Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Dream in Reality ❯ Delightful Surprise ( Chapter 1 )

A Dream in Reality

Ch1: Delightful Surprise

"Now what?"

"Go to that one."

"This one?"

"Yeah. The one called Vortex. Sounds like it might be interesting."

"If you say so." Kathleen said to Shannon.

The two girls were sitting side-by-side at a library computer, trying to decide what fanfic to read next. Kathleen and Shannon had been on the computers all day, but had been forced, after their lunch, to share one at the back of the library that was the slowest. But it really didn't matter since they were best friends. Both worked as volunteers at the local library. It was summer time and there was nothing to do in town, but work. Plus Shannon always had community service hours to do. Actually she used it as an excuse to get her parents to bring her to the library every day. If you saw the two best friends walking down the street, the first thought that would come to mind would be sisters. Both had brown hair that was several inches passed their shoulders. Shannon was 17 and lived in Florida, but came up to North Carolina in the summer. Kathleen did live in North Carolina and was 12 years old, much to her disappointment. And to top it all off, both were crazy for anime. Especially the show Gundam Wing.

"This is really weird. What's wrong with the screen?" asked Kathleen.

"I don't know. Special effects maybe?" answered Shannon. Upon opening the fic, Vortex, the computer screen had changed to a strange, gray color. Suddenly, 5 bright multicolored lights burst out of the computer screen. They flew around the girls and landed on the floor behind them. When the lights and spots in front of their eyes faded, Shannon and Kathleen turned around. They're, standing in, most likely, one of the smallest town libraries in the world, was the G-boys! Duo Maxwell was in Heero Yuy's arms, having used the odd situation as a reason to latch onto his koi. Trowa Barton was holding Quatre Winner close to him. And Chang Wufei just looked mad. Luckily, there wasn't anyone else in that part of the library. All five looked around their new surroundings and spotted the two shocked girls watching them with wide disbelieving eyes.

"Um... Hi! Who are you?" Duo asked, finally untangling himself from Heero.

"Oh my god! Shannon, do you see what I see?" Kathleen said, recovering first. "I do, if you're seeing the G-boys. And, did Duo just say Hi to us?" With that, the two fan girls collapsed in a fit of excited giggles. Then, they remembered what was on their computer screen and that their notebooks were open to the recent fic they were writing together. Trying to look innocent, Shannon and Kathleen raced to close the covers of the notebooks and turn the screen off. With both doing everything at the same time, it took a while before all was accomplished. When they turned around again, the g-boys had moved up to see over their shoulder and Heero had his gun out. He raised it to Shannon's head and said in that really scary voice of his, "Where are we?"

Shannon stared at the gun. Then reaching out a hand pushed it slightly to the side. 'Yep, cold metal. It's real. Oh, boy. We're definitely in a mess, albeit a nice one, but still a mess.'

Heero glared harder. How dare anyone touch his gun!

"Hey, Kath. It's real. And if the gun's real then so are they. I don't think we're dreaming, so you can stop pinching yourself and me."

"Baka onna! Of course we're real!" yelled Wufei, adding his glare to Heero's.

"Oh, yeah. Um, since the gun is real don't you think you should answer?"

"Oh. I forgot. Guess I'd better. Well at the moment you're in a library in a small town in North Carolina."

"Well, that's good to know. I wonder how we ended up here. I don't think the explosion was that bad and wouldn't we be a bit more beat up if we'd been caught in the explosion?" Quatre turned to Trowa a puzzled look upon his face.

"I would think so, Little one." He answered.

"Maybe we're dead." Mused Duo.

"I highly doubt that, Maxwell."

"No. You're not dead." said Kathleen smiling.

"You're just not in your world anymore. You're in ours." added Shannon with a straight face, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

Five heads snapped to attention while ten pairs of eyes turned to look at the one who had made the announcement. Heero's eyes narrowed and he brought his gun back into alignment with Shannon's face.

"Explain." He growled.

Shannon turned to look at Kathleen who simply looked back wearing a scowl to hide her amusement.

