WELCOME TO A SHITTY JAMJAR-ESQUE PSL STARTER

[uzuki]

Good morning! Have a shrill alarm followed by an almost robotic voice on repeat. "If you have seen the pilot of Omega Res Novae..." "Security Breach. Please enter the administrator passcode at a designated command terminal." is the bland phrase that is being repeated at 60 second intervals.

Sure, you're probably confused. After all, you've somehow been deposited in a sterile metal room, in an (albeit comfortable) completely plain bunk. But, there's little time to get your bearings. That alarm will probably drive you insane before long, and it isn't likely that you'll stop it on your own. It should compel you toward the door, which opens automatically into a metal hallway. On one side there are numbered doors identical to the one you've just exited. On the other? Windows! Because some benevolent creator wanted to let you immediately see that you are stuck on an archaic space station.

There is a metal ring (where you currently are), surrounding a clear dome that is accessible by two large corridors. There seems to be greenery inside of the dome. Not, that it matters, since those access points seem kind of far.

On the bright side though, there is a hangar somewhere along the ring! And it has one of those handy command terminals right outside of it too.

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[lightofhumanity]

And with that bit of information, the grin would just slip off chaos's face once more, since..while he believed Margulis (he had no reason to create a lie as big as this just to hide some embarrassing body and Ether (maybe) modifications), his explanation just opened up another can of worms. And there was still no fish in sight to catch them with.

"But who or what managed to pull you into that world? Do you think that they might be responsible for pulling us all here for some reason?"

[misplacedxsheath]

"She called herself Calice." His ears flick back again before returning upright, and his voice carries a tone of frustrated disdain. "From the evidence we were able to gather, she was an alternate version of one of that world's princesses. It's ruled by a rare breed of equine that has magic that puts even that of a goddess I know to shame. I've no doubt she, or any alicorn, could have accomplished this, but it doesn't fit with her motives. Most likely it's some other force or being...the multiverse seems to have enough of them with the capability to reach across dimensions."

[lightofhumanity]

Oddly enough, chaos was able to process everything Margulis said without any issues until he mentioned that he knew a Goddess and that the multiverse had more than a few beings who were capable of reaching across dimensions and pulling people from them.

Granted, it would be difficult to pull someone like him away from this universe, but..given the current situation, there was no knowing whether or not that was already the case. And if there were people who were capable of pulling himself, as well as Margulis and others, out for their own gain..the amount of carnage and destruction capable wouldn't be anything to sneeze at.

And the fact that Margulis had specifically said that he knew a Goddess left a pit in his stomach. Sure, there were objects in the universe that bore the title of a Relic From God, and Wilhelm enjoyed using titles like that for his own reasons, but..God was, more or less, a Human construct. Something that didn't truly exist in the universe he existed in. So..while another universe might run on completely different rules that allowed such things, it still..made him feel a bit uneasy as he replied, crossing his arms as he spoke.

"I simply hope that this being isn't interested in destruction for destruction's sake."

One would have to pardon chaos if he seemed a bit older as he said that, hoping that this being knew not to mess with nuclear reactors too as he gestured for Margulis to follow him, so that they could both walk together and search the rooms along the hallway. With two people looking, the higher the chance of actually finding some information or a password.

"If you don't mind my asking, what were Calice's motives, if you were able to uncover them? And what happened to the original version of that Princess?"

..Why did he get a sinking feeling that she was dead or worse?

[misplacedxsheath]

Three years ago, he would've regarded chaos' invitation to follow with suspicion. These days, the distinction between Kukai Foundation and U-TIC meant less to him. If one of Uzuki's friends was inclined toward civility with a former enemy, he wasn't going to be the one to ruin it with hostility.

"Original isn't the term I would use. We were dealing with parallel versions of that world intersecting due to Calice's meddling, and she very much was the native version to the first world she subsumed."

Out of habit, he reached with telekinesis to open the nearest door. A glowing red aura surrounded his horn and a matching light edges the door to slide it open.

"She was corrupted by an obsession with information. She intended to absorb all populated worlds into her own being, so as to know everything...and had already done so to her own world of origin. To that end, she was gathering others from dimensions vastly different from her own in order to observe us before targeting our homes."

The door slid shut on the empty room, a little heavier than necessary. He doubted he needed to explain to chaos why that idea made him angry.