>>5939258“We… should be sending as much info about this as Bulma as we can.” you comment. “No idea what this is, what it’s doing here, and if there’s anything else near it. Teach, can you sense anything?”
She closes her eyes and focuses. “I… think I have the most vague sense of Magical energy deep underground, but only that. Still, the fact that I can sense it up here when I focus on it… that’s not normal.”
“Mhmm… let’s see if there’s anything around it, protections or a guardian or even some kind of like, placard nearby. Better safe than sorry.” You make sure MOGUERA is recording and sending back to Bulma as much information as possible, while also keeping an eye out for something, anything off about the crystal or the immediate area around it.
The good news, this does seem to be some kind of natural formation, more or less. But the rock formations it’s a part of are not natural to the surrounding region. In fact they look like they’ve been dug up from a much deeper layer in the Earth. Not merely pushed up through lava flows or the like, but intentionally pulled up from who knows how deep in the ground. You also notice a bit of a glitch in MOGUERA’s systems as it gets closer. There’s nothing directly affecting it, but for some reason there are runtime errors that cause minor system resets for its scanning equipment.
Far, far more concerning is when Bulma gets back to you guys. “The properties here are… almost impossible.” she begins. “This thing is giving off gravitational waves, and the structure, while crystalline now, is slightly unstable in low pressure environments. It’ll eventually ‘melt’ into a fluid state. It… hrmn.” You and Chuu Lee hear her start to rummage through some things. “Here we go. These… might actually be a form of time crystal.”
You and Chuu Lee look at one another in surprise, with her being the first to ask, “I’m not exactly a scientist, but I can figure that’s not something that’s supposed to be here.”
“It’s not. If you can remove it safely, I’d like you to bring it to Capsule Corp, soon.” she requests. “We might be in possession of some similar crystals soon, if what I’ve heard from Izzy’s group is correct.”
>A. Got it, we’ll bring it out ASAP. Better we do it now, especially with who’s been in the area recently>B. Does it have to be immediate? Think we could come back another day to grab it?>C. How do you figure it’s a ‘time crystal’, exactly?>D. Something else? 