*****???*****

     Linna Yamazaki fell to the ground with a thud. She immeaditly looked
down at her armband. Yellow, she was back in her own universe. 
     She stood and turned to look around. An eruption came from behind
her, and she fell to the ground as something struck her in the back. 
     "Cannonball?" Linna looked at the huge ball which had hit her in the
back not seconds ago. It had rolled to a stop a few feet away. 
     "What happened?" A solider appeared from the same direction of the
cannonball. Confederate uniforms. She was in America, during it's civil
war... 

*****???*****

     Priss' helmet cracked as she flew into a wall. She picked herself up
with a curse and a groan. Green. Another universe. She looked at what she
was leaning on. A castle, with sounds inside. It looked like she knew the
where and when. 
     "Who goes there?" A voice from behind Priss called. 
     Priss turned to find herself on the pointed end of a spear. 
     "Perhaps a spy against King Authur?" 

*****???*****

     Reika Chang, more widely known as Vision, skided to a halt, almost
over an edge. 
     She checked her armband. Red, her own universe. She looked over as a
crash came from the window to her left. Suddenly she realized where and
when she was. Amazing that she would be dropped exactly where she wanted
to go. Megatokyo, 2033. 
     She crouched behind some machinery. "Another chapter in the story of
the Knight Sabers." she whsipered as Priss fell to the concrete from the
window. 

*****???*****

     The older, married, Mackie Stingray found himself deposited on a
rooftop by the phaser. Yellow. He was in the other universe. Genom Tower
rose high above the other buildings. 
     "Break off, they can't follow all of us." his comm channel beeped to
life. 
     He was about to answer when he realized that message could not have
been for him. A white hardsuit came into view below, only for a fraction
of a second. That was Sylia's voice he had heard. 
     But this had never happened. The only conclusion was this was the
future of the other people's universe as well. Or at least something that
happened after Priss' death. That would acount for this not happening in
his universe. 
     The white hardsuit again. He had a good look at it now. It was the
same one's that they had. But all the technology on this world wasn't
advanced. He looked at the primitive solar collectors. That meant, that
this scenario was taking place directly after the Knight Sabers returned
to their original universe. 

*****???*****

     Nene Romanova got up from the dizzing effects of the phaser. She was
becoming more used to it now, but it was still giving her a headache. She
checked her armband. Green, another universe. She stood slowly, finding
herself in a hallway. She stumbled down it, looking for the elvator. She
passed a few doors, taking in some glances, hoping to find when she was. 
     Normal doors, nothing special. Brass numbers. 1465, 1467, 1469,
1417... 
     She froze. 1417. No, it was impossible. She turned to look again. It
was. It was the very same door she had had. This was her room. April 1st,
2019. Her practical joke on her parents was to rearrange the seven and
the one on the door. She hadn't expected it to work, but it had. Her
parents had wandered for a half-hour looking for the right room. She also
recalled being grounded for a week after that. 
     Her parents again. The thought was strange to her. Once Sylia had
taken her in and given her the money to make something of herself, she
had never once thought about her parents, or going back to them. 
     Now she had the chance. An alternate universe, she wouldn't be
screwing up her own timeline. And so what if she did? For all she knew a
Nene from another universe had popped into her own and talked to her
parents in that way... 

*****???*****

     Sylvie fell against a tree. Her head hurt. Of course, she was one of
the 'primitive' boomer models who sensed pain instead of simply
registering it. 
     She check her armband. Yellow. So this was the original timeline of
the people that had come into her world. She looked up. A graveyard.
Small, but pleasant. It didn't seem to matter if you were dead anyway... 
     She looked around. Priss! The Knight Sabers. Mourning the loss of a
friend. As they moved off after they were done, Sylvie turned to the
headstone of the grave they had been at: 

                         HERE LIES SYLVIE, BELOVED FRIEND
                WHO IS PERHAPS MORE HUMAN THAN ALL OF US

     Sylvie turned her head away, tears in her eyes. She looked after the
people who had left her grave, they didn't once look back. All
her...existance, she had wanted to be accepted, to be human. The Knight
Sabers considered her human. It produced a strange sensation in her. 

*****???*****

     Leon slammed into the pavement. It would have hurt less if the
pavement had actually been on the ground. Leon pulled himself off the 90
degree wall which had once been a street. This was obviously after the
Second Kano Earthquake. 
     He checked his armband. Red, his own universe, at least. A squeal of
tires. Leon turned just in time to jump out of the way of a car that was
going at least 130. Someone just behind it, on a motorcycle. 
     Leon launched himself into the air. He couldn't believe the face of
the person on the motorcycle. 
     Priss...

*****???*****

     "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." A thousand boomer
voices seemed to say at once. 
     Sylia Stingray picked herself up from a carpeted floor. She stood
and found herself face to face with...herself. 
     "What the hell are you doing on my ship?" The Sylia look-alike said. 
     "I..." Sylia started. 
     A blast rocked whatever Sylia was on. 
     "Damage report." The look-alike yelled. 
     "Shields are gone. Hull breach on-" 
     "Contain them. Get us out of here Conn. Warp seven." 
     Another blast rocked the ship. Sparks flew from around the room. The
Sylia look-alike fell to the floor. Sylia turned her body over. She took
a pulse. 
     "She's dead."