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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[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?"

Some characters are just so smart. In fields we are not.

[baymaxing]

Pl -- uh, 6.6 or so, isn't it?

[But Hiro does blink at hearing there were that many San Fransokyo's. It makes sense? If there were different dimensions. Where things happened differently. He pauses then, his eyes widening and he pales slightly as he asks.]

....Tadashi. At least one of those versions has to have him survive. Right?

[Would anyone even actually notice if he were gone back home? He's not sure how this works. Even with her having explained it, or tried to, before. Because now he has that idea in his head, as he looks to her almost pleadingly. Ignoring Baymax saying his name, that hand at his shoulder.]

I sadly play many of them. And... the whole PSL may change based on his answer here....

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She made a note. "Can you give me more decimals than just that?" she aimed the question at Baymax, before looking at Hiro. She considered. "Probably. Is that your wish?" she asked softly. "To go to one of those instead of your own home?"

Of course he would at least consider it when she mentions there being other San Fransokyo cities

[baymaxing]

Certainly.

[Baymax obliges in answering, though he then does quickly seem to turn his gaze back to Hiro. Sensing the other seeming rather emotional based on his vitals. That and the pattern of Tadashi clearly still lingering in causing Hiro to get emotional even if some time has passed by now.]

I....I don't know. I miss him. I don't know if that would mess with things, everyone back home missing me or me screwing with another....another me?

Fair enough, I just didn't think about it.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She considered. "What about one where he survived and you did not? If that world existed, would that be your wish?"

"Wish?" Urd said, coming out. "What's this about wishes?"

Skuld looked panicked for a moment.

[baymaxing]

One where -- huh? You mean, like if I went back into the fire to help instead?

[Hiro asks, confused. Him ending up here, well. Maybe it was possible. He's just unsure what that would mean for back home. Let alone what to do about Baymax for that matter. He will probably never not get emotional about Tadashi. Back home, he....was starting to move on. Accept what happened, even if he couldn't yet forgive Callaghan.

This? Kind of almost threw all of that out the window. He barely registers Urd coming and asking about wishes, as Baymax glances to him patiently.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She shrugged. "A world where there isn't one of you to have an issue with your arrival."

"This sounds pretty heavy, what's going on?" Urd asked.

Skuld, reminded Urd was there, freaked again, and then blinked. "Um, isn't it time for your show?"

"Aww, Skuld learning to lie like her big sister...?"

Skuld pointed to a clock tower in the distance. Urd looked, blinked, then literally FLEW into the house, one black wing one white wing showing out of her back for a moment before she was gone. Skuld dropped to the floor, relieved.

[baymaxing]

Show? Huh?

[Hiro can't do more than just blink as Urd flees just as quickly as she had appeared. Or so it seemed. He raises an eyebrow, turning back to Skuld before giving a shrug.]

But....uh, I guess. That would be the ideal wouldn't it? Less complicated? I don't know how this stuff works, exactly. I just...figure, if there is a way to be with him again, without messing things up. Without everyone back home freaking out with missing me.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"So is that your real and formal wish?" She asked, her voice serious, her eyes odd.

[baymaxing]

My....Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[Hiro decides, though he is possibly unsure what to make of her in this moment. Sure, he was starting to move on. But that didn't mean he couldn't take advantage of this? If it wouldn't cause issues back home, then why shouldn't he get to be with Tadashi again like before?

Or....as close to 'before' as things might get.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

A light shot out of the emblem on Skuld's forehead as her head was flung back. The light became a steady connection to something beyond the sky and she floated salightly, awash in light. She gasped as the light from her head faded and she dropped to the ground. "Your wish has been accepted by the system," she said gasping as if from a rush. Baymax would be able to tell that every bit of her was on full alert, like the world's biggest rush of adrenaline. Her heart rate alone would be deadly if she was a human. As a Goddess she still managed to be a little overwhelmed. "I, Skuld, Norn of the Future., Goddess Second Class, Limited, will grant your wish," she said formally.

