The Curse of Day/Part1

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1st Day, 3:00 PM
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Mackenzie Hartley walked around Westopolis wearing a yellow jacket and dark blue-colored jean shorts. He seemed to be happy - he was smiling, humming a tune, and walking in a musical fashion. This might've been because he had black headphones on and was playing music from his MP3, but oh well.
Right behind him was a double-spiked blue hedgehog, shivering. She was wearing a silver vest and aqua-colored shorts. Patiently walking behind Mac, Alexia asked "So, where exactly are we going?"
Mac turned to face her, paused the music, and took off his headphones. "Listen, Aqua, I just want to walk around. Get used to the environment. We're staying here for a month, so I can't be able to walk around peacefully while you're shivering like crazy. You got me?" Alexia nodded, and they continued walking.
A few blocks away (still in westopolis) a hole opened in the sky, few saw it and no one stood around when two entities fell from it. Lee prower had invented a dimension traveling armour to hunt the second fighter, Azul. Azul, a blue energy being, slashed across Lee's chest "argggh!!!!!!" Lee doubled over, azul raised a claw above the hero, in it's stone cold voice came the words "now ends the Dryden."
One of the figures in the crowd that had gathered to see the fight pushed to the front, revealing himself to be Ice. He rushed towards Azul and fired an ice bolt at him, not bothering to ask who was good and who was bad. Meanwhile, a few people nearby were calling 911. The police realised they couldn't handle this and passed it on to other...more capable groups.
An echidna holding a very bulky tablet rushed past Mac and Alexia towards the fight scene. The echidna could be heard muttering under her breath, "...attacking here first? I would have thought that he would have waited longer to come here, unless he's really..." The echidna then went out of earshot.
While Alexia kept tapping Mac's shoulder, Mac seemed to ignore the fight. "Not today," he said, and they kept going.
Azul faced his newcoming threat and responded with a roar that sounded like boulders smashing together. Lee's heart was racing. So was his mind, the stranger had distracted azul. "Dt-1, disengage." His armor exploded off of him, knocking his opponent off balance. Using every bit of strength he could muster, Lee landed a kick in azuls chest. Azul staggered backwards "it appears this universe is teeming with heroes, Dryden, I will deal with you later." He said, turning around and slashing a rip in the air. He stepped through it, Lee collapsed, landing hard on his backpack. Deeply wounded, he sank into unconsciousness.
Ice picked up Lee's unconscious body. However, soon after soldiers arrived from Kable Enforcement, the private security force owned by Kable the Fox. Ice raced away before the soldiers see him, leaving Lee's body behind. The soldiers picked him up and took him to hospital.
The echidna with the tablet appeared at the site of the battle. "Darn, he got away!" she muttered, while quickly taking a picture of the battle scene. She then spotted Ice running away and ran after him. "Hey!" she yelled. "Have you seen any mysterious cloaked guys bent on taking over the world in the general vicinity?"
Alexia sighed while Mac smirked. "You're free to do whatever ya want, y'know-" Right after the word was spoken, she was off - where to was unknown to the Bengal tiger. Alexia followed the echidna, tapping her on the shoulder. "Um... I think he went into some type of portal. My friend would've sensed his energy signatures, but he was too busy doing nothing."
"Wake up, you fool." The voice rang darkly through his head. "Oh, hello onyx, any clue where we are?" Onyx was a demigod lee had fused to save his homeworld, their minds were linked and lee could communicate with him. His eyes opened, he was laying on a hospital bed, a tall female rabbit stood next to him. "Oh! You're awake! You took quite a beating earlier, we're all surprised you made it." He looked at his wound, it had mostly healed. "When can I leave? I was in the middle of something." The nurse glanced away from her clipboard "umm... Probably later today. Excuse me." She turned and walked out of the room. "Something's off...." Onyx said, only heard by him. He hopped out of his bed and strode to the wall and began concentrating. He was shifting everything into his hearing. At the moment, he was blind and dizzy. But it worked perfectly, he could hear the conversation going on the other side. "Are you sure about this? I feel terrible lying to him," the rabbit said. "He is under kable enforcement arrest, you have no say in this," a second masculine voice said. Lee pulled back his concentration, regaining all his senses. "Kable enforcement? So I'm not getting out later. Dt-1 do you copy?" Many stories down, a black backpack with three diamond shapes lit up and made a chirping sound. "Good." He carefully wrapped a bandage around his wound, wincing in pain upon contact with it. "Alright let's get out of here. Dt-1 engage." The backpack exploded into tiny pieces of black dust, flying through the ventilation shaft and forming the dt-1 armor around it's master. Lee blasted the wall with a vibration punch, rushing at the kable soilder and knocking him to the ground. He turned to the rabbit "I heard you, I don't hold you responsible for this." He dashed at the window, shattering it and falling.... Four stories down. He landed, cracking the asphalt below him.
