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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 20:33:17 GMT -5
Michael flew towards his, Marisa's, and Alice's house in the woods outside of Void City, his new flying companion behind him. Never in a million years would he have thought that he'd actually see one of his favorite cartoon characters in person, let alone talk to them.
'Haah... I do feel really bad for her, though. I wouldn't wish Cupcakes on my worst enemy... Gah... my hand's still friggin' sore... did I punch something?' Michael still couldn't remember the details of his rage-induced Sync with Yukari earlier.
Michael's eyes scanned the ground below him. Eventually, the fairly large, cabin-styled house was within sight. Michael shouted behind him, "Okay, Rainbow; it's right down there!" Michael went into a dive, aiming for right in front of the house.
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 3, 2011 20:50:42 GMT -5
Rainbow Dash never thought she'd leave Equestria. But now, not only did she leave her beloved home... she'd left behind her entire world. Her friends could have been safe back in Ponyville or they could have been taken into multiple worlds. Celestia only knew where they'd be then. I do hope everypony's ok, she thought with great concern. For now, she had made a new friend, one more familiar with this Interdimensional Travel Station that they were currently at. She blinked as he took a dive, but noticed the house. Grinning, she swooped right past and made it there before he could blink. "I've still got it," she said with a grin, comically standing on her back hooves, back leaning against the door with her two front hooves cross in front of her.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 20:56:09 GMT -5
Michael shot Rainbow a wry smile. "I have no delusions of being able to outspeed you, Rainbow; I'm not Aya. Michael sniffed the air. "Hmm... a light scent of a potion being brewed, gunpowder, ...soup? Is Marisa or Alice cooking? ...Ehh... this might be interesting... Okay."
Michael picked Rainbow up, moved her a few inches away from the door, opened it, and then hit the ground as a doll shot a laser where his head was three seconds previous.
Michael picked himself up, dusted his clothes off, and then turned towards Rainbow. "...Security measures. Now then, shall we go in?"
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 3, 2011 21:02:23 GMT -5
Rainbow Dash could smell the gunpowder. It was an odd scent. However, the soup was a good scent and she was more welcoming to that. That being said, the minute Michael opened the door, she could hear the laser firing and immediately dove to the ground. Just because she was brave didn't mean she was an idiot. And the rainbow reminded her of herself, a speeding bolt that could hurt like hell. However, he then turned to her and offered for her to walk in, explaining the laser as security measures. Picking herself back up to all fours, she sighed in relief. "Geeze, what kinda nasty people roam about that you'd have to put up that kind of measure?"
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 21:14:17 GMT -5
Michael shrugged. "We don't know, but you can never be too careful. Like I said, this is a nexus of dimensions; there are all sorts of nasty people that could be around."
Michael walked into the house, and a scent of pumpkin hit his nostrils. ..."Marisaaaaa! Aaaalice! Were either of you cooking here? It smells great!"
A cheery, tomboyish voice rang through the house. "Heya, Mike! Welcome back! How've ya been, da ze? Yeah, I've been cooking; I learned this recipe from a kinda girly-looking guy in a green tunic not too long ago; it's got pumpkin, a strong cheese, and a whole bunch of different vegetables. Want some? I was just about to go get Alice from her workshop for dinner; she's been designing some new dolls."
Michael thought for a bit; it had been a long flight, the sandwiches were kinda small, and it was almost around dinnertime...
At that, Marisa walked into the kitchen, clad in her typical black-white witch outfit. When she saw Rainbow, she said, "Hey, Mike, what's with the pony?"
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 3, 2011 21:42:29 GMT -5
Rainbow Dash blinked at the voice. The person sounded a bit like her in some way. It was more her personality then her actual voice. She sounded like a tough, brave girl in her own right. Though some of her also echoed Pinkie Pie's randomness as well. It was quite odd how she could recognize her friends in these people she didn't know. Patchouli as Twilight, even though they've never met, and Michael as Fluttershy. Now this person sounded like her, though the moment she walked out, her colors immediately reminded Rainbow Dash of Zecora, the zebra who the ponies had thought an evil enchantress before they learned the truth.
Speaking of Patchouli, she was there as well. She was actually with Alice, but a rift had taken her there from her place in the Scarlet Library, and as her nature dictated, she decided to go with the flow.
At the comment from Marisa, Rainbow bristled a bit. "Hey, I'm not just some pony, ok?"
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 21:51:37 GMT -5
Marisa visibly flinched in surprise. "Holy Hell, you can talk?!"
