City of ??????: The balcony

The Mad Mask looked around at his surroundings and saw that he was currently standing on a balcony. "What kind of trickery is this? He shouted to himself. The Mad Mask had a 'teleporter' in his lair, but he knew that he hadn't activated it yet. "When the Mad Mask finds you! You'll wish that you hadn't messed with the Mad Mask!" He warned.

He then ran down the to the streets to see who dared to interrupt his plans.

Outside the Library

Caro once again sighed in relief as Sans told Ringabel about the rules of the day. She was glad that he had realized that she was just a little girl who just happened to look older today. Thought since he had also probably realized that all the ones who currently looked like little girl were actually older women, that didn't exactly bode well for Zelda ...

" Y-Yeah, likewise. I-I'm sorry to disappoint you, but um ,,, T-Thank you anyway." She replied to Ringabel following Mary's lead. Truth be told, she didn't feel that much different from usual. Aside from her hair growing longer, it didn't seem like she had grown much at all, though obviously she must still be looking much older regardless for him to be flirting with her like that. But if nothing else, her new form seemed to indicate that she wouldn't be getting much taller anywhere near in the future, which she was not particularly happy about.

Speaking About Mary, it was at this point that Caro noticed that the older looking blond girl was still absent-mindly patting Sadness on her head, as if nothing else was going. She was noticed that the blue girl seemed to quite upset, like from what had happened with Sans. She supposed that was appropriate for a being that literally represented sadness, but still, she felt that she shoould do something about it. But likewise with Sans, what could she do? What Sans was going through was probably hard enough to talk about, let alone talking to someone who had felt something like that from touching him and apparently had that happen to her often.

She supposed it was better to take care of helping her fellow newcomer and then see if she could do something for Sans and Sadness once she could focus more on that. " A-And well, what Sans and Zelda said. I'm pretty new here too, so asking Ms. Tairee about it is probably the best thing to do, " she explained to him, " though I feel I should say this, since she seemed to quite exasperated when asked it, probably being asked that everytime ... A-Anyway, apparently, there's no way to communicate with anyone outside this dimension either ... " she sighed as she said the last bit, once again thinking about her family and friends back home and they must be feeling about her suddenly disapperance.

However, she was soon snapped out of her reverie, her large eyes widening even further as she realized something important they had missed. " W-We never did introduce ourselves, did we?" she then said and then bowed before the newcomer, both apollogetically and as a way of greeting, " S-Sorry about that, My name's Caro, " As she spoke, her pet dragon chose this moment to land on her shoulder. She gently caressed him, which caused him to produce his characteristic happy sound, " and this here is my dragon, Fried. It's n-nice to meet you. "

Sans wasn't expecting Ringabel to actually store the brochure, he kinda wanted him to just read it and give it back, but it didn't really matter since he already memorized everything that was in that brochure, plus the casanova wannabe already provided him with a lot of amusement. The skeleton glanced at Sadness, noticing that she seemed significantly gloomier than earlier, it made the skeleton wonder... Did she actually see his memories? Those same images from before? If she did that would be pretty bad as that means he just left a bunch of dark memories inside someone else's head. She really did look like she wanted to help him get over it, but right now he wasn't looking for help even though he appreciated the concern. Oddly, Mary seemed to be able to touch the blue girl without any effects, did she just get used to it, or was she just able to resist her ability? That was something to keep in mind for later.

Zelda mentioned Miss Tairee, which drew in Sans' attention back to the topic at hand "yeah i know about all of that already. we talked to the librarian just a while ago, i don't think we'll be getting much info regarding the boss from her." He shrugged and momentarily looked at Caro, reminding himself of something before addressing everybody again. "by the way, have any of you eaten anything yet?" he asked, then looking back at Ringabel again, "all i know is that the casanova here looks about as rawboned as i do."

edited 29th Feb '16 9:58:54 AM by FullMoon

Cole offered Sawyer a slightly troubled smile. "I like talking with you, too. You aren't afraid of me. Lots of people have been afraid of me before. I don't want to be scary or strange or silly but that is how people see me sometimes." He winced, half folding his hands over his stomach again. "Do you ever feel as though something inside of you is moving? I feel as though there is something in there."

