Multiverse: You are the Character

[Yellow 13]

Seeing that there was nothing going on and most of her questions were anwsered, Yellow yawned and curled up to take a nap. Her awhereness was shifted out to see where everything was still and she could still use her brush powers. At first, she was worried about mental fatiuge, but all the worry and stress seemed to vanish as soon as her body went to sleep. Clearly, that was just a physical shell, really. It could probbaly take all the pin and tumbles of the world, but as a goddess, she probbaly couldn't really DIE per say. Getting a new avatar she could control though would be hard... It would be better not to die. A general rule of life really.

In the meantime, she decided to help out the ship by using gusts of wind in the right direction so that the sails caught it completely.

[RedxXxDawn]

Tsunade was in the middle of healing a slash on a pirate's stomach, but then she felt a sudden invigorating energy sweep over her. It felt good. Refreshing. The green glow faded from her hands sooner than she had expected. She looked at her hands, then at the pirate she was healing, and saw why. His wound had already been closed up. "That's weird," she said quizzically. "I didn't know I could heal ya that fast. I mean, I just started, and.."

"Hey! My arm doesn't hurt 'nymore!" Came another pirate next to her. He flexed his arm and slapped the floor, testing its durability. "I'm healed!"
"..But how?" Tsunade asked. "I didn't even-"
"This is incredible! I'm all better!" And then he laughed.
And then a third pirate spoke. "My leg is healed too!"
"And my stab wound is gone!" Came another.
"I'm healed also!"
"Wow, that woman is a real miracle worker, ain't she?"
Tsunade was baffled at first once she noticed all of the pirates were completely recovered, but soon enough she guessed why. It was because of that feeling that swept over her before. It felt like a healing spell, not that different than her own. And apparently, it affected the other pirates too. Must've been Luka, she thought. "Y-yes!" She exclaimed. "You guys like that? I really do know how to work miracles, don't I? Broken bones? Cuts? Scrapes? No problem. Now, anybody else need healing?"
Every pirate in the room either said 'nope' or shook their head. After that, Tsunade stood up and left, looking for more pirates to heal. She went all over the ship looking for wounded, but it seemed everybody was already healed. It was only a matter of time before the ship would reach the island, so now would be a good time to find Jack.

Suddenly, the ship began to advance faster. Faster than it was supposed to. Jack looked at the sky suspiciously. It could have been his imagination, but that sudden breeze seemed to come out of nowhere. It was almost.. unnatural. Instantly putting that thought out of his head, Jack strode around the deck barking orders, preparing his crew to bank on the little island. But then somebody bumped into him. For a brief two seconds, he felt a pair of exaggeratedly large breasts pressed against his chest. "Oh.. Hi Jack." Tsunade said, backing away in a manner that made her approach look like an accident. "Sorry 'bout that. hehe.. So, um.. are you hurt? You want me to heal you?"
Jack just looked at her. First her chest, then her eyes. "N-no," he answered reluctantly. "I'm fine, actually. Now if you'll excuse me-"
"Aww, you sure 'bout that?" Tsunade said with a persuasive smile. "A little cut? bump? Boo-boo? Anything? We can do it in your quarters, alone, if you like." Despite her outgoing personality, it took a lot for her to say that. She could never pull that off in real life. But in pirate land, she felt more confident. More comfortable. A pirate's life was supposed to be full of adventure, and adventure she loved. Her true life back at home was actually kind of dull. Even a little stifling. And this was a big change for her. For the most part, she liked change.
But Jack, on the other hand, was not interested. Perhaps she intimidated him? Or maybe it was because he was not into cartoon girls. Or, maybe, he simply did not like girls at all.

"Cap'n! We're comin' in a li'l too fast." A pirate called. "Maybe we should-"

Thud!

Suddenly, the ship hit something. Although the impact did not send anybody flying, it did knock a few of them off their feet. "What.. what was that?" Jack called to his crew, ignoring Tsunade.
"Looks like we hit somethin!'" A pirate shouted.
"What?" Jack asked.
"Uhh.. I dunno. The island's outta sight, so.."
"You don't mean-"
The pirate nodded. "Yep," he said, at last. "We came in a li'l too quick, thar, an' we jumped it."
Jack shook his head and went to the rail of the ship. Looking down, he saw water. Then he went to the other side and looked down there. Water. No island.

