JTTM: We Are (All) Travelers

[EldritchMermaid]

The chest poke elicited yet another blush from the girl.

Really need to stop doing that before it turns into a bad running joke. She thought to herself, just as the next transformation started and everything went crazy again. Not least because of the attempted grope she witnessed, but that certainly didn't help matters.

"T-that's... so... cool!" She stuttered, still a bit too embarrassed to speak up properly.

[dblade26]

August frowned when Bernard dragged Perrin away, confused for a minute. Then he realized he was still fairly covered in blood and had said something about brainwashing and watching the newcomer very closely. He supposed that it really wasn't socially acceptable to do that sort of thing. Even if the older girl was also covered in blood and interacting with people fairly normally too. Either way the bloody clothes were uncomfortable for himself and probably others.

"Umm...NAVI again, right? Could you maybe make some clothes for me? oh, and especially a jacket with some concealed holding places in the sleeves, torso and hem. Oh, and stainproofing like mine has right now but umm...kinda cooler I guess? yeah! Also umm..I guess I'd be nice to know if I have any powers too!"

August kind of hoped he had more powers than just no longer being disabled. If this was his second chance at life it might as well involve cool powers. He'd missed most of the shenanigans that had gone on at the other side of the room, but at the thought of powers he turned back to all the people who'd been hugging earlier and the others including the person in the tuxedo, since they didn't seem to be as freaked out by his blood-covered appearance

[Vinestar]

"..." Suddenly huddling up under her wings of darkness, Grey crouched down and hid her mouth with both hands to hide from view the rather big smile she was sporting. It wasn't that Anno was being cheesy or anything, it was more like the girl's appearance and behavior combined into a potent glamour that made the demon want to glomp her with everything she had. "I-it's nice to meet you too, Anno! You're... adorable!~" Unable to resist the beacon of all things positive anymore, the Devil flung herself with lightning speed at the shorter companion. "I can't help it!~"

Flinging out her wings to drag both of them against gravity so the two wouldn't land in a heap, the smiling Japanese woman was happily petting her friend whilst lazily hovering in midair. And then Rain and Moe started their shenanigans, making Grey stare. And stare. And stare. Crimson seeped into her cheeks as she took it in, before averting her eyes to prevent further awkwardness. "Ah... um..." Now it was the Devil's turn to stutter and be embarrassed.

[VitaVitaAR]

Anno was incredibly embarrassed, to say the least, when another new person approached. She shrank back nervously. She... really wasn't good with people, to say the least. At least not people she didn't already know. And this whole situation was making her nervous, even if it was really nice meeting everyone. This feeling of embarrassment was only added to when GS suddenly glomped her. Anno flushed bright red and stumbled over her own words, squirming lightly before going still as her head was petted." I-I... um... um..."

She fell completely silent in the face of Moerin's magical girl transformation and the subsequent... accident. She was vaguely aware of people talking, but she was far to embarrassed to respond. She remained still against GS and blushing incredibly red.

[Krautman]

"Yeah... this is a bit much so I'm still processing everything."

John looked down to the other set of rings, these with easily identifiable jewels. He took the green one and put it on before scanning the Dress Up ring again and pointing at August.

DRESS UP, PLEASE.

And with that... John stood in a black longcoat with a tophat and monocle. He looked over himself with a tremendous smile.

"Huh. I like this one," he said, looking up to the ceiling. "So what else can these rings do, aside from giving me progressively fancier clothing? I'm assuming how this works anyway- the wearer of the ring is the one who's affected. Sorry little buddy."

[Psyga315]

"Awesome... Just..." Ginger said, awed as heck. She then ran to Moe and hugged her like she hugged Jenny. "This is my dream come true!"

---

A blue light then entered the room as August was dressed similarly to John. Soon, NAVI chimed in.

"You seem to possess an ancient form of martial art. Through controlled breathing, you are able to transfer energies into powerful blows. It goes by a few names, but it seems its English name is The Ripple, or Hamon." NAVI said to August.

[Falkon]

Perrin walked up to the earth mounds, hand on his chin, and he stared at it for a few moments. He stared, and he thought.

