[b]A FEW MINUTES LATER...[/b] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/duJ711Y.png[/img][/center] This was perhaps the first time Charlotte had ever entered Chaldea's most important room. It certainly wasn't for Daniel, who likely would have visited the room on multiple occasions before he was even considered for a Master applicant. After all, as long as he had behaved there was no reason to keep him out of the room. Still, the room was nothing more than the epicenter of Chaldea's greatest accomplishments. A revolution of work, all centered around a singular centerpiece. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/QVxOXSk.png[/img][/center] The doors opened to this room, where several men and women in coats shuffled about. All whispering amongst themselves in a hurry, and none even bothering to look at the two masters and their chosen servants. They were all to busy. In fact, it seemed Raphael was quite busy himself, as several automatons could be seen around the area. One per-group, taking notes or even peeking over the monitors to adjust whatever parameters might need to be adjusted. So many folks at work that when the actual Raphael approached one might have been forgiven for not noticing that he was talking to them and not another scientist. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/ciN9DN4.png[/img][/center] [color=ed1c24]"Well well, I see you're both here on time!"[/color] Raphael said, with a broad smile from ear to ear. [color=ed1c24]"I was starting to worry you might be a minute or two late, and then we'd have to adjust the schedule, but here you are! So no adjustments need to be made."[/color] Several people within earshot sighed blissfully at that. He didn't even wait for a response for hustling them along. [color=ed1c24]"Now, I know you must have so much to say, or a rehearsed speech, but I insist we move along at a brisk pace, and leave all questions for when you're on sight. If we waited for all questions to pass, then we might end up having to delay until after the storm passes, and we're all too impatient for that!"[/color] He laughed, but it was clear everybody was on edge. Some looming timeline it seemed. This was answered rather snappily by Raphael. [color=ed1c24]"Naturally, I'd say to wait for the storm to pass, but the director was very clear that she wanted you out onto the field, and back before the storm hits. No idea why, but when the director decides, you listen."[/color] Before Charlotte and Daniel lay the most important part of the system though. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Cnrk2XI.png[/img][/center] The coffins. Based on the principal of Schrodinger's cat, they would be both alive, dead, and for all purposes... Non-existent. Thus, their conscious minds and existences could be projected anywhere else. The past, the future, or even Hawaii. Though a single rayshift was far more expensive than a hundred round flights. [color=ed1c24]"I see you both put on your uniforms already, so when you're ready we'll seal you in. Your servants have their own pods as well."[/color] Raphael said, leaving both masters to get into their coffins. He had scheduled in a few minutes for them to get comfy, and get used to the idea that they were in a suspended existence. They could hear nothing outside those pods as they closed around them. Probably for the better. ------------------------------------------------------------ [b]Outside the Coffins[/b] [color=ed1c24]"Alright, we're ahead of schedule!"[/color] Raphael laughed as he took a seat by the controls. Several others sat around him, monitoring the master's vitals. "All clear!" "Heart rates are fine." "Existences stabilized." "Are we sure Daniel's mom is fine with this? W-" "Look, she'd be here if she wasn't held up. Trust me, she'd want us to do this with or without her." "Sir Raphael, can you look at these numbers for me? I think the s-" "Servant Vitals are coming in clear too." "Destination is set!" [color=ed1c24]"Very well, we shall begin!"[/color] "Sir Raphael, can you please look at this report! The storm is a-" Chaldeas had already begun. The spinning rings. The sounds that filled the air like a blowing wind. Magical energy flooded the room as the process jump started and heart rates soared amongst the watching scientists. Until Raphael looked at the report. The storm had accelerated. Everything... Went white. ------------------------------------------------------------ [b]Team A - Daniel [@Letter Bee][/b] [b]FIRE.[/b] Flames raged all around him the world snapped into clarity. Surrounding him were buildings, and each had one thing in common. Each was a blaze, and not a single soul could be seen or heard amongst the raging fires. A world of chaos as a nearby building belched fire, and a chair came flying right out. The flaming chair landing right in front of Daniel, and exploding into bits and pieces of metal and plastic. A nearby billboard that had somehow managed to hang on during the start of everything collapsed finally, and fell onto the burning remains of a nearby car. The pitched screaming of the car alarm filling the air, before it died out a minute later when the heat caused the inside to melt into slag. One could say with certainty, that he was in hell. ------------------------------------------------------------ [b]Team B - Charlotte [@Duoya][/b] It was peaceful... Quiet... And dead. Nothing stirred around her as she woke up. Instead, she was greeted by something else. The feeling of dry clay under her body as she would find herself surrounded by high walls of dirt and clay. Stone and steel. She was laying at the bottom of a riverbed, but where the river had gone was unknown. Instead, it had all dried up, recently she could guess. Perhaps a day or two ago considering there was no fish. Rather, the odd set of bones could be seen amongst the stones. Welcome to Fuyuki, indeed. [hider=Map of Fuyuki - Date 1994] [img]https://i.imgur.com/dMHZ6iL.jpg[/img] [/hider]