-chapter 26-

Phoebe :"Cj?"

Phoebe: "Are you waking up?"

-frantically- Phoebe: "Come on wakeup."

-tired, unsure- Me: "Huh?"

I cracked my eyes open to see her standing over me.

-frantically- Phoebe: "Oh thank arceus you're waking up!"

-confused- Me:"Whaaaa?"

Phoebe:"You've been asleep for nearly a week!"

-tiredly- Me: "Oh realllly?"

Half of me was too tired to understand what she just said, the other half didn't believe her at all.

Phoebe: "Mhm."

-tiredly- Me: "What did we do yesterday?"

Phoebe :"Weee...didn't do anything you were asleep the entire time."

Me :"Uh huh... well what did you do then?"

Phoebe:"I went to the store."

Phoebe: "And I bought some awakening for you so you could get better."

Me: "After I've been asleep the entire week?"

Phoebe: "They want me to work a lot more hours when your not around, or they won't pay me as much."

What was she trying to do?

Me: "What else?"

Phoebe: "Charley cried because he couldn't see you."

Phoebe: "And Nina won't talk to me."

Phoebe: "And um..."

-interupting- Me: "I'm just going to stop you right there and say, I don't believe a word of this."

-dissapointed- Phoebe:"Why not?"

Me:"Knowing you, you wouldn't have waited this long, I don't see any sign of an awakening anywhere, and your extreme overeaction to my last statement just cinched it."

Phoebe:" Extreme? It wasn't that extreme.."

Me:"If would be if you were telling the truth."

Phoebe: "Ugh.."

Phoebe: "I thought for sure that I had you."

Me: "Well instead."

I grabbed her by the arm and gently pulled her up on top of me.

-surprised- Phoebe: "Woah ."

I looked her in the eyes.

-playfully- Me: "I have you."

She smiled at me for a moment before we kissed.

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Yes you do."

Me: "Goodmorning baby."

Phoebe: "Goodmorning."

Me: "How long have you been awake?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, a few minutes maybe."

Me: "You had enough time to come up with all that."

Phoebe: "Maybe a little more than a few."

Me: "What time is it?"

Phoebe:"Clock is right over there."

Me: "Oh..right."

Phoebe :"6:37."

Phoebe:"Goofball."

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"You want to snuggle for a bit or what?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

I let her go so she could get under the covers with me.

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

Phoebe:"For now it looks like just the usual."

Phoebe:"Get up, shower, get dressed, make breakfast."

Phoebe:"Wake Nina up."

-playfully- Me:" Play with your boobs?"

-cutely- Phoebe:"Noooo."

-playfully- Phoebe:"Just snuggle."

Me:"Ohhh allright."

Phoebe: "You had plenty of time to do that last night."

Me :"True."

Phoebe: "Are you horny again?"

Me: "Since when am I the horny one?"

Phoebe: "Oh don't be silly."

Phoebe: "I bet all I have to do to get you up is put my feet up against you."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Like this."

Me: "Baby girl."

Me: "Your feet are cold."

Phoebe: "Well warm them up."

Me :"Why are you trying to turn me on if you don't want to have sex?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Because I like to torment you."

Me :"And why is that?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Because I love you."

She said as she rubbed my legs with her feet, which might as well have been ice.

Me :"Turn around."

Phoebe: "I don't want to."

Me: "Fine then I'll just."

She gently kicked me.

-playfully- Phoebe: "You keep your hands off my ladybits."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "Because that's not part of the game."

Me: "What game?"

-playfully-Me: "We're playing a game now?"

Phoebe :"Mhm."

Me: "And what's the point of this game?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "To see if we can turn the other on without touching their naughty bits."

Me: "What's the point of that if we're not?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "I don't know, I just want to play with you."

Me: "Well why don't we play a different game?"

Me: "One where you let me play with your boobs?"

-interupting- Phoebe: "Mhmm...see, I was right."

Phoebe: "You can't keep your hands off me."

Phoebe: "You horny goofball."

Me: " That had nothing to do with it, I just like it when you act all cute like that."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess that makes sense, oh well."

Me: "Can you stop rubbing my legs now? "

Phoebe: "Fine, my legs are getting tired anyway."

Me :" So now what?"

Phoebe: "Now I make you wait till tonight."

Me: " Why you gotta be like that?"

-playfully- Phoebe:"Because now you're going to be thinking about me all day."

-playfully- Me: "I work with you all day you crazy girl."

-playfully- Phoebe:"I know, that makes it more fun, cause then I can remind you constantly."

Me: "-sighs- atleast I get to hold you."

Phoebe :"Always."

Phoebe: "Love you."

Me: "Love you too baby."

Phoebe: "Keep your arms around my tummy."

Me: "Ok ok."

Me: "Although."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "If we get up now."

Me: "We can have some fun in the shower before the kids wake up."

-realizing- Phoebe: "Oh no...Cj."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "You found my weakness."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Let's go, quickly come on."

Me: "Ok, ok."

We quickly gathered some clothes, headed to the bathroom, and got in the shower.

Then I pulled her close for a bit.

Me: "So the shower has been your weakness all along?"

Phoebe: "Oh yes."

Phoebe: "It reminds me of that beach."

Phoebe: "You remember?"

-enamored- Me :"Awwwwwe baby girl."

Phoebe: "No, no touch."

Me :"Are you kidding me?"

Phoebe:"Nope."

Me: "You brought me in here just to torment me more?"

Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

A few awkward seconds later.

Me :"Well then."

Me: "Since we're in the shower we might as well get clean."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Um...yeah...I guess."

I seized a nearby bar of soap and gently started to rub her belly with it.

Phoebe :"What are you doing?"

Me: "Washing you."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Me :"Because you're dirty."

Phoebe: "oh . . . . . . funny . . . "

-playfully- Me :"Just going to wash your little tummy."

-playfully- Me:"And then we have to go up, and wash your boobs."

-cutely- Phoebe: "No no you don't."

Me:"Too late."

-playfully- Me: "We gotta make your little grey nipples all squeaky clean.''

-playfully- Me: "Oh they're getting so slippery."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Oh You naughty, naughty, naughty, naughty."

Despite what she was saying she wasn't trying to resist me at all.

I kissed her on the cheek as I gently massaged her breasts.

Phoebe :"-sighs-, that feels good."

-aroused- Phoebe :"Your breaking the rules."

Me: "We're not playing that game anymore, we're playing this game now."

-jokingly- Me: "We're playing 'wash your boobs'. "

-cutely- Phoebe: "No no no."

-playfully- Me :"Yes yes yes."

Phoebe :"I like the other game better."

Me :"That's not what your boobs are saying."

Me :"They're growing."

Phoebe:"No..."

Me:"Ok then I'll just wash your tummy some more."

Phoebe:"No wait."

Me:"What?"

Phoebe: "-sighs- Ok...fine, you got me."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "No tricks?"

Phoebe: "No more.."

She turned around to face me, then she wrapped her arms around me and kissed me.

Phoebe :"I wanted to wait till tonight to do it again, but you're doing everything you can to make it hard for me."

