Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

2. zombocalypse

-chapter 2, zombocalypse-

The next morning arrived, I took Nina to school while Phoebe continued to sleep for a little while. Nina was a bit reluctant to leave, as she was very worried for her mother, but I convinced her to go by letting her drive all the way to Slabtown. As we passed through the portal facility, we noticed it was still in disaray, but once we got on the main road into Goldenrod everything seemed normal.

After I dropped her off at school and returned home, I found Phoebe sitting on the couch with Charley sitting comfortably in her lap.

-lovingly- Phoebe: Goodmorning."

Me :"hehe, he never fails to wake you does he?"

Phoebe:" Nope."

-cutely- Charley:"Dahwhy!"

-playfully-Me:"Goodmorning little guy."

I gave Phoebe a kiss.

Me: "Goodmorning baby girl."

-imperatively- Phoebe:"Cj we need to talk."

Me:"I thought so."

Me:"You still need to explain what happened last night."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

She gave Charley a kiss and set him down on the floor.

Phoebe: "There you go Charley go play."

-unsure- Charley: "Bwocks?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, go play with your new blocks."

I sat down by her on the couch.

Me: "So...what happened?"

Phoebe:"The portal opened and Melissa and I got sucked into a different world, along with a few of her assistants."

Mne:" OK."

Me:" Not the one we visited?"

Phoebe: "No. not even close."

Phoebe: "It was a much darker world Cj, there were zombies, lots of zombies..."

Me: "Oh crap, are they ok?..."

Phoebe: "Don't worry Melissa and I were able to fight them off, they're so simple minded we can control them with ease, so everyone is ok, though their supplies are limited."

Me:" How did you make it back?"

Phoebe:"That's kind of funny actually, the portal there didn't stayopen long enough for us to go back through it, but we found another portal device over there that was very similiar to ours, but it was powered by psyonic waves instead of electricity."

Phoebe: "And it took both Melissa and my powers combined to run it long enough just to send one of us through."

Me: "But why did you go?"

Phoebe: "Everyone voted that I should go so I could get you, and, because of Charley."

Me: "Oh ok...hey...Charleeeey."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey pway bwocks..."

He looked at me for a moment before going back to playing with his new blocks.

Me: "hehe ok..."

Me: "Baby girl, when they told me you got sucked into that portal, I don't think I've ever been more worried."

Phoebe:"Awe...Cj..."

Me: "Nina was really worried too, when she saw you..."

Me: "She was worried to the point that it was difficult for me to convince her to go to school this morning."

Phoebe: "Awe...Nina..."

Me:"So what are we going to do?"

Phoebe:" First, we need to find a way to get back there, and then you need to bring magnum, and we also need to bring some guns, and some parts that Melissa needs to get the portal to run on electricity so we can bring everyone back."

Me: "what parts?"
Phoebe:"She gave me a list...I think I left it in the bathroom."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:"How did the rest of Charley's birthday go?"

Me:"Oh it was fine, Nina helped him build a castle, and then he pretended his lotad and wartortle were guarding it."

Phoebe:"Awee..."

Me:" And murkrow was the king."

Phoebe:"-giggles-, how cute."

Charley: "Mawko kee of peesahs."

He seemed to remember the game he played yesterday.

Phoebe:"King of pizzas?"

-jokingly- Me:"No king of pizazz."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "I don't know."

I wrapped my arms around her.

Me: "-sighs-, I'm just glad you made it back..."

-cutely-Phoebe:"aweeeee Cj..."

Phoebe: "We should get ready to go now."

Me: "Yeah, we should."

Me: "By the way, when you were unconcious, I saw James."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Me: "Yeah, it was so weird, I've never seen him look so worried."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Probably because Melissa, you know?"

Me: "Yeah I know."

Me: "It was still weird though."

Phoebe: " -sighs- I need to get dressed."

Phoebe: "Why don't you take Charley upstairs and help him get dressed."

Me: "Ok sure."

She kissed me on the cheek before getting up and heading up the stairs, I picked Charley up and followed her up shortly after.

She finished getting dressed about the same time that I got Charley that we gathered up our pokemon and our pistols and headed back to the experiment facility. Once we made it back to the lab we found the Devon agents still there, along with James and the lone technician.

Me:"So what's going on now?"

James:" I'm afraid nothing has changed since you left last night."

Technician:"I almost got it."

-unsure- Me: "Got what?"

Unknown technician: "The code that will open the portal."

Unknown technician: "I was able to decypher the logs recorded from the event last night."

Unknown:"So by injecting this code into the portal's program, I should be able to cause the event again."

James: "Ok, but how do we get the others back out?"

Me: "Pheebles why don't you tell them what you told me this morning?

Phoebe: "Oh...right."

Phoebe:" Here, hold Charley."

Me: "Ok sure."

She handed Charley to me.

Me:" Hello little buddy...how are you?"

-cutely- Charley:"Dahwhy!"

Me:"Hehe..."

Phoebe:" Ok everyone listen up, yesterday, when we got sucked in there, there were lots of zombies, it's not the same world Cj and I went to last time."
Unknown agent:" Zombies? You mean, like the kind in movies?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, undead, rotting, smelly, stupid zombies."

James: "How did you get out?"

Phoebe:" Well, we found ourselves, in a lab, kind of like this one, but different, and there was a portal machine there that was powered by psionic energy, so Melissa and I were able to use our powers to send just me back...alone, she didn't have enough power to run it by herself once I was gone."

James:"Couldn't you have let the other technicians in before you went?

Phoebe:"We didn't have enough time, with both Melissa and I powering the machine, we couldn't keep the zombies away long enough for them to get through, so I went through."

Me: "But after you left you were so weak you fell unconcious, what about Melissa?"

Phoebe:"Before I went Melissa said the portal would have a draining effect once I passed through it I don't think it weakened her as much as me, so they should still be holding out."

James:"Are they ok?"

Phoebe:"They should be fine, we were able to control the zombies very easily with our powers because they're so stupid they're extremely vulnerable to mind control."

Phoebe: "So they should be perfectly safe, but we don't have much time."

Phoebe:"And we need all the parts on this list as well, to bring everyone back."

She took the list out of her purse and handed it to the technician.

Unknown technician:"Hmm...this is a weird list, but we have all this stuff here atleast."

Unknown technician: "I need to get some more technicians here from other labs, to help me gather this stuff up."

James: "Right, Agent Donovan, Reynolds, go to the other labs and "borrow" some of their technicians."

James:"Hurry."

Agent Donovan: "Right away sir."

Agent Reynolds: "Right."

The other two agents left the room.

Phoebe: "James?"

James:"Yes?"

-awkwardly- Phoebe: "Um...while we're in there...can you look after Charley for us?"

