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Outside Decadent Delights, Thursday

There had been cockroaches, and then more, and a hole, and -- it was not a happy goddess that stepped out of the store and marched to the sidewalk to meet Detective Reese.

'Dite had a disgusted look on her face. Beside her, about waist high, floated a cockroach, still alive, barely, and feebly waving it's antennae.
"Look at this! Just look! What are these things?"

She knew what they were, it was a rhetorical question. What she really wanted to ask was, 'why is it here and what is it doing in my shop?'

(ooc: for two! Reese modded with permission -- after phone call from Here.)

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Reese's first reaction was relief and her second was: "Is that why you screamed?! I thought you fell into the hole! And stop floating that bug just kill it already!"

"You kill it!" She made the roach move a little closer to Reese. "You're the cop. And I did not scream!"

She cussed; there was clearly a difference.

Uh-uh. Reese was not gonna play, she stepped back. "You're the goddess, you kill it!"

"What does my being a goddess have to do with anything? I'm not the goddess of killing insects you know." She crossed her arms. "Besides, I've already killed five, and had to clean up after them. You've got the gun, you kill the blasted thing!"

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"I'm not gonna waste a bullet on a bug!" She gestured, "Just smash the damned thing against the wall!"

"Oh,sure! Make the goddess do it! It's okay, she can just zap the mess away afterwards! Ever think I don't want to clean up after another of these things splatter? Have you seen how much guts they have?"

Neither of them noticed that another hole was seeming to open up, this time on the right side of the store.

"Would you shoot your gun so I can show you my hole?"

No, passersby, that was not as dirty as it sounded.

"No, I am not gonna shoot my gun! Just show me your damned hole already!" Yes, very much not dirty, dear passerby.

"Maybe you can even chuck that stupid roach into it."

"Oh, right, like I hadn't already thought of that." 'Dite huffed as she turned toward the building. "You can't throw anything in -- it's not even a hole, really just like a black . . . "

She stopped, because in just those few seconds, the second black hole expanded and encompassed the entire store. 'Dite's Decadent Delights was . . . gone.

Aphrodite stared. The roach slowly fell to the ground, where it feebly began to drag itself away to find someone else to terrorize.

Karla, who had been coming around Dite's from the other side, came up just in time to see the store covered by a black hole and then vanish.

"'DIIIIIIIIITEEEEEEEE!" Karla screamed, breaking into a run. For all she knew, 'Dite was still in the store.

Reese gaped.

It was the only thing she could do. It was the first time Reese saw a whole building vanish.

Dimly, 'Dite heard Karla's voice screaming her name. Not that she was really capable of reacting to it. She'd seen strange, she'd seen Fandom strange, and now she'd seen a building disappear into what seemed to be -- nothing.

Her building. Her store.

She was aware that Karla was coming closer. Aware that Dani was still staring beside her.

"Hi, Karla." 'Dite's voice was distant. She pointed at the barely moving cockroach. "Kill that for me, would you?" First things first, after all.

Karla didn't even look to see what she was supposed to be killing; a blast of Sapphire power reduced whatever it was into a long, greasy-looking smear as Karla hurtled over to 'Dite and proceeded to try to hug the life out of her. "I thought you were in there!" she choked out. "I thought you had gone!"

Reese shook the shock away, now wasn't the time to be gaping like an idiot. At least the roach was now dead, she glanced at'Dite and the girl and back to where the building once stood.

"I think we should clear the area," she advised. "There's no telling if that black hole will open up again."

'Dite was busy hugging Karla back, but she nodded to Reese. "Right. Clear the area." There was something she was trying to remember, but it slipped away again. "Not that I think it'll matter, Reese. These holes are all over the island, remember? I told you I'd seen people disappear this morning."

She looked down at the blond witch still hugging her. "Karla, this is Detective Dani Reese. Reese, my friend Karla. She works at the store." 'Dite tilted her head. "Or, did, anyway."

Karla was still clinging a bit to 'Dite, but she was perfectly capable of carrying on a decent conversation. "A pleasure, Detective," she said, letting go of 'Dite with one arm to extend a hand to Reese. "I don't suppose you have any idea what's going on? Either of you?"

"No clue, except we kept getting missing person reports, never an establishment before." Reese reached for Karla's hand to shake it then frowned. "You look familiar, I think I've seen you before."

"Well, it's not that big of an island, Reese, and she does work at the store." You'll have to forgive the goddess, she was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that the store is gone.

