The Greatest Show

[cuteandinnocentpet]

[The events of the last couple days must be taking its toll on you, Strangers. You did fight a giant snake lady after all and one with Composer powers which is no easy feat if those from the Mall can testify. And yet, there feels to be both a lull and quiet but also something on edge.

The intense feeling can almost be overwhelming.

But with this over your heads, something comes to visit you all. No matter where you are at, a Kyuubey comes to you.]

Oh, there you are! I didn't know if this interests you but that one satellite with the large screen is sending a transmission. [It points and blinks--wait, blinks? towards Cancelled and scampers off. It's hard to tell but some may think this one as the one little rat who made a certain delivery by being rather polite.

If you decide to follow it to Cancelled, the creature will be seated in one of the many seats and looking at the large screen blasting something out...wait a minute, don't those people look familiar?

Take a seat, Strangers. Watch the show...it's supposed to be a real blast.]

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TAKE OFF

[7_0_7]

[Once the commotion has died down a little and everyone has made it to their respective ships, it's time to go. Seven leans out his car, looking behind him at the EPCOT.]

We're blasting off now! Halley will follow me to the checkpoint with the living. Anyone has song requests for the trip over, yell them over now! And be sure to pick up a phone from the ship if you want to stay in touch with us after all is done~

[IS THIS REALLY THE TIME TO PLUG THE CHATROOM APP. APPARENTLY SO. In any case, the flying car will take its position in front of the EPCOT and then zoom off into the void.... it's very fast and flashy. He is 100% just here to show off, isn't he]

[ichbindereinzelganger]

[S I G H]

Activating Imagination and code algorithms to allow for plane shift and body reconstruction...

...

Does anyone here was to stay dead?

[She is an athiest why her.]

[icanhearscreams]

[You know, he would have, but -]

[Well. Recent events.]

[So he's good.]

[touchsensors]

If they do, they're wrong-lun.

[Being dead sucks and nobody should want it.]

[beguiledcard]

[ I mean... when it means you don't have to die again in a few years...............

Sometimes wanting it is for a good reason . . . :') ]

[narcoolepsysensei]

...

Not particularly.

[He made that choice by coming aboard. If he wanted to stay dead, he would have just stayed put.]

[byanyother_name]

[Kurama and Akira both raise their hands. In point of fact, Akira has a pair of stenciled Reaper wings he didn't before. Kurama is possibly bad at saying no to his boyfriend.

It's okay, Halley, even working for God doesn't mean you have to believe in him.]

Well, the van was playing "Don't Fear The Reaper".

[That's to Seven, of course.]

[ichbindereinzelganger]

...Very well.

[ugh stupid cowbell]

[7_0_7]

[...snrk.]

Every afterlife needs its leitmotif. I understand!

[illusionarymelody]

Definitely not.

[And hopefully they can get old powers back too.]

[zackthekiller]

HELL NO! And can ya give us our old powers back while you're at it?

[touchsensors]

Lun!

[backuphero]

However you're doing this, it doesn't mean I'm suddenly getting my tonsils and appendix back, does it?

[His priorities are questionable, maybe, but he's read enough pulp magazines with rocketships on the cover to wonder!

...okay and he'd miss all of his scars if he just got a blank slate that matched his looks and blood type, truth be told, but there's some things you don't admit to out loud.]

[zackthekiller]

[ Zack's just gonna pick up a phone but he has some questions. ]

HEY, DOES THIS THING HAVE TEXT TO CHAT OR WHATEVER?!

[touchsensors]

Oyo. [Lala just grabs at the phone to set it up.]

[7_0_7]

The phone is set to turn on voice mode if you say 'meow!'

[hexposition]

[Emma will tentatively pick up a phone.]

Not unlike an ARCUS...

[Fascinating. You can see the nerd joy sparkling in her eyes, if you look.]

[7_0_7]

[ah yes the ARCUS. He'd definitely reverse engineer one of those if he had time, but not to hand out to everyone, that's their own business]

Play with the apps if you get a chance! The HELP menu is still functional!

[Well, that sure looks exactly like the cat people pictured, not that Emma was one of them.]

[notthebreakman]

[Despite being a marvel of robotics technology and engineering, Proto doesn't come with interdimensional communication capabilities built in. So he'll grab a phone as well and start making notes on how to keep it charged.]

Does it automatically sync up everyone's contact lists, or will we need to do that manually?

[7_0_7]

There's a main chat room, if you want to add each other that's fine too!

[As for the chatroom, it basically looks exactly like LINE, while DMs are a black screen. You can also profile pages with a big image and some status text, and those are lined up in a scrolling banner at the top of the app.]

AND HERE...WE...GO

[strangerpeople]

[The cowbell echoes through the air as the car soars, the mini-EPCOT behind it.

They moved none too soon. A few minutes after they have lifted off, the last of the static-and the power that held the barrier that was keeping them in-screams. It rages and writhes, but it is pitiful, and both car and EPCOT manage to push through the barrier easily, just as they had before.

With a flash of bright light, they are accelerating and off, and soon, they are flying through more blackness. But this blackness is different. It is chaos, yes, but there is no real motive behind it. No hatred, no cruelty. It just is.

It is the darkness between the clusters.

All of the Strangers, whether they chose to stay dead or to return to life, will feel themselves tingle, just momentarily. And then, they feel it. Lightness. It is the first time in months for some, that they feel this way. That they feel free.

The Mansion dead-and-now-living, meanwhile, will find this extends to those headaches, as well as those who died in the City, who don't have them. Suddenly, their minds are clear, and like clouds parting to reveal sunshine, the corrupted memories dissipate. The truth rights and restores itself to their brains. It may be a relief. Perhaps it won't be. But it will feel different, better, even with the bad memories.

As for those who died on the train, well.

Those on the mini-EPCOT might notice something as they sift through the bar for munchies.]

[backuphero]

[Not that he died in Horrible Space England, but Jonathan is looking (a little desperately) for ginger ale at the bar. What might be be noticing, exactly, if he's having no luck with Vernor's or Seagram's?]

[icanhearscreams]

[Jun drops the candy bar he was holding and slumps against the seat, breathing hard as he feels the memories return to him in their correct form.]

[And that... changes a lot. Not Waku's fate, and shooting instead of stabbing changes a little, but -]

[But Machi really is - was -]

[... He's going to need some time to process this.]

[alwaysgonnatry]

[ When it happens? When her memories right themselves properly?

Akko's eyes go wide only moments before she smiles, though she's also kind of crying too. Not sad tears, but ones coming more out of happiness because some things she's had at the back of her mind are fully cleared up. Also she won't be going too far from Jun at any point, either. ]

[hexposition]

[With her mind clear, Emma just kind of slumps into her seat as well, her eyes wide.

And they stay wide for a moment before her mouth finally forms a smile, and her eyes well up.



Rean was alive when she last saw him. And that's not confirmation he's okay, but if Emma's learned anything recently, it's hope.

She believes in Rean, believes in her friends. They're going to be okay.

She's going to be okay.



It's not bad to start crying if those tears are in relief, is it?]