened."
After sitting in silence while thinking over what he just said the realized that she didn't even know his name, "By the way what is your name I can't think it would be ok to go about calling out 'Hey you' now can I?"
Sitting there with a thoughtful expression on his face he frowns and then he turns and thumps his head on the table, groaning with his face against the table he thumps his head a few more times before sitting up and turns back to her with a large red spot on his forehead where it met the table.
"Umm I can't remember my name, it may have been something that that being took after I foolishly signed the contract, most of my life before then is fuzzy and while I do remember some stuff about movies and books most of my personal life is just gone." He says as his face takes on a pained expression.
Her hand jumps to her lips as she gasps, she cannot imagen what it would be like to lose most if not all her memories, while most of her childhood had been fine even after she started acting and becoming famous after those Harry Potter movies.
She stands and stretches a hand to rest it on his shoulder in sympathy, a tear rolls down her cheek as she keeps imagining how it would be, he reached up and pats her hand and smiles softly, he then laughs as something from the fuzzy memories' flashes through his mind.
"Well, I guess I could pick a name, something popped in there." Pointing to his head. "From a long time ago when the net was new, I used to roleplay through messengers and the name 'Marcus Phoenix' was one of the names I used." He said while looking off into nowhere.
She nods then steps back and sits down again, as she sat her stomach growls as dose his. Standing he moves to where he put the food and went about opening cans before again thumping his head this time on the wall nearest him.
"Forget to get some pots to heat this stuff up, also forgot spoons and other things." He groans as he thumps his head again before walking to the door and leaving to go get more things they would need; laughter followed him as he stepped through the portal.
After returning with some pots and pans along with plates and bowls utensils, tossing an apple to Emma he goes about setting things up to heat up the cans of stew. After getting it heated and served into bowls they eat quietly, finishing the food they placed the dishes in the small sink and returned to sitting.
Marcus kept standing and looking around the RV several things stood out to him as he looked like there was a cubby for a tv and a small shelf with glassed doors, after seeing that he then goes toward the back of the RV and rummages through the cabinets as he goes he finds a largish closet where he stuff all but two blankets and comforters, in the far back he finds a full sized bed, smiling he spreads out the blanket and comforter out on the bed before returning to the sitting area.
"There's a full-sized bed back there, you can take it and I'll sleep on the couch, it should fold down into a bed of sorts." He says while gesturing to the back then to the couch she was sitting on.
She nods as he was speaking then stands and stretches a little feeling tired. "I will go ahead and get some sleep, even though I did get some before the shower but that wasn't enough and then with all these new things I just want to rest and think about all of this after getting some sleep."
Marcus nods as she finished talking and then grabs a towel and pair of boxers and walks to the bathroom and shuts the door nearly tripping on the cloths she had left on the floor, he felt that they were still moist, so he knew she left them there to soak up the water that fell from her as she left the shower. Turning on the shower he pulls his shirt off and gets a good look at himself in the small mirror, while not overly muscled he had what he guessed was a swimmers build.
Emma watched him go into the shower then grabbed her own clothes and went into the bedroom and looked around before putting her cloths out of the way on the floor, closing the door then rummaged around to find a very large shirt she strips off her shirt and bra before pulling on the larger shirt while kicking off her shoes and then dropping her pants and kicks them off to the side and crawls under the covers and drifts off into a light sleep, letting the sounds of the running shower lull her farther into sleep until she heard nothing.
After showering and drying off and kicking both his and her cloths into a pile, he hang up the towel and left the bathroom in his boxers , seeing the door to the bedroom was closed he could hear soft snoring, he smiles and then turn to walk to the couch grabbing a blanket he unfolds the couch to find it too was the size of a full bed, hitting the switches on the counter that worked the lights and changing them from bright to dim, he lay down and covered himself with the blanket and drifted off to sleep.
Sometime later he was woken by the sound of the sliding door to the bedroom opening, thinking that Emma needed to use the bathroom he starts to drift back into sleep but was awoken again as the bed shifted, scooting closer to the wall he lifted the blanket and felt Emma laying down, he jumps a little as he feels her laying her head on his chest and falling back to sleep.
