middleofsomewhere | Under the Sea: Mission start

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Under the Sea: Mission start

After fleeing the strange shapes in the sky the voidtreckers are perhaps not looking forward to yet another mission and indeed the first few days of Fiddlesticks go by without any strange dreams, no warning that another mission might be nigh. Yet on the morning of day five their SCA's will glow with the colours of the void and a holographic message will appear.

Preperations

The dressing room is open once again, though the clothes this time are simple in choice. A wet suit for each void trecker as well as a pair of flippers, a helmet and a breathing pack. It at least has instructions and there will be a little bit of time for them to figure out how to use them. Apart from that there are some waterproof packs for supplies to be packed in.

They will have a couple of hours to get ready for their mission.

Arrival: Blue and Red

"We are now approaching world #7625000129523. Drop order is Red and Blue, Purple then Orange. Red and Blue team to doors. Arrival in world #7625000129523 in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train shudders and lurches as they exit the void, the view from the window goes from the ever shifting void to a beautiful deep blue sky. They fly through the air and swoop down to land on a sandy beach. The doors open allowing those who are taking part in the Blue and Red missions to debark. The doors close and the train swoops up into the air.

The beach stretches from one side to the other, in the distance as the beach turns into sloping green hills they can see a village. Beyond that there is a jungle. Any red team who check their SCA will see four points, the rock pools.

The villagers have noticed the huge train sweeping down onto their island and so contact is made quickly. They will be quite accepting of the help and explain the situation. They will help any of red team to the rockpools if asked.

Red

The rockpools are built up and indeed made so the water will reach a persons waist if they stand in them. The water is cold but not overly so. When the water shoots up anyone in them will shoot up also.

They will find themselves in a vortex of water, with anyone else who enters that rockpool. The water itself seems to be fighting them, tendrils of water reaching out of the whirlpool to try and drag them further into the chaos. It takes a whole lot of willpower to stay in the centre, the water can be fought with weapons, even with fists. They feel as if they are falling or flying, perhaps both. Surrounded by the pure chaos of the ocean.

Blue

Hopefully they spend the day helping with preparations because when night falls the monsters emerge from the sea. Terrifying twisted creatures. The villagers only have simple weapons but will tell them that fire is helpful against these water creatures.

Hold off the monsters and keep the people safe.

Purple

The doors close and the train flies off into the sky, flying over the island to the other side where it lands on a rocky bay, near tall towering cliffs.

"Purple team to doors." The doors open, allowing the purple team to disembark before flying off once again.

In the cliff face there is a large cave entrance, over the entrance there are symbols, translated by their SCA's. Clear mind, clear heart. Come those who seek to serve.

There are six people stood by the entrance, looking quite surprised at the new arrivals. One, a woman with silver hair recovers enough to speak first. "Ah. Void warriors. We are honoured by your help."

Once introductions are made the spiritual leaders will happily accept the escort and their adventure can begin.

Orange

They fly up and out across the ocean, a longer flight than before but eventually they descend and there is a slight juddering before they land, floating on the ocean.

"Orange team disembark, please use luggage or dressing carriage doors only."

They will step out onto an inflated platform that streches around the train. Down below are the depths of the water and their SCA's show them at the point of Bui. It is below them so all they need to is dive.

The dive takes a while, and depends on their swimming ability but hopefully with a bit of teamwork they arrive at the silent city of Bui.

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"Yes... The villagers said that fire was helpful."

And it was something to do, to be useful. He gathered up the fallen sticks. "Hopefully having fires will keep the monsters away from the village."

And if not, at least they would be able to see the monsters.

"Do you think we could wield the fire sticks?" It sounded like a dumb idea and out probably was. But if fire was a good way to keep them away, then wouldn't it be good to use as a weapon as well?

"Wield them?" He blinked at her sadly, "Like a weapon?"

His stomach twists at the thought of turning this fire from a prevention into a weapon. But he can ignore it, he knows there has to be fighting here, to stave off these monsters.

"I guess, but that could also be a little too dangerous too. So scratch that." She could just see it going horribly wrong in one way or another.

"So we need to take this wood to which area?" She asked thinking that she might as well help out while she can before it dawned on her. "Ah! I forgot to tell you my name. I'm Minako"

"Oh. Sorry I'm Taiki. It's nice to meet you." He had the last of the wood now, "Um there are campfires being built on the beach, so they just need to go there."

He found a smile, to thank her for her help.

"Okay. Campfires on the beach... The beach is... this way right?" She pointed in the direction she thought he had been going to. She had also sort of forgotten at the moment between bumping into the other and picking up the wood which way he had been going.

"Um yes, this way." It wasn't quite the way she had pointed but it was close and he definitely wasn't going to point out the slight error.

"Thank you." He was grateful for her help.

