[Introduction]:
At the age of fouteen, Soraya Hammett had her whole life planned out. She was going to attend college at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah to be a high school chemistry teacher, join the college's select a capella group Noteworthy, live on the western edge of Colorado in a two-story brick house, get married to someone with the last name Calamare, and have five children, all with names that begin with C.
Kaine Bachelor, on the other hand, had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. The typical question you get asked as a child of what you want to be when you grow up never really had an effect on him. He could work at McDonald's, flipping burgers for the rest of his life for all he cared. He was more of a sit back, relax, and see what happens kind of person. Kaine never really cared for school or for gaining any sort of education, and at times that really showed for he would receive several D's and F's on his nine week grade reports, usually in history and English. He wanted to just live life as it came and pray that he doesn't get killed doing it.

But plans like Kaine's and Soraya's have a tendency to change over time, especially when you're transported into another dimension.

[Part One]:
"RUN!!!" He yelled, but it was too late. The machine had already exploded and a strip of flaming plastic had fallen hard to the ground beside her.

She screamed as one of her tennis shoes caught the flame, burning the flesh of her toes. In attempt to stomp it out, she lost her balance and fell to the debre-covered ground, scraping her forehead on a sharp metal tank. Everything got darker as blood filled her right eye and the smoke for the blown machine thickened in the air.

"Kaine!" She screamed. "Kaine!" Suddenly an ash and blood covered hand touched her arm. It was Kaine.

"Soraya! I'm here, but we gotta get out of this place." His voice was deep and sharp as if he were in pain.

"Are you okay?" The girl named Soraya asked.

"Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine." He didn't sound so sure. "But we seriously need to find a way out of here. It's not safe. That thing could blow up again any minute and staying here any longer would be like asking for death."

His words made Soraya snap back to her senses. She looked around for a way to escape, but the smoke was so thick she could hardly see anything. She felt around until she found Kaine's hand and took it into her own.

A couple of weeks ago this would have been weird, holding hands - the two hardly even knew each other's names then. But it turned out that a couple of weeks together can change a lot of things, especially when dealing with life-threatening experiments.

Soraya felt Kaine's hand get tense.

"Come on!" He called and walked cautiously to his left, pulling Soraya along with him. "I think I see a way out!"

And he was right. There was a large opening with light bursting through it that they had somehow not noticed before. So they made their way through the maze of broken machine pieces, fallen boards, and the worst of all, fire.

Kaine and Soraya were just a few feet from escaping the crumbling building when anoyher long wooden board fell from the ceiling, knocking Soraya to the ground once again. Kaine helped her back to her feet and half-carried her the rest of the way, despite his own agonizing pain.

Finally, the two friends reached the opening, but immediately had to cover their eyes from the bright light it emitted. Soraya didn't remember it being this sunny outaide, but she also didn't remember the town being filled with such happy and illumined people.

There were dozens if people outside playing catch, grilling, and just talking and laughing with each other. Everyone seemed so happy and completely oblivious to the fact that there was a burning building right across the street from them.

"Kaine..." Soraya began, but was unable to finish as she realized that the smoke from the explosion wasn't there anymore. In fact, when she turned around, the building wasn't there anymore.
Something was going on. This just wasn't right. She had to be hallucinating from hitting her head. There was no other explanation for it.

But Kaine was seeing the same things.

"Is it just me, or are the people... Glowing?" He asked softly, confused.

Soraya hadn't noticed it until then, but the people really were glowing.

"Kaine," she said. "I don't think this is right. We... this isn't Prescott Valley... The building, it's... gone and... Kaine..." She couldn't find the words to say.
It took Kaine a few minutes to respond, but when he finally did, all he said was: "We'll figure this out. I promise."

[Part Two]:
Soraya and Kaine were awed by what they saw, but even more so, they were confused. They knew they weren't in Texas anymore, but where were they? That was the part they couldn't seem to figure out.

Kaine looked around the bright place and out of all the unusual things there-the were perfectly paved streets lined with several small, identical, brick houses, each with freshly mown, bright green grass and a colorful garden, the shining people were found around every corner smiling, and the sky, bluer than Kaine had thought was even possible- a young boy playing alone in his driveway was the one thing that caught his eye.

"This way," Kaine said to a fazed Soraya and began walking towards the playing boy.

The closer he got to the boy, the more strange the boy appeared. Not only was he the only one there who wasn't with someone, the toy he was playing with...wasn't a toy at all, well, at least not one that Kaine recognized.

"What is that?" Kaine asked as they were just a few feet from the child.

The boy turned around and immediately Soraya gasped, forgetting her manners. His large, round eyes were a brilliant crystal blue with dark rims and they sparkled like stars in the night sky.

"Hello!" He said cheerfully to the strangers before him.

"Oh, uh, hello," Kaine said, trying his best not to stare at the boy's magnificent eyes, but Soraya didn't do so well. She stared hard, almost as if she was under a spell.

"What is that?" Kaine asked again, pointing to the little mechanism is the boy's hands.

"Oh, this? It's just my dad's old RoboRafiki 3000. He gave it to me for my birthday. It's amazing isn't?" He set the robot carefully on the ground. It just stood there for a minute, then... fell over on it's side.

