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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NOW YOU'RE THINKING WITH PORTALS

[penduli]

[ ...once Gabriel's got his thing done, Black's also got some neat-o things to share! He's going the "stick his fingers in his mouth and whistle really fuckin' loudly" route to get attention though.

And once he's got a good bit of it— ]

Glory says the portal's two-way. [ HURRAH wait don't cheer yet. ] Ordinarily, it requires someone to stay back here to operate it.

[ A long pause. Black, this is not the fucking time for dramatics? This is not the fucking time. ]

Ordinarily. However, Glory's friend—Hilda—had technology that allowed her to contact Glory at any time and have her open the portal. She mentioned that there might still be more of those devices around here.

[ because why not, right, why wouldn't there be interdimensional smartphones lying around, look at this place. ]

She also mentioned ordinary phones might work, but our best bet is probably finding those devices. I don't know that we'll have enough for everyone, but... It's better than nothing.

[ ...yep, okay, that's all. He's done being the center of attention. ]

[amygdalae]

...it certainly wouldn't hurt to find them.

[Having proper control of this portal would be of great use, especially if they're all going to hop around so many worlds and realities.]

[lackinginfaith]

More investigation to end it off, huh?

[amygdalae]

One more for the road, I suppose.

[lackinginfaith]

I'm in for that. I'm not leaving either all of you or my own world behind for good.

[amygdalae]

Whatever you want. I don't want to stop anybody who just wishes to return home after everything.

[He certainly can't blame them, either.]

[lackinginfaith]

I won't either. But this is important.

[amygdalae]

It is. [Well, at least to him. He can't speak for anybody else.] I don't want to think about any of this actually being real.

[lackinginfaith]

You mean one of these exercises being run in real space?

[notjustawriter]

....Sounds like we have a plan, then. I guess it's time to look for all of them.

[amygdalae]

Can't let it fall into the wrong hands again.

[prismbloom]

Especially knowing what they're used for.

[amygdalae]

[A nod.]

At least we know this is one place where people won't be able to attempt something like this again... and its up to us to ensure it stays that way.

[notjustawriter]

I agree.

We can't sit back now that we know this is happenin' elsewhere.

[amygdalae]

Yeah. I'm not going to let anybody go through what all of us had to.

[notjustawriter]

Too many people have gone through it already.

[At least two different groups before them, and at least one other, with Observant still unaccounted for.]

[bloodisthicker]

...if it takes longer than we'd really like and people would just want to de-stress before we get into investigation mode, we could always take shifts watching Glory and the portal.

It'd be an easier job for people who don't really have all that much to go back to, of course, but if we schedule it right I think some of us could take a day every so often to keep an eye on things.

[amygdalae]

We'll have to see who'd be willing to help first, but I'm sure we can all figure something out.

[bloodisthicker]

I doubt we'll have all that much trouble finding volunteers, if nothing else.

[amygdalae]

That's good to know.

[Bruce can all too easily understand people's desire to put an end to these things, too. It's far too cruel.]

[bloodisthicker]

...I do feel like we might need to have a bit of a break before we all go off to do that, though, given what we just went through. It'll... definitely be nice to recover first.

[amygdalae]

Of course. [Bruce certainly isn't so mean as to ask them to do something right after all of this, that would be dumb.] Everyone is free to take the time off to recover for as long as they wish. If they want to simply remain in their world too, that would be fine.

[bloodisthicker]

...I wouldn't blame anyone who decided to do that, honestly. Even without the fact that this was a rough ride in and of itself, there's no telling what else we might end up against.

[uro_cyon]

What about my phone? [ His fancy one from his world that has all kind of neat programs on it.]

[amygdalae]

...well, there's only the one phone, and I doubt you're going to give it up.

[...he can probably ask Tony to do something about that, but hell if he wants to see Tony anytime soon still.]