genessia | Sortie 02 | [Log: Dubai Night Assault]

Who: Larry Foulke, Aqua, Troy Dantes
What: Warping Shenanigans Abound
Where: Nova City Subarchway: Dubai
When: Late night, January 23rd
Warnings: Pixy being Pixy. Otherwise, will update if necessary.

[Well, this is awkward.

Pixy was treating this just like every other day in this weird place. The fact there was an earthquake a few days ago aside, nothing really... completely out of the ordinary happened. He figured earthquakes were just as common in Genessia as there were back on Earth, so he thought nothing of it. So, just like every other day, Pixy was just finishing up his job at the Sunfire Repair Shop and was about to head on back to the UF Lounge to spend the rest of the night resting. Despite most of his injuries being healed when he arrived thanks to Genessia's.... magic, he guesses, a few aches and wounds were still there, so he couldn't overexert himself too much. But then things got weird.

When Pixy left the shop, he found himself dropped off in the middle of an unreconizable city. It didn't exactly resemble any of the other cities in Genessia, except maybe Nova City to an extent, but there was no way Nova City had this kind of "night life" appearance like this place did. Unless there was a place hidden away in one of Nova City's corners that he never bothered to go to.

Before he was able to make any moves on finding where he was and how to leave, he found himself surrounded. With what appeared to be robots, or futuristic military soldiers or whatever, all with weapons pointed directly at him, all Pixy could do was slowly put his hands up. Well shit. This was not how this night was supposed to go. He was on edge, as anyone would be with several guns trained on him, but he couldn't exactly reach for his gun and make a dramatic retreat out of the place. All he could do was listen to whatever these weirdos had to say. This place must have an awful lot of trouble for them to just swarm one guy as soon as he appears, or so he assumes.

Either way, he was pretty unhappy with his situation. As if things couldn't get worse for him after his last dogfight at home.]

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[Larry was warped into one of the most crowded places of the city, of all places. The crowd watched and talked among themselves as the drones encircled the man.]

Identify yourself

[A Storm-class drone spoke in a robotic voice through the speakers on it's head, with one arm forward and aiming the energy gun that's housed within it's arm. A glowing blue light emanates from the lines on the machine's body, as it prepares its beam to arrest the confused Larry Foulke.

Meanwhile, Troy and Aqua were at the Marina where Larry was dropped by Genessia's powers-that-be. The commotion got Troy's attention that he made his way to it to check it out, and much to his surprise, it was the pilot whom he had drinks with the other day. He places his shoulder on the 7-foot tall drone, who all recognized him immediately.]

Agent override. Dantes, Troy V. Settle down, he's with me.

[The drones obeyed with no question, folding their weapons away into their arms. The other drones resumed their jobs and flew away, while the arresting drone took its time to look at Larry and apologize for the inconvenience. As the last robot left the scene, the crowd resumed their business as well. It's not the first weird thing they've seen, luckily.]

Sorry about them. They're a little on edge because of the quake that happened.

[Troy nods up, giving Larry a quick pat on the shoulder]

[Aqua follows close behind Troy, her eyes fixing on the strange man who just appeared in the middle of the street. She remembers seeing him on the network though they've never talked face to face before.]

Everything alright?

[Her voice is soft and she flashes Larry a smile. She wants to know what happened but details can come later.]

[Pixy's eyes were drawn over to Troy when he called off the droids. He slowly brought his hands down when they dispersed, and when the last one left, he let out a quiet sigh of relief. He looked between Aqua and Troy and ran a hand through his hair. He's not sure he's been so glad to see a person he just met in his life.]

Everything'd be fine if I knew what the hell just happened. Looks like I owe you one, Troy.

[And he doesn't like owing people, but god only knows what would have happened if Troy hadn't shown up when he did. He scans the area around them before his eyes land back on the two. The robots were on edge? That's nothing compared to how on edge Pixy was right now.]

Where the hell are we? This can't still be Nova City.

Nah, you don't owe me anything. Don't worry about it.

[Troy waves a hand in the air]

You're close to Nova City. This is one of the subarchways connected to it. I would know, it's mine.

[Aqua smiles at the pair realizing quickly that this is someone that Troy knows.]

Why don't you stay for a bit.

[She holds out her hand with a smile.]

I'm Aqua a friend of Troy's and I live here too. There isn't a more beautiful place.

[She might be biased though.]

[He does seem a little relieved that these two actually know where they are, and it's not some other mysterious shenanigans that the world was up to. And hey, if Troy says Pixy doesn't owe him anything, he's not about to argue.]

So this is a subarchway, huh? I'd love to know how I ended up here. My visit wasn't exactly planned.

[He looks to Aqua and shakes her hand.]

Name's Pixy. You two from the same place?

[He doesn't want to say 'same world' because he's still not fully adjusted to that. She does seem a little out of place though. ... especially with that vibrant blue hair.]

We'd like to know that too, but it might be one of Genessia's games again.

[Troy motions Larry and Aqua to move out of their current position, so they wouldn't make much of a fuss in public.]

Depends on what you mean. She's not from my universe, but she lives here for now. Freeloader.

[He ribs Aqua with that joke, as evident from his goofy grin]

Come on, let's get you back to where you were last.

[Aqua follows close behind Troy. She smiles at his comment and shrugs, clearly not bothered by the fact that she doesn't pay him to live here. It bothered her at first but she's gotten used to it.]

I'm from a world called The Land of Departure. It's very far from here.

[She can say that much considering no one knows where or what that place is.]

I've used to seeing many worlds though.

I'm still havin' trouble wrapping my head around the idea that there are people used to this kind of thing.

[Honestly, he thought the craziest thing he'd ever see was that damn laser tower and the flying carrier. Or whatever Belka would come up with next. No way they would stop at Excalibur and the Hresvelgr. Pixy follows the two out of the way, folding his arms and looking around the city.]

You two live here, huh? [He pauses a moment, looking up.] Seems like this place'd be ideal for a dogfight.

[He doesn't know why, he just gets the vibes.]

So, is this 'teleporting' thing normal or am I just bein' messed with?

[Troy didn't say much, but he was listening to Larry as they continued to walk to the parked cars near the Marina. One of them being his]

It's a new thing. Probably got something to do with that quake, it hit even the subarchways and there's that new decoration on the sky.

[Troy's car lit up and activated on it's own once he got near it. The side doors slide open to reveal a driverless vehicle, with four hovering chairs facing each other, and an array of holographic interfaces]

Where were you last? We'll take you there. Unless you got nothing to do and just want to dick around. I got something I could show ya.

It isn't normal.

[Aqua quickly adds to Troy's comments about the sky. Teleporting people is most certainly something new and Aqua doesn't know what sort of magic might cause it.

She looks up at the sky for a moment and then thinks about his comment.]

You're a pilot.

[She sounds a little impressed.]

[He looks over at Aqua.]

Spot on, kid. But I guess it's 'former' pilot in this place.

[Which he sounds a little annoyed about, but it can't be helped. He can't get his F-15 back very well as far as he's aware.]

Glad to hear this isn't a normal thing. I'm still adjustin' as it is, I don't need something else thrown at me already. At least I was just on my way back to my bunk and nothin' else.

[So he doesn't have any pressing matters at least. Last thing he is in this place is on a time schedule. He does stop when he sees that fancy as hell car though, raising an eyebrow.]

Huh. And here I thought Belka had the impressive technology.

Sortie 02 | [Log: Dubai Night Assault]

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