The Dimensional Rift

While Mike was out getting the stuff Rose needed. Roses stepped into Emma and went to Emma’s screen.

“Emma,” Rose called out once inside. “Let’s see if we can pick up some nonpublic transmissions, shall we?”

“I am already ahead of you. I have been listening to all broadcast since last night’s attack.” Emma said as if this was nothing for her.

“And what do we now know about what is going on?” Rose asked as she walked to one of the sets of steps to sit down, fearing that they wanted her as a lab rat and Emma to reverse engineer.

“The open broadcasts are saying they are looking for some kidnap victims. While the more encrypted broadcast say they want you and me.” Emma said with concern clearly detectable in her voice.

“I was afraid of that,” Rose said while thinking hard about her plans. “Emma, do they know or even suspect where we are right now?” Rose asked looking up at the giant screen of Emma.

“Not that they are indicating,” Emma said showing a map of North America. “When we left I went due East with no discernible arc.” She said showing the flight path they took. “As for the return trip I held low to the ground so anyone seeing us would think I was a normal car.” As she said this she showed the roads that she held to, to fool any observers.

Rose thought this was a good idea and was about to compliment Emma on it when she heard Meagan and Elizabeth outside sounding rather scared as they shouted her name.

“What is going on? Why are you in such a panic?” Rose said coming out to meet Meagan and Elizabeth.

“They are here,” Meagan said with a look of horror.

“Who are here?” Rose asked looking first to Meagan then to Elizabeth. But neither of them answered her and both were ashen white.

So Rose ushered them into Emma. Whoever before she got in herself she saw the police out at the main gate of the apartment complex. Once inside herself she slid the door closed and locked it.

“Emma?” Rose cried as she darted for the door to the right of her. “Can you make us look like a normal car?” Rose asked hoping beyond hope that this was something she could do.

“I cannot control my outward appearance any more than you can,” Emma said.

Rose had Emma bring the police car up on the screen so they could watch where they were. The Police car drove right by the minivan that was Emma nearly a dozen times before leaving. The whole time nothing came over the radio indicating they had spotted Emma for what she was. All of them gave a sigh of relief when the police car left. But Rose knew that they may be keeping current communications of the air and using cellphones to communicate orders and observations.

After about an hour Rose saw Mike return in Meagan’s car and park in the visitors’ lot. Rose told Meagan and Elizabeth to stay in Emma and she would be back as soon as possible. She watched as Mike walked up to the apartment then right as he put the key in the door she moved.

Like every time before when she needed to move quickly she was out of Emma, up the walkway and through the door before Mike even knew something happened.

“Shit!” Mike cried dropping all the stuff he had been carrying, as Rose suddenly appeared, seemingly out of nothing standing right next to him.

“Did you get what I asked for?” Rose asked Mike as he stood there trying to catch his breath.

“Yes, I got everything from the list.” He said pointing to the bags on the floor using his lips.

“I hate when people do that. Do not do that in front of me again.” Rose said with her eyes closed pointing a figure at Mike.

So Rose grabbed the bags that Mike indicated but thought they were far too light. Far too light to have everything she asked for. So she looked inside to see what was there and found that everything was there.

“Wow. 10 pounds of led and 30 pounds of cast iron feels like a small bag of clothes and the bags of clothes has nearly no weight to them at all.” She thought as she walked towards the kitchen.

She sat the bags of clothes down on the couch as she walked by. Setting the last bag down on the counter she first pulled the largest cast iron pot out of the bag and laid it on the stove, followed by a drill and hole saw. She plugged in the drill and made two holes in the cast iron pot, one on the bottom and the other in the side about one inch from the bottom. Then she lifted the burner rack off the stove to see how the pot fit over the burner. Once she was satisfied how it fit she reached into the bag for the other cast iron pot to see how it fitted inside. She used the burner rack to keep the pot off the bottom of the other pot leaving a one-inch gap between the inner and outer pots.

Next, she reached into the bag and grabbed the three-inch piece of cast iron pipe and cut it to fit the hole on the side of the large cast iron pot so it came off at a forty-five-degree angle. Then she fitted a three-inch squirrel cage fan to the end of the tube after she had reversed the leads inside so it blew through the round opening instead of sucking.

Now she was ready to turn it all on. She lit the stove then after about ten minutes she plugged in the fan. Then she dropped the lead weights into the small cast iron pot. Once they had melted she took the box that the weights came in and dipped each side into the lead. Then spooned some on the inside as well making sure there were no uncovered spots on the box.

