Anomaly

„To be honest it's freaking disturbing!

Talking to a floating head!"

„Oh, ok, but still no!"

At that moment Cale saw someone appear behind Allan:

„Oh, it's another one! There behind you!"

Turning his head around Allan looked at the person that laid on the floor a few meters behind him. It was an Asian girl and she was completely naked. She had long black hair that would reach down to her back when she stood up. But the best way to describe her would be small, she was only around 1,5 to 1,6 meters tall and if not for her long hair one could probably mistake her for a pretty boy if she wore just slightly loose clothes.

„Well, Allan my friend, you are the guy with a s.h.i.+rt!"

Grumbling silently Allan took off his s.h.i.+rt and covered the naked girl, and then proceded to try and wake her up.

„h.e.l.lo? Excuse me!"

„Hmmm... not now Airi, I have to work today and am still exhausted from playing with you all night yesterday!"

*cough*

Allan turned his head slightly embarra.s.sed to look at Cale and tried to ignore the pictures that he just imagined.

Carefully Allan shook her shoulder and continued to call out to her, all the while taking care that his head was out of all potential danger zones.

„Who? What? Where?", still half asleep the girl asked all three important W-questions.

When she looked down suddenly started to blush heavily and said rather loud:

„Turn around right this instant!"

While both men turned around Allan remembered to remind her:

„By the way, the part of your body that seems invisible is the part that's covered by my s.h.i.+rt. You can wear that for the time being."

When the men were allowed to turn around again, the girl already wore the s.h.i.+rt. Luckily she was pretty short, so the s.h.i.+rt reached over her b.u.t.t and half the way down to her knees.

After a few minutes, they had calmed her down and explained the situation.

„So, Aya, I guess you also don't know what this freaking situation is all about?"

„No I don't know, and mister Cale could you please not get so familiar with me? It's uncomfortable."

„Hm? What are you talking about?"

„May I ask a question miss Is.h.i.+kawa? Where are you from? Or more precisely, which language are we using right now?"

„Obviously j.a.panese?!"

„Eh?"

„Then please, listen to me talking and only concentrate on the sound and ignore the meaning. Which language is it? Can you tell?"

„What the f*king h.e.l.l! I have never heard this kinda language before, what is this?"

„Well, it's

„How the h.e.l.l did you even realize that?"

„Well, I also didn't realize at first, but it got me thinking when miss Is.h.i.+kawa complained just now. Her name already sounded like a j.a.panese name, and if you consider the fact that it is impolite to call someone by their first name if you aren't close in j.a.pan it got me thinking."

„What the heck have those things to do with each other?"

„Well, it is considered normal. But everywhere else her complaining about this is quite weird. At that point, I realized that something didn't fit, because I also thought that everyone was talking English."

„Aren't you freaking perceptive!"

„Mister Cale, could you please stop cursing all the time? It's getting a little bit annoying!"

„Ah, I'm sorry about that, it's a little bit of an occupational disease."

„In what kinda Job do you have to curse that much?"

„Well, I'm training the Soccer team in my hometown, so I have to get a little bit loud sometimes or those kids just won't listen. Oh by the way what are you doing... when you aren't here... wherever we are right now?"

„I'm still in my last year of high school, by the way, what about you mister Walker?"

„Allan is fine. Well, I'm a scientist, leading a small team."

„Oh, what field are you working in?"

„Although you probably won't like it, it's modern weaponry."

„Ah... Well, if you don't do it someone else will, and everyone has to earn their money..."

„What? What happened? Who are you people?"

Suddenly a new voice sounded out behind them. Allan turned his head, curiously enough he couldn't see the origin of the voice.

„Huh? The voice sounds female, but why can't I see her?"

„It's probably because of her clothes. Excuse me, could you please take off some of your clothing, it's enough to take off the things that cover your head and hands."

„Um, yeah, of course, I can, but why?"

„Just look at us, the part that is covered by clothes is practically invisible."

A few moments later a head with shoulder length blonde hair appeared midair and two hands followed soon after.

„My name is Julia Bauer, pleased to meet you. So who are you and where are we? I was operating on a patient just now, I have to get back!"

„That is the same f*cking question we want to get answered, you can call me Cale."

„Allan Walker. So miss Julia is a Doktor, and you said you were operating just now? can you tell me more about that? About how you came here?"

„You can drop the miss, just Julia is fine. Well, i... don't know what happened myself. At one moment I stood at the operation table with my scalpel in someone else guts and then suddenly everything went white. Next, I heard you guys talking, and you know the rest."

„So you are saying there was no process? You didn't get kidnapped or drugged or anything?"

„No, and now that I think about it, I even stood in exactly the same posture."

„By the way Julia, oh you can call me Aya, are you perhaps from Germany?"

„How did you know that?", Cale asked, slightly peeved that he had to still call her by her last name, but not some woman that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He suddenly remembered what she first said when she was still half asleep, and then it dawned upon him.

„Ahh, well, some manga authors like to use the german language, mostly as some kind of magic language, but also german characters. That's why I could recognize the name."

„That's interesting, may I ask. What time of the day was it when you appeared here?"

„Well, it was already pretty late at night."

„So, considering that we three where all asleep when we came here we can infer that we appeared with a difference of 30 to 60 minutes but disappeared from all over the globe and still always at night. That's... let's call it „interesting" for the moment."

„All over the globe? What do you mean?"

„Well you are from Germany, I myself am from England, Is.h.i.+kawa is from j.a.pan and Cale...?"

„America."

After they had explained Julia the rest and had discussed some additional theories and a.s.sumptions Allan suddenly spoke up:

„Is.h.i.+kawa, could it be that you have some kind of complex about your height?"