This Fan fiction is based on characters of the on line comic copy wrote by Anne Onymous and Robin Ericson.

 

The Wotch Sea and Sky

by

Paul G. Jutras

 

The coming storm made the day the darkest it could be. Paul screeched his bike outside of his school. He got off his bike, locked it too the rank and was about to let go when it happened. Green lighting stuck out of pink smoke. It hit Paul's metal bike and knocked him with the power of a mule kick to the ground. When he woke, he couldn't believe he was still alive.

"Oh, no!" he shouted. He noticed the lighting strike had caused his watch to stop. As he ran for the school, he didn't notice the school sign no longer read Creek School. It now read Tandy Gardens. "What time is it? I'm going to be late for class."

Paul walked down a series of halls looking for his first class room in a confused state. None of the class rooms seemed familiar to him. For some reason, some of the students moving down the hall were. He saw a light brown hair boy in a white shirt with red sleeves and a red leaf design on the chest. He also saw a girl in a green tee shirt with a strawberry design and green pants. "Isn't that Scott Winters and Irene Lew?"

"It can't be. They're not real. They're characters from a web comic strip called The Wotch." Paul shook his head and walked away when he bumped into a blonde girl dressed in black Goth style. "Cassandra Sinclair?"

"Do I know you?" Cassandra asked as Paul turned and ran off down the hall. "The transfer students just get weirder and weirder. I wonder if she's a friend of Anne."

"Finally I found you two." Paul said, catching his breath before two boys at their lockers. The brown hair boy as 15 year old Robin Ericson and the 15 year old blonde boy were named Jason Grey. Like in the comics, Robin was dressed in his black top with a knight's help insignia and blue pants while Jason had a gray top with CMX splashed in comic style across his chest and blue pants. "I need to speak with Anne."

"How do you know Anne?" Robin asked.

"I don't yet." Paul said as he looked around before grabbing Robin and Jason by the arm. He quickly pulled them into a nearby broom closet. Despite all the craziness, Jason continued to read his comic. "Look, I come from another dimension and I need a Wotch like Anne to help me get back. "

"I did want to find out why Anne didn't come to school today." Robin said as he rubbed his chin. "Okay, we'll take you to her house."

"Are you coming, Jason?" Robin asked as he turned to see his friend wasn't following him. Jason was still looking at pictures of Jean Grey his favorite comic book super hero.

"May I make a suggestion?" Paul asked as he leaned over to Jason. "Which do you like better? Looking at a red head in a comic and coming with us to Anne's and looking at a real life red head?"

Jason suddenly looked up from the comic and blinked. In a flash they were on their way to Anne's house. Jason knocked on the door. "Anne, are you home?"

The heard the door of running footsteps and the door opened to reveal Anne Onymous' younger sister Lilly in her favorite pink dress answering. "Hi!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. "Have you come over to play dolls with Anne and me?"

"Dolls," thought Robin. He didn't like the sound of that. "Lilly, where is your sister, Anne?"

"Here she is!" Lilly shouted as she pulled from behind her back a nine inch Anne dressed in a pressing dress and tiny plastic heels.

"She wanted to play while you were practicing a spell again, right?" Jason asked.

"You got it!" Anne had to shout with her tiny voice to be heard.

"Well Lily, doll time is over." Robin said calmly. 'We have a situation and need Anne's help to resolve it."

"PLAY!" shouted Lily.

"Now, Lily." Paul said with some authority. "There is a time for play and they're a time to be a big boy."

"PLAY," Lily repeated.

"Lily, listen." Paul continued. "I need your sister's help to…"

"PLAY," Lily continued.

"Why not save yourself the trouble and play with her?" Jason asked.

"You actually what to be a princess doll?" Robin asked.

"As long as I have red hair and stop all this pointless shouting." Jason shrugged his shoulders.

Soon the three of them had joined Anne in princess clothes on a table near some paper, a box of crayons and a ball of clay. The clay gave Anne an idea. She quickly cast a spell and watched as the clay rolled and squirm into the shape of a dragon.

"What are you doing?" Robin asked.

"Getting us out of Lily's play time," said Anne with a smile. The clay formed a mouth and then some eyes. "Look what I got for you to play with, Lily… a dragon."

"Oooooh!" said the dragon. 'I'm alive."

"That should keep Lily entertain until she's ready to become E again." Anne said as she cast a spell restoring them to full size, but keeping them in their female forms.

