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[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

Okay. So apparently we're all caught in a timewarp here, which is why my penthouse no longer exists.

This is not much of a problem.

The problem is every time I try to use a Gate back to Earth P3/P4, I end up either somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with demons, or the Tokugawa Shogunate. If this is permanent (again), I'm going to be pretty upset.

[Action]

[While complaining about this, Souji is wandering the grounds. In particular, he's looking for anyone who's been de-aged to calm them down and, hopefully, corral them somewhere safe. So, kidlets, feel free to bother/run from the authority figure.]

Comments

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

That's a meaningless question here, but 2027 on my version of Earth. How about for you?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

...Two oh twelve.

I THOUGHT so. How'd you get to grow up though?

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

...by letting my cells oxidize and not dying when I'm killed? What do you mean?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

You're... awake.

(This is so obviously weird to her that she isn't elaborating.)

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

...you're from Earth-BS, aren't you?

...


...Anna?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

It's BS all ri- HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME!?

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

First thing you're going to have to accept here is time travel. I know you well enough that you're going to say I'm full of shit, but come up with another explanation.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

(...She thinks about this...)

...Fuck you. I can't.

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

Not while you're in middle school, that's for damn sure.

Long story short, time got fractured while you were in a kind of dimensional nexus - one you'd been staying in for a while, actually. All of a sudden, you're however old you are now instead of...well, you were kind of creatively cheating aging, but at least 18.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

I'm not in school at all no-

Oh, I get it. It wasn't an offer.

(Pushing those buttons was a lot less scary than thinking about what he was saying, that's for damn sure...)

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

In four or five years, you'll have a much better sense of humor.

For now, though, I need to get all the confused kids around here somewhere safe. Are you one of those people who learned how to fight at like 11?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

(In response, she wordlessly draws a .22 caliber pistol - pointing the barrel AWAY from anything fleshy and full of blood.)

[punches-fog.livejournal.com]

Right. You can help me protect the younger kids. That okay with you?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Sheyah, that's pretty much what I've been doing.

("From all the other teenage gangs.")