Town meeting!

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Characters: Iron Liz and everybody who hasn't been affected by the mirror universe.
Content: Liz calls a meeting to figure out what to do about this universe.
Location: The lab with all the animal cages
Time of Day: Night
Warnings: None thus far

It was tricky, and a bit risky, but Ammy, Liz and Aqua managed to sniff out who was still themselves in this universe, and sent a simple message to each of them personally; "Important meeting in the lab tonight. Liz will swing for Chinese."

Liz had spent the time before then sorting through the experimental weapons, testing them on a safe target and figuring out which ones could be used if they need to. Now as it was almost time for people to show up, she started setting up a circle for everyone, still in sight of the cage they threw Harvey in, but hopefully far enough away that they can keep him from hearing all their plans. This was already a tricky operation, hopefully it wouldn't be too much like herding cats in this group.

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"I'm fine," Liz replied at Pinkie's insistence, "It doesn't even hurt anymore."

Okay so she might have been limping just a little, but she took the fact that walking around wasn't making her scream in pain as a victory and a go to keep herself going. It was only a flesh wound. Honestly.

[sailorlaughter]

"No no no no no!" Pinkie might not have been Fluttershy, but even she knew that that wasn't how you dealt with a hurt leg. "You just sit down on that pillow, and I'll get the rest! I mean, if you walk around on it a lot, it might start hurting again, and then you couldn't help everyone with the evil people, and THEN what?"

"Besides, getting in a fight with a friend is never fun." She shoved one of the cookies lightly into Liz's mouth, then trotted past her to fetch more pillows. "Just take a quick little break before the party starts, okay?"

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"Really, Pinkie, I'm alr--" and then there was a cookie in her mouth. She stumbled back off-balance, plopping onto the pillow behind her as Pinkie continued setting up. She took a moment to glance down at her leg; it still didn't hurt all that much but the bandages seemed a little more red than last she looked.

Welp.

Frank was sitting in a pile of blankets, much calmer than when they'd originally found him. Liz reached over to pet the bunny's soft fur, coaxing him a little closer to sit on her lap if he wanted.

[sailorlaughter]

Frank reached up to sniff at her hand a little, then carefully hopped over and up into her lap, where he snuggled gratefully. He remembered her, she was his daddy's friend.

Pinkie, meanwhile, carried a backload of pillows back to the circle and started tossing them into place. "So, do we have a plan yet? Who's coming, anyway? I know Roxas isn't evil! But Sora and Riku totally are. Sora said he was gonna make me into a pie!" She frowned, somewhat less cheerful about this fact. "Riku's okay though."

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"I'm not entirely sure," Liz answered, idly petting the rabbit, "Minako and Aqua and you are the only ones I was sure about. I've been here watching Harvey while they sniffed the others out."

She looked over toward Harvey's cage, and frowned slightly. "I hope they could get the word out subtly enough. We're already outnumbered; the last thing we need is to get swamped now."

[sailorlaughter]

"Oh. Well, nobody's come yet! Ammy and Aqua are really smart anyway, they'll totally be okay!"

Pinkie nudged one last cushion into place then settled down onto it, tucking her legs beneath her body and frowning slightly. She'd had this question in the back of her mind for a little while, but she'd been afraid to ask it: first because she wasn't sure who wasn't evil, and then because...just because. "So...have you maybe seen 90s Kid anyplace?" she finally said, a little subdued. "I looked around some, but I couldn't find him and then I had to run and hide from Sora again. But nothing around here even smells like him, so I was just..." She was no Amaterasu, but ponies still had a much better sense of smell than humans; even without wind, she could generally at least tell where people had been recently. And she hadn't been able to find any evidence of 90s Kid having been anywhere.

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...90s Kid.

Come to think of it, she hadn't see him anywhere either. She'd been so caught up in just making sure Harvey didn't kill anyone or that Ratchet didn't start gnawing on her ankles or something. Her stomach churned a little when Pinkie mentioned that she couldn't smell him...that could mean so many things she didn't want to contemplate. She just frowned and shook her head.

[sailorlaughter]

"Oh."

Pinkie drooped a little. "Well...I'm sure he's okay! Maybe he got out of here and went to go be a used carriage salesman or something! That's kinda mirror-y, right?" She was pretty sure the real 90s Kid had never sold a used carriage in his life.

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...okay yeah that was an amusing image. Liz scoffed softly, playing along.

"Maybe in this universe he's some sort of genius and a renowned lawyer."

[sailorlaughter]

"Yeah, he's TOTALLY probably doing something like that! I mean, we would've had to run into him sometime." Pinkie nodded, her confidence restored by the conversation even if Liz hadn't been all that reassuring on her own. She just needed to talk it out a little, maybe. Besides, this really wasn't all that big a place, not even including the air vents!