Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

16. High School Never Ends

-Chapter 16-

The next day, after our normal morning routine, we headed to the facility. Somewhat excited to explore a new world. Charley was with us, and we had already taken Nina to school.

Once we got to the lab, Bob and Dr. Black were already setting up a new portal.

Corina came to look after Charley for us while we were gone.

The portal was started up, the probe was sent in, and it was declared safe. The portal led to the interior of what appeared to be a school building. The probe did not detect any forms of life, so it was assumed to be a virtual world belonging to a video game.

Shortly after we walked through, we found out that this was not the case. The world was infact, much more than a video game.

Bob :"We lost radio signal..."

Dr. Black :"Try a different radio, it has to be a glitch."

Bob: "Ok."

Dr Black :"The probe was working fine."

Bob found another radio.

Bob: "Still no signal."

: "Ok, let's send the probe in again."

They got the probe ready and sent it in. As soon as it passed through the portal, all control of it went dead, even though the control cable had not severed.

Dr. Black: "What the?"

Bob: "Should we tell Mellisa?"

Dr. Black :"No, they couldn't have just dissappeared, they'll be back."

Dr. Black: "We just have to wait."

-back inside the portal-

When we opened our eyes we found ourselves outside what was aparently the school building we were supposed to be warped inside of.

And that wasn't all, cars were passing by on the street behind us, and there were teenagers all over the place.

Me:" What is going on here? "

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Unknown girl:" Phoebe...Cj...hello."

We were approached by a girl that seemed to know our names, but we've never met her before, ever, and judging by the fact we were in a different dimension, it was unlikely she knew us because we were famous.

Unknown girl:" How are you today?"

-unsure- Phoebe :"Who are you?"

Unknown girl:" What were you two doing this summer?"

Phoebe: "Um... "

Me: "Not much, what did you do?"

Unknown girl:"My family took me on vacation to hawaii."

Me: "Sounds cool."

Phoebe :"Where is that?"

Me: "It's an island off the west coast."

Unknown Girl :"Um...don't you mean the east coast."

It was then that I came to the realization that we weren't in america, the cars on the street behind us looked distinctly japanese.

Me: "Um...yeah I guess so."

I couldn't tell if she was real or not, she looked real, she acted real, she seemed to understand most of what we were saying. Maybe we were in some sort of japanese RPG, I don't know."

Unknown girl: "Um Phoebe can I talk to you in private?"

Phoebe: "About what?"

-whispering- Unknown girl: "It's about a boy."

Phoebe: "Um...ok..."

Phoebe: "Cj? "

Me: "Better go on, see what she has to say."

The strange girl pulled Phoebe away from me, leaving me my own.

I didn't know what to make of this world, it didn't seem like a videogame, but why did the probe show know forms of life when there obviously were, it was like the school was empty until we came to it, stranger still, how did that girl know our names?

I stood on my own for a few minutes until I heard a bell, and then all the "students" began to move inside.

At this point I met up with Phoebe.

Me: "So what do you think."

Phoebe: "I don't know what to make of this place."

Me: "Well I guess it's time for class to begin, but we don't even know what classes we're supposed to go too."

Phoebe: "Nope."

Phoebe: "Also where is the portal? "

Me: "In the hallway? I don't know."

Me :"Are these people real? Do they have thoughts? "

Phoebe: "I can't tell Cj...they have thoughts, and brainwaves, but any further than that I can't see."

Almost everyone was inside but us at this point.

Me: "What did that girl say to you?"

Phoebe: "She said she fell in love with a boy, she assumed I knew who he was but I don't, his name is Tom."

Me: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "So now what? "

Me: "I don't know, I guess we try to figure out where our classes are?"

Me: "Maybe they have an office?"

Phoebe :"I don't know."

We headed inside.

Phoebe: "The radio's dead."

Me: "Ok..."

Me:" I'm sure it's not big deal."

Phoebe :"There's no sign of the portal either."

Me: "Weird."

Unknown boy: "You two lovebirds better get to class."

Me: "What class would that be exactly?"

Unknown boy: "How should I know? haven't you read your schedule?"

Phoebe :"hmm..."

She was looking at the lockers.

She approached one and somehow opened it.

Me: "How did you know the combination.?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, it just came to me, like telepathically almost, except, I ...I don't know."

Phoebe: "Hey look there's a picture of us in here."

A picture that neither of us remembered ever being taken.

Phoebe: "Oh arceus..."

Phoebe: "Cj...this picture."

She showed it to me.

Phoebe: "We look so much younger."

Me: "You look much more human..."

Me: "hell, look at your boobs baby...they're like the size they are when we..."

-sarcastically- Phoebe: "Mhmmm...how nice of you to notice."

Me: "That barely looks like you."

Phoebe: "I wouldn't have even been a gardevoir when I was that young."

Phoebe: "But it has to be me, because that's obviously you."

Me: "I wonder if that's just how people see us here."

She looked drastically different in her picture, though she retained her skin, hair, and eye color, (Green hair not being unnatural in this world), oddly enough. I looked pretty much the same except I didn't have a mustache, which made sense because I didn't in high school.

Phoebe: "I guess all this belongs to me."

Me: "I guess."

Phoebe: "Why do I have a math book? I don't need to take math!"

Me: "I think this world thinks you're human."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, ok."

Phoebe: "Let's find your locker."

We wandered the halls for a bit until a number, specifically 213 appeared in my mind.

Me: "Are you using telepathy?"

Phoebe: "I can't, remember?"

Me: "Then it's 213."

Once I found locker 213, the combination began to come to me 16 left, 37 right, 25 left, 0 right.

The locker oppened, mine just had some books inside along with a backpack, no pictures or decorations like hers had, but still no schedule. Then the bell wrang again, and we were already late for class. And we were also the only ones in the hall.

-nervous- Me: "uhh..."

Phoebe :"We're late aren't we?"

Me: "Mhmmm."

The hall monitor spotted us immediately.

Hall Monitor girl: "What are you two still doing in the halls? Get to class."

Phoebe :"We don't know what class we're supposed to go to?"

Hall Monitor girl: "Making up excuses huh? Detentions for both of you."

Phoebe: "What? "

Me :"We honestly don't know."

Hall Monitor girl: "Then come with me to the office."

Me :"Since when can students write detentions?"

Hall Monitors girls: "It's always been like that."

The high school I went to didn't even have hall monitors, then again it wasn't nearly as big as this school, so to be late for class you had to have really screwed up.

We followed her to the office.

Once there we were each given a detention, which we had no intent on serving and then we were split up and sent to our first classes.

Phoebe had math, and I apparently had physics.

It was weird being in high school again.

The illusion was so vivid, all the characters had names, the teacher spoke to the class.

we were assigned homework, which, despite having graduated from high school several years ago the homework was still a challenge.

A few of the students seemed to know me, but I had no idea who they were, though the stories they had to tell about me all seemed to be consistent with things I would've said or done back in high school , hell, some of them even seemed to be direct copies of my memories, but with different people involved and some alterations to fit the context of this world, like there was one time I went to Worlds of Fun with some of my friends, and one of the students mentioned that we had gone to a local amusement park together along with a few others. Even stranger was, despite being set in Japan, everyone spoke english. Stranger still, my textbooks were in english, but every sign and poster dotted around the school was in kanji, and nobody seemed to think anything about that was weird. Furthermore, they could read the signs, and I couldn't, and if I were to ask them what the signs meant, they would spell it out in english. Like they could see it in english and I couldn't. Even the door numbers were in kanji...which meant that even if I had a schedule, finding my classes was still going to be a challenge.

After physics class I met with Phoebe in the halls again. Incredibly, she now looked alot more like that weird photograph.

Me: "Ok this world is starting to freak me out."

Phoebe :"Me too."

Phoebe: "Where's your mustache?"

I then realized it was...just gone..

Me: "I don't know but have you seen yourself recently?"

Me: "You're human now."

-sadly- Phoebe: "I know..."

Me: "If I didn't see that picture I wouldn't have been able to recognize you.

-worried- Phoebe: "I hope it's reversible."

Me: "I'm sure it is."

Me: "Why don't we get to class, and then will both leave for the restroom so we can meet there."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "If you don't know where your next class is, just pretend your confused until somebody shows you where to go."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Cj?"

