Post #55 [Cecil]

[Time to annotate one of my candiates for 'longest Cecil post in Frozen'. :P Seriously, I feel this is a big post, so I fairly wanted to warn you guys before we start.]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Sandra, a little spooked to be truthful about Bob for the time, decided to let bygones be bygones, as she ran. She had planned to help regardless anyways of what her parents thought. She knew they have let her anyways.

[Yeah, techinally, Sandra is eons stronger than her parents, so she can kinda force the issue if she feels like she needs to. However, at the same time, she doesn't like to 'abuse' her powers for the sake of having a thrill or power-trip. That was something I wanted to make a point for her with in the IF.]

Behind Sandra and Zac, trudged Nebiroth, with Bobon his shoulder again.

[The grammar monster strikes again with "Bobon", which is obviously supposed to be "Bob on". :P]

His stomach's face still screaming "FOOD!!" every 20 seconds or so. Also, Glenn, James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson slowly and cautiously followed the large being, still nervous around a being as such, especially since he had called Sandra a "pink-haired brat".

[Yeah, hearing your kid being called a 'brat' by a big looking monster tends to set most parents on edge. :o]

Bob was still trying to think well of love and the way it worked.

[Have fun doing that Bob. Get back to us in 15 seconds with your answer if you could. XD]

In the park, Sandra spotted a teak-jerking sight[to her at least]: Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo were all lying on the ground, frozen in place, looking as if they were staring towards the sky. By the look on Jeff's face, he looked confused about something. Paula's mouth had been open as if she had been talking when frozen, and Poo and Ness had been look up as well with half-wide eyes.

[Small techincal note: Poo's actions in the first post of the IF were never specified, but I made an inconsistancy in this post from a later point in the post. Poo is actually out like a light, asleep when the time freeze hits, so he can't exactly have his eye open and 'half-wide'. :P]

Sandra recognized her sister perfectly, and noticed a slight air of change around her sister since last seeing her. She was a lot braver than in their young years from the expression on her face.

[Yeah, fighting a cosmic alien entity bent on annhilating your universe tends to give one at least a little more confidence. :P]

She still wears a similar wardrobe compared to childhood, and she still has the cute little ribbon she always wears.

[Yeah, I've always assumed Paula didn't change her wardrobe much in her life, aside from size changes as she grew up. Don't ask why I did, I don't even know. >.>]

She then glanced at the others briefly. First Ness: his appearance made him look like a Minor-League baseball player, and he seemed to sport that odd air of a hero's as well.

[Yeah, of course she doesn't yet know Ness is Paula's possible boyfriend. Once she does, she might go all "protective sibling' on Ness's arse. XD]

She looked at her dad and asked him, "Who exactly are these three friends of Paula's anyways?"

Penelope decided to be the one to explain briefly, starting with the meteorite landing in Onett, and then Paula's dream about him and Giygas, her kidnapping at the hands of the happy-happyests, Everdred giving them the money for the Runaway 5 show in Twoson, their journey to Threed, Paula's call to Jeff, Jeff's trek through Winters to free her and Ness. Jeff joining them and defeating Barf and meeting the Mr. Saturn tribes, and then the Dusty Dunes and Fourside, Paula's second kidnapping by the Dept. Store Spook, Moonside, Paula's second rescue, Summers, Poo's arrival into the group, Scaraba and the Pyramids, the Hawk Eye, the Stonehenge base, Lumine Hall, the Lost Underworld, the Fire Spring, Ness's experience in Magicant, then the trip into the past, and the battle with Giygas.

[Man, Penelope has to need some water after telling that story. :O]

Sandra then understood for the time about them, and decided to examine them before unfreezing them immedately. She decided she'd start with Jeff, and cast Dispel on him. Jeff became unfrozen shortly after, but the aftereffects of the time freeze caused him to pass out momentarily.

[Yeah, aside from Paula, I chose to have her unfreeze the four in a random order for no reason. :P

Also, for some dramatic reason, I had all four of them pass out for a few minutes once they were unfrozen. I don't know why. I guess for the 'drama' later on the in the post. :P]

She then unfroze Poo, and then Ness, and then finally Paula, saving her sister for last, in case she recognized Sandra, not wanting to forget unfreezing the other had she been the first.

