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Who: Uzumaki Naruto & All the people.
Broadcast: Open Network Post
Action: The Hospitality Deck, and maybe the poor unsuspecting people of SS Huntress. (????)
When: 6th February

[Waking up in a place he didn't recognise, but knew instantly was nowhere like back home was unfortunately, a familiar feeling.

Waking up without his right arm, also, happened not to be an unfamiliar sensation. The fact that it had been healed, and all of his clothes repaired however, was as new for him as it was pleasant.

Naruto's understanding of the importance of his communicator, and surprisingly - the way it worked hadn't concerned him in the slightest, but it's several hours after his arrival on board the hospitality deck that he finally chooses to direct his attention to it. Fed, watered, and as clued up on what was going on as he could ever be without someone to direct his questions at left him here.

As soon as he starts recording his transmission, he gets right to the point. There's no familiar smile on his face, in fact - he looks bored. Fed up, probably. Their fight had ended, things were supposed to be getting better but now he's here.]

Know there's gotta be someone out there who can tell me what's up. Ain't Adstring, and it ain't Asgard. Who's controllin' everything? Who do we have t'fight this time? Why's it dark out. A guy called Madara didn't try an' steal the moon or something, right?

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Awesome! You did a thing. This is real helpful.

[Even before he's read it - but it's open, and he'll read it later or something.]

It made everyone have dreams. No idea what kind of dreams. I'll make sure he doesn't do it here. Don't worry!

That's the goal. People arrive and leave so fast here, it's easiest to have a centralized source of information for the new ones to get help. I update it when we leave each stop.

You don't have to worry about that. There's no moons around.

People go away a lot here too?

[That sucks.]

They do that everywhere I've been.

... Same here. At my last shithole, people just fell asleep, but here they seem to outright vanish.

I can confirm they aren't sent back where they came from, from what I've gathered from my talks with the Atroma. I have theories, but nothing with solid evidence.

Whoa, whoa. Wait what?

We don't go back home?

Not from the sounds of it, anyway.

If that was the case, the Atroma could have said as much to get us off their backs. But they didn't. They don't seem to be much for outright lies, preferring misdirection and threats. My teammate who was here before vanished, and... Well, for certain reasons, returning to her world is not possible. But when I asked the Atroma, all they would tell me is that she was 'safe', despite the fact that the place we were both brought from was anything but safe. So, she's not at her home, and she's not back at the castle, so...

Maybe things got better back at your home?

[Mostly because this is something he really doesn't need to hear right now.]

I was in Adstring twice and each time I went back home. I just didn't remember until I came back. It was the same in Asgard, it's gotta be the same here. It's always the same! People go from a bunch of places, don't they?

Not my home. I was taken straight from a different interdimensional shithole to here.

... It's possible, I suppose. There's always the chance the Atroma were being intentionally misleading. But that's where the evidence points right now.

I guess that can happen too?

[He has no idea.]

I dunno what this Atroma stuff is, but if it's anything like any of the things from before they ain't gonna wanna tell us anything. They all lie an' cover up the truth and stuff.

... The Atroma are the ones who brought us here. To my knowledge, they don't lie outright to our faces, though I personally don't believe the whole reality show thing is true, since they've never given evidence for that.

I know they're not honest, at least.

... Yeah. I knew that. I mean, I knew it but I forgot. No. I mean. I've not seen them!

Look, it doesn't matter. Point is whatever they say. We gotta find it out for ourselves.

We're working on that part, too. But I, for one, am totally out of ideas, unless you can just walk through walls to get deeper into the Marsiva to tell us what's there.

Nope. Never been able to walk through walls before.

And the implant would probably disable it if you could. But it was worth a shot.

Implant? What implant?

[He's looking down rather than anything else.]

...

Do me a favor and feel right here.

[She manages to get her judging stare under control fairly quickly, at least. She pats the base of her skull, where the bump from her implant is, turning her head to show Naruto.]

[What? He shifts the communicator so it will stay up on the table, leaning in to watch before reaching up...

His eyes widen considerably, and seconds later he's out of his seat entirely.]

WHEN DID THEY PUT THAT THERE?

At some unknown point before you woke up here.

[she's helping.]

[Oh, yeah. Definitely. Helping.]

HOW? What-- does everyone have one?

That's right. They provide some generally useless information, allow us all to speak the same language, and appear to have some control over our perceptions and memories.

I guess that's... helpful.

Weird though-- how'd they put it inside?

[He's still trying to toy with it. Poking, prodding.]

... I try very hard not to think about that part, honestly.

Why doesn't anyone think about important stuff?

[There are flashes of orange and black, because he's trying to touch it and see it... somehow.]

Because when "invasive brain surgery" is the least terrible option, it becomes more distressing than useful. Also, there's nothing anyone can do about it, since they control our perceptions. They cause an intense reaction if you try to do anything to them.

...

[For some reason, he stops fiddling now.]

Oh.

So... okay. Just, leave it alone, huh?

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