Me: "Hmm?"

Phoebe: "Am I still beautiful?"

Me: "Of course, honey."

We both wandered into random classrooms, and asked where our next class was, the teacher was kind enough to look up our schedules for us and show us the way.

Once we got to our second period classes, we waited for like ten minutes before asking to leave for the bathroom, where we met up to continue our discussion.

Me :"Can you read the signs?"

Phoebe: "Um...maybe..."

Phoebe: "I don't remember much japanese but I can try."

Me :"Also I have a weird question."

Me: "If we sneak into the bathroom and have some fun, if I get you pregnant, what will happen if we go back and you become a gardevoir again?"

Phoebe: "Cj really? "

Phoebe: "Though, I think it could be fun to try out this body."

Me: "Oh really? "

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"I was kind of thinking the same thing.."

Phoebe: "-giggles-."

We held hands as we snuck into the men's restroom, into the larger corner stall where we began to fool around.

Me: "-sighs-, this is crazy."

Me: "Are we even 18?'

Phoebe: "I don't know...who cares?"

Phoebe: "I wonder if this body is still a virgin."

Me: " Should we find out?"

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Yes..."

Someone else entered the restroom.

-quietly- Me: "Shhh..."

-whisper- Phoebe: "oh arceus."

Me: "Hold me tight."

She wrapped herself around me while I picked her up so nobody would see her feet under the door, despite now being human she was still really small and light.

Unknown Boy: " Principle said he'd call both of your parents if he caught you fooling around in the restrooms again."

Me: "Oh come on...really?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "Guess I'm not a virgin again."

Me:"I guess not."

Unknown Boy:" You two better get to lunch before he catches you."

Phoebe:"-sighs-, fine."

Me :"Wait lunch? I thought it was second period?"

Unknown Boy: "2nd period ended ten minutes ago."

Me :"Well that's a damned short class."

Unknown Boy: "Well yeah, class is pretty short when you're screwing your girlfriend through the whole thing."

Me: "Who the hell are you?"

Unknown Boy: "The guy that's trying to keep you from getting suspended."

Unknown boy: "Now come on, I'll make sure the coast is clear, but then you gotta go."

Me: "Ok."

We headed down to lunch, and ended up sitting next to that strange girl that spoke to Phoebe earlier, and the kid who caught us in the bathroom.

Finally, by listening to their conversation, we were able to get their names. Chris Akimoto and Jan Kanada. Another oddity with this world, like the posters and textbooks, everyone had very simplified english first names but japanese sirnames, except for me, I retained my last name, while Phoebe's last name apparently became Takenaka. I presume this was because she really didn't have a last name to begin with other than mine, so one was provided for her, because the two of us having the same last name and being romantically involved would seem very strange in a high school setting, I guess. As usual, nobody else thought this was strange but Phoebe and I, especially considering I had the only non-japanese name in the entire school.

So we used our lunch to talk to our new "friends", and found out that the classes are supposed to be 80 minutes long, each, we didn't mention it, but we swore 2nd period couldn't have been more than 20 minutes. It was like we had hit a time warp. Little did we know that was not the only one we would come across.

As far as I could understand, we were in some type of japanese game set in a highschool, but this world was far more believable than any we had come across, furthermore, it "knew" us, and incorporated little bits and pieces of our actual lives and pasts into it's design.

Jan: "First day of senior year, can you believe it?"

-unsure- Me: "Um...I guess."

Phoebe: "What does that mean?"

Chris: "It means that after this we're done with school for good."

Jan :"You don't wanna go to college?"

Chris: "Why? "

Jan: " You can get a better job?"

Chris: "All I wanna do, is play guitar."

-unsure- Me: "So you like music? "

Chris: "Yeah, what is with you today?"

Chris: "I catch you two in the restroom again, you say you don't remember my name, and now you don't remember my talented guitar playing skills?"

Jan: "Hehe, yeah right..."

-realizing- Jan: "Wait...they were getting frisky in the bathroom again?"

-embarassed- Phoebe: "Oh arceus shut up!"

-embarassed- Me: "Pheebles..."

Jan:"You're so lucky you didn't get caught."

Me: "It's not like it's my fault, she can't keep her hands off me."

-floored- Phoebe: "CJ!"

-playfully- Me:"Oh relax."

Jan: "I see."

So we pretty much went through the whole day of school, except when it was time to leave and we walked out of the building, somewhat curious to see where we lived, and if this game actually went as far as replicating our parents, before we could make it to the street the day "Reset" itself, and it was morning again. So we started what was then the next day of school.

Every other day we had a different set of classes. 1st period we both had gym together, 2nd period I had art and she had music, 3rd period we both had a Calligraphy class...where they tried to teach us how to paint japanese characters. Would have been an interesting class if the time skips didn't prevent us from practicing anything. 4th period I had a writing\literature class, and she had an english class, where, according to what she said, everyone confusingly spoke japanese. In every class, we either shared that class or atleast one of our "friends" was in class with us if we did not have a friend in that class, we eventually made one.

The cycle continued, when we got to what would be a weekened, it skipped said weekened and we "time warped" to the next monday. It also randomely seemed to skip parts that were not important, sometimes it would skip entire classes and days, and lunch period.

Strangely, we always felt hungry during lunch period, the food was also ridiculously good for school food, but ever time the day reset it was as if it had already passed through our bodies.

Our grades didn't seem to matter much, it didn't matter if we had time to do our homework or not, which we rarely did because of the skip, it always seemed to finish itself, and Phoebe got straight A's while I got B's and a C in math... all with very little effort on our part. In what seemed to be four hours of time we had gone through approximately 6 weeks of school. Of course the story progressed.

After about a week, in 3rd period shop class I was instructed to work on what appeared to be a Nissan Skyline...which was then reffered to as mine by the teacher and anyone else...either this was a coincidence or the game knows what car I drive. Even though the skyline was japanese, given it's value, it didn't make much sense to be owned by a high school student. Although, the skyline I had here was nearly stock and not as modified as the one I had in the real world. As the game skipped to the next day every time we left the school, however, I never got to drive it.

Jan was now regularly dating Tom, who we were finally introduced to at lunch. Chris became depressed for reasons he refused to explain and apparently developed a drug problem, Phoebe and I caught him lighting up in the bathroom when we went there to meet, which we did almost everyday, as it was the easiest way we could get together and try to figure out what was going on, even in classes that we had together it was kind of hard to just talk with the class going on around us. However even when we went to meet in private, we were almost always interupted by something or other, as if the "game" didn't want us too. Also we never did get to make love in the bathroom...somebody, usually Chris, always interupted us, it was like clockwork, the moment she touched my pants, he barged through the door.

At about 4 weeks in, I had to take a test in physics class...which I somehow passed despite not being given any time to study or even taught any of the content. It didn't seem to matter what I put on the test papers, I always got a b, and my answers were always changed to reflect that grade in a reasonable manner, except in math where I usualy got a c, realistically though, I always did struggle with math.

I had made a new friend, named Matt from shop class, and Phoebe had one as well, named Clair from music. Matt was into cars like me, and apparently owned a Mazda Rx7, and Clair was into music and dancing.

They now sat with us at lunch along with Chris, Tom, and Jan.

For the first few "weeks", it seemed that this was a completely normal school year, aside from the time skips and seemingly "programmed" love making interuptions.

We came to the realization we were going to be working later than normal, it had been several hours and there was no sign of the portal so we tried to enjoy the story this world was trying to tell us, but then the story got dark. After the day "reset" for atleast the 40th time, it began to snow, and we were both automatically given coats that uncanningly matched our taste. Upon entering the school, we were informed that Mr. Sasaki, our Science teacher, who actually seemed to be a very kind old man, had perished in a car accident. Strangely, we kind of felt sad for him, despite him not being real.

Aside from that, the day progressed as normal, although it skipped 2nd period entirely and went almost straight from 1st period to lunch. The time skips seemed to happen most often between class periods.

We talked to our friends at the lunch table, all of which were saddened by Sasaki's demise.

Clair: "I can't believe he's gone, he was such a kind old man."

Tom: "I know...I remember in freshmen year I was struggling so he gave me extra credit for helping him get some grocerys out of his car."

Matt: "I wonder who they'll replace him with?"