Tsunade came up beside Jack and looked down the rail. "..Something wrong?" She asked.
Jack sighed and rolled his eyes. "You just had to distract me, didn't you?" He replied in slight annoyance. "Now the ship won't move at all."
Tsunade slapped her forehead with her palm in realization. He was right. She did distract him. And at the worst possible time, too. Now, instead of banking beside the island, they outright ran it over. But then again, it may not have been entirely her fault. There was also Amaterasu's wind blowing the sails. That may or may not have played a part there.

But nonetheless, the ship had to be moved. "Haha.. whoopsiedaisey!" Tsunade laughed. "But no worries, I'll move the ship for you." Without another thought, Tsunade hopped over the rail and into the water. Only after she landed in the ice cold water did she think to bring a jacket or something to keep her warm. She circled around the ship until she found the edge of the island. There, she planted her feet and pushed the ship. After several pushes with her tremendous strength, she rocked the ship a few times before moving it away. She did not realize it at first, but it was actually the island that was pushed away from the ship.

Now that the island was no longer under the ship, Jack and his crewmates brought up a large, thick plank of wood. They took it to the side of the ship and pushed it forth. It was to act as a bridge for them to walk on. From there Jack led his pirates down the plank and onto the island. There was not enough room for all of Jack's pirates, though. Jack himself came down along with three others. Tsunade just swam to the island and met him there.

From there, Jack looked down the hole in the center of the island. Down the eight-foot hole was a large treasure chest. With the glossed wood panels and thick gold trims, it looked quite elaborate. Surely such an exquisite treasure chest would contain something of great value. With a rope tied to the ship's rail, Jack climbed down the hole. He examined the chest, then opened it. Just like that. No lock-picking, no traps set, nothing. It almost seemed too easy. Jack opened the treasure chest and found... a small, porous grey object. He looked at it in disappointment, then sighed. "All that for nothing..." he grumbled. "Son of a-" He picked up the rock angrily and was about to throw it. But before he let go, he immediately stopped. He then realized that it was not a rock at all. It actually was a treasure. A valuable one. And, from what Jack had seen through it, it was priceless. Powerful.

Not of this world.

******

In a large city, cars drove to and fro in lanes. People walked through crosswalks and lived and worked in tall buildings. The air was unclean, not as crisp as in the age of piracy, before all of the pollution. People had to pay parking meters just to park their cars in certain spots, and they all walked to and fro on the streets, buying and selling in the many markets and talking to other people across the globe through small hand-held devices. They watched news, events and even cartoons through large tube boxes and flat screen televisions. It was a world unlike Jack had ever imagined.

******

"Uh, hello? Jack?" A pirate called. "Anyone home?"
At last, Jack snapped out of his trance. He waved off the pirate who called to him and waved a hand in front of his face. "Yes," he replied. "Yes, I'm fine. Just... what is this thing?" He asked to no one in particular.

"I dunno," the pirate replied. "Lemme see that." He took it from Jack, then paused. Then the man was in awe. Not necessarily from the object, but he seemed to be staring into space. Soon enough, though, he came to. "..What was that?" He asked.
"You saw it too?" Jack asked.
"Aye! Looked like another world. Or maybe even the future."

(btw, we are not supposed to know anything about the crucible of worlds or its pieces just yet. This is the part where we're also oblivious. And Jack was the only one who saw the vision, not us )

[Yellow 13]

The crash of the boat shook Yellow into awakeness and she barked slightly worried that she broke the boat. Still though,she took her timein getting up since even though they would be beached,they wouldn't sink very far. The ocean floor wasn't that far down after all. Issun panicked as naturally, but she ignored him and streached her body out.

walking up to where the pirates were, she smiled and wagged her tail back and forth as she leapt off to see what Jack was doing with a strange rock. She barked, hoping to get their attention.

[Greycat]

They crashed into the island. They effing crashed into the island. What the hell kinda pirates were they? He face palmed, (face pawed? face padded?) They couldn't steer the damn ship in a damned straight line! Bastards were horrible at sailing a ship. He snarled under his breath and and started kneading at his forehead, upgrading his face palm in the process. Or maybe he just jinxed them by mentioning the possibility of them hitting the microscopic island. Truth be told, it was less an island and more a pile of sand that happened to clear the waterline by a few centimeters. Grey was less than eager to hop ship and take to the dirt, but he was more than eager to get off the ship for a while. So he abandoned ship, landing with a puff of sand.

