[IC] Return to the Multiverse

[Zero Hex]

Ajax shrugged. "Pooled blood and some weird dripping noise? Yeah I'm taking that. I've yet to go wrong by following trails of carnage, which, says terrible things about my life. Give me a shout if you need a hand". And with that, Ajax casually walked down the right path. Secure of his own invulnerability and strength, which he had rightfully earned, he had no guard up and wasn't particularly alert for any enemy presence, basically expecting whatever it was he was hunting to try to kill him so he could do kill it instead.

[Shisa]

"Nuh," Okuu retorted, "She was really mean to me. She doesn't care at all, and she thinks I'm a bother, so I'm gonna get the ice cream all myself. That will show her who's a bother, and it won't be me, because I have the ice cream." Okuu's cheeks puffed out and she took a seat at the counter of the diner. She didn't need help from anyone; she was gonna get that ice cream all on her lonesome and everyone would be so impressed and she would tell Orin and Satori later and they would give her treats and praise. Just then, the clown walked in, and Okuu turned back to Rawk. "It's nice to meet you and all, mister Rawk, but you can buy mister clown something instead of me. I want to do this on my own." She then turned to the proprietor, and with the most serious look she could muster on her face, said, "I will have one ice cream, please, and I will go on any quest that needs doing to get it."

[Professor_Wyvern]

[Bar Basement Dungeon - Left Hallway 1-1] And so Link had chosen to partake in the path of the left hallway. As he trudged forth, he would notice that the shattered box, was moving. Or was it? It could've just been his imagination, but at the least, the bone appeared to be off while still in the box. In the distance Link would see a larger room. The interior was much the same as the hallway, sets of grey-stone. Above were the flickering of a chandelier. He could see a silhouette of something, from the flicking flames. But, it was still too dark to see fully. However, he did notice that there was a set of two stones which seemed misplaced. Surely they didn't belong there. And beyond the sight of that silhouette, he heard a distinctive sound of twitching. Somewhere, in that room, something was twitching. That twitch was quickly followed up by a skittering, which appeared to not come from the room itself but from the hallway. [Bar Basement Dungeon - Right Hallway 1-1] And so Ajax had chosen to partake in the path of the right hallway. As he walked down the right hallway, he would notice increasing amounts of blood. On both sides of the hallway, there was faded and dulled hand-prints. If Ajax took the time to glance at them, he would glimmer the information that these were, not the sign of a struggle. No, they were planted there for some reason or another. However, as he walked on he would notice more blood on the floor. The spray marks revealed that yes, this was from the sign of a struggle. As he went on he would notice that the fluorescent lights in the chamber, which he was about to enter were not nearly as bright as the ones in the hallway. The interior of the room was also constructed of metal. However, there were crude drawings scattered about the room. But he was too far to analyze them just yet. But there was something noticeable, a person, laying face down, weakly reaching for something. It appeared to be an adult, most likely male, struggling on the ground. And as the flourscent light flickered again he would notice that the light seemed to go off, revealing some strings that were strung across the room at just below knee level, for an average sized person. [That One Diner] Rattlesnake Jack gave a friendly nod to his associate, the trust-worthy Clown. "Oh hey, mosta the gang's back. Yeah, dimension, or something blew in, Magical Nonsense if I ever heard any. And I have heard plenty of magical nonsense my day." It was then Rattlesnake Jack realized that he had the angry glare of that old diner worker. Taking out a metal scooper he took two chunks of strawberry ice-cream and simply dumped it into a cup. After completing that he went to the back to the mixer. Before activating the blaring noises from the ice-cream machine. He glanced at Okkuu who asked for a quest of sorts. He pointed towards a wall, where a Quest Board was hanging. The various messages on the boards ranged from the desperate pleas for help, to professional business-like inquiries. One thing was for sure, the majority of them appeared to be 'Fetch Quests'. Alongside these things was also a prominent flyer to remember to tip your wait-staff.

[Rockin Strings]

Sonus smirked as he raised his Keyblade before rushing in to swing at Akira. Steve had been wandering around, trying to find someone that was probably part of their crew. He ended up back by the diner and decided to go in. Upon entering, he heard a girl's voice. He walked up to her with a smile. "You're hunting for quests too?" he asked, tapping the diamond sword at his hip.

