Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of Journeys We Make

A Failure To Auto-Pilot

"You, tin-can, how exactly did you rip Tomi out of there?" the Empress pointed an authoritative finger to Damisan, who just continued standing turned to a blank point in a seemingly infinite space. After this didn't work, she turned her pointing finger to the pretty princess in a flowery dress, "Extract that information from him with your affectionate chaff."

Shige-H scratched her cheek and stepped out in front of Damisan, caressing his cheek, which didn't seem to have any sort of reaction. "Damisan, could you tell us how you rescued Tomi from thin air, pretty please?" she clapped her hands together and winced, hoping for the best.

Without explaining himself too much, Damisan cut a sharp turn and raised his hand up. His forearm detached from the rest of his mechanical arm and shot out straight into one of the many floating playing cards. Once it punched into it, there was no shock, nor was there any notable reaction or resistance. The arm simply entered the card through a soft, rippling surface. After entering the pocket mental dimension found inside that card, Damisan reeled his forearm back with a shrieking, metallic, reeling sound. The forearm connected with a loud thud rather than a pleasant click, which was more common to Damisan on the material plane.

"I see, so each card leads to a different pocket dimension inside of tutor Ridworth's mind. Can you sense where Endo is, pretty please?" Skaven tried mimicking the facial gestures and tone of Shige-H, but Damisan remained ignorant of the Nara's existence. It took Shige-H noting the social cue and once again using her gentle and aloof nature for Damisan to roll around and then come to a halt.

"I guess he can't. Who can blame him? Endo might be inside of a dimension located inside of a pocket dimension. I don't know if there's a radar imaginable that could have such potent tracking," Skaven scratched his head with an irritated expression.

"Ah, but this is a wonderful thing, an adventure throughout plentiful dimensions, hunting down hundreds of beasties! I relish this opportunity!" Tomi pressed her heels together and saluted the sky that remained littered with giant cards that served as portals to different locations within tutor Ridworth's massive mental fort.

"Then we will continue ripping dimensions apart one by one, seeing if we can find the test answers or Endo first." The Empress declared. "You," she pointed to Shige-H, "Inform our puppet on wheels that it is to let us know if it gets a whiff of where Endo might be."

"You really don't need to be that way, Damisan can hear you just fine..." Shige-H squinted at the Empress who already began walking onward in search of the perfect first dimension to hop into. Once there, the plan was simple–destroy as much of it as possible and cause as much general mayhem as possible until tutor Ridworth's mind unravels. Then, after they gain complete control over the mental fort, they can simply manifest the test answers before them and get the perfect score.

"What a spectacular place to blast in all directions!" Tomi pumped her fists before her, marveling at the view once the Stars' feet touched one of many floating stone blocks. The blocks flew in various altitudes, flowing in rivers of vibrant colors inside of a dimension of the void the size of which was difficult to determine because its colors scratched the eye to look at for too long.

Lines or crimson and shamrock, outlined with thick black, extending on a white basis so overflowing with colored decorations it was difficult to single out in the entire pattern. The rather plain stone blocks that they floated on were a welcome reprieve from the sensory overload of just looking around.

"Well?" Skaven turned to Damisan. The scrap man shot out its hand and pulled itself to another passing-by block.

"Where do you think you're going!?" the Empress hissed and Tomi raised her thunder-stick to blast her comrade into pieces.