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[oliverplus]

Characters: Oliver Day (oliverplus) and OPEN
Location: Your reality!
Time: After Oliver's fairytale has ended, and during or after yours, as you prefer
Summary: Oliver goes on an involuntary reality-hopping tour of the multiverse~
Warnings: Oliver is a geek, and depending on your reality, he might just show it. Possibly a lot

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[rightawaydoctor]

Where he had ended up was onboard the flagship of the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise. Pristine white halls and shiny black floors wouldn't make that fact immediately apparent, however.

What would make that fact apparent was the familiar figure who was walking down the hall on her way to her Alpha shift. Christine was in her Head Nurse's uniform, a short blue dress with cap sleeves and knee high black boots. Her hair was pulled up in a high bun and she was wearing dangling earrings made of jevonite, her standard look for any normal working day.

She would have simply passed by without even paying attention to him, but as he wasn't wearing a Starfleet issued uniform, she glanced over and proceeded to do a double take.

"Oliver?" she exclaimed in shock. "W-What are you doing here?"

[oliverplus]

Oliver turned at the voice and proceeded to stare back at Christine, surprised--and relieved--to see her. "Christine!" He smiled, but at her question, he shook his head. "I don't know!" he cried, gesturing widely as he attempted to explain. "I was on the TARDIS, and then all of a sudden I was just--" But he stopped short, first looking around them, then back at Christine. His gut reaction had been to assume that she'd been brought to wherever this was too, but he realised now that she didn't look out of place here. Maybe... "Wait! Waitwaitwait! Is this your ship!?"

[rightawaydoctor]

Looking around at his exclamation, she was relieved to see no one else was around. This was bad, very bad. People didn't just appear on the ship without authorization. And they came onboard in the transporter room!

"Yeah, this is the Enterprise. Look, I'm glad to see you, believe me, but you're not supposed to be here, and as far as I know, no one else here knows about the Plane. They'd probably see accessing it as a breach in security, and because I can't help or predict what happens, I could be grounded. So you really can't be here."

[oliverplus]

"Really!?" He couldn't help his excitement. He immediately started looking around again, taking in as much of the look of the ship as he could. Hearing Christine's serious tone, however, he turned back to her, shocked. "Grounded?" he repeated. As much as he wanted to see this ship, he wasn't going to risk that happening to Christine to do it. He sighed, disappointed. "No, it's all right. I'll just go to the Plane," he assured her.

He took one last look around at the ship and, reluctantly, closed his eyes and thought of the Plane. But when he opened his eyes again, he found himself still standing with Christine on her starship.

"Um..." he started, confused. "I don't know why, but that didn't work..."

[saddenedsaint]

It was midday. A Greek temple was standing magnificent at the sunlight, white, beautiful and complete since the Ancient Times. Oliver could notice a staircase behind him and an entrance with pillars at the front, located behind two wings on each side.

Suddenly, there was the sound of heeled footsteps. Saga came out of said entrance with a tired expression on his face as he was rubbing his eyelids with his fingertips. Then... he looked at the boy before him... and took him a moment to process his thoughts just to realize it was Oliver. The Saint's emerald eyes widened for a couple of seconds and he frowned upset.

"Oliver."

[oliverplus]

On his second trip, Oliver was still startled to appear unexpectedly in a new place, but he recovered much more quickly. He immediately began looking around, taking in the buildings to try to work out whose world this was. After all, since the last place had been Christine's world, he had a feeling the new one would belong to someone on the Plane as well. And, realising that those temples looked Greek, he started to grin in excitement. Could it really be...?

When Saga approached him, that grin just widened. "Saga!" He waved in greeting. "Is this your temple? It's amazing!"

[saddenedsaint]

Well. He wasn't that pleased...

Saga grabbed Oliver by the arm and led him to the next pillar, mildly knocking the boy's back against a pillar. The Gemini's face was a mix between nuisance and worry.

"Why are here? Don't be so reckless showing yourself at the entrance."

[oliverplus]

Oliver was surprised by the rough treatment, his excitement replaced by shock--and hurt. He didn't try to pull free of Saga's grip.

"I just appeared here! The Plane's doing something." He struggled with how to explain when he didn't know why--or how--any of this was happening. He wished he knew why Saga was so upset about it, too. "I can't go there or home. I'm just...showing up places. I can't control it."

[onehundredbeers]

All things considered, the living room of Mordhaus was quiet. The huge expanse of the place seemed to dwarf out the sounds of Nathan playing one of the arcade games; the sound of Skwisgaar absently playing the guitar in the hottub

[oliverplus]

Unfortunately for Nathan, Oliver appeared right in front of that screen. He hadn't been expecting the sudden change, so for a moment, he just blinked. And then, when he saw who was right in front of him, he switched to staring at Nathan. At least there was no doubt about whose reality this was.

