CoLC crossover RP, main thread

When asked if she had seen Kieri, Twilight responded (with some concern), "Actually, I've lost track of her..."

Then, Asgore, Legion, and Marr started a discussion about various genocides they've had to deal with in their own worlds. Twilight internally felt relieved at how she's never had to experience that personally. But she also began thinking about the various futures she saw during her conflict with Starlight Glimmer, and how genocide really did seem to happen in some of them.

Ben eventually asked her a question. A question that gave Twilight a surprised, and somewhat insulted, look on her face and prompted her to ask, "From a little girl's toybox? What's that supposed to mean?"

The conversation between the trio continued, and they started discussing the various forms of magic in their worlds. Twilight decided to pop in how things worked in her world. "In my world, only Unicorns and Alicorns are capable of using magic, outside of some special means."

It took a great deal of willpower for Kieri's jaw not to drop as Brother Marcus reacted to her magic. It still hit him, of course it did, but where a bolt of that calibur could send an Earth Demon perhaps the same size as the space marine at least skidding across the ground, all it made him do was take a knee. On top of that, none of the ice crystalized on to Brother Marcus' armor. It made him bleed, certainly, but the fact that there was not even water running down his armor along with the blood told Kieri that she had come within inches of making a life ending mistake. Which begged the question why he hadn't killed her.

'Right,' She thought, her mind racing and her body becoming numb to what was going on around her, not even noticing when Rick was swung in front of her like a rag doll 'Angels mean a lot to him. What did he call me, an apparition of a saint? Not exactly accurate, but I don't really feel like correcting him at the moment. Ugh, now is not the time to speculate, Kieri! Think, think, do something useful for once!'

Thoughts and memories began to swarm in the angel's head, only occasionally interrupted by a gun shot here, a yelling match there, but soon thing started to come together in her head. 'That man not just disappeared,' came a voice she identified as Plague Knight '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.' She still wasn't sure if she believed it, but...Apparition of a Saint...

'Let me take over,' it was that voice again, the same one who had made her leave her friends behind in St. Curtis 'you'll screw up this whole thing if you don't. And everyone will die. Even if they come back to life, do you really want their blood on your hands?' Kieri bit her lip and considered it. If this failed, she'd die along with everyone else, but if she didn't even try...She'd be a coward. Besides, if she couldn't save all these people, what hope did she have of saving Kazai when she got back home?

So, she let that all to familiar voice take over. Her body grew numb again, but this time it could have motion, and her eyes grew dull and void of emotion. After all, if force would not work on him, what good would emotions do? No, she needed to detach herself, just a little bit. It'll help convince him of her authenticity, surely...

"Y-You remind m-me of me, you know t-that," Kieri said, looking past Rick and towards Brother Marcus "b-before I was d-dragged here, I mean. B-Beheading anything that could be c-considered different, p-protecting my own race to the b-bitter end...This p-place, this city has d-drained me of that drive. I suppose that's why t-these...These xenos and h-heretics are n-not dead where t-they stand. But y-you...You're p-putting that spark b-back into m-me..."

Ben turned back towards Twilight. He sighed, shuddering from the cold.

"You know what? Never mind. That was stupid. I just never saw anything like you in person before. Where I come from, little girls play with dolls and like toy ponies. So I thought you looked like a toy. Okay? Sorry for saying that, all right?" He put his hands behind his head. "Sheesh. This city gets weirder and weirder," he muttered under his breath. He tried to change the subject to make it less awkward.

"What's an... alicorn? I've never heard of those," he finally replied after her statement about magic.

"It is possible that the humans in my world can still use magic, but simply do not remember how to. Us monsters made more use of it on regular basis than them so it could be that when we were sealed, magic just slowly began to fade away from their lives."

When Ben recoiled somewhat, Twilight wondered if maybe she was a little harsh. Clearly many different worlds were represented here. A little ignorance on others' parts was understandable. It was even more than likely Twilight herself wouldn't initially understand some of the people here.

When Ben asked the next question, she responded.

"Basically, Alicorns are ponies who have both a Unicorn horn and Pegasus wings."

edited 8th Jan '16 5:49:31 PM by Cybersbe

The library

Ben had asked the pony if she was a girl's toy and she acted offended. This boy didn't know

"I'm used to talking animals, my best friend is chimp, but the bright colors and the wings fell like overkill" Rex looked to Twilight, and finally realized the oddity of her existence. She came from a world filled with sentient horses which were apparently magical too. And was that a tattoo? On her butt?

"What's up with that weird tattoo, Miss...?" he said trying to remember if she had told him her name.

edited 8th Jan '16 7:27:51 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Ben raised an eyebrow at Twilight Sparkle's explanation. "Ah, that explains so much," he muttered, not entirely sure it did explain that much. In fact, to him it raised more questions than it answered. He wasn't sure if asking these questions would tarnish his masculine image at all, so he decided not to ask them. Instead, he inquired about something else.

