Vic and the Secret Door Ch 26

Vic and the Secret Door
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Love Interest Appears

It was a beautiful night in Los Angeles, the full moon was out, coyotes were howling in the distance and Michele was lightly humming to herself as she tapped away at her macbook enjoying a nice quiet evening, until she realized...it was too quiet. Over the past few years she had gotten used to her fiancee's trekkie behaviors...including the noises and comments he'll make whenever there was an episode of Star Trek on, and yet she had not heard a sound from him. Curious, she closed her macbook and walked downstairs to check on him, only to find the living room empty.

"Honey?" Michele called out confused, she looked all downstairs and even went back upstairs to check all the rooms, looked outside, and checked the driveway to see if his car was still there(which it was). She must have looked at every inch of the house but Vic was nowhere to be found. "Viiccc! Where are youuu???" she yelled walking down the stairs, a little frustrated now, it wasn't unlike him to play games but this was getting ridiculous. Michele decided to take a break and leaned against the couch only to notice the TV screen was completely blurry, a static noise coming from it. Michele picked up the remote and tried to change the channel to no avail, even smacking it a few times. 'Did he break the TV and doesn't want to tell me?' she asked herself before going over to the screen and started fumbling with the back of it, but then she suddenly felt the room shake. Living in southern California it wasn't uncommon for there to be an occasional earth shake, but this one was literally forcing her to grab onto something, then the room started to go into a haze, different colors surrounding her...

Back the museum, Vic was chasing after his two most reckless characters with Zero following right beside him. Edward was going at full speed towards the exhibit with Yoshimori struggling with all the energy he had used trapping the guards. Finally after what seemed like miles of running all four of them made it to a large circular room, a display case in the middle. Vic stopped to catch his breath when he heard the familiar sound of metal hitting the wall.

"Damn it!" Ed yelled out, they looked over and they saw the glass of the display case completely shattered, and whatever was in there gone, "He beat us to it!"

"You mean all that for nothing?" Yoshimori slid back against the wall exhausted from all the Kekkai he had made. Zero sighed and put his gun back into his pocket, while Vic walked over to Ed.

" That rotten thief!!" Ed yelled out punching the floor this time, a frightening aura surrounding him making Vic decide that maybe he didn't need any comfort, but then he noticed a shadow in the ceiling and looked up,

"Hey it's not nice to call people names" Dark came floating down to the ground, a small stone in his hand, "Come on, did you really think I was just going to take the stone and ditch all you guys?"

"Well as a matter of fact..." Vic began only to be pushed aside by the young alchemist.

"Let me see that!" Ed grabbed the stone that Dark willingly handed over, Ed inspected the stone carefully checking every detail. It took a good minute for Edward to look it over before he pouted and threw it across the room, almost hitting Zero square in the head who was able to dodge it.

"Hey what the hell what that for!?" Zero yelled out only to be ignored by Ed.

"Figures" Ed sighed kicking the floor.

"It's not the philosopher's stone is it?" Vic asked with Ed shaking his head to confirm.

"See? I told you it wasn't your precious stone!" Yoshimori got up stretching his arms, "Now can we please get out of this joint?"

"Wait a minute" Vic said going over to where Ed has thrown the stone, he picked it up, the stone being noticeably chipped from the impact, and looked up at the characters, "Could this be what the PMoF wanted us to get next?"

"Quick this way!" A squad leader called out as the rest of the patrol came running down the hallway.

"Either way we gotta get out of here!" Yoshimori said panicked.

"But how!?" Ed yelled looking around for an exit with no luck.

"Quick grab onto my legs!" Dark called hovering himself a few feet off the ground, Vic and Zero decided to grab Dark's legs since they were the tallest, and let Ed and Yoshimori hold onto them respectively, "Hang on tight!" He said as they all flew out of the room through the broken glass ceiling above, all of them except Dark yelling at the top of their lungs.

Meanwhile outside, Spirit, Tamaki, Ikkaku, and Fai stood outside the gates waiting for the rest of their party as planned.

"What's taking them so long?" Ikkaku looked over his shoulder growing impatient, "How long could it take to steal a rock?"

