Here it is folks! At last, Legion World has its own Travel Agency to help you book those impossible to find flights and hotel resorts in far off places across time and space!
Planning to holiday in Xanadu, but afraid of getting through the Khanate of Sol Invictus' fiery Horde? No problem, we have special "pilots" who deal in that type of situation!
Wishing you could vacation in 19th Century Terran Bahamas? That also can be arranged, perhaps by one of the new ultra-popular Technosphere Planets, or perhaps even with the help of one of the partners of the firm, Time Boy!
Now is the time for Travel! And we can make it happen.
Be sure to contact Policy Pam before you leave for Vacation Insurance. Posted by Udder Nonsense on :
I'll take a round-trip to the land of honey. I'll bring the milk.
Posted by Semi Transparent Fellow on :
I'd like a first class ticket to .... Uranus, please.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
I'll need a drink first
Although I swear that time Vee was in control of my body, you may have been there already... Posted by Vee on :
You could well be correct. I ain't tellin'! Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
remember, kids - don't fly Virgin Air - - why trust a carrier that won't take you all the way where you want to go?
Several months ago, I opened this place and was met with little fanfare. As was the plan all along. Jailbait Lass even questioned why we would bother opening this place at all. Especially such a low-key, underwhelming structure when I’m known for more pomp and circumstance.
There was a reason for it, and it relates to what I’ve been investigating all along. When I opened this place almost a year ago, it was then that I knew we were already under attack. I just didn’t know who, how or why.
<enters, still in magnetic sphere with Lardy>
Inter-stellar Travel it reads, but its so much. I’ve come to know the Legion World Founders quite well during my tenure as Security Chief all these long years. They entrusted me with a number of secrets. That’s something Reboot, Tamper Lad and so many others could never understand. I wasn’t the Chief of Security because of the LMB leadership. I was the Chief of Security on Legion World, with the blessing of the Legion World Founders themselves.
Legion World holds many secrets; there are a variety of reasons Nightcrawler picked this planet to begin this grand project.
I’m about to show you one of them.
<points to the wall; on it are various posters of places across the universe you can travel. On this particular wall, smaller than the rest as it now is clear this room is oddly shaped, there are two posters, one of the Khanate of Sol Invictus and one of the Dark Oval>
Lardy, when you see those posters, what do you want to do? Well…do it.
<Lardy looks at him oddly>
Do it, Lardy.
Posted by LardLad on :
<shrugs>
Des, I honestly don't know what the fuck you want me to do!
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Smash it Posted by LardLad on :
<shrugs>
Awright...
<focuses powerful Lard Force energy on the wall and smashes thru it>
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
<Lardy’s force knocks the wall backwards, creating a big hole. But more surprising, behind the hole is not the usual structure-related debris; rather, it is an actual cavern. From the looks of it, an old, cave-like, rocky terrain. It appears to go farther in, but it declines continually, so that it is a hole, apparently going right into Legion World>
Follow me.
<starts moving down the cavern>
I built this agency here to be on top of this place. Below here is a very old place. Because below here, is one of the great secrets of Legion World, that helped convince Nightcrawler that we should all settle here.
Several months ago, a bunch of us went into the hills, off into the mountain area of Legion World. There was a reason for that. Tomahawk, Clive, Time-Teller Lad, Raging Bull and I. None of them will remember it. But I do, Lardy, I do. I was forced to erase their memories of the trip. So yes, it was I who did that to them. But it was for their own safety. Once we get to our destination, I’ll explain to you why.
Posted by LardLad on :
<looks into darkness>
Have I ever told you I'm a little claustrophobic?
*sigh* I'll follow, Des, even though every instinct I have tells me not to.
I swear, though, if this turns out to be another of your non-answers, I'll beat yer ass!
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
<reaches the bottom of the cavern; now it is very cold, and on the walls are ancient hieroglyphics; there is a narrow passage way>
Its just down there. Vee is connected to something called the Variable Realm. I’ve theorized that what is down here is something connected to that, but its too complicated to understand. Is it magic? Is it scientific? Is it something neither or both?
<walks down passage way>
Lardy, I have to tell you something. You’re like a brother to me. You’ve been there all along with the LMB, just like I have. I would never try to kill you or hurt you. Someone has been playing us against each other for too long. Right now, I need you to trust me.
<and now before Lard Lad and Cobalt Kid is an ancient wall, with a slit down the middle. Intense yellow energy permeates outward from the wall. And within that slit, is an old, old wheel, seemingly completely out of place>
Blown your mind yet?
Before we take one step forward, how about just once for old times sake: Sweet Ass Sweet.
<goes to shake hand>
Posted by LardLad on :
<shakes it>
We're gonna turn that, aren't we?
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Yup .
Help me turn the wheel.