Me: "Did you have anything special planned for tonight?"

Me:"Cause seriously if you do,I don't really want to ruin it."

Phoebe: "Um...no not really...no"

Phoebe: "Unless you want to play with the oil again."

Me :"Well that was fun, but if that's it."

Me :"Then what's so important about waiting?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "I can take you here and tonight if you want."

Phoebe: "Nope, you have to pick one."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "Because, I don't want to cheepen our love that much."

Phoebe:"Also, I just thought you'd want me more if I made you wait."

Me:"That's silly, I'm not going to want you anymore tonight, than I do now."

Phoebe :"Ohhh...allright then, I give up, I want you."

Me: "Hehe allright then."

Me: "You sure?"

Phoebe: "Oh just kiss me you big dummy."

Phoebe: "Before I change my mind."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "And next time when I say no it means no, and that also no sex tonight."

Me: "Fine."

Me:"But don't go out of your way to turn me on, just to say no."

Me: "Why you gotta be so..."

She interupted me with a kiss, and then we gradually started to make out, which inevitably led to sex. About half an hour later we left the shower, got dressed, and headed downstairs.

-on the way down-

-playfully- Me: "Boobs all clean?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Oh you."

Charley and Nina were still asleep. Phoebe went to make pancakes for breakfast while I sat on the couch to watch some early morning television, and the rest of the morning proceeded as normal.

Like so many mornings before, eventually we were on our way to work after dropping Nina off at school. We didn't even make it 3 blocks away before we came across a familiar face at a red light.

Phoebe: " Cj, It's the time travel guy."

Me: "No way it can't be."

He walked over to us and tapped on the window, so I lowered it.

TTG: "Hello again."

Me: "What's going on?"

TTG:"I though it was only fair to warn you."

TTG: "Today is a very important day."

Me: "OOkay."

Phoebe: "Why?"

TTG: " You're going to be taking a trip to the far side of creation."

TTG: "Once you go there, you won't be able to make it back for quite awhile."

TTG: "But when you get back to this side, I'll be able to bring you home, and it will once again be like you never left."

Me:"How long is that going to take."

TTG: "To you it will be a few months, to everyone else it will be like you never left."

Phoebe: "Should be go back and get some more supplies?"

TTG: "Unfortunately you don't have the time, you must arrive at work on time, more than 2 minutes late and you'll miss the event."

TTG: "And you can't miss that event, the fate of several worlds depends on it."

TTG :"Speaking of which, I have to go."

Me: "Wait."

He turned around, walked away, and dissapeared around a corner, at about the same time the light turned green and we had to get moving.

Me: "Oh wow, you know what this means?"

Me: "If I didn't do you in the shower, we might not been able to tonight anyway."

Phoebe: "Cj, how many times do I have to tell you, becareful what you say in front of Charley."

Me :"Ah he doesn't know what we're talking about."

Phoebe: "I know, but don't say S.E.X around him."

Me: "Baby girl how stupid do you think I am?"

Me: "Also, if what time travel guy said is true, this will be the last time we see Charley for a few days."

Phoebe: "Arceus you're right."

Phoebe:"Atleast he won't see us gone for long."

Me: "True."

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Me: "Hey, don't worry."

Me: "Just think of it like a vacation."

Me: "Except for just the two of us."

Me :"And we won't look like terrible parents because from their perspectives we won't be gone long."

Phoebe: "Can we go to Sinnoh with the kids after we get back?"

Me: "If we can convince them to give us a break, sure."

Me: "It should be reasonable."

Phoebe: "Yeah, it better be."

Me: "You ready for this?"

Phoebe:" I don't think we have much of a choice."

Me:"Yep."

It was about an hour drive back to the facility.

The time travel guy didn't speak to anyone else, so it was just business as usual for them, they had no idea anything was about to happen. And, to make sure it happened, we didn't tell them. Though we may have said goodbye to Charley a bit more than seemingly neccessary before we left him with Corina and headed to the portal lab.

Phoebe: "Atleast I brought my disguise."

Me: "Mhm."

She had a puffy white coat stuffed into her purse.

Phoebe: "But not our pokemon."

Me: "Darn."

Me:"Oh well, we'll just have to make do with what we can find."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Bob:"Goodmorning you two."

He greeted us as we walked into the lab. The presumably ill-fated portal of the day was glowing in front of us.

Phoebe:"Goodmorning."

Me:"Morning."

Dr. Black:"We just have to retract the probe and then you'll be ready to go today."

Bob: "It's all clear so far."

Bob:"It goes to a forrest, it's a bit humid, so that coat might not be much help to you."

Phoebe:"Oh well, that's allright, you never know."

Bob:"Very well then."

Bob: "Probe retracting now."

Dr. Black: "Allright."

Phoebe: "What do you think is going to happen?"

Phoebe: "Do you think we'll get sucked in or will nothing happen until we enter the portal?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Well what do you think?"

Me :"I don't know."

The probe returned safe and sound, and then it was our turn to head in.

Me: "Well, here goes nothing."

Dr. Black: "I wouldn't call interdimensional exploration nothing, but well, you have been doing it for awhile."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Anyway, let's go."

We took a radio and proceeded into the portal.

Into a forrest we went, the portal continued to glow behind us.

Me: "Well...nothing's happened so far."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Ok, let's just proceed as normal."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me:"And once the radio is on, no more talk about this."

Phoebe:"Right."

Me: "We should have brought some water."

Phoebe:"Don't worry, it won't be hard to find some."

Phoebe:"If I could find an animal that knows where to find some."

Me:"That might be difficult."

Me:"Anyway,radio on, now!"

-on radio- Dr. Black: "What took you so long to turn on the radio?"

-into radio- Me: "Nothing just talking about private stuff."

Phoebe :"Mhm."

-into radio- Me: "Anyway, what should we do?"

-on radio- : "Just try to continue in one direction until you run out of safety line."

-into radio- Me: "Allright will do."

-on radio- Dr. Black:" Hopefully before then you'll find some sign of civilization."

Phoebe:"Doubtful."

I turned the radio off.

Me:"Ok Pheebles."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

-jokingly- Me:"You see how I covered that up without making it awkward?"

-unamused- Phoebe:"Oh yes, I see very well Cj."

She rolled her eyes.

Me:"Good."

Me: "Ok then."

Phoebe: "You know I only do that so Nina won't be so nosy."

Me: "Mhm...sure."

I turned the radio back on.

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Ok, what was that little pause about?"

-into radio-Me: "Nothing, just more private stuff."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Ok."

Ten minutes later, we were a good distance from the portal, when a ringing noise began to play on the radio.

-into radio- Me:"What's that?"

-on radio- Dr. Black: "It's the fire alarm, don't mind it, Bob go investigate."

-distantly on radio- Bob: "Allright."

Next we heard a loud explosion and then a sudden cutout.

Me: "What the? "

Me: "Dr. Black? "

Me :" ? "

Phoebe: "Did the lab just explode? "

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "I hope not or we're never going home again."

Me: "That explosion was distant, otherwise we it would just cut out and we wouldn't here anything."

