The scene unfreezes for some and those who can, blink in surprise
at the sight before them....
"Okay, I guess the nest thing we're going to have to look out for is
green radiation from outer space?" Frank Marn mutters, blinking at one
of the newcomers to this room.
"Huh?" Jake asks, glancing over at Marn, not familiar with the movie
Heavy
Metal because he was too young to see such a movie AND.....this adult
cartoon movie hadn't ever been made in his reality.
I'd like to echo that, kid! Eddie adds, staring at the people
before them, some of them rather short....with features of a fox thrown
in, I swear, with all this insanity with this Stephen King crap and
all this other luney toon stuff, I'd not be surprised to see Elmer Fudd
running around with a bloody axe screaming "Wed Wum! Wed Wum!!"
The one who looks like James Dean done up as a biker smiles a little,
seeming to overhear Eddie's thought.
Interesting idea, but a bit over the top, actually....and I fear
what the final result of what an insane Elmer would do with that ax, alas.
a stray thought seems to drift through the former drug addict's mind. Eddie
blinks, knowing that as the James Dean type nods.....that this Agent
of Chaos (a term that pops into Eddie's mind from somewhere) is the
thoughts source.
"You're....from the Dark Tower, aren't you." Roland of Gilead whispers,
looking at two of the more mundane (but somehow more......awe inspiring)
members of the group. It wasn't a question. He knew that they were, not
knowing how he knew it (he had a knack at that stuff), but knowing
it was true. It stemmed in part to the fact that Roland was a bit psychic
(amongst other things).
"Yes, and we look forward to greeting you once you finally arrive,"
the grey suited (and skinned) man of the odd group answers, smiling a small
smile, "We'd take you and your friends directly, but at least we could
aid you by sending our Champions."
"Pardon me for interrupting," the Doctor (the holographic one, not the
one dressed like the Phantom of the Opera, sans mask) finally manages to
ask, perplexed. "But who are you all and what is this Dark Tower?"
"I am Rule 1 and this is my counterpart, Agent 1." the Rule says simply,
gesturing over (and up) at the James Dean type, "And as for the rest.....our
fox tailed friends and Roland will be able to answer the rest."
The rule gestures at the family of kitsune (a term that came to all
the others mind....though not all knew exactly what a kitsune was)
and over at the still frozen demifox apprentice mage, Solomon.
"We've almost been here overlong, alas." Agent 1 sighs.
With those last words, the two figures fade. And with a shout Lady Joshine's
missing memories pop back into her head.....and Frank Marn sighs, almost
feeling like a heavy weight was lifted from his shoulder. Frank would later
find out that the "Chaos Energy" that he'd been cursed with was now gone
(and good riddence)! Frankly, Frank had found it nothing but trouble (an
opinion somewhat influenced by his nearly falling to his death upon being
ejected thousands of feet into the air earlier this morning, by his reckoning).
And so the Doctor (the EMH one) and the others of his group learn of
many things after Roland and the others calm the situation between the
aghast Dragon Synizn and Queen Astra (after all, the situation had been
strange enough to shock the Dragon Mage into acting the way he'd acted)..
The Time Lord and his friends join in on this. They learn that the
female kitsune (the Vixen....or just Vix to her friends) had made
that call to this TARDIS from the earlier version, at the Rule's
bequest, and got the other Doctor's attention. They learned of the
kitsune, who and what the were.....and had been (how the elder kitsune
had come into possession of their bodies....through a process they couldn't
have stopped). Why they had a thief to Crystallic of their world
stolen from their Synizn (which had turned out so disastrously later
on). The kitsune looked surprise that their story (as true as it was) was
believed. But they soon found out that since the Rule and Agent thought
so good of them that they'd offer them a chance to become Champions said
something good about them. That was later. They learned that the kitsune,
like the demifox mage apprentice, Solomon, was going to try to help those
of this world adjust the best they could to magic..... They learned that
the holo-Doctor was already familiar with the idea of fiction imitating
life and life imitating fiction (he'd learned that much when the Voyager's
crew first found Scott Chen so long ago). The others learned also that
the holo-Doctor had something of a large ego when he almost preened in
pleasure when Betty and Ragan told him about him being one of the two favorite
characters from that TV show...... They learned, theorized about the nature
of reality (about how the universes seemed to be rather near each other
for the author's mind's being able to dreamed up the various stories of
fiction....that weren't so fictional after all), and said much before they
parted ways. Much knowledge was imparted, all in the matter of minutes
(though it took several hours....much to the confusion of the EMH.....some
type of time dialation had taken place around Roland during this
"palavaring"). Seems that such happens and was ordinary for him and those
of his world....and he still carried it around him like a cloak....even
though he now walked through other world.....other than this....
The TARDIS grind out of existence (off to where New York city would
havesomeday stood) as the others watch, and William Walker groans softly
from the spot he still lays, broken and bleeding. The Doctor blinks and
rushed over to Walker, having overlooked the injured man before (not having
spotted him intitially).
The holo-Doctor would later on have bouts of what he'd call shivers
when he'd think about that stuff he'd learned about.....
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 Right now,
however, the police force of Nantucket as arrived on the scene....and are
shocked at the mess!
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