melodiesoflife | Event || Revelations

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Event || Revelations

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Order's Sanctuary, The Interdimensional Rift and their Homeworlds.
When: August 03rd - August 30th

Summary: Following the battle against Palitutu, all the Heroes of Light were transported into the Interdimensional Rift. They were told by Palitutu they would have to find her to prove they can break the cycle-- But before they could reach their destination, a malevolent entity from the Rift stripped them from their immortality...

And now, they woke up in a decaying and dying world, most specifically in a place called Order's Sanctuary. From there they are ready to jump... Into their homeworlds! Feel free to use this post for the Mingle at Order's Sanctuary and should your homeworld be the stage for the Heroes of Lights' next adventures, feel free to make a thread for it and as many sub-thread as necessary! Please refer to the OOC Post for questions and plotting.

Warning: Whatever you come up with.

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Well, Jack suddenly taking off like that had Lydia's attention. It didn't seem in response to anything bad, considering his grin. Not hard at all for Lydia to laugh quietly to herself, and move to follow him. Good thing Betel-Po was a sound sleeper, even if he grumbled in his spot in her bag.

Keeping up with Jack was harder, but only because he knew where he was going. The police box was new, and Lydia watched, eyes widening when the doors opened and with Jack's reaction. She is not far behind him in heading to the box, and then moving to poke her head in through the doorway.

"Deadly vu!"

K'pandolu follows, wondering exactly what had caught the others' attention. She moved to peer into the box over Lydia's shoulder, and made a short sound of surprise. "What!? But-" She pulls back, to stare at one corner of the box, then the next. "How is that possible?"

Kidd looked up with all the seriousness and worry of an impending attack clear in her expression. If Jack was running off like this without a word it had to be something serious, life or death. And that this was seemingly his home world she couldn't blame where he was placing his priorities.

She ran with the others, doing a little better to keep up the chase, after all this is something she'd done before, but she falters for a moment as he approaches and enters the blue box. "Jack! What are ya-"

She got a view of the space within unfolding inside before she crossed the threshold herself. She stopped in the doorway, feeling the vertigo as she glanced between the inside and the outside. Given all she's seen thusfar she's somewhat prepared, but it didn't make this any less disconcerting.

"Jack....what is this?"

"Wot!?"

A very different voice makes a confused sound, and a very skinny man (with really great hair) in a brown pinstripe suit pokes his head out from under the central console. He wrinkles his nose when he sees Jack.

"Ohh, you'll just let anyone in, now won't you?" Was he- talking to the machine?

The man slides himself out from where he was working, dusts his hands off, and strides over towards Jack. "Now I know what you're thinking, and no, I'm sorry, but you're not telling me to just fob off and ignore a second rift in time and space appearing right next to the first one, and I think I've got a workaround but I could use your help and," the Doctor's tone abruptly turns on a dime when he finally stops babbling and notices the look on Jack's face.

"Nooooo, nonono now I do know what you're thinking and stop it." He points a finger at Jack, and the man is backpedaling, as if putting the console between him and Jack might prevent the Time Agent from walking up and kissing him like he really wants to do right now.

Jack sighs heavily and backs off. "Doctor. Everybody, this is the Doctor. If there's one guy in all of time and space who might be able to fix this, it's him."

"Well...." The Doctor shoves his hands in his pockets and rocks back and forth from heels to the balls of his feet, as if trying to look modest (and failing).

"Sorry, who do we have here?" The Doctor pulls a double-take at K'pandolu. "One of the Sisters of Plentitude? ...Out of habit?" There's an accusatory glare at Jack. "Jack!"

Jack's eyes go wide, and his hands are held up and shaking back and forth in denial. "No no, it's not what you think! We're not- no!" A pleading look at K'pandolu, please please tell the Doctor that he hasn't done anything wrong?

There is no better way to silence Duster than to talk a lot. He has a lot of questions, sure, but he has a feeling the Doctor wants to finish everything first.

...If he is going to ever finish.

So as the two panic (over K'pandolu? What's going on?), Duster waves at the doctor, bringing some attention to the man in the armor and spear.

K'pandolu looks amused, for the most part- at least until she's brought into the conversation. She blinks, mid-wave, and tilts her head, assuming a politely puzzled expression. "The Sisters of Plenitude? I've never heard of them." She straightened up, offering a smile. "In any case- Jack's been a good friend."

