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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
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point_b
"Okay. Somebody really should have told me that before I had a convenient opportunity to teleport to a major city and tell a stranger about my day. Fortunate I'm such a bookworm and never took advantage of this chance."
in-like-a
"Not a major problem even if you had. It's not a tremendously well-kept secret, it's just best not to blare it over the national loudspeakers, you know? There's rumors about superhero schools everywhere, I'm pretty sure the smart money's on it being in California."
in-like-a
"So, anyway: green flag day, I'm gonna fly around for a while and maybe kill a tree."
in-like-a
"It's really fuckin' fun is what. I wield the power of a goddess, I'm gonna use it to smash a tree into kindling every once in a while. Tremble mortals etcetera."
point_b
"I will supply you no alibi. I'll see you at lunch tomorrow."
Bella goes to her room, and does A/B testing on various frames of mind for meditation in fifteen-minute blocks and takes notes on their effects on her wrist thingy uptick.
Bella goes to her room, and does A/B testing on various frames of mind for meditation in fifteen-minute blocks and takes notes on their effects on her wrist thingy uptick.
in-like-a
Her top rate appears to be three and a bit ticks per hour. But it seems that her rate is upticking very slightly just based on how much time she spends, period; repeated testing reveals that the same technique will eke out an extra few decimals an hour later.
point_b
Huh. Well, she starts a graph; if the rate at which her recharge increases is mostly consistent she can pick up A/B testing later.
Eventually she gets dinner, and then she reads the first chapter in all her textbooks, and then she sets her alarm and goes to sleep.
And in the morning she gets up and gets eggs Benedict for breakfast and attends economics and then nothing until lunch. Ariel's occupied in her solid block of morning classes, so magic practice is out, but she can meditate. And do the very small assignment she got in econ, so she goes ahead and gets that out of the way.
Lunchtime. Bella finds the lecture hall Ariel should be exiting any minute now.
Eventually she gets dinner, and then she reads the first chapter in all her textbooks, and then she sets her alarm and goes to sleep.
And in the morning she gets up and gets eggs Benedict for breakfast and attends economics and then nothing until lunch. Ariel's occupied in her solid block of morning classes, so magic practice is out, but she can meditate. And do the very small assignment she got in econ, so she goes ahead and gets that out of the way.
Lunchtime. Bella finds the lecture hall Ariel should be exiting any minute now.
in-like-a
Ariel exits as expected!
She looks surprised to see Bella, for a moment. "Hey! What's- oh, yeah, the date. That thing. That date thing we're doing, that I didn't forget about. Hi!"
She looks surprised to see Bella, for a moment. "Hey! What's- oh, yeah, the date. That thing. That date thing we're doing, that I didn't forget about. Hi!"
in-like-a
"No, I specifically said I didn't- okay, yeah. Only very, very briefly. I squealed at Sally last about it night and stuff, it just didn't spring to mind this morning. I'm super excited, though! Dates are great, and I found the address of this great dim sum place in Chicago and it's built in an old building with gargoyles and stuff, it's cool. I'm excited."
point_b
"Awesome, dim sum. I do need an intersection or lat-and-long, not an address, to teleport there."
in-like-a
"And I got lat-long, yes, that's also a thing I did. At some point I'm going to find some tables I can memorize for envelope calculations, since needing latitude and longitude is a thing now." (She provides the relevant datas.)
point_b
And Bella puts them there (up a ways, in case the exact location would put them in traffic or something) and then down on the sidewalk a moment later.
in-like-a
The restaurant is in an old and pretty building, as advertised! Ariel holds the door theatrically.
in-like-a
(Ariel giggles delightedly!)
They get a seat quickly; Wednesday's not exactly peak operation, and this isn't a big place. Ariel makes some conversation with an elderly Chinese waitress who apparently remembers her from when she was knee-high to a grasshopper &c.
They get a seat quickly; Wednesday's not exactly peak operation, and this isn't a big place. Ariel makes some conversation with an elderly Chinese waitress who apparently remembers her from when she was knee-high to a grasshopper &c.
in-like-a
They are! Ariel has various other dim sums which are equally delicious and which she willingly shares.
The TV in the corner flashes a threatening red. "Warning! You are within! Fifty feet! Of a supervillain attack! Take cover as best you can! Help is on the way! Villain rating Ex! 2! En! 4! Codename: Firebrand!"
Most of the diners sigh and file towards a designated panic room in the back of the restaurant. Ariel, however, lights up. "Bella! D'you mind if I take this one, I'm deputized and all, I can totally take this! It's been, like, months since I got to thwart somebody!"
The TV in the corner flashes a threatening red. "Warning! You are within! Fifty feet! Of a supervillain attack! Take cover as best you can! Help is on the way! Villain rating Ex! 2! En! 4! Codename: Firebrand!"
Most of the diners sigh and file towards a designated panic room in the back of the restaurant. Ariel, however, lights up. "Bella! D'you mind if I take this one, I'm deputized and all, I can totally take this! It's been, like, months since I got to thwart somebody!"
point_b
Bella is frozen for one and a half seconds, then shakes herself and says, "Tell me where to put bystanders and go for it."
in-like-a
"Oh, uh, good idea. If she's got hostages, you should flicker them into the restaurant's panic room, it's a good one. You can follow me in, I'll attract all the attention. Oh, do you have... costume preferences, or anything, or should I just make you all blurry?"
point_b
"You don't know what a Junebug outfit looks like, can the magic cover for that?"