middleofsomewhere | So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Not that any such 'help' amounted to much; hugs and bleeding-heart speeches are hardly my forte."

Speaking specifically of the battle and not the people he worked on evacuating or any of the creatures he slew.

Y'all are just lucky he didn't blow the place out from under them just to spite the bastard.

"They're not exactly mine either. That's why, when I realized they were having an effect, I started focusing on other things. So that those who are good at them, could focus on that." Said with some forced patience; Freeza was smarter than this, wasn't he?

This has nothing to do with smarts and everything to do with bowel control after a sweetness overload, thank you. But he reasons that out well, and Freeza nods, immediately taking his meaning. "Delegating duties unfit for you to those that are." Said as though he is making note, perhaps mentally tying these ideas to something unseen.

"Learning how to be effective as part of a group." That's how Trunks phrases it. "And we don't always have our powers in these battles, so being adaptable is good." Then he's stifling a yawn, before taking a drink. "This is like...the 3rd mission I've been in where most everyone is exhausted. Some worse than others."

"I will adjust." He is actually just more frustrated at how off the cuff everything was, especially when he has been very focused on having no mistakes starting out. "I was merely expecting something very differently structured." Or structured at all.

"It often depends on what happens. Usually it is a bit more organized. We have preparation time and warning, for one."

"...Then, I will see it as something to shake us up before the real work begins," he offers. "I simply thought there would be less of...well, a good deal of that. Here."

"You've been kidnapped by a train with no real explanation other than what others have been able to find out. Trust me, we only look organized." Trunks chided gently.

"...Yes. Kidnapped." Freeza decided early on that it was probably not a good idea to tell too many people that his presence here is a little less...spontaneous, than others. "My last conveyance was less so, but more and more, I am seeing similarities."

"So what're the similarities?" Trunks was curious now. Honestly he'd been kind of surprised at how well Freeza had adapted so far. Glad of it, just surprised.

"Where to begin? Traveling through the space between universes by apparently very Earth-based vehicles. The disappearances. An unseen and possibly omnipotent force driving the ship. ...Now, being forcibly made into different people." Which, no that is not at all new. "A suspiciously large proliferation of Earthlings and earth-centered events, food, and so forth -- not as bad here, but not unfamiliar."

Trunks felt his eyes widen, and let out a little nervous laugh. "The idea that there're more things out there like this isn't exactly comforting."

"To be frank, I come from the opposite end of that; the ship I was on served a specific purpose and the only other we encountered seemed built to do the exact opposite." He shrugs a little. "I would say that this place is a relief, but previous experience tells me that if this train aims to mend broken things in the multiverse, then there is at least one train out there built to break them instead." Hence his hesitation to help the other Voidtreckers back in that world.

So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

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