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*Leans back, head facing upward with my eyes closed*
I'm fine. In some ways better, without this weight...

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Thanks I, um, made it all... not, um, myself? It's the maintenance ravine.
*Taps a glassy holographic button and the visible image of the canyon squeezes and compresses, cutting into the fog and revealing more of the twisting series of translucent corridors with visible hurried researchers, suspended devices that resemble generators—some of which glow various hues but the majority deactivated—and as we reach the bottom, what appears to be the visage of a universe, connected by thin lines of light to countless blinking green dots in a networked, three-shell structure like that in the earlier transmission*

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*Glances cluelessly around all the people and lights*
What are we doing in a place like this, then?

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I don't know where else to go. If dad is anywhere, it has to be someplace in the lab.
*Holds up two hands facing each other, with fingers just barely curved*
In the worst case, worst case, Panda will be able to track him down.

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And where would we find them?

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*A different glitter seems to arise from within us and fill the space*
Reli—Ben, what are you on about?

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I'm on about that voice being my own personal guardian archangel... also what the heck is this glow?
*Concentrates on a sigil to combat its growth as it dims fast*

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*Points two fingers at the massive construct toward the bottom of the ravine*
Not them, it.

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Oh, it’s like a sciencey acronymy name or something. I got it.

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Yeah, exactly. Once we get there, it has the know-how on just about... well, everything around here.
*Steps out of the elevator, now faced with pathways stretching in every direction and signage indicating various sectors of the lab they lead to*

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That’s a dangerous thing to have around undefended. Does the other guy know it’s here?

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*We're sucked into the top and flung onto a rocky terrain, before a towering pagoda adorned with pillars lining a concrete path toward its entrance, and surrounded by a mish-mash of uneven and disjoint terrains that seem to be feeding off of each other*
I have no clue, dude!
*Here, the draining feeling becomes stronger than ever before, as if our very souls were being evicted from our bodies*

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*I proceed to divide in 10 copies while the original receives the blunt of the draining as that Ben's tesseract cracks and becomes a cube with white noise like a tv out of signal and he drops unconscious*

Ben 1/9: well damn... i'm sure glad i thought of this...
Ben 2/9: Ambition, you good?
Ben 3/9: Well hell, if Gabe decided to speak to you then it is safe to presume you can tap into his power for aid!

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The other guy? Who do you mean?

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You know... Dark Dynamo.

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Oh. Um. Yeah definitely. But that shield above the lab should be the same thing keeping him out now?
*The path seems to stretch as we walk it, compressing space to make the journey shorter, but lengthens whenever we slow down*
Motion sickness warning, by the way.