Winiwalt is experiencing technical difficulties (sick) will return with a vengeance as soon as my system is flushed out....I hate being sick.....

I'm just 'burned out'..we've got all offseason..take a break, I think we have both earned it.

Bump up to the first page.

Hope you are feeling better soon. I am trying to do a bit of writing in keeping with your stories.

just don't take to long who knows what I might do to your stories :)

There was a flash of light in the engineering section followed by a voice yelling “Dang I hate that

part!” The room was pitch black so who the person was couldn't be told except that they were

female. She called out “Scotty what's going on here?" With no answer she then called "Scotty?

Winiwalt? 5714? Metalchick? Where the heck is everyone?” She pulled out her i-phone and picked

the flashlight app to be able to see where she was going. If anyone had been there to see they

would have seen a Cubs cap on her head revealing that it was Kim back on the train. She headed to

the main console to see what was going on. It appeared that no one had been there in awhile as

dust covered everything. She got out the swiffer dusters and got things clean enough that she

could read everything then she got busy. “OK it looks like everything is in good shape and running

normally”. She moved on to check the cameras they had installed during the last remodeling /

rebuilding of the train. “I can understand not a lot of people being here with the season being over

but the Scotty would never leave without me to watch over things.” She said. With that she flipped

on the monitor to the venting car and it was dark so she turned on the lights there and saw that

everything was covered with dust. She went on to look in Winched’s area it was closed up tight.

She checked the common room next and saw no one there either. She finally turned on the

cameras to the Cybercarbar and finally saw people, the problem was that it was 2 men she had

never seen and they rather looked like homeless people doing something with a canoe duct tape

and the tires from Richard and Dales truck. She turned on the audio feed for the bar area and heard

that they were planning on making this their home as they had found the train unlocked and

deserted. She had the impression that they hadn’t been there for long. She locked up the rest of

the train so that they couldn’t get to the other cars and transported all the drinks to the venting

car. While she was deciding what to do with the intruders she started scanning for life signs of the

regulars. THERE, faint life signs for all of them In the cyberbarcar? She went back and looked no

sign of her friends besides the signs were too faint. “NO! The last time she had seen readings like

this was when the entrance to the other dimension was open. She knew it had appeared again but

as it was unstable they had all decied not to use it at the present time. She looked closer at the life

signs and saw there were 10 people down there. Who all was down there, and had they gone there

of their own free will or had the dark lord had something to do with it? She pulled out her heavily

modified i-phone and using the communicator to try get a hold of someone down there. “Let’s

see” she said “Scotty never goes anyplace without his communicator so here goes. Scotty can

you hear me?” She thought she heard a faint response so she tried again. “Mister Scott report”

there appeared to be a reply again but she couldn’t make it out.

Hey! you're one of the "Fearless Foursome'...go nuts!...ha-ha..

While she was working on what to do about the missing crew she went back to the strangers in the

Cyberbarcar. From listening to them she had found out that they were Harold and his Uncle Red.

Red seemed to not be such a great guy rather bossy and rude of course it could be from being

homeless. Harold on the other hand seemed to take everything that Red said with no resistance.

Youppi would sure come in handy now but with hockey season having started last week well he

was busy with his job. “Hey does he travel with the team?” she wondered. The team is out of town

for the next few days he might be available. “Oh well I don’t have any way to contact him any

way.” She turned back to the monitor and the strangers in the Cyberbarcar. Now they were

starting to look around behind the bar. “OH NO Spalding is back there! I have to get him out and

safe. I wonder if I can transport him.” While she had been thinking this she configured in his

location on the transporter and started the transport. As she was watching Spaulding’s box

materialized on the transport pad. She ran over and looked in there was Spaulding and he was not

sounding very happy and was glowing red and throwing off sparks. “I am so sorry Spaulding.” Kim

said. “Let me explain what is going on before you do anything please. 5714, MetalChick, Winiwalt,

and Scotty are all missing, there are strangers in the bar and they were getting close to you. I

really didn’t think it would be a good idea if they found you, I didn’t know what they might do to

you.” As she had been talking Spaulding’s glow had changed from red to green. “I hope that

