The Hiro and the Goddesses - PSL for Hiro and Skuld

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Hey look, another portal to who knows where! There were a few things different about this one though.

For one thing voices were coming out of it in an odd mix of languages before resolving into the one Hiro knew best.

For another? It opened up right beside him, without any tech that he could see on his end that should have opened any such portal.

And if more weirdness was needed? It had gravity. Like a lot of it. He and much of the stuff around him was being pulled towards the center of it.

As to the voices coming out of it:

"You big baka! Mitaru at this mess! Everyone knows you can't make a mon to Yggdrasil with those calculations! That's not a bridge mandala! It's a summoning portal!" A youngish sounding female voice was screaming. "Idiot! Baka!"

An angry older voice, this one clearly belonging to an adult woman was screaming back. "Well maybe if the paper with all the calculations wasn't covered in ice cream I could read it!"

The voices grew louder, or rather, thanks to the increasing gravity, he was pulled closer.

"Maybe if you'd stop making your weirdo medicines and testing them on yourself all the time you could actually read basic Ndiminesional math!" the first voice accused

"Oho?" The second asked, almost purring now, all trace of anger seemingly gone. "Then who should I test it on I suppose? You, dear little sist... OW!" That would be when the first large item made it through. "What in the OW! It's raining... supplies of some sort!"

"I told you it's a summoning!" the first voice called, frantic. "Quick, erase the summoning sigil from the northwest sector."

"If I knew which one was the summoning sigil I wouldn't have used it!" the woman protested as he was falling into the portal.

"How did you ever get your license?" The younger one demanded. "It's this one here!" She started scrubbing at it furiously with the stick end of what looked like a comically large mallet.

Because now he could see the pair on the ground below him. The rapidly approaching ground. The woman was floating above some huge complicated design actually etched into the stone courtyard of some sort of Japanese temple. Her white hair was dancing weightless in the air around her.

The girl, on the other hand was firmly on the ground, fighting to obliterate one of the many complicated symbols, focused and frustrated, her long black hair hanging limp as an odd shaped robot and what looked like a small child tried to help her. "OH FOR GODDESS SAKE!" she finally yelled. "BACK!"

The woman floated up higher, the robot and the child rushed back as the teenager pulled what looked like one of those odd game balls with the wires out... of her shirt.... and threw it on the ground. The ground he was still approaching, though his fall was slowing.

There was a loud explosion that blew him back up several feet before letting him resume falling. More than half of the complicated circle and its symbols had been replaced with a smoking crater. The teenager looked more than a little worse for the wear standing right at the edge of it. She opened her mouth to speak, or cough when the woman finally looked up.

"INCOMING!" the woman said, seeing him falling at them with the last few of his belongings. "Wait, why is he falling as slowly as the book is?"

"SCIENCE!" the teen shouted in frustration. "SAVE HIM!"

"Yeah yeah," the woman said. "On it," she muttered, flying up to meet him, wings coming out of her back, one pure white, one jet black. And as she got closer he'd see that her face, chest, and clothes, had "Idiot!" written all over it in various odd typefaces. Usually with outlines, sometimes with drop shadows.

Comments

[baymaxing]

They need to cover your eyes! And you need proper gloves to protect you. Unless you want to get hurt and we delay all this because you weren't being careful.

....

I sound like Tadashi, oh man. But seriously. I've been to hospital way too many times, and the doctor, because of our inventions not panning out or us not being careful enough.

[Hiro raises her goggles to cover her face, then finds some gloves to cover her fingers as well.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She rolled her eyes and shut off then put down the torch to look at him, now through her goggles. "Did you forget the part where I'm a Goddess?" she asked.

"Geeze, Skuld, do you just tell everyone that?" Sentaro asked, now standing in the doorway and REALLY looking like he wanted to hit Hiro.

She blinked, confused. "Well he kind of saw Urd flying and all. And besides, it's not like I'm going to lie."

Sentaro now looked like he wanted to bang his head into the wall a few times.

"You know," Skuld said, thoughtfully, "Keiichi gets that same look on his face sometimes. Wonder why."

[baymaxing]

No. It's just....habit? I guess? Can Goddesses still get hurt?