Michael heard a soft voice speaking. "Patchy? That you? I thought you couldn't come with us 'cause of your asthma. ...Wait a minute, you're not the same Patchouli from our world, are you... God, this Alternate Universe thing is confusing..." Michael ultimately decided, 'Screw it; I'm going to get some soup.'
Michael walked further into the kitchen, grabbing several bowls. "This stuff smells great!" Taking a spoon, he tasted a sip of the soup. "Mmm... tastes great, too."
Marisa went and got Alice and Patchouli, bringing them to the table in the kitchen. Alice had to be sort of dragged away from her workbench, but because it was Marisa, she didn't really mind.
It was only then that Alice noticed Rainbow. "Oh, my... I've never seen an equine with your coloration before... how interesting. My name is Alice Margatroid. Pleasure to meet you."
Marisa then said, "Ah, yeah; where are my manners, heheh. I'm Marisa Kirisame." Marisa then started pouring soup into bowls. "Hey, you want some... uh... what's your name again?"
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 3, 2011 22:07:32 GMT -5
Patchouli looked at Michael as she walked in. "Actually I would've stayed, but there was a random flux and it brought me here. So... you can blame a quirk in fate for my presence here."
"Man... you even sound like Twilight," Rainbow said in response to Patchouli's words. The magician turned her eyes on the pony. She, of course, already knew. She was Patchouli. She made it her business to know everything. Plus the Marisa in her world, if not the Maria before her, had brought her a television. She called it something to "brighten up that stuffy old library." Patchouli had called it irritating until she discovered the knowledge that could be explored within it.
Rainbow noted that Alice sounded a bit like Rarity, but didn't seem to carry her stuck uppidness. And Marisa... definitely sounded like Rainbow herself. But she too had forgotten her manners and had to introduce herself. "Sorry 'bout that. The name's Rainbow Dash."
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 22:12:05 GMT -5
Alice chuckled airily, as was typical for her. "My, how fitting."
Michael said, "You should've seen her earlier, at Portal Park! She raced Aya and they tied!"
Marisa stopped pouring the soup for a good minute, looking at Rainbow in shock. "Seriously?!" Marisa finished pouring the last bowl, walked over to Rainbow, and gave her a friendly slap on the back. "Awesome! I'm a pretty fast flier, but I've never come close to that. Rainbow, you're alright with me!"
Alice sat down, her seat between Michael's and Marisa's. "Well, Miss Rainbow, would you care to join us?"
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 3, 2011 22:29:50 GMT -5
Rainbow wasn't sure how to interpret that airy laugh. Sounded kinda snooty... definitely like Rarity. Still, she didn't seem to be insulting. And Michael managed to offset those thoughts by boasting for her about how she tied with Aya, thus gartering the respect of the witch who looked like Zecora, but sounded like her. Marisa... she could already tell she'd be able to get along with the magician. "Well... I don't mean to brag, but..."
"You are the fastest in Equestria, yes," Patchouli said, a bowl of soup in front of her, offering a polite thank you to Marisa. This offset Rainbow a bit, who looked a little irked. "My apologies. I know a bit about you and the world you come from due to the technology my universe's Marisa has given me. My name is Patchouli Knowledge."
"Your last name is Knowledge?" Rainbow asked bluntly.
"I'd prefer not to detail why it is so... but it is so."
Rainbow shook off the bit of irritation that building off. She was not about to have any spats with people she was starting to know. And she felt this was just the purple woman's nature. She did resemble Twilight quite a lot with her vocabulary choice... and the purple. She couldn't avoid the purple. At Alice's request, she nodded. "Thanks. Don't mind if I do." Despite the hilarity of it, she was able to sit in a chair. Patchouli didn't look stumped.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 3, 2011 23:32:42 GMT -5
Michael whispered to Rainbow using his power, "Don't worry about Patchy; she's always like that..."
Michael started to eat the soup, enjoying the warmth and taste. He stopped and said, "By the way, did any of you guys feel a lot of magic power coming from the Park? I did, but I never found what caused it." (He had no idea that the surge of power came from him)
Marisa shrugged. "Dunno," she said, "Could've been Yukari messing around again; you know how she is."
Alice's expression then brightened as she remembered something. "Oh, dear. I almost forgot." Alice sent Shanghai to grab a box with a note on it. "Miss Rainbow, I believe this is for you."
Marisa said, "Ah, yeah; that's right. Yukari dropped that in via Gap-Mail an hour or so ago; Alice and I had no idea who it was for, but the note has your name on it."
Michael looked with a puzzled expression on his face. 'Huh? What's this about, then?' He thought.
