The Tyranny of Queen Elsa
Season 2 Fair is Foul
Episode 4 Mind Maze 1
7 August 2055
Oslo Inn
8 am
"I hear you had a... run in... with our mutual enemy" Diamond said softly
"Run in, far from it. It was more like a full on tackle" Mark said, he then detailed the fight with Elsa to Diamond, leaving nothing out. "I had uncle Arm, He'd come to his senses. Then Elsa showed up. She had a staff and apple of eden. After I got kicked out the illusion Uncle Arm was gone, and Georgina was there when I woke up."
"Where is she now ?" Diamond asked as she took a sip of her own coffee, it was black and had the texture, and taste, of roofing tar.
"Where is who ?" Mark asked
"Georgina" Diamond replied giving her brother a look.
"I dont know, as far as Im aware she's safe. But where she is. No idea" Mark said "One thing is strange though, my eagle vision seems... sharper. Like, I can see through walls with it now. I've never been able to do that before" He took a long sip of his coffee. Unlike Diamonds coffee Mark's coffee was something a human could drink without getting sick
"You almost saw through clothing" Diamond grumbled, her brother tried time and again to see what she was before she formally saw him days before when they lived in Arendelle and her under a different name. Yet now.
"Actually Eagle Vision dosnt work that way, it only outlines, but everytime I looked at you with it, you only appeared as a plume of white light" Mark replied, he took another long drink of his coffee "Alright here's the plan, I want you to track Uncle Arm carefully, everything he does, who he speaks to, I want everything noted."
"And the woman with him ?" Diamond mused softly
"I wouldnt worry about her, she seems harmless. Infact have our mutual flycatcher track her.." Mark said
"What are you gonna do ?" Diamond asked
"Im gonna take a walk, there's some stuff I need to think on. Somehow Elsa came into the memory corridor. That never happened before whenever I killed my targets." Mark said "Im gonna take a walk and see if I can think up a way to prevent that from happening again. When Uncle Arm gets to his house, text me his address, I'll take it from there" With that Mark finished his coffee and set the cup down. A moment later and he left the hotel on a walk to the curb he called for a taxi
A half hour later at he was at the edge of the city, woods greeted him, the cabbie asked if he wanted him to wait, Mark shook his head, paid the man and watched the cab leave. Mark took a deep breath and started into the woods
As he walked through the woods, tree to tree, Mark halted briefly, blinking rapidly he thought he saw Georgina walking in the woods ahead of him. Shaking his head he continued on, lost in thought.
He mentally went over the fight and how Elsa had arrived, a memory corridor had opened, a sphere of sorts had generated itself, Elsa stepped into view and had fully materialised. She had accused him of meddling in her plans. What was her plan ?
"Full control maybe ?" Said a hauntingly familiar voice, Mark twirled around, deep in the woods he was alone, so why
"Hello ?" Mark said
"Good morning!" Replied the still hauntingly familiar voice, yet there was no happiness in that voice
"Good, morning I guess" Mark replied still looking around in the woods "Alright, where are you ?"
"Here... Well, here in the spiritual sense" The voice replied
Another voice mercifully broke in as Mark started looking around for the owners of the voices, going up a tree to see if he saw a clearing somewhere "Great, I told you it wasnt gonna work, you're just making him crazier than he already is!"
"Who's crazy ?" Mark asked now looking to his left then right shoulders as what sounded like Kalda was arguing with a woman. "Wait, Kalda, is that you ?"
"Yes, its me" Came Kalda's reply, it was clear the dragon wasnt happy about something
"Who's with you ?" Mark asked
"Me" Replied the female voice, the voice hauntingly familiar
"Who is Me ?" Mark repeated
"I am" Replied the female voice. Mark went over to a tree, rammed his head against it, twice, "OW, whoa... Ah great I just got out of this stuff too!"
"That is not helping" Said Kalda who was also getting a headache. "And you're giving me a headache"
"Im getting one too" Mark said stumbling back from the tree, already going a bit crazier than normal he took a wrong step and started down a steep as fuck hillside. Rolling, bouncing off rocks, until finally slamming into a tree and briefly not moving as he was over a deep as fuck revine. "OK... whose the wiseguy that invited someone else into the braincase ? Kalda who is with you ?"
"Oooo this is gonna hurt" The female voice said as splashing noises were heard as the owner of the voice apparently thrashed in water of some form.
