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] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-08 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Gwen raised her eyebrows at the men on the couch. Interesting introduction, if nothing else.

"Well, cheers for that," she replied lamely, not wanting to think to much about killer bugs wreaking havoc on the alien ship. All this was a little much for one day, and from what she understood, she was happy she missed it. "Who are you lot, then?" she asked, eying them both suspiciously.

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-08 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Murphy giggled, glancing at Connor and nudging him slightly. "Finally, someone from the decent side o' the ocean. Even if it is a fuckin' sheep fucker."

But he seemed to remember his manners after that, sitting up. "I'm Murphy, an' this is Connor, the younger one. We've a dirty shite English oppressor or two 'ere as well, but o'course they're fuckin' currently claimin' to be fuckin' aliens. An' I'm half inclined to believe 'em."

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Aye." Connor grinned as well.

"What me little brother means is, there's weird shite what's happening here, an' apparently we're in space for some greater cause or someshit."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Gwen rolled her eyes. Leave it to the Irish, zoning in on the first sheep shagging joke they could muster.

"Gwen Cooper," she replied. "And that's what I've been told by Miss Vague Disembodied voice back in the podroom." She put her hands on her hips. "A Great Duty," with a capital G of course. "I wouldn't discount anyone tellin' you they're an alien. It's probably the truth."

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, aye, probably. What with us bein' in fuckin' outer space an' all. But this new fucking Duty's not that special. Just a further extension of our own, we're figurin'. God help us." He glanced up devoutly as he said that last.

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Amen." said Connor, looking up as devoutly as his twin. He crossed himself quickly and looked back. "So's for now we're just restin' until the next big fucking deal comes along."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Fantastic," Gwen muttered, her eyes still set squarely on both men. They seemed fairly complaisant, but far from harmless. In fact, they vaguely reminded her of someone she knew once.

"Well, I have a duty of my own, that I wouldn't mind gettin' back to." She tilted her head. "Any idea of how to get out of here? Or contact Earth?"

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Murphy shrugged easily, though a tightness in his face indicated that he wasn't entirely happy about being ship-bound. "Fuck if we know, an' don't let me baby brother tell ye otherwise. We leave our fates in the hands o' God our Savior an' others more knowledgeable in these things."

As he spoke his hand found Connor's, eyes never faltering from Gwen's face.

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
Connor squeezed Murphy's hand reassuringly. "We'll do our duty an' then be fuckin' quit of this place, and that's that."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Gwen tried to hide a smirk. For God-fearing men, they sure knew how to swear up a storm. She stole a glance at their hands; a chink in the armour, maybe?

"So... the plan is just to sit around and wait until whoever has kidnapped us plans to let us go?" She sighed. That would be a great plan, if they had any idea how long that would be and hell, if they would even live to see it. From the ragged group around them, she wasn't taking any bets.

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Aye, more or less. T'ain't much more we can do now, is there?" Connor sighed. "We ain't fuckin' happy with it, but it's the way it's got t'be, for now."

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
Murphy leaned slightly on his brother. "We're fuckin' soldiers. As long as their objectives an' ours continue to match, there'll be no problem."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Suddenly, Gwen felt exhausted. The day was catching up to her. Between slipping out of slime-filled pods and wandering down hallways and fighting the fact that all she could do was absolutely nothing... well, that was all she wanted to do. Nothing. She stared at the two men wearily, and absentmindedly played with the ring on her finger.

"So, what is it you both did? Before you ended up stranded on this bloody ship?"

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Murphy glanced at his twin at the precisely same moment Connor looked back at him. For a few seconds, a silent conversation seemed to take place; a minutely lifted eyebrow here, a flicker of the eyes there, a shoulder shrugged a millimeter. A barely perceptible nod from Murphy at the end.

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Connor turned back to Gwen. "We're on a mission from God, t'carry out His work on Earth. We dispense justice."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Gwen watched their silent exchange, impressed by their apparent ability to speak without words, and narrowed her eyes. Two year ago, she would have run, screaming, for the hills. Or at least taken the piss. But now... hell, aliens, giant death monsters wreaking havoc through her city, gloves that bring people back from the darkness. In retrospect, a couple of guys who believed in a mission from God barely sent a blip on her Nutter o' Metre. After all, she caught aliens for a living, and how would that sound in comparison?

Of course, there was a tiny sane part of Gwen Cooper that stirred uncomfortably in the depths. "And how, exactly, does one go about dispensing such justice?" she asked, timidly.

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-09 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Murphy tilted his head slightly to the side as he turned to look at her, watching intently. "We find those who are evil, and we execute them."

He said it as if it were the most simple, serious thing in the world.

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Connor nodded, arm around his brother.

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
The red flags started going up in Gwen's mind. Just her luck, to end up alone on a ship filled with aliens, chattin' with two potential psychos like they didn't have a care in the world.

She glanced around the room, making notes of quick exits. The room was filled with people, so the chances of her being in any danger from these two was unlikely. And she had her gun, so at least she wasn't at a total loss.

"And what, exactly, do you quantify as evil?" There was a bit more bite in her voice than she intended, but she wasn't exactly ready to get mixed up with two nutters on some kind of holy rampage through an alien ship.

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Voice taking on a slightly more commanding tone, Murphy began to answer. "Murderers, rapists, and thieves. These are all things considered universally evil, are they not?"

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Mobsters, conmen, bastards going in for twenty crimes, getting out an hour later on bail, just like that." He snaps his fingers. "It's wrong. Honest people go home shakin' in their beds 'cos these fuckers'll never be brought in."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Gwen put her hands on her hips again, trying to take in what was being said. Vigilante justice, that's all it was. She didn't know how she felt about such a thing, didn't know if she believed in it. However, it was she, who ran the streets every night, hunting down weevils and God knew what else and taking them down, usually without thought, all in the name of protecting the innocents.

Wasn't that, in it's own right, vigilante justice, too?

She nodded curtly at them. She didn't, at any rate, fall into any of those categories, so she didn't exactly feel the need for any immediate concern. "Fair enough," she offered, looking at both men squarely. They seemed almost like a single person to her. "Can't imagine there's many people on this ship that fall into those categories, though."

[identity profile] st-veritas.livejournal.com 2008-12-10 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Connor shook his head."We ain't met anyone that's said so, so we wouldn't know. Best to reserve judgement, aye?" He smiled. Neither of them seemed interested in dispelling the idea of them as a joint person.

[identity profile] st-aequitas.livejournal.com 2008-12-11 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Murphy smiled too, friendly. "We're not out ta kill indiscriminately; women and children, innocents and small-time sinners, we're not interested in them."

[identity profile] alien-catcher.livejournal.com 2008-12-11 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Gwen couldn't help but smile back at both of them. After all, they seemed to at least have standards, and with that alone, she'd choose being locked on a ship with them instead of, say, a weevil any day.

But their words made her reflect on herself. She was, sure enough, a small time sinner, but one none the less.

"So, do'ya think that has anything to do with how you've come to be here?" The inquisitive cop kicked back in, still looking for a pattern.

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