melodiesoflife | Player Plot: No Bananas On The Moon

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Player Plot: No Bananas On The Moon

Who: Twilight Sparkle and those who expressed interest in going
What: After months of waiting, it's time to investigate what's on the Lunar Base!
Where: Starting on the Lunar Gate and continuing into the Lunar Base
When: forward-dated to 11/23
Warnings: None just yet.

It was finally time. After months of working, delays, in-fighting and all of that wonderful stuff, it was time to investigate the Lunar Base. To be quite fair, if anyone was excited for this, Twilight was. After gathering another group to join her, they all gathered at the Lunar Gate back in the Continent of Ruin. Alongside Twilight's other equipment, she sported a large airhorn. She was going to put some Heroes in their place with them.

"Alright, everyone, it's time we finally figure out what's up on the Moon." Twilight said. "I'm going to admit, I'm very excited for this - I've never been in space before." She let out a sigh. "I do want to put down one little bit of ground rule here: no fighting. We've spent so much time fighting with each other that it's time we put a stop to it. Unless you have a very good reason to object to something happening, I suggest not trying anything. We don't know what we're going to encounter up there and having a crisis of conscience if something needs to happen is something we don't need. Especially since it's space."

Straightening herself up, she smiled at the others. "Now, you guys ready to get going?"

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Twilight grunted as she fitted herself into a random space suit. "I wish my powers were at full. A spell to not need space suits would be wonderful right now." She said.

Once everyone was suited, she would lead the gang into what is the main portion of the base. Like the gate room, everything is powered down. There are some signs, though. One leading down another tunnel reading "Power Room" and one reading "Control Room". Of course, both are in Ancient, so...

"Ancient writing, huh? Looks like it's my turn!"

Levy grins widely as she steps up to read the labels on the doors out loud for the benefit of the non-Scholars in the group.

"We should probably head to the Power Room first so we can get this place up and running. The Control Room won't be very useful until we've done that."

Well this was... anticlimactic so far. Albel didn't even remember to hide the disappointment on his face. One room. One room with working monitors, and barely that. The Milky Way's Moonbase had been quite a bit more expansive and operational.

Then again, he had to remind himself, that station had been operated by Sphere. It wasn't "real," not to them, not when it was just a string of strange symbols and codes in their machines. The people who had built it thought they were creating something, maintaining something, but it could have been shut down at the touch of a button. This, as far as Albel could tell, was real. This was space. Not that the "space" back home would have been any less dangerous and deadly, but this base was likely a lot harder to run without any "help" from fourth-dimensional "gods."

This was too philosophical for him. At the end of the day, he'd simply expected... well, more.

"Alright," he sighed, leaving his bag by the control panel and going for the suits. Since it would appear the gate would have to be powered up again for their return, it was a good thing he'd brought more items from Airyglyph. This was ancient technology to this world, he reminded himself, not something in current use like the moon of "Earth." Perhaps there would be more to discover beyond the (admittedly intimidating) airlock. Now if only he could get past the suspicion in his gut about why the hell there was a space suit prepared for a pony.

Heading for the Power Room, they'll find that the place looks just as dead and lifeless as everything else so far in this place. They'll find both the emergency power device and the main power device - complicated for normal people, but easy for those used to advanced machinery or even Ancient tech.

"Hmm... this is certainly out of my reach." Twilight mused. "Anyone with an idea?"

"Ancient writing?" She chuckled ruefully. "I wonder if it's too late to learn that?" she asked thoughtfully. From her tone, it was clear she literally meant time-wise because of the Calamity and not out of some idea that she couldn't due to her intelligence.

"You know, if this is a repeat of something that's gone before, I wonder why no one's ever left a translation of all these things written in Ancient? We might have been able to reach conclusions faster if they had." And a repeat session would also explain the suit for Twilight. After all, she had said her friend Pinkie Pie had been there.

Once in the Power Room, Sheena once again looked around, her brows furrowing in thought.

"Remember when we went to the gate the first time and found all that stuff hooked into everything? Maybe there's something like that here to give us a clue where to begin."

