Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*A complex interface on holographic screens materializes in front of you when you sit down, as does an eyepiece in front of your right eye*
It went as fast as I did!!! This is your final test, Vi! I'm gonna take off full speed at this thing. If you're the fake, I'm going to get through it. If you're real, you're not going to risk burning your friend to death!

@Legend

Think for a second, out there! If I was the fake, why would I not burn you to a crisp straight up?
*Takes the eyepiece and puts it on*
If you are the real Isis, you’ll trust me! My promise to you is the whole reason I’m doing any of this!
*Reaches forward to touch the screen*

Myriad Reality

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Because the skinwalker disappears and then you can apparently shapeshift? I wasn't born yesterday!
*A high-pitched whine increases in tone from where I stand until it's completely inaudible*

@Legend

What skinwalker would also have my powers?
*Walks with unphased determination up to the chair and sits in it, looking out at you*
I’m getting the info we came here for, Isis. For all of us.
*Starts raising the thickness of the plasma field until its opacity hides us from view of each other*

Myriad Reality

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*Accelerates myself to the edge of the chamber and kicks a person-sized dent into the wall*
Don't make me do this, Violet! I can't let you touch Panda.

@Legend

*The plasma burns so radiantly hot that even on approach before contact, heat approaches levels akin to that of stellar phenomena*
Why not?! This is what we came here for, isn’t it? Well, unless you want to tell me you’re not the Isis I came here with. That’d make my life easier.
*Looks straight up, and manifests a dome of the same properties around myself, the chair and the terminal*

Myriad Reality

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That was—
*Gulps and waves my finger at you*
Really cool, but also not good enough.

@Legend

*Rolls my eyes and summons a plasma barrier between us, also cutting you off from the chair, and I approach it*
Isis, it’s me. We don’t have enough time to waste. We need any info about Dynamo we can get, and we need it before someone nukes this spot from under our feet.
*Mumbles*
Again…

Myriad Reality

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*The terminal and its chair are in perfect condition, along with everything else other than the hangar gates*
Hey hey hey, I need you to prove that you're you somehow.

@Legend

*Effortlessly manifests an ice cube of solid oxygen from the air and throws it at your feet*

Myriad Reality

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You can what?
*Pauses for a second, shifting my eyes back and forth*
Maybe you're the skinwalker, actually.

@Legend

Consequences of dying, or something like that.
*Looks around to see if the terminal from this room is still intact*

Myriad Reality

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*Double-takes in shock when you land*
How long have you been able to do that?

@Legend

*Comes to a landing in a jog, and the mutation returns to normal at the earliest convenience, a look of disgust on full display across my face*
Shapeshifting. I hate it, don’t want to talk about it, not important.

Myriad Reality

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*My face goes completely deadpan, and I stare over the chasm*
Then we really are in a race against time.
*Leaps off the edge as well*

@Host

*Slides to a stop and stares over the edge*
Can you people stop just doing things without saying something?!
*Stares in hesitation over into the darkness below, before taking a few steps back from the ledge. I close my eyes and scrunch my face together in disgust and hesitation for a second, as my body morphs slightly around my arms and hands. I look at Zinnia*
Sorry.
*I run for the edge and leap off, spreading my arms out and revealing that I shape-shifted to manifest wings under my arms from my body, just like a wingsuit, and I glide through the air toward Mierno’s pod*

Myriad Reality

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H—what do you mean he knows?

@Host

He just spoke to me a second ago. At least, I’m confident it had to be him. He knows what’s going on here now, if he didn’t before. I’m not ripping him from that cage, especially now, if there’s a chance it hurts him at all.

Myriad Reality

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So you're coming along, then?

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You're turning down the chance to have an actual scale-tipper on our side. How else am I supposed to feel? You think I want to die? I don't want to die!

@Host

*Maintains my straight edge, flat tone*
He already knows.