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] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Holy.

Crap.

Freakish meat-plant tentacle rooms plus outer space at speed plus talking robots equals West's brain temporarily out of service. We apologise for the delay.

"Only space. Only space," he repeats, in a tone of voice that lives on an entirely different planet from 'calm and contented'.

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, only space," Starscream snaps. "You don't have to get excited about it," he says, then smirks. "...Unless someone throws you out an airlock."

That reminds him, though. Glancing around, he frowns and mutters, "I still need to find one..."

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Question:

"Why is everything made of-- whatever the hell this is? Broccoli meat?"

He tugs once again at what for want of a better word we shall call the fabric of his suit, which hasn't gotten any more pleasant to wear since he was given it.

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know. I don't need one," the smug superiority practically dripping from his voice. "...I've quite understood why you fleshlings feel the need to wear things like that, come to think of it."

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"You want a lecture on social evolution while we stand in a meatship in space?"

West's tone doubts your sanity, Starscream. Doubts it severely.

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Not particularly. I don't really care what you humans get up to, so as you stay out of my way."

You don't rate anywhere on his annoyance meter (yet), West. This is probably a good thing.

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Give him time. He's good at weaseling his way onto people's annoyance meters, if the audience reaction is anything to go by.

"Gladly!"

...which is why he's still standing there and staring up at Starscream, of course.

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Starscream glares down at him. He can't glare down as far as he'd like to-thank you, Stacy, for the shrunk-in-the-wash body-but he's making an effort at it.

"So why are you still here?"

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
"This might be normal where you come from, but I'm still having to recalibrate my circuits."

Translation: he's rooted by omgwtf.

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"This isn't exactly normal, but it isn't the strangest thing I've ever seen, either." That honor went to seeing what the effects of having a chunk of the All Spark lodged in one's head were.

"So why are you here? I doubt you were floating around in space prior to this."

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
...West decides not to ask about the strangest thing he's seen. He has enough strange to keep him going right now without delving into other people's second-hand strange as well.

"Apparently I ate the red pill."

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Starscream just gives West a blank look. "The what?"

Pop culture references 1, alien robot 0.

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Great. Not only is this place built out of hedge intestines, but it's a cultural black hole as well."

[identity profile] pridebeforefail.livejournal.com 2008-12-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd be more concerned about finding a real one. ...who's piloting this flying hunk of flesh, exactly?"

He's spoken to Stacy, but she said nothing about if the ship was on autopilot (or was the pilot) or if someone was actually in charge of not crashing into things.

[identity profile] stalkersuperman.livejournal.com 2008-12-03 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe it's some hideously mutated giant space pterodactyl and it's piloting itself."

Maybe West doesn't have a clue and is being flippant to cover this up.