"The Doctor? This is the Doctor you've told us all about? The one who might be able to fix all of the problems we've run into back on Crystallis?" She looked the man up and down. He didn't seem like much but she knew looks could be deceiving. And then there was that hair. There was no way a normal man had hair like that.

She looked about at the space around them. Bigger on the inside. No way this was natural, or even technology from this time. Possibly even this world.

"The rift that Jack mentioned. How things come through it. Are you from there?"

Lydia followed the others in, easily forgotten due to her smaller stature. Not to mention the utter silence in movement and form, as well as lack of shadow, that the Vampire Job granted her. This was amazing! Seriously it was like something out of the Neitherworld, and yet she'd never been to anywhere in the Neitherworld this advanced?

She's exploring around the control room while everyone else is arguing or discussing. She might also be holding tightly onto Betel-Po, lest he go off exploring the other corridors. (She wants to as well, but Lydia is telling herself she shouldn't. So far it's working.) With all the questions and everyone distracted though, it's not hard to come closer to the Doctor. A polite throat clearing, to draw his attention she hoped. "Excuse me. We're sorry for interrupting, but we just saw Jack take off running and he doesn't usually do that without a good reason."

No reason to not be polite. Holding out her hand, while Betel-Po offers a wave of his paw and a 'yo!' in greeting. "I'm Lydia Deetz. It's nice to meet you, sir."

The Doctor almost stumbles over himself apologizing to K'pandolu, then. "Sorry, then. Sorry. I must've mistaken you for a different- tribe? If Jack's been a good friend, how can I be any different?"

Duster gets himself a cautious look for bringing a weapon into the doctor's ship. "Good things, I hope..." The doctor responds to Kidd.

But his absolute full attention is grabbed by Lydia. He bends over slightly to get closer to her level and grins at her. "Miss Lydia, Glad to meet you. I am the Doctor, and I'm here to help." He pulls a slight face at Jack. "Really? Am I 'Jack's Doctor' now?"

"Since we've always been 'The Doctor's companions?' Turnabout not fair play?"

"Well..." The Doctor straightens back up and looks at Jack squarely. "Considering how they aren't Torchwood, I'm wondering how your friends know about me?" Jack flinches as if he's just been caught, but the Doctor presses on. "Jack a second rift in time and space right on top of the first one is too much for even you to handle. That brilliant little machine you've got downstairs could certainly help, but if you've got even more people coming here for all times and places and you can't get them back where they came from," the Doctor sweeps a hand at Jack's friends.

"This is going to get worse before it gets better. And I can't help unless I know how bad it is. Captain. Please. You've done wonderfully so far, let me take it from here."

Edited (.) 2016-08-23 16:26 (UTC)

K'pandolu nods. "The Hipparion tribe, as a matter of fact," she says. "And I'm sure you will be- how could you not?" Assuming that Jack makes good- or at least decent- choices in the people he knows doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.

She cocks her head, listening intently. "You deal with these kinds of things, too?"

And here comes the false modesty again, "Deal with? We-"

"Yes." Jack cuts across whatever he was about to say. "End of the world-level catastrophes? End of multiple world-level? That's him."

Jack has definitely gotten the Doctor's attention with that. "This- portal that you're talking about. It leads to another world that is slowly getting devoured. And when it goes, it could pull this world with it." That's the short short version, but if the Doc can help...

"Right!" The Doctor claps his hands. "Better get started snapping that connection, then! We're going to need to borrow a few wavelengths from the Rift, buuut, a negative-phase waveform dropped right into it should do the trick..."

Because there's no potential bad consequences of cutting off one of the Heroes' Worlds from Crystallis?

"Wait."

Chiaki speaks up from out of the small crowd Jack has gathered here, holding her hand out as she steps forward.

"That's a bad idea. A really bad idea."

It's time for a Hope Speech. And if everything Jack has told her about the Doctor is true, Chiaki knows it will get through.

"We can't just cut off the energy flow from this world to Crystallis," she explains. "...Well, we can, but we shouldn't. Jack is being sustained by his crystal right now, which is powered by his connection to this place. If you cut that off, even if he isn't instantly crystallized on the spot, he likely will be when we return. Also, he'll lose all of his powers, since they originate from here."

