[TyRant]

       We took the lift seven decks down, got off the lift, and started searching that deck for two of the materials Akira need for completing the Dimensional Cannon. Akira looked closely at the holographic map hovering an inch over the screen on his Infinicomm as we walked. I couldn’t get a good look at the holographic map so I just followed Akira until he stopped in the middle of the walkway.
       “It is around here somewhere,” Akira said.
       “Which material is it?” I asked.
       “I believe it is the concentrated power source or a strong metal alloy,” Akira said.
       Akira walked over to a nearby trader while still concentrating on the holographic map and Joseph and I followed him. This trader looked like a human female, except that her ears were pointy, like an elf from fantasy stories of Earth.
       “That is Newman,” Joseph informed us.
       “Oh have you two never met any of my species before?” the pointy-eared woman trader asked me and Akira.
       “You’re the first one of your species that I’ve ever seen,” Akira said.
       “Meia is a Newman, remember her pointy ears?” Joseph asked Akira.
       “I never noticed them,” Akira said.
       “I haven’t noticed them either,” I said.
       “Excuse me, but are you going to buy anything?” the female Newman trader said.
       “Oh, I’m sorry. We are looking for a strong metal alloy and a concentrated power source,” Akira said.
       “A power source like that is used to power this station, and as for a strong metal alloy, there is one piece of the strongest metal in the entire universe in here somewhere,” the female Newman trader said.
       I started looking around for the piece of metal as Joseph and Akira talked to the female Newman trader. I spotted a piece of metal partially buried under some other stuff the female Newman trader was selling and moved the stuff on top of it over. I then grabbed the piece of metal, blew off a little dust, and walked over to Akira and Joseph.
       “Is this it?” I asked, showing the female Newman trader.
       “Yes, and I’ll give you that, if one of you will become my mate, as it is a very rare metal alloy,” the female Newman trader said.
       “What?!” I asked in surprise, dropping the piece of metal as Akira caught it.
       “Well, I can’t, I’m already married to Ayeka,” Akira said, then looked toward Joseph.
       “Don’t look at me,” Joseph said.
       “I like you more,” the female Newman trader said as she looked at Akira.
       “Uh, um...uh,” Akira stuttered.
       “Come on, she likes you,” Joseph said, elbowing Akira in the side.
       “I...um,” Akira said.
       “Oh, forget it. If you would rather pay for it, fine,” the female Newman trader said in a slightly angry and hurt tone.
       “How much is it?” Joseph asked.
       “I’ll give it to you for ten credit,” the female Newman trader said, with a hurt look on her face.
       Then Joseph grabbed a flat hand-held device out of Akira’s right jacket pocket, as Akira stood there motionless, mouth partially open, and staring into space. Joseph pressed a few buttons on the flat hand-held device while staring at the screen.
       “What is that?” I asked Joseph.
       “It is a credit device,” Joseph said. “It’s used to transfer credits from one to another.”
       I waved my hand in front of Akira’s eyes like Joseph had done to me earlier, to get Akira’s attention, since he seemed to be zoned out. After I removed my hand from in front of Akira’s face I noticed that Akira hadn’t responded at all.
       “Apparently he was really stunned by the comment of her liking him,” Joseph said.
       “Really?” the female Newman trader asked, looking to Akira as she did.
       Then all of a sudden Akira’s eyes closed and he fell to the floor.
       “Oh my! Is he okay?” the female Newman trader asked, in a worried tone of voice.
       “I don’t know,” Joseph said, already on the floor, checking Akira for a pulse.
       “Well, how is he?” I asked Joseph.
       “He still has a pulse,” Joseph said. “We need to take him to the medical bay.”
       “There is a medical bay on the station, I’ll lead you there,” the female Newman trader said.
       “That would be nice, thank you,” I said.
       Then Joseph grabbed Akira’s arms as I grabbed Akira’s legs, then together we lifted Akira off the floor.
       “Follow me,” the female Newman trader said, and started to lead the way.
       Joseph and I followed the female Newman trader out of her shop and toward the medical bay on the station.

