"Are you girls ready?"

Louise and Montmorency looked at the doctor in front of them who was standing beside some kind of white tower on a table and then looked at each other. They were both leaning in the heavy Biopod things from before, but unlike the other times the glass around these one was very dark, and hovering over their heads were huge and clunky looking helmet thing without eyeholes.

This was apparently how they were going to learn information about the society they found themselves in so they could function as more than just dead weight.

"What, what is it going to be like?" Montmorency asked, nerves showing on her face easily.

"The Biopod will put you to sleep and then it will, through the Cortex translator, give you the basic technical information about machinery and things most needed to know in everyday life. While this is happening you will likely dream in a way that makes no sense, during, or when you wake up, but that is normal as no mind can accept so much information in an intelligible way so quickly. It will take many days for your minds to pars the information and make sense of it."

"So we'll have weird dreams, and then wake up knowing things?" Louise asked as she glanced up at the helmet above her head. Finding its dark insides kind of like a never ending void of bleakness.

"That is correct," The doctor said with a nod. "The process takes a few hours, but do not worry, I will be watching over both of your readouts here to make sure nothing happens. Now, are you both ready?"

The girls both glanced at each other before nodding in sync, then nodding toward the Doctor, who without a work clicked something and made the helmets slowly lower down till they covered their heads.

And then everything went black.

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Louise opened her eyes and found herself standing upon a cliff overlooking a great wide plains. A number of wide rivers ran through the plains, and surrounding the rivers were a number of simple building of wood and plant matter. Herd animals surrounded some of the huts, while fields of golden wheat could be easier seen in the distance. It was impossible to tell anything more from the distance, but it was a strangely serene and calming sight.

"Wow, its so pretty,"

Louise looked to her left and gaped in surprise, as there standing atop the cliff beside her was Montmorency. Who also was wearing nothing, but also simultaneously did not seem naked. In fact her body seemed sort of see through, wispy. "Momo?"

Louise?!" Montmorency said in shock as she turned to louise's words. "Wait, why are you here? Where is here? I thought we were supposed to fall asleep and have a silly dream?"

" I , . . . think we are," Louise said as she looked back out at the plains below them and notice that some of he buildings seemed to be shifting from wood and plant, to bricks of some kinds in what made them up.

"What?" Montmorency said as she looked around and then began staring at the plains below them. "That town is, growing?"

Both girls watched in awe as the small village seemed to grow in size to a burgeoning town. A giant fish appeared in the sky above the village next, strange tendrils hanging down from its body and toward the town. Then the town changed, growing further and faster, the buildings changing to more intricate brick, the clothes of the people in its changing as well. They watched the people grow and gain power over sword and magic, they watched battles play out with the people being victorious constantly, and then as the town seemed a city of epic proportions buildings crashed down and they saw the people fighting that giant fish thing from before, and saw it slain.

Then the village disappeared. They saw people gathering by a great temple with a glowing portal of some kind before them. Hundreds upon hundreds went in, and then they found themselves at a diffident place, a valley of some kind with the same portal, and hundreds of people coming out. These new people built up a city themselves, and as they did the portal in the cities center closed. The people lamented this but moved on, building their city bigger and grander, creating machines and apparatus that looked utterly alien to both girls, before those same people seemed to manage to fly up towards the sky and way from their world.

And then the two girls found themselves standing in a temple of stone, sunlight gleaming in through large windows to illuminate a floating mass of hundreds of shimmering jewels that floated in the temples center before them.

"I, what?" Montmorency said as she looked around in confusion. "What is going on?"

"I'm . . . not sure," Louise said as she looked around the temple they stood in, noting that neither the lighting, or anything else seemed to be changing as the previous vision had. Her gaze was then understandably pulled toward the many crystals before them, finding their scintillating cloud to be both beautiful, and oddly oppressive. "Did, did you notice how a lot of the people before in that odd vision, how many of them had crystals like these following them around or floating nearby?"

Montmorency looked at Louise and then followed her gaze to the cloud of jewels. "I, think they did, yes. Do you think there is something connecting them to this then?"

"I do," Louise said as she walked forward till just before the cloud. The crystals within it seem to move at a constant yet lazy speed, and reaching out his a hand she caught one of them and pulled it away from the cloud with no difficulty. Holding it in her hand felt and looked odd. It was a kaleidoscope of color and shaped vaguely like a ball but with a number of perfectly equally sized flat spots all over it. It felt cold to the touch yet warmed her hand, while giving a sense of security, but also gave her a sense of dread, like the oddly shaped crystal held something sinister with in it. Letting go of it she expected it to simply float back into the cloud, but instead it floated up and began floating by her head. "This is weird."

"It is," Louise looked to see a blue and Red crystal floating by Montmorency as she looked at them warily, then poked a finger into the cloud. And as soon as she poked a green crystal, it floated out of the cloud and joined the other two. Montmorency then looked at Louise with an oddly nervous expression. "Do you think these are maybe the information we need to learn?"

Louise looked at the cloud of crystals, pondering the idea, before she noticed that within the ever swirling cloud looked to ne some sort of gateway or something similar, green and gold in color. "Or, maybe that portal inside the cloud is?"

"What portal?"

"The one inside the cloud. Do you not see it?"

" . . . Oh, that one," Montmorency said as she let out a sigh." How are we suppose to get to it though?"

Louise looked at the swirling cloud and held out an arm, letting a couple crystals bump into her arm, only for them to then float over to the others by her head. " Like this?"

Montmorency watched for a minute before shrugging, unable to think of anything better. The two girls then began slowly moving into the cloud, poking and bumping into crystals until the cloud was gone, leaving just a glowing portal before them, and an almost cape like mass of crystals floating behind them. "So, you want to walk into this thing?"

"Well, I don't see anything else in this place and these crystals don't seem to do anything," Louise said as she reached back and poked one of the crystals, making it sort of drift away from her, and then drift back to the place it was at.

"I guess you are right," Montmorency said as she took in a deep breath ad slowly let it out before striding forward to the portal, almost catching Louise off-guard.

The two girls then entered the portal, and promptly found everything they knew turned upside down once more as words, meanings and concepts rushed into their minds.

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"So, there were no problems?" Musashi asked tensely as she stood near the doctor who was now deactivating the Biopods.

"Yes, these two should have all the basic information to survive our society and build off of that information," the doctor said with a nod. "Honestly it went much faster than I anticipated it to after being oddly slow for a few minutes."

"Why?"

"Not sure. Perhaps their minds just accepted the information easily,"

"Is that normal?"

"No, not really. Normally it takes over seven hours for an information load into a primitive. Two is rather unbelievable honestly," The doctor said before tapping his head. " I'd say its likely due to he Cortex translator that was put in them. Slowed at the start to calibrate itself, and then helped move the info where it was needed and faster"

" . . . . . . . .That does concern me,"

"I wouldn't worry to much honestly" The doctor said with a grin before the Biopods both fully opened, revealing the girls sleeping forms. "There you are. Taking them to a room, or direct to your ship?"

"Alexandria has prepared for us to do their paperwork aboard our ship now that it has managed a landing spot. That way we can begin looking for their world while doing whatever else we can."

"Any missions planned then?"

"Well, a few that will be good for us, and maybe the girls if they decide to join in on them."

"Oh?"

Musashi simply smiled.

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In a monumental room of pristine white steel a man in a green and gold robe stood. The wall before him was covered in dozens of jewels of varying colors and shapes, some glowing, and others not. And then his eyes shot open and he smiled.

For two more gems had become lit.