Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

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[captainobnoxious]

[oh my god yes please

please she needs a distraction from mr. "the boots look sexy"]

[ratingspoint]

[...You know, Bruce, he is here for all the sniping you want after this is over, because fuck his life and that one probably earned you at least two free shots because wow, did he pick the wrong guy to take out his everything on today or what, but anyway.]

There should be a place to swipe it somewhere to your right? And then there's a sequence you'll be wanting to hit here afterwards -

[He gestures towards one of the larger sections of panel, trying to figure out how to- ...oh, oh wait.]

E4-G3-C6-B5-F2.

[you do chess. bless you for doing chess.]

[goodforsomething]

[Stan opens his mouth, clearly wanting to argue about that. But he literally just said that they shouldn't, and frankly he'd rather they just get out of here and never have to see Mettaton or Ryuu again if they don't want to. Certainly he'd rather not piss off the two when they're still needed to escape.]

Just. Get us out.

[cherryblooded]

[He is exactly the right person for this job! That makes him a little bit happy.

He swipes the card in whatever looks like a card reader thing - at least he's not Speedwagon and knows what those look like - and then carefully inputs the correct sequence of buttons.

He has 99% faith that this will work.]

[ratingspoint]

They look great, darling, don't worry about it.

[pokexplorer]

[DONE.

Sigrun now has Klinky, Beamy and Maggy to play with. They wandered over in the midst of the...everything going on.]

[captainobnoxious]

[perfect. she will entertain herself thus. you guys do you]

[captainobnoxious]

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa okay she has pokemon to play with now she's

not gonna answer that

you go do that important thing

the thing with the saving us all stuff

that thing]

[captainobnoxious]

[SHE DRUNKENLY WON CHESS ONCE BUT

YOU WERE RIGHT IN NOT LETTING HER DO THIS ONE

BECAUSE THE FUCK DO THOSE MEAN

At least Cherry has the idea.]

ESCAPE

[trustharder]

[You're not anywhere near dead.

That weird, heavy feeling you remembered at the start of the exercise is back in spades; it probably feels strange, hard for you to move, as though all of your weight is centered in your limbs for some reason and they're holding you back. There's something in front of you as well, heavy glass and metal, and even if by chance you manage to get your body to cooperate with you enough to respond, it isn't going to move, trapping you inside.

It's claustrophobic, and if you can open your eyes enough to look at what's in front of you it's transparent and entirely too bright out there, and...

And eventually the heavy panel in front of you will slide open, and oxygen will come flooding back into your system and whatever was holding you back physically seems to loosen its hold a little on your body, and after enough time passes you can push yourself up a bit and away from the stasis capsule you've been kept in all this time.

(...Or you could try to do it a few moments early and fall on your face, because whatever they had you on was a hell of a drug and your legs are going to hate you, but hey - you do you.)

You aren't the only person in this room, either; around you there are twenty-seven other capsules like yours, twenty-eight in total - all containing somebody coming to nearby. Admittedly, everyone is at varying degrees of function, just like you, but they all seem largely unharmed (if more than a bit woozy and also kind of a mess because wow, stasis for two months).

It's been a long time, guys; feel free to have your reunions.

When you're done with that, there are things to explore here; there's another pair of rooms off to the side, one of which contains...well, another hologram machine for you guys to play with, still calibrated for all of you, your powers and your weapons; feel free to mess with it. There's also another screen + speakers setup that will give you Glory to talk to, should you so decide.

You can also find your...hosts for this entire affair standing near another large control panel in a back room; this is also where the portal is. True to their word, the thing is massive, and it's going to take some doing to figure out, but it's entirely possible to do so just the same - it might just take some fiddling.

Congratulations on your victory, guys; enjoy it.]

REUNIONS

[trustharder]

[Waking up, threads with your formerly-dead friends, all of that.

And no, deadfriends, Ambitious is not here with you.]

HOLOGRAMS

[trustharder]

[OOC: Feel free to make up your own details for what happens here, for the ones that weren't shown! ...Also yes, you can generate two of them and deathmatch them.]

GLORY

[trustharder]

PORTAL

[trustharder]

[captainobnoxious]

[Of anyone who is gonna stumble out of claustrophobic place first, it's gonna be Sigrun, and as soon as she's able to she's eating shit on the floor, groaning lightly. Give her a minute and she'll sit up, still... kind of groggy feeling, but pulling herself together for the moment.

... So. Join her on the floor or what. She can recount her bad life decisions in relative peace now, even if she's kind of scared to talk to anyone because what if they don't understand her anymore talking with her hands would be bad.]

[prismbloom]

[ ... what a crazy ride this has been, huh? Aqua's really groggy and disoriented in general when she wakes up, and it does take her a few moments to get her bearings together.

They did it, though. They did it. Aqua hadn't doubted them, in the end.

She climbs out of her pod, stumbles a bit, and steadies herself on the side of the pod. Aqua's head is still spinning... but she is definitely smiling, even if it's a tired sort of smile. ]

[goodforsomething]

Owwwwwww...

[Stan is a sixty-something year old man. Getting up in the morning is painful enough for him sometimes without literally everything that has happened here. He gets an arm over the edge of his pod, removes his glasses with the other hand, and rubs at the indents they've left on the bridge of his nose. Hopefully those go away.]

Just...just gimme a minute.

[blastiarm]

[To absolutely no one's surprise, Zagi is trying to get out as soon as possible and this results in him neatly faceplanting onto the floor because what the hell do you expect when you've been in stasis for two months. 10/10. Flawless faceplant.

He pulls himself up quickly enough though and soon he's back on his feet and looking around. His expression is wild and when he laughs it's manic to a point that puts Ryuunosuke's crazy laughter to shame.]

Finally! You guys took your sweet time! For a moment there I thought we were really dead!

[But hey, at least he's not challenging everyone to a fight right away, right? That's... that's good...

(He's stretching now and will probably challenge everyone to a fight later.)

There are a few people he needs to look for specifically, but right now he's more focused on just being properly alive again.]

[cherryblooded]

[He'd been 99% sure they'd get out. That Mettaton wasn't lying to him, that this was the way to bring everyone back.

And for once? His faith was rewarded. Optimism and trust weren't dashed to pieces.

Once he manages to get to his feet, he takes a look around the room, and starts to laugh. It's not the kind of laugh he gave when finding a reminder of his destroyed home, a broken laugh - no, this one is sheer joy.]

We're alive. We're alive!

[cherryblooded]

Sorry, sorry. Welcome back, Zagi!

[Guess who's happy to see you, manic laughter or not.]

[cherryblooded]

Aqua...!

[He approaches, hesitates and stops.]

...Would a hug be weird?

[He's considerate, at least.]

[notjustawriter]

At least we made it out.

[Ah, it, uh....

Seems Zagi is more unbalanced than when Gabriel last saw him.]

[blastiarm]

Hey, Cherry. I was wondering when I'd get to see you again.

[He does glance momentarily over at the mastermind duo over there, but he doesn't seem to care much about them and shrugs at Cherryblod instead.]

You wouldn't believe how boring being dead was.

[uro_cyon]

[For the second time in a few weeks, Aiden feels like he's spent way too much time in Pawnee. This time though, he minds a lot less. It's disorienting and confusing all the same, but he's not going to let that stop him from getting out of the capsule as fast as he can.]

...I don't think I'll ever do a digital trip again.

[notjustawriter]

[Gabriel might be thirty-some years younger, but he's having just as much of a time.]

Feels a bit like the hangover from hell, don't it?