Dimension 52
Dimension 52
(View the other chapters here [Chapter 1][Chapter 2])
Chapter 3:
It had been a couple of months since Ford had initially landed in Ooo, Six months to be precise. His records of how long he’d been lost were kept as accurate as possible. He’d had time to meet some of the other denizens including Princess Bubblegum’s friend, Marceline the Vampire Queen. She’d visited for a bit of a prank, namely moving Bubblegum’s bed halfway across Ooo. There was the Ice King, apparently an old senile wizard who came into Bubblegum’s castle with the intent to kidnap her. Ford fought the Ice King back, knocking off the crown that was seemingly the source of his powers (Afterwards the Ice King left sulking over the fact that Princess Bubblegum apparently had a new ‘boyfriend’, a statement that left Ford quite confused for the longest amount of time.) He even ran into a pair of talking dogs named Joshua and Margret who seemed to be paranormal investigators like himself. Ford spent most of his time either training or working alongside Bubblegum on one of her recent projects, some kind of defense robot named RATTLEBALLS.
Recently he’d come to the conclusion that he wasn’t really needed in Ooo anymore, and he had more or less finished his hand-to-hand combat lessons he’d been taking. There was also the rather unnerving issue of the candy citizens that kept calling him Billy for some strange reason. So Ford grabbed his things, including several devices he and Bubblegum had built and some food for his journey ahead. It was time for him to discuss with Bubblegum his departure from this dimension.
“Hey Peppermint Butler, where’s Princess Bubblegum?”
“She’s in her Lab currently. Do you need me to get her?”
“No, that’ll be fine, I need to talk to her myself. Thank you Peppermint Butler.”
Ford found Princess Bubblegum sitting at her lab working furiously on an invention. “Hello Princess Bubblegum.” Bubblegum silently continued to work on her invention, not really acknowledging Ford’s presence. She put down a soldering iron and picked up a screw driver sealing the case on a piece of electronics. At this point she looked up and noticed Ford’s presence.
“Hey Ford, what’s up.”
“I’m ready to go home now.”
“I understand. I figured this day was coming.” Her tone sounded off to Ford. This wasn’t her typical cheery, bubbly attitude she had.
She grabbed her device off the table, revealing a second one sitting across from it. She gave a push to her desk causing her chair to slide across the room to the Traveler’s Stone. She picked it up on the way past, smoothly exited the chair, and walked over.
“So from what I learned of the it, all you have to do it is hold it and concentrate on your destination.”
“Really? It’s that simple?”
“Yup. But before you go, take this.” She held out the little device in her hand.
“It’s an interdimensional communicator. It’s a pretty basic prototype, but it gets the job done. I’ve got another one on my desk.”
“So how does it send messages back and forth? Is it a full digital interface? I’d say my experience with these is a little behind your tech.”
“The interface is only partially digital, it just sends a physical letter through it. It’s got this dimensions address already programmed into it. All you have to do is give it something to send.”
“Any restrictions to it?”
“For one thing, anything sent has to be less than five inches wide and less than one inch thick.”
Ford looked into the sole slot on the device and noted it matched the measurements given.
“I’ll also need you to send me your current dimensional ID every time you hop to a new dimension, otherwise I won’t be able to reply.”
“Sounds pretty useful if I can get the hang of it. How do I interact with it if I need to change the settings or something? Also can it send anything that fits in it?”
“You can send anything that isn’t alive. I simply think the results would not be pretty. Other than that, size is the only factor.”
“Have you tested it yet?”
“Give me a second.”
She walked back to her desk, grabbed a folded up letter, and inserted it into her device. It continued inside the device on it’s own. After a second, the letter was gone and Ford’s device beeped out a “You’ve got D-mail.”
“Okay so now you push the button here.”
As he did so, the letter emerged from the slot in his device. It read “DMD: Dimensional Mailing Device Instructional Manual.”
“Let’s do a quick test to see if yours can send properly.”
After more than enough tests of Princess Bubblegum’s invention that may have been an excuse to spend just a bit more time together they grabbed the stone and left the lab.
“If my understanding of the Traveler’s Stone is correct being on top of the castle will be the safest location to avoid mishaps.”
A faint breeze blew by as the two of them looked down on the Candy Kingdom. The time to say goodbye had finally come. Princess Bubblegum started to hand the Stone to Ford, but after a moment’s hesitation she set the stone aside to give Ford a well-deserved hug. Though it felt awkward and unexpected on his end Ford reciprocated the hug.
“I’ll miss you.” She whispered to him.
Ford’s face turned a shade of pink brighter than Bubblegum’s hair. He picked up the stone and a second later it floated out of his hand. After shifting into a vertical ring a glowing portal appeared inside it.
“Goodbye Princess Bubblegum.”
“Call me Bonnie.”
“Goodbye Bonnie.”
With that, Ford stepped through the portal.
“‘Aw Balls’? What’s that supposed to mean?!”
“Man, this is only the second time this has happened. Though it’s kinda weird it’s happened twice man.”
Stanford Pines stood in the middle of Prismo’s time room, with the only other object in the room being a little waste basket with a miniature basketball hoop attached. The rest of Prismo’s room was a bright yellow, except for the pink of Prismo himself. Prismo looked to be nothing more than a shadow cast upon the entire room from a higher plane of existence. Honestly Ford wasn’t exactly sure what Prismo’s true form was, but odds were good he looked more impressive than his results did.
“Okay, explain to me why when I wish to be able to go back to my home dimension, a trash can appears.”