Phoebe: "So it's safe to say the portal is probably closed."

Me: "Mhm, and the other end of the safety line isn't attached to anything."

I unhooked it from my belt.

Me: "Might as well unhook it."

Me: "You know what time travel guy said, we ain't going back that way."

Phoebe: "So now we're just lost in the forrest?"

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe:" Are you going to keep the radio?"

Me: "I'm going to turn it off for now, but yeah I'm keeping it."

Me: "If nothing else we might be able to use the batteries."

Phoebe:"I guess so."

Me: "We're on our own."

Phoebe: "We have our pokemon."

Me: "Yeah, but how many potions you got?"

Phoebe: "2."

Me: "That's not going to last very long if we start getting into a fight."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "Didn't we just buy a bunch?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, but I had to leave some at home because I needed room to carry our pokemon, especially since you forgot to take yours."

Me:"What else you go in your purse?"

Phoebe: "None of your business."

Me:" Ok gees."

Me: "Revives?"

Phoebe: "Just one crystal."

Me: "Full heals?"

Phoebe: "One."

Me: "Ok, so we got some supplies."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:" Now we just need to find a way out of this forrest."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Me: "And without a map or any prior knowledge of this landscape."

Me: "We're essentially lost."

Phoebe:"Yep."

Phoebe: "I have an idea."

Phoebe: "I can send Cloudela out to get an overhead view."

Me :"Sounds as good as any."

She dug through her purse until she found Cloudela's pokeball.

Phoebe: "Ok Cloudela I need you to help us navigate."

She said as she clicked the button and the ball enlarged.

Phoebe :"Come on out!"

Cloudela emerged from it's ball.

Phoebe :"Go up in the sky and see if there's any interesting places to visit."

Cloudela :"Cloooou."

It ascended above the trees.

Phoebe :"And now we just wait for it to come back."

Me: "Hopefully it will see something other than forrest."

Phoebe: "Yeah...hopefully."

She sat down on a log.

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Me: "What's wrong?"

Phoebe: "It's going to be awhile before we see Charley again."

Phoebe: "I miss him already."

Me: "Oh come on."

Me: "Don't you remember the good old days."

Me: "When it was just you and me?"

Me: "This is like that."

Me: "Here we are, out here, on our own again."

Me: "Except this time nobody is trying to kill you."

Phoebe: "Not yet."

Me: "Yeah..."

Me: "Well, we'll get through it, don't worry."

Me: "I was kind of hoping we would get to go on adventure again."

Me: "Ever since crazytown."

Phoebe:" I was hoping we could go on an adventure to Sinnoh!"

Me: "Baby girl we're going to go to Sinnoh after this ok? Don't worry about that, it's a sure thing, you just need to be patient."

Me: "I promise you."

Me: "But right now, the world, I mean, creation needs us."

Phoebe: "Creation?"

Me: "The multiverse, everything that exist in every reality."

Me: "Atleast according to the Time Travel Guy."

Phoebe: "Yeah well what does he know?"

Me: "You tell me."

Phoebe: "I don't know, I can't read his mind he keeps blocking me out every single time he shows up."

Phoebe: "And why are we the only ones?"

Me:" I don't know, maybe we're not."

Me: "Maybe he's contacted someone else and they're wandering through the portals as well."

Me: "I don't know baby, just come on."

Me: "We've been here for all of five minutes, don't break down already."

Me: "Please."

Me: "I need you."

-distant- Cloudela: "Clou!"

Cloudela came down from the sky.

Cloudela: "Clooouu Clooou dellla della clooou."

-solemnly- Phoebe: "You saw a building? "

-solemnly- Phoebe: "Which way?"

Cloudela: "Clou.."

-solemnly- Phoebe: "Ok then."

-unsure- Cloudela: "Cloooou."

Phoebe: "I'm fine, don't worry."

-solemnly- Phoebe :"Come on, we're going to need you to check periodically to make sure we're going the right way."

Me: "So what way were those buildings?"

Phoebe: "Um...this way."

Me:"Allright then, might as well see what it was talking about."

It was hot and humid, like it was the middle of summer, and those buildings turned out to be a few miles away over unsettled terrain. With no vehicle whatsoever, it was going to take awhile, our new adventure was off to a slow start.

Phoebe:"Are you starting to get thirsty yet?"

Me: "A little bit, why?"

Phoebe: "Well, there's a bird in that tree ."

Me: "Ok, I see where you're going."

Phoebe: "So if you give me a moment."

Me: "Sure."

She closed her eyes for a moment.

Phoebe: "Stay quiet, and don't scare it away."

Me: "Right."

She took a moment to read the mind of the tiny little bird.

Phoebe: "We're on an island."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "It's a big island."

Phoebe: "Big enough that Cloudela couldn't see it earlier."

Phoebe: "And..."

Phoebe :"There's a freshwater stream over this way."

We found the stream about 30 minutes later.

Me: "Ok, we found water, we just need to heat it up now."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "How we going to do that?"

Phoebe: "I dunno."

Me: "Do you have a bottle of potion?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me :"Do you have an empty one? "

Phoebe: "No."

Me: "Well you need to dump it out so we can use the bottle."

Phoebe: "But Cj, the potion..."

Phoebe: "We only have two."

Phoebe: "And the bottle is plastic, you can't heat it up, it will melt."

Me: "Damn, you're right."

Me:"Um..."

Me: "Do it anyway."

Phoebe:"Why?"

Phoebe:"Let's just keep heading to the buildings, it can't be much farther."

-2 hours later-

We were exhausted, but cloudela seemed fine, somehow, floating along behind us.

-tiredly- Phoebe: "How close are we to the buildings, Cloudela?"

It went up into the sky again to check.

Cloudela: "Clouuuudellla."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "Not very far?"

-tiredly- Phoebe:" That's what you said an hour ago."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "You ok Cj?"

-tiredly- Me:" I'll be fine."

-tiredly- Phoebe :"We should take a break."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "I'm so thirsty."

-tiredly- Me: "We should have taken some water from."

-tiredly- Phoebe: "We still wouldn't be able to use it."

Me :"Well we could us Bubba and Polli."

-disgusted- Phoebe: "Ew, no."

-disgusted- Phoebe: "That's like drinking their spit."

Me: "Really?'

-disgusted- Phoebe: "Yes really, that's gross...yuck."

Me: "We could boil it."

Me: "If you send Bulby out, we can use him to make some bowls."

-defiantly- Phoebe: "We're not making bowls out of Bulby."

-surprised- Me: "Gees, you really are tired."

Me: "I meant make him use razor leaf to make some bowls out of a tree or something you nut."

-delirious- Phoebe: "Wish I knew psycho cut."

Me: "Pheebles come on, send him out."

-delirious- Phoebe: "ok."

Phoebe: "Come on out Bulby, I need you to make some bowls out a tree."

-cheerful- Bulby:" Venusaur, venus, venusaur!"

He seemed happy to be out.

-delirious-Phoebe: "You like the weather here huh?"

-delirious-Phoebe: "You like humidity don't you?"

