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"Ah don't worry about him," Aeolus moved out of the way of the screen so she could see Nine working better. "See those seven robotic limbs he's got? Kid made those himself, he's got fine tuned dexterity with them and uses them for all his work."

Had to really. Aeolus had never really seen Nine use his hands for a whole lot. They shook and trembled even when Nine was trying to be still. Poor kit had a lot of damage to his limbs. Hopefully once their local robot medic was fixed those would no longer be a problem.

"Anyway, don't worry about your landing." He came back into frame in order to make those adjustments to the signal. "Not my planet. The one I'm on now is known for its dimensional instability. Rifts and wormholes open and close all the time. The most recent one opened up to where you're at so I sent T-Pup through as a scout since it was a signal that didn't match any previous dimensional nor planetary signature we have on record. Usually we just get various versions of this current planet where I work....but you seem to be a whole reality away. Not my first time encountering such a thing but it is surprising."

"And relax! You're not the first intergalactic species I've met. That right belongs to the Wisps." The fox shrugged it off, all was fine if you asked him. He set one of the two ear translators in his own ear before facing her. "Alright. There we go. Need a hand out there? I've got nothing to do until our medic gets back so I can offer assistance. Or do you just need some place safe because you seem seriously stressed."

She just listened at first taking in all that he relayed to her about his little droid. He certainly was cute, she use to have something like that when she was younger. A little flying drone that she would hover about with or send it to scout the hangers at the space port! It reminded her so much of him! She kinda missed that little guy, to bad he got blown up by nefarious's enforcers.

" It's a pleasure! and i think he's got things covered from where i am standing! maybe a 3 micro-meter adjustment to the signal would help clear up the static! and i think we are good on this end! "

She gave Tails a thumbs up with her prosthetic arm.

" Ah startle? maybe a little... but no worries! can't blame you for being curious now can i. Your friend back there ok? he looks like he could use a couple extra paws... "

She giggled at poor nines misfortune, she'd been there she knew what that was like! sometimes machines just didn't want to cooperate!

" Anyway! sorry if i caused you and your people any concerns or worries. I promise i won't be here longer then i have to... but your planet has some kind of weird distortion around it, kinda messed up my instruments. "

she sighed as she didn't intend to land here and didn't want to overstay her welcome.

" Ah yea--- i'm not exactly from around here... i come from the Polaris Galaxy which... i doubt is on any of your star charts... i didn't exactly intend this visit and i'm probably breaking like a dozen intergalactic laws... just by talking to you..."

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"Welp....guess I'm watching that new "Demon Hunters" movie by myself tonight." Mo can be seen dragging a bowl of goldfish crackers over to the couch. "I heard good things but...I guess living by myself has its downsides."

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"Oh fantastic! Nice to know the range on this com unit is WAY bigger than I planned." He quickly typed a note down into his computer before facing the screen to greet the...uh, feline-esque being on the otherside. "Nice to meet you both, the little fellow that is sitting in front of you is my robot dog T-Pup. He's basically both companion and toolbox all in one! If I missed anything please let me know, been a while since he's gotten a utility upgrade. ANYWAY! My name's Miles but please call me Aeolus. And my assistant in the back there--" He moved for a moment to show the other fox who was fighting with some wires. "--is Nine. Who is currently fighting with one of our solar generators."

"It. Wont. Let me. Change. The. PLUG!!!" Nine was growling between pulls with his seven augments as he tried to remove a stubborn part.

"Can easily lift and move over 200 pounds but a single helios plug is beyond his means." The older fox laughed then looked back at Rivet with a smile. "Sorry if T-Pup startled you, this is the first time we've gotten a signal that DOESN'T come from Mobius or Solaria. My curiosity got the better of me and I wasn't sure how breathable the air was out there for vulpines ergo...sending T-Pup. Are you alright out there?"

He then jumped hearing a clatter and looked behind him. "I'm okay!" Nine's hand waved from the floor behind a table.

Rivet watched curiously as the feral like bot seemed to draw its attention to her ship. She tilted her head to one side at the soft growl of mistrust. She really hoped this didn't devolve into a bad situation because of it. Calistria was like her best friend, and really only thing from her past she could reasonably rely on. Then the worst thing happened!

Calistria in all her sassy glory chimed at T-Pup in the most annoyed little tone!