James: "Um sure, just, bring Melissa back."

Phoebe:"We'll try."

Phoebe:"Cj..."

Me: "Right."

Me:" Charley be good for James now ok?"

I began to hand him over to James.

Phoebe:"Wait Cj, let me see him first."

Me:"Oh..sorry."

I handed him to her.

Phoebe:"Ok now listen carefully James, if he gets hungry there's some food for him in my purse which I will leae here as well."

Phoebe:"He's become pretty good at communicating, so keeping him happy shouldn't be too hard."

She gave Charley a kiss on the cheek.

Phoebe:"Be good Charley, mommy loves you."

-lovingly- Charley:"Cawey wa mawa."

Phoebe:"Awe...you little cutey."

She carefully handed him to James.

Unknown technician: "Ok once we get you all the equipment you need, I will leave the room and inject the code remotely which should turn the portal into a vortex and lead you into that zombie world you keep speaking about.

Phoebe: "Ok."

She wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me.

Phoebe: "For good luck.."

Me: "Hehe...you know we probably won't have to leave for a few minutes left."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "I know but still."

She held onto me for what seemed to be just long enough to become awkward.

Then she went over and took Charley back from James so she could hold him for just a bit longer until the agents returned with 3 other technicians and a large box full of various pieces of equipment.

Me:" Damn this is heavy..."

Phoebe:" Do you have like a cart or something? It's going to be a bit difficult to navigate through that lab if Cj has to carry that big heavy box around."

Me:"Why do I have to carry it?"

Phoebe:"Because I have to keep the zombies away."

Me:" Oh...ok nevermind."

Unknown Technician:" Ok are we ready to go then?"

One of the other technicians left for a moment and came back with a cart for us to place the box on.

Unknown Technician 2: "Will this work?"

Me: "Yeah I think so."

Unknown Technician 2: "Ok."

Unknown Technician: "Ok now that that's taken care of everyone but Cj and Phoebe leave the room, unless you want to get sucked into the machine."

He began to pack up his laptop as everyone else began to leave the room.

Unknown Technician: "When you give the signal I'll inject the code from this laptop, it should trigger the portal and cause an event similiar to yesterday. "

Unknown Technician: "Understand?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Unknown Technician: "Ok."

He left the room, leaving just Phoebe and I inside, everyone else was watching us through a window.

Phoebe: "Ready yet?"

Me: "Wait."

I checked my pistol, made sure it was ready to go.

Me: "Is your gun ready? "

She checked hers.

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She took my hand

Phoebe:"Ready?"

Me: "Let's get Melissa back."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She waved her arm, and for a few moments nothing happened, aside from the technician rapidly typing on his laptop.

Then the portal turned on, and glowed in it's usual blue color before turning red and beginning to spin around faster and faster, gradually it began to feel like it was pulling us towards it, this sensation continued to become stronger and stronger as the portal began to spin faster and faster, until we both decided to just walk into it before it got strong enough to suck us in.

All went black for a moment as we entered the portal. The everything got really dark because we were in a dark place and our eyes had yet to adjust to the light

Phoebe: "Hold my hand until you can see."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "I can't see either but I can still tell where the zombies are with my powers."

Me: "How does that work anyway?"

Phoebe: "Because zombies aren't ghosts silly, they might not be human, but because whatever has made them a zombie continues t operate part o their brain, I can still control them."

The air smelled terrible, like a mix of amonia and rotten flesh.

Me:"Where's the cart?"

-quietly- Phoebe:"It's right in front of us."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Stay quiet, there's no zombies here right now but if they hear you they'll come."

My eyes finally began to adjust and I could start to make out my surroundings, we were in a dark room, what seemed to be another lab, but run down and slightly bigger than Melissa's. Like Melissa's it was a mess, tables were flipped over and various chemicals stained the floor.

-quietly- Phoebe:"Ok come on, let's find Melissa."

-quietly- Me:" Allright."

She led me out of the room, it was a bit difficult to push the cart across the cluttered floor, but once we got out into the hallway it was a bit easier.

The hallway was long and empty and there seemed to be doors to other labs along each side of it.

What was even stranger was the corpses, of what appeared to be both soldiers and scientists.

-concerned- Me: "Zombies?"

Phoebe:"No, they're dead, they died before any of this I think."

Me:"Ok."

I picked up one of the soldier's guns.

-curious- Phoebe:"What are you doing?"

-playfully- Me:"Free guns!..."

Phoebe:"-sighs-..."

Phoebe:"Fine..."

Phoebe:"Come on lets see if we can find a map."

Phoebe: "I don't know where we are, the portal brought us to a different place than last time."

Me:" Ok."

Phoebe:"Stay behind me."

Me:"I know."

We procceeded down the hallway, until 3 zombies suddenly charged out from one of the labs ahead of us. We quickly drew our pistols and killed them long before they even got close to us.

Phoebe:"Ok let's keep going."

Me:"I thought you could control them?"

Phoebe:"Didn't have to that time."

I saw something on one of the dead scientist's labcoats.

Me:"Hmm? Parasol corporation?"

Phoebe:"Sound familiar?"

Me:" Wicked Occupance, it's a series of zombie movies..."

Me:"Fuck does this mean we're in the movie?"

Me:"That' s not good, almost everyone dies in those movies."

Phoebe: "No, I don't think so."

Me: "I've never played the games, so I don't know if this is part of them."

Me: "But look, Phoebe this Parasol corporation is very very bad, let's find Melissa, get the hell out of hear as fast as we can, and never come back before we have more than just zombies to worry about."

Phoebe: "That's what we're doing Cj don't worry."

When we finally made it to the end of the Hallway, we came across a sign posted on the wall that said what each room was on this floor.

Me: "Where would she be?"

Phoebe: "Matter transportation? That has to do with portals , doesn't it?"

Me: "Can't you hear the technicians with your powers?"

Phoebe: "Not when we're this far away from them."

Phoebe: "There's a lot of metal here, I don't have much range."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Heads up."

A zombie came out from one of the rooms behind us, She quickly killed it with her powers.

Phoebe: "Let's go to Matter Transportation."

Me: "Ok."

I heard a weird hissing noise.

Me: "What's that?"

Phoebe: "Um...I don't know."

A large, ugly, brownish-green spider looking-thing came out from one of the rooms ahead of us.

-scaired- Phoebe: "Arceus! what is that?"

Me: "What the fuck is that thing?"

I let go of the cart and fired at it with my pistol as it darted towards us. I quickly realized it wasn't working so I grabbed the gun I took from the soldier earlier, and shot at the strange beast until it finaly died. Just a few feet away from us.

- terrified panting- Phoebe: "Is it dead?"

Me: "Is it really that scary?"

