[IC] Eternal Galaxy: Phoenix

Transport Tunnel B

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Deimos looked up as the Transport Car arrived. "Took it's sweet time."

He headed inside, a little spring in his step as he sat down on one of the many seats inside. It was mostly empty. Thank god. He hated crowds.

Alcyon - Forest of Spirits

The calm of the forest was reassuring to Ignis. The further along she went, the more familiar it felt. She had been here before. The Forest of Spirits, home of the Nymphs that presided over the seasons of the continent of Mana. Where a close friend of her lived...
The memory gave Ignis pause. Questions arose from the dark recesses of her mind. "How long has it really been? Would any of them..." A quick shake of her head silenced the questions. "No... no time to worry about that..." she muttered to herself as she pushed through one more bush. However it was concealing a small ledge overlooking a steep hill. When she went to place her foot down, where she was expecting solid earth, there was open air. Stumbling forward in surprise, Ignis fell head over heels down the slope through rough underbrush. A moment of a rush of vegetation, she came to a stop in a clearing. She took a moment to reorient herself, flinching slightly from scrapes and bruises from the fall. At the other side of the clearing stood a colossal gateway overgrown with vines and flowers. At first one would think the building was not manmade but rather natural. Looking up, Ignis saw five spires among the foliage and above the grand walls of stone. "...The Shrine of Seasons..." Ignis stood in awe of the magnificent structure as memories of a group of young girls, about her age, came back to her. One with brilliant zircon blue hair, another with peridot green hair, a third with ruby red hair, and the fourth with amethyst purple hair.

She remembered carefree when days she would play with these four sisters in the woods near the shrine.
They would sometimes try to go into the depths of the sacred place, only to be quickly caught by the sisters' mother, Kiara.
As Ignis stood there reminiscing, a thought crossed her mind. "What if they're still here? They're nymphs, they can live very long lives..." Curiosity and naïve hope made her approach the ancient doors and firmly open them, slipping in once a large enough gap formed for her.
Familiarity calmed Ignis's fears, but made her careless.

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Alcyon - Shrine of Seasons - North Wing [Winter Shrine] - Final Floor
- Some time passed -
Slowly waking up, Ignis found herself in a dim room. A shallow layer of water covered the floor that she was laying on. Gathering her senses, Ignis tried to see where she was. Upon further inspection, the room was quite expansive. The ceiling was lost in darkness. In addition, she seemed to be on a sort of pier jutting out into an expanse of water. Towards the entrance of the room stood a figure that looked very much like... herself.
"So, the mistress is finally awake?" the doppelganger chortled. It didn't even look at Ignis, though it was looking past her at something else. Curious, she looked over her shoulder as she started to get on her feet. At the end of the pier was what seemed to be a lighthouse. The beacon was lit. Turning back to face the doppelganger, Ignis was surprised to be looking into it's eyes as it was bending over to face her. "Don't worry, mistress. You'll be safe here." It then grinned slightly. "For now."
"Who are you...?" Ignis said, almost in a whisper.
"Me? No one in particular. At the moment, I think I'll be you for a while." the doppelganger giggled. "And I'm certain you know what I am, hm?"
Ignis stared at the being through narrowed eyes. "...Demonarc Umbra."
"Oh good! The mistress remembers!" The demonarc clasped its hands together by its smiling face. "And here I was worried. Now, I'm going to go make sure no one else gets lost in the Shrine, ok? So you stay put!"
"What-?!"
"Nuhuhuh! No need to get yourself all riled up! I'm protecting you, you know. From the big mean bugs. Wouldn't want our precious little mistress to get...sick, now would we?" The demonarc grinned as it faded into a shadow and darted off.
"HEY! WAIT!" Ignis started but a tremor in the water made her go still. looking out into the deeper water, something breeched the surface for a brief moment. Something big.
"Now now, no need to raise your voice! You might disturb the guardian~" the voice of the doppleganger echoed briefly in the room. "Just sit tight, ok~?"
Uncertain what to do next, Ignis obeyed and slowly sat down on the pier. And there she waited.

Alcyon - CY-044 - Infirmary

For some reason, Runa was glad that there was no one at the infirmary as she started taking bandages and tools to help the pilot, she was too focused on her task that she ignored the black haired woman opening her suit.

I´ve got to wonder how these clothes survive like nothing happened while my body is damaged" Bryn spoke while being now on an undershirt from the upper body, it had some stains of her grayish blood, but no rips or tears "Might as well keep something so resistant" she guessed now looking at the damage on her body. There were cuts and scrapes, but she could feel that her ribs were at their limit and her ankle was also injured, obviously her left arm was almost unusable as it stood limp.