[If only for appearance in not making Hiro so nervous, he hopes she keeps the goggles and gloves on at least. Still, he glances to Sentaro when Skuld comments, raising an eyebrow before tilting his head slightly.]

Yeah. Pretty sure that is how Tadashi would look when I'd go off to another bot fight. So it probably means he's pretty angry and frustrated, you know.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Well yes, but not from something like this," she said with a shrug. "It's not like I got hit by lightning or anything."

But at his other words she dropped everything and hopped to her feet rushing over to Sentaro. "You're angry and frustrated? Why?" she asked, all concern now as she grabbed his hands and started investigating his face. "Is it your bike? Or a contest?" she asked. Then blinked. "You're turning red and your body temperature is rising, are you sick? Should I get Belldandy?" she asked getting closer so she could rest her forehead against his to check his temperature, still holding his hands. And yeah, the boy was beat red.

"I... ah... I'm fine, Skuld. I promise."

She shook her head. "Your heart rate is off the charts. You should go home and get some sleep. Should I ask Belldandy to take you home?"

"I'm fine.. really... really fine. Promise..." he said again, flustered and flushing.

[baymaxing]

Uh, Skuld, you're....probably not helping. Just give him some space. We can finish working on Baymax and check on him in a bit, okay?

[Hiro didn't mean to make her all worried like that. Or possibly annoy the guy further. He was just commenting on the obvious. Or, what he figured at least. It isn't like Hiro has a lot of experience with this sort of thing, relationships and all.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I'm not helping?" she asked, confused, turning her head to look at Hiro, confused.

"St...stay out of it," Sentaro muttered. But he really did look like he was going to pass out if he didn't stop blushing so hard soon.

[baymaxing]

Okay. You handle it then.

[Hiro says, throwing his hands up in 'surrender'. If Sentaro said to stay out of it, he probably should. Whatever was going on between them wasn't really any of his business after all. It wasn't like he really knew them. Or that he would be hanging around here long, at least as far as he figures.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Fine. Then I will," he blustered.

"What you will do is lay down. You can go lay under the kotatsu in the tea room. I'll have Belldandy bring you something to drink."

"But Skuld, really I'm..."

"Go"

His shoulders slumped and he left.

[baymaxing]

Everything okay....?

[Because even if Hiro is going to leave soon, he doesn't want to cause problems. Especially just by being here, basically. When it wasn't even his choice and wasn't what was intended with Sklud and her sister were doing whatever that magic was supposed to try do.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"He gets these weird fevers sometimes, but Belldandy always fixes him right up," Skuld said with a smile. He always gets worse until then." She turned to Sigil. "Could you go let Belldandy know?"

She nodded and went to do that. Skuld went back to her welding, now apparently in gloves with her goggles over her eyes though she still wasn't sure why.

[baymaxing]

Weird fevers?

[More like it seemed the guy got flustered around her. Though Hiro isn't the most familiar with relationships or whatever and he had no clue about what was going on with them. So this was really none of his business. Instead, he watches her, sitting himself down and waiting for her to ask him to check on it before they charge Baymax.]

I'm sure he'll be okay.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Yeah, sometimes he gets all red in the face and flushed and his heart starts beating all oddly. But Belldandy said not to worry about it. She's good at taking care of him." She finished with the cables and turned off the torch, tossing it aside like it was a plush doll rather than something dangerous. "You going to let me take off the gloves and goggles now?" she asked, dryly.

[baymaxing]

Oh....okay....

[That just sounded like the guy got flustered around her. Maybe because he liked her. But, well, again it isn't like Hiro is an expert. So instead he just raises an eyebrow when she just casually throws the torch like that.]

Depends on what you still need to do?

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Attach one end of the cables to Baymax's charging ports and one end to Banpei's power output line."

[baymaxing]

That's it? Alright! You're almost good to go, Baymax!

[Hiro grins, petting Baymax's arm. The robot just tries to say something about hugs. Hiro sighs, facepalming before glancing to her. He holds out his hand, meaning to take the cord to attach to his robot.]