A few Kable Enforcement soldiers saw Lee and ran towards him, although they did't raise their guns."Hey!" One of them shouted "Kable the Fox wants to talk to you!"
Meanwhile, at the site of Lee's arrival, Ice shook his head at the Echidna and rushed off.
The Echidna initially seemed to not notice Alexia or Ice, seemingly very engaged with typing on her tablet at incredible speeds. Alexia might have noticed that the echidna had shoulder-length, straight purple hair and was wearing a gray skirt suit, knee-high boots (also gray), and white gloves. Any other features were obscured by the tablet.
After typing for a few seconds, the echidna looked up as a few pieces of paper shot out of the side of her tablet. "So this guy makes portals...this is going to be tougher than I thought," she said, catching the papers. "Here, take this," she said, handing one of them to Alexia and throwing another one at where she expected Ice to be when the paper would have hit. Speaking very quickly, she said, "I need you to help me stop this guy, but I can't give you the details out in the open like this. These papers should tell you where to be when. Gotta go!" and darted in the opposite direction, once again very busy with her tablet.
In front of the hospital, a pink-and-orange anthropomorphic tortoise was plodding along as fast as she could. At times like these, she wished that she could use her Mentikinesis on herself, to move her mind into a faster body. Her best was good enough for now, though: she reached the black-suited figure crumpled in the ruin of the road at the same time as the soldiers did. "I don't know who you are," she said, shuffling until her bulk was between the injured person and the aggressive ones, "but if you try to hurt anyone, I'm going to call the police. In addition to the trauma he must have sustained from falling over thirty feet, I can tell even from here that he has a deep wound – it's bleeding through that bandage!" Turning to face the prone figure, trusting that her shell would protect her from the soldiers behind her, she said with her bedside calm, "My name is Padparadscha the Tortoise, but most people just call me Dr. Rasha. In a moment, you'll feel me relocating your mind somewhere more comfortable. As soon as we get your body inside and patched up, I'll put your mind back, okay?"
Meanwhile, Taglumo, the villain who had made himself known the previous night, was having a lot of fun with email. He had just posted his email address, tag@lumo.com, and was methodically sending randomly selected nonsensical replies to any uninteresting mail that he received. He had just sent "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA" in response to some piece of fan mail and "Eat cauliflower, bucketheads!" to a department store when a piece of email caught his eye. "Hmmm, who's this?" he pondered as he opened the interesting email.
It read,
"Dear Taglumo, while my friend was busy with some **** I don't give two breaths about, I took some time to think about what you said. Sol Emeralds are cool, but you don't know the extent of their power. Lemme help, and you'll be supreme ruler of every single dimensions there is. Or else, I'll just try to kill you for them ;)
Love, Mackenzie the Tiger, aka Mackhart14@fish.net"
The black figure turned to the tortoise "don't move my mind. I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but it's the only thing holding onyx back." He said in a filtered mechanical voice. the helmet slid open, showing orange fur and blue eyes. "I thank you for your concern, but I'll be fine. Now, if you'll excuse me. I have to check my suit's systems. " speed boost... Inoperative. Strength..... Inoperative. Flight.... Inoperative. Dimensional jump... Impossible. " the rest of his suit peeled off but still covered his left arm "fine, do what you want." He said to padparadshca.
Elsewhere, Kable the Fox also got one of Taglumo's emails. He too replied with the following email:
"Taglumo.
It appears we have similar intrests. Do you want to meet up some time to ally? Also, what the **** are these emails about? You're just filling up my spam folder.
Kable the Fox"
Above all this was the Kabletech banner that went on such emails.
Meanwhile, at the hopsital, the Kabletch guards look slightly surprised by Padparadscha.
"Er...miss?" One of them said "We don't want to attack him, we're here to keep him here. We're from Kable Enforcement and Kable the Fox wants to see him. We really don't get the jumping out of the window part..."
At the Kable Enforcement soldier’s reassurance, Padparadscha visibly relaxed. “Oh, thank the Bottom Tortoise!” she exclaimed. Then she twisted her head around to look at them. “Wait, did you say Kable the Fox? He’s one of my heroes! He does so much good…” She stared off into space dreamily for a moment. “Well, I just know he would want this poor fellow to get help, even if it meant postponing whatever meeting they have planned. Speaking of whom,” she turned back to Lee, “I do see that you have two minds in your body, now that you mention it – so fascinating! Anyway, I’ll relocate the mind you call Onyx first, if you prefer.” Not waiting for an answer, Padparadscha reached into her back pocket and produced two small stuffed animals, an orange fox and a lime-green flamingo. “This fox is my temporary body that’s closest to the one you have now, and I think this flamingo will do for Onyx. It rather suits the shape of his mind.” With that, she closed her eyes and began to focus, reaching out to tug on Onyx’s mind. If she succeeded, his mind would find itself hurtling into the verdant flamingo toy which the tortoise held in one hand.
