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Chapter 2: Cosmic Detour

After taking some pills, Finn was glad that the random images and spontaneous spikes of agony were finally gone. It still bothered the young blonde-haired man as to why he was having those images appear in his head. What did it mean to him? And what significance did those monster women and the upright walking Jake meant in the grand scheme of his life?

He has never seen any girl in his life that looked like the pink princess and the scary pale vampire-like lady.

Finn chalked it up as just daydreaming and should definitely get some well needed rest. It was a good thing his trip to the movies was tomorrow because he needed the night to sleep, but before he would turn in for the night, Finn decided to play more of that new game he bought.

After some time of playing his game, he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Finn said, pausing the game and taking off his headset.

Minerva and Martin walked into his room, carrying a new white hat and shirt.

"Surprise son!" Martin cheered.

"We got you a new hat." Minerva smiled warmly, handing it over to her son.

"Oh cool, thank you guys so much! I love you!" Finn hugged his parents and kissed them both on the cheek. Finn took off his white beanie that had animal ears and replaced it with the new hat.

The new white hat was basically a military beret, but instead of it usually being black or green, it was all white. It was to signify that Finn was about to become a soldier and that he had graduated from being a civilian. Boot camp couldn't come soon enough.

The new shirt was a light blue gym muscle shirt, basically a shirt that had no sleeves to show off Finn's muscular arms and it was comfy to wear.

Tomorrow Night

After saying goodbye to his parents, Finn decided to take the family car instead of his motorcycle to the movies. It was just in case he needed to carpool with his friends, but it was also because he loved the car. The family car was a dark blue Dodge Challenger that had comfortable seats and Finn loved riding it in and falling asleep in the back seat when he was a kid.

It was nighttime and raining lightly, so Finn wore his black leather jacket. He was wearing the new hat and shirt his parents gave him.

The Sunday morning was very uneventful with Finn doing his usual routine of working out, playing with Jake, doing chores around the house, playing games, talking with Fionna, and polishing his sword collection. The young blonde-haired man was glad that he didn't experience any of those strange images and migraines all day; the pills did wonders curing him.

But at the back of his mind, he still couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. The image that disturbed him the most wasn't actually the pale fanged lady, but the one image where he was a kid, and his arm was missing and replaced with a robot arm.

He looked like a teen in the image, so what terrible thing happened to him to have his arm sliced off when he was a child? Finn rubbed his arms trying to comfort himself.

Finn shook his head and started the car, hearing the engine roar with power.

"Don't over think it…" The young man muttered to himself.

The streets weren't that busy at night and the movie theater wasn't that far away, so it was quite an easy drive for him. He showed up earlier and waited for his buddies in the car, but he received a few texts from them, telling Finn that they wouldn't make it in time, or that they were busy.

Finn sighed with annoyance and decided to go see the movie by himself, but instead of the new one that just came out, he wanted to see Sword of Thrones the movie again; a fantasy story about a heroic knight fighting evil magic dragons, trying to stop to nations from going to war, and trying to fend off the incestuous advances of his older blood related sisters.

It was a really good movie, but a bit controversial because of the incest and the scene of the sisters trying to get the knight drunk and force themselves on him, and while it did disturb Finn, he still thought the main character of the story, Billy Walker was a great knight that really took the knightly code seriously.

Before he was about to go into the heather, he decided to send a quick text message of what was going on with Fionna.

Hey, Fio. What up?

To his surprise, Fionna quickly replied back.

Bored out of my mind dude :(

Friends flaked on me when I was about to go get my hair and nails done, but I guess I'll do it by my lonesome.

Finn grinned, but quickly frowned when he realized that Fionna was in the exact same situation as he was in.

Oh, so you like to get all dolled up now, Miss Tomboy? I thought you didn't like girly things?

Screw you, bro :P

I like to do girly things every now and then, sometimes I prefer pants over a skirt, but it won't kill me if I have to dress up like a Disney Princess. I'm fickle like that, but I do lean more towards pants. Don't judge! TOMBOY PRIDE.

Finn laughed.

So what are you doing bro?

I was about to go the movies with my friends, but my fellow college dudes flaked on me and I'm about to head out to see another movie.

