cityship: (Stacy--Main AI)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92008-11-15 12:37 am

Hail the Conquering Heroes

Things can happen without Stacy knowing, that much is apparent now. The damage to her sensors is significant. But the fighting clued her in.

After it's all over, after those captured have been rescued, after the injured have been tended to, only the nest is left, and Stacy takes care of it.

||Infestation of Cluster 42, Level 4, Sector 7, Sublevel 12, Zone 37 has been detected. Triggering internal defenses. Decontamination commencing.||

There is a pause.

||Decontamination complete.||

Simple as that, once she knows the problem was there. Her internal sensors are damaged, especially in the city, and so are some of the systems monitoring them. You have to know what's broken to know to fix it.

Such a simple thing and it only took one man dying to make it happen. (His body is gone, by the way, ripped to shreds and eaten. There's not even a spot of blood on the floor. That's the bugs' doing. The bugs' bodies are gone too--that's Stacy's doing).

||Any injured personnel that still have not received medical attention, report to the nearest lift, and you will be transported to the MedBay. Any uninjured personnel, report to the Living Area, to the restroom facilities to undergo decontamination of xenobiological material. Then report to the Obs Deck to meet your new crew-mates.||

Said crew-mates--and the Doctor, who'd skipped out and miraculously ducked and weaved his way to the lift when he'd realized the Master was there--are there and waiting, and just a tad confused.

[ooc: read this first]

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I...hey! No!" Kara's mouth dropped open. And then she grinned. "It's really good knowing you're here." A beat. "So you're reading Hustler then?"

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
"No way. Hustler's kinda gross and demeaning and stuff. I have some class, y'know. Juggs has chicks that kinda look like normal chicks, just with big boobs. And there's also Erotic Amazons, which aren't really Amazons, but they're all muscular--"

He stops, as he realized what he just admitted and to who.

"Tell Cassie any of that and you DIE!"

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Like hell I'm not!" Kara exclaimed. "Ohhh this is good!" she squeed. "This is so good!"

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
"No fair! I'm tired from fighting the space bugs--I blurted!" he protested as he flew over and tugged on her cape. "Most guys look at that kinda stuff, right, gu--"

He had been about to ask Brainy and Robin, but...

"Wrong people to ask. Okay, well most guys who aren't kinda prudish nerds look at that kinda stuff. Don't tell her. Provided we even survive the whole Superboy Prime thing, I'd like to get laid more than--I mean, I'd like to get laid someday."

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Kara tilted her head. "Superboy-Prime?"

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
By now, they'd nearly floated to the ceiling away from Robin and Brainiac 5. That kinda happened when you were horsing around and tended to do it in mid-air.

"...Said too much. You're all blasty from the pasty like Rob, aren't you."

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't matter." Kara floated up to Kon. "Who in Rao's name is this Superboy-Prime, Kon? And does he come in small, medium, or female?"

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
"He's--he's bad news, Kara. An alternate Superboy. Completely psycho. Hits harder than Kal. He fought the Titans, the Doom Patrol, the Flashes, the Justice Society--all of us, we only got a reprieve by the Flashes dragging him into the Speed Force. And he killed--"

Kon stopped.

"He nearly killed me." A pause. "Actually, he did kill me. They had to do CPR on me and everything, and I was dying but Rob got ahold of something from one of Luthor's old labs to stabilize me. Prime said I didn't deserve to be Superboy, that he was going to replace me."

Another deep breath. "When I come from? The world's coming apart at the seams. It's big. Other worlds crashing in the sky, Revelations kinda stuff. Bludhaven got all--and there's a war in space, the thing with the satellite, the supervillains--everything is happening at once, people are dying--it's big. And Prime's part of it. I got yanked here right when me, Nightwing, and Cass were going off to stop him. Once we get out of here, we'd better be able to go back to the time we left or...well..."

Another pause, as he looked down at Robin surreptitiously. He'd been talking very quietly. Kara would've been able to hear it clear as day, with her super-hearing, but he didn't want Robin to hear.