[Ash]

       We followed Miyu down the tunnel and into a wide open area where Antans were walking in and out of tunnels all over the place. I looked up and noticed that there were more Antans walking on the ceiling and the walls. I took one of my feet and placed it on the wall, then I placed my other three feet on the wall. I was standing on the wall now, and walked up onto the ceiling. I looked up above me, or rather below me, to see the rest of the group just standing there. Apparently they hadn’t noticed that I was on the ceiling now. Walking on the walls and ceiling felt like I was walking on the floor for I didn’t feel like I was being pulled to the floor. I felt as if I was being pulled toward the ceiling, but I wasn’t.
       “Hey guys, look above you,” I called to the others.
       Just as I said that, they looked up and saw me on the ceiling. It felt a little odd because it seemed like they were looking down at me, and I was looking up at them, but really we were both looking up at each other.
       “Ash, what are you doing up there? How did you get up there?” Royce asked.
       “Antans must be able to walk on walls and ceilings,” Astrid said, while pointing to other Antans on the ceiling.
       “That can be useful for the future, that is if we ever need to walk on the ceiling,” Tobias said.
       I jumped off the ceiling, flipped upside right as I fell, and landed gently on the floor in front of the others.
       “Shall we continue?” I asked.
       Miyu walked past me and lead the way down the tunnel, which was accessed from the ground, and into a large room. In this room we found the other five groups of the Destined in their true forms.
       “Hey guys, did you find anything?” Akane asked the others.
       “Only a Power Shard,” Ranma said.
       “What is that?” Miyu asked.
       “It is a shard of the Crystal of Power,” Daniel said.
       Then I noticed someone was missing, it was Ryvjha, she wasn’t with the others.
       “Where is Ry?” I asked.
       “She went to go do something real quick and said she would be right back,” Nikki said.
       “So why are you all in your true forms? Aren’t you worried about other Antans?” Royce asked.
       “Ry told us that it was safe here and if any Antans came this way, we would just quickly turn into Antans,” Ryudo said.
       “We were wondering why you all are still in your Antan forms,” Doug said.
       “Oh right,” Tobias said, changing into his true form which was human.
       Miyu, Astrid, Robert, Akane, Royce, Ukyo, and I turned into our true forms. I looked at Miyu, and noticed small horns protruding out of her forehead. Then I looked to Meia and noticed that her ears were in fact pointy, like an elf or something. Lastly I looked at Nina, having seen something strange in the corner of my eye, and noticed that she had two large wings growing out of her back. I was surprised and wondered why they were slightly different than average human beings. The only difference between me and average human beings was that I had pyro-kinesis.
       “Why are we different? Is that what you want to know, Ash?” Miyu asked, as if she had just read my mind.
       “How- ” I started to ask.
       “I noticed you staring at the three of us, with a baffled look on your face,” Miyu said.
       “The reason why we are different is because we aren’t human like the rest of you, we each belong to a different alien species,” Meia said.
       “What are the names of your species?” Akane asked curiously.
       “And why hide it from us for this long?” I asked.
       “Well, we didn’t want to scare you at first,” Nina said.
       “Anyway, my race is called Newmen,” Meia said.
       “Mine are called Skylings,” Nina said.
       “And my race are called Demians,” Miyu said. “But these small horns aren’t the only feature Demians have that is different than humans.”
       Miyu took off her cloak to show the rest of her body. She was barely wearing anything to cover her body under the cloak. Then I noticed her tail, the tip of it was shaped like an arrow head.
       “Woah,” Jackie said excitedly, looking at Miyu’s barely covered body.
       “Why don’t you put this back on?” I asked, grabbing the cloak and putting it back on Miyu to cover her otherwise nearly naked body.
       “What is wrong? DO you not like the way I really look?” Miyu asked all of us, with a puzzled look on her face.
       “It’s not that, it’s just that you are barely wearing anything under that cloak,” Kiri said.
       “Just so you know Miyu, I personally loved it,” Ranma said.
       “It looks like we have something in common,” Jackie said to Ranma.
       “You are both very perverted boys,” Akane said, with a disgusted look on her face.
       “This is what my race wears as a space suit. It provides a shield around our birth suits,” Miyu said, taking the cloak back off.
       “You mean your people walk around naked when you’re not wearing your space suits?” Taichi asked in surprise.
       “My people walk around naked also. Do you have a problem with that too?” Ayeka said, starting to getting offended.
       “Well, your people also have a natural cover over their skin,” Royce said. “Humanoid creatures are different.”
       “It is kind of degrading for humanoid creature to walk around naked or nearly naked for that matter,” Nabiki said.
       “Why is that?” Miyu asked.