It was early morning when he woke again this time on his own, feeling the warm body against his chest with something soft against the palm of one of his hands while the arm was being used as a pillow, another thing he felt was that he was laying skin to skin to the warm body, his normal morning problem was being held in a warmer place that was slightly damp, he could also feel a small hand holding him against the warmth while the warm spot was slowly rocking along him, suddenly the body shuddered while he heard shuddering gasp, lifting his head he looks to see that Emma was biting her lower lip to keep herself quiet, not really knowing why he leans over and kisses her behind the ear and then lay his head back down.
They lay there for some time before Emma lifted her leg and then suddenly forces him into a very tight, warm and wet place until he feels something pop and she gasps again stopping her movement, he feels something wet hit his arm that she was using for a pillow.
It was nearly an hour later as they lay there breathing heavily, she was cruelled up somewhat with her head laying on his chest. Marcus was running his fingers along her spine getting a little shiver from her as his fingers moved.
"Emma, what was that? I'm not complaining but that was kind of sudden." He asks her after his breathing evens out.
Emma jumped slightly as he spoke breaking the silence, she shrugs and turns her head so that she can look up to him. "I'm not sure really, as I lay here I was thinking about all the paparazzi that would follow me around trying to get pictures they could use to cause a scandal and being a child star growing up they could ruin me, like so many other child actors, so I didn't really get the time for anything relationship wise, I know there was a thing going around about Tom and I but that was just rumor, sometimes I though he was gay and was using me as a shield."
She lay there for a bit more time until mother nature made a call forcing her to get up and stumble and slightly limping to the bathroom, he watched her get up and saw a trail of red on her legs, sitting up and throwing the blanket off of himself he saw traces of blood and whipped his head toward the bathroom as he heard the toilet flush and then the shower start up.
Getting up he looked for his boxers, finding them on the floor he gets them and pulls them on before going to the sink and runs a bit of water to wash his hands, then going about opening some more canned of stew then putting it into a clean pot he set it to heat up, as the food was warming he slips his feet into a pair of shoes and goes outside and behind the RV to answer his own call of nature.
As he was walking back around the RV to reenter it he was looking out toward the beach a hundred yards away as he was walking the gate took his attention away from the beach as something seemed off, turning toward the gate and walking up to it he saw something laying just outside the ring, it was a cardboard box about twelve inches wide and sixteen long, poking it with his foot he looks it over and sees nothing else to do he picks it up and turns back to the RV gets inside just in time to remember that he left something on the stove, throwing the package onto the couch/bed he swiftly lowers the heat and stirs the stew hoping that he hadn't burnt the food.
Just as he was splitting the food into clean bowels the shower shut off and he heard the door open then the door to the bedroom closing, once he had the food on the table, he folded the couch/bed back into a couch and then folded the blanket.
After he finished he sat and waited for Emma to finish dressing, while he waited his eyes turned to the package, reaching over he pulls it to himself, looking around he reached for his spoon, using the handle breaks the seal tape, opening the box he finds several sheets of paper and two smaller boxes, one box was just about big enough to hold a cellular phone while the other was as long as a ruler and about as wide, setting the boxes aside he looked over the papers.
'Dear Mr. Phoenix
We are writing you this message to inform you that although you did sign a contract for one of our former employee's and it dose bind you somewhat to our systems due to the method he used and another matter for which we will get to later in this letter, you will not fully be bound to work for our company we may send offers for job's your way you will not be required to fulfil said job's but be warned that if you do not take the request you will not acquire the currency used to purchase power's and or item's from the company, now before you read any farther please open the larger of the two boxes with this letter, inside the box is the newest method used to contact the company and make purchase's .'
Setting the letter down he opens box mentioned finding what looks like a smartphone, the screen flashes as he touches it then it goes through a startup sequence, as he is working on the phone Emma comes out of the bedroom and sits down in front of the other bowel, seeing the package she looks to him seeing that he is working on a phone she looks to the bigger box.
"What do you have there?" she asks causing him to jump a little, she giggles at his jump.
Looking up he smiles bit at her giggle then points to the boxes. "This was at the base of the gate when I went outside for a call to nature, it looks to be something to do with that Cyoa system, the letter said to turn the phone on and that's as far as I got when you came in."
She looks at the phone then the other boxes then to the letter, she then picks up her spoon and stirs the stew in her bowel before testing to see if it needs to cool, finding it just about right so begins to eat while he continues working on the phone.
The phone finally finished the startup, there were only a few apps on the screen, other than the normal calling and messaging apps there were two others one label said 'Shop' the other 'Missions', setting the phone down he takes spoonful of his stew and then goes back to reading the letter.
