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[ The video feed opens up to see a young boy with spiky brown hair, who very much might resemble certain other imPort, albeit this one's a bit younger. It takes a moment for him to realize his communicator's recording, but soon enough he smiles brightly. ]

Hey guys! I'm Sora. Not... the bigger Sora, if you know him. I'm another version of him. Nice to meet everyone! So, uh... what are we supposed to do here?

[ Yes, he did indeed receive the brochure. Did he read the entire thing? He made an effort before getting bored. This is too complicated for him. It's difficult without Mickey around to give him advice. At least, it sounds like he read part of the file folder they gave him. ]

I know I've got some new powers, a new school, and a job now. I've never worked a job before. Then I've got a new home back in Nonah. Makes me feel all... [ A pause, while he tries to think of the word. Wait for it. ] Metropolitan? Yeah, that's it. I don't understand it all, but it sounds like fun!

[ Folding his arms behind his head, he leans back and sort of spins side-to-side in an office chair. Wherever he is, it doesn't look like he's in his assigned housing right now. It looks like some computer lab in Heropa's public school. Data-Sora here is the school's new tech guy. Hi. Work's not so busy right now and he's bored. ]

Oh yeah! [ He sits up suddenly, pressing his face close to the screen. ] By the way, other me? Are you listening to this? I know you're out there somewhere.

threeisapattern

[Zoom in on one teenage boy, sitting on a park bench. He looks kind of shitty—pale, a piece of gauze taped to his left cheek, and a barely-healed split lip. He’s hunched over, watching something out-of-frame.]

So there’s like—a community of kidnapped people with their own social network, huh. That’s pretty fucked up. [He leans down, wincing slightly, and picks up a dirty tennis ball from the ground before throwing it.] And everyone gets super powers, which would be the coolest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life if I wasn’t also half-convinced this is all some weird coma dream.

[There he goes after the tennis ball again. Before he can pick it up, there’s the sound of excited yipping and then a stray that looks like it might have an ancestor somewhere in the Bijon Frise family jumps into his lap, presses its little paws against his chest, and does its damnedest to lick his face.]

Okay, I appreciate the thought, buddy, but dog slobber is not a proven cure for what ails you. Let’s go back to the ball, okay? We were doing good with the ball.

[The dog whines and gives him a final lick before jumping back out of the frame, and Stiles throws the ball again.]

Also, like, my superpower is talking to dogs. And getting them to understand me, not just—my superpower is not just being a crazy guy who talks to dogs. If you have a dog and you need someone to explain to them that shoes are not acceptable chew toys, I will give it a shot in exchange for Ibuprofen. Or money to buy Ibuprofen with, that's probably smarter.

h2no

Yo! Did you know the world record for most rubber ducks in a section of water is around thirty thousand? They were all gathered up after, not to worry, but there's also a story of a ship that had a shipping container full of 'em that broke and poured them all into the ocean. It helped people track currents all around the world! Apparently they're better at it than buoys, though it was more of a happy coincidence 'cause there's no way you could do somethin' like that ethically. Turns out tracking 350 quintillion gallons of water is pretty hard!

[he claps his hands together then shifts the camera. there is a big pool behind him.]

Anyway! I shan't waste your time with a bunch of oceanography crap-- I have something much better to show those of you laid low by the unlucky port outs of this year. [he turns to look at something off camera.] Crobat! If you will, please!

[those who recognise the noises crobat makes will... well, recognise crobat off-screen. there's some rustling of a tarp, then... rubber ducks. hundreds of them. thousands of them. they stream from somewhere elevated offscreen and into the pool, filling it up relatively quickly. archie keeps the camera focused on it all-- the stream of rubber ducks keeps going for a good minute or so. by the time it finishes, they've completely covered the surface of the pool and some of the area around it.]

That's not even all of them! [archie laughs, off camera.] Wait, there's more!

[a few more rubber ducks roll out, but what's important is archie's wailmer suddenly explodes up from underneath the ducks, settling on top of them with a happy waiiiiiii! bobbing amongst the duckies, she ducks down and blows a huge jet of water up into the air, taking a chunk of the ducks up with it. archie can be heard laughing in the duck rain, then cursing when one of them bounces off his head.]

There she blows! Any'a you people want an armful of ducks? I have over thirteen thousand. Don't ask why!

pullsheavendown

[There's some brief shuffling and a few seconds of out-of-focus video before the camera centers on Roxas. He's used his phone thing to talk to other people on the network before, but he's never tried talking to everyone on it before. Maybe the picture is bigger this way? He doesn't know.]

Hey. I'm Roxas. Um, I just had a couple of questions.

The first one is—my power, the new one I got when I came through the porter, is making ice cream. Except I can't figure out how to make the flavor I want, and I've been making a lot of different kinds while I practice.

[He waggles a small ice cream bar at the camera.]

I can't eat all of it, so...anyone want some ice cream? I can deliver. Doesn't matter where you are, it'll be a quick trip.

For my other question, I know there's no way to make the porter let us go, or send us back to our worlds, or whatever happens when imPorts go away. But is there any way to make sure we stay? [He swallows hard.] Because I don't want to go back. What I've got here is a lot better than what's waiting for me.

Anyway, thanks.

earthy

[It takes Terra a while to investigate his new little communicator device... and then a while longer to remember everything he was told about how to use the thing... but eventually he gets an audio recording going.]

Hm. That definitely did something. [Or he's pretty sure he got an audio recording going, anyway.] Yeah, looks like it's working now. Okay. Uh... Hello?

[There's a brief pause and then he clears his throat and starts again.]

Hello. My name's Terra. I'm new to this area.

[This whole situation is an unimaginably big problem in regards to the keeping of the World Order, and he is probably duty-bound to Do Something About It, but while he figures out exactly what one is supposed to do about a whole world full of people knowing there are other worlds out there, he'll just not contribute to the problem. You will get no acknowledgement that this is another world from him, no sir/ma'am.]

I was wondering if anyone's figured out why they're here? I've read a couple times now that it's just... an accident, some random happening, but I don't buy it. There's gotta be a reason this power has been bringing people to this place. Some purpose or purposes it means for us to serve?

[Another pause. What else was he meaning to ask? Oh, right.]

And does anyone know anything about the games played around here? Sports games, specifically. I was given a job as a sort of coach... [Wait, let him just read the job title off the paper-] An 'Athletics Counselor'. For troubled kids. I'm told I'll get some training for the job, but I'd like to go into it knowing as much as I can... and right now, I really don't know anything. [Ah.] Except that they don't use fruit as balls in any of their games.

[A good thing to know, that.]

That's about it, I guess. Thanks for your time.

[Now to remember how to turn this device off.]

Hope that worked.

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