After "Devotion" / The Mother of Beasts

[brought_it_back]

1.[After everything that happened on the last mission, Eva is worn out. So she's sitting on a chair out in the hangar, looking up at the Tern and gathering herself. Her hands are quietly shaking.]

...


2.[Night finds you walking the halls of Alahambra base-but it's wrong. Windows are shattered, lights flicker, and there's dirt everywhere. The place is familiar but not, looking exactly like the base might if it'd been abandoned for five or ten years. Nobody else is around.

-Until a teenage girl drops out of the ceiling right in front of your face.]


Boo!

((If it's not obvious, this prompt takes place in a dream sequence. Feel free to tag both with the same characters.))

Comments

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[herodrawing]

Ah! A ghost?! What the hell, a monst...



...

Wait a second.

[Izuru comments from the floor level, as the surprise made him fall on his butt.]

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[ghost_mom]

Why, it's none other than-
[The girl drops from the ceiling, strikes a JUSTICE POSE, and is backlit by a pink explosion in the shape of a heart.]

The super-S Class Pedantic Blue Psychic, Samantha Barton!

Pleased to meet'cha!

[herodrawing]

The pose...!

[It doesn't take much for Izuru to enter hero-like stuff appreciation mode.]

That sounds familiar... but hey, how did you get here, anyway?

[ghost_mom]

I got 'here' through my mysterious supernatural powers! Here being a dreamworld constructed through your memories of...wherever we are.

If my name sounds familiar, perhaps you've met my daughter? Short hair, doesn't know how to handle herself around people, kind of gloomy? I'm trying to hear about how she's doing from her friends.

[herodrawing]

So I'm asleep? I see... wait.

You're Eva's mom?

[Something doesn't add up here.]

2)

[in_over_his_head]

... Well this is different.

[Usually these sort of dreams tended to hearken back to some of his... worse investigations. That and they were a lot less lucid as well, though it could possibly get more surreal within moments.]

Hello to you too.

Re: 2)

[ghost_mom]

Oh, you're no fun.

[She drops from the ceiling, and stands in the middle of the hallway.]

So. You're working with the Unity Group, right?

[in_over_his_head]

I am.

[Calvin squints a little. Something about this person seems a little familiar. Similar to someone but he just can't place it. He has to remember to be careful not to give too much away.]

The question here is though, who are you?

[ghost_mom]

Just an ordinary psychic...passing through. [She flips her hair, which flutters dramatically in a sudden indoor breeze from nowhere. And then a moment later Samantha's close enough for her nose to practically be touching

Say, say, do you know my daughter at all? She's a real gloomy sort, always being like 'I must complete my duty' and so forth.

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[cloningblues]

Eva? You wanted to talk to me?

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[brought_it_back]

Huh? Oh, yes...

[Her hands stop shaking.]

...A lot happened today, didn't it.

[cloningblues]

Yeah. It's like everyone decided to go crazy at once.

[brought_it_back]

Yes...Freddy got away, but...I'm glad to be back.

...Um...Asagi, there is a thing I would like to try with you, if you would allow it.

I just need you to close your eyes for a bit.

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[keep_your_dignity]

[The fact that she was floating around outside her armor without an explanation in such an atmosphere quickly clued Kagura in that this couldn't be real. Something was up. And given her previous experiences in nonreal mindscapes... the chances that this was a good thing looked slim.

So when the girl appears from the ceiling, the fairy's paranoia is running full throttle, and the psychic is greeted by the tiny Mistletoe backing off in a swift movement and staring at her with hostile, green glowing eyes. Sparks crackle around her.]

Who are you and what the hell are you doing in my head?

[And Mrs Barton gets to be the first person in the game to hear Kagura speak, even if inside her own mind. She has the kind of childish, high-pitched voice you'd expect in something eighteen centimeters tall that looks like a doll, too - though with an undertone of hostility that seems to clash entirely with it. Kagura's mind is her sanctum, and someone breaching it really scares her and makes her really angry.]

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[ghost_mom]

[Samantha drops from the ceiling, flips once, and is backlit by a bright light!]

-The world's ultimate ESPer, Pedantic Blue's greatest success, the woman who has surpassed both god and devil, Samantha Barton!

[The light cuts out.]



Relax, I'm almost definitely not gonna eat your brain. I just want to talk.

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[keep_your_dignity]

Yeah, you'll excuse me if I don't simply believe you.

[Kagura keeps her distance. She does not have the psychic power of the esper, but it has to be given to her, she definitely has presence of mind - and there's something else inside this head that Kagura herself is not aware of, something powerful and glowing that only enhances her anger]

Now. What do you want.

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[ghost_mom]

Awwww, don't be so grumpy, miss fairy! You've got to turn that frown...upside down!

But, seriously, lighten up. I'm just asking around about my daughter, Eva? You probably know her. I talk to her a lot, so I figure I should talk to some of her friends, too.

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[spearpunch]

[At first Hibiki had just thought maybe this was a nightmare or something. But then-]

AH!

[The relic user falls back right on her butt -which is her cute point- staring for a moment. And THEN-]

AH!

You're not wearing suction cups!

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[ghost_mom]

That's because I'm magic!

[Samantha drops from the ceiling, catches herself on a single extended finger, then pushes off with it back into a standing position. She extends one finger to the ceiling, and a light like the sun shines from the tip of her finger.]

...Walking the path of hell, the woman who will rule over everything. Samantha, Barton.

[That moment of seriousness done, she just smiles brightly at Hibiki.]

So, what's your name?

[spearpunch]

A-ah, well I'm Hibiki...

[Hibiki really is starting to get confused about all of this, but hey! She knows a Barton person too!]

Would you be related to Eva?

[ghost_mom]

Yep yep yeppers! I'm her mom!

[That got her excited.]

Say, say, she hasn't been too gloomy, has she? I hear she has a lot of friends now, but she's always so serious when I say hi...

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[itbelongsinamuseum]

[And in what had practically become a ritual by then, Eva finds herself handed a can of coffee by Alex who had walked up next to her sipping her own.]

How are you doing?

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[brought_it_back]

Nervous...but better. There are a lot of things I still don't understand, or am worried about...

...But, I feel like...I've found a place where I belong.

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[itbelongsinamuseum]

[Alex nods, taking a sip from her coffee before continuing.]

Right. Unity Group is that for a lot of people. And if anybody tries to destroy it for you, I'll do what I can to stop them. I think everyone here will. And for the rest, we'll just have to figure it out.

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[brought_it_back]

Yes...Something like that. Not like Ilinka, but...well, I like it here.

[Eva sips her coffee as well.]

...It helped a lot, having you there. Thank you for standing with me.