"You are welcome." She was always more than happy to help those in need. It was a plus that in her mind they were cute also.

But she started to walk, carrying some of the firewood with her. "Are these types of missions normal for Blue Team, if I may ask?"

"Um I think so. This is only my third mission." He had helped blue each time, even though he was in the red team. The red team tended to be very fight orientated and so Lord Gyousou sought tasks that were more suited to them.

To Taiki. At least. Lord Gyousou was a capable fighter, it was Taiki who held him back.

"Last time we were evacuating a city and the time before we were protecting a command station."

"Your third, huh... So you've been at this for longer than me." This was her very first mission and she honestly didn't know what she was mean to be expecting. She figured it was going to be a case of fighting, that much was somewhat obvious to her, she just couldn't figure out the extent.

"So it seems that this team does a lot of protecting."

"Yes." He nodded to both questions, "We have been here almost two months... I think..." Gone for a small part of that and time was hard to keep track of. But it had been Domino, then Egret and now Fiddlesticks.

"Yes I think protecting others is the main task of this team."

"Does each month start with a new letter of the alphabet or something...If the last three were Domino, Egret, and Fiddlesticks... Which are all really odd names for months."

She nodded slightly at least understanding fully what the task is now. That seemed like something she knew she could do.

"That's good. Protecting those who need help is really nice of us. Though have you ever had people who weren't as helpful?"

"Yes. I think so." It seemed to go in that order after all.

He shook his head, "I'm not sure. I don't know many people." Everyone he had met had seemed helpful. In fact of everyone he knew he was probably the least helpful because there was so much he couldn't do.

"So it seems like the train also picks helpful people." She was trying to think about that along with making sure she was helping out with the mission at least.

"I mean if they didn't then the missions wouldn't get done after all, I suppose. But question. Are you happy?"

Everyone he had met here was helpful. Despite being dragged from their homes, their own struggles and those they cared about they had banded together to help strangers on worlds unknown.

Her question though made him blink in surprise. Was he happy?

That is a question that is far too complicated. Right now he was scared and anxious and unable to sense Lord Gyousou. On the train in general he was happier than he had been in years because he was with his king. But in general? He was separated from Tai once more, unable to help his people. With no idea if he he could ever return there. Happiness has always been fleeting and rare. He had been happy once. When Lord Gyousou had been on the throne, when all seemed like it might just finally be working out.

But it hadn't worked out and frankly he's not sure if he even deserves to be happy. He has failed in everything he was meant to do, his people left to starve, freeze and die. Many are dead, if not quite by his hand then at least pretty close to it. Happiness isn't something he should be feeling.

He's not sure how to even start answering her so just blinks. "Um... Are you?"

She paused for a moment. She was pretty sure he didn't actually answer her question which made her question why. But then she figured would he actually answer that if she were to ask.

She was soon within her own head before she even realised after two minutes that maybe it was a good idea to actually say something and not just stare or anything.

"I will only answer if you give me a yes, no or maybe."

He stood still under her scruitany, he knew how to be silent and still until people's attention moved on to more interesting things. But hers didn't and not even his attempt to ask her a question in return had worked.

So he was left just looking at her in slightly surprise.

"I don't know. Maybe."

She had said maybe was an acceptable answer. So hopefully she would accept that.

It was acceptable since she did put maybe as an option after all. So with a nod she knew now she could at least answer back.

"I think I am a maybe to. Like... no in that I'm not happy because my friends aren't with me, but at the same time yes because I can do things I might not have been able to back home. Does that make sense?"

"Yes." He nodded, it made sense. She was bound to miss those she had left behind and yet here she was, in a place where she could help other worlds, other people.

"I'm sorry you've been brought here, away from your world. But I understand. There are things we can do here."

"It's fine... I'm at least going to try and find the positive in it. Though I don't get why I was brought here when I can contribute very little." Which was a lie outright. She knew what she was capable of but wasn't going to openly admit to such a thing.

But she could see some positive in it such as learning a few tricks that might be useful back home or better at battle or leadership. It was all possible things to learn that could prove useful to her duties back home.

"I understand." He nodded, "I'm pretty useless in all of this. I can't fight or do much at all and so I don't know why I was brought."

But his king had been brought here. So he couldn't feel so bad about being here. For all he knew Lord Gyousou was the reason he was here. Whatever organised these missions needed him and they had brought Taiki along due to the bond between them.

"I don't know why any of us are really brought. But we can always figure that out as we go." She was playing off the fact she was just a normal teenage girl who happened to be on blue team.

For a normal girl this type of thing, she wouldn't know her reason so she was just going to play with that.

"I know I might take my time figuring it out."

He nodded slowly, "I... We will figure it out." He had no idea how to do that.

"Still... for now helping out is probably best."

At least they got clear instructions on how to do that. Even if nothing else made sense.

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