Outsider Chronicles: Outside Looking In

I have no idea what to make of this world. One where magic and advanced technology allow teens to fight monsters and evil masterminds attack singular towns with one monster at a time. Still, at least I'm not dead.

I really shouldn't be doing this, but I can't help myself! This story will probably be quite interesting and I'll be making jabs at a number of different fandoms. Should be interesting. Enjoy!

Chapter 1

Well, I can safely say that someone is pissed at me. Why? Well, I'd just died from having a shelf of barbie dolls fall on me at work and now I find myself waking up in the body of a baby with a giant in a surgical mask leaning over me. Needless to say, that scared the crap out of me.

To begin with, my new life seemed pretty normal. That is of course until I first watched the news and was confronted with the image of a gigantic monster fighting an equally gigantic robot. After making sure I didn't put on a kids show by mistake, I came to the rather worrying realization that this world wasn't quite as normal as I thought, not with teenagers running around in coloured spandex fighting monsters. To make matters worse, when I was seven I got dragged to a family reunion where I was introduced to my five year old cousins, one from Japan, the other from America and both sporting futures fighting monsters in silly outfits.

"Jason, these are your cousins, Hannah and Makoto," said my mother as she introduced me to the two girls, "Girls, this is Jason. You three play nice now."

She left the room, leaving us three kids alone. I remained where I was, eye twitching slightly as I tried to decide how I should react to this. What was the problem? Well, like I mentioned a paragraph ago, both girls would grow up to become badass defenders against the forces of Darkness. Literally. See, their full names were Makoto Kino and Hannah Whitehouse, although you lot may know her by her original name of Yukishiro Honoka. Yep, both my cousins were destined to be fucking Magical Girls, Sailor fucking Jupiter and Pretty fucking White to be exact.

"Um, are you OK Jay?" asked Hannah, "Are you sick or something?"

I took a very deep breath and let it out slowly, before plastering a smile over my face.

"No, I'm fine," I said, "Come on, lets go have some fun!"

"YEAH!"

So lets recap, this world has Power Rangers, Sailor Moon and Pretty Cure, three worlds that are so bloody similar it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they ended up interacting without realizing it. Well, this is going to be fun.

Considering the potential mess this world was, was it really any surprise that I jumped at the chance to learn as many martial arts as I possibly could? Seriously, if I got anywhere near any of the bullshit that was incoming, I really didn't want to be vulnerable to whatever nasty was attacking. By the time I was 16, I was probably good enough to be one of the nuts in colourful tights, with martial arts like kickboxing, Tae-Kwon-Do, Muay Thai and an awesome style from Brazil called Capoeira under my belt. I was far from a master in any of them, but I was good enough to combine them into something pretty formidable.

Speaking of which, this is where we really get started, on a bright sunny day at Reefside High School where I was currently trying to decide if it was worth trying to brian myself or if the headache my noisy classmates had already managed to give me was painful enough. Why you ask? Well, it was first period science and our new teacher had just walked in. And it was Tommy fucking Oliver. Great, that means that this town was about to become ground zero for a prehistoric invasion. Fun. I mostly tuned out Cassidy's antics with the ease of long practice in favor of massarging my temples.

"Jay, are you ok?" hissed Kira, who was sitting across from me.

"I'm fine," I said, "Just a headache…"

Later on, after classes were over, I headed over to the chemistry lab where I walked in on the chemistry club about to do something stupid. Read, my cousin was about to blow something up. Unfortunately, I was a tad to late to stop them.

KABOOM!

"Really?" I asked as the smoke cleared.

"Cough, oh, hey cus," said Hannah, "You're just in time…"

"Yeah, in time to see you try to kill yourself!" I snapped, snatching the vials from her before she could do anything else stupid, "Seriously, why do you insist on doing this every week?"

"What? Its fun," said one of the other members of the club.

"You shut up," I grumbled.

Suddenly, the door slammed open and an incensed looking principle Randall.

"Aw shit," I said as I realized I was still holding the chemicals.

Randall pinned me to the wall with a glare so fierce I'm surprised I didn't combust.

"Mr Whitehouse, somehow I'm not surprised," she said, "Come with me."

"How in the world can she say shes not surprised when its her first day?" I grumbled as I put the containers down and followed her.

I knew better than to argue.

