[IC] Crossing the Multiverse

[malmshodes]

"Yeah." Jim shook his head, doing his best to keep the bile down. Rae's sick sound didn't help him with his trouble. "Yeah, we do." He motioned inside with his head. "Come on. Let's do this. Don't touch anything, if you can avoid it, but on a safe note let's just make sure to wash our hands with acid once we're out of here."

Jim walked inside and went up the stairs. There wasn't as much carnage in the higher levels. "HEre we go" he said opening a dark door with a window that faced the square with the spacial tear in it.

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae kept her eyes on the backs of Jim's shoes, stepping where he stepped and keeping her mind from focusing on any of the gore. She kept her arms tight to her body as they walked. In fear of spewing again, Rae didn't speak until Jim pointed out the rift and their vantage point.

"O-okay...." Rae muttered, "Now we do what?"

[malmshodes]

"Uhm." Jim swallowed. "That's a good question." He thought for a moment before nodding at the idea that came to light in the dark recess of his mind. "So let's clear as wide of a path as we can." He carefully moved forward and looked down. "We'll blast a big enough swath of destruction as we can. Then, we'll climb down this thing over here and make our way to the tear." He frowned. "From there we better think up something because those things'll probably regroup in a hurry."

He looked over at Rae hopefully. "Unless you have a better idea? Please tell me you have a better idea."

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae frowned. "No...." she gulped. "No better ideas. But I think my shadow can possibly create something for us to stand on, to get into the rift?"
At the thought Rae concentrated and shadows collected to form a floating platform next to Rae. "As long as no more flashes of light occur, we should be able to make it."

[malmshodes]

"Yeah, I think your right. Here, I have an idea." Jim got up in the front of the window and stuck his hand out ever so slightly. "I'll shoot shoot from here and you take the back. That might not get rid of all the light, but if there's any flashes from the outside then hopefully it won't do too much damage to your........er shadowy equipment." He turned his attention back to the the task at hand, and focused on his arm.

It didn't take long for the limb to start glowing with yellow power. "Oh, and one more thing. Please, don't hit me. I mean, I know we're just getting used to this, but maybe instead of a shredding gun like from earlier, a nice sniper rifle like thing would do? Eh... Eh!" He swallowed hard, narrowed his eyes and let loose a blast of electricity into the nearest of the hoard members.

[RaeoftheLight]

"How about I just use my hand as a gun, like you? I don't even know how to shoot a real gun anyway," Rae demonstrated by lifting her hand, collecting shadows into a concentrated ball and then shooting the ball out to have it crash into an enemy. Instead of just knocking the enemy down, the ball went through the creature, leaving a gaping hole behind. The creature fell to the ground, lifeless. "Oh shit. Well that works."

Rae then created a large platform, concentrating hard on it. When she moved her hand away, the platform remained. "Yes!" Rae then made another ball of shadow and blasted it out. All the while the platform remained floating. To test its strength, Rae climbed upon it, lightly thinking move towards the rift. It did exactly as she wanted, and Rae grinned. "Climb on! We'll ride towards the rift and shoot as we go!" she motioned for Jim to join her atop the floating shadows.

[malmshodes]

"Hand as a gun sounds good." Jim nodded to the idea. "It's pretty simple." He paused and stood back as Rae started doing something else entirely. "What-what are you doing?" The notion the strange platform was a bomb entered his mind and didn't go away until Rae climbed on and then motioned for him to do the same. "Uh. Oh-okay. Let's do it this way, but what if there's another burst of light while we're floating towards the rift?" He shook his head. "Never mind. Forget I said anything. I know I will."

He hoped on the platform and started charging energy into his hand. "Let's go!" Without saying anything else. He started blasting away at random, hoping that the creatures would panic and scatter. They didn't and returned fire. "I hope this thing can haul ass because we're kind of sitting ducks up here."

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae also began shooting, but though at the platform to hurry up! Suddenly they were quickly moving close to the rift, much faster than before. Praying there was no light or that they didn't lose balance and fall off, Rae kept up her shadow shooting, but soon it became difficult the farther from a source of shadow they were. Any shadow Rae saw she called to her, from under cars down below or atop nearby buildings. The rift was only a few feet away now.
"Jim! Do we jump in?" Rae asked her partner as they came even closer.

[malmshodes]

"Uhm." Jim said. It was a good question and he didn't have a good answer. "Er well." He said, but he didn't get to say much more before something big pushed its way out of the crowd of black things. "Oh god no." Jim muttered staring at the abomination as it turned to face them. "They have tanks too. How do they have tanks?" He swallowed hard and jumped off the platform. "I say we go in because there's no way we can face a tank." Without waiting for a reply he jumped in.

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae spent a moment staring at the army of creatures, then looked further at the destruction of the city. Gulping, Rae turned and leapt through the rift after Jim, her platform vanishing. She couldn't help but feel as if that would be her last glimpse of home for a while. Rae only hoped they could end this soon and save everyone. If some magical forces think I am capable, then I will deliver, Rae thought as everything fell away around her and she entered whatever place the rift lead to.

[malmshodes]

It was hard to say with any certainty what Jim had expected as he moved through the rift. There had been any number of television shows that dealt with moving from one plain of existence to another, most of them, had long fiery tunnels, or paths of stars. His favorites always had the body being broken down and then remade in the desired space. This wasn't anything like that. It didn't feel like anything more than when you forget there's two steps left on the ladder instead of one.

"Ouch damn it." Jim mumbled as he landed a bit harder on his knees than he would've preferred. "Serves me right for not stretching." He took a few minutes to rub his legs before looking around and coming to the conclusion he wasn't in the city any more. He wasn't even in the same state any more. He doubted vary much he was on the same continent.

