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Waking up hurts. There isn't any other way to say this, but it really hurts to wake up right now. The world is a blur of mostly white with a spattering of blinking colors accompanied by alarms and I can't understand a single thing around me as I stumble on too short legs to get balance.
I cover my face with my hands to block out the light as my mind finally starts to come into focus and the room stops spinning. I move my hands away and finally begin to access what is around me, and I must say; wherever I am is fucked badly.
The room itself looks like a weird mixture of a spaceship bridge and a, what I assume used to be, well decorated and lived in space. The floor either is or looks like it is made out of hardwood giving it a much more comforting feeling than what I imagine a normal spaceship's bridge is.
You may be wondering how I know this is a spaceship? Well there is an absolutely gigantic circular window on the ceiling showing a planet right now.
The tables and consoles are made of wood with mostly cracked and glitching screens filled with information. There is a literal helm, like you would see on a pirate ship with accompanying levers and buttons and such.
This entire room looks like an earthquake hit and It really is concerning to me and my continued survival.
As my observations come to an end I'm startled to finally notice something I should have a long time ago; this is not my body.
I look like a pudgy small thing with nubs for arms and legs.
How do I know i'm small, well there's stools everywhere bolted to the ground at the height of a highchair. I am maybe a foot tall by my uneducated guess based on chair size.
I'm also blue, like a bright sky blue and I've come to notice my screams have an odd twinkly bell sound to them.
Did I not mention that? I've been screaming since I first saw my new body.
It takes a minute or two to recover from this trauma before I start looking around again to not think too hard about my circumstances.
Something important I've noticed, there's no bodies anywhere. The bridge is only the size of a living room too, so it could be that they have a small crew. I don't know, I don't know everything about a spaceship!
I don't know what the buttons on the helm do like the accelerator lever nor that this ship isn't the fastest, only clocking in at a little bit faster than the speed of light, and mainly uses teleportation to get to far places- what?
How do I know this? Why do I know how fast this ship is? It's not like it's my personal ship named Journey 2 after the first one exploded due to an invasive plant infestation in the engine room. WHY DO I KNOW THESE THINGS?
Ok take stock what do I know? I am currently over the planet Popstar for research purposes in the hopes of studying warp star technology and magic in the hopes of either improving my vessel or creating a better landing craft. What in the stardust is going on!?
Stardust?
Why can't I swear right I wanted to say fuck, wait I did it that time. Cracking core this feels weird. Why are all my curses messed up, I know I can say damn, shit, fuck and what have you but it feels more natural this way.
"By the first light of the universe I don't get what's happening to me." I grumble in a feminine childish voice with a bell like accompaniment. Am I a woman? Memories say I am a woman.
"Void, I mean fuck. Can't even swear right"
I decided to not think too hard about my two past sets of memories.
"It's all ok, I'm fine, everything is fine. I'm still me, I'm still Lumos" I say to reassure myself. It takes me a moment to realize I said Lumos before realizing I don't remember my old name. Who was I? Who am I!? I AM LUMOS I AM A LUMA EXPLORER AND INVENTOR SEARCHING FOR FUN, TECHNOLOGY, AND MAGIC!
I take a second to center myself. I am who I am, everything else doesn't matter right now. The ship is in a bad state and I need to get my tools from the small tool box under the floor by the helm to start fixing things.
I stop second guessing myself and move on with a clear mission in sight, get the ship's primary computer working and run a diagnostic.
What I find does not fill me with joy. First of all the primary computer is no better than space dust. When I looked inside that thing I found more things broken and fused together than unbroken. I'll need to completely rebuild the entire thing, luckily the secondary computer is working.
Look at me now idiots, you laughed when I said a backup would help but who's laughing now! Me and mama that's who!
Mama? No ignore it and move on, the ship needs me before it all dies.
SO to begin with the life support systems were hit by a rogue meteoroid and is basically slag. Another thing I need to fix, it's a good thing I don't need that at all, but it looks like I'm not entertaining visitors anytime soon. Good thing I didn't have any when this happened.
I can probably find some replacement plants on Popstar to jumpstart production of food and air or regular organisms. I guess I'm remodeling the ship as it were anyway so I'm going to need to land the ship on the surface to get things started.
I am so glad I built this ship so ruggedly, 'Lumos your ships are so not pretty, you should make it more slim! It's not like you'll ever need to survive a crash, It's so unlikely to happen anyway!' discounting that even still pirates exist and are a real problem on minor lanes.
My ship is a bulky star shape with the primary engine on one side and the helm window on the other. It has lesser engines on each box 'arm' and a simple tractor beam point defense laser on each arm as well.
The materials that went into making it were subpar, it was the bare minimum of what was needed and even then it kept scrounging.
I made this ship myself years ago, because I wanted to be more independent from Mama and explore on my own. Hindsight should have taken more than just her suggestions as help, she did offer after all.
Hopefully this warp star research pays off because I might as well do a rebuild. I hate my big star rabbit form though, It's so uncute- wait I can turn into a rabbit? Yeah, yeah I can. I can turn into a lot of things, like planets, but the star rabbit is most useful for this due to it not needing any atmosphere. Also they have thumbs.
…Could I become human again? Yes, yes I could if I wanted to. It just requires a ritual to be done and I could become a new Mama. Well, technically I give up most of my most powerful transformations for direct power and a humanoid body, but still human.
Huh, the more I remember from this place the more I realize this creature I am now was barely into its teens mentally. Their bodies don't change unless they transform and it's the mind and maturity that matters more than physical age.
Mama is 8ft tall, and based on my memories she is more mature than an elder of a regular organic species. Her size and stature link into her mind. I might be 6ft, 6 and a half if I'm lucky. So a young adult, maybe an average one in mind? There is a reason Mama is in charge.
Most Luma do not mentally mature quickly or easily, if they did the ritual they may become large children with a good deal more power but a much easier to identify target.
Space cares little for those who can't either run or overpower opposition and you are technically slower without the use of magic when the ritual is done.
Unaided, I can fly between solar systems with a little work without using inherent magic. The ship is there to be a home and place to live more than a completely necessary part of the journey.
Back to the ship the engines are fine, the things could have been directly hit and still been fine, kitchens, cargobay and science room are still in stasis so they're fine. My room is probably a mess along with the guest room.
Hallways are going to look like a wreck of furniture, broken picture frames and potted plants.
Looks like it's mostly just the bridge and life support I need to worry about though. I'll do a few on the spot repairs before landing and do a more indepth look at the damage to that portion. As I said before I'm hoping to find the materials to refit, maybe even rebuild, my ship.
I might just wait for a bit and find Kirby to check out his warp star for extra ideas before working. Ship itself is fine to live in still, I'll get the big hole patched and be ready to go in a little bit!
-Time skip to in the bridge after patching the ship-
"Alright let's get this just settled planetside and get a lay of the land. Entire planets heavily magical so I should be able to just settle down anywhere and refuel the mana engines and backup batteries. Now let's see if my sensors can spot the grassy area near the middle of Popstar where those heroes live."
After talking to myself for a bit it wasn't hard to find Dedede's castle, nor the village beneath it that appears to house…Kirby's brothers and waddle dees? Well that's pretty neat, guess i'm in one of the games then like that mirror one or whatever. Didn't play it, but they should be willing to help gather supplies.
They're pretty helpful guys like that all told.
Well let's settle just a bit outside of town then, that way I have access to all the people nearby that might be of use here.
Yeah looking back on my thoughts I'll probably be closer to 6ft and a half when I finish that ritual. Which is good! I might be closer to a regular Luma adult than a teen like before.
Let's stop delaying and get down to that planet!