Multiple Settings I Hate Waiting in Another World!

[BuggaBoo]

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CoCo - The Wheel Woman

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By herself and looking to the Sky...

"They lookin like they fixin' to leave...?! But I'm like less than half a block away! Un-frickin'-believable..."

CoCo leapt over another little bush then slowed her rapid pace down to a crawl. A sigh couple with a toss of both arms in the air; both actions illiciting disgust. She shook her head as she walked kicking a loose rock with much vigour. Blue eyes popped wide, "Eyo. am I ever so dirty..."

Peering down upon her dirty crop top, she immediately commenced the cleaning off of oneself. As she pat and swatted away at the strange metallic flecked debris off her person, she became immediately annoyed at how difficult it was to get the dirt offa her body. The scowl pulled down from her brow slowly dissipated the moment she fiiiiiinally cleared to top of the sparkly alien dirt. Finally she looked up and smirked. 'Chills' was there now with the others but it looked like a couple of them had disappeared? She had a quick glance around and didn't see them anywhere in the scrub.

But yeah. They were moving alright. Another sigh and another tossing of both hands skyward. Blue eyes narrowed as she watched them move... east? She supposed it would be east back home in her world. Suddenly a pang of homesickness hit her. Where was her car? A little push up of her lower lip could be called a pout; she actually missed her car, Rumbler in this moment. For an alien badland this place would actually be sooooooo nice to drop the top and cruise around in. The big woman sighed, eyes sparkling in longing and melancholy. It really would be nice to take her cute little DMV girl out for a ride... find a nice spot somewhere for just the two of them... slide into the backseat and slowly slide--

A shadow yanked her hard out of her daydream, her lewd smile and coy look immediately vapourized. The shadow came from above! Instinctively, CoCo's tan hand reached for her waistband but shockingly grabbed at nothing but air. "Dammit! It's in the car!"

Instead she took a defensive fight pose as she located the threat from above. It was some kinda giant alien bird with some kinda lumpy growth on its back. CoCo lowered to the ground and picked up two hefty sparkly pink and purple rocks. As she rose, waiting until it was well within strike zone, she finally realized what that thing acually was. Blue eyes popped wide and a grin breached full pink lips. It was the little silverheaded girlie from the group that had waved back at CoCo. And she was riding some kinda giant alien bird.

"Niiiiice. She caught a Pokepet..." CoCo said neath her breath and giggled. Idea Shoya A gloved hand rose up high, waving in greeting. Her other hand cupped her mouth as she shouted, "Hi!! What's good girlie and birdie! Eyo, I'm heading towards that group!"

To reiterate non-verbally, CoCo pointed a finger at herself then at the others less than half a block away. If the little thing had anything to say, CoCo would smile as she took it in and would nod along. But now, she knew that the aerial pair would catch up to her but she wanted to see how fast this alien birde was. That and she was CoCo after all.

"The name's Bunny! And you can't catch me!" the big woman broke into a full sprint.

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[Shoya]

Sora​

Sora gives Mina a glare for calling him bird boy, biting his tongue from a sly remark before turning to a more pressing issue.

Why do I have to carry some commoner girl? I'm sure my eyes would be good enough to get information from the sky, especially as a bird... peacock? Whatever. Cooperating with the group is for the best, but it's an exceptioin.

"Don't let free rides become a habit, alright?" he says, in an almost pleading tone. He begins to transform, remembering the strange feeling of transforming as his body slowly begins to morph, expanding and growing feathers. His posture changes and before he knows it, is back in "bird form". He gives his wings a few flaps to feel how much impulse he makes with the wind, before allowing Kona to hop on his back. He does a running start before beginning to flap his wings in what felt like a rather natural and intuitive rythm. While somewhat shaky at first as he accounts for the extra weight on his body, he eventually steadies out enough for Kona to do her investigation of the land.

As they survey the land, he stares at the ground below, eventually seeing a human looking figure below, separate from the group. Kona points it out, and Sora begins making a descent to the ground below. He considers trying a nose dive to catch the girl quickly, as it seems to begin running. However, he considers it too risky.

Don't wanna scare the commoner too badly, and if I lose control, she could end up a splatter on the ground. Right after surviving the first fall too...

He glides down at a steady pace, eventually flying slightly above her.

