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

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

Like I said, dunno. We're apparently the crew of the ship, whatever that entails. So far, seems to entail killin' oversized bugs what attack us. He gave her a quick look at what they'd been dealing with earlier, though little of the actual fighting. Nobody needed to deal with that if they hadn't been there. So we need t' keep our eyes open 'round 'ere, too.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

Gwen gasped as the images of their recent experience flipped through her mind. She felt that Jono was holding back, a little though, but in kindness rather than trying to mislead her. She gestured to the side arm she had picked up at the weapons locker. "That's why they let us be armed, then?"

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

There were few reasons why Jono would hold back and possibly fewer who would call him kind. But he had no reason not to be kind at the moment, at least.

Probably, Jono agreed. We got a lot of people what have powers an' stuff, yeah, but it's good t' be able t' defend yerself, roight? There was no telling if she'd get caught alone and have to use the gun. Better that she be able to do it.

[alien-catcher.livejournal.com]

Gwen nodded curtly. "To those of us with now powers, it's pretty much all we have, yeah?" Every day it seems like I'm more thankful Jack convinced me to use one of these bloody things. Her mind flashed fondly through the memories of her first days with Torchwood, and Jack teaching her to use her weapon. At first she had been hesitant to handle a gun, but now she felt a certain fear of ever having to be without it.