video . 9th transformation

[permutates]

[ private to anya, earlier ]

I heard that you were Magneto's daughter.

I guess I think you should know that I know.

[ public, later ]

[ The camera shows the teaching annexe, swings past a few doors and settles on a stretch of wall where - well, there's a door. And beyond is a place where something should probably be. Should definitely be, for anyone who knows the location of the ice rink. Instead, there's a block of blank concrete, behind the open door. ]

The rink is gone.

[ She's heard the voices, over the speakers. She sounds shaky. ]

What's happening?

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[megamind]

The rink is gone? F-- [ He bites his lip on that word, and then says: ]

Alright, I'm-- going to be in the engine room for... a while. If you or anyone else notices anything missing, please say so?

[permutates]

What does it mean?

[megamind]

Well, that's the thing. We don't know. But changes to the ship -- unplanned, unpleasant, uneplained, not like the parties -- are usually... bad signs.

The rink vanishing might just be a vagary of the Admiral, or it might be the indication of a larger problem. And the last time someone did this, they'd -- uh, jacked themselves into the barge, downloaded it into their brain and had become an extension of the ship itself.... wherein it acted out all their frustrations with the barge system, making it much more like a prison.

[permutates]

...no one told me that had happened.

[wecanavenge]

Nothing good.

[permutates]

What do you mean?

[wecanavenge]

When rooms start disappearing, something awful is looming. Megamind is right. It started like this before.

[permutates]

It was that horrible?

[tolaywaste]

[If she sounds shaky, Alex looks it. A little pale, too. Which is honestly better than he looked a minute ago, before he turned the feed on, because, wow. Can we not, Barge?]

There's no way to know yet. [A beat.] So that's great.

[permutates]

Really great.

[tolaywaste]

You wanna come do something else?

[Distract him. Let him distract you! Distraction party.]

[permutates]

Sure.

You have something in mind?

[wedonot]

Once whatever it is has passed, it will probably come back. [Probably.

But.]

But Erik's right. Whatever's happening, it isn't going to be good.

[permutates]

Like what?

[wedonot]

The last time something like this happened, a very unhappy warden quasi accidentally dramatically altered the structure of the Barge. Several amenities were taken away, and Level Zero was changed dramatically.

[permutates]

It was bad.

[deadliestviper]

God dammit! There's nothing there at all?

[permutates]

Concrete. That's it.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

[It takes her a while before she decides how to respond.]

Thanks. It's not - really a secret, I just. Erik's not the same guy. It's complicated.

[private]

[permutates]

Rogue's my daughter from another universe. I know it's complicated.

[private]

[fridgetothefire]

Yeah. We've - like I said, we're close now. But I don't really think of it in the same terms.

[Except for when she does.]

[private]

[permutates]

I felt a little bit like an idiot when I found out. Alex didn't mean to let it slip, he was talking about something else. It's not his fault.

I mean, I felt like I'd wanted to trust someone and you hadn't wanted to trust me back.

[ It's not necessarily logical, or fair, but she wants to talk about it. That's why she's saying it, not that she wants to make Anya feel guilty. ]

[darknessb4me]

Someone's probably taken over the bridge. Again. It happens.

[permutates]

How long does it last?

[darknessb4me]

A week. Maybe two.