paixaorpg | It Starts... (Open)

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It Starts... (Open)

Character(s): Rainbow Dash, Anyone?
Content: A pegasus in Paixao.
Setting: Near Joutenheim
Time: Afternoon; Week 35
Warnings: Awesome.

Rainbow Dash flew into the air in the domes, the device given to her by the guards at the gate hanging around her neck. She stared down at the ground, examining the two legged creatures that were still staring up at her. Hanging at that altitude for a minute, she took in her surroundings. Sure, she'd already caused a scene at the gate, being a solo four legged creature in the lines....and at the other one she'd originally been at, flying up over the domes to get to the one she had entered through. She was an aerial pony, did they really expect her to stay on the ground for that long?

She had sped into the domes after 'signing in', flying upward as soon as she had enough room. Now, she realized something that bothered her a bit, although no one looking at her would realize that there was anything wrong.

She was the only pony she could see in this place...Everyone else in this place was a light haired, two legged...something. Something Rainbow Dash had never seen before.

And they were all staring at her like she was something strange.

Oh geeze.

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Okay, so Cid might have been staring a little. But it wasn't really because it was strange - or at least, not any stranger than half a dozen things he'd seen while following Cloud around - but because he was trying to decide what all he'd have to do to be able to fly like that again. He was pretty sure he wasn't going to turn himself into a technicolor... whatever that was to do it, but at least he knew that it wasn't like the place kept everyone out of the skies.

He just had to figure out the last couple of things, and then he could get to building, even if he would have to do most of it outside the domes.

Rainbow Dash flew back and forth above the people, trying to see if she could find anypony who looked familiar to her. Seeing none of her friends, or any other familiar ponies, she took a second to scope out the other creatures around. One of them stood out, his clothing and appearance was totally different than the rest of them. Landing on a roof nearby, Rainbow Dash peeked over the edge at him.

"Hey!" She said. "You aren't one of those...things, are you?"

So it talked too. Good to know, even it it did knock the whole situation up a few notches on his mental calculation of just how weird this was. Sure, that was just how the damned place ran, half the time, but that didn't mean he couldn't recognize the strangeness for what it was. Hell, he practically owed it to the place, what with everyone getting used to the strangeness and proceeding to not ever mention it again.

"You mean people?" he asked, craning his neck so that he actually see what he was talking to over the edge of the building.

"Well, I guess. Is that what you are?" She pointed one of her hooves at the citizens. "And those things too?" They looked different than him, very different. She figured it was the clothes he was wearing.

"I just got here, I have no idea what's going on..." She stopped for a second, then jumped right in. "You haven't seen any other ponies around here, have ya?"

There was a moment of silence from Cid. Had the thing seriously not seen people before? Hell, it wasn't like they were uncommon or anything. All you had to do was get with spitting distance of a city and you'd see all the people you could ever want, even if it was nothing more than a two-bit backwater.

"Of course I am," he answered, as if it ought to have been obvious. "I ain't seen anything else like you though."

"Well, that makes two of us. I haven't seen anything like you and those other 'people' before either." He didn't seem to be a threat, really. He was being nice enough...even if it didn't seem that he didn't believe her. She sighed.

"That means my friends aren't here yet. Darn." She stood up, jumping off the roof to land on the ground a bit away from the guy, looking up at him, enough distance to give her a head start if he did anything. "So, what exactly is this place?"

Well, that explained the reason the - pony, was it? - hadn't recognized the word for what they were. It was still more than a little odd, but that wasn't ever anything new, here. Hell, it was practically par for the course around here.

"Place is called Paixao," he answered. "More like a prison than a real city if you wanna ask me. Can't even have a proper sky."

"Paixao, huh?" She looked up at the top of the dome. "Yeah, I noticed. The outside of them aren't as pretty either." She referred to when she had fled from one group of people to another, flying over the top of the domes.

"I'm guessing since you called it a prison, there isn't an easy way out?" The way things were looking, she couldn't go out the way she came in.

