The Story So Far: After leaving Fractal City, personified math must deal with a wormhole that could bring them to Statistics... help point the way back home... or destroy them outright.
"It's time. We have to evacuate into hyperspace, and blow the wormhole remotely," CanTor stated bluntly.
"NO!" QT protested. "ParaB and Signum WILL get here, we HAVE to let--"
"Look at the time! You've got less than four minutes!" the fractal retorted sternly. A bolt of lightning zapped out of the overcharging wormhole, discharging into the atmosphere.
QT sucked her lower lip into her mouth. The red jewel on her front pulsed again. "Sigma says there's still a statistical chance. I'm waiting!" Most of personified math was now out of sight, having hurriedly boarded Logan's ship. The gazebo was now floating nearby, ready to pick the rest of them up. The only people still out by the Jump Gate with CanTor and QT were: Maud, Cosine, Tangent, Hyper, and Dr. Nisano. They all exchanged uncertain glances.
"Flux capacitor... fluxing," Nisano remarked to no one in particular.
"Damn. Damn, damn," QT whispered, clasping her hands together and bringing them to her heart. She turned to face the wormhole. "Come on, ParaB... please, I... I have such a deep regard for you....!"
The gate chevrons began to light up. As they finished, a Hyper Jumper was expelled from the network with a sound like a sonic boom. The small ship executed a whiplash spin in the air before setting itself down on the platform, not far from the Dial Out Device. The hatch at the back immediately began to open, and the orange haired parabola vaulted through the space as soon as it was large enough to accommodate her.
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| QUIZ: Can you spot all the SciFi references in this episode? |
"You're late! Do you have no concept of time??" QT chided, running towards the other woman, tears stinging the corners of her eyes. She wasn't sure if she was more upset or relieved.
"Hey, come on!" ParaB retorted. "How could I know this Jumper was preprogrammed for the steppe?? Me and Signum, we had to drop off Heaviside and Flora first - we got here as soon as we could!" The two math relations met in an embrace, QT burying her head in ParaB's shoulder. The conic squeezed hard, almost lifting QT off her feet. "This a new look for you? I like it."
"Oh, gag me," Hyper said, rolling her eyes. "Okay ArcSin, let's tear it up. You sure your brother's calculations were accurate?"
"Hey! Don't ever take sides with anyone against my family!" Nisano warned, shaking his finger at her.
"Speaking of family," Maud remarked, grinning as Signum emerged from the ship too, "how has my step sister been?" He went to grasp her hand.
"Stressed!" the step function retorted. "I got shot through a wormhole. I'm in a distant part of the universe!"
Cosine sighed. "Everyone's reuniting with their loved ones," the tall trig function murmured sadly. "If only..."
Tangent reached out and squeezed Cosine's hand. "I'm here for you. Think calming music. Maud and Signum need you as OneMinusCos, to find Versine. You can handle that! I know you can! ...cos-tan."
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| Mighty Morphism |
An axis flower sprouted out near the edge of Cosine's wavy hair. The twelve petals rotated, then unfolded, to reveal the number 1. At the same time, a necklace appeared in the air, the ends of it encircling Cosine's neck and clasping itself in behind. As the pendant for the necklace settled onto her chest, it flashed a large minus sign. "Negated amplitude, axis up one!" the brunette declared.
"Tear a-forming now!" Nisano advised, flipping a final switch. Sparks flew everywhere, not just from the flux capacitor, but also the wormhole itself. Then, in the air, a large crack opened up in the fabric of reality.
"Oooooh, that's disturbing," CanTor said, looking worried as temporal energy began to spill out. "Tell me when it's safe to blow out the wormhole, Doctor Nisano."
"Doctor... Who?" Signum yelled, raising a hand to her ear. Her words seemed to echo in the air.
"Don't shout!" Hyper hissed, crossing her arms. "Your words might spill through that crack into alternate realities!"
Maud pursed his lips. "I seem to be having a tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," he observed.
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Re: The QUIZ remark above.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone who stumbles on this later and wants to try placing all the references, I'll post them up... in about a week... at the bottom of the subsequent episode. There's easily over half a dozen, some direct quotes of source material. I'm rather fond of how this entry came together.