cityship: (Stacy--Main AI)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-11-03 02:17 am

Phase 4 - The Mastermind Behind it All?

Hal9000 had been defeated, but it isn't quite over yet. After the injured had been healed and Jaime Reyes had stopped blanking out, after they'd regrouped and got their stuff together, it was time to move on. Engineering and Neuropathy had yielded nothing fruitful.

They could, of course, just blow the ship to hell by messing with the engines, but that really didn't benefit them and they were already dead in space right now, the ship stopped in some random dimension. Neuropathy was locked down.

No, they had to make it to the bridge.

And this was one of the places on the way, a wide open area, sort of like a courtyard with something like a open-air cafe. A section tucked away was more like a lounge area, with a viewing window, like the one in Obs.

Here, someone was waiting for them, someone that had watched their every move.

He's not a very nice man. In fact...maybe they don't even have to go to the bridge. Maybe the one in control of it has come out to meet them.

[ooc: The old threads are still open, obvsly, but I'm trying to get everything up to keep things moving along.]

[identity profile] halfa-hero.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Me too. Trust me, if he's anything like Vlad, he'd could say everything he just said with a straight face, and then turn around and screw us over without having actually lied at any point. Dunno how, because I'm not that smart, but he could've."

[identity profile] grayaura.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Katara?" Mai speaks up, "Azula likes getting people to do her dirty work for her, even if she's not above doing it herself."

[identity profile] wolf-that-grins.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Guys? In case you've forgotten, we have a mission to finish here. SItting here arguing about whether or not Luthot should've been knocked out isn't going to get it finished any faster. It's done, it's over with, and unless anyone here has time travel powers that they're not telling us about we can't do anything about it. So knock it off already."

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Nobody asked you," Zuko says, glaring over his shoulder briefly as he begins rooting through Luthor's things.

People intruding on his private conversations. Why he oughta.

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but I think he needs us even though he acts like we're his tools. Besides, I don't know him enough to even call him Azula. He might have had some information we needed to know, despite him being a manipulative freak."

Not that it matters anymore now.

[identity profile] grayaura.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Mai carelessly begins rooting through Lex's supplies, looking horrendously bored. Wags' comment gets ignored, although she does give Zuko a slight smile.

"Or he was just trying to screw with our heads."

[identity profile] theregularguy.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sokka joins his friends in rooting through Luthor's junk. It's like searching for information about Aang! Except without the creepy medical experimentation stuff.

"That's my vote."

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Katara glared at her brother and looked away from his general direction.

"ANYWAY Zuko, find anything?"

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
A glass bottle, corked. Zuko looks at the golden liquid inside and uncorks the bottle to smell it.

His eyes water as the intense alcohol content of the scotch goes straight from his sinuses to his brain.

"Alcohol of some kind," he says, re-corking the bottle. "There's bottle after bottle of it."

[identity profile] clear-horizons.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
"May I see that?" Picard asked, holding out one hand. He was curious. If it was a pure enough alcohol, it would certainly help for sterilizing dressings on their wounded, or perhaps as a mild pain killer. Regardless, he was letting the heroes who knew Luthor deal with Luthor. He didn't approve of treating him like a villain, but neither did he exactly disapprove of knocking him out to remove the young man from the equation -- temporarily.

[identity profile] found-myway.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Zuko hands the liquid over, going through the rest of the bottles.

"He has a lot of different types, but they all smell like alcohol," he says, after uncorking a few. "You would think a few of them would be bombs or something-"

[identity profile] gangstageek.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I know how to deal with crews trying to hijack and plunder, yo. Bonus if they're like actual pirates and not just using the term in general," Dark Smoke Puncher volunteered.

...well, he was a ninja.

[identity profile] clear-horizons.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"That's ... rather good scotch, actually," Picard replied, taking a whiff. Sealing the bottle again, he began sniffing them and looking at them, reading labels to see what they were.

"Scotch, vodka, rum, none of it synthehol," he mused. "The vodka can be used to sterilize medical equipment, depending, of course, on how much medical equipment he actually has." He stopped, however, at finding a bottle of wine. It was nothing special at first glance, until he looked at the bottle.

"Chateau de Picard, 2361," he read aloud. "This is from my family's vineyard."

[identity profile] static-shock68.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"man's got every alcoholic drink you can imagine here except beer. I think he's an alcohol supremist, tryin' to keep the beer down." Static smiled as he said it. Yeah, it was a bad joke, and even the smile was half-hearted, but the tensions were so high...he felt like he had to try.

[identity profile] unsc-rabbit.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Argument done? Oh good. At Chief's order, Kelly moved off in a different direction to Team Avatar. She first went looking for an inventory of some kind. If this man was as organized and clever as they all said, he would keep stock of everything he had, wouldn't he. Being unable to locate an inventory list, she figured it must be digital, in which case those 'Brainys' would have it. She'd make herself useful then. Walking over to the two, she opened up the channel that sent her voice outside her helmet.

"Brainy, right? I'm going to check this Luthor's ordnance and see if we can re-arm some of the people low on ammo. You wouldn't happen to have found an inventory in his files, would you?"

She kept her tone light, almost casual, making it immediately known that she had no part in the argument. Wanted no part in the argument. And was here only to get the job done.

[identity profile] worm-dancer.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
"We are the barbarians inside Rome..." Sheeana said chiefly to herself, though she did not care if others heard it. She pointed at a greenish-dark purple bottle with a long goose neck. "That is Caladanian wine...Infused with Spice, it seems. Do not drink it. Are we finished ransacking the liquor cabinet of a helpless man or can we begin dispatching our reconnaisance teams?"

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Excuse us for forcing you natter on and wait instead of allowing you to move and natter on by doing the bulk of the brainwork, with all of it ultimately being the result of everyone nattering on rather about moral choices than working as any sort of coherent unit." Brainy says. "One more...moment..."

The screens all blip with loads of information.

"And...we're in."

[identity profile] unsc-rabbit.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Kelly checked the readout on her datapad. It seemed to be working fine so maybe she could get that inventory list after all.

"If I can get that inventory list uploaded to my datapad, I'll see to re-arming everyone. Tell me you got something good."