Event: Abort! Part Two (day 25, Egret). Luggage carriage

[voidtreckermods]

They are on world world#27462947582 for about five hours, helping, ushering people out of the city, fighting monsters, keeping guard. All seems well in the city itself, peaceful even except for the slight panic of people being told to move south.

Wherever they are, north in the desert, travelling through the countryside to the south or still in the city itself they will notice from their peripheral vision a darkening of the sky. Looking up they will see clouds. Strange clouds, appearing in the blue sky out of nowhere.

Their SCA’s start beeping, rapidly, flashing red. The clouds are too weird to be clouds, dark shapes in the sky. It might be that the Voidtreckers heed the warning and tap their SCA to evacuate to the train. It might be that they do not.

If they don’t then there is a moment, a moment of absolute stillness as those around them notice the shapes. A confused pause. Children stop their chatter, people stop their complaining, even the monsters seem to sense something and pause in their attacks.

The remaining voidtreckers are yanked away, even without pressing their SCA, they glow gold and disappear.

They all appear in the luggage carriage and not even a second later, with no warning the train lurches, flinging everyone off their feet as it enters the void.

It’s not really easy to tell speed in the void, but they will get the sense that they are moving fast. Faster than before, leaving that world and whatever those shapes were behind.

(OOC: Information on this event is here and part one is here)

Comments

[blue_ice]

"Fine, I just..."

Those suitcases were moving far too much. He angrily pushed his way to the surface, wavered a moment, then reached for the offered hand in frustration.

"Obviously someone thinks we were about to die. What was about to kill us, I don't know."

[shutupnail]

Piccolo easily helped Kaiba to his feet and if he wasn't too careful might accidentally tip the scales of balance in the opposite direction. But he was there to steady him again if so.

He nodded. "Yeah, noticed that. I haven't seen anything quite like it so I don't know..."

[blue_ice]

"...thanks," he coughed, a little awkward as he balanced himself on a suitcase.

"Did you see anything else that was off?"

[shutupnail]

"No problem," he replied with another simple nod.

"Just the darkness rolling in like ominous storm clouds with strange shapes. The creatures out in the desert were mundane enough. I don't think they were ever really the threat we we meant to take on. But that darkness..." Well, he's not entirely sure what to think. "We didn't get enough of a chance to see what that was all about."

[blue_ice]

"So if the darkness was the threat...the train planned for us to battle with no preparation, inadequate equipment...and then pulled us immediately? I wonder if it made a mistake."

[shutupnail]

"I doubt it was the threat the train meant us to fight, unless it wasn't aware of how powerful it was ahead of time." Which begged the question how the train decided where to send them. It was clear from missions like the space battle that sometimes they weren't requested but brought to the area anyway to help. Other times it seemed people could specifically request backup for an operation, as was implied by the those same people. But if they weren't requested all the time, how or why did they end up in those places that needed help but didn't know it.