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Morty knows he shouldn't be screwing around with multidimensional shit. It's dangerous, it's impractical, it's blah blah blah. But it's a potential key to unlimited energy, how does nobody see that? He's built a dimensional siphon (it kind of looks like a cardboard box with a funnel and a TI-84 taped to it, but it damn well works), keyed in the dimensional coordinates to a random plane, and by God he's going to use it.
He flips the switch and waits for the energy bar to fill up.
It does! It fills up very rapidly. Then it explodes, along with the box. There's rather more smoke than there should be, and once the smoke clears someone is standing there.
"Oh dear," Morty says faintly.
Flicker at Whateley
point_b
"Hmmm, okay..." Bella re-reads the bit about the movement widget, and then does it again, double-checking the adjustment for sphere visibility immediately before her cast.
in-like-a-lion
The movement is faster, and it doesn't cut out, but it's uneven, which it isn't really supposed to be. And the sparks are duller than before.
Also, her widget is telling her that she's at 5.93.
Also, her widget is telling her that she's at 5.93.
point_b
"Okay, that's my threshold dipped below, I'll have to fix it tomorrow," sighs Bella. "It's very tempting to keep poking it until I figure out what's wrong with my sparkler. Oh well. I will read things and meditate."
in-like-a-lion
"It's hard to keep it all in line until you get used to it. It's impressive that you're getting it this quickly, really. I mean, this is your first day doing actual magic."
in-like-a-lion
"I can't get all that excited about magic, because I grew up with it? But it is so cool."
point_b
"I mean, Alli doesn't seem to get what the difference between this and our sixteenth birthday is, and I can't very well explain it yet because today all I can do is make insubstantial Christmas ornaments that disappear if I stop paying attention to them. But it took sixteen years to get my gemini stuff. In sixteen more years I will be so much better at this."
in-like-a-lion
"Oh, totally. Choice between magic and my powers... I actually don't know in my case. But choice between magic and your powers, definitely magic. Your powers are cool, but magic."
point_b
"...I mean, I am not yet sure how efficiently I will be able to use magic to save one and a half million people, especially given the annoying thing about magic abhorring gifts, so I'm not sure it's that clear cut, but being able to do that even with flickering was kind of a fluke, so perhaps."
point_b
"No need to apologize. But I am not one and a half million people worth of excited yet. If Circe can teach me to cure malaria I will get that excited very fucking fast."
in-like-a-lion
"Yeah. I mean, you can heal malaria, but I can't imagine that's what you're talking about."
in-like-a-lion
"You- could. But that's the kind of thing that fucks up food chains, and also it'd be really big to the point it wouldn't be feasible for you to actually do for a long time, and... I don't know that your world has ley lines, but in our world extinctions are bad for ley lines. Like, if you intentionally drive a species extinct then you're asking for forest blights and colony collapse and tornadoes and shit. The passenger pigeon extinction literally caused plagues of locusts in the Middle East. Please don't do that."
point_b
"I think people have looked into mosquitoes in particular and declared them okay to extinguish. There are lots of kinds and only some of them bite humans and I don't think anything feeds exclusively on them. But I will consult a minimum of one real ecologist who knows mosquitoes and check on the ley lines thing before attempting to drive malaria's carriers extinct. Or I'll just aim straight at the malaria protozoan itself, though for some reason I'm guessing that's harder than the bugs."
in-like-a-lion
"Yep. There are diseases we've killed, though, we can send you home with some of the means for that. Like, we killed ebola. Only after it had mutated and turned airborne and wiped out a portion of the Northeast, but we can totally kill ebola for you."
point_b
"...Without, say, first turning it airborne and wiping out some Northeast? I'm all for killing ebola without doing that."
in-like-a-lion
"Yeah, the vaccine for the airborne version got everybody het up about wiping out regular type ebola before it mutated again, so we've got that too. Uh, speaking of which, you got shots at some point, right? Because I am envisioning a plague blanket scenario featuring you as the one using the blankets, and it is unpleasant."
point_b
"I got many many shots on Thursday. I whined to Alli about the lump in my arm. She told me to get my butt home if I wanted her to do something about it and otherwise to shut up."
in-like-a-lion
"Ah, good. You don't have to worry about... I'm not even going to pick a horrifying devisor plague to mention. You don't have to worry about those, hooray."
point_b
"Hooray. Of course, someone may invent a new one, but if it doesn't progress with astonishing rapidity we can just call in one of Alli to take care of it and vice-versa. For me. The rest of you do not have the luxury."
in-like-a-lion
"Yeah, devisor plagues suck. Mom always locked us in a bunker whenever some asshole came up with one. Now I basically can't get sick, which is nice. Though if I do get sick then I get put in a bunker while they chemically sterilize every inch of my body, because diseases that can hit an ex-5 are a bad thing."
point_b
"Makes sense. There is... no known limit to what gemini healing can handle, but there's a reason I'd summon only one of Alli and leave one at home if something came up."