[baymaxing]

Norn of the Future? What......?

[What was happening? Was she okay? He barely registers Baymax trying to say something about her heart rate amid it all, what with Hiro trying to go to her when she drops like that. Hiro isn't sure what was going on, how this worked? Was this her saying she could help him get to a different version of San Fransokyo with Tadashi? He just hadn't realized it meant all this for her? Whatever was going on with Skuld.]

Uh, okay. Thanks? But....are you okay? Skuld?

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"It is my first real wish!" she said, a little breathless, sounding both excited... and afraid. Not that she'd ever admit to the fear. "Oh! Oh I see the calculations now! The Force system is active! I can do this!" Now there was more excitement than fear, though the fer was not yet gone.

[baymaxing]

Force System? I have no idea what that is but. If you can do this.....go for it.

[Baymax turns to Hiro, probably saying something about if this was what Tadashi would have wanted or asking about the others back home. Hiro either doesn't care or more likely, he just doesn't hear, as he's more focused on Skuld, on her fear and excitement that probably matches his own. At the chance to see Tadashi again.

He's not even sure what he would actually say. But, well. He'd figure it? Probably.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"The Force System kicks in when a wish is engaged. It helps alter things in the universe to aid in the granting of the wish."

[baymaxing]

Okay. That's another thing I learned today. I'm not sure we have a Force System back home....

[At least. Not that Hiro is aware of. Not that seems to be public knowledge or anything anyway. He had no idea about that with Skuld before either so maybe it wasn't such a public thing, even here. He isn't sure. He just knows if she can help him somehow, to be with Tadashi again, he'd owe her.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She laughed a bit. "It is a Goddess thing, unless you know many Goddesses you wouldn't know about it. I need to just run back to Yggdrasil to do some quick calculations. Sigil?"

The small robot nodded and rushed into the house.

"You can wait here?"

[baymaxing]

Oh....ah, sure. We can wait.

[She said it'd be quick? So Hiro figures it wouldn't take too long. He could just sit and wait with Baymax while she did her calculations or whatever it was. Hiro gave a nod in agreement, gesturing that she could go and they would wait here for her to get back.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

Sigil rushed back with a glass of water and set it down. Skuld have her a look.

"I couldn't carry the bucket," she said apologetically.

Skuld sighed. "Beats an occupied bathtub, I guess. Okay, back in a flash!" she shot a peace sign at Hiro then jumped up and landed,.. well it looks like she was going to land on the water glass and knock it over, but instead she shrank as she approached, vanishing INTO the glass of water.

Sigil walked over and sat beside Hiro. "Now we wait."

[baymaxing]

You -- wait, what?

[She....shrunk? That was new? Hiro tilts his head in initial confusion, trying to determine how that worked, no doubt, as Baymax just stands and lets the teen lounge in leaning against the vinyl robot. He was rather used to Hiro by now and his habits, after all.]

I can be patient.

[Baymax says in reply. Though it seems Hiro isn't as good at it, in fidgeting a bit after mere minutes.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"You have never seen a Goddess teleport before?" Sigil asked Hiro as Banpei came to stand behind her.

[baymaxing]

Huh? Uh. No. I never met a 'Goddess' back home. I mean, we know of some Gods and Goddesses, like, you know, Greek myths or whatever, or the Norse or Egyptians but they're not.....not like this?

[He tries to explain, running a hand through his mop of hair a bit, as if that would attempt to tame it without making it worse with how much of a mess it was in always just sticking up at all directions.]

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Why are they not like this?"

[baymaxing]

They....it's complicated. They're old gods and goddesses that people made up back then to explain stuff. Like, if it was stormy out at sea, that meant that Poseidon was angry, the god of the sea, or whatever, you know. That sort of thing? Those gods didn't teleport or whatever like this?

[He's pretty sure considering all the shenanigans they caused (Zeus especially) that they probably didn't go around granting wishes everywhere all the time.]