He forgot he was barefooted, having not reformed his shoes since the last fight, and now he had sand in the fur of his feet. Fun. He swore slightly, but still made his (short) way to the hole. considering the dept of the hole, the proximity to the water, and the minimum clearance between (relatively) dry land and the sea, he kept to the rim. He wasn't up for the burial at sea things, or the drowning in a deep sanding hole thing either. All it would take was a little persuasion to yea spirits who make their home in the waves, in the foam, in the spray... intumescunt et aestus et lavare in hoc... Gah! Bad kitty. No plotting the demise of the pirates! Things like these were what would keep him from reattaining true chaotic neutrality, the chaos epiphany...

He crouched at the edge and looked down. The vacant looks almost made him want to try for oceanic corruption, but he resisted. He did take keen interest in the grey rock thing they found. It looked... beyond ordinary, boring maybe, but it drew him. Like it had great potential for causing discord and chaos. A major playing piece, a deus ex, even, in the game that they had fallen into. Plus, it was grey. "Dibs," he said, raising a hand halfway.

[RedxXxDawn]

Jack's head perked up when he heard the barking of a dog. He looked over his shoulder and saw the white wolf. "Hey," he called. "Settle down, fido. It's not a chew toy, we've got here." But just what the heck is it? He thought. But before he could continue his thoughts, he heard call call 'dibs' on the artifact. He looked back and saw Greycat with his hand up. Jack just rolled his eyes and smiled jokingly. It was funny, really. Not one person there had any idea exactly what they were dealing with. Davy Jones must have taken one look at the thing and left, not even bothering to pick it up and examine it. Jack chuckled at the irony, then extended the thing to Greycat. "Here ya go," he said. "Whenever somebody touches it, they see the future. Or another world, of some sort. It's weird, really. We don't know if this thing is a part of some.. alien device, of some sort."

Tsunade, meanwhile, was clueless. How could they be seeing into the future just by touching that thing? She mused. It obviously has some mysterious powers, or something. Lemme take a looksie. With that last thought she crept up behind Jack and reached for the stone. "Yoink!" Was what she tried to say as she snatched the thing - that was, if she were still there. But instead, she held that first syllable for a brief few seconds during the time-warping stretch across realities. Yes, her body was being sucked into the now-glowing artifact. It looked like her body was suddenly slimming and stretching into it, being reshaped into a weird spiral pattern, and then she was gone. But it was not just her. Greycat was also missing. And Luca. And all of the other avatars. They had all been sucked into the device the same way. And, likewise, artifact was missing as well.

Jack and his crew simply stood there, baffled and clueless to what had just happened.

******

Numbers, letters and other digits unreadable coursed throughout the new world, pumping to and fro like blood. But, unlike blood, they were all different hues of blue. It was difficult to tell whether or not there was a sky in the new world. Or were they in a sea? There were so many flowing digits of code streaming all over, one could not tell up from down, or whether they were coming or going, or even if they were moving at all. If the cyber world had any background at all, it would have had to have been bluish.

Tsunade and the other avatars formed in what seemed like the middle of it all. They were all together in fairly close proximity, roughly four to six feet away. There was no ground to stand on, nor air to breathe, but they needed no air or ground. They floated, unbreathing but alive, swimming in a sea without water.

Tsunade, after she fully appeared, finished her sentence from the world before. "...Yoink?" she piped pointlessly, to no one in particular. Her and the other avatars had materialized there at the same time. They floated there for a short while, not far from one another. They were able to swim to and fro as they please, but were they to touch any of the flowing digits of code, their hands would pass through, neither feeling the numbers nor distorting the code. Not interacting with it at all, like a holographic projection.

But not far from them all was the artifact. It floated there, unseen at first since the glow was gone the moment it appeared there. But the glow returned. In its place a vortex opened, a portal into white empty space. But it was not entirely empty. There was someone inside. No, something. The creature swam toward the open window, little legs twiddling like.. an insect? It looked like an ant at first, but as it came closer its wings were visible. It had the body of an ant, and rather large insect wings. The creature was a termite. Soon enough the termite swam its way toward the opening in the cyberspace.

Tsunade expected the large insect to emerge, but it never did. It did not even poke its head out. It just looked at the avatars with no clear expression on its face. But then again it was a bug. What feelings could it possibly show?
But then, in a creaky, insect like voice, it spoke. "...Hi," it said through a tiny segmented mouth, between two large mandibles that moved in unison. "Fenix.. Red.. Greycat.. Yes, I remember some of you. I'm guessing you all got sucked into this mess through your home computers. Listen. I'm AntarcticTermit. I may be the one who came up with the idea of an rp where you get sucked into the internet and explore different worlds, but I'm not the one responsible for it actually happening. I'm sorry. It isn't really my fault. I don't even know how all this happened."

