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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2022-10-17 04:55 am

Fighting Headstrong in our Final Hour:Conclusion

Music plays, voices sing, barriers form, attacks spring from every direction as the voidtreckers make their final stand against the tendrils of the Void.

Voices of defiance rise up. Despite the despair projecting into them, they will not give up, they will not give in and fade from this void. Their words join their attacks as their blasts are concentrated towards the large creature made of void.

The world explodes, colours blinding them for a moment and it feels they are falling, but not down. Not to that endless nothing that lies off the platform, but up, through the void.

They are still connected and they can draw strength from each other as they tumble, through and through before landing with a crash.


A BATTLE WON




Once More for Old Time Sake
It is probably a familiar feeling, as their senses come back to them. The whole train, crammed and sprawled in the luggage carriage, a tangle of limbs.

Injured perhaps but all accounted for, even if it might take a little while to ascertain that in the chaos. Over the speakers comes a very familiar voice, that of the Voidtrecker Express.

Thank you, my Voidtreckers.



A Heroes Return The train returns them to the Voidbase, it is not a very long journey. The train is very cramped, the Voidtreckers, the Voidtreckers of old, brought through to the present and the scientists who act now as medics and try and encourage everyone to rest.

They don't push too hard, they have known the Voidtreckers for a few months now, they know how stubborn they are.

They enter the voidbase, waiting as usual until it is safe to open the doors. More scientists are waiting there, the atmosphere one of excitement and awe. Anan paces worriedly and the moment the doors open she rushes over, Chiff beeping anxiously as they check among the Voidtreckers, not bothering to hide the worry on their face.

The head scientist Till is there as well and she draws everyone's attention for a moment.

"Congratulations Voidtreckers and our greatest thanks. I know you must be exhausted and that... something happened there at the end." She doesn't seem like she knows what that is, but she is assuming it was bad. "The mission was a success, the void rift has been closed, the paradox has been repaired and the shapes imprisoned on Chaos' world. We have scientists there to ascertain they cannot escape and to aid Chaos in any way they need." Her voice was slightly wry, it seemed Chaos had been very... vocal with their demands.

"Voidtrecker Express." Her eyes move, from the people to the train itself. "On behalf of the ministry. We are deeply sorry for all that you have gone through. We remember now. Your service to the void has been ever strong." Near the doors of the train stood the Voidtreckers of old, looking confused still and exhausted.

"We encourage you all to rest, if anyone needs medical aid please report to the infirmary. If anyone needs to keep busy we are expecting a large influx of refugees, from those who were not on system #1015 when it was destroyed."

Those who had once been wiped out by time itself, written back into the void. "There are many rooms to prepare."



Work to Be Done No one is forced to work. But for those who need to do something there is a lot of work to be done in the civilian quarters, rooms to be prepared, beds to be made, clothes and food to be ready to be distributed.

Ministry workers have been sent out to gather anyone registered to system #1015 who now found themselves with no where to go. The offer was given to them as it was to those of Osiga, they could be tethered to this base. Some would be tethered and go off travelling again, others remained, seeking comfort with others.

There is other work as well, for those wanting to stay in the scientist quarter of the void base. Now that the immediate problems of world eating shapes has been dealt with the scientists are working round the clock to figure out how to finally free the new Voidtreckers from their service to the train. Anyone who wishes to help with the experiments can do.

Of course for those that do not wish to work there are all the usual enemities of the Void Base to enjoy.


A Feast

A few days after their return it is announced there will be a feast day, for the whole void base. The suggestion came from the previous Voidtreckers and those of system #1015. A wish to thank those who had saved them, to mourn their loss and look to the future.

The base is a flurry of preparation. Truthfully there are a number of feasts, the void base had no space large enough to hold everyone on it. But the Voidtreckers are invited to feast with the ministry, the scientists and the previous Voidtreckers.

It is an occasion of both sadness and joy, music plays and those guests who had talent (and some who didn't) were encouraged to play or sing. Stories were told, the food was plentiful and the drink similarly so- there were even fancy non alcoholic drinks for the children and non-drinkers, with flavours that exploded in the mouth.

A time to celebrate and remember. A time to dance, sing, tell a story of heroics or just sit quietly with friends and be glad that they had survived.

[personal profile] goingthroughaphase 2022-11-10 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
She laughs softly, but to be honest she's glad for the reassurance. Not so much because of the help he's offering, although she does certainly appreciate that too. But just thinking that there's still a chance that they could see each other afterwards really help prepare for what might be coming ahead.

Still, she pauses for a moment as she glances towards where most of the crowd is. "...what do you think is gonna happen now?"
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-11-10 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I dunno. I guess what we want to."

Which is an odd thing to think. He wants to make sure his other boy made it home. He wants to rescue his girls (maybe Raven or Kyoko would like going to a school like Kitty's or Idia's, even if they're not technically from those worlds). He wants to make sure Nell keeps her land.

He's got a laundry list.

"Think your school might be interested in some non-mutants?"

[personal profile] goingthroughaphase 2022-11-12 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
The question is a bit unexpected, but Kitty considers it for a moment. "Well, we haven't really done it before." Then she smiles. "But I'll pull a few strings and see what I can do."

Pausing for another moment, she then adds, "You're...You're gonna be staying on the train, yeah?"
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[personal profile] yondu 2022-11-12 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Not on the train if I can help it. I been talkin' to Anan about findin' some other work." He's not made for the train life. But he's gotta figure out how to set out on his own. He helped do some shit here, maybe that can land him in his own ship eventually.

"I definitely ain't gonna give up searchin' for those girls. Kyoko and Raven mean the world to me."
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[personal profile] goingthroughaphase 2022-12-04 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
She isn't entirely surprised that he doesn't want to stay on the train, but she's glad that he'll still be around in the Void at least. She doesn't think he can really go back to his world, after all, but there's also the hope that maybe he could still visit her.

But hearing that he'll be out searching in the Void has her thinking. "If...If you're going to be out there searching...would you mind doing something for me?"