Crash Course on the Crossroads

Gizmo Gear

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High above the city of 8-bitain within the clouds was a series of platforms. Among these platforms was a large tunneling green pipe coming out of a cloud. As a noise starts stirring from within it coming out of the pipe is two screaming anthropomorphic animals, a black and white cat, and a dog, on some kind of hovering vehicle with a sidecar attached to it. As the pipe careens off of the midair platform and is sent hurtling to the ground below.

"We got to jump for it!" the cat said.

As the cat jumps off the falling makeshift craft he lands on a rooftop on his feet gracefully. As the dog was flailing in the air towards the cat various items fall out of his pockets that somehow manage to fit within them. The cat was able to catch him as his knees buckled trying to carry his shorter yet heavier brother. Before putting him out and letting out his breath. As the dog begins dusting himself off before being startled by the resulting thunderous sound of their vehicle crashing on the surface below. As they look down off the rooftops and into the street they see that thankfully it didn't land on anyone but many bystanders were staring at the wreckage. The dog then slowly turns his head towards his feline sibling and gives a glare of disapproval as the cat makes an apologetic smirk.

"I told you we shouldn't have gone to that strange cave Gizmo, Maria warned us that there was an unusual energy signal and vibrations coming out of it but you didn't listen!" the dog said.

"I thought maybe there would be the mother lode of Astral Shards in that cave, or at least some rare one or something, didn't expect it to be a wormhole of all things," Gizmo said.

"I don't think it was a wormhole 'cause if it was she would have known that," the dog said.

The cat then looks around this strange city, from the bright lights to all of the different colors and abnormal textured patterns. As well as the fact that a lot of the area resembles retro-style graphics mixed with low-resolution graphics that have long since been surpassed where they came from. As Gizmo soaks this in his face of confusion turns to excitement as his eyes light up and his pupils larger.

"Gadget, do you not realize where we are? We're in another dimension!" Gizmo said.

"I mean I already figured that out but I'm more worried about how we're going to get back home." Gadget said.

"Well this place probably runs at a different speed of time right, we can stay and explore a little bit before going back," Gizmo said.

"Or time moves slower here and we come back to our world and the X Regime has already taken it over," Gadget said.

Gizmo puts his hand with a finger up as if to counter it with something else, but after a few seconds of awkward silence and putting his finger to his lip he then realizes that Gadget has a point.

"Okay you got a point there, let's get down and get our stuff then," Gizmo said.

As they turn around and try to open the door they then realize it seems to be a flat texture and is unable to open the handle. Scratching his head Gizmo looks around and then sees the building next to him and the alleyway below. Stretching himself he then performs some parkour by leaping off the rooftop to the wall of the other building before jumping back and forth between each wall before he reaches the ground of the alley with a flip and then sticking the landing by posing as if he were a gold medal-winning gymnast before turning around and seeing Gadget already there. Before asking Gadget points to the fire escape he used which Gizmo then looks at, before they turn to hear various rummaging going on as they come out of the alley to see various strange small masked robed figures picking up their stuff.

Gizmo then runs towards one and knocks it out as the rest scatter. He then picks up a bone-shaped wrench and a strange device that the robot picked up. As he throws the bone over to Gadget who just barely manages to catch it as it slips out of his fingers a bit.

"Well at least they didn't take the Platform Gun, but then the rest of what you built, anything else fell out of your Hyper Pockets Gadget?" Gizmo asked.

Gadget then stretches his pocket out to an abnormal length as he rummages inside.

"It seems those things we picked up we were going to use for parts, all of our Credits, and all of the Astral Shards we collected are gone as well," Gadget said.

"I mean they shouldn't be too hard to find considering they came from our universe or dimension or whatever unless, of course, they are some kind of multiversal thing. Either or since those thieves took them there's no telling what they could do with them once they find out what they are," Gizmo said.

Gadget then looked and saw the wreckage of their vehicle. He ran over to take a look and it seems those thieves stole some parts of it and most of what is left is broken, but he is not one to let good material go to waste. As he picks up the remains and puts them in his pockets.

"At the very least hopefully we can get to earn some money here somehow so we can rebuild our Hover Scooter so traversing this strange planet will be easier, and reclaim what was stolen," Gadget said.

"Well first we need to find a place to live, though since we don't have money on us we're going to have to use our cutest pleading faces to beg for someone to let us stay at their place for the time being," Gizmo said.

As the duo walks away to find a place to rest above the clouds the strange pipe that took them here retreats into the clouds and disappears. Possibly their only way back home and the two are completely unaware. As they have yet to fully understand or grasp where they are and how much danger lies ahead of them.
 
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