PL IC Thread IX++ //Oddsbodikins & Atomic Kittens//

[Giovenith]

An astonished Torii stared at Kale with the most intense flare of anger she could muster.

"You're....you're kidding me, right? Kale, now's not the time to play games. How can you remember me and Bran, but not everyone else?"

She grabbed Kale's hands and clasped them on the table. "Kale, I'm serious, don't you remember? Look at my phone.", She pulled it out yet again, showing the date. "It should be 2014. Kale, time is fucked up. Some people don't realize it, but I do. How would you know me? I just moved in MINUTES ago! My bags are in the lobby! We have to have had contact before, and how would we? Time is unstable in this building!"

She caught herself. She was making a scene. "Look, I'm not crazy. It's all true."

"Miss, please."

Giovenith carefully took Torii's hands in her own, pulling them up in an attempt to calm the girl.

"Please don't be frustrated," the godling begged in a sweet tone, something that had before dulled as Giovenith became more familiar and personal with Torii. "I know this may seem strange, but the world is filled with strange things. I don't think you're scared over nothing. I know what it's like to be the only one who knows something. I don't know what's wrong, but I promise you we'll get to the bottom of it."

[Rygondria]

Reginald fought the snake a little bit longer eventualy he managed to wrestle the boa off his arm. he then tackled the boa and said," Caught you little monster back to the Cage you go. But first some breakfast". Reginald then placed the subdued boa into a box and grabbed some waffles. Reginald then decided to sit by himself in a near by table because he was to embarrassed to sit next to the immortals because of his snake wrestling incident.

[Primordial Luxa]

"A good idea" he said gazing around cryptically and looking at the various locals with a sense of familiarity. He followed Marcus looking around for potential survivors or anyone for that matter. It was strange how deserted this place was, and he looked for signs of what might have lead to the mass depopulation that seemed to have taken place. Eventually he turn his attention to the ad that he had blown past him and using the cellular device in his helmet he called the number, he had a guess about who would pick up and if he was right then he and Marcus might be able to meet up with more friends.

They wound their way around until they were standing in front of an old apartment building. It wasn't fancy. Marcus had been attracted to it because of the outdoor features: dead and burnt rose bushes, a massive hole in the wall, parched grass and craters. He could hear familiar voices coming from the hole.

His eyebrow arched. "Well, this looks promising. We'll check it out?"

Marcus trotted up the walkway (the smell of waffles was heavenly) until he was at the main door. It opened onto a bland lobby containing bland furniture. The voices had grown louder. He could distinctly hear Bran and Torii. The boy waved at Aegis to join him.

Aegis followed him silently falling into a very quite state.

[The Carlisle]

Kale got wide-eyed and scared by Torii's sudden misunderstood proclamation. The girl froze as she shook her, but thawed when Gio stepped in.

"Thanks Gio," she said a bit audibly as is to enforce a point. She looked back to Torii. "I didn't mean that," she said, "What I meant was, well, who are they?" She pointed to Swith and Mon.

[Fvaarniimar]

In that same communal room, a girl woke. Small, brightly attired, and in an unobtrusive corner by the door, she easily could have been overlooked as part of the decor,

Huh? I didn't know we were on the trip already... How long have I slept? What's with all the noise? I don't recognize this fabric... Wow, those dreams were weird. I was spinning... There was all this flashing...Something got ripped...
It all seemed so real.
She sat up, noticing that a ring, embedded with a diamond, had appeared on her hand, stone turned in. What's this? Where is everyone?

"Venmii! VENMII!!! Venmi, this isn't funny! Hello! VENMII! MOM! CORPS! EMM! DAD! WHERE ARE YOU?" Tears had started forming, and her breathing had sped up; she wiped these away, took a deep breath, and stood, switching from her native tongue to other languages. "HAI! HEI! HÉ!" She approached the door and - after a few minutes of trial and error - figured out how to work the knob. Continuing to shout analogues to "HEY," the apparently-nine-or-ten girl wandered the halls, awed by the strangeness of everything and having to consciously force herself not to jump at every little slight noise.

[Torsiedelle]

And now Torii went from looking like a lunatic, to looking like an idiot.

She laid her head down and sighed as well. "I'm sorry, Kale. Oh, and thanks, Gio. I know I sound insane right now. I trust you."

She sat back up and yanked the two into a hug, then sat back down. "Those two, right...", she mumbled, looking over to the older women. She inhaled excitedly. "That's Mon and Swith."

She didn't want to look. She still missed Swith too much. This was cruel. Her, and Mon. It wasn't right. It wasn't right at all, she thought. It brought up so many memories...

"I have to see them before this is all over.", She said to herself. "And if Mon is here, what about the others. What if she's here...."

"Hey, Gio, Kale....I'm not lying. Still, maybe it...nevermind."

[Bone Fort]

A pie went flying through the air at high speeds towards Torii's face.