Clair: "I don't know, but class will never be the same.

The next day a new teacher was "hired" to replace him, Miss Sato, who then proceeded to lead the senior class as a whole on a field trip to a museum that was already planned in the days before Sasaki's death.

So instead of going to class as usual, we got on an authentic japanese charter bus and for the first time we were actually allowed to leave the school...sort of...the bus pulled onto the highway, and just 20 minutes into the ride a tire blew out and it slid infront of an oncomming truck, everything went dark, we didn't feel hurt, but we felt disorieted and confused, we heard ambulances noises and then we completely blacked out moments later.

When we awoke, we found an another timeskip had occured and we were back at the school with no sign of injury, and we found out that Miss Sato, several other students we didn't know, Phoebe and I, and all of our friends except Tom, were the lucky survivors of the crash. From what we heard, nearly 20 students were killed. Jan was particularly devastated, Phoebe tried to comfort her, but there was only so much she could say. Science class was a lot smaller after that. I didn't know many of those student's names, but I remembered their faces.

As the "days" continued to pass, things only went downhill from there.

Chris got more and more into drugs.

Jan was litterally getting more and more depressed everyday.

Matt was closing himself off.

Then, suddenly , after several days of the school being somewhat miserable, time skipped ahead until after winter break.\\

Over break, Clair started dating a boy named Kevin, who was kind of a dick.

Jan was still depressed.

Chris was still a drug addict.

Matt was now into illegal street racing, and frequently worked on his car in shop class.

An unfamiliar janitor had died over break while cleaning one of the bathrooms, this led to rumors of Sasaki's ghost haunting the school.

During shop class Matt invited me to a race . I said yes, because, hell, why not? At this point the skyline was starting to look like it's real life counterpart, I don't know how I got the money to modify it that much, but I decided not to question it.

In fourth period, Jan and I were in the same class, but Phoebe was not. Jan was hitting on me, heavilly...I resisted and did not tell Phoebe about this.

That day, after we left the school, we were teleported to the inside of the skyline which was now out of the shop and lined up at a starting line.

Phoebe: "What the?"

Me: "Oh...yeah we're having a street race, with Matt..."

Phoebe: "Ok..."

Me: "Sorry I didn't have a chance to tell you."

Phoebe: "Why did you agree to it?"

Me: "Because it sounded like fun.."

Me: "I didn't know I'd actually get to do it."

Someone walked out infront to start the race.

Phoebe:"-sighs- Ok, just be careful."

Phoebe: "Don't get us killed."

Me: "I'll try not too baby."

Aside from Matt's signature Rx7, we were also racing against a Nissan 300z, and a Subaru Impreza.

The race began, and just minutes into the race the other two cars had dropped back and it was just us and Matt.

We were racing on an expressway, and there was some traffic around, the highway did not seem to have any exits however, it was just one big long road that didn't seem to go anywhere. It kind of reminded me of the Wangan expressway area in Tokyo Extreme Racer.

That said, we weren't ready for what was about to happen next. We came around a blind corner, and came face to face with a truck, the skyline seemed to steer itself out of the way, but...Matt wasn't so lucky. He smashed into the truck, his car burst into flames on impact. I pulled over and we got out to inspect. But the poor Mazda was a fireball and there was nothing we could do. The other two cars caught up, passed us, and proceeded to keep on racing.

As their taillights disappeared into the night, everything gradually went dark, and we were brought back to the school, Matt was dead, which, actually did kind of hurt me...he was cool, and if he was real we could have really been friends. Phoebe was bothered by something else.

Phoebe: "What if we're next?"

Me: "No, we're the protagonists, we can't die."

Me: "I don't know if you noticed, but when we came across that truck, the car steered itself out of the way."

-squeamish- Phoebe: "I don't like this game anymore."

Me: "I know but..."

Me: "We don't know how to get out of here."

Phoebe: "I want my powers back."

Me: "I know, and you'll get them back."

Me: "I think we just have to play it through."

Me: "Maybe then it will let us leave."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

Me: "We're almost halfway through the school year, we don't have much more to go."

Anyway, the next day, at lunch a new rumor was spreading around that the school was cursed and haunted by the ghost of Mr. Sasaki. Phoebe and I already saw where this was going...sure enough, Clair wanted to come back at night to investigate the school. We didn't want to, but the game's plot demanded it. So she and Kevin wouldn't take no for an answer. Jan and Chris decided to tag along too. When we left school that day, the time warped to that night, the school was locked, but Jan managed to sneak a key off of one of the janitors, so we were able to get in. We headed over to the science class first, it was late at night and even the janitors had gone home.

-somewhat unenthusiastically- Phoebe: "-sighs- Why are we here again?"

Me: "To look for the ghost of the science teacher."

Clair: "This school has to be haunted, why else are so many people dying this year?"

-sarcastically- Phoebe: "Really bad luck."

Phoebe: "I really don't like ghosts."

Jan:" Do you guys think..."

Jan: "Maybe I can see Tom again?"

Chris: "Who knows...Lady J..."

Jan: "I've told you 1000 times, Don't call me that."

We made our way through the darkened hallways to Miss Sato's room, formerly Mr. Sasaki's.

The classroom didn't look any different then it did during the day.

Phoebe :"See nothing here, let's go."

Clair: "Not yet, we can't sure, we have to wait a little while."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Jan :"Why don't I stay here, and the rest of you can go investigate the spot where the Janitor died."

Clair: "And leave you here all by yourself? No way..."

Clair :"Kevin and I will stay here with you."

Kevin: "Actually I want to go to the gym, see if we can get into the equipment room."

Clair: "We're staying here with Jan."

Kevin :"Whatever."

Phoebe: "Ok come on let's go."

Me: "Ok."

We left the room and headed to stair case which led to the cafeteria on the lower floor. Chris came with us, everyone else stayed in the science class.

Me: "So um..."

-quietly- Me: "You wanna ditch old smokee and fool around some?"

Phoebe: "I don't think it will work."

Me: "Awwe, this could be my only chance to see you naked as a human."

Phoebe: "Ohhh Cj, it's not that big of deal."

Me: "-sighs-, Yeah I guess so."

-a bit high- Chris: "Hey watcha guys talking bout?"

-a bit high- Chris: "I thought we were supposed to be looking for ghosts or something something.."

Me :"Man why did you even come? "

-a bit high- Chris: "Cause ...I wanna see the GHOST!"

Phoebe :"You probably wouldn't even know it if you saw it."

Phoebe: "You're so disoriented right now."

Chris: " Hey...I'lll...I'lll be fine..."

Me: "So um, in art class we're making a tribute for all the ones that perished in the bus accident."

Phoebe: "Ok..."

Phoebe:" In music class we have an event coming up where we're supposed to sing, but I don't know if we'll actually get to see it."

Me: "hmm ok."

Chris: "You guys think I should ask Jan to prom?"

Phoebe :"Find someone else, she's not over Tom yet."

Chris:" Who should I ask then?"

Chris :"Maria is pretty nice."

Me: "I think she has a boyfriend."

Phoebe: "I don't know about that, I haven't seen him around, maybe he died in the bus crash."

Me: "No, his picture isn't on the art class tribute, he's still with us."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok."

Chris :"Well what about Cindy? She's cute."

Phoebe" She'll probably say no, but I dunno."

Chris :"What does she like?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, I don't talk to her that much, all I know is that she acts like a spoiled brat sometimes."

Phoebe:"So maybe you're best bet is someone else."

Phoebe:"What about Liza?"

Chris:"Nahhhh she uhhhgly."

-surprised- Me:"She's not that ugly."

I could still remember a time I would've killed for a girl like that to talk to me.

Me:"Maybe compared to Cindy, but..."

Me:"You could do far worse than her too."

Phoebe:"Eheh...well maybe you need to lower your standards a bit."

Phoebe: "Because she doesn't have anyone that I know of, and she isn't that bad."

Chris: "What about Trixie?"

Phoebe :"She's a slut..."

Chris: "Really?"

Me: "How do you know?"

Phoebe: "I overheard her talking to her friends about how many guys she's banged."

Chris: "Says the girl who's close to being suspended for bathroom sex."

Phoebe: "With my husband."

Me: "Um Pheebles...?"

Chris: "Huh...when did you get married?"