But even more than that...

"Also, the energy from the Heroes' worlds is currently what's helping to hold back the Calamity. Severing that connection is the same thing as dooming Crystallis. We have a chance to help them, and free their world from the cycle of despair."

Shaking her head, she looks the Doctor straight in the eye.

"It's wrong to make that decision for them. Shouldn't we believe in hope, and give their world the chance to live instead? Even if the odds are next to impossible, don't they deserve that chance?"

Sparks, who'd been hanging back quietly prodding over things in the TARDIS, speaks up. He's heard a little about this guy from Jack, and while he sounds like he could be a big help, they shouldn't go rushing into things.

"She's right. We're either savin' everyone, or no one, if I got anythin' to do with it. And I sure as heck ain't gonna let everythin' get ruined on my watch."

Of course, everyone had been blaming Sparks and his big mouth for the situation the Heroes were in currently.

"...Y'know. Again, anyway."

Lydia is glad Chiaki spoke up. They worked together a time or two before, and Jacques and Chihiro had clearly been friends and close. Maybe she could help best now too.

"Doctor?" Lydia spoke softly, trying to command his attention. "You want to help. And we know you could--Jack has told us some things, and he clearly thinks very highly of you. But sometimes...there's a right way to help and a wrong way. Having you simply sever the connection between the worlds? That would be the wrong way to help in this case. It will only make things worse, and you want to make things better right?"

There is a genuine smile, if not a little sad as well, on her face. "WE were the ones called, everyone who has been a Hero of Light has been called--and it's our responsibility to fix this." Said with conviction, heartfelt belief and determination. "You can advise us, and help us, but you shouldn't be the one to fix this. WE have to be the ones to do it. Please believe in us."

K'pandolu twitches one ear back, less convinced that they should be the only ones dealing with it, but still with one thought to share. "It seems like the sort of thing better dealt with at the source, besides."

"Like as not, if you cut off the connection between the worlds, that could also possibly trap us here at best, and kill us at worst. Or else connect the Calamity to this world trhough us and in a way we can't stop." She looked around the space. She couldn't begin to guess how this craft worked, but she couldn't shake the impression that it was a grand ship she was standing in, despite the outside appearance.

"Surely you have something here we can use. To take back and use against the Calamity on our end and close things off properly."

Even Jack looked absolutely ready to buy whatever the Doctor was selling, until all of his friends speak up. The Doctor almost looks like he's about to open his mouth in protest a few times, but they are very good at keeping the momentum going. By the time they are done, his expression has settled into that one that Jack can never quite read. Sad, or distant, or pleased, or trying not to get attached, or that second where he's having to accept a weight for someone else? The only thing Jack knows it it makes him look old.

The Doctor moves to Chiaki, takes a knee and puts a hand on her shoulder. "It's normally my job. When a planet can't, or won't save themselves, that's when I come in. I could take care of this all, for this world, right here, right now. But if it would doom another planet, doom- several other planets?" He sweeps a look around at the group. "Not a one of you belong here, there are other worlds, other connections that can't be broken from here, can they?" Settles for a second on K'pandolu, the reason he was wrong about her species and hasn't heard of what she is.

He stands back up, and fixes Jack with that same unreadable look. "Whatever this Calamity thing is, it's bigger than me, and bigger than you. But you're saying," glances at Chiaki again, "it's fed your life force through some crystal? Like a- a focus lens?" Theeeeere's the scientific curiosity and the confusion back again.

The Doctor closes his eyes for a second. "The hardest thing for me to do is to just walk away."

Jack audibly snorts, cutting off whatever the Doctor was about to follow that up with.

"Therefore," the Doctor actually glares at Jack as if to tell him to shut up because they do not have the time for that conversation, "what help can I give you that does not involve cutting the connection between this world and this other one? What is it you're trying to do, there? Cut all the cords, leave this thing trapped in the Dark Space?"

Sparks folds his arms, looking thoughtful.

"We don't just need to stop it. We need to reverse it too. Right now, a huge chunk of Crystallis is covered by crystal, thanks to this. Leavin' it like that makes half the planet unusable. Thousands of people have lost their homes 'n their loved ones."