means that you aren’t going to do anything rash.” Kim said. “I know where everyone is but not

how to get to them. Let me explain what I can. I really don’t know how much you know about the

place that you have been so I may say some things that you already know. You couldn’t by any

chance show me some way when I am saying something you already know could you?” Just then

she noticed that Spaulding’s glow changed to yellow then back to green. “That is great. Okay let’s

start at the beginning. This is the Blue Jays ….” Spaulding turned yellow then back to green. “Okay

let’s go further. Are you aware of the entrance to the other dimension on the train?” Spaulding

turned a bright orange and started to roll around in his glove. “I hate to be dumb but if that means

you know about it could you turn green again?” As she said this Spaulding turned green again and

calmed down. “I wish we had a more direct way of talking this will take forever.” She said.

Spaulding started bouncing up against the side of the box like he was trying to get out so she lifted

him up and set him on the console. He rolled off the console and dropped to the floor then across

to the work bench then started to bounce up and down. Kim went and picked him up and set him on

the top of the work bench. He then rolled to a drawer that had things they had brought back from

area 15 that they had never gotten to and started to tap against it. Kim pulled out the drawer and

put the contents on the work bench. Spaulding rolled to one small coin looking like thing that Kim

vaguely remembered Scotty saying was some type of translator and they didn’t need it here so

they had put it aside. When she picked up the object she could hear Spaulding say “There now we

can communicate with you being able to understand me." " This is amazing…” Kim said as she

started to talk Spaulding cut her off saying “I do not wish to be rude but we must get our friends

back they are in severe danger were they are.”

Kim replied “I tried to communicate with them but the answer was to faint to understand.”.

Spaulding “We need to get closer to the opening I believe.”

Kim looked at the monitor and saw that the strangers were now asleep and said “I think that I

have an idea how to do that. The venting car has a huge amount of soundproofing and when locked

no one can get out. We could transport our visitors there and lock it up till we have time to deal

with them. What do you think?”

Spaulding “That would be a satisfactory holding place for them. Please insure they have proper

food and drink for when they awake.”

Kim “Sure thing it will just take a minute to get this done. There they are taken care of now let’s

get out there and try to find and save our friends.”

I bet you never though I would go that way did you?

Nice job Kim!...keep going!

I plan on it. Trying to figure out where I am going now. Spaulding talking don't know where that came from.

As they were going towards the entrance Kim asked “Spaulding can you tell me anything more

about the danger our friends are in?”

Spaulding replied “I can provide you with further information. They went into the entrance with the

others that had been traveling there.”

Kim “What others were they regulars of the train?”

Spaulding “The names were Expos, Vanland, OTM, Vdub and Bjsrule08. Your friend Mister Scott

had set a trap as everyone was worried about who was going down there as it was dangerous.

They spoke and they told our friends that the entrance led to more than the Rogers center so they

all went back in. That was September 14th it is now October 10th almost a month they have been

there. As far as I can tell from my contact with 5714 they feel they have only been gone minutes.”

Kim “That does not sound good at all. Do you have direct contact with 5714, can you speak to

him?”

Spaulding “I cannot speak to him I can hear his thoughts but can only send feelings to him. I wish I

could do more but without him having a translator and being closer I can do no more.”

As they had been traveling they were now at the entrance to the other dimension.

Kim said “I want to tell you before we go any further that it is my privilege to speak to you. You

have such a great history and are so very special. I hope that when we save our friends you will

continue to speak with us.”

Spaulding “I will consider speaking with others but for now let us concentrate on the job we have

in front of us. I can feel fear from 5714 but it is so far away.”

Kim “Can you send him hope and friendship somehow remind him about here and how nice it is?

Maybe you can get him thinking about coming back they have been gone long enough. While you

try that I will try the communicator again. Scotty it is Kim can you hear me please respond.” She

listened as a faint reply came though “Ah lass it makes my heart glad to hear your voice. ”came

though faintly.

“Scotty you cannot be any happier than I am to hear yours.” replied Kim.

Your diet needs some spice , Dude .

Habanero = Flu Shield .