Mark wondered what the voice meant when he heard it too, a low creeeeak noise from the tree he had slammed onto with all of the love of a locomotive understeam. Mark hugged the tree with both his arms and legs looking up the trunk he said under his breath "Dont you dare break..."
CRACK
Mark swore, the voices in his head swore just as loud. The ground came up to meet Mark head on as Mark slamed into a pile of leaves and water. Blacking out from the connection
He woke up flat on his back to two voices arguing "Is he dead ? If he's dead, why am I not dead ?" said a even more familiar female voice
"He's not dead" Came a male voice, that of Kalda, the pirate dressed man knelt next to Mark on a rocky outcrop as the owner of the female voice stalked off. "I think he's waking up actually"
"Great, so he's in here with us, how are any of us gonna get out of here ?" the woman said
"Will you relax. Last thing we need is him to get into a coma and if that happens then you'll never get out of here." Kalda told the woman as he stood up, Mark faked being still out of it, at least until he heard names so he could match voices
"Its bad enough Im even in here!" The woman retorted, yup, he knew that tone
"Relax, please, we can figure this out somehow." Kalda said
"Every time he uses one of his skills or evne my eagle vision I feel myself getting ripped apart in here until he's done!" Georgina grumbled
Mark groaned, causing both of the other two with him to look his way. iPlease dont be in that getup/i Mark thought, opening his eyes he then saw that yes, Georina sadly was indeed still dressed as he last saw her. Mark stared at her, He pointed a finger at her, opened his mouth to speak, no words came out. He tried again, still no words came out. On the third try however his mouth and brain worked and he asked "How in the fuck did you get in here ?" he sat up, then got to his knees and with Kaldas help stood up.
"I could ask you the same question, but thankfully Kalda kept me dry for the most part." Georgina said crossing her arms.
"Ok, fine, before I go find then earest bar and get myself shitfaced drunk. What do you last remember before... this ?" Mark asked Georgina, Kalda he could tel was not happy, not the least bit
"I remember fighting you" Georgina said. "Sword to sword, our energy connected, repelled, clashed, stuff got pretty messy in the area we were at. Then... an explosion. I dont remmeber if it was our energy that did it or something else."
"Same for me, our energy connecting, reacting, then kaboom" Mark said
"I woke up in the sludge over there" Georgina nodded towards a patch of what looked like swampland
"My mindscape is a mess" Mark mumbled, as he thought of doing some spring cleaning it brightened up just a wee bit, enough to see a bit better at least. "You woke up in that ?" He pointed at the sludgey swampy stuff that Georgina woke up in.
"It was about knee deep, it was weird, almost like a thick miasma of a sludge too, it didnt stick to my skin or clothing. When I pulled myself free of it I was clean, wet sure, but clean." Georgina explained
"OK, that's one thing that was helpful to know" Mark replied "I heard something of feeling ripped apart ?"
Georgina nodded "yeah, when you use Eagle Vision its like enhanced right ?" Your eagle vision plus mine, every time you use it I feel like Im being pulled in ten different directions at once" She sighed as Kalda formed out of the mindscape a chair for each of them. Georgina all but collapsed into the thing as Mark settled comfortably "But I can see just as you do through it. Its like I am seeing what you atre seeing, so when you used eagle vision to find me, you couldnt find me could you ?" Mark shook his head "Because I was still out of it I think, Woke up in the sludge in here"
"Well this is all fine and dandy, but how long have I been in that ravine ?" Mark asked pointing upwards at the 'ceiling' which showed the ravine with his body laid in it
"Dunno, time here doesnt really mean anything., I feel like I just woke up" Georgina said
"So when I wake up, Im gonna get a beer, hopefully that'll get you a drink" Mark said
"Dont drench yourself. You'll look stupid dousing yourself in beer. Norwegian beer is good, mind you, but not good enough to bathe with" Georgina said
"How am I supposed to get you guys something to eat ?"
"I manage" Kalda said "So far Georgina has refused to eat anything"
"Im not hungry, I... I cant explain it but when in here its like I dont have to worry about being in need of anything like food or drink. Just... sleep." Georgina said "Its hard though, to sleep, when your mind is a hurricane of thoughts and needs."
