CoLC crossover RP, main thread

"Ok, did anyone else notice how she didn't say something that would prove her innocence?" Rex said, pointing to Kelsey. Spending so much time being indignant at the accusations thrown at her instead of coming up with even the flimsiest of defenses was a huge red flag.

She did try to help her case by asking a question herself. A question that involved knowing what she did for fun. Rex didn't know that. Actually, did anyone in the city even know that? Most wouldn't give her the time of day out of fear and those that did would probably not hear anything coherent coming from her.

"I honestly don't know, you've been in a weird murderous and suicidal rampage for the last couple of weeks. I haven't had the time to actually get to know you without receiving attacks or screams about a 'blood god'"

Not answering sounded really suspicious too, justification or not. But there was something Kelsey and Rex had in common and there was no way either of them could forget about it. On top of that, it was the kind of information a lot of newcomers didn't know about. Rex himself was one of the few in the arena that knew about it.

"But I do remember Mary. And I think you do too, don't you?"

I started nursing a headache. "I'm probably gonna regret butting in on this without as much context as I'd like, but...Lou, surely you know how frustrating it can get when someone starts playing favorites, right? Or least favorites, as it may be. Y'never were the type to stand for it, in fact I specifically remember it getting on your nerves if you know what I'm talking about..."

A sigh. "That all being said, I think I made the right call turning down that invite."

Ben shot a look at Genji for a moment, before Two, Hercules and Rean tried to talk Ben up and tell him to be better than he was being. For a bit, Ben's expression lightened and he seemed to be listening to what his friends were trying to say.

Then as soon as Thomas approached and spoke, everything came crashing down. He began accusing Ben of just wanting to stir up trouble. Ben pulled away from Two and Hercules and glared up at the wizard.

"What, do you have pudding for brains?!" he asked. "I'm real, I already showed that, how would the fake know about the first day?" He pointed a finger up at Thomas. "Well I don't want you in the City Knights anymore anyway, I told you that! I thought you were cool, I thought you were my friend but..." He trailed off, shaking his head and looking back up at Thomas again, anger and pain on his face.

"You betrayed us, you made your choice and you're sticking with it now, you stupid... stupid-head!" His voice wavered a bit and the hand that was not pointing at Thomas clenched and shook slightly. "I'm voting you up, Thomas. Final vote. Put it on the screen! Don't ever talk to me or any of my friends ever again! We don't need you and we don't want you!"

Rick and Morty answered Rean’s question correctly. Rean nodded. “You both got it. Sorry if I dug up any uncomfortable memories with that, by the way.” So far, everyone seemed to be answering questions right. Were they just asking the wrong questions, or did the doppelgängers really know everything about who they were mimicking?

And then some boy in glasses who claimed to have once been part of the City Knights started calling Ben out for being too emotional to be a hero. While the kid had a point, now was not the time. In turn, Ben took it about as well as one would expect and opted to vote for the guy who abandoned him.

"Can we all just calm down, please? We need to focus on the challenge, not waste time insulting one another. " Rean said, trying to keep himself from getting even more irritated and adding to the problem. Then Marcus started reaching for his gun again. Rean turned, glaring at the armored man. "Hey! Didn’t I just ask you not to fire your weapon again? We don’t need more noise right now!”

Edited by stargirl93 on Oct 30th 2018 at 12:18:16 PM

Colosseum Arena, School Uniform—- Bad Publicity

Kelsey brushed her off, and then accused Rex of not knowing anything about her anyway. Well, if that was true then it really would be hard to tell if she was real or not. She then was about to bring up Genji when Thomas interrupted her to accuse Ben of being a fake. Either a fake or even worse of a hero than before. She let Rex continue grilling Kelsey and went over to break the fight up more decisively. Ben was now using the voting system to show his anger at Thomas, and she stepped in front of him to get his attention. Her face was nearly impassive, but her eyes were cutting into him with her disapproval.

“...We're here to help Yuna, and here you are having an argument that is doing nothing but wasting our time to solve this puzzle. I don't care who is or isn't your friend right now, because in case you didn't realize, it's not a popularity contest,” she said, barely containing her annoyance. Makoto shook her head slightly. “Aren't you at least slightly ashamed that the whole city is now watching you ban someone from your "hero" club live on tv because he doesn't want to be your friend anymore? Just stop if you aren't going to take this seriously, Ben.”

