forum The Uber Bus

Started November 21, 2019 by @Mojack group

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Ava was looking between all of them. She didn’t know what any of this meant. “Inter dimensional?” She asked her voice small and quiet.

"An Uber… Bus? That doesn't make sense. Wouldn't it just be a bus? And what do you mean interdimensional? Ugh… can you just get me to the Lansing Area Library?" he asks. The teen looks around like he's given up and sits down in front of the girl called Ava.

“Business, my friend. The name is different, and it tends to attract customers.”

“Sure thing.” Hayden turned back around, pressing a few more buttons; and there was a different noise instead of the humming of the bus. More of a rougher noise. Almost like an aircraft. It wasn’t overly loud, but definitely different than the previous.

“Ah, don’t know what interdimensional is? Exactly what it sounds like; when you hear interdimensional next to another word; like interdimensional bus, interdimensional world eating creature; it typically refers to their ability to travel in between dimensions, my friend!” Hayden said, rather excitedly. “And if what I said doesn’t make any sense, talk to that fella,” Hayden pointed at Ekharin, “he can clear it a lot better than I can.”

Ekharin stayed silent.

"Yeah, but-" he starts. Then he thinks a bit and shakes his head like shaking out a thought.
"It's not real," he mutters too low for anyone else to hear. After that he simply puts in an earbud puts some music on.

”you can't travel between dimensions. There can't even multiple dimensions. Oh good all this talk sounds straight out of my history books, ” Ava finally snapped Still looking at all of them.

“Yes you can.” Hayden turned back again. “I’ve been doing this for billions of years, I’ve travelled between dimensions and I’ve seen many. Heck,” they tilted their head, “I’ve even been to different time periods.”

”buts that's-“ she cuts herself off. “What year or dimension or whatever are you even from?” She asked.

Hayden tapped their chin. “Mm,” they thought.

“I don’t know what year. Nor do I know my home dimension’s name, though I will say - not this one. It’s a dimension with many creatures; aliens, robots, monsters, or just regular people. Lots of war though. But war is good for business, so that’s good with me.”

”Aliens and monsters?” she asked. These people have to be lying or just outright insane.

“Yes,” they nodded. “Is that truly so hard to believe? I am one myself, and Ekharin is as well - though he is more of an interesting case, since he was formerly a human.”

Ava looked at him not fully processing it. ”I- there's nothing like that in my dimension.”

“Well, every dimension is different, after all.” Hayden looked back to getting the bus prepared.

Ava nodded. She must be dreaming. She should make the best of it before she wakes up.

Thalia listened to Hayden's description of their dimension, then clicked play on her music. She finished her book, stuck it in her bag, and looked out the window.

“This interests me. Tell me more please?”

Cat nodded agreeing with the other girl. She wanted to know everything even though she was pretty sure this was all a dream and she’d wake up any second now.

Thalia took one of her earbuds out and listened. Other dimensions did sound interesting after all.

“Well, what do you want to know more of?” Hayden asks. The engine is almost started up.

The faerie snapped her fingers- coffee appearing in her hand. “Anything. Anything at all.”

"What was your dimension like?" The elf asked, pushing her hair behind her ear.

Arielle turned to the elf. “My dimension is quite strange. Since we can control elements nature is pushed to the extremes. Us faeries do love to push things to extreme. People assume we are happy though. Oh no! The nature extremes make harsh conditions and we definitely can hate each other. It’s home though.”

“I wasn’t really born in a singular dimension. It’s a bit complicated, but putting it in simple terms - my species, the Efingir are created in between dimensions. We’re just energy, taking the shape of a humanoid is all there’s to say. We get pushed into whatever dimension has the strongest pull and is the closest - generally, my ‘home dimension,’ or the one I consider to be home.” Hayden begins.

“My ‘home’ dimension is quite big, to say the least. We have the Eldritch, massive world eating creatures, though as of recent they haven’t been doing much of that. We have empires, of the space faring sorts, many creatures. You might consider them alien. We have plenty of war, too. Humans as well. But in the size of the universe, my home dimension - humans are more of a..minor…species.”

Hayden sighed. “Third Galactic war is on the brink of happening. Good for business, unfortunate if you’re just an average person - which are most of my clients, even more so unfortunately for me. I generally find new clients quickly, though, thanks to the Eldritch. Obhil is quite a nice one. I think you guys would either like or hate Obhil, though.”

Ekharin listens to Hayden’s explanation, already familiar with the Eldritch. Oh yes..all too familiar.

Arielle smiled. “That sounds… fun.”

Thalia smiled at Arielle and Hayden. "It all sounds great to me." She looked at Hayden. "Is there a limit to how long we can stay on here?"