Try it out .

Kim transports Red and Harold into the Venting Car and proceeds into the Cyberbar with Spaulding. She turns on the lights and cannot believe her eyes as she looks on at what was left of the Cyberbar. There was duct tape everywhere, in the middle of the room was a kiddie pool with a foot high ring of tinfoiled cardboard around it and filled with water. There was a step ladder duct taped to it and 4 vacuum cleaners duct taped to the side with the hoses going through the cardboard.

KIM: My god what have they done???? These guys tried to make a Jacuzzi, there must be 200 dollars with of duct tape here!!

SPAULDING: Whoever they are, they are very industrious.

There are pullies and on the ceiling beams and the chairs have ropes attached to them and there are tubes leading from the bar to the chairs in front of the T.V. She sits down in one of the chairs and pulls the lever that is hanging about a foot over the arm rest. There is a noise from behind the bar and a bottle of beer travels through the tube and drops into the cup holder that Red cut right into the arm rest itself.

KIM: This is kind of cool… I wonder what this one does.

She pulls the lever on the other side of the chair, a large weight comes down as the chair is now moving toward the washroom. As it comes in it trips something else and this hook grabs her and next thing she knows she is standing in front of the toilet.

KIM: Obviously this is for GUYS ONLY….

SPAULDING: Your friends????

KIM: Yes, yes, I’ve seen quite enough, 5714 is gonna to have a kitten when he sees all this.

She moves the table that hides the trap door to 1993 and climbs down.

SPAULDING: Whatever you do, do not turn suddenly.

KIM: Why??

SPAULDING: It’s how you enter the other baseball cities.

KIM: Where are they now??

SPAULDING: They have been entering all of the various baseball stadiums of 1993 but some are out of sync with center of it, which is here.

KIM: Is this why they have lost all this time?

SPAULDING: Yes and it’s become more unstable.

KIM: Why?

SPAULDING: It’s closing…

KIM: Are we safe?

SPAULDING: Yes, the further away you are the more dangerous it is……Your friends are in danger.

KIM: I can’t reach them, where are they?

SPAULDING: They are about to go to California, if they do, they will be absorbed.

KIM: Absorbed?

SPAULDING: Die

KIM: I don’t understand, why California??

SPAULDING: The time bubble is closing and even though the gate to California is still there, there is nothing beyond the gate but the void itself where their energy will be absorbed.

KIM: SCOTTY!!! SCOTTY!!! I don’t know what to do!!!

SPAULDING: You have to transport them out.

KIM: I’m trying but I don’t know how!!

Her tricorder begins to glow the same color as Spaulding and the readings and setting on the screen are changing so fast that Kim can’t read them.

Meanwhile in the main gate way to California.

EXPOS: Alright, lets go check out the Angels…

Scotty is slowly following and trying to reach Kim, he can hear her voice but it’s so faint he can’t make it out.

SCOTTY: Kim, I can’t hear you lass.

5714 is still worried if he locked the door or not.

5714: I really don’t think I locked it.

WINIWALT: Enough already, god we’ve only been down here a couple of hours, like come on, let’s enjoy some California sunshine.

5714: Alright…but I don’t like having that in the back of my mind.

EXPOS: Alright boys, we are here, say hello to hot girls in the hot weather.

Scotty is still trying to make out what Kim is saying, he turns up the volume to maximum.

KIM: STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s so loud and sudden that it freezes everyone.

SCOTTY: Kim, can you hear me???

All he hears is static, everyone waits but it’s nothing but static, after a minute and half Expos gets impatient and goes to walk through the gateway as they dematerialize….

Meanwhile back in the corridor to 1993, Kim is yelling into the no longer glowing tricorder.

KIM: SCOTTY!! SCOTTY!!...(looks at the readings) They are in engineering, you did it Spaulding!!

SPAULDING: So they are safe?

Looks at the tricorder again.

KIM: According to this, yes..

SPAULDING: Thank you Kim, it was nice talking to you.

KIM: It was nice talking to you t………..

Kim softly falls to the ground as the glow from Spaulding goes away as it just sits resting against her.