Damn, just like me huh? I'm sorry about that Finn.

It's cool, Fio, so see ya later. I'm going to see a different movie right now.

Which one?

Swords of Thrones.

Shut up! :O

Eeyup! :D

Damn I love that movie! Oh, it sucks so much that we don't live nearby, I would love to see it with you right now!

I know, but maybe when I make enough money, or you make enough money, we can meet in person at your place, or mine.

I would love that, Finn.

Me too, Fio. :)

Finn was about to get out the car, but he received a phone call from one of his college buddies, Donny.

"Hey, Donny, what's up?"

"Yo, Finn the Delinquent, how are you doing?"

Finn chuckled in amusement.

"Don, stop calling me that, bro! I'm not a bad guy."

It was a funny nickname that Donny gave him, not just because Finn looked like a thug with his big rock-hard muscles and tattoos, but it was because he kept getting detention and suspended in middle school and high school because Finn kept getting in fights with bullies. The teachers weren't doing anything to stop the bullies, so Finn had to beat up the bullies that were messing with the underclassmen.

It unfortunately made Finn develop a bad boy reputation, even though he wasn't a troublemaker and had decent grades, but he still struggled with Math a bit. It wasn't because he was mean that most classmen feared him, but it was how strong and untouchable he was when he crushed the bullies. Rumor and gossip will always mutate into something different if passed around enough and Finn's reputation went from "he only fights bullies that hurts others" to "he'll beat you up whenever he feels like it" type of metamorphosis.

Donny used to be a bully that tried to steal Finn's lunch money in high school, and after the two boys squabbled and settled their difference, Donny got humbled and became a friend to Finn and even went to the same college as him.

"Sorry not sorry! Anyway man, I'm sorry I flaked on you on the last minute. I had issues with the family, and I was able to get it done in time. Can we catch a later showing of the new movie?"

Finn looked at his watch.

"Sure man!"

Despite the young blonde-haired man watching Sword of Thrones multiple times, he still enjoyed the hell out of the movie and had a blast by himself. The addition of popcorn, soda, and candy made things better and Finn was now on his way back home. Finn was excited that there will be a sequel coming soon called Sword of Thrones 2: Hungering Cold. In this one, Billy Walker is about to fight an undead king of ice called the Frost Overlord that wants to take over the world, devour his soul, and turn all humans and animals into ice zombies.

However, Finn was a bit bothered by the fact that the sequel will have a different director and different writers. He hoped they didn't do anything stupid like making Billy Walker incompetent or make his sisters smarter than he is.

After he watched Sword of Thrones, he waited for Donny in and both men saw the new movie. It was a shame that Susan Strong couldn't come, but it was ok because he'll catch her next time. After watching the new movie, he said goodbye to Donny and left. It was such a cool movie night for Finn; he got to see an old movie he liked and a new movie all in one night.

It was still raining outside, but it was no longer light, now it was coming down like cats and dogs, so Finn cracked his wind shield wipers on the highest setting. As he was getting close to him, Finn noticed some flashing red lights ahead of the road and quickly discovered there was a few cop cars and an ambulance in front of him. He immediately deduced that they were at the sight of a car crash, and it didn't help that he saw some broken car pieces randomly spread out across the asphalt.

A police officer standing close to his police car directed Finn to another road and Finn had no choice but to obey and he unfortunately needed to take a detour that was going to take longer for him to get home.

Still…

Finn felt awful at seeing the crashed cars and hoped the people were fine. It looked like a gray pickup truck that flipped over and crashed into a white van. He didn't see drivers, just the cops, but Finn prayed to God that they didn't die, or suffer any life-threatening injuries.

Finn drove on a different path towards home and after driving for ten minutes, he came across a car tunnel going through a mountain. There was another street he could have taken, but it was closed down because of road construction, so Finn had to make another detour, and this detour took him to this strange car tunnel that he wasn't familiar with in which Finn stopped his car in front of.

In fact, Finn didn't recognize this tunnel. He lived in this nice Californian town all his life, and he didn't know that there was a car tunnel here; I guess he never thought to drive down here. After all, this tunnel was in the middle of nowhere, a little far from the main streets of town. It didn't help that it was just him down this road with other drivers, and the closest thing to the tunnel were condemned and abandoned houses, so the place felt strangely eerie and lonely to Finn.