       “I don’t really know,” Nabiki said.
       “I would like to walk around like I naturally am,” Miyu said.
       “Fine, if you really want to, I guess it is okay,” Kiri said.
       “Well, thank you, but it is my choice anyway, it is my body,” Miyu said. “It’s your society that has developed a sort of fear of walking around like how they came into this world, in my opinion.”
       “She does have a point,” I said.
       “Oh shut up,” Kiri said to me.
       “Anyway, for those who don’t already know, I’m married to Akira,” Ayeka said.
       “I’m engaged to Akira,” Ursula said.
       “I want to marry Akira too,” Meia said.
       “Me too,” Nina said.
       “Yeah, and me too,” Rutee said.
       “I want to marry him also,” Toni said.
       “So do I,” Luna said, with a dreamy look on her face.
       “Me too,” Ukyo said.
       “Me three,” Kiri said.
       “Me four,” Astrid said.
       “Me five,” Royce said.
       “And me six,” Nabiki said.
       “I’m not going to say ‘me seven’ but I also want to marry him,” Sora said.
       “Same here,” Mimi said.
       “And me too,” Tara said.
       “Also me,” Akane said.
       “Fifteen girls want to marry Akira, plus Ayeka who is already married to him,” Jackie said. “What is it that makes all the girls fall in love with him?”
       “Maybe it is cause he is the ‘Chosen One’, or perhaps it’s that he acts like he’s a lot older than just 15 years old,” I said.
       “He is so hot,” Nina said.
       “Hey girls, why don’t one of you marry me instead?” Ranma asked.
       “Dream on,” Ursula said.
       “Ouch,” Ranma said, taking the blow verbally, yet having a hint of sarcasm in what he said as well.
       The girls then began to argue with Ranma.
       “Guys...Guys...HEY GUYS! Stop the fighting,” I said. “We need to find all of the Power Shards and Akira. Fighting each other is both pointless and a waste of precious time.”
       “Ash is right. Since it seems Akira hasn’t found a way to get to this dimension yet, we should go on ahead to the next dimension in hopes to find Akira there,” Seeker said.
       “Well, what if he has found a way to get to this dimension?” Meia asked.
       “I seriously doubt it. If anything, he is probably in the process of making something to open up dimensional portals,” Daniel said.
       “So let’s be going then,” I said.
       “Wait, what about Ryvjha?” Miroku asked.
       “She has been gone for a long time,” Brandon said, stating the obvious.
       “Should we go look for her?” Robert asked.
       “No need,” a voice coming from above our heads said.
       I looked up and saw Ryvjha standing there on the ceiling. She walked toward the closest wall, climbed down, and walked over to stand in front of us.
       “I will not be able to go with you guys. My people need me here, more that you do, so I’m staying here,” Ry said.
       “Well, it was a pleasure knowing you, Queen Ryvjha,” Scott said politely.
       “Thank you Scott. I shall see you guys off then,” Ry said.
       Seeker pulled out the D.R.R. he had strapped diagonally across his chest from his left shoulder to his right hip. He pointed it toward an empty area on the wall, and pulled the trigger. A beam shot out from the tip and spread out, forming a dimensional portal.
       We all walked into the portal one by one until I was the last one. I waved bye to Ryvjha as I walked into the portal and the portal closed behind me.
       This time, instead of appearing immediately after entering the portal, we found ourselves falling endlessly with colors of all sorts streaming past us. Before long short flashes of events going on throughout the universe appeared all around us. I took a closer look as the different events flashed before my eyes, and noticed events that I recognized in history, and other events that seemed more futuristic. It was as if we were actually traveling though time.
       “What is going on?” I tried asking Seeker, yet I couldn’t quite see him.
       “It appears that we are in some sort of dimensional limbo,” Seeker said.
       “Is everyone here? I can’t quite see with all these images flashing around me,” Jackie said.
       Then we stopped falling all of a sudden, as if we hit ground. I noticed Miroku was looking around, apparently taking count of people to see if we were missing anyone.
       “I don’t see Royce, Astrid, Robert, Akane, Brandon, Moose, Sam, Algor, Toni, Thomas, Ukyo, Gohgei, Tara, Nene, Luna, Nabiki, Mimi, and Sora anywhere,” Miroku said.
       I looked toward Miroku as he said that and noticed him just fade away before my eyes.
       “Ah!” I screamed.