"Bork, bork bork… yes see i can bark to, am i also cute and petable? no strike that if you pat my console i will in fact fly us into the nearest sun…"

Rivet facepalmed both trying not to laugh but also hoping t-pup didn't bolt or worse become offended! Sometimes that old ship's sass module really just went off didn't it?

" Ah come on be nice Calistria... they are still probably decoding our language. Give them a few ticks, not everyone has a positronic brain with a triple modulating quantum core like you! "

Rivet paused when T-Pups body seemed to transform and become more modular. She began to suspect this was more of a scouting drone perhaps curious about them. Which was fair considering she nearly crashed! luckily she's use to dealing with gravity fluxuations messing with her instruments. Still blew out her sensor array, and she didn't like the idea of flying blind.

Then came the voice this time she didn't know there language and seemed to tilt her head. her Translator already picking up the words and running it through a dozen language filters to try and translate the mobians tongue. Still she knew that was gonna take time and she needed to hear more of the language to fully translate it to galactic basic.

Then finally after a few moments the little bot produced a screen and she could see who he belonged to. Seemed they shared some visual simularities or at least a paintjob. She wondered if that was a creative choice or, if he worked for some mega-corp or even a military outfit. She prayed it wasn't military she didn't wanna deal with suits!

" Yep we have visual! and i can understand you! hey looks like that language codex was a good idea! i was a little worried for a second it was kind of in the moment idea! "

She admitted with a soft smile as she waved to Tails with that soft smile hoping to appear friendly.

" Hi, I'm Rivet! and the sass machine behind me is Calistria! who do i have the pleasure of speaking with? and why is your little bot so heckin' cute! "

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"I hate this slow aging rate... at least for now. I have a roll of giant rattlesnake leather from my Egg Legion era and I've been meaning to have someone make me a nice set of boots. But Blaze says I need to be physically mature before I can wear my....quality hunting gear."

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T-Pup had no clue what they were talking about, but the two were seeming to discuss the current language barrier. Hold on...was that spaceship talking? The robot dog seemed to snap his focus to the ship and crouched with a soft growl. However....it was mostly just a sound, seeing as how there were no weapons to be seen in the canine's arsenal. A mistrust of ships, planes, and other transportation craft was to be expected with how often Clover Island had to deal with crashed things on their shores. Or those that noticed there was more than nothing there, and thus had to be chased off.

However that tone soon changed once the projected binary hit his reciever. The canine droid blinked and then sat before transmitting the coding to its master. It took several minutes but soon it got back a proper translation program from Aeolus on the other side. The canine tilted his head and one ear unfolded into a radar dish, it helped him pick up signals from across the dimensions. In this case he was setting up the links between worlds and running audio through the given filter.

"–And don't put me on speaker phone!" Tails was complaining to the droid, the sound in the background making it clear that he was moving things around his lab. "It's a scouting mission not a contact forging one and—You already put me through, didn't you?"

"BARK!!!"

"UGH... mental note: fix bug in priority ranking system." The fox groaned on the other side, clearly displeased with the situation. "Very well... run all audio through that new language filter and put me on screen while I get the ear translator tuned to that dialect...."

"Aeolus I can do that while you're running first contact." There was a younger voice in the background, more serious and flat.

"That's alright Nine, I got it, thank you." Soon enough a metal arm came out of T-Pup's back and unfolded into a decent sized monitor, revealing the youthful fox in the workshop he shared with the younger vulpine. His twin tails flicking gently behind him back and forth as he fiddled with a small device in his hands. "This should only take a few minutes....I'll have to rely on T-Pup's auto-translation in the meantime."

He finally turned his focus to the screen and adjusted the camera so the image was clear on both sides. "Alright, that should do it on the visual end for now...Haven't had to use the camera system in a minute but it should do. Hello? Is this getting through?"

She smiled warmly and as she gave the little bot a warm little pat on his head with her organic head. Mostly because metal on metal would create scratches or worse sparks! He was a cute little guy though she wondered if he had a language module or if he was restricted to barking? Maybe he was just designed to emulate a guard animal of some kind.

The Ships AI seemed to puzzle over the situation before speaking in that strange language again.