The engineer got everything ready and looked at the bioroid "Since you just got one arm at the moment, let me deal with your injures" she spoke matter-of-factly bandaging the cuts and putting salves on the skin "It is also too real to be synthetic.." she murmured. The pilot was dealing with her damaged arm with extreme care since the cables needed to be put back inside and the flesh healed, she took an odd tool from her belt and started healing the biologic part of the arm with a laser, she winced from time to time, but nothing too unbearable.

"Alright, now let me deal with the torso, I can see the damage on the skin" Runa commanded putting the bandage around the pilot´s torso "You are a lucky one to have just this kind of damage, for what I saw of your ship, it must have been something like bandit raids or meteorites" she guessed and received a shrug from the emerald eyed who answered "It was something a bit more complicated" she even made the gesture with her fingers much to the engineer´s amusement Have you ever gone through a wormhole?"

Alcyon Space - Desolate Freight Ship

Reiya couldn't believe this situation. A guy alone on a ship like this and didn't think to have an oxygen supply handy in case of an emergency. Reiya then took her left hand and placed it on her headset. "Reimi, You heard that right?" She asked her AI. "Yep, I'm on it just give me a second." Reimi said through the headset. Reimi scanned the ship to see what she can do. "Alright, here's the situation. Half the ship can fit into the cargo bay but it's door can't open because well, you'll be sucked into space." Reimi explained.

Reiya thought for a minute and then got something. "Reimi, how thick is the ship's armor again?" She asks. Reimi thought for a second and got what Reiya was thinking. "Understood, I'll get the thermal coating reading so just give me the signal when you're in place." Reimi said. "Gotcha." Reiya said and took her hand off the headset. "We're heading to the cargo bay." Reiya said to the guy.

Alcyon - Skies above Forest of Spirits

Bardock continued flying with his Ki until he eventually made it above a rather large forest that seemed to go on for miles on end. The Saiyan warrior continued to fly in search of what he saw earlier. Whether it was a ship or just an actual shooting star is still up for debate, but he kept searching in case it was the former. After all if it was a spacecraft that crashed, then it would potentially be unlikely that it would ever get found this far away from the colony... and Bardock does not want any more guilt on his conscience, not now at least.

As he was flying though he stopped when he saw a faint pillar of smoke in the distance coming from the trees, an indication of a crash landing. Without a second thought Bardock turned his focus to where the pillar of smoke was and began flying towards it.



Alcyon CY-044 - Transport Tunnel B

After Deimos boarded the Transport Car, a small crowd of at least 10 others also boarded and took their seats. Once the transport vehicle was full of passengers the doors shut, the Transport Car began to head off to the Residential Area, and in turn a place where Deimos can get a nice, cold drink.


Alcyon Space - Desolate Freight Ship

Add just stood there as he did not pay attention at all to what Reiya was saying, simply minding his own business until he heard Reiya say that they were heading off to the Cargo Bay. Without saying anything Add just smirked as he immediately began walking in the direction of the Cargo Bay without saying anything else.

Alcyon - CY-044 - Infirmary


The question she received was unexpected for the redhead "What? a wormhole?" she parroted. The pilot couldn´t help but smirk at the dumbfounded face of the engineer "It is a rather difficult road to take, but manageable if you got good skills"

"The only thing I think is the closest to wormholes are the space gates and they need a lot of energy to activate, let alone have good control with their coordinates" Runa pointed out "But a wormhole? you actually traveled through one?" she received a nod

"No wonder your ship was so battered, to cross such tunnel is extremely dangerous, your body would be on extreme pressure and would need surgical twitches in the movements and oh right.. synthetic parts"

Bryn explained "It put me at my limits and I needed to be at my best while travelling, but I wasn´t even at my average while entering" she lifted the now repaired arm.

(I´m sorry but there has been four days without posts)

Alcyon - CY-044 - Infirmary


"Not only you went through a wormhole that was probably unstable, but you did it with a damaged arm? Damn that´s tough" Runa commented actually impressed and then came a question "Wait.. How did you created the gate?"

Instead of explaining with the details of how to make a gate, Bryn decided to show it. The bioroid went to her back and opened what looked like a bag, it was damaged but on great state as she opened it and took out a device "Hm, still intact, I was wondering if it got crushed by the force of the crash, but still perfect" she said to herself.

