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[shiromadoushi]

WHO: Bakura and Vector Prime
WHERE: Upper West Toys
WHEN: Friday, early afternoon
SUMMARY: Vector meets up with Bakura to find out more about the Porter related stuff Bakura didn't quite feel was a good idea to talk about where the Porter could maybe hear
FORMAT: Paragraph to start, whatever after.



Bakura was doing rounds at the store, checking to see how things were going, chatting with customers, tidying up shelves, keeping an eye on the door to see when Vector would arrive. It was still early, but, for once, Bakura had been keeping track of the time so he wouldn't be caught in something when the other arrived.

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[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded. "Someone once suggested... that we weren't all really here. Like it was all a giant virtual world, almost, or that somehow copies of us were made, rather than the actual self being transported..."

He looked down at his mug with a small frown, thinking. "And with how some people are changed, and people who didn't have their own bodies before being given one... it might be true. None of us really have any way to know, really!" he said, smiling now. "But that might be why things would be more stable... where it's just the souls-- or sparks-- of people being brought in. That would take less energy and less--" he paused a moment. "Aaah, what is it in English?" he grimaced. "less distortion, I think is the best way I can put it."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"I could believe that if it wouldn't require just as much if not more energy. My own theory - so far - is that we are in a time bubble of sorts, seperated from the rest of the Multiverse. But that doesn't answer everything..."

He paused briefly, then continued. "[I know the language of your writing, if that would help,]" he said in perfect Japanese.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura perked up, giving a wide smile. "Aah, you do! That's a relief!" he exclaimed, switching to Japanese as well. "My English has gotten much better since getting here, but some words you just never learn easily!" he said with a small laugh.

"Transferring souls across worlds takes more energy than moving physical objects?" he asked curiously. "And that would make sense, since people who normally can travel worlds find they can't once they get here. I remember someone saying that all the roads he traveled seemed blocked, or something like that."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

Vector sipped at the tea, gradually getting used to the taste. It was...different, taste in all forms, but not in the bad way. "You humans have quite a few languages, for only holding one planet," he remarked. "But I digress. And it depends on the nature of the transfer, and the power of the one doing it. For example...there was another Prime, who could hold sparks literally in the palm of his hand. Transfer them from chassis to chassis. It was effortless for him because that was a side effect of what he had been built to do.

"I, on the other hand, am not he. I can move through dimensions, but...I have the feeling that if I tried, I, too, would be blocked."

It took some getting used to, being human.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura gave a small nod, sipping his tea. "I knew someone... someone from back home who had something that let him transfer souls into items," he said softly. The Ring's voice had been at the front of his mind a lot more than he would have liked, lately.... "Normally, he doesn't have his own body and has to share someone else's, but when he was brought here, he had his own form. A copy of the body he normally borrowed." He took another sip before continuing. "I guess if the Porter was built using that sort of magic or power... it would make sense that it would do things that way?"

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

He leaned forward at that, intrigued. "That power is beyond my measure. But regardless of what you call it, it is there. And I wonder about it. How it came about, and if there is any effect on the rest of the Multiverse or if we are truly cut off."

Vector paused then, considering. "As I did not sense anything wrong when I was not here, perhaps all effects are contained. But...I cannot say for certain."

[shiromadoushi]

"Or maybe... the effects are different?" Bakura frowned slightly. "Ne, do you think it's possible that the Porter actually isn't what brings us here? Or that it could have been brought in like we were? With how randomly people come and go..."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"It's possible. There are a great many forces at work in the Multiverse, and many I do not know." He sipped at the tea. "Is it likely? Not as much as a singular, central force affecting such matters. There may have been another catalyst that started it, but if there are any answers to be found, I can only believe they will be found in this dimension."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded. "You're probably right. Though I really don't know how much luck anyone could have finding out anything about the Porter. Even when I went to talk to it, it just seemed to be toying with me."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

Gods with a sense of humor. They could be the worst kind. Nonetheless...

"Can anyone just go up and talk to it, then?"

[shiromadoushi]

"Un," Bakura nodded. "And sometimes it'll post on the network and talk to people. It tends to ignore everyone pretty quickly, though...."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"And no one has any idea what it wants, or what its function is? Other than apparently searching for heroes." In which case, it was out of luck when it came to Vector; a hero was someone who went above and beyond the call of duty.

He merely fulfilled his to the best of his ability.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded. "Though I don't think it really is looking for heroes. It's looking for something, I'm sure, but unless it's just blindly reaching into other worlds to grab whomever it can, it doesn't make any sense. It brings in more regular people than heroes, I think, and gives those regular people abilities like super heroes have, as if trying to make them be the heroes it calls them. And then there are the people who are more villains than heroes..." He gave a deep sigh.

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"So if it doesn't get what it wants...it makes them into what it wants. And then turns them loose without a care...?"

He was guessing, hypothesizing without a real idea in mind. Still, Vector trusted Bakura to correct him if he was wrong at any point.

[shiromadoushi]

"Aah..." Bakura rubbed the side of his face slightly. "It really does seem like that's the case, doesn't it? If that is what it wants... But if it's thinking a hero is someone with super powers and that is what it wants... that does seem to be it."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"For lack of seeing anything else..." Vector gazed down into the tea with a meditative expression. "But there has to be another meaning. Even if it just a corrupt program, there must be something more than such. Things are never that simple, especially not with something so powerful...!"

[shiromadoushi]

"Maybe some sort of experiment? To see what would happen? Or maybe this is preparation for something?" Bakura guessed before taking another sip of his tea. "I could think of a million reasons, I'm sure, but not any way to see if they were right..."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"The pursuit of knowledge...?" Well...that wouldn't be too out of the question. Preparation, though...the thought made him frown, but not in a dismissive way.

"I think," he said after a few moments of silence, "that the only one who has the right answers is the Porter."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded with a small sigh. "Un... but I don't know if there's anyway of getting answers out of it... I mean, I haven't ever tried directly asking it why it brings people here before... just how to keep it from sending my friends back home."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

Another few moments of silence. Longer ones.

"You...wish to stay here, rather than returning?" he asked slowly, arching his brow.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura rubbed the back of his neck, giving a small nod. "I know it's strange of me, really, but this place... I have friends here, family even! Despite everything... things really aren't that bad. Better than they were before, back home!" he said with a small laugh, not meeting Vector's eyes.

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

There was more than this than met the eye.

But it was not his place to pry. And so, Vector Prime only studied Bakura, pressed his lips together, and then nodded.

"If you say as much, then I am sure it is true," he said simply. Children...

But they were to make their own decisions. And if this one - not even one of Primus's - had decided he was happier here than there, who was he to argue otherwise?

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura gave a small smile, looking down at his tea. "I know most everyone else wants to go home," he said softly. "And I don't mind that, and if they really want to go, I'd help them, if I could figure out how to. As long as the ones who wanted to stay could."

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

"That seems understandable to me, my young friend. For everyone who comes from a happy circumstance, there may be one who comes from more...stressful ones." Assuming the Porter's selection really was random.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura gave a small nod. It wasn't as if it was stressful now that the Items were gone... but...

"Un," he nodded. "Or from times where they knew they couldn't live much longer," he continued, thinking of Blue. "Some people seemed to arrive just at the moment of their death to be revived by the Porter. Or would have died, if they hadn't been brought here and taken care of."