[Swith Witherward]

"Call it a gut feeling." Mon replied, finishing her pop tart. "Anyway, what are you going to do with it? I mean, I think I saw it before I first woke up. Seemed normal enough, but I feel like it's trying to get out. Like it's trying to take over or something. I'm just worried something bad might happen."

"I'd let it out before someone came along and destroyed it," Swith shrugged. That could be loosely translated as I'll let it go when I'm done with it or I'll protect it with my life, depending upon her mood. "We should try to commune with it. See what it wants. If it wants to control you or harm you, we purge it."

She was starting to warm up to this soul searching business. There was something about seeking for a soul that seemed important and familiar. She'd follow the feeling until it reached a certain point, but then her frustrations with the cyborg from earlier would crop up, because all she found when she traced the thought was that entity.

"No harm in looking," she reiterated, although she was feeling a bit of sorrow mixed in.


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Marcus paused and look back at Aegis. He couldn't just leave this kid.

"Hey, little girl," he squatted and held out his hand. Marcus didn't look like a normal male. He looked part machine, actually, with a face covered by a cloak. The hand he offered was mechanical and smooth, and didn't look too creepy. "Hey, are you lost? Maybe I can take you to Bran or Miss Giovenith?" These were the voices he'd heard earlier.

He stood up and added, "You don't have to come near me. I know I'm ugly and scary. But why don't you follow behind me. If there's scary things in front, they'll attack me first. If there's good things in front, I'll let you know. Sound good?"

[The New Velociraptor Empire]

"Call it a gut feeling." Mon replied, finishing her pop tart. "Anyway, what are you going to do with it? I mean, I think I saw it before I first woke up. Seemed normal enough, but I feel like it's trying to get out. Like it's trying to take over or something. I'm just worried something bad might happen."

"Then give it a body of its own." NVE suggested. "I may have no soul, but that is what I do when there are too many voices in my head. I just fire up the cloning booth and let them walk around. Sooner or later they all come back to my head." He continued and saw an ominous pie. "Just today I feel that the future relative to now happened to me two different ways that I cannot remember, and now I am here in the future's past which we call present." NVE finished before slinking under the table to avoid Bones.

[Bone Fort]

"Who said Bones was here?", said the narrator to nobody since the characters aren't supposed to hear him and technically we don't have a narrator.

[The Carlisle]

Kale smiled. It's okay. I don't think your insane. I believe you. Everything is so weird. First I woke up (again) in a dining room, and now there are people I don't know and some of them that I do know don't remember me," she said, going off in a tangent.

"We just have t-" she said, before a pie flew by. Kale's eyes flashed green and vines shot out of her hair, stopping the pie. In saying that, the vines proved a ineffective shield from the pie tins contents, so creamy filling and pi crust coated both Kale and Torii.

Kale looked at herself. "Oh, not again!" she exclaimed before starting to wipe herself.

[Swith Witherward]

"Then give it a body of its own." NVE suggested. "I may have no soul, but that is what I do when there are too many voices in my head. I just fire up the cloning booth and let them walk around. Sooner or later they all come back to my head." He continued and saw an ominous pie. "Just today I feel that the future relative to now happened to me two different ways that I cannot remember, and now I am here in the future's past which we call present." NVE finished before slinking under the table to avoid Bones.

"Escher." Swith had no idea why she said it. The pie flew by and her eyes narrowed.

[Tiltjuice]

"Then give it a body of its own." NVE suggested. "I may have no soul, but that is what I do when there are too many voices in my head. I just fire up the cloning booth and let them walk around. Sooner or later they all come back to my head." He continued and saw an ominous pie. "Just today I feel that the future relative to now happened to me two different ways that I cannot remember, and now I am here in the future's past which we call present." NVE finished before slinking under the table to avoid Bones.

"Escher." Swith had no idea why she said it. The pie flew by and her eyes narrowed.

"Is that a time cop joke?"

[The New Velociraptor Empire]

"Who said Bones was here?", said the narrator to nobody since the characters aren't supposed to hear him and technically we don't have a narrator.

"We all know who the pies are from." replied Nobody, who wasn't tall and wasn't short.

[Torsiedelle]

A pie went flying through the air at high speeds towards Torii's face.

"I wanna see Swith so bad....and...TSU! no, Lidev! She HAS to be here, right? I need to see her!"

Torii said "nevermind", But she was clearly anxious to see the two women.

But not the pie. She always had that weird feeling, before something terrible happened. She couldn't think of it, though....

Then it hit her. Her pants! She hadn't worn this uniform in a long time! Her belt was killing her. She leaned over to unbuckle it, just as a mysterious pie flew over her, plastering the side of the wall and sending bits of blueberry/apple/whatever juice about and hitting all three of them, but at least they weren't caked in pie. How bad was a few stains and sticky hair?

And so Torii, by sheer luck, avoided being hit, but all three of the girls were splattered with bits of pie. Her belt was off, but her shirt and hair messy.

