(So our characters are going to start out in the lab. The portal is going critical, and you'll start out getting sucked through and winding up in the portal room which is fairly large with lots of monitors and other weird blinking devices all centered around two huge rings that are supposed to be portal generators.)
Castor Fairbourne
21 / Male / Lab Tech OC
Something was wrong. Something was very, hugely, catastrophically wrong. He'd dozed off for fifteen minutes - was it fifteen? Surely it hadn't been longer than that - and suddenly screen after screen was lighting up red. Alarms were blaring. Castor started to panic. He hadn't hit anything had he? No, he couldn't have. This desk was empty. He got up and began checking readings. Almost everything that should not be was off the charts, and he was getting warnings for all kinds of things such as over-heating power coils, magnetic field fluctuations, and short-circuiting regulators.
"No no no no no no," he said as he rushed around, turning dials and trying to bring the situation back under control, but this was a job for six people, not one, and everything that could go pear-shaped was.
"Warning: sonic particle field critical. Warning: sonic particle field critical," a robotic female voice said.
Castor looked towards the portal rings. The blue fields were snapping and warping like the sun during a solar flare. He could see bolts in the rings straining, and the ground began to shake. He grabbed onto a desk, ducking behind a bank of monitors as flashes of light began coming from the portals.
Oh God. Oh no. I'm going to die here, and my body is going to get sucked off into whatever wormhole this thing is going to create, he thought.
He started to hear thumps and crashes, but he didn't look up to see what it was. He was afraid that if he came out of his hiding place, a piece of equipment might fly through the air and hit him. What else could be making that sound?
Rey
19 / Female / Star Wars
It was chocking up to be a pretty uneventful day at the Resistance base. The Falcon was still undergoing repairs. Finn was still in the infirmary. Poe was who-knows-where and he'd taken BB-8 with him. For once, Rey was alone, and she had no idea what to do with herself. After looking at ships in the hangars, talking to pilots, and paying the briefing room a quick visit to look at some of the maps, Rey finally settled on going outside to explore. She knew she was supposed to stay close to the base, but honestly she wouldn't be gone long, and she could handle herself.
And maybe I can get some practice in with this thing without anyone watching me, she thought, clipping Luke Skywalker's lightsaber to her belt. She still felt a touch of anxiety every time she touched it, but she wasn't afraid of it anymore the way she had been when she first found it. After all, the thing had saved her life. She supposed it deserved her respect for that.
She walked out into the forest, staff in hand to help her climb up over the rocks and trees. She paused a moment to look out over a small hill at the base below, and for once she actually felt relatively calm. It truly was beautiful out here.
Then the air around her started to change. It pricked at the hair on her arms like static electricity, and everything around her took on a blue hue. She felt a sick panic in her stomach that felt all too familiar, and all her senses screamed that something was wrong. Then there was a flash of light and everything around her disappeared. She screamed as she flew through a tunnel of light similar to hyperspace, but the air was knocked out of her almost immediately by an impact with something hard.
She sucked in a breath, as she came to a stop. She was staring up at a metal ceiling, and all around her she could hear electric fizzling, crashing, and metal creaking. For a moment she couldn't move or breath as she tried to bring her rioting emotions and shell-shocked body under control. As soon as she felt she could, she got up, staff in hand and ready to strike. Where in the universe was she?
(Gonna bring Bucky in later since he has no reason to be here)