Cid hadn't had much of a chance to see the tops of the domes from above, largely due to not yet having a proper ship built, but he had to admit it would make a certain amount of sense for them to not be particularly appealing when seen from above. Keep everyone stuck inside and it didn't matter what the top of something looked like. There wasn't going to be anyone to see the damned thing, more often than not.

"Course there ain't," he answered. "Just rumors about the way out."

"Well, what about those rumors?" She flapped her wings before settling again. "I'm totally up for an adventure!" If it got her out of this weird place, why not? It wasn't Equestria, but it would be something different.

"So, what's your name? I'm Rainbow Dash." She figured he couldn't be that bad of a guy, he seemed nice enough. Why not introduce herself?

Cid raised his eyebrows at the question about the rumors. Sure, he'd been the one the bring them up, but that didn't mean he really wanted to talk about them. It wasn't like having a potential way out kept the place from being all sorts of strange.

"It's Cid," he answered, choosing to answer the less ridiculous question first. "Cid Highwind."

Interesting name. But, it was an interesting place. And these people were totally different from what she was used to. Ah well, she'd make do. And make the place 20% cooler while she was at it.

"So, Cid Highwind." She said, gesturing at the city. "Tell me what you know about this place, would ya?"

"How much do you wanna know?" Cid answered, with a touch of gruffness in his voice. He wasn't entirely against explaining. Ifrit and Bahamut knew he'd been around long enough to know more than enough about the place. He wasn't sure it was really all that exciting, but hell. He could answer well enough.

Even if he wasn't entirely sure he wanted to.

"Well." She stopped, as if thinking for a moment. "Anything you can tell me. Normally I'd rush right into an adventure like this...But, a friend of mine has shown me and knowledge is a good thing too." Ok, so maybe Twilight was rubbing off on her. At least this would keep her occupied for a while, right?

'Anything he could tell her' was a rather uncomfortable large amount, and while he wouldn't have had much of a problem detailing it, his mind almost immediately corrected what she'd said into 'anything he wanted to tell her'. That was a lot easier to deal with and hell. She could fill in the gaps later.

"You're gonna want to know about the Organization, then. They ain't been doing much later but that doesn't mean you can't know."

"Organization, huh?" She mused on that for a second. "What are they in this place?"

"What the hell aren't they," Cid answered with a snort of irritation. "They're damned creeps if you as me. Used to be they went about kidnapping people for experiments or somethin'. Now a days you don't hear much about 'em. Probably went underground."

Which was most likely because of the Resistance that had gone up in response, but like hell was he going to mention that. Last he'd heard the Resistance had been just as vanished as the Organization and things could stay that way as far as he was concerned. He didn't need to worry about getting snatched off the streets by shadowy figures. Shiva knew he'd seen enough of shadowy figures to last a lifetime.

"...They did WHAT?!" Her shout got more attention from the people wandering around, and she gave them a somewhat sheepish smile. As sheepish as she got, anyway. But at least from what he was saying they had gone off the map for a while. Still, not exactly what she wanted to hear.

...but she knew she had asked for it.

It wasn't what anyone wanted to hear, Cid figured. If they'd gone underground it just meant that they'd decided to cover up their trail. It didn't mean anything about them not keeping up with what they'd been doing in the first place. Hell, they could have been doing worse, for all Cid knew.

"Kidnapped people off the damn streets," Cid answered. "I ain't sayin' it again."

"But...how...what...WHY?!" That was about as specific as Rainbow Dash could get at the moment. "So anything specific I should keep my eye out for about these guys? Like what they look like or something?"

"'Cause they're creepy bastards," Cid answered, without even seeming to need to think on the question. "What other reason do they need? It ain't like people get to stop and ask much." Or at least, that was Cid was assuming. He hadn't been kidnapped himself, and most of the heyday of it had been far enough back that the most relevant details had started to get fuzzy.

"Guys in black cloaks, pretty much."

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