Walking Away From Pagoda

"Well, I know how to make an improvised bandage," notes Lune to Ben as she's walking away from the pagoda with the others. "Does that count?"

Lune looks over at Morty, who's clearly lagging behind the others. Was it because of an injury? She nervously says, "Don't worry... I, um, know what I'm doing."

She tears off a portion of her jeans and attempts to slowly wrap the torn jean section around Morty's sore ankle. However, she doesn't really have any experience applying bandages and might do a sloppy job as a result.

edited 1st Dec '15 12:31:53 AM by josh6243

Making the trip back to the library, Gon stopped to pick up all the gold coins he can see and pocket them before he marched on.

I'm tired. I need to stop for a meal and maybe a change of clothes.

The assassin sighed and wondered if he can break into some store that he can find to change clothes.

"This unit... is powered by a spinally-mounted... electrochemical battery. Data storage is also critically... critically damaged. This unit's... storage is now... volatile. Given time... data will be lost... for no reason."

It would quickly become horrifyingly apparent that there really was no way to repair Legion. The geth was just too advanced - and too cripplingly hurt - to fix. Rick was right - it was scrap. Unless Rex and Viktor could pull a miracle...

Agarth followed Plague Knight and asked. "What do you think the city will change into tomorrow? Because it might change into a place with a lot of advance machinery, or a place filled with giant monsters. So i think we should prepare for the worst if the days get harder, because the only one who knows what is going to happen tomorrow is the man controlling this city. So next time we have to fight something it might be a literal army."

"I have no idea, but I hope it involves person-sized disease carrying bacteria!" Plague Knight said to Agarth. "Now that would be a glorious biological study! In all seriousness though, I have already planned on that. the pursuit of SCIENCE is always wrought with a certain degree of danger, and one must always be prepared for the worst!"

Current Form: Model ZX -> Human

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It didn't take long to get to library, oddly, but Ashe really couldn't care less. Once inside, there was a flash as her body temporarily glowed white then reverting back to her normal self, with Model A floating near her head. Then she just promptly sat down on a seat. She didn't pay attention to where exactly, but she figured it was near the stairs. She was glad that the Reploid enhancements meant she didn't have to eat as often, she didn't really know what to ask for from the librarian.

Library Lobby

"Okay!" Mary exclaimed with a nod. "Then we'll stay here and read! We can go outside tomorrow."

With that, she turned around and walked away from the door and towards the librarian's desk with enthusiasm, but making sure that Sadness could keep up with her.

"I'm sure the librarian lady can help find books for us," the fabricated girl stated. "What do you want to read?"

Morty winced as Lune bandaged his sprained ankle. "ow-nghUh... thanks," he stammered after a few seconds. Expeimentally, he tried to wiggle his foot; then tapped the damaged appendage against the ground as gingerly as he could before hobbling after the rest of the group.

"I mean... I'm not a wimp, you know!"" he added after a few seconds, a little defensively. "Just because, I can't, I can't, tur-turn into crazy stuff or use sup-superpowers, doesn't mean I can- I can't fight things too."

Undyne grinned and grabbed the bowl. Tilting into her mouth, she began greedily started slurping up the spaghetti, forgoing utensils altogether. She chomped up a meatball, savoring the taste.

"Man, I didn't realize how hungry I was." Undyne said through a mouthful of food. "Hey, Ashe, you should get the librarian to make food for you too. This stuff's better than Papyrus' and my cooking!"

Current Form: Human

Library

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"Like...what?" she said to Undyne. "It's not like there's anything I want to eat."

Now that she thought about it, as long as it wasn't digusting, and she'd be fine with the food. She just didn't feel like asking when she didn't have anything in mind.

Sadness plodded after Mary. She was relieved that the girl wouldn't make them go outside just yet.

"O-oh, I don't know," Sadness mumbled in answer, though she was thinking about Botany, Volume CDCMLXVXVXVXVXIII. "I just like reading, I guess. There are lots of books here. At my old ho - "

She stopped suddenly. How had they not noticed? As they walked, more humans(?) had entered the library. In fact, they were all over the place. Two ladies by the sofa, one of them eating a plate of food; three teenagers (or kids?), one with a limp...heck, even the pompadour'd person from earlier was there. Feeling surrounded, Sadness froze on her way to Miss Tairee like a deer in the headlights.