'Now that you have your phone on and working it has replaced the virtual screen which in the past has cause problems for other workers, the phone is simple to use, it has the normal functions, and it also will be how you will gain or take missions and spend points for in the shop function. We also wish to inform you that we have registered that you have claimed a tire two companion 'Emma Watson' from a failing world, we must also inform you that the gate you received has been locked out of her home world and other such worlds, you cannot and most likely will never reach the power level to fight in those worlds, Now for the second box it holds a random item or set of items and allotment of points gifted to you from the 'Lucky Lotto' you used last evening. Unfortunately, even though the island in the sea of time that you were gifted should have come with a home of sorts it was not placed there, there are a few homes in the shop function but at this time you do not have the points to buy any, also you are registered in our free-lance branch of the company, With this we wish you good luck on your adventures.
Sincerely yours # *&^%$
After reading the letter he passed it to Emma and starts eating his stew before it got cold, hearing her hum every now and then while she was reading, finishing his stew after a few minutes he reaches for the small box and is about to open it when he hears her gasping, he looks up swiftly and sees her holding a hand over her mouth and tears falling down her cheeks, he gets up and rounds the table to lay a hand on her shoulder guessing that she had gotten to the part about her world being locked out.
"There was a movie in my world based on where you came from, in that movie everyone either died to the demons or were taken to heaven before hell broke loose, I'm not sure what happened to the you in the movie, once that you got out of the house with those guys she was never seen or heard of again, When the portal opened to your world I wasn't even trying to open it I'm guessing somehow the company did that I'm just not sure but I can tell you that the world was seem from outer space before the end credits and the place was nothing more than a fireball." He said trying to calm her down or at least comfort her somehow.
When he finished speaking, she threw her arms around his waist and buried her face in his stomach sniffling, after a few minutes she pulled her head back and looked up to him with a slight smile on her lips, then her nose wrinkled cutely. "You need a shower you smell of me."
He laughed after she said he needed a shower before leaning over and planting a kiss on the top of her head, he then stood and when she let go of him, he stepped back and kicked off the shoes he was wearing then kicked them over to the couch. He picked up some cloths and headed to the bathroom to shower.
Still toweling his hair as he stepped out of the bathroom, he found Emma looking at the phone. "I'll figure that thing out in a little bit but first I think I need to open that other box before anything can be done, the note said something about points and I'm guessing that what points I had before were spent on whatever it was that changed us yesterday. "
He sat down at the table again, reaching for the small box he was stopped by Emma laying her hand on his. "You may want to open that outside, the note said item or items and if they are big there may not be enough room in here."
Nodding he stood turning his hand to where he could grasp her hand and took the box in his other hand, making their way outside and to the table, he set the box down then reached to open it while being ready to jump back just in case Emma doing the same, when the top of the box fell back the phone that Emma still help pinged a message, checking it her eyes went wide and her mouth tried to work to form words but nothing came out, meanwhile Marcus was looking at several gem's laying where the box once was.
"Huh, pretty rocks." He said as he turned to see Emma imitating a fish while looking at the phone's screen.
Reaching to gently take the phone from her he looks to the screen and nearly drop's the phone while trying to process what was written. 'Congratulants your Lucky Lotto was opened and here are your reward's One hundred thousand points were added to your account, you also received the stones of merlin which are limited versions of the infinity stones from the Marvel verse, while on your island or and clamed world the limit is lifted but on mission, they can only be used for up to sixty seconds once per year that you would be in world.' He nearly dropped the phone while reading the phone, instead he fell to the ground Emma had already fallen and was now rubbing her butt where it met the ground.
He turned to face her as the phone dinged another message, sighing he lifted phone again to read the new message, it read 'Gamer system has been found malfunctioning and not fully recoverable, company researchers have gone over the system and found that the cloths doll that is used for equipment sorting, and universal wallet were the only recoverable functions. The doll has been changed to a new function called wardrobe. The wallet will hold a near unlimited amount of money that will change to legal currency of what world you currently inhabit and if there are a multi-currency you must chose the form of the money.'
Passing the phone to Emma he stood and approached the table where the stones sat, looking them over he got a vague memory flash of reading some fan fic that mentioned the stones, as he reached to the stones they flew up from the table and hit his wrist then sank into his skin leaving no mark, closing his eyes and focusing on the stones, information flooded into his mind and nearly knocked him to the ground again but Emma had stood by then and braced him before he fell.