"It would have been nice for whoever rebuilds this world to keep information from the previous cycle, but it's clear they're biased towards the Ancients. No surprise there." He shrugged and gave a small squeak. They had at least one person who could translated the writing.

Ales laid a hand on the power device, brushing off the thin layer of dust that either accumulated from years of neglect or from lazy cleaners. "Let me take a loot at this."

He turned on his computer, which projected a holographic screen in front of the Teensie. His first method would be to hack into the machine without touching its delicate frame, but it that didn't work, he had the old-fashioned mechanical engineering background to fall on.

Santa doesn't read Ancient, so he takes the time to put on his space suit. It's pretty cool. Too bad nobody's got a camera.

"You think we could shut off the artificial gravity in here?" Because that'd be kick-ass, being able to float around in Zero-G. He's not super useful at this point in the mission. If there's puzzles or some shit like that in the Power Room, it'll be his moment to shine. Crystallis doesn't have nearly as many puzzle games as he's used to.

"Honestly, I would really like it if there were notes of that sort around." Twilight said. "It's getting really ridiculous over the collection of stuff left to us and nothing saying how they work."

She chuckled at Santa's suggestion. "That would be actually pretty neat, but I don't think this place has any--"

She's cut off as Ales' work finally pays off, bringing light and power throughout the station...

...and sirens go off as red lights start to flash.

"WARNING! WARNING! T-10 MINUTES UNTIL WEAPON DISCHARGE! TARGET: CRYSTALLIS!"

And at that point, if anyone can look out the window, they can find a laser superweapon nearby, aimed at the planet. And it is charging its laser.

"...If we didn't have these problems before, I'd be more surprised..."

"Uh... Ales? Tell me we can shut that off!"

Levy darts over to where the Teensie has been working at the computer, looking around for anything like a user's manual.

Wait, a countdown until certain impending doom? They're getting to familiar territory now. Santa grins.

"Everyone, look around for clues or pages of instructions. They're gotta be some trick for shutting it off."

Good thing he's not near the window, otherwise he'd get hella distracted by the laser outside.

"How about power cords? Are there plugs we can pull on that?"

"...Really." Ales' flat voice is barely heard over the alarm. He wasn't sure whether the threat of explosions or Santa's casual attitude was more annoying.

"I'm going to see if I can shut off this program. Hang on." His eyes focus on the holographic screen, searching through command lines for the code that fires the laser. If he can cancel that or rewrite the code to shut it off, they can still restore power to the facility.

The glare of the light on his space suit helmet obscured most of his face, which was for the better considering how fast his heart is pounding. He knows he's capable. He can do this. Just...he doesn't want to blow up again. Especially since there's no way he'll be able to come back one more time.

Despite everyone thinking they can stop it here, they're not going to find anything in Power Room. Wherever the controls are to that superweapon, it's not in this room.

Ales will, though, find out that it's in the Control Room. And with the teleporters active, they can get there faster.

Sheena turned to the pony and gave a wry chuckle. "If this happened before, at least we know why they didn't leave any notes." Too busy panicking.

At Santa's suggestion, the ninja began a methodical search, starting from the back of the machine and running her hand slowly along the wall.

"I'm not finding anything yet. Anyone else?"

And Albel had just managed to get a suit over his gauntlet without it tearing. The rest of it, of course, was a bit over-sized to compensate, but he wasn't about to take the armor off.

He grumbled, walking in on the others searching for a way to disarm the laser. "This is not what I meant when I wished it was more interesting here." He gestured toward Ales, recognizing his screen. "Do you see anything?

The screen scrolls downward, Ales' eyes flicking over the symbols. Commands to turn on the laser lead to functions dictating the trigger, leading to strings of numbers and characters. A quick review shows that they correspond to servers, fortunately named after their location.

He bites his lip until he reaches the final destination of his network map reading.

"The Command Center! The trigger to shut it off is in there!" He turns to the other Heroes in the room.

"Other tunnel! Now!" Twilight said, pointing to the only other tunnel she sees outside the one that lead them there. Thankfully, this leads them to the Control Room.

Inside, there's something here that might be recognizable to some: weapons belonging to other heroes scattered across the area where they laid during a recent cycle. They've been untouched since they were last used that day.

