Re: The Battle Majestic (Round 1 - Bubble Universe)
01-14-2010, 08:12 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Weldar.
Steven's mind raced, one sentence one of the strange being had said stood out to him, "one lucky bugger, better known as a "winner" who is let loose to roam freely". Were all the other contestants like himself, was this the fate of all those who entered the gates wandering the multiverse, was being able to roam considered some kind of privilege you had to fight for? And if all the other contestants were wanderers then perhaps, no he'd already seen the other contestants none of them were familiar. It was probably for the best, this was a fight to the death the last thing he wanted to have to do was kill the friend he'd been searching so long for, in fact he didn't particularly want to kill anyone nor did he think he was really capable of doing so. Still it looked like he didn't have a lot of choice in that matter.
The strange beings had finished talking, all the contestants had been set down on the battlefield. Steven had been so busy thinking he'd missed the last part of the speech, the description of the arena. Steven look around the bubble, he'd never seen anything quite like it. It made sense though from the little snippets he heard of the description he'd gathered this was a man made space colony of some sort, the dimensional gates never seemed to dump him in the vacuum of space, they always came out on the surface of a planet and the planets in question seemed to have much better odds of containing life than would be normal. Still nothing about the place seemed to out of the ordinary, it seemed to be a fairly normal city apart from the fact it was on the inside of a sphere. None of the other contestants seemed to in his immediate vicinity, that was good. Steven began creating, he didn't want to fight but sooner or later he would have to so he may as well use the time he had to prepare. A small glowing blue ball appeared floating just above the palm of Steven's hand, the ball grew larger and slowly started to take shape.
Steven's mind raced, one sentence one of the strange being had said stood out to him, "one lucky bugger, better known as a "winner" who is let loose to roam freely". Were all the other contestants like himself, was this the fate of all those who entered the gates wandering the multiverse, was being able to roam considered some kind of privilege you had to fight for? And if all the other contestants were wanderers then perhaps, no he'd already seen the other contestants none of them were familiar. It was probably for the best, this was a fight to the death the last thing he wanted to have to do was kill the friend he'd been searching so long for, in fact he didn't particularly want to kill anyone nor did he think he was really capable of doing so. Still it looked like he didn't have a lot of choice in that matter.
The strange beings had finished talking, all the contestants had been set down on the battlefield. Steven had been so busy thinking he'd missed the last part of the speech, the description of the arena. Steven look around the bubble, he'd never seen anything quite like it. It made sense though from the little snippets he heard of the description he'd gathered this was a man made space colony of some sort, the dimensional gates never seemed to dump him in the vacuum of space, they always came out on the surface of a planet and the planets in question seemed to have much better odds of containing life than would be normal. Still nothing about the place seemed to out of the ordinary, it seemed to be a fairly normal city apart from the fact it was on the inside of a sphere. None of the other contestants seemed to in his immediate vicinity, that was good. Steven began creating, he didn't want to fight but sooner or later he would have to so he may as well use the time he had to prepare. A small glowing blue ball appeared floating just above the palm of Steven's hand, the ball grew larger and slowly started to take shape.