Back at Risa

In the middle of a large circular, there was an empty space surrounded by equipment one moment and the next, a blue light appeared. Once the light was gone, three humans, a Vulcan, and a Tamaranean appeared with somewhat hunched over stances. The vulcan girl had her eyes closed and was being held up by the human male.

“Are we back? I’m too tired to look,” Mariner sighed as she popped her spine. You opened your weary eyes, half expecting to be on yet another ship or random planet in the middle of a crisis.

“Hey! They reappeared!” Someone suddenly shouted causing your group to look around and T’Lyn to startle awake. Almost immediately, you had a medical tricorder and a regular tricorder waved in your face. “How are you feeling? Any aches, pains, phantom limbs, senses of disembodiment?”

Standing in front of you was a Starfleet officer in a blue uniform, in fact there were over a dozen Starfleet in the room and scanning your group. The bolian in front of you continued asking questions. “Do you know how long you’ve been gone?”

“Around two weeks I would say?” you replied a bit concerned about the commotion.

“Longer for you than I I suppose, “ the bolian who still hasn’t identified himself sighed. “You have been gone for three days—”

“And that’s three days too long!” The door of the room was knocked out of the frame as someone kicked it in. You looked over and saw a certain dark haired Amazon Princess in armor barge in with a Starfleet captain under an arm. Diana Prince, aka Wonder Woman and fifth official member of your harem, shouted at you. “Where have you been?! Do you know what the others have done!”

“Can you lift your arms a little more?” Marinette asked as she pinned a piece of lace in place. Shampoo lifted her arms a couple of inches, allowing Marinette to make adjustments on her sleeves. Piece by piece, the outfit came together with Marinette making more changes with feedback from Shampoo as to her comfort and how the dress fit. “Thank you again for helping me with the contest.”

“It not problem,” Shampoo resisted shrugging as Marinette had needles close to sensitive spots on her neck. “We will conquer competition and show beauty of the Chinese Amazons.” Marinette gave Shampoo a little awkward smile behind her back. Shampoo had declared several of the harem officially members of the Chinese Amazon tribe, including Erza, Diana, and Starfire.

“Well I wouldn’t say conquer but we’ll give it our best shot!” Marinette agreed with Shampoo turning her head with a grin. A slight ripping sound had Marinette panic as she tried to find where the sound came from. A bit later, the side door to the living room opened.

“Nihao Gwens” Shampoo said on seeing Gwen Stacy and Gwen Tennyson walking inside with large boxes, overflowing with books. The two of them looked a little frazzled and tired.

“Hi Gwens! Did you two have fun at that book club?” Marinette asked while snipping away a few stray threads. Gwen Stacy and Gwen T set down the boxes and then collapsed on a sofa.

“It was fun at first but then they realized we had copies of Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Gwen Stacy sighed as she pulled out those particular books. “They started begging to know where we got them from.”

“According to them, they were considered lost books,” Gwen Tennyson elaborated as she brushed a gunk out of her hair. “They started fighting over who got to read them first and one guy offered two bricks of something called latinum per book. We were lucky that someone remembered that they could just replicate some copies though that one guy still wants the originals. Might just give it to them later.”

Shampoo was about to make a suggestion when Mirajane suddenly burst into the room. “They all disappeared! James, Aelita, and Starfire are gone!” The group stared at her stunned before shouting

“Ehhh!”

“That doesn’t tell us what the others were up to,” you pointed out when Diana paused for a bit to finally set down the Starfleet captain she had underarm.

“I was getting to that,” Diana gave a light glare as she crossed her arms. You held up your arms in surrender. Thankfully T’Lyn had already been roused by the medical team around her so she didn’t fall from the action.

“Where did they go!” Diana and Erza demanded, simultaneously pounded a fist each on a Risian official’s desk. The Risian official looked down as his desk collapsed and all of his things fell to the center.

“My signed Mica statue,” he whined as the statuette fell to the ground. He gasped as Diana and Erza stepped over the collapsed desk and lifted him up by his shirt collar.

“What happened! They were just petting some animals!” Erza demanded. The official threw an arm to the side and grasped at a viewscreen. The viewscreen activated and started playing a video.

“If you would let me explain,” he wheezed, pointing at the video of James, Aelita, Starfire, Mariner, and T’Lyn disappearing in a blue flash. “They were there one second and gone another. We called Starfleet to look into if a leaving ship somehow transported them off planet and to help the investigation. The only thing they found so far are increased chroniton and vertion particles so they could be anywhere or when. Now can you please set me down, this is very uncomfortable.” Diana and Erza just let go of his shirt collar, letting him drop to the ground. As the two of them walked out of the room, Diana turned to Erza.

“What are chronitons?” Erza shrugged.

“What are vertions?”

“Okay, you semi threatened a government official while emotional, who hasn’t,” you shrug. “But that doesn’t warrant kicking the door in and all that.”

“I wasn’t finished!” Diana huffed.

“Run! The docks are exploding!” People screamed and shouted as some of the warehouses and docks for the water-based crafts and activities started shaking and exploding.

“These robots are tearing up my store!” A shopkeeper yelled as she tried batting away flying robots trying to get into her backroom.

“Where are all these people coming from!?” A Risian Security Officer shouted as another pile of people appeared in front of the police station. A blur had dropped them off with weapons and **** taped to them. All of them were decorated with bruises and cuts but were still alive.

“Someone destroyed all my karaoke records!” A Klingon cried as he picked up the karaoke machine and tossed it out a window.

“Look mom! Pretty lights!” A kid exclaimed as large pulses of pink and blue lights spread across the city and beyond.

“Back inside Timmy, the indoor skydiving room is ready,” Timmy’s mother dragged him back inside.

“I’ll go rein them in,” you let out a deep sigh and started walking towards the exit. Before you stopped mid step and checked your PADD. You sent a summary of your adventures(that you had written while Diana talked) through the closing chroniton tunnel, closing that loop.

“Right behind you,” Mariner cracked her neck as a medical officer cleared her.

“Me three,” Starfire declared. The three of you along with T’Lyn and Diana started walking towards the exit. Just as you reached the kicked in door, Aelita spoke up.

“Um, you guys? I already called everyone and they are going to meet us at the Villa,” Aelita said matter of factly. “Katara and Marinette are making dumplings.”

“Oh…” You replied.