Phoebe: "It was…."

I nudged her.

-whispered- Me:" Honey, we're in highschool, we can't be married silly."

-realized- Phoebe: "Ohhh, right you're just my boyfriend..."

Me: "Right."

We left the cafeteria and walked passed the gym.

About a dozen classrooms passed the gym, we arrived at the location in the hallway where the janitor was supposedly found dead.

There was nothing here.

Phoebe: "Well, I don't see anything."

Me: "Me neither."

Me :"You want to wait a bit?"

Chris: "Yeah lets chill out."

Phoebe: "-sighs- fine."

We sat on the floor and waited for a few minutes, Chris decided to smoke a joint so we kind of moved away from him.

Phoebe: "Seriously?"

Chris: "Nobody's here..."

Phoebe:"So..?"

Phoebe: "No reason to be rude."

Me: "Pheebles just let it go."

Phoebe: "Aren't you high enough yet?"

Phoebe :"Chris seriously think about what you're doing to yourself for once."

Me: "Pheebles."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "-sighs-, If I had my powers..."

Me: "You don't so just let it go."

A few minutes later we heard a sound coming from the gym.

Me: "Did you here that?"

-baked- Chris: "It's the cops."

Me: "No it's not..."

Me: "Come on, let's go investigate."

We went to the gym, and found Clair and Kevin, with Kevin trying to get into the equipment room.

Kevin: "None of these keys work, dammit."

Clair :"Why do you want to get in so bad anyway?"

Kevin: "While we're here, might as well play some basketball."

Clair: "Really? That's all you can think about?"

Kevin :"All the public courts are packed after school."

Kevin:" This is a rare opportunity I have to have the entire court to myself."

Clair: "ugh.."

Phoebe: "Oh hey guys."

Clair: "Hi Phoebe...Cj..."

Clair: "Chris you don't look so good."

Me: "He decided to smoke another joint.."

Me: "That's like what your fifth today?

Chris: "Um...I think...it's the sixth..."

-in disbelief- Me: "Uh huh..."

Clair: "wow..."

Phoebe: "Where's Jan? "

-jokingly- Clair: "She's up in Sasaki's by herself since Tabuse here couldn't stop thinking about the sacred equipment room."

Me: "Hehe."

Me: "Who's Tabuse?"

Phoebe: "He's a famous basketball player..."

Me :"How do you know?"

Phoebe: "There were posters of him when really we were in Japan."

Me: "Ohhhkaaaay.."

We heard a loud scream.

Phoebe :"What the?"

Me: "Did you hear that?"

Clair: "It's Jan."

Me: "Let's go."

We all ran back up the stairs to Sasaki's, it was too late, Jan was unconscious on the floor.

Clair called an ambulance.

The ambulance arrived a bit later and she was taken to the hospital.

After that it went black and the next day began.

Jan was in the hospital, not dead but in a coma, apparently not showing any sign of injury, oddly enough.

A few weeks of ingame time passed. Jan never woke up. It seemed like everyday random students who we didn't know died for some reason. We made a few new friends to replace the ones we lost. Maria from Phoebe's music class, and Joe, once again from shop class, who I later learned was the driver of the 300z from our race with Matt awhile ago. Chris was arrested for drugs, but only missed a day of school, unfortunately that did nothing to help him. He also only seemed to come to school every other day now. Every so often we had random street races after school on that same highway, some of which I was invited to and knew they were going to happen, and others I had no idea and seemed to happen at random. Because I had almost no opportunity to talk her beforehand, Phoebe was very rarely given any idea when these would happen. These were against Joe, the impreza, who I didn't know the driver of, a modified 1980s rx7, a heavily modified 200sx, and a dodge viper, which was very strange. Joe eventually told me that Susie, a girl from my math class, was the driver of the impreza, but the drivers of the other cars were not from our school. We won some races, and lost some races, but there didn't seem to be any reward or penalty for winning or losing. After the race the winner would be congratulated by a large crowd of cars and people gathered around the finish line, and then every thing would go dark and we would be reset at the school. On the race against the viper, however, there was no crowd and the car simply drove off passed the finish line while the world went black. The "finish line" was marked by a solid white line across the highway, that arguably had no other reason to be there. There was traffic, but never any police...ever and it seemed to be almost impossible to hit the traffic, if we approached it like we were going to hit it, the car would slow down on its own, occasionally even swerving to avoid it, and yes, there were sometimes I was curious to see if the game would let anything happen to the skyline, we could grind against the barriers on the side of the highway, but the damage never stuck and nobody ever mentioned this, other then the car having a sense of self preservation, the racing felt fairly realistic.

After the races the next day would begin, occasionally Joe or Susie would say something about how I drove, but nobody else seemed to know that the race even occurred. Which kind of made sense as it wasn't something you would want the entire school to know about. Joe, Susie and I kind of became a racing "crew", much to Phoebe's chagrin as every time we raced she was scared. Though to be honest, at least half the races we were in I had no say in whether I wanted to take part in them or not. And it seemed like I just couldn't crash, I could lose...easily enough, but the game would not allow me to crash.

When time came around for prom, there was only around 100 students left in our class, a fraction of what it was in the beginning of the year, not all of them died though, according to what the teachers and our friends had to say, a lot of them transferred to another school out of fear. Prom was just a week away, and the atmosphere at lunch was very somber.

Clair: "Listen, after what happened to Jan, I have no doubt that there is something haunting this school."

Kevin: "No there's not, she probably died of fright."

Phoebe: "She's not dead she's in a coma."

Clair: "We need to sneak in at night again, Cj you still have the keys?"

Me: "Um.."

I was unaware I was in possession of the keys.

Clair: "You said you could keep them safe."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Say no."

-quietly- Me: "But then we won't find out what's going on."

Me:"I guess I do."

Clair:"Ok good."

Clair:"Joe, Susie you wanna come too?"

Joe: "Actually we were thinking about going racing tonight."

Phoebe: "Oh come on, we can race any night, let's do this."

Me: "Pheebles do you wanna go or not?"

Phoebe: "I'd rather take my chances with ghost then ghost racing again."

Joe:"You know you don't have go with him every single time."

Phoebe: "But I can't let him go by himself, what if he crashes and dies without me?"

Susie: "Can we please stop talking about death, I'm sick of it."

Susie:" Every other day some member of our class dies."

Susie:"I want to find out why."

Susie: "I'm in."

Joe: "Fine if the rest of the racing club is in, I'll go too."

Clair: "Allright then."

Clair: "Kevin, you comming or not?"

Kevin: " There's a game on tonight."

Clair: "Well record it, I need you."

Kevin: "But it's the big one."

Clair: "Kevin..."

She gave him mean look.

Kevin: "Ok fine..."

Clair: "Now what about chris?"

Phoebe: "Considering all he did was get high last time, it's probably best to leave him out."

Me: "Yeah...I don't even know how to contact him anyway, he didn't even show up today."

Clair: "Allright."

After lunch the time skipped directly to later that night. We found ourselves outside the school again, with backpacks on our backs. Our "friends" were all waiting by the entrance.

Me: "Ok I guess we're here."

Phoebe: "Yep."

I discovered the key to the school had materialized in my pocket. I went up to the door and used it to let everyone in.

Phoebe and I split up from the others and began to have a private conversation.

Phoebe:" I want out of here already..."

Phoebe: "This world is too real."

Me: "Yeah, I know what you mean."

Phoebe: "How long have we been in here?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "Atleast, I may get to take you to prom."

Me: "Would that make up for it?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, what about our children?"

Me: "Honey, I think this world is smarter than that."

Me: "Listen, I think this is more than a game world."

Me: "It, it 'knows' us."

Me: "It changed you into a human for god sakes."

Me: "I think when we get back, we'll find we weren't in here nearly as long as we thought we were."

Phoebe: "If it's not a game world, then what is it?"

Me: "I don't really know."

Me: "We may never know."

Me: "But as long as we can go back, it doesn't matter."

She hugged me.

Phoebe: "I hope your right."

Me: "You know as a human you're alot easier to hug."

Phoebe:"Hmm?"

Me: "I can squeeze you like this without hurting myself."

-enamored- Phoebe: "Mmm...oh Cj..."

Phoebe: "I still want my powers back though."

Me:"-sighs-, I know you do."