[Argh-lawls. I did it AGAIN! Three times now I've mistyped "others" as "other" in this IF. :(]

However, like Jeff, they all passed out for a short time from the aftereffects. Sandra picked Paula and Jeff up, and put them over her shoulders, asking Zac and Glenn to grab Ness and Poo to carry them with her back to Polestar.

[Not because of lack of strength, but lack of physical room, mind you. She could carry all four of them easily if she had a container of sorts to put them in ahead of time.]

On the way back, she noticed Nebiroth watching her with an odd glare. She stopped for a moment and asked, "Why haven't you tried to kill me yet, anyways?"

[That is the million-dollar question, isn't it Sandra? :o]

"Long story, pink-haired one. Need to return to house. Nebiroth explain all to you when we get there and other friends and pink-haired one's sister awake." the monster replied, his tone devoid of anger, which had Sandra really spooked. The Nebiroth she knew wanted to rip her apart to avenge Sardius and Austorouto.

[More about 'Sardius' later. >.>]

[bleh, the following may be VERY long because of back stories of various ACs. You've been warned -_-; Sorry ahead of time, all.]

[XD. No kidding, past me. VERY accurate assumption you made. Yes, this is the 'long' part of the post in my opinion.]

Back in the Polestar house, everyone was gather up in the den, Nebiroth had been given some frozen food out of the freezer[he had to eat it that way since the stove was frozen], and the chosen four were asleep in various beds, still not awake from the unfreezing, Paula in her own, and Poo on the floor since he was indifferent to it for some reason.

[Frozen food is just as good to eat as shrapnel for Nebiroth! :D]

"Alright Nebiroth, please explain your actions, and how did you get here?" Sandra asked as calmly as she could for talking to the head minion of the late Sardius. "Nebiroth talk to pink-haired one's mind. Easier to explain." he said, opening a telepathic link into her mind.

[Again remember, Sandra's telepathy is strong, but she basically lacks PSI/PK abilties.]

/Pink haired one, Sandra. You hearing me fine?/

\Yeah, perfect.\ Sandra replied.

/To answer how I got here: do you remember the wizard that would constantly pop out of various places in the Phantom Zone?/

Sandra did remember the blue-clad, mustached wizard Nebiroth spoke of. He had tried to turn Sandra into various creatures many times as a trap set for her, but she always managed to knock him away or avoid his spell blasts if too far to attack him.

[This is talking about the blue-clad wizard in Super Ghouls N' Ghosts basically. He can turn the main character into different, helpless forms for a brief amount of time depending on the armor level he was at.]

\How does he have anything to do with it though?\

/The Wizard was once a mage from the Bourdon Towers, where you traveled to as a younger girl it seems. Like the mages that opened the gate you came though, he could do similar. He was able to lock onto faint traces of your aura from the time you came to the Phantom Zone 1 year ago, and from them, he was able open a gate for me to follow you through. As for my reform: it is a long story, you see, when I came to this world, I went a different way than you it seems, and I ran into some of the other guys here, and a monster called Smidgen. It attempted for an odd reason to swallow me, but I was appearently too big for him, and I gave it a hard time, and with the help of my new friends here, as well as a new techinque of mine I had been originally saving for you, we destroyed Smidgen, and I learned that Sardius was a big FAT LIAR! Nebiroth ended that thought on a loud note.

[Yeah, BIG mental conversation, and lawl at my forgetting to 'close' off Nebi's conversation at the end as well. I bat them so well, don't I? <_<]

\What do you mean by a "a big fat liar"?\

/Sardius told me, Austorouto, Freon, Hydra, Mongoliow, Branclera, and Cockatrice that humans were disgusting, arrogant beings, that they had no regard for anyone, even themselves. But until you arrived, none of us except Cockatrice had seen humans, so we had to believe him. Austorouto also told me that he thanks you for freeing his soul from slavery of Sardius, and for destroying him, and now I no longer want to avenge Sardius because of which, and as for Austorouto, he told me that you could keep his cape. I am still curious to know if you've changed in style at all, but a spar between us will have to wait until this is over. Listen to these words carefully, Sandra. The time anomoly is appearantly being caused by aliens from space, and shooting a red beam, which seems to be the time ray causing this all. They are the ones who probably sent Smidgen, as to make sure anyone unaffected was destroyed. I fear they know of my existance now, but... they may not know about you, unless they can also scan for people recently freed from the freeze, and then you may be in immediate danger./

[Man, Nebiroth speaks volumes with his mind. o_O]

\So, are you going to stay here on Earth?\ Sandra mentally asked him an important question.