Two, ARGHHH, Arena

"Michael J. Caboose." Two replied absentmindedly to her red friend's question, standing up. It almost seemed like Ben was going to listen to reason... until Thomas set him off. No amount of effort appeared to actually work to get the self-proclaimed hero to see "the bigger picture", as Makoto put it.

Louie did not recall who they were talking about, but neither did she remember calling any of his pokemons a "bomb". "...actually, I think I referred to the pokeballs as such, since I was unaware of their purpose." She said, narrowing her eyes at the trainer. Rex was dealing with Kelsey, Makoto with Ben and Rean was trying to get Brother Marcus not to shoot anymore. She didn't honestly know that the whole city was watching.

"But I think it's just faulty memory." Two concluded, shaking her head. Her eyes did not leave Louie however; checking for reaction. She doubted that the doppelgangers were randomly chosen; rather, they would be cherry-picked out of people who would do their best at sowing discord through the likes of him or Ben. Still, it would do well to be cautious and examine the truly random path as well.

"....I was actually thinking about the building, but yeah, that's right," Yuna nodded when Silanea answered her question. Guess that made Silanea innocent. Or rather... not a clone.

Nonetheless, that still left a lot of people to check. Questions were being made left and right, and even the first elimination happened, which unfortunately was not a double. Sadly... things just escalated from there. People starting getting angrier and angrier, voices were raised, shots were fired (both figuratively and literally), and the overall morale of the group seemed to be dropping. Yuna herself was not taking it that well: the last time she'd seen her friends fight each other, the world came to an end; so seeing it happen again, this time to the few friends she had left... yes, she was aware that no world would end because of their bickering, but that did not make it any less painful to watch.

But she had to keep herself together. They had to keep themselves together. Not just for themselves, but for all the people they were to save with that wish, regardless of who won it. Which meant... she couldn't afford to cry. She wiped away her tears, puffed her chest, slapped herself, and set out to fix things.

"Sorry, I'll be borrowing this for a bit!" the girl announced, promptly taking ahold of... Ben's hand, and leading the young boy away from the heated debate to a more empty spot where they could talk more openly and without interference from other screaming children. "I'll be back in a bit!"

Once they were some distance away, the young knight-in-training finally let go of his hand and turned around to talk to her even younger leader.

"Okay, that should be far enough, so... Ben, I wanna ask: why are we heroes?"

Edited by Katarsus on Oct 30th 2018 at 10:09:04 AM

"Well your method of trying to restore order doesn't seem to be working" Brother Marcus said, with a hint of snark in his tone, to Rean.

Kelsey's stance got a bit more aggressive, as she faced towards Rex. "Yeah, I remember Mary. Why, you got something to say about that?" Kelsey said, tone getting angry.

Silanea looked at Kelsey with a bit of a suspicious glare, but then attention was again turned towards the ongoing argument around the City Knights.

"Maybe the fakes know everything. You haven't proved anything yet" Thomas said, tone still challenging, but keeping things level, right before Ben started to get dragged away by Yuna.

"Boys?" Silanea said in the background.

Thomas turned towards everyone else. "Think about it! Everyone has just been assuming that maybe there's something that the fakes don't know, but what if that's not how it is?" Thomas asked everyone out loud.

"Excuse me?!" Silanea stated, a bit louder.

"But even if Ben's not fake, he's clearly not helping at-" Thomas continued.

There was a very loud and shrill noise, like a shriek combined with hissing, coming from the patience-lost Silanea, getting Thomas, Louie, Blue, John, Hartwig, Eight Four, Kelsey, and Sir Redring to all jump slightly, and look over with widened, startled eyes. "SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE!" Silanea screamed, then turned on Kelsey. "You! Stop trying to avoid answering Rex's questions! Tell us about Mary! Now!" the lamia went on, nearly snarling the words out.

Kelsey was clearly a bit taken aback, stammering a bit, "w-whoa hey, what about what was mentioned before? Can anyone besides Rex vouch for-"

"Then what about the group that you used to be a part of!? The evil cult that tried to fill the whole city with terror not but two weeks ago! Nearly everyone here knows about them!" Silanea yelled to cut Kelsey off. "The name! Say the name! SAY IT!" the lamia continued, furiously.

Kelsey was silent, still taken aback. "It's her! She's fake!" Silanea decided, pointing to Kelsey and adding, "I vote for her!"

