[ There's no response and Bart sighs looking at his surroundings with more scrutiny, as he tries to get some idea of where he might have been ported to, or why he might have been brought here. Chances were that despite the good timing, this wasn't some benevolent act, especially since he'd been stripped of his powers. He wished he's paid better attention to those whispers from when he'd fallen.
He'd caught bits and pieces, but then, how much could he really even trust any of that? He wasn't sure of exactly how many villains were out there that could do stuff like cause hallucinations or teleport people to pocket dimensions, or whatever this was, but he was pretty sure it was more likely this was the cause of one of them than this being an actual "quest" of some kind.
There was a time he would have easily believed that or at least would have wanted to. Grife, admittedly part of him still did want to and it wasn't completely out of the question, he'd been through weirder, but the fact of the matter was, it still wasn't likely.
The place did strike him as oddly familiar as he made his way further through, following the paved path. Some stuff seemed to emulate things he'd seen in comedy skits or cartoons. Something about emerald places and yellow brick roads. All references to a movie, or book, or something he was pretty sure, though he'd never actually sat down and seen or read the source material yet. He didn't remember anything about weird creepy statues or stone doll baby things in any of the stuff he did see though. So maybe the resemblance was just a coincidence? ]
Hello?
[ It did strike him that continuing to call out in a place that was more likely to be hiding enemies than it was to be hiding friends probably wasn't the best idea, but even if it did bring some big bad barreling down on him, it would give a pretty quick answer to what he was dealing with.
Coming up to what looked like the entrance of a narrow alley among some of the less dilapidated walls, he slowed down some, trying to be at least a little more cautious of his surroundings, since he was powerless and his shouting was like waving a giant 'come get me' sign into the air. ]
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He'd caught bits and pieces, but then, how much could he really even trust any of that? He wasn't sure of exactly how many villains were out there that could do stuff like cause hallucinations or teleport people to pocket dimensions, or whatever this was, but he was pretty sure it was more likely this was the cause of one of them than this being an actual "quest" of some kind.
There was a time he would have easily believed that or at least would have wanted to. Grife, admittedly part of him still did want to and it wasn't completely out of the question, he'd been through weirder, but the fact of the matter was, it still wasn't likely.
The place did strike him as oddly familiar as he made his way further through, following the paved path. Some stuff seemed to emulate things he'd seen in comedy skits or cartoons. Something about emerald places and yellow brick roads. All references to a movie, or book, or something he was pretty sure, though he'd never actually sat down and seen or read the source material yet. He didn't remember anything about weird creepy statues or stone doll baby things in any of the stuff he did see though. So maybe the resemblance was just a coincidence? ]
Hello?
[ It did strike him that continuing to call out in a place that was more likely to be hiding enemies than it was to be hiding friends probably wasn't the best idea, but even if it did bring some big bad barreling down on him, it would give a pretty quick answer to what he was dealing with.
Coming up to what looked like the entrance of a narrow alley among some of the less dilapidated walls, he slowed down some, trying to be at least a little more cautious of his surroundings, since he was powerless and his shouting was like waving a giant 'come get me' sign into the air. ]