"Don't they usually have lights in tunnels like these?" Finn thought, noticing just how dark and foreboding the car tunnel looked. The heavy rain was getting worse, and Finn heard the sound of thundering in the sky; he better get home quickly, or his parents would have been worried about him getting caught in a flash flood.

The GPS on his smartphone was telling him the tunnel was the fastest route home, so Finn had no choice but to take it, and it told Finn it was only a few miles long, so there was no harm in taking it.

Finn put his foot on the gas pedal and began to drive into the tunnel. He was right that the tunnel had no lights on the walls, or ceiling, which wasn't safe in his opinion. This was probably a very old car tunnel, or the men that built the tunnel were either lazy, or couldn't afford to have lights installed in it. It is indeed a safety hazard because it would be very dangerous if someone with no working headlights tried to drive through the tunnel at night.

After a minute or so driving down the tunnel, Finn's GPS on his smartphone started to malfunction and his phone suddenly shut off.

"Huh?" Finn said out loud.

He was wondering what was happening, but Finn was suddenly struck by a sharp stabbing pain in his head, and he was once again seeing an image in his head just like yesterday. This time instead of the tree house, upright walking Jake, pale fanged lady or candy lady, the kid version of himself was about to kiss a girl that was literally made out of pure fire.

Finn thought his kid counterpart was absolutely mental, why was he trying to kiss a girl made out of pure intense heat? Did he want to have his face melted off? Finn couldn't deny the fire chick was hot-no pun intended, but to actually touch her? That's crazy.

"Whoa, shit!" Finn struggled not to crash the car against the tunnel wall. He was able to maintain the car and drive like normal, but Finn was hit with a horrible phenomenon that he wished he was never struck by.

The cave started to shake and with horror, Finn realized it was an earthquake and he was inside a cave, one of the worst places to be when the earthquake is strong enough to cause land slides and split open the ground. There were already cracks starting to form on the ceiling and walls and Finn had to quickly get out or he would have been crushed to death.

Finn powered himself forward as quickly as his car could go, but he still couldn't see the end of the tunnel. The GPS told him the tunnel wasn't that long so why couldn't he still see the end? It seemed to go on in a never-ending abyss. He reached over 90 MPH as the shaking got worse and he still couldn't see the end.

"How long is this damn tunnel!?" Finn shouted.

Then he felt the sensation of falling…

The ground completely opened up like a sinkhole and Finn and his car were sent falling down a black pit.

"Ahhhh!" Finn screamed in horror as he fell down the pit and he was shrouded in darkness, even his headlights on his car turned off. The falling lasted for about a few seconds and then suddenly, Finn felt like he was floating in midair in zero g gravity.

As his car floated, Finn realized he wasn't in the tunnel anymore, but it felt like he was floating in space with bizarre lights that looked like far away stars around him. It was like his car had turned into a spaceship and he was traveling through galaxies. He would have been amazed at the sight, but a very deep and menacing voice spoke to him that made Finn's blood run cold and made him struggle to breathe.

YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS REALM, HUMAN…IT LOOKS LIKE FATE ITSELF DOESN'T WANT ME TO WIN IF YOU ARE HERE…

A deep and masculine voice spoke to him, coming from a green fiery star that manifested itself as a terrifying horned skull with blazing green eyes.

LEAVE NOW, BUT IF YOU STAY AND OPPOSE ME, YOU WILL DIE LIKE YOUR OTHER AND SUFFER AN AGONIZING END JUST LIKE HIM…

Finn couldn't talk as he was struggling to breathe and before he could react, he found himself falling again away from the floating stars and back in pitch black darkness. This time he wasn't floating through space, but he was back in the car tunnel.

"W-What the fuck?" Finn looked around in confusion. The thing talking to him about was gone and he was back in the car tunnel. The ground wasn't shaking and everything seemed normal. Other than the car jolting upward for a second as if Finn just struck a speed bump too fast, his car was fine and didn't get destroyed from the fall.