["Yeah, I might need to keep an eye on you and all..." :P]

/Austorouto told me that the Phantom Zone's time has passed, and that I am the last of a Legacy of the original beings of the Phantom Zone. Likely this will be my home from this point on./

\Thanks for telling me.\ Sandra said.

[/You're welcome, honey./ XD]

They decided to talk vocally again, "I guess you were right, Bob. It seems Nebiroth has turned over. Sardius lied to him about humans, and that's way he and his friends fought me.

[Grammar-note "that's way he" is supposed to be "that's why he". :P]

They had attacked the world of Santranus I had lived on during my 10 year disappearance. The Phantom Zone used to be a mobile world under the command of Sardius, that would dock itself outside of unsuspecting worlds, and connect one of it's gates at the Crucible of Flames in their own world, to a cave or gate on the victim world, usually somewhere in the middle of the ocean, where defenders of the victim world were helpless to reach. I ventured there because a few lower demons had attacked the village of magic where I got my elementary magic spells, and murdered some of the magicians.

[Oh snappie-poo. D:]

It angered me, and I soon learned of the Phantom Zone, so my friend Carnes and I traveled to the ocean-side gate, but he wasn't strong enough to continue in with me, so I was by myself the whole trip through the Phantom Zone. I met Hydra, Freon and Austarouto and destroyed them all because they had still been evil then, and then I fought Nebiroth outside the inner sanctum of Sardius himself, and appearantly he had staged his death."

[Yeah, Sandra can SPEAK volumes as much as Nebiroth can THINK volumes. :P]

"No. Was not real Nebiroth." Nebiroth grunted softly, a bit embarrased. "Was fake Nebiroth. Nebiroth was mad from death of Austorouto, and made fake self to lure off guard."

"Then why didn't you attack me after I destroyed your fake and went for Sardius?" "Nebiroth still ask that question to this day." he answered sadly, "Maybe good side quickly took over for the time."

[Yeah, I honestly don't remember why the real Nebi didn't go after Sandra after his fake was destroyed. Maybe it was some kind of fear or hesitiation that kicked in. o.o]

"You can make fakes of yourself as well?" asked Zac.

"Actually, Wizard made fake. Nebiroth requested wizard to make fake."

"Ah."

[Yeah, weak attempt to channel Zac in this part. I sucked at it. :P]

At this time, the chosen were now beginning to wake up.

[Oh and yes, the chosen four ARE going to be major characters in the IF. Now it's no longer just another 'AC-fest' like a lot of other Tenguian and some mid Cecilian-era IFs were. :P]

Jeff was oddly enough the first to awaken. He found himself staring into a room full of people, including a large monster that could barely fit the room. "Um.... hello everyone?" he said in a nervous voice. He then saw Sandra. She looked oddly familar, but he shrugged it off.

[Eh, it's not far fetched that Jeff might not think to compare Sandra to Paula due to the vast differences in hair color and style here. :o]

"What's been happening?"

"You were frozen in time, that's what been happening!" Bob stated to him.

[Yeah, duh Jeff. Get with the program! D:]

"Yeah. A lot has gone on lately Jeff." Penelope stated to Jeff.

Paula herself was second to wake up, she found herself in her bed. She could've sworn she was in the park staring at some large red thing.

[Nah Paula, you're just going crazy from all the PSI and crap. :P]

She saw her parents and a few of the others outside her room, but she had not just yet seen her lost sibling. "Hello, what's going on here?" she spoke, getting the attention of most of them, including Sandra. Sandra decided the time had come to reunite with her lost sister.

[Oh geez... <_<]

Walking into the door, almost casually she said, "Hey there, ocean-eyes." she called Paula by an old childhood nickname of hers.