-delirious-Phoebe: "Cause you're a plant...hehe."

-delirious- Phoebe: "And a reptile."

Me: "Ok Bulby, we need you ."

-interupting- Phoebe: "I got it Cj, don't bother...me."

-delirious- Phoebe: "Bulby, we need you to make some bowls for us... out of one of these trees."

Phoebe: "Um yeah, that one seems ok."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "Just cut it into pieces."

Me: "Take your time don't break..."

-interupting- Phoebe: "Cj, shut up I got this, he's my pokemon, not yours."

Bulby: "Venusaur sssaaaur veeeenusssss."

Phoebe : "What do you mean you trust him more than me right now."

Me: "Pheebles, just sit down ok? You're not well, just, try to save your energy."

Phoebe: " There's nowhere to sit."

Cloudela: "Clouuuu . "

-delirious- Phoebe: "Cloudela? How long have you been out ? "

Cloudela: "Clouuu..dellla, clouuu . "

Phoebe :"Yes, I know I'm not feeling well . "

Bulby: "Venusssaur sauuuuuur sauur saur."

-weakly- Phoebe:" Um . . . He doesn't know . . . what a bowl is?"

Me: "Bulby, um it's like half of a pokeball, you know? Except it can hold water and stuff . "

Me: "Except we need it to be slightly bigger . "

Me:" Here Pheebles let me see his pokeball."

-weakly- Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "Ok Bulby, you see this pokeball? Just make a bigger version of the white part only, and then hollow it out."

Bulby :"sssaur."

Me:" Also cut out a few chunks of wood that we can use as chairs."

Bulby: "Ssssaur."

Me: "Here you go Pheebles."

-weakly- Phoebe: "Thanks."

He went to work, while I went through Phoebe's purse. Errant Razor leaves flew everywhere.

-unamused- Phoebe: "Wha are you doing?"

Phoebe: "That's . . . my . . . purse . "

Me: "I know baby girl, I just need my pokemon, and you need to relax . "

Phoebe: "-sighs-, o .. k . "

Me: "Aha, found it . "

-sternly- Phoebe :"Good, now get out . "

Me: "Pheebles, for the last time, relax . "

Phoebe :"I feel sick."

Me: "That's cause you've had nothing to drink for the past few hours, and it's hot out, and we've both been sweating a lot."

Me: "But don't worry, I'm about to fix it."

Bulby presented the bowl to me a few minutes later. I was taken aback at first because I was expecting something smaller, not a 20 pound sallad bowl, but with no other option I realized it would have to do. Of course it was crude, razorleaves are not the most precise woodcarving instrument, but considering Bulby had never made anything like this before, it was a good effort.

Me: "Allright, that's perfect."

Me: "Thanks Bulby."

Me :"Ok Bubba, it's your turn."

Me: "Bulby you can get back in your ball for now."

-delirious- Phoebe: "Cah-Come on Bulby...re-return."

Anway, I sent out Bubba and had him fill the bowl up with water, then I sent out HellBlade and had him use flamethrower on it until the water boiled, during this time I set the bowl on top of some chunks of wood from the tree Bulby carved to bowl out of. In retrospect it was a good thing Bulby made the bowl as big as he did, a smaller bowl may have been burned up before the water could boil properly.

Me: "How much water can you carry Bubba?"

Bubba: "Blast...blastoise, blasst, toissse blast."

-awkward silence-

Me: "Pheebles, translation."

-delirious- Phoebe: "He says, he doesn't know, but he has plenty more."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Here Pheebles, it should be safe now, drink this."

-defiantly- Phoebe: "No, it's spit."

Me: "No it's not."

Me :"It's um . . . it's Bubba's cannon water."

Me: "Besides this isn't the time to be picky."

Me: "Pheebles, it's just creak water he got from the creak at home."

Me: "Mixed with some distilled from the pokemon center."

Me:"So in other words, it's better than just creak water."

Me: "Besides I boiled it, it might not taste the best, but it should be safe to drink."

Me :"Come on, don't be stupid, you need to drink something. "

Phoebe:"-sighs-, you're right."

Me: "Thankyou, I was starting to worry about you."

Phoebe :"This is a big bowl."

Me: "Yeah...I know..."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Phoebe :"no cups?"

Me: "Just use your hands."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Hellblade was avoiding the bowl, afraid the water would spill on him.

Me:"It's allright HellBlade, a few drops won't hurt you."

Me: "Actually, this is all we needed for now guys, thanks for the help."

Me:"Also, I guess I should tell you, we're going to be away from home for awhile, so whenever you're out, be careful, if you get hurt, we might not be able to get you healed for quite awhile."

Me:"Understood?

Bubba:"Blast."

Me:"Allright, you can go back in now."

I returned my pokemon, and then took a drink myself.

Phoebe:"This taste better than I thought it would ."

Me:"Yeah, it's allright."

Phoebe:"I've had worse."

Me: "We'll just take a break for a little while, then we'll start moving towards the buildings again."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me "Here, we can sit on these chunks of wood."

Phoebe:" Works for me."

We rested for a bit, and drank as much water as we could before continuing on towards the buildings. As the day progressed it began to cool down, and the temperature became more enjoyable. It was close to sunset when we made it to our destination. but how much time it really took was a mystery, as it may have been well into the afternoon when we arrived in this world.

Unfortunately once we got there, it didn't take long to realize that what cloudela took for buildings were really ancient ruins, without sign of existing civilization anywhere, just the remains of a few stone huts and elaborate stone temple, and a large step stone pyramid, superficially resembling ancient ruins found in S outh America.

-dissapointed- Phoebe:"We went all this way for nothing."

-apologetically- Cloudella: "Clouuuuuuu clou."

Phoebe: "I know you didn't know."

Me:"Damn."

Me:"We're running out of daylight, we might as well set up camp here."

Phoebe:"Yeah, I guess so."

Me: "You know Pheebles, I'm really glad you thought to bring our pokemon or we'd be screwed."

Phoebe: "Awww, thanks."

Thanks to our pokemon, we had a fire ready by nightfall, and then we spent a long time just looking up at the stars, by the fire we had made.

Phoebe :"-sighs-."

Phoebe: "I miss our bed."

Me: "So do I."

Me: "We'll get back soon enough."

Phoebe: "I don't know about that."

Me: "You know what the time travel guy said."

Me: "We have to save somebody from something."

Me: "We haven't even met anybody since we got here."

Me: "At sometime tomorrow, we'll probably find a portal and end up in some other place."

Me: "Maybe a place with a nice bed."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

Me: "Atleast you brought your coat."

Me: "It's better than these leaves, that will probably give me a rash or something."

Phoebe: "Well if you want it."

Me: "No."

Me: "You need it more."

Phoebe:" Oh Cj."

Me:" It's going to be a long night."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "You holding up ok?"

Phoebe :"I'll be fine."

Phoebe: "I just miss Charley."

Me: "I know baby girl."

Me: "I miss him too."

Phoebe :"And we're going to be gone for so long."

Me: "Yeah."

