8. [Video/action]

[brodakota]

[Of all the Freelancers here, North is probably the happiest to see the Mother of Invention. For all intents and purposes, it's home for him, and after a few months of technicolour monsters and other weird goings-on, it's nice to see something familiar, dream world or not. He spends some time on the bridge, before heading out into the ship, seeing all the familiar places. Mess hall's still intact, and it looks like the common room is as well, with it's lousy selection of books. The training floor hasn't changed, and it's nice to see that his name is still where it should be on the Leaderboard. As troublesome as it is, he is number five and takes a decent amount of pride in that. They don't spend a lot of time there, taking out the nightmares quickly before moving on. It still brings back a few unpleasant memories.

Theta's been pretty quiet throughout the whole journey, but he skates alongside North's head, equally glad for the familiarity. The last time either of them saw this place had been in a dream, so the, somewhat real thing is good to have, and North lets his hand trace the wall. He rounds a familiar corner, and heads to a familiar room.

His barrack is pretty much how he left it. Bed, table, locker, all the comforts of home. He sits down on the bed. Home sweet home. After a few moments, he turns on the communicator.]

I was just thinking that anyone exploring this place might want to avoid the barracks, or at least rooms 1115 and 1116. 1115's mine, and 1116 is my sister's. If she shows up here, I don't think she'd approve of anyone going through her stuff, dream world or not.

[Private text to Xion]

I guess I can actually give you a tour of my world now, if you want it? Unfortunately there's not a lot of places for ice cream.

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[brodakota]

There's several, at least that I've been trained in. I'll show you when we get to the weapons locker. It's a bit easier than me explaining.

[skysmirror]

I see. We should probably go there first then, since we need to go anyway.

[Sometimes it's easier to show than tell; Xion knows this.

And she's also just about finished with her ice cream, so anytime he's ready, she is.]

[brodakota]

There aren't a whole lot of sites to see, so I can just point them out on the way.

[North takes a minute to eat the last bite of his, before disposing of the stick and picking up his helmet.]

You ready to go?

[skysmirror]

That sounds good.

[The place looks interesting--like a huge Gummi Ship, only made of metal. She'd carried Sora's memories of his travels in interspace for a while, but getting to see this for herself is even better.

After finishing the last bite of hers, she nods.]

Yeah, I'm ready.

[brodakota]

Alright, let's go.

[North turns to head for the hallway, with spirits in tow.]

[skysmirror]

[Xion nods and follows.]

So you and York and Washington all lived here? Were you the only ones?

[brodakota]

[North laughs.]

No way. Three guys on a ship this big? That'd be crazy.

There were a whole bunch of us Agents, along with other staff and personal, like medics and engineers and people like that.

[skysmirror]

[Hey, for most of Xion's existance it was her and seven others sharing a big castle, okay? She does smile sheepishly at the correction.]

I guess so. How many people were there?

[brodakota]

[North has think on that for a while.]

I'd say well over a hundred, counting all of the staff. There's forty-nine agents though, if you include Wash, York, and I.

[skysmirror]

[So more people than Xion had met in her life had lived on this ship.]

That many? And it was big enough for everyone? How did you get food up here?

[So many questions.]

[brodakota]

We've barely seen any of the ship. Trust me, this thing is huge.

As for food, we mostly had MREs and pre-packaged stuff. Occasionally you got shipments of fresh fruit and stuff like that to break up the monotony.

[skysmirror]

I guess so.

[From what Xion has seen, it looks huge.]

MREs? Were those any good?

[They don't sound like it.]