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Post by Echo on Oct 18, 2014 23:19:03 GMT
There was a strange kind of scuffling, scratchy, somehow confused sound close by. Katara made everyone stop dead in their tracks to listen. Neither Meghan nor DG could hear anything, but Katara was adamant there was something nearby. They were still in the city, so feeling out with the plant life was out of the question for DG, which irritated her. "This way" Katara whispered, motioning for them to follow her. She led the way down a long dark side passage, along the next street a little way and then down an alleyway, following her ears all the while. Meghan and DG exchanged a couple of skeptical glances, but followed regardless. They were very glad they had when she motioned to stop and pointed silently a little way down the next road. There it was. Experiment Six. Their ticket home. They glanced around to make sure there was nobody watching and, convinced the coast was clear, stepped out into the road. "Hello?" DG said softly. Experiment Six span around to face them, and it was like nothing they'd ever seen. Hideous and terrifying and amazing all at the same time. While none of them could condone the methods of bringing it into the multiverse, equally none of them could deny that it was incredible. These random humans had not only managed to create true sentient life, they'd created a creature with the ability to move between worlds. It had to have been a mistake, surely. This world wasn't even aware of other worlds. Brilliant! Genius! ...Awful... Experiment Six began trying to form words, its confused mind and awkward mouth trying to work together to get across its message. "You... Help... Me...?" "Yes" DG nodded, and the others followed suit "we're here to help you." "We've been looking everywhere for you" Katara added. "We're friends" Meghan said with a smile. "Friends...?" It asked, uncertain. They all nodded. "Just come with us and we'll take you somewhere safe." Katara said cautiously, but something about that had upset it. It had begun to glow white. "Come... With... You?" There was a scared look in the poor creature's eyes. "Safe" DG said hurriedly "somewhere safe" but it didn't seem reassured. "Oh no you don't" Meghan muttered, racing towards it as the white glow grew larger and brighter. "No!" DG and Katara both shouted, but before they could stop her she leapt onto the creature's back and a fraction of a second later both she and it had disappeared, the portal with them. Katara cursed loudly in her native tongue and DG bit her lip to avoid doing the same. "Now we've got a problem." She sighed.
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Post by Echo on Oct 18, 2014 23:30:44 GMT
"Explain!" Lexi commanded angrily at the X-Transceiver on her wrist. Valerie hissed at her to be quiet, but she ignored her. Katara gave a quick, yet detailed, account of what had happened when they'd met Experiment Six and then fell silent as the grave. She potentially shouldn't have started with 'the creature's gone again', but how else was she going to begin that conversion? "Valerie, send a message to HQ. Experiment Six has jumped, and the kid's gone with it." Valerie did as instructed, but kept one eye firmly on Experiment Four. Now that they'd found the thing she wasn't about to let it get away.
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Post by Echo on Oct 18, 2014 23:46:02 GMT
"Uh-oh..." Emilie whispered to herself. Being tuned so carefully into Lexi's and Valerie's minds, and not having gone too far from them, she could still hear them. It was faint and a little fuzzy, like a phone call with a bad connection, but she got the basic idea. "What?" Jessica asked, ducking down behind the car again as a postbox flew overhead. Experiment Ten was definitely not happy with them. "Six has disappeared again." This got Jessica's full attention. "Do we know where to?" Emilie shook her head. "But one of the Questers jumped the portal and disappeared too." Jessica considered what to do for a moment and then looked at the girl in front of her. She was about to explain her idea when Emilie said "On three?" And she remembered the girl's abilities. So she nodded and counted. "One... Two... Three!" Both of them burst out from behind the car and hurled themselves at the creature, who tried to flip a motorcycle at them, but Emilie sent it skidding away. The pair jumped and grabbed hold of the creature anywhere they could -Emilie got an ear and poor Jessica caught hold of its stingray tail- and Jessica slammed her palm onto the button on her mini portal device. There was a flash of white light and all three disappeared.
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Post by Echo on Oct 19, 2014 0:10:41 GMT
In a flash three somewhat dazed figures appeared in the portal room. Emilie and Jessica let go of the hippo-stingray thing, wobbled and steadied themselves. Experiment Ten was too dazed even to do that much. It just swayed lazily, like grass in a light breeze, before toppling over with a thud that shook the entire room and half the corridor outside. The official greeted them nervously. "Welcome back..." "Ten." Emilie said by way of an explanation, indicating the poor confused creature struggling to right itself in the middle of the room. The official motioned, a golem moved, Experiment Ten was taken away to join the others. "Sergeant Reyes informs us that the leader has teleported again." The official said, though it came as no surprise to the pair trying to catch their breaths. "Location?" Jessica asked. "Unknown." The official admitted. "We're trying to track down Meghan, the Quester who went with it, but it takes time." "The copycat?" Emilie asked. "You think she'll be able to copy its ability and bring it here?" "That's the theory. Failing that, we hope she'll be able to come here and tell us where it went." "It doesn't do it on purpose" Emilie tried to explain "it just sort of happens. It was asking for help when it left us, and it looked terrified." "Regardless, we can't have it on the loose. It has an uncontrolled ability and is perfectly capable of causing serious harm or murder." "I don't blame it." Jessica muttered. The official pretended not to hear her.