"This is what helped me make the gates" the jade eyed woman said aiming the device to a wall and firing, Runa instinctively put her arms as protection, but felt nothing. As she opened her eyes, the redhead noticed a yellow oval on the wall "A closed gate? by the size it could fit an average sized person" she spoke in awe and suddenly said gate opened revealing her own back "Huh?" she looked back and noticed another gate of blue color while seeing herself.

Bryn smirked and walked to one of the gates "This is how I open my own gates and" she started talking while entering one gate and getting out on the other side of the room "It´s instantaneous and relatively safety"

Alcyon Space - Desolate Freight Ship

After some time, Reiya and Add arrived at the Cargo Bay. "Better hold onto something." She said to him. "Reimi, do it." She said through the headset. "You got it." Reimi said and then the front half of the ship had a light blue thermal coating and went slowly forward and as it made contact with the Cargo Bay door, the door started to mlet perfectly with the ship. When the ship was in enough, it stopped and part of the coating disappeared and the door to get into the ship was accessible. "Good job Reimi." Reiya said. "Let's go." She said to Add and started to float towards the door.

Alcyon Space - Desolate Freight Ship

When Add and Reiya finally made it to the Cargo Bay he simply followed Reiya's instructions, but rather than grabbing onto something, he used his Dynamo's to create a magnetic force to keep him grounded onto the metal floor of the cargo bay.

Once both ships successfully merged and created a makeshift entry-way onto Reiya's ship, Add immediately released the magnetic pull he had created with his dynamo's. He then began to casually float through the Cargo Bay, and towards Reiya's ship.

"Intriguing. Your ship seems to either have a rather sophisticated AI, or you have a rather skilled pilot in that ship of yours. The ship r whoever is piloting it knows how to follow precise commands..."



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Alcyon - CY-044 - Infirmary


As Runa and Mara continued talking the sound of the automatic door to the Infirmary opened up as someone walked through. The person who entered the Infirmary was the Colonist Chief David AKA Dave, of whom is accompanied by a single guard. When they entered Dave immediately stopped upon seeing Runa and Mara.
"Oh goddammit PLEASE don't tell me that you are doing in here! This is a public place!" Dave exclaimed as the guard beside him shot a quick glare at the chief, said glare causing Dave to immediately shut his mouth before he could say anything else.

"I'm sorry about that... but are you two busy? We kind of need the Infirmary as well... you see the chief-"

"I BURNED MY HAND ON HOT METAL!!!" Dave said, interrupting and startling the guard. If one were to look at Dave's left hand, one would see that his hand is in fact burned quite badly. Has to be at least a 2nd degree burn, and yet Dave seems to be acting as though it was nothing.


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Alcyon - Skies above Forest of Spirits


After Bardock finally reached the crash site he immediately landed on the ground next to the ship. The stark contrast between this location, and the area of the colony was quite big. Bardock's current location had a surprising lack of snow of which he did notice on his way here.

"Hmm... the climate here seems to have a rather sporadic change. It quickly changed from an icy cold mountain range, to a rather warm and gentle forest... this is rather interesting. Planet Vegeta's climate changes were not this severe..." Bardock commented as he quickly began looking around. He did not see anyone here, but one thing that did catch his eye was a red flame coming from the surprisingly intact ship. Curious as to what the flare was, he quickly began examining it.

"I've seen this sort of thing before... used at that colony. They seemed to use them to signal other ships. Maybe there is a survivor? I suppose there is a survivor judging by how the ship is in tact, and someone had to leave this thing wedged in the crack on the ship's hull... Just one problem with that..." He thought as he began looking around the area once more.

"Where is the survivor of this crash landing?"

Alcyon - CY-044 - Infirmary


Runa´s reaction was a bried "eep!" when Dave came almost yelling while Bryn just smirked putting her singlet back on her body "She was bandaging my torso, and we are two females, nothing each of us hasen´t seen" she said actually normal.

Then the bioroid´s face frowned when she heard that the lunatic was the chief, she looked at Runa who took some breaths to calm down "That brainiac is the chief of this place?" She asked

Runa looked at the burned chief and then at the black haired woman "I know just the same as you about it, how about we test that device of yours? I´m eager to know more about it" she spoke looking at the portal gun.

Bryn nodded and aimed her weapon to the corridor outside of the infirmary and then to the wall next to her "See you then, and you" she looked at the guard "I pity you for having to deal with a lunatic" she said with a sympathetic tone while entering the portal followed by the engineer only to be on the corridor away from the boys closing the gates.