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The first few days are taken up with solving the problems in the various sectors, all the while getting closer to their goal. The Great-Winter, Great-Summer, Great-Spring and Great Autumn.

On Day 9 of the month of Jelly they will see on their map a clear indicator of where to go. As they draw near it will be obvious what they are looking for.

The Overseers

In the centre of each of the sectors there is a large metal tube, hundreds of pipes lead from it, spanning up to the ceiling above and down below, creating a field of pipes and tubes to clamber over and crawl under to reach the central tube. On the tube itself there is a panel, wrapping around it in a circle. The SCA's of the Voidtrecker show an exclamation mark, if they click on them they will see the message.

Reach the panel, enter the inner systems and give your aid.

As Voidtreckers step towards the tubes it will seem as if the world shifts around them. Instead of metal and wire they will see trees. The Great-Spring is a tree in blossom, pink leaves spreading up across the canopy. Great-Summer has strong green leaves, Great_Autumns leaves are brown and falling and Great-Winter has no leaves at all.

The panel is still there, the only part of the scene that doesn't look organic. As the Voidtreckers move towards their goal the tree begins to move, branches fighting against those trying to get through the roots. The aim seems to be to push intruders away, going as far as flinging them back with higher branches.

The branches aren't the only security measures in place. As they push forwards they will find creatures coming at them from the trees.

Strangely the creatures look like creatures from their own worlds, any creature they would expect to see in a tree. Regardless of species they attack with claws and with lazers from their eyes. They don't move far from the branches, but try and stop invaders from getting close to the trunk.

For those that get through they will find that as they draw close to the 'trunk' the attacks stop, as if they have reached an eye of a storm.

Going Further

The panel is a simple glowing screen, there are no instructions but their SCA's will beep softly and if they press their SCA to the panel they will find everything vanishes, the trees, branches and weird animals.

Or perhaps it is they themselves that vanish as they find themselves in a large white room, everyone is together here. No matter what sector they had travelled through and which overseer they entered through.

There are four tubes filled with liquid, pink, green, orange and white towering over them.

"Our systems have been compromised." The four voices ring out. "Heal what has been harmed, destroy what should not be here. Find the source and purge it from our world."

The overseers and the room vanish and the voidtreckers find themselves in a forest, a forest that is slowly being choaked by red sickly vines.

The Voidtreckers themselves will find themselves looking different, almost like the hard-light holograms of the Helpmates though they certainly feel like themselves. They are carrying a sturdy stick but nothing else and depending how imaginative they are will quickly find they can alter their appearance to fit their wishes.

Heal and Destroy

The voidtreckers will find themselves drawn towards the vines, if they touch them they will be able to soothe, a glowing blue light from their hands that runs down the vine before it fades away, freeing the trees that it held in its chokehold.

There are many pathways, many vines and it will be a long task to clear it all. It is not long also before the first threats find them. Threats that look like mongeese, small creatures that will lunge at them, teeth bared and claws out.

Luckily the Voidtreckers will quickly learn the ability to soothe is not the only power gifted to them.

On the Outside

For anyone who does not enter through the panel it will seem like their fellow Voidtreckers have entered a deep trance. The area they are sat around the tree is calm, no threats enter there. But outside that area there are still threats, the branches attack, the animals attack and sometimes Helpmates try to evict those they see from the area, claiming it 'restricted.'

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Oh the other teams were here too! Now she looks around. That's good at least. She nods at Tidus and wrinkles her nose in irritation.

"If they do be wanting help they should be asking clearly. No just saying things that do no even be making sense."

And where were their other weapons and why did they have sticks now? She studied hers with a sigh.

"Well those look like bad news." He uses his stick to point out the vines that aren't all that hard to spot tangling up around the trees around them. A stark red that didn't quite match right with the world it was encroaching on.

"But the best we get are these to deal with 'em?" He lifts the stick up straight then, a tut leaving him. "Don't know how safe they're gonna be to tear at if we grab them, but..."

Should he do it anyway? Someone should test it, right?

"I do be wondering if we do be being world savers or gardeners." This was the second world in a row they'd had to deal with annoying plantlife.

For a girl who had spent her whole life in a city until she had been kidnapped by a train this was an annoyance.

She poked the vine with her stick. "They could have at least have been giving us knives."

They would probably need to use their hands but she wasn't sure... They looked weird, those red vines.

"Right? It's like everyone in space wants your help, but giving you a weapon? Nahhh."

