Storm
I slouched against one of the few trees left in the forest. The charred ruins of a forest flourishing with life only hours ago were all I could see other than that road. There were no roads, where I was from. The sky was the road, there. I was far from my home, further than any person could understand. Or perhaps they could, being put through what I’d been through in my life. Yes, people, the name the beings in 12 of the universes we’d discovered had given themselves. I was currently on one of those 12. One of the ones those in world 0 considered "special". One of the "twin" worlds.
For this reason, we were supposed to never under any circumstances enter this world. The sole purpose of the portals was to study these other worlds. Maybe Angel had a point... After all, we had almost the exact same DNA as these "people". But we were more evolved. We were what they would become. Why did we need to study ourselves? That was basically what we were doing... Entering worlds 1751 or 1752 had ferocious consequences, and my sister and I had done just that.
4 hours ago
Angel and I were at multiverse port, waiting for our parents to return. If only they had shown up sooner.
"Hey Storm, why don't we go to one of the worlds?" asked Angel, my 8 year old sister. She was short, typical for someone her age, but she was freakishly clever. I hate to say it but that's the only way I can put it. But there are different types of intelligence, and some forms of it you have to grow up to gain.
She was very pale, and had chocolate brown hair with golden highlights. Her eyes were white. A rare, but existing trait, linked to genes that sparked immense intelligence... and we were about 150% human intelligence to begin with! But, being eight, she didn't have certain forms of knowledge. She didn't care much about rules, and ever since someone told her about a Japanese teaching from one of the twelve "people" worlds, that basically said "live every day as if it were your last day" she had been a recklessly immature kid who only cared about having fun. She put things together in her head the way she wanted them to go, and that wasn't always the right way.
"Uh, sure, which one?" I replied, brightening. We hadn't done much together in awhile.
"How about 1751?" she asked, and my smile faded.
"Sorry. We both know we can't," I said.
"I know...but..," she started slowly, looking at her feet sadly, then seriously she asked: "Aren't you curious about what's out there? Beyond what we've already seen?"
"Yeah... But why can‘t you just be satisfied with a normal life?"
"Normal? Why be normal? Normal is boring. I don't want to do anything bad, I just want to have fun!" She said, then ran away from me toward the portals. Are Mom and Dad back yet? I wondered, then looked over and saw her running toward Sector 2, the forbidden worlds. I almost got up, but then decided even she wouldn't be able to get into there, right? Wrong.
"Sector 2 Breached!" a voice coming from the overhead speaker said, just after I received a message on my pager from Angel, that said: "I got in! I got in! :)"
"What the-" I said. Well, she'd always been good at trickery... My fingers fumbled with the pager and I typed: "Get out of there, now!" She knew we weren’t supposed to go there. But she did not know the consequences of doing so.
"Worlds 1752-1760 breached!" the voice said.
"That damn idiot!" I said, and begun running in that direction. Then got a text from her saying: "Yeah! Let's see them try to find me in all those at once!"
"That's right... She's using that trick again," I muttered to myself. I ran in that direction as fast as my legs would carry me, arches and people flying past me as I sped toward Sector 2. Halfway there I got another text from Angel: "You're too late! :P"
"Angel!" I yelled, then my pager said she had entered a different world just when my suspicions were confirmed by the message saying: "World 1751 breached!"
"What the hell is she thinking!" I screamed. I don't know why. I just kept running, and when I got to that room I made the most life-changing choice I can remember: I entered portal 1751. I tried to stop, but my legs kept going, before I knew it, I felt the familiar sense of being stretched, from lack of gravity. When I appeared, I looked around. Angel was up in a tree.
"You came, you came!" she said happily.
"Well, don't be so happy, if we aren't off the radar within a few minutes we're dead," I said.
"Yay! Finally some excitement!"
"You're such a tomboy!" I said, chuckling a little.
"What's that?"
"A human term."
"Ah."
"So what was your plan? Come here and run around until you get caught?" I asked annoyed.
"If I go down now, I'd like to do it having fun!"
"Well, let's dispose of our pagers and find shelter."
"Kay."
We would have jumped around, but it was too dark. After a bit of walking, it became darker than I thought possible. Pitch. Black. I'd never been anywhere this dark. It smothered me like a blanked. I could barely breathe. Wait a minute, there was something covering me! I head-butted backward, then pushed the man behind me over, just before being grabbed from behind by someone else.
“Angel, RUN!” I yelled, then felt the gravity return to normal. I was going home. I found myself back in the room I'd came from, and then someone pulled a gun on me.
"Say hi to your sis in hell, kid!" he said, then I swatted the gun out of his hand, and turned around. All the personnel were surrounding portal 1751.
"Well, just as she said..." I said, then smiled. "I'd better go down having fun," Then I lunged into portal 1752.
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