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[stonewall]

Light! [ Sure hope you wanted one (1) two meter tall guy shouting over the network today, Exsilium, because you're going to get it. Snow shakes his tablet a few times for emphasis, yelling into his surroundings as much as the screen itself. ] Vanille! Fang! Hope! Sazh! C'mon, someone answer...

[ Well, scratch that. He rubs the back of his head for a moment, before setting the tablet down and turning away. ]

I'm gonna need some help here... Ladies! Mind lendin' me a hand?

[ The feed catches the summoning of said ladies, though the pair are onscreen only a moment before transforming into a motorbike which Snow gleefully leaps aboard. He gives a heroic thumbs-up pose to the tablet before snatching it back up, tossing the (still transmitting) thing into a coat pocket. ]

Haha, alright! Let's get this show on the road!

[It's not long before something else is heard in the distance, a sound akin to a low rumble, or perhaps a growl.

It's all but confirmed when that growl becomes a roar, and a little later, a voice that might be familiar to some speaks up:]

I'll take the sky! We'll cover more ground that way. [Fang adds, in a mutter:] They've gotta be around here somewhere. No way we all could've been separated that quickly...there's something else going on.

[ ooc; TL;DR IF YOU EVER WANTED TO BE ACCOSTED BY A GIANT MAN ON A LESBIAN MOTORCYCLE OR AN ATTRACTIVE LADY ON A DRAGON today is your lucky day because they will be hitting up everyone they come across in addition to answering the network. Tags will come from both in separate threads! ]

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[stonewall]

[ Good call, Hope, because he's flooring it. ]

Yeah! [ Any random NPCs standing behind them totally just got covered in a shower of ice, whoops. Snow roars down the street for a moment, before slowing to a more comfortable pace and casually talking over his shoulder as if he isn't trying to drive at the same time. ] So how you been? Hope you haven't been getting in too much trouble without me.

[endured]

( he's grateful at least as the pace slows down, breathing out a sigh of relief. )

I've been fine despite how weird this place is, but shouldn't I be asking you that?

[stonewall]

What, you don't think I can handle myself?

[ He's got this, okay. That's exactly why he almost crashes into a civilian before dodging at the last moment; carrying on without a second thought. ]

Guess we'll find out about the others soon enough. [ He grins. ] Keep an eye out for scared lookin' people and we might just find Light.

[endured]

I trust you to handle yourself, but getting in trouble is something completely different.

( case and point. )

I think we might have a better chance of finding Vanille before Light, she's bound to have made friends with everyone.

[stonewall]

[ Excuse you Snow is a Responsible Adult. Give him a moment to laugh, though, because that really does sound exactly like Vanille. ]

And the old man's probably holed up somewhere complaining about his luck. [ SORRY SAZH. ] But we gotta keep looking anyway. Fang's got the sky covered, so it's up to us to do the ground work.

[endured]

( biggest man child, you mean. )

Knowing Sazh? Probably, or about how he's to old for all of this. ( WE LOVE YOU SAZH. ) At least this place seems easier to get around than Eden.

[stonewall]

[ Shhhh. ]

Well, nobody here's trying to kill us. [ Give it some time, Snow... ] Can't say I wasn't looking forward to showing the fal'Cie a thing or two, though. Guess it'll have to wait.

[endured]

Yeah, it's kind of nice. No giant turtles either.

You know, Snow... I, um, I heard something weird when I first got here.

[stonewall]

[ Hey the turtles were a fun challenge... with a tendency to leave l'Cie flavored pancakes behind on the landscape. ]

Don't keep it to yourself, kiddo. We haven't got all day. [ Well technically they do but. ]

[endured]

( yeah, because not everyone can use steel guard. )

Someone said I had been here before, and that... well, I was a lot older than I am now.

[stonewall]

Hey, that's great! You should have asked 'em what your future self was like. [ SORRY HOPE just kind of assuming they mistook someone else for you since ha ha time travel right. ]

[endured]

You... don't believe him, huh? ( yeah, let's just ignore everything happening right now huh. ) I guess it is kind of weird to think about.

Anyway! He said that Vanille and Light were both here before too.

[stonewall]

Well, some kinda proof would be nice. [ But woah hold on. ] How long ago are we talkin'?

[endured]

I guess. ( he can't imagine why someone would lie about something like this, but at the same time... ) A few months, at least.

[stonewall]

[ Blink. Blink. ]

There's no way it's been that long. [ He'd buy a few hours - a day, tops - but months? This hero is now confused as hell. ]

[endured]

Apparently it's normal here. ( said a bit strained, because what in their lives is really normal anymore. ) People appear and disappear from here all the time with their friends and family at home being none the wiser to them being gone.

[stonewall]

[ Okay, just give him a minute to process this and come up with an incredibly intelligent response. ]

Huh. [ Bam. ] Maybe they weren't kiddin' about the older you, then. Does that mean everything at home's just gonna wait quietly for us to get back?

[endured]

Maybe. If it's true, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered. ( hmmm. ) I don't know, I hope not. It's not like we have all the time in the world right now...

[stonewall]

You're thinkin' about our brands, huh? [ Honestly, he hasn't even thought to check since he got here. It doesn't look like it's opened any further, but then, it's only been a day. ] Maybe these guys can do something about it. They wouldn't bring us here just to let that happen.

[ Not... that Snow has any idea what, but it's not easy to be reassuring. He shrugs. ]

Besides, if that guy was tellin' the truth, then we get through this just fine. Your future self is pretty good proof. [ They wouldn't want to cause a time paradox right that's what the sequel is for ]

[endured]

Kind of hard not to think about them. ( he can only glance at his own for a brief moment, there didn't seem to be any change but would it last? ) You might be right, they were able to do something like bring us here after all. Even if they say it was an accident, they must be capable of doing something.

( a beat. ) Yeah, but that brings up a whole lot of different questions. I'd rather not think about it anyway, we have the others to find first.

[stonewall]

Yeah, you're right. There's nothing the six of us can't figure out together!

[ FISTPUMP oh wait he's still driving, don't mind that sudden change of direction. It's all good now. ]

All else fails, I'll go ask 'em myself. If they want us to help out, they've gotta be prepared to answer a few questions.