A/N: This chapter serves as a sort of cold opening. It doesn't really deal with any emotional dilemmas. The Fringe team doesn't show up until the second chapter. Also, I'm not particularly adept at writing either of these fandoms, but here goes:

I don't own Big Bang Theory or Fringe. :P

Thanks to WeBuiltThePyramids for Beta-Reading!

Upon exiting his room, prepared to finally head to that bar they had been talking about attending for months, Leonard Hofstadter was met with the persistent figure of Sheldon Cooper. His praying mantis of a roommate had moved their collection of whiteboards to the open space near his desk, arranging them in a sort of tri-fold setting. Sheldon had apparently seen it fit to erase Leonard's board, which had been covered with his own work.

"What are you doing, Sheldon?" He was almost afraid to hear the answer.

"I've decided to prove string theory, tonight."

"You can't actually do that…"

"Can't I? It's Anything-Can-Happen Thursday. Is there a better day to do something deemed impossible by the general public?" There was a knock at the door.

"No. I guess not…" Leonard muttered as he moved to answer it. Howard Wolowitz sauntered into the apartment, followed promptly by Rajesh Koothrappali.

"The PARTY has arrived!" Howard declared, throwing his hands in the air.

Raj followed, after scoping the room for possible female inhabitants, "Are you ready for LADIES NIGHT?"

"After months of planning, we are ready to enter the great unknown!"

"Hang on, Howard… our plans may be disrupted, again…"

"What?"

"Sheldon claims he's going to prove string theory tonight…" Leonard's doubtful grin showed just how amusing he found the situation.

"No, I am going to prove string theory. By emitting the proper frequency on a high enough scale, I'm going to shake the strings of the universe."

"That's just common sense, Sheldon, but it's impossible to do!"

"I've devised some possible apparatuses. Although I suppose I'll need you all to have a look at them… I sent you all descriptions as attachments in the weekly memo." Leonard shrugged and went to his Laptop to pull up the email. While they were waiting, Howard spoke.

"I'm surprised you would send something like that out in an email, Sheldon."

"I wrote them in code. What do you thing I am, Howard? An imbecile?"

"Oh! Here it is!" Leonard opened the file on his computer. Howard and Raj grouped behind him and began to read over his shoulder.

"Is this Klingon backwards?" Raj questioned.

"Yes… code." Sheldon was growing annoyed, "You don't need to keep restating the obvious."

"Wait… this one might work…" Howard interrupted, pointing over Leonard's shoulder at the laptop screen.

"With some slight additions here," Leonard indicated an object onscreen, " And here…"

"We already know all this… Can't we just get started?"

*Several hours of tinkering later*

Penny was sitting on her couch, only vaguely paying attention to whatever late-night rerun was on, when the screen suddenly cut to loud static.

"COME ON! I just paid the cable bill yesterday!" She exclaimed, quickly reaching for the remote in order to turn down the volume. Once the static died, however, an earsplitting screech emitted from the hallway, forcing her to throw her hands to her head. Doubled over from pain, she stumbled over to the phone. Coincidentally, the cacophony ceased when she reached it. Tentatively, she released her ears and dialed 911.

"Hello? This is Penny from apartment 4B at 2311 N. Los Robles Avenue. Yeah, well my cable just cut out and – I KNOW that's not a reason to call 911, now, that's not it! There was this really loud high pitched noi- OMIGOSH!" The room around her began shaking, as if it were being yanked to the side. Havoc was wreaked in her apartment: furniture slowly inched across the floor, dishes slid off the tables and pictures fell from the wall. Penny nearly lost her balance herself, and quickly ran to stand in a doorway. She screamed, still holding the phone to her mouth. "Oh, sorry," she apologized to the attendant. "Yeah, I think there's an earthquake! What do you mean there isn't? Well my entire apartment is shaking! Hello? Hello?"

Penny threw to phone across the room, but it was grabbed by whatever force was moving the rest of her belongings and flew against her door. Curiously, she crawled over her belongings. When she opened the door, her things started flowing onto the hallway and toward the apartment across the hall. "This is one of their experiments… I'm gonna kill 'em!" Her hair flew around her head in similar fashion to her things, and when she turned the knob of Sheldon and Leonard's apartment, the door swung open violently and she was pulled in by the force. Once inside she gasped at what she saw. Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj were behind the island in kitchenette, gripping the edge to avoid being pulled onto the vortex on their coffee table.

Penny turned and grabbed the doorframe. "What the heck is going on!

"I proved String Theory!" Sheldon called over the ruckus.

Leonard, Howard, and Raj glared at him, appalled. "You proved it?"

"Yes, it was my idea, and primarily my design!"

"Guys!" Penny interjected, "This isn't the time!" Suddenly, the sound of footsteps echoed up from the stairwell.

"You called the cops, Penny?"

"Well, yeah… I didn't know what was going on!"

"Everyone FREEZE!" The cops called.

Penny turned around to face them. "A drugs bust? Really?"

The officer's jaws hung open when they looked around. "I think this is out of our jurisdiction…"

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