itsjustagamerp | It's about time, it's about space

Characters: Sora, Ventus, Roxas, potentially open to others who want to investigate
Content: A couple of people finally decide to check out the ship's time machine...
Location: The Launch Deck
Time of Day: Midday
Warnings: Potential shenanigans?!

[Just a couple of other characters can join in with Sora, Roxas and Ven, but please not too many so that the thread won't get too crowded and can actually move forward. This may split into multiple threads at some point.]

Sora had meant to do this before, but since discussing it with some of his friends, a whole bunch of stuff had come up that made it difficult to get down to it...turning into ponies, dealing with that dragon-horse guy, singing, and having another experiment to do. Even now, they were dealing with this sudden change to their bodies and voices (which still didn't make much sense to Sora). But, he figured now was as good a time as any to check out the time machine. Besides, with a bunch of them being older, maybe this was the fault of the time machine.

So, once Sora had found Roxas and Ventus, he headed down with the two to the launch deck. He noticed the time machine on one far end of the deck; a strange, dark-gray machine with a series of buttons, pipes, and a single heavy door.

"Okay, let's see if we can figure this thing out..."

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"He could speak a different language or have a really thick accent. Jaq has one of those, it'd probably be easier for him to draw pictures sometimes." There were reasons why picture-drawing didn't necessarily exclude talking, but it was true, as long as Perry could get his message across, it wasn't really a big deal.

And Perry? These boys were just weird.

"Smart enough. None of us are mechanics, after all." And it was clear Perry had some of those skills. Ven just let the two of them do their thing, since they really were less likely to blow the thing up.

At least, until something else occurred to him, something that could potentially be a bad sign... "You know... Gypsy can fix everything around here. Why didn't she fix this?"

Roxas had been about to ask who Jaq was when Ven brought up the topic of why Gypsy hadn't fixed the time machine. Thinking on it, it certainly did seem odd that she wouldn't fix this. Unless there was a very good reason for it.

"Good question. It could be that she had some more important things to take care of... or something."

After all the things Sora had seen, and considering the fact that his usual traveling partners were a duck and a dog, an intelligent platypus that could be a secret agent didn't seem any weirder. And Roxas and Ven were in similar situations to him.

"Ohh..." Sora mused, thinking over Perry's reaction. It was obvious that this was important to him. "Don't worry, we won't tell anyone!"

As Ratchet and Perry worked on the machine, Sora thought over Ven's question. "Yeah, that is a good question. Maybe she just forgot about it? She's gotta take care of everything, so she probably just never got around to it with everything going on around here." And compared to stuff like their air and food and gravity, the time machine probably didn't seem as important to her...

Glad that he had more people in support of keeping his secret Perry let out a pleased platypus chatter sound. He was finding that there were a lot of people up here he could count on and that made things easier. Of course, it also had the opposite effect of making him feel guilty for continuing to keep it from Phineas. How long had he been up here and was it worth continuing to hold his secret identity? This wasn't a normal situation.

Of course, working on a time machine was not the time to be dwelling on such things. He could think about it later.

It helped that a lot of people on the Satellite just had weirder things going on in their lives than Secret Agent Platypi. Or at least on the same level. The weird is no longer weird when you see it every day, after all.

"Maybe she forgot about it, but what if it was disconnected because it's malfunctioning or something? We can't heal anymore, if that thing blows up I don't want to be caught in it."

"Yeah, we could be taking a risk fiddling with this thing," Roxas commented, watching Ratchet and Perry tinker with it, "But, it could also be a risk worth taking. Maybe we can find some way to get off this satellite... or maybe just make things better for ourselves here."

Not that Roxas had any idea how they could make things better for themselves, but it was an idea. How it could possibly get them off the satellite was a more important topic, though. On the other hand, there had been a reason it bugged him that everyone was from different points in time. It was for this same reason that he was very reluctant to tell Xion what had sprung up in his memory. Of everyone from his own world, Roxas was the furthest ahead in time. He knew a few things about everyone that hadn't happened to any of them yet in the times they'd come from. So really, despite his words, he was a little torn on the idea of actually using the time machine, even if it could only take them to the past of the world they were in.

"Alright! I think that should do it." Ratchet suddenly burst out, closing the panel and stepping back from the machine to look over their work. "At least, I hope so. There's still no telling what this thing's capable of."

And he was still a little worried about how things would turn out. Not that any of them did something wrong - of course not; this kind of technology was as primitive as they got - but how it even operated, if it really was a time machine in itself.

The Lombax folded his arms over his chest, glancing back to the group behind them.

"Anybody brave enough to give it a go?"

Sora felt he was used to risk-taking...although not being able to cure was a detriment, what with the way Riku had taken a long time to recover from the shade fights. Still, the risk seemed worth it if it could lead to something better for them.

"Wow, you two fixed it fast," Sora remarked. He stared down at the panel as Ratchet closed it, then back at the machine's small door. "I dunno...where'd be a good place to go?"

Perry nodded at Ratchet's statement. If he was looking at it right and Ratchet's know-how was right then for all intents and purposes they SHOULD have a working time machine now. He shrugged, there was really only one way to TELL if it was working and that was to use it.

The platypus was about to step forward and volunteer for testing but Sora was a bit quicker on the draw. These boys were larger, sure, but as Ven had said, they were without their powers. Perry at least hadn't suffered from that. He was NATURALLY capable of kicking butt. He looked up at the boy with worry. Something could happen and would he even be able to defend himself.

Maybe he could think of a good time to go to and then he wouldn't feel as worried. Ah! He knew what might be good for testing and wouldn't be dangerous at all. Good thing he paid attention when Ferb and Phineas talked about these things. Perry reached up into his hat and pulled out a small notebook jotting down a time and location.

[December 17, 1903. Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina] He ripped the page out and handed it to Sora.

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/was getting Erica's go-ahead for moving ahead with the machine first

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