and fate reaches sidewise for another "duplicate". sort of.
[air is not supposed to warp and pixelate like that, oh no. but then, a plaza shouldn't have new arrivals plummeting through the pixelation to crumple nicely against the ground, either.]
... oww ...
... What --!
[it shouldn't have been a surprise -- given where he'd been -- that when the ground gave way he'd plummeted straight through to some unfamiliar place. that ruin'd area always was strange]
[but that didn't stop the howl of outraged surprise, or his reflexive donning of armour.]
[... skyline was wrong, architecture was wrong. layout was wrong. where was this?]
To check, needed --
[scraping himself up and back to his feet with a shake of his head, Nightmare checked his online diagnostic and promptly scissored his fangs quickly enough to nick his lip. no real injury but GPS and chronometer were flat gone. even for him, "purple kiwi rainbow" was not an accepted reading.]
"Mmrr ...
"This place -- where, the identity is --?"
"Something to be found. Reploids, here; a beginning, start."
[narrowing his eyes in concentration, still armoured, he began to prowl through the plaza.]
... oww ...
... What --!
[it shouldn't have been a surprise -- given where he'd been -- that when the ground gave way he'd plummeted straight through to some unfamiliar place. that ruin'd area always was strange]
[but that didn't stop the howl of outraged surprise, or his reflexive donning of armour.]
[... skyline was wrong, architecture was wrong. layout was wrong. where was this?]
To check, needed --
[scraping himself up and back to his feet with a shake of his head, Nightmare checked his online diagnostic and promptly scissored his fangs quickly enough to nick his lip. no real injury but GPS and chronometer were flat gone. even for him, "purple kiwi rainbow" was not an accepted reading.]
"Mmrr ...
"This place -- where, the identity is --?"
"Something to be found. Reploids, here; a beginning, start."
[narrowing his eyes in concentration, still armoured, he began to prowl through the plaza.]