Me: "I want my sexy little gardevoir back too."

Phoebe: "Awe.."

Me: "Allthough really though, your beautiful either way."

Phoebe:"I love you."

Me: "I love you."

-awkwardly- Clair: "Are you two done?"

Phoebe: "hmm?"

Clair: "We're all going to spend the night in Mr. Sasaki's room."

Phoebe: "The entire night?"

Clair: "Mhm, and we can't leave or whatever happened to Jan could happen to one of us."

Clair: "So come on."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, ok."

We all headed to Mr. Sasaki's room prepared to stay the night. We found that our backpacks contained sleeping bags, flashlights, snacks, and other somewhat convienient supplies.

Me: "What happens the next morning when we awake and people are entering the school?"

Clair: "It's friday, nobody is going to be here tomorrow."

Me: "Oh, ok."

-quietly- Clair: "Dum dum."

Joe: "Is anyone tired yet?"

Joe: "Maybe we could play a game or something."

Kevin:" We can go to the gym, play some basketball."

Clair: "No, we need to stay here incase something happens."

Clair: "And I shouldn't have to say this, but you two, no fucking."

Phoebe: "Eheh...hehhee, we're not crazy you weirdo."

Clair: "I heard in junior year you two got caught doing it in the bathroom...twice."

Phoebe: "So?"

Phoebe: "You're just jealous because Mr. Basketball over there won't touch you."

-hurt- Clair: "-gasps-."

-annoyed- Me: "Pheebles."

Phoebe: "What?"

Clair got up and left the room.

Kevin didn't even seem to notice.

Joe:"That was mean."

Susie:"Yeah you didn't have to make her cry."

Me:"You see what you did?"

Phoebe:"Yeah I see..."

Phoebe:" -sighs-...If I could read her mind I wouldn't of said that."

-histeric- Me: "Bull crap...you say stuff like that all the time."

Me:" Go apologize and get her back in here."

Phoebe: "By myself?"

Me: "Mhmmm."

Phoebe:"-sighs- ok."

She left to apologize.

She came back with Clair a bit later.

Clair: "Kevin?"

Kevin: "Yes?"

Clair: "It's over."

Kevin :"What? Why?"

Clair: "Do you even know what's going on you lunkhead?"

Clair: "I was crying and you didn't even give a damn."

Clair:"You don't care about me you just care about your sports."

He was watching a game on his cell phone the entire time.

Me: "Pheebles you were suppose to apologize not convince her to break up with Kevin."

Phoebe: "Well we got to talking and, well I didn't think he was right for her."

Me: "-sighs-."

Phoebe: "What's wrong?"

Me: "Nothing."

Kevin: "Baby come on don't be like this."

Phoebe:" Don't let him talk you into to staying together, you deserve better than him."

Kevin: "Please.."

-sincerely- Clair: "Kevin..."

-sincerely- Clair: "It's over."

Kevin: "Then good luck getting a ride home."

Kevin: "I won't forget this Phoebe...you put her up to this."

Phoebe:"Well you should have been more respectful."

He left the room, and presumably, the school, taking his stuff with him.

Phoebe:" You can ride home with us Clair."

Clair: "Ohh...ok.."

I wondered if Phoebe and I still lived together in this world...

She seemed kind of sad.

Clair:"So lonely."

Phoebe:"Hey it's ok, you don't need him."

Me:"You'll find someone else."

People:"Yeah, there's still lots of men in our class."

-awkwardly- Me:" Yeah you know if there's like a guy that, uh, ."

Phoebe:"What he trying to say is that he used to be really shy."

Phoebe: "GIve the shy guys a chance, they're really nice like my Cj here.":

She hugged me.

-embarrased- Me: "Pheebles now you're just embarassing me."

-cutely- Phoebe: "I love you."

-shyly- Me: "I love you too baby."

Phoebe : "See?"

Our only source of light came from flashlights, it seemed that everyone had brought atleast one with them, Phoebe and I each found one in our backpacks as well, batterys included. The hallways had limited lighting around the exits and hallways for emergency purposes, but that was it. The normal lights did work, but we were trying to avoid using them as much as possible so we wouldn't get caught.

A few minutes later everyone was tucked into their sleeping bags ready to sleep.

Strangely, Phoebe and I both began to feel tired, for the first time since we entered this world, Though at this point it seemed like we must have spent over a day in here.

It was another hour or so before all the flashlights went out at once, and the spectral image of Mr. Sasaki appeared.

-terrified- Clair: "It's Sasaki."

Joe: "What do you want?"

Susie: "Don't kill us please!"

: "loohcs siht ta live si ereht."

Mr. Sasaki: "woleb skrul ti."

Mr. Sasaki: "gninrom yb hsirep lla lliw uoy ro ti yortsed"

Me: "What?"

Clair: "It's backwards, record it, somebody."

Joe: "On it."

He got his phone out.

: "loohcs siht ta live si ereht."

Mr. Sasaki: "woleb skrul ti."

Mr. Sasaki: "gninrom yb hsirep lla lliw uoy ro ti yortsed"

The spectre faded out of existence, replaced by the spectres of Tom and many other students that perished in the bus crash.

Me: "Oh crap."

-in unison- Ghost Students: "You have to stop him...or you will all join us."

-terrified- Clair: "nnnnngg So many."

Joe:" Oh god no."

Susie: "I don't feel so good."

We ran out of the room, through the ghosts which continued to chant.

Me: "You still have that recording?"

Joe: "Mhm."

Me: "Play it back."

-backwards- Sasaki: " The is an evil in this school."

-backwards- Sasaki: "It lurks below..."

-backwards- Sasaki: "Destroy it or you will all perish by morning."

Joe:"It lurks below."

Joe:"Like in hell?"

Me:"I don't think he meant that far below."

Susie:"There's a basement."

Susie:" The stairs are by the gym."

Me: "Ok, why don't we head down there then?"

Phoebe: "I guess, we don't have any better idea."

Joe: "We could try to get out of here."

Me: "We could, but I don't think the ghosts will let us."

Susie: "Joe, you heard what Sasaki said, we need to destroy whatever is doing this or we'll all die by tomorrow."

Susie: "I think we're cursed, even if we leave we're still doomed."

Clair: "I wonder if Kevin got away?"

Phoebe: "Maybe the ghosts got him already."

Clair:"Hehe...maybe."

We all headed down to the gym, where Susie led us to the stairs which led to the basement.

There wasn't much down there, some old computers, the bulk of the school's heating system some janitorial supplys, an old copy machine, and a few bulk packs of floppy disks.

The floor was concrete and the walls were brick, no sign of anything evil was apparent."

Me: "There's nothing down here, it's just a storage room."

-unsure- Phoebe:"Hmm."

Joe: "No...there has to be more."

Susie began to tap the far wall.

Susie: "hmm..."

Susie: "It's hollow here."

Susie: "There's a secret room."

Me: "How do we tear the wall down though?"

Susie:" I don't know."

Clair: "Nononono, we can't tear down the wall, we'll get caught for sure."

Me: "Well we either commit this act of vandalism or we die so..."

Phoebe:"Mhm, we don't have much choice."

Everyone but Clair began to kick the wall, trying to break it down.

Me:"It's no use, Phoebe what about shadowball?"

Phoebe: "Cj you know that won't work."

Me: "Dam."

Joe: "Just keep kicking it, I think it's starting to loosen up."

After we kicked the brick wall several times, a large portion of it fell into a hidden room. Eventually we made a hole big enough for all of us to fit through.

In this room was an unidentified skeleton.

Clair:"Oh my god.."

Joe: "Who was he?"

Susie: "Mr. Otawa."

Me:"Who?"

Susie: "He was one of the founders of this school, he went missing shortly after it was opened."

Phoebe:"Somebody must have murdered him and hid his body down here."

Joe: "I think that somebody was Satoshi."

Clair:" No, that can't be, Mr. Satoshi was too nice to do something horrible like that."

Joe: "Maybe Ottawa wasn't so innocent himself."

Susie: "Well, he was alledged to be a child molester, but nothing ever went to court."

Susie: "Satoshi was around back then, but there's nothing that links him to Ottawa's dissapearence.

Me: "Wait what?"

Me: "So what do we do?"

Me: "I think we need to burn the bones."

