open The Circulation

[Chickey 383]

"Rye bread and butter, scrambled eggs, and a cup of black tea is what I have in mind." Misha commented as he sat down. It was a basic order that didn't seem to match him all that well. But it sounded like he had ordered it a lot before. "I don't think we know anything else besides where it is. But I wouldn't be surprised if they did have an army. And even if they don't that esper reeked high level too." He added as he leaned back in his seat. 

[Azura 1,107]

Hikari picked up a menu from the table and spent a few seconds skimming through it entirely. "I'll just have a full breakfast and a strawberry milkshake." She thought out loud. "That esper is nothing if we all work together, but if she's not alone, that esper is going to be nothing but trouble and a pain to deal with." Hikari finished.

[Chickey 383]

"Well at least we all know what we want to eat now." Misha commented, trying to keep his voice as quiet as possible while still being audible to everyone at the table. "The plan is obvious if it's all of us vs one, but what do we do if we're going into a fight that isn't in our favor? Die?" He asked. "We might want to have a backup plan or an ace in the hole here."

Edited September 22, 2014 by Chickey

[Azura 1,107]

"What about Sayaa? She's still undecided on what she wants to eat.." Hikari's stomach growled quietly like a purring cat. She looked at the others and wondered if they heard it. "Where are we going to find backup? It's not like we can afford anything like a personal amry." She said.

[Chickey 383]

Sayaa shrugs at the question, "Milkshake would be nice..." She sat next to Hikari and smiled innocently at Zeke. "And we already found the teleporting esper. Our only problem is that she's a teleporting esper with an army behind her." She draws magic symbols in the air for fun and sits back.

 

Misha sighed. "This type of thing would be way out of the league all the people I know personally from Morden are in. I used to have a real A-Team long ago for stuff like this. However they're all gone now. Since I don't own a time machine I have no idea myself unless Sayaa or Zeke have anyone in mind." He replied.

[Azura 1,107]

"If Zeke doesn't know anyone who could help, we're completely out of luck since I don't know anyone who would be willing to charge into uncharted lands, and I doubt Sayaa knows anyone.." She voiced her thoughts out before a waiter approached the table and asked for what they all wanted. Hikari quickly replied. "I'll have the Full Breakfast alongside a Strawberry Milkshake."

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"A chocolate shake, please Mr. Waiter." She looks up happily at the recently arrived gentleman. For her, this was really special. It was the first thing she'd had after the boat ride and escape from her family's estate. She brushed her hand against the hilt of her knife, strapped underneath her clothes and sat there thinking heavily about that.

[Chickey 383]

Misha looked over to the waiter happily. "Rye bread and butter, scrambled eggs, and a cup of black tea." He repeated from earlier. And then turned back to the group, his expression immediately souring. "I'd love to shove whoever thought up time machines off a mountain. But sadly I think I would need a time machine to go back and do that too." He commented, clearly still thinking about time machines now. 

[Samurshy 708]

"I'll take a western omelet, and a banana creme milkshake", Zeke said he then turned back to the group. "I may know someone who could maybe help us... but..." Zeke  paused for a moment and remembered how Raiya told Zeke to never go back to Vertlyn again. "It could be a problem if I show my face to her again."

[Chickey 383]

"Well you might have no face left to show if ya don't." Misha replied. "What kind of problem are we talking about here? I could always help too if you need a backup man, I love meeting new people." He added with a chuckle. "Plus if you owe them money or something that should be easy to fix."

[Samurshy 708]

"I don't owe them money.  She is an old friend. But I kind of outwore my welcome in my hometown when I started dolling out vigilante justice against some gang members that just happened to be a part of her gang. I disrupted a bunch of her operations, and, well, I guess it did end up costing her money. But I think she was more pissed off that I refused to join her gang in the first place, and instead prevented her underlings from breaking old woman knee caps." Zeke replied

[Chickey 383]

"A gang leader you say?" Misha started. "Well then this might be harder than I had hoped. I don't usually have to deal with gang leaders. If you're afraid of getting ambushed or something I could easily help you fend off members to get to her. All I got is magical muscle, and if they can oust me and don't want money. We might be in a tad bit of trouble. And I don't suppose my seduction skills have gotten any better over the years either." He added.

[Samurshy 708]

"This is all just speculation anyway. We have no idea what we are dealing with, we just know roughly where we are dealing with." Zeke said. "Worst case scenario, I will try and contact my old friend Raiya. but I doubt we will need a magician saint's powers just for a small bad guy hideout. We can probably handle that ourselves." Zeke said with a look of trepidation.