Eventually, he kneeled down, untying his shoes and throwing them to the side. Closing his eyes, he moved into position.

In a rapid and precise movement of his arms, parts of the mounds levitated, and were sent flying at the targets, embedding in the bull's eyes with precision.

Perrin opened his eyes, scanning the area around him. "Hey, it worked!"

[The Big Bean]

"Awesome!" Bernard said, as his hand transformed into an energy weapon. "Now check this out."

He placed his hand over his weapon, shooting beams at the other ground targets. His hand changed into a different type of gun, and then he shot a different type of ammo that looked like a paperclip, trapping the flying targets by pinning them against the ground. He landed near Perrin with a smug smile as his hand turned back to normal.

"Seamless weapon transition." He said. "What else can you do?"

[Falkon]

"Awesome!" Perrin said.

Not to be outdone, Perrin closed his eyes again and went into a stance. In a series of arm movements, he levitated a smaller amount of earth, and pulled it towards him, before releasing it to the ground.

Eyes still closed, he squatted down, planting his fist on the mound of earth. In a few moments, it had traveled around his fist and most of his forearm, creating an earth gauntlet of sorts.

Standing up, he ran toward one of the larger mounds of earth and, jumping onto the mound, bended his knees and sprung up, simultaneously causing the earth beneath him to rise, launching him high into the air.

He landed earth fist-first on a now destroyed target.

Opening his eyes, he turned around and walked back over, earth falling from his arm as he went. "It's like all the moves are just sitting there, in my brain!"

[Roxas]

Watching that whole transformation scene transpire, along with that random... intrusion, Saxen could only watch silently for several, wondering why... just why, someone would do that.
Then he turned away, placing a hand over his mouth and trying not to0 laugh out loud. He really didn't feel like risking getting the crap kicked out of him...

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"...B-but I have arrested people before!" Noel cried out. "Really! I wouldn't be a lieutenant if I couldn't do that much, right?!"

[VitaVitaAR]

Shiki considered this for a moment. Perhaps the girl was somewhat stronger than she looked, if she had managed any kind of arrests whatsoever. Shiki rarely thought about the law, or law enforcement, to be truthful. It simply wasn't something she often considered. She wondered how difficult making arrests was, briefly, before deciding it most likely varied. Which led her to a simple conclusion: The blonde girl handled all the easy ones. Perhaps it made her somewhat more competent then Shiki had originally thought, but not by very much.

"If you made arrests, they were not difficult ones," she said, her voice as blunt as ever.

[Deleted]

By Now White managed to easily Levitate his lightsaber hilt with ease and he was slowly starting to get control of His force powers. "NAVI, Can you add four weights around me? Each one about 50 Kilograms?" White called out to NAVI. He had control over light objects but heavy objects is a different matter in fact, he had to learn not to let weight matter the lifting. He closed his eyes waiting NAVI to summon the weights around him.

[Psyga315]

And so, the weights were summoned.

[Deleted]

"Thank you, NAVI" White responded to Action and proceeded to try lift weights with force. Only thing which was lifted up was the lightsaber hilt again, but the weights didn't budge. Other than shaking on place there was no movement. "Ngh...should have guessed it...ignore the true weight of object...it's just and illusion... " White Muttered to himself eyes closed.

[troydenite]

The boy turned around at N.A.V.I.'s voice, looking up and tilting his head again. Anno seemed to be forgotten in an instant. 

"Indeed. I am a homunculus. That is what my father called me. I have never managed to explain that to anyone I have met on this plane. What a strange voice. Are you a 'microwave,' voice? I have read about microwaves. They come from 'cellphones,' do they not?" He seemed to be addressing no-one and everyone at the same time.

He looked at Moerin, and John with the same curious interest, before approaching the tophatted Wizard with his regular, precise steps.

"You have changed your garb," he remarked with the same head-tilt. "The girl has also changed her garb. Is that the social norm here, too?"    

[Psyga315]

"No, I am not. I am an Artificial Intelligence. A sort of computer." NAVI said.

[The Big Bean]

"Impressive, young padawan." Bernard said, stroking an invisible beard. "But can you do.... this?"

