Searching Far and Wide

[intricate_engineer]

Glen was creating a prototype for a new gate design. It was meant to be affordable and provide quick transport between individual homes. She tests several objects and a rat and everything seems to be working.

She steps through. Instead of finding herself in the room next door, she finds herself standing on a sidewalk in an empty city. The buildings are tall and perfect, colorless with doorways far too tall for any human. The roads have no straight lines and twist in on themselves. There is no life or sound.
Glen tries to stay calm. She begins to walk along the road, randomly opening doors and exploring buildings that are as silent as the rest of the world.

She opens a door that she hopes will lead onto a roof and is instead met with warmth, and soft noise, and color.

Comments

[intricate_engineer]

"I have a stun gun, but it might not work on 'mon."

[the_very_best]

"What does it do?"

[intricate_engineer]

"It dazes the target and makes it difficult for them to move for several minutes to several hours depending on the setting."

[the_very_best]

"Is it unpleasant? I could let you test it."

[intricate_engineer]

"Only as unpleasant as it is not to move. It doesn't hurt."

[the_very_best]

"All right, you can test it on a 'mon then." She lets out Juu and explains what's going on and Juu looks expectantly at Glen.

[intricate_engineer]

"Can you ask her to lie down? I don't want her to fall."

[the_very_best]

"Down, girl."

Juu sits.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen sets her stun gun to it's lowest setting and fires it at Juu's torso.

[the_very_best]

Juu stiffens up a little but waves a hand slowly when Bella tells her to.

[intricate_engineer]

"Can I try a higher setting?"

[the_very_best]

"Sure."

[intricate_engineer]

Glen sets the stun gun to medium. An adult human would be unable to move for almost an hour.

[the_very_best]

Juu stiffens up more, but she can twitch her fingers, and loosens up over the next thirty seconds quite a bit.

[intricate_engineer]

"Thank you Juu." She puts the gun away.
"It might buy me a little time, but it definitely wouldn't be enough."

[the_very_best]

"Yeah." Bella returns and releases Juu, who doesn't seem to recover any faster that way, so she leaves her out and scritches her instead.

[intricate_engineer]

"I'd like to try to train a Pokémon. Is there any particular reason I wouldn't be able to?"

[the_very_best]

"You need a sort of low-grade psychic connection for them to listen to you unless they're really docile or a herd, and both would be hard to come by whereas I can just catch you something easily."

[intricate_engineer]

"Would it listen to me once you caught it?"

[the_very_best]

"I'd give it to you right away so it wouldn't disrupt the connections with mine. If that didn't connect it to you we'd have to let it go."

[intricate_engineer]

"It's worth a try. I'd like to see one in the wild anyways. Want to help me build a second portal? It will be the same as the first."

[the_very_best]

"Sure. Then we haul it out the door into my world?"

[intricate_engineer]

"Yep. We can buy a trolley or something."

[the_very_best]

"Sure."

[intricate_engineer]

"Alright. First coffee, then back to building."