"Oh. This isn't Kansas any more, isn't?"

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae landed hard, hands and knees scraping against the ground. She looked up, and then around. Nothing was familiar to her and she suddenly felt very afraid. "Where are we?" Rae slowly stood up, grimacing at the slight sting of her knees. She looked down and noticed a large tear in the jeans above her left knee, and a small trickle of blood soaking into the denim. "Oh, great." Rae muttered.

She looked at Jim, hoping he had a clue. "Do you know where we might me?" she asked him, standing closer than necessary due to her nervousness about the situation.

[malmshodes]

Jim turned around in time to see Rae landing in the tall grass. "Ouch." He said, wincing at the blood. He took a step forward and then a step back. "Uhm." He blinked. "That's a good question." Looking around, there wasn't much to take in aside from tall grass, and there was a lot of it. It went on for as far as the eye could see, and then some, possibly, long past the horizon, in great rolling heaps until they fell off the edge of the world. "There's a lot of grass though. so the good news is wherever we are water isn't going to be hard to come by."

Something rustled in the bushes. "Oh! I think I found something! Hold on and I'll check it out." He disappeared into a particularly high spot of grass. "Hey, is there someone else here?" A pause. "Oh." Next thing either of them know Jim is screaming. He's also waving his hands around. "Go. Go!" He calls to Rae as he races past her. "We don't need a destination, but the trip, that's important." Fallowing close behind him was a bull, but unlike any other bull people on Earth had seen outside of video games or Saturday morning cartoons. It had three tails, some strange things on its forehead and shouted. "Taurossss" as it rushed after Jim.

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae screamed at the sight of the large animal and ran after Jim. "Doesn't running from things usually not a good idea?" Rae shouted to Jim. "Wait, our powers! Use your electricity, I don't think there is enough shadow here!" Rae looked back and saw the creature gaining on them. Abruptly, Rae tripped and fell, skidding along the ground and adding another scrape to her body. "Ow, shit," she muttered, then quickly screamed and ducked down as she noticed the bull thing heading right to her.

[malmshodes]

"Oh yeah!" JIm called back. That was a good point. Shame he didn't get to take any credit for the idea. "I'll give that a shot." He stopped and swirled around on his feet. "Okay, only warning stopped or be lit up like a christmas tree." The animal didn't stop, or slow down, or even blink. It just kept on plowing straight towards him like an arrow that didn't give a damn about wind resistance or the body its sharp tip was about to punch four inches into. "Okay, I tried. Here you go a great big serving of quickly moving electrons." He pointed his hand to the beast and nothing happened for a few seconds, almost too many seconds, but in the end an event of light did take place. The lightning didn't come from Jim's hand as he had thought, but from something behind him, near to the ground. The blast wasn't as bright as the ones he did back home, but it was good enough to surprise the raging bull enough to get him to change course, barely missing Jim.

"How did?" He blinked down at his hand, trying to understand what new rules had come into play before nearly jumping out of his skin as something soft and filled with static electricity brushed against his lefg.

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae watched what had happened, sitting up with a gasp and thanking the stars that the creature moved on. She turned back to Jim, then paused. Suddenly, the thing rushing at them, the tall grass, and now the creature rubbing against Jim all made sense. "Jim....I think that's a..." Rae couldn't even finish her sentence, her shock so apparent.

[malmshodes]

"Uhm?" Jim told his thundering heart to be still and it did, a little. "I could be wrong but that looks sort of like a Mareep, the electric sheep pokemon." He blinked and patted the adoring pokemon on the head. "It feels real." He patted it again. "Really real like I"m not hallucinating at all." The pokemon went baaa in return.

"Hey!" Someone in the distance yelled. "Hey, you kids, get out of there! Bubba don't take kindly to trespassers." No sooner had the words been spoken than the stampeding pokemon reappeared and headed right towards them.

[RaeoftheLight]

Momentarily Rae felt her heart swelling up at Mareep, knowing this was an actual, real live Pokémon that could become Ampharos right in front of her! The sudden sound of shouting and the galloping hooves snapped her out of la-la land and Rae quickly ran with Jim out of the area, leaping over a fence, finally free from the overly tall grass. She turned to see if Jim was with her, hoping he had also made it to safety.

[malmshodes]

"Damn. Damn. Damn." Jim said. He started to turn to run, but remembered mareep. Yes, it wasn't his pokemon, and no it was never a good idea to just grab a strange animal, even if it was merely supposed to exist in a fictional world and was cuter than the world's cutest button. "Oh damn." He doubled back, hosted the fuzzy pokemon and started running after Rae. He didn't quiet make it over the fence when the tauros caught up to him, but he didn't get impaled by the painful looking horns. He'd call that a win.

Instead he ended up rolling away from the danger, pulling the electric type close to his chest. When he stood up he was once again facing the pokemon. He lowered his horned head and kicked the ground, readying himself for another charge. Behind him there was the fence. Behind the fence there was Rae and behind Rae, someways back there was a complete stranger rushing towards them, yelling something Jim couldn't make out.

[RaeoftheLight]

Rae turned and watched as she saw Jim grab up the pink fluff. "Come on Jim!!!" Rae shouted at him, but he stood on the other side of the fence, Pokémon in his arms. The Tauros was readying for another attack. Not sure what to do, Rae ran forward and grabbed Jim by the shoulder, attempting to drag him over the fence. "Come on!! You got to move!" Rae yelled at her friend. It would be horrible for them to have survived the attack of the rifts, only to perish by being impaled by fictional creature horns!!!