[Zero Hex]

Ajax paid very little attention to the bloody handprints or the spray pattern of the blood on the hallway. He wasn't particularly fond of investigating such things, especially since he'd seen so many bloody messes that he'd kind of lost interest in them. As far as his life was concerned, they were basically just standard road markers. If you see one of these, you are going the right way, definitely not lost. Follow them back to reach the exit. Simple. Now, a clearly wounded man struggling to reach for something in a darkened room, surrounded by drawings he couldn't make out and with wire traps all over the place? This was definitely interesting. While usually he would've just walked all over the wires just for the hell of it, it was hard to feel threatened when one was invulnerable as Ajax, he was curious about both the man and the paintings and so veeeeery carefully made his way into the room, advancing veeeeery slowly to make sure his rather large body did not trigger anything. "Hey...you", he spoke out to the man, not quite whispering but reasonably quiet still, "tell me what's wrong, what's with this room. If you need help I can get you out of here".

[Professor_Wyvern]

[Bar Basement Dungeon - Right Hallway Chamber 1-1] And so Ajax, was able to successfully move over the tripwires. He was much like a bull in a china shop, well aware of its size, and knowing the materials were delicate, so being extra careful. Ajax soon made it to where the man was. He coughed weakly as he glanced towards the hulking figure. The man was in his late forties at least, with a greying beard and short cropped hair. His bulbous piglike nose was noticeably broken, and he had several bruises around his face. The man was dressed in a brown overcoat, and some light grey trousers. His feet were twisted and mangled, with a small bit of blood pooled underneath them. "Ribs... feet..." He coughed out a large amount of phlegm. "T-the research. Came for, potential research." Weakly he raised his thin right arm and pointed towards one of the pictures before coughing yet again. Many of the pictures were detailing crude creatures, some drawn in ink, others in crayon. They were covered in strange insignias and other things. And, now in the room, Ajax noticed some scratch marks on the floor below. As for the pictures, they didn't seem all too well attached to the wall. There was three doors, near the back with the man. Actual doors, all of the same style, with a brass knob and a metal frame..

[rawkhawk64]

Link slowly made his way forward, pausing to examine the box. Did it just move? Nah, must've been his imagination. Link moved forward, much more cautious, listening for noises from from the front and behind. Link passed over the two stones, trying to catch a glimpse of the figure up ahead. As his foot came down, Link made sure to avoid stepping on the stones, as that might trigger a trap, which would draw the attention of his quarry. Link silently drew the Master Sword and Hylian Shield from their resting places as he neared the room. He hoped to avoid a confrontation, but he wasn't willing to be caught off guard. Unlike his Herculean friend, he was not invincible, but his Hylian Shield was. Link kept his trusty shield in front of him as he neared the room, but remained ready to whip around and defend himself from an attack at the rear if need be...

[Zero Hex]

"Magic". Ajax spat the word out like a curse, a strange reaction considering his origins in a land where magic was both widespread and well studied as well as his numerous adventures alongside wizards and their ilk. Hell his current situation was more fueled by magic than what he understood to be technology from a time far more advanced than his own. Then again, the vast majority of Ajax's problems and misadventures and had come from magic and magic users and he had the very firm idea that magic was nothing but trouble and that people would be better off relying on their own strength and what they could do with their bodies. It'd worked out quite well for him. "It's always magic. You see what happens with magic? You end up lying in a pool of your own blood in some basement", Ajax ranted as he slowly but effortlessly picked the man up like a baby, making sure to to keep him from rattling, his head steady and his ribs free from receiving any weight on them. Magic drawings and doors could wait, for now he was just going to get the guy to safety. He once again slowly stepped around the room, taking care to avoid the wires as he exited and retraced his steps towards the entrance. He carefully laid the man down against the wall and started banging on the blast-door. "HEEEY, I'VE A MAN DOWN OVER HERE, GIVE HIM A HAND WILLYA".

[Prostagma]

Cirno hopped up and down excitedy with her hands waving in the air, "I wanna sherbet! Waddermelon! No, cherry! No wait, cherry-waddermelon!" The perpetually-scowling old man prepared the ice cream and slid it across the counter to Cirno, before glaring at Rawk. "Three", he grunted matter-of-factly.

[KazeXDZ]

Akira blocked Sonus' swing before aiming a punch to his belly. If the punch didn't connect, he would use his energy wave attack, hoping to push Sonus far enough away.

