Hail the Conquering Heroes

[cityship]

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]

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[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

"Don't shove it in my face!"

Really!

You... alien, you!

...Wait.

"Are you with-- her? That voice thing?"

Because he's an alien. Try to keep up.

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"Our situation is as follows," says Brainy, still scanning him, and walking around him in a circle to do so. "The voice you heard is Stacy, which we believe is the subliminal essence of the ship itself. She is likely a massive bio-computer, as this ship seems to be a living organism. I've discussed it with my colleagues and it seems that this Stacy has abducted individuals for purposes unknown from a multitude of parallel universes, times, and planets. So far, there seems to be a prevailing trend of individuals with active metagenes--and the preternatural abilities that are derived from them--and/or police or military training."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

"So it really is a-- stop that," says West, trying to avoid the scanner. "It's an actual spaceship?"

Forgive him if he seems a little slow today, but it is rather a lot to take in. And the 'ship' part is by no means the only part of the alien's little monologue that he wants to pick at. He's just taking this stuff one huge enormous nigh-unswallowable bitesize piece at a time.

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

"No, it's a boat. Flying through space. It's wind-powered--yes, it's an actual spaceship."

Duh.

(The scanner's not going away).

"Given the powers and skill-sets of the individuals here, we've likely been conscripted to perform some sort of duties for our captors--perhaps fighting in a war. Aside from checking if you had a metagene like many of the others, I'm also scanning you to have baseline medical readings if you're ever injured. While it isn't my primary role, I do have several medical degrees and am effectively a doctor. When dealing with unknown species, or unknown variants in a species, having scans taken in a state of good health can save a life."

He adds, "My name is Brainiac 5. Since others seem to think it's imperative they know what planet I'm from when half of them don't even know of that planet in their home universe, I'm from the planet Colu."

[stalkersuperman.livejournal.com]

Is Brainy familiar with the expression of someone who's being drowned in an ocean of information and given no breathing-space in which to make sense of it all? 'Cause if so, he might well recognise West's. Not that West's expression has really changed, per se; it's just gotten more and more overwhelmed.

He stares at the alien, probably unaware of the fact that he's shaking his head slightly, and says in a slightly desperate tone of disbelief: "This is completely and utterly insane."

But is it any weirder than being able to fly, or meeting someone who can regrow her toe? Well, YES.

[cabbage-butt.livejournal.com]

He is familiar with that expression. People get that "drowning in information" look quite a bit when he talks to them. Only occasionally does he dumb down what he's saying until the look goes away.

"Perhaps where and when you're from," says Brainy. "Where and when I come from, incidents like these are nearly standard."