"... Yeah, that seems right. I vote for her" John said idly, pointing to Kelsey.

"I vote for her" Blue added in too, pointing to Kelsey.

"Yeah Hy vote for Kelsey" Hartwig stated simply.

"It was you? This whole time?" Eight Four muttered in mild disbelief, then pointed at Kelsey, "I vote too."

"I vote for her" Brother Marcus stated simply as well, pointing to Kelsey.

"... I must say the evidence does seem rather damning" Sir Redring commented, then pointed a tentacle towards Kelsey and added, "I'll put my vote in as well!"

"... So the fakes don't know everything" Thomas muttered, looking over towards Kelsey. "... Then I guess Ben's real after all. Not that that changes much" the young wizard thought out loud, then walked away from the Knights, commenting simply as he pointed to Kelsey, "I vote for her as well."

The person who may or may not be Kelsey glanced over at Miss Tairee. "Can I just say? Worst person to have gotten. She was supposed to be a normal mail woman; the most exciting thing in her life was going to the gym" the changeling disguised as Kelsey mentioned, shaking her head in disbelief. "What the hell happened to this woman?" she asked nobody in particular.

Edited by FirockFinion on Oct 30th 2018 at 7:25:14 AM

Colosseum

"OK, so you know my name! That's good. You heard it that time I got angry, right?" the soldier asked Two, sounding downright excited at how he had completely cleared his friend in his eyes. His name wasn't written down on the board, so only someone who had seen him get mad or read his character sheet would know about it.

Yuna went off with Ben to give some sort of speech, and Caboose was about to follow because he was really curious what it might be, but then some stuff happened. The armor lady was fake? That was super weird, she was making so much sense earlier about how people were being stupid and stuff.

Still, everyone else seemed to be voting for her. Mob rule was always right, wasn't it? He'd trusted in everyone else. "I vote for the scary armor lady too!"

He looked at her again for a few moments as she sort of ranted at the world about how bad her original was. "So... Now I want to know about her. It sounds like a pretty neat story! Do you know Rex?" he asked, voice brimming with childish enthusiasm.

Edited by pillowmantis on Oct 30th 2018 at 9:57:55 AM

Ben glared up at Makoto as she stepped in front of him to deliver a verbal smackdown to him. He winced, shaking his fists a little bit, but before he attempted to do something he regretted, he felt someone grab his hand.

He yelped and gasped for a moment, but upon seeing it was Yuna, he just looked confused as he was pulled away. Then she asked him what being a hero meant.

"I'm a hero because I want to protect people," he told her. "I want to... keep people from getting hurt. Or pushed around. Or killed." He looked at the floor. "If I had the chance I'd be an alien hero all the time. I'd never be my stupid tiny powerless human self. I'd always be there to protect people from danger. So no one would ever get hurt. No one would ever die. No one—" he started to say.

Then he jumped and fell over as soon as he heard Silanea screech. His breathing quickened and he looked over in utter confusion. "The heck was that?!" he asked. Then "Kelsey" started to break down to questioning and it became evident that she was one of the fakes.

"Uh... yeah... can I change my vote to Kelsey?" Ben asked sheepishly.

Genji was ready to tell Ben and his friends to stop acting like this was some sort of playground feud. But Yuna took him away, probably to give him a talk about his behavior and how he should cut it. Now onto the more pressing matters at hand...

"You had a chance to answer Kelsey, I cast my vote into you. Now..." Genji raised his voice a little so everyone could hear him. "Can we do things like that from now on? If we do not let grudges or emotions cloud our judgment we can pass through this challenge much more quickly." He spoke shooting a look at Ben, Thomas, and Louie.

"Who many people do we have left to question Makoto-san?" He asked the Persona user. If they question the people that are left they can end this and go to the next part of the challenge, Preferably something less frustrating and investigative.

Edited by Pandemonius_Panda on Oct 30th 2018 at 7:16:31 AM

Away from the City Knight drama, Rex kept his interrogation of Kelsey. He ignored everything else because he could feel in his gut that he was on the right track. This day was only getting better.

"Oh really?"

Kelsey claimed she knew about Mary but not mentioning anything else about her and straight up asking why she was relevant proved beyond a doubt that she wasn't the real one. It would be obvious the person most associated with one of the biggest traumatic events in her life—the only one, most likely—should be a good way to check her true identity.

