Stage 01 - No Control, Just Chaos

[goddamnhedgehog]

[ACTION - 505 Ricardo Street

What's going on?

No, seriously. What the hell is this business? One second, you're busy wiping the floor with Mephiles and his dark clones with Rouge and Omega at your side. The next, you're engulfed in a brilliant white light. And now? You're waking up inside of a doghouse. In the middle of some strange neighborhood

Comments

PHONE

[webball]

Uh... this is... not those guys, not responding... if I was them, I would totally respond.

But, I'm not, so...

[goddamnhedgehog]

Why bother responding in the first place, then?

[webball]

WELL, if you want to be a JERK...

You sound like you're new in town. Otherwise, you would have dialed "Rouge" and "Omega" direct.

[goddamnhedgehog]

Assuming, of course, that either of them are here in the first place.

[Which is what he intended to find out.]

And yes. I'm a "new arrival."

[action] 1/2

[apathetic_lion]

[ Seven A.M., waking up in the morning.

Gotta be whatever, gotta go downstairs.

Gotta have his bowl, gotta have cerea--

Is that a goddamn hedgehog rummaging through the closet? ]

( ... )

[action] 2/2

[apathetic_lion]

[ Yes, it is. And he's pretty sure this isn't a dream. Nor the effect of some wild exotic mushroom. Well, might as well find out what it's... actually doing here. ]

Hey.

[goddamnhedgehog]

[Nope. No dreams here, Squall. Shadow pauses in his rummaging, glancing over his shoulder to look at him. He rises to his full height... of 3'3".]

What is this place?

[apathetic_lion]

[ Okay. A talking hedgehog. He's seemingly okay with this, so long as he doesn't start shouting 'LAGUNA!' suddenly. ]

( You mean other than a nightmare? )

Mayfield. A town with some sort of unbreakable magical barrier. We're all trapped here, pulled from different worlds, timelines, universes. "You'll get used to it" is what everyone keeps telling me.

Phone

[foalingaround]

...Can we still respond if we aren't Rouge or Omega?

[goddamnhedgehog]

I'd rather not waste my time.

[foalingaround]

Okay.

So how's it going?

[goddamnhedgehog]

[Guess who's tuning you out, Dash? Or attempting to, anyway.]

[action]

[asclepiansword]

. . .

[Liquid has reached a strange point in his adventures in Mayfield. That point being that he is almost completely numb to how fucknut insane everything is.]

[But what in the name of Metal Gear REX is that.]

[He's just going to be staring at you with an utterly deadpan look on his face, Shadow.]

[goddamnhedgehog]

[It doesn't take long for Shadow to realize he isn't alone. But this tall, shirtless newcomer still has yet to attack him. Instead, he seems to be just... staring at him. Like he's some kind of alien. Or a hedgehog with alien DNA. Which he is.]

Something bothering you?

[asclepiansword]

Mainly just the pressing question of 'what on earth are you?'.

[WHAT IN THE FUCK. When you've weirded out a guy from Metal Gear canon....you're pretty goddamn weird.]

Also the fact that you can apparently speak.

[goddamnhedgehog]

[Where's that damn FOURTH wall?!

Okay, Liquid. That's a little offensive. Especially considering that the humans where Shadow comes from have no real trouble at all accepting critters like him into their society.]

You act as if you've never seen a hedgehog before. And I can do far more than speak.

Phone

[wannafightnow]

Honestly, they're probably not here.

[goddamnhedgehog]

They could be.

[wannafightnow]

Yeah, they could. Some people here have had people from they're own worlds show up.

Its still not very likely your friends would be here though.

[goddamnhedgehog]

...

[They were all engulfed by the same white light, weren't they? So why is it that Shadow's the only one to find himself here?]