Dimension Jumpers

Prologue

Cari had finally done it, she had finally finished her machine. It didn't have an official name, nor did anyone but her know about it. All she called it was "DTM", it was short for a long name. She hated the name but she didn't have anything better to call it at the moment. Cari picked up her phone and dialed her best friends phone number. She sat with the phone to her ear and listened to it ring for a few seconds before it clicked.

"What do you want now?" Maximus, Cari's friend, asked tiredly.

"Why do you sound so tired?" She answered with another question.

"It's only 5 in the morning." Maximus sighed into the phone.

"Oh. Yeah. I didn't look at the time before I called, sorry." Cari said sheepishly.

"Yeah yeah, whatever. What do you want?" Maximus groaned.

Cari looked at her machine, it looked like a rectangular silver box standing on its side. She had carved elegant designs throughout the outside, and managed to make it look beautiful for a metal box.

"Yeah, um, can you come over?" Cari wanted to show him what the box did.

"Maybe in a few hours... I'm really tired." Maximus whined.

"You can come now then leave to go back to sleep," Cari suggested. "If you want."

"Ugh! Fine! I'll be there in like 30 minutes." It sounded like he had tripped and dropped his phone.

"Maxi?" Cari knew he hated that nickname, so she purposely yelled it into the phone.

Cari heard the sound of the phone being dragged across a wooden floor, very annoying and amplified in the phone.

"Don't call me that!" Maximus shouted. "You know I don't like it!"

"Exactly, and I also know you can't give me a nickname since I go by my nickname." Cari grinned, even though it wasn't visible to Maximus.

"Shut up. I'm on my way. I'll turn around!" Maximus threatened.

"No you won't." Cari grinned even more and hung up the phone.

He was in for a magnificent surprise. Cari walked up to her machine and dragged her hand across her surprisingly detailed and beautiful carvings, she had made up her own writing language and used it to encrypt her favorite poems and quotes onto it, with some random flowers and vines, of course. Her language was made up of vine-like swirls and leaves, much like a tropical rainforest, some letters where closed flowers, others where swirling vines or a vine in an infinity sign. She had the translation for every letter written down on a piece of paper inside the machine, for safe keeping.

There was a knock at the door which jolted Cari out of her thoughts, she ran from her office, as she called it, and into the main living room of her house. She slid and stopped at her front door, opening it happily. Maximus was standing there, he looked grumpy and was wearing his usual outfit, his blue jacket, white t-shirt, black jeans and his blue and white shoes. I then realized I hadn't changed from my pajamas and I looked down at my clothes.

"I get all changed and ready for whatever and you still have your pajamas on?" Maximus glared at Cari in anger.

"Just come on, I'll be right back." Cari raced away from the open door and left Maximus standing there.

Maximus strolled through the door, closing it as he walked inside. He walked over to Cari's kitchen and searched her fridge for soda, and found none.

"What are you doing?" Cari said out of the blue, making Maximus jump.

"I'm looking for soda." Maximus closed the fridge.

"I have none. I drank it all." Cari smirked.

Cari was now wearing her super awesome navy blue trench coat, her pale purple long-sleeve shirt underneath, her dark blue jeans and her white shoes. She always claimed it was her best outfit, but she had better and she knew it.

"Okay so why am I here?" Maximus glanced around for anything that could resemble a prank.

"Not to be pranked, that's for sure," Cari noticed what he was doing. "I want to show you something."

"Then what is it?" Maximus questioned.

"Just follow me!" Cari grinned and tore off to her office.

"Wait for me!!" Maximus complained.

By the time Maximus got there, Cari was already standing at the doorway to her office. She held the door open and let Maximus walk inside, he first noticed the metallic box.

"Uhh what is that?" He pointed to the DTM.

"Allow me to show you," Cari walked up to her beautifully decorated machine and pushed in one side to reveal a door. "After you, Maxi." She grinned.

Maximus growled and stepped inside, quickly losing his angered mood. The inside of this tiny box looked huge! In the center there was a circular control panel, right in the center of it was a glowing, neon green orb.

"See that right there?" Cari pointed to the glowing orb. "That's the power source."

"What's it made of?" Maximus stared at the orb.

"Oh you know... Literally every kind of material that gives modern machines energy to move. It made itself infinite, too. It supplies itself with energy. I have no idea how or why though. By the way this is a dimension jumper." Cari shrugged it off like it was no big deal.

"A WHAT?!" Maximus shouted, his shout echoing off the walls of the machine.

Cari gasped. "Oh! You're not me so you didn't expect me to make this!" She chuckled. "This is, prepare for a sucky name, the Dimension Traveling Machine. Or DTM for short."

"It's not a sucky name." Maximus lied, he just didn't want to hurt her feelings.

"Whatever," Cari walked around the control panel and leant against it, facing Maximus. "So, where do you want to go?"