I'll hook up Baymax.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She nodded and handed him the cables, then shed her heavy gloves and shoved her goggles back down. She slid aside a panel on the back of Banpei's head and attached the other side of the cables to one screw like post that protruded.

"I'll recharge Banpei after Baymax is good to go, should take an hour or two depending on Baymax's battery capacity."

[baymaxing]

[Hiro takes the offered cables, shifting to plug it into Baymax on his end at least. This much at least, he could figure helping with. Even if he wasn't sure about how he might help with the summoning thing, reversing it to take him back home with Baymax once he was charged.]

Alright. So while he charges up, we can work on how to fix things to get Baymax and I back home, right? Works for me.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She laughed. "That eager to be gone?"

[baymaxing]

Hey, I just don't want my aunt calling up my friends and the police and all to try find me if she sees I'm gone.

[Otherwise he might be way more curious about all this. About the robots and tech here and everything. He's not sure how long it has been, if time might work differently between here and back home. Let alone how long it might take them to figure reversing things to get him and Baymax back.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"You do know time works differently on different planes, yes?" she asked, head tilted on thought. "Worrying and rushing might not help or matter?"

[baymaxing]

In theory, it could. I'm just hoping it doesn't mean more time has passed back home and my aunt isn't freaking out. That's all.

[He would also say Tadashi, but well. His brother wasn't around anymore. Still, Hiro tries to focus on the task at hand, wanting to be useful, feel like he was at least doing something.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She rummaged through her stuff and pulled out a white board and a pen. She wrote on the board in Japanese and pointed to each of the things she wrote as she spoke. One said faster, one said equal and one said slower.

"The way I see it, there are three possibilities. Time in your world is moving faster than time here, in which case you've already been here long enough to worry people." She found a pointer and smacked the middle option. "Time moves the same in which case, yes, moving faster is idea." Then the third. "Or time moves slower there and you could spend all day here and not be missed there." She considered. "There are the extremes then, on the faster side, years could have already passed or more. On the slower side, the effect could be as if time has paused there. I can look it up opf course, but the calculations to do that are more than half the calculations to get you home, so we wouldn't really know soon enough to make any notable difference. And even if time moves the same, that is a one in three chance even of things were even thirds, that how long you stay here matters to your friends and family back home, in a practical way."

She then drew a long line from one end of the board to the other and drew a dot in the center. "The thing is though, it isn't a 33.3% chance because it isn't three options. The times being synchronous is a single point on the line. Off by even a second either way is to one of the sides. On the time moves slower there than here scale, we have a range from time being stopped there to time being a fraction of a millisecond slower there than here. Depending on how fine you want to get you can actually calculate all the total number of possibilities in about a minute to a minute and a half but that doesn't get us any closer to actually knowing where on the scale it falls, even of we knew it was this side. So for functional purposes the scale is practically infinite."

She tapped on the other side of the dot. "On this side, we have a scale that starts at a fraction of a millisecond faster than time here, however there is no end cap for the extreme end as we do not know the finite life span of your plane. So while the other was practically infinite on a functional level, this side is potentially infinite. In all that,. the chance that time is moving at a 1:1 ratio is so minimal that it doesn't much bear worrying about!" she gave him a bright smile. That was... oddly her version of a pep talk to cheer him up.

[baymaxing]

W-wait, years? Oh no. Nope, that can't happen! Aunt Cass would kill me! And I have to finish university. The Professor would be furious too!

[Not to mention the panic his friends would be in. He'd really rather not think about going back and finding out that years had passed on their end back home. He would hope it was more the slower option, really. Or equal. He could probably get away with not being missed for a while if he had to, with Cass workin and such. And his usually being out at university or studying in his room.]

I think I'd prefer the slower.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She nodded. "Me too. But the whole point is that it doesn't matter what you want or how much you freak out. Or rather, it is statistically unlikely to make any meaningful difference. SO! You might as well enjoy yourself while you're here, right?"

[baymaxing]

I guess.....and if we're going to take a bit to figure this anyway, with Baymax charging for a while.

[He just really doesn't want to deal with being grounded because of this, or worse. Still, it isn't like he would be sure how to explain something like this to Aunt Cass. Still for now he just tries to focus on what he can do for the time being.]