He's moving as he complains though, facing himself towards the vine that's being given their attention. There's something about them... and it shifts some as he pokes it with his own stick, but the thing doesn't look like it'll be much good at all.

Tidus takes a breath, pushes out his hesitation and sits the wood on the side of the tree trunk. "I'll see what happens if we touch it." He looks to B.

"Knock me down if I start getting zapped?"

She wrinkled her nose but nodded. Better him than her, if he wants to go around poking weird vines. On the one hand, he's a priest and she should protect him but on the other hand, he's a priest and had magic and can probably deal with weird vines better than she can.

"I will be being." She shifted her stick in her hand, he won't let him be zapped for long.

She watched him carefully as he moved towards them, ready.

Nothing to do now but commit and touch the possibly painful vine-y thing! A voice in his head tells him that this is probably (more like totally) a bad idea, but there's something about the vines, something about the stick that doesn't exactly make sense. So Tidus ignores what may be sense and reason and reaches out with just one hand, quick to grab, planning to tug it out and yank with him-

And it does come out some way, along with a glowing that's- coming from the vine? No, not there, but it stops as he drops it, startled. The blue drinking into the deep red and disappearing amongst it, but leaving something of a lighter colour where his hand had be.

Tidus twists it to look at it by the palm, then back at the vine.

"Did you be using a spell?"

She can't remember if he is a healer. He mostly threw lots of light around though she was sure he could do other things as well and healing might be one of them, just like priestess Lightning.

But something had definitely happened, the red had gone all blue for a moment.

She is still ready with that stick, in case this turns bad for Tidus.

"Wasn't me!" Tidus answers with a shake of his head. "I didn't feel anything either. It was a lil' funny, but.."

But he couldn't say it hurt him. He was already going back in again, grabbing it a second time - using both hands now, and the glow is stronger, the blue running through it. With a few seconds, the vine unwraps itself from the tree and out of Tidus's hands, disappearing out to somewhere.

"That was-?"

--Zwwip! A blast of red interrupts Tidus as it comes from the tree behind them, aimed near to his shoulder but just missing actual impact. The creature is coming in for another chance, two red eyes gleaming red as more shots ring out.

Tidus ducks, and he goes to grab the stick he has for a weapon - but B may have more time to act than him!

It wasn't him? But then... It looked like it was him as he grabbed it again and the blue light moved through the vine, making the vine retreat. She frowned at it and then her eyes flicked to the side as something shot at him.

She lept forward, stick in hand. She has no idea what this creature is, but she swings her stick at it anyways, baring her teeth as it leaps towards her.

The creature hits the stick, knocked down to the ground, but not for so as it scrambles back onto its feet. Red eyes glow bright as it did before, getting ready to fire a shot at Little One if she doesn't swing again quick!

~~don't mind tidus there's no room for him here so just let me npc for you~~

She does swing again, if this was anything like the stupid tree rats from before then it would be able to shoot them with its eyes. That was just unfair!

Especially since now she didn't have a gun of her own, only a stick.

But a stick is better than anything so she swings it round, up and down at the mongoose.

The stick comes down, and for its shape and size, it stops the attack that threatened to begin - a good few whacks enough to put the creature out of commission. Tidus has been keeping his eyes open around them, but once the mongoose is down and out--

"There's no more - for now. Geez, guess we gotta watch out for the rodent life even in here." Couldn't be too easy, could it? Regardless, Tidus isn't dismayed. "No problem - better than those stupid things we had to fight on the sand planet."

But now, what should they do about those vines? Tidus can spot a few on the trees from where they are. And unlike the animals, they weren't exactly doing anything...

"Do no even be reminding me of that stupid place." She grumbles, but she grins at him as well, nudging the mongoose out of the way. Stupid critter.

"Do you be thinking the blue did be helping the trees?"

It had made the vines vanish, surely that was a good thing.

Does touching the vines do any good? There's still more around, still more trees for them to be tangled up in, and Tidus walks over to another, places his hand on it to watch the same result occur. Blue oozing into the plant until the red colouring is no more, and it slips out from under Tidus's lax grip.

He sighs, looking back at B. A small smile playing on his face.

"You know what? I don't have a clue what it's doing. But knowing our luck? I bet we have to do it!"

He sounds resigned, if with some amusement over this dumb situation. It was just their luck, wasn't it?

"Probably. I did be telling you, word did be getting out that we do be being expert gardeners."

That would be every mission from now on, just jungles, overgrown woodlands and weeds to deal with. She sighed dramatically.

She threw a fireball at another mongoose.

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