Once the box cooled she took the can of paint from the bag and spread the box inside and out and allowed it to dry while she took the brand new cell phone and started setting it up. The whole time Rose was doing this Mike was watching her. Never blinking for fear he might miss something.

Rose noticed Mike for the first time since she started and said, “The smelter is only good for about twelve hundred degrees. But it is yours if you want it.”

“A smelter… Is that what that is?” Mike said sounding as if he was still out of breath.

Rose raised an eyebrow and finished the setup on the phone, then looked back at Mike. “Are you going anywhere in the next few minutes?” She asked looking at Mike, who still in ah of the home made smelter she made in less than ten minutes.

“Me? Ah not unless you need me to. Why?” Mike asked still in total shock over the smelter.

“I need to get to Emma without anyone watching knowing anything just happened,” Rose said. “Either you can go to Emma and we all leave together or you need to go to Meagan’s car and go somewhere for a while. The choice is yours.” Rose finished watching Mike’s eye grow as she talked.

“Watching us, from where, how?” Mike said looking around the apartment as if he expected to see people standing around.

“I did not say they were watching us. But it is a strong possibility that they are.” Rose said wishing she had not given Mike so much to think about all at once.

“I guess we can all go somewhere in your car,” Mike said calming down a little.

“Good. When you open the front door I will make a run for Emma you follow and we will all leave. Okay?” Rose said, looking at Mike with a motherly look. Or at least she hoped it was motherly.

Mike nodded and went to his room for a few minutes to get some things. When he returned he had a tent and sleeping bag and a large backpack. He then went to the kitchen and started to move the homemade smelter but he could feel a lot of heat from it so he left it. He turned and grabbed some food from the cupboards before walking back to the front door.

“If I am going to use a different vehicle than I have been, it needs to look like there is a reason,” Mike said seeing the look of mild impression and confusing it for curiosity on Roses’ face.

Rose looked around the apartment to make sure they had not forgotten anything. Satisfied, she turned to Mike and said, “Let’s go.”

As Mike opened the door then stepped sideways on the pretense to grab the tent and sleeping bag Rose ran for Emma. As she turned the corner she saw the door had been opened revealing Meagan inside. Rose put on a spurt of speed as she heard someone say “There is the girl.” off in the distance with a small pop that sounded like it came from a 22 caliber rifle.

Meagan seemed to completely freeze as Rose ran towards her. As she arrived something shot right by her right ear and hit Meagan in the neck. She turned to Mike and told him to run as three more shots landed, hitting Rose this time one in the neck and two in the chest. Elizabeth who was right behind Meagan grabbed Rose and pulled her in just as Mike reached Emma.

Within seconds Emma had gone from sitting still to doing more than ninety miles an hour on the streets. Rose tried to fight the tranquilizers but they were winning. Soon Rose was unable to stay awake any longer and she slumped sideways onto the floor.

Rose looked around as she started to awaken some time later. She tried to get someone’s attention but found she could not talk. As she tried to move she noticed that she had little control over her limbs. Nothing more than some minor twitches was all she could do. Then she noticed Mike was talking but she was not hearing the words he was saying.

After a few minutes Rose managed to get Elizabeth’s attention using her tail, but she still could not really hear anything Elizabeth had to say. It took Rose some time to get to where she could hear anything and tried to get Elizabeth’s attention again.

“The police are still following us. Emma has given them some surprises by going place none of them could, like over a small lake and jumping a ravine. The police tried to follow but ended up destroying their cars. It was cool.” Elizabeth told Rose not realizing that this was the first she could hear anything.

Rose tried to talk but still could not get any sound to come out. Elizabeth just told her to be patient and everything will work out. But Rose wanted to know about Meagan. Where was she and what happened to her? It was nearly an hour before Rose could do anything more than move her tail, and at least two more hours before she could do anything without seeming to be drunk. Once she had full control of her body she stood up and looked around. “Elizabeth, where is Meagan?” Rose asked with concern evident in her voice.

“She is in the back working with Emma to find a way out of this problem,” Elizabeth said looking at Rose like she should know this. “I told you that when you first woke up a few hours ago.”

“I could not hear anything when I first woke up,” Rose said. “I tried to tell you but I... I could not talk either.” She said thinking that some of the muffled sounds she heard when she first woke up now made sense to her. “Where is the cell phone I had?” As she asked this she looked around the cabin for it, only seeing the bags of clothing she had.

“I never saw it,” Elizabeth said now looking around as well.

“You dropped it,” Mike said looking back at Rose. “I don’t know what happened exactly but as I saw you turn at the door of the van I saw the box and cell phone explode when they hit a pole near the front of Emma,” Mike said with sorrow in his voice.