"Mary?!" Sadness whispered urgently. "We're - we're not alone!"

At last, Ben reached the library, but as soon as he stepped in, his stomach roared. He had gotten so caught up in the shenanigans of the day that he had forgotten all about his appetite! And now it was reminding him in the most voracious way. He went up to the desk and pulled his head over.

"Miss Tairee, are there any pizza places in this city?" He blinked, thinking for a moment. "Wait... uh, I just realized, I don't have any money..." he sighed. His eye then caught a couple of new arrivals in the library, one of which looked like a small blue person. Was she an alien too? He would do introductions but he was way too hungry right now. He glanced over at Undyne, who was devouring a plate of spaghetti. He groaned.

"Undyne, where'd you get that?!" he whined.

edited 2nd Dec '15 8:08:18 AM by AllHailThrall

As Lune was walking to the library, she looked back at Morty. From the way he was talking, he seemed like he went on plenty of adventures and fought many adversaries as a result.

"Hmm... What kind of foes did you have to fight," asked Lune as she was about to arrive at the library. "How dangerous were they in comparison to that giant plant we fought back there?"

Rick's lab

With difficulty, Legion told Rex and Viktor that he was powered by an electrochemical battery. And that it was "spinally-mounted". Whatever that meant.

"I don't know where we can find something like that."

A terryfying thought crossed Rex mind: Legion was going to die if the didn't find something to power him with—his Blast Caster just wasn't made for the job—and, from the looks of it, they didn't have any more options left.

These were probably Legion's last moments before death.

"Rex."

Legion turned its head to Rex. It did not seem capable of sight, yet it still somehow knew where he was. And somehow, from the tone of its voice, it knew what Rex knew.

"This unit... has a soul." It let that fact linger.

"Miss Tairee... stated that we... come back. If I return... I will broadcast... on a common radio frequency." The geth's lights glowed brighter and brighter. "Find me."

edited 2nd Dec '15 4:06:53 PM by SpartyMcFly

Rick's lab

"Wait, what? What do you mean you will come back?"

Rex turned to Viktor and asked "Do you have any idea what he's talking about?"

Gon made it back safely with his loot in tow.

Made it back. Did the others make it back too?

"So did anyone make it back?"

For now, the assassin felt a bit tired from running around the forest to take out that giant bug he just saw.

"And maybe I need a shower and a change of clothes."

"From the magic lady that can type things into existence." Undyne said, nodding her head towards Miss Tairee. "Woulda made it myself, but I didn't feel like searching through the jungle for a grocery store. Or a kitchen."

She began scarfing down her spaghetti again, slurping it loudly and obnoxiously.

"Uh... all my adventures, you mean? I mean... it's a crazy and cha-chaotic universe out there, you know," said Morty, tapping his fingers together while trying to recall just how many monsters, criminals, lawmen, aliens, and people Rick just didn't like would qualify as 'enemies'. "Uh, well... there were those evil versions of me and Rick, for one," he said. "That was a real wil- a re-real hectic experience, you know?" He kept track on his fingers as he tried to recount some of his other adventures, willing or unwilling.

"There were the, the, the... Cromulons. They were like, uh, these ugly, planet-sized heads, and they took the whole earth hostage and made us compete, in a reality show," he said after a few more seconds. "And then there was that time when memory parasites took over our house, uh, and nobody could figure out who was real and who, uh, who wasn't real..." Another pause. "Oh, and then the time that Rick tried to turn himself into a high school student by cloning himself, but Tiny Rick had its own personality, and it tried to ki-to kill Old Rick. And then there was that alien guy... uh... Ze-Zeep... who lives in Rick's car battery... and that guy who lived in Rick's theme park he built inside a homeless... guy." Morty trailed off, clearly unsure if any of these were really comparable to the menace that they had just faced down.