He lets out a long-suffering sigh. "We also have to stop this nonsense from happenin' every coupla' thousand years, too. Otherwise, why go through all the trouble? Oh, and it's kinda threatening, like, all of our home planets too. So that's a thing."

"It's a cycle, Doctor." Duster speaks up from the back of the room, taking several steps closer to the man in the jacket. "Cutting off the connection between our worlds would help, but Crystallis is dying and stealing us in order to save itself. Doing that will only speed it up."

He bites his lip, recalling the truth of his own world. How humanity destroyed all but one corner, how quickly the Nowhere Islands could be wiped out thanks to the whims of an eternal child. Severing the life source of the planet would make them no better than Porky.

"We have to find another way for that world to survive. Find another energy source...I don't know how, but there has to be a way. I can't abandon everyone who lives there and let them die."

The Doctor grins at Duster's proclamation that he won't abandon the people on Crystallis, itself. "Quite right, too! No sense in doing a job unless you're going to do it all the way. Save everyone, you said?" He shoots that grin at Sparks as well. "Now...Energy source..." those words start to strike an idea in the Doctor, and he looks thoughtful for a moment.

"The crystal is sort of the problem, but, well, Owen described it as almost an autoimmune response. We had an idea, though." In brief, Jack explains what Palitutu and Jade spoke of about the Soul Divider, what their plan has turned into, and the idea of funneling the broken part of Crystallis, through the Rift, through the Soul Divider, to attempt to make the planet whole again. Throughout it all, the Doctor's face remains contemplative, and only once Jack falls silent does he straighten up.

"There's a way I could help. It would be better if I were there-"

Jack shakes his head. "When we go back...I'm pretty sure this is a one-way trip, Doctor. And this world needs you."

The Doctor breathes out a sigh and ruffles his own already messy hair. His eyes scan over the faces of everyone with Jack. "Then I can offer a piece of Time Lord knowledge. If they were still around, they'd be veeeeery cross that I was even making this offer. But the Time Lords knew how to safely tap into a void, time travel was created by feeding off a gap in time and space. If you want to feed energy from one of those through something designed to clean and purify energy, then this might help."

The Doctor's face grows grave. "I can leave one of you with the knowledge, telepathically implant it. But I can't give it to Jack. He's too...." The Doctor pauses at the look on Jack's face, and he knows that he needs to choose his next word carefully or he's about to get punched. "...antithetical to what the Time Lords are. The knowledge wouldn't take."

"So it's got to be one of you. And I'm really sorry about that."

"I'll take it."

There's no hesitation whatsoever from Chiaki as she steps forward. The knowledge the Doctor is talking about sounds vast enough to be risky to absorb, and given Chiaki's origins as an AI, she feels like she can handle a sudden influx of information like that. Besides, she isn't going anywhere anytime soon - she's resolved to see this thing through to the end.

Mary watched the exchange, taking all of it in while considering the space around her. She watched Jack and the Doctor talk. She watched the others as they stepped in. When Chiaki volunteered herself she offered a nod of agreement. The girl was probably the best to take this information, considering the group they had with them.

She settled herself against one of the railings and waited. She had little to offer right now, but she wanted a word with the Doctor before they departed.

After a few moments, Sparks nodded with conviction to the decision he just made in his head.

"Reckon if it's gonna help, I'd take it too. I did mean it when I said save everyone."

The Doctor did say this was done telepathically, though. Sparks frowns a bit, then points to his own head.

"Ya better not, like, monkey around in there, though."

Edited 2016-09-01 00:11 (UTC)

K'pandolu cocked her head, watching the Doctor, clearly interested in the whole thing. "It would probably be a good idea to share it," she remarked- not because she thought anything would happen to Chiaki; she'd do her best to make sure of that if it came down to it- but she hoped more people knowing would help. "I'm willing to take it as well- I've a little experience with transference," she added, with a quirk of her lips, "I doubt it'd take much fiddling around beyond what's necessary to understand it."

She leaned back, lifting her chin. "Is… was this a common thing for your people?"

"I'm not a fighter...but I will do what I can. I'm more than willing to help share the burden too." Lydia chimed in, looking up at everyone (darn it, she was due a growth-spurt!) with conviction. Especially the Doctor; Jack believed this man could help, and it was clear how strong that belief was.

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