Meanwhile, Expos, Vanland, OTM, Vdub, Bjsrule08, Winiwalt, 5714 and Scotty and Metalchick are all safe standing on the transporter pads.

SCOTTY: She brought us back…(talks into the tricorder) Kim you did it, we’re here……Kim, lass??....She’s in the 93 cooridor and she’s unconscious.

OTM: I’ll get here…

He runs out of 4th car.

SCOTTY: What’s all that crud on top of my control panel and what’s with the work bench??

5714: And the rolls of duct tape..

The sound of a snare drum could be heard as well as some cymbals and a base drum. Everyone is looking around for the source of the music. Winiwalt steps from one transporter pad to another and hears a cymbal. Scotty looks down and also steps onto the pad and it makes the same kind of noise. He then steps on the one beside that and it makes the sound of a snare drum and looks at Winiwalt.

SCOTTY: Is this someone’s idea of a joke??

Winiwalt looks around at the control panel that has a turntable duct taped to it.

WINIWALT: What is going on here?

He notices a crudely made teleprompter made with newspaper rolls and turned by an elastic pully. The paper has the lyrics for Sweet Caroline. Scotty presses power on the 70’s style turn table and the sound of Sweet Caroline fills the room. He looks at the elastic band that is on the spool that is attached to the teleprompter and it begins to turn and is amazingly keeping in time with song.

5714: It’s a crude karaoke machine.

The music is being drowned out by Vanland and Bjsrule08 who are jumping on the transporter pads and making drum noises.

VANLAND: This is so cooool!!!

Winiwalt, Scotty and 5714 are still looking at each other.

5714: It’s a joke, it has to be.

WINIWALT: Yeah it’s a joke alright, I can tell you who too, it starts with a B and ends with an O.

SCOTTY: Sounds like something he would do.

WINIWALT: Go away for an afternoon and look what he does!!!

5714: Calm down, it’s only a joke, you really need to have a better sense of humour, drinks anyone??

WINIWALT: Do you have to ask?

5714: Hopefully a couple drinks will cheer you sour pusses up.

He walks into the Cyberbar and lets out a scream, then comes running back in.

5714: I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!!!!!

WINIWALT: I’m sure it’s only a joke, lighten up 5714..

5714: Seeing that Brando is not here, (walks towards Winiwalt, rolling up his sleeves)

WINIWALT: Now 5714, calm down….no, really, 5714???......

Thank you so much that is great. I got stuck didn't know how to save you all. I want to know how I can be saved if we can't go back.

You don't get saved, you just became the first bandwagoner to die....

kidding...

the main corridor to the 93 bandwagon is fine. It's just all the outlying areas like california and seattle as the bubble is slowly closing. I have a major story during the world series so I need the 93 skydome and spaulding for it.

I thought I did good figuring out how to have Spaulding be able to talk. I look forward to you continuing the story.

You did a nice job, I liked what you wrote, you obviously did some research.

I was writing it in word and kept comming and going thru the thread to find what I was trying to do next. I didn't think I was ever going to remember your brothers name.

"Somehow?'..5714 finds himself back at the bandwagon..there are 'boxes upon BOXES!'..piled everywhere in the cyberbarcar.
5714(to himself).."COOL!...my delivery is IN!..

As he starts to take inventory, the door to the hidden 93 Skydome opens...and out walks Alice Cooper.

5714:' HEY COOP!"

Alice:" Hey yourself 5714!..my order in??'

5714 checks his list, and points to a box near the wall.."Over there!...with the black marker on it?'

Alice:' COOL!..(peels off a wad of $50 bills, and hands it to 5714)."That take care of it??'

5714:" Definately!...wait...I'll get you some change!"

Alice:" Don't worry about it pal...keep the change..it's 'TOUGH!" to get quality merchandise like THIS!"

5714:" Tell your FRIENDS!....5714 is "ALWAYS"..ready to supply!

Alice:" Cool Dude!..I will!..he takes the box, and disappears into, the 93 Skydome entrance...5714 counts the money..then places it in a strongbox, under the bar...

(looks around).."NEXT??"