Phoebe: "How come?"

Me: "Because that's what alot of mythology says about killing ghosts."

Me: "I mean it's just a guess, but you don't have any other idea do you?"

Phoebe:" No I don't."

Susie:" I agree, there is a lot of stories of ghost being destroyed that way."

Clair screamed, and was suddenly pulled back by an unseen entity.

-urgently- Phoebe: "Clair!"

She dissappeared into the darkness, we chased after her, and headed back up the stairs. We found her laying on one of the cafeteria tables, scared to death and out of breath

Susie:" Oh my god."

Joe:" Are you ok?"

Clair: "-heavy breathing"

-calmly- Phoebe: "Shhshshsh...settle down, we're here, it's ok."

-upset- Clair: "We're all gonna die!"

The door to the gym suddenly closed, blocking our way back to the basement.

Joe: "It's locked."

Me:"Not surprising."

Susie: "Clair did you see who grabbed you?"

Clair: "No...I felt like I was being dragged, but I didn't see anything."

Susie: "It's probably Otawa."

Joe: "It has to be him, if it was Sasaki he would of killed us by now."

Otawa?:"Such naughty children..."

Me: "What the hell?"

A somewhat blurry spectre appeared.

Susie: "It's Otawa...Run!"

-psychotic- Otawa :"It's not nice to play with someone's bones you know?"

-psychotic, angry- Otawa: "You must be PUNISHED!"

A powerful wave of telekinetic energy pinned us all against the wall except for Clair.

Otawa: "We'll start with you."

He lifted her up into the air.

-panicking- Clair: "HELLLP!"

Me: "Crap."

Susie: "Clair."

Joe :"God dammit."

Joe: "Let her go."

He was strong, but I could move, somewhat. I couldn't break it completely though.

Phoebe:"Cj?"

-commandingly- Otawa:" You...get back."

He ripped off her dress.

Clair:"What are you doing?"

Otawa:"Punishing you."

What happened next wasn't pretty...it's too ugly to put into words so I'm just going to sum it up by saying he pretty much stripped her naked and proceeded to rape her, and there was nothing we could do but watch her scream.

-desperate, in pain- Clair: "No no no...it hurts...help...somebody...anybody, just do something.."

Susie: "Stop it!..."

-psychotic- Otawa: "Shut up or you'll be next..."

Me:" Crap that means he's probably."

Phoebe: "Planning on me next? "

Me: "Right."

Phoebe: "No."

Me: "It's ok baby, be strong..."

-realizing- Phoebe: "Cj..my powers."

Me: "Really they're back?"

Phoebe: "Just shadowball."

She began to form a shadowball.

Phoebe:"Hopefully it can get us out of this."

Otawa :"What are you doing?"

Phoebe: "You messed with my friend...now you're going to get punished."

She through a shadowball at him, and he disintegrated.

Susie: "How did you do that?"

Me: "It's a long story, just roll with it for now."

Joe: "She just killed...the ghosts."

Me: "Yeah I know, it's allright though she's on our side, right baby?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "So just your shadowball is back?"

Phoebe: "Mhm...my telepathy still won't work."

Joe: "Telepathy?"

Me: "Let's just say, Phoebe isn't exactly human."

Me: "But she's not evil either."

Joe: "Well we did just see Sasaki's ghost, I'm not sure why this is so remarkable."

Clair gathered up her clothes and proceeded to cry.

Phoebe :"Clair?"

She was scarred...pretty bad.

There wasn't much we could say or do that could really help her out of it.

Unfortunately Otawa wasn't finished, we just had enough time to pull ourselves back together when he re-assimilated.

Otawa: "Naughty child..."

He was pissed...at Phoebe...who teleported away before he could even lay a hand on her.

Joe: "What the?"

She began to fight the ghost, it seemed that most of her powers were back now, but she was too busy to talk or explain anything.

Me: "She can teleport too."

Susie: "Why is she just getting her powers back now?"

Susie: "What happened that made her lose them?"

Me: "Well...it's hard to explain."

I had to make something up.

Me: "She only gets them in intense situations...like this."

Susie: "Wasn't earlier more intense?"

-furious- Clair: "Me getting raped wasn't enough?"

Me: "Well I uh...um...that's not what I meant to say..."

Me: "Look it's complicated, ok, I tried to cover it up, but I just have to say, if I told you the real answer, you wouldn't believe me."

Me: "And to be honest, I don't know why they're comming back right now, I don't know why they didn't come back when he was raping you so we could stop him in time."

Me: "I'm sorry, I just don't know."

Susie: "Ok."

Susie: "How did she get her powers?"

Me :"She was born with them."

Susie: "Ok."

Susie: "What is she?"

Me: "She's a gardevoir."

Susie: "A what?"

Me: "It's complicated."

Me :"Does pokemon mean anything to you?"

Susie: "Nope."

Me: "Then it's complicated..."

Me: "Let's just leave it at that."

She fought the ghost for a long time, but Otawa was no slouch.

Me: "Come on, we need to find a way to destroy his body."

Me: "She can't keep fighting him forever."

Joe: "But the door to the gym is locked, we can't get back down to the basement."

Me:"We have to find a way."

Susie: "I'll be right back."

Me: "Where are you going?"

Susie: "Back to the Sasaki's room."

Me:"Hurry."

Joe and I tried to break the door down, while Clair just stood paralyzed in fear, while Phoebe continued to fight.

Susie came back about a minute later, out of breath, holding a flask full of clear liquid.

Susie: "-breathing heavilly-"

Me :"What's that?"

Susie: "Sulpheric acid."

Susie: "lookout."

She pour some acid on the door, the lock began to smoke and corrode until it was nothing but a lump of rust. One more kick and the door swung open.

Susie: "Come on, let's go, we need to burn his bones."

Me: "Right."

Susie: "And I think we can use this to start a fire."

Me: "I hope so."

Me: "Why don't you too go burn it?"

Susie: "Why?"

Me: "I just want to stay here and make sure Phoebe can handle everything ok."

Susie: "Ok."

Susie and Joe both headed down to the basement while I stayed with Phoebe.

I was concerned for her and didn't want to let her out of my sight.

Phoebe: "Cj go help them I can handle this guy."

Me:"Are you sure? Because you don't seem to be winning."

This was not an ordinary ghost, normally a low level ghost would be killed by one of her shadowballs. By now she had hit this ghost several times, and it appeared to be destroyed by every hit, but it always reappeared seconds later. It didn't seem to be able to teleport so she was able to keep it locked down.

Me: "You getting tired yet?"

Phoebe :"No..."

Phoebe: "Who's side are you on?"

Me: "The side that wants to keep this creep away from you."

Otawa: "That's enough!"

The ghost turned around and phased through the wall of the gym. Apparently he figured out we were only trying to distract him.

-surprised- Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "He's going after Sue and Joe."

Clair was completely immobilized by trauma at this point.

Phoebe teleported away, trying to follow him.

Me: "Clair come on..."

I took her hand, and tried to lead her into the gym, not thinking it right to leave her by herself.

-trembling- Clair: "Where are we going?"

Me: "Can't just leave you here alone."

Me: "In your state, he may come back for you."

Me: "Come on."

Sue and Joe were already trying to ignite the bones using the acid to burn and ignite smaller objects such as the floppy disks. It wasn't going well, they couldn't get the heat they needed to start a fire.

Phoebe had Otawa's ghost pinned on the stairwell.

Otawa: "Dam you, get out of the way."

He launched a psychic wave at her, she did the same, the two waves collided but his managed to brush against her. Somehow his telekinetics were slightly stronger than her's, which was odd, considering he was a ghost.

She teleported behind him and hit him with another shadowball, causing him to disintegrate.

He reintegrated behind her, in front of the stairs, launched another psychic wave which almost sent all three of us tumbling down, after which Clair and I proceeded down the stares so we wouldn't fall, with Phoebe slowly hovering down shortly after, trying to keep the ghost at bay.

Phoebe: "This is weird..."

Phoebe: "I should be exhausted by now."

Phoebe: "But I still feel strong."

Me: "Must be this worlds effect?"

Clair: "This world?"

Clair: "What are you talking about?"

Me: "It's complicated, go help the others."

The ghost suddenly gave up trying to fight and charged through us. Just as Joe and Susie managed to get a fire going.

