InterLUDE: A Quest of Rings
By Xenomorph666
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Universe: Spliced-Verse
Namor
"So..." Scott Summers looked around, slightly confused. "How did we get yanked into this one again?"
"Gi asked us to help and I said yes." Jean Grey said. "Come on Scott, she's a friend who needs our help."
"I'm just glad we only have to deal with Althea and Xi, at least they can be somewhat tame..." Scott smiled, at that exact moment Xi, Althea and Gi all ran to the edge of the boat they were on and dove into the sea with yelps of delight; unfortunately they dove off at just the right area to splash Scott, and leave Jean bone dry. "Someone must really dislike me..."
Somewhere in another universe a struggling writer smiled.
"Did you hear that?" Scott asked.
"What?" Jean gave her boyfriend an odd look.
"Nothing, nevermind." Scott said nervously.
"Come on in guys!" Gi called from the water, "It's perfect for a swim!"
"Yeah, come on!" Althea smiled.
"We have to get the rebreather's first." Jean said as she brought out several large tanks for everyone except Althea.
"You guys seriously need gills." Althea laughed.
"No thanks." Jean said as she tossed Xi and Gi their rebreathers and handed Scott his own.
"This is going to end bad for us, you know that right." Scott said with a sigh.
"Why does Scott sound like he is imitating Marvin the Depressed Android?" Xi asked.
"It's the other way around Xi; Marvin's doing impressions of Scott." Althea giggled.
"Ha, ha, ha." Scott mocked as he jumped into the water. Jean soon followed.
"How deep are we going down?" Gi asked.
"Not to deep." Althea reassured everyone. "Arcade said the ruins would be pretty close to the surface and very obvious. I'll go down first, Xi you follow me, Gi follows Xi and so on and so on. Try not to lag behind."
Soon the five of them found themselves swimming amongst the ocean bed of a shallow drop off. Soon they also found a rather large and distorted building. It looked as if Pablo Picasso had sneezed the building onto a canvas of real life, however that was do to it's very poor condition. For a while the group looked over the ruins searching for an entrance, but they found none. The group met back the what they all assumed was the building's entrance once more before deciding to head up. When they got to the boat Gi was deeply disappointed.
"Hey, how'd you kids do?" Captain Ron, a friend who was piloting the boat popped over the railing as they came up.
"Rotten." Gi said as she pulled herself up from the sea and quickly made her way inwards to the small yacht's shower.
"Geez, what crawled up her swimsuit and died?" Captain Ron asked.
"We found the symbols, but there's no entrance..." Althea said. "We'll have to try again tomorrow."
"Ah, then I guess telling her that the Wheeler kid got his ring working wouldn't be the best idea, huh?" Captain Ron asked.
Later that evening, after eating a small fraction of her meal and simply retiring to her bunk, Gi could not help but feel as if she were completely useless. Only a few times had her power actually been able to do something other than revive Captain Planet, and of those time they were minimally useful and could have been accomplished better by fire or wind. Gi felt horrible, and she could not shake the feeling that she did not deserve the ring of water because of that feeling. As she was feeling at her worst though the small chirps of Shu garnered her attention. The small compy was busy chewing on some clams that Captain Ron had tossed him during dinner.
"Hey Shu, how you feeling?" Gi reached out her hand to pet the compy, but it dropped it's food and skittered under the bunk.
Gi quickly jerked her head to the porthole where an almost elven looking man now stood. He narrowed his eyes as he looked through the window, and Gi could clearly see he was motioning for to go to the deck. Gi almost leapt out of bed and for some reason she grabbed her broken ring then she made her way to the deck. The others were on deck as well as the sun began to set.
"What are you doing here?" The almost elven man said.
"We're searching for a way to fix Gi's ring." Althea snapped.
"Althea, let's not be so hostile towards the nice mer-people with pointy tridents." Scott gulped as another, more armored looking almost elven man pointed a trident at Scott's neck.
"Hey..." Captain Ron came stumbling out from his quarters and eyed the lead man with an annoyed look. "What the hell are you doin' out here Namor?"
"Namor?" Scott asked. "The Sub-Mariner?"
"Indeed." Namor bowed, "And King of Atlantis."
"Who has a lord who my mom ran off with." Althea added.
"Must I always be held accountable for that?" Namor sighed.
"No, you just woke up during a really nice dream so I'm a bit ticked." Althea glared at Namor.
"Then I apologize my dear." Namor smiled. "As for you young lady..." Namor turned to Gi. "You seek to restore Gaia's gift, yes?"
"Y-yes." Gi stammered.
"Hmmm..." Namor frowned. "I can take you into the temple, and I can show you to where your trial awaits, but I can help you no further."
"Whoa..." Captain Ron looked like a five ounce shot glass had hit him in the head. "You're helping some one from the surface?"
"That is amazing." Althea joined in the surprised look.
"If Gaia chose her originally who am I to argue?" Namor smiled, "Besides I want to see if she fails or not."
"Ok that makes more sense." Althea sighed in relief.
"How kind of you." Jean frowned at Namor.
"If anything I am a gracious host." Namor smiled and spoke to his men who quickly left back into the ocean. "Young lady, if you will prepare..."
Gi wasted no time as she bolted back to her bunk and grabbed her rebreather after jumping into her swimsuit. Then she ran back out onto the deck and dove in without hesitation.
"Shes... eager." Namor blinked from the deck of the yacht.
"She's been driving herself crazy trying to get her ring back." Althea said. "You hurt her, remember what I can do..." Althea gave the sweetest evil smile she could. Namor paled and then dove into the water.