Me: "But we'll be fine."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

-jokingly- Me: "Just don't have a nightmare and push me into the fire."

Phoebe: "I won't, I promise."

Phoebe :"Cloudela, you going to keep watch?"

Cloudela: "Clooooou."

Since the sun when down it turned black and blended into the night, only it's face was showing.

Phoebe: "Ok good."

Phoebe: "Goodnight, and don't wander off please."

Cloudela: "Clouudellla."

Me: "Goodnight Pheebles."

Phoebe: "Goodnight."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Wuv you."

Me: "Love you too baby girl."

It took awhile to get to sleep, half of me was too cold, the other was too warm, a fly or something would land on me every five seconds, I barely slept that night.

After a long night of attempting to get comfortable the sun came up. I gave up trying to sleep, instead I sat up and staired at the smoke emanating from where our fire had gone out a few hours before. Cloudela was hanging around, soaking up the sun which made it's body change to a bright white. Meanwhile, Phoebe somehow managed to fall asleep, and was still asleep. Anyway, after contemplating the fact I would now have to make it through the day without any sleep, I decided to get a better look at the ruins, this eventually led to me heading up the pyramid to get a better view. Cloudela decided to follow me.

Cloudela: "Clouuu."

Me: "I'm just looking around, go back and wait for Phoebe to wake up ok?

Me:"In case something does come."

Cloudela: "Clou clou."

It floated back towards the camp while I continued to make my way up the pyramid, reaching the top in about 3 minutes or so. At the top there was a little roofed hut, but there was nothing interesting inside. From the top I could see the entiriety of the ruins, it looked like an entire ancient city. Although I was a bit more disheartened at the fact that their didn't seem to be any sign of civilization for miles around. Among hundreds of stone houses there appeared to be some sort of small palace with a courtyard. It was obvious the city had been abandoned for a very long time, so the chance of finding anything useful here was next to none. Some of the houses were so old they had collapsed into a pile of rubble, while others were on the verge of following suit. One thing that started to bother me about it, after I enjoyed the view from the top of the pyramid, was that there didn't seem to be any sign of damage aside from age, so where did all the people go? Why was this city abandoned?

So I descended from the pyramid in about half the time it took me to ascend, and then I began to explore the city up close.

There were some houses with dirt floors and some with what appeared to be the remains of wooden floors, some of these had more than one story at some point, but on most of the two story buildings the floors had rotted to the point of collapse. After checking out enough buildings for me to start thinking they were all going to be the same, I finally came across one that seemed a bit different. Outside it was a small, one room stone building, like so many others in these ruins. Not much to note about it's external appearence aside from that it was one of the ones that did a better job of surviving. What caught my attention however, was that unlike any other building I had seen so far, this one had a door, and metal screens over the windows, where other buildings usually had just holes in the wall. So, out of curiosity, I pushed the door open, and inside was a stone floor, and some furniture, a small bed with a metal frame, a wooden dresser, a nice wooden desk, and a chair to go with it, all in much better condition than they should have been to belong there originally, so not only did this building have a door, it was also the only one I had seen that wasn't completely empty, and this furniture could not have possibly been from the same time as the ruins. It looked like somebody had come in long after the city was abandoned and turned this particular building into a makeshift living quarters. So I went inside to get a closer look, as there was still no sign of intelligent life around, everything was dusty so even this place had been abandoned for awhile. The bed was made, In the desk there were some writing utensils, a notebook, and some papers. There were women's clothes in the dresser. Curious as all hell, I seized the notebook and a pencil, and decided to head back to camp, before Phoebe woke up and began to wonder where I had went. So I began to walk around the pyramid, thinking it'd be faster than trying to climb it again, I was about halfway around when Phoebe suddenly appeared in front of me.

Phoebe: "Where'd you go?"

Phoebe: "You went out of my range."

Phoebe: "I was worried for a moment."

Me: "I just went to explore, I was just heading back."

Me: "Check this out, I found this weird house in the ruins, it's furnished and it had this notebook inside."

Phoebe: "Did you see anybody?"

Me: "Nope, it's a ghost town."

Phoebe: "Why don't we go over there then?

Phoebe: "Atleast we can get out of the sun before it gets too hot."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "Just let me go get Cloudela."

So by the next hour we moved into the little house, for the moment anyway, then we turned our attention towards the notebook.

Apparently it belonged to an archeologist, who was using it as a journal for her discoveries. We had no reference for time in this world, so even though the last date in the journal was 1968, we had no way to tell how long ago that was. As is the typical mystery with journals, the final entry gave no indication as to what happened to the former tenant of our new little house. However, the content of the journal was very interesting indeed, as our archeologist friend was apparently researching strange energies reported around the ruins, ancient stories about dissapearences, and the even greater mystery of the city's abandonment.

Me: "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "The dissapearences?"

Me: "What if this place is some sort of natural portal?"

Phoebe: "How is that even possible?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "All I know is, whatever we're supposed to do, has nothing to do with this place, I mean serious, it's a ghost town."

Me: "I don't think we're supposed to stay here Pheebles."

Phoebe: "I don't think we're supposed to either."

Me: "I'm just too tired to think right now."

Phoebe: "Look, I know you didn't get any sleep last night."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry I didn't help you then."

Phoebe: " But look, there's a bed here, why don't you rest for a little bit?"

Phoebe: "I'll read the book, and see what we need to do to get out of here."

Me: "I've never had any luck sleeping in the daytime."

Phoebe: "Well then I'll help you, don't worry."

Me: "-sighs-, I love you baby girl."

Phoebe: "Love you."

I brushed some of the dust off the bed before getting underneath the sheets, wasn't the most comfortable bed, but, it was a hell of a lot better than last night. Phoebe gently placed her hand on my head and put me to sleep.

A few hours later I woke up, feeling a little better, but hungry.

Phoebe:" Feel better?"

Me: "A little bit."

Me: "What did you find out?"

Phoebe: "Well, it's complicated."

Phoebe:" Apparently this island is located somewhere in the great western ocean."

Me: "Great Western Ocean?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, this world seems like it's completely different from earth."

Phoebe: "Our archeologist friend claims to be from a country called Arkrona."

Phoebe: "have you heard of it before?"

Me: "Nope."

Me: "Never heard of it."

Phoebe :"Anyway, later in the book, past the part you read earlier, she began to figure out some things about the dissapearences."

Phoebe :"They only occur in certain locations around the city."

Me:" Where?"

Phoebe: "She says she marked them with flags, maybe we can still find one."

Me: "Maybe."

Phoebe: "And, there's another requirement."

-unsure- Me :"Human blood sacrifice?"

Phoebe: "No."

Phoebe: "It has to be on a full moon."

Phoebe: "And five fires must be lit at certain points around the city."

Me: "What?"

Me: "Is this some kind of magic?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "

Phoebe: "The natives called it Owa ess ley nurohal, heaven's light."

Me: "Heaven's light?"

Phoebe :"It's a portal machine."

Phoebe: "A really primitive one, but still."

Phoebe: "See there's a map here, and it tells you where all the firepits are."