"I hope everyone's alright" Tamaki said worriedly.

"Oh I'm sure they'll be here any minute." Fai chimed in trying to raise the morale of the group. Spirit sighed at the other three's bickering until he noticed the sight of a very beautiful red headed woman getting up off the sidewalk, clearly in distress.

"Uggh...where am I?" Michele asked looked around not recognizing the scenery, her head felt like it had been smacked with a hammer. She managed to get up onto her feet and tried to figure out where she was only to notice her hand being grabbed, she turned her head and saw Spirit down on one knee holding her hand in his, looking at her with very seductive eyes,

"I hope you didn't get hurt too badly when you fell from heaven my beautiful angel" Spirit flirted confusing Michele, "The name's Death Scythe, and you are-?"

"Engaged" Michele interrupted holding up her left hand revealing the shiny diamond ring. Spirit started to blush in embarrassment when he was struck in the head by Ikkaku's sheathed naginata, Ikkaku muttering 'idiot' to himself.

"Oh Spirit that's not how you approach a lady" Tamaki said flashing a red rose to Michele, looking at her with loving eyes, "Are you lost fair maiden-?" He began to say only to be also smacked in the head with Ikkaku's weapon, the word 'idiot' coming from his mouth again.

"I'm sorry you'll have to excuse my friends" Fai appeared apologizing for his companions, "It's been a very long journey" But before Michele had a chance to comment on some of the most amazing cosplayers she had ever seen, their attention was drawn to the sound of yelling coming from a group of 5 people soaring through the sky, roughly landing on the ground in front of them.

"Geez couldn't you have done a smoother landing?" Ed asked rubbing his aching head.

"Sorry I'm not used to the extra weight" Dark replied ridding himself of his wings and back into his normal form. Vic stood up brushing the dirt off of his jeans until he noticed a familiar face in front of him.

"Michele!?...Michele!!" He grabbed his fiancee in a tight hug spinning around in circles, "How did you get here!? Ah it doesn't matter how you don't know how happy I am to see you!" All of Vic's characters just looked on puzzled, but managed to piece together that Vic knew her.

Michele managed to calm Vic's excitement enough to finally get a word out, "Vic, what's going on? Where are we?" She asked more confused than ever. Vic explained all that had happened, how he was teleported to Amestris, how the different characters starting coming out of no where, and how now they have to travel to different worlds and find certain items for the PMoF. As Michele listened to this she had come to one conclusion: her fiancee had finally lost it. He had clearly been working way too hard lately with his voice acting and the lifetime of his eyes glued to the television watching Star Trek couldn't have helped. Vic could sense the doubt in her face.

"I know it seems a little far fetched but it's the truth!" Vic said pulling out the red stone from his pocket, "And this stone-!" Vic was suddenly cut off by the stone glowing and slowly being lifted into the sky before materializing into thin air.

"What the-? Where did it go!?" Yoshimori called out, but then the PMoF materialized herself once again, this time in front of Vic and Michele.

"OOOOoooooo I didn't expect this plot twist!" the PMof said giggling at Michele, "Of course I don't mind, this story needed a good ship!"

"A good what?" Edward asked unaware of that term.

"Thanks for the stone by the way!" the PMoF said tossing the red stone in her hand, "It's my birth stone too!"

"Hey wait a minute, that was stolen you can't keep it!" Vic said trying to be the mature one of the group.

"Well technically I didn't steal it, you stole it"

"But then you stole it from us!" Zero butted in.

"Nooo you willingly gave it up so that means you gave it to me"

"It doesn't matter who stole it it's still stolen!!" Edward yelled started to get at his wit's end with this girl.

"Love to stay at chat, but looks like I gotta go!" the PMoF giggled winking before disappearing again.

"Honey, what's happening...?" Michele asked noticing the dark clouds appearing over them, the wind picking up from above.

"Here we go again" Fai said bracing himself.

"Oh boy" Vic grabbed onto Michele, "Hold on!!"

And thus they were all sucked into the dark clouds, on their way to the next world.