Silanea got fed up with said drama mentioned a few lines back and told everyone to shut up. Her patience already running low, she ordered Kelsey to stop being secretive and simply say who Mary was, if she knew about her.

The lack of an actual answer was enough to make everyone else vote for her. And while she wasn't eliminated just yet, it was only a matter of time before she did. Rex couldn't believe his random guess had managed to find the first doppelganger. Considering how everyone else had been so quick to get into heated arguments about their identities, he was feeling pretty good about himself right now. He practically ran in circles, dedicating his small victory to the crowd.

"Woohoo! And people say I only think with my fists. Guess the doppelgangers expected an easy job and didn't count on me being a genius. Am I right, or am right? Yuna, I hope you had plans with your friends because you're going to meet them sooner than you thought. Give me five!"

She had taken Ben to a more private section. Whatever they were discussing was important and didn't need to be interrupted.

"...maybe later. Still, good job everyone. Specially you, Mark. Really sold that 'crazy super-soldier' act. You should play more roles like that, it's like they were made for you"

Caboose, as usual, didn't get a few of the details and wanted to know more. And maybe learn a thing or two about how Rex was able to pull off such an elegant gambit.

"Caboose, my friend" he put an arm on his shoulder, they were good buddies after all "Like any good story it starts with a 8 feet tall demon"

Edited by DeisTheAlcano on Oct 30th 2018 at 11:31:09 AM

"Yes, as I explained earlier, you can change your vote so long as the round is not concluded yet" Miss Tairee said, then looked to the fake Kelsey. "With Ben's vote changed and Genji's vote, the round becomes concluded. As you have deduced, Kelsey was replaced with a fake" the librarian continued.

Kelsey's armor seemed to melt away and change color to a sort of dull orange, as the woman turned into a sort of mound of goo. Then it blurred and vanished, and the child form of Kelsey appeared up in the special seating area, staggering a half step and then clutching at her head.

"Unfortunately, Kelsey was not the only one replaced with a fake. So, the challenge continues on to a new round" Miss Tairee informed everyone.

"Like any good story it starts with a 8 feet tall demon-" Rex was saying, but then.

"NOBODY SAY IT" Brother Marcus boomed in a stern tone. "All of you, be very careful with your words. Something you mention idly could give the fakes more information by accident. The less they have to try to fool us with, the better" the space marine continued.

"... O-okay, so, what now?" Blue asked, clearly a bit intimidated by the astartes.

Edited by FirockFinion on Oct 30th 2018 at 8:35:58 AM

Colosseum Arena, School Uniform- 1 Down, ??? To Go

Makoto didn't back down from Ben's glare in the slightest, right up until Yuna dragged him off for a talk. That worked too, she supposed. It kept him from further creating a scene. Thomas was insisting that the fakes knew nearly everything, or at least could know everything about the person they were dusguised as, but after Silanea made a rather inhuman screech to get the whole group's attention, she pointed out that Kelsey never really answered the questions she was given. She prodded Kelsey about the name of the cult that she was supposed to have been in, and when she couldn't answer, Silanea claimed that she was the fake. Others fell in line after seeing the rather damning evidence, and eventually "Kelsey" gave in and stopped trying to pretend. Kelsey was quickly overwhelmed with votes, and then was removed from the arena. The real Kelsey appeared in the stands as Miss Tairee had explained earlier.

"Well that was a more productive round," Makoto said, recovering from the quick turn of events. They were one step closer to finishing the challenge, and they'd gained some more information on how to weed the fakes out. Or, at least she thought they did. "Good job with the questioning," she said to Rex and Silanea, calming down again. Caboose asked for the story behind Kelsey, and Rex, high on their minor victory, began to tell it. Brother Marcus cut him off before he spilled anything important, and then Genji asked her who to question next. Right, the list. They could continue to work down it now that the round was over.

"Um, so far we can continue to question Lewis, Rean, Sir Redring, Caboose, Genji, Eight Four, and Hercules," she announced. "I think that's the people I don't have on my list now." She walked over to Caboose, looking him as dead in the eyes as his helmet possibly allowed. "Okay, if you're the real one, then what does my Persona look like? Both of its forms." she asked, poking him in the chest to accentuate her question.

'Colosseum- Story Time? No, Says the Spess Mehreen;

When Rex put an arm on Caboose's shoulder, a gesture the soldier had not gotten from anyone except his sort of but not really father figure Washington, the dolt was excited. Not only was he getting a probably juicy story, but he was also getting some camaraderie!