Two minutes later, I was slumped against the wall with the future Dino Rangers, inwardly wondering if this meant I'd be getting a gem as well or if I'd end up being on the sidelines.

"So, what did you do?" asked Ethen.

"Wrong place, wrong time," I grumbled.

"Let me guess, your cousin?" asked Kira.

"Yep."

"Ah, I thought I heard an explosion," said Kira.

"Pardon?" asked Ethen.

"Jay's cousin is Hannah Whitehouse, the head of the Chemistry club," explained Kira, "She has a tendency of causing explosions in her experiments, so he trys to stop her. He usually fails."

"Wait, you mean that hot lowerclassmen they call the 'Queen of Knowledge?" asked Connor, "Shes your cousin."

"Yep, and no I will not introduce you," I deadpanned.

"Aw come on!"

"No."

Just then, Randall showed up with Tommy.

"I trust you all know each other?" said the evil minion in disguise, "Good. Have fun."

She walked away with an air of smugness.

"So, you guys like museums?" asked Tommy.

I shrugged.

"Depends what they have," I said as my companions groaned.

One car trip later and we arrived at the museum, only to find that it was shut.

"Great, no museum trip for us," said Ethen.

"And here I thought this would be fun for you," I deadpanned.

The computer geek shot me a poisonous look.

"Guys, you head out and take a look around the grounds," said Tommy, "If you find anything prehistoric, I'll cancel detention for the rest of the month. I'm gonna go see if I can find someone who can tell me when they'll be open."

"K!"

We headed out into the woods.

"Hey, did you guys here about that guy who came up here and fell in a sinkhole?" asked Ethen.

"I did, but that story has as much credibility as Slenderman," I said.

"Who the hell is Slenderman?" asked Connor.

"Seriously? Have you been living under a rock?" asked Ethen, "Hes only one of the most famous urban legends out there!"

"You have way too much free time on your hands if you're reading creepypastas," I said.

"Like your one to talk," said Kira, "I know for a fact you spend your evenings playing games."

"True," I said.

"Oh god, I'm surrounded by geeks," groaned Connor.

"I prefer nerd thank you very much," I said.

"You know you shouldn't brush off urban myths," said Ethen, "After all, they do have an element of truth to them."

Connor scoffed.

"Yeah right, theres no way we could ever fall down a sinkho-AHHHHH!"

The ground chose that exact moment to open up and swallow us.

"I am going to kill you Connor," I growled, "Why did you have to tempt Murphy you asshole?!"

"Sorry," grumbled the football player.

"What now?" asked Kira, looking up at the hole high above.

"You guys wait here, I'll climb out and get help," said Connor.

"Bad idea," I said.

"Do you have a better one?"

Connor didn't wait for my reply, instead he started climbing up the wall. He didn't make it far before the rock he was holding onto came out of the loose dirt and deposited him at our feet.

"Told you."

"Bite me."

Ethen helped Connor get back up as I pulled out my pocket torch (don't ask).

"Well, we can't stay here, might as well explore," I said and led the way down the tunnel.

I'm not sure how long we walked, but I quickly became sick of Kira's singing.

"Seriously, do you have to sing that?" I asked, "Its bad enough we're stuck down here, but you singing about being freaked out is not helping!"

The singer huffed.

"Well excuse me," she grumbled, "Just trying to lighten the mood."

"Well your not helping babe," said Connor.

"Did he just call me babe?"

I groaned.

"Please don't start fighting," I begged, "Or at least wait until we're back at ground level."

Kira glowered at Connor as she marched past me.

"Whats her deal?"

I groaned again and shook my head. Good god, I hope I don't have to put up with this much longer!

After another 15 minutes or so of walking, we reached a dead end with what looked like a large triceratops skeleton embedded in the wall.

"Sure looks like Jurassic Park to me," said Kira.

"This'll get us out of detention forever," said Connor with glee in his tone.

"No it won't," I said, "Its made of plastic."

"How can you tell?" asked Ethen.

"Because skeletons don't have hinges in their jaws," I said, pulling said jaw down.

As expected, the wall opened to reveal the Dino Lab. I have to say, it was very impressive, but my attention was quickly taken away from the computers and experiments that were set up in favor the very strange buzzing feeling that I had been feeling since we ended up in these caves that had just surged up. I ignored my companion's conversation as I slowly made my way around the meteor with the Dino Gems, heading towards a small table with a covered object on it.