Tsunade was the next to speak. "Ah, no worries," she said dismissively. "Actually I kinda like it. Even though we all could've been killed by those fish freaks, a little adventure'll do ya good. Better than the everyday, boring reality any day, amirite?"

"...Well at least one of you isn't angry with me. That's good. Now, I-"
"But wait," Tsunade interrupted. " Is there a way we could go back? I mean, just for a little bit, at least?"
AntercticTermit just looked at her. "...No. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Tsunade made a pouting face and moaned. "Ohhhhh, I wanted to say goodbye to Jackie... or at least have a little more of that ale.." Or give Jack one last hug, she thought. Damn. I didn't even really get a chance to get to know him...

"...I don't know what world you have just explored," the termite continued, ignoring Tsunade's pouting. "But I see you have a piece of the crucible. That's good. You'll need to gather one from each world you explore. Once you assemble the crucible of worlds, it can take you home. But first, you are going to need something for your journey in the next world. Through the crucible piece you have there, you can search the web and gain any new special ability for yourself that you can find." The Termite sighed. "And I'm sure you guys must have some questions or something you wanna ask. Go ahead, I'm all ears. And yes, I do have ears."

[Yellow 13]

Yellow first snarled at the insect expecting a fight, but then went from Aggressive to defensive then to confused and understanding. She lowered her fur and looked at AntarcticTermite. Issun was a bit worried having never seen a bug that big before but with some reassuring words from Yellow, he calmed down and began translating for her again. "So... My partner here can get some new powers and items?" Yellow didn't sense anything in her inventory aside from the weapons she had, she didn't have anything to eat. Both for herself and the woodland creatures she'd be feeding. Plus having unlimited ink wouldn't be a bad idea. Plus the powers of Magnetism and Guidance wouldn't hurt either. If Chibiterasu could wield them, Yellow would have no trouble.

"And another thing my partner wants to know is how come you seem to know all this stuff but haven't went after it yourself? It' gotta be kinda weird stuck as a bug."

Sensing they'd in for a long explanation, Ammy yawned and laid down, her head on her paws while her tail wagged back and forth slowly.

[ActRaiser]

As if to annoy the Termite even more, suddenly, a dark armored, sinister looking figure with a dark cloak and horned helmet materialized out of nowhere. He was sitting on the floor. As he looked up, noticing he felt very strange, reached up his right hand to look at it and sat up straight. "Uh, where am I? Is this some sort of dream? What are you people? Have I been playing video games too much again?" He looks around. "Uh, nothing to see here, I see. I'll just go back to sleep, maybe that will help."

[Greycat]

Pirates knew about aliens? That was new to him. Or was that just modern day knowledge seeping over from the original script writers into this universe. Or maybe he was taking his theory of multiple universe formed and developed from idly thought. Granted, he could still be right. He was here, after all, with all the powers being a The Other's Avatar provided. He was just about to reach for it went Tsundere snagged it. Then he was was about to curse her when the world when flushly flush. Fun.

The next thing he was aware of was the world of code. He star blandly for a moment, before offering a comment. "So... we're going matrix, now? Cause I'm pretty sure chaos isn't good from computer codes. You should have seen the hell we had to go through to code the Discordia operating systems. It took some serious petitioning to the Domain Seers to get it up and running." He did a short backstroke in order to pass the time. It wasn't often you got to swim in the void of the internet (he supposed that was what it was anyway.) He tried to unobtrusively swim towards to stone (he did call dibs.)

Little magic bug showed up first through. He stared at it with a bit of disbelief. Seriously, their big mentor character was the ghost of AntarcticTermite? As if this RP wasn't weird and nebulous enough as it was. He listened somewhat attentively, if not lazily, to the jibber jabber of the bug and the Hokage. He was at least glad he put his collection into mist storage. It would have sucked to have lost all those weapons, loot and exotic body parts. "I don't mind either," he added. "A chance to let loose, have fun, no responsibilities, freaky powers. No accountability... It's all good. As for powers... The net is Domain territory, and more linked to Harmony and Order. Not Other or Chaos."

[Fenix250]

(The Virtual Box is upgrading it's OS, so I have time to post this ^_^)

Soon enough, the wind got strong for some odd reason, which, thanks to Dawn 'distracting' Jack, caused us to crash land into the tiniest island in the world... actually, calling it an island was being too nice; it was like a random flat rock out in sea only it's made out of sand. Dawn got us off of the sand patch and a small group of pirates climbed down to dig out a nice shiny looking chest that appeared to be made out of golden wood, "ohh, that's a nice treasure chest…"
Of course, that was me expecting something awesome to be within the chest; video games usually have fancy looking chests to house rare items or boss keys.