"Well dear now we may not have to worry about food again, I was looking through the shop while you were in the shower, there are a few things that may help us out right from the start, Universal I.D will give us identification that will work anywhere, it cost ten points. Then there were some things that cost up to twenty points each, but they were called Island farms that are attachments to the island that will grow food items for us, each farm comes with golems that will automatically harvest fruits and vegetables or food animals and store them, also it's not just foods the farm attachment's there are so many kinds that I gave up on the list." Emma said as she held him up and almost laughs at his face.
Marcus slowly turner to face her and smiled, she had just given him a plan that would help them, he couldn't help himself he pulled her into a hug and kissed her full on the lips, he felt her arms wrap around his neck as she tried to pull him closer to herself, after a time he pulled back and smiling at her misty and dazed eyes.
"Thanks honey that will help us so much." He said while giving her a soft squeeze.
"Now that you have the points why don't you go through the shop and see what else may come in handy?" she says to him as her eyes come back into focus.
Taking the phone back he opens the shop app and went through the list finding several farm's that would do well, one for food animals and another for grains and vegetables, there was also one that would go well with the ore vein that had a faster generation rate, after selecting one of each he went looking for the I.D and bought them, he then searched for skills that would be handy, marking them for later perusal, once done with that he handed the phone for Emma's approval.
"What do you think of these for now?" he asks as she looked through the list he had so far.
"The farms are fine and as I said they are handy, but what are these other things." She says while looking from the phone to him.
"These skills are what may come in handy, Normalcy drive will allow us to move about in worlds and not draw attention to ourselves in case there are versions of us in said worlds, Heavenly will give us retractable wings for those worlds where we won't have normal modes of travel, it also synchronizes with the healing hand skill will be a massive boon for healing ourselves and possibly others, lights source will add to the abilities from heavenly and hands also it will allow us to flood light into weapon's or also form weapons of pure light, High class chef will insure we can cook just about anything, Martial skills will give us combat skills comparable to a master in many kinds of combat, skilled hands will make us ambidextrous just in case we need it, lingual will help us with language's and finally I chose to upgrade the wardrobe high enough that it we can customize external things like hiding the wings without losing the abilities, it all comes out to be two hundred and fifty points." He told her as he watched her read the descriptions for the skills.
Standing he lifted her from the ground and led her to one of the chairs at the table, she doesn't even look away from the phone, but she doses pat his hand as he led her, it took her a few minutes to get through the list, she looks from the phone to him.
"What about a home, while the RV is nice but there isn't all that much room for stuff we will gather, also if I remember it right you said Cyoa usually lead to harems?" she asks him a worried expression crosses her face as she says the word harem.
He took the phone from her and searches for an option for what she was asking and then frowns as he read the description. "There is an option to remove the lust option of companions, but there is still a confession of love linkage that will act as a binding but if I take this option gender doesn't matter, if a person means it when they say, 'I love you.' They are considered bound to the Cyoa, but they won't be driven to have sex with me."
As he spoke, she was nodding and then looked up in horror when he got to the part about sex. "Does that mean that this morning was something that was caused by the Cyoa?"
He shacks his head and points to the phone, "No this acts as the binder, until I activated the phone, I'm guessing that between the stress you were under back before the portal and then on a subcontinents level you realized you wouldn't be hounded as you were back then, so somewhere in your mind you were craving it and then being here with me gave you the option."
Sighing she reaches for the phone and browses the option for the homes, several were outrageous, there were castles with so many rooms she couldn't think about what anyone would do with them, she then found some that were while not normal but closer to what she thought would be ok, finding the most normal home with just over ten rooms she selects it and her eyes widen when she sees a picture that looks like Tony Starks house from Ironman 3 or so the description said, she couldn't remember reading it but what mostly caught her attention was that it has a AI option.
She held the phone to him with the home she found to be the best showing on the screen, he smiles at her and nods and adds it to the list of things to buy it was another fifty points after adding the AI, after hitting the buy tab on the phone he falls face first onto the table causing her to jump and grab him, the phone beeping drew her attention. 'Warning user will be rendered unconscious for a time while skills and or abilities are added or upgraded.'
An: that one bit is as about as smutty as I'll ever get and truthfully, I'm not sure why I put that part in there. Thanks for the reviews so far I'm hoping that this turns out better than that other thing I tried to write.