"Why didn't you change us back?" Robin asked. He saw Anne was no longer in the room. Where are you?"

"In my room," Anne called back. "I don't have a clothes change spell and E is Lilly because all of Evan's clothes are being washed. Since today was the last day of school before spring break, he wanted enough clean clothes to get through the camp out he's planning over the weekend. After I change, feel free to borrow anything you want from my closet."

"What happed to the clothes we were wearing when we were first shrunk?" Paul asked.

"Look, clay dragon breaths fire." Lily giggled as she held up what was left of Paul's shirt.

"Never mind," said Paul as he retracted his statement.

"How are you doing?" Anne asked as she came out in her pink tee shirt, skirt and white sneakers. He saw Robin in the 1950s poodle skirt outfit that Anne and brought back from their recent trip through time. When she turned toward Jason, he mouth dropped open. "What did you do to my clothes?"

"Lily and her new pet help me make some improvements to it." Jason smiled into a nearby mirror. "Sexy or what?"

"I'll go with or what," replied Anne. "Now what is this all about?"

With that, they sat down and listened to Paul explain what happened to him. He even said how on his world their crazy adventures were nothing more than fictional comic imagination of the writer Anne. "Do you think you can help me?"

"I can try." Anne said as she close her eyes and concentrated on letter her magic flow through her. "Here goes nothing."

"What's going on?" Jason asked as a mist circled the group.

"I don't know if where I send him is the correct dimension or not." Anne said with a smile. "I can easily return here after we see him home."

"Just hope we don't end up hopefully lost like in the Sliders series." Jason said as the group dropped into the ocean.

"Now what?" asked Paul, "How can we tell if this is the right world?"

"First thing we need to be able to swim to shore easier." Anne said as she turned the group into mermaids. Anne gave herself a pink tail, Jason a red one, Robin and purple one and Paul blue.

"This is great." Paul said as he recorded like a torpedo through the ocean. "My parents always said that I swam like a fish. Now I guess it's true."

"I just hope we find land soon." Jason said as his stomach growled. "I don't like the idea of a diet of nothing but raw fish."

"What's that?" Robin asked as he pointed to a movement with one of his webbed fingers. "I think it's coming this way."

"It's an octopus." Paul said in a panic voice.

"Quick everyone," Anne declared. "Grab a tentacle."

They did so and Anne concentrated on her power to transform the giant sea monster into a harmless sea horse. She soon rode side saddle up to the others. "Anyone want to rest their fins by riding our new friend?"

"We're not the only ones." Paul pointed to a city at the sea floor. Up and down the streets were mermen and mermaids riding sea horses. "Maybe they'll have the answers to where the land is."

"May I help you?" A merman cop said as he got off his sea horse and swam up to them.

"Yes actually," Anne said sweetly. "Could you direct us to the nearest land mass?"

"You're joking right?" The officer said as he started laughing. "All land masses sunk into the sea centuries ago."

"Guess it's not you're world," Jason said as he caught the eye of a red headed mermaid swimming down the block. "I wonder if she has a merman back home."

"You look in the mirror lately, Jason?" Robin reminded him.

"Oh, yeah," sighed Jason as he cupped his own breasts. "For a moment, I forgot."

"Looks like this isn't your world?" Anne said.

"At least it's the start of spring break." Paul replied. "My parents may miss me, but I won't be missing any school."

"That supposed to be a good thing?" Jason asked.

"I'll try again." Anne concentrated on her powers and they vanished before the cop fishes eyes.

When they appeared the ruins of a city the sound of explosions sounded every where. Jason found some guns next to a fallen body and took them. "All right," Jason shouted. "Girl body or no girl body, at least I get to do some damage."

"Anne, did you transport us to the future again instead of through a dimensional barrier?" Robin asked.

"No," replied Anne.

"Then why are you a cat girl again and I'm a female druid?" Robin asked.

"We couldn't be mermaids on dry land." Anne said with a chuckle. "When I saw the type of world we landed on and the cat passing by, the bodies we had in our visit to the future were the first to come to mind."

"Well it's obvious' not Paul's world." Robin said with his hands on his hips. "Can we just try another and get me back to normal?"

"Don't you have any sense of adventure?" Jason asked as he fired a blast into the air.

"What I have are high heels that are killing me and I can't detach them from my body." Robin replied.