[Yeah, a bit odd of an nickname, I know, but at the time I was short of ideas, I'll admit. <.<]

Sandra had her own nickname, 'Sandy', which Paula had given to her.

[Yes, important note here of exposition:

Sandra WAS in a past IF in the Tenguian era, but only one which was called "If Giygus won...", and it was more of a pre-beta version of her compared to this version. In said IF she was named 'Sandy' [like in the above mention], and I only vaugely remember her actions in the IF, except for one battle she randonly encountered a very powerful Starman. She promptly punched or kicked it and scrapped it in ONE HIT. This was actually the pre-basis of the concept of Sandra having enormous physical strength. The name change to Sandra actually came from a friend of mine giving me an equipment idea for something out of nowhere. I think rosch was the one who came up with it. So props to him for revamping Sandra's name from Sandy to it's current form.]

Paula looked blankly at her sister, for what she thought was an eternity. It was all coming back to her like a rush: the Serpents, their disbanding at Paula's hands after Sandra's disappearence, the incident with Wren the two had as 3 year olds where Sandra had stood up for her and all the other kids, the playpen event when they were two, and then their own birth, when they learned of their telepathic bond.

[Oh... oops. I guess I DID explain why the Serpents vanished after Sandra vanished after all. >_>

Yes, part of my history of these two has it that Paula discovered somehow that the Serpents caused Sandra to vanish [I think Everdred saw her go into the forest the day she vanished, and that she never returned, but he didn't see her sent through the portal to Santranus]. And thinking they might have killed Sandra, Paula went in to the forest they were using as their base in a near blind rage after the now slightly weakened Serpents. The portal-summoner had actually fled Eagleland just before she caught up to the rest of the gang due to the shock of his actions, and with help from one other boy who was after them for the same reasons, the two disbanded the Serpents and sent their main leader fleeing from Eagleland forever.

This was also my own interpretation of WHY people learned about the nature of Paula's PSI in the the first place and why she becomes so unintentionally famous in the media and to scientists, like is mentioned about her in Earthbound. Yeah, sorry for all the additionally bonus crap, but I figure you people might want to know all the details. :P]

\\Sa... Sandra?!\\ She attempted a telepathic message to her though that very bond, forming tears.

[Their mental bond... more on that later. I've given too much info in this post on general crap already.]

\Yes, ocean-eyes, it's little Sandy.\ Sandra gave her a ^_^ look in the physical plane.

[I KNEW IT. I did the ^_^ smile again. XD]

Paula gaped in shock, and then ran up and grabbed Sandra in a bear hug, or least as much of one Paula could do, crying her eyes out. Sandra also formed tears and cried the same, hugging back.

[Woah cowgirl, don't crush your dear sister to death now. :P]

James and Penelope looked back at their reunited daughters happily, and Jeff, who didn't yet know about them being family, just looked on with an befuddled expression on his face... "Um, did I miss something?" he said.

"Just two sisters reuniting." Bob put it calmly.

[Bob being so calm about it, it might have been because his new experience with positive emotions and watching the twins reunite struck a cord in him somewhere. I forget...]

Jeff's eyes went wide as saucers now, realizing the facial complexions and frames of Paula and Sandra were identical, even if their hair and eyes weren't.

[Yes, both twins share exactly the same physical build and shape regardless of what time in their lives they're at. Yeah, pointless facts abound. :P]

Poo was now slowly lifting off the floor. He hadn't even known of anything that had happened, dozing off before the time freeze occured, so he was totally confused to say the least.

Ness was also awakening at the same time, and remembered talked to Paula and Jeff about a red star-like object in the sky. He then took notice of the bawling Paula and Sandra still bear-hugging each other like mad, in a moment that felt to both like an eternal tourture to wait for...

[Ness is probably very very confused right now. Poor poor Nessie. :P]

[whew, done for now. Zero, just so you know, the Phantom Zone is different from Santranus, but thanks for the 'love' part of your last post, although I wasn't expecting it from you either. I hope I can handle this well, since Sandra may not fall in love with anyone in this IF. Sorry -_-]

[Yes, the whole 'Bob falls in love with Sandra' angle was not expected by me at the time it was first made, so I was a bit surprised. But as I said, it lead to our partnership on his server for near 7 years. More on that later.]

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