Fortunately for Gon, nobody was in the gun store, because if there was they most certainly would've blown him away the moment he poked his head in, given the way he loudly snapped the metal door handle off before deciding to slowly sneak in.

Unfortunately for Gon, whoever the absent occupants were, they apparently didn't feel like leaving any of their good toys behind. In his search around the store he would find a total of four semi auto handguns and two revolvers, all six of which were in low calibers, plus one MP5N submachinegun. There was at least plenty of weapon accessories and ammunition in a back room.

There was plenty of blinking in bewilderment the moment Ben turned back into human. "Wait what? You're just a kid?" the woman couldn't help but think out loud. As Ben made his statements though, she groaned out a sigh and rolled her eyes a bit. "Alright kid, first let's get you something to keep the cold off" she said, removing the coat she had and tossing it underhand at him.

"I don't know where the big, blue guy is. We were trying to take a shortcut through one of those crevices and got jumped by bugs; he came crashing down from above, squashing one of them, then started attacking the rest with some kind of chainsaw sword while screaming at us to get out of the crevice while we could. We tried to keep track of him from the top of the ramp but he just kept going and going until he rounded a corner and we lost sight of him; that was early in the morning yesterday so he could be anywhere for all I know" the woman explained to answer Ben's question.

"At any rate, why's it you that's got to be the hero, huh? Just because you can turn into a guy made of fire?" the woman asked Ben in return, folding her arms as she tried to ignore the cold.

"I think it's related to that bracelet on his arm" the elderly and apparently well observant man said, pointing to the omnitrix.

"That thing? Then why don't you give it to someone else and go have fun with snowballs like the rest of the kids around town have been doing? Leave the scary hero stuff to more... Adjusted people" the woman recommended, having to pause to choose her final wording carefully.

edited 13th Dec '15 11:24:37 AM by FirockFinion

Ben took the coat and slipped it on as soon as he could.

"Thanks," he told the lady, glad to be warm again. He then looked at her, continuing to glare. "Anyway!" he stated, looking up at her. "Are you saying I can't be a hero just because I'm a kid?! I've got tons of alien forms to choose from and I've beat lots of aliens with them! Big, really tough ones too! I can handle giant bugs!" He crossed his arms. "I like being a hero! It means I can help people in need, and it's really fun and awesome. It's not scary, I'm not like five. Besides."

He lifted up the sleeve of the coat to show them the Omnitrix, trying to yank it off of his arm to no avail, in demonstration. "The Omnitrix is stuck to my wrist. I can't take it off. I've tried." He put his hands behind his head. "So there."

edited 13th Dec '15 12:21:23 PM by AllHailThrall

Kieri committed Adam's name to memory as he stood and spoke, standing up with him. "Kieri S-Suizahn, a p-pleasure to meet you...S-Sorry about the i-ice..."

"Right t-then," Kieri started, turning back towards Darth Marr "l-lets give this m-man a p-proper bur-...Where's t-the body?" She asked, eyes wide. In all the hubbub of making sure Adam didn't die due to her hands, she hadn't noticed the corpse of the man who lived in this store disappear. Was this the doing of someone in this group she found herself in? Or perhaps something else entirely...

Specter Knight's sudden appearance startled Kieri. The newcomer all but appeared out of thin air, his face unreadable behind his mask. For all she knew, it could've been another enemy. "Erm...H-Hello..." She said shakily, hoping this greeting wouldn't earn her a kick in the teeth.

That wasn't the only thing Kieri had noticed-she had seen the mob in front of the diner several times now, but now she was actually close enough to try and do something. If she figured out what was going on. She turned towards Rex (she was thankful she hadn't pointed that canon at her...Yet) and Lune. "W-What's going on o-over t-there?" She asked.

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Sadness subtly scooted away. A giant octopus? Well...it wasn't the weirdest thing she had ever seen. And he seemed friendly enough? She wasn't completely convinced that the octopus wouldn't eat them when their guards were down, but Sadness gave him the benefit of the doubt.

