Vash the Stampede (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
krispykremefan) wrote2016-09-11 01:25 pm
krispykremefan) wrote2016-09-11 01:25 pm
Just a Slight Calibration
There was a bit of a malfunction. Nothing to be too concerned over and would be fixed right away. One would hardly notice at all. After all, it only happened when you were asleep and dreaming. Nothing to worry about. It was just a hardly worth mentioning malfunction that opened your subconscious up to anyone dreaming or who could travel freely through dreams. With or without your permission. But, really now, who would do something like that? Don't even bother thinking about it.
Which is why Vash's mind is open for anyone interested in rummaging around up there. After all, how could a guy as happy and carefree as Vash have anything hiding around up there that would be interesting in taking a look at anyway?
There are so many rooms on entry. Way more than a normal human should have at the age Vash looks. Instead of the amount expected for roughly 30 years of life there's enough for over a 130 years.
Most rooms are covered in dirt and dust. The smell of gunpowder lingers all around. The doors here look like they were made from hand. Mostly pieces of misshapen scrap nailed together, a few wooden ones, even a few made from hard clay. All have names craved into them. Countless names. A few, however, do repeat. Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly being the ones that seem to appear the most among others that repeat, but not nearly the same amount. The other name that appears often is Knives. Always painted in blood red.
Then there are others that have wanted posters tacked onto them. Surprisingly most actually feature Vash himself. Yet there are others for people with such creative names like Gasback, Brilliant Dynamites Neon, The Nebraska Family, and group of people that go by the titled The Gun-Ho-Guns. One name appears over and over in that group. Legato.
Then there are two doors. One simply labeled as July in the same fashion as the others. Then there a second door labeled Lost July. This one looks like some sort of wallpaper had covered the door that has has only just been recently ripped away. A bright light glow can be seen around the edges of the door. This same glow can be found behind another door labeled as Fifth Moon.
Then there is a small section of rooms down a side hall with the label Project SEEDS above all of them. The doors here appear much more advanced and the smell of gun smoke vanishes. They open with a electronic switch instead of a poorly made door knob. Almost as if they are from a space ship from science fiction. These have only a handful of names appearing on them: Rem, Knives, Joey, Brad, Steve, Mary, and Rowan. Except for Knives these names do not appear on the dusty doors. The final room labeled as: The Big Fall.
The biggest question is - which door do you try first?
Which is why Vash's mind is open for anyone interested in rummaging around up there. After all, how could a guy as happy and carefree as Vash have anything hiding around up there that would be interesting in taking a look at anyway?
There are so many rooms on entry. Way more than a normal human should have at the age Vash looks. Instead of the amount expected for roughly 30 years of life there's enough for over a 130 years.
Most rooms are covered in dirt and dust. The smell of gunpowder lingers all around. The doors here look like they were made from hand. Mostly pieces of misshapen scrap nailed together, a few wooden ones, even a few made from hard clay. All have names craved into them. Countless names. A few, however, do repeat. Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly being the ones that seem to appear the most among others that repeat, but not nearly the same amount. The other name that appears often is Knives. Always painted in blood red.
Then there are others that have wanted posters tacked onto them. Surprisingly most actually feature Vash himself. Yet there are others for people with such creative names like Gasback, Brilliant Dynamites Neon, The Nebraska Family, and group of people that go by the titled The Gun-Ho-Guns. One name appears over and over in that group. Legato.
Then there are two doors. One simply labeled as July in the same fashion as the others. Then there a second door labeled Lost July. This one looks like some sort of wallpaper had covered the door that has has only just been recently ripped away. A bright light glow can be seen around the edges of the door. This same glow can be found behind another door labeled as Fifth Moon.
Then there is a small section of rooms down a side hall with the label Project SEEDS above all of them. The doors here appear much more advanced and the smell of gun smoke vanishes. They open with a electronic switch instead of a poorly made door knob. Almost as if they are from a space ship from science fiction. These have only a handful of names appearing on them: Rem, Knives, Joey, Brad, Steve, Mary, and Rowan. Except for Knives these names do not appear on the dusty doors. The final room labeled as: The Big Fall.
The biggest question is - which door do you try first?
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"MAYBE YOU FINALLY SNAPPED! WOULDN'T THAT BE WEIRD?"
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"If it means this isn't real that would be fine." The boy glances at the monitors with the debris floating around and his eyes start to fill up again with tears and he has to look away again.
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Bill rolls his eye and pulls a handkerchief out of nowhere to hand to Vash.
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He's trying not to cry. It's just not working very well. He keeps himself from hysterical sobbing, but the tears are going to continue to fall for awhile.
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Bill's patting Vash on the back, but he sounds very bored.
"HEY, WHAT WAS THAT PLACE UP THERE ANYWAY?"
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Of course hearing the word "was" about the only home he's known clenches his stomach tight. He looks for a moment like he's going to be sick, but manages to keep enough composure to not vomit.
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Rem, and the crew- the crew were going to-to-." He sniffs and rubs away the tears at his eyes. "They were looking for a new home."
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More pats on the back. There there, half-real dream child.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD PLANET?"
Did a certain someone drop an inter-dimensional rift on it? What a shame that would be.
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"YOU COULDN'T USE THESE TERRAFORMERS OVER THERE, I GUESS. PLANTS NOT WANTING TO PERFORM?"
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Or canon forgot to give a good reason why their OP Plants couldn't do that.Of course, all these questions lead back to Vash's own again."Where did you come from? I never saw you on the ship."
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Bill gestures to the expanse of starry black.
"I'M GUESSING THAT'S WHERE THE PLANTS CAME FROM TOO, RIGHT?"
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"You're from space? But Rem said it was so cold that everything outside would freeze." Vash starts to reach forward, as if it touch Bill, then stops realizing how rude that is. That and you probably shouldn't touch something you know nothing about. What if his hand freezes off?
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"I DON'T WORK LIKE YOU GUYS DO! THERMODYNAMICS ARE BASICALLY IRRELEVANT."
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400 million years later
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"Stop that useless crying. She was just a worthless human. Get ready to land or you'll get hurt when we hit." The memory of Knives has continued on auto pilot. Getting ready for their small shuttle to come in for a landing. "Be useful and at least strap yourself in."
Bill is suddenly forgotten for a moment as Vash bristles at his brother's voice and he turns to face him again. "She's not useless!"
Knives rolls his eyes. "Don't make me force you into the seat, Vash." He stares Vash down until the boy finally breaks eye contact and moves to strap himself into a seat.
Satisfied Knives goes back to getting the shuttle ready for the landing before strapping himself in. Leaving Vash on his own again as he mutters to himself. "Why? Why did this happen?" He suddenly remembers Bill and looks at him. "Is this a dream?" Is that where he knows Bill from? As everything happening sure feels like some sort of horrible nightmare he should have waken up from ages ago.