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]

Comments

[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."