TwoKinds: Dimensional Catastrophe

Part 11: Dimension A9

(source: https://e621.net/post/show/489861)

Somewhere in the middle of a forest...

??? 1 H-hey! What are you doing!? Don't take off your shirt!
??? 2 Huh? But you just did.
??? 1 That's because I'm a guy! You're a girl!
??? 2 Oh... What's the difference?
??? 1 Er... Well technically, for Keidran it doesn't matter, but that's beside the point! Look, trust me, you're a girl, and human girls can't just walk around with no shirt on!
??? 2 Well, that doesn't seem very fair-
??? 1 Wait, did you hear that?
??? 2 Hear what?
??? 1 There was screaming, then rustling.
??? 2 Is this a perk of yours?
??? 1 Keidran can hear better than humans, yes, but keep quiet...
??? 2 Alright...

A little further away...

Trace Ugh, my body...
Raine Where are we, anyway?
Kyle Dimension A9, A4's parallel dimension.
Sythe Is our home A4?
Kyle Uh-huh.
Flora But what's so different about this placeL
Kyle Dimension A9 is, bluntly, a crossgender realm.
Trace A what?
Kyle A world where everyone is of the opposite sex.
Trace So I'm female here?
Kyle Yes.
Trace And Flora's male?
Kyle Indeed.
Flora A male me!?... What does he look like!
Kyle We'll find out soon...very soon...

A male Tiger Keidran and a female human appeared from the bushes and trees, pushed aside by the male.

Flora Very strong... Well built...
Flora 3 Who are you? And what are you doing here?
Raine We just came here--aah--and had a hard landing.
Flora 3 So it was you all who made those sounds?
Sythe Er, yes? But how-
Trace 3 Florence, who are they?
Florence I'll find here. Stay put, Tracy.
Tracy Okay...
Florence Identity yourselves immediately! That is if you're okay getting scratched!

Everyone got up an prepared to answer.
Florence went from left to right, stsrting with Sythe.

Florence What's your name, wolf!?
Sythe S-Sythe, sir...
Florence And what about yours, miss?
Raine It's Raine Silverlock.
Florence And you?
Keith Keith Keiser.
Florence What is yours, human?
Kyle Kyle James Engler.
Florence Y- Well, well, well, look what we got here.
Teacy Uh, Florence-
Florence Be quiet, Tracy. And what's your name, missy?
Flora M-my name's F-Flora.
Florence "Flora?" Lovely. And what's yours?
Trace Trace Legacy.
Tracy "Trace Legend?"
Florence Stay out of this, Tracy.
Trace "Tracy"... Legacy?
Tracy Y-yeah...
Florence Oh please...
Kyle If I can recall, you're heading to a village?
Florence Uh, yes. But how'd you-
Kyle All in the webcomic.
Florence Huh?
Trace Uh, since we have nowhere to go, can we go with you?
Florence What!?
Tracy Of course!
Florence You're lucky, "Trace." *low growl*

Following Florence and Tracy, they make it the village.

Trace This place looks...familiar...
Kyle <Remember when you bought that necklace for Flora?>
Trace Yeah?
Kyle <This is that same village.>
Trace It is!? Should I warn them?
Kyle <Normally I would tell that if you try to change the chronological sequence the events will still occur, but since this hasn't been stusied or discovered, I'll let you try.>
Tracy Florence, what's wrong?
Trace Keidran aren't allowed there.
Tracy How do you know?
Trace Because I have been here. And I bought a cursed necklace for Flora.
Florence You what!? Why the heck did you give her that!?
Trace I didn't know at the time. I had just met Flora the day I woke up with amnesia.
Tracy Oh, you have that feeling, too?
Trace "Had," and you will cope, like I did.
Tracy Oh, okay.
Trace Oh, don't go into the jeweler's shop; that's where I got that necklace.
Tracy What kind?
Kyle If I remember correctly, it was a "Subtleseed Crystal" necklace, like a marriage bond.
Trace Er, thanks... But seriously, Tracy, don't go to the jeweler's.
Tracy R-right...

Then she went to the village.

Florence H-how'd you both know all that? About the jeweler's? The necklace?
Trace Because I'm basically from the future...from another world.
Kyle And I've read the webcomic already.
Florence What's a-
Trace Sorry to tell you, but this world is drawn by a man named Tom Fischbach.
Florence Who's that?
Kyle Jason Thomas Fischbach is the creator and author of TwoKinds, a webcomic following the events nearly similar to this, but in an alternate wolrd.
Florence I don't believe me.
Kyle <We'll just see about that.>
Florence W-w-what? H-how-
Trace Another long story...
Florence Just one more thing, before you start: Did you meet anyone here?
Trace My ed-wife Saria, my friend Red, Karen Taverndatter, and Keith here.
Florence Him? What would he be called here?
Kyle Uh, "Keitha?"
Sythe *snicker* "Keitha Keiser..."
Keith Not now, Sythe...

After a while...

Tracy Hey Florence! Look who joined us!
??? H-hi...
Trace Hey.
Keith Hello, uh, "Keitha?"
Keitha *gasp* How did you know?
Keith Lucky guess...
Sythe *snicker*
Keitha Then you're, uh, "Keith?"
Keith Yes. Keith Keiser.
Keitha Keitha Keiser.
Kyle Tracy, Trace. Florence, Flora. We need to go.
Trace/Tracy Go where?
Kyle Follow me...