"So what's your deal then? Where you from? My world doesn't have magical... talking.... ponies with wings or anything like that. Unless there's some kind of magical talking pony alien that I don't know about."

Library

Legion quietly stood there and listened. It knew better than to interrupt the conversation just yet; just like a fine ambush, you had to wait until the right moment.

The Library

Specter Knight grew tired of listening to them, and went to search for another book in readable condition.

He didn't see any reason to talk about his and Plague Knight's world.

Grimlock; Dino mode

Library

Grimlock frowned at Twillight's reply. That wasn't good. He looked at the library's entrance. He was tempted to go outside and look for her. But even he knew he couldn't survive the cold for long without heat. He vaguely remembered Plague Knight mentioning that nobody dies here, but he was still worried. Especially those two humans she was with. They reminded him of Denny and Russell. Wait...

"W-Wasn't...K-K-Kieri helpin' t-t-t-two humans with s-ome...h-h-heater?" he asked Twilight once again.

"Your lies will not save you now heretic" Brother Marcus said bitterly to Rick, holding the scientist up a little higher off the floor. "I have heard enough about this supposed warp trickery that brings people back from the dead here; true or not, it will not falter my duties" he continued; apparently despite having done it himself, Brother Marcus did not believe that the respawning in the city was real. As Kieri spoke up, Brother Marcus turned his gaze past Rick to look at her.

"Very well. Then there is no more point in delaying" Brother Marcus stated in a more satisfied tone, and turned to leave out the door with Rick still in hand. "Speak your last repentance to the Emperor before your death, or be silent heretic" he instructed Rick as he walked, ignoring Morty.

Ben made an inquiry into where Twilight was from, so she obliged.

"Well, talking ponies are pretty much the norm in my world. In fact, I've actually never seen someone like you in my own world. Although I have been to another world that's full of them. Anyways, I am from a land called Equestria. And I'm one of it's princesses."

Grimlock asked about Kieri again.

"I... think? I didn't get much of a look before the hail started pouring in."

"Jeez, you really are a go-good little brainwashed super... supersoldier, aren't you?" said Rick, rolling his eyes, apparently unfazed by the imminent threat of death or the biting cold. "I mean, what? What do you want me, to say, huh? I don't even know this, this, this, fu-fucking emperor guy because I don't live in the same goddamn dimension you do!"

"Isn't there, like, some other way?" asked Morty, trailing plaintively after the Space Marine in spite of the freezing cold and hail. "Like, I dunno, just giving him a, a, a, a warning? Or something?"

"Shut up, Morty!" whispered Rick. "Get to the library! Run!"

"Huh?"

"Shut up and start running! I'll stall him!"

The scientist wheeled back around to Brother Marcus, "So..." he said, his voice oozing derision, "what's your day been like, huh? Cra-crazy weather, real crazy weather, huuuh?" He laughed an all-too-phony laugh and waved his hands in the air. "Wubba-lubba-dub-dub! That's, that's my catchphrase," he explained after a moment. "Oooh, boy, I hope, you know, catchphrases aren't *urp* aren't heresy," he added, more than a little drunkenly.

Behind him, Morty scampered off down one of the side streets, tucking one of Rick's heaters in his coat and dodging the hail as he went.

"Ohhhhhhhhhh, no," said Rick sarcastically after a few seconds, "I think, uh, I think my grandson went off to get help! Oh boy, I mean, you got a real choice here, should you, uh, should you go and, you know, kill me with your holy instruments? Or should you chase my fifteen-year-old, fairly defenseless grandson? Cause he's got some, real, super...powerful friends, and they'll be pretty mad, if they, you know, find out that you're goin' around killing people again."

edited 8th Jan '16 9:29:01 PM by Locoman

The library

Rex had forgotten about the group that left with Rick and now that Twilight was saying that hail was a problem for them he knew he had to help them.

"What? I can't believe I forgot about them" he adressed everyone near him "Quick, we have to get them back here before they freeze to death!"

"Humans are capable of magic as well in my world," Plague Knight chimed in, mostly listening while tending to the fire. "It is just very rare circumstances where someone could actually conjure through sheer forces of will or talent without the assistance of an artifact or arcana."

Then to Grimlock: "She decided to help Rick with some sort of alcohol powered heaters," Plague Knight explained. "The fact that the one we have now is no where near as effective as a traditional fire, I'd say it was a wasted effort."

edited 8th Jan '16 8:43:34 PM by UdtheImp

As soon as Rex mentioned that Rick, Morty, and this Kieri person were in danger, Ben immediately jumped to his feet.