“What about Emma?” Meagan said from behind Rose.

Rose turned on her heel and ran at Meagan hugging her around the neck before kissing her deeply on the lips. Elizabeth got a smile on her face as she started to blush and turn to watch out the front of Emma.

“What was that for?” Meagan asked with her eyes as big as dinner plates.

“I did not know what happened to you. I only knew you had been shot by one of those darts. It scared me to think what had happened to you. Seeing the way, they affected me.” Rose said with tears in her eyes.

“I was only out for about half an hour. They must affect you differently than regular humans.” Meagan said trying to calm Rose down.

“You have to remember, you were hit with three of those darts and Meagan only had one hit her as well,” Elizabeth said now looking back at Rose and Meagan again.

“I know, but still,” Rose said looking back at Meagan still having tears in her eyes. “What were you doing back there just now?” Rose asked Meagan looking over her shoulder at the door she had just come through.

“I have just been on the phone with the police telling them I have not been kidnaped but they won’t listen.” She said looking around the room.

“That is because the kidnapping is only a cover story like I said before,” Rose said to everyone as she let go of Meagan. “The truth is they want me and Emma. The rest of you are most like expendable to them.” Rose continued. The rest of them were in shock and remained silent while Rose spoke all the time picking at her fingers. “Emma and I are great weapons to anyone that can control us, me with my speed and Emma with her ability to fly, not to mention she is AI.”

When Rose had finished she walked right by Meagan and through the door to the rear of the cabin, leaving Mike, Meagan, and Elizabeth alone. Rose could hear the three of them talking even though she did not want to.

“We are expendable?” Elizabeth asked looking from Meagan to Mike and back.

“It means they will kill us just for being around,” Mike said turning and throwing himself into a seat.

“You did not have to put it quite like that,” Meagan said walking over to Elizabeth to hold her close having seen the tears that started to well up in her eyes.

“Well it is true isn’t?” Mike said in retort, with a snarl in his voice.

“Yes it is, but there are much better ways of putting it than like that,” Meagan said her voice starting to rise.

“It’s okay. I needed to know what it meant and he told me.” Elizabeth said fighting back her tears. “I need to be alone for a little while.” She said as she pushed Meagan away and turned on her heal to walk to the door at the front of the cabin disappearing through it.

“See, she’s fine,” Mike said crossing his arms as he sat in the seat.

“She is not FINE! She is scared out of her mind and… SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO!” Meagan said now yelling at the top of her voice.

Rose turned to walk to the other door on the other side of Emma’s big screen and heard one last scream from Meagan before she disappeared through it. “YOU STUPID ARROGANT FOOL I SHOULD KICK YOU RIGHT IN THE… THE… THE BALLS!”

“Are you alright baby girl?” Rose asked Elizabeth when the door closed behind her.

“Yes. I will be fine.” Elizabeth said with almost no sign of tears in her voice. “I know I needed to know the truth but… It did not need to be put quite the way he put it.” She said the last part with a lot of anger in her voice as she spoke.

Right then the door opened and Meagan stepped, though. Before the door closed they all heard Mike clearly say in serious pain and sounding much like a girl, “YOU CRAZY BITCH THAT FUCKING HURT!”

“So I take it you did kick him where it counts?” Rose said with a grin on her face.

“You’re damn straight I did,” Meagan said with her arms crossed across her chest. “It felt good too.” She said starting to laugh.

“Thank you,” Elizabeth said with tears once again in her eyes and a smile on her face.

“Let’s go talk to Emma and see what we can do,” Rose said gesturing to the door beside the one Meagan just came through.

When they got to the other room they could hear Mike hopping around and crying in agony.

“Emma would you close that door please,” Rose said fighting back laughter as Meagan and Elizabeth felt free to burst out.

“But I was enjoying listening to him. He deserves a lot more for what he did to Elizabeth.” Emma said with a whole lot of sarcasm in her voice.

“Emma, we need to come up with a plan so we can all live our lives normally. Do you have any ideas on how we can do this?” Rose asked.

Rose and Emma ran countless different scenarios to try and find the best one. For more than five hours they tried different things some ending with all them dying some ending with one or two dying. Even a few that had Rose, Emma or even both ending up in the hands of the government. Then they found one with all them being given more than a forty percent chance of making it.

Emma was air tight except for the front cabin where the generator, radiator and coolant tank were. Space was the only place that they would have a hard time tracking them let alone following them. As Rose and Emma went back and forth on the details Meagan and Elizabeth listened intently.

