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Hyperborea, Transcendent Knight of the Cosmos - Inside, 2nd floor

Hyperborea was walking through the park when she felt the call, this was not a call from Olympus like she had recently felt. No this was different, a call for help. Soft though it was she still felt it and she would not ignore a call for assistance when she heard it, so she let herself be pulled away from the park and from the Earth. In the blink of an eye she had left Destiny City and instead been transported to an alien world.

But it was not just any world, this was one she knew. Vague though it was she definitely remembered this world that looked like it would fit in among an Elven City in Middle Earth. Though she had not been here in a long time, not since she was page. But it was the second world she saw after her own wonder so it stuck out in her mind.

"I'm on Ida. But why?" She said to herself as she examined the room, it looked like possibly a bed room though everything was very nature-ly. She held her head as it buzzed painfully, her Crown of Stars picked up a large number of other Auras nearby. With a wave of her hand she banished the crown to subspace, it wouldn't help her to have a migraine while trying to figure out what was happening.

Captain Quartz - Inside, 2nd Floor

It was to Quartz's great dismay that, when he'd given over to the pull of the eerie inner call and let himself be drawn away with it, All-One was not with him. The youma had been, a moment ago; but against his hopes, it seemed that this was a call made for living men, not beastly things.

"Hang on," Quartz had been saying, a hand up in the youma's amassed direction as though he were shushing a chatty companion. "Do you sense that?" It was a natural human impulse to hold still and quiet, listening for sounds -- but the only noise that came to him was the whispery hum of All-One's many small wings whirring around him in the air.

A short, cacophonous mix of different laughing voices answered his question. "An insulting -- question," the youma answered in its remembered voices, broken as usual into fragments.

A fair point. All-One was a master of its senses in a way that no human could match -- and likely very few youma, for that matter; it was hundreds of pairs of eyes and hundreds of listening little antennae, and hundreds on hundreds of twitchy little legs that could take tactile measure of something to a degree of detail that blunt human fingers could not rival. There was, in the normal course of things, nothing that Quartz could sense that a finely evolved monster like All-One could not. It was, after all, why Quartz had the creature in his service: his eyes and ears in Destiny City and abroad.

And it had its pride.

"No," Quartz corrected himself impatiently. "Not like that. It's . . . a feeling. Something wrong, something . . . calling."

"A mirage -- " The youma buzzed in one voice.

"A hallucination -- " It said in another.

"A witch -- "

"A mental illness -- "

"A touch of absinthe -- " It said in Schörl's own cool tones.

He was, for the moment, stone sober. It was none of these things. "No," he said again. He began focusing his attention on the sensation, leaning his mind toward it like a hound trying to chase a scent. "It's more like I can almost . . . -- "

And that was how he'd arrived here.

Here was not anything Quartz might have anticipated. It was a small room, organic, looking very Lothlorien or what ever with the way the whole of the architecture seemed spun from a single piece of wood grown up around a gap. The windows melted into the walls without gaps or seams; the bed occupied a fixed place on the floor like the frame had sprouted itself there. Golden light filtered in sideways through the window, glimmering over Quartz's uniform as he approached to seek a view: what lay beyond was an unearthly landscape as beautiful as it was structurally incomprehensible.

I'm in California, came his first, irrational thought. Trees don't grow this large anywhere else. But of course he knew he was certainly not in California, wherever this was: his senses told him that this odd building contained other people, and other things besides. Some of them felt Orderly. Some felt Chaotic. All of them, he assumed, had been summoned here as he had -- and he maintained a reasonable and level-headed amount of assurance that the California tourism board did not possess that kind of a budget for bringing in visitors to the state.

He didn't know where this was. It set his teeth on edge.

Quartz made a small study of the room -- inspecting it for potential exits, bulwarks, and hiding places, then finally taking a quiet inventory of its contents and ostensible purpose. He could only assume, from the objects he found in cabinets and turned over in his hands, it was some kind of bedroom for the long-term care of some sort of convalescent person. Whoever they'd been, though, the room showed no signs of recent habitation: they were either long since recovered or long since dead.