“Well, err… I’m not exactly sure why the waste basket appears. Perhaps your true home could be in the trash.”
Prismo didn’t seem to be very sure of what was going on, but he seemed to be attempting to lighten the mood judging by his tone. However the joke was as tasteless as one of Stanley’s used to be. It had been what 11 years or so since he’d last heard a joke from Stanley. Ford felt a kind of emptiness over this reflection, but he pushed down these feelings and tried to focus on the conversation.
Prismo looked at Ford noting Ford’s complete distaste towards the joke and resumed speaking. “Ok, I’m sorry, I guess that wasn’t that funny. Look I can try to explain as much as I can, but it might be a little long. You shouldn’t need to worry too much though, since it won’t take any time in any other dimensions, which is why it’s called my time room.”
Prismo took in a deep breath and began: “So as you are well aware, there are many different dimensions and timelines and universes in the multiverse, or multidimensional space, or whatever you want to call it. My powers are limited in that I can only alter certain dimensions that are within my domain. So if say someone from the Land of Ooo comes in and wishes that say the Lich never existed, I’d alter the universe for their wish, and insert them into their new Lich-free reality. Of course there can be plural universes for dimensions, so I only change or create the relevant universe. If someone comes in and wishes to go to another Dimension entirely, the new dimension needs to be within my circle of power for me to be able to get them there. Unfortunately yours is out of bounds. I don’t even know where you’re originally from. Theoretically you might never get back.”
“Well thanks for the hope.”
“I said theoretically. You do still have residual traces of your home dimension on you, so someone could track you by the trail you’ve been leaving as you journey around. In addition you might stumble back into your home dimension on accident. Future prediction is a nasty business Ford. You never know when something good or bad might happen. You can only guess the chances that it might happen.”
“What do I do now? I don’t even know how to leave this room.”
“Well all I said was that I couldn’t quite get you home, right?”
“Are you implying that you can get me closer to home?”
“Yep, I’ll even let it be on the house for you. That way you’ve still got one wish left.”
It looked like Ford wouldn’t be back as home as easily as he thought. At least a wish and a push in the right direction would be useful.
“So where will you send me exactly?”
“You followed a certain vector in the 4th dimensional plane. I believe that I can pinpoint it, and boom, I’ll send you right back in that direction. You’ll end up closer to where you left from, but that’s really the best I can do here.”
“Okay, So about that wish…”
[Chapter 4]
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(mostly out of context of course)
“Hey! Even in a sack I still look better than you!”
“Larry King’s disembodied wax head wants num-nums.”
“I listen to a lot of AM radio so I knew what this meant–the end of the world.”
“We’ll meet again. Don’t know where, don’t know when. Oh, I know we’ll meet again some, sunny day.”
“You know that couch is made from living human skin?”
“What’s an “anime”?”
“These scribbles are a bunch of cockamamie balderdash! Excuse my French.”
“I keep accidentally flexing through my sweater.”
“Your hyperflamable merchandise is the only thing keepin’ me going.”
“I have butchered millions on countless moons.”
“He’s been forcing me to do cute dances in this cage for all eternity. I’m so tired of being cute!”
“This experience will forever scar Tad Strange.”
“I’ve tried forgettin’. Maybe I should try forgiving.”
“No, a prophecy. Although it would be a pretty fun game of hopscotch.”
“Destiny hoodie.”
“Hey Achilles! Nice work with the heel!”
“Do the one thing no one in our family has ever done–Touch the hillbilly.”
“I’ve never held hands this long and I’m very uncomfortable.”
“Grammar, Stanley.”
“I know that hurts because I’ve accidentally done it to myself–multiple times!”
“I’ve got some children I need to make into corpses!”
“Like Grunkle Stan always says, when one door closes choose a nearby wall and bash it in with brute force.”
“I think I’m gonna kill one of ‘em now just for the heck of it!”
“Hey, look at me. Turn around and look at me you one-eyed demon! You’re a real wiseguy, but you made one fatal mistake: you messed with my family.”
“Guess I was good for something after all.”
“He saved the world. He saved me.”
“Hey, just cuz I have amnesia don’t go tryin’ to give yourself a raise, Soos.”
“He told us a lot about being a business man in the '80s and seemed happy when we pretended to listen.”
“Robbie, would you be a dear and get us the sawed-off shotgun?”
“Zap! Zap! We’re mad with power! And love!”
“You’re only going to have one pony now.”
“Wa–oh! Woo! I’m bustin’ a move on this skatin’ board!”
“You know, on my first day here, if you had asked me what I wanted, I would have said adventure, mystery, true friends. But looking here at all of you I realize that every wish came true. I have everything I wanted.”
“If I had only one wish it would be to shrink all of you with the shrink ray and bring you home with us in my pocket!”
“I now officially declare you technically teenagers. Welcome to angst and acne forever.”
“I don’t just want someone to come with me Stanley, I want it to be you. Will you give me a second chance?”
“Like, this mermaid. It’s not just a dead fish butt sewn to a monkey carcass. It’s a marvelous creature that makes us believe that anything is possible.”
“You’re Mr. Mystery now, Soos. Try not to burn the place down.”
“I hate my dumb heart for making me feel things.”
“Kids, you knuckleheads were nothin’ but a nuisance and I’m glad to be rid of ya.”
“If you’ve ever taken a road trip through the Pacific northwest, you’ve probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called Gravity Falls. It’s not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it. Some people think it’s a myth. But if you’re curious, don’t wait. Take a trip. Find it. It’s out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.”
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