Thread:The Purpur Man/@comment-26173711-20191005064301/@comment-36309590-20191013231548

Glitchee123z wrote: Nero’s Aura deflected it. The incel just kept walking.

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Nothing but static.

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(Trevan and whoever)

Both Trevan and his follower found themselves standing in a whole dimension made of cubes. There was fire, brown sand with ghastly faces on it, lava, the moans of nearby Ghasts, and an overall hellish atmosphere and design to it.

The Nether.

.....

......a Ghast notices the follower from behind and opens its eyes. Trevan steps forward and slowly takes in his surroundings, seemingly ignoring the intense heat all around him.

"Well..." He mused, tucking his hands into his pockets. "I almost wish I had brought some of those white sugar based snacks the primates of Earth eat en masse. What were they called... marshmallows?"

It was after this brief spell of silent observation that he whirled round to face me.

"So," He said, striding over, leaving only a few inches of space left between my body and his. "Why'd you follow me? I mean I don't know about you but I certainly wouldn't go traipsing off through a strange looking portal made of blocks that just appeared in the center of town."

"Except you did." I remark, tilting my head to the side slightly.

"Yes, well-" He began, turning away from me. "I'm not exactly what most people would consider normal. For example, most normal people would have simply stood there and stared at this place in shock or horror, much like you're doing now, completely unaware of the creature that is currently on its way over to introduce itself." He finished, turning round and nodding slightly in the direction of an unseen object off to my left, his lips twisted into an amused smirk.

"Creature...?" I began, following his gaze for a bit before jumping a bit in shock as my gaze locked with that of a large, white, cuboid creature with blocky appendages hanging down from its underbelly. Feeling my bodies adrenaline spike, I tried to move, tried to flee, but found I couldn't. It was as though my body had turned to stone. Watching anxiously as the creature drew closer my eyes went wide as it seemingly opened its mouth, took a wheezing inhalation of breath, and then exhaled a globular mass of flames! I tried to move, will my legs to work, but got nowhere. My body still refused to obey. So I did the only thing I thought I could...

I shut my eyes tightly and waited for the inevitable.

But it never came. Or, rather, a feeling of impact did, but not a sensation of burning or charred flesh. There wasn't a burnt smell either... Had that blast been strong enough and fast enough to burn me to ash without me feeling it? Slowly prying my eyes open to look about, I realized I was in fact not dead, nor burnt to a crisp. Gingerly shifting into a sitting position, I found that I had been moved several feet away from the place the blast had struck by that strange man, who was now nonchalantly brushing some red dust off of his coat.

"Like I said-" He remarked with a shrug, glancing back towards me from over his shoulder. "Creature."

It was then that I watched him take a strange metallic device with a brown casing and dull red tip out of his pants pocket and point it at the creature. Pushing a slider on its front into an upwards position, he extended the portion of the device with the dull red tip, causing it to shine brightly as the odd device emitted a high pitched whirring sound. Looking back over to the creature, I watched as it squeezed its eyes shut and began listing to and fro in mid-air before careening over a nearby drop-off and into the depths.

"So..." The man said as he watched it fall, quickly tucking the device back into his pocket before turning to face me once more. "What's your name?"

I looked at him dubiously, before finally relenting. He had just saved my life after all, and judging from our past encounter, he didn't seem to be hostile, so what was the harm really?

"Aubrey." I answered, getting to my feet and dusting off some more of the reddish dust that coated this place. "Aubrey Cohan. What about you? What's your name?"

"I'm the Seeker." Trevan replied, performing another quick scan of their environs.

"The Seeker?" Aubrey questioned, raising an eyebrow. "That's not a name, that's a title."

"Where I come from it's both." He said, shrugging slightly.

"And just where do you come from exactly?" She asked, planting a hand on her hip.

Trevan paused, briefly considering whether or not to tell her, before finally deciding that her knowing wouldn't matter anyway as they'd be galactic neighbors soon. Least if he had anything to say about it that is.

"Gallifrey." He said, gazing at her from out the corner of his eye.