"It's... ugh, it's com-complic-it's really complicated," said Rick, tinkering with something. "This city... th-the whole things crammed up on some kinda... I dunno, unstable torus loop. Shit is coming and going, the entire damn buildings are, you know... Figure if I try to build some kind of quantum isolation device, twist this, like this..." he mumbled, more to himself, twisting the screwdriver in. "... one turn... two turns..." A series of LED lights flickered to life along the side, and some kind of jury-rigged Geiger counter started to click. "Okay, let me see..."

There was a deafening noise as Rick's machine exploded. Bits of metal went spraying across the playground in every direction like high-speed shrapnel. Of course, owing to the peculiar rules of the city, all that happened was that Rick and Morty went flying backwards a few feet, all of the sharp metal bits missing them entirely in utter defiance of physics.

"...or, y-you know, that happens," said Rick, scooping up some of the pieces. "Science. Sometimes it's more of an art. New plan, Morty, robot: we let sleeping dogs lie. I mean, I dunno, these assholes always build in a back door s-somewhere. Now we just gotta..."

"...gotta what?"

"Never mind, Morty, this guy, you know, he's probably listening to everything we asy. Malignant narcissism; paranoia... Morty, i-i-it's, all the hallmarks of a psychopath. He's a psychopath, Morty, and I'm Tiny Rick, bitch!"

edited 29th Feb '16 11:07:16 AM by Locoman

HK simply stared at the mess that Rick's device caused, and how the two of them were left unharmed by the explosion.

"Statement: I quite like your proudness, Master, very different compared to my other master, who was...monotonous."

edited 29th Feb '16 12:26:06 PM by Darkomega245

Anti-human group HQ

"Just let me see what I can do to turn those five minutes into like half an hour"

Rex got closer to XLR8 and pointed at the hourglass on his chest.

"Do you mind?"

"Would you believe me that you're not even anywhere closest to scariest people I know of?" Sawyer chuckled in response. "No, that dubious honor goes to that maid." It was strange, seeing her of all people shudder.

"And that sounds like a tapeworm." She mused at his another comment although this time her brows furrowed a little.

XLR8 looked at the Omnitrix symbol on his chest, then back up at Rex. "Are you sure you know what you're doing? Even I don't know how the watch really works," he admitted. "But if it'll keep me in this form for longer... try it."

Down on the streets

Garrett strolled through the city, quietly scoffing at Cole. Stupid boy... yelling at him like that, because Garrett didn't want to "save people". Well, he already had his hands full with the situation back home. In fact, that's precisely why he wanted to escape as soon as possible: the longer he was stuck here, the more time the Hag had for her schemes.

Just then a human figure some distance away caught Garrett's eye; there was something... off about that individual. He zoomed in with his mechanical eye: it was a masked man in a green cloak, stomping furiously and ranting; from where he was, Garrett could hear him raving about someone named "Mad Mask".

Great, I'm meeting more loonies by the minute... Garrett thought, but curiosity got the better of him. He carefully approached the cloaked man (the fellow looked somewhat unpredictable and unhinged, so it was better to remain on guard) and asked: "Who are you talking to?"

Cole looked confused for a moment, tilting his head to one side, then made a face as though abruptly understanding what Sawyer had said. "Ew. That is not the right word. It...it is more of a clawing. It does not hurt but it...it feels like there is nothing and something all at once. I don't know what to call it." He shook his head, sounding exasperated. "Being human is so much more difficult than I ever knew it would be."

The Mad Mask was interpreted his current goal of randomly ranting to himself until he found the person responsible for the current predicament he found himself in, when someone asked him who he was talking to.

"What do you mean? The Mad Mask wasn't actually talking to anyone but the Mad Mask's self." The Mad Mask told the man who was questioning him.

Grimlock; Dino mode

Library, 1st floor

Grimlock was glad that the...thing decided to just talk with the librarian. But by then, his attention was diverted to the librarian as she talked to it, mentioning a bunch of stuff like that, for this day, no one can get hurt.  Then shouted other stuff as well as her frustrations. He couldn't help but frown. The girl was really nice, but there were just some things that she just couldn't control, like kids getting hurt.

"I'll also do my best to keep kids safe," he said to her, hopefully loud enough for her to hear, but soft enough that it respected the library's rule of silence.

His saddened mood was alleviated when Koishi pet his head in thanks. "No problem."

Then he said to Lune, "Hey, Lune. Is that what you normally look like? Or is it just for today?"

The Library

Bill shrugged his shoulders. "Have it your way, lady. I'll just bide my time until this city inevitably burns all around me." He floated up to another floor of the library.

