Nexus. By the sign. Nyx

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Wingnut blinks, then responds automatically to the little sound, her small pincher going out to gently pat the girl on the nose. "It's alright, rookie. Don't worry."

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[liquid_thief]

"You're off your rocker, Mercury," Mars protests. "There ain't no way a couch would do that!"

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"An Improbable Nexus Child is a kid that by all logic shouldn't exist, and yet does," Mercury explains. "Usually they're refugees from some alternate universe's future where you found out your counterpart in their timeline was messing around with your worst enemy or something. This is the first I've heard of an LOL directly causing one, but so far it's the theory that fits the best."

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Pluto is still a ball of fluff, and his brain is just about the same. They'll be getting nothing useful out of him for a while.

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"There was gas," says Wingnut. "And her spark sounds something like Lord Frenzy's...."

[liquid_thief]

"Sound like?" Mercury queries, wondering if he and the other Stardroids might be missing a few senses that Wily hadn't known how to replicate.

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Meanwhile, a very fluffed up and tense Pluto edges towards the blanket again.

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"They all sound different." She curls up a little and squeaks unhappily, feeling slagged.

[winged_night]

Mercury sits next to the blanket and gives Wingnut a concerned look. "So, if you don't use e-tanks or energon - and I doubt you can eat a tuna sandwich - is there anything I can get you?"

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Under the blanket, the still unnamed sparkling is starting to understand that she is hungry. After some experimental chewing on the blanket she deems it inedible and sniffs. Something smells very good out there. Blanket and all, like some kind of fabric amoeba, she edges in the direction of the tuna sandwiches that Mars brought.

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She shakes her head, too tired and achy to be able to really think straight.

But then she remembers something important. "She needs a name."

[space_kitty]

"And here we are, all out of planets," mutters Mercury, wondering what to do about that. It wasn't something they'd ever given any thought to before. Well, except a random comment by Terra once, on whether or not Luna wold be a good name. This girl, however, just didn't look like a Luna. And besides, she was Pluto's, not Terra's...

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Pluto's not far from the edibles, even if the e-tank hadn't really helped as much as he'd hoped it would. AndOhDearItWasHeadingHisWay! The cat-mech just freezes, fur unable to actually fluff up any more than it already has. Coping well, he isn't.

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The girl peeks back out from under the blanket. Oooh, there's the fuzzy purple one again. She gives him a curious sniff, but he's not the food. She picks up one of the tuna sandwiches and gives it a curious nibble. Yes! Food!

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"She also needs clothes," adds Mars, when the sparkling lets the blanket fall down around her waist as she chews on the sandwich.

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"Clothes?" Wingnut gives him on of her cross-eyed looks.

[winged_night]

"Humans have nudity taboos, and most of the ones we live with picked em up." Mars says.

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"And if Star said anything, we'd have to kill him," mutters Mercury.

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While she's busy with the sandwich, Pluto gives the sparkling a curious sniff right back. He's still more than small bit brainbroken, though, and when this results her sniffing right back and them ending up nose-to-nose again he looks about to faint.

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The girl goes back to eating the sandwich, finishes that one, and grabs the second one that Mars brought.

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"I... need to recharge." Wingnut wobbles to her feet and looks at the youngster. "I'll come back. Listen to these guys."

[space_kitty]

Pluto's trying to get out of shock and deal with this, really he is. Names? Someone had mentioned names, hadn't they. He remembers joking with the other Stardroids about that once. Terra suggesting 'Luna' would be a good name, and the rest of them having fun with it because the idea just didn't work - some of the planets they were named after either had no moons at all or had so many that only astronomy nuts could name them all.

And his had... three? He was almost sure there were three, though at the moment he could only remember two of the names, and one he thought was a male name. And the other... He glances at the girl and then moves closer to Wingnut and looks down at her. ".. Nyx?"

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She pauses and tilts her head. "Nix? I like it, it sounds like something Lord Frenzy would choose."

[winged_night]

"In human mythology, it's a name for a personification of night. In astronomy, it's one of the moons of the planet Pluto was named after," Mercury says.

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The sparkling doesn't seem to take much notice of the discussion of names at the moment. Mmmm... tuna.

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"Ohhh," she says, though most of the explanation has gone right over her head. Then she sighs and rises wearily into the air, the buzzing of her wings a little fainter than usual. "I'll be back."

[winged_night]

Mercury nods slightly. "Take care."

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Nyx, meanwhile, has finished the second tuna sandwich and has decided she wants a nap. And that poor fluffy Pluto looks like a good pillow.

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Which just sends the feline Stardroid right back into shock, until some small rational part of his brain says it's time to give up on making any sense of reality for the moment. He'd come here to take a nap, they couldn't go anywhere for a while because Terra would be coming back here to find them, and he was just plain tired. So, Pluto curls up and lets Nyx use him as a pillow as he, too, tries to take a nap.

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Wingnut watches them curiously for a moment, but then heeds her internal warning alarms and goes to look for Tradeoff.