For the Horde!
Ben took the business card, eyeing it in confusion for a moment before shoving it into one of the many pockets of his cargo pants. He nodded at Mr. Signh'ere and smiled.
"Thanks," he told the Director's assistant. Before he could move towards the table to get a bite to eat, he was addressed by a certain thief. Raising an eyebrow, he turned around.
"Hi, Garrett," Ben greeted. "Haven't seen you a lot lately. Well... I guess you're a thief, so you sneak around a lot, huh? Whatever. Good to see you."
Ordinarily he would be suspicious, but something about today was making him more trusting. Still, he kept a strong hand on his bag of holding, and one eye on Garrett as he made his way to the breakfast table.
The smell was positively mouth-watering. Ordinarily he would settle for a bowl of some sugary kid's cereal, but the smell of the prepared food was making him famished.
He took a knife, a fork, a plate of bacon and scrambled eggs, as well as a couple pancakes and a glass of orange juice. Moving to a table next to a chair in the lobby, he sat down and began to eat. At first he intended to savor the food, but his hunger got the better of him and he soon started digging in more hungrily.
"So, whatcha gonna wish for?" Ben asked Garrett, a mouth half full of food. He was anxiously hoping the City Knights would arrive soon.
Edited by AllHailThrall on Aug 17th 2021 at 7:28:48 AM
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Library
Garrett actually smiled at Ben's joke. He chose a seat near Ben, then prepared for himself a modest yet delectable breakfast: a few large sausages, some mouth-watering cakes, and a glass of red wine.
"What to wish for, indeed," Garrett pondered as he took a fork and a knife into his hands... his eyes taking on a sly, calculating quality. "My, my. That's a good question." He glanced towards Tset. "I'll need a clarification about a certain point, first."
"Apparently, we can go back to any point in time in our own worlds... Even to the very point we were taken from. Well, in that case, what about all these things that have happened in our worlds over the past few weeks? While I've been away, my home has seen a fair share of trouble, with the Hag running amok and all.
"If I just ask to be sent back to before all that... how's that going to work? Is my entire universe going to be rolled back, with nobody remembering what happened?", he asked as he proceeded to dig into his breakfast without further ado.
THE SLORG!
Louie took one last glance over his shoulder as he and Thomas were heading out. "Uh, is he gonna be okay just being left here?" Louie wondered aloud.
"He can find some company if he wants it. He even knows where we're going" Thomas pointed out, then headed outside and looked down the street. "Oh, lucky us; it's right there" the young wizard added, and walked off towards the library with Louie and the pokemon in tow.
"Yeah, pretty much" Tset answered with a nod. "If you go back to the moment you left, it would almost be like nothing even happened. The only thing changed would be your own knowledge, and having whatever you take home with you" the assistant explained, pointing to his head, then continued, "unless you want to wish for anybody else to remember, or for yourself to not remember, or wish for something to be different about your universe. I know our bosses would prefer not to put your universes back to exactly how they were before this experiment, but since Writer owes you one, I'm sure he would if that's what you want."
Given the difference in the city shifting of the day, already plenty of people who were looking to get to the library were arriving. Now, the people who were impatient enough to want to go home immediately with no delay had simply asked for the Writer wherever they woke up, so these were people willing to take a bit longer, or had some reason not to leave right away. As such, they mostly started helping themselves to the large breakfast selections; who would pass up such a good looking free meal right in front of them?
Even so, a couple people did move for the central desks, pausing as they noticed Miss Tairee, asleep.
"The librarian is asleep?" some lady asked.
"Correct. Tset and I will be the ones helping you for today. Miss Tairee will awaken in due time" Tester responded from above, as he floated down to be closer to the people seeking assistance, and started attending to them.
At one of the doors, Louie and Thomas walked inside, and looked around, not spotting Ben just yet.
Edited by FirockFinion on Aug 17th 2021 at 10:51:21 AM
You are reading this.
For the Horde!
As Ben sat there eating, he also thought for a moment. He knew that he had to make a choice as to what way he wanted to be sent home. He was leaning towards going back to when he left— he had complained about his summer vacation being ruined, after all.
However, how on Earth would he explain all this to Gwen and Grandpa? There was no way they would believe him...
Ben was so lost in thought he didn't even notice Louie or Thomas enter the library yet.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Library, at breakfast table
Garrett looked up to the ceiling, tapping his chin. "And... suppose I asked to be sent even further back in time... say, ten days or so before I got kidnapped? Would that fly?," he asked Tset.
