Just their luck.
It was bad enough that the activation of the Chaos Engine was a failure, and that it ended up creating a XK class dimensional convergence event, but fate saw fit that they didn't even die in the process; that would have been easy to fix. No, it seems that it interacted with Bianca's panicked escape attempts with her Worldgates and threw her completely off course, well beyond the supercluster dictated by the Entity and into a completely different supercluster. And translation had not been kind on them. There was no Entity here, far as she knew anyway, and her Worldgate was nonfunctional at the moment as her home was too far away to get a lock.
But that wasn't actually the worst thing. Naturally she went to try and find help, but ended up clashing with the locals. What kind of name is Clever Circuit anyway, that's pompous bastard... he deserved every insult that she delivered. Anyway, how was she supposed to know that claiming yourself a master of magic would be frowned upon.
"And furthermore... Bianca, are you even listening to me?"Bianca snapped out of her mental stupor. The short young human woman was still shacked to the wall in a most undignified way; the setup was designed for someone taller and a wider arm reach. They had at least let her keep her lab coat and her ever-important hairclip, which she passed off as jewelry and not as a complete necessary focus for her witch powers. Not that it was any good shackled. Who knows where her stuff is. Actually, where was their stuff? They probably didn't leave it with them, prisoners and all, but Bianca needed that book badly. Those philistines wouldn't know it's real value, she hoped it was being treated well. Bianca wasn't alone at least, for the person who was berating her right now was Key, her favorite creation. She looked human, but under that layer of artificial skin and muscle was her scientific genius, and a stolen spark to grant her life in the fullest.
Key was bound as well, this time with restraining bolts around the large key-shaped object which projected from her back. It was deeply uncomfortable for Key in ways that she couldn't properly express. The sooner they got off this ship, the better. At the very least, they were lucky enough to get exile instead of execution for the stunt they pulled. Bianca was simply too hotheaded for her own good, and now she wasn't even listening. How rude.
"Shhh. Wait. You hear that?" Bianca said, tilting her head.
Beside the rabbit's muttering she meant.
"We're getting close to land. We'll be out soon." She tilted her head and cleared her throat, switching to the ever-obscure
Modron language. She made a series of rapid clicks, to which Key replied with a furrowed brow.
"When we get out, I'm gonna see what resources we can get access too. Our previous mistake was attempting to rely on leadership. They're unfriendly, so we'll have to access things ourselves. We should do like #33, go all survivor-like."
"No more losing your temper, alright? I can't bail you out like this..."
"Yeah yeah I know. Listen, we either need to get the Worldgates working again, or be able to send a message to our supercluster and hope Scientia picks up on it. Either way, that's going to require power. Both actual power and manpower, cause we're just two people and I don't have access to my factory anymore. So I figure; what if we get a posse. Be a leader. Take over."
"But we're not supposed to alter other worlds! Scientia would be angry!"
"That only applies in our supercluster, and only because we don't want to muck things up and advance the Entity's progression. That doesn't apply here, there isn't an Entity. You and I both know it, the translation kept our magic but I can't use any of our spark powers, and I don't think this world even has a warp to go to. We'll be fine. Plus, this will be a great experiment to see how well I can set up dimension hopping situations solo."
"I hope you know what you are doing."
The guard's warning put Key on edge. Magic, Psychics, and Robots. And Key was two of those. Nevermind Bianca. This was gonna be dangerous, especially with Bianca giving into her megalomania.