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New worlds need exploring [Semi-closed]

Characters: Sora and Terra starting out; may be more later
Content: Exploring the SOL and Keyblader talk
Location: Starting on Deck 5, heading down
Time of day: Afternoon, mid-week
Warnings: Nothing so far

With a little bit of time to himself now, Sora decided he would check out a few more of the Satellite's decks...this place seemed a lot bigger than you would think. He had not yet much explored the lower decks of the Satellite, as he'd been plenty occupied participating in the experiment and meeting new friends. ...Of course, somehow many of them were giving him a sense of strange deja vu. He had not expected a sort of time difference between himself and anyone else he knew showing up here...sometimes as big as years! He couldn't help but wonder...what if Kairi or Donald or Goofy showed up, but they were ten years into their future?

For now, knowing that there wasn't much he could do about it without the Keyblade, exploring was enough. Maybe there was something on the ship that could help everyone out.

He started heading down to the place where he'd first ended up...the recreation deck, which was full of a lot of gym and training equipment, including a pool. But once there, he headed towards the stairs to the sixth deck, curious as to what -or who- he'd find.

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Sitting around and doing nothing wasn't really Terra's style. Recent events made him even more inclined towards activity since if he stayed still for too long he'd start to think about the things he'd done and what had happened to himself and his friends. He didn't want to linger on that, so Terra had started exploring the satellite and had found the Recreation deck. Finally, a place where he wouldn't feel like he was lost and out of place.

Terra wandered the different areas, keeping in mind the weight lifting area and other equipment that looked interesting. He was passing a doorway when he saw someone else in the hall and took a step back to see Sora heading for the stairwell. "Sora," Terra called out without thinking. He had wanted to meet up with the younger Keyblader at some point, might as well do it now. "Where are you off to?"

Sora turned at the sound of his name, and spotted Terra heading towards him. He smiled, and waved to him. "Hi, Terra!" He waited until he was a bit closer before answering him.

"I was just gonna see what else was down here; I haven't gotten a chance to look at the lower decks yet," Sora replied. He also wanted to talk to Terra...he had a ton of questions for him, all about what he'd done with the Keyblade and what worlds he'd seen and how all this fit back in with Xehanort. It was a bit confusing, but maybe now he could figure out some more answers. "Want to come with?"

"Sure," Terra said with a soft smile. He'd wanted to explore the satellite more anyway. Who better to explore it with than with Sora? He walked out into the hallway and started heading for the stairs, "I haven't seen much of it either myself. Just the deck with Tom Servos and the cafeteria." Well, and the deck with housing but that went without saying.

"I wonder what else is on this ship?"

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"There's a deck of Tom Servos?" Sora asked. He had assumed that there was only the one robot. He couldn't imagine a whole deck full of them.

"I dunno..." But he supposed they were about to find out.

They made it down to the next deck, which looked like...tons of storage boxes? There were also closets, lots of cardboard, construction paper, paint, plywood, costumes, and who knew what else...and that was just what he could see from the stairwell.

"Wooah! Look at all this stuff..."

Terra nodded, "Minako was stuck down on that deck. I'm not sure how that deck came to be but I'd say we avoid it for now...wading through a bunch of them isn't very fun." It had been less fun for Minako since they seemed to be attracted to her, however Terra wasn't sure and he didn't want to exactly go there again if they could help it. Honestly it seemed pretty pointless anyway.

As they descended Terra had to wonder what else they would find. He stopped in the doorway and stared out at all the stuff with Sora. It was filled with all sorts of items of storage but Terra had to wonder what was IN storage. Some of the items were just piled on tables or hanging from rolling hangers. "Wow. You could build just about anything from this stuff down here. It must be for putting on shows or something."

Terra continued forward, eyes wandering around as he took everything in. He stopped when he passed a huge stack of a variety of board games. "Hmm...I wonder," Terra started scanning the titles. Some of the games sounded familiar while others were strange but at least sounded interesting like Battleship or Mousetrap. He turned back to Sora, "It looks like they have games down here too."

"Yeeeah, that doesn't sound too great..." Sora agreed. Couldn't be worse than being surrounded by hundreds of Heartless that were all trying to kill you, but still, not exactly worth it otherwise. "I wonder how they all got there."

