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Perseus had a hard time believing that the man floating upsidown in front of them had a boring bone in his body. The upset look on his face, however, read loud and clear to the senshi of illusion like there was something wrong with the way they answered. Where they all really missing out on so much? There were two eternals, one of them the priestess of dreams. A smattering of supers, and the rest seemed to be regular senshi, like herself. What mystery of the universe did he hold that they did not?

She frowned a little to match his own. Perseus did not like being out of the loop, and she also did not like the way that Europa had just looked at her like she was unintelligent. "I hate to ask the obvious, but seeing as you are currently defying gravity I think I should just be clear on what you mean." She paused, moving to tilt her head so they were more on the same level. Like meeting somewhere between, at least. "Are you implying traveling outside of earth or something of the like?" It was the only natural assumption, after his going on a rant about Europa's apparently crude use of the word 'outerspace' and then him putting the stress on 'out' in his sentence.

What exactly was this Kurma fellow getting at?

"Did anyone stop to think that maybe, if we really are all not from earth...apparently, we were here for a reason?" What that reason is she had no clue about, but this made sense to her in her head. "I mean why send so MANY of us here, it could be they just knew the negaverse would be here and we would be needed to defend the planet but.." Lyra bit her lip, knowing she was probably making as much sense to everyone else as she was herself. She chose to drop that thought.

"You'd think if there was a need, reason, or even a way to get off this planet... like if any of us actually knew how." She sent a look towards Europa, wondering if she DID know. "Someone would have shared the knowledge before now. After all, why learn if you can not share information with those around you. Seems selfish to me, to keep information only to yourself." She shrugged. "Almost as bad as being ignorant."

Listening to the play-by-play helped her, but only a little bit. Eskimo was still confused but she was starting to learn to just roll with it. She doubted that she was ever going to get a clear answer so she accepted it, and the floating thing. Even if he was upside down now.

The Senshi of Snow looked back over at Merope when she as nudged. "Maybe he's an alien? He doesn't look much like an alien though. Maybe he's wearing someone else's skin like that cockroach guy in Men in Black." She wrinkled her nose at the thought, she always hated that guy.

Her eyes flickered back to Kurma, go back to outer space? They wouldn't be able to survive unless..."Are we all going to become astronauts?" Her eyes lit up at that, she wouldn't mind being an astronaut.

-Kurma's trick was unnerving enough to draw Polaris back a step as he neared Europa, silently hoping he wasn't going to turn his attention to her. Listening to all the ideas and thoughts she couldn't help beginning to agree with the flustered feeling of some of the others. He was being cryptic.. whether on purpose.. she almost doubted it... he acted very much like a small child and if it was an act.. well he was pretty fabulous at it.

Something however hit her and she spoke up finally, hand swishing away a few ivory braids.- "Before we worry about going into space it would be nice to know why we would want to to..."

"I don't intend on running and hiding from the negaverse and now isn't the time for sight seeing trips. So unless we are hunting down new recruits from other plants for the battle.. or it would give us some new weapon we don't already have... then it seems like an unnecessary parlor trick."

"What does it matter where we're from? We're all here now. As said - for a reason. Earth can't afford us going on some mass vacation in space." And like Castor said, gravity, air, breathing y'know? Though, for that matter, who was to say that those rules even applied while they were henshined up? If they could travel out in to space, who was to say as senshi that they couldn't somehow survive? if only for a short while?

NASA would s**t bricks.

There was a moment's pause after everyone had their chance to reply, Kurma floating back into a right-side up position so he could address the entire crowd again. He was silent for just a little bit, apparently collecting his thoughts, before reopening half-lidded eyes and getting a good look at everyone.

"Here's the thing," he began.

"You guys are right... you're not from Earth. Or at the very least, you're not supposed to be." Kurma gave a quick nod to Lyra and the guesses she had made, before continuing. "The question is... why? I certainly don't know -- and in some circles, I could be classified as a 'they.'" He gave a little mischievous smirk at this. "But 'they' don't always know everything. No one does. However..."

Then he uncrossed his arms, rested a fist on his hip and held the globe up with his other hands, and flashed another of his rapidly-becoming-familiar grins. "I think I know enough to know what needs to be done. You've all lost your way, and forgotten who you really are, which is understandable and happens to everyone sometimes. But now's the time to remember, you can't win this fight for good until you do. And there's no better way to solve this problem than start at the source." He peered down at the crowd once again, and gave an uncannily sage nod.

"I think it's time for a little change of scenery."

And before anyone could ask another question or make another protest, they were all enveloped by an enormous pulse of blindingly golden light, that swallowed them up and yanked the ground out from beneath their feet. There was an incredible, strange sensation -- hard to properly put to words, but some would later describe it as like being nowhere, and yet everywhere all at once -- but after the blink of an eye it was gone, and they had all emerged...

...somewhere.

The first thing they registered was the stillness. There was not a noise, not a breeze, not a breath, not a single sensation at all, not even the feeling of the air pressing down around them that they'd never noticed was there until they were met with the sudden absence of it. It was quiet... it was gloriously, incomprehensibly, terrifyingly quiet. There was still no ground for them to stand on. It felt, for a long, confused moment, like they were all in purgatory.

But then, one by one, they remembered to open their eyes, and the sights there were to take in were endless.

This was nothing like what they had seen in textbooks, on documentaries, in observatory displays or even through the lens of the Hubble telescope. They say nothing could compare to seeing something in person -- and all around them there were thousands, millions of stars glittering in true three-dimensional splendor with no horizon to interrupt them. There was a massive, sparkling arm of the Milky Way painted in a masterful brush stroke of blue and purple hues, and --

"You guys should try looking behind you."

Those who did would be greeted by the sight of the Earth itself: enormous and minuscule at the same time, swathed in its trademark hues of green and blue, the misty net of clouds visibly swirling over its surface. If they had any doubts about what had just happened or where they were, that would serve to dissolve them entirely.

The answer to everyone's questions about how this all was supposed to work in the first place: ******** the rules, we have magic.

One second they were all in this dark alleyway... talking with the floating man orb thing, and the next...

"Holyshit." She said, swearing... which if anyone really knew Lyra, it was something she didn't do all that often. A golden light engulfed them, something similar to the light that had changed them into senshi in the first place. It was warm and comforting at first but... it was quickly followed by a sickening feeling. It felt as if her body was everywhere, blanketing the entire earth and universe... causing her stomach to twist and turn and knot up. It took everything she had not to embarrass herself and hurk up her lunch, thankfully... she didnt.

The feeling was gone almost as fast as it arrived... thank god. She folded her arms over her stomach as the sensations remained and gradually lessened her stomach ache. "Errgg... what the hell was that fo-" And then she saw it. Her eyes flew open in awe as she got a look at her surroundings, for the first time since meeting Kurma... she was speechless. Space... They were...floating in outerspace... breathing somehow... and not being crushed by the blanket of black. The stars around them were abundant, nothing you could see from the city nights. She felt as if she was in one of those documentaries... you know, the space shuttle ones?

"Holycraphowdidyoudothat!... and why are we not dead?" She said without taking time to catch her breath between words. She went back to being quiet, placing a hand over her mouth in fear that she had a limited breathing supply. The earth below her was also causing her to pause while she stared, this was the planet she was 'born' on... could they all truly not belong here?