Shadows flickered over the floor, eerie. Quartz disliked the idea of lingering near someone's deathbed, just in case it became his own. Something was unsettling here -- and not just the nearby presence of other powered individuals. The hair on the back of his neck was standing on end.

Cautiously, he made his way out into the hall.

Caia was repeating names in his head, staring at each face for a few seconds and mouthing the name associated with it.

With all the attention being called to Kairatos' crutches, Caia finally afforded a few seconds to glance at them. At first, he'd assumed it was some awkward part of his costume and was trying to figure out its use, but Meteora seemed to straighten out any misunderstanding.

Glancing around the tower, Caia's lips pursed in thought. He had felt some sort of call, so he nodded. Fixing a problem seemed like a reasonable assumption, though he was already doubting what he could fix in the fact of someone much more experienced, but then--Kairatos had the disadvantage of already being injured.

When a third knight showed up, Caia was feeling a little better. He might have been the odd one out, but he was in good company and smiled and waved to the girls that had approached. He bit his tongue when she said Cosmos, figuring that was a question for another time. A good question for right now had just been asked, and he glanced back to Kairatos. "--How did we end up here? I don't know how summoning works," he confessed apologetically. "It's the first time I've ever heard of it, and the first time this has happened to me. Can anyone just summon others when they want? Do we just...show up wherever we're needed?"

Witherite - Outside the tower

He'd just got off of work when he felt it, standing in the elevator of the Destiny City times. It was an odd thing, which made him frown especially when he realized he would definitely not being getting home. There were no see you laters or stops to chat as he made his way out of the building and down the street.

He intended to power up and go help, whatever this call was because if it was calling him it must of been important. Intent it seemed enough though because one moment he was turning into an alley and the next minute he was stepping forward through extremely tall grass. He looked down to see him work clothes gone replaces with his uniform and his briefcase exchanged for his weapon.

"What the whole ******** .... where am I ...," he said whirling around and spotting a few other dotting the surroundings. "You have got to be kidding me."



Neckar - Outside the tower, close to the entrance

He had been standing in the kitchen, handing a few eggs to Eliza who was making a cake, or trying. He had said something to her before his frown morphed into a frown and he looked around.

"Help who," he said aloud and barely heard a response from his roommate before his was standing in extremely deep grass. His eyes grew wide and he stumbled slightly in his panic. He had never just disappeared and where was Eliza ... where was he. He hadn't seen anything like it, and yet it reminded him of when he played in the growing wheat or corn fields as a child.

He looked around wondering where Eliza was, but realized she was he wearing the damn pink get up. He sighed, understanding this was one of those things. He rarely dealt this that, adventurous as he was, he didn't particularly care for the idea of being killed especially before he graduated college.

He was going to have a lot of explaining to do when he got home. "Man this is going to be a mess."



Shangri-la and Eternal Sailor Maia - Inside, Second floor

They were training in the park, that was the usual. Training sessions and then patrol. Maia found herself knocked off her feet when she felt it and groaned before glaring at her brother.

"Hold up a second ... dont look at me like that I'm not trying to trick you. Did you hear that? Feel that?"

Shang was frowning at his sister, thinking she was trying to get him to let his guard down. He use to fall for it a lot, but now he was wiser. He was still in defensive stance when he heard it and looked up. "That never bodes well ...," he started to say before his surrounding melted away replaced with what looked like a doorway.

The grass beneath Maia became a floor and she jumped up. "Have any idea where we are? I've certainly never been here before."

Shang almost gave his sister a look, but looking around he frowned slightly. He didn't recognize anything per se but it certainly seemed familiar. "Maybe," he said contemplatively, "its hard to explain, dont recognize this place, but ... its feels familiar so to speak ... we well sort of."


Maia nodded and headed towards the door she assumed lead to a hallway, "I feel," she said before shivering, "... its not pleasant."

Falias, Knight of Earth
Location: Outside near Venice and heading towards the big tree

Marlin had been in Fancy a Change's small back room and working on going through stock when he felt the call.

Well it was more feeling than call, a feeling that he was needed elsewhere - that something needed his help and needed his help now.

Fortunately - and surprising for October - the shop had been quiet, which is why he had been taking a chance on going through stock and so Marlin slipped out of the back room and walked over to lock the front door and set the sign to closed before walking back to the back room.

