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Who: 008/Pyunma and anyone!
When: His arrival
Where: The Plaza
Style: Starting brackets, but I'll follow you.
Status: Open!

[Being wet isn't any surprise, not after Pyunma had just been out in the ocean dragging the others out of the water. What he doesn't expect is to suddenly not be in their little craft with the rest of his teammates. A flash of movement above catches his attention, and when he looks up, he sees a shark swimming in the water beyond the dome. It takes a few moments of staring to take in.]

Yomi? But...

[That should be impossible. They still had such a distance to travel. Unless he was teleported, but why only him?]

001? [He stands still as the moments stretch on, but there's no voice echoing through his head. Even if his fellow cyborg sent him here, he must not be able to contact him. Pyunma is about to find somewhere not so... public when he notices the brochure next to him. It's a quick read, but in the end, it doesn't explain the one thing he really wants to know. He's still unsure about this place, but there's information he needs to have. So, with one hand at his hip, he approaches the next passerby he sees.]

Excuse me. Have you seen anyone wearing a uniform like mine?

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As far as I can tell, yeah.

I tried seeing if I could find a top, but after a couple hours of going up and finding nothing, I stopped; it could go on up to the atmosphere for all I know.

[Not that he was too keen on testing that.]

There's this info database on the communicators too, but it didn't mean much to me.

[Pyunma was better at that sort of thing, maybe he'd understand it more.]

Anyway, this is probably going to sound weird, but what's the last thing from home you remember? Apparently, people can come from different times when they show up here. It's weird.

Is there? [He'll have to look it up, though he's still not certain that he trusts the communicator. Still, it goes on his mental list of things to do once he's figured out enough about the city itself to feel safe in it.]

That was in the brochure.

The last thing I saw, the Dolphin was destroyed. [If he sounds a bit upset to Jet's ears as he says that, well, the Dolphin was their ship for a very long time. It became home, at some points, and seeing it sink into the ocean was a blow to the entire team's morale.]

[Jet grimaced. That wasn't a pleasant memory and it was still mostly fresh for him as well. At least there wasn't much of a difference between them. A lot had happened, granted, but it wasn't as bad as it could be.]

Yeah...that was a few hours ago from last I remember, but close enough.

[He frowns.]

What happened? Black Ghost seemed intent on finishing us off.

[Same old same old, really. But the number of robots they had there was almost overkill. He'll be glad to hear if they survived it.]

[Jet shrugged but smirked.]

What do you think? We got them, of course. I'll admit, it wasn't easy, but we took care of them.

[He hesitated and his smirk faltered and fell.]

Bina and Helen and their sisters died, though. We couldn't stop that. Then...001 transported 009 up to take care of the rest of Black Ghost. We finally beat them once and for all.

[He was glossing horrendously, but details weren't his forte.]

[It's almost enough information, and Pyunma doesn't mind the glossing on most of it, but there's one question Jet isn't going to get out of.]

But 009 and everyone, did they come out all right?

[Jet looks away, eyes disappearing into his hair and in that moment of hesitation, he knows he's screwed. If he lies now, he has no doubt Pyunma will know it.]

Yeah, everyone else's fine.

001 said he couldn't bring 009 back from where he'd sent him, so I went after him myself.

The thing is, the place was way up higher than I've ever gone before so, by the time I got there I was out of fuel. Last I remember, we were falling through the atmosphere. I don't know after that.

[But, needless to say, it didn't look so good. He shrugged.]

Why would 001 send him so far up without our help?

[He's frowning for plenty of reasons, but first and foremost is that those two are in such a dangerous situation without the rest of them. If it means the defeat of Black Ghost, they'd all fight their hardest, so Joe being left to finish it alone doesn't sit right with him.]

We actually asked him that. He said the less dead, the better.

[On some level, he got it. Why sacrifice everyone if you didn't have to? But that didn't mean he agreed with it. Hell, maybe if he'd been sent up there with Joe from the start, he could have brought them back in better shape.]

[It’s hard to protest that, in some ways, but it’s different to know there’s nothing you can do to help a comrade. They all know their lives are on the line, fighting Black Ghost, but that’s their own decision, and by now, none of them are willing to stand still and wait for death to come.

He doesn’t want to accept that future. It would break the team more than anything else could.]

There must be some way to prevent it.

[He simply crosses his arms and shrugs, seeming completely nonchalant about it.]

Hey, I'm open to any suggestions anyone's got, it's not like I'm looking forward to going back to that.

[Because, really, it was kind of terrifying and more than a little disappointing. Not only was that it, but he hadn't even really made good on his promise.]

We'll keep looking. With so many different people here, there's sure to be something.

[And it seems to him that they've got the time to do it, anyway, what with Jet having been here for an entire month already.]