And then Kale narrowly saved her from being completely. It still scarred Torii. It was like the girls at her state foster home all over again.

[Giovenith]

"Miss Swith?" Giovenith looked at the nearby Chaos avatar, and nodded. "Oh yes, a Most High... Mama told me to always be polite and call other gods Most High, because I'm only a little godling and they're big and strong. Who do you mean by-"

A pie flew out of nowhere, and Giovenith 'meep!'ed as she turned away to avoid the flying pastry chunks.

[Bone Fort]

"Who said Bones was here?", said the narrator to nobody since the characters aren't supposed to hear him and technically we don't have a narrator.

"We all know who the pies are from." replied Nobody, who wasn't tall and wasn't short.

"Hey, he was talking to me," said nobody, "Mind your own business."

[Monfrox]

Mon nodded in agreement. "It's the least we can do. I'm ready when you are." She was going to get to the bottom of what was going on inside her mind one way or the other, and was glad she asked Swith for her help. She seemed to know what she was talking about and that made Mon a bit more at ease. To be able to solve this problem would be a great prospect.

[Torsiedelle]

"Voices!", Torii whimpered, covering her head under her arms on the table. "I gotta get to Swith. What to I do?", she added, as she shuddered and curled up.

[Bone Fort]

"Voices!", Torii whimpered, covering her head under her arms on the table. "I gotta get to Swith. What to I do?", she added, as she shuddered and curled up.

"You could run away screaming," said a voice next to her.

[Swith Witherward]

"We all know who the pies are from." replied Nobody, who wasn't tall and wasn't short.

"Hey, he was talking to me," said nobody, "Mind your own business."

"AH VOICES IN MY HEAD STOP STOP NARRATOR BORK SIMON BORK!"

It really wasn't the most elegant thing to say, but Swith said it loudly, and even trilled her 'r's properly. She vanished with a loud pop.

(Meanwhile, miles and miles away in reality, her handler did nefarious things to a small voodoo doll bearing the label "bones". Or naughty things. I mean, c'mon, we're talking Swith here, and Swith is synonymous would many words like kitten whiskers, and dancing field mice, and rum, sodomy and the lash. Just use your imagination.)

Swith returned a few seconds later and resumed her meditative position, one hand breaking off pop tart bits and tossing them into her mouth. "Yes, Escher. I've been in NVE's head. Sometime."

[The New Velociraptor Empire]

"Escher." Swith had no idea why she said it. The pie flew by and her eyes narrowed.

"Is that a time cop joke?"

"That raises the question of what is a time cop joke?" NVE said from under the table. "Would it be pulling someone over for going beyond the inverse value of the speed limit?" he asked.

"Hey, he was talking to me," said nobody, "Mind your own business."

"AH VOICES IN MY HEAD STOP STOP NARRATOR BORK SIMON BORK!"

It really wasn't the most elegant thing to say, but Swith said it loudly, and even trilled her 'r's properly. She vanished with a loud pop.

(Meanwhile, miles and miles away in reality, her handler did nefarious things to a small voodoo doll bearing the label "bones". Or naughty things. I mean, c'mon, we're talking Swith here, and Swith is synonymous would many words like kitten whiskers, and dancing field mice, and rum, sodomy and the lash. Just use your imagination).

Swith returned a few seconds later and resumed her meditative position, one hand breaking off pop tart bits and tossing them into her mouth. "Yes, Escher. I've been in NVE's head. Sometime."

"Yes, and it takes quite a lot to make me uncertain of my bearings. Just can't tell what, need to run experiments and around the block a few times." NVE commented as his head popped up with a metal bucket on his head to serve as a helmet.

[Bone Fort]

"BITCH, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" said the voice, who stormed off, loudly slamming the door behind him, which is amazing since the voice doesn't possess a physical body and is actually the narrator who isn't supposed to interact with characters and also doesn't exist since we don't have one.

(Meanwhile, miles and miles away in our reality, Bones's handler was completely unaffected by the voodoo doll because this is reality and magic doesn't work. Bones's handler was, however, unsure what to make of Swith's handler's actions)

[The Carlisle]

Kale, knelt down next to Torii, who was curled up under the table. Her face still had pie bits on it. She wanted to help the girl, but had no idea how to combat the voices. "You need some help torii?" she said. Then the voice screamed and she jumped, hitting her head on the underside of the table. "OWOWOWOW!!!!" she exclaimed, rubbing her head furiously.

[Swith Witherward]

"Ye...no?" Swith noticed everyone taking refuge under the tables. She placed a waffle on her head instead. Only the sacrilegious would hit someone wearing a waffle, of course.

(Pay no attention to Swith's handler. How could you possibly take her seriously? However, it's not completely true to state that Bones' handler was completely unaffected. He responded, you see. Neener neener.)

She reached into her pocket and pulled out bricks, handing them to NVE and the others. "Right, help me repair this fourth wall and then we can get back to double souls, time cops and the cost of spam in LA."