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.

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[manga_goddess_skuld]

"That works then. Of course...." looking at him now that he was fully reinflated. "Not sure he'll fit through my door. I guess I'll need to blow out the side wall..." Hmmmmm.....

[baymaxing]

Blow -- whoa, what? He gets around just fine at my place.

[Inflatable. Which meant that Baymax could temporarily squeeze through tighter spaces like a doorway at least. Assuming it wasn't like a tiny cat door or something anyway. Hiro raises his hands, glancing to the robot who stares at said door.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Are the doors bigger?" she asked. She was already reaching up to grab an explosive device off a high self.

[baymaxing]

I don't think so? Baymax just squeezes through them. He's vinyl, so he's kind of got some wiggle room there. Not like actual metal, you know? Wait, what is that?

[Explosives? That seems kind of dangerous. And unnecessary. Baymax was kind of bigger with being fully charged and himself again in not being on low battery anymore but Hiro still doesn't think it warrants this drastic a measure.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Oh. Okay then. I guess I can hold on to this for later." And with that she tucked the explosive down her shirt where it seemed to vanish. "That? That's a Neo-Skuld Bomb Mark Three. I make all sorts of explosives!" she said cheerfully.

[baymaxing]

A bomb?! And Aunt Cass always said some of our inventions were dangerous.....!

[Sure, he and Tadashi might have had to go to the doctor or hospital somewhat regularly with their inventions but even so. He hadn't been messing with explosives. Even with the fire for Fred's suit, Hiro was careful. Aware that messing with that at the university or in the garage could be dangerous.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Yeah. Why, did you want one? I noticed Baymax didn't have a self destruct mechanism, did you want help fixing that?"

[baymaxing]

What? No! I already lost the first Baymax and had to rebuild him. He doesn't need a self destruct!

[Hiro was already traumatized enough at seeing Tadashi run into that fire and losing the first Baymax. He doesn't want to have a repeat of that with seeing Baymax blow himself up! Hiro shakes his head, and his hands in front of him in protest at the idea.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Okay okay," she said rubbing the back of her head and sweat beading a bit. "Calm down. Sheesh. Fine, if he can get through the door, let's head on outside."

[baymaxing]

Okay. Outside, come on, Baymax.

[Cue Baymax doing his waddle and shuffle, turning to the side and letting the door squeeze at his stomach before Hiro pushes him the rest of the way through. He's used to this by now. Hiro follows after Baymax, telling him the way to go back outside as he remembers it at least.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Skuld followed until they got out of the house, then headed around to the circle, taking the lead. Sentaro had been peeled off by Belldandy subtly at some point. Sigil and Banpei followed them out.

[baymaxing]

[Hiro seems content enough to just watch, at least initially, once they get to the circle. He tilts his head as he glances at it, debating but figuring it might be a little risky to try fly with Baymax without his suit to help him stay on the robot.]

Whatever you need to do to figure this. It's probably easier for us to just stay out of the way.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Actually I'll need answers from you to try and realign the gate. You can answer basic questions about your world, right?" she asked pulling out a tablet and a stylus from... somewhere, to start making notes.

[baymaxing]

Depends what you think of as basic, but. Sure. I can try help answer questions at least.

[He says as he gives a shrug, figuring between himself and Baymax he could probably manage that much. As he glances back to Baymax he tilts his head, considering.]

Not sure if his scanners would work from here to be able to try track down my aunt or our friends to help that way. I increased the range, but I wasn't exactly accounting for....you know. Whole other dimensions or worlds or whatever.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Let's get some basics to see if we're close enough for the attempt to have a chance of success over one percent. Alright so first question. How many dimensions do you each think that you perceive?"

[baymaxing]

Dimensions? No idea. There could be a lot of different dimensions out there.

[Though of course back home only one was established yet. Which is just what Baymax says. That and more were simply stories or theory as yet. Which, well. This here, and his trip beyond with the portal back home from the Silent Sparrow experiment proved that there was more out there.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She tried very hard not to face palm. "Sigil, please get me two sheets of paper."

The small bot nodded, ran inside and came back with two sheets of paper. Skuld traded what she was holding for the pages. Skuld hed one up, flat. "One dimension. Well. not exactly, but for demonstration purposes." She rolled the page up. "Two." She put the rolled page on the flat paper. "Three." She did.... something. "Four. Tell me when we hit your threshold." Her hands shifted again, did something else. "Five...."

[baymaxing]

What? Paper? What are you doing.....?

[Hiro isn't even sure what was going on. What Skuld was up to and trying to show him. Well, show him or Baymax, or both of them. It just looked like paper? That she rolled up? Hiro tilts his head in confusion, squinting a little. Trying to watch her hands as if that might help him figure it out.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"You're from a completely one dimensional world?" she asked, staring at him, dumbfounded. "How she could mess up calculations THAT badly?!" She started pacing.

[baymaxing]

I have no idea? But uh, I think it's more like four? I'm just not used to being asked questions like that.

[And well. Baymax was more specialized with healthcare and such so isn't necessarily as able to help depending on the question or phrasing of it at least. But he also wants to try and help.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She rubbed her face. "Fine. Pi to a hundred places as it in on your world?"

She sounded frustrated.

[baymaxing]

Pi? You mean like maths? the 3.14 etcetera? Because I assume you aren't meaning like apple pie.

[As delicious as apple pie is. Baymay helpfully finishes the Pi formula, because of course he had it memorized from downloading a lot of information from Hiro's computer, on top of his healthcare knowledge.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Since Baymax was answering she ignored Hiro for the moment to take notes. "Okay, so Pi matches, which helps. Not knowing the dimensions makes things harder, however. Alright, sentient non-humans that humanity is aware of?"

[baymaxing]

[Hiro's attempt to answer is drowned out by Baymax. Baymax answering about robotics and the potential there, himself as one example. But otherwise it was just the humans, unless one was to count the more intelligent animals humans had studied and tried to train with certain activities or such.]

Does that help? I have no idea how much this narrows things down or not. But, we're from San Fransokyo.

When playing Skuld, Google is my friend.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"What Baymax said helps more than what you said. There are..." she stopped and seemed to be reading something, though there was nothing there. Then she began to hum softly. Water rose around her and the light in the area grew in an aura around her. Not blindingly, but noticeable. She stopped after about fifteen seconds. "At least three thousand dimensions that have a San Fransokyo in a setting where pi matches and the non-human sentients are limited to Ai within human awareness." As soon as she had begin speaking, water and the humming stopped. She didn't seem overly aware of either.

"Planck's constant?"