I looked over the railings as Jack opened it to discover...a rock? I'd say morale just went down thanks to all the hype the fancy chest created. Once Jack picked it up though; he started acting like he seen a ghost. He passed it to another pirate who had the same expression. Grey took this time to jump down, so I decided to follow as well. The island was just to small now with the addition of Greycat, so I simply flew slightly above them while slightly behind and between Grey and Dawn.

When Grey called for it, Jack explained that it gave them a vision of some kind... wait, I don't remember a grey stone doing that in these movies! When Jack was about to give the stone to Grey, I spoke up, "Hold on, there's something not right about that s-"
Dawn grabbed the stone and the s sound I spoke left with a snake-like sound as we all disappeared.

No code has to be inserted here.
LOADING.............................LOADED!

Where we were now was… pretty easy to describe, yet hard to explain; The world was generally blue with 1’s and 0’s flying all over the place. There was no ground, no sky, and…from the way I was feeling, no air; yet we needed none of this…so I guess I can stop ‘flying’ now. After my wings was done moving and behind my back, I floated over to everyone was examining everything. Being someone who was learning things like Programming and Networking, I had a good idea of where the heck we are, “Guys? Whatever that stone did, I think it sent us to Cyberspace...”
With my right arm crossed and my left hand up to my chin, I tried to cross-reference what just happened with a lot of things I’ve seen before and one stood out, “Maybe…this is like 'Final Fantasy Thirteen dash Two'? Get sent to world, find Artifact, aka; something that doesn’t belong there, like that stone that give a vision of the future going by the pirates' explanation. And then, skipping the Time Gate, get sent into a place that connects the timeline or a bunch of worlds together…”
It made some sense to me, so I felt a little better, "Sounds about right..."

I watched Grey make an attempt to get the grey stone again and chuckled before floating onto my back and resting. The weightless feeling felt nice compared to my crummy old bed back home, "I don't know what everyone else thinks, but sleeping here already sounds better then that old bed I have back home."
No sooner did I say that, I hear a new voice, "...Hi."
I blinked at the data-filled sky before twisting my floating body to face the direction of the voice while 'on' my stomach. Through a newly created vortex, I see a bug, "...huh?"
"Fenix.. Red.. Greycat.. Yes, I remember some of you. I'm guessing you all got sucked into this mess through your home computers. Listen. I'm AntarcticTermit. I may be the one who came up with the idea of an rp where you get sucked into the internet and explore different worlds, but I'm not the one responsible for it actually happening. I'm sorry. It isn't really my fault. I don't even know how all this happened."

I nod at the Termite, "Eh, it could be worse; I could've liked a slower progression on things to kill since my stomach turns at the sight of 'real' blood, but it's been pretty interesting so far."
Dawn says it was also okay, but then asks if there's a way for them to get back to the last world they went to, if only for a little while, "...No. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Dawn was sad, which made me laugh a little, "I KNEW IT! You have the hots for Jack Sparrow don't ya?! whaahahaha!"

I was rolling in the air laughing in the background while the 'GameMaster' explains that we found something important. It was only when he said we can 'upgrade' our characters that I stopped laughing and zoomed over, "Define upgrade! Because if I can get this demonic glove to NOT take over my mind if I lose this pendent, then that'd be WONDERFUL! ...Of course; depending on the next world, I might go for something more important instead..."
I started to examine myself and found things. After figuring out what I have and didn't have, I looked around, "Some kind of 'Spirit Bow' would work nicely..."

I looked around our general location before someone new popped into our little plain of Cyberspace: It was Golbez... or rather, someone else who found our lovely little thread of insaneness, "Uh, where am I? Is this some sort of dream? What are you people? Have I been playing video games too much again?"
I chuckled as I looked at the newcomer, "Golbez huh? Neat. Typical newcomer question: Did you find a thread on the RoleplayerGuild that basically said you'll be whatever character you wrote in your character sheet and replied with a CS of your own?"
It was neat getting more allies, but it did worry him; just how many people was that one thread going to take from the real world?

[ActRaiser]

"Yes, I did. What does that have to do with this dream? Oh, I get it. It was the last thing I was thinking of before I fell asleep at the computer. It all makes sense now." Golbez looks at everything around him. "Did someone say something about cyberspace? I swore I heard something about cyber space." Golbez got up from his sitting position and wondered why going back to sleep wasn't working. "Well, going back to sleep isn't working. . ."