In the meantime, I might as well read up on random stuff until this lift on violence ends...

"You certainly look tough enough already," Koishi said in a similarly quiet tone. "That probably makes you really tough."

There was a time when Koishi shared her sister's love of reading, and was almost as well read as her, too. But those times were well past, and now she really had no interest in that kind of stuff. She had great trouble visualizing what she read, and similar issues doing one thing for a long time. This must be a big library and all, and there was some small desire to find out what's inside (maybe they had that one book, Perfect Memo, Strictly Dense lying around?), but there were lots of cool people to talk to, things to see, stuff to do, and so forth.

"I still got that sword, you know." She tried to raise it, when she remembered that she totally hadn't been holding it for some time. She looked around in a brief state of panic, before noticing the table she had left it on a while ago. It was there, safe, sound and ultimately still dumb looking in its current state. "It's probably the same sword, it just looks...not as good," she said, a hint of disappointment as she pointed towards its current resting place. "Maybe you could teach me how to actually use it sometime, Lune?"

Lune watched as the tortilla chip had finally went to the second floor of the library. Although today was meant to be peaceful, it could have really dangerous powers as the chip claimed that the city will burn around it someday, which seemed like an empty threat to her. Stronger people have tried and failed to go through with their promises, after all.

The tortilla chip almost reminded her of Perfectio, the leader of the Ruina. The Ruina attempted to seal mankind away during the Gaia Saber wars and tried to bring Perfectio back. Perfectio had the power to make people sink into sheer despair, and the Steel Dragons only fought a fragment possessing Joshua Radcliffe’s father. Who knows how strong the true Perfectio is?!

This dinosaur somehow knew Lune. She put two and two together and assumed this dinosaur was that dragon who transformed into a human yesterday. He had asked if this was Lune’s normal form or if she had changed today.

“The latter,” whispered Lune to Grimlock. “Before today, I never wore this outfit at all; it is way too revealing for me. Also, I’m pretty sure I’m a little younger than this.” As Lune continued to talk to Grimlock, she tried to keep her tone as quiet as possible. She didn’t want Ms. Tairee rambling in her ear about interrupting the sanctity and peace of the library.

Lune watched as Koishi retrieved a toy sword she left on a library table. According to Koishi, it was the same sword that was used to strip that two-headed dragon’s invulnerability away, so the others could finish it off. Since today was a peaceful day, it was changed into its current form. Koishi also asked if Lune would be willing to train her in the arts of the sword. Resuming her quiet conversation to Koishi, Lune whispered, “I’d love to teach you after I get some errands done here.”

edited 29th Feb '16 5:43:33 PM by josh6243

"That's pretty cool, the whole make anything you want ability." Ranma said, daydreaming a bit with what she could do with such powers before ultimately discarding it due to her character being that of one that wanted to reach the peak with their own hands. Seeing as Miss Tairee was okay with the indefinite borrowing, Ranma naturally did not refuse and swept her hand towards the books to collect them- using a single swift motion to collect all the reading materials in a perfectly neat pile that wasn't a millimeter out of place.

It might have been showing off, but it was also for the most part training. After all her body was different and she had to get used to such even if there was virtually no danger today. "Hm, slower than usual due to longer than normal and phantom sensations mess with instinct which led to the slowing down..." Cracking the first of the manuals open after the depositing the rest in her big traveling backpack, the martial artist began reading through it while keeping an ear out for anything interesting to respond to while disseminating techniques written within.

edited 29th Feb '16 6:41:48 PM by Makaioh

Anti-human group HQ

"I've never tried to hack an alien watch before but it can't be that hard"

Rex pressed his hand on the hourglass to check how the machine worked. Unsurprisingly, it looked like nothing that he had ever seen, it apparently worked on the same principles as the nanites but on a whole new level.

"Ok, this may be a bit harder than I thought. But I won't let a machine beat me. No matter how complex it is"

His nanites told the watch to active a few mechanisms that Rex thought would add a bit more time to Ben's transformation.

edited 29th Feb '16 7:09:31 PM by DeisTheAlcano

XLR8 watched as Rex began to get to work. As he saw Rex working his magic, he began to have his doubts. Was this really a good idea? What if Rex broke it? How would he ever be a hero then?