"Who you are you calling a birdie? Just because I look like one doesn't mean I am one!" he says, landing a short distance ahead of her. Now landed, he takes in her appearance, coming to the quick realization that...

another commoner... come on...

He puts down a wing spread out across the floor to allow Kona to slide down, wanting more than anything to return to his normal and better looking human form.

 

[Coryen2]

"Actually, I think I spotted someone earlier. They were waving towards us, no, was it two people? She waved this way too. Everyone else I happened to see I think is already here, but I was actually about to use my power to make a spyglass and look around. Maybe I'll spot someone else while I'm at it."

"That's a pretty good idea, kid." Mina nodded to Kona, still not remembering her name. "Uh, don't push yourself though. We haven't found anything to eat yet. Wait..." Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out a slightly crumpled bag of salty peanuts, handing them to Kona. "Think this'll work?"

"Now, bird boy." Mina found herself acting unexpectedly bossy. Maybe it was due to finally speaking in person to people again after a long time? "How...big can you get? I mean, as a bird. If you can get big enough to lift kiddo here you can cover more of the area from the sky. Hopefully..." She glanced momentarily at Will. "...we find something that we can eat, instead of anything that wants to eat us. Now come on, sun's setting."

As the girl pointed off in the direction he had just come in from, Randal nodded, "If you two will look from the air, I will check our perimeter as we move. I am pretty sure you saw myself and Bunny off in that direction, but I will give it another look, just in case." Turning, he calculated the distance to his destination and vanished with an eerie lack of sound or warning.

Pulling himself through space, he appeared back up in the tree where he had first encountered Bunny before blinking himself down to the ground. Mina had been correct. The shadows had gotten considerably longer. "Anyone out here?" he called into the encroaching darkness, his voice oddly muted by the thick, soft grass. Pausing for a response, he listened as hard as he could, but there was no reply. Unsure how long he should wait, he paused for a few more seconds before dashing away. Now that he was moving on his own, he took a moment to take in his surroundings while on the move. It was at this point that he realized that there were no sounds of insects or birds. For a brief moment, he considered that the sound dampening of the foliage was covering it up, but no. There were no birds, insects, small animals....nothing.

Distracted, he stumbled on an uneven piece of terrain and slammed into the ground. No wait, it hadn't be uneven just a moment ago. Glancing down, his heart jumped in his chest. His leg was wrapped in some sort of root. Following the direction of the root with his eyes, he saw as it extended in an unnaturally straight line right towards the open face of a flower roughly 6 feet across. Before he had time to recognize the truth of the situation, the root pulled.

Five meters. Four meters. Three. His augmented understanding of distance did nothing to avert the upcoming disaster.

Two meters. One meter. Tearing his eyes away, he pulled on a point six meters away with all his might and felt an awful wrenching sensation in his knee. Panting for breath, he gritted his teeth in pain as sweat poured down his face. Looking back at his leg, he realized why he felt so tired. Not only had he moved himself, but he had uprooted the plant creature as well. The bush, flower, and roots were seventeen point eight five meters in height and twelve point three six meters across.

In its final moments of life, the flower sagged towards him. Not wanting to touch the thing before him, he reached down to the roots and began ripping and tearing away at them. Now that he wasn't being dragged closer, it was much easier to reach. Unfortunately, without a knife, the dropping petals reached him just before he could escape sending a tingling sensation through his arm where it had come in contact.

Jerking back and away, he finally loosed himself into the closing darkness. Both his right arm and leg refusing to respond to his thoughts. "Note to self," he gasped. "Do not let anything grab you."

Not wanting to push his luck any further, he teleported his way back to the group. Each jump a little more tiring than the last. It seemed the distance he moved drained him much the same as walking that distance would. Doubly so now that walking was out of the question. Panting, he arrived back with the group as darkness fell over them completely, "Stay away from the big flowers!"

 

[strawberryspiral]

As he hid beneath lush under brush body low to the ground and heart hammering away Gabriel begins to spiral, after all he's only human. A human in a world so unlike his own it may as well be work of fiction, a figment of some sort of concussed state- he must've smacked his head on the tile floors of the DMV. That's the only possible explanation, he'd heard of people hitting their head so hard they see stars- see the so called "heavens above," and the "pearly gates," all that holy junk. But, with his own shaky beliefs he'd expect to awake in eternal flames instead of soft pastel grass and cotton candy skies.