Phoebe: "According to the research, the firepits vent the heat into a special cluster of crystals, that emit a certain kind of radiation."

Phoebe: "This radiation attracts a beam of cosmic radiation that creates a portal near the exact center of town, from the atmosphere of a planet they call Durango."

Me:" What?"

Phoebe: "I know it doesn't make much sense but it says it in here, the entire town is empty and our archeologist friend is nowhere to be seen."

Me: "How do we know she's our friend, we've never even met her?"

Phoebe: "Because we found her book and it's going to help us out of here."

Me: "Allright fair enough."

Me: "But where does this portal go ? Heaven?"

Me: "How do we know it isn't suicide?"

Phoebe: "Cj, we know we need to get out of here, and we happen to land in a place that has an ancient portal machine that's been here for who knows how long."

Phoebe: "What are we going to do? Stay here several months, build a boat, leave the island and go looking for another one?"

Me: "Yeaaaaaaaaah, you have a point."

Phoebe: "I want to get back to charley as soon as possible."

Phoebe: "So no goofing around."

Me: "Baby girl, Charley won't even notice, for the last time, you heard what TTG said, he'll take us back seconds after we left."

-cutely- Phoebe: "I know, but I still miss him."

Me: "Oh, you'll be fine."

Me: "This is just the first world baby, who knows how many more are left."

Phoebe: "I guess so."

Me: "Anyway."

Me: "We need to find something to eat."

Phoebe: "Yeah I know."

Phoebe :"We could catch a few birds and cook them up."

Phoebe: "I haven't seen anything else around here to eat."

Me: "There's gotta be something bigger than birds."

Me: "Maybe there's like a wild pig or something."

Phoebe: "We don't need that much meat though."

Phoebe: "We're going to leave next full moon."

Phoebe: "And even if we weren't we don't have a freezer."

Me: "Doesn't Draco know icebeam?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Um...oh..yeah...he does, how silly of me."

Me: "We could just freeze it solid, and keep refreezing it every few days."

Phoebe :"True."

Me:" Come on, let's go try to find something ro eat, then we can figure out when the next full moon will be."

Phoebe: "Ok."

We left the house and headed into the forrest. Spent the next hour collecting birds to eat as we couldn't find anything else. It wasn't hard to catch them, shadow balls would knock them out cold. We had our first just 5 minutes in.

Phoebe: "Well, shadowball works, it's out cold."

Phoebe: "I really wish we didn't have to kill them though."

Me: "Well honey, I haven't seen any fruit trees around, and even if some of these plants are edible, we don't know which ones, and if we eat the wrong one it could be poisonous."

Phoebe :"Couldn't the birds be poisonous too?"

Me :"Not nearly as likely."

Me: "I've never heard of a poisonous bird have you?"

Phoebe: "I don't know many birds anyway, there's poison flying types."

Me: "Even those aren't exactly like birds though are they?"

Phoebe: "Not really, no."

Me: "Mhm."

Me:" Ok so, let's do this."

Phoebe: "Do what?"

Me :"We have to get the edible part out."

Me: "You gotta pop open the ribs like this, and then it should split in half."

Me"And then this chunk of meat here is the breast meat."

Phoebe: "Ew...what a mess."

Phoebe: "That's it? That's all the meat? "

Me:" It's not a very big bird."

Me: "It's not like a chicken, this is the only good size chunk."

My hands were covered in blood and there were bits of bird everywhere.

-mischeivously- Me: "Hehehe."

Phoebe: "Don't even think about... I know that look Cj."

Me: "What?"

-defensively- Phoebe: "Don't touch me, my dress is not a towel."

Phoebe: "Especially since it's the only dress I have with me."

Me:" Oh...whatever."

Me:"You and your crazy ideas."

Phoebe:"I remember last time."

Phoebe:"With the ketchup."

Me:"It was funny.."

Phoebe:"Yeah it was, but not out here."

Me: "Yeah you're right, it's your only dress, I won't do that to you...anyway..."

Me:"Get like 6 or 7 of these things, and if we cook them up and we might have a meal."

Phoebe :"We might."

Phoebe: "What's it taste like?"

Me: "I don't know, I've never had random island bird before."

Me: "Ok so we need to have Bulby make another bowl, and we need to get a fire going."

Phoebe: "Ok then."

Phoebe :"I'm going to go look for more birds, if you want to make a fire or something."

Phoebe: "I'll get Bulby started on making a bowl too."

Me :"Allright, sounds good."

After another hour of work we had a reasonable meal of cooked bird meat, that oddly tasted more like beef than chicken. After boiling some more water as well, we were finally ready to figure out how to get out of here.

Phoebe: "So what was the moon like last night?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "I was too busy trying to get a stupid bug off my face."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Well then, we might as well go find the fire pits."

Me: "What if they need wood or something?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, we're going to have to take care of that too."

Phoebe: "Bulby, I need you to get some chunks of wood for us please."

Phoebe :"We need to move them back to the ruins to use as firewood."

Phoebe: "Bring the bowl too, so you won't have to make another."

Bulby: "Venusaur."

Me: "We're going to need a lot of wood if the fire pits are empty."

Me: "The fire won't be hard to get, but we need enough wood to build it up."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "Here I'll carry some too."

Me: "Less trips that way."

Phoebe: "Not much less."

Me :"Bubba! Rocky! Grab some chunks of wood and help us out."

I sent them out, and before long we were heading back to the ruined city with 3 big pokemon and a few hundred pounds of wood in tow. I wish I had a cart or something, but I had no idea how to build one without any tools. We just stacked it all up by the house for the moment and after another trip we had a pretty big pile, hopefully it would be enough.

Me: "I hope the full moon wasn't last night."

Me :"Or we could be here awhile."

Phoebe: "I know."

Me: "So um, what are you going to do if some other people come?"

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Me: "Well that archeologist knew where this island was, what if other people do as well?"

Phoebe :"I guess I could just hide and you could deal with them."

Phoebe: "I can't use my disguise here, it's too hot."

Me: "I understand."

Me: "They would probably find it a bit weird anyway."

Me: "Who the heck brings a heavy coat to an island?"

Phoebe: "I don't know vampires?"

Me: "Yeah I guess."

Me:"Nothing to say they don't exist in this world."

Me: "Anyway."

Me: "So..."

Me: "We have the rest of the day."

Me: "Maybe we should go check out where these firepits are."

Me :" And stock them up so we can be ready for when the full moon comes."

Phoebe: "Yeah, maybe."

Me :"It would be best."

Me:" If we wait till the full moons comes we might not have them all ready in time."

Phoebe :"Mhm."

Me :"Watcha thinking about?"

She seemed to be spacing a bit.

Phoebe :"About how we're on an island in the middle of nowhere."

Me :"Yeaaaaah."

Phoebe :"You know what islands usually have?"

Me :"Bugs?"

Phoebe :"Nooo."

-cheerfully- Phoebe: "A beach."

Me :"Pheebles, we don't have time for that."

Me: "Plus we're near the center of the island, the beach will take awhile to get to."

