Agatha considered that as she built... whatever it was she was building. "Perhaps that's for the best then, but we do need to make sure we keep Tarvek from dying too permanently once we break the aura of effect." Another piece was snapped into place. "The Tardis though... I thought that was just a weird house where Connie lived with the other person who just called himself The Doctor." So she wasn't sure what the Tardis could do.
Once again she wished Connie were with her, Connie practically lived in the thing half the time, till the people calling themselves The Doctor started leaving the City.
She shook her head. "I don't think it ever came up." Though if he had told her while she was building something, it is possible that she just didn't process.
"Wow. How did you build that?" she asked, eyes sparkling with a million ideas of how she might try to do that.
The small clank of the Castle came over, grumpy. "You do not need a time traveling anything, you have a perfectly evil Castle willing to smash and kill people for you."
"No killing," she said absently and reflexively, not really paying attention.
"Can time be... eaten?" the Doom Train clank added, as it too joined them.
"Yes," he replied to the clank, absently, "but trust me when I say you don't want it to be. Things happen that would destroy your mind long before they consumed your very essence. As for the TARDIS, no, but she's been my home for a good few centuries now. Marvelous, the Old Girl."
Agatha nodded. "After all this planning, it feels good to finally be moving at last!" she said as she snapped the last bit into place on what turned out to be... another dingbot. "Alright, we have a lot to do. And you have to meet the rest of the team. We need to decide if we're splitting off to still look for Doctor Zarldiev a the same time, in case we fail at Mechanichsburg, if we're finding him first, or coming back here after."
"It might be better if we split up," Violetta said. "The problem is... bot teams could use the same people. How do we decide who goes with which group? Because no way any of us are leaving Lady Heterodyne alone with an unknown Spark, but if we are splitting up... There is clearly another Smoke Knight down here, and uncle Tick Tock is less likely to shoot at me than you guys."
"Given your family," Zeetha began.
Violetta rolled her eyes. "Fine, he is less likely to shoot and HIT me."
"I'd much prefer we not have to deal with any shooting at all," he says, with a clear sense that he finds guns rather distasteful.
"But you know this situation better than I do - but finding him won't be difficult. The weapon's signature will be radiating forward and back in time from the moment of its theoretical explosion. Now, the task will be to stop things before it becomes a fixed point - when I can't do anything about it."
Agatha blinked then shook her head. "The one we're looking for isn't the one who set off the bomb. We KNOW where the Baron is. The center of it all. We're looking for Violetta's uncle Tick Tock, another Doctor who specializes in time, like you. I'm not sure what a fixed point is, but if you think we need to hurry..."
Dimo came around the corner.
"Ho, yez, ve agree. Hit iz time dat ve all getz movink. Doze tree vill continue un here. If hyu," to the Doctor, "ken get uz beck here after ve save de town, den ve von't mizz too much of de fighting. Hy tink ve should get Maxim and de odders bevore ve storm de town, ve vill need all de strength ve ken get vell hyu go ovv und do the shmot schtuff."
"A good idea if we can afford the delay?" she asked, looking to the Doctor, kind of forgetting that the Jägers could take one a bit off guard when they show up without warning.
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Gyah, sorry about that!
Date: 2021-03-25 09:37 am (UTC)Once again she wished Connie were with her, Connie practically lived in the thing half the time, till the people calling themselves The Doctor started leaving the City.
Re: Gyah, sorry about that!
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Date: 2021-03-26 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-27 01:19 am (UTC)"In short: a living ship, traveling the time-space continuum. She can get me anywhere in the universe, yesterday or a thousand years from now."
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Date: 2021-03-27 04:32 am (UTC)The small clank of the Castle came over, grumpy. "You do not need a time traveling anything, you have a perfectly evil Castle willing to smash and kill people for you."
"No killing," she said absently and reflexively, not really paying attention.
"Can time be... eaten?" the Doom Train clank added, as it too joined them.
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Date: 2021-03-27 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-28 12:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-31 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-04-01 06:31 am (UTC)"It might be better if we split up," Violetta said. "The problem is... bot teams could use the same people. How do we decide who goes with which group? Because no way any of us are leaving Lady Heterodyne alone with an unknown Spark, but if we are splitting up... There is clearly another Smoke Knight down here, and uncle Tick Tock is less likely to shoot at me than you guys."
"Given your family," Zeetha began.
Violetta rolled her eyes. "Fine, he is less likely to shoot and HIT me."
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Date: 2021-04-03 03:43 am (UTC)"But you know this situation better than I do - but finding him won't be difficult. The weapon's signature will be radiating forward and back in time from the moment of its theoretical explosion. Now, the task will be to stop things before it becomes a fixed point - when I can't do anything about it."
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Date: 2021-04-04 07:20 am (UTC)Dimo came around the corner.
"Ho, yez, ve agree. Hit iz time dat ve all getz movink. Doze tree vill continue un here. If hyu," to the Doctor, "ken get uz beck here after ve save de town, den ve von't mizz too much of de fighting. Hy tink ve should get Maxim and de odders bevore ve storm de town, ve vill need all de strength ve ken get vell hyu go ovv und do the shmot schtuff."
"A good idea if we can afford the delay?" she asked, looking to the Doctor, kind of forgetting that the Jägers could take one a bit off guard when they show up without warning.