"What did you say?! People are in danger? Of course we have to help them!" Ben exclaimed. He looked at his watch. The time he had spent here warming up was also helping his Omnitrix get time to go off cooldown, and now the light was lit up green. "I can go Heatblast again and go to save them!" He looked over at the meager fire that the people were starting with the furniture. "And, uh, I can help with that fire," he muttered.

He then turned back to the group and pumped his fist, his eyebrows furrowed and with an excited grin on his face, making him look seriously pumped up. "Rex and I are gonna go out there and bring them back here! Now who's with us?!" he shouted eagerly. "Where's Rick's lab?!"

edited 8th Jan '16 8:43:49 PM by AllHailThrall

"If you two lads want to kill yourselves, be our guest," Plague Knight warned Ben. "Even with your fire elemental form, Ben, there is still the very large hailstones coming down, and as you say it has a time limit. Going out now would be suicide, and in fact counter productive, as if you die, you would just appear somewhere else in the city."

edited 8th Jan '16 8:51:34 PM by UdtheImp

Darth Marr was about to chide Rex from thinking of going outside with the dangerous hails and cold, but then Ben's sudden heroic outburst on to go outside and save those who didn't come here, Marr's only response was to simply just stare at Ben for a long while, it seemed as if he was implying a facepalm.

edited 8th Jan '16 9:21:30 PM by Darkomega245

Ben put his arms on his hips, looking rather stern with Plague Knight's statement.

"Well, what do you want me to do, Plague Knight?" he asked incredulously. "Sit back here at the library and let them freeze to death? No way! As a hero, I can't do that! I can't do it and feel good about myself, at least!" He grumbled angrily, then turned towards the outside, which was looking almost apocalyptically cold and freezing outside. Forget Ice Age, it looked like the inside of a freezer out there. Suddenly Ben's face turned pale and he winced. He was beginning to have second thoughts.

The Library

"Such a course of action is reckless and dangerous, Ben."

Legion took that moment to walk over to the child. "Conditions outside are extremely hostile to all forms of life. Modern Citadel-standard environmental protection suits will no longer provide enough hardening. At the current rate of temperature fall, only semi-powered armor used by Citadel militaries would provide enough protection to survive for any length of time outside."

"While your drive to save those in trouble is admirable, I estimate a 87.636% chance that anyone here who leaves this building will die of exposure."

Rick's Lab

Lune was wondering why Kieri was taking so long with Brother Marcus. She went downstairs to see the kerfuffle in action. Her eyes widen in confusion as she looked around the room. Rick was being held down by Brother Marcus. She also saw Kieri, but she didn't know the Kieri in charge right now isn't the Kieri she knows.

Lune just asked, "What the heck is going on here?!"

Ben's annoyed scowl turned into a crestfallen, almost blank look, as he took in what Legion was saying about how dangerous the temperature was.

"So... are you saying... that those three are already... dead?" Ben asked, barely able to choke out the words. His legs shook, then his knees buckled and he fell on his rear onto the floor of the library. "I can't... I can't save them?" He then began to shake his head gently, falling completely silent and staring into the floor, half-paying attention to everything else.

After a moment of silence, his hands moved up to his hair, and the shaking of his head grew more vigorous. "No. No! No! No! No! NO!!" he shouted, pounding his fist onto the floor of the library. "I can't! I won't believe that! They're alive! And I will save them! I'm a hero! Heroes risk their lives to save people all the time!"

The library

Pk had a point, it was freezing outside and the blizzard would probably knock them around and make finding the lab a nightmare. But he couldn't leave them behind, as much as Rick probably deserved it.

"We're not going to die. And neither are them"

Legion calculated the percentage of failure with a whooping 87% in favor of the weather. Rex looked at the geth annoyed "You are not helping, Legion"

Rex tried to think of a solution. The proabibilities were agaisnt them. But who said anything about going outside?

"Wait, what if we go underground?" he pointed at Ben's watch "Do you have something that can dig?"

edited 8th Jan '16 9:40:01 PM by DeisTheAlcano

"Well, I honestly doubt they'll die of exposure," Plague Knight said to Ben. "As much of a heartless bastard Rick seems to be, I doubt he is callous enough to leave everyone out in this weather. At least as long as his grandson complains about it. If the man has a fraction of the scientific genius he claims to have, he might have already found a way to warm whatever scrap filled hovel he calls of laboratory."

Grimlock; Dino mode

Library

Grimlock's frown turned sympathetic and, despite not wanting to leave the fire exactly, made his way beside Ben, making sure not to block the sight of any of the others that might be near him.

"Y-Y-You're not t-t-t-the only one, k-k-k-kid. I-I-I-I-I wanna go too, b-ut w-e'd f-f-freeze up before w-w-we'd get to them," Grimlock said sadly. "B-B-B-Besides, th-they got that heater."

But then his face brightened up at goggle boy's suggestion. "U-U-U-U-Uh, yeah. You could do that."