“We have a plan,” Rose said looking around at both Meagan and Elizabeth standing in the room. “We will go into space. Of course, we will have to get some supplies before we do.” Rose said as she thought hard about where they could get everything they needed.

“Rose. There is a sporting goods store about twenty minutes from here.” Emma said with a tone of excitement in her voice. “And it is in a mall. There is bound to be everything we need in there, right?” Emma said sounding pleased with herself for thinking of the mall.

“Most everything we will need, I think,” Rose said, still thinking hard.

Rose, Meagan, and Elizabeth then walked into the other room where Mike was and told him the plan that Rose and Emma came up with. Rose was going to get the things they needed from the camping supply place in the mall and have it ready for when they got back to her. It was up the rest of them to get food and drinks for them all. Soon the twenty minutes had come and gone, and Emma had crashed through the main doors of the mall as if they were not even there.

She did not even slow down when they got close to the sporting goods store, Rose just jumped from Emma and landed on her feet like a cat, as Emma took the rest of them to get the food and drinks that they needed. Rose started gathering things as quickly as possible. First, it was cooking gear and eating utensils followed by sleeping bags and tents.

Rose thought she was just about done when she spotted a sign saying ‘First fill Free on all new Air Tanks’ with a picture of a scuba diver waving his hand. This was a good thing since they would need air in space. So Rose looked around to find the filling station. She found that instead of an air pump like most places, they had several canisters pre-filled as well as a large storage take full of air. So Rose started grabbing all the tanks she could and soon she had nearly fifty tanks as well as more than a dozen rebreathes.

Just then Rose saw Emma come speeding around the corner to stop right in front of the pile of stuff Rose had gathered. The door opened and they all started throwing everything in. But just as they were about done the police came in the building.

“There they are.” One of the guys shouted.

Rose looked down knowing that what was being left behind could make all the difference, but knowing that if she tried to get the stuff someone may get hurt or worse. So with much sorrow and determination, she yelled “Let’s go!” as she jumped in Emma, closing the door as they went.

“What did we leave behind?” Meagan asked looking at Rose’s disappointed face.

“We left most of the cookware and utensils,” Rose said hitting her head on the side of Emma as they exited the mall dodging police cars that had attempted to block their escape.

“I have enough utensils for everyone and there are about 2 dozen hot packs to heat up ready meals within my pack,” Mike said looking at the pile of stuff they had just gotten.

Rose jumped up and kissed Mike on the lips and quickly broke it off. Mike turned red and dropped out of site.

“What’s next Mom?” Elizabeth said to Rose with a large smile.

“Well, we need to find places for everything,” Rose said looking around at all the stuff that they had all managed to get. “Everything cold or frozen needs to go to the left-most corridor in the screen room of Emma it is the coldest part of the whole room and in space, it will become like a freezer, so we will use it like a cooler. Everything else will stay in here so we can set it up to be used.” Rose said.

It took them nearly an hour before they had everything put where they wanted it. But once they were done Rose thought to herself, “Why didn’t we ever do this before?”

The tents were set up in a small arch around one of the passenger dome lights that had no seats under it. The 2 tables Rose did manage to grab were set up on the opposite side of the cabin with a large bucket placed on top to wash dishes. All the air tanks were placed in the far left corner of the cabin so they could be accessed easily.

***

“So this Ship of yours was never intended for space travel?” James asked looking at Rose with mild surprise.

“No. I mean I had not made any modification to it if that is what you are asking.” Rose said.

“So how long had you been on Mars when we arrived?” James asked as Emma started to come into view.

“Hey, guys?” Meagan said from behind James and Rose.

As they turned to look at Meagan they noticed she was turning blue like she had not been breathing for some time.

“What does this flashing red light mean,” Meagan asked holding her left arm up.

“It means you’re out of air,” James said looking down at her arm. “When did it start flashing?” He asked concern evident in his voice.

“I only just noticed it,” Meagan said looking scared. “The last time I looked at it… it was yellow.”

“When was that Meagan? When was the last time you looked at it?” James asked looking worried.

“As we left your ship I happen to look down at my arm as we were climbing onto the rover,” Meagan said tears in her eyes looking worried now as well.

“That was about forty minutes ago. When the light turns yellow you only have about 10 minutes left.” James said looking back at Rose with a look of mixed confusion and concern on his face.

“James since she is turning purple now, why not take her mask off?” Rose suggested with a smile looking into Meagan’s eyes noticing they were starting to turn yellow with slits for pupils now instead of their usual blue they were.

Meagan seeing the smile on Rose’s face nodded and reached up to remove the mask when James’s hand reached out to stop her.