Bernard took to the airs once more, clapping his hands and turning them into one big energy cannon. The energy produced by that cannon not only dilacerated the targets and sent them flying away, but also made the ground of the entire room shake. "See? Super cannon!... hold up, I can't... stop it--"

And then, both of his hands turned into magnets, and were immediately attracted to the walls of the training room. He struggled, trying to break free, until he eventually turned both of his hands back to normal, falling on his back in front of Perrin. "Still need... to get used to that."

[dblade26]

“Little buddy? I mean, I know I'm short but...umm, anyway, that's okay. Your powers are still pretty awesome！”

August gave John his best reassuring thumbs up before suddenly being clothed by NAVI. It was right about then that the full situation caught up with him.

"Hehehehe, this is the most awesome adventure ever! Forget about the snazzy new coat! my body actually works and even has superpowers, there's a whole bunch of new people in my life with amazing powers to get to know and from what I've understood so far we're supposed to be fighting evil which always has some nice advantages!"

August was grinning so much that it almost hurt his face. It was way more than nice to finally be out of his blood-soaked clothes and even better that the clothes he'd been given actually had some style as well as functionality to them. But even better, he had apparently been healed by the Ripple and could now use it during this weird afterlife adventure. Sure, it might not always be as flashy a power as waterbending, magical explosions or having alien technology fused into one's body, but it was really versatile and he could probably make good use of it.

What he was really looking forward to even more than using The Ripple to fight evil or even enjoying his newfound health was getting to know everybody. He'd always wanted to travel around more and actually make friends so the opportunity to do so was a dream come true. But before he had a chance to say anything more he noticed something moving over in a previously overlooked corner of the ship.

"Umm...hello? Whatever you are, you can probably stop hiding now as long as you promise not to attack us and eat our brains or something! Everyone here seems pretty friendly!"

The formerly crippled boy could have been wrong about there being someone hiding back there, but he figured he might as well make the effort of contacting whatever it was just in case.

[Rain]

In the training room, a black blur dashed from target to target, occasionally simply smashing one in two as it moved past, before it came to a dead halt in front of the assembled group, swords neatly sheathed and hands on hips. As it turned out, it was a drow: she'd sneaked into the training room and, now things were looking interesting, she'd tried out the targets. They weren't even moving. Too easy.

These people were really pathetic, when she thought about it. Myr guessed she could take them all... which might be necessary. Bluish black skin plus drow and all.

[Tachi]

Serena froze as she heard August addressing her. Hesitantly, the swimsuit-clad girl turned towards the ship's other occupants. Shaking slightly, through a combination of fear and having been teleported here before she could change into her normal clothes, she glanced around. Even if someone said these people were friendly, some of their appearances made her feel uneasy.

"I-I...um...y-you're..." She stammered, her gaze falling on the the boy who had called out to her. Her eyes went wide and she took a step back, it wasn't every day she saw someone covered in blood, after all. Even if he seemed to be alright, Serena still found it unnerving. "W-what happened?"

[dblade26]

"Umm...I sorta got in an accident right before coming here and maybe died or something? But it's okay because the power I got healed me and gave me another chance, so now I've decided to totally live my life to the fullest!" August pumped a fist up into the air victoriously and grinned, but then frowned again as he noticed the girl's state of dress.

"That bathing suit doesn't look very warm of comfortable! Here, take my coat for now until we can get you some clothes!" He twirled his jacket off of himself in a somewhat flashy manner and held it out to the bathing-suit wearing girl. "I'm August, by the way. What's your name?

[EldritchMermaid]

She sighed again.

"Um... I guess I could do with finding some clothes that actually fit me now as well. Or something..."

[StarSketch]

Sam focused on the barrel, raising her arm in the air. The water twitched a bit, but did;t really go anywhere.

After a few tries, though, she got the hang of it.

Ok, now let's try hitting those targets! Sam thought, turning towards them.

Unfortunately, at that moment, all of the targets were smashed by some sort of elf.

"Goddamn it." Sam said, dropping the water back into the barrel.