"Yeah...that could probably be useful later!" Sora said as he followed Terra further onto the deck. If he couldn't summon his Keyblade here (which did bother him quite a bit), at least maybe he could make something similar so that he could keep practicing and not lose his fighting ability.

Sora peered at the huge stack of board games they stumbled across. Most of the titles he didn't recognize. While they had board games on the islands, they were pretty simple and few, and the kids usually got to the point where making up their own games was more fun. He did recognize one, though. "Oh, they have Checkers..."

He glanced back up to Terra. "What're you looking for?"

"Dunno. Maybe we could ask around." Terra felt SOMEONE had to know how that happened. A deck like that wasn't built for that specific purpose was it?

Terra had thought about weapons as well, but they didn't seem to have a use for them. However, with a recreation deck and the props here...maybe he could work something out. He'd think about it more later however because at the moment he was trying to browse the games. "A game Aqua, Ven, and I used to play all the time. This is a different world though so they may not have it." Of course, it looked like some games were universal, like Checkers.

"Yeah, or just ask Tom." If they were all copies of him, he'd probably know how they got there anyway. Of course, he also wondered how Tom knew he was the real Tom...there was probably something secret that only he knew.

Probably the only reason Sora hadn't been more concerned about the loss of his Keyblade was because there wasn't any Heartless or Nobodies here to be defeated. If they had to make people laugh in order to get off, well, he could certainly do that, too.

"What game?" Sora asked. He remembered Terra saying he grew up with Aqua and Ventus, and also that they had trained together...was a board game part of the training, or just for fun? "Maybe they do have it, they seem to have a lot of different stuff here."

Terra smiled as several fond memories came to mind. "Command Board. It's a pretty easy game to pick up. You have to collect so much GP to be declared the winner and to collect GP you have to place Command Cards on the squares that collect points and level up as you play." Terra had been pretty good at the game, although Aqua could beat him sometimes too and the Master ALWAYS beat them. Terra moved a few more games aside: Candyland, Operation, Hi-Ho Cherrio, Jumanji. "I don't see it...but there are a ton of games here...maybe we can look later."

He looked over his shoulder at the other boxes, "I kind of want to know what else is in here."

"That sounds interesting..." Although Sora figured he'd probably understand it better if he actually tried it. It looked like Terra had happy memories of playing it, anyway. He peered at the boxes of the other ones Terra found...Candyland and Jumanji looked like they could be fun, anyway.

"I guess so," he said with a shrug. They left the board games for now, venturing further into the back of the deck. Here, the first thing Sora stumbled across was a rack of what looked like really outlandish costumes. He pulled off one, which looked furry and gray, with ears attached to it. "It looks like..." Sora raised an eyebrow in confusion at the furry mess. "...A llama costume?"

He made a note to come back later and look some more through the games. If nothing else he'd find some stuff to occupy his time later. Plus, Sora had sounded interested in Command Board. It'd be fun to teach others how to play.

Terra raised an eyebrow at the costume. It looked, well, ridiculous. "Wow. Who would wear this thing," he flicked one of the ears before looking past Sora and at the other costumes. "There's a beaver costume too." He frowned as he pulled it off the rack, amazed that something like this existed.

"I don't know. I guess those robots would..." Sora said. The robots seemed weird enough to don a llama costume.

He watched as Terra pulled out a beaver one, too, and Sora went digging through the pile for more. There was a bear costume, and Spanish courtesan one that looked entirely too small, and...a pink bunny? Here, Sora couldn't help laughing a bit at the ridiculousness of it. "There's a pink bunny one, too!"

Of course, part of that laugh was for something else, too. "I wonder if I could get Riku to wear this on a bet..."

"Okay, bad example," Terra replied with a smirk. He still didn't see the purpose behind a llama costume. But, maybe if you ran out of costumes to wear a llama would seem pretty original. Terra wasn't planning on wearing it any time soon...or the beaver one for that matter.

He turned to look at the pink bunny costume. A small smile crossed his face before blooming into a full out laugh. "What sort of bet would that be, Sora?"

"I dunno...a bet that he wouldn't wear it around for a day or something!" Of course, Riku probably wouldn't unless there was really something in it for him. And he wasn't sure he had anything worthwhile to offer Riku in exchange. Or it could just be a part of their usual competition. "Or that he'd have to wear it if he lost a race or something!"

Of course, the problem with that was, Riku did usually win their races. Sora wasn't sure he'd be willing to risk the pink bunny suit himself.

