This choice: Go get some food and come straight back. • Go Back...Chapter #5Go get some food and come straight back. by: akatheguy   So you did what you said you would. You stared at the crystal, rubbed it, and that blinding red light appeared from it again. You appeared back in your garden, and checked your watch. Noon. Alright.
You headed into the kitchen of your house and grabbed a bag, filling it with bread, cookies, some bottles of water, meat, etc. Easily-eaten snacks. You grabbed some extra for your friends too. You also went upstairs and quickly got changed and cleaned up, wanting to be a little more presentable for your new tiny subjects. You checked yourself out in the mirror, and realised you had this gigantic dopey grin on your face - you were exciting, giddy at the prospect of literally ruling a world alongside your friends.
Once you were done, you headed back into the garden and took the crystal out, checking your watch once more. 12:05. 5 minutes. Like you promised. You headed back to the other world, repeating what you did. One flashing red light later and you were back. Jake and Eric were still there, sat in the wreckage created when they arrived, and you sat down to join them.
As soon as they noticed, they asked, "where the hell have you been?"
"Wuh?" you responded, confused.
"You said you'd be gone five minutes! It's been two hours!" Eric indicated his watch.
"What? No it hasn't," you said, looking at the watch. But he was right. The watch said 2pm.
"Whoa," you said. "You didn't change this, did you?"
Eric gave you an indignant look and you glanced at Jake, who shook his head.
"Guys, I swear I was only 5 minutes. I packed up some food, changed, then came straight ba-wait. You know what this means, right?"
"That you can't keep time?"
"No, moron," you said. "Time passes faster in this world...like Narnia, except without a Lion god and more...us-gods."
"Whoa," Jake said. "That's crazy."
"Yeah. And yet, not the craziest thing to happen today."
You paused, working it out. "OK, so...I was gone 5 minutes, which for you guys was two hours, or 120 minutes...so I guess that means time is 24 times faster here?"
Eric shrugged. "I guess." Always a bit slow on the uptake.
"So one hour at home is a whole day here?" Jake asked.
"So it seems..."
You smirked. An idea had struck you.
"So here's what we do. We make our demands, then we leave. We go home, we eat, we chill out, we make some plans, then in like three or four hours we come back. That'll be three or four days for them, so they'll have had time to adjust to us and do what we asked."
Eric paused, then said..."yeah. I like it. Let's do that. Although I want to take some little people back with me."
"Oh yeah, I was planning to as well," you reassured him, laughing.
"Alright!" Eric exclaimed, standing and getting into his godly role.
"Little people! Here are our demands!"
You watched, laughing, as Eric began to list demands. Stuff like construction on statues of the three of them. The removal of all religion that wasn't the church of Matt, Jake and Eric. The clearing of a pathway from where the stone teleported them to outside the city, so the new gods could move around without crushing or killing people.
"And complete nuclear disarmament," you added.
"Oh yeah. Nice call," Eric said. "That too!" he yelled out, finishing his list. Like ants, the people in the city surrounding them got to work.
"You guys ready to go?" you asked, watching as your two friends marvelled at the endeavor of the tiny people.
"Yeah," responded Jake. "Are you?"
"Almost," you said, taking the food out of the bag and flinging it around the city almost at random, distributing it quite evenly. You left the two bottles of water next to you.
"One last thing, little people," you called out, and you saw their ant-like scurrying stop for a moment. "We will now return to our home for a few days. But we would like to take a few of you with us...any volunteers? We'll return you safe and sound. Probably."
There was a sudden surge of people running back towards the three of you and you grinned proudly as people begged to be taken with you, their new supreme ruler. A bunch of them burst out onto the roof of a nearby skyscraper and you squatted down, bringing your face in close to them, and said, "sure." You reached out and swept a few of them into your hand - you reckoned you had about 9 or 10, which was all you really needed. You watched Eric stocking up on his worshippers, packing several dozen into his various pockets, and you both sighed and laughed. Jake was reserved, like you, taking just a few guys.
When you were all done and the people were safely contained, you decided it was time. The three of you touched the stone, rubbed it, and with a blinding flash of red light you were back home again. You could feel the squirming of little people in your pocket, telling you they had survived the trip. You smiled. This was going to be fun.  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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