Here She Comes

[work_wife]

WHO: Robin Buckley, You?
WHERE: Temba
WHAT: New Arrival Trying To Figure It Out
WHEN: July 12th
WARNINGS: None
NOTES: I am considering TDM stuff canon unless otherwise asked.

I. Beat The Heat? | Temba Fountain

There's nothing that is even remotely nice about her arrival. Here she is, tired, grieving, freaked out about everything going on at home, and BAM! Wake up in a damn fountain. Her clothes are dripping now, her hair is limper than Steve's without his expensive hair spray, and it's blisteringly hot. Oh, and did she mention she woke up with her bicycle on her? Which she was now having a hell of a time lifting over the edge of the fountain?

Okay, it wasn't that it was too heavy. But it WAS fucking awkward and her hands were slippery and...

"Oh Fuck you!" she curses as she loses her grip again and the bicycle splashes back into the water.

II. That's Not What I Expected | Temba Hangar

"Oh you have GOT to be kidding me."

Aliens. She was kidnapped by ALIENS, and she didn't even get to see the space ships that were supposed to be here? She's biked all the way over here, over the literally worst roads ever, had to carry her bike around massive cracks and rubble, and tried awkwardly to follow the weird map on her little 'pocket computer' and this was what she got?

"Come on!" she shouts into the hangar. "Aliens have space ships! I want to see the space ships!"

III. Give Me A Break! | Temba Hotel

It's been such a stupidly long day. The fountain. The empty hangar. The diner she was at earlier and had met people at. And now this.

"Why?" Robin asks as she looks at the stairs. They're taller than they should be. She looks from them to the bicycle she had at her side. It was bad enough that she was going to have to go up them. But she was tired and upset and confused and now she had to carry this thing up them too? "What sort of hotel doesn't have rooms on the bottom floor? This is the worst design!"

Comments

[work_wife]

"The Agrii are the ones that took us, right?"

Yeah, that makes sense. But the other part, that makes her excited. She can't help the small smile.

"We get to meet aliens, huh?"

[small_compromise]

The girl nods.

"That's right. They've only contacted us through the network, so it'll be nice to actually get the chance to talk with them."

She tilts her head then. "Have you not met other aliens before?"

[work_wife]

Why would she have met other aliens? This girl has? She's clearly human though.

"They don't exactly come to Hawkins, Indiana. This is the first time I've had their existence confirmed."

[small_compromise]

It's still a bit strange to hear, but she supposes there are some planets out there yet that haven't had the means to connect through space travel. Omega nods in understanding.

"I've never heard of this Indiana place. But I've lived around Kaminoans all my life, on their planet, Kamino. It's stranger for me being around so little other species, here."

[work_wife]

Yeah, and in the 80s, that's definitely Earth.

"It's in America? It's one of the states. Where's Kaminoan?"

Yeah, she's really confused here.

[small_compromise]

"I've never heard of it," Omega admits with a small frown. Most of the people she's spoken to have only referred to their home of origin by planet, if anything.

"Kamino, it's a planet covered entirely by an ocean."

[work_wife]

A planet. Covered entirely by an ocean.

"Earth isn't completely covered by oceans, but we have a lot."

[small_compromise]

"It would be strange if it didn't have some earth to it, wouldn't it?" Otherwise that world would have quite the misnomer.

"Tipoca City is the only establishment on Kamino so far as I know. It's built to stand just above the waters but it storms more often than not, there. I think I like places with actual land better."

[work_wife]

"Yeah, but if it didn't have any earth, we wouldn't call it Earth," she counters. Because that's just logical.

"Tapioca city, huh? That's where you're from?"

[small_compromise]

"Probably not," Omega nods.

"Tipoca," she gently corrects then. "But yes that's where I'm from. I don't know if any familiar systems are even near whatever galaxy this one is though."

[work_wife]

Oh, it's so much better not to live in pudding.

"So you can't exactly get us home then. I guess I can't be upset."

[small_compromise]

Omega shakes her head.

"Sorry. I wish I could. I haven't even been away from Tipoca City for too long myself. I've been traveling with my brothers on their ship, but there's still so much I don't know."

[work_wife]

Okay, at least she's traveled through space. That's something.

"Still cool though, right? Being in space? Experiencing all of that."

[small_compromise]

"Oh, it is! Other worlds are amazing! I didn't realize how different other places could be," Omega nods, beaming.

"Space is nice but I think it's only that way because I was with my brothers. I think it'd be very lonely without anyone to travel with out there otherwise."

[work_wife]

Well this place is pretty different from, well, all but one place that Robin's ever seen before.

"Yeah, that makes sense. Damn, this is so cool though. Like, there are actually people out in space. You've met people who aren't humans, right? That's so cool."

[small_compromise]

Well, Omega was coming from a life indoors surrounded by sterile whiteness.

"Of course. Is that unusual?"

[work_wife]

"Uh, yeah! I mean, we only made it to the moon like twenty-five years ago!"

[small_compromise]

"Hm. So then there's only humans on your world?" What a novel concept! But she supposes it makes sense. The Kaminoans only had other people on their world that were customers or product after all. But other worlds Omega had gone to were so diverse that it just seemed natural to have so many different people.

[work_wife]

"That's... complicated," Robin says with a sigh. Does the Upside-Down count as on her world? "I guess mostly yes. Most of the time."

Not all of it.

[small_compromise]

That's a curious thing to say. Omega tilts her head at that. "But traveling in space isn't a common thing? Or do people visit Earth?"

[work_wife]

"No, it's really not. But there's like, this evil other dimension near ours and sometimes things escape from there to try and kill us?"

That's alien, right?

[small_compromise]

Well that's not quite what she expected to hear. In fact, there's a lot to that sentence that Omega doesn't quite understand. It's plain on her face, the confusion as she tries to work that out.

"A what..?"

[work_wife]

"Other dimension. That is evil. It's under us. We call it the Upside-Down. Which is sorta kinda literal? I went through a hole to it once. Man that was freaky. Climb up a rope, then fall down of the rope."

It was a WHOLE THING.

[small_compromise]

That sure sounds like something else. Omega's not sure what to make of it except...

"...is it magic?" Unless Earth is a very strange planet with a separate area that contains its own gravity, but that doesn't seem to make much sense. It's too bad Tech isn't here or she'd ask him about the possibility.

[work_wife]

"I don't know. I mean, sorta kinda? There seems to be? El can move things with her mind. That's magic right?"

Or maybe not.