Otawa :"Stop it...you fools, it burns..."

Joe: "So does hell."

They sprayed some flamable lubricant on it which caused the fire to grow very quickly, igniting the floppy disks, some printer paper, and other flamable office supplies they had piled upon the skeleton.

They backed up as the mostly plastic and paper based fire began to create a lot of smoke.

Otawa: "Aggggh...I'lll take you alll with me."

He pushed Joe into the fire. He screamed in pain, Phoebe hit the ghost with a shadowball, disintegrating him long enough for Susie to pull him out of the flames, he was burned quite a bit but was still conscious.

Otawa reintegrated, but as his bones burned he was quickly becomming weaker and weaker.

It came to the point where he couldn't even attack anymore, shortly before he faded away completely.

Otawa: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

After that we put the fire out before the building went up in smoke, and then we all sat down and took a break.

Me: "I think it's over."

Clair: "I hope so."

Susie: "Phoebe?"

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Susie: "I know what you are."

Susie: "You're a succubus aren't you?"

Phoebe: "A what?"

Susie: "Your powers, your insane sexual urges..."

Susie: "It all makes sense."

Susie: "Pour Cj is your victim."

Me: "What the hell are you talking about?"

Me:"I told you already she's a gardevoir, if you don't believe me, that's fine, but don't go making crazy accusations like that."

She pulled out her necklace with a cross-shaped pendant.

Susie: "Christos.."

Phoebe :"Huh?"

Me: "Yeah nice try.."

Me: "There's nothing demonic about her."

Phoebe: "Is she trying to exorcise me?"

Me: "Go take Joe to the hospital, he's obviously hurt."

Clair: "What about me?"

Me :"You'll be ok."

Me: "What are we supposed to tell them?"

Me: "We broke into the school and you got raped by the ghost of a teacher?"

Susie: "Founder."

Me: "Whatever."

Me: "The bottom line is they won't buy it and then either Joe or I will end up taking the fall for raping you."

Clair: "or Kevin."

Me:"Yeah...maybe."

Phoebe: "I know he was a jerk, but he doesn't deserve that."

Phoebe: "Just let it go ok?"

Phoebe: "We won't tell anyone what happened."

Phoebe: "We'll destroy the security footage."

Phoebe: "Whatever happened tonight, we'll keep to ourselves, got it?"

Clair: "Ok."

Me: "And that includes her powers."

Phoebe: "Definitely."

Susie: "Ok."

-sore- Joe: "Ok."

Minutes later, Susie left to take Joe to the hospital. Then everything blacked out, and then we found ourselves in the skyline, at a stoplight on a residential street, with Clair in the back. The light was red.

Me: "Ok, where are we?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Clair:"Take a right at the next light."

Me :"Oh...I guess we're taking her home."

Phoebe: "I guess."

Clair: "So are you two going to prom together?"

Phoebe: "Oh you know it."

Me :"Yep."

Clair:"I guess I'll have to go by myself..."

Clair: "Because Kevin isn't going to go with me anymore."

Clair: "What if he takes someone else?"

Me: "Don't worry."

Phoebe: "If you can't find anyone by then you can tag along with us."

Clair: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Sure."

Phoebe :"Now that we know where you live anyway."

Clair: "Ok."

Me: "Next right?"

Clair: "Mhm."

The light turned green, it seemed to convieniently stay red long enough for us to figure out where we were going.

We brought Clair home, then we drove away, and wandered around the neighborhood, quite aimlessly.

It looked like a fully functional and completely believable residential area, with no obvious breaks in reality. There were japanese style apartments with japanese style cars parked outside them. There was a convienience store, which seemed to be fully opperational. There was even some traffic.

The only odd thing was the outermost street, which was blocked off by a solid block of storefronts with no alleways, and no way out to other areas of the city. The only roads leading out were blocked off by orange and white construction signs, except for one, which we followed, this road led directly to the highway, more over it was basically an end of the highway.

Phoebe: "Do you think we'll be allowed to go back now?"

Me: "I don't know. we'll just have to see."

Phoebe: "Also, what's a succubus?"

Me: "It's a female demon that tricks men into having sex with them..."

Phoebe: "Oh..."

Phoebe: "Why do they think I am one?"

Me: "Because ...you're you..."

Phoebe:" Hmmm?"

Me: "Your powers."

Me: "They don't even know what pokemon are, so they don't really know, and there really isn't any way to explain to them what you are."

Me: "So they take your powers, and the fact that you are a horny addict, and think you're a succubus."

Phoebe: "I'm not that horny."

Phoebe: "You enjoy it as much as I do."

Me: "I know, but that is, for whatever reason, what this world has made you out to be."

Phoebe:"I want to go home. I want to hold my baby boy."

Me: "I know sweety."

As we continued down the highway, it gradually became darker and darker, until it blacked out completely and we found ourselves at school again, apparently at the next day.

There was quite a commotion going on how the basement and gym doors were damaged, how the security tapes were wiped and there was no evidence of anything. Kevin immediately tried to frame us, but it was one versus 5 and nobody believed him. Joe was treated for his burns and was back in school the next day. The story was that he got hurt in a car accident while riding with a friend. It was a large school, so nobody was able to make the connection.

That day passed without any skip or anything, it was the first full day of school we had gone through this entire year.

Then it skipped ahead further, where we were staying after school with Clair and some other students from both the junior and senior classes to make decorations for prom, with assistance from the art teacher, all while repairs were going on for the gym doors, and in the basement. This "scene" lasted for about 2 hours, after which we blacked out.

Then I found myself alone, with the skyline, parked outside a house. Already dressed up in a tux.

I went up to the door and wrang the bell, already getting the general consensus of what was supposed to happen.

A woman who resembled a human version of Phoebe's mother answered the door.

Vivian?:" Oh honey he's here."

Phoebe came down the stairs wearing a very nice dress. Looking just as confused as I was.

-surprised- Phoebe: "m...m...mother?"

-cheerfully- Vivian?:" Cj's here to pick you up."

Her "mother" invited me inside, and proceeded to take several pictures of us before sending us on our way.

-in the car-

Me: "So I guess we're going to prom then."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Was that supposed to be my mother?"

Me :"I think so."

Phoebe: "I wonder where my human father is?"

Me: "At work?"

Phoebe: "I'm creeped out now."

Me: "Yeah...well."

Me: "Atleast I get to take you to prom."

Phoebe: "What is prom?"

Me: "It's like...a dance...sort of."

Me: "I never got to take anybody in highschool."

Phoebe: "Ohhh..."

Phoebe: "Well now you can take me."

Me: "Mhmmmm."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Lucky you.."

Me: "Yeah.."

Phoebe :"Is that green car supposed to be mine?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: " It's not a camaro..."

Me:"It's an A70 Toyota Supra, Camaros are extremely rare in Japan, so I guess it's a stand in as it, kind of has a similiar body style to your camaro. Also, isn't green your favorite color?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "I've seen some before around where we live, so if you want one..."

Phoebe: "No it's ok."

Me :" Allright."

I pulled out of the drive, and we drove around the neighborhood for awhile, it looked very similiar to the one we dropped the city looked very similiar to one we dropped Clair off at before. Some how after driving for awhile we ended up on a strangely linear road with no intersections, just like the highway, and after following this road for awhile we eventually arrived at the school.

It was night and many people were heading in for prom.

We held hands as we headed inside together, where our picture was taken again, and we were shown to our seats. Clair came in behind us, and thanked us for giving her a ride, though we couldn't remember doing so.

We had a very formal dinner consisting of traditional japanese food which, after countless lunch periods, we had gotten used too by now, this meal was also a bit higher quality and better tasting than the typical school lunches. It was some type of grilled fish and noodles, and though I never really cared for fish, it wasn't that bad. There were also a lot of formal japanese customs we were not familiar with, and likely butchered terribly, but nobody seemed to think any of it was out of the ordinary, nobody told us we were messing up, they all just acted like we were following along. After dinner we all moved to the gym where the dance was going to be held.

