"Fun?" I thought. "What does she mean by that?" Thankfully, I didn't have time to wonder.
I shook my head in response to Hank's question. I would have said something, but the lack of light was beginning to get to me. I concentrated on taking deep breaths as I tried to control my claustrophobia, knowing it was probably going to get worse the further in we went.

I nodded toward the other end of the room. "Elves?" I suppose it might not be a lot, but I figured that if we'd already met a good half dozen in a matter of hours, there were bound to be more. Or maybe everyone in the Dittoverse who knew about the Authors just so happened to be around when we appeared. Yes, that's exactly how it would've happened in an RP.

I listened up, trying to discover where it was we were going to. I hoped we could ride this time instead of teleporting. Or even walk. I wasn't that used to magic yet, and besides, I wanted to enjoy the scenery. Plus I wanted to stall a bit before I had to help storm some bad guy planet/stronghold/ship thing.

I gasped at the sound of a voice, and how it yelled for me to freeze. Stumbling away from the woman, I fell onto my behind with a small cry and a puff of dust from the ground below. I stared at the barrel of the blaster, which was made of metal and all black. It resembled the blasters I had seen in movies back home. Then from my other side a man stepped from a bush and made a witty comment about freezing when it wasn't winter. I would have chuckled; if it had not been for the fact I knew those blasters were real. And if they liked they could kill me. Biting my lip in relative fear I croaked "I'm not moving....but what do you want?" the words sounded weaker than I had wanted them too. I was generally one to freak out, but at the sight of these two I couldn't help but be scared. What did they want? I was sure if this was all real. If this was a trick or a nightmare, I wasn't laughing anymore, and I wanted to go home. Someone would think, what could be more fun then becoming sucked into your computer and entering a new world? But this wasn't fun; this was stark and painful reality. How could this all be real? I waited in silence for the woman, or the man, to respond.

"What about the elves?" I asked quietly. I was stilling going through a mental census of what elves I had seen and which ones where missing. I was afraid that some of my favorites weren't around, and now I was wondering where they had gone. Had they perhaps traded spots with us? Or were they dead? Or...

"Nothing," I replied. "So what's the plan?" I asked, partly to change the subject and partly because I really did want to know what the plan was.

"Wait, a mortal has been captured? And they found her by the Fountain? Guys, that could be one of ours!" I said, turning to the others. "I-I mean, from Earth. You know. We've got to do something to rescue her." My mind was frantically working, trying to figure out a way to do so.

In the meantime . . .

"Sylvia! Can you get us all over to Ditto Town now? Um, please?" I wasn't entirely sure what the protocol was in talking to a goddess, and Sylvia was a temperamental one.

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Valentina nodded absently. "Yes, it was," she said coolly. She glanced over at him shrewdly. "Be grateful Hank and Harry are so thick-skulled. They won't report your impudence to the Captain."

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"Well, here you go," Harry said, opening a cell door and gesturing inside. "It may not look like much, but we've got the best dungeon-in-a-ship in two and a half galaxies. Our torture chamber is top notch. That's the Captain's favorite part of the ship, so the rumors go." He looked mighty pleased at that prospect since he was the one who cleaned the torture chamber to immaculate perfection. He found cleaning soothing to the soul, even if it did involve hooks and needles and other sharp objects.

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Sameka rolled her eyes at the man and flicked her lekku irritably. "It's a figure of speech," she said haughtily before adding, "like, duh," in a way that ruined the authority of the first statement.

She turned back to the girl and smirked faintly. "So, like, what do we have here?" she asked, reaching out a purple hand to touch the girl's hair gently. She was always fascinated by hair. It was so . . . hairy.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

Claric moved over to Sameka and the girl. "A GIRL!" He shouted excitedly, in answer to Sameka's question. Unfortunately, he shouted right in Sameka's ear.

In ignorant bliss, Claric scooted around to the other side of the girl and poked her with his gun. "Think we should bring her in?" He asked his partner with a hearty chuckle that had no place bringing up the end of his sentence.

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Jamison strode along in silence, absorbing her words. "I won't forget again." He promised rashly, as he was never quite able to keep such promises.

Presently, they reached the door to the Captain's cabin(s).

(Is this okay, Ryan?)

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I blinked rapidly, doing my best to absorb everything. "Why would they be capturing us? Oh wait. They tried to capture you, right..." I remembered, nodding at Ryan.