"Look out!" Paul shouted as a guy in black and looking like a reject Star Wars Storm trooper appeared from behind a wall with a gun. They only got so far when a white counter part popped up ahead of them. "Everyone, get down!"

"Any more bright ideas," asked Jason.

"Whoa, cool costumes." The trooper in black said. "Where can I get outfits like those?"

"Never mind that," said the white trooper. "They're butting in on our paintball game and we paid good money to use the arena."

"Arena," The group looked at each other confused.

"Guess this isn't the future after all," Anne said blushing. "I didn't think I made a mistake with my dimension and time spells."

"I think we'd better try again." Paul suggested.

"Cool effects." The black trooper said as the group vanished.

"Idiot," The white trooper said as his paint ball gun splattered the black guy with red paint.

"You sure that wasn't your world?" Robin asked Paul.

"We've got paintball games, but nothing on a stadium scale." Paul said as they appeared in a locker room. "Now where are we?"

"Don't know," said Anne as she turned herself and Robin back to human form before opening the lockers at pulling out a white sailor top and blue skirt school uniform. "I found us some clothes so we can blend in while we look around."

"Can't we just be guys on one of these worlds," asked Robin.

"How would you explain being in the girl's locker room when you walk out of here dressed in girl's clothes?"

"Good point." Robin sighed.

"Besides," Anne said. "I'm not letting you guys leave the outfits you borrowed from me on some alternated world."

"First one with a Sailor moon joke gets it." Jason said when he was finished dressed.

"I think you look cute," Anne replied.

"I'm a bit concern about our new friend." Robin said as he looked toward Paul as their new friend stepped into one of the bathroom stalls. "I think he's getting use to his new body a little too much. All we need is another Jason on our hands."

"You're still jealous that of my looks as a girl." Jason commented as he looked at his figure before one of the bathroom mirrors.

The group walked out of the bathroom to hear voices over on a nearby field. "I can see a soccer game going on over there."

"The school uniform proves we haven't moved from The Wotch comic universe to Erin Linsey's Venus Envy universe so I guess I won't be meeting Zoe in this world."

That was when a group of screaming kids took off down the hall. They were followed by pink goo. "This wouldn't be the world El Goonish Shive lives then, would it?"

"The goo they fought in that comic was green, not pink." Paul told them.

"Whatever it is, it can think." Anne said as she could sense intelligence from the stuff. They watched as it formed into a army of 3 inch tell pink guys.

"They look like pink version of that dough guy from the baking commercials." Robin said as the group could only look at one another.

"You're not afraid of us?" The apparent leader of the pink creatures asked.

"No really," Anne said. "The Uricarn Demon was scarier than you guys. If it's a fight you want."

"We don't want to fight." The leader said. "We want to return to home in the sky."

"He must mean another planet." Paul stated the obvious.

"I can handle than." Anne said as the aliens took the group to their ship and she used her magic to repair their saucer craft.

"It's like something out of a bad 1950s sci-fi movie." Robin said as he watched the alien board and leave into space.

"By now nothing would surprise me." Jason said from behind his comic book.

"We just made contact with aliens," Robin said to his friend. "Aren't you excited?"

"Not now," Jason said. "Busy with comics."

"Let's try again." Anne said with a smile as she transported the group once more. This time they appeared in Paul's front yard.

"We did it," Paul shouted gleefully in a way that reminded Anne of Lilly and how she looks forward to returning to her own home and family. "Come on guys. I'll treat you all to cookies before you go."

After Robin, Paul and Jason were turned back to guys, the two raided Paul's closet for some male clothes. Anne then gave Paul a necklace. "This is for you," she said.

"What's it for?" asked Paul.

"The necklace is magic," replied Anne. "It has two functions. The first will allow you to cross directly between worlds if you wish to join us on any future adventures we might find ourselves in. The second feature allows you to turn into a girl whenever you. While you are a girl your family and friends will think you've always been female. Robin was right that you were starting to look at yourself in the mirror the way Jason does when he's transformed. I thought you'd enjoy your gift."

"Can I have one of those necklaces?" Jason asked as he held up a camera.

"Let's get going before I decide to make Jason a blonde girl again." Anne sighed as she and her friends transported away. Paul would always remember his adventure and wondered if he would feel like using the necklace to visit them in the future.

THE END

  

  

  

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