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voidmissions) wrote2021-09-30 06:48 pm
voidmissions) wrote2021-09-30 06:48 pm
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[M15] ENEMY: UNKNOWN - THE INTERVIEW
On opening their eyes, Voidtreckers will feel a sense of disorientation, a dizziness to their vision and inside their head. Both clear quickly, letting them remember where they came from: in the midst of a mission, some unknown entity jumping them, and then —
They stand in an empty room. The lighting of the room stings their eyes after how dark the rest of the station has been. The walls, ceiling and floor are all bright white, tiles. There is no visible door, no windows.
After the disorientation comes fear. The hairs on the back of their neck stand up. For those with danger sense, these senses are going haywire, even though any other abilities are still not working. The feeling can be pushed down, it is similar to the air of expectation at the start of a horror film, the anticipation of fear rather than being in a truly dangerous situation. It might be that they have been on the train long enough to have felt it before.
Heavy footsteps sound, it is almost impossible to tell where they are coming from as the echo through the empty space. The feeling of dread grows until part of the far wall slides open with a mechanical hiss.
Filling the doorway are two huge figures, around seven foot tall and bulky. They are in large metal suits, almost like power armour, black with highlights of gold. They wear a mask that covers their whole face. It is impossible to see the figure inside at all. Their breathing comes through heavy and raspy and when they walk their footsteps are heavy. The door closes behind them and their presence makes the room feel smaller. One of them scans a green light over the voidtrecker.
"Do not be alarmed. Under sections ninety six of Inter-dimensional law and on behalf of the Void Ministry we have intercepted Voidcraft designation Voidtrecker Express as part of ongoing investigations. You have been taking part in a simulated excercise to gauge your skill and strength. No harm shall come to you or your crew, you are protected by inter dimensional law. You have been chosen for questioning and we ask that you comply. You have the right to refuse our interview but we have the right to hold you until our investigation is complete or one week in standard void time has passed, whichever is longest. Complying with us will ensure our investigation is more efficient."
The inspector talking pauses here, as if giving the voidtrecker time to take in that information.
ENEMY: UNKNOWN
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"Well... I could always try it," he says at first. "If we wanted to know. He wouldn't be alone anyway." Meaning, Taiki, whether it was outside or in here. "But... do we want the train to do anything?"
He looks at Inigo with that last question, that thought, before letting the question turn inward. Was he that desperate to get back and see the train react? It sucked being split off from the others, and anything could happen from now to later, but-
If they went back, they couldn't return, either to this room or the station. As far as Tidus was aware...
Was sitting around stuck on the train any better?
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It wasn't exactly the direction Inigo was thinking in - which is why he seems to surprised by the question, before frowning as he tries to consider it. Inigo was mostly thinking about how it would at least be more comfortable to be back on the train, because just when he thought they couldn't be stuck in a smaller space than that, they were suddenly all stuck in this holding cell..
But it's true that it's not the only possible reason for going back.
"I don't know. I don't want it to leave just yet."
Not prematurely, anyway. And Inigo is worried that it might try to do that once it finds out what's going on. That it will forcibly pull them all back and disappear from here.
".. maybe those guys from the Ministry are still going to get back to us, after all. Maybe they'll still tell us something important."
(Or maybe that's just a faint hope he's holding onto.)