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[strangerpeople]

9 AM
(THE END AND THE BEGINNING)

[Once the flash and crash has died down, there is the shouts of the passengers, and the clamor of confusion and fear.]

Is everyone all right??

[A male voice starts speaking. Akira and Kei will recognize it as the man from Investigation Point G.]

Everyone, calm down! We're...I think we're safe, I-

[Laughter. A scream. Muffled words.]

Wait-the other passengers!

[Anyone outside of the cockpits - and near dead bodies - will find the passengers all in random piles. And slowly waking up. They still have the faintest of injuries on them, they seem very confused and frightened...but they are alive.

Somewhere near Coach's carte service, a dog suddenly gasps, as does a confused, horned young lady in Premiere class, bread smushed into her cheek.

Near that, Mercedes Harmont lets out a scream, then grabs her chin, where a faint, circular scar now sits. Somewhere behind that, a man in a clown suit pops up, looking incredibly confused.]

"-'t me make this quick. Huh. What just happened?"

[It seems impossible - and those who were injured are still pretty badly injured - but otherwise?

Everyone is alive. And Hiyori - as he lies where he is - gains a vision.

Just pay no mind to the shuddering near the back of the plane.]

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[mermaidkin]

Ungh...

[Hiyori just been sitting here and now he's touching his forehead. Another stress headache, great. The last thing he remembers? It's vague.]

Where's Ikuya...?

? ? ?

[strangerpeople]

[The moment Hiyori takes another breath, he is plunged once more into clouds, as time and space unfold before him, for what feels like one final vision. This time, though, it is of a reality you didn't live - but, deep in your bones, you know it happened, because by breaking free, you can feel the reality of the horrors you experienced dissipate. It is in the face of that great black eye that hangs pendulously above the stars.

It shrieks and rages as the plane manages - barely - to breaks free from its grip, but this time, it can do nothing as space collapses and time changes. And so you see the now-rewritten reality as it is known to those outside of the plane.

---

Eddie Kim never made it on the flight. The assassin who had tailed him didn't miss him in Hong Kong. He lies on a bed, unmoving, victim of the poison he tried to use on Pacific Air 121.

After their vacation in Bali ended, Sean Jones, his real girlfriend Tiffany, Mercedes Harmont, and all 220 passengers of Kopara Air landed in Honolulu on schedule, without incident.

You were never on the flight, though all on this plane - 15 strangers included - will remember. Yes - 15, for in essence, whatever has helped to rewrite reality and create the paradox that has revived the dead.

---

You feel relief, because it means the battle (but was it a battle? and if so, with what) is over.

This time, at least, you've won.

Now it's just a question of ensuring the plane, its survivors - and more importantly, you - get where they need to go after the explosion.




Wait, explosion?!]

[stingyshima]

Hiyori-kun!

[Kei is rushing over to him.]

Are you alright?!

[illusionarymelody]

[Once Vita has ensured that Jonathan and Zelos are stable and doing as well as they can be, Vita will be looking for any other injured and sees Hiyori. She may still not like him much, but he was hurt and she's not going to leave him like that unless he tells her to go away.]

If you're open to it, I'd like to try healing your wounds. It will be with magic and if that is too much for you then feel free to refuse. I just cannot leave you like this without at least asking.

[guarandoo]

[ And here comes someone who wasn't alive and kicking all that long ago!

She seems... energetic? Shocked? But whatever she's feeling, she's waving one of her arms around in a slightly frantic manner.

And she's saying something... or trying to. Because she's got her mouth full with, what else, melon bread. ]

HRRURHEH! RGH WRH URHUR URHH?!

[ She has no idea what's going on. ]

[stavros]

What --

[Kokoro stumbles and clings to the wall.]

We can't have hit the hole, can we have? We'd either be ripped apart or... or ended up somewhere else.

[werewoofing]

[He stirs. Paws twitch, and then....then....

Eyes open.

This isn't....where...]

Ren?

[beguiledcard]

[ Oh...

............... He's frozen in place, staring hard at Ace. His hands are trembling, face pale. ]

...

[ Even though he opens his mouth to speak, nothing comes out. ]

[guarandoo]

[ And with a gasp, Satania awakens, whole (sorta) and alive.

She coughs and splutters as she sits up. ]

Agh! My head! What--!

[ And then she realizes to her horror that her melon bread is (gasp) smooshed. ]

Wha-- MY MELON BREAD!! NO!!

[ Also, you've got dried blood on you, Satania but whatever. Not that she realizes that there's dried blood on herself, among other things. ]

[stingyshima]

... wh-what?

[All the color drains out of his face as Kei just... stares... at Satania...]

That... that isn't...

[awitchdidit]

Ahaha, your highness, you're awake! Thank goodness, or badness, or what have you. You took a nasty blow to the head and a fall, but I can see already there aren't any lasting effects.

[illusionarymelody]

[Once the pilots are back to life, Vita gladly will hand the controls over to them. Then she'll go running out of the cockpit as quickly as she can to her husband and stay with him until he wakes up. She will also try and see if her magic is back by using a healing spell on him.

Once he's awake and she's sure he'll be all right, she'll go look for people. She definitely wants to find the hostages she knows but also the people here she grew fond of. That and she's going to go find a bottle of champagne and as many glasses as she can to pass around to everyone. Also, if anyone is injured, Vita will be going to find them and using her magic on them if they are all right with it.]