The music consisted of Japanese pop, that I was not familiar with, to the point where I couldn't tell if it was from the real world or not. The only music they played that wasn't japanese Pop were a handful of american classics, such as Don't Stop Believing, and once again, nobody thought this sudden change in music was odd. Despite the american songs having no logical way of even being popular in Japan. Phoebe and I hung out together all night, occasionally taking breaks and talking to Susie, Joe, and Clair. Rumor had it that Chris missed so much school he wasn't allowed to attend anyway. He showed up late, but the Police arrested him on site because he was high as a kite. Kevin did show up at all and it didn't take long for Clair to find another boy to dance with. It was a pretty fun night, a genuine prom experience that pretty much blew my real one out of the water. Then there was the afterprom where there was fun and games to be had, and then there was a hotel, where we finally got to try out Phoebe's human body for the first time. Allthough, nothing about it really felt wrong because we really were married, just not in this world.

And while we were there we discovered all the claims of us making love in the bathroom must have been false, because...well...her human body was a virgin.

We made love...several times...in our view of time, it had been weeks since we had done so.

Then we started to feel tired, and we fell asleep holding eachother tight.

I'll admit it was nice knowing I could hold her close without having to worry about waking up to a red mark on my chest in the morning, but we both missed being able to tie.

The next morning came, I couldn't tell if we timewarped again, or if we really had just fallen asleep. We woke up in a hotel room, and shortly after we got showered and dressed, we got warped to the school again.

Chris was still in jail, and called me, asking for bail. I decided that maybe it was best for him to stay there for awhile.

A few more days passed, Clair fell in love with the guy she met and...later banged at pro, (she was the one that gave us the idea to go to the hotel).

And then there was a graduation ceremony, where Phoebe was elected valedictorian...somehow.

After the graduation ceremony, we walked outside the school, and a picture was taken of us, and our "friends", and then as they left the school, the world faded to black and we found ourselves in the hallway, with the portal in front of us. We were now wearing the clothes we had originally entered the portal with.

Me: "I guess that's it."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Well that was an experience."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Me: "It was like I got to live my last year of highschool over again."

Me: "Except with you."

-lovingly- Phoebe :"Awwww Cj."

Phoebe: "Hey...what's that?"

Me: "It looks like a book."

There was a book lying in front of the portal.

Phoebe: "Hmm."

She picked it up."

Phoebe: "Oh neat it's a photo album."

The album contained picture of us in class, the picture her "mother" had taken of us, of a few of the street races with Matt, Joe, and Susie, and the picture of us with our "friends", including one of Chris, Jan, and Matt, while they were still alive.

Phoebe: "I guess it's a souvenir."

Phoebe:" How thoughtful."

Me: "We should take it with us."

Phoebe: "I think we will."

Sasaki appeared behind us, but not as a ghost, as a human.

Sasaki: "Did you enjoy the experience?"

Me: "Yeah, it was, cool."

Sasaki: " This world is a product of Alternate Realities Inc, I, Dr. Sasaki, am the administrator of this world."

Sasaki: "We didn't know how you got in here, or where your powers came from."

Sasaki: "Normally you would have to pay to enter this world."

Sasaki: "But as you came out of nowhere, for no detectable reason, I decided to continue the simulation anyway just to see what would happen."

Me: "Alternate Realities Inc? "

Me: "So you must be from a parallel universe to ours then, correct?"

Sasaki: "I believe so."

Sasaki: "You see this world's purpose is to give the viewer the experience of being in a haunted japanese highschool."

Sasaki: "Certain details, such as characters, are altered to comply to certain aspects of your character."

Sasaki: "So everybody experiences this world differently."

Sasaki: "For instance, it detected your interest in cars and racing, so it gave you 'friends' that were into the same thing."

Phoebe: "What about my friends?"

Sasaki: "You were a bit difficult to cater too."

Sasaki: "It can't read you as well as him, so it tried many different approaches starting with Jan and a few, like Clair, happened to stick to the end."

Me: "But what about Chris? I'm not into drugs."

Sasaki: "Chris was the embodiment of your love of Rock Music."

Sasaki: "His progressively worsening drug problem is just part of the experience, and one of the few consistencies between experiences."

Sasaki: "In later versions of this program we plan to implement the ability to save your friend from their drug problem."

Sasaki: "Any other questions before you leave?"

Sasaki: "And would you mind if I ask where that portal leads?"

Phoebe: "It leads to the Devon Experiment Facility."

Me: "You want to come with us?"

Sasaki: "I'm sorry, but I don't know what will happen, as you see, my physical body isn't actually here, it's in the real world hooked up to a machine. If I went with you, there's no telling what would happen."

Me: "I see, your body would die, basically."

Sasaki: "Right, and then how would I appear in the other world? Since this body is nothing but code."

Sasaki: "Also I would like to request that you send no more people through, as the excess of data from your bodies is somewhat hard on our system."

Me: "Ok."

Sasaki:" That photo album is yours for the taking to remind you of all you've experienced here"

Sasaki: "This won't be the last you've heard from us."

Sasaki: "But on behalf of Alternate Realities Inc, farewell for now."

He faded out of existence.

Me: "Well that was weird."

Phoebe: "Yeah, but at least we got an explanation."

We headed through the portal, and ended up back in the lab, the book came through the portal with us, and remained a fully working book on the other side, books really weren't that complicated after all.

Dr. Black: "What happened in there? We thought we lost you for a moment."

Me: "It's a really long story."

Me: "How long were we gone?"

Dr. Black: "About half an hour."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Weird."

Dr. Black: "What are you holding?"

Me:" It's a photo album."

Phoebe: "Where's Charley? I want my baby boy."

Her body had returned to normal.

Dr. Black: "Corina took him to the lounge."

Phoebe: "Ok."

She promptly left the room.

Dr. Black: "What's in the album? Who are these people?"

Me: "They were our friends."

Me: "We'll have to explain everything tomorrow."

Me: "But don't send anyone else into that world, ok?"

Dr. Black: "Ok."

Dr. Black: "We won't anyway because we don't even know what happened."

Dr. Black: "It was like you just disappeared."

Me: "Well what happened was."

Me: "After you broke contact with us."

Me: "Phoebe and I basically went through a heavily abridged senior year of high school."

Me: "We went to classes, we made friends, time jumped around a lot."

Me: "We went to prom, we graduated."

Me: "We killed a ghost that had been haunting the school and murdering students."

Me: "And all we got was this photo album."

Me: "Hehe.."

Me: "To you we've been gone half an hour, to us it seemed like we were in there for at least a month or so."

Me: "To the people there, we were present for an entire school year."

Dr. Black: "You don't look like you've been gone for a month."

Me: "That's the thing, the world could control our hunger, and whether we felt tired or not."

Me: "It was weird."

Me: "We would have lunch sometimes, and then not even an hour later we would have another lunch, because of the time skips."

Me: "And we felt hungry for every lunch."

Me: "And it wasn't until the end when we found out what was really going on."

Me: "The entire thing is a simulation program owned by a company from another universe."

Me: "Alternate Realities Inc."

Dr. Black: "So they have portal technology too?"

Me: "I think so."

Me: "But the guy we spoke too also said that he was only there mentally, his body was wired to a machine back on his world."

Me :"Then again we were able to take the photo album with us so."

Dr. Black: "Technological level uncertain."

Me: "Right."

Phoebe came back with Charley and Corina.

Phoebe: "Oh look Charley, there's Daddy."

-cutely- Charley: "Dawhy!"

-playfully- Me: "Hey little guy."

She handed him to me and I gave him a hug.

-playfully- Me: "I missed you."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey miss."

-enamored- Phoebe: "Aweeeeee."

Me: "We were gone a lot longer than you think we were."

Phoebe: "-giggles."

Dr. Black:" If you don't mind we would still like to hear more details about what you two experienced."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, ok."

We spent the next hour or so simply talking about what we had experienced, taking turns keeping Charley entertained.

Once we had satisfied their questions we left to pick Nina up from school.

We didn't feel the least bit tired or hungry, but we stopped along the way to get Charley something to eat because he didn't have lunch yet. We kept the photo album, even if our "friends" weren't real, they were still part of the experience. And it was interesting to have pictures of what Phoebe would look like if she were human. Nina thought it was hilarious and Charley didn't even recognize her, though he recognized me right away. Once we got home we spent a few minutes looking over the pictures, along with Nina, and then we stashed the album in the closet of our room, after that the rest of the day continued as normal.