"Um, I don't know my size...I probably don't have one," Sadness ventured, sounding almost despondent at the simple fact that she didn't know what her shirt size was. "I don't need anything, anyways...but can you get sweaters and things for Mary?"

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Lune hears the angel talk, and she reminds her a bit of Kusuha Mizuha. In fact, she has Kusuha's blue hair and her speaking style. Let's hope this angel doesn't make any "deadly" health shakes.

Lune replies, "Well, let's just say we looked before we leaped and leave it at that, alright?"

edited 13th Dec '15 12:47:00 PM by josh6243

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Judging by their shaky voice, Specter Knight had unnerved the stranger with his sudden appearance. Good. "My apologies if my unexpected appearance unnerved you, mortal."

In truth, he wasn't that sorry. Still, he had no desire for this group to attack him, judging by the way one of was gripping somebody by the neck.

edited 13th Dec '15 12:59:27 PM by astrokitty

As Marr was still choking the man, he heard Kieri asking him to put the man down in order to question him.

"If you wish. But do so immediately, as I do not want him to escape after he catches his-"

Marr then was interrupted as a blade immediately popped out and impaled the man, the man's corpse going limp in his grip, before it then disappeared after as few seconds...strange.

Then suddenly, what he assumed to be a teenager suddenly aimed some kind of gun at him, while he still kept a calm composure, he had his lightsaber ready from his holster if this teenager would attack him.

"Before you go to conclusions without getting answers, a looter tried to attack this man, Darth Marr pointed at Adam. And this boy, He then pointed at Morty. All of this and the like is a bad misunderstanding." He stated to Rex, before Kieri asked where the body of the aggressor was.

"It appears his body disappeared moments after his death...though I do not know by what."

edited 13th Dec '15 12:54:45 PM by Darkomega245

"I wasn't thinking straight. When someone attacks you with a sword and strangely Bees, You tend to go fight or flight."

Adam stood up straight "Thank you Kieri," was his first response. He adjusted his coat and looked for further signs of injuries, clean.

Asgore had been just a spectator through the whole thing, after all, he had just arrived in that city so he wasn't very knowledgeable about what was happening or had happened by the time he arrived, other than some pretty gruesome things going from what he just heard. Once Ben turned back into a human he was going to give him his cape again, but the woman had a better solution to it so he just kept it for himself.

"I would say to not underestimate what a child could do. Sometimes they are capable of feats nobody else would be capable of doing, I know this because I have seen it happen." said Asgore, wearing a smile on his face as he recalled some of the events that happened in the Underground "In either case, as I am a very recent arrival to this city, you said there were plants and giant bugs here yesterday? I cannot see how plant life could grow in an environment like this..." he said, then glancing at his surroundings for a moment.

Grimlock (RiD15); Dino mode

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Grimlock was going to answer some of the others' comments (and question), but then a bunch of stuff happened, and he wasn't so sure how to help. Why? Because it involved humans. These guys might've not screamed or ran when they saw him, but there were some humans earlier who stayed away from him, and there was a already very scared kid, he didn't want to scare him further.

But he didn't want to stand by either.

His mind went back and forth on it, but by the time he decided to just be nearby to see if he could help, more stuff happened, and a guy disappeared while another one with a scythe.

This was one weird place.

He stood back up and neared the group, his steps easily heard. When he was beside them, he lowered himself onto all fours again then said,

"Uh... What just happened? Everyone all right?"

edited 13th Dec '15 2:24:10 PM by ShoutmonZ

Specter Knight thought to himself. Disappearing corpses, people with weapons he'd never seen before...

Perhaps joining this group would be a better option than being alone...

"Oh, Spectre Knight, I didn't see you there, ya old scoundrel!" Plague Knight greeted Spectre. "Of course with such a transparent personality like your's, it'd be easy to not see you! HEE HEE HEEEEEE!!"

Spectre Knight sighed. Of all the people he could possibly run into...

"I'm surprised to find you here as well, Plague Knight...alive, that is."

edited 13th Dec '15 3:43:55 PM by astrokitty

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"My size?"