"You're the one who threw diplomacy out the window and anyway, you're also the expert on stuff like this. You explain. 'Cause I want to know what happened too."

Shannon grinned back. "Okay, okay. I'll explain. Just give me a minute to think." She sighed, placing her elbow on her knee and propping her chin on her hand while giving the gun an annoyed look. "Okay, I seem to like that word, don't I? Well anyway here's the short version. We were surfing the net and we opened a file called Vortex. When we did the screen began to swirl and out flew you guys. That's the short version. Now for the long one. I'd sit down. This is gonna take a minute. In fact I think we'd better move to the room in the back. It's got comfier chairs. And stop pointing that gun at me. I'm not going anywhere and you'd catch me before I moved five steps anyway. What do you say, Kath?"

"Sounds like a good idea to me."

"Cool. Hey you didn't say whatever! You're learning."

"Whatever." She grinned.

"Rats. I thought my optimism was running off on you. No matter. Got the rest of the summer, and the one after that and the one after that and well you get it. Now, Onward to the back room. High ho Silver, away! I love that line!" With that said she jumped up from her chair and ran off a couple steps then turned back to the others. Five of which were staring at her, two with dropped jaws, while Kath just shook her head and got up to follow, albeit at a slower pace.

"Duo." Called Quatre.

"Yeah."

"Are you sure you don't have any relatives?"

"Not that I know of, but I'm beginning to wonder."

"Hai, so am I." With that they followed Shannon and Kathleen into the back room. By the time they got there Shannon and Kathleen had set some chairs in a circle.

"Have a seat." Said Shannon with a smile. She and Kathleen sat down next to each other while waiting for the others to take their seats. Heero, who had once more put his gun away, though it was within easy reach sat down across from the two girls so he could keep an eye on them. Duo sat next to him, one arm across his koi's shoulder. Quatre sat next to Duo and Trowa sat in the empty seat by Quatre, which was also next to Kathleen. Wufei took the last empty seat, which happened to be by Shannon.

She looked around. "Okay. Everyone comfy?"

All six nodded.

"Shannon."

"Yeah, Kath?"

"Do not take all day and go into every theory and explanation with word for word detail. Use the one which best fits. We still have to cut those dragons out before closing in an hour."

"Okay." She smiled. "I won't. And I was going to do that anyway. Now then. The explanation. We were opening a file off the Internet called Vortex. What seems to have happened is that it opened a gateway or portal, whichever you prefer to call it, to your world, which I'd assume is a parallel world to ours. The gate once opened had to latch or draw in if you will, enough stuff, whether it is animate or inanimate does not matter, to use up enough energy that it could close. You, see a gate is an odd thing. When, supposedly controlled by an outside force it draws energy from that which controls it and will do that person's bidding. At least until the person uses up their energy to the point where they lose control of the gate. Then the gate turns upon its creator, either burning them to a crisp or drawing them in and collapsing on them, which means they end up in a void of pure energy that will eventually devour them. This gate though, was an anomaly. A rather fascinating one at that. And one you were lucky to survive. Normally once a gate has used up enough of its energy gathering stuff it will shut down, putting whatever it collected in the energy void. And then there are the gates that don't follow this theory. The gate you came through was one of them. By my guess and an earlier comment, I believe we opened the Vortex file at the height of an explosion. Through some chain of events the file tapped into the energy from the explosion, which created a gate, which after collecting all it could, was then directed, by the file to send you here so to speak instead of the void. Any questions?"

Duo, blinking was the first to recover. "Yeah. Where'd you learn that?"

"Lots and lots of reading. Mostly fantasy books."

Quatre, with a hopeful look, turned to Shannon. "Do you know how we can get back?"

"Not really. But if we put our heads together I'm sure we can find a way."

Wufei turned to look at her. "Why do you say that?"

"Because there's a solution to every problem. You just have to find. Unless its math, Then I go ask someone else." She laughed softly. "So, since you guys are going to be here for a while want to help us cut out knight slaying paper dragons, while we talk about what to do next? Hey Wufei, do you have your sword with you?"

"Yes I…Wait a minute! How do the two of you know who we are?"

