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The Cosmic Gate facility was quiet for such an amazing place. Trent and his friends walked down the hall, their chatter echoing up the tall, stark hallway.

For what they were about to do, they dressed pretty casual, but none of them had an idea what was in store for them so what was the point in dressing special for the event? Trent had a tee shirt on with shorts and had his backpack with him-- having just coming from class, Juanita was get up in dark attire, and Rudy was in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans.

They looked around the place. Even if the halls were lacking in features, it futuristic looking. The floor was a strange kind of vinyl, or something like it. The walls were metal and the ceiling was tall with eerie green lights in the corners not brightening up the hallways as much as they should have.

The three kids couldn't help but stare at everything. Was that facility truly in their neighborhood? They couldn't believe it.

"How does a place like this exist?" asked Trent.

Rudy stared at the large doors, huge metal slabs with no noticeable handle or button to open. If they wanted to explore the facility, they would have to figure out how to open twelve-foot doors with no interface. "Maybe it's some space-age tech."

Juanita put her hands on her hips and cocked an eyebrow, letting her smile curl. "This is a multi-dimensional station or whatever, isn't it? Maybe it's not even on Earth-- only the entrance is." She looked back at the doorway they came in from.

Rudy and Trent thought about that for a moment. It made sense.

There was a light ahead, the only doorway that was open. The three of them could see into a large room and they could hear some sounds: steps, metal clanks, and muttering that they knew was Xehpyr.

"Guess that's her," said Trent.

They walked into the room and looked around. It was a big room and on the main floor there was a computer panel facing a large gate-- the Cosmic Gate. Unpowered, it was just a ring of fancy metal construction. On the other side of the room there was a catwalk, a platform about twelve feet off the ground with a smaller computer console against its railing.

Behind the console was was Xehpyr. She was dressed in a lab coat, shirt, and black pants. The alien's features were hard to compare to any fiction the human kids knew but she had a body of grayish brown skin, a face with four eyes, tall ears, and an extended snout. Her figure was humanoid, having a reasonable bump of her chest, her hips were wide, and her feet were reptillian and large, which she kept barefoot.

"Alright!" she said in her accent that none of the three kids could pin down. "Are you guys ready for your first adventure?"

"Yes!" said Rudy, stepping forward and his eyes beaming.

Juanita and Trent smirked at each other. Someone was enthusiastic.

"Good," said Xehpyr, walking across the catwalk to the some stairs. "Because our first assignment is... not beginner's level."

"Why?" asked Trent. "What is it?"

Xehpyr spoke as she walked down the stairs, her words hyped by metal taps. "Some robots are attacking a forest in the world of Treetania."

"And we're supposed to stop them?" asked Trent.

"Yes," said Xehpyr, walking up to the console by the gate.

"This will be a cinch," said Juanita, emphasizing the last syllable with a click of her teeth.

The alien took the console and pressed some buttons and pulled some knobs. A roar took the room like a thousand vents turned on. The three kids looked around, concerned.

But a machine that big would likely be needed to power an interdimensional warpgate. The circular gate at the front of the room sparked and then a whirlpool of light took its window. The three children gazed at it with amazement-- they were [i]actually[/i] going to be dimension travelling!

They kept their eyes on the pool and images were made out in the chaos of transdimensional light. It looked like a forest-- endless pines and some mountains to. That's where they were going.

Juanita's confidence dropped as she gazed at the huge warpgate. Worries on what the gate would do to the human body arose in her mind. Was this all just a mistake?

"Here we are," said Xehpyr, gesturing a flattened hand at the gate. "Your first adventure awaits!"

Trent, Juanita, and Rudy looked at each other. Was that really it? Did they really just go through to another world? They remained stationary.

"Come on!" said Xehpyr. "Get on with it!"

The three of them moved to the gate, the noise of the gate becoming louder and soon a little overwhelming as they got close. The light was bright and all three of them squinted to reduce its intensity. There was a breeze coming from the thing, shaking Rudy's sweatshirt and Juanita's skirt.

"Ok..." Trent told himself.

