voidtreckerexpress | A New Platform [Intro Post December]

A New Platform [Intro Post December]

"Good morning passengers, it is day sixteen of the month of Catfish." The voice woke them as usual four days after they had rejoined the train, leaving the dying world, the scientists and evacuees behind them."Team Points have been updated on the system and the shop has been updated."

. A few hours into the morning there is a second announcement. "Shortly arriving into a designated void platform. Exit from void imminent." Hopefully everyone knows to hold on, though if they do not they will be in for a bumpy arrival to the platform. At first all they can see from the windows is steam.

They step out into blazing sunshine, heat hits them. There is still steam, but light breaks through, dazzling at points, reflecting off the smooth surface of the platform. As the doors open the first four people off the train are wearing their rucksacks and dressed in purple hoodies. Yuki, Amelia, Harry and Richie. All walk steadily and unhurriedly towards the barriers at the back of the platform, show their ticket and disappear.

Those looking over the platform will recognise Ash, dressed in purple. With her are ten other people, one seems to have fire for a head, another is a book. Two are elves. All four teams are represented but Red and Blue are dominant with four new members each. Time to be welcoming.

For new arrivals.

At first all they can see if steam. Billowing around them as they come to their senses. They are standing, in clothes that are not their own, styles they might not even recognise. They are carrying a rucksack on their back. For a moment it seems to just be them, alone in the white haze but then the steam begins to fade and they realise they aren’t alone.

The platform is not very large, but it holds eleven figures all facing the tracks, all wearing similar clothing. The tracks stretch left and right into steam, or perhaps fog. Nothing can be seen to either side. Patches of sunlight break down and it is very warm.

In front of them is a train. Jet black and gleaming where it stands on the rails. Voidtrecker Express is emblazoned in the engine in gold. There is a hiss as the doors slide open.

Out step a selection of people, some less human than others, wearing clothes just like those worn by those on the platform.

The Train

The doors hiss open. Those from the train may encourage those on the platform to board. It’s not like there is anywhere else to go and even if there was, you feel a pull. A need to board, a feeling that staying on the platform would not be a good thing, as nice a day as it is.

Each ICP shows the same message. If they are near an ICP they may find a piece of paper stuck to it, for further reading. The food stores have been topped up with new fresh food, there is still an abundance of sweet peppers.

New passengers will find their tickets allow them into their cabins. They may need to negotiate for beds, especially if they want a top bunk!

Room is tight but there are storage cubbies at the head of each bed, beds fold up and the bottom bunks double as benches for the small table. There is storage under those benches and you will hopefully find a pillow for your bed if it has not been nabbed by a roommate, there are also spare blankets for if it gets cold.

Departure

A second horn sounds to encourage any stragglers and the doors slide shut. Veteran passengers know what will happen next, they may wish to brief their new companions.

The train sets off, the fog obscuring the view as it picks up speed.

"Welcome aboard, passengers of the Voidtrecker Express.” A female-coded artificial sounding voice echoes throughout the train. "Please take the time to read the passenger information displayed on the Information and Communication points and familiarise yourself with the layout and emergency exits."

The train begins to tilt, leaving the ground and rising up into the fog filled sky.

"Entrance into Voidspace imminent. New passengers are advised to remain seated."

Hopefully someone warns you that you really want to heed that warning because a moment later there is a shudder, a jolt, a lurch to the left. A flash of light, colourful and blinding.

As quick as it happens it is done. The train seems to steady. The fog from the windows is gone now, replaced with a kaleidoscope of ever changing colours.

Welcome to voidspace.

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She saw Eva and went over to her, seeing that she had something in her hands. Something that was showing images. She is used to many strange and wonderful things so it is more curiosity than anything else that has her approach Eva and Princess.

"Hello. What do that be being? Do they be being poke mons?"

"Oh, this? It's my pokedex; it's like a book, but electronic," Eva says with a nod, still grinning as they both look up in greeting, Princess's waveing one wing in a greeting as well. "These are just some of my pokemon. The first three are Princess's teammates, actually."

A book but electronic. Like the screens. Except the images came out. Not as freaky as the games in the game carriage but still weird.

"They do be his teammates? When you do be fighting?"

Which was something these pokemon liked doing, apparently.

"Yeah, that's right. That one's Deefa," she points to the fearow.

"She's my main flier and she's a little stronger than Princess is, too. But," Eva continues, ignore the stinky eye the clefairy sends the holo-display,"that's because I got her before him. Though, I don't just use them for fighting- Deefa's big enough I can and do use her to fly places. Technically, I could teleport, but Deefa's free and teleporting's not."

And she doesn't exactly have a Ride Pager, which also costs money, like most Alolans.