[Tachi]

Serena stared as the man explained his situation, unsure how she should react to someone that was clearly alive saying he'd died. Judging by the amount of blood on him, she didn't doubt that he had been badly injured, however, saying he was dead seemed rather odd. Regardless of what had happened, she was a little relieved that he was alright.

As August offered her his coat, the swimsuit clad girl stammered a bit before mumbling a "thanks" and putting the garment on. "I-I'm Serena, it's nice to meet you..." She replied, seemingly more to the ground than August.

---

Rachel applauded Moerin's transformation sequence. Even if it was a little ridiculous, she believed that a magical girl's transformation was one of a few things that could be that over the top without deserving a facepalm. The sheer hamminess the blonde had put into the change brought a bit of a smile to the brunette's face.

At Jon's mention of needing new clothes something clicked in Rachel's head. She had been too focused on everything going on around her for it to sink in fully before now. She was meeting all of these people, some that she had known from the internet and some for the first time...and she was in her pajamas. Her face reddened slightly as she spoke up. "I could probably use something else to wear too, ehehe..."

[Krautman]

"I'm John," John said with a smile, doing his best not to look at the horrifying mannequin. Looking at the ring for a moment, he took it off and held it out for Serena. "Hey, would you mind putting this on for a second? I need to try something to figure out how these wizard's rings work."

[troydenite]

Parchment observed John's concerted efforts to ignore him with more interest. He looked at the bloodied girl and back again. Apparently his assumption had been correct. It was the social norm here to change clothes with a loud announcement and a flash of light. It was not even worth mentioning in conversation. He should not have been so surprised.

It was a pity he could not wear paper with a loud announcement and a flash of light. He would have to find a way of blending in soon to integrate with these people. But he could stay like this for a while. He did not think that they would mind.

Turning away unfazed, he looked around for the source of N.A.V.I's voice.

"So you are an Artificial Intelligence. That is what I am," he observed. "I am an Artificial Intelligence as well as a Homunculus. That is what my father called me."

"I am not a computer, though. I have heard of computers before, but they have never spoken to me like you have. They have not found out that I am a homunculus. They did not understand when I tried to explain to them."

He looked up. "You are a very interesting computer, voice. Can I have your name, voice?"

[Psyga315]

"My name is the Navigational, Artificial, and Virtual Intelligence, or NAVI for short." NAVI said. Just then, there was a ping. The robot that NAVI sent sparked to life as it projected a hologram that flickered for a bit with static, but soon became solid.

The hologram seemed to be based upon the images NAVI had scanned through, though the design seemed to be upon the one that got looked at the most, albeit with some modifications. The hologram had short brown hair with two blue highlights. Her uniform was also blue, but shown to be very metallic. On her skirt, it read "SMART BRAIN".

"SWEET! My avatar got made!" The hologram said, sharing NAVI's voice.

"My apologies for my avatar's... somewhat odd programing. For some reason, my personality matrix got buggy when I searched through the databanks for a suitable avatar. This is the Smart Brain Lady, spokeswoman for the Smart Brain company in the World of Faiz."

[The Big Bean]

Bernard whistled, nudging Perrin with his shoulder. "Are you seeing this? Please tell me you are seeing this. Because that would make the events of the past hour a very complicated dream sequence."

[troydenite]

"Navi? That is an interesting name, voice. I like it."

He tilted his head when the sparking began. When the holographic girl flickered into existence, he gave a delighted laugh.

"So you have acquired a shell for your consciousness, Navi. You are even more like me then you were before. It is good to see someone so similar to me. My father did not make any homunculi like me for a long time."

So saying, he walked up to the holographic lady and extended his hand in exactly the same manner as he had approaching Anno.

"My name is Parchment. That is what my father called me. It is not a real name. I will have to find one soon."

The clay boy turned his head to the rest of the room as an aside.

"I apologize for not being able to uphold the social norm, but I cannot yet change my apparel with a loud announcement and a flash of light. Please bear with me until I discover how to."

[Falkon]

Perrin looked down at Bernard and, concerned, said "Are you alright?"

And then the Drow appeared, and Perrin couldn't help but stare. "If you're seeing a dark elf appear out of nowhere, then... Yeah. Don't think it's a dream, though." he told Bernard, while awkwardly waving at the Drow.