"Did I just imagine all that?" Finn questioned himself. The falling and earthquake felt very real to him, and he did not fall asleep in the car, so what happened to him? Did he experience a much more extreme version of the migraine? Did it knock him out and make him experience a terrible nightmare?

He turned the headlights back on off his car and it lit up the car tunnel. It looked normal at first, but he noticed that the ceiling and walls looked very old. Finn turned his smartphone back on and discovered he had no signal, so he couldn't call or text his parents.

The good news was that there was light at the end of the car tunnel, but Finn realized that it shouldn't be daytime right now. He went to see the movies at night and was only gone for just a couple of hours, so it should still be a cold rainy night.

With caution, Finn drove his Dodge Challenger out of the car tunnel and into the light, and he was shocked at what he saw when he came out.

He was no longer in his Californian hometown, but he was nearby a forest and large grassy meadow. There was no forest near his home so where was he exactly? There were also no man-made streets, or even dirt roads; it's like the car tunnel spat him out in a random area in the wilderness that wasn't touched by humans.

He looked back and the car tunnel was the only thing that was man-made. Finn slowly drove forward not knowing where to go, but he heard thundering and realized there was about to be a storm as he noticed black storm clouds quickly gathering in the sky.

Finn didn't think none of it at first, but that all changed when he saw fucking knives falling from the sky instead of rain or hail.

"What the fuck? Why is it raining blades!?" Finn's eyes widened in shock. He quickly backed his car into the car tunnel to stop the blades from damaging his car, or penetrating through his wind shield, stabbing him.

As the knives from the blade storm stabbed into the ground, Finn had to check to see if he was dreaming because raining blades is something you will NEVER see in real life. He pinched himself on his arm and then slammed his head on the steering wheel, honking the horn.

"Ow, damn it…" Finn exclaimed in pain. It hurt and much to his horror, Finn was indeed wide awake and not dreaming, meaning the blade storm happening right now was legitimately real and not an illusion, trick, nor was he dreaming. He checked to see if his car was damaged, but surprisingly, it was still together with nothing missing, and it didn't have any dents, so he didn't crash into anything. He even honked the car horn again.

Finn once again checked his smartphone and he still had no signal or any means to contact his parents, or help from the authorities.

This situation reminded him of anime and comic books that he reads or watches, the situation where a person is sent to another dimension, or world. The Japanese had a name for it as Finn struggled to remember what it was called, but it soon came to him. He wasn't really into anime that much as Finn preferred American and European fantasy stories, but he did enjoy some fantasy anime every now and then.

He was Isekai'd.

No doubt about it.

Finn wanted to think it was crazy for something like this to happen to him as it was all just fictional stuff, but this was very real, especially when he tried to hurt himself to wake up. What else could he come up with?

The young blonde-haired man did remember stories of people going through the Bermuda Triangle and never returning, some speculated the people were killed by sea monsters, rough waters, or were abducted by aliens, or went through a 'portal' that spat them out in the future, past, or a different dimension.

Finn thought all that was ridiculous, but he doesn't think so right now…

Come to think of it, the car tunnel did feel off to Finn, even before he entered it. Could it be the same phenomena that surrounded the infamous Bermuda Triangle?

With nothing better to do, Finn started to ponder what the intimidating skeletal monster surrounded by green fire said to him.

"What did it mean by 'other'? Was it talking about my kid counterpart that I've been seeing in my mind lately? Did the kid variant of myself get killed by that unholy thing? Whatever it is, it can go fuck itself." Finn said mentally. He wanted to go home on his own terms. The thing can go to Hell for all Finn cared, he needed to get back home, or his mom was going to have a panic attack about him going missing and his dad would have torn the town apart looking for him.

Finn accepted his mission to return home and had to prepare himself. He got out of the car, went into the car trunk, and grabbed himself some supplies: A crowbar, a box of 9mm rounds, some cigarettes, flashlight, first aid kid, his old green high school backpack, a hidden handgun that was stashed in the trunk. The handgun was a black 9mm Beretta 92FS that Finn's dad kept hidden in the trunk in case of an emergency and now it was about to serve its purpose.

He walked over and decided to grab a knife that was lying on the ground and to his surprise, the knife that fell from the storm clouds was an actual real knife and wasn't fake. This meant he would have actually been stabbed to death by the falling knives from the knife storm if he didn't retreat back into the car tunnel.

