To Ushinatta, the planes of space and time are a familiar course. Every one of us has been scattered to different times and places across existence, little bits and pieces of our home shattered across the void. All that we had, and that we were, gone in an instant. To say that it was disparaging was to grossly understate it. Kisei Ushinatta was devastated, both with the loss of his world and.. friend.. Ai. Even when they were found by the Sunagakure forces, he was despondent. Though over time, he realize that not everything was bad. There were good people to meet here, decent food, bad jokes, a few good laughs. Eventually, finding himself again and becoming a confident ninja.
But everything changed with the night of glassed sands. When the Sunagakure was set on fire, and all too familiar terror set into his heart. Even as he rescued civilians the overwhelming fear wouldn't leave his mind. 'Not again, please not again' he pleaded over and over. Fortunate for the young Ushinatta that this was just a terroristic attack and not space time breaking down.
Now, true to the given to his 'clan', he was finally lost. His brother was dead, he was now invading different lands. It had reminded him way too much of his old home. Before you know it, war will break out, and.. well, he's seen what people with chakra tech could do to each other. Now, imagine a war with people who were chakra tech. These, shinobi, who've trained in combat for nearly all their lives and could cast jutsu directly from the chakra in their bodies? No thank you.
It was just so lucky of him that he had the spacial distortion detector that Alpha had made before he had died. It was about three days after the forced annexation of the Land of Frost that it happened. He was lumbering down to the basement after a long day of processing the video data collected by the Opera House, that B-Ordis called him down quickly to the analysis room. A secondary laboratory adjacent to the main lab which functioned as the storage room for his sensory equipment. So Kisei made his way urgently to the analysis office.
Sliding in front of the door, he rushed the password lock and dashed inside. What he encountered was something he'd thought he'd never see.
"T-T-They- it's... No way." He stammered.
The dozens of screens built into the walls and hanging from the ceiling, rebuilt from the spacial distortion detectors from Alpha's lab, were in constant calculation, re-evaluation, and charting. Using systems of logic, quantum space time, geography, rhetoric, higher order mathematics, and some forms of sarcasm and irony. As it turns out, the universe actually is a dick. But now, now they were still. Displaying a multitude of charts and graphs in repeating code.
"B-Ordis. Can you hear me?"
The mechanical door opened and closed a couple times behind me. Ah right, I couldn't install voice communication in this room with all the computer systems and screens. Mark that to adjust later.
"If these graphs are correct, and I have faith they do because you're a god a cyber security-" The cyber intelligence gave a few happy door slams at the compliment, "If these calculations are correct... Then we can go home." B-Ordis went silent at that. I wonder why.
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No, no no!
How did it fail to work! I kicked the side of the failure that was the VR machine. "Kisei, the calculations weren't yet complete-" B-Ordis called, but I wasn't having any of it. "Shut up! Those computers were supposed work, how did they fail? Constant 24/7 calculations run through multiple fail safes, you yourself calibrated them! How have you the gall to suggest that they were incomplete?!" I stormed out of the VR cube and towards the spacial distortion calculation room, slammed in the code and yelled out to the Intelligence, "The screens themselves say everything! Look-" I went to point at the room full of computers, but then realized something; they were all back to measuring again. "Wait, no! What?!" Furiously I reached out to a tap screen on the wall and pulled up the graphs and geolocator. Scanning to see what was happening. "Ah, I see... You'll have to forgive me B-Ordis. I was too hasty to blame."
Outside of the room I could hear B-Ordis talking. "That's alright, we had to take a shot while it was open, but now we know that-"
"-That there is a regular interval of spacial distortions located in Konohagakure. Too bad that we barely missed the dead line on this one." I dragged a hand across my face, sullenly frustrated. All that build up about finally going home, and nothing. "You know Master Kisei, in light of this particular failure, I think it would do you good to do a mission today. To relieve -VIOLENTLY PURGE- your stress. I believe you actually had one scheduled for today." B-ordis glitched. I turned my head. Curious and actually genuinely concerned. B-ordis never broke up like that before, and while I wanted to immediately go in, pull out my power tools, they were right. I wasn't in a good state of mind to do such mechanical things right now. A mission didn't sound like such a bad idea anyway either. Though I was originally planning on doing it after the trip into another plane, seems that I was going to have to do it sooner, rather than later.
"Fine, but as soon as I get back I'm going to come right back down here and take a look at that glitch." I promised.
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So it was with a slow, slouching walk and his signature umbrella and pinwheel that he headed out to meet up with whoever his partner was supposed to be for this mission. Though, not really caring, he didn't really make it a high point to speed up and would probably end up late. "Well, whatever, not like the world is ending." As he walked outside the door he was surprised to find them waiting right outside his shop.
"Howdy. How do you do, you ready to get started?" I asked monotonously.
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(P.S: I'm entering from here feel free to poke me if that's any problem and I'll edit.)