As soon as he started to think these thoughts, the Omnitrix flashed red a couple of times, beeping loudly, then crackled with green sparks. There was a sudden red flash of light, as a wave of feedback pushed Rex away. Ben, now in his human form, tumbled onto the ground, also knocked back by the sudden force that he wasn't expecting. Dusting himself off, Ben looked at the Omnitrix. It sparked green still, occasionally flashing from red, back to green for a split second before turning red once again. He glared at Rex.

"What did you do?!" Ben shouted at the nanite-infused teenager.

"So, uh," said Morty, trying to make conversation as he picked himself back up off the ground, "y-you, like, had owners before? I mean, uh, y-you musta had to k-kill a lot of people, right?" A thought crossed his mind. "Oh man... like, uh, y-you didn't kill your own owners, did you?"

"Morty, does a car go out and kill its owners 'cause it doesn't like the way they drive?" Rick rolled his eyes as he slid down the side, toddling off down the street in a random direction.

"But-"

"The answer's no, Morty."

"Yeah, Rick, but cars, you know, they don't... they're not alive, you know?"

Rick rolled his eyes in exasperation. "The cars in your dimension aren't sentient. HK, he's, you know, he's a pretty nicely built robot. I mean, yeah, he's a bit, you know, retro... the voice module, the sp-speech patterns and stuff. He's like, what, from some kinda vaguely anachronistic universe or something? I dunno... the, the, zerka company, whatever, they seem to know their shit, for what it's worth. Anyway, he's not gonna go after the guy that's supplying him with stuff, right?" He looked over at the robot for confirmation.

edited 29th Feb '16 8:32:59 PM by Locoman

"Hmm?" A young boy covered in some sort of goop that he was trying to wipe off casually looked around at Gon as he asked his question. "Well, bunch of kids playing. There was also some aliens and monsters complaining about humans and wanting them to all go die in a cancer fire or something; I dunno I wasn't paying attention" the boy told Gon with a shrug.

"Ah great, one of those types" Miss Tairee said after Bill left, rolling her eyes. "Almost as bad as if my boss brought in one of those chaos gods. Maybe if we're lucky I'll get the chance to teach him some humility" she thought aloud, getting back to her laptop and typing away on it.

"What's with the yelling out here?" a tan-skinned elf boy thought out loud as he opened up the front door, and glanced around before spotting Rex and Ben. His eyebrows lowered slightly and his head ever so slightly tilted, looking at the two and clearly thinking that they were up to something, but wondering what that something was.

The droid followed the two as they made their way along a random street.

"Amused Answer: Oh, Master. If I were out to kill you, we certainly wouldn't be speaking right now. Negative, I am incapable of purposely terminating my Masters. A part of my programming, mind you. My other master's demises were definitely not caused by me."

Outside the anti-human headquarters

Ben's watch went haywire and turned him back to his usual (if several years older) form. But not before its energy pushed Rex several meters back, luckily he couldn't suffer any injuries today. Ben seemed a bit angry at Rex messing with his watch.

"Ok, I admit that wasn't a really bright idea. Don't worry about the watch, it just has pretty advanced security measures. It's gonna be fine"

At that moment, an elf kid oppened the doors of the office complex wondering what Rex and Ben where doing. Rex almost started to explain what had happened but stopped himself from doing so since it would give away his intentions of deceiving the whole group of non-humans.

"We were just... It doesn't matter. Weird question, can we see your leader? Plague and I just talked to Marcus, the murderous guy in blue armor, and we convinced him to stop attacking you. On a small condition"

edited 1st Mar '16 5:17:51 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Gon, getting things started:

An anti-human group? Things are interesting.

The kid's statement was a start. If there was such a faction, they could mean trouble.

Real trouble.

"Thanks for the info, kid. You know which direction those monsters went to?"

Streets, with Mad Mask

I was right, Garrett thought. This guy is a nutcase.

On the other hand... It then occurred to Garrett that if this fellow was and adult right now, it was entirely possible he was actually a kid.

A kid, drawn into this realm, possibly in the middle of some silly imaginary game if their costume was any indication... Garrett's facial expression didn't change, but in his mind he resolved that as soon as he finds an escape route, he'll share it.

"I will be frank, kid: you've been kidnapped. This isn't a game anymore. We've all been kidnapped," Garrett said. "The best idea right now is to go over there —" he pointed at the library visible in the distance "— you'll find some friendlier people in that place. Ask them about where you are... especially the girl at the desk. And try to find a safe place to hole up in. As far as I know, this city will turn a lot less friendly tomorrow."