Trent reached out to touch the gate and his hand sank into the gate's transdimensional light like something passing through a cloud. It was weird, but it didn't hurt. Trent took a step forward and let the arm get consumed by the portal while Juanita and Rudy tapped at the surface.

"Quit doddling!" shouted Xehpyr.

Trent took a breath and then hopped through the portal. Juanita and Rudy saw Trent disappear into the portal with a sparkle of light and gasped. After a moment of hesitation, they glanced at each other and then hopped into the portal together.

Trent blinked. Where was he? He looked around the room and it looked like a log cabin. There was a bed and a dresser with an old radio on it. The windows allowed him to peer outside at a large forest, many trees tall enough to be eye-to-eye to the view Trent peeked out from.

There was no portal back. It was a one-way trip it seemed.

Trent looked at himself. He wasn't wearing his tee and shorts. The olive green color and ascot gave away that it was a ranger's uniform, complete with ranger's hat and hiking boots.

There was a flash of light and a couple screams. Juanita and Rudy popped in, presumably in the same manner that Trent did. Their clothes were different with both of them wearing a park ranger's uniform. There's were a smaller size compared to the chubby Trent.

Juanita stumbled but got her bearings. She looked around. "Where are we? Is this Treetania?"

Rudy looked out the window at the woods. "Oh, I know this place. This is a state park."

"We are not in a state park, Rudy," said Trent. "This is an alien world."

Rudy shrugged. "Doesn't look like it."

There was a beeping. Trent looked at his belt and saw a radio. He picked it up and looked around for something to press. There was a blue button so he pressed it down and with an uncertain cringe he said: "Hello?"

"Ah," said Xehpyr, "you can hear me, yes?"

"We can hear you," said Juanita.

"The world you warp to will have its own rules and devices for communicating with me," said Xehpyr. "You can't see me but I can see you. My... you all look so handsome in your stunning ranger uniforms!"

Juanita pinched at her slacks. "I dunno... I feel very [i]old[/i] in these things."

"What are we supposed to do?" asked Rudy.

"Well..." said Xehpyr, "locate the robots first of all. They're likely not in that station."

"Ok," said Trent.

They looked around and saw a trap door on the floor. Opening it, they saw a grated ladder down to the grassy floor. They left the watchtower and went exploring.

The ranger grounds looked pretty familiar. There was a medium sized cabin beside the watch tower, but other than that there was no other signs of civilization around there.

Walking around the trees and seeing the sights, there was a kind of disbelief that captured all three of them. Towering pines was an impressive sight no matter if it was Earth or an alien world, so they're minds couldn't make up how real it felt. Aside from the color of the bark being strangely orange, the place didn't seem that weird.

"Is this place real?" asked Rudy. "Or is it a simulation?"

There were bird chirps and if the kids looked upward, they could see birds flickering from one tree to another.

"We're in an alien world," said Juanita, "not a computer game."

"That is correct," said Xehpyr from the radio. "This place is as real your Earth. And so is the threat, so take caution!"

There was a stirring. The three of them stopped and looked around. In the distance they could see trees collapsing. One after another, the trees fell and the trio knew that it was the danger they were meant to defeat.

Trent stared at his body, patting his radio. "Uh... what are we supposed to fight them with?"

"Didn't you see any weapons back at the cabin?" asked Xehpyr.

"Uhhhhh..." Trent clocked his brain to remember any weapons but nothing came to mind aside from the radio.

"We better go back and check," said Juanita.

They got walking the direction they came, but the metal churns were getting loud, and the smell of diesel hit their noises, and all around the horizon, trees were shaking and falling. The robots were [i]here[/i].

Trent clutched his collar, looking around with panicked eyes. Juanita's postured tightened up and she walked like she needed to make as little noise as possible. Rudy ventilated and hunched over.

[b]*Rrrrrrrrrrr*[/b]

They froze, a yelp escaping Rudy's mouth. They scanned the area, but saw nothing.

[b]*RRRRRRRRR*[/b]

They yelped, with Trent breaking down into a string of "Oh my God, oh my God".

