The fair, if it could be called that, was extremely boring even by Helia's standard - And she was content hopping on some rooftops and watching the ants down on the street if it meant not going home for another hour if there was nothing better to do. Here she was, cleaning stalls and not getting paid, making her miss Ernie's a little bit. It was a gruelling work at times, but the boss was great, and it made her somewhat independent. That and she got to go medieval on anyone who harassed her, let alone tried to slap her behind - Ernie might not have looked it, but they guy was ex military and in foreign service, and Helia was positively gobsmacked when he sassed a patron out after one such episode.
At least Shelby kept her company. Weirdly, she had some normal topics to talk about, without dropping into Japanese randomly. Not usual, not unwelcome. What was not welcome was the fact that Shelby could read the redhead like an open book. Helia went a bit pink in the face and decided to borrow a couple of words form the Shelby dictionary to make it clear she was displeased as she jokingly punched the other girl: "Baka! Uzai!" before bursting out laughing.
Some time later they arrived at the caves, by which point Helia was nodding off again. She groaned as she got up fro the seat in the van. "I'd take the world ending over this, at least something interesting would happen." she complained.
A few minutes later, she would swear to sew her mouth shut as she fell down a sinkhole along with the others. What properly woke her up was splashing into the water at the bottom (And thank every saint and their grandmothers it was there!) She reoriented herself to float feet first as the currents took them, hoping to break her legs on any rocks rather than her skull.
Fortunately no such thing happened, and an insanity later they found themselves on a spaceship. "I take back everything I said today. I did not need this much excitement in my life." she said, but was grinning madly and her eyes were darting form side to side, taking in all the sights. Was there a nobel prize for falling through random caves and finding alien space ships?
As they made their way into what Helia could only describe as a command center, several artifacts looking like dragon heads seemed out of place on the modern looking vessel. She inched closer, her eyes falling on the red one. IT seemed like it was calling to her, drawing her in... Only for Morrey to bump her out of the way and in front of the orange one as the 'celeb' butted in with that blasted phone of hers, taking videos.
She was forced to agree with her a while later though - What the hell indeed?! Some technicolor storm seemed to envelop the lot of them, and when it subsided, some of them were turned into iron man clones. Not Helia though. "Aw man?! Why does everyone get a cool armor and I get spandex and a tutu?" she pulled at the edge of the skirt of her suit, glad for the helmet masking her frown.
A moment later they found out there was someone on the ship, and it ain't them. The AI that introduced itself as Zordon provided some explanation on what just happened, most of which flew straight over Helia's head and whatever she did comprehend she was not sure if it was describing their situation or Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Zeo crystal? Morphing energy? ... What? Well, at least it seemed to give Tommy a high, whatever 'it' was. At least the suit could fold back into compact form, one that for Helia seemed to take the form of a watch on her left wrist.
"Umm, apologies Mr. Receeding Hairline. We fell in a cave and another rock seemed to bounce off of nothing which turned out to be your ship. We've got curious and here we are. So... What do we do? Do you want these back?" She asked, not wanting to start an interplanetary incident by stealing the guy's stuff on accident.
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