http://el-escarabajo.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-10-08 09:44 pm

The Call

Jaime Reyes voice sounds over the comm-rings--all of them--and it sounds very urgent.

« Everyone on the ship, listen up! This is Jaime Reyes, your local 'Blowing this pop stand' coordinator and escape facilitation engineer. I need everyone on the ship to come to the City, in front of the Precinct, immediately. Grab people who don't have their comm rings with them--and tell them to grab their comm rings, people who are sleeping, whoever you find, and try to make sure everyone on the ship knows to come. This is very important. This is "getting the heck out of here" important. »

When they arrive, they arrive to find the Command Staff waiting, and a tiny, tiny young man standing on stone ledge from a fountain, waiting for them.

Here goes nothing.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"A monster?"

Vega squints at Sherry's belly as if this might tell him something about it. He doesn't seem scared of the idea, just curious.

"How did a monster get in your belly? Did it hurt?"

Well, he might have his priorities in order more than usual, but curiosity still trumps all.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] in-venting.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Sherry shrugged, "I don't know exactly, but it's gone now. It made me sick for a while, and then my mom gave me a medicine that was supposed to help me. But it just made the thing take a nap, I guess. It hurt then." Not so much now, and not even when she'd woken up on Stacy several weeks ago.

It was time to change the subject, however. Sherry disliked being the center of attention. "What was the weapons practice like?"

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, mysterious stomach-monster is mysterious. Vega can roll with that.

He brightens instantly at the mention of practice.

"It was so cool! That Chief guy had this really awesome suit of armor and there were all different kinds of guns and swords and stuff!"

"It was like... like stuff you'd find on Zoids. Only small!"

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] in-venting.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Even drugged to the point of numbness, Sherry raised her eyebrows at Vega. What was it with boys getting all excited over weapons? She didn't get it. Maybe if she asked her new uncle after this, or her father, she'd get an answer. Then again, even her mother was scary with the right weapon, but she never seemed to be particularly excited over it.

"Where is Mr Chief, anyway? I don't see him." Sherry looked over the gathering crowd of shipmates and frowned. "I wanted to apologize for not going." She looked back at Vega, "Were you any good at using the weapons?" If Vega could do it, Sherry could, after all, and she knew she'd probably be told to learn sometime, too.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ummm..." Vega stands on the tips of his toes and cranes his neck to look around. "I don't know, I think I saw him... He shouldn't be hard to find because he's so tall."

Vega shrugs.

"Anyway, I've never shot a gun before. Not with my hands." He holds them out in mimicry of how he did with a pistol. "It's really, really loud! But I think I did okay."

Well, he mostly got shots going in the right direction and miiiight have hit a target a couple of times. But he's not going to let that spoil the awesome.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] in-venting.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Neat!" Sherry smiled at Vega widely. "I hope I'm able to go next time. If there is a next time, anyway." Sherry shrugged. She didn't really like guns, mostly because they were loud and dangerous, but knew eventually she'd have to learn to defend herself. Her parents couldn't, and wouldn't, always be there to protect her, realistically.

Sherry straightened her back and sighed. "I would like it to go on record that surgery is now the Official Worst Thing Ever."

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could show you guys what I learned, it would be fun!" Vega nods enthusiastically. He likes having friends, he hasn't done that a whole lot before.

"That stinks," he says of the surgery. "I've never had to do that before though. I hope I never do. It doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun."

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] in-venting.livejournal.com 2009-10-10 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'd like that, Vega," Sherry agreed. So long as she didn't necessarily have to touch the guns for now, she could live with that, definitely.

Sherry pulled another face, "It isn't. They put you to sleep, and when they wake you up your head feels like it's stuffed with cotton balls and you can't keep your eyes open no matter how hard you try." It was like she'd spent her time having a staring contest with the back of her eye lids. "And it's boring. I'm glad I can be outside where there's at least some sort of people noise."