"The five of you are the main characters of a favorite TV show of ours." Said Kathleen, with a mischievous grin.

"WHAT!!" yelled all five.

"Yep. According to her all parallel worlds are connected in one way or another. There is most likely a connection of our world to yours as well. Hey, Shannon, why don't you bring the dragons in here. That way we don't have to change rooms again."

"Good idea. Be right back. And Heero, please do not point the gun at people if they come in here. This is a public library." With that said she ran out the door to get the dragons and seven pairs of scissors.

"Hn."

Duo leaned against Heero, while turning to look at Kathleen. "So how much do the two of you know about us?"

"Well we know your names, names of your Gundams, and some parts of your past that may or may not be true."

Shannon chose that moment to come in. "Especially since it's a TV show. Most of the so-called facts are probably made-up. The crossing link is more the five of you then the content of the show."

"Oh. Are the two of you sure you didn't bring us here?"

Both Kathleen and Shannon burst out laughing before Kathleen answered. "Nah. We have enough trouble getting Microsoft word to work so we can write. Then again that could just be our comps."

"I doubt it, but it could be. Well here are the dragons. We have to cut out 50. It should go faster since there's more people."

"And save our hands." Sighed Kathleen. "Hmm. We need to find a place for you all to stay at."

Shannon looked over at Kathleen. "Why not my house? It has 3 bedrooms, front porch, TV that doesn't work, Sega that does work, VCR that works sometimes, and a kitchen, which I rarely use since I can't cook. Plus I'm the only one there. At your place you have your parents. And I believe your Mom would notice them. They're kinda hard to miss."

Kathleen mock-glared at Shannon. "Do you always have to make sense?"

"Of course not. Just when it counts." She turned to the G-boys. "How's that sound to the five of you?"

They turned to each other, debating the idea.

"Well, they are the only people we know here." Said Quatre.

"Plus OZ isn't here, right?" Asked Duo Looking up.

"Nope. We're Oz free." Answered Kathleen.

"They have a point, Heero, Wufei. And we do need a place to stay. Also we can defeat them if the need arises." Pointed out Trowa calmly.

"Fine." Said both Heero and Wufei.

"Great. Looks like you got some housemates Shannon." Said Duo turning towards them with a cheeky grin.

Quatre then turned to her, a serious look gracing his features. "One other thing. Trowa and I are a couple, as are Duo and Heero. Does either of you have any problems with that?"

"I don't." answered Kathleen.

"Nor, do I. Though I believe I shall be taking a lot of walks.

"How so?" asked Wufei.

Shannon looked up from her dragon and turned to Wufei, then said with a straight face. "The house doesn't have any doors inside of it, except for the bathrooms. All it has is plastic blinds that are pulled over the entrance way."

"I believe I shall be joining you for those walks to make sure you stay out of trouble." Said Wufei as he blushed slightly.

"Sounds fine to me. Now lets finish these dragons so we can head to the house. You all can come to work with me in the mornings, if you like. Believe me, it'll be more interesting than staying at the house. These are small towns. I like them, but that's because my only interests are the library and the stables above my house."

"That'll be fine." Said Quatre with a soft smile.

"See, Kath, you'll still get to see them." teased Shannon. "Hey, do any of you know how to cook? Cause if so we can go by the grocery store one-day. I don't cook when I'm the only one there. And if I do, it's normally enough to last all week. Now that I'm not the only one there I have a reason to buy ingredients and the like. We can take turns." She looked hopefully at the boys.

Quatre smiled back happily. "That sounds good. All of us can cook, so taking turns should work out fine."

"Great! Actual cooked meals! Life is looking up! Plus I get to use some of Papa's recipes!"

Kathleen and Duo laughed at her enthusiasm.

"Just be sure to bring me some." Said Kathleen with a smile.

"I will!"

Kathleen looked over at the clock. "Ooops. We'd better hurry. We only have twenty minutes left before closing."

"Guess we should then." Answered Shannon.

They all turned back to their cutting out the dragons, while the conversation settled into a comfortable silence, which was broken every so often by Duo's commentaries.