Terra thought about that for a moment, "It'd probably be better if it was the bet on a race. There's a race track upstairs...but if he won," Terra grinned and looked over at Sora. He took the bunny costume from him and held it up to Sora, "You'd be the one wearing it." Sora would look pretty hilarious in the pink rabbit suit.

"It sounds to me like you had this sort of thing going on a lot." Terra tossed the bunny suit back to Sora, "I could probably beat you both though."

"Yeeeah..." Sora scratched at the back of his head, wincing at that bunny costume. He did not want to imagine himself wearing that. "I'm fast, but Riku still usually beats me at races, 'cause he's really good at stuff like that."

"Yeah, Riku and I have been competing with each other since we were really little," Sora said. It was sort of strange looking back on it now, when they'd just admitted to each other their own insecurities and jealousies. But, it was hard to shake off years of habit, and maybe now that competition could be more friendly than it had recently.

Sora put the bunny suit back in with the rest of the costumes. And even though he had just admitted that he usually lost races, he just couldn't resist a good competition. "Ha, you're on!"

A memory flashed in Terra's head of seeing the two boys running across the island. Yeah, they HAD been competing for a long time if they'd kept that up since they were five. Terra had never really had a relationship like that with Ven OR Aqua. Aqua had had different skills from him so most of the time they just worked together because they complimented each other so well. True, there was a sort of competition sometimes but more often than not it was cooperation...something to help improve the other's skills. Ven, well, Terra saw him as a younger brother and had taken it upon himself to show him the ropes around Land of Departure.

He was starting to get that same feeling with Sora. True, he knew nothing about the SoL, but Terra felt like it was his duty or something to train Sora and Riku while he had the chance to. He glanced over at the props again, realizing that even though he didn't have the keyblade he could still MAKE one. It was an idea and one he would have to explore later.

Terra smirked, "Great. We'll see how good you really are." He wasn't going to admit he wasn't that fast, that wouldn't be any fun. "You think Riku will want to race?"

"You're on!" he replied. Terra did look really tough, but Sora bet he could beat him in a race. Well...hopefully, he could. And with this stuff here, maybe they could make a Keyblade instead of using their own. Not the same as a real one, but better than nothing.

As for Riku joining in their race... "Yeah, I think so!" Sora said. Really, when was Riku going to turn down a race against him, even if they were stuck on this spaceship?

He looked further back down the deck, where it seemed there was even more stuff, although also mostly those mysterious boxes. "Think we should keep looking down here, or try another deck?"

"If we run into him we can ask," Terra replied. He moved away from the costume rack and over to one of the crates filled with lumber and wood. He would need to find tools of course. If he was going to make one for himself he might need to make one for the others too. He held up a piece of wood, yeah, this might work.

He looked over to Sora, "Hm? Yeah that was the plan, wasn't it. I wonder what deck is next." Terra stood up and walked back over to Sora.

"Yeah," Sora agreed. He wouldn't be surprised if they ran into Riku -or someone else- fairly soon anyway. The pieces of wood Terra had found did look pretty good...maybe good enough to make a real wooden Keyblade, and not just the small swords they'd had on the Islands.

"I dunno..." he replied. Once Terra rejoined him, he walked back over toward the stairs.

They headed down the stairs once again, and Sora peered through the hall doorway. Inside, this place looked more like a library...there were shelves full of books and comics, smaller shelves full of what looked like music, couches to read on, and TV screens mounted on the walls.

"Looks like a library for books and music and stuff!"

If there was one constant in all the worlds, it was that sooner or later, Aqua would find the local library, or at least the local equivalent of it. So really, it probably wasn't much of a surprise - at least to Terra - that not long after they entered the library, Aqua stepped out from behind one the shelves. Apparently she hadn't found much of interest down that one, though, given she didn't have a book in her arms.

It was likely equally unsurprising that as soon as she saw them, she left of her search to come over to where they were standing.

"Looking for something?"

"Oh. I think I heard someone mention this deck," Terra replied. He was more interested in the last two decks, but books weren't a bad way to pass the time either. Although, based on the nature of this place he wasn't sure he'd find one he liked.