Herc awoke on a couch in the Library, he was slightly drowsy but he got up, stretching his arms and yawning. Yes the battle had indeed happened, yes the Evil Miss Tairee appeared to be gone and now the writer was...apologising so it seemed. It was hard to believe but Hercules was glad that it was over.
"Oh wow. Will you look at that." Hercules said to himself, admiring the huge breakfast that was on display in front of him. So much food, so much to choose from and yet he didn't know where to begin. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar face, Ben was sitting not too far from where he was. So naturally Hercules decided to join him.
"Hey Ben, are you alright?" Hercules cheerfully called to Ben as he sat down next to him. If it was really going to be the last day for Herc here in the city, then it was probably a good thing to spend it with the friends he had made here.
For the Horde!
Ben turned towards the Greek hero and his eyes widened.
"Hercules!" he exclaimed, jumping up from his seat and smiling wide. "I'm... fine, I guess. So... it's all over, huh? We're gonna get to go home? It's amazing to finally go home, but at the same time..." He sighed. "I'm really gonna miss you guys. But I think I have an idea. I'm just gonna wait for—" he started to say.
Then he noticed out of the corner of his eye, Louie and Thomas entering the library.
"Oh hey, speaking of," said Ben, pleasantly surprised. "Hey, Louie! And uh... hey, Thomas..." Ben said, the enthusiasm leaving his voice when he saw the wizard, replaced by a somewhat sheepish and guilty tone to his voice. "Good to see... you two are getting along again? Okay, I'll admit, I was a dum-dum, but things are turning around. We're all gonna get to go home, right?"
He looked between Thomas, Louie and Hercules.
"All right, so I know exactly what I want to wish for. We're friends, and I don't want this to be the end of our time together. So I'm gonna wish for a way to keep that going. So we don't have to say goodbye forever. I just need to think about what exactly to ask for, is all," Ben told the gathered group. "So we can keep seeing and visiting each other even after we go home."
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
THE SLORG!
First Tset addressed Garrett's question. "Yeah, being sent even further back is certainly doable. We'd just have to work out some details, to make sure you're getting what you intended; like whether the you of now would be replacing the you of your past, or just sending the you of now back so there'd be two of you at the same time" Tset answered, pointing in his hand one way and then another when mentioning the past or now. Then Hercules got there, and Tset grinned wide. "Hey hey! Hercules, my man!" the assistant exclaimed cheerfully, pointing at Hercules with finger guns.
...
"... Oh right, that wasn't you you. Sorry, different Herc, technically" Tset said after an awkward moment of silence.
Then Louie and Thomas got there. After Ben apologized, Thomas shook his head. "It's okay, Ben; I'm just sorry that I allowed our disagreements to come between our friendship" Thomas said in response.
"Yeah, we're all good now" Louie said, nodding his head. After Ben's idea, Louie looked pretty stoked. "A way for us to come to each other's universes? That's a great idea! I wanna wish for that too!" the trainer exclaimed.
"Louie, I'm not sure we'd need to use more than one wish for that" Thomas pointed out.
"He's right; that would be superfluous" Tset commented with a nod.
"... Wait, who are you?" Thomas then asked, looking at Tset.
"Tset Diy Signh'ere! Basically I am to Director what Miss Tairee is to Writer" Tset answered, pulling out another business card and handing it over to Thomas, who looked at it with some more confusion.
Then however, Thomas thought of something. "So, we can use just one wish for that? To connect all our worlds?" Thomas questioned the assistant.
"That's right" Tset responded simply.
Thomas turned to the pokemon trainer. "Louie, if you still can't think of anything to wish for, what if you use your wish for that, and Ben could use his wish for something else" Thomas suggested, then turned back to Ben, "like if there's anything about your home you would want to fix."
You are reading this.
For the Horde!
Ben smiled slightly at Thomas and nodded.
"You're forgiven," Ben told the wizard. "Good to be friends with you again." After that, he thought for a moment, shaking his head slightly.
"There are a few other people that I'd want to be able to visit," Ben told Louie. "Well, mainly one..." Ben blushed, thinking about Eve. He knew that if he were to be able to visit anyone in the entire multiverse, it would be Eve that he would beeline to see first.