Unfortunately mean old Marcus had to intervene just when it started getting good. He really wanted to know what would happen with the eight foot tall demon! "Aw fine..." he said petulantly. "You'll tell me later, Rex! After we're done with this part."

Seemed like Makoto had a question for him also. He stared ahead blankly for a second as he put the pieces together. "Um... two forms..." the soldier repeated aloud. "Wait a second, you can't fool me!" He sounded like he had spotted some thread that wasn't there. "Three forms! The cool bike, the blue armor demon lady, and the pirate ship... why did you only use that last one that one day, anyways?" He had made a small blunder, forgetting that the persona she used during the bodyswap was an entirely different one. But the answer itself was alright.

"Geez, okay. You don't need to yell" Rex reacted to Marcus' suddenly and loudly voicing his concern about oversharing details for everyone to hear. Caboose understood the gravity of the situation, at least "Yeah maybe next time, buddy"

Kelsey's doppelganger practically melted before disappearing. Either that was its original form or the Writer had some very sick ideas to punish them for failing. Regardless, the round was over and they had successfully voted out a doppelganger. Along with proving a few stuff about their nature. Stuff Rex hadn't stopped to actually analyze but he was sure someone else would. Speaking of, Makoto congratulated both him and Silanea.

"Yeah, I'm practically a detective now" he said, letting go of Caboose since it was time for him to answer a few questions. Namely about her persona's nature. It would be pretty quick to notice if something was up, and considering the soldier brought up both of Anat's forms and even Captain Kidd's, it was safe to say he was real. Besides, Rex was barely paying attention right now since he had a few ideas in mind "Say, I think that masterful play deserves a reward"

I had the urge to press it further, but what was the point, I was getting shouted over anyway and this was just getting more frustrating, I swear to god Ben...only when Silanea blew a fuse did everyone shut the hell up and make some progress. It was hard to really defend Kelsey not being fake when she outright ragequit and confessed.

Sil was probably safe since she took the initiative in outing this one...I wrote that down. For a moment I considered going up to her, but...that would've been awkward with how she'd grouped.

I supposed I should probably put some other stuff down.

...Now what.

Colosseum Arena, School Uniform- Correct...?

"Uh, that's... sort of right, Caboose," Makoto said, a little confused. She backed off of him though. "The pirate ship wasn't mine though, that was the body swap day. I can't use it anymore." Well, that did sort of prove that he'd been there though, so it wasn't a waste of the question. She placed Caboose on her list of "safe" people. Rex claimed that he was just like a detective now and wanted a reward for his findings though.

"Huh? Oh, you mean...?" Makoto looked away, but then seemed to steel her nerves somewhat. "If you're okay with this many people watching..." She let Caboose be and hesitated in front of Rex for a second, but then grabbed him by shoulders and kissed him on the lips. She didn't immediately pull away though.

Naturally Makoto hesitated. She didn't look completely comfortable with so many people watching her every move. But a kiss on the cheek didn't have to be such a big deal. Really, her embarrassment was cute enough to be a suitable 'reward'. Rex was honestly just feeling a little braver than usual and his flirting was stuck on maximum at the moment. It would eventually go back to normal.

"Oh, well, I guess we could leave it for lat-mhmm!"

Rex was taken aback by her reaction. It honestly was the third time she had initiated which was a surprising amount considering she had done so three times as much as someone that was a supposedly more socially adept than her. The only thing left was to grab her waist and continue what she had started, public be damned.

"You should refrain from wasting time until after we have succeeded" Brother Marcus said, keeping at a reasonable volume, but a very criticizing tone towards Rex and Makoto. The space marine then turned and walked over towards one side of the arena, where the special seating area was just above. There he pointed up at the young Kelsey. "You. You are no longer the fake, correct? Is there anything you can tell us? Speak" the space marine questioned her sternly.

"Yeah it's really me, you big asshole of a zealot" Kelsey said in an annoyed tone, still wincing a bit. "I've got a mighty headache; even though that wasn't me, I remember everything she, it was doing" she went on, taking a deep breath and looking around to ask, "can I get a glass of water or something?"

She was mildly surprised as a cup of water did actually appear with a blur on the arm rest of one of the seats. With a grateful expression, she picked it up and started gulping from it vigorously, as Brother Marcus waited a moment. Once she seemed done, or at least pausing from it, he spoke up again, "what can you tell us about what you remember?"

