un: keith || video followed by voice

[fighterpaladin]

... What the Hell?

[Keith’s image comes on screen before it disappears once he realizes the device on his arm also has a video feed. Instead, he makes sure the thing transmits only his voice which sounds anything but happy right now.]

What--... What is this? What happened? [This time.] Is anyone getting this?...

[Two seconds.]

Guys...?

[A second and a half.]

C’mon! Lance? Pidge?...

[A second.]

Hunk? Princess?

[Half a second.]

Come in!

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[fighterpaladin]

[... Well. That's one race he hasn't seen before.]

... Who are you?

Videi

[mirrortide]

Lapis Lazuli. And you must be someone who doesn't know how to send private messages.

[fighterpaladin]

Private-- What? [Lady, that's the least of his worries right now.]

Where are we? Are you the one who brought us here?

[mirrortide]

I have better things to do than to kidnap people to some backwater part of the universe and make them live on a space station. So no, I didn't bring 'us' here. [Is he assuming because she's an alien??? Lapis thinks so, and she's not impressed.]

Also this is the Reverie Terminal. There's a planet below that's a lot more fun to be on, though.

[fighterpaladin]

[... Kidnap? So they were kidnapped?] ... What part of the universe are we at? And who does this station belong to? [Sorry, nothing to do with that. He's assuming because he doesn't know you and you are making contact.]

What planet is it?

[mirrortide]

[Wow! He yelled into a public channel first. Rude.]

I've been calling it Susan. So I guess that's it's name since I was the first one to go there. [That. That isn't how it works. Or, it shouldn't be how it works.]

And I have no idea what part of the universe this is in. It's not held by Gems, and honestly I've been around for a long time, and I've never seen any star system like this.

[fighterpaladin]

[... Susan?] How did you go there?

[And she has no idea what part of the universe this is in? But she just said it was a backwater part! How can she know that's what it is when-- You know what? It doesn't matter. Nothing of this matters, in fact.

Or it didn't, until she mentions a name that is not familiar to him. 'Not held by the Galra' would be something far more common to hear. But...]

Gems?

[mirrortide]

I can fly. And no, not with a ship. Physically, I can fly. [She'd show how, but unless he asks, she won't and save the effort. ]

Gems. Like me. I'm a Lapis Lazuli, specifically.

[fighterpaladin]

[And that just makes him raise his eyebrow. Visibly, she doesn't seem to have wings, but Keith has been in space for long enough to know that that doesn't really mean anything at all.] ... So why did you come back? [Wouldn't that mean she just decided to return to whoever kidnapped them...?

And. Hm.] ... Never heard of that race. Are you all like... humanoid stones? [No offense.]

[mirrortide]

Technically, humans are gem in shape. We've been around a lot longer than humans have. And I came back because there's no point in flying around the depths of space with no idea what part of the universe I'm in. Also because we're probably all from different universes anyway.

[fighterpaladin]

[Huh.] So... You guys have managed to stay safe from the Galra Empire?

[And that just makes him snort.] Well, beats being stuck here, mainly when you don't seem to know why that's even a thing, yet. [But, he guesses, she does have a point. At least, without a ship.

... And then she mentions them all being from different universes and his eyes widen a little.] So--... [And he lowers his voice a little. It's unconscious, and it's not quite a whisper, but it still feels like, whatever he is saying next, is akin to a secret.] You're aware of that, too? Alternate realities?

[mirrortide]

[She raises an eyebrow, clearly unconvinced.] I don't know who or what the 'Galra' empire is, but I'm pretty sure if they existed back home, Gems would have wiped them off the starmaps. We're just kind of like that.

[It's bad, but Lapis seems entirely unconvinced.]

And it really doesn't beat being here. Sometimes things happen that are amusing, for one. And I wasn't aware of it until I got here? It's kind of obvious when everyone is from all over the place.

[fighterpaladin]

[And that just makes him frown. It's surprising that she never heard of the Galra, but it's more alarming, to Keith, what she says next.]

... What do you mean?

[And, well. He supposes that does make sense, so he doesn't really dwell on it any longer.]

[mirrortide]

There's like thirty humans here from Earth, but none of them are from the same Earth.

[fighterpaladin]

[... Yeah, he got that part.]

I meant-- About how your race 'just kind of is like' the sort to 'wipe others off the starmaps'. Are you... Conquerors?

[mirrortide]

Yeah. Generally speaking most gems don't care about organic life at all. Which is, you know, sort of most of the universe when it comes down to it.