" ✂︎ ✋︎ ⬧︎◆︎❒︎❍︎♓︎⬧︎♏︎ ♒︎♏︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ●︎♓︎🙵♏︎●︎⍓︎ ◆︎■︎♋︎♌︎●︎♏︎ ⧫︎□︎ ◆︎■︎♎︎♏︎❒︎⬧︎⧫︎♋︎■︎♎︎ □︎◆︎❒︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♏︎♍︎♒︎📬︎ ⚐︎◆︎❒︎ ⧫︎❒︎♋︎■︎⬧︎●︎♋︎⧫︎□︎❒︎ ⬥︎♓︎●︎●︎ ♌︎♏︎ ❒︎♋︎⧫︎♒︎♏︎❒︎ ◆︎⬧︎♏︎●︎♏︎⬧︎⬧︎ ♓︎♐︎ ♒︎♏︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ◆︎■︎♋︎♌︎●︎♏︎ ⧫︎□︎ ⬧︎◻︎♏︎♋︎🙵 ♑︎♋︎●︎♋︎♍︎⧫︎♓︎♍︎ ♌︎♋︎⬧︎♓︎♍︎ ✂︎ "

Rivet stood up straight and placed her hands on her hips unable to deny what the ship told her and nodded her head in soft agreement.

" ✡︎□︎◆︎ ♋︎���︎♏︎ ◻︎❒︎□︎♌︎♋︎♌︎●︎⍓︎ ❒︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎📪︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ♓︎♐︎ ⬥︎♏︎ ♍︎❒︎♏︎♋︎⧫︎♏︎ ♋︎ ●︎♋︎■︎♑︎◆︎♋︎♑︎♏︎ ❍︎□︎♎︎◆︎●︎♏︎ ♌︎◆︎⧫︎ ❒︎♏︎■︎♎︎♏︎❒︎ ♓︎⧫︎ ♓︎■︎ ♌︎♓︎■︎♋︎❒︎⍓︎📬︎ ❄︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ⬧︎♒︎□︎◆︎●︎♎︎ ♑︎♓︎❖︎♏︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎❍︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎⍓︎ ■︎♏︎♏︎♎︎ ⧫︎□︎ ◆︎■︎♎︎♏︎❒︎⬧︎⧫︎♋︎■︎♎︎ ◆︎⬧︎📪︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ❍︎♋︎⍓︎♌︎♏︎ ❒︎♏︎⧫︎◆︎❒︎■︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♐︎♋︎❖︎□︎❒︎✏︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ♓︎ ⬧︎◆︎⬧︎◻︎♏︎♍︎⧫︎ ⬧︎□︎❍︎♏︎□︎■︎♏︎ ♏︎●︎⬧︎♏︎ ♓︎⬧︎ ■︎♏︎♋︎❒︎ ♌︎⍓︎ ♋︎⬧︎ ⬥︎♏︎●︎●︎ ❍︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎ ♏︎❖︎♏︎■︎ ♌︎♏︎ ⬥︎♋︎⧫︎♍︎♒︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ◆︎⬧︎📬︎📬︎📬︎ ♓︎🕯︎♎︎ ●︎♓︎🙵♏︎ ⧫︎□︎ 🙵■︎□︎⬥︎ ⬥︎♒︎□︎ ♋︎■︎♎︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎❒︎♏︎ ♓︎■︎⧫︎♏︎■︎⧫︎📬︎ "

The Ship beeped few times and began to compile a program before projecting a large detailed Binary language map above the ship. Allowing T-Pup to digest the information as it scrolled without needing any direct connections or links. This was safer for everyone involved.

The ship chimed in with a snarky tone!

"👎︎□︎■︎♏︎📪︎ ♌︎◆︎⧫︎ ♓︎♐︎ ♓︎ ♑︎♏︎⧫︎ ❒︎□︎♌︎□︎ ♐︎●︎♏︎♋︎⬧︎ ♓︎🕯︎●︎●︎ ■︎♏︎❖︎♏︎❒︎ ♐︎□︎❒︎♑︎♓︎❖︎♏︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ♎︎♋︎❒︎●︎♓︎■︎♑︎✏︎"

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"Arooo?"

T-Pup tilted his head, that.....wasn't a language on file. The robot had all Mobian languages and Solarian too. But this? This wasn't like any that matched its previous set. Hmm... then again it had the language program for Wisps in its system, maybe he could run a translation screening? For now...the pup recorded what was being said and transmitted it back to his owner.

But the offer for pets at least was welcome as the canine rose to its metallic paws and pressed his head into her glove. Pets? Yes please. Always pets. He may only be metal but it was still nice as the translation program ran through the deciphering process. Around the robot's neck was his collar and identification tag. One side simply reading: T-Pup V.11.62 and the other side reading: Miles Prower, Clover Island, Mobius.