"I'd rather just start acting than talk. Do we have a plan?" I wondered. "Aside from teleporting and using phasers?"

"I'm going with the inspirational words of Nico Minoru. 'Try not to die.;," I commented.

"Sure, I guess I can," Sylvia responded to Ryan before turning back to me. "Remember. MAKE HIM CUTE."

"Geez, okay. I get it. Hawt boyfriend. Not all of us have the attention span of a goldfish," I snarked.

"If I turned you into something nasty, would it make me disappear?" Sylvia mused.

"Yep. I imagine you'd just blip right out of existence."

"Darn. You are rather annoying."

"Your telling me" I commented on Sylvia and Booky's conversation before turning to the hologram of Shono "Apparently we have no central government, but I'm one of the nut cases here. Just congregate in the woods outside of Ditto Town. We'll meet you there. Hopefully" Shono nodded and said "Shono out"

Now I turned to the others to see almost utter chaos. No pun intended, "Hey I seccond Sweet! Can we get hold of ourselves and do something before Ditto Town is destroyed and that french dude does who knows what to the space time continuum!?" I said over the noise.

I flinched sensibly, expecting more than for her to just play with my hair. I stared at her purple skin and tentacles that came from the back of her head. My brain twisted in realization of what this woman was. A twi'lek!! I thought and scooted away from her. Now I know I must be dreaming...She's from Star wars!! It was crazy. How could I be in a different world, living, breathing and speaking, with a woman or thing from a fictional movie, in front of me? It just wasn't possible. I watched as then they other man, exclaimed that I was a girl, which was obvious and squatted near me. He then poked and and prodded me with the blaster in his hand and I exclaimed "Ow....don't do that please!" I pushed the barrel away, having the thing jabbed into my side was not what I wanted. That thing could kill me... I thought eying him with a certain amount of fear in my brown eyes. "Bring me to whom? And where?" I asked quietly in question to his question ((OOC: I know....it's confusing )))

That did it.
"Torture chamber?" I said, wincing as I heard the squeak in my voice. I don't know why I was surprised; bad guys always like torture chambers. But if anyone brought a needle near me......

"The best." Hank affirmed. "But Harry's kind of biased, cause he cleans it." He led/pushed Susie down the hallway, towards a nice, dank, scary sort of cell.

Kale climbed the fire escape up the high rise to the roof, from here they would get a good view of the city, she sprinted to a small wall at the edge of the roof and knelt beside it to prevent from being spotted.

Matthew followed seconds behind, sliding down next to her. He quickly pulled out his electrobinoculars to get a better view of the area around the fountain. he turned onto his knees to look over the wall The first thing he saw before he even put the binoculars to his head was of course the huge ship that had squashed a few buildings.

While Matthew was scanning the area VACS walked up behind them, Kale asked him "Any word on what Warpath's plan is?" she asked the small five foot tall Maximal.

He looked at her and shook his head "No, that ship there seems to be jamming our communication, I only ever got one message through and that was to tell them a ship had landed"

"Oh well that's great!" said Jasson as he arrived on the roof as well, clearly he had met the others and joined forces with them "We kinda need the Maximals if we are to do something about this... Invasion"

"Would you shut up?!" Matthew whispered as loud as he dared "Look!" he said "Those soldier are capturing somebody!" he said as he passed the binoculars to Kale.

"Crap"

As she said that Nathaniel sprinted up the ladder, Kevin in tow. Newly dressed in red clone trooper armour that Jasson had given them. Nate pulled out his own pair of binoculars "Holy smokes! she's from earth!"

Kevin grabbed the binoculars "What makes you think that?" he asked while looking through them "Oh, she's dressed weird" he said with a grim smile.

"Oh." was all I could manage to say. I did not want to know anything more about it.
I stared into the dank, dark, scary-looking cell. It was dank, dark, and well, scary-looking.
"What is the captain going to do to me?" I worked up enough courage to ask.

"If I turned you into something nasty, would it make me disappear?" Sylvia mused.

"Yep. I imagine you'd just blip right out of existence."

"Darn. You are rather annoying."

"Oh, don't worry, he can't erase what he's already written," I added, perking up at the idea of seeing Booky as something....un-human. "Even if he does, I have it all on a separate copy that he can't ever have, so I think most of you would be safe...you might just loose part of your history and not get a BF, that's all."

Even though the thought was amusing, I would want him turned back...I'd prefer to not loose a good writer and friend.