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"Anybody want to come along and - you know what, Conduit and Revival should come with me to talk to Junebugs, because it's an instantly obvious thing about alts to explain where the hell the angels will come from and because you can prove that they work."

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"Ha. Okay, sure. That'll be fun on the news, we'll be even more celebrity famous."

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"Pff. Okay. Ready to go now." She gives Cam a goodbye kiss. "... Well, okay, now ready."

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"Okay, off we go."

To Gemini with girl Adarins. Flicker flicker flicker.

The lady behind the Junebug office desk looks nonplussed by Older Winged Conduit.

"Hi, captain," says Flicker. "If you don't recognize me, I'm Flicker, this is Conduit, and this is Conduit's alternate-universe winged duplicate with different magical powers. Those magical powers are very good for ash-cloud-fixing. Conduit's going to put a portal over Ground Zero and lots of winged people are going to come in and turn ash into air."
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Revival demonstrates by turning air into bright glitter, throwing it into the air, and then turning the assorted glitter back into air before it hits the ground.

"It's likely that we'll also help with ash cover in other areas, but it's important to manage Ground Zero first."
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"I'm not really asking permission, I'm just warning you so that people who know more about public relations than us can handle that when large quantities of winged people pour out from a portal over Yellowstone."

"Uh," says the Junebug captain.

"Do you need any of that repeated or clarified? Do you want to forward us to your CO, your twin, or a specialist officer?"

"...I think I got it. Thanks."
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"Have a nice day," says Conduit, cheerily.

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Flicker takes Revival and Conduit to the portal, collects helmets from Revelation, and then says:

"Ready to go be over Yellowstone just long enough to put a portal?"
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"Yeah. Let's go unleash a flock of angels upon an unsuspecting world."

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Flicker kisses her, dons her helmet, steps through the portal, and brings her girlfriend to about a mile above the volcano.

There is smoke and ash everywhere.
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Yes, yes there is. Look upon this day and despair, smoke and ash, the angels are coming for you.

Portal!
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And back to the portal on Charlie's house!

"Iiiii need a shower. Or your alt's help, either way," says Flicker, doffing ash-encrusted helmet. "Reviiiival can all this ash get off me?"
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"Me too, please," agrees Conduit.

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"Sure. Shoo, ash, this is not your home."

She makes a shooing motion, and clears the both of them of ash in a smooth motion.

Then, because ash is leaking through the portal, she gets to turning that to air, too.
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"Okay! Angel assembly line time."

Angel assembly line commences.
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And a flock of angels was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world.

It was a pretty good thing, considering.
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The air-scrubbing angels do not engage with the public, as per their boilerplate agreement, but since power couple Flicker and Conduit have publicly taken credit, they get asked questions. And more questions. They are cheery and not very informative beyond:

"What did you do?"

"Sent a bunch of air-cleaning winged people through a portal."

"What were they doing?"

"Turning the ash into air."

"Where did they come from?"

"Well, the other end of the portal."

"Where did you find them?"

"It was pretty far away."

"Why were they helping?"

"I think I saw one of them take home a new espresso machine that a friend of ours got for him. I don't remember all of it."
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At some point during the flock of angels, Rae (without any sort of prior warning or explanation of what he's doing) retrieves a piece of chalk and finishes one of the Charlie's circles for him.

Absolutely nothing happens.

"Disappointing," he observes.
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