Celica's army - The Blueversusred.net Interactive Story -

Once, in some far-off alternate universe, a distant planet gave rise to a great civilization. These beings developed science far more advanced than our own, and created technologies far beyond anything you or I could imagine.

Among these wonders was the dimensional mirror. This was an large rectangular frame, available in various sizes. Many of them had various decorative designs on the frame. The interesting thing was, these frames folded the fabric of space-time in on itself in such a way that all points within the left half of a two-dimensional area enclosed by the frame become adjacent to the corresponding points in the right half of the same area. What this meant was that all matter and energy that moved through the frame would instantaneously come back out, rotated precisely 180 degrees about a vertical line through the center of the frame. Anything passing through the left half would instantly come back out the right half, and vice versa. Passing through the center of the mirror was not possible, as the object would then collide with itself.

This had the effect of making the frame look like a mirror, hence the name "dimensional mirror". (Well, that's a rough translation of what those people called it in their highly complex language.) If you were to be in front of it, you would see yourself through it, much like a regular mirror. However, since the light is returned rotated 180 degrees around a central axis rather than reflected directly back, the lateral inversion quality present in mirrored reflections was absent here. You would see yourself as you truly are, not a reversed image. It would be more like facing an exact twin of yourself on the other side of the mirror, who perfectly mimicked your every movement at the same time. You could throw an object through, and it would appear that your "double" was throwing an identical object back out at the same time; however, this was in reality the exact same object. It was also possible to pass through the mirror, and it would appear as though you were walking past your double as he or she walked out beside you. You wouldn't go anywhere, of course, you'd just end up in front of the same mirror again. And, of course, it was also possible to stand in front of the center of the mirror, reach through it, and physically interact with your "other self", who would reach back through and mimic the same action on you. Well, that's what it would look like, you'd really just be doing whatever it was to yourself. The back side of the mirror had the same properties.

Anyway, one day an experiment in interdimensional travel went terribly wrong. A dimensional portal destabilized, for reasons we could not even begin to comprehend, and began behaving much like a black hole, sucking many objects in the area into itself. Among these objects was a dimensional mirror, which was drawn through the portal and disappeared into the multiverse before the portal was finally closed.

Where would it end up? Who would find it? And what might they use it for? Let's follow the dimensional mirror as it arrives in....

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