"Eve... She's... special to me. And I don't want things to end between us. And I promised I would find a way to see her again," he explained. "She needs to be included in the worlds that I can visit. I won't make the wish without it."
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
THE SLORG!
Thomas was a bit confused by Ben's response. "I don't see why that would keep Louie from being the one to make that wish, but if you insist" Thomas said.
"It's okay Thomas, I can try to think of something I'd want to wish for, if Ben doesn't want to chance it" Louie said to Thomas.
"Let me guess, kid; you wanna be the best pokemon trainer ever?" Tset asked rhetorically, with a somewhat cheeky grin.
"What?! No!" Louie snapped back instantly, in an indignant tone. "I mean, yes I do; but I don't want to just cheat my way to the top with some magic wish! I want to do it myself!" the trainer elaborated, still indignant.
Tset briefly inhaled through his teeth with that, 'I don't know how to tell you this bad news' frown. "Unfortunately I don't think that's happening, kid; you're not the main character in your universe" Tset said, now in a more neutral tone.
"What?" Louie muttered, now confused.
Thomas, who had been thinking since Tset started talking, clearly had an idea. "Oh, Ben! We should make a list, to make sure we don't forget anybody" Thomas suggested, then looked to Tset. "Could we get paper and a quill- sorry, pen, please?" the young wizard asked.
"Sure thing!" Tset responded, back to his cheerful tone, and pressed on his tablet like he was dialing a phone number. Soon enough at one end of the table there was a cut in the air, and a few sheets of paper and a couple of retractable pens appeared.
Around that same time, elsewhere in the lobby, Lieutenant Wells, a number of militia members, and a number of former inmates at the prison were entering the library, starting to enjoy the breakfast options or seek assistance from Tester, much like the rest of the crowd in the library.
You are reading this.
Snowy
Rean walked into the library. Yesterday was pretty chaotic for him, after getting wrapped up in helping keep people safe from Evil Tairee and her cohorts. He looked around, trying to see if anyone he knew was around...and spots Ben and Herc.
"Hey!" Rean shouted, giving a wave to Herc and Ben. "You two are ok!" That was good, at least they made it through yesterday.
"I'm glad to see your alright." Herc replied to Ben: "It looks like it's our last day together but we've been through quite a lot since we've been here." As soon as Tset approached him, Hercules looked at him very confused, not really knowing who this person was or why he was making finger gun gestures at him: "Um...can I help you?" Tset was kind of disappointed that it wasn't the Hercules he was expecting. Herc himself, just had to take a second to process what he was saying until finally he came up with: "Well...it's not the first time this has happened, I guess." Slightly recalling the time when Arcade was unsettled by him for whatever reason and the time when he first met Jack the first time he came to the city. He didn't understand why this was the case, something to do with different universes, he didn't get it and quite frankly he wasn't going to think about itnow, because it was easier to roll with it, rather than question it. Anyways, Ben was deciding on what to wish for: "One wish, huh? Hmm don't know what I'll wish for personally."
Louie and Thomas had arrived and were already making plans on what their wishes would be. For the moment, Herc just pondered on the subject whilst pouring a jug of water into a glass and grabbing a plate and filling it with bread, bacon and any kind of fruit and veg he could find.
"Rean! How are you? We haven't seen you in abit!" Herc cried out to Rean who was approaching both him and Ben just as he finished getting his breakfast.
Edited by TheStarscream759 on Aug 21st 2021 at 2:19:48 PM
For the Horde!
Ben thought for a moment and nodded, taking a piece of paper and a pen, and putting it on the table in front of him, beginning to write.
'List of Worlds to Visit: Ben, Thomas, Louie, Hercules, Eve' he started to write in somewhat messy handwriting. He glanced up, noticing Rean waving and approaching the group.
"Hey, Rean! Long time no see!" he exclaimed, hastily adding 'Rean' to the list. "We're putting together a list for what we're gonna wish for. We're gonna try and see if we can't wish for a way that all of us can visit each other's worlds whenever we want! Isn't that great?" he asked.
Remembering that he still had some bacon and eggs to eat, he took another bite out of his food, though he was starting to fill up. "You thought about what you want to wish for, Rean?" he asked the young man.
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
THE SLORG!
"There isn't anything really bad in your universe you'd like to see changed?" Thomas asked to Hercules, after hearing that he wasn't sure what to use his wish for.
"Oh he's already taken care of the really bad things, since he's Hercules after all" Tset commented from the side.