Though, people might want to focus on the weapon as...

"WARNING! PLANETARY DESTRUCTION IN T-MINUS EIGHT MINUTES THIRTY SECONDS!"

There's various computers around, complicated for the more simple people, but someone like Ales might be able to work it easily and find the weapon systems.

Santa's pretty fast, even in the space suit, so it doesn't take him long to cross the tunnel and get to the Control Room. He keeps the computer open for somebody more qualified to get to.

"If you can't stop it in time, we can use these weapons and wreck the console." It's a last-ditch effort, but if the hacking doesn't work and the weapon's gonna blow up the world anyway, they might as well try.

Sheena's almost right behind him, her eyes narrowing as she scans the room. Using the weapons isn't a bad idea, but that may cause other problems.

"If we do that, we may not be able to get out of here," she said. "But, there may be one computer that's a little more active than the others right now. Like maybe with a warning light or message or something like that on it."

Flashing red light, anyone?

"Let's go," Albel grunted, physically grabbing the most useful person in the room -- Ales. If Ales could make sense of these machines, he was everyone's best hope. So Albel hoisted the teensie up under his arm and ran through the tunnel.

While Albel usually defaulted to violence, he remembered enough of Earth's Moonbase to strongly doubt destroying a machine would help. More than likely, it would make things worse. Besides, the weapons were strewn about haphazardly, apparently unused. And Crystallis still existed. So the other Heroes must have figured out something!

"Don't break anything! Then we'll never disable it!"

There was little room in the spacesuit for Ales to flail around. His visor pointed downwards, giving him solely the view of the floor rushing behind him and a glimpse of Albel's feet.

When they reached the room, Ales fidgeted in an attempt to slide out of Albel's arms. He fell to the floor with a soft thump inaudible over the sound of the siren.

"Not until I say so!" Breaking computers is a viable technique, but only when all other avenues are exhausting. Plus, breaking precious technology is a sin in Ales' eyes. He ran over to the main terminal, booted up his hacking device once more, and searched through the code.

As Ales searches through the code, he'll find various things besides the means to shut down the weapon. There code connected to other super weapons on this base, enough to make a movie super villain jealous. There's also a series of notes, written in English, that seem... recentish. The last entries made on this console before it was shut off.

...English.

Ales takes in a deep breath and goes through the motions of shutting down this weapon. The other things look interesting, which he'll go over in detail later. Each shaky press of the button comes closer to saving their lives and prevent another Teensie death by exploding.

Once he's certain the system won't boot up again, he turns to the other Heroes.

"A little help here with translation? I found some notes in the code I can't read."

"Oh! Yeah, hang on."

Levy heads over to where Ales is perched at the console, looking over the English notes. She'll read whatever she finds there out loud for the benefit of the group.

The good news is: the weapons have been shut down! Hurrah for Ales!

The bad(?) news?: Those notes are quite interesting.

They're from someone named Blair and what they say is... interesting.

They told of a plan by the Heroes of Light of that time to use this base as a means to end the Calamity their way - by obliterating the planet by the very superweapon they just shut down. It told of her allies, ones referred to as "the Librarian"and "Ganondorf", as they sought to protect her in case someone tried to attack them.

The notes continue, mentioning that they were indeed confronted by others - "Link" "Hylia", "Sophia" and "Faize" - in their attempts to stop them. They said their parts, but it seemed that Blair was adamant in proceeding with the plan.

The last set of notes, however, told of a change of heart - the risks were too great. She couldn't go through with it. There had to be another way to stop this. She shut down the power to the base to stop anyone from using it...

And it just stops. Whatever happened in the last notes, it seems that this Blair couldn't finish typing. Had the heroes who confronted them stopped her? Who could say?

"...well...I didn't expect that bit..." Twilight uttered, still a bit shocked.

Aoi whistled as Levy read the notes. He didn't know any of the people from the story, but he recognized an averted apocalypse when he saw one. That had been a close call. In parallel universes, they might have just ended everything.

"So, any chance we can turn this weapon, like, toward space or somewhere where it won't destroy the world if somebody accidentally trips the switch again? I vote for doin' that."

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