ten_fwd_ooc | TEST DRIVE #5 - Low Gravity Gymnasium and Ten Forward

Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprises' off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...

Option 02. Aboard the Enterprise, The Low-Gravity Gymnasium: The gym is a large room with several alcove-like sections housing the aerobics and martial arts areas, a parrises squares area, an anbo-jyutsu court, and a separate fencing room. While there is normally a zero-gravity area as well, today all of the gym is in zero-gravity conditions.

Zero-gravity can be, well, kind of weird, because it's not like a gradual loss of the pressure holding you to the floor--you may have taken the turbolifts, just expecting to take a leisurely run, or maybe work out with a treadmill to get in some cardio, but the minute you step into the gym you're floating, as is anything you might have been holding or bringing with you.

Do you freak out, start flailing and trying to swim through the air back to where you can escape? Do you make the best of it and tough it out to get your exercise in, or do you start having fun with the sudden game of weightlessness? Pick your personal scenario and have fun with all the other weightless people.

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Akito takes charge and pulls Jack along, trying not to focus on the old memories he has of him and instead focus on helping Jack. Being a good friend, even if Jack doesn't remember him (and probably never will).

Anyone who makes the mistake of getting to close to cutting through. Jack gets a firm growl (watch where you're going!), with Akito not caring what people think of him, because he saw a memory once, of when Jack first discovered he was invisible and intangible. And it won't happen again as long as Akito can help it.

"I made everyone agree to staying neutral with each other, so Pitch and Tooth and everyone had a good truce. And me and Pitch became sort of... friends, I guess you could say, until he found someone he liked better." He's rambling, but rambling at least distracts him from how one of his greatest wishes just came true, even if it's not exactly how he planned. "Then he stopped really talking to me, and it was like we were never sort-of-friends before. Which makes him a huge hypocrite! Because he said I would forget."

Plume huffs her irritated agreement. Akito spots a good place to sit and pulls Jack over to it, asking as he goes: "Do you believe in multiple universes?"

Jake made a soft noise at being pulled and tried to make sure he didn't go through anyone. It was such an unpleasant feeling and Akito was pretty good at making sure no one did go through him, but it didn't stop everyone. "Akito, it's okay, you don't need to-"

But he already was and he just sighed, sharing a shrugging look with Baby Tooth. He listened to Akito as he told about the truce, rather impressed that such a thing was possible. Jack isn't one to sit, however, not completely still anyway, so he remained standing. "I dunno, I guess so."

"You can crouch on the chair," Akito points out, gesturing to it. It means less chance of being walked through by mistake. Also it will make it more comfortable to talk to him.

"Okay! So, um..." And here is where Akito begins to feel awkward; nervous. He won't tell Jack about his previous relationship, not wanting him to feel any obligation or discomfort, but he can't just leave Jack be. He has to explain something.

"I have something important to tell you, okay? And I don't want you to feel bad."

Jack didn't like crouch on random objects, though, and he figured he was far enough on the edge to not need to worry about people. Jack shrugged at Akito.

"I'm not sure what you could say that would make me feel bad," He replied. He already felt bad enough that he didn't know Akito when he felt like he should have. He already guessed Akito considered him a friend. But there wasn't anything he could do about that. To Jack, this was their first meeting.

Akito doesn't press it since it isn't that important. "Um, it wasn't just Pitch and Tooth who were there. But you probably guessed that by now, ne?" He laughs and fidgets with the hem of his shirt. "We were... You were my best friend. It was a post-apocalyptic world, and we helped each other out a lot. But we found a lot of cool places to have fun, too." The longer he talks, the more it's clear how fondly he remembers those moments. "Like there was an abandoned amusement park and we raced on the roller coaster tracks. Stuff like that."

Jack couldn't help but smile. "I was?"

Well, it certainly sounded like they had a lot of fun despite the environment. He laughed about the roller coaster. That definitely sounded like something he would do. Although he hoped Akito was careful.

"Sounds like you had a good time despite the place."

"You were! I never had a friend who loved me for me, and didn't see someone else when they looked at me." Even back home his friends would always assume he was Agito until he corrected them. He couldn't begrudge Agito having a life, but Akito would have liked to have been able to do more than watch from behind the glass, so to speak.

Plume peeps at him and he scoops her back up to place her on his shoulder, where she settles in comfortably. He considers Jack's words and, yes, despite the death and violence and fear there was much more love and good memories to make up for it. "I think Adstringéndum was one of the best things to happen to me. Almost all of it was because of you, and my big sister. So... I'd like to be friends, if that's okay with you."

Placing his staff on the ground and jumping to crouch onto it, he looked almost thoughtful as he crossed his arms, staring at nothing for a few moments. He wasn't thinking about the offer, because that much was a given, and he would give Akito his answer in a second. He just... wanted to think for a moment.

His chest felt... empty. Like something that was suppose to be there but it wasn't. But his staff wasn't broken, so the mind numbing pain wasn't there, but the emptiness was. It was beginning to bother him.

Eventually, Baby Tooth chirped at him as well, to get his attention back on things in the present. "Sorry, was just... thinking. I would really love to be your friend, Akito. I may not be the same as the one you knew back in the other place but... I hope I can make up for not knowing you now."

Watching Jack's movements closely (he hasn't seen him in months, though it felt more like an eternity), Akito thinks something is wrong, but can't be sure. Interdimensional travel takes a bit of time to adjust to, after all, so it's likely that's the issue at hand. "Are you alright?" It doesn't hurt to ask anyway.

"And... Ah, I'm glad! Even if you're different, you're still Jack Frost. Guardian of Fun and shepherd of winter! One of the best people a person can be fortunate enough to know. And there's nothing to make up for!" This is one thing Akito tries to stress, though it's difficult to sound stern when you can't stop grinning. "Almost everyone forgets Adstringéndum once they leave, so even if I succeeded in following the Jack I knew to his world, he wouldn't have remembered me either. It happened once before."

Jack looked confused at the question. "Yeah, why?"

He was just thinking, it didn't really concern Akito. And he brushed it off by listening to Akito some more, raising his eyebrows at the thought of everyone forgetting everything when they go home.

"Why do they forget?"

"Ah, you just looked..." He tries to find the right word. "Lost."

Which is understandable, given the situation. Especially when it's this Jack's first time being kidnapped by other dimensions. Akito doesn't expect him to share any insecurities since, to him, they're still basically strangers. It hurts, but having the chance to be friends with Jack makes the hurt easy to ignore.

"I... Nobody really knows for sure. I think it's because whatever moment in time they were taken from their original worlds, they get sent back to that exact moment and so, to them, they never lived through any of it."

TEST DRIVE #5 - Low Gravity Gymnasium and Ten Forward

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