"... Not much that you didn't see for yourselves. I don't really remember what it was thinking, just what it said and did" Kelsey responded after a short thought.

Brother Marcus turned and walked back towards the others after that. "Looking for more clues, huh man?" Blue asked as the space marine approached again.

"Knowledge is power" Brother Marcus quoted.

Up at the front of the stands, Connor the Fanboy, currently wearing swimming trunks bearing the Fanboys' logo, was trying to wave for attention while a parrot was wildly flapping its wings next to him.

Edited by FirockFinion on Nov 1st 2018 at 5:03:26 AM

Colosseum Arena, School Uniform- Back to Business

Makoto froze up when Rex grabbed her waist, but she quickly got over it and continued what they were doing. Right up until Brother Marcus interrupted. Right, challenge... She let go of Rex and backed away a couple of steps, slightly out of breath.

"Back to questioning then..." she said, looking over her list again to gather her compusure. Kelsey, from up in the stands, said that she could remember her clone's actions but not their thoughts. Someone else was waving up there for some reason. "Uh, is there a problem?" Makoto called up to Connor.

Commander Sarah Palmer had just finished collecting her equipment and was getting prepared to leave S-Deck for the hangar. Fireteam Majestic were most likely waiting for her.

One last time, she checked over her equipment. Scout armour: Check. Twin M6H pistols: Check. M395 Designated Marksman Rifle: Check. Ammunition: Check. Seemed like she was all set to go.

Stepping into the elevator, she jabbed the button for the hangar, doors closing behind her.

Instead of the elevator moving, her vision started turning black. Frozen in place, she was left to watch as the INFINITY faded away. What had now become her home was gone, taken from her.

All of a sudden, her vision returned. However, instead of being back in the elevator, she found herself standing on a balcony. Reaching up, she tried to remove her helmet. Expecting the usual depressurising hiss, all she felt was a tight tug under her chin and against her throat.

"Ack!" She exclaimed, coughing as she loosened her grip, releaving the pressure on her throat. She soon realised that that wasn't right. Lifting her hands to her chin, she felt her skin and a chin strap like you'd find on Marine helmets, or a bicycle helmet. Feeling around, she found the clip and pressed it in, releasing it and causing the straps to fall down to the sides. Now with that obstruction out of the way, she was finally able to remove her helmet.

As she lifted it off her head, she found it weird that it felt so light. While her SPARTAN strength would make her able to lift heavy things, a SPARTAN helmet is not light. And while she wouldn't have felt it that much, she definitely noticed this one was way lighted and felt malleable, with the material bending in her hands.

Once it was off, she gave it a closer inspection. Inside, was not the padding she expected. Foam pads lined vital places to keep it sat on her head. A tag on the fabric chin strap also noted to her that it was made by two companies called BoomCo and Mattel and was some form of "officially licenced product". The tag also gave a list of materials: Plastic, foam padding and translucent acrylic. This probably explained why it felt so light, and the fact that it felt quite malleable in her hands.

"What the hell has happened to my armour!?" She cried, her voice slightly higher and childish. She had inspected the rest of her armour and found it was indeed made of plastic and foam padding, and the undersuit was a nylon mock-up. Realising her voice was higher pitched, she covered her mouth in shock. Ideas as to what could've caused this were running through her head.

Meanwhile, she decided to check her weapons. First was her DMR. It looked a little smaller, and the stock was slightly shorter, but it was not really changed; save for the under-barrel grip now being a pump handle, the bright blue colour dominating the gun, and the gaping hole in the left side, with a 14-round clip stuffed in, soft plastic darts poking out of the 14 slots (7 on top, 7 on bottom, staggered diagonally). Again, stamped on it was the BoomCo logo, safety information and the Mattel logo. "This looks like a god damn toy!" She shouted in frustration, having come to terms she'd just have to deal with her new voice.

Next came her twin M6H pistols. These were also in a similar state to the DMR: very toy-like and one painted bright red, the other in a bright green. However, they were single-shot, muzzle reloading and the whole top of the barrel moved as one piece, not just the rear half. Again, a soft plastic dart poked out of each barrel, with the same logos and safety info stamped onto the blasters.

"What the hell is going on here!?" She cried out, picking up her blasters and holstering them in their rightful places. She grabbed her helmet by the chin strap and just let it dangle upside down.

