<span style="color: #FFFF00">As the sharks started firing their lasers at JDizzle, Asuna and Suguha, one of them jumped out and caught ahold of JD's ankle with it's jaws... or what would be his ankle if his microbot army hadn't protected him. Ichigo and Rukia were swiftly progressing through the course, and reached a small section of the course that seemed normal. That is, until you walked on it. arrows began firing from both sides, and Jdizzle only just got close enough to freeze time and pull them to safety.<br/><br/>"Vaati! can you use your control over the winds to redirect these arrows?" He asked, narrowly avoiding a wallmaster himself as Asuna and Leafa made it to the sam area.<br/><br/>the airborn Beta Six was not out of the woods even with his airborne advantage. several flame exuding drones started chasing him and attempting to fry the robotic entity.<br/><br/>As Garsot and Tails followed Annie, she cackled childishly. "Welcome to the final stage... for you!" she said as the tiles on the floor started dropping down, revealing spikes underneath. Tails gulped.<br/><br/>JD suddenly felt a small vibration in his pocket and a familiar sci-fi theme began to play. reaching into his pocket, he found his cell phone. "Who could be calling me at a time like- wait... how do I even have bars here?" he thought as he picked up the phone. "Hello?" he said, still running as he noticed something strange. the whole obstacle course seemed to be destroying itself... into a white nothingness.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain had finally finished the last book <span style="font-style: italic">Skin Game</span> by Jim Butcher and was just contemplating calling it a night. The sun had set many hours ago and it was rather very late. Or maybe one should say early seeing as it was well past midnight now. Yawning she leaned back in her comfortable chair and looked down at the book in her lap.<br/><br/>Doing so brought about the memories of who had sent her the series and she couldn’t help the faint smile that curved her lips. It had been a while since she’d touched base with her friend. She was rather well known for being forgetful so it wasn’t unusual that they could go months between calls. After all she rarely called anyone. <br/><br/>Deciding that it might be nice to touch base and completely disregarding the fact she was making a call in the middle of the night she pulled out her cell and flipped through her contacts quickly until she reached the number. JD flashed on her screen along with a picture she had snapped when they had first met. Another smile softened the crease that had set between her brows as she’d searched for the number. <br/><br/>With a quick flick of her finger she dialled the phone and set it to her ear. Pausing until she heard his voice, <span style="font-weight: bold">”Hello?”</span> resonate through her ear. <br/><br/>“Heya, I’m not waking you am I?” She asked suddenly realizing it was after midnight and she’d completely forgotten to check to see what time it was in his timezone. Opps. Oh well. It sounded rather like he was awake and playing a video game. At least that is what she assumed from the noise on the other end of the phone barely audible behind his words.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">JD was panting now. "Not really... just, you know... freezing time while covered in microbots and getting out of the path of flaming arrows. How've you been? finished the book series I sent you? It's been forever since- HEY WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON???" he finished, yelling at Jeremiah, forgetting who the enemy was for a moment due to the nature of Code Geass continuity.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain was adequately confused by this, but not at all surprised. Since she had a lot of gaming friends she figured he was playing a video game and chalked this weirdness up to that, Deciding not to sound like her typical clueless self first thing into the phone call she was rather a little taken aback by the sudden scream. Holding the phone out at arms length for a second she gave it a rather concerned frown before bringing it back to her face and speaking.<br/><br/>“Yah actually I just finished the last book, that was one HELL of a good series. You choose well. Sorry about my poor skills at keeping in touch,” she continued shrugging, “you know me I have the social skills of an Andarion, so basically none at all.” She laughed lightly at her own silly joke. Hoping that wasn’t an entirely odd statement. Then again with her it was pretty typical.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">"Well while I would love to catch u-HOLY CRAP- thank god I can stop time like this... look. This is gonna sound totally crazy, but I am in actual danger of dying here, and I have to beat a cyborg through one of those deadman wonderland style obstacle courses, so can we catch up when I am not... ohshitshitshitshit" he said as the last obstacle was the bungee cord that would break if you chose wrong.<br/><br/>"<span style="font-size: 75%; line-height: 116%;">Mother!</span> Why did I have to be afraid of heights?" he muttered.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Now actually concerned and confused by this Fain half rose from her chair at the emotions she heard in her friends voice, “Are you for real?” she asked her voice rising slightly at the end. Her hand gripping the phone in a white knuckled grip the book making a loud smack as it hit the ground at her feet.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">Loosing control of his emotions due to fear, JD's Bipolar kicked in. "Naw! I thought the world was fine this morning when I got pulled into another dimension! What do you think!"<br/><br/>he caught his angered sarcasm and sighed. "Look, I'll call you back if I live through this jump... wait a second! I have microbots!" and he used them to simply walk down the other side of the jump wall. Jeremiah shouted after him something about cheating, but he simply stepped over the finish line and was suddenly back in the cabin. Yui greeted him with a squeal and a shout of "Daddy!" to which he sighed and picked up his phone, "Ok Fain... now was there anything you wanted to discuss?"<br/><br/>The Binary man appeared on the screen as Ichigo and Rukia made it back, and they were soon followed by Asuna and Leafa. Leafa was pale. "Worst. Jump. Of my life!" she breathed.<br/><br/>The Binary man suddenly said, "So who's on the phone?"<br/><br/>JD smiled. "An old friend!"<br/><br/>Yui raised an eyebrow "How old is she?"<br/><br/>JD sighed. "That's not what I meant. Hey Fain, you still there?"</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Fain frowned at the phone and the heavy sarcasm bleeding from it. If it wasn’t for her long time friend teaching her that and Sherrilyn Kenyon corrupting her to it’s willful ways she would have been highly insulted by the acerbic tone. As it was she just frowned at it and barely.... BARELY refrained from answering with an equally thick sarcastic response before hanging up. However. Taking a deep breath she let it slide. He was her friend after all and she didn’t tend to take overreactions from a friend the same ways she did strangers. <br/><br/>Friends got leeway. She gave some now and sighed heavily as the next words came through the phone. His tone was a lot more pleasant then it had been and it was evident he was under strain and probably a touch of real fear in there too. So she ignored both the sarcasm and the less then pleasant words and waited patiently till he did whatever it was he was needing to do. Though by now she really wanted answers and fully planned to demand them. <br/><br/>About to answer his next words her own words were cut off with nothing more then a ‘wha’ slipping out of her lips before more voices filtered into the background and JD responded to them. She frowned even harder this time at the floor since there was nothing else she could frown at. She stood and started pacing unbelievably annoyed, absolutely worried and desperately curious. <br/><br/>“Um yah I”m still here, You ok?” she asked first. Followed up quickly with, “and what the hell is going on?” she said quickly to avoid anything else happening before she got an answer. She was genuinely concerned for her friends well being.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">JD sighed. "She's gonna have to be here for this to make sense isn't she?" He asked the Binary man, who snapped and a Star Trek effect happened, bringing both Fain -and her cell phone- into the room. "Right. Time I explained some heavy stuff, huh?" he asked as he saw her expression. it almost made him laugh.</span>