Down hill he's watching over some girl, panning over the vast clearing, and out over the horizon. Short, silverish hair that shined almost lavender under this strange pearlescent sky. The insides of the flower is slightly fuzzy against his skin, like a duckling's downy feathers. He's never been one to confront his fears and this is no different than that, he's always had an issue with meeting new people. Not an anxiety really, more like a dislike for small talk and the like that came from a deep hatred for awkward silences and intrusive questions. The migraines didn't help either, and maybe if he's honest with himself- Gabriel hates awkward silences because he's bad at social interaction. It's taken him this long to get his license for a reason after all, over thinking everything in his life is kinda his whole personality.

To some people that could be insufferable, an annoying addition to his already intolerable personality. He doesn't mind, Gabriel's grown up knowing he's an acquired taste. Here, alone, he can watch things happen from a far, observe the mannerisms of the people who seemingly dropped here out of nowhere just like him. Out there, gathered together like herd for slaughter, in the open, he's sure only trouble can follow. Besides, he's more comfortable alone anyways, or at least that's what he tries to tell himself while isolating himself in a world full of unknown potential peril. At what point did being alone become a con instead of the pro he tried to twist it into, for a long moment he considers standing up. Slightly shifting in the tall grass before starting to stand, only to jolt back onto his hands, and knees while chewing on the inside of his cheek. He's still a socially awkward coward, doesn't matter what planet he stands on. That won't change. No point in making himself known now, he' already committed to the flower camouflage hopefully, if anyone noticed him, they'd understand he posed no threat.

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Mentions: Idea

 

[Idea]

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• While she was scouting, Kona spotted that doctor person - Randall - suddenly show up in her field of vision. Confused, she looked back down to the group, and he was indeed gone. so he could just disappear from one place and appear in another like that? Kona guessed that explained how he showed up next to them... or it didn't, really. She was no closer to having a clue how it was supposed to work. Or any of their powers really. What even were these powers?
  
  Just as sudden as he appeared, the man disappeared again, this time in a much more understandable way that nearly made Kona jump in place, turned into a kick into the air by the fact that she was so far off the ground, unlike Randall who seemingly just fell on his back all of the sudden.
  
  "Ah, sorry!" She cried out, impulsively attempting to comb the bird's feathers as if stroking hair. She wasn't even sure she really hit him, but just in case... By the time she looked for Randall with the spyglass again, the man was standing there to some kind of tree thing tall enough to cast a shadow like a natural-born building. She couldn't help nudge the bird's neck "Wow! Hey do you see that? Do you?"
  
  It was a stupid question of course, it would be harder not to see a nearly six story weird alien-colored plant that popped out of nowhere blocking the fading sunlight, but the bizarreness of that whole situation was part of why Kona wasn't even able to think about what she was doing or just did. It was the kind of thing that sounded like some fairy tale about magic beans and giants on clouds or some other children's book with pop-up pictures her sister read to her back when she was respectable. Kona slumped a little forward. gently lowering her hands and the eyeglass she held onto Sora's back. To carry that new weight she felt unlike the one from before, her back fell into a hunch, and her gaze cast down as well as if to follow it's arc.
  
  "We're... definitely not on Earth...are we?" Sure, Kona said Earth. Their planet. Some world who knows what distance away and which she knew so little about. Her tone, however, spelled out a different word: Home.
  
  She shook her head and her thought along with it (a skill she could finally put to use!). She had to focus. They had already spotted a direction to go to. Mister Randall seemed to be alright. Now there was that other person she spotted! Kona made her request, and Sora began his descent. Kona expected a raise of a hand, a smile, maybe a glance of surprise at a highschool girl riding a giant peacock. Sure, she got that too, but not before she spotted 'Bunny' raising two fists to her chest and glance at her like a guy with a rebellious streak in a drama getting picked on.
  
  "WAIT! NO, FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY NO HARM COME IN PEACE!" Kona just blurted out whatever shouts came to mind while raising her arms in an X position. Maybe her panic was giving Sora a hard time, yet once more the situation was simply overwhelming.
  