A metal machine lunged from the distance and crashed down in front of them, kicking up clumps of grass. It was a huge battle robot with a sawblade arm on one side and pincers on the other. It was stacked with metal plate armor and its face had one big green robot eye. Its legs were hulking towers of metal.

[b]*RRRRRRRRR!!!*[/b]

Trent and Juanita screamed. Rudy on the other hand, stared. He saw his own reflection in the robot's big green eye and Rudy's eyes went dillated. He stared, like a deer caught in headlights, unmoving. Down below, wetness grew on the crotch of his pants and a smell of feces blasted out behind him if anyone wanted to take a second to smell.

The robot raised its arm up to swing at Rudy and Trent grabbed the paralyzed park ranger's arm and tugged him out of the way just in the time.

The trio took off running back to the watch tower. In the fury of retreat, they could see that there were other huge robots around the forest. They were supposed to fight [i]those things?[/i] It was a joke-- there was no way they could have done them any harm.

The saw the cabin on the ground, and Trent turned towards it, Juanita and Rudy following his lead. Climbing up a ladder while being chased by giant robots was not ideal. The cabin didn't seem much safer but it was better than being out in the open!

Trent looked behind him to see the giant robot that scared them giving chase. It walked with a brisk pace but with legs that big, a stride was still keeping up with the three humans.

Trent snatched the door handle to the door and ripped it open. He jumped inside and watched his friends follow behind. After Rudy stumbled into the door, Juanita slammed the door shut. There were mechanical sounds all around, but the one that was loudest was right outside their door-- the robot that chased him.

They had a chance to breath, but Rudy stared out into space, giggling like an idiot. He stood there, chuckling like a deranged hyena.

There was a smell. Juanita looked down and saw that Rudy's pants were wet. The smell didn't encompass just urine, either.

"Geez man!" said Juanita, "You pissed your pants!"

Rudy didn't respond.

Trent got his bearings and grabbed the radio. He hit the talk button and the sting of feedback sounded off. Was it broken? Trent spoke: "Xehpyr! Get us out of here!"

"I can't!" said Xehpyr, her voice coming in crackling and distorted. "You can only leave if you complete the mission, or if you fail."

"Fail?" said Juanita. "What does fail mean? If we [i]die[/i]?"

"Of course not," said Xehpyr. "Let's see... yadda yadda... Ok, it says the mission is a failure if the robots deforest the area."

Juanita looked out the window at the forest. It was a big forest but she watched a robot, giant chainsaw for a hand, cut down a tree in a split second. It wouldn't take that long for them to enter a fail state.

"Don't let those robots tear down that forest!" said Xehpyr, "You got a mission to complete. The forest is counting on you!"

"We can't take these things on!" said Trent. "They're death machines! We're just..." Trent looked over at Rudy, his pants all pissed in. "We're just college students!"

"Believe in yourself," said Xehpyr, "You are [i]heroes[/i]. There's always a way to win the day!"

"Uhhh..." said Trent. "We'll think about that."

Trent but the radio back on his belt and walked over beside the others. Trent got a sniff-- yep, Rudy crapped his pants, too. Trent couldn't blame him. He looked down to check to see if he had done the deed and just hadn't noticed but his slacks were dry. Phew.

The mechanical sounds roared around but the one outside was silent.

"Did that one go away?" asked Trent.

Juanita side-stepped over to a window and looked out the front of the cabin. There wasn't anything in close proximity, just a couple of them far away. "I don't think so."

"Hmmmm," said Trent.

He walked to the door and opened it up. There wasn't a beautiful forest in his view, but the eyepiece of one of those machines, staring right at him. Any one of its weapon-arms weren't view only because the robot's form was so big the door shown a small part of its figure.

He was petrified. Juanita saw him-- Trent staring at the robot with his lip quivering-- so she ran over and slammed the door shut.

[b]*drp drp drp*[/b]

Trent was still as a statue, but Juanita looked down to see that the boy had peed his pants. There was a shiny wet stain going down his green legs, liquid dripping to the floor and out the bottom. She snerked. "You pissed yourself, too!"

