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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[ratingspoint]

[THAT ONE does not seem to have done anything but an espresso machine somewhere is probably now on.]

...Sweetheart, at this rate if anyone deletes them all it's going to be you, not us.

[JUST...SAYING...]

[cherryblooded]

Please tell me what we're supposed to be pressing.

[ratingspoint]

Of course, darling. Give me a second.

[Just...let him look it over for a moment.]

The dead can be handled from the other side...right now I think we're all just tired of being here, so we should worry about that first.

I don't suppose anyone has card keys on them? The white ones.

[................bruce this is probably gonna get really awkward in a couple of seconds if you're the one with those, i think you are]

[cherryblooded]

[Ooooh yeah, that is awkward.]

Bruce, if you would hand those over to me, please?

[If you don't trust Mettaton, and you shouldn't, please trust Cherryblod.]

[amygdalae]

[...WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW.

There may be a brief pause in here and its clear that Bruce is in fact incredibly reluctant, because Cherryblod you're not exactly on the top of his list either right now. But.

Deep breaths. No need to give Mettaton more reason to snark at him (even Bruce sure would love to snark back the whole day), the best way to prove himself is to be the better guy here and he certainly wants to get the fuck out of this VR too.

So.

He steps back in after having retreated to the doorway, only pausing for another moment before he smoothly takes out one of the two cardkeys and passes it to Cherryblod with a very pointed look. Don't fuck this up, or he swear he will Hulk Smash somebody with the fist of an angry... Hulk.]

[cherryblooded]

Thank you.

[He'll do his best. He wants to go home already just like everyone else.]

Alright, my dear, what do I do with this?

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[captainobnoxious]

[... Why are these buttons useless???]

I mean, you have a point, but there's probably more good buttons than bad buttons.

[...]

C'mere and show me what to press, then. I guess.

[Because if there was ever someone who could stop her from stupid stuff it was Mettaton, and that's still painfully true.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[Mouri is quietly hiding his face in his hands. God damn it, who let Sigrun get onto the console]

[captainobnoxious]

[this is what happens when you have a steamroller of a leader person with you]

[isafraid]

[/quietly and fearfully sends moral support]

[captainobnoxious]

[FLUFFHEAD YOU ARE SUCH A BLESSING

SHE WILL CONQUER TECHNOLOGY FOR THE BOTH OF THEM!!! IT WILL NOT DEFEAT THEM!!!]

[isafraid]

[PLEASE DONT DELETE THEIR FRIENDS IN THE PROCESS OF DEFEATING TECHNOLOGY]

[captainobnoxious]

[DON'T WORRY SHE'LL TRY NOT TO

THAT'D BE BAD

SHE WANTS TO SEE THEIR DEAD FRIENDS AGAIN? SHE WILL TRY HER DAMNEST NOT TO DELETE THEM]

[isafraid]

[OKAY

THANK YOU

He'll be over here, on the edge of his non-existent seat and trying not to expect the worst.]

[ratingspoint]

If you need something to do with your hands that badly, you haven't punched me yet.

[captainobnoxious]

There's a lot of things I want to do with my hands right now, sweetheart, and punching you is on a lower end. I'm gonna press another button unless you give me something though, and this time it might not be so useless. Fair warning.

[... It's on the lower end of like, a list of three things.]

[ratingspoint]

If you want to kill them all, be my guest.

[Fucking hell, Sigrun.]

[captainobnoxious]

[She's giving you the most annoyed look.]

If you weren't so damn difficult, I wouldn't be wanting to press one just to see what it does. I trust you enough not to mess me up, I... know I don't really have a right to ask for that in return, considering what I said, [being hers to kill and all,] but of all times, do you think I'm gonna make good on that right now? When I have so many other people I need to take care of?

[Because that's the issue, isn't it?]

[ratingspoint]

[...If you want him to be blunt the issue is that he doesn't want the literal Viking trying to figure out technology right at the eleventh hour - ]

...I'll teach you how to use the other one. I promise, all right?

[captainobnoxious]

[You are so mean?? She has done well with technology. Mostly. Good enough.]

... Okay. Probably better that Cherry does this one anyway. He's more decent at this shit and my feet are killing me.

[Not like she and Bruce are having the funnest of times together, after all. She can sit on the floor then. Nice floor. Good floor. Cannot lay on floor and recount her bad life decision just yet, but soon.]

[ratingspoint]

...For what it's worth, the boots look sexy.

[JUST SAYING.]

[pokexplorer]

[If there was ever a moment that he wanted to offer Sigrun that electric glove...]