"Nathan!" he exclaimed, grinning in excitement again--and secretly hoping that his unexpected appearance would cause less trouble here than it had for Christine and Saga. "Is this your house?"

At that point, he noticed the other people in the room and proceeded to get even more excited. "Your band!"

[onehundredbeers]

Nathan stepped away, suddenly startled by someone nearby. Oh shit. It's Oliver. Shit, it's Oliver, suddenly appearing in his living room. "Uh, yeah, it is."

The other two immediate members of the band looked about as startled. Murderface's jaw half open, and Pickles just sort of staring, before speaking. "Hey, Nate'n. Did dat guy just, ya know, teleport in here? I thahght only we could do dat!"

"Yeah, this is, uh, Oliver. A pal of mine..."

Nathan seemed to be recovering from the initial whoa what the fuck is Oliver doing in my house moment. Pardon his hesitant, slow speech.

[oliverplus]

"Hi!" Oliver waved at the band members, barely managing to hold back a laugh at the looks on their faces. "God, this is so cool..." He looked around the room, taking in all the broken tellies, the hottub, the computer... "This place is huge!"

[lamb_of_gold]

The next location may have striken Oliver as familiar. The same white marble, the same salty air, and the same hot, white sun. Perhaps not quite the same place exactly, but not far.

Perhaps the only real difference between this place and Saga's reality, was that now? It was silent.

The temple before him was in some state of disrepair. Not so bad as to have been dangerous, but the debris around the threshold of the temple was enough to prompt someone to watch their steps. However, it certainly looked a fair deal cooler in the shade...

[oliverplus]

Oliver did recognise it right away. For a second, he thought he'd been sent back to Saga's reality, but it was quickly apparent that this was different. It was quieter--sadder. Beautiful, but clearly having suffered more wear and less recent care. But whose temple was this? There were a few Saints on the Plane that Oliver knew of.

He started carefully up toward the threshold, debating if he should call out or not. Saga had made it clear that outsiders weren't welcome here, and he had a feeling it would cause real trouble if someone who wasn't on the Plane found him first. So with that in mind, he stayed silent but watchful as he made his way toward the temple.

[lamb_of_gold]

The guardian met him halfway, melting away from the shadows that cloaked the inside of the temple.

Mu, in his plainclothes, seemed somewhat surprised.

"Oliver?"

[oliverplus]

Oliver was also surprised, as he hadn't seen Mu coming, but he broke out in a smile when he did spot his friend. "Mu! So this is your temple, isn't it?"

He gestured around the general area, secretly glad that it belonged to this Saint out of all of them. He'd already visited Saga, and Saga and Mu were the only Saints he knew well. Half the excitement of going somewhere new was sharing it with a friend, after all.

[punkblaze]

Eithan was very fortunate that while he was on the run in one realm, he was completely and totally safe in the other. He took advantage of this often.

Renhold, a city in the realm of Tharia, was a quiet little suburb town, and one of Eithan's favorite places to come and relax. He had friends in the city proper, and at the end of the day, he was more than content to spend his time in one of the unused public parks at the outskirts. The swing set was an especially nice place to sit at sunset, and that's exactly where he was.

And that's when Oliver popped up in front of him.

"Holy shi-!!" Eithan fell out of the swing. He almost hit the ground, but he caught himself and stumbled backward instead, staring, wide-eyed. "Whoa! Hey, you okay?"

Really, how many more people were just going to pop in on his reality like this...?

[oliverplus]

"Whoa, sorry!" Oliver reflexively took a step forward to catch Eithan, but he was glad to see him catch himself instead. Oliver felt a little bad; he hadn't meant to scare him--not that he'd had any control over the sudden change of scenery, of course.

"Ah, yeah. I'm fine. I just keep appearing in different worlds is all." Scratching his head, he gave Eithan a sheepish smile. He wished he could give him a better explanation, but that already pretty well summed up everything he knew about what was happening. He started to look around instead, taking in the quiet park. It was certainly a different sort of place from Mu's temple. "This is pretty."

[punkblaze]

"Appearin' in different...? So you didn't mean to come here?" Eithan blinked, surprised. The last insta-visitor he had from the plane had dropped hints that he'd intentionally traveled to each world, looking for something. Well, maybe this visit wasn't related to the last visit...

He smiled at Oliver's final comment, nodding. "Yeah, it's pretty great. I came out here to think for a bit before I head home." He turned to sit in his swing again, and waved a hand toward the other swing, a gesture for Oliver to sit if he felt like it.

[oliverplus]

"No, it just sorta happened. I mean, no offense! But it seems like I can't go to the Plane or back home or anything. I just keep randomly moving to different places every once in a while for no reason." He shrugged, accepting Eithan's invitation to sit on the other swing. He was starting to feel almost used to this random world-hopping--although it was particularly nice to be in another place where people wouldn't get upset if they found him. He planted his feet on the ground, swinging lightly forward and back. "Home from where? Your job?" he asked curiously.