It goes off without a hitch. It's pretty anticlimactic that way. Brainy sets up his equipment and he looks like a mad scientist as machines make winding noises and diodes glow and a shimmering light appears in the air - the dimensional rift.
It'd mysteriously closed as soon as Chronoblivion's eyes started forcing their way into the universe but it opens once more, and Brainy's devices start chugging and whining and sounding for all the world that they're at risk of exploding. He's using data from the throne and dimensional mapping by Merl and Valeria, design elements offered by other technically-savvy Legionnaires, and every bit of the work he's put into the last two years, trying to bring his friends home - trying to find a way to send the displacees to their homes for the last year, too.
And it's working. He's lit up by the glow of energy from outside the world, as the rift starts to open up to him and reveal its secrets. The same sphere he rigged together in the lab whirs again. It's larger now, burns even brighter, leaving glowing afterimages on the retinas of anyone that makes the mistake of looking directly at it.
The window to another world opens again and there are shapes beyond it, silhouetted in the light. They're waiting, ready to deploy like they were asked, even now, even exhausted. They're ready to jump into action the second they're home, because they're the Legion and that's what they do.
Their faces become clearer and the device lets out chiming, impossible noises that resonate at the subharmonics required to break through the crystal dimension's walls. The air vibrates enough to make the images of the lost Legionnaires tremble and then... and then...
With crashing and tinkling sounds, the wall explodes in a wave of something that only looks like broken glass. Brainy temporarily shields the team from it but once it dissolves, once the doorway is open, he drops the shield and the figures inside come pouring through in a wave of bodies. The crest of the wave knocks Brainy to the ground in a tumble of arms that refuse to let go of him and the rest follows after, spilling out into the arms of the other Legionnaires there. Up in their hiding places, the native Legionnaires that have also been posted as guards rock in place slightly, barely resisting the urge to leave their watchplaces to go join in the joyful throng of hugging teammates.
The laughter and tears flow freely, and in some cases, so do the kisses. Dreamer is pulled into the embrace of Star Boy, the one Brainy had singled out as needing to create a micro black hole and kissed tenderly. Timber Wolf can be seen embracing a black-haired woman in white and black and kissing her passionately, and then doing the same to a burly brunette man in red and green. The three of them cling to each other in a tangle of limbs, as he buries his head against the woman's shoulder.
"It's okay, Brin, we're here now," says the woman.
more npc stuff. I'll give a cue when to go.
It'd mysteriously closed as soon as Chronoblivion's eyes started forcing their way into the universe but it opens once more, and Brainy's devices start chugging and whining and sounding for all the world that they're at risk of exploding. He's using data from the throne and dimensional mapping by Merl and Valeria, design elements offered by other technically-savvy Legionnaires, and every bit of the work he's put into the last two years, trying to bring his friends home - trying to find a way to send the displacees to their homes for the last year, too.
And it's working. He's lit up by the glow of energy from outside the world, as the rift starts to open up to him and reveal its secrets. The same sphere he rigged together in the lab whirs again. It's larger now, burns even brighter, leaving glowing afterimages on the retinas of anyone that makes the mistake of looking directly at it.
The window to another world opens again and there are shapes beyond it, silhouetted in the light. They're waiting, ready to deploy like they were asked, even now, even exhausted. They're ready to jump into action the second they're home, because they're the Legion and that's what they do.
Their faces become clearer and the device lets out chiming, impossible noises that resonate at the subharmonics required to break through the crystal dimension's walls. The air vibrates enough to make the images of the lost Legionnaires tremble and then... and then...
With crashing and tinkling sounds, the wall explodes in a wave of something that only looks like broken glass. Brainy temporarily shields the team from it but once it dissolves, once the doorway is open, he drops the shield and the figures inside come pouring through in a wave of bodies. The crest of the wave knocks Brainy to the ground in a tumble of arms that refuse to let go of him and the rest follows after, spilling out into the arms of the other Legionnaires there. Up in their hiding places, the native Legionnaires that have also been posted as guards rock in place slightly, barely resisting the urge to leave their watchplaces to go join in the joyful throng of hugging teammates.
The laughter and tears flow freely, and in some cases, so do the kisses. Dreamer is pulled into the embrace of Star Boy, the one Brainy had singled out as needing to create a micro black hole and kissed tenderly. Timber Wolf can be seen embracing a black-haired woman in white and black and kissing her passionately, and then doing the same to a burly brunette man in red and green. The three of them cling to each other in a tangle of limbs, as he buries his head against the woman's shoulder.
"It's okay, Brin, we're here now," says the woman.