It seemed that Mary was far more confused about the concept of her having a specific clothes size rather than the fact that she was talking to a huge octopus with a hat and an English accent. She took a few seconds to take a good look at herself, front and back, before turning back to the gentleman.

"Uhm... I dunno," the fabricated girl admitted, with her arms stretched to the sides. "Something about... this size?"

"It w-was the l-least I could d-do Adam," Kieri said honestly "after a-all, it was p-partially m-my fault you ended up l-like that in t-the first place..."

Kieri tried to mull over Luna's words, wondering what they meant when it came to the crowd behind her, but she was for the moment a little to distracted by Spectre Knight. The way he looked, the way he carried himself, his use of the word 'mortal'...She wasn't particularly sure how to respond to that. She did know how to respond to Plague Knight's apparent familiarness with him.

"P-Plague Knight," Kieri spoke up "you t-two...Know each other?"

Darth Marr's words came next, responding to her question of what happened to the body. It just...Disappeared? How? He was holding onto it by the neck...Kieri glanced around again at those who surrounded her. "D-Does...T-That happen often? D-Dead bodies d-dissappearing, I m-mean."

Finally came the reappearance of Grimlock. She was thankful that he remembered to lower himself so that she could look him in the face when she spoke to him. She'd have to make it up to him by flying up to do so one of these days. "N-Nothing that h-hasn't already been t-taken care of, I t-think," she explained to the dinobot "although...it c-could've been m-much worse, and m-much better..."

Ben glanced up at Asgore, still walking.

"Well, from what I've seen so far, the city keeps changing every day. The first day it was just a normal city, nothing weird about it except for how it keeps shifting all over the place. Second day it turned into a huge jungle with giant bugs and plants and all that. And now it's a frozen ice mountain," he explained. He grinned, though, when Asgore told them not to underestimate children. "You said it, Your Highness," he replied with a big smile.

"You seem disappointed that I am still among the living," Plague Knight said to Spectre. Then Kieri asked the question about bodies disappearing.

"Oh, you're going to hate this," he said to Spectre before turning to Kieri. "That man not just disappeared, but transported to another part of the city, alive and well. Apparently, the God who created this realm made it so that any he deems as 'permanent' residents are incapable of permanent death. We should not be surprised if we see that man again in the future."

"Great that just means we can kill him all over again," Adam responded, "Well. The next step is working on Rick's portable heater if we want to stay alive."

Twilight was so shocked by the man getting stabbed with the blade that she became rather quiet for a while. After finally regaining composure, she spoke in response to Adam.

"Yeah, having a heater would definitely be helpful in this cold environment. Which is slowly getting colder."

edited 13th Dec '15 8:41:37 PM by Cybersbe

"Wow, Rick, look at all these new people... and... robots... and... uh... I dunno what that's supposed to be, some kind of u-u-unicorn or something?" Morty waved nervously at the newcomers, who didn't seem hostile... but then again, you could never really tell in this messed up miniature universe. Notably, one of the newcomers seemed to be on a first-name basis with Plague Knight, whatever that meant.

"Uh, h-hi, I guess?" he said to the assembled group of newcomers. "My names Morty, and, uh, we're all, you know, stuck..." he trailed off after Plague Knight illustrated the situation far more intelligently and concisely.

"So, uh, is everyone from your universe some kind of knight?" he asked, "And, uh, if everyone's a knight, why do you bother to uh, you know, call one another knights?"

"-Morty *urp* Morty, Jesus," said Rick, sliding back around into the impromptu meeting, "you can't just make these kinds of assumptions about people, okay? He -they- probably live in some static medieval civilization where serfs, peasants, impoverished, easily-downtrodden people... you get the idea... create cults of personalities around the nobility for, I dunno, stabbing people who practice the wrong religion every few centuries. Noblesse oblige, Morty, look it up, it's a thing."

"Huh. Sounds, uh, sounds kinda weird when you put it that way, Rick."

