The Station

**The Station** is the seventh installment and finale of the *Well Versed* series on *Another Bad Side Quest*. Sybil and her patron God Clairyon try not to kill each other as they learn about strange happenings in the universe around them.

## The Station

### **Synopsis**

Last we saw of Sybil, she, along with fellow heist-mate Kavix, were heading to the Feywild for their reward, but as she passed through the portal found his voice had decreased in volume until she found herself alone, in the void of space alone (well, presuming she was alone as she was blind) and losing air. Sybil attempted to pray to Clairyon for help, in spite she had told her goodbye, and Clairyon recieved the staticky message and, assuming it was Sybil as she was the only one to contact her, asked what was that. Sybil asked her to get her as there was no floor there with the message only getting garbled with each time until she finally went unconscious.

Clairyon, still in their godly cubicle and realizing her only follower was likely in trouble, said they would kill them as they headed to where Sybil was. She passed the other deities complaining before she headed to the transportation station, but realised she didn't know her specific location. She quickly used a nearby console to find her and eventually found a vague signal from her location, but realized it was far from the last recent location she knew she was at. She muttered that was what she got from going in strange portals before she set the transporter to the location in space, activated it, but unlike other times when it runs slow or slightly stings, found she was in a lot of pain going through it and eventually arrived a mile from Sybil's signal.

Clairyon leisurely swam in the direction of the signal and found her body. Meanwhile Sybil dreamed of retirement, drinking on the sand and no voices in her head. As Clairyon conjured a bubble around Sybil and tried to rouse her Sybil's dream altered as her dream butler started poking her and finally rousing her to consciousness. Clairyon said hi, to Sybil's displeasure, and joked this was what the Feywild was like before pointing out she was the one who called her. Sybil noted she was desperate before wandering where she was and Clairyon said in space. After conversing how they hated each other and would miss the other if they were gone, Clairyon, realizing he had no way to get them back, asked if she knew a way to get back and Sybil said they didn't. They both realized with their divination magic they could find someone to help them and, after finding something big and metal, headed in the direction of it.

They soon arrived and Clairyon found the metal thing in question was a space station with ships patrolling it and described the finding to Sybil. Clairyon picked up a transmission asking them to identify themselves and after Clairyon said she was the Goddess of Minor divination were allowed in, albeit with snickering from them and Sybil. They soon felt gravity and air within and Clairyon released Sybil to the ground. They made their way passed people working on spaceships and Sybil immediately walked through random doors hoping one would take her to the Feywild. Meanwhile Clairyon approached a worker, gave her details to get a notecard and one for Sybil and directed her to see the help desks. They made their way through the space station and after finding a map, found the path they needed to head to the administration.

They passed through the cafeteria inside on the way and stopped quickly Sybil to grab some food. They then passed through the nightclub to get to the elevators and soon arrived at the administration office. They approached the squid receptionist to speak to the person in charge and were told he would be back in 10 minutes. The two waited in the waiting room and eventually an eagle headed gentleman came out from the elevator and invited them to his office. They told the gentleman, Alastor Sarvis, they needed to go, with Sybil mentioning her desire for the Feywild and Alastor noted he hadn't heard of the Feywild in a long time. Alastor added that he could get them of the station before asking where they came from and when they said Earth asked which one revealing there were multiple Earths. Alastor eventually pulled out a radar gun and used it to scan them to find which Earth they were from, but learned and revealed their signatures were old, that he hadn't seen the signatures in two decades and suggested that they time travelled. Sybil asked if they could be put back and Alastor said maybe before he asked his secretary to call his head doctor. Clairyon confirmed they were still in the same universe, even if not the right time, and asked what the issue was and Alastor said it made it hard to find the right Earth to send them to.

The head doctor soon arrived and extatically greeted Clairyon on realization of their status. Alastor quickly whispered in the doctor's ear and the doctor had the two follow her and, after introducing herself as Lucille Bograth, she quickly dragged them with her. They eventually arrived in Lucille's lab and noticed a damaged metal ball floating in the centre, partly pried open with a blinding light within. Lucille explained that she found this and after studying it knew it was from a different time period and different earth, noting she also found a weird black feather stuck to it. She added that she thought it brought them there by sending a signal to different places, that also coincidentally moved different people to different places, and that Sybil was likely one of those people. Clairyon asked how this was an issue and Lucille explained it was getting more volatile and likely things would get even weirder from there for everyone. She added that when the first person made it something went wrong and didn't know what would happen next. Lucille noted that fortunately as Sybil was affected by it if they worked together they could figure it out to send everyone back home.

As the two agreed the ship abruptly rocked accompanied by explosions. Lucille checked the cameras and after seeing some fights said something was attacking the station. They soon saw a group of shark headed guys fighting some of the guards on one camera and Lucille immediately asked them to take the ball as far from there as possible just as the ship's power went offline. She added that they should head to the hangar and get to a ship, as for all she knew, they were there for the ball and quickly grabbed some things before following them.

They ran to the hallway towards the hangar, but quickly heard screams coming ahead of them. Sybil used Clairyon's divination to find a path through all the danger, explosions and shark beings ahead, but before they could take it an explosion caused rubble to block their path. Lucille suggested they take the vents and led them through till they arrived at the vent in front of the hangar door. They popped to the ground and quickly realized they were surrounded by more of the shark people, but still managed to get through the open hangar door. While Lucille tried to block off the door the others saw most of the ships were gone, except for one small damaged pod that probably looked like it would work. They quickly headed to the ship, but when Lucille got shot down she threw her stuff to the duo and insisted they leave before the ship was destroyed. They eventually got the ship flying by pressing what they could and managed to get out of the station just as they got the glimpse of the doctor being finished off. They quickly noticed another station docked into the one they were in while more explosions went off.

As they flew the two quickly heard beeping coming from the ball and Sybil pulled it out of the bag. Clairyon also saw in the bag some daggers, some coins with emblems of the greek pantheon on them and a photo of two blond guys standing in front of the police academy, with a note to their dear *Aunt Lucille*. Sybil started to mess with the ball and eventually found a button causing the beeping to get louder and make flashing lights. Sybil also felt it vibrating in her hands before it shocked her causing her to drop it to the ground, but the ball instead bounced back in the air and started to float and flash more brightly and beep louder. Clairyon warned she would kill her and Sybil said not if it killed her first just as the beeping stopped, causing the ball to drop back to the ground and the red light to turn green. Sybil gave her presumption this was death just before the flashing came back brighter, blinding both of them. The duo quickly felt themselves sucked into something, like a blackhole, causing both to black out and lose consciousness.

The two eventually woke in some weird dimension with shapes, green lines and numbers everywhere like a computer. Clairyon picked up Sybil by her neck and threatened that they would love to rend her to pieces right and as Sybil replied she would at least have peace was dropped to the ground. The view slowly expands till it shows the ship now floating in space.

**THE 'VERSE WILL RETURN...**

1. ↑ As she is never described in Turkey Heist, she is a 7", transparent alabaster colored being, long black hair in buns, wearing a flowing dress same color as her skin.