[LyokoOperator]

Ryan took a better look around realizing he was on a beach, this made him very uncomfortable, he's had bad experiences with beaches and games, this was a dream ...far as he knew which meant he could die for real,he'd been walking a good distance before seeing Sonus and Akira fighting on the beach, he kept distance and prepared for a fight, his first instinct was to reach for his advent deck, he wasn't sure why, but he wasn't about to question either, it was a rather thick box that seemed to house cards inside and was spring loaded, he was ok with this. he knew that if this was a dream like others than the advent deck would function as it should. If this was not a dream ... his adrenaline was flowing, hoping these two were too into their fight to notice him, as was it was not normal to see a super powered fight on the beach, which meant most than likely they would notice him, his muscles ached already from just thinking about a fight, but he wasn't going to let that get in his way, he was too worried about if either or both of these guys were antagonists,he was honestly not ready for a fight just yet against anyone, the entire time he watched the fight between Akira and Sonus he was hoping that at least one of them was a good guy, he had yet to figure out who the good guys and bad guys were, he didn't feel like finding out the hard way. He had a bad feeling that he may end up finding out the hard way, but he was hoping he wouldn't have to, he didn't think he knew either of these two people but this dream so far was strange, who knows, one of them may know him, he felt the ocean breeze rolling off of the water, this far into the beach he could still feel the breeze, the sand below him shifted as he stepped, even standing still barely shifting his weight the sand shifted, this was feeling too real. The spoke softly so no one else would hear him as he watched the fight "this isn't right, i can feel the breeze, this isn't a dream". he'd hoped he was still right about his advent deck, just incase he was wrong he put the deck back in his pocket and prepared for a fight, he was unsure what good he would do against both of these super beings, however he wasn't too sure that they weren't bad guys, but he didn't know for sure either way. His mind kept back and forth about these two as they fought, 'are they bad guys?, did i stumble into the middle of a legit fight and if so who is the good guy?, are they both good?' he kept thinking to himself about Sonus and Akira.

[Professor_Wyvern]

[Bar Basement Dungeon - Lef Hallway Chamber 1-1] And so Link, the adventurer that he was, would notice that that rock was in fact, a piece of flint. As he listened intently he could hear things, much more skittering from behind. Possibly from where that box was? Well, the box was still there, and it looked like nothing occurred to it. Entering the dark chamber, he noticed it was very scant in its lighting. Really it was more of a blackened abyss at this point, with the occasional glimmer of fire. It appeared the chandelier went out. As he entered the room, he heard a noticeable crash. Something struck against his feet, providing some minor cuts. All the while there was more twitching which seemed to come further above, and forward. [Bar Basement Dungeon - Right Hallway Chamber 1-1] The man glanced at Ajax and spoke in his weak voice. "J-just a little magic. I can ackaaaaah!" He said before violently coughing, "Can quit anytime I want." Ajax easily and effortlessly took him to the blast-door. And after a few bangs, which dented the inner section of the blastdoor, it was opened with a hiss. The skeletal man just took the body, and gave a nod to Ajax. Grabbing him by the shoulders, he pulled the man out and locked back the door.

[Shisa]

Okuu stared at the quest board intensely after the ice cream man pointed to it, putting together in her head what it might mean, when a particularly boxy-looking boy showed up and addressed her. He seemed to want a quest, so he must like ice cream also. Okuu smiled at him. "Hi, boxy guy. I just got a quest for ice cream," she stated proudly, indicating the ice cream man, "I bet he'll give you a quest for ice cream too, if you ask." Okuu walked over to the quest board, the room quaking slightly at her heavy steps, and began grabbing all of the papers off of it. She arranged them in a neat stack, and brought them to the ice cream man. "Quest completed," she announced, "may I have my ice cream now?" Okuu felt proud, for having solved the puzzle of the paperboard. Obviously, the ice cream man had wanted all the stuck papers to be returned to him. Papers that Okuu couldn't really read, so they had no relevance to her. She then looked back at the boxy guy. "How do you do that? I've never seen someone so boxy before. Is it magic?" she asked, and began to poke Steve lightly.

[Rockin Strings]

As he saw her beginning to pull the papers off, Steve stopped her. "You're supposed to take 1 quest, not all of them." he said, trying not to laugh. Looking them over, he found one that was relatively quick and easy with a good enough reward, he hoped, to be able to buy Okuu some ice cream. He didn't care about the reward as much as the adventure, having gotten used to the every day fight of his previous Multiverse travels. "This one says we can go through a portal to get a gem and bring it back."

[Jerkchicken]

"Who are you?" replied JC to the voice within in the cave. Somehow he knew that this probably wouldn't be a good encounter as he ventured further into the cave.