  Whether Kona's flailing helped or made things worse, the piercing woman seemed to get the message that they weren't trying to pick a fight. Kona breathed a sigh of relief, ""simulating"" in her mind of what she was about to tell the woman... Only for her to suddenly starting away from them.
  
  "Where are you going?"
  
  Although not so much Kona would fall off, Sora seemed to pick up the pace (Kona tried not to pay attention to his annoyed tone, it felt like the kind of thing that was best not to think about while riding on his back who knows how high up) and managed to catch up to the leaping woman, landing not far away from her. Even despite his carefulness, Kona felt like her eyes were spinning as she panted out an explanation.
  
  "Wait... wait up... My name is Kona, this is Sora, and we..." She coughed a bit, covering her mouth with both hands. "We just wanted to tell you we managed to meet up with some other people in our situation, and yours. I think. You probably fell too and have some powers too... Anyway, we're going over that way, I spotted some smoke, so there could be people there!"
  
  Kona pointed the way Mina had started moving.
  
  "You're really good on your feet, so I don't think you'll need a ride. I hope that's alright." Besides, Sora might be too annoyed to let the woman on his back. Kona shot her an apologetic smile. "Can you get me to miss Mina and the rest Sora? Please? I'll try to walk on my own afterwards. You're the only one I can count on right now..."
  
  While they flew back, Kona couldn't help throwing glances (back or even in front if need be) to make sure 'Bunny' was coming along to the group. And yet, something else still bothered her. She didn't want to say to say it but on the off-chance, the tiny little widdle chance that the other "creature" she saw earlier was a person... Then they were the only ones not told where everyone else was going. Kona couldn't tell anyone to go find out (not even Sora) but if it was a person, wasn't she basically just abandoning them?
  
  She bit her lip. In a moment of foolishness or inspiration she unzipped her bag and ripped a page out of small notebook with squared paper and scribbled in a short message. She gulped, then tossed the message "overboard" hoping, no, praying, that potential other person she saw earlier would find it and follow them.
  
  

  Spoiler: Message

  If you're a person too, and you read this, we're going to the East, towards the smoke! Please come too!

  
  After that, the group was reunited. Or at least she was with the main group.
  
  

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Next Day ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~​

  
  Kona woke up to a strange beeping sound, and her hand instinctively reached for the alarm, only to find her palm slamming into the dirt. She slowly recalled where she was, and almost felt the weight returning to her chest, but this was replaced by the surprise of a bright blue panel floating in front of her vision.
  
  

  
  MISSION: Cleansing
  Objective: Slay the corrupted goblins.
  
  

  Goblins Slain: 0%

  
  Reward:

  Evolution

  
  
  
  Kona blinked a couple of times. Corrupted... goblins? Evolution?
  
  "Uhm.... excuse me.... is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone know what it means?"
  
  

  

  
  

  Artist Credit: ねく | neku on Pixiv​
• Artist Credit: ねく | neku on Pixiv

  
  
  
  While she was scouting, Kona spotted that doctor person - Randall - suddenly show up in her field of vision. Confused, she looked back down to the group, and he was indeed gone. so he could just disappear from one place and appear in another like that? Kona guessed that explained how he showed up next to them... or it didn't, really. She was no closer to having a clue how it was supposed to work. Or any of their powers really. What even were these powers?
  
  Just as sudden as he appeared, the man disappeared again, this time in a much more understandable way that nearly made Kona jump in place, turned into a kick into the air by the fact that she was so far off the ground, unlike Randall who seemingly just fell on his back all of the sudden.
  
  "Ah, sorry!" She cried out, impulsively attempting to comb the bird's feathers as if stroking hair. She wasn't even sure she really hit him, but just in case... By the time she looked for Randall with the spyglass again, the man was standing there to some kind of tree thing tall enough to cast a shadow like a natural-born building. She couldn't help nudge the bird's neck "Wow! Hey do you see that? Do you?"
  
  It was a stupid question of course, it would be harder not to see a nearly six story weird alien-colored plant that popped out of nowhere blocking the fading sunlight, but the bizarreness of that whole situation was part of why Kona wasn't even able to think about what she was doing or just did. It was the kind of thing that sounded like some fairy tale about magic beans and giants on clouds or some other children's book with pop-up pictures her sister read to her back when she was respectable. Kona slumped a little forward. gently lowering her hands and the eyeglass she held onto Sora's back. To carry that new weight she felt unlike the one from before, her back fell into a hunch, and her gaze cast down as well as if to follow it's arc.
  