-scaired- Phoebe: "I don't like creepy bugs like that."

-surprised-Me:"Really?"

She stuck to the wall as we went around the dead beast's corpse, and against the adjacent wall when we passed by the room it came from, which seemed to contain a giant spider web of sorts. Anyway we continued down the hall, killing a few more zombies along the way.

Phoebe:"-sighs-, I think we may be lost."

Me:"Great."

Phoebe: "It will be ok, I'll take care of the zombies as long as you take care of the gross spider things."

Me: "What happens when we run out of ammo?"

-worried- Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "I think we'll find them before that happens, this place can't be too big."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

As we continued down the hall, I scavenged the soldier's corpses for ammunition, The soldier's guns seemed to be a bit higher caliber than our pistols, and they seemed to have military grade ammunition as well. I was a bit reluctant to use my pokemon as I didn't want to risk them getting bit, part of me also considered using aggron to tear the place down as his steel body would make him immune, but if he accidently destroyed the portal, we could all be stuck here in this horror show, which would not be good.

Anyway we carried on through this hallway for some time, comming across many zombies along the way, but never more than two or three at a time. We also came across a few windows, and I couldn't help but notice, there didn't seem to be anything outside but a black void, nor did we ever come across another hallway to travel down, or anything that suggested an exit, so we really only had one way to go.

Me: "I guess we really are in a videogame."

Phoebe:"Why do my powers still work then?"

Me: "Well, you said that portal uses psionic energy."

Me:"So maybe there's code for your powers in this game."

Me:"Come to think of it, I think the main character in the Wicked Occupance series has some psychic powers like yours.."

Phoebe:"Really?"

Me:"Yeah."

Phoebe:"And where is this main character?"

Me:"Well, maybe we are taking the place of the main character, if we are in a videogame anyway."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me:" It's kind of like when we went to the pokemon game world."

Me:"We didn't see the main character there."

Phoebe:"Yeah, I remember."

Me:"I think it's because we took their place."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

We started to hear that strange hissing noise again.

Phoebe:"Oh no, more spiders, Cj kill them!

Me:"Right."

Seconds later a horde of spiders burst out of a door behind us and began to approach us,I fired at them and killed all but one, which then spat this weird goop at me, it glued my leg to the floor, but I was still able to kill it shortly after.

Me:"I'm stuck."

Phoebe:"Oh arceus."

Me:"This isn't good."

Phoebe:"Um."

She hit me with a shadow ball.

Me:"Ow...&$6$^&$#*#$$(#$ that hurt..."

Phoebe:"I was trying to get you unstuck."

Me:"What good is that if my leg broken?"

Phoebe:"It's not broken is it?"

Me: "Um...no...but..."

-in pain- Me:"Dammit Pheebles warn me next time..."

-anxiously- Phoebe:"I'm sorry."

Me:"It's allright."

The goop gradually became weaker until I was able to move again.

Me:"There, see I think it wears off on it's own."

Phoebe:"ok."

Me:"You didn't have to do that."

Me:"Ow..."

Phoebe:"Come on then let's go."

Me:"Right."

Phoebe:"sorry."

Me:"It's allright."

Eventually we came across an open area containing a lobby, the entrance to another hallway and an elevator, unfortunately the later was inoperable as the power was out. Through the mostly glass front doors we could see more of the dark void outside the windows, and many, many zombies trying to break through unsuccessfully.

Phoebe:" Do you think they can get in?"

Me:"I hope not."

Phoebe:"Actually I don't think they're part of this."

Me:"How can you tell?"

Phoebe: "They don't have brain waves, like the kind the normal zombies have."

Phoebe: "They are not living."

Me:" Most zombies aren't living."

Phoebe:"Well I mean, they don't have the virus in them."

Me:"Oh...ok."

Me: "So I guess we are really in some sort of video game world then."

Phoebe:"Possibly."

Phoebe:"-sighs, this place isn't familiar either."

Me: "Maybe they're on a different floor?"

Phoebe:"Maybe."

Me:"Can you remember what floor you were on the first time you were here?"

Phoebe:"Um..."

Phoebe:"The sign back there said the matter transportation lab was room 228."

Me: "So it should be somewhere here then, if this is the ground floor, and the rooms back there were rooms 100 to 199, the biological weapons wing, according to the sign."

Me:"It must be on the other side of the building."

Phoebe:"Great."

I found another sign that had fallen to the floor. So I picked it up, being careful as to not cut my hands on the broken glass.

Me: "Hey look at this."

The sign had an arrow pointing towards the hallway, designating it as the technology wing.

Phoebe: "Hmm, I bet that's where we were."

Me: "You didn't check this place out very much did you?"

Phoebe: "Well, we made it about halfway down the hallway, we went through each room, not the entire floor."

Me:"Oh ok."

Phoebe: "And we found the portal before we made it here."

Me: "Well let's go see if we can find where you went then."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We left the lobby, and continued down the next hallway."

After heading down that hallway for awhile and rounding a corner, a large group of zombies formed and began to come towards us , it was then that I noticed that some of the zombies looked completely identical, as well as some of the corpses and other objects throughout the building. Which was kind of odd, anyway, Phoebe used her powers to make them stop, and then I shot them all so we could continue.

Phoebe:"Hey Cj, I think I can hear them now."

Me:"Really?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, we're close."

Phoebe:" They're all ok too."

Me:"Good."

We continued down the hall, until Phoebe finally found the room Melissa and the other technicians were in. We slowly opened the door and headed in.

-surprised- Melissa: "Pheebles? You made it back."

Phoebe: "Mhm, and I brought Cj, and all the stuff you had on your list."

Melissa: "Great, now we can finally work on finding a way out of here."

Phoebe:"We also took out all the zombies in the hallway."

Melissa:"Good."

Me:"So how do we know if that portal will take us back?"

Melissa:"It did the first time, I don't understand exactly how it works, but I think when the portal back in my lab sent us here, it automatically connected to this portal, but that's just a theory."

She started to dig through the box of equipment.

Phoebe:"How long is thhis going to take?"

Melissa:" Atleast an hour."

Melissa: "Did you bring your magnezone Cj?"

Me: "Yeah."

Melissa:"Good, we're going to need him to charge the portal machine once I have it set up to run on electricity."

She began to remove one of the panels on the machine.

Melissa: "One of his thunder attacks should be able to provide enough energy to keep the portal open long enough for all of us to make it back."

Me:"Ok."

Melissa:"Hmm, lets see here."

She completely removed one of the panels, exposing the machine's incredibly complex internal wiring.

Melissa :"ok, not what I expected."

Melissa:"Hey, while i'm working on this why don't you two do some exploring?"

Phoebe: "Ok sure."

