[M15] ENEMY: UNKNOWN - THE INTERVIEW

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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're here. Wherever here is.
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.

"Do you accept our interview?"

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ENEMY: UNKNOWN

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Comments

[voidtreckernpcs]

"Then we shall stop. If it makes you uncomfortable. That was not our intention.". The aura of calm vanishes completely, leaving only a quiet feeling of dread, enough to make the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

[miseris_socios]

He sighs in relief. The dread is there, but he knows it's at least real. It's true, not manipulated.

"Thanks. I appreciate it."

[voidtreckernpcs]

"The illusion resistance training you mentioned. It is assumed that this was to help in your fight against the unknown entity. Were you part of the missions on System #2207385,
System #86525656412355 and System #93426194992?"

[miseris_socios]

"If you mean Diagad, Kamakan, and Erda, yes." If they already know, there's no point in lying to them about it.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"Kamakan and Erda and an uninhabited planet in system #2207385. From what we understand from your comrades you mistook a false world created by an entity for the world colloquially known as Diagad."

A pause before. "Can you describe the events on these worlds to us?"

[miseris_socios]

"I can, but I want to know why you want to know." They don't really need to know all of the details.

... Also, he's getting a little annoyed at the prying.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"We are conducing an investigation into the voidcraft designation Voidtrecker Express. We are also looking into the events on the false world that your team helped seal away from the void and the entity that is now trapped upon it."

For a moment there is a spike of calm, but it is quickly pressed down again.

[miseris_socios]

"... Well, on Erda, we fought a bunch of demons who were terrorizing the local population and coming through gates in their world. There were some people who said that they were hallucinating during our final battle, but I wasn't one of them. On Kamakan... once we got out of the city - where we kept getting different kinds of hallucinations - we ran into a maze, then hallucinations of home, and then our fears. At the end was the source of it, but it was like... void-colors with a person-shape? No idea who it was."

He sighs and shakes his head. "And on Diagad - or what was pretending to be Diagad - we hallucinated whole other lives, with powers that we don't normally have. Some people kept their abilities from there, but I didn't." He's pretty sure. He doesn't have a Digimon to test it on.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"We understand." A pause. "You mentioned illusion training. Did this help you in your struggles on these systems?"

[miseris_socios]

"It helped wake us up faster on Diagad. There were people there who weren't from the train. Some of them were people other passengers knew. Those people took longer to wake up from the illusions."

[voidtreckernpcs]

"Those people were those the entity had brought to its world. Were you one of those who took part in anchoring, to send them back?"

[miseris_socios]

“No, I wasn’t. I was helping to manage the chaos, but I didn’t anchor.”

[voidtreckernpcs]

"That is good." They nodded at him. "When you say manage the chaos do you speak of the general state of affairs or were you part of efforts to speak to and fight the entity your crew have named Chaos?"

[miseris_socios]

“The general state of stuff. I’m… I didn’t want to get too close.” Maybe it was cowardly, but he didn’t want to see hallucinations again.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"That is understandable." They nodded. "You mentioned people on this false world that others knew. Is that to say you recognised none of them?"

[miseris_socios]

"That's right. I... didn't see anyone that I knew." Which was disappointing, but... maybe it was better that he didn't.

[voidtreckernpcs]

"Thank you for your information Ken. Is there anything else you wish to tell us about your life on the train or the missions you are sent on."

Their voices are gentle, even if they do not send any calm into the room as per his wishes, the feeling of dread remains.

[miseris_socios]

"... They're good people. Just... don't be too hard on them. Both the people and the train are doing their best."

[voidtreckernpcs]

"We understand. Thank you." They nodded. "You may leave now, if you have nothing else you wish to tell us."