"Fascinating!" Kaine said slightly sarcastically, but careful not to offend the boy, seeing as how greatly he thought of his little RoboRafiki 3000.

"So what's your name? I don't remember seeing you around before."

"I'm Kaine. A-And this is Soraya." Soraya waved awkwardly at the grinning child- why was everyone here so happy??

"I'm Daniel. Lovely to meet you!"

"Well, Daniel, were are kind of, well... We're lost. We were working on an experiment in my dad's lab and, uhm, it didn't go so well... Somehow we ended up here. Could you tell us where we are and how to get back to Texas?"

"Texas? Huh, never heard of it..." Kaine and Soraya's hearts dropped to their feet. "But don't worry now! You're in Peponi Falls!"

[Part Three]:
Peponi Falls? Where the heck is that? Soraya wondered, but decided not to ask. She didn't need anything to add to her already confused mind.
She looked at her best friend who looked about as confused as she felt. "We need to get back home. Find the police station or something." She said to him desperately.

"Good idea," he said and turned quickly to the little boy named Daniel. "Daniel, where's the police station around here?"

Daniel looked puzzled.

"Police station? ...Oh, I've heard of those! My dad was talking about one of those just last night. Said something about loud sirens... Glad we don't have one here! I don't like loud noises."

"Wait, WHAT!?! There's not one here?" Soraya nearly screamed.

"Yeah... There's no need for one here. My dad said they're for bad people, and everyone here is nice. I like it here!" Daniel said softly and noticed the gloomy looks on Kaine's and Soraya's faces. "Hey, don't worry! We'll find another way to get you guys back to... Uh..."

"Texas." Kaine finished for him.

"Yeah, Texas."

Oh, Texas, Soraya thought. I miss you so much. And Mom, Dad, and Tristan... Tristan...

[Part Four]:
Kaine was shaking.

"No... I... I can't..." He shook his head, tears gathering at the corners of his eyes.

"Kaine? Are, are you okay?" Soraya asked, worried about her friend.

"I..." He was looking right at her, but didn't seem to notice she was there talking to him.

"Kaine! Kaine, can you hear me?" Soraya turned to Daniel. "Something's wrong... We need to- Kaine! Kaine, where are you going?"

He couldn't take it anymore. He had to get home, wherever home was. He was lost and afraid. He couldn't handle it. He just had to get home, whatever it would take.

So Kaine ran. He didn't know where he was going, he just ran and didn't stop for what seemed like miles. When he finally did stop, he found himself in a field. It's grass was greener than any grass he'd seen before and small patches of gorgeous, colorful flowers could be seen here and there. It was quiet except for the soft, peaceful singing of a few unseen birds.

Why is everything so perfect here?? I just want to go home.

He threw himself on the ground, and let the tears flow. He cried for nearly ten minutes before realizing that he should probably go back and find Soraya. She was probably freaking out without him.

He began walking back in the direction he hoped would bring him back to Daniel's house, but then decided he'd rather run. Running was how he let his emotions out back at home. Before his parents got a divorce, they would fight non stop it seemed. Kaine couldn't bare to listen to their yelling, so he would often go to the community center and run around the track until he was ready to pass out.
Kaine knew he was almost back to Daniel's driveway when he ran into a man, and it didn't take him very long to recognize just who the man was.

"Uncle Cal?"

"Hey, lil' man! What's going on?"

"H-How'd you get here? Are you... Can you take us back?"

"Woah, woah! Calm down, kid! The better question is how did you get here? And what you talking about, us? Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I only see one of yun." His familiar voice seemed to calm Kaine a bit.

"Oh, uh, Soraya. She's with me. She's with this boy we met earlier... I kind of ran away..."

"Soraya? This your new girlfriend? Kid, why don't you tell me these things?"

"Oh, she's not my girlfriend." Kaine's neck started burning. "Uncle Cal, how did you get here? Wait, well, where are we?"

"Lot of explainin', kid. Let's go find that girlfriend of yours!" He began walking like he knew exactly where he was going, as if he had been there a thousand times before.

"I told you, she's not my girlfriend."

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[JSYK]:
Kaine and Soraya (pronounced suh•roy•uh) were working on an experiment in Uncle Cal's lab, but when it went wrong and exploded, it opened up Cal's portal to another world. Cal created this world full of happy people where nothing ever went wrong to make up for the loss of his wife a few years before.
As a result of the explosion, the portal nearly collapses on itself and Kaine, Soraya, and Uncle Cal are stuck in this other world for a few weeks, but when they finally get back to Texas they discover the time in the happy little world is different from the Earth's, so what they thought was just a few weeks was actually about twenty-five years.
When they arrive home in Texas, everything is different from how they knew it. So many people are sick and dying from starvation and disease. Soraya finds her dad drunk in his bedroom and her mom gone. Half of the world's population is gone, including Kaine's dad/Cal's brother, and the man who murdered Cal's wife is responsible for it all.
Will they be able to make the world back to how it used to be? Could they turn back time?

You will never find out because I'm too lazy to continue this story. Sorry, squishes.