Unknown technician: "What about us?"

Melissa: "The rest of you stay here, I might need your help with this."

Me: "Are you safe here on your own?"

Melissa: "Yeah, I was holding the zombies away with my powers, but I think you two just killed them all."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Did you see those ugly spider things?"

Melissa: "Um no..."

Melissa: "But if you can get a sample of one so we can take it back to the other world.."

Me: "That's a terrible, idea, ok? What if it has the zombie virus, do you really want to risk that getting out into the pokemon world?"

Melissa: "Yeah, you're right."

Melissa:" But, still, some exploring wouldn't hurt."

Phoebe: "I saw some stairs back in the lobby, maybe we can check out some other floors."

-jokingly- Me: "What if we come across more of those "scary" spiders?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "You can take them out for me can't you Cj?"

She said that as cutely as she possibly could...

-enamored- Me: "Ehehe...ehhhhh...sure..."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, come on, let's go then."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "-sighs-, I hope after this I never have to experience this smell again."

Me: "Then again there are alot of zombie games and movies we could randomly end up in."

Phoebe:"I just hope we don't end up in pokezombies."

Me:" Yeah, that would be worse...wouldn't it?"

We headed back to the lobby without encountering any more enemys, and quickly found the staircase.

Me: "So do you want to go up or down?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "I would imagine there would be a crap ton of zombies in the basement..."

Me: "And I don't think we should go to the top floor, because something might happen if we do."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Me: "Typical video game design."

Me: "If we go to the top, it might take us to the next level in the game, and I have no idea how we'll be able to get back to this one."

Phoebe:"Good point."

Me:"It might even separate us from Melissa and the others."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe:"So you want to see what's in the basement?"

Me: "Sure."

We slowly made our way down the stairs into a pitch black basement.

Phoebe closed her eyes for a moment, I heard a few necks snap one by one as she moved her arms followed by the sound of bodies hitting the floor shortly after.

Phoebe: "Ok everything that was down here is dead now."

Phoebe: "I don't see why you were so afraid."

Me: "I don't know..."

Me: "Are you sure that's everything?"

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Mhm, I don't hear anything else but you thinking how cute my butt is..."

-awkwardly- Me: "Ehe...Pheebles..."

Phoebe:" Now you really are thinking it..-giggles-."

Me: "Come on, let's see what's down here."

Me: "It's not like it's the first basement we explored."

Phoebe: "Nope."

Her hands started to glow as we stepped into the darkness. The basement seemed to consist of two room, in the first room were some shelves and some general maintenance supplies, bleach, mops, and other thing, in the second room there was a work bench, with a motherlode of guns.

Me:"Woah..."

-excited- Me:" Neat!"

-confused- Phoebe:" Why are these here?"

Me:"It's a video game...this is like a secret room or something."

Phoebe:"oh...ok."

-lovingly- Me:"Can I have them...pweeese?"

-cutely-Phoebe:"Of course you can sweety."

-excited-Me:"Yes!, I love you."

I gave her a kiss on the cheek.

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"As long as you can carry them all up the stairs yourself..."

I grabbed as many as I could, an assault shotgun, two pistols, a interesting revolving rifle with a bayonet.

-concerned- Phoebe:"You sure sure you can carry all those?"

Me:"Mhm..as long as they're free..."

Phoebe:"-sighs-."

Phoebe: "Cj, don't be stupid..."

Me:"Oh fine, I'll just take the one I have now and the one with the bayonet."

Phoebe:"Ok.."

I still had the smg I took from the soldier earlier, All my pockets were full of clips of ammo for it, taken from other soldiers.

Me: "I don't see why you can't help me."

She turned out the lights...

Phoebe: "That's why."

-realizing- Me: "Understood."

Phoebe: "Good."

Eventually we made it back up the stairs, and then we headed back to where Melissa was to drop off the gun before setting out again.

Me: "Do you think we could go back for that shotgun?"

Phoebe :"Cj you don't even use half the guns you have, why do you want so many?"

Me: "Because they're cool, sometimes I just like to look at them."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Oh nevermind, I understand."

She started looking at her own pistol, the one I got engraved for her.

Phoebe: "I like them too Cj, but let's go see what's on the second floor, we can't even be sure these guns will work in the pokemon world."

Me: "Yeah that's true."

Phoebe: "So maybe bringing a bunch of them back with us isn't a good idea?"

Phoebe: "And if you get too many you won't have enough room in your safe to keep them all, and we can't just leave them lying around the house."

Me: "Allright fine, you win."

Phoebe: "Good."

Me: "Remind me to look into buying a bigger safe though."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, we'll see."

We made our way up to the second floor, the stairs led to another small lobby area, like the one on the first floor but without the entry way of course, the floor layout was very similiar to the first, the hallways were used for different things, the one on the left being used for genetic manipulation and the one on the left for cybernetic augmentation, atleast according to the signs posted next to each one.

Me:"So which one?"

Phoebe:"Those spider things were in a bio-something wing weren't they?"

Me:"I think so.."

Phoebe:"Let's go cybernetic."

Me:"Ok."

We headed down the cybernetic hallway, it wasn't long before we ran into some more zombies, but we dispatched them easily, and all seemed to be going smoothly until we got to the end of the hallway.

Phoebe:" Um Cj..."

Me: "Yeah?"

A large monster like thing came out of the last room of the hallway. It was about 8ft tall and looked vaguely human in appearence, with various machine parts added to it's body, including a large robotic arm, and some kind of robotic eye where it's left eye would be, its face looks terribly disfigured and completely unrecognizable as human. Unfortunately I recognized it right away.

Me: "Project Nine..."

Phoebe: "What?"

-urgently- Me: "We need cover."

We ran to one of the rooms as the beast fired at us with a rather large mini gun it was carrying.

Phoebe:"I can't control it."

Me:"WHAT?"

Phoebe:" It's skull, it's metal. I can't even read its thoughts."

I grabbed her hand.

Me:"teleport now, anywhere but here."

Phoebe:"Ok."

She teleported us to the lobby, and then we headed down the stairs, to the lobby on the first floor, fortunately the beast was not smart enough to follow us.

Me:"We can't fight this thing up close or we're dead."

Me:"That minigun is just too fast."

Me:"I don't even think our pokemon could take it."

Phoebe:"What about Bubba?"

Me:"I don't know, if it's gun has armour-piercing rounds, it could end badly."

Me:"Magnum might have a chance though."

Phoebe:"I hope so."

As I got his ball out of my pocket, we heard what was probably the most terrifying sound at that point, the sound of the glass on the front door cracking.

-urgently- Phoebe:"CJ! We have company."

Me:"Can you control them?"

Phoebe:"Yeah they're just normal zombies."

