Priss opened the door to Hitomi's appartment, the place not being
very hard to find, and went in, a bag filled with McDonalds food in her
hand.  Looking around the place she snorted slightly, realizing that her
new roommate and her would probably get along very well, especially since
the place was in a slight disarray.  *Figures.  Office as neat as a pin,
but a home that's a mess.*
        Taking off her boots, and tossing her jacket on the couch, she
went into the kitchen and opened up the cooller, hoping to find something
that didn't have any caffine.
        Looking inside the fridge, she was glad that she had bought
herself some burgers since it was obvious that their food taste
definately ran in different directions.  Shuddering a bit, she moved the
small boxes of nato away and look further in back, and then went down
when she noticed that all the softdrinks were Jolt.  "This girl has the
lousiest addiction to caffine I've ever seen." she muttered to herself
when she spotted the bottles of beer on the bottom shelve.
        "That's more like it.  Stout."  She commented, and pulled one out,
grabbed the burgers and went back into the living room.  Turning on the
tellivision, she reached into the bag and got a burger.  Finally getting
grabbed the burgers and went back into the living room.  Turning on the
tellivision, she reached into the bag and got a burger.  Finally getting
to a chanel she liked she took a bite of the burger and took a pull on the
bottle.  She gaged half a second latter.
        Grimacing, she looked at the bottle again and put it down,
pushing to the other end of the coffee table.  *That girl has a definate
caffine problem.*  Priss thought to herself a she bit into her burger
again, *Who would have guessed someone would make a beer out of coffee.*

***

        Hitomi was rubbing her eyes slightly as she contemplated what the
two of them had just told her of their escapades at Bert's place.  "You
realize that we no longer have the element of surprise and that we now
have a time limit to work against?"
        Bert sighed, "Yeah, I know.  But what else can we do?  It's not
like we had much of a choice in the matter."
        Darren grimaced, "I was sort of operating in the dark at the
time.  Besides, how much can go wrong?"
        Darren grimaced, "I was sort of operating in the dark at the
time.  Besides, how much can go wrong?"
        Hitomi turned a grim face to the Whiteboard.  "I'm not sure.
Something about this entire situation isn't making any sense.  The energy
levels alone are stagering, especially the probability factors getting
all of this to happen at once."
        "Well, Twister said that something was wrong with the realities,
but he didn't really have a proper handle on it.  Something about the
process of merging being much too complete and easy."
        The red-headed researcher closed her eyes for a second, and then
got out of her seat going over to one of the floor length paintings along
one wall.  Pulling back, Bert and Darren noticed that there was a walk in
safe behind it.  She quickly opened the safe and went to a shelf along
one wall retrieving some bundles kept in white cloth.  Getting back to
the desk, she started to pull scrolls from the bundles.
        "It's got to be here somewhere..." she muttered.
        Darren got up, interested in the scroll and what they might
contain.  As she went over, she asked, "What are you looking for?"
        "A possible reason for this to be happening.  It can't be causal
contain.  As she went over, she asked, "What are you looking for?"
        "A possible reason for this to be happening.  It can't be causal
as the subdimensions wouldn't be stable enough to do this.  Besides, if
things were going normally, there is NO way they could have realized that
we were writing something and have come after us."
        Bert's frowned as he approached the two women.  "If that's true,
then what's been happening is impossible.  Is there anything that could
have caused this to happen?"
        Hitomi just kept scaning scroll after scroll, with all sorts of
Kanji characters writen on them until she got to the one she was looking
for.  "This is it."
        Darren looked at her, "Ok, what is it?"
        "We are under attack.  Not from the characters, but by another
primary nexus."

***

Hitomi