MEANWHILE: New arrivals! [Video]

[learntofly]

[Or rather, one new arrival in particular. The video feed switches on to a dark-haired girl looking at something off screen with a look of confused amazement. The angle shifts to show a fairly generic looking set of storefronts and a glimpse of a hover-car driving past on the cross street—apparently the source of her distraction.

She looks back towards the camera, brows furrowing as she fiddles with the device. It takes several more long seconds before realization dawns on her and she actually looks at the camera.]

Oh— Oh! It's on? Well . . . [She trails off and takes another quick glance down the street, then back at the camera.]

Okay. Okay, I'm— I thought I was going to be asking about things like powers and registering and whether or not this is all a dream. [Another pause, this time to bite her lip and mutter something like "maybe it is" to herself.] But I think right now I just want to know . . . Is it normal for a whole city to be sealed off? They told me I'd be in Heropa, but now I've been sent somewhere completely different and it's all supposed to be temporary and I just—I . . . What is going on?

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[akito]

[ ... of all the times to see a familiar face. please ignore the pig in the background of what looks to be a gymnasium. ]

...Nakayama?

[learntofly]

[Well this certainly wasn't who she expected to find here. Not that she's about to complain.]

A-Akito-kun?!

[akito]

You're not- [ you're not supposed to be here. ]

Where are you?

[violentmotion]

[It's a bit later that a hand clumsily obscures the comm's camera, trying to pull Yayoi's communicator up to where HE CAN SEE!!!

The voice is unmistakable...]

Oi! Akito!

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[akito]

Eh?

2/3

[akito]

...Ikki-kun?

3/3

[akito]

[ no no no, as much as he wanted to see ikki again, akito never wanted him to come to this place - not with all its restrictions and dangers. ikki is supposed to be back home where he can be as free as the bird in his soul. ]

You're not supposed to be here!

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[enucleation]

It's not a dream. [ he offers her an apologetic smile. Because yes, everyone would like for this to be a dream ]

And no- something is happening. It'll be fixed. [ he is like 150% sure of himself. ]

[learntofly]

[She does seem a little comforted by his confidence, but even so . . .]

You sound really sure of that. Is it really okay if the whole city's been shut down?

[enucleation]

It's not okay. But this is what might happen when you put people with superpowers in the same place.

[violentmotion]

[For a while, this idiot here just listens to the conversation, sitting in the background behind Yayoi...]

You part of the people doing the fixing?

[enucleation]

[ omg don't eavesdrop ]

...sort of. [ this is the best answer he can give. he is going in for his people, not because he is a super hero who wants to save everyone and stop evil-doers. ]

[ACTION]

[violentmotion]

[Somewhere in the background of the screen, viewers talking to or watching Yayoi might notice some kid skate up behind her.

He peers this way, and then that, studying her back with an intense expression. Then finally, lifts her pigtails up.]

HELICOPTER MODE ENGAGE!

[If she hadn't heard the wheels, then, frankly, there's only one source of pure idiocy that would accost presumable strangers like this.]

[learntofly]

[Naturally she jumps in surprise. Who wouldn't? But any traces of annoyance are quashed when she realizes just who is behind her. (. . . Most traces.)]

—Ikki?!

[violentmotion]

[Still holding onto the tips of her pigtails, Ikki starts as well, SURPRISE CLEAR ON HIS FACE. what was he doing to a stranger?]

Nakayama? You were eaten by the super transdimensional sci-fi wormhole too?!



... I see. They pick the practical one for the heroine. It's that kind of genre...

VIDEO.

[jyuced]

[ He doesn't really know anything about what's going on in Heropa, also being brand new around here and not being housed there. He fumbles the communicator on, holding it a bit too close so that mostly only his eyes and hairline are visible. ]

Wow, really? The whole place?! I don't know, that could be normal here.

[ "Here" to him meaning America as opposed to another universe altogether. He considers it for a moment. ]

Maybe it's a quarantine?

[learntofly]

A quarantine might make sense . . . Hopefully they can keep it contained.

[jyuced]

Do you think anyone's dead? They better find a cure right away, a whole city's a lot of people!

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[violentmotion]

[Somewhere behind Yayoi, another kid practically climbs over her shoulder to examine this new kid.]

They think they can keep me out! IT IS ALREADY MY KINGDOM!

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[microbrobotics]

Hey! You made it out! Dude, I was so worried!

[ Assuming TDM thread were canon y/y? ]

[learntofly]

Oh! Yeah, some official looking guys showed up to get me out to Nonah.

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[violentmotion]

[Super y. WELCOME TINY MINION.]

Hoooooh? Did you think so simple of a trap could have taken in one so great? [He was totally away when it happened. By complete and utter accident.]

GENERAL ROBOMAN! Status report!

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[resoundingpledge]

Yayoi-san?

[ The initial view through the camera is dim and blurred, fabric and . . . a wrench? Pressed too close to see much else. ]

Um, hold on, just a moment. . . it's here . . . it was just here . . .!

[ A moment's vertigo and daylight floods the lens, Kururu's face coming into focus as the brightness adjusts. ]

Yayoi-san?! Is that you?

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[learntofly]

[Omgosh what!! She fumbles with the communicator for a moment, leaning in while the view is still blurry as if she can make sense of it that way, and then—]

Kururu-chan?! Where are you?!

[violentmotion]

[It is after the ridiculousness with jumping on a hovercar and demanding it go exactly 88 miles per hour and the subsequent aftermath, that Ikki comes skating back to Yayoi, dusting the remnants of a sale sign off of his jacket. (Big Joes Churrios were apparently 30% off today for all imPorts).

Hearing a certain voice, Ikki practically climbs over Yayoi.]

Kururu! You're here too?

This complicates the plotline.. is it still a scifi thriller???