The glass continued to crack as the zombies outside continued to pound against it.

Me:"Read my mind."

I took her hand as she teleported us behind the front desk. She closed her eyes as the glass broke and countless zombies poored out, they completely ignored us and started to hobble up the stairs.

Moments later, we heard project nine firing it's minigun for several seconds until it seemed that it had expended all its ammo. A few moments later all went silent, and zombies quit comming through the front door. She waited until they all went up the stairs to open her eyes, then we killed off all the surviving zombies with bullets and shadowballs, it was easy at that point because we had them bottlenecked at the stairs. Unfortunately that also made it impossible to go back up the stairs.

Phoebe: "Ok I think that's enough I can't hear anything anymore, they're all dead."

Me: "Ok."

The shattered front entrance was wide open now, and we couldn't help but stare into the endless black abyss outside of the confines of the dimly lit building.

Phoebe:"What do you think is outside?"

Me:"I don't know, I wouldn't go out there though, it might take us to the next level, or it might be another secret area, it might be instant death, it could just be and invisible wall, I don't really know."

Me: "I'm guessing, that at this point in the game, this was some sort of boss fight, with the character having to face that big thing up there with a bunch of zombies comming up behind them. "

Me:" The game, of course, doesn't account for you teleporting around, so we probably aren't supposed to be here."

Me:" So...um, you want to teleport up the stairs, try to get Project Nine's minigun?"

Phoebe:" Cj, that thing has to weigh atleast 300lbs."

Me: "Well we should atleast see if we killed it."

Phoebe: "You don't want to go up there, it's a blood bath, that gun probably reduced all those zombies to mulch."

Me: "Ohhhhh ok fine, if you're too scaired."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, let's just go back and see what Melissa is doing."

Me: "Ok."

We began to head back to the room Melissa was in.

Phoebe: "By the way, you want to tell me what that thing was?"

Phoebe: "You seem to know."

Me: "Project Nine is one of a series of super zombies created by Parasol corporation to kill the main character, as well as to break into and wipeout camps of survivors that normal zombies can't get into, this one specifically is a cyborg and has mechanical and electrical augmentations that others in the series do not have..which I guess is why you could not control it, it is extremely strong, and can heal very quickly, making it very difficult to kill with conventional weapons."

Phoebe:"Why does Parasol want to wipeout the survivors?"

Me:"I don't know, it hasn't really been explained in the movies."

Me:"I guess they just want to take over the world or something."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "Don't worry about it too much, we're not here to play through the game you know?"

She kissed me on the cheek.

Me:"eheh, what was that for?"

Phoebe:"For comming up with that idea so quickly."

-enamored-Phoebe:"I never would have thought to send the zombies against it."

Me:"Awe...baby girl."

We kissed.

Eventually we arrived back at the matter lab.

Phoebe:"Is everything going well?"

Melissa:"Mhm, we should be done within the hour."

Melissa:"We heard lots of gunfire upstairs, what happened?"

Phoebe:"We came across this giant zombie, but don't worry, it's dead now."

Melissa:"Ok."

Melissa had the portal machine almost completely dissasembled now, parts of it were scattered all over the floor, most of the parts were completely unidentifyable,atleast to me, but Melissa seemed to know what she was doing.

Melissa:" So what was on the second floor beside the super zombie?"

Phoebe:" Not much, they have a cybernetics wing, and another biotech wing, which we didn't explore."

Melissa:" Why not?"

Me:"Well the stairs are kind of blocked off now and she's afraid we'll come across more creepy spider monster things."

Phoebe:"Too bad...hehe."

Melissa:"It's allright."

Melissa: "Do you know how many floors there are?"

Me:"Melissa, I'm pretty sure after this I can find this game on the internet in my world and tell you all about it."

Melissa: "How do you know we're in a game?"

Me: "The way there doesn't seem to be a world outside this building, the fact that alot of the corpses that litter the hallways look very similiar to one another, along with the zombies, the lack of anything living here aside ourselves...

-interupting- Phoebe:"And the zombie virus..."

Me: "Yeah, and the fact that we found a bunch of guns in the basement."

Melissa: "Allright, you're probably right then."

Melissa:"Why don't you two just take a break for now? You both look a bit tired."

Phoebe: "Allright."

We sat at a nearby table and watched Melissa and her technicians work on assembling the portal for awhile. Though it wasn't long before both Phoebe and I became bored with this, and wanted to do some more exploring.

-bored- Phoebe: "Are you bored yet?"

Me: "A little bit."

Phoebe: "You know there's a third floor we could explore?"

Me: "I thought you didn't want to go up the stairs anymore?"

Phoebe: "Well, we could clear out the stairway and then head up to the third floor and skip the second."

Phoebe: "I could just use my powers to do so, we won't have to touch them."

Me: "Ok then let's go."

Phoebe: "Melissa, we're going back out."

Melissa: "Ok, just don't take too long."

We left the room together and headed back to the stair case, only to find all the corpses of the zombies we had killed earlier had strangely disappeared.

Phoebe: "What the, where did they all go?"

Me: "They were missing from the hallway too."

Me: "I guess they despawned..."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "Sometimes videogames despawn things they don't need anymore to save space in video memory, like dead enemies, for instance."

Me: "Question is what happens if we get despawned?"

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "That would only happen if we went to another level though, as long as we can avoid from playing the actual game, we should be safe."

Me: "Then again we might just appear in the next level, I don't know."

Me: "I don't know if this game is treating us as separate characters or just one."

Me: "You still want to check out the third floor?"
Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Just make sure there's another floor before we leave the staircase."

Phoebe: "Ok."

We headed up the stairs, sure enough there seemed to be a fourth floor as well, so we proceeded onto the third, into yet another lobby area with different signs denoting which wing of the building was used for what, this time one wing was a research center, and the other was a medical lab, we killed a lone zombie that came out from behind the front desk and proceeded to the research wing, as it seemed pretty innocent at first glance.

We came across a few more normal zombies and found what looked to be a computer lab adjacent to a large room housing what looked to be some type of supercomputer. None of the computers in the lab worked due to a lack of power, and the supercomputer room was very dark and hard to see inside for the same reason, the only thing that seemed to have power in this place was the minimal amount of emergency lighting that adorned the rooms and hallways, providing just enough light to see.

Phoebe: "Well this floor is pretty quiet."

Me: "Mhm, seems that way."

Me: "Want to go see what's in the medical lab?"

-nervously- Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "Don't worry, I don't think it will make us fight two bosses in a row."

Me:" What's the worst that can happen? We end up fighting a crippled zombie?"

Phoebe: "Oh ok, let's go check it out."