"And that's- it's not a unicorn, Morty;" continued Rick, eye twitching as he did his best to burrow even further into his parka, "it's some kind of *urp* it's some magical, easily-trademarkable creature ... it, it probably comes from a nice, id-idealistic little dimension waaaaaaay out there in the quantum foam where nobody probably ever gets genocided." Rick waved his hands sarcastically in the air to better illustrate his vague point.

"Huh. Hey, R-rick, you know, uh, that doesn't sound so bad, huh?"

"Morty, it's never that- it's never ever that simple. Remember the parasites, Morty? Remember Tinkles the maaaaaagical unicorn and her- her pastel, marketable friends? Remember that?"

"Y-y-yeah, Rick, I get it, okay?"

"One wrong move, Morty, one wrong move and our *urp* purple friend from our imagination is gonna get atomized." Rick tapped the bottom of a purloined whiskey bottle ^note  which he hadn't been mercilessly slugging back for the last few minutes, no sireee and threw it over his shoulder; the bottle smashed to pieces against the pavement.

edited 13th Dec '15 8:38:53 PM by Locoman

Legion quietly looked at the crowd that had assembled. It then looked towards Rick, who had just broken one of the liquor bottles that he'd been drinking out of.

"Rick, it would be more prudent to construct the heating machine and ensure future survival. Any commentary on the usefulness of your allies can wait until our survival is assured for the long-term," the geth prodded.

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The guy in the armor suit calmly said that it was all a misundertanding, he had actually helped Adam and co from another assailant. Rex didn't really trust in him but he didn't attack and Adam seemed to confirm his story so he reabsorbed the cannon.

A floating guy with a giant scythe appeared and started chating with Plague Knight. Apparently, they knew each other. He hoped PK's friend wasn't as destructive as him.

They talked about Brother Marcus being alive and well. "I was just going to tell you guys that he attacked a guy in that diner, but I think not freezing to death might be a higher priority right now". He had just realized, what with the blue demon running around and killing people, but he was starting to feel really cold. And being hungry didn't help at all.

Rex approached Adam, who was still a bit affected by the previous fight with the supposed attacker, "Hey, do you need help with your cybernetics? I can patch you up" offering a hand to help him.

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After Morty introduced himself, Lune thought it would be nice to follow suit.

"Well, you can call me Lune. And it's nice to meet you all."

The pink-haired girl in armor gave the newcomers a very optimistic smile. From the floating knight with the scythe to the unicorn, this bunch was quite weird indeed. It would be best to be friendly, though. Allies might make this experience easier to deal with.

The weather was starting to get noticeably heavier. It still wasn't horrible yet, but the light amount of snow coming from straight above before was now a heavier amount of snow coming in at a slight angle with a low wind, which seemed to be going in a clockwise pattern through the circular city. When everyone was getting up earlier it was a bit below freezing, certainly cold enough to be unpleasant without warm clothes but not terrible; now the cold was biting, and anyone without adequate protection from the cold would really start feeling the negative effects.

"You haven't met the same k-k-kids I ha- ah jeez, I think-k-k this place is c-colder than it was earlier" the woman said, unable to keep her teeth from chattering.

"Let's find a clothing store quickly to get some more warm clothes then" the elderly man said, and the tunnel group started to pick up the pace, regardless of whether Ben and Asgore followed suit.

"Ah, must be a species that doesn't mind the cold, eh? Well, we can still get something for your friend here" the octopus said, 'walking' up to Mary. "But, since you don't know your own sizes, we'll just have to find out the old fashioned way. If you don't mind, young miss?" he asked, tentatively holding up two of his tentacles towards Mary.

Ben held the coat closer to his body. "Yeah, let's," he responded, following them. "Once I get new clothes, I'll give you back your coat," he assured the woman, as he began to walk after them, shivering a bit even in his coat. He turned towards Asgore. "C'mon, your Highness, let's get moving..."

He walked, really wishing that the Omnitrix would go off cooldown any time now so he could go back to being nice-and-warm Heatblast instead of freezing ice-cold in the snow of the frozen city.