Terra was about to start browsing one of the shelves when a familiar voice caught his attention instead. He smiled, crossing his arms, "I guess I should have known you'd find your way here, huh." Terra looked over at Sora before returning his gaze to Aqua, "We were just looking around the satellite...trying to figure out where everything was. We just came from a deck with board games and costumes." He noticed Aqua's arms were bare and added, "Guessing you haven't found anything worth while?"

Sora didn't mind books so much either...interesting ones, at least. He more preferred comics, though. At least it looked like perhaps this deck had those, too. But it was true...if this place was supposed to drive them crazy with bad stuff, they probably weren't going to find many good things.

They were greeted on this deck by a young woman with blue hair...Sora remembered her from the network as Aqua, Terra's friend. He also remembered her being a bit troubled while talking to him...but then again, he'd been experiencing some similar things with others he met here. He smiled, and waved to her as they approached. "Hey there!"

"Of course," Aqua answered with a smile. After all, there'd been any number of times she'd ended up in the library at home, even after she stopped being so reclusive. Spells didn't exactly create themselves, and sometimes a little bit of research was exactly the thing that was called for. "And no, nothing interesting yet."

Then again, she hadn't looked at all the shelves yet. Still, she offered a polite nod to Sora. The odd time displacement was odd, but she could deal with it for the time being. "Hey."

Terra shrugged, "Too bad." He knew how much Aqua enjoyed a good book. Granted, he wasn't sure he could help her find one, their tastes were different when it came to that sort of thing.

There was a moment of awkward silence as Terra tried to figure out where to continue the conversation. He looked back to Aqua, "Hey have you explored much of the satellite yet? You can come with me and Sora if there's nothing interesting here." Terra glanced at Sora to see if he minded this. He didn't think he would, Sora didn't really seem like the type who would turn down more friends.

While Sora got that same weird feeling of remembrance with Aqua that he was with Terra, it was still very vague, and not on the same time difference they did.

"Too bad there's not much interesting on this floor..." Sora sighed. It would probably require a more thorough investigation, and as it looked, they'd likely have the time for that.

He folded his hands behind his head. Sora was definitely not the type to turn down new friends, especially if they had stories of being Keybearers themselves. "Sure, we can keep looking around here!"

Not anything interesting! Of course there was something interesting here. Okay, so she hadn't found any books she wanted to read, but that didn't mean that the whole deck was uninteresting. Still, she didn't bring that fact up. She wasn't entirely happy about it, but she didn't need to tell Sora that.

"Lead the way, then."

The next deck was more interesting to Terra than any library would be. The Nature Deck look like it was made to remind the person of the outdoors or something. There were tons of trees and a small place to farm. Terra wasn't positive but he was pretty sure he heard a splash of water as well. Maybe there was a pond or something on this deck.

He looked around in awe. Yeah, he might spend some time here if he started to go crazy from all the metal and spaceyness of the rest of the place. After he stood there for awhile bird song started to pick up and Terra looked up into the trees, "Wow, they even have animals in here."

Perhaps Sora could be persuaded into reading something with Aqua later, but he sadly wasn't much of a bookworm. He was much more interested in the next deck. And as they headed down the stairs and reached it, it did reveal some new and interesting things.

"Woooah, weird..." Sora gazed up at the trees and plants on this deck in wonder. It was definitely no Deep Jungle or Pride Lands, but considering the fact that this was supposed to be on a space station, it was pretty unusual.

He heard the birdsong as well. "How do you think all this stuff ended up here? Did those robots really grow it all?"

Aqua was less interesting in actually reading with someone than she was in people simply reading at all. As long as the library (such as it was) actually saw use that was fine with her. But for now, the newest deck was of far more interest. It wasn't every day you found what seemed to be a park inside a spaceship.

(Or so she assumed. She hadn't actually seen a lot of 626's ship).

"It can't have come from nowhere. Someone had to plant it." And bring in the birds, for that matter.

"Well, just because we can't access the world below the satellite now doesn't mean it was always that way. I imagine all this stuff is from down there. Maybe it's to remind Mike of home," Terra suggested. If HE was stuck on a satellite, which he was, HE would want a deck like this to remind him of home and to just bring a little bit of green up here wouldn't hurt.

Terra decided he wanted to explore this deck more and started walking forward. There were signs of other, larger, animals up here as well. He stopped and turned back, "You two coming?"