Me: "It's best we stay here since we got shelter."

Phoebe: "Yeah, aww well."

Me :"If we ever come across a beach that's not too far out of the way I'll take you there."

Me: "Or I'll take you to one in Sinnoh while we're there."

Phoebe :"You've been making a lot of promises lately."

Me :"Well, just that and to take you to Sinnoh."

Me :"And baby have I ever let you down?"

Phoebe :"There was that one time you almost set the house on fire."

Phoebe :"Then there was that time you got kidnapped by Myrenthall."

Phoebe: "And then there was that time that . . . . "

-interupted- Me: "But none of those had to do with promises did they?"

Phoebe: "Well, no, but . . . . "

I kissed her.

Me :" I'll take you to a beach, don't worry about it."

Phoebe: "A warm beach."

Phoebe :"Not one that's freezing cold."

Phoebe :"One that's warm with soft sand where we can make love for hours."

Me: " Hehe, of course baby girl."

Phoebe :"Allright then."

Phoebe: "Come on let's go."

Me: "Hey wait up."

Using a somewhat rudimentary map in the notebook as a guide, we travelled around the city trying to locate the fire pits, with Rocky and I carrying some wood. Bulby was sunbathing, and I honestly don't know where Bubba wandered off too, but he knew where our house was, and I knew he could take care of himself.

Me: "I don't know why we didn't bring Bulby along."

Phoebe :"Because he's been helping us a lot and he deserves a break."

Phoebe :"Besides, if I let him soak up the sun, he'll have more energy for when we really need him."

Phoebe: "Back home it's hard for him to get any sun this time of year."

Phoebe: "In the wild, venusaurs are supposed to be hibernating during the winter."

Phoebe :"So this will be good for him, I just know it."

Me: "Well that's good."

Bubba:"Blast."

We happened to find Bubba hanging out inside a building.

Me :"So this is where you went?"

Bubba: "Blastoissse blaaast."

Me :"What did you find?"

Rocky:"Golem."

Phoebe:"Yes you can put the wood down for now."

Me: "Well this is cool."

It looked like some sort of rudimentary swimming pool. It had water, but it was dark green and the interior of the building was practically covered with damp green algae, which gradually dried out as it got further away from the "pool".

Me: "Hey Pheebles it's a swimming pool."

Phoebe: "Ew...all this slime."

Me: "Yeah, watch your step."

Phoebe: "Anyway it's more of a bath house actually."

Me: "How does this still have water?"

Phoebe: " Probably collects rainwater."

Me: "Hmmm."

Phoebe: "It's also gross, look at all this scum."

Me: "Yeah well, hasn't been cleaned in awhile."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "You gonna hang out here all day Bubba?"

-cheerfully- Bubba: "Blast!"

Me: "Allright then."

Rocky: "Golllemm!"

Phoebe: "Rocky I said you could put the wood down for now."

He was standing outside the entrance, not wanting anything to do with the water, or the somewhat damp floor.

Rocky: "Golllemm goll."

Phoebe: "He doesn't want to come in."

Me: "Yeah, that's understandable, floor's all wet."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Awe well."

Me: "See you later Bubba, we got to take the wood up to the fire pits."

Bubba: "Blastoiiiisssse."

Me: "Just be back at the house by night fall."

Me: "Come on Rocky."

Rocky: "Golemmm."

A few minutes later we made it to the first of the firepits, a large obelisk like building with a little rectangular opening on the side to light a fire,da here we dumped the wood we were carrying, saw that it was enough, and proceeded back to the house to get more wood for the next one. Over the next few hours we repeated this process until we had delivered wood to all of the firepits. By the time we were done it was well into the afternoon, Rocky and I were both tired, so we headed back to the house to relax.

Me: "So, we going to go kill some more birds for dinner?"

Phoebe:" Maybe in a little bit."

Me: "Hehe, you're tired to?"

Phoebe: "It's hot outside and we've been walking around the entire city."

Phoebe: "My legs feel like they're going to melt."

Me: "You didn't have to carry several pounds of wood."

-affirmative- Rocky: "Golllem."

Phoebe: "You agree Rocky?"

Rocky: "Goll."

Phoebe: "-sighs-, whatever."

Me: "If you sent out draco and have him freeze the walls maybe we could cool off a bit."

Phoebe: "Actually . . . . that's a good idea."

Phoebe: "Come on out Draco!"

Rocky: "Golem!"

He left the room as fast as he could, not a fan of ice and the water it made when melted.

Me: "You don't have to run Rocky, we'll wait for you to leave."

Phoebe: "Ok draco, why don't you use ice beam on all the walls."

Draco: "Drrrra?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, it's ok, just don't get any on the furniture."

He proceeded to coat the walls in a thin, but dense layer of ice.

Phoebe:"OK that's nice, you can return now."

I layed down on the bed, and tried to enjoy the cold. Phoebe sat down in the opposite corner of the room.

Phoebe: "-sighs-,this is nice."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "I wish we could snuggle but that bed is just so tiny."

Me: "Yeah, I think it's only meant for one person."

Me: "Besides it's too hot to snuggle."

Phoebe: "True."

Phoebe: "So who gets it tonight?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me:"You still have your coat and I didn't get any sleep last night."

Phoebe: "You had a nap."

Me :"Only a few hours, I'm still several hours behind."

Phoebe:"True."

Me:"Besides, what if it's a full moon tonight and we don't even have to sleep here?"

Phoebe:"That would be nice."

Me:"If it's not we'll just take turns with the bed ok?"

Phoebe:"Ok."

Phoebe: "You can have it first then."

Me:" Thankyou baby girl."

After taking a break for a few minutes we headed out to the forrest again to find some dinner. Sadly, all we could find were more birds. Except it was later in the day now so even they were harder to find. It was a lot of work to get such a modest meal. We returned to the house with about 8 little birds. It was great that Phoebe could kill them, I didn't bring a gun, and even if I did, there's no way we would have gotten so many, we'd be lucky to get one, after that first shot they'd likely fly off to parts unknown. But Phoebe's shadowballs were nearly silent, and while they typically weren't effective on humans, or typical normal type pokemon, they hit the birds hard enough to knock them out cold.

After dinner we waited with anticipation for the sunset, more curious than ever before about what the moon would look like. Eventually it got dark, the stars came out, and the moon was finally visible.

Me :"Damn, it's not full."

Phoebe: "How far is it from being full?"

Me :"Well, it could be getting smaller, or it could be getting bigger, I ddn't rememberer witch is which."

Me: "I hope it's getting bigger otherwise we may be here awhile."

Phoebe: "I hope so too."

-5 days later-

Not much had changed, we did some more exploring, particularly looking for different sources of food since we were starting to get sick of birds. We never ventured more than half a day's travel from the ruins, so we never saw the beaches. We never met anyone else on the island either. It was a pitifully slow start to our new adventure. The most challenging thing we had was finding dinner. The heat never let up. Even the neccesities were a struggle on this island, but we managed to survive. Finally, on the 5th night since we arrived, the moon appeared to be full, so we set about lighting the fires at the obelisks around the city. Once we had done that, we went up onto the pyramid to get a better view of the ruined city. It was quiet for a few minutes, until the fires got big enough to illuminate the crystals ontop of the obelisks. Starting with the first one to be lit, then the next a few minutes later.