“Wait, if you take that off there is no telling what will happen,” James said looking Meagan in the eyes. He too now was noticing the changes in Meagan and the concern on his face vanished only to be replaced by total bewilderment.

Meagan looking back at James and seeing the changes reflected back at her, twisted the mask and pulled it off, but instead of the normal whooshing sound, there was nothing. She took a deep breath and looked at Rose. “I can breathe the air.” She said looking entirely relieved.

“And you have some horns on your head as well,” Rose told Meagan. “Not as long as mine yet, but I am sure they will get there.”

James looking dumbfounded looked from Meagan to Rose and back before saying “Let’s go” while shaking his head in disbelief. They rode the rest of the distance in silence, mostly because James did not know what to say about Meagan’s changes. Meagan and Rose just looked at each other with smiles on their faces.

Once at Emma Rose went in to see exactly how bad the front of Emma was and what would be needed to get her back up and going again. After several minutes Rose repaired at the opening.

“James, did anyone take anything from the front of Emma here?” Rose asked James looking out from the hood.

“Not that I am aware of. Why what is missing?” He asked.

“Just a small box about 6 by 18 inches. It is what made me like this and what made Emma like she is.” Rose said looking at James with the fire in her eyes flaming orange with her anger. “Where is Bob at? I do not remember seeing him when everyone went to eat or during the fight when Edwards try to kill Meagan here.” Rose said looking from James to Meagan and back.

“You are right. Come to think of it, he has been missing since we returned to the ship.” James said anger making the vain on his forehead pop.

“Let’s get Emma hooked up so we can get back to camp and then we can worry about Bob,” Rose said looking around. “It would be the same amount of time back, either way, right?”

“What? Ah… Yes. It would take the same time either we take Emma now or leave her for the walk back.” James said.

So they hooked Emma up to the 2 rovers and started back. About five minutes into the walk Rose saw James was not focusing on what he was doing. A task he had no problem doing when Rose was telling him her story.

About then Meagan started doing a strange little dance by wagging her ass as she walked. The little dance she was making looked funny as she stepped 2 paces to the right then hopped back to the left. She repeated these steps several times before Rose decided she had seen enough.

“Meagan?” Rose called as she ran to catch up. “Is everything okay?” She asked noticing the strange dance becoming more intense.

“My ass feels funny,” Meagan said. “It is starting to hurt and I don’t know what is going on.” She said this part as tears filled her eyes and voice.

Rose looked down at Meagan’s ass and noticed it was bulging quite a bit. “We need to stop for a moment,” Rose said loud enough for James to hear. Then she grabbed Meagan around the arm and ducked behind a large rock.

“Is everything alright?” James called out.

“It will be!” Rose replied. “Take off your suit,” Rose told Meagan in a whispered voice.

“What? Why?” Meagan replied looking at Rose with shock on her face.

“Trust me it will help,” Rose said reaching out to unbuckle the suit only to have her hand smacked away.

“I will do it, thank you,” Meagan said with a lot of attitudes as she turned to strip the suit.

James walked by the large bolder working the controls to keep the rovers moving. As he realized he was past he tried a quick glance to see what the girls were doing, but could not see them.

Once Meagan had taken off the suit Rose grabbed her pantie and ripped a hole in the ass of them. Meagan felt Rose messing with something that was turning her on. She could feel Rose pull, twist and yank something that seemed to a part of her but was nothing like she ever felt before.

“What are you doing back there?” Meagan asked under heavy breathing. Then all a sudden she felt like the world lit up.

“How is that?” Rose asked, turning Meagan to look at her in her eyes. By this time Meagan ears, horns and her tail were all about half the length of Rose’s.

“Better. What did you do?” Meagan asked looking at Rose with lust in her eyes.

“Ah... Let’s say I... I relieved some pressure.” Rose said turning blue and looking down at her had at the pinkish goop that had come from Meagan’s tail. “Put the top part back on and let’s get going.”

Meagan put on the top part of the suit while never taking her eyes off of Rose. Meagan was now feeling rather giddy and felt as though she needed Rose for a little one-on-one pleasure. As Meagan and Rose came back around the rock James’s jaw dropped as he caught a glimpse of them.

“You’re... You are... I mean... I...” James did not know what to say or how to act. All he knew was that when Meagan came out skipping along, she had the top part of the suit on and fastened but the 2 legs were flopping out behind her showing off her panties to the world while hiding her new tail.

“Let’s go,” Rose said turning to catch up with the rovers.

It took James quite a bit longer to catch up than it took Meagan and Rose. When he did he wanted Rose’s story to continue as he tried to catch his breath.