"I mean... none of them were plants, right?" he finished. "So, uh, I dunno."

edited 2nd Dec '15 8:41:43 PM by Locoman

Ben stared at the plate of spaghetti hungrily, then glanced outside and then back at Miss Tairee, his stomach growling loudly. To distract himself from his hunger, he glanced over at Morty and began to listen to him talk. Hearing Morty talk about the adventures that he and his grandfather would go on reminded him of his own grandfather.

"Y'know, Morty, I go on adventures with my grandpa too," he explained. "Did I tell you about how I found the Omnitrix? He took me and my cousin Gwen out on a road trip for the summer. I thought it was gonna be horrible, cause Gwen's a massive dweeb and Grandpa always makes really weird food. But we were at Yellowstone National Park and the Omnitrix fell from the sky! Bam! I went to check it out, and the thing latched onto my wrist! Suddenly I'm on fire! Literally! But then we managed to stop some evil robots from killing us, and I saved the day!"

He grinned, putting his hands behind his head. "And that was the day I became the hero I am today," he explained. Then he frowned. "But unless I manage to get back to my world soon, Grandpa and Gwen are gonna be in real trouble. My world's full of danger. Including my biggest enemy... Vilgax. He wants the Omnitrix. But I'm not gonna let him have it!"

Library

"Hmm? Oh, you mean them?" Mary asked, pointing at the slowly growing group of people. "They spend a lot of time in here too. There were more yesterday, though. But don't worry, they're all very nice!"

It was at that moment that she actually noticed Ben and Alice were in the lobby as well. It was an unique opportunity to show both of them what she had drawn on her sketchbook.

"Here, I can introduce you!" the fabricated girl exclaimed, grabbing Sadness' hand. "At least to some of them. I don't know everyone yet. What do you think?"

Miss Tairee looked up and raised an eyebrow as Ben addressed her, putting her fake glasses back on. "There is certainly at least one pizza restaurant in the city, along with plenty of other food establishments. But perhaps you don't realize, who would take your money even if you had any?" Miss Tairee asked rhetorically. "And if somebody did take your money, what would they do with it? Money is practically useless here. Your choice of action for food is to make some yourself, or find someone who would make food for you" she continued, tapping one finger on the desk for a moment.

"... Like me" Miss Tairee added after a slight pause, a bit dejectedly. She sat back and started typing on her keyboard again, a vaguely bored expression on her face.

Library

Lune listened to Morty and Ben talk on and on about their adventures. She was quite eager at first, but that smile turned into a frown. Some of these experiences kind of mirror her own experiences with the Steel Dragons in some way. The Tiny Rick trying to kill his original self seemed a lot like Alchemie trying to kill and replace Excellen, the parasites sound a lot like those Einst, and these Cromulons sounded a lot like the Inspectors and the Guests (bunch of judgmental assholes) if they were gigantic heads. This Vilgax guy seems like he's the baddest dude around. Hopefully, she doesn't meet him an alleyway.

"Jeez, I-I didn't know you two had it rough", exclaimed Lune. If she had to live with Ben or Morty, things might be rough for her. However, she had the Valsione to care of things if things get too serious.

She was too busy listening to Ben and Morty to notice Mary or Sadness just yet. Guess that girl has a one-track mind at times.

edited 2nd Dec '15 11:44:31 PM by josh6243

As Rex was turned away, Legion's lights dimmed for one last time. Internally, Legion's thoughts and memories started becoming overwritten with critical errors, entire sections of its mind blinking out with hardware failure. Its consciousness fractured again and again as areas were cut off from each other, its existence becoming a stream of jumbled nonsense as it slowly dissolved into nothingness. When Rex looked back, Legion had shut down entirely, what was left of its body going limp.

A few moments later, the remains of the mechanical body disappeared in a blur.

And then suddenly, Legion existed again, fully functional. It could remember the experience it had just had very clearly, but right now for all intents and purposes it was as if it had just been reactivated from a recharging cycle.

Agarth then asked Plague Knight "But what about the Blue Warrior? I highly doubt that the plants will be here tomorrow to stop him from finding us. There are two places where we could go, either the Library to warn anyone who doesn't know about him or we could go to your lab and make a plan to stop capture him."