The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

[salvagedlight]

Characters: Ven and Sora
Content: The boys decide to try out an idea... and things don't go as planned, of course
Location: Housing deck to top deck
Time of Day: ...Day?
Warnings: You know, they're not going to try to have something go wrong...

It was a wild idea, a crazy idea, but considering where they were? And what had been happening to the SOL lately? It was an idea that just might be crazy enough to work.

That idea had Ven running - although it was hard to do in these new, tighter, stiff pants - down the hall of the housing deck, searching for Sora's room. Once he got there, he started pounding on the door with one fist, too keyed up about this idea to stop after the normal two or three knocks. "Sora! Sora, you've gotta listen to this!"

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[optimistickey]

While he could deal with the sudden black and white look to the Satellite, Sora was not terribly fond of these new clothes...they felt starchy, for lack of a better word, and a bit too formal. What did these outfits have to do with a black and white world, anyway? Was it something else with this worlds's past?

An excited knocking on his door interrupted his thoughts, and he recognized Ven's voice. Well, that sounded important. He opened up his door and faced him in the hall with a curious look.

"Huh? What's up, Ven?"

[salvagedlight]

"I had an idea, it might work, and if it does we might be able to get out of here or at least get some help!" Ven was more excited than Sora had probably ever seen him - hell, more excited, really, than he could ever remember being. They'd been trapped here for so long, stuck at the whim of these crazy guys, that maybe he was grasping at straws. But really, it made sense to him...

"If we can jump between worlds now, maybe that means a message can, too - Master Yen Sid always has spells up to watch over the worlds, maybe we can get one to him or Mickey!"

[optimistickey]

Sora listened, and quickly matched the look of excitement on Ven's face. "I didn't even think of that!" He stepped out all the way into the hall with Ven, and thought a bit.

"King Mickey or Yen Sid could definitely help! But...how do we send a message to them?"

[salvagedlight]

"The hexfield! We can get visitors and messages from the outside there, so if they haven't completely disabled it we can probably get one out, too." He'd thought of everything! Except there was one really big problem- "I just don't know how to use any of that stuff, do you think you can do it?"

[optimistickey]

"Oh, that's right!" If other people from outside the ship could talk to them through the Hexfield in the normal universe, then it seemed to follow that they could use it now, especially since they were in a new dimension.

In truth, Sora wasn't all that great with anything related with computers. He didn't have the practice, and his experiences with Tron had mostly been "bang on the keyboard until it works." However, he didn't really want to admit that here, since it wouldn't do to just give up on an idea before even starting. It couldn't be that hard to figure out, right?

"Sure, I'll give it a look!"

[salvagedlight]

It was an idea. At the worst it wouldn't work.

...Right?

"Great! Come on, let's go check it out, we can see if we need to do anything else or if we can just get started!"

Not wasting any time, Ven turned and started to run down the hallway. Sora would follow, he knew.

[optimistickey]

Sora figured that the worst that could happen was that it wouldn't work, anyway. And even then, if something for whatever reason got messed up, Gypsy was always good at fixing things.

"All right!" Sora followed Ven down the hall and up the stairs, to the top deck. With everything black and white, sometimes it was hard to tell parts of the Satellite apart. It didn't look like Mike or any of the Bots were up here right now, though. The Hexfield screen lay to the left of the theater doors, now closed.

The problem was, he didn't see any controls for the Hexfield, like a keyboard or anything else that had been by Tron's computer. "Guess we gotta...figure out how to turn it on, first..."

[salvagedlight]

Look, Sora, Ven is no wiser than you are. Mechanical things like this satellite and all the equipment on it are completely new to him - well, sort of, since 626's ship was kind of like this - but he doesn't know how to work any of it. Ven just looked around in slight confusion himself; this was why he asked Sora for help, but if Sora didn't know either, their plan could be over before it began.

"I guess there's some kind of... toggle, or a switch somewhere to turn it on?" He remembered that much from the gravity switchers in the spaceship; you had to press the big glowy button to make them work. But they were big and glowy and a lot more obvious than this place.

[optimistickey]

Sora was not one to give up because of one little mishap, though if even Mike and the Bots could work it out, then it couldn't be that hard. He glanced around the cockpit area. "Or a button of some kind..."

He then spotted the three large buttons left on the desk, and his face brightened. "It's gotta be one of these! Let's see the red one's always flashing when the scientists are calling, so..."

He slid over and punched the green button. The doors to the theater momentarily opened, but then shut again. A little bit startled, he tried the yellow instead. There was the sound of something switching on, but otherwise nothing seemed to happen.

[salvagedlight]

Ven, though, stayed pretty well back from the machinery - he'd gotten comfortable living around it, he still didn't know what it all did. But when that last thing switched something on but there was no indication of what it was, he looked around with a small expression of concern on his face.

"Are you sure you know what this stuff does, Sora?"

FYI: He hit the button for Commercial Sign. XD

[optimistickey]

Sora looked around to see what the button had done, but couldn't seem to identify what exactly had switched on. Nothing else seemed to have changed...how could a button turn something on but then not do anything? It had to do something with the Hexfield.

He gave his best 'trust me!' look to Ven. "Sure I do! It probably just unlocked the Hexfield screen here..."

With that, he walked back over to the Hexfield covering and attempted to force it open.

[salvagedlight]

Yeah, well, that thing didn't look like it wanted to open, Sora. Ven watched him for a few seconds, then jogged up to try and pull his hands away.

"That didn't do what you thought it did, you're gonna break it!"

[optimistickey]

Now Sora was just getting to the point where he was getting frustrated with the Hexfield. He never had that much patience with computers anyway (unless they were people you could actually talk to), and now his patience with this machine had just about run out. So he became even more stubborn about getting this to work.

“No I’m not! Come on! I’ve...almost...got it!--”

Unfortunately, Ven’s prediction turns out to be true. As Ven pulled his arms away, he got one more tug on the Hexfield, and it responded by opening halfway--and then no more. There was a sputtering noise as some wiring inside the screen shut down. Sora stared at the half-opened Hexfield, suddenly feeling very sheepish.

“Uh oh...”

[salvagedlight]

Ven jumped back as the screen shut down, partially wrenched out of its track by Sora's hands - and something inside starting to spark at the mistreatment. He managed to lower his hands without freaking out about burns, but all he could do was stare at the screen, sort of slack-jawed with amazement.

"...What did you do?"

[optimistickey]

After a few more sputters, the screen finally stopped making noise. But it didn't budge from its half-open position, either. Sora tried to push it again, hoping maybe he could at least get it shut once more so it didn't look so obviously broken, but no doing.

"I dunno! I think it just got...stuck or something..." He glanced around for many some other buttons he might had missed, but there was only the three on the desk.