genessia | [Action/Video]

[Action]

As consciousness slowly returned to Akihiko, he moved his arms to stretch only to become acutely aware of the pod he was in. The fatigue of fighting in the TV World coupled with jet lag had caused him to doze off on the limo ride back to Iwatodai, but that was all instantly forgotten as he pushed the lid of the pod off and hopped out, assuming a fighting stance as he glanced around. The faint glow of the hologram and the message it offered on loop seemed to be the only presence in the bay. "Mitsuru, Aigis, Labrys, Fuuka, any of you here?"

“Akihiko?” If he cared to look behind him, he’d see her a few feet away, rapier in hand and a scowl on her face.

He glanced behind him to make sure Mitsuru was okay, slowly lowering his guard as it seemed there weren’t any hostile presences. Mitsuru was here, but Aigis, Labrys, and Fuuka were nowhere to be found. That in itself was troubling.“You okay?”

“I’m fine, but where are Yamagishi and the others?” Mitsuru looked around, slowly lowering her own weapon and flicking her long hair over her shoulder to get it out of her face. “This isn’t the car and those,” she pointed to the pods they’d woken up in, “look like something from that movie Iori used to watch back at the dorms.”

“No idea. This sure doesn’t feel like the TV World or Tartarus… but I think it’s clear that wherever we are, we’re nowhere near Iwatodai or Inaba.” It was then that the hologram mentioned ‘Genessia’ and caught Akihiko’s attention. “Genessia? Never heard of it before… have you?”

She gave him a withering look before examining the pod a bit better, to find the box laying in the silk lining innocently. “No, I haven’t. Akihiko, check your pod for me. What do you see inside?”

Akihiko blinked for a second. He hadn’t thought to check the pod itself, but when he returned to it, he did indeed find something. “Huh… where’d this box come from? It’s got what looks like some money, a necklace and a fancy phone or something in it. Did you have one too?”

Mitsuru sighed a little. She should have known he’d actually open the box before answering her. “I can only assume so. Since you’re fine, I can only guess that these are safe.” And that was such a lovely way of phrasing that she wasn’t sure and she was unhappy about the uncertainty of everything.

She poked the necklace with her sword and when nothing happened, she picked the gaudy thing up with long fingers. “Are we supposed to wear these?”

Akihiko shrugged and stuffed the necklace into one of the many pockets on his pants before responding. “Beats me. It sure suits you more than it would me.”

She shoved the jewelry into one of the pockets of her coat, along with the communicator and the money. “This is either a very vivid hallucinatory dream that we’re sharing or…” She shook her head again in disbelief. “Or we’re actually not anywhere we know. I’m not sure which thought is more pleasant at this point.”

Akihiko was silent for a moment, trying to process all this. “I suppose if it’s the latter we’ll just have to assume the others are alright for the time being. We should probably try and get some more information on this place though, if we really have been taken elsewhere.”

“Do you have your phone?” She pulled out her own small cellphone, checking it. No service. “Wherever we are, I suppose normal attempts of communication are out of the question.”

Akihiko pulled his own phone from another pocket, nodding to Mitsuru as he confirmed that he wasn’t getting any service either. “I guess there are those phone-like things that were in the boxes. Maybe we should try those.” He had barely finished his statement before pulling the communicator out and was fiddling with it in a manner not unlike a caveman.

Somewhere, Mitsuru was sure Yamagishi was crying out in pain with the way that Akihiko manhandled the foreign technology. She herself had taken out her own and was examining it, not unlike the level-headed businesswoman she was raised to be. “There’s a camera and screen for videos. It’s appears to be just like an oversized smartphone. Though, this is years ahead of anything at Kirijo Electronics.” She looked up at him and raised an eyebrow. “You’re going to break it if you keep at that.”

[Video]

[The feed clicks on with an awkward view of a short-haired blond man and a woman with long elegant red hair, completely in contrast to the man’s rugged looks.] “I’m not going to break it, I’m just trying to figure out how--oh, hey I think it’s recording.”

[He clears his throat before addressing it fully.]“My name is Akihiko Sanada, my friend and I were on our way back to Iwatodai in Japan before waking up here. Anybody know how to get there from here? Or how we got here?”

[The redhead makes sure that she can be seen on the screen as well.] Forgive him. My name is Mitsuru Kirijo, and any assistance would be very much appreciated.

[OOC: Red text is Mitsuru, blue is Akihiko.]