We headed over to the other wing, the medical center seemed to consist of two operating rooms, a medical ward, and another smaller rooms that seemed to basically just be for storing medical supplies. Here we came across a few zombies wearing surgical masks and typical doctor clothing. Different from the others we've seen before that were mostly wearing normal clothes, lab coats, and millitary uniforms. In the ward, most of the beds were empty, with a few containing dead corpses, and another with a zombie that was bound to the bed.

Phoebe: "Poor zombie, it can't move."

Me: "Hehe, don't feel sorry for it."

Me: "Might as well kill it though."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She used her powers to snap it's neck.

Me: "I wonder."

I got down on my knees and started to search under the bed.

Phoebe: "What are you doing?"

Me: "Hehehe."

I pulled out a sawn-off shotgun that was hidden under the bed.

Phoebe: "What's that doing here?"

-unsure- Me: "I guess it's another secret."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "Here, why don't you take it?"

Phoebe: "No you can have it, I'm fine."

Me: "Allright then."

Me: "So many free guns..."

Phoebe: "hehe...Cj..."

She went over to look at a medical cabinet along the wall.

Me: "What's in there?"

Phoebe: "General medical stuff."

Phoebe: "Morphine, aspirin, syringes, applicators, a bit of everything."

Me: "Ok."

Just then part of the ceiling collapsed on the opposite side of the room, and a larger version of one of those creepy spider things came out.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "-screams-"

I fired at it... with both the shotgun and smg...killing it rather quickly.

Me:"Owe...this thing kind of hurts my wrist..."

I cracked it open, which ejected the spent cartridges like a normal shotgun. The shells seemed to be slightly bigger than 12 gauge shells, and there were no markings whatsoever on the cartridges, so there was no telling what caliber it actually was.

Me: "I don't have anymore cartridges for it either.."

Me: "There was a shotgun downstairs wasn't there?"

I turned around, and noticed Phoebe was strangely missing.

Me: "Pheebles?"

Me: "If you can hear me you can come back, it's dead now."

She came in through the doorway.

Phoebe: "It's dead?"

Me: "Why did you teleport without me?"

Phoebe: "It scaired me, I'm sorry."

Me: "It's allright."

Me: "We need to go back to the basement."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Me: "To get more shotgun shells."

Phoebe: "Cj I'm scaired, I just want to get off this floor."

Me: "Ok."

I heard a shreik, and a smaller spider came out of the hole in the ceiling, followed by another, and another, and another.

Me: "Oh crap."

Phoebe: "-whimpers-..."

Me: "Get us out of here."

She teleported us to the hallway, only for the spiders to start pouring out of the room. Phoebe was beyond freaked out now.

Me: "Shhh, keep it together."

I sent out magnum.

Me:" Magnet bomb, full power, go."

Cap'n'magnum: "Magnezone...magna."

He carpet bombed all the spiders...leaving only a few left which I picked off with the smg.

The floor was a mess of spider guts now.

Cap'n'magnum: "Magnezone! magna...magnazone."

Phoebe: "He's terrified he's killed them."

Me: "Relax magnum, they're not pokemon."

Cap'n'magnum: "Magne...zone?"

Phoebe: "What are they then?"

Me: "They're just weird, spider things...we're in a video game of some sort."

Me: "Don't worry about, thanks for your help."

Phoebe gave him a hug.

-greatful- Phoebe: "Thankyou.."

And then she hugged me..

Phoebe: "-sighs-...that was good thinking Cj...I thought we were dead."

Me: "I was starting to think so too."

Me: "Thanks Magnum..."

I returned him.

Phoebe: "Can we go back to Melissa now?"

Me: "Ok, sure."

-unsure-Me: "Why do they terrify you so much?"

-unsure- Me: "You said you killed one for Charley once."

Phoebe: "I'm not afraid of little spiders, just big scary ones like that."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "Why did they all come in like that anyway?"

Me:" Well...sometimes in videogames, secrets have booby traps..."

-convicting- Phoebe: "You mean you did that?"

Me: "Well it's not like I knew it would happen."

Phoebe :"-sighs-, oh well."

Phoebe: "Let's go before the queen shows up."

Me: "What queen?"

Phoebe: "The queen of the spiders."

Me: "Oh...that big one wasn't the queen?"

Phoebe: "No, I don't think so."

Me: "Ok."

We began to head back towards the stairs, the building seemed to be very empty now, as we had seemingly killed off most of the enemys the game had set before us, and didn't seem like they were going to respawn. As for the spiders, whether there really was a queen or not was beyond me. I was as confused about them as Phoebe, I couldn't even recall them being part of the series, I only thought they must have been some sort of additional enemy in the game, in order to add some variety among the countless hordes of zombies. It wasn't unusual for video games to differ from the series they were based on, after all.

By the time we made it back to the stair case in the lobby, the emergency lights shut off, leaving us in pitch black for a moment until the main lights flickered on.

Phoebe clung to me after the lights went out.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "We better go back to Melissa now."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "Hey, maybe the elevator works now."

Phoebe: "Let's just take the stairs…"

Me: "-sighs-, allright fine."

We headed back down to the ground floor and back to the matter lab.

Melissa: "What did you do? The lights came on."

She seemed to be reassembling the portal now.

Me: "I don't really know why that happened."

Phoebe: "Cj killed a bunch of spiders on the third floor, it was creepy Melissa, they were everywhere."

Phoebe: "But Cj killed them all for me."

-somewhat embarrassed- Me: "-sighs-, Pheebles…"

Melissa: "Well, anyway, in just a few more minutes we should have the portal back together, and then we should be able to get out of here."

Me: "Sounds good."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Melissa: "So why don't you two finish exploring the building?"

Phoebe: "Um..."

Melissa: "Don't worry we won't leave without you."

Phoebe: "But what if there's more of those bug things out there?"

Melissa: "Don't worry about them. You been doing well so far."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, allright."

Me: "Let's go to the elevator..."

Phoebe: "-sighs- ok."

Me: "Atleast there we can see how many floors there are."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess."

We left the room and headed back to the elevator in the lobby. We pressed the button, the doors opened, and we stepped inside.

The control panel inside the elevator revealed that the building had seven floors, we had only seen the first three, but before we could do anything, the doors closed and the elevator started to go down.

Phoebe: "Where are we going?"

Me: "I don't know, I didn't see an entrance in the basement..."

Me: "Another secret perhaps?"

Phoebe: "I don't like this Cj."

Me: "Keep it together baby girl, this is no time to be scaired."

Phoebe: " I'm trying."

The elevator eventually arrived at what I could only assume to be a hidden basement, the doors slowly opened, revealing a dimly lit hallway, with a few zombies wandering around the far end.

Phoebe: "Lookout more zombies."

She closed her eyes and quickly took them out with a shadowball."