"Don't tell Rob, okay? He's from before I am, and you know he'd freak, but you know how it is with time stuff. I almost wanna tell him everything to warn him but who knows how that'd mess with it. What if it made it worse?"

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Kara's brow was furrowed. Her skin was a little paler than should've been normal. "...I've never heard of this guy, Kon. The name...it's entirely unfamiliar to me. Kind of, anyway. The Superboy part, well..." she points to him. "That I know." A beat. "Where am I when you guys are facing him off? How come I'm not with you?"

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"You're in space with Kory and Donna and a whole bunch of other people--that's just as important."

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh." She furrows her brow. "You'll beat him back though. I mean...it's what you do, you know?" She touches her chest where the crest of the House of El should be. "It's what our family does."

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. I know."

He'd stop him.

They had to.

It's just, he had this feeling like maybe he wasn't going to--

But no. No, it was just a feeling. No matter how bad it'd been before, he'd walked away. He'd walk away again. He was born--well, cloned lucky.

"So, I see you've made friends with Brainiac 5. Exactly how hard did you hit him when you heard his name at first?"

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I so don't know if what he and I are counts as being 'friends'," Kara grumbled making with the air quotes. "And...well...I don't recall when in the conversation I hit him, but after I did, the ship assaulted and threatened me." She glowered. "Though it's so worth it if he gets too annoying again."

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"On the downside, he's always like that, and no matter how many times you whack him, he never learns. One the upside, he's as crazy-smart as he brags about, and with him, Robin and some of the other people here in the mix, that means we're getting out of here sooner rather than later."

[identity profile] girl-of-steel.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Kara bit her lip.

Did she really want to get out of here though?

Coz, well...it's not like she had to kill Kal here.

And Kon wasn't even on her hit list.

So, really...

"Yeah," she said brightly. "That'd...be really nice."

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Uuuh, we drifted." He pointed down and started floating back down towards the others again.

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"What's your assessment of our situation?" Brainy is asking Robin as they float back down. "Have you seen any sign of our captors?"
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2008-11-17 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Tim shook his head, eying Supergirl and Kon as they started to drift back. "Nothing, really. Just the people around here, and some really freaky bugs. A few communications from the AI that runs the place--Stacy."

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Have you managed to access any navigational systems? Are all areas of the ship unlocked?"
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2008-11-17 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
"There are a lot of locked areas," Tim admitted. "And no one's been able to access navigation, as far as I'm aware."

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Brainy starts pacing back and forth.

"Does this AI actively scan the crew telepathically?"
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2008-11-17 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Tim shook his head in the negative. "No--a telepath was able to shield an entire group of us for a time, without apparent difficulty."

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2008-11-17 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's promising. It means our attempts at--hm. It means whatever we do may be overlooked."

He was going to say 'escape,' but didn't, lest she was listening.

"We need to find access to the ship's systems and that likely involves finding egress out of the area we're currently being kept in, into one of the ship's blocked off sections. We should start looking for what seem like possible closed entrances to other areas. Either our kidnappers will be in those areas to be dealt with, or if this ship is unmanned and on a preprogrammed course we may be able to reverse that course to deliver everyone safely home--although in my instance, I want to see if it can be used to pluck the Legion from the timestream if the others aren't already on board in stasis."
mrsarcastic003: (Thinking Tim)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2008-11-20 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Tim nodded slowly. "Ye-es..." he agreed. "And it would be nice to see if there are any other Titans, but..." he frowned a little. What was the word that had been used when Kon was acting up? "We'd have to be careful not to rack up 'violations.' Stacy said they lead to 'punishment,' and I'm not entirely sure what that would entail--nor do I particularly want to find out." Something about the way she had said it...

[identity profile] cabbage-butt.livejournal.com 2008-12-01 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Considering how we arrived in this place, any 'punishments' could possibly be torturous and grotesque. How many of these violations can one receive before facing consequences?"

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