Edited by TechnoSangheili on Nov 1st 2018 at 3:30:43 PM

"I don't know about you..." put in Rick as he wiped some of the puke off his chin, "but, you know, if I were a copy, I'd probably try to spread as much chaos and disorder in the group as I could, throwing around as much information as possible, making it impossible for people to reach a consensus, you know."

"Standard Thing procedure?" interjected Morty.

"Yeah, you know, your average... y'know, *urp* Thing kind of situation. Although..." he cast a suspicious eye at a certain cephalopod, who'd been oddly quiet as of late "... we could be looking at a different kind of procedure..."

Edited by Locoman on Nov 1st 2018 at 11:21:27 AM

Rex ignored the supersoldier as he complained about the little time they had by slapping the air in his direction, like if he were dealing with an annoying fly. He couldn't care less about that, or any of the people watching for that matter. Suddenly his fears about Two seemed so... childish now. He had gotten worked up about nothing. He was never in any danger. But every good thing must come to an end, and like it or not, Yuna's world was a little more important than Rex's emotional state right now.

"Yeah, good idea"

He was still focused on Makoto more than anything else, not like he was trying hard to ignore her, and barely caught what the real Kelsey explained about her experience. Apparently the shapeshifters had some kind of connection to the people they interpreted.

"So... does anyone want to confess right now? It will be easier for everyone involved. We are all busy with important stuff, right?"

Some random guy tried to call attention from outside the arena. Since his current change was just clothes-related, Rex easily identified him as one of the people he had met on Silanea's head. Funny, was this actually the first time he had seen the guy in person?

"Hey, isn't that one of your friends?"

Edited by DeisTheAlcano on Nov 1st 2018 at 2:47:54 PM

Silanea let out a simple "hmm?" and turned to look over at Connor. "Yes, that's Connor, from the Fanboys" Silanea said, slithering over next to Makoto. "Hello Connor" the lamia added with a wave.

"Hey Silanea" Connor replied with a wave back. "Are you doing better lately?" the Fanboy then asked.

"Since my friends and family are all alive again, yes, much" Silanea responded.

"Ah, good to hear!" Connor said sincerely.

"Dude, focus. The changelings" the parrot next to Connor then said, with Chuck's voice, as it was Chuck.

"Oh right, sorry" Connor muttered, glancing at Chuck, then he turned back to Silanea and Makoto. "We know about the things you're up against. Changelings, from the Star Trek universe" the Fanboy started to explain, as the three Home Sweet Home members got curious and walked over to see what was up.

"They're shapeshifters, able to look like anyone or anything. They can even change their texture and stuff, too" Chuck added in to continue explaining. "We recognized when that one turned back into that orange goo stuff; that's their natural form that they sleep as" the Fanboy elaborated.

"So dey're normally like a flueed?" Hartwig asked, scratching his head.

"Yeah, on their home planet they all stick together as a big ocean" Connor answered.

"An ocean? So they can even mix..." John was saying, trailing off in thought, "... so, what about when they touch each other? Can they do anything special?"

"Yeah they can share information and stuff" Chuck mentioned, then suddenly blurred, and was back to his normal self though similarly in swimming trunks.

"Can they do anything to normal people when they touch them?" Blue asked, a little concerned.

"Nothing special that I recall" Connor said, shaking his head.

"We also know that these 'changelings' are aware of the life of the person they have replaced" Brother Marcus suddenly cut in, with his usual deep tone. "However, they do not seem to be aware of prior events in the city. All of us currently here have made at least a passing mention of prior events, though not always as the first; all of us, except one" the space marine went on, marching over to the two militia members, and staring down menacingly at Eight Four before asking, "did you think nobody would notice?"

"You must be new here. Welcome to the city" came a deep toned Male voice from the edge of the balcony, sounding mostly apathetic. If Sarah looked, she'd see the figure was humanoid, but certainly no human; the man was huge, probably taller than she was normally, and wide as well, with a dark gray skin and horns on his head...

... Which might have all been a lot more intimidating, were he not currently dressed up like Santa Claus. "This is just the start; it's gonna get worse" the troll informed Sarah, still in that idle mention, fairly apathetic tone, as he was staring off the balcony edge towards the endless night sky beyond. Then he took a swig from a large, metal flask.

Edited by FirockFinion on Nov 1st 2018 at 12:36:11 PM