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Post by Echo on Oct 19, 2014 0:16:02 GMT
"What in all of creation is that?!" Ani was indicating the golem coming towards them carrying a large hippo-stingray kind of creature, which it deposited with the others before heading back to the portal room. Chiyo and Xani examined it as well as they could from behind the glass, but neither one could answer the question. They both shook their heads. "Good to know, thanks."
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Post by Echo on Oct 19, 2014 21:23:54 GMT
Meghan fell to her knees, half terrified she'd gone blind. All she could see was white, and a strange greyish shape also on what appeared to be its knees. She coughed and struggled to breathe, feeling as though all the air had been drawn out of her by some kind of vacuum. She staggered to her feet as her vision cleared. She and the greyish shape, which turned out rather obviously to be Experiment Six, were standing in the middle of a wide expanse of concrete closed in on all sides by a huge metal chainlink fence, beyond which was desert sand as far as the eye could see. There was one building in a corner that looked about as big as the average garden shed and had been painted a sandy yellow, though the paint was flaking off revealing the grey concrete underneath. Neither one of them took in most of this, however, as they both very quickly realised they were surrounded by worse than a fence. They were surrounded by people. Strange, sandy yellow, rock-skinned people.
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Post by Echo on Oct 20, 2014 1:49:34 GMT
"Well?" Lexi asked "Now what?" She had a rope around Experiment Four's neck and was standing beside it, holding the rope like a lead on a dog. Except that Experiment Four was definitely not a dog. Valerie, eyes glazed over, signaled for quiet and read the message scrolling across them. "We continue. They will track it down. Emilie and Jessica have captured Experiment Ten and are at HQ. They will go after Experiment Six. One, Eight and Eleven are ours to collect. The others are to return to the Hub." She read it aloud for Lexi to hear and then mentally returned to the world. Lexi nodded and called Katara to explain.
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Post by Echo on Oct 20, 2014 1:56:02 GMT
DG and Katara exited the portal at HQ. The official was there to greet them and explain that they should remain on active standby, but were essentially dismissed. Both slouched off towards the idea of bed. They had to stay around the Hub, but nobody had said they couldn't sleep. It had been a very, very long day.
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Post by Echo on Oct 22, 2014 2:38:26 GMT
Meghan and Six were marched angrily into the building, which led to a steep set of stairs that plunged into the darkness underground. The staircase and adjoining passage were concrete, with not a single door puncturing the smooth grey walls. Meghan walked close by Experiment Six, one hand placed reassuringly on its shoulder. She hoped it helped. She hoped Six could understand that she didn't know what was happening either, but she would keep it as safe as she could. She hoped someone from HQ would turn up soon...
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Post by Echo on Oct 22, 2014 3:09:04 GMT
By the next morning DG and Katara had been summoned to a meeting room, along with Emilie and Jessica. Three of the four were present. Jessica was still missing, but the official didn't seem concerned at all. "I need someone to deal with our human friends, now that they've had a night to get to grips with what has happened." He announced. "Don't tell me," Katara groaned "standby's over." "At least we got a few hours sleep." DG sighed. "Speak for yourself." Katara muttered "I got less than two." "Exaggeration." Emilie declared from the back of the room. Katara rolled her eyes, but Emilie merely smiled innocently at her and no more was said about it. They were friends really. "Off you go then." The official said, ushering DG and Katara to the door. "What do you want us to do with them?" DG asked, vaguely annoyed. "Deal with them, nobody cares how." DG and Katara exchanged a worried glance and left, shutting the door behind them.
A blonde woman very nearly crashed into them as she headed for the door. "Sorry," she said apologetically "I'm late, I think." "Jessica? Jessica Rose?" The blonde nodded. "DG, and this is Katara." "You're on this one too, then?" Jessica asked. "In a sense." Katara replied. "We're dealing with the humans." "Oh... I see..." Awkward looks were exchanged between the three before Jessica reminded them she was late and entered the meeting room. "What?" Katara asked. "What did I say?" "She's human." DG explained. "Completely?" "Completely." Katara looked apologetically at the door and the pair left to deal with the white coats.
"Any word?" Jessica asked as she closed the door. Emilie shook her head. "Unfortunately, we have as yet been unable to find Experiment Six, or Meghan." The official sighed. "Then why are we here?" "Standby." Emilie said, clearly bored out of her mind. Jessica sighed and sat down.
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