"Gallifrey? I've never heard of it." She responded, confusion worming its way across her face, which had taken on a glistening sheen thanks to the heat radiating up from the lava pools hundreds of feet below them.

"I should think not." He said with a scoff. "Not unless your people have figured out how to travel into other universes that is. Though from what I've seen of your civilization, I'd be amazed if you even managed to leave your home planet."

"Other universes? Does that mean you're...?"

"Yeah." He said with a small nod.

"But if you, and presumably your people whoever they are, are from another universe, then what are you doing here?" She asked, her previous look of confusion now replaced with one of pure curiosity.

"I'm 'scouting ahead' so to speak. My people are fighting a war against a great enemy, one that threatens to destroy us completely. I was sent here to create a gateway through which we can escape the devastation and chaos currently being unleashed in our home reality." Trevan explained.

"So you plan to bring your war here?" Aubrey asked, her concern rising once more.

"No. We plan on leaving it behind entirely. My people do not plan to invade, nor fight out an extended and unwinnable campaign on your soil, we simply seek refuge from it all."

"I see. And what of other beings in the reality you come from? You and your people can't be the only ones this war has affected surely. What of them?" She said, pressing on, despite not knowing all the details of the situation. Surely it was only logical for them to bring others with them, if not out of kindness, then out of practicality. Best to have allies rather than enemies, that's what her father always used to say.

"There are other races yes, but as for their ultimate fate, that I cannot say. It is up to the Council whether they come with us and live, or are left behind to die." He explained, rather coldly, which was Aubrey found a bit unsettling though not entirely unreasonable.

Couldn't save everyone after all.

"Hmm, I see. And that statue thing you got that money from... what was that?"

"One second." He said, taking out his sonic and using it to deactivate the portal behind them before sliding it back into his pants pocket. "There are probably more of those creatures here and Rassilon knows what else. Best we don't leave an open doorway back into your world."

"What if we need to get back?" Aubrey asked. While she could understand his reasoning, she didn't exactly like the idea that they wouldn't be able to just jump back through into safety whenever they wanted. Or at least what passed for safety with the Pandora roaming about whenever and wherever they pleased.

"We'll manage." He replied.

She gave him an uncertain look, but otherwise said nothing. It seemed as though he didn't actually have a plan of any kind, yet there was something about the way went about things that gave her a sort of confidence. It's not like she would just blindly follow whatever he said, but she felt as though she didn't need to worry quite as much.

"As for that thing I was in, it's not a statue, it's a ship. My ship. It's called a TARDIS, that stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. It's a shorter acronym for the original Time Travel Capsule term my people usually use for the craft."

"And it can cross into other realities?" She asked, curiosity growing even stronger with every detail Seeker gave.

"That and travel through time and space via the Vortex, a metastructure my people built to allow for instantaneous travel to any point in any worlds history. It also flies through space, given how it's a ship and all, but vortex flight is the main method my people use." He explained. "It's also dimensionally transcendental, or bigger on the inside as you put it."

"Wow... that's... well that's insane really. Your people achieved all that?"

Trevan nods. "Mhm."

"Damn. Well I'm glad you're not trying to invade. I don't think we'd stand a chance, or the Pandora for that matter...." Aubrey said, trailing off as her mind went to work despite the blistering heat. From everything she'd heard, Seekers people were practical gods. Why with the power they wielded perhaps all Pandora could be eradicated and their world finally free of their corruptive influence...

"Ahem." Trevan cleared his throat, bringing her reverie to an abrupt end, as he wiped a droplet of sweat from his brow. "I think we should get going. Not only could more of those things show up, we'll die from the heat if we keep standing here out in the open. Well you will anyway."

"You're righ-wait what? What does that mean?" She asked suspiciously as he started to walk away.

"You'll know when it happens." He said simply, looking back at her before beckoning she follow with a quick jerk of his head. "Now come along."

Sighing, she shook her head slightly before closing the gap between them and following along, silently praying that they found somewhere just a little bit cooler in this hellish place.