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"Wirrr....Bark?"

The robot hound had located the face that had been showing up on its master's screen. T-Pup was rather small as far as robots went, and sat down as it ran a facial scan. Processing a non-mobian scan yielded no matches and thus had to be filed under: unique. Still...the canine droid's head tilted then the mouth opened to reveal no teeth but a metal tongue that hung out the side in a mimickry of happy panting as the antenna tail wagged furiously while those digital eyes watched her.

"Bark! Bark!"

The strange girl stood in front of her ship with her arms crossed and rubbing her chin. She didn't notice the little bot at first a she tapped her foot as she had the side panel of the ship opened up. Her eyes locked on the internal panel as her fluffy tail swished left and right in a methodical motion as her brain was working overtime. Yet her ears perked up at the first Bark, her head shifting and her eyes narrowed.

Her first thought was Nefarious or his goons had found her and her fingers coiled around the hammer. Her ships voice chimmed in with a soft distinctly female voice with a tinge of a strange accent as it spoke in an alien language.

She held her hand out like she wanted to pat his head! Her defensive posture dropping as she rested the hammer next to her more relaxed again.

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".....Well that's a new face on my scanner. Doesnt look like any Mobian either... huh." The fox sets his G-Fuel cup down before typing in the signal he was receiving into the data log. "Never had one from so far out before..."

"Bark?"

"Hmm...well I DID say you could scout new dimensions for us didn't I?" He sighs as he sees his pup doing its best to wait. "Okay, you can go take a look. Just don't go scaring anyone alright? And call me if you need to."

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"Blossom, Archie, don't worry! We're okay! Some stray wyvern knocked into the relay at the top of the lighthouse." Aeolus adjusts his monitor as he sends out the update. "High winds prevented me from flying up there but lucky for us...we have Nine."

"Still took several days and the time fluctuation is anyone's guess before we got it aligned again...."

@red-eclipse @powered-by-prower

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"Okay! I fixed our inter-dimensional communications network! We SHOULD be getting through now. Resuming previous monitoring and scanning!"

"Thank you, Nine! I was getting concerned that we were gonna lose connection for longer! Remind me to have Perceus track down some cockatrice for you tonight."

"Alright, I'll set about checking in on the regular worlds we monitor and see if anything else has popped up since we've been gone. I'll send T-Pup as a scout if anything interesting shows."

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Other muses pride status

Macaque/Usiku- Bisexual

Sun Wukong/ Sunny- Gay

Alphonse- Him/It Demiromantic

Cassia/Freya- Straight Ally

Bai Longma/Ao Lie- Transmasc Demisexual

Venti/Barbatos- Genderfluid Panromantic

Camo- cis male gay octopus

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"I know what you all are thinking I'm gonna say but you're wrong." He huffs before locating his own Pride Flag. "Ah, here it is."

"And there ya go! I couldn't care less what someone is, it's more who they are that gets me."

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"I suppose I'm more aware of it than most." He watched her as he processed her reaction. "But it's most obvious with how you interact with others. Your occupation helped me have more data but if I may be blunt. I do believe if I'm not wrong...you don't exactly watch the male skaters as intently as you observe the female ones. Correct?"

"I of course view no one in such light... I suppose that is a error in my being. I can feel bonds akin to how others describe their connections with their family but that's as far as my affection goes."

(from crossed-worlds) (Nine to Blossom)

"You're gay?" Nine blinked and then gave her an unimpressed stare. "Well yeah...I know. Blossom, the closet was made of glass with you."

.☘︎ ݁˖— “Ah… was it that obvious? I didn't realize until like, a couple months back…”

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"....What..." Is watching videos on his phone of a certain series. "Aeolus? What's a bison?"

"Uh..." Aeolus huffs as he considers the best way to explain this. "A fluffy tank with anger issues and poor eyesight I do believe."

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"Hey Nine--" Aeolus is returning with the results of the latest attempts at perfecting their assignment: flexible faux quills for their little project.

The spoken of young fox barks in alarm as he slams a bunch of wires back into a drawer, his tails bristled up as he stares at the older vulpine.

"THEY'RE NOT JUMPER CABLES! I SWEAR!!!"

"....Why would I care if you have jumper cables?" The inventor is confused for all of three seconds before shaking it off and handing over the materials. "Anyway, the faux fur and quills are done when you need them. Just waiting on the circuitry to sync up with the micro transmitters in the fake skin. You DID make it durable enough for combat right?"