"Hey Jay, are you alright?" asked Kira.

"Yeah, I think so," I said as I reached the table, "I just feel...odd."

"Odd how?" asked Ethen, looking up from the glowing blue gem in his hand.

"I'm...not sure," I said as I reached for the cloth and pulled it off to reveal a green, star shaped gem.

Unlike the other Dino-gems, which were rough cut, this one was clearly intentionally shaped by something. It also seemed to be fundamentally different to the Dino-gems, although I have no idea why I thought that.

"OK, thats not prehistoric," said Connor.

"No shit sherlock," I said as I picked up the stone.

To my complete lack of surprise, as soon a I touched it, a surge of energy shot through me and the star gleamed for a moment. I shrugged and slipped it into my pocket. It'd probably find its way back to me one way or another anyway.

"And now its time to leave," I said.

"What? Why?" asked Ethen.

"Well, I don't know what kind of freak lives in a place like this, but I don't wanna be here when he gets back," said Kira.

"I was actually going to say that Dr O. will be looking for us, but that works to," I said, "Lets go."

We headed out, leaving the lab behind for another day.

It took surprisingly little time to get back to the surface and even less time after that and even less time after that to be attacked by a bunch of angry lizards.

"What the hell are these things?!" demanded Connor as we pelted through the woods.

"Your asking me?" I grumbled as I vaulted over a fallen tree.

Thank you combat training! As I flew over, I kicked a sturdy looking branch back at the goons. I was expecting it to trip them up and buy us a little time. I wasn't expecting it to fly fast enough to pierce straight through three of them in a shower of broken parts and oil.

"Huh, thats cool," I said.

"How did you..?" started Ethen.

"No idea, run!"

It wasn't long after that that the Tyrannodrones managed to catch up and force us into a fight where the others started tapping into their powers to beat down the mechanical menaces. And I cannot believe I just wrote that corny line. I found myself surrounded by the mechanical mooks (thats better), all of whom looked ready to turn me into an extra from Jurassic World. Unfortunately for them, I wasn't about to be beaten in the first chapter.

"Alright dino breaths, bring it on," I said.

The dino robots charged, aiming their very sharp looking claws at me. I ducked under the swipe and slammed both feet into two of the bots, somehow kicking off their heads.

"Hmm, did I get super strength?" I mused, "Eh, a thought for another time. Right now…"

I balanced on my hands and spun, blasting the goons away with the sheer force of the kick.

"Yep, definitely not normal. YIPES!"

I pushed off and flipped out of the way of another swipe from one of the goons. You know, as silly looking as these things are on TV, seeing them in person is a wee bit different. For one thing, they actually look like reptiles rather than rubber suits and their weapons are very, very sharp if the gashes in the ground are anything to go by. If those things hit me, it'll do more than send me flying with a few sparks, it'll gut me. Fortunately, as dangerous as they looked, these things weren't very smart and fairly easy to take down with a few well placed kicks.

"Well that was fun," I said as we regrouped.

"You really need a new dictionary," muttered Ethen.

"What were those things?" asked Kira.

"And just how would any of us know the answer to that?"

I ducked under her swing at my head.

"Are you kids OK?" asked Tommy as he came running up to us.

"Yeah, just a normal walk in the woods," said Ethen.

"You sure?" asked Tommy, not looking convinced, "You didn't see anything weird?"

"Nope, just some fluffy creatures," said Connor.

"And some scaly ones," muttered Kira.

"What?"

"Nothing!"

I rolled my eyes.

"Alright, lets get you kids home," said Tommy.

Later, I was laying back on my bed, staring up at the gem I'd found.

"So, what exactly are you?" I muttered, "And just how screwed am I?"

The gem gleamed, right before something came shooting through the window and bounced off my head.

And I'm gonna end this here. Truthfully, I have no idea where I'm even gonna go with this, so I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep it up...aw well, we won't know until we try.

I mostly included Sailor Moon in here so I can occasionally make jabs at it, it won't be a main part. Unless I decide to watch it again, then I'll figure out a way to get around the ocean in the way of crossovers. Pretty Cure on the other hand...yep, that'll definitely be a thing. A side thing, but a thing nonetheless.

Please note, I know very little about martial arts, so I have no idea how much of what I talk about them is accurate.

And with that, I'm done. Please leave a review on the way out!