"Your paycheck will be late, Karla, it was in the drawer of my desk in my off--" And she remembered what she'd forgotten.

"Hercules." It was enough to make her sit down and pout. "Hercules was in my office."

"Oh no," Karla said, looking back towards the store. "Do you think he'll be okay? Darkness, where the Hell did the store go?"

She was also hoping that this would distract Reese from trying to remember where she knew her from. Karla had an idea and it wasn't the store...

Reese rolled her eyes at Aphrodite then raised an eyebrow, "When you say Hercules do you mean Zues' son Hercules?"

She continued to look at Karla with a puzzled frown, "I'm pretty sure I haven't seen you in the store before."

"What?" 'Dite raised an eyebrow as she turned to Reese. "No! Hercules is my cat!" She shook her head, putting her head on her hand and her elbow on her knee. "Hades if I know where the store went. I mean, it's not like I lost it in the laundry or something."

'Dite glanced around and then gave a deep sigh. "It's Fandom again. And I don't think it's going to get any better any time soon." With that, she raised a hand and pointed to the hole where the church used to sit diagonally across from the store.

"Mother Night, I hope he's going to be okay," Karla whispered. And then peered more closely at the graveyard, next to where the church used to be. "Are those kittens there?" she asked, pointing to the little bundles of fur cavorting next to the gravestones.

"You have a cat called..." She sighed and sort of patted Aphrodite's shoulder. "It'll be okay."

Reese shelved trying to place Karla and looked at the graveyard. "You're right, they're cats."

This was said with absolutely no fondness for the creatures at all.

"Oh, they're so cu --" 'Dite stopped and stared. "What in the name of Tartarus is THAT?"

It appeared like a human, but it obviously wasn't. It walked weirdly, almost sidling, and even from where they stood it had hideous features.

It seemed to be going toward the kittens at a rapid pace.

Karla had already been heading over to the kittens, but she stopped at 'Dite's exclamation. Spotting the...ugly whatever the Hell it was...she called up her shields. "It's not human," she said. "It's--IT'S GOING FOR THE KITTENS!"

Now she was running.

"Hey, wait, don't just--" she broke off when Karla made a run for it. She cursed and pulled out her gun. If this was another monkeypony situation she was going to really going to request a bigger gun from the sheriff. One of these days a monster's gonna show up and a .9mm Glock isn't gonna cut it. "'Dite do your goddess thing!"

"Do my goddess thing?" 'Dite spared a second to raise an eyebrow at Reese.

"Karla, wait!" And then she did the smartest thing she could think of: she followed Karla at a full run, muttering, "That girl spends far too much time with her roommate."

The creature was too close to the kittens to chance a straight blast of Sapphire power, so Karla fashioned it into a whip and lashed it around the thing's feet. She yanked on it and the thing went down.

"Kill it!" she yelled, throwing a shield over the kittens.

Reese didn't hesitate, she aimed for the creature and shot at it, aiming for the head or the chest.

"The hell is that?" She hissed.

'Dite didn't know. 'Dite didn't really care. "Is it dead?" That was what she cared about.

"That's. . . disgusting."

It might have been human once, but the features were distorted, almost melted, and it gave off a strange odor.

"Please don't get too close."

"Darkness may know, but I surely don't," Karla said, making a disgusted face at the...whatever. "But it's dead now."

She had the oddest desire to examine it more closely, but pushed that aside. Now was not the time for Black Widowing, not with buildings vanishing and the like. "Kittens are fine though. I think they're the kittens from the church."

"Let's make ourselves scarce," she said, eyeing the thing, with her gun still aimed at it. The thing so much as twitch Reese was gonna fill it full of holes.

"I'll have the troopers scout the area for these things."

"Karla, are we bringing the kittens?" 'Dite couldn't look at the thing on the ground anymore. "Reese, I'd feel better if you let me zap us out of here. I can get you back to the station and Karla up to the school."

Notice she didn't say she'd get them to safety. Aphrodite wasn't sure what was safe on Fandom at the moment. "Please stay in touch, though, okay? Both of you? Promise?"

"I'll take them if you don't want them," Karla said, firmly. "They're too little to wander about by themselves. Especially with...things running around."

She called in her phone and slid it into her pocket. "I'll keep my phone on me, just in case," she promised.

"Yeah, zap us out of here." It was time to get over the whatever issues she had over being teleported. "And, yeah, we'll stay in touch."

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