"You do be flying on her?" That must be fun, flying through the air on a huge bird. She had flown in the claws of a huge bird before but that hadn't been fun. In the right circumstances though, flying was good.

"You can be paying someone to be teleporting you?" Is that what she meant? She doesn't think Eva has magic, teleportation is a very powerful spell and takes a long time to set up. She doesn't think priests or priestess charge to take people places, but they also don't do it unless it's very important.

It was probably different in another world.

"Oh, yea. I knew when I caught her she'd be a flier. Sure, she's not as fast as some of the other species, but she's fast enough for me. Plus, take off is... sudden. Like how the train shifts into the void. Maybe a little less jolt-y, but it's still sudden and you don't get any warning. I... might have thrown up the first time," Eva admits the last part with a sheepish look. Yet, dispite that, she's clearly animated and very, very passionate about the topic.

"Yea. Lot's of places have designated stations because it's something that's done every day, and if you have the right kind of teleporter, you can travel internationally. Technically, I shouldn't be paying because Satoru has a 'porter, but borrowing Aizen for my personal comfort would be rude. Plus, Aizen's on his battle team."

She grinned at that, not quite laughing because Eva might be angry is she laughed about her being sick. It was a little funny though.

The second part of what she said made less sense but she was still following, it wasn't too confusing. "Who do Aizen and Satoru be being?"

Eva grins herself, voice light - and trying not to laugh herself. "Yea, it is pretty funny. At the time it wasn't, but now... Well. that was about ten years ago."

Give or take anyway, and while she explains, she looks up Satoru's electivire, the previous displays vanishing as she does so. "Satoru's my boyfriend as well as my main co-worker at work. Aizen is one of his pokemon and I'm pretty sure he bought the fuzzball from a breeder in Nibi back when we travelled. Here, this is Aizen."

The display flickers to life, this time showing the pokemon in scale to a human. "The human's 6 foot tall. It's not very well known, but the erekiburu line can be taught how to teleport."

Ten years ago was a very long time ago. A whole lifetime practically. "Oh I did no be knowing you did be having a boyfriend." She didn't know much about Eva actually. She studied the holograph of the huge pokemon.

"That do be being very big. It would no be being very sneaky even if it can be teleporting."

"Somes days he's more of a pain in the arse, but I do love him, so I guess he can stay," there's a playful edge to the words though; she does love him, and everything else aside, they work well together at the end of the day, each driving the other to be the best they can be.

"It is, yea, and while you'd think that, it can be sneaky when it wants to as it's habitat's up in the mountains. But you're right, it can't be sneaky if it's teleporting and that's because teleporting's never sneaky."

She nodded, it was interesting. She found him annoying but also she loved him. She had seen that a lot on the train. People who argued and sounded angry but were also friends. Tony and Ignis seemed to be friends and Tony had said Ignis was his favourite, but they often did not seem friendly. Sometimes Peter annoyed her a lot but also she liked his company.

It wasn't something she was used to before. Juni and Sami got on well. They liked each other even if they didn't seem to like anyone else. When they fought it was bad but it was also rare.

"Teleportation do never be being sneaky?"

"Nope, and it's down to physics. Like, picture a bathtub filled to the brim. When you sit in it, water goes everywhere, right?" Eva waits until Little One gives a sign she's following.

"Right. Teleportation's like that, only air is rushing in to fill a void, or it's displaced it. Both have the same whooshing sound which is noticeable. Warping's more ideal, but only one pokemon can do that, and it's strictly controlled by the League- a governmental arm that basically controls laws relating to pokemon."

She wrinkled her nose at the mention of physics, bracing herself for a Peter style lecture where nothing made sense at all. But actually Eva's explanation was very clear. She could indeed picture a bathtub and what happened when you sat in one that was too full. Not that she'd ever sat in a full bathtub before but she'd seen bathtubs and she knew how water worked.

So it was the same with teleportation in Eva's world, with Pokemon. Wooshing and air spilling everywhere. Not sneaky at all. "What do warping be being?"

"I have a baby sister I explained this to," Eva says with a slight grin; that nose wrinkle didn't go unnoticed. Though what she doesn't say is she explained it multiple times to said baby sister because Ami's teacher at the time was utter dragonshit at boiling things down to basics.

"Ok, so warping is... imagine dot in the air. Then slowly expand that into a roughly you sized circle or oval in the air. Then, in that circle, picture another place. That's warping. Darks and those who get porting sickness use it."

The nose wrinkle turned into a frown. She wasn't a baby. She didn't like being compared to one. But still she listened to the next piece of the explanation.

A dot in the air where there was a circle and then through a circle was another place? She nodded slowly. "I do be understanding."

Sort of. But she had to prove she was no baby.

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