Post by Gohan on Sept 27, 2020 22:03:31 GMT -5
Yan: Planet/Octagon/Combat
Garou: Planet/Champ II
Garou: Planet/Champ II
Yan/Bulma/JuttersToday at 6:30 PM
Wait for me, she said. Don’t let go of me, she said. Witness my bodily changes, she said. All this was followed by Juturna saying, THIS IS GOING TO BE A WHILE...
Needless to say, Yan felt a little cranky. He’d gotten himself into a very comfortable position, and he felt very lazy, but that was a trap. If he let his mind idle, he’d think of the past few weeks and even further back trauma. He could not be trusted with his own thoughts, but there was one option.
He poked his head into the Astral Realm. He was expecting to find Kari again, as she seemed to keep popping up whenever he went somewhere random but the space was white and blank. No one else was here yet to give shape to the world. Was he destined to stay here alone as well? Then it began to shift, and his eyes narrowed. Who would it be?
GarouToday at 6:46 PM
Garou wasn't certain what exactly Android R's sudden change of heart stemmed from, but he was less than pleased to say the least. In the midst of their battle of Kelioux, he was once more forced to a retreat -- once more subjected to that shame. It would have been fair to say that things were not exactly going in his favor since the events of Valhalla.
Seeking a reprieve from the constant headache that was war, the Zoran raised a hand to his chest. A small amethyst hung from thin cords, hidden beneath the fraying fabric of his training outfit. The gateway to the astral realm opened within Garou's mind, time halting for his body as his consciousness transcended from the mortal coil. It took him to a blank space, and a face he had not seen in months.
"Yan?"
Yan/Bulma/JuttersToday at 6:51 PM
“Bush guy!” Yan replied immediately with all the cheerfulness in the world. The astral realm seemed to want to spite that however at the scene finally set itself to Kelioux. He heard about the recent battle there, or rather he was yelled at over the recent battle there. It all worked out in the end so he didn’t know what the big deal was, and had forgotten Garou’s place in it. Actually, the Zoran had been all over the place even fighting Barkley.
“I hear you’re having all sorts of fun,” Yan said instead though, still grinning. He was not the type to mourn over losses. His joy came from the battle itself and Garou was at least getting into plenty enough that he should be having fun here and there.
GarouToday at 6:59 PM
Excitable as always, Garou thought with a faint chuckle as the ginger's face brightened with his appearance. The empty space around them contorted and warped into an unfortunately familiar setting -- the craterous plains of Kelioux, the very thing he had come here to push from his mind. Whether an unfortunate coincidence, the result of his own psyche or Yan's, he couldn't be sure.
"That's one way of putting it," he replied coolly, wondering which of Garou's recent activities he referenced. "I'd ask how you've been, but I suspect the answer would just be business as usual to keep Damaskia safe, no?" There was no bitterness in his voice, despite the likelihood of Yan's direct influence over Garou's most recent defeat. He acted in the best interest of his army and his people -- that was respectable, at the very least.
Yan/Bulma/JuttersToday at 7:08 PM
“Well the Fallen invading Damaskia was a bit of a hiccup,” Yan admitted as he glanced around the setting. “Azazel was supposed to be Damaskia’s ally but it seems Chaos didn’t give two fucks about it—at least that’s what intelligence tells me. That certainly complicated matters,” he explained before looking back to him.
“I’ve mostly been up to other things though,” he said, smiling again before lifting his hand up to count off his fingers. “Built someone a heart, ruined someone’s entire psyche, got murdered, finally smashed a good friend...” he said, listing each like they all balanced perfectly towards each other in importance and none of them were a really big deal despite what they were.
“More interesting things, I think.”
GarouToday at 7:18 PM
"I see. There haven't been any more orders for Damaskia that I know of, if that's worth anything... I'll hope it stays that way, for the sake of fewer complications." Garou had always wondered why the Fallen even bothered approaching that planet in the first place. He knew little of intergalactic politics, but they were relatively isolated and didn't seem to want any part of the war -- why push them?
"More interesting things indeed. How'd you even fit that much excitement into just a few months?" Garou asked, almost rhetorically. Some people were forces of nature, always moving from one thing to the next -- judging by their first meeting and the incredible list of activities, the Wolf would've said Yan was definitely one of those types. He hesitated for a second, parsing one of the events that the ginger mentioned before asking with a legitimate concern, "murdered?"
Yan/Bulma/JuttersToday at 7:26 PM
“We stomped them pretty good. Originally we thought it was just some idiot trying to prove himself with a big victory, not realizing what he was actually getting into, but...” he said trailing off with a small shrug. Damaskian intelligence rarely lied. Better still when the Shadowguard was openly working with the Fallen at the time. There was no reason to even hide that it had been ordered. It did make Yan wonder if Chaos wasn’t just trying to flirt with him again, but that was another matter.
He merely grinned at the question until the man managed to get up the gumption to ask about the biggest of points.
“Aye, I ditched the Galactic War only to get assimilated six years later,” he told Garou, looking down to his hand like he could see the nanobots running around in there. A realization seemed to come to him then and he looked back to the Zoran with some worry, though it didn’t seem at all serious. “I wonder if that’s a sign this war is going to bite me back later too.”
GarouToday at 7:33 PM
White hair bounced back and forth as the Zoran nodded his head before returning the shrug. He wasn't told enough to know why they were moving as they did -- he was a soldier, and soldiers followed orders. The fact that he didn't actually care about any of the planets on his assignments made that all the easier.
"Assimilated?" He asked, following up again on Yan's strange explanation. Garou hadn't been involved in the Galactic War, still focused entirely on his own survival after the escape from Karinsys and Zora. Even so, it would've taken living under a rock to not understand the reference to the Steel Legion, a force of inorganics who had rampaged through the known systems and perhaps even still remained in worlds unknown.
"I can't imagine the fighting going on now not coming back to bite any and everyone involved, so at least you won't be alone there," Garou said with a grunt. "We all get what we deserve eventually."