The boy blinked and grimaced as checked his slack to see that the heart-stopping terror of staring one of the machine in the eye also caused his bladder control to stop. He could feel the warm wetness going down his body and whimpered. Taking a hand to pinch out the crotch, he sighed. "Just great!"

Juanita left the boy to analyze his accident and looked around. A hatch on the floor caught her eye so she walked over and pulled on the engraved lever. She opened it and looked down a steep staircase into something that looked like a cellar.

"Hey!" said Juanita. "Come here! We can hide out until the robots burn the forest down."

Rudy's giggling stopped and his face downgraded into dread. He looked around, worried about the world around him. Juanita stepped out of the way so Rudy could go down first.

Trent went to a shelf and got a tissue box to wipe down his pants.

"Come on, Trent!" said Juanita, doing her best not to giggle at the boy's misfortune.

"Hang on," said Trent.

There was a brazen tone on the radio. A loud siren sound. Trent stopped and wondered what it was about.

Then the door crashed open-- blowing it off its hinges and smashing the frame. There was a pincer arm jammed through the wall.

The kids all screamed, with Trent falling to the ground just as the pincer arm swung over his head, tearing down the cabin wall. With one of the cabin's sides with a big hole in it, the light of day burst through into the room.

Trent was looking at the terror machine again, but the machine hadn't seen it. Despite nearly crushing Trent with its arm, it didn't see the boy on the floor by the shelves. It saw Juanita though. The robot walked in the cabin, its head dragging across the ceiling, abrasing the wood and knocking the light fixture.

Juanita saw the thing coming and screamed and went down into the cellar, dropping the hatch on top of it.

Trent clutched his arm. He was bleeding. He didn't know if it was a piece of wood that fired past his body or something else, but red drizzled down his arm. He didn't have time to check how deep it was, he had to get to the hatch.

But the machine stood right in front of it! Trent was cut off and when the machine turned to stare at Trent with its green eyes, the boy knew it was time to get out of there.

With a side of the cabin torn right open, Trent went out the hole in the wall, hopping up to jump over the broken boards. Outside, there were no machines in close proximity. Trent looked around and saw that the closest machine other than the one behind him was one that was twenty feet away. He had a chance to escape, but was there another building to hide in? Or a mine?

No. The only other place was the watch tower-- and Trent did not like the idea of hiding in a tall structure on stilts while being chased by a death machine. The thing would have toppled the structure but Trent heard that buzzsaw blade rev up and knew he had to hide somewhere quick!

He dashed out of the cabin, pissed pants catching breeze outside. He ran to the ladder, keeping an eye out for any other machines. One was enough to deal with.

He got to the ladder and climbed it as fast as his hands and feet would let him. His breath heaved and his lungs pumped like a diesel engine. He launched himself up that ladder like a rocket, the trap door coming closer and closer but never fast enough.

He had a hand on the trap when he looked down to see the machine at the base of the tower. He yelped and flailed up into the cabin.

Slamming the door shut, he felt safe... for a second. Trent was still in a tower with wooden legs that was about to be cut by a machine. He crunched his head, whimpering.

Ripping the radio off his belt, he screamed. "Xehpyr! Please! Get me out of here! Save me! Do [i]something[/i]."

Xehpyr's voice, if it was Xehpyr's voice, was distorted by radio static and interference. A loud tone came through the speaker-- a warning of danger-- then the tower rumbled as the machine below roared and attacked one of the poles holding up the tower.

Trent collapsed, whimpering to himself. He didn't know what to do.

If that machine followed Trent to the tower, another robot entered the cabin that Juanita and Rudy were hiding inside, in the cellar though. Juanita and Rudy stared at the hatch door above, worried the machine would find them. The cellar was lit with a single lantern, the dim light illuminating their terrified faces.

The metal beast stalked above, its heavy stomps hitting like anvils. It shook the gravel loose, knocking it from the ceiling to the floor.