Me:"Good shot."

Phoebe:"Let's go back up."

She pressed the first floor button, but the doors remained open.

Me:"I think the power went out again."

Phoebe:"Great so we're stuck down here."

-worried- Phoebe: "ugh...this is Lavender town all over again."

Me: "No, I'm sure we can get back."

Me: "We just need to keep making progress."

Me:" I doubt this is how the level ends."

Phoebe: "I hope so, I don't want to be stuck here forever."

Me: "Me neither babe, now come on, I need you to stay alert, we can't let the enemies catch us off guard."

Phoebe: "I know."

We left the elevator and proceeded down the hallway. There was only one room at the end, only one place to go, so that was where we went.

Phoebe was a bit scared, I tried to calm her down but by the when we got to the room we came across some rather large, but empty spiderwebs, and a staircase that went down yet another floor.

Phoebe: "Oh arceus, this is bad."

Me: "-sighs-, I guess there may be a queen."

Phoebe: "Cj we're screwed."

Me: "hehehehehehehe."

Me: "Don't be ridiculous..."

-worried- Phoebe: "I'm not, we're honestly screwed."

Me: "We have aggron, ...this will be easy, it's as big as you think it is then we should be able to use him to fight it. "

-realizing-Phoebe:"oh yeah."

Me: "Or you could just stay up here and I'll fight it alone."

Phoebe: "No, what if you don't come back?"

Phoebe: "I'm comming with you."

Me:"There we go."

We crept down the stairs together, taking our time, the stairwell opened up into a large room, filled with more an extremely large spiderweb that almost completely covered the far wall. I retrieved agron's pokeball from my pocket in preparation for the arrival of the queen.

Me: "Come on, where is it?"

-unsure- Phoebe: "I don't know."

-worried- Phoebe: "You mean the queen right? Not aggron's pokeball?"

Me: "Mhm..."

Me: "I got him right here."

Phoebe: "Good."

Me: "I think this is where we're supposed to fight it, but I don't know."

Me: "Maybe we have to trigger it first."

Phoebe: "I think so because I don't sense anything here."

Me: "Ok come on"

We slowly proceeded forward towards the far wall, there wasn't much light available, but there seemed to be the silhouette of a large doorway behind the mass of webbing, Before we could get close, the queen spider suddenly appeared and burst through it's own web, letting out a loud scream that convieniently gave me enough time to send out aggron, while Phoebe and I safely retreated to the edge of the room.

Me: "Allright Aggron, don't bother holding back, it's not a pokemon, it's just a giant bug that needs to be squashed."

He let out his own roar as the queen prepared to attack, Phoebe seemed to be too terrified to speak.

Phoebe: "It's huge..."

Me: "Shh, it's allright."

The spider queen ignored agron and went straight for us.

Me: "What the heck?"

I had to pull Phoebe out of the way, she was too scaird to teleport.

Me: "Aggron come on help iron head, Go!"

He charged into it, I found it strange that we couldn't feel the vibrations of his movement, and that the floor didn't seem to be damaged by his weight, perhaps it was just more evidence that we were in a game.

Me: "OK Phoebe listen, close your eyes, and get us behind aggron."

Phoebe: "Ok."

I took her hand, and she teleported us to the other side of the room.

The queen paused for a moment out of confusion, then leapt toward aggron. Aggron barely even flinched and simply smacked it into the ground, critically wounding it. It got back up, but aggron quickly finished it off. It let out another loud shriek as he did so.

Phoebe: "It's dead."

Me: "Allright that's good."

Me: "Thankyou aggron, I don't think we could have done that without you."

He nodded at me as I returned him to his ball.

-urgently- Phoebe: "Wait there's more spiders!"

Me: "Huh?"

Many spiders poured out of the hole in the web. we retreated for a moment before I sent out magnum again and he dealt with them fairly quick.

Phoebe:"I wonder if there's a bunch of eggs back there that they are comming from?"

Me: "I don't know."

We slowly made our way to the exit, once we left the "boss room", it started a feel a bit warmer, and the air began to smell a bit less like rot and more of fresh meat. Sure enough there were several countless, gelatinous eggs stuck to the walls on both sides of the corridor. Occasionally a spider would come out of one in front of us, but never out of ones we were right next too. I kept Cap'n'magnum out because I was running low on ammo and Phoebe was still very reluctant to fight the spiders. I also had him destroy they eggs so the spiders inside wouldn't hatch and come up behind us. Phoebe used her powers to light the way since alot of the eggs were covering up the emergency lights, making it even darker than normal. Phoebe and I both found it very strange that their didn't seem to be any more zombies down here, just spiders, though there were some remains of humans that the spiders had eaten, they were all dried up to an almost mummy like state.

There seemed to be more rooms connected to this hallway, but many of them were blocked off with solid walls of gelatinous material. However after passing many of these inaccessible rooms the hallway opened up into another small room, containing some shelves that were knocked over with evidence of an unknown chemical spill on the floor, but oddly no broken glass. And a large generator in the corner adjacent to a strangely wide open breaker box.

Me:" Hey look..."

Phoebe: "Do you think it will turn the power back on?"

Me:" Mhm, it has too that elevator is our only way out of here."

Me: "Magnum stay away from it."

Cap'n'magnum:"Magna...magna..."

I went over to the generator, Phoebe followed me while magnum guarded the entrance.

The generator's mechanism was extremely simple, I had to push one, clearly marked button to start it, and then I had to flip another clearly marked switch in the breaker box to turn the power back on to the whole building.

Just as before, the emergency lights went out for a moment, and then the full lights came on.

Then we headed back down through the hallway, back to the boss room, back up the stairs, to the elevator to take us back up to the first floor. Oddly enough the elevator worked perfectly even with Magnum inside.

When we got up to the first floor, we saw more zombies come into the lobby via the still broken front entrance.

Cap'n'Magnum: "Magnazone?"

Phoebe: "He doesn't like those things."

Me: "They can't harm you, you're metal."

The elevator doors opened, and the zombies started to crawl towards us.

Phoebe: "Get down."

I ducked as she realeased an extremely strong psychic wave, knocking most of the zombies into the far wall and killing them on impact. Magnum didn't get down in time, but all it really did was push him a few feet out of the elevator.

-unsure-Cap'n'Magnum: "Magnazone?"

Phoebe:"I told you to get down."

-concerned- Me: "You ok magnum?"

Phoebe: "He should be fine."

-affirmatively- Cap'n'Magnum: "Magna!"

Me: "Good."

We made sure all the zombies were dead before leaving the lobby and heading back towards the matter lab.

-once we got there-

Melissa:"What are you two doing?"

-cheerfully- Phoebe:"We fought the spider queen and won! Are you ready to go yet?"