"Yeah Im gonna get smashed, this is all too much for me guys honestly, how did you get here ?" Mark asked Georgina point blank
"I told you, Last thing I remember was an explosion, then I woke up in the sludge" Georgina explained. "But what you told my son, our son, was true, what you told your sister too, was true, I am safe, Im... here... wherever here is"
Mark looked thoughtful "Alright, fine, since I can now use your type of Eagle Vision, we can make this work to our benefit, somehow we're stuck like this, you inside my head, therefore, your skills become my skills"
"At some point Im gonna light some incense in here" Georgina growled softly
"That can be doable I think but I'd look funny with smoke coming out of my ears woiuldnt I ?" Mark said, a silly look on his face before he once more got serious "You mentioned something of flying ?"
"Yeah, when you need to I can teach you, but thanks to... Kalda was it ?" Kalda nodded to Georgina's question "If I need to, I can astral project myself, I managed to do it briefly which lead you here... Or rather to that ravine floor"
"Kalda can already astral project himself, most of his skills and abilites I have easy access to, but yours on the other hand you'll have to grant me access to" Mark said, "Do you use a sling-ring ?"
"No, never had a need for such things, even as a former student of the Mystic Arts when I was a child I never really had a need for the Sling-Rings" Georgina replied
"But you can Astral Project when needed ?" Mark said, Georgina nodded "Fine, When I wake up I'll go to a bar and have a beer, then track down my uncle, no doubt I will need your help in that, so between the beer and tracking down my uncle I want to learn how to fly properly. Like a bird"
"I can teach you that, it wont be easy though. Kalda said there was a tea you can drink to get into here easier than passing out, Once you drink that tea; I will teach you how to fly like an Eagle, and safely so without harming either of us at the time. Though if we ever manage to figure out what happened to cause me to get here, I think you'll retain the ability of Eagleflight"
Mark felt the pull of reality. "Alright Im starting to wake up, astral project while I walk back to the nearest bar will you ?" He said, the two nodded and the mindscape faded from view
Mark snapped open his eyes in the ravine floor, staring up at the clouds above he sat up, cracking his back as he did so. Standing up he saw that Georgina and Kalda projected themselves perfectly. Plexus patterns danced around both figures. Obscouring their feet and making both appear like ghosts ripping into reality trying to get to him for help.
Mark started walking, they floated along "Alright, One drink coming up," Mark mused as he checked his phone, it couldnt be past noon already could it ? Sure it took an hour to get to the woods, but was he really out of it for seven hours ? It was nearly four in the afternoon. He had six texts, one from his son, one from his father the rest from Diamond. Each one was a question, where was he ? However that last one was a location ping LLE of course, so Mark knew exactly where to go to find Diamond.
He sighed, "Alright, let me get this straight, Georgtina is with me, inside my head, and we dont know why.."
"Exactly" Kalda replied as Georgina nodded, she wasnt happy about it either Mark could tell, she missed being able to feel the grass underfoot.
"Alright, I'll try and prettifiy my mindscape for you then, if I can" He said to her
"Doubtful, but thanks" Georgina replied, the ghostly projectioon of the woman only made her so much more prettier in that outfit, but Mark focused on the task at hand
"OK, Im gonna grab that beer, Kalda, when I sleep tonight I want you to go to the nearest library and astral project to read anything you can find of merging mindscapes. Georgina is here in body and soul, not just mind" Mark pointed at his head, meaning where Georgina, body and soul alike, was merged with him. "I want to find a counter spell or something, but that will be on the back burner for now"
"Sounds like a plan. When Kalda leaves though, what about me ? Am I stuck inside here ?" Georgina asked, it was clear she didnt like the mindscape, much rather project than anything else.
"Tell you what, Kalda will take you to Auji and let you Astral Project to him as long as I sleep, however when I start to wake up you'll get pulled back into my mind. Thus breaking the astral projection." Mark said
"What about right now ? Shouldnt you still be asleep for this to work ?" Georgina asked
"Right now we're in close proximity to Mark, thusly able to only be within his line of sight, but only for short time, see, you're turning transparent" Kalda said pointing out to Georgina that her arms were starting to fade, just like his were, little plexus patterns ripping them apart and pulling both back into Makrs mind
"Remember, we wont have long. Prioity is to track down my uncle, your mission, Kalda, is to find what caused this to happen, and if you're lucky, find a way to reverse it before too long. I think I can forgo the beer"
"Are you sure ?" Asked Georgina, her voice sounded different as well. Echoy almost
Seeing how she looked, breaking apart like shattered glass Mark blanched. "yeah Im gonna go get that beer" He said turning and stumbling off as Kalda and Georgina faded into his mind as the last points of the plexus faded away as he stumbled through the woods.
How the fuck did Georgina get into his head ?