Taglumo sent a follow-up email to both Mac and Kable, not noticing that he put both of their email addresses in the "Cc" field:
"Hello you person! I mean...er...people, because this is going to two people. Right, so... Hello you people! I appreciate your desire to help me, so meet me at 10:00 tonight at this spot:
(A screenshot of where he wants to meet Taglumo and Mac, along with a link to the appropriate website, appears at this point.)
So, like I said, meet me there, and we'll talk about how you're going to help me.
And to Kragle Cable Krable Kable the Box Fox: I did not mean to send you spam email, but if I sent it to you, please show me where your spam folder is so I can give it to someone else. Then we both win, right?
-- Taglumo"
Taglumo hit the send button with a smug expression on his face, which turned into an expression of boredom as he waited for a reply.
Getting the reply on his phone after the madness broke loose nearby, Mac simply replied with a smiley emote, taking note of the destination that Tag had put.
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0th Day: Alternate Sol Zone
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the sun was setting, it was skylor the blazewolf's favorite time of day. the magnificent view she had was just a mile or two from her residence ,she enjoyed merely living here. flyby prower and team rogue had helped her self-confidence but this place seemed to have a new challenge every day, from pirates to would-be treasure hunters. the sun had completely set now, and she began the dark walk home with plenty of time to think. "if only my parents......" she stopped herself mid thought "forget about them, your past doesn't make you who you are" the structure she lived in was on an island, the island was in the middle of a boundless ocean where she guarded the sol emeralds. about twenty minutes later she arrived at her home. her ears twitched, someone was inside."here we go again..." she said talking to absolutely no one. her hand hovered over a knife on her left side, skylor's preferred method of dealing with intruders. she could see a black figure for just a second, she yanked her blade from it's satchel and ran into the room. no one was there, nor was there any sign of someone being there. then she realized it, all seven of the emeralds were gone. she growled in a low voice.
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1st Day: Westopolis
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onyx was resisting padparadshca's pull, then he felt lee pushing as well. "you traitor!!!!!!!" he shouted, but it was futile, he had been moved. despite the two now being separated, they could still hear each other "and i thought being trapped in you was embarrassing"
The Kable Enforcement group was confused at what was happening.
"Look..." one of the guards said "Can we take him inside now? It kinda isn't a good idea to leave him out here..."
Meanwhile, Kable sighed as he told his secretary to cancel some meetings.
"Guess if anything, I can teach this guy what the heck an email is." He said.
Padparadscha’s transfer of Lee’s mind into the plush fox was made quick by Lee’s compliance, but by the time she was done, some of the other doctors had come outside. They brought Lee’s body indoors and settled him in a bland hospital room, not unlike the one he’d woken up in except for the fact that it was on the first floor, not the fourth. Lee couldn’t have seen what they did with his body after that, since Padparadscha took the Lee-fox and the Onyx-flamingo and put them on a window sill. They had a nice view of a bustling Westopolis street, and she talked to them all day.
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2nd Day, 9:00 AM
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When Padparadscha put Lee’s mind back into his body the next day, the doctors told him not to do anything too strenuous for the next couple of weeks and gave him a bottle of pain medication to be taken as needed. As a nurse pushed Lee out of the hospital in a wheelchair (the hospital staff were adamant that no patient walk out under their own power), Padparadscha said, “Oh, I almost forgot! Lee, do you want me to put Onyx’s mind back into your body? Or would you like to keep him here?” She pulled out the green flamingo, preparing to either hand it to Lee or move the mind in it, depending on his answer.
Skylor felt something cold and wet hit her, shocking her awake. A stranger sat a few feet away from her clutching a empty water bottle "you been asleep for a good bit, figured you should be good by now." He said. She sat herself up and began straightening events out in her head, the last thing she remembered was the Sol emeralds missing then White. Nothing but white. She noticed the stranger was attempting to light a fire "please, allow me" she stuck her hand into the pile of paper and wood, then snapped, causing it to burst into flames. The stranger's eyes widened "youse is one of those special people with powers, isn't you?" Skylor realized the stranger was a homeless person and she underneath a bridge "I suppose...." She replied ,the beggar continued "yeah, they show up from time to time, guess it's the city. Actually, there was one just yesterday. Said he was looking for something called the ...Sol emeralds, I think." Skylor immediately started talking "THE SOL EMERALDS?!!?" She screamed, then thanked the stranger and dashed towards westopolis.
"Let's put him back, it's safer that way." Lee said.
After Padparadscha moved Onyx's mind into Lee, the echidna reporter found Lee and Padparadscha and gave them papers of the same sort that she had given to Alexia and Ice. She then found Skylor and gave her a similar paper...
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