====> Adam: get the fuck up

[Roger Smith]

Within several minutes, there was soon a small crowd of strange little critters crowding around the red-clad youth, gibbering up a storm, and blowing rather large bubbles in a decidedly obnoxious fashion. The look on Adam's face was somewhere between disgust, amusement, and utter disappointment. He certainly wasn't alone anymore, but he would have honestly preferred company that didn't constantly flutter about, blowing bubbles and spewing nonsensical single syllables.

At least he could get some assistance out of them. Though it took several minutes to communicate his plan to the simple creatures, he was soon carted off on the collective backs of the eager little workers. The ride was far from smooth, thanks to the jostling and unever cadence of so many little limbs, but it was certainly more energy-efficient than limping along on his own, and probably better on his energy than flying the whole way, too. Not that he really knew where he was headed in the first place.

Soon enough he came to notice something on the horizon, and drawing ever closer. Even at the rather energetic pace of the tiny group of even tinier little critters, it was going to take a while to get there, but...well, it looked like a gate of some sort. Awesome. Hopefully it would lead to somewhere better than a blank bunch of white.

And though he could've sworn he dozed off for a bit during the trip, he was eventually jostled to alertness of their arrival as he overheard voices. He slowly rose to sit up, the three of his consorts supporting him scrambling around to continue supporting him, and a fourth one carrying his crutch around just sort of puttering around behind him. And Adam had to take off his glasses, clean them, rub his eyes and put them back on to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Because what he was seeiing looked distinctly like...Stormtroopers standing in front of what turned out to, indeed, be a gate of some sort.

For their credit, the Stormtroopers in question simply stared back, with only the slightest relaxation in their posture to hint at their sheer confusion. For a moment, it seemed like both parties were equally flabbergasted. Then one of the troopers spoke up. "Uh...you... New Prime...I'm guessing?"

Adam just stared back for a moment, before answering in his usual eloquent fashion. "The hell is a Prime?"

The two Stormtroopers on duty shared a long, knowing look. "Missed the explanation, huh?" the second one of the pair asked as they turned back to him.

"If you mean whatever that white shadow fuck said, then yeah, I kinda tuned that whole thing out." He scratched at a sudden itch under his windsock hood, a common occurrence when subjected to new people or things. "Well, most of it, at least."

The pair of them sighed, the first one to speak up saying simply, "This is the Omniverse. You're currently in the Nexus. This portal leads to Coruscant, home of the Empire. You're welcome here as long as you don't start any trouble."

"The Empire....Coruscant....riiiiiiiight...." Adam just nodded slowly, as if he was talking to someone clearly deranged and dangerous. "Well, then...I'll just be moving along." He gave a wave of his hand, and the jabbering little critters supporting him darted forward again, through the portal.

The two Stormtroopers sighed heavily. "We always get the odd ones when we're on duty, don't we?"

"Some day, man...we'll get one who isn't completely out of their mind."

"Yeah. I bet."