[Chickey 383]

"A gang leader and a magician saint? Well this is sounding like more and more fun by the sentence to me." Misha said with a chuckle. "I've met a couple of level 5's but never a saint." He added with a grin. Misha sighed afterwards. "Fine, your loss. But it sounds like fun to me." He said with a pout as he went back to waiting for the food. 

Edited September 24, 2014 by Chickey

[Azura 1,107]

The waiter wrote down what they all wanted and left without saying another word. "What do you mean? Did she say something along the lines of killing you the next time she sees you?" Hikari asked Zeke. "If she's truly your friend and you know she's willing to help, I bet we can talk it out." She finished.

[Samurshy 708]

"Well, she was the one who gave me the information about Lightlyn Mountains in the first place. In fact, without her I wouldn't have met you guys. But, she said in return that she never wants to see my face in Vertlyn again. It was kind of insinuated that if she saw me again she was going to bring her wrath down upon me. And as a magician saint, excommunicated from the catholic church, she certainly has quite the arsenal of spells at her side. It would be dangerous to try and reconcile with her." Zeke replied, "But since we don't know anything at this point, as I said before it is just speculation. We would need to be able to know what we are up against first."

Zeke, forgive me for listening in on your conversation, but there isn't really any possible way for me not to listen. Anyway, I have the coordinates from earlier from that Technopath. I, in theory, could do something that may help this situation. 

"What can you do, Niveus?" Zeke asked. To any onlooker, Zeke's team members at the table, it appeared as though Zeke was talking to himself, but he was in reality speaking to the quantum beast that was fuzed with him. 

Well, I could astral project my presence to that location and scour it for you. I can give you the information you need about what you are about to be up against. However, it will come at a price. Niveus replied.

"Alright, well, as long as it isn't going to cost me an arm and a leg. I think I can take whatever it is." 

Well, my presence is required to activate your quantum attunement abilities. In other words, you won't be able to use your powers while I am off searching this geographical location for you, and it may take as long as two hours for me to get there and get back.

"Hmm... Well, I suppose now would be the best time to do this. We are about to eat breakfast. It could take an hour or two. I don't see any danger in that."

Alright. I will leave, now. 

It was odd having Niveus's presence gone. Niveus's essence was still within Zeke. They were forever linked, and one requires the other. So, Zeke's birthmark was and tattoo was still etched on his arm. But, with Niveus's presence gone, he no longer felt the second voice within him constantly formulating. It was as if a part of himself had gone silent. Zeke looked around at the confused faces around the table and decided to elaborate on what they had just witnessed.

"So, last night, I figured out about my powers. It turns out that my parents were neo-magicians who sought to use magic and science together. They were trying to figure out the origin of esper abilities. They stumbled upon some ancient texts that told them about a sort of being that was created by God to oversee the quantum level of reality. These beasts are the reason why the quantum level is always so fine-tuned. And also, the are the reason for esper abilities and personal realities. They are the medium which connects the quantum (micro) with the physical (macro). My parents found out about this and around the same time, found out my mother was pregnant. They saw this as an oppertunity to try and combine a Quantum Beast with a human. This would have normally killed everyone including me, the Quantum Beast, and everyone else who had a hand at this. But, the other Quantum Beasts saw what happened and felt bad... I guess. They took some form of pity, and changed the laws a bit, to allow us to live." Zeke realized that his explanation might not be making much sense but he continued anyway. "But, I guess they couldn't change the laws too much, or for too long. And at some point, my existence as well as my parents and sister's existence will fade away from the earth. My parents learned of this truth when they were told by the quantum beasts after the incident. And so, they tried their best to give me a good life and make amends for what they did. Soon after the incident, my sister was born. They knew that at some point we might all fade away, but they didn't know having another child doomed them to the same fate. About twenty years later they were all killed by a level 5 esper. Originally, I was on a mission to get God's Hand so I could change the universe that my parents and sister would not have been killed. But, now I know that is not enough. Because, even with them alive, we may fade from existence anyway." Zeke took a pause to collect his thoughts before continuing. "Last night, I almost faded from existence by accidentally falling through a quantum crack. And during that time the Quantum Beast inside me told me all of what I just told you. That Quantum Beast is named Niveus, and he is the source of my powers. The conversation I just had with him, when you saw me talking to myself a few minutes ago, was about our problem. Apparently, Niveus can astral project his presence or his consciousness I guess, to a part of the world and scope it out for us. When he does this, I don't have access to my powers, though. So that is what he is doing. He is currently in Axoana or at leas arriving in Axoana, at the location to look it over." Zeke's stomach rumbled.  "I am powerless for a few hours, but as long as all we are doing is eating for a bit, I think we should be safe." Zeke finished
 