Juanita and Rudy cuddled together, Juanita so scared that she couldn't even care about how rank Rudy smelled with a load of feces in his pants. She looked around. She didn't think it was a cellar with how sparse the room was. There were some wooden crates in the corner but it wasn't a large room anyway. There wasn't a lot of room to walk, the ceiling was low, and there wasn't a secondary door out of there!

She panicked. There was no where to go and the creature was trying to rip off the hatch. The hatch jostled and Juanita and Rudy ducked away from the staircase, hoping to hide from the creature.

But their situation wasn't looking good.

Trent got up to look out the window. It was hard to see what the machine was doing down at the base of the watch tower but it was taking awhile to cut the stands that the tower was held up by so he wondered if maybe the stilts were made out of steel.

If the other machines chopped down the forest before the machine toppled the tower, he could get out alive. All he had to do was wait and hope the metallic demon at the base of the tower was having trouble cutting through the foundation of his saving tower.

The radio was on the floor. It didn't seem to be working. It was making more of those noises-- the weird tones.

But that's when Trent realized that the noise that bellowed on the radio seemed to foreshadow the actions of the machine. A squeal would be heard over the radio and then the robot below would whack the pylon that held up the tower. There were other sounds on the radio too, quieter though. Probably for the other machines that were further away.

"They're connected," Trent told himself.

He got up and looked around. There was a radio in the corner. He walked up. He had no idea how to work such an old radio, but he turned it on.

Static.

He turned the dial, a sting of pain as his arm was still hurting from that cut he got back down at the cabin, until he started getting those sounds. Like the radio on the floor, the radio set made the same kinds of sounds like a dual-system speaker. But now what?

The tower shook. Oh no, thought Trent. The robot was probably almost through the pylon.

With sweat on his brow, Trent picked up the microphone. Without thinking, he clicked the button on the handle and turned on the receiver, but the radio was right there and picked up his voice. The sound went out the radio and back into the receiver, back out and in-- in a feedback loop. A squeal took over the room and Trent turned off the set, but that's when he noticed a silence.

The hitting stopped. Trent ran up to the window to look down at it and the robot assaulting the tower's legs was having a seizure. The radio feedback loop: it malfunctioned the robots.

Trent went back to the radio set and turned it on. He blew into the receiver and the feedback squealed. He covered his ears and let the thing play, hoping it would solve their problems.

Stomps roared above. The machine's legs made the cellar's roof creak with agony. Juanita and Rudy cuddled close, looking above in terror. What would break through first, the machine legs through the floor or the machine's arm at the cellar hatch?

There was a smash and pieces of wood toppled down the stairs. Juanita and Rudy were so scared they screamed.

A hideous green eye poked down the stairwell. Juanita and Rudy screamed!

Just as the machine slithered towards the two, ready to kill, its eye turned red and looked all around confused. It pulled a chainsaw arm from behind it, blasting structural wood on the stairs in the process, and took the arm to its own head. A rush of sparks flew off of its body the blade severed its own neck. The head fell forward, then snapped off its body. The roar of the robot's engine stopped and the robot collapsed-- completely dead.

The sounds of machine outside faded to silence.

There was dripping. Even in the dim cellar light, Rudy could see that Juanita-- shivering and staring out at the robot-- had peed her pants. Two large strands of wet went from her crotch to her boots.

"Ha!" said Rudy. "You peed your pants!"

Juanita grimaced and looked down at her pants. He wasn't wrong. The young lady had an accident. She took some fingers to her pants and peeled them out. A college girl who has pissed herself-- that's what Juanita was. She sighed.

Rudy smelled in the air. "And crapped your pants too!"

Juanita wiggled her butt. Yep. There was [i]something[/i] back there. She froze.

Rudy wiggled her shoulder. "Looks like you're a baby!"

Juanita snapped out of her embarrassment and gave Rudy a scowl. "You... you did it too!"

Rudy chuckled, and reached down to rub at her legs before having his hand slapped.

Neither of them were comfortable getting near that metal creature, even if it was dead, but the two climbed over it to get upstairs. On the ground floor of the cabin, they raced out the door because with the ceiling folding over on its side, the building looked like it was about to collapse.