"Wait let me guess, he's that 'main character' thing you were talking about from his place?" Louie asked Tset.
"He sure is! Bleeding Effect usually names it after him too, commonly as an animated film or series. Here" Tset answered cheerfully, poking at his tablet a few times. There was a cut in the air, and a DvD case with a cartoon depiction of Hercules posing on the cover, with Meg, Pegasus, Phil, and Hades also visible in the background; Tset offered it over to Louie, who looked at it with some confusion.
"Um, mister Signh'ere, I'd like to know some things about our wishes before we make them" Thomas said, interjecting on the conversation.
"Sure thing, shoot" Tset responded simply.
"Well, for what I'd really like, there's these two dark wizards of my world: Grindelwald, and Voldemort. I'd like to have it so that their evil acts are completely undone; however, I want to know if they'd just end up being replaced by something else just as bad, or even worse" Thomas questioned the assistant.
Tset shook his head. "Oh no no, no monkey's paw going on here, kid. Writer's doing this as an apology after all, so we're making extra sure that the wishes end up the way you guys actually want them. We're not going to be twisting around your words or making it worse" Tset assured the young wizard.
"Okay, well... The other thing is that Grindelwald was in the past, and apparently Voldemort is yet to happen in the future. So is that going to be a problem?" Thomas went on with his other concern.
"Nah, not really. What you consider the past, present, and future of your universe is really irrelevant to us" Tset said, seemingly referring to himself, the other assistants, and their bosses. "We can change all that with no worries" he added.
"But what about the ramifications that changing the past would have on the present? If everything ends up differently, would I have even still been born? Would there be a different version of me that only remembers the changed past? If it changes me, would I even remember my friends here?" Thomas asked at length.
"I already said we'll make sure it's like how you want it, didn't I?" Tset pointed out, before continuing, "you'll still be you, and you can decide which version of things you'd like to remember; you could remember both timelines even, if you wanted to."
Edited by FirockFinion on Aug 22nd 2021 at 12:49:39 PM
You are reading this.
Snowy
"That sounds great. Is it going to be everyone's worlds, or just some of them?" Rean says to Ben. "And I'm doing fine, comparatively."
Rean shrugged, scooping up some eggs and a bread roll from the breakfast buffet.
"As for my wish...I don't know. To be honest, there's a lot of things I could wish for. I'm leaning towards wishing that the civil war in my homeland doesn't happen...or at least that it stops. And I don't want to fix it only for something worse to happen instead."
He then turns towards Tset and Thomas, as they talk about exactly that last bit. "...Huh. That answers that question."
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
Despite having to wipe tears from my eyes, I couldn't help but smile. Silly me, thinking we were anything less...well, I knew what to do.
I went back into the room I'd been, climbed up a conveniently large window frame...I could do this, I knew I could do this, I was going to prove it to myself like I'd done multiple times already until it stuck...transformed, and stepped out to sit in midair.
"Hey, since you can hear me...if I asked to, say, go back to shortly before my original death, but keep this magic, the stuff on my person, and...well, I guess you'd have me keep my memories anyway...if I asked for that, would that consume a wish or be counted separately? Also, would there be two of me or would I just override my past self completely?"
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THE SLORG!
Tset had this odd look of contemplation on his face. "I can't rightly say if our bosses would agree to connecting the universes of everyone here or not, but I can say that it would sure be a complicated pain in the rear" Tset commented after Rean's question. "... Well, it's already going to be complicated, but not much more complicated than what's already happened because of previous events. Ben's hub has already been connected with one of Developer's universes" the assistant added after thinking a bit more.
"I think there's some worlds we definitely don't want to visit" Thomas said, shaking his head. "Though it's up to Ben right now, like..." he trailed off slightly, looking to Ben before sighing.
"If you want to connect Lewis' world too, I won't object" Thomas told Ben simply and sincerely. "I may not like the guy, but if you see him as a friend and want to visit him again, it's not my place to say you shouldn't" he elaborated.
There was a slight delay, but sure enough, Lewis would hear that sound of writing in the air again, before Writer's words appeared to him.
"You could go farther back, retaining your current self, without consuming your wish. I would assume you'd prefer to override your past self, to reduce on complications, but if you would rather exist alongside them, that can be arranged. Your memories would stay, unless you'd like your memories changed as part of your wish; say to make it easier to integrate yourself with the changes made to your world with your wish, if that's what you want."