Me: "They all have to be on at the same time don't they?"

Phoebe: "I think so?'

Me: "I hope the fifth kicks on before the first dies."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Me: "I'm going to go bring it some more wood."

Phoebe: "I'll come with you."

So we headed to the first obelisk to stoke it up some more. We got there just in time as it was just beginning to fade. Just minutes after we replenished it the entire city was bathed in a warm and brilliant light. Too brilliant, I had to close my clung to me, worried we would be separrated if she didn't. Seconds later we were transported to a completely different place.

Phoebe: "Now where are we."

Me: "I have no idea."

The walls were metal, a square window looked out onto the night sky.

P.A System :" New arrivals please proceed through the door in front of you."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "The door."

Me:"Ohhh...ok."

We proceeded through the door, which opened automatically like on some weird scy-fi movie.

Inside the next room was a robot seated behind a desk.

Me:"What the hell?"

Robot:"Questions, everyone has them."

Phoebe:"What is this place?"

Robot:" Welcome to earth 383242."

Me: "Whaaa?"

Robot: "This sector is under the control of the space police, in keeping with Sector Chairman Hooperman's policy of control, all portals to this sector have been redirected to this facility."

Phoebe: "You think it's the same space police?"

Me: "More than likely, but they don't seem to know who we are yet so we're safe for now."

Robot: "I need your names, and intended reason for visiting."

Me: "How come?"

Robot: "We need to find out if you have an existing counterpart in this world, so you can avoid them."

Robot: "In keeping with the policy you will not be allowed to contact your counterparts."

Me: "Martin 'o' Malley is my name."

Robot: "Where were you born?"

Robot: "Have you moved in from anywhere?"

Me: "No, and uh . . . Texas . . . . Dallas, Texas. "

Phoebe :"What?"

Me: "Don't give your real name."

Robot:" Ok so checking this out, there are, 4 people with that name in Dallas, and 20 in Ireland, because sometimes when crossing dimensions your counterpart could still be in your country of origin."

Robot: "Because we can't be sure, you can't go to ireland."

Me: "Ooookayyy . . . . "

Robot: "And it would be wise to stay out of Dallas as well."

Robot: "If for some reason you manage to come across your counterpart, do not speak to them, do not make eye contact, we have eyes everywhere, we will find out, and we will know."

Phoebe :"What about me?"

Robot: "You're obviously not human, I don't even have to look you up to know that you're counterpart isn't here."

Phoebe: "Well I made it to his world where we're from."

Robot: "That doesn't matter."

Robot: "If you're counterpart was here."

Robot: "They would've come right through this facility."

Phoebe: "Ok, fine."

Robot: "Please proceed through the door, where you will be escorted to temporary housing."

So we were shown to a crappy house in a crappy part of the city, and told we would have to move out in a year, we were given a news paper with job listings, and pretty much expected to live out the rest of our lives here. We sat through this speech on what we were expected to do, knowing that living here from now on wasn't an option, we were relieved when our escort finally left us alone.

We spoke to eachother after our "escort" finally left.

Phoebe: "So what are we going to do Cj?"

Me: "Read my mind."

Me: "We can't stay here like they want us too, that's for damned sure."

Me: "Use telepathy, because there might be bugs."

Phoebe: "Bugs?"
Me: "You know listening to our conversation."

Me: "And if the space police figure out who we really are, it's not going to be pretty."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe:" Atleast they didn't come after us just for showing up."

Me:"Yeah they have different rules here for some reason."

Phoebe: "The robot mentioned an S.C Hooperman."

Me: "Yeah I don't know what that's about."

Phoebe: "Why don't you send out magnum and he can destroy all the bugs."

Me:" Not a bad idea, but what if that gets them onto us."

Phoebe: "They can't explain it."

Me :"True."

Me: "Allright then."

I sent out magnum, and as he flew around the room you could tell where all the bugs were because they exploded with a little popping noise once he got near them.

After he flew around every inch of the room, even the drawers and cabinets, I returned him.

Me: "Ok, that's the last of the bugs."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Phoebe :"The bed here is big enough for two."

Me:"Yeah, and what do you wanna do about that?"

-cutely- Phoebe :"It's been five days, I think you know."

She wrapped her arms around me.

Me: "I do?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

-playfully- Phoebe:" You going to keep playing stupid or are you going to take me to bed?"

Me:"Allright, come on."

While we got some "sleep", somewhere in the city there was a secret underground base, being operated by a resistance movement attempting to fight the space police's control, which on this world had extended to the point where the space police had made itself public under an alias. The World Police. They changed their name to hide any references to interdimensional technology, which this planet had not yet discovered.

Resistance Leader: "Anything interesting on the new arrivals today?"

Resistance follower: "Maybe, some strange alien chick...uh we're running the database, it hasn't returned any results yet."

Resistance Leader: "Where is their location?"

Resistance follower 2: "House 54."

Resistance follower 2: "Intercepted commnunications indicate that all bugs in the new arrival's house have gone silent."

Resistance Leader: "They're not going to do anything about it?"

Resistance follower 2: "They think it's some sort of technical glitch, they'll probably be moved to another place tomorrow, typical lax behavior of this sector."

Resistance Leader: "So they're off the grid."

Resistance follower: "Um Boss, you're going to want to see this."

Resistance follower: "There's a warrant out for them."

Resistance Leader: "For what?"

Resistance Follower: "Multiple counts of Tresspassing, aiding and abetting, breaking into a protected facility and freeing prisoners, resisting arrest, destruction of police property, grand theft auto, assault and battery of a space police officer."

Resistance Follower: "There's some footage here if you want to see."

Resistance Leader: " Grand Theft Auto?"

Resistance Follower: "Not as you think, the car they stole belonged to the sector's police chief."

Resistance Follower: "But that sector is on the far side of creation, I wonder how they got here?"

Resistance Leader: "I don't know."

Resistance Leader: "What I do know is that they're of value and for now they're off the grid."

Resistance Leader: "So we're going to pick them up."

-Meanwhile, after some "sleeping"-

-enamored- Me: "Phoebe."

Me: "I love you baby girl."

-enamored- Phoebe: "I wuv you."

Me: "That felt so good."

Phoebe: "My feet weren't too cold this time?"

Me :"No...just right."

Me: "-sighs-, and after all those nights on the island when we couldn't sleep together."

Me: "I missed snuggling with you."

Phoebe: "Awwww, Cj.."

Phoebe: "I missed snuggling too."

Phoebe: "So what are we going to do tomorrow?"

Me: "Look for a way out of this dimension, and try to avoid the space police."

Phoebe: "Somehow, I don't think that's possible."

Me: "Yeah well..."

Me: "I don't know baby, I'm getting too tired to think."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Me: "Goodnight."

Phoebe: "Goodnight."

We kissed eachother goodnight, and fell asleep sometime later.