[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5r7OTIh.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,419 (+3) (+4) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 10[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////////////////////// (79/110) [b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Suoh [color=Aquamarine]Warp Charges:[/color] 0 [hider=warp locations] Virgin Victory teleport room Top of the Split mountain Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage Tostarena Town S.O.U. Building Seiran Clinic Underground Roadway (Seiran Rebel Base Outskirts) Below City of glass entrance (plate maintenance tunnel) Vandelay Campus (Alleyway) Shinra building (Arahabaki) [/hider] [/center] Despite having not put an end to the slaughter occurring at the daycare, Midna still took her parting words as a win. It was petty, oh it was ever so petty, but she’d take her victories where she could. Plus, it really did mean something, because part of the problem they had been having is that bringing down bits of the regime had also brought down bits of the forces defending the city. Here, at least, she had a methodology to repurpose part of it into something more useful than it had been before. The fact that mass-producing pokemon for war wasn’t the most ethical thing either didn’t really cross her mind, given her own usage of warbeasts. Instead it was running through how to convince people to do things her way right up until the elevator arrived deep down into the earth. Or at least that was how she thought it anyway, but it was entirely possible that they were still above ground due to how tall Midgar was. At any rate, they entered into a world for which the princess had zero context for, because apparently this was what computers looked like inside. [color=Aquamarine]”So do they all have miniature buildings? Wait, are they just run by tiny people?”[/color] she asked, but upon closer inspection there weren't any people in sight, at least not through the thick fog that prompted Minda to slip her mask over her mouth and nose to avoid breathing it in. [color=Aquamarine]”Well, we’re here, and that was easier than it should have been”[/color] Midna said, thankful that no one had thought to post guards or cameras just watching the entryway. As it turned out, there were some looking at the fancy looking platform that was apparently a teleporter, and also the way forward [color=Aquamarine]”Good thing we were planning to stop here anyway”[/color] Rather than hang around here any longer than need be, the princess instead moved to her designated task, namely setting up their way in and out of here. She found a nice looking pylon a bit away from both the door and the teleporter, and also out out site of both, and did her magic, punching a small hole in reality, and the causing pixely black squares to spread out from that hole, widening it as they went till above her it yawned. Task done, she turned back to the others and held out three hands and asked [color=Aquamarine]”Shall we?”[/color] Once everyone was done nosing around, and had accepted a proffered mit, they were off. The 4 heroes turned into particles of twilight and raced up into the portal and across the city, with their souls along for the ride. Then a few moments later a portal in the S.O.U. Building opened, depositing them back at their city HQ. [color=Aquamarine]”Goddesses, it feels like it has been months since we set out this morning”[/color] the dead beat princess said as she let go of the other’s hands, and then gave a stretch and cracked her knuckles, real hands above her head, magic behind her back, before she dismissed the latter and called out [color=Aquamarine]”Anyone home?”[/color] She waited a few moments, but there was no answer. [color=Aquamarine]”Ah. Well. I guess we are the ones with the fastest travel”[/color] she tried to play it off, before adding [color=Aquamarine]”Oh wait actually let me just”[/color] and then disappearing back through the portal. A minute later she returned empty handed, and reported [color=Aquamarine]”No one’s at any of the other city side portals either”[/color] too tired to hide the hint of concern in her voice. She got to distract herself from that worry for a bit by taking the chance to wash the blood, sweat and ash from body, but soon enough there was nothing but the contents of the building and views of the city to distract herself. One was dull, and she was really starting to get sick of the other. It had its moments, but between the politics, man made horrors and external threats, it really was suffocating. [color=Aquamarine]”I really could do with some air”[/color] she realized, before muttering [color=Aquamarine]”But its not that it's any better out there, all smoke and fumes and-”[/color] She paused, glanced at her portal, and then hopped up onto her feet to ask the others [color=Aquamarine]”Anyone up for taking a break from this place? I’m thinking of just going up to the top of the split mountain for some fresh air and a nice view. We can leave a note for the others if we all go”[/color] If she got any takers, then she’d happily link hands with them beneath the portal again and then once more skim them along the space between day and twilight, bringing them much further away this time. High above the clouds to the south east of the massive city they had just been in, the princess and her companions arrived on the precipice of a great cliff. Down below, she had almost frozen to death, only to be carried to this safehaven of land bathed in the glow of the split mountain’s peak that sat just a bit further up the mountain. It had, unfortunately, seen better days. Only a little ways away was a great pit within which a bell had once sat. Now it was split open at the side, creating a massive gash in the side of the mountain, rubble spilling from it and down its slopes in a trail of worm made destruction. [color=Aquamarine]”Ah, I forgot we messed this place up a bit. The boss was here, and well. That’s the result of its running off into the desert. We had to blow it up with a train”[/color] she explained vaguely. Still, while it wasn't quite as picturesque as it had been, it still had a stark beauty to its stone terrain surrounded by fluffy clouds, including some which, if someone were to look close enough they might see marble structures built atop of them. Also on up there in the sky could be seen some pokemon that looked like [url=https://i.imgur.com/JMf7kKg.jpg]small[/url] and [url=https://i.imgur.com/Ja4WyOj.jpg]lage[/url] balloons drifting serenely through the air with no children attached, [url=https://i.imgur.com/muqJWIE.png]flying pigs[/url], the odd [url=https://i.imgur.com/Lqlq0kf.gif]cloud that was not a cloud[/url] and most notably a [url=https://i.imgur.com/uTVIw7h.jpg]colossus of fur, stone and wing[/url] sailing majestically through the air. [color=Aquamarine]”Don’t mind that one”[/color] Minda said as she pointed up at the titan, explaining simply that [color=Aquamarine]”He’s a friend”[/color] which might be unbelievable where it not for the distinct lag of red glow in its four eyes. The land itself wasn’t entirely quiet either. Friendly [url=https://i.imgur.com/vNlQTLv.png]dog lizards[/url] could be seen and heard digging through the rocks and stones the sundering of the mountain had tossed about, seeking out for glowing gems that the proceed to scarf down, while [url=https://i.imgur.com/Cvk2U3L.png]penguin-esque creatures[/url] and [url=https://i.imgur.com/0HjmyVC.jpg]bears in pajamas[/url], all only knee hight, engaged in 0 stakes dance battles with each other around them. Down below, they could see where they’d spent the last few days. Roughly see, anyway. The city of Midgar was only really identifiable by the extinction belt hanging above it, for the city itself was smothered in a cloud cover of its own making. [color=Aquamarine]”Ok, looks like I really did need the fresh air, because just look at that”[/color] Minda said as she looked down on the consequence of industry, before breathing in the clean crisp mountain air, and then letting out a relaxed sigh. Then she plopped herself down on the ground, removed her mask and helmet, and then just lay back in it and really relaxed for the first time since breakfast despite it not being the most comfortable of surfaces. In doing so, she ended up looking up, and in her relaxed state, really taking in the night sky for the first time. She hadn’t exactly lived beneath the stars of Hyrule for long so there was no immediate foreignness to their pattern as there might be for others, but even she managed to find a fair number of out of place celestial bodies, the largest of which was a rather twisted looking [url=https://i.imgur.com/7vzmlrw.png]moon[/url] that took that moment to reveal itself from behind a cloud. She frowned at this ugly blot complaining [color=Aquamarine]”Galeem just has to take the worst things huh, I mean couldn’t have put something nice looking up there?”[/color] and drawing attention to it in the process, before letting her eyes keep wandering, focusing on very little as she mostly just let them rest from the harsh artificial lights of the city they’d soon have to go back to.