Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*Pops next to you for a second and tosses you a fob*
Sorry, you're going to need this.
*Pops away again*

@Legend

*Fumbles with it a couple times before catching it*
You’re fast enough to have just shut the door and then come back without leaving me clueless!
*Looks down at the fob, expressionless, then clutches it in my fist and continuing*

Myriad Reality

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I can! You just, follow the signs that keep saying the classification level is increasing, you'll find it!
*Zips back the direction we came*

@Legend

*Whips my head around as you disappear*
I… Alright.
*Turns back around and continues to follow the path we were on*

Myriad Reality

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Should we—should I go back up and try to close it, do you think?

@Legend

Can we afford the time?

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

I’m starting to be concerned about leaving the door open.

Myriad Reality

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The other guy? Who do you mean?

@Legend

You know... Dark Dynamo.

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

And where would we find them?

Myriad Reality

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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*

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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Alright Vi, welcome...
*The machinery unlatches itself and retracts, revealing a translucent forcefield with the same pattern as the one surrounding the planet, whose polygons shrink in place and sputter out*
To the lab.
*Behind the entrance lies a vast chasm that once belonged to a natural canyon, now buried with a suspended forcefield ceiling and arrayed with complex equipment that extends down into the hazy depths, itself also shielded*

@Legend

Nice, um... Architecture. All natural.