URSULA's voice crackles on over all forms of communication, radio and telepathic. In both, her transmission seems unstable. "Warning. Urgent. Attention required. I really mean it. Please evacuate the water. If impossible, hide immediately. The blast will be incoming from the east. The Aurora has reached critical status. Dark Matter engines failing. Core system failure impending, counting down in ten... nine... eight... sev-- sev-- five... four... three... tw--"
Should any be above the surface in the line of sight of the Aurora, they will witness the fires of explosion. The outer shell pops and bursts into flame, billowing out, a deafening roar that cracks with a heavy wave buoying through the water. Shocks of steam fill the air, scalding what surfaces they burst over. A rain begins.
In some ways, it is the safest place to witness.
Below, the explosion ricochets. A shock blasts through the water, then another, sending wave after wave pushing seaweed flat down, knocking animals about, scattering and rocking sand. Pulses of burning hot bubbles shake through a radius, fizzling out only after it sears and disperses to ravage what rises above. Cold water filaments web through the pods of heat. The ocean shudders.
Even as far as the base, the Aurora’s explosion makes itself known. The whole structure shudders on its supports, loose items shaking and falling, rushes of white and dark water bursting past the observatory windows in one wave, another, a third, and in one empty observatory, a crack breaks through the glass, forcing URSULA to seal off the area temporarily.
Rain still falls above the Aurora’s wreckage. The last of the fires will be doused. When the waters become cool again, new sea life will move in to make food of the their dead brethren.
A strange keening shivers in the air at the edge of hearing.
[As a note, direct any questions regarding this event to the March OOC Post! And a special note for Korosensei, go for it ♥]
[IT'S...COMPLICATED...and it's also a mildly bitter subject if Mikleo goes into it too much on his own, so he gently avoids going into details for now.
He does tip his head back against the seat for a moment at Korosensei's statements, closing his eyes.]
Thank you, by the way. I think we'd be in a lot of trouble right now if you weren't willing to do that.
If they expected to come here at all, you mean...? Though it's true, I don't think anyone expected radiation explosions and enormous egg-laying sand sharks. Or robots.
[He takes advantage of being invisible to rub at his face. It's an obviously tired sort of gesture; he doesn't make it where people can see.]
Sorey and I weren't recruited or called here, as far as we know. We don't know how we got here, though Milla mentioned something about fractured and alternate worlds, and there's plenty of strange magic in Glenwood, so we may have stumbled into some of that. We're willing to help out to make a livable space for humans here, but if we can't find clues as to a way back home for too much longer -- it's a worrisome situation.
[ this isn't the first time he's heard about it, but it's the first time he's heard it directly from someone. If it wasn't already obvious, there's something fishy about the entire situation; even Korosensei isn't sure what to make of it at the moment. Different worlds - different universes, maybe, places he would never have reasonably assumed to exist - converging together here, by their own will or against it. ]
That is worrisome indeed. [ he sighs through his nose(?), thinking. ] In that case, it's even more important that we get to the bottom of this. I won't stand by while kind people like you and Sorey-kun are held hostage so far from their homes.
You never know. We might stumble on some clues in the Aurora itself. It's a big ocean, but there's only the one mysterious crashed ship, so I'm hopeful.
[He's not always the best at injecting notes of optimism or lifting the mood, but he does his best in that little telepathic statement.]
That's right! Maybe we could get that ship working again eventually and bring everyone back home! I've never flown a spaceship before, but it can't be that different from driving something like this, right?
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He does tip his head back against the seat for a moment at Korosensei's statements, closing his eyes.]
Thank you, by the way. I think we'd be in a lot of trouble right now if you weren't willing to do that.
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[ he can be mature sometimes, apparently... maybe because he can tell Mikleo is being genuine. ]
I don't think this is what anyone expected when they came here.
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If they expected to come here at all, you mean...? Though it's true, I don't think anyone expected radiation explosions and enormous egg-laying sand sharks. Or robots.
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[ well, really, he knows exactly what he means, but he wants to hear it from him. A hypothesis is nothing without evidence, even anecdotal. ]
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Sorey and I weren't recruited or called here, as far as we know. We don't know how we got here, though Milla mentioned something about fractured and alternate worlds, and there's plenty of strange magic in Glenwood, so we may have stumbled into some of that. We're willing to help out to make a livable space for humans here, but if we can't find clues as to a way back home for too much longer -- it's a worrisome situation.
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That is worrisome indeed. [ he sighs through his nose(?), thinking. ] In that case, it's even more important that we get to the bottom of this. I won't stand by while kind people like you and Sorey-kun are held hostage so far from their homes.
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[He's not always the best at injecting notes of optimism or lifting the mood, but he does his best in that little telepathic statement.]
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[ that's quite a leap sensei ]
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[He has no knowledge of spaceships, and thus faith in Sensei's skills.]