Felicia
- Running down an empty street in the diving bell carrying an upside
down cop car, cops inside shooting pointlessly. "You there ... ? I
need to know what the fuck is going on."
Gijo - Soda slurp sound, "Here. No idea. We're good, comm's disabled, just please don't hurt them. Which brings us to what the hell are we going to do with them."
Felicia - "No idea. Things happened. But that's not what I mean."
Gijo - "Yeah that ..." Clears throat. "No idea. I'm just the gunner with the world's largest swing piece but apparently that doesn't rate being told things. But the talk is that the universes are colliding yayyyy ..."
Felicia - "What do we do ?"
...
Gijo - Breaks out laughing, "First let's figure out what to do with these fucking guys ! ... And then we find out. Okay ?"
Felicia - "Okay. Um ..."
(laughter from inside the suit while the it carries the car over a hill from sight, cops still shooting and screaming into the useless radio)
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Aedera looks up with Mishil at the sky formation, the smaller ships refueling and being repaired before separating here and there, others appearing to solidify their structure for a settlement.
Aedera - "You come from that other world. It's complicated. But it's also very simple. When Sanctuary was stolen, your world grew in the vacuum of its absence. And now that it returns, the secrets hidden in your land return home."
...
Mishil - "Home ... I've never known it. There's a lot of words people throw around I've never known ... but ... okay. This will do."
Aedera - "For lack of option I'm afraid."
...
Mishil - "Do you drink ?"
Aedera - "On occasion."
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The bell suit hangs lopsided with one arm stretched to a struggling police helicopter, the other to a heavy freeway railing pipe.
Gijo - "What I do know is that the solar system is passing through a dark matter cloud." (true) "And it's going to be for a very long time !"
Felicia - "How long."
Gijo - "Like a thousand years long, it looks like. What we can track of the expanse says two hundred definite, but it's like it's own kind of storm. Arms pretty much like a extra-dimensional hurricane."
Felicia - "Or a solar system."
Gijo - "Exactly. And I also heard some soldier chatter from the Dirge ... it's a warship."
Felicia - "Warship. Got it."
Gijo - "Yah. It flies. Anyway I hear them babbling in their armors about everything us being made of dark matter and or energy. Something their captain believes ... though frankly no one's ever considered him all that scientific before."
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The
grinning captain is handed an honorary doctorate (star on the teeth)
from the school's college by Ms Aedera, the soldiers cheer, many
blinding photos are taken.
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Gijo - "But apparently there might be something to that. On my end, it's all just gravitational corrections, running the fields and comm. So I only know what I know and I know it's a lot more than I know. I'll see if I can get a sec with the pilot."
Felicia - "Pilot ?"
Gijo - "The one flying the planet through the slip stream. Which I understand to be very stressful so she's not always in so good a mood. Which is to say she can be a complete and regular bitch."
Gijo's cannon contacts inwardly from the inside of the sphere to out, locking vertically from the grid-work shielding surrounding the world as it passes though the slipstream. It's own global overlay turns until it settles over the main sphere's cockpit structure at the fore, the Earth turning behind.
The structure is simple, worked into the grid nearly web-like and random, tendrils passing here and there in sparks. The core is simple silver, appearing much like a greater seed ship.
A steady beam guides the Earth's path from the cockpit's own cannon, a greater mass generated ahead, dragging the rest through spacetime.
~ The cannon seals over the cockpit.
Gijo climbs down a ladder into a dark room, glitch standing at the center near a dark slab chair, pouring electricity from both hands building mechanisms all around as others burn out in sparks.
She screams turning, replacing more, as they begin to self modify and absorb the older components. Still ignoring Gijo she throws the whip-like lighting downs it extinguishes across the floor.
She turns for the chair
and throws herself into is while glitch watches uncomfortably ... the
lightning in the floor fades at her feet after a step back ...
Glitch her fist on the chair's armrest, six nearly Qabalistic appearing pillars, spin up from the floor slowly before charging and setting. The fore cannon ceases.
A sigh ...
The chair spins facing.
Glitch - "Okay now What !?"
Glitch - "Why the hell aren't you at your post !?"
...
Gijo - "It's like right there."
Glitch - "And What the fuck if something Happens !?"
Gijo - "I can be there in three seconds."
Glitch - "Anything can happen right now ! Anything can get Through ! This is THE MOST PRECARIOUS TIME !!!"
...
Gijo - "Three seconds ... um I just ..."
Glitch - "Bullshit."
...
Gijo - "No I really ... can ..."
Glitch - "Up that ladder ? No way in hell. You're too weak."
Gijo - "Oh fuck you missy. Let's just count that attitude out loud."She runs off "One alligator ... Two alligator ... Three ... all ... i ... ga ...tor ..."
Gijo - "! I'm in my chair !"
Glitch slams her fist on the other armrest, the cannon hard decompresses sent spinning to the other side of the sphere.
...
Gijo - Voiced over, "So I didn't get anything."
...
Felicia - "But you do know something."
...
Gijo - "Um."
('You Only Live Twice' cover by Pain Teens)
As Diver Deep falls endlessly from the skyline's highest peaks in the night, belly flopping the world ...
Felicia
- Inside the suit, "Alright you two. You need to meet, you two holding out
trusted adult figures. Let's have it. Grandma Great ! Meet Gijo
bo-Letzir."
~ split screen on ~
Maiden - "Oh ! hello !"
Gijo - "Hi !"
Maiden - "Ohhh ... she talked." Clears her throat. "All of it. I'm sure. All true."
Gijo - "Talk ? What's a talk. I'll never talk."
Felicia - "What could you possibly know about it anyway, gunner."
Gijo - "Aaaa ... not a damn thing ! All that maiden shit's got nothing to do with me and that Middleton experiment is one freak show I do not need to ... ! FUCK !"
Felicia - "Busted !"
Maiden - "Hehe ...
Felicia - "Don't get me started !"
They look away from each other on the screens, arms crossed.
... the suit falls ...
Felicia - "What's so experimental about Middleton ? I've never ever even been off island ! And I don't think that's a good comparison either,"
... the suit falls past the skyscraper lights, their bases getting broader toward the ground ...
Gijo - "Your turn."
Maiden - "It's a crossroads."
Gijo - "Something new."
Felicia - Crossroads between what and what ?! ... Oh shit hang on."
The suit belly-flops a cop car through the ground, gone, the crater consuming those surrounding. The protest cheers and carries on around it.
Felicia - Echoing from the crater, "Okay now Talk."