You are reading this.
For the Horde!
Ben furrowed his brow and shook his head.
"Nah, I wouldn't connect everybody's worlds, just me and my friends," Ben explained. "And I'll wanna talk with Lewis first before I do anything like that."
With that answered, Ben turned his attention to Rean.
"There's a civil war in your world? Gee, that's heavy..." Ben murmured. "Yeah, sounds like a good thing to use your wish on if you ask me."
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
When Thomas asked Herc if there wasn't a thing Herc wished for and Tset basically summed up what the current situation was, Hercules then elaborated further after that: "Well Meg's said everything's fine back in my world. Hades is still in the River Styx as far as I remember and he'll be in there for a good while, plus the Titans have already been dealt with."
Read then talked about wanting to end the civil war in his world: "Wow, a war. I'm sorry you got caught up in a war there, Rean." He said giving his friend some sympathy. "I don't think I'd want to live in that kind of situation either."
Edited by TheStarscream759 on Aug 24th 2021 at 3:21:43 PM
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
"No, before my death is plenty. I don't have much going on before that, except that blur before I got adopted I guess. Actually maybe I'll reopen that whole thing, just out of curiosity, but I'm not going to relive my entire life, it seems like too much of a hassle."
I didn't really know what to do with a wish of cosmic scale when I had roughly everything of consequence I could want that wouldn't be fixed by this act of time travel. Maybe keeping with touch with one or five people, though I'd probably want to check that it wouldn't be redundant. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to have that idea.
Yeah, might as well do it now.
"I'll get back to you. I suddenly need to clear some stuff with other people."
Incidentally, the library was right across the street.
Well, if anywhere were likely to have everyone you've ever met here...I floated down (slowly) and inside, toward the desks, doing some main character pose that probably looked cooler in my head.
"Morning, Miss oh she's still asleep. Well, hi to everyone else, for the second time today in some cases. How's everyone's return plans looking?"
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Library
Garrett nodded in response to Tset's answer. "Hah... No way I'd want there to be two of me. For one, I don't like competition."
While everyone else were discussing their plans, he had finished his meal a minute ago, and was brooding with closed eyes. Just as Lewis entered, Garrett opened his eyes halfway and muttered a question into the air:
"...So. Designer or whatever, if you can hear me. Just to confirm... I understand that I've finished the challenge that you'd given me, and in reward, you guarantee me to get rid of the Hag that's threatening my city. I take it that promise still stands?"
For the Horde!
As Ben sat there thinking, he noticed some pink out of the corner of his eye, turning his head to see Lewis approaching the group.
Ben smiled, nodding.
"Hey, Lewis. Things are going well, we're actually talking about what we wanna wish for right now," he explained, pushing the paper he was writing forward so that Lewis could see.
"Louie's talking about wishing for a bunch of us to be able to visit each other's worlds whenever we want. I was thinking about including you in this list, but what would you think about that?" he asked. "I don't wanna mess you up if you're wanting to do something else..."
I can still hail the Horde even though the company has shamed us. Strength and Honor even if Blizzard has neither.
Dark Sun, what choices have I...?
"Well, as long as I don't end up with a chaos god crawling out my toilet or something, sure. Actually, I was just considering something along those lines, but I was worried it'd be redundant." I took the paper. "Actually, how are you with friends of friends? I realize most of us all knew the same people but, y'know. Then again, that might bloat the list a bit...maybe if, actually just a moment."
I looked between the large buffet and the guy I didn't recognize. "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where in this impressive spread I could find a Mexican mocha blend, would you?"
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THE SLORG!
"We've been told that they're going to be doing everything they can to have our wishes not blow up in our faces" Thomas said to Lewis, in response to his comment about chaos gods and porcelain. "So as long as they're not lying" the young wizard added as an afterthought.
Then, Tset put on a wide grin after Lewis asked about his choice of breakfast drink. "Say no more, sir!" Tset said, tapped his earpiece to turn it back on, then tapped on his tablet a few times. Tset did a quick little spin in place, as there was a cut through the air where he was; ending the spin, he now had some kind of coffee barista apron worn over his suit, which was dark gray with a golden trim. (It seemed to be actual gold, and not just a gold-colored fabric.) "Okay, we got an order for a Mexican mocha blend for one mister Lewis Pepper, sweet and extra spicy!" the assistant announced, acting like he was relaying this back to a non-existent kitchen, while pressing buttons on the tablet again.
