Week 4

[grimgrinningghosts]

[Two more people died this week. Two children. And they died because of a freak accident. Despite all your protests, Randall refused to let Jane get away despite being innocent.

But there is a tiny ray of hope now, which comes in the form of the mirror. Now that the mirror is public information, you can see people you care about, even if they are dead and trapped in hell. Not only that, but you now now that someone is trying to save you all from the predicament that you're in. And this time there's a good chance that he won't turn out to be a heartless mass murderer!

Still, the ideas for the plan are vague and you have no idea when you will actually get out. It's hard to keep up hope when your only chance of living might still end with you horribly killed, isn't it?

At least you have a new floor and the ability to wash your clothes now.

26 guests remain.]

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Comments

[nachosquire]

Uh... 2016?

[because theres no set date and it started in 2015 so idfk]

[pinkflip]

[ its fine timelines are Rough ]

Weeell... Last I knew? It was 1996.

[nachosquire]

[save me from them ashley]

1996?!

[The book in Marco's hands just comedically drops to the floor, and he stands there frozen for a good few seconds before gesturing towards her with his hands as he talks in a high pitched, slightly panicked tone.]

I wasn't even alive in 1996!

[pinkflip]

[ you don't want to see my power rangers timeline notes, they involved a lot of sobbing ]

Haha!

[ She can't help but giggle at his misfortune. After the initial shock and annoyance at time travel, Kim's found she enjoys blowing people's minds like this. ]

How do you think I feel? All you guys talking about things that won't be around for...gosh, twenty years! Talk about making a girl feel old.

[nachosquire]

Yeah but--- what??

[Bringing someone back from the dead is one thing, but bringing someone back from 20 years ago? Now that's just silly.]

How is that even possible? My parents got married around that time!

[i mean there was that thing marco did with father time once but that was completely different than this]

That was during the Pre-Love Sentence Era!

[pinkflip]

[ She shrugs. ]

Sometimes time travel just happens? We've got talking rats and people from space, and time travel's where you draw the line?

[nachosquire]

Yes.

[Marco says that extremely seriously.]

I've dealt with talking rats and people from space before, Kim! But never time travel! That's the one thing Marco Diaz refuses to touch.

[pinkflip]

Too bad, Marco. Sometimes, time travel comes for you when you least expect it. One moment you're enjoying a nice day, then you're back in the 1700s! One moment you're with your friends, then poof! Wild West.

[ She pats him on the shoulder with an exaggerated sigh. ]

Time travel just happens.

[nachosquire]

NO IT DOESN'T!!

[Marco raises his arms into the air exasperatedly, shrugging off her hand. Don't touch him you time-wizard.]

I can understand, like, hunting down someone for sixteen years and coming back to your own dimension only to find out that eight minutes have passed and that nothing in life matters but traveling through time makes no sense!

[pinkflip]

[ She rolls her eyes. ]

Of course it makes no sense! Doesn't mean it doesn't and hasn't happened. To people standing in this library. Personally.

[nachosquire]

[Marco walks a lap around the bookshelf, arms still high above his head as he tries to process what the fuck he's hearing right now and when he meets back up with Kim again (it takes him like a minute tops), he just exclaims in a high pitched voice:]

Get outta town, Kim!

[what the fuck do you mean its happened before]

[pinkflip]

[ oh god. oh god here we are, she breaks down into giggles, everything in the last few days has just bubbled up into hysteria ]

I'm just saying! It's not like I wanted to, believe me! I hated being stuck in the past, but sometimes, it just happens.

[nachosquire]

Okay, okay.

[Marco moves to start kicking books out of the way for some reason after saying that, clearing out a little circle that he sits in once he's satisfied. He pats the floor in front of him, looking at Kim with a Serious expression on his face.]

It's pow-wow time, Kim.

[tell him about your mysterious time tomfoolery]

[pinkflip]

[ She raises her eyebrows and then plops down in front of him with a shrug. ]

What, what do you wanna know? There's not...really much to say about it. First time a magic spell sent me and my friends back to colonial times, second I got stuck in a time hole and ended up in 1880. I swear, it's not even the weirdest thing that's happened to me.

[nachosquire]

How is neither of those things not the weirdest that's happened to you?

[Marco scoffs, almost scared to find out what would be.]

[pinkflip]

Hmm... [ She thinks about this, seriously. ] Probably 'cause I've been, like...

[ She starts counting them off on her fingers. ]

Trapped in a storybook, turned into a football, liquefied, swallowed by a Venus Flytrap monster, put under more spells than you could possibly imagine ugh...

[nachosquire]

Okay. The spells are something I can relate to, and like, I killed a monster once and sliced it open because I thought it ate my parents so I kinda get the Venus Flytrap thing but you turned into a football?

[everyone stop with the vore!!!]

[pinkflip]

[ we will NEVER stop with the vore ]

Uh-uh. I got turned into a football. Pachinko ball too. Really freaky, the whole...aware but can't move thing? [ She audibly shivers and adds: ] Angel Grove is a really weird place to live nowadays.

[nachosquire]

[did you really have to edit your comment just to campaign for vore]

Yeahhhh... I would hate to live in your dimension if that kinda stuff happened on a normal basis.

[pinkflip]

[ i just wanted to make lepo proud ]

It does. At least...for the few years it does, in the town I grew up. I just...got used to it. It kind of came with the job.

[nachosquire]

The.. White Power Ranger job?

[Marco perks up at that a little, tiny bit. Is it finally time for Dr. Marco, Phd. to make his grand entrance...?!]

[pinkflip]

[ Well... Everyone knows already anyway. She's given away her and some of her friends' identities. Unless Zordon's found some way to isolate the broadcast... There's no harm in talking about it. ]

I was Pink, actually. The White Ranger, he... He was a friend of mine. [ It hurts to say that, friend, like that's all it was. ] He also came later. Me, I was part of the group first chosen to defend Angel Grove, and the world. [ She says it lightly, like it's not a big part of her identity. The teasing tone in her voice, it's drifted away. ]

[nachosquire]

Hold that thought--

[Marco reaches into his hoodie pockets, pulling out his notepad and a pen and flips to some pages, writing something down.]

So... you were pink but this other guy was white? Why did you tell me you where the White Ranger, then? Is he, like, the coolest Ranger or something and everyone wants to be him?

[pinkflip]

[ She laughs and rolls her eyes, lightly. ] He wishes. [ ...Mmm, she can't even joke about it. ] He's...pretty good at it, though.

I must've not been clear enough- Saba was his sword, not mine. [ The sword of the White Ranger. ] I'm just keeping him safe, for him.

[nachosquire]

Oh!

[Look, when the subject came up you glossed right over it before he could even ask, okay..]

Yeah that makes a lot more sense, actually.

[Just gonna... flip back a page or two and scribble something out.]

So then he was kept a big secret or something? [she did mention secret identities and all that]