"Oh! Yeah." He pushes off the desk to roll over to the file cabinet and pulls out his last few update reports. "Sensitive enough to react to pressure, temperature, and force without actually taking damage unless it's extremely heavy damage. To anyone who touches him, he'll be on the cold end but virtually impossible to tell him apart from an organic. A sharp enough blade or fire will damage the material and give way to the exoskeleton beneath however..."

"Perfect! He's almost done then." Aeolus flicks his tails happily. "Just a few more things that I have to give him and then he'll be ready for transfer. I'll call Blaze and tell her the good news."

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"......Is such behavior allowed?"

".....That is a complicated answer I don't want to get into." He says as if he never snatched more than a few things from shelves as a kid. Look materials were expensive....and he didn't want to ask his friends. So sometimes....the sneaky fox stereotype was true.

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Freya put her mask back on once the other two does got a good look at her face. It should help keep her and her double separate, and she didn't want to take chances when close to a pile of robots. Those could be some of the most dangerous places for her to be with her condition. Something that was still a work in progress, but at least her mask helped. It was officially a medical device for her now that Tails had modified it for her.

"I'm afraid I don't know that name..." She tilted her head when asked about someone named Starline. "My sister, she...made a deal with Eggman I didn't get a say in the matter. We joined the Egg Legion and we got both the cybernetics and medical treatment for my condition. Still a lie though...we were the heads of a whole continent's Egg Forces but...I wasn't getting better. I got out once I learned the truth. No sense sticking around if I'm just there to be someone else's lab rat! Noooooooo thank you!"

She made light of it but it was a very serious story. She understood why Athena had made the deal... wanting Freya to be healthy and safe, but all they got were battle training and parts to be weapons. Cassia was among the most dangerous Egg Bosses given who trained her. However, her gentle heart prevented her from being too cruel most of the time. Killing wasn't in her nature...and that was what held her back.

"Tails has helped me out a lot lately...Clearing my name from the Most Wanted list, giving this mask of mine an overhaul, and helping me recover some stuff from my old savannah base." She had her classic tonfa back, and these were metal, hit like a truck. She'd missed them. "The least I can do is give the fox a hand now and then...it's not like I get up to a whole lot."

She perked up when her double spoke to her, by Chaos...was this what she was like? Huh, no wonder some folks said she could be the highlight of their day. Freya only had cybernetic parts for her eyes and ears, the little slots on her cheeks held the solar panels and batteries that allowed those small robotic parts to function. The rest of her was all organic. She was glad for that really, she didnt get heavy augmentation like her sister had. She did look over this other doe, looked like this Cassia was more altered....why? Seemed rather excessive.

"What? You got to know your folks?! Lucky!" She admitted that she was a little bit jealous of that. "All I know about them is what my sis told me... and some...VERY hazy memories of Dad teaching me sign language when I was a fawn."

Clove understood the basics of zones and the idea of alternates of various realities. Its how she knew to be on guard and not fully trust an alternate. A Good variant was as likely as an evil one, and who knew what they'd been through! So even as she calmed enough to talk thanks to Cassia she was still in a defensive posture ready to defend her sister at a moments notice.

" I've only ever heard of Multi-Verse theory... this is the first time i've experienced it. It's a bit surreal... and concerning that you also have cybernetic implants... Did... Starline trick you as well? "

She was genuinely curious if that vile man conned her alternate---actually that was a better question. Where was she at? she'd never leave Cassia on her own even for this test? was her alternate alright?

" Tails? Oh that boy genius? never met him... but he has quite a reputation... Freya? oaf, honestly i'm more worried about getting you mixed up... i guess the mask helps. "

Cassia was near in a giggle fit at the idea of playing shuffle the cassia! But she kept herself as calm as she could considering this was very cool to her! So she knew tails, and got to test his stuff? Though she wondered if they had the same cybernetic parts? Judging by her scans she was more robotic then her counterpart. She didn't know if that upset her or not--- but she pushed the thought out of her mind.

" Ah dun worry Sis, we won't play shuffle the Cassia on you--- maybe! "

She giggled and turned to her copy

" Heh, Freya huh? only mom called me that! only when i was in trouble! or needed to take my meds... but it works! Guess you can hang out with us until they come to get you right? we were just salvaging some of these bots, but honestly its pretty picked over ... "