"WHOOOOOOOO AM I?!" replied back the voice boomed back as the ground rumbled and from the depths appeared an enormous serpentine dragon emerged. Its claws grasped the cold earth deftly as it wriggled in a swerving motion towards JC. The dragon's scales were dark and dull much like rocks of the earth around him. But his eyes shone with a fiery and most malicious light.

"So I see you're a dragon-"

He got cutoff by the arrogant dragon's next line of speech delivered in a sing song manner, "FOOLISH HUMAN I AM THE GREAT SCATHA! AND YOU FOOLISH HUMAN HAVE MET YOUR DEATH FOR TRYING TO STEAL MY BOUNTIFUL TREASURE! I WILL CRUSH YOU AND RESUME MY DIGGING!"

"Well how about you come face me outside so you can have a chance of dodging me trying to knock your teeth out?

"VERY WELL, I WILL HUMOR YOU ME AS IT WILL MAKE FOR A CHANGE OF PACE FROM GUARDING MY TREASURE AND DIGGING!"

Backing out JC felt quite ready for a fight. He closed his eyes knowing it would further make the dragon feel overconfident, and concentrated until he felt a weight on his outstretched hands. He opened them and he saw in his hands he had the Cactus Screamer G Rank version. "I'd use the fish on my back but frankly I like hammers better." he said to the dragon.

"A GREEN SPIKED BALL ON A BONE A HAMMER? YOU AMUSE ME TOO MUCH HUMAN! I'LL REND THAT BALL OFF THE BONE AND SKEWER YOU ON IT AND WHEN I AM DONE I SHALL TAKE YOUR FISH AS A PRIZE AND DIG MERRILY!.

While the dragon boasted to JC, he had already had his blow charged and as such walked up to Scatha and delivered a fierce overhead swing that positively rattled the dragon's head much to his surprise. The blow not stunned him but he felt pain a pain that he had never felt before as the hundreds of needles pierced his hardened skull and even worse he felt a pernicious force sapping his strength flowing through his blood. Roaring the dragon let out a jet of flames searing all that it touched and melting even the rocks around him. However JC"s instincts for this type of fight were well honed and he easily dodged that attack and he slammed the creature's head a couple of times before retreating.

"I SHALL BURN AND REND YOU INTO ASHES!" the dragon shouted literally frothing at the mouth as it's movement began to become even more agressive as it lunged at JC with snapping toothsome maw and occasionally making wide wild slashes with its front claws. Many a time the claws reached close to his lime to his hoodie. However he also was interrupted by JC's whirling attacks with the hammer as it smashed into his face and even broke some horns and scales off. When his finished his whirl JC saw the dragon flinch as a purple cloud hovered above his head. He reached into a pocket and produced a bottle which was flung to create a blinding a flash that stunned the dragon. Now at his mercy he pounded at Scatha's face with tremendous force until he let out a terrible death rattle and slumped over dead.

[Rockin Strings]

Sonus blocked the punch easily enough but was thrown back by the energy attack. He landed beside Ryan on his back with a groan. Looking up, he saw the man. "Hello." he smiled, jumping back to his feet. "Hey, Akira, get over here! We got a new guy!"

[LyokoOperator]

Sonus blocked the punch easily enough but was thrown back by the energy attack. He landed beside Ryan on his back with a groan. Looking up, he saw the man. "Hello." he smiled, jumping back to his feet. "Hey, Akira, get over here! We got a new guy!"

@RokkuHoshi

Ryan looked at Sonus now knowing that him and Akira were on the same side, he took a few steps back "hi" he said cautiously not knowing whether these two were antagonists or protagonists, he was so hoping they were good guys, but better safe than sorry, he had his hand in his pocket playing with his deck ready to fight at a moment's notice, this wasn't what he wanted but if he had no choice he would fight.

[Belwicket]

Chell had been wandering after leaving Rawk. Eventually, she found her way to her partner.

Runner stood by the beach watching a fight, which ended, apparently, when one of them knocked the other to the feet of a different viewer. Runner moved quickly, seeing another possible fight. However, she hadn't been watching where she had been going and fell into the crater that was still there, landing head first and breaking her neck. However, this was undone with the rewind that happened, leaving her a few footsteps away from the crater. This time, she leapt over the hole before sliding to a stop beside Sonus and Ryan.

Chell had witnessed Runner die and rewind with no expression. Unlike her partner, Chell had a simpler way to get to the new guy. With her gel gun, she painted an orange path with a blue spot at the end, making her able to jump the crater. She landed not far from the group and walked to them quickly.