mayfield_rpg | event: portal three

The third portal is not what you expect.

It's found in the middle of the Greased Lightning auto garage in the center of one of the building's walls. The drone workers in the garage don't look at or speak of it, but they seem to be avoiding its presence.

From what you can see in the garage, the portal opens up into what seems like the interior of a train's carriage, or first-class seating on an airline. You can see down what seems to be a large, impossibly miles-long aisle, with floors and seats made of luxurious red carpeting. From where you're standing, you can see the arms and legs of the people sitting in those seats, and in some cases the backs of their heads. They're all very well-dressed, and seem pretty lively, although you can't hear anything from this side of the portal.

Upon stepping through, other than the same tingle felt by the other portals, a few other sensations may hit you. The first, and most jarring, is the sense of vertigo caused by suddenly being hundreds of feet above sea level. If your ears pop, that would be why. The second is the smell of delicious food wafting into your nostrils; the supper trolley must be getting close.

The third, and a little less pleasant, is a faint buzzing in the back of your head that will be more than a little familiar to anybody who visited the carnival. Glancing around the cabin, you may notice the same holes that littered the sky back at the carnival: pockets of pure nothing, each about the size of a dinner plate, are scattered here and there across the aisle. Looking at them for more than a few seconds hurts your eyes as well as your mind.

It is while glancing around the cabin that you may notice two things. The first is the windows of the cabin, outside of which you can see the surroundings of your vehicle. It's neither a train nor an airplane: it's a blimp, bigger than any you've ever seen. Above your window you can see the bottom of the great balloon your cabin is attached to. Below, you can see the ocean, and ahead on the horizon, land. It seems the airship you're aboard is headed straight for a large metropolis on the coastline.

The second thing you might notice, now that you're close enough to see them, is the fact that none of your fellow passengers have faces. Their bodies are moving, shifting positions and gesticulating as if they're talking to each other, but no noise emerges from the patch of skin where their mouths would have been. The same goes for everyone occupying the seats down the aisle, which stretches further than you can see. Even when you poke and prod at them, the faceless passengers don't seem to notice your presence- yet.

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[Shoutaro steadies himself.]

Trying to get there on foot isn't going to work for long. We might have to jump for it.

[He knew his jump might make it easily. He wasn't sure about hers.]

Hold on tight, kay?

Mmmn! [She was a Precure, jumping pretty high and far's their thing. Though the big difference here is how far a Precure can jump and how far a Rider can. Right now, she's going to put her trust into Shou, hanging on tight.]

I'm ready! Go for it!

Right. If we go off-balance, leap away. I'll recover from there.

[Shoutaro'll take a quick survey of the tilt of the blimp and put heavy amounts of energy into his jump. And away they go!]

[Once back inside the blimp, they would find a faceless drone in a maintenance worker's clothes. He is wielding a mop sharpened to a spike, which he is attempting to stab them with.]

[Rin reacted immediately, moving to guard her friends while firing off one of her strongest attacks which would result in a massive ball of flames slamming into it and hopefully throwing the drone across the room.]

Precure Fire Strike!

[While Rin makes the attack, Nozomi's going to make a break for it. She'll protect the item with her life it need be. If it'll get them home, then all for it!]

C'mon!

Right.

[He'll chase after Nozomi, ready and willing to knock any drone in front of him through the blimp's walls.]

[There's a veritable wall of them. They are attacking in silent frenzy, using everything from cutlery to furniture.]

[Rin didn't even bother calling out her attack, simply firing a dozen explosive spheres to blast the opponents.] Out of our way!

[Nozomi wished she could have swapped over to the other set of powers she gained. They could of helped out right now. Instead, she's going to power through, enhanced strength pummeling the wall of drones attacking.]

Sorry! Didn't mean to! It's for a reason!

[Shoutaro is just as inclined, taking out any drones within reach. Though, he's not apologizing.]

You guys are worse than Masquerades...

[Still, he'll move forward...]

[They only have another minute or so before the blimp crashes, they need to get through the portal.]

[Rin can probably see the portal from her point as she bashes a drone into the wall. They're not really dangerous to her, not even with them armed with stuff. But still...

And leaping as high as she could go, she fired off a salvo of Fire Strikes into the crowd, aiming to scatter the drones everywhere.]

Then, grabbing Shou and Nozomi by the hand, she made to HURL them across the room towards the portal.] GO! I'll hold them off!

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[Seeing the portal, Nozomi made a quick decision, shifting from her old set of powers to her new ones. Just in time, too, as Rin made her move to toss her and Shou through the portal.]

NO!

[Using her momentum, she held tight to Rin, dropping to the ground and launching her towards the portal. Her fellow Precure will see why as she brings her arms crossed over her chest, then outstretched.]

PRECURE STARLIGHT DROP!

[A split second later, Nozomi launches herself forward, arms crossed in front of her face and the jewelery box clinging tight in her hands, a pink energy battering ram clearing the way through their opponents to get her and her friends out!]

[Shoutaro'll grin. These girls were too much. They were actively competing in saving each other, at least in his eyes. But he'll move his eyes to the exit, still blocked by a few drones.]

Can't let myself go without my own flair. Rider...kick.

[Even withiut the Maximum Drive to boost it, he'll fly at the drones, leg outstretched, as much energy as he can produce radiating from it.]

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