Stars over the Omniverse

[The Future Warrior]

The elevator went on its merry way upward, rising up over the buildings and through the artificial sky of Tier 4. Up and up and up, on toward the distant 'ceiling' of the tier, toward the underside of Tier 3 above. And then on through it, rising up to the slightly less awful level of the verse. Slowly, the elevator ground to a halt to let its passengers out.

"...so now they actually make sure the warning labels are clearly indexed and everything, and they've got to make sure people are properly trained on those things," the insect-man finished his 'funny story'.

"Sounds like that was a big mess," Graowr said, with a nod.

"You have no idea. The smell is still there, when the machines get too hot." Insect-man stepped out of the elevator. "Have a good day, now, kid." And he disappeared into the bustle of tier 3, adjusting his tie as he went.

"See ya, bug-man!" the blue majin called after him, enthusiastically. And then she took to just...waiting out the last bit of time before the elevator doors closed again, and the giant box on cables started its ascent up toward Tier 2. She brought a hand up, poking at the buttons on her scouter. Just looking through the functions and such on it, and poking through various things of a random nature on the dataverse. The usual sort of shenaniganery and silliness that occupied her time searching through the digital world of information. Nothing that really stood out, though. She had yet to develop anything approaching a selection of 'usual' places to look and keep in mind when she was browsing the 'net.

Of course, eventually, the elevator reached its destination again, coming to a halt on Tier 2. And as far as this one went, this was her stop. Dataverse forgotten, and back on the move, she was out of the (relatively) cramped space and running again. The much more clean, refined and advanced nature of this tier was still a bit of a shock to her, every time she happened up here. Not as much as the level above, the crown jewel of the Empire, but still. It was something else to see. Especially given her near-complete and utter lack of understanding about most of the things that were quite prevalent about the verse, on any of its tiers and levels.

Her brisk pace was slowed somewhat by necessity of fiddling with the map overlay in her scouter again. She didn't have any waypoints set up here, save for one she used frequently. It made it fairly easy for her to get where she was going, headed for the stairs that would lead up to Tier 1. No sense waiting around for an elevator, this close to the top level. Especially because she just really didn't like elevators, and really wanted to keep moving. Standing around waiting for one, and then standing around waiting while the elevator slooooooowly worked and wound its way up to its destination. So much standing around and waiting was just too slow for her. Many people had told her that she needed to slow down, now and then, and take things easy. She had taken that advice to heart. And promptly forgot it, due to not actually having a heart. Such was the way of a creature that didn't have anything approaching something silly like 'recognizable biology'.

...she still didn't really understand how that whole 'breathing' thing that people who did have a proper, functioning biological system did worked. It seemed incredibly awkward, and just...not a great idea. She had the most basic understanding that it meant they couldn't really cope well in places like underwater. Or in space. There was no air in places like that. And air was...important? Apparently?

People were weird, sometimes.

Word Count: 650
Character Count: 2973