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[benames]

[ the first thing that comes up is loud music. cisco is in his lab listening to music in full volume, working on what seems to be a pair of speakers as well as colorful tea bag holders when suddenly he stops, looking ahead, somewhat disoriented and then shouts, just above the music. ]

Ok, the sooner we leave this stupid planet the better!!! before I will go all The Shining on the Atroma's sorry alien asses!!

[ and a moment later, a text message. ]

If you're going to check out the wreckage, be careful. Trust me, seeing the replay of what happened to the it when it went down isn't fun.

I'm suffering from daymares, yo, the least you can do is make sure you know what you're doing down there.

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[benames]

Maybe Hermione.

[ though he does admit, ]

I told her not to go near that place. those things are huge, it's like Jurassic Park underwater.

[ ... ]

That would have been an awesome movie.

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[winn]

[ he thought of her too, but didn't want to make the suggestion, didn't want to make this worse on cisco. he nods. ]

Maybe she can shrink them. Not as cool a movie, but it's got parody potential.

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[benames]

-- dude if she shrinks them, I'm a-keeping them. We could arrange a little aquarium, feed them protein cubes.

[ a plan already forms, maybe just to get his mind away from what he saw. ]

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[winn]

It'd be a pretty badass souvenir. We'll bring a bowl along.

[ it's good to see. he knows what he saw isn't gone and they're gonna have to figure out a solution for him to control it as well as deal with the aftereffects, but it's good that in the moment they can get back to work mode. ]

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[benames]

--- The ship looked like the Marsiva. The one from some planets ago did too. So the only theories is that someone is targeting the Atroma's ships or that they bring the ships down once they're bored.

[ but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to him. if only because, ]

there wasn't any other ship there. Just the big one.

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[winn]

You're wrong, those aren't the only theories. Look at how good they are, how they cover all their tracks - that's the kind of experience you gain with practice. Maybe earlier fleets knocked it out of the sky to break the augments influence. Maybe the Atroma's planting the similarities in our minds to keep us scared and in our place. Maybe it's something we can't even imagine because they have a direct link to our minds. There are a lot of theories, and not all of them are worst case scenarios.

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[benames]

There were people on the ship and they weren't the Atroma, they were people. Whoever knocked them into the water, that's the bad guy. They couldn't escape the fall.

[ they all died. some by drowning, others by being torn apart. ]

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[winn]

Direct line to our brains, Cisco. We don't know what's real yet, what's definitive. They're messing with our memories, our minds, our bodies, on a regular basis. We're just starting to investigate this, you know the multiverse better than most - in infinite possibilities what can be will be. Don't limit yourself to the one that scares you most, it's the easiest way to paralyze yourself.

[ and he should know, he's done plenty of that himself. ]

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[benames]

I know my vibes, I know which universe I tap into. It was this one. Just - a while back. I can't tell. The only other Vibe I've ever had was of my earth, through Caitlin. I do't know a lot of things, but whatever that was, it was real. That's the constant.

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[winn]

[ none of it adds up - not the certainty when it only happened twice, with long dry spells, not when cisco is a scientist who knows the atroma put them through 400 impossible things before breakfast. it could be a glitch, a long running glitch or a pinpointed one. it could be the trauma of what he saw - it's hard to doubt things when you've experienced them, especially when they're hard to take. winn knows that from personal experience. he always questioned the memory updates, their validity. but when he got his, they just felt...so natural, so real. how can he get anywhere if he doubts his very identity? they need a core and since they can't trust any test results without knowing the laws of the land - that core runs on faith. cisco's vibes may just be his core. he fears them so much he doesn't dare to question them.

whatever the case may be, it's going to be his job to keep an open mind here. ]

Okay. Whatever happened there - we'll figure it out.