Melissa: "Yeah, we were waiting for you."

Phoebe: "Good, I wanted to leave here an hour ago."

-unsure- Cap'n'Magnum: "Magnazone?"

Melissa:" Oh good you're magnezone's allready out."

Melissa: "If you could tell it to use thunder on the machine."

Me: "Yeah sure."

Me: Magnum..."

Cap'n'Magnum."Magnaaaaaazonnnnnne!"

We shielded our eyes as he released a powerful arc of electricity that struck the portal machine and caused it to activate.

Melissa: "There we go."

Cap'n' Magnum:" Magna?"

-translating- Phoebe:"Is that enough?"

Me: "Yeah that's good."

Me: "You can go back in your ball now magnum."

Me: "Thanks for your help, you were great."

I returned him as the portal began to swirl around.

Melissa:" Ok, now, hopefully this will work like last time and we'll be able to get out of here."

Me: "Good."

We heard the sound of zombies knocking on the door.

Me: "Oh crap."

-worried- Phoebe: "They're here..."

-urgently- Melissa:" Technicians you go first."

Unknown technician: "Yes mam."

Her technicians went through the portal, then she went, then Phoebe and I.

Everyhthing went black for a moment as we went through, but when we could see again, we were back in Melissa's lab, and there were alot of people gathered around. Including everyone that was here when we left, and now joined by what seemed to be the families of the technicians who were in there with us. Everybody had their own little happy reunion. We had to get Charley back from James who seemed to be very thrilled that Melissa was back. Melissa was just surprised he even showed up. Once again it seemed out of character for him to be so excited, Phoebe felt the same way as well.

Phoebe:"Awe Cj, look at Charley, he's so happy."

Me: "Hehe, yeah, it's because everyone around us is happy isn't it?"

Phoebe:"Mhmmm...and also because he missed us."

Phoebe:" Didn't you sweety?"

Charley:" Cawa luh mawa dawhy"

Charley: "Cawey no wa go.."

Me: "Hehe...we're back now charley don't worry."

Phoebe: "Mhm...we'll never leave you."

Melissa: "You guys should probably get going it's almost 2:30.."

Phoebe: "Wah, really?"

Phoebe: "Oh right we need to get Nina..."

Phoebe: "Let's go Cj..."

Me: "Um wait."

Phoebe: "What?"

Phoebe: "We don't have time come on."

Me: "Your car is still here."

Phoebe: "Oh...right..."

Phoebe: "Why don't you take Charley and go home? I'll get Nina with my car."

Me: "Ok, sure."

Me: "Just be careful ok?"

Phoebe: "I always am Cj..."

Me: "-sighs-, I know."

She handed Charley to me.

Me: "Come on Charley, let's get you home."

-worried- Charley: "Weh mawa gowee?"

-calmly- Me: "Don't worry about it, she'll be fine."

He seemed a bit upset as I brought him outside to the car, while Phoebe got in her own and left.

The ride home was a bit difficult as it was hard to keep him happy and drive at the same time, but we eventually made it, he was still crying when I brought him inside but I eventually got him to calm down simply by making a tower with his blocks which immediately got his attention. Despite everything, he couldn't resist destroying the tower I made so he could start to make his own. This kept him occupied until Phoebe came home with Nina about an hour later.

-cheerfully- Charley: "Mawa!"

Phoebe: "-giggles-, hi Charley."

Nina:" Building towers again aren't you?"

Charley: "Newa!"

Me:" He's excited to see you."

Phoebe picked him up.

Phoebe:"You missed me didn't you ?"

Charley:"-giigles."
Charley:"Cawey dunno whe mawa gowee."

Phoebe:"I went to get Nina from school."

Phoebe: "Now that she's back she can play with you."

Nina: "Mom I have homework..."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe:"Well after you're done then."

Phoebe :"Ok?"

Nina: "Sure."

She headed into her room.

-quietly-Me: "You know I'm kind of surprised she's being so responsible with her homework."

Phoebe: "I know, but atleast she's taking it seriously."

Me: "Yeah, I guess."

She sat down next to me, still holding Charley.

-tiredly- Phoebe:"-sighs-, now what?"
Me:"I don't know, you tell me."

Phoebe:"Do you think Melissa will keep working with the portal now?"

Me:"I don't know."

Me:"But if she doesn't does that mean we have to?"

Phoebe:"Why?"

Me:"Well you have to admit that was pretty fun, just like the good old days."

Phoebe:"-giggles- That wasn't that long ago Cj."

Me:"I know but still."

Phoebe: "But I know what you mean, now that team rocket is gone we need something new."

Me:" Mhm."

Phoebe: "So maybe we can stick with it for awhile."

-cutely- Phoebe:"That sound ok?"

Me:"Sounds good baby girl."

She kissed me on the cheek, and we watched tv for a bit while Nina did her homework in her room. That afternoon was not very eventful, after Nina finished her homework she came out and played with Charley for a bit before dinner. Then after dinner she played with him until it was his bedtime. Then she watched tv with us for about another hour before we sent her to bed as well, and then finally we went to bed ourselves.

-while getting ready for bed-

Phoebe:"-sighs-, it's been a long day."

Me:"yeah, but we've seen longer."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"so... um...you want to have sex tonight?"

Phoebe:"Oh right, you never got any last night did you?"

Me:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Actually Cj if you don't mind,I just want to rest tonight."

Me:"Ok that's allright."

Me:"I feel tired too."

Phoebe:"I feel a bit overwhelmed."

Me:"Why?'

We got in bed, and she used her power to turn out the lights.

Phoebe:"I don't know. It's just that portal."

Phoebe:"Everytime something happens with that thing we're trying our luck."

Phoebe:"What if we come across something we can't deal with?"

Me:"Is it realy that much different from what we've been doing all this time?"

Phoebe:"Digimon, zombies..."

Phoebe:"Everything is real Cj...in atleast one of those universes."

Phoebe: "All those terrible things we've seen on tv, they're all real somewhere."

Phoebe:"And we could come across any one of them at any given moment."

Me: "-sighs- Your thinking about it too much you know that?"

Me:"We'll play it safe ok?"

Me:"We'll make sure we know what's on the other side before we head in."

Me:" We should be able to get Melissa or whoever is in charge now to agree to those terms."

Phoebe:"And if they won't?"

Me: "Maybe we'll see how James is doing on team galactic? "

Me: "Don't worry baby girl it will all work out."

Me: "Besides, not every one of the places we end up at is going to have giant spiders..."

Phoebe: "Oh...you..."

Me:"hehehe."

I gave her a kiss.

Me: "Goodnight Pheebles."

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "-sighs-, goodnight.."

We both fell asleep sometime later.