Outside, machines all around were lying on the forest floor-- bodies impaled with their own instruments. Whatever Trent did, it worked. All the robots had destroyed themselves.

Trent came climb down the ladder, took a good look at the robot that was a hair away from killing him, and ran up to his friends.

"Guys!" said Trent. "Are you ok?"

Juanita was embarrassed. She had pissed and crapped her pants like a child. Rudy chuckled. "Juanita here had an [i]accident[/i]."

The girl scoffed, gesturing at the boy's peed slacks. That fecal smell was abundant too. "So did you, Rudy."

Trent peeled at his crotch, his pants still damp from the bladder evactuation he had earlier. "Yeah... looks like we all... uh... should have gone to the bathroom before stepping into the portal."

"Are you there?" said Xehpyr.

Trent took the radio off his belt. He spoke into it. "Yeah! Uh... where's the exit?"

"It should be appearing shortly," said Xehpyr.

And just then a magical light burst out of the ground, not ten feet away from the guys. It grew into the shape of a massive flame but it was not hot, only brilliant in its purple and yellow light.

"We walk into it?" asked Xehpyr.

"Correct," said Xehpyr.

The trio looked at each other. Their first mission had been terrifying, embarrassing and dangerous, but they won. They took their pace towards the portal.

"Hey Xehpyr," said Trent, "do you have any spare pants?"

"Do not worry about that," said Xehpyr.

They walked into the portal and on the other side was the Gate facility, just as they had left it. At the console was Xehpyr, smiling at them proudly.

The radio in Trent's hand had disappeared. In fact, so did his clothes-- he was back in his normal clothes. Juanita was back in her gothic outfit and Rudy in his hooded sweater and jeans-- all clean too. Apparently the portal had an instant dry cleaner.

Trent looked down on his arm. "My cut... it's gone."

His skin was right back how it was supposed to be. There wasn't a drop of blood left on the surface, dried or wet.

"When you return to this world," said Xehpyr, "you are healed and cleaned. All wounds are mended."

The three walked down from the portal's pedestal and the magic gate closed. The gate went to sleep.

"That was intense," said Rudy.

Trent collapsed a forehead into his hand. "You can say that again!" They walked up to Xehpyr. Xehpyr was beaming with pride, her snout up. The humans looked like they needed a lay down.

"So not bad for your first go?" said Xehpyr.

"Not bad?" said Trent. "We were so scared we crapped our pants!"

"That's nothing uncommon," said Xehpyr. "51% of missions end with at least one of the heroes soiling themselves. 78% of heroes do it on their first go." Xehpyr chuffed and gestured at the portal. "And a first mission of that danger level? 91%."

That took them aback. Was soiling one's pants so common?

Xehpyr glared into space. "Humans put so much emphasis on holding it and the importance of continence, but bladders were made to be emptied!"

The kids couldn't get on board with that. The lingering feeling of wetness on their legs and poop in their underwear couldn't escape them. Trent kept shifting in his stance, so that he could rub his underwear against his legs and confirm that his clothes had been cleaned.

"It doesn't matter about how much you humiliate yourselves," said Xehpyr. "All that matters is you complete your mission." A warm smile curved on her snout. "And you did."

The kids felt a little better, their frowns dissolving from their faces.

"Now..." said Xehpyr, "I'm sure you guys are tired, so maybe we leave it here for now." She took a hand on Trent and Juanita's shoulders. "Again... congratulations on a successful first mission."

The friends sighed. That would have to do.

They said their goodbyes and headed out the hallway they came in-- lights still on and giant doors still closed.

"I can't believe we pissed our pants," said Trent.

"Oh well," said Juanita. "It won't happen next time."

"Really?" said Rudy, "You think so?"

Juanita thought for a moment, "Well... [i]You[/i] will probably wet yourself again." Juanita jutted her chest out proudly. "I won't."

"N-no I won't," said Rudy.

Xehpyr watched the children walk out of the Cosmic Gate facility. They bickered and had the stench of immaturity all over them, but Xehpyr had a feeling they were going to be good heroes.

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