"I guess so," Sora said. It did make sense for him to want some stuff from home...Sora remembered his own yearnings for home, and even now he was a little bit sad that he'd been delayed from getting home once again. "I can understand feeling homesick..."

But his momentary melancholy was chased off by the prospect of exploring more of this indoor forest. "Yeah!" Sora trailed along after him. He wondered if any of the animals around here talked, or if they were just normal animals. The ground beneath their feet didn't feel quite like real earth...it was obvious that there was a metal floor somewhere underneath them. But still, it was apparently enough even for trees to grow.

Yes, that made sense. Even when one was only separated from one's home it was hard to not end up homesick in some manner and if she hadn't been quite so busy keep everything in line she might have remembered that it had been a long time since she'd been home during her travels. Now, of course, matters had changed for the worse, but it was still nice to see a little bit of green to break the monotony.

"Of course," she answered as she followed Terra, although she did stop to take a look at a cluster of flowers at the roots of one of the trees. It wasn't quite the home she'd known but it would do just fine.

Terra nodded. He could understand that homesickness too. He looked up at the trees as he walked. Unlike Sora, he didn't have the luxury of expecting to return home. His world was destroyed...tainted by the darkness that he had helped Xehanort unleash. There was a tightening in his chest, "Yeah...it's an ache that never quite goes away." He couldn't think of home without thinking of his Master, and he couldn't think of either without feeling unbearably lost.

He kept ahead of Aqua, knowing she'd probably be able to tell what he was thinking just by the look on his face. Instead, he focused on his surroundings now. It was good that he did, too, because out from one of the trees popped a Tom Servo clone from another deck...with antlers attached to its head. Terra had to stumble to a halt to keep from running over it.

Sora couldn't help but notice there was something a little more to how Terra and Aqua reacted to the question of homesickness. There was more to it than just missing home...there was something else that was making them sad; something that apparently neither wanted to talk about. He had noticed it a little bit on the network, too. What had happened ten years ago with these other Keybearers?

Sora was about to venture a question (although how he'd really ask about this he wasn't sure,) when they were suddenly interrupted by the appearance of Tom Servo...or at least one of those other hundreds of Tom Servos. The Tom Servo spotted them and hopped forward...as much as a hovering robot could hop, anyway. "Look! I'm a deer!" The Servo said. "Chirrup, chirrup, bleat, bleat! DEER!"

"Maaaaybe...we should check back on this deck later," Sora suggested. He wasn't sure how well they'd be able to explore with a confused robot traipsing around them. Plus it was just kinda weird. Well...weird-er than everything else at the moment.

As nice as the sight of nature had been, the sudden arrival of one of the Tom Servos wearing antlers ruined anything that might have been idyllic about the place. On second thought, she really shouldn't have been surprised about it, but it was still very much counter to everything else on the deck.

Which was about par for the course. No one had ever sad living here was going to be the easiest of tasks.

"I think we should," Aqua answered, eyeing the robot with something approximating confusion. On the bright side, deer shouldn't have been interested in paying any attention to the female form unless it was a female deer, but she didn't exactly trust to whatever logic was running through that electronic brain to hold forever. Better to leave now than regret it later.

It was hard not to stare at the robot-deer. In fact, that's what Terra did for a minute before Sora's voice pulled him out of it. Terra had been to some strange lands before, but this satellite was really starting to take the cake as far as weird places went.

"Yeah," Terra replied, backing away from the Tom Servo deer, "I think we can explore more of the Satellite some other time." He chuckled a bit, but he really didn't want to see what the bot was planning to do if it saw Aqua and acted like it's counterparts had around Minako. Not that Aqua couldn't handle herself, he just didn't want to see it.

He looked over at his two companions, "Want to get something to eat instead or go hand out in the recreation area?"

Sora didn't think much about how the Tom Servo would react to Aqua any differently than anyone else, but those sorts of things still tended to go over his head anyway. Mostly, he just thought it was weird.

"Sure." Sadly, he supposed they would have plenty of time to explore, if they weren't getting off until they made everyone laugh enough. Sometimes people could be really stubborn about laughing! Like Riku, sometimes.

Sora nodded. He was good with either food or the gym stuff right now. "If Riku's up there, we can try that race now!" Sora said. "Or see if that machine can make sea-salt ice cream..." A thought occurred to him, and he looked up at Terra and Aqua. Did they even have that ten years ago? "Have you guys ever tried it?"

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