Okay.

It seemed like that small bit of mental agreement was all that was needed, his surroundings shifting in a way that was reminiscent of the way that the Code called them to Olympus...

Right down to the way that he was now Falias.

Only this place - wherever it was - wasn't Olympus.

Instead he was thigh deep in grass dotted with vibrantly coloured flowers of some sort and surrounded by trees in what appeared to be some sort of forest - albeit one that was nothing like the forest that was his own Wonder.

There was another tree almost directly ahead and he was picking up on some sort of chaotic energy...

And as Falias he was also picking up on auras and a lot of them - mostly Order, albeit he was pretty sure that he was also picking up on the odd chaotic aura too.

The source of at least one of the Order auras was nearby - a Page (Venice) who he recognised from from his last trip to Olympus even if he didn't know the other by name.

The other seemed to be heading towards the big tree and given that Falias had been planning to head that way himself, it didn't seem like a biggie to head over towards the other.

"You wouldn't happen to know what is going on would you?" He asked as he got closer and fell into step with the other.

Super Eros - Second Floor

Eros had been bumming about, idly wandering from one roof top to another. Getting protection required some measure of repayment, and as much as she'd rather not, that meant getting out there and finding things she could tell the man she had a deal going with.

The last thing she expected, or was prepared for, was to suddenly feel like she needed to be somewhere. There was something she was forgetting, and when she turned, intending on heading home to see if that jogged her faulty memory, things suddenly went kitty wompus and she was somewhere else.

The small senshi blinked and gaped around herself, her eyes sweeping the strange walls and furniture that looked... grown out of the walls and floor. It was graceful and elegant, in a warm and... rustic sort of way, which was odd, but kinda neat. Not really her aesthetic, but hey. It didn't explain where she was or how she got there, though.

A cursory look around didn't produce anything informative. She wasn't going to find anything in here. The door way, at least, looked somewhat normal, half cracked to reveal a hallway. Eros put her shoulder to the door to force it open and stuck her head out, looking both ways as hair fell into her eyes.

"Hellooooo?" She called, slipping out into the empty hall. There was something... sort of creepy about the place, the longer she was here. Something that raised the hair on the back of her neck.

Captain Quartz - 2nd Floor (Hallway)

Quartz was relieved that the first person he encountered was a non-hostile. It was a junior officer, which was a bit disappointing -- but still, a Negaverse agent. That meant whatever had happened, he hadn't been the only agent to fall victim to it. That might've gotten him in hot water with Schörl.

He knew this young man. Well, vaguely. This was one of the combatants he'd seen at the tournament, one of Cinnabar's boys.

The very notion that the lieutenant didn't mean to seem impertinent told Quartz he was not cut from the same cloth as his mistress. That was well; being like Cinnabar was not something that found favor with Quartz.

"Not yet," he answered with more confidence than he felt. Quartz's best chance at getting home was to mobilize this lieutenant and any other officers he could find, in order to make his way back to where he'd come from. Hopefully this didn't involve anyone making any foolish decisions to get into ill-advised fights. "Though I'm guessing it's not Earth. Stay close, lieutenant -- and stay out of trouble. We're out of our depth right now -- do not engage knights or sailor soldiers under any circumstances. I want your eyes and ears open. That's how we'll find our way home. Can you do that?"

Quartz hoped so. A panicked soldier was a trigger-happy one. He needed his only current asset to be in a calm and level-headed state.

"Thought so also...never had a call like this." The page admitted as he fixed one of the cuffs of his uniform. At least here it was warm, rather than back in Destiny City where it was cool...too cool for his uniform. From now on a hoodie or sweater would be a normal thing for him to wear - it had to be. His uniform did little for covering and keeping warm, and he didn't have much for body fat and was on the slender side....really well toned but slender without a doubt.

"Should go that way...more people that way and others headed there likely." He said nodding toward the big tree. It seemed like a good place to meet as well, due to it's sheer size. Everyone could surely see it and would head there if for no other reason than that - right?

Moving some grass out of his way as he continued toward their destination, glad for the company now.