In the air next to Tset there was another cut, and a metal tray with cups of ingredients appeared, and obediently remained floating perfectly still there, in defiance of gravity. Tset grabbed a little empty bowl from the tray, placed it in the air in front of himself where it too just floated; then he started quickly adding ingredients to it whilst narrating along with each ingredient he added. "That'll be two tablespoons of powdered sugar, one tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder, one quarter teaspoon of cinnamon, one quarter teaspoon of nutmeg, and one eights teaspoon of cayenne pepper- twice for our fellow with the taste for the spice!" With that, Tset took a little spoon and started to stir the mix together; then he let go of the spoon, which continued to stir on its own. He grabbed a cup from the tray, and a small, sleek kettle, from which he poured into the cup. "Two shots espresso! Now blend in the mix!" the assistant proclaimed, grabbing the first bowl and dumping it into the cup; the little spoon righted itself mid fall to land in the cup with the proper end, and continued to stir on its own, now more vigorously.
"Then finally, some heavy cream" Tset stated in a calm, cool tone, like a masseuse trying to relax their patient, as he grabbed another cup from the tray and poured the cream into the cup. The little spoon had likewise slowed its stirring; after Tset put the cream back onto the tray, he gingerly took hold of the little spoon and lifted it out of the cup, turning it sideways and tapping on the edge of the cup a couple times to get the lingering drops on the spoon into the cup. "Your drink, monsieur" the assistant muttered in a purposefully fake French accent, as he made a little bow; the cup of Mexican mocha blend floated through the air over to Lewis.
"... Impressive" Thomas commented, and clapped lightly a few times.
Louie seemed more genuinely in awe. "Wait, you said that's sweet and spicy? I'll take one!" Louie said eagerly, then thought for a moment. "No wait, five! Two not spicy, and one extra spicy! Then another cup of just the mix without the drink, and something bitter for Pecha!" the trainer requested, as he mentally check listed his team of pokemon.
While Tset started to get to work on those drinks and mix for the pokemon trainer, in the meantime there was a few audible beeps in the air, sounding like someone selecting through options in a video game menu; it was like Writer's writing, in that everyone nearby heard it regardless of their ability to hear. Then what looked like a dialogue window from an RPG appeared in their vision.
"What was that?" Louie asked, having paused while handing off the drinks to his pokemon.
"Designer, one of Writer's pals, and the boss of Tester over there" Tset answered, pointing over his shoulder to the floating rack of computer equipment that was the AI assistant. "Plus he's the one who made your universe, along with his" the assistant added, pointing to Louie, and then to Garrett.
Edited by FirockFinion on Aug 27th 2021 at 1:56:43 AM
You are reading this.
...Garrett sat on a building roof, his back against a humming AC unit. His eyes were closed and his breath steady as he took in the Writer's message.
Sighing, he stood up wearily, and looked out on the city — the twisty maze of boxlike buildings, the convolution of samey streets. He shook his head. "Should have thought ahead, fella", he muttered. "I suppose I can accept your apology, though..." Casting his sight further yet, he pondered the balcony where he originally appeared, and the endless nothing beyond. Last day, last day. It was truly all over.
Aaaaah... So what now? He patted the bag of holding at his side, spines of ancient books visible within. Within his pockets were a few nice surprises: items which he had lost after dying in prison — a few gemstones, the mobile phone. Everyone's going to be in a friendly and contemplative mood... Maybe I should lift a few purses as a final goodbye... He smiled weakly, and shook his head. Hah. The people here have nothing good anyway. Guess I'll just say my farewells the traditional way.
Garrett stretched, and vaulted over the edge of the roof, without even bothering to put on the climbing gloves. He could not resist a quiet whoop of delight as he fell, unharmed, to the ground ten stories below.
He then headed out, having no destination in mind, other than looking for the other heroes...
...And subtly, helpfully, the shifting streets nudged him to the library. A building he had visited so often, often crashing on a couch to sleep... it felt like a sort-of home, though he would never admit it.
Garrett stepped through the door, and whistled at the sight of the sumptuous breakfast. "Well, would you look at that," he said. "Just like in all the kids' stories. A triumphant feast after the hero cuts down the monster." He blinked as he noticed Ben standing nearby. "Hah. Speaking of kids... Hiya there."