[stavros]

[Kokoro rubs her injured shoulder and starts looking through a looted first aid kit.]

Are you all right? That was strange, but we seem like we haven't been harmed...

[backuphero]

[It's slow, and painful, and if he had a choice he'd just go straight to real sleep, but he doesn't have a choice, right now. He's being called back by a familiar voice, a familiar energy. Despite that comforting presence, Jonathan wakes up with a downright pitiful whine. Even with magical healing unscrambling his brain and pulling him back to consciousness, the burns on his shoulders are... well, it's not going to be fun getting undressed, that's for sure.

Then again, he won't be getting undressed alone. He's been married a whole... three? days now, hasn't he....]

Did we... did we get 'im?

[He sounds for all the world like he's just been woken up too early.]

[champion_link]

[As everything pulls back to how it should be, Link looks around. He got sleep last night, but he's suddenly very tired. He makes sure the Master Sword is sheathed and walks towards the King Class rooms.]

[Once he gets there, he just... leans against the wall to his room near the end, closing his eyes. He's here, but he's exhausted. His throat hurts pretty badly, too.]

[mementodagger]

[Yurick's tired.

He's made at least a couple more enemies, made more friends, and been stung by his own heart again. Watching Ren confess has brought back too many bad memories of his first sabotage, Akira's confession and execution, the strain of trying to protect first Nagisa and then Jonathan week after week. Right now, he needs to break down, but he can't do it in front of anyone.

So he retreats to his room, closes the partition, and flops face-down on his bed for a good old-fashioned pillow-muffled sob fest.]

[whitemoontiger]

[ After everything suddenly shifted and the plane seemed to be filled with people again, Atsushi had went to try and find the others and to his shock? Had witnessed Dazai. Fully alive and without any injuries. He'd apologized to the other people nearby for moving so quickly, but had made to come over and hug him tightly while crying.

Dazai had only just laughed and patted him on the head while smiling, not sure why Atsushi was so emotional. Did he not know he'd died? His throat tightened a little but just made up an excuse and spoke with the other members of the ADA before heading back toward King Class. Just in time to see Yurick heading towards his room with an odd look on his face.

With the way things had happened, he hadn't gotten to speak with him and it didn't feel right to leave him alone at the moment. So that's likely why he's made his way over, hesitating before knocking on the partition to his room lightly. ]

Uh... Y-Yurick? I... know you probably want to be alone... but... if you'd let me... I want to help. Even if it's just listening to you talk?

[ No he doesn't expect the other to do this but... he's going to try. ]

OH FOR THE LOVE OF-

[strangerpeople]

[Ah, these reunion are so, so touching. The light of the sun had finally started to pour into the windows of the cabin. And - the pilots are coming onto the remaining intercoms.]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have spotted an island in our horizon. We will be checking for a land spot, and then we will be initiating emergency landing procedures in-

[BOOM.

Well, it does sound like an explosion. But whether it was because someone moved right instead of left, or hugged someone first before they hugged someone next - who knows?

It's on the tail of the wing, judging by the shudder. And while the plane is still in the air, there is no doubt that the plane won't be in the air for much longer. Now, there's no choice - they have to land wherever they can.]

Everyone, fasten your seatbelts-!

[Its at this point that every Strangers' phone ring, simultaneously.

Pick it up?]

[mementodagger]

[In the middle of talking to Atsushi, all hell breaks loose. Yurick throws himself into his seat, pulling his friend down with him.]

Buckle in, quickly!

[And then their phones start ringing? What the hell? Yurick presses the button on his, shouting into it.]

Whoever this is, we're in a bit of a crisis!

[werewoofing]

[I DON'T HAVE THUMBS]

[backuphero]

[Of course this would happen. Of course. Put a Morris and an honest-to-god Real Belmont in the same space and there's bound to be some kind of bad luck vortex. He's been unsteadily making his way through the plane, looking for his family among the chaos, but at that explosion his priorities... shift a bit.]

Vita?!

[And then the phone rings. He grabs onto the edge of the nearest seat and fumbles through "picking up"...]

Can this wait!?

[whitemoontiger]

[ At suddenly hearing the loud blast, he had already been startled but was even more so when Yurick had pulled him down with him. Halfway to asking what the heck happened when his phone started ringing.

Giving him just enough time to buckle in before taking the phone out and pressing the button to answering it. ]

Hello? T-This is a bit of a bad time!

[ He cant help sounding a little frantic. Things are insane right now, after all. ]

[mermaidkin]

[Hiyori had gotten up with much struggle so by the time he buckles his seatbelt, he's gotten the gist of some of these other conversations and he's very annoyed.]

Yes, Tono here, what is it.

[champion_link]

[He doesn't understand what any of this means but he's going to pick up.]

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[strangerpeople]

[As some point, people have been teleported out, or stayed on the plane, or went their own ways. The plane is landed safely, somehow, on the edge of the island found by the pilots. Everyone, eventually, was teleported out.

Everyone went home, and it was all over.






Or did they?

As the last of the off-worlders disappear, a figure watches from afar, unseen and unknown. She watches, and smiles, as she quietly presses send on a hidden communicator.

It is not a pleasant smile.]

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[She receives a reply.]

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[The trap has sprung. The end is the beginning.

The Game shall begin anew.]


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