(You can come up with whatever's in the box; the inside of the note is a thanks and apology for Rainbow; thanks for helping Mike unlock his Sync and apology that it happened the way it did.)
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 4, 2011 8:32:43 GMT -5
Patchouli's demeanor did upset Rainbow a bit. While she looked and sounded like Twilight, she surely did not act like her. Oh well. It was just comparisons, nothing more. Besides, there were more important things to worry about... like who this Yukari person was and why she was sending Rainbow Dash a package to Alice and Marisa, people she had never met up until now. "Whoa whoa, hold on a second, just who in the world is Yukari?"
"A youkai from our world," Patchouli responded. "Despite the fact that she is not a god, she might as well be. Yukari can bend boundaries and rifts to her pleasing, not unlike one of the rifts that may have brought you here, and can use them to such a degree that she can practically become omnipotent. We've scanned the package already, but while we've detected no harmful energies, I suggest caution anyway. With her, it's never a bad idea to be cautious."
Yeesh... and I thought Pinkie Pie and I could be crazy with our pranks. She sounds like a natural troublemaker, Rainbow thought. Shrugging lightly, she began to open the package and gasped when she saw the contents inside. "A... Auditions to join the Wonderbolts?! How did she...?!"
"She has her ways." Patchouli sipped at her tea, drinking down the last of it, and kindly asked Marisa if she might be able to have another cup.
Blinking a bit, Rainbow noticed the note that was also in there. Pulling it out, she heard the words forming in her head.
Dear Rainbow Dash,
I've sent this little concession to you for helping Michael unlock his true abilities. It's been a real challenge to do that via other methods, so I decided to force matters into my own hands. Who would've guessed anger would do it, but the book you had read known as "The Light in the Darkness," or was it "A Light in the Darkness," proves that he managed to copy my abilities... that book, and my currently bleeding nose as I write this. Anyway, it wouldn't do to just mentally traumatize you and make you paranoid of your best friend in the entire world without giving you a little something. I noticed how your dream was to join this flying team in your world, so I figured I'd help a bit with that. Enjoy.
Yukari Yakumo.
P.S. Duck.
The minute she heard duck, Rainbow ducked. A cream pie out of nowhere... at Michael's face. That is all.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 4, 2011 9:02:56 GMT -5
Michael took the pie straight in the face. "Awk!" After a few minutes of sitting there, stunned, Michael slowly removed the tray from his face and pulled the goop off (Like in the Three Stooges shorts) "...I take it that I punched Yukari in my haze... and this was payback?" Michael sat for a few minutes "...I'm okay with this. Now, I'll be back; I gotta wash this stuff out of my hair."
Marisa and Alice had both started laughing when Michael was pied, but they soon calmed. Marisa then said, after getting another cup of tea, "So, these... Wonderbolts, was it? What are they?"
Alice said, getting some more soup, "I'm curious as well; that was quite a reaction you gave."
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Post by Felix Falora on Oct 4, 2011 9:49:12 GMT -5
Patchouli remained calm as Michael got pied right next to her. As he went to wash off, however, Marisa and Alice asked who the Wonderbolts are. Rainbow gasped. "How could you not... oh wait... different worlds, yeah..." Rainbow mentally cursed. Focus! Try to remember where you are and just be calm about it. After her nervous grin during her mistake, her face returned to normal. "The Wonderbolts are the coolest fliers in my world! The tricks they perform, the crowds they meet, it's enough to leave any Pegasus green with envy! And it's always been my dream to join them... so how would this Yukari have...?"
"Trust me, Rainbow, it'll save you a lot of sanity to stop wondering how Yukari works. Not even I've figured out all of it, much to the shock of many in my world," Patchouli replied.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Oct 4, 2011 9:59:13 GMT -5
Marisa thought for a minute, then said, "So... they're kinda like that flying group... The Blue Angels? Somethin' like that. They're a flying group from the Outside World. Oh, that's what most Gensokyo residents refer to Mike's world as."
Meanwhile, Michael walked to the bathroom of the house with a different set of clothes. He had decided to just take a shower; get himself really cleaned up. Well, after he finished, but before he could start drying off, Yukari popped her head through a gap right there in the bathroom. Ordinarily, Michael would've laughed, seeing as Yukari had two tissues lodged in her nostrils, but it was far less humorous being seen with no clothes on.
So, Michael did what any normal person would've done in that situation. He screamed, hastily getting dressed. He dashed out of the bathroom, getting his shirt over his still-wet head and on his still-wet body, turned around, and shouted, "God dammit, Yukari! Don't DO that!"
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