[After Barry's dream, Genius slips into this one and has a surreal moment where he's dreaming that he's another person who is another person. Then there is the ultra surreal moment where Genius/Fred/Storm is staring at dream Genius and Tribble. Even so, it takes a moment for him to separate his own identity from Fred's.
He sits up in bed utterly confused, the movement jostling the real Tribble from his curled up position at the foot of the bed. The furball grunts and rolls over, dead to the world.]
[It was the branch that stood out, the piece of a tree, growing, living, and in his hand. Of course he was armed; Gai was always armed. But the staff... What did it mean? What was it supposed to mean? Was it reference to him trying to look under things here? Or was it simply about life and growing?
For a moment Gai wondered if they'd succeeded and protected Genius, but the thought was rather quickly dismissed. Of course they had. It was his mission. He completed his missions.
Fred's dream was interesting. Romana's dream. Whichever. She would be Fred to him, for as long as she wanted to be. While he didn't understand the book thing at the end, or the card, it was he wasn't too shaken up by this one. Gai rolled over and drifted back to sleep, idly wondering if he would speak with her about this.]
[Much less strenuous than the last dream he witnessed, Lyle drifts into wakefulness after this one. He idly wonders who the big-eared guy handing out orders was or why 'formation Omega' seemed to cause so much hesitation amongst the group.
He then recalls Romana taking the test (or himself as Romana, or however the hell this dream-existence was portraying itself), quoting from Alice in Wonderland, and reminds himself that it's just a dream and, really, there's likely nothing terribly important to be gotten out of it.
Turning over, he buries his face in his pillow and slips out of consciousness again.]
[Rick thinks this is one of the best dreams he's ever had, though he does rather wonder why he's looking at himself in it... and why they appeared to be in a war zone.
Weirder is realizing that he's apparently Fred, but this doesn't register to him until after he wakes up in the morning, and thoughts about the dream are soon tucked away and half-forgotten amongst all his other worries.]
[What jarred Ben out of unquestioning acceptance of the dream was Omega.]
[Omega. The code that meant the worst possible thing had happened. The one that meant it was time to abandon everything and run. Leave your mission. Leave your gear if it would slow you down. Leave your comrades, if it came to that; the only priorities were ranking members and even they should be left if they had to be. Get out of there. Make sure that something survived.]
[He hated that signal, he found, with a slow powerful anger that surprised him even as he forced it back and dissolved it. When it was gone, he was fully aware that this wasn't his dream. Omega meant something else to them. Something not nearly as drastic.]
[After that, of course, the rest was mood whiplash, and he had to carefully deconstruct his first reaction, to think of the dreamer as frivolous.]
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He sits up in bed utterly confused, the movement jostling the real Tribble from his curled up position at the foot of the bed. The furball grunts and rolls over, dead to the world.]
What the hell?
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For a moment Gai wondered if they'd succeeded and protected Genius, but the thought was rather quickly dismissed. Of course they had. It was his mission. He completed his missions.
Fred's dream was interesting. Romana's dream. Whichever. She would be Fred to him, for as long as she wanted to be. While he didn't understand the book thing at the end, or the card, it was he wasn't too shaken up by this one. Gai rolled over and drifted back to sleep, idly wondering if he would speak with her about this.]
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He then recalls Romana taking the test (or himself as Romana, or however the hell this dream-existence was portraying itself), quoting from Alice in Wonderland, and reminds himself that it's just a dream and, really, there's likely nothing terribly important to be gotten out of it.
Turning over, he buries his face in his pillow and slips out of consciousness again.]
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Weirder is realizing that he's apparently Fred, but this doesn't register to him until after he wakes up in the morning, and thoughts about the dream are soon tucked away and half-forgotten amongst all his other worries.]
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[Omega. The code that meant the worst possible thing had happened. The one that meant it was time to abandon everything and run. Leave your mission. Leave your gear if it would slow you down. Leave your comrades, if it came to that; the only priorities were ranking members and even they should be left if they had to be. Get out of there. Make sure that something survived.]
[He hated that signal, he found, with a slow powerful anger that surprised him even as he forced it back and dissolved it. When it was gone, he was fully aware that this wasn't his dream. Omega meant something else to them. Something not nearly as drastic.]
[After that, of course, the rest was mood whiplash, and he had to carefully deconstruct his first reaction, to think of the dreamer as frivolous.]
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