Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Maybe, if I knew how to use it.
*Suddenly the scenery around us glitches and instead leaves us in a massive production plant, full of clear sealed reservoirs of a luminescent white plasma, and curved transparent tubes leading from the vats into central parallel pipelines directed vertically down into lower chambers of the lab*

@Host

*Stops moving and looks around, crossing my arms at the new scenery*

Myriad Reality

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*Zinnia flashes a thumbs up while typing away at her own interface*
Don't worry, we will. I know for certain that we will.

@Host

Any other tricks with the magic staff or do we need to dig up another tool?

Myriad Reality

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*Walks back behind you in solemn contemplation*
...

@Host

*Looks for Zinnia on my way back down to see if she’s made any progress*
We just have to win the race.

Myriad Reality

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*Breaks your gaze and looks down and to my right*
I'm scared too. But we can't just stay stuck being scared.

@Host

I don’t know if I can help it.
*Looks back at the recording again for just a moment, then turns my back on all of them, walking back the way we came in while staring at the ground, avoiding watching any more*

Myriad Reality

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*Sets a hand on your shoulder*
Breathe.

@Host

*Breaks my eyes away from this display and looks at you*
I’m scared.

Myriad Reality

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*Twists my hands so my palms face up*
I don't know. But if whatever we find at the bottom of this lab isn't enough, we're going to need you.

@Host

I-
*Stares back up at the looped recording with a grunt, watching footage of Dark Dynamo with a face of panicked confliction*

Myriad Reality

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That's... true. But they're Path worlds.

@Host

Path world or not, how am I supposed to do anything about any of that?

Myriad Reality

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*Shifts my gaze to look at you*
Are... you okay?

@Host

He’s such a heartless monster, and look at what he can do. I’ve never even taken a life before. He’s wiped out realities. Realities, Artemis!

Myriad Reality

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*Watches with utter fascination and morbid curiosity*
Deconstruction and reconstruction. It makes sense... with enough universes, he could create close to whatever tool or entity he wanted.
*The camera feeds cut out and then loop over*

@Host

That’s what I’m up against if this comes down to a fight?!

Myriad Reality

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Then this world is the last one...
*The final footage before the camera cuts out depicts Dark Dynamo looming smugly over impossibly dense Prion, and he mutters "As will you... Noir"; a creature gradually ascends from the primordial ooze of utter destruction, clearly made of Prion but with the distinct features of the normal Dynamo*

@Host

*My faces scrunches up in disgust*
What?