The six of them were still seated in a circle in a nearly empty park. They all looked around but only Gwen and Rose were confused.
"You! You did this on purpose!" shouted Rose looking at Alex.
Both of Rose's hands curled into fists as she stood up. She raised one arm and her hand glowed as she ran towards Alex. Alex stood up quickly ready to defend herself but Liz reacted faster and stopped Rose by grabbing her.
Liz explained, "It had to be this way. It was the only way to get us home."
Rose tried to pull away from Liz to reach Alex. Peter had gotten up while Liz had been talking and grabbed Rose's arm with the non-glowing hand.
Peter said, "You need to calm down. Hitting Alex won't help anything. We all more or less agreed to this."
"It will help! It was all her! She knew..." Rose's shouting became softer. "How are you doing that? Stop that!" Rose's fist stopped glowing and unclenched.
Peter replied, "I didn't know that I was doing anything. I was just trying to help."
Alex asked Rose, "Are we good now?"
Rose responded, "Hell no! Just 'cause I'm no longer mad enough to hit you doesn't mean anything."
Rose began to walk away from the group.
"Where are you going?" asked Sam.
Rose answered, "Leaving. We're home now. Who cares where I'm going."
Gwen was going to respond but Sam beat her to it. "We might not be. David said this would get us closer to home with a small chance of us actually landing in our own world. You need to stay with us. ... We'll find out if we're home and if we are, you can walk off and do whatever you want."
Rose was still mad but didn't want to wander around an unknown dimension alone so she stayed with them.As they walked out of the park, Rose lagged behind the others. It was her way of pretending that she wasn't with them. Gwen wasn't happy with them either but wasn't sure how she felt exactly. She walked beside Peter because she knew that he was the least involved in the plan. Across the street was a small store that resembled a convenience store.
Sam said, "Alex and I will go in and see if we can find a map. It should be enough to tell us if we're in the right world. All we know is we're definitely not in our city."
The two of them went inside the store while the others waited outside in silence. Liz and Peter would have preferred speaking but there was too much tension among the group.Alex and Sam came out within five minutes. Sam looked disappointed.
Sam told the others, "According to the map, our city doesn't exist and neither does our nation. And our money doesn't resemble theirs."
Liz commented, "It's doubtful we could get a hotel that compares to our last one anyway."
Sam smiled and responded, "Ya, that was an awesome hotel. We can look for something decent and free here... unless the two of you aren't too upset to make another portal."
Rose didn't answer and Gwen muttered, "We can make one."
Liz said, "Let's go find somewhere more private then."
Liz led them away from the park and the people walking around.They walked for ten minutes before finding an empty path to use. The path extended between two buildings that appeared abandoned and behind the one to their left. There was also a tall black wooden fence behind the buildings. It seemed like a good place to not be noticed.
As they walked on the path between the buildings, someone shouted, "Gn! Gn!"
It was the Greg from that dimension. He was running towards them.
He added, "Wat ya dng! Soppd be has! Go bk!"
Gwen didn't understand him. Hoping that it would make him go away, she answered, "Yeah, give me five minutes."
"No! Go bk nk!" shouted the other Greg as he reached Gwen and grabbed her arm.
When he tugged at her arm, Gwen punched him in the face. It knocked him unconscious.
Sam said, "Let's hurry up before someone else who thinks they know us shows up."
Sam hurried to the back of the building. The others quickly followed her. The back of the structure had a garage door but no vehicles nor people were in sight. Gwen and Rose hurried to make a portal, then the six of them walked through it.
Splash, splash, splash, splash, splash, splash.
They had each stepped into air and fallen into the body of cold water below them. Fortunately for them, they all knew how to swim and the shore was close.
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Lost Among Realms (w|w cast version)
Fantasy1 argument, 1 inter-dimensional portal sucking in the 6 main characters, and 1 enemy within the various dimensions travelled. I'm kidding. There's more than 1. This is (or should be) the mostly women main cast version. There's also a mostly men main...