Edited September 24, 2014 by Samurshy

[Chickey 383]

"Resourceful lady too it seems." Misha commented before he stopped and watched Zeke seem to talk to himself for a while. Afterwards he was silent for a few moments. "Well I suppose that fixes our problem then, now doesn't it?" He said as he started to fiddle with a packet of sugar off to the side of the table. Misha wasn't someone who liked to question people that much, so he left it up to the others if they wanted to. And he couldn't think of any better explanation for Zeke's powers anyways.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"An aweful long and trusting account of your abilities for the Living City. You might want to watch where you say that, Zeke. Humans have a long history of killing what they can't explain." She tossed her magic around a bit, before taking out a series of paper tags. Setting them in a row, she gathered her energies on her finger and began drawing charged, magical symbols on them. "Either way, we're going to need a way in, a way to track down the esper should she get away after, and a way to stop her from teleporting. Because eventually, I'll pass out from overworking myself. As we've seen prior."

[Azura 1,107]

"Can anyone see this Quantum Beast now that it has left your body? It wouldn't be good news if it gets caught or trapped." Hikari was a bit worried since he did just say that it's a part of him. She looked at Sayaa and asked "Are you sure it's possible to prevent an esper from using their abilities?"

[Chickey 383]

"Of course it's possible. Everything is possible." Misha commented. "However doing something like that would be incredibly hard and might fail anyways. It could be a better idea to just attempt to fight them head on with brute force instead of tricks." Misha added as he put the sugar packet back where he found it.

[Azura 1,107]

"If brute force doesn't work, use more brute force. It always works, or at least that's what I heard." Hikari commented on Misha's last sentence. "Anyway, it would be best if we had a plan before we go in." She paused a bit before continuing. "If Zeke's Quantum Beast can scout the entire base, we should have a huge advantage.

"If brute force doesn't work, use more brute force. It always works, or at least that's what I heard." Hikari commented on Misha's last sentence. "Anyway, it would be best if we had a plan before we go in." She paused a bit before continuing. "If Zeke's Quantum Beast can scout the entire base, we should have a huge advantage." She finished.

[Samurshy 708]

"Well, the Quantum Beasts don't actually have a physical form, per se. He does have a body in my dreams, but I am almost positive that his form in my dreams is what he wants me to see him as. Or I could be wrong, it could be what I want to see him as. But I know that he isn't bound to a 3rd dimensional existence aside from my own, which would have normally been impossible without the help of the other Quantum Beasts. The forms they possess can't possibly be one that we could even comprehend. All Niveus did was project his essence. His essence is basically his mind, and mind isn't a visible or even tangible object." Zeke stopped talking for a brief moment. He realized that his vocabulary and speech skills were completely different than before. Almost more advanced. Had Niveus done something to me? Maybe he was whispering words to me in my sleep, or just placing them in my brain directly. "Needless to say, Niveus isn't tangible except through me. And so his essence can't be perceived by very many beings. He'll be fine."

Edited September 26, 2014 by Samurshy

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

(Oh my god... does Niveous exisist in the 4th/5th dimension? Is Zeke an Ascended Master? Does Brony know about life science? Find out in the next post!) (Note- This is me joking.)

 

"Why would a teleportation esper want to fight? Especially since, from what I've gathered from your stories, she seems perfectly fine with just beaming herself away Scottie at any time. A head on approach against the slipperiest person we can find might not be the best approach. I mean, ask Misha. Things go wrong when and if they can." 
 

(Reffering to the witch hunt of last night)

[Chickey 383]

"I don't know about that Sayaa. Today's a whole new day, and I have a feeling today is gonna be a good one. Gonna get a good ole' breakfast and a entertaining battle is on the horizon. What could go wrong?" He commented back with a grin. He tried to keep the most optimistic attitude he could.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"I don't know about that Sayaa. Today's a whole new day, and I have a feeling today is gonna be a good one. Gonna get a good ole' breakfast and a entertaining battle is on the horizon. What could go wrong?" He commented back with a grin. He tried to keep the most optimistic attitude he could.

 

"We die," she says bluntly, "We are going after a key that could unlock one of the most powerful artifacts in existence. We have a small collection of rag-tag troops that barely know or trust each other. Even more discouraging, our recon from Miss Technological came back with a fort. A fort hidden from satellite scanners. Which means who ever has it right now is either rich or powerful, and maybe both. That means guards, security... a theif's nightmare job."