Finn sat back in the driver's seat of his car, took off his leather jacket and threw it in the backseat, and started smoking a cigarette while waiting for the blade storm to stop so he could find a village, town, or city to help him.

He didn't think of driving back through the tunnel; there was actually a dead end not to far from the opening, so he was stuck in the car tunnel until the rain of knives ended.

Finn flinched as another migraine came onto him, but no images flashed in his head this time and only gave him an annoying nosebleed…

Unfortunately for Finn, honking the car horn drew the attention of something lurking nearby that was also hiding from both the knife storm and the rays of the sun. The being took refuge under some thick trees while strumming her red guitar.

A certain long raven-haired vampiric beauty with fangs and pale skin that was just minding her business noticed honks from a car horn coming from the car tunnel that she was about to explore, but the knife storm halted her progress.

At first, she didn't think nothing of it, maybe some denizens of Ooo were playing with a busted car that was inside the car tunnel that was still somewhat operational. She did recall seeing an old pick-up truck hanging from a tree at one point.

She would sometimes do that herself, play with old artifacts and devices left by the humans that went extinct from the Great Mushroom War whenever she felt like exploring around Ooo; she did it because she was bored and trying to amuse herself, or looking for new material for her music, or to reminisce about humanity, and especially her long-lost dad…

But what confused her was the delicious smell of human blood coming from the car tunnel.

She was a creature of the night and knew exactly what the smell was and there was no mistaking it. Her kind did prey on humans, and this caused her to lick her lips with excitement, because now she really wanted to know what was in that car tunnel and her day of adventuring has just got more interesting…

As Finn wiped away his bloody nose with some napkins that were stashed in the car, he felt like he was being watched by something from the trees in the nearby forest. He saw a shadowy figure move quickly between the trees and it seemed to be getting closer and closer to the car tunnel that he was in.

He's been camping a lot with his father to know that something is silently stalking him while in the wilderness which made Finn realized he just fucked himself over because he honked the car horn not once, but twice. When in unfamiliar territory, especially in the middle of wilderness not touched by humans, it was never a good idea to make a lot of loud noises.

Once this blade storm lets up, he is legging it the hell out of there. After some time, the clouds started to vanish by the second and the many knives littering the ground also started to disappear and after a few minutes, other than a lot of holes in the ground, there was no trace of the blades.

"Truly a bizarre eldritch-like place…" Finn thought as he started to drive out of the car tunnel. After the knife storm, the sun was still out as Finn was able to tell it was noon. The shadowy figure was still hiding from tree to tree, but it stopped trying to chase him once Finn drove out of the car tunnel.

In the rearview mirror, Finn could have sworn he saw red glowing eyes looking at him from the woods. He could tell that the thing stalking him really wanted to follow him out of the meadow, but something was keeping it back. It was almost like it was scared of the sunlight and it wanted to drag him into the darkness and do terrible things to him.

"Whatever you are, you aren't getting the chance. So step off." Finn muttered, driving down the meadow and away from the car tunnel and forest.

Driving through the meadow was somewhat easy, but Finn knew he would eventually have to leave the car to clear more ground. His car wasn't meant for off roading like this, and even if he did have a big truck that can drive over rocks with ease, it still wouldn't have mattered.

He changed the radio to maybe see if he could get any frequency. Finn didn't think it was going to work because his smartphone had no reception, but to his surprise, he found something…

"…this is Starchy the Gravedigger of the Graveyard Shift radio show and I hope all you folks out there in Ooo were safe from the knife storm. I don't normally post during the day, but I had to check and make sure ya'll are safe.

Tonight at 10:30 PM, join me and we'll discuss some new hot topics. Join me tonight for some news and supernatural hot spots!"

It was great to discover that there was possible human civilization here because of this Starchy broadcasting news which made Finn sigh with relief because if there is a person broadcasting news, then that means there could be a possible town, or city nearby. He had to wait until tonight so he could get more information out of Starchy's radio show, so Finn could decide what to do next.

But he couldn't sit in wait in the car tunnel because something was clearly stalking him, so Finn had no choice but to move on from the area…

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