Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-30744559-20190108210035/@comment-26892768-20190115121830

"well here goes nothing" Dave concentrates.

Two red gears appear behind Brain Drain, connecting with each other for a moment before spinning like mad...

And then Brain Drain disappears. Well, not quite disappears. He's actually back where he was when he started chasing Dave and Painwheel.

...well then.

Painwheel's eyes widen. "How-"

"well my powers basically consist of time travel and thats about it but the thing about my kind of time travel is that you can basically end up wherever you want when you start time travelling so i just sent him back like half a second to somewhere he was earlier in his timeline" Dave explains. "its called reverse reverb and goddamn i can see why i didnt use it that much i mean it worked out here but this is kinda useless in most situations because im limited to places the guys been to"

"Oh! I was wondering where..." Ryotaro trails off as he notices something - mainly, that Yuri is looking rather frightened. She...hasn't really had anything remotely close to this kind of experience before.

"...I should probably introduce you." Ryotaro starts gesturing to each of the Taros. "This is Momotaros, Urataros, Kintaros, and Ryutaros. They're Imagin - time travelling creatures who take on forms based on the imagination of whoever they were contracted to, which would be me...for most of them, anyway; Kintaros was contracted to someone else first, but that's a different story - and they help me protect time."

Yuri seems to have calmed down somewhat...not because of Ryotaro's explanation, but rather, because of a realization of her own. "...they're all named after fairytales?"

"Eh?" Ryotaro blinks.

"Actually, it makes more sense the more I think about it." Yuri remarks, walking past Ryotaro and going up to each of the Imagin. "Momotaros...like the tale of Momotaro, the boy who came down to earth in a peach and grew up to fight demons. Urataros - the tale of Urashima Taro, a fisherman who rescued a turtle and was rewarded handsomely for it. Kintaros, who seems remarkably similar to Kintaro, a child raised on the mountains who was strong enough to beat bears in a sumo match. And then Ryutaros...that one's trickier, but Taro the Dragon Boy works here."

Yuri takes a step back. "It's rather clever, actually...if a bit straightforward when you figure it out. N-not that that's a bad thing, it's just...I assume you had to have named yourselves this way after seeing the form you took on, correct?"

Ryotaro decides not to inform Yuri that A.) he's actually the one who named Momotaros, B.) he did so because the mask of Den-O's sword form reminded him of a split peach and not because he caught onto the connection between Momotaros and the tale of the peach boy, and C.) that the rest of the Taros were named after Momotaros by the chipper waitress of DenLiner.