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[Open] ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGAWATTS!

Who: Lucca, Rock, and YOU! Maybe special guests!
What: The Epoch has been fixed! Time for temporal shenanigans!
Where: Don't you mean... when?
When: Don't you mean... where?
Warnings: R for WHERE WE'RE GOING WE DON'T NEED ROADS

It had been a harrowing adventure, experimenting with Lucca's gate key, but it had born fruit. They rediscovered the Epoch, Lucca's flying time machine. They had to fight off monsters to recover it, but between the two of them, Rock and Lucca had managed to get it back to the mansion. She'd spent some time trying to repair it, but now it was ready once more for its maiden voyage into the past! Or future! One of those things! At least that's what Rock learned when he arrived at Lucca's workshop that day, bringing along some coffee and a sandwich for when he inevitably found out she forgot to eat. "Lucca?" he called out as he edged the door open. "How's it going in here?"

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"Hey Rock!" Says a phantom voice from under the hood of a ship, along with a waving hand. She straightens up and hops off of her perch.

"It's going great! I think I have the temporal capacitor almost back in perfect shape! I had to improvise with the crystals, because they're kind of hard to find out here, but--is... that's a sandwich?"

Looks like you anticipated the lack of lunch correctly.

Rock loved being right. He held out the sandwich and coffee for her to take, looking over the ship. It was in FAR better shape than the last time he saw it, that was certain. "So it's almost ready to fly and time jump again?" he asked excitedly. "What are you using for the crystals? What kind of crystals DOES it use?" he added, fascinated by the machine since the first time he saw it. Before the incident, the Epoch had been a source of fun and excitement. He missed their little trips...

"It's a particular kind of stone you'd only really find in my world. I had to improvise a substitute, and supercharge some quartz with magic. That was pretty draining work."

Good thing coffee restores MP, then. She takes a long sip,and gestures to the last, faintly glowing spike of crystal on the worktable nearby.

"The result SHOULD handle the intense flux shifts inherent in time travel. Or it could, you know, blow up. But by my calculations, that's a very remote possibility."

"I'm sure your calculations are fine," Rock replied. He at least hoped they were. He was reasonably sure she was right. "At any rate, I'm guessing that means soon you'll be ready to take it on a test ride?" he asked curiously. He leaned over to examine the glowing crystal, eyes scanning the energy output it was giving with fascination. He hadn't before come this close to the inner workings of the Epoch. He knew robots that could manipulate time, and he'd even seen time travellers before. But the technology was still so new to him.

"You bet! We should be able to jump through time and everything. We... might even be able to go home." She hazards, her voice low and thoughtful. "--I know I said that about the Gate Key, but this might be different."

Rock knew better than to get his hopes up. If the gate key couldn't get them home, he wasn't sure what chance the Epoch had, even whether or not it could take them ANYWHERE. But that didn't matter so much to him. "Whether it does or not, it's at least a step in the right direction, isn't it?" he asked with a smile.

"...Probably." He'll find her looking at him thoughtfully, as she says this.

"--Anyway, can you help me install the last of these? Then we'll be good to go!"

Rock was ever the optimist. He refused to accept that things were hopeless. If this worked, and they could travel to other times, then surely they could find some way to use that to get them closer to their home worlds! He smiled broadly, going to help heft up the crystals she'd set up to be installed. "All right then! Just show me where they need to go," he replied, shifting right into dutiful lab assistant mode.

Cyrus had been in the lab, overhearing a great deal of the earlier conversation. Time travel? Perhaps they had harness a power similar to Dialga...

The thought was fascinating.

He stood by, waiting for whatever would occur.

It was hard not to notice a new face hanging around the workshop, and Rock's gaze was drawn to the new arrival. "Cyrus? Do you need something?" he asked.

"You are planning to travel through time. Yet there is much to be considered when doing so. I trust you have taken the proper precautions." The tone in it was eerily similar to his prior self.

"Like what?" Rock asked. "It's been pretty easy before." He wasn't quite sure how to respond to that, since Lucca knew more about this sort of thing than he did. He was content to defer to the expert on these matters.

"Consider the consequences of every action. Ensure that even motions you undertake towards salvation cannot backfire." He brushed off the irony. "Additionally, familiarity with language and customs will ensure your safety."

"...It, uh, may be a little late for that," Rock commented. He's had experience dealing with time travel and the effects it could have on the present, and his imagination briefly went to Quint, before pushing the thought out of his mind. To say nothing of Lucca's own experiences changing her own personal timeline.

"...when did you go?" Cyrus asked cautiously.

"It's a little complicated," he said simply. "It's not something I'd like to talk about... But Lucca and I have gone on a few trips together before the moon crashed, and everything went fine!"

"Tell me." It wasn't a request.

"Well... One time we went back in time to the age of the dinosaurs," he explained. "Lucca had been there a while ago and wanted to show it off to me. It was really exciting!"

"And what did you do?" It was a familiar scenario in science fiction, travelers to that era altering the future, and it had captivated him in his youth.

"Hm? Well, we hung out with her friend Ayla. She's a cave-woman! She was really nice, actually! We fought some Reptites... That's about it!"

Also they made out a lot. ~~And got chased by a T-rex.~~ But Cyrus didn't need to know that.

Humans in the age of dinosaurs? This boy had to be mistaken. "Resurrected dinosaurs...that was not possible until the past fifty years. Far after the stone age and the rise of homo sapiens."

"Well, to be fair, it WAS the past for Lucca's world," Rock replied. "History must have unfolded differently in her world, my world, AND your world."

Perhaps. The universe was vast...

"I would be interested to know the evolutionary biology there. Additionally, to know if the dinosaurs died out, and if so, why, or if they simply continued to evolve."

"Those are probably better questions for Lucca," Rock replied. "I just got a bit of a taste of her world's history, but there's still a lot I don't know."

"There is always much for us to learn, no matter where we roam, what worlds we experience..." Cyrus seemed to zone out for a moment before continuing. "Everything, every different path, is full of an immeasurable number of alternate possibilities. That is why time travel is dangerous, cannot be done casually."

"Well, yeah," Rock said. "I know that. But a little sightseeing can't be that harmful, can it?"

/You tell me/ Cyrus thought. But aloud he said "If you are cautious."

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Crew together? Let's go on an adventure in time!

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