  "We're... definitely not on Earth...are we?" Sure, Kona said Earth. Their planet. Some world who knows what distance away and which she knew so little about. Her tone, however, spelled out a different word: Home.
  
  She shook her head and her thought along with it (a skill she could finally put to use!). She had to focus. They had already spotted a direction to go to. Mister Randall seemed to be alright. Now there was that other person she spotted! Kona made her request, and Sora began his descent. Kona expected a raise of a hand, a smile, maybe a glance of surprise at a highschool girl riding a giant peacock. Sure, she got that too, but not before she spotted 'Bunny' raising two fists to her chest and glance at her like a guy with a rebellious streak in a drama getting picked on.
  
  "WAIT! NO, FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY NO HARM COME IN PEACE!" Kona just blurted out whatever shouts came to mind while raising her arms in an X position. Maybe her panic was giving Sora a hard time, yet once more the situation was simply overwhelming.
  
  Whether Kona's flailing helped or made things worse, the piercing woman seemed to get the message that they weren't trying to pick a fight. Kona breathed a sigh of relief, ""simulating"" in her mind of what she was about to tell the woman... Only for her to suddenly starting away from them.
  
  "Where are you going?"
  
  Although not so much Kona would fall off, Sora seemed to pick up the pace (Kona tried not to pay attention to his annoyed tone, it felt like the kind of thing that was best not to think about while riding on his back who knows how high up) and managed to catch up to the leaping woman, landing not far away from her. Even despite his carefulness, Kona felt like her eyes were spinning as she panted out an explanation.
  
  "Wait... wait up... My name is Kona, this is Sora, and we..." She coughed a bit, covering her mouth with both hands. "We just wanted to tell you we managed to meet up with some other people in our situation, and yours. I think. You probably fell too and have some powers too... Anyway, we're going over that way, I spotted some smoke, so there could be people there!"
  
  Kona pointed the way Mina had started moving.
  
  "You're really good on your feet, so I don't think you'll need a ride. I hope that's alright." Besides, Sora might be too annoyed to let the woman on his back. Kona shot her an apologetic smile. "Can you get me to miss Mina and the rest Sora? Please? I'll try to walk on my own afterwards. You're the only one I can count on right now..."
  
  While they flew back, Kona couldn't help throwing glances (back or even in front if need be) to make sure 'Bunny' was coming along to the group. And yet, something else still bothered her. She didn't want to say to say it but on the off-chance, the tiny little widdle chance that the other "creature" she saw earlier was a person... Then they were the only ones not told where everyone else was going. Kona couldn't tell anyone to go find out (not even Sora) but if it was a person, wasn't she basically just abandoning them?
  
  She bit her lip. In a moment of foolishness or inspiration she unzipped her bag and ripped a page out of small notebook with squared paper and scribbled in a short message. She gulped, then tossed the message "overboard" hoping, no, praying, that potential other person she saw earlier would find it and follow them.
  
  

  Spoiler: Message

  If you're a person too, and you read this, we're going to the East, towards the smoke! Please come too!

  
  After that, the group was reunited. Or at least she was with the main group.
  
  

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Next Day ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~​

  
  Kona woke up to a strange beeping sound, and her hand instinctively reached for the alarm, only to find her palm slamming into the dirt. She slowly recalled where she was, and almost felt the weight returning to her chest, but this was replaced by the surprise of a bright blue panel floating in front of her vision.
  
  

  
  MISSION: Cleansing
  Objective: Slay the corrupted goblins.
  
  

  Goblins Slain: 0%

  
  Reward:

  Evolution

  
  
  
  Kona blinked a couple of times. Corrupted... goblins? Evolution?
  
  "Uhm.... excuse me.... is anyone else seeing this? Does anyone know what it means?"
  
  

Interactions: Sora ( Shoya ) CoCo ( BuggaBoo )
Mentions: Gabriel ( strawberryspiral ) Randal ( Coryen2 ) Mina ( Nellancholy )
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