"Lisa!"
Smouldering Decay had about five seconds to realize, yes, that voice was directed at her before a blue blur impacted her, hugging her tightly. She turned, looking down into a pair of bright blue eyes and a face that most Paragoners would look at and groan with subsumed terror.
Decay, however, broke into an astonished smile. "'Nette, how the hell did you get here? I thought you and Jim were still out in White Plains, helping the Vanguard!"
"Well, who'd you think would volunteer to go find you when you went missing?" another familiar voice said as Decay looked up and saw the amused expression on Jim Temblor, alias Temporal Fault, and her original hospital's most common visitor before the war had broken out, usually with his girlfriend, the sky blue haired young teenager(actually, 'Nette'd REALLY grown up since the last time Decay'd seen her, but she suppressed the reaction that realization brought up) with an iron lock about her waist.
Despite the events of the last few days, Decay...no...Lisa was how these two remembered her...Lisa couldn't help but smile. The duo had been one of the few heroic duos she'd known personally before the war, and during it, they'd made sure to keep in contact even as the combat had intensified. The fact they were still alive had helped her keep from losing all hope that the war wouldn't leave much left for the "winners" once it was done on more than one occasion.
"They sent a rescue party?" Lisa asked, pulling herself back to the present.
"Yep," Annette nodded vigorously, bouncing off Lisa and back to her boyfriend like a rubber ball that'd just paused in mid flight and suddenly resumed its ballistic motion. "There was another reason behind it too, but I didn't understand exactly what they were talking about," she admitted.
Lisa chuckled. Same old 'Nette. She was a holy terror in combat with her natural powers, but she wasn't exactly the most brilliant of students when it came to the sciences, which was what'd helped them come into contact, when Jim'd mentioned his girlfriend needed a tutor for her high school physics class. "What was it, Jim?" she asked.
Jim smiled slightly more broadly. "Well, given that they saved the data from your trip here, they were able to refine it a little more for ours...and equip us with some stuff to iron down the things a little more." Noticing Lisa's widening eyes, he nodded, a satisfied smile confirming her guess. "With a little more data from us, the local Portal Corps should be able to lock down our dimensional address....and open two way transit."
Lisa'd never regretted getting into the hero game instead of her native nursing profession when she'd found herself here, but she'd always felt a little guilty that she'd effectively abandoned her old home to the Rikti, despite the logic confirming that it wasn't her fault and she couldn't do anything about it either. But now....now, she hugged the two young teenagers tightly, resisting the stinging in her eyes.
"That's great, Jim. That's just great," she said huskily.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
Smouldering Decay had about five seconds to realize, yes, that voice was directed at her before a blue blur impacted her, hugging her tightly. She turned, looking down into a pair of bright blue eyes and a face that most Paragoners would look at and groan with subsumed terror.
Decay, however, broke into an astonished smile. "'Nette, how the hell did you get here? I thought you and Jim were still out in White Plains, helping the Vanguard!"
"Well, who'd you think would volunteer to go find you when you went missing?" another familiar voice said as Decay looked up and saw the amused expression on Jim Temblor, alias Temporal Fault, and her original hospital's most common visitor before the war had broken out, usually with his girlfriend, the sky blue haired young teenager(actually, 'Nette'd REALLY grown up since the last time Decay'd seen her, but she suppressed the reaction that realization brought up) with an iron lock about her waist.
Despite the events of the last few days, Decay...no...Lisa was how these two remembered her...Lisa couldn't help but smile. The duo had been one of the few heroic duos she'd known personally before the war, and during it, they'd made sure to keep in contact even as the combat had intensified. The fact they were still alive had helped her keep from losing all hope that the war wouldn't leave much left for the "winners" once it was done on more than one occasion.
"They sent a rescue party?" Lisa asked, pulling herself back to the present.
"Yep," Annette nodded vigorously, bouncing off Lisa and back to her boyfriend like a rubber ball that'd just paused in mid flight and suddenly resumed its ballistic motion. "There was another reason behind it too, but I didn't understand exactly what they were talking about," she admitted.
Lisa chuckled. Same old 'Nette. She was a holy terror in combat with her natural powers, but she wasn't exactly the most brilliant of students when it came to the sciences, which was what'd helped them come into contact, when Jim'd mentioned his girlfriend needed a tutor for her high school physics class. "What was it, Jim?" she asked.
Jim smiled slightly more broadly. "Well, given that they saved the data from your trip here, they were able to refine it a little more for ours...and equip us with some stuff to iron down the things a little more." Noticing Lisa's widening eyes, he nodded, a satisfied smile confirming her guess. "With a little more data from us, the local Portal Corps should be able to lock down our dimensional address....and open two way transit."
Lisa'd never regretted getting into the hero game instead of her native nursing profession when she'd found herself here, but she'd always felt a little guilty that she'd effectively abandoned her old home to the Rikti, despite the logic confirming that it wasn't her fault and she couldn't do anything about it either. But now....now, she hugged the two young teenagers tightly, resisting the stinging in her eyes.
"That's great, Jim. That's just great," she said huskily.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."