<grabs one side of the wheel and starts to push; it takes tremendous effort to even budge it>
Once we start turning it, we can’t stop. Otherwise Legion World will be in jeopardy.
<continues pushing, Lardy joins him>
Lardy…you remember killing Clive…you might be right…it might have been you…or at least, your body. But I don’t think it was you.
You see…for so long I dismissed your accusations that I tried to kill you as completely out of hand…but now…now I think maybe you were right.
DON’T STOP PUSHING THE WHEEL!!! I know…its shocking…keep pushing…let me explain…
I would never try to kill you…so how in the world do I suddenly start feeling all these odd memories…
Posted by LardLad on :
<continues pushing>
Dunno...*ungh*...for what it's worth, I don't believe it anymore...but somehow...I think the memory was real for someone, somehow...can't really explain...*ungh*
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
AND SUDDENLY, LARD LAD, COBALT KID and THE WHEEL DISSAPEAR
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by LardLad: I swear, though, if this turns out to be another of your non-answers, I'll beat yer ass!
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
<Cobalt flies in; the Inter-Stellar Travel Agency has long since been repaired, all walls covered up and the small office made to look as it always had. It is robot activated and only two employees exist: Cobalt Kid and Lolita, co-owners.>
Haven't been here in quite awhile...guess I've just been busy. But this is perhaps my most important holding regarding my "activities" throughout the cosmos.
Now I wait.
Posted by Lolita on :
{Several minutes later, Lolita enters.}
I’m here, Cobie. I figured you were going to be late so I waited before I came.
{Lolita has not been here since Thyme Crime, electing to dissolve all partnerships with Cobalt Kid when he broke her heart almost two years earlier. In fact, while she has seen him in recent weeks, it was only the midst of battle. They have not truly spoken since that day.}
I guess you can say this conversation is long overdue.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Yeah, I guess you can say that.
<Cobalt stands and walks over to her but stops, unsure if he should hug her or how to even greet her.>
You’ll note I never sold your shares to any of our partnerships and holdings. It all remains the same as it always was.
I’m glad you could come, Lolita. Some things need to be said. And the first among them is…I’m sorry. I’m sorry…for all of it. Sometimes I focus on things I deem too important when the most important things of all are right in front of my face. I took you for granted for a long time. I’m sorry for that.
And I’m sorry for the way I ended our friendship.
Posted by Lolita on :
{Lolita is still surprised by his forthrightness despite expecting this, given their recent interactions.}
…
Cobie…I’m…I’m sorry too. I should have been more honest with you over the years. Especially when I know you so well. I…I think my expectations had become…well, I don’t know what they became.
When you work so close with someone, and it limits the life you have outside it, you begin to focus on only what you see everyday.
So, I accept your apology. I’m sorry too.
{She nods but despite apologies, it still feels very awkward.}
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
<Cobalt feels it too.>
I don’t think you quite understand what I’m trying to say.
<He begins walking towards her.>
I have many friends in the LMB and on Legion World, and indeed across the cosmos. Many good friends. But I have few truly great friends who know me inside out. You are one of them, Lolita and losing you as a friend was a loss that I can’t overcome. I might not have been able to give you what you wanted two years ago, but I can still give you the friendship and companionship we once shared.
I…I can’t do this without you.
Posted by Lolita on :
Do what, Cobie?
{she begins to back up as he walks towards her.}
I-I want us to be friends again, but…
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Do all of it. Everything I am workings towards in the galaxy. I can’t do it without you. Not only your brilliant mind and the way you can curb the bad side of me, but I can’t do it without your companionship. I need to know we’re in this together.
Lo…I’m a bit lost. I’d be an awful boyfriend or husband. But I could be a great friend again.
<he stops now and stands there, and she can see real pain in his eyes.>
Posted by Lolita on :
{A silence now stands between them as she looks at him. For once, her instincts and computer-brain have left her and she can’t think one way or another.}
Okay.
{She walks over to him and hugs him, hugs him very tightly and suddenly two years worth of pain and hurt begin to wash away.}
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
<He doesn’t say anything but hugs her back.>
Posted by Lolita on :
{At last the embrace ends.}
You must have something cooking right now…I know all about your “Gold Watch mission” you kept so secret these last few months.
So where do we go from here?
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
The Dark Oval.
<as she looks at him in surprise, he smiles; when she smiles back he at last feel things are getting back to normal.>
Care to go back? We're at last going to move on the Dark Oval after all these years. And I'll need you to watch my back more than ever.
<hands her a series of files.>
Wait until you learn who we've gotten our intel from. You'll be infuriated but you'll see some of our assumptions have been dead on over the years.
<sits down and pours them each a drink.>
I feel a tremendous weight lifted off of me; Lolita and I focusing on what we've always intended for the galaxy again...it's just like old times...
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