Unleash the Podlings!

[cityship]

||Pod Release Protocols Initiating,|| Stacy announced to the denizens of the upper levels. Down the the Pod Caverns, familiar sounds made themselves known:

Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

Mist sprayed from the cracks in the pods before the new crew members were summarily ejected from warm, comfortable stasis to their new chilly, damp reality. They'd either meet each other in the Caverns or in the upper levels, where the previously popped crew would also be waiting for them, if Stacy had anything to say about it.

This time, there were two pods spitting mechanical beings out of a more oily mixture, and one podling who was significantly smaller than most of the others.

Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss.

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[risingfury.livejournal.com]

Konoko had seen many things in her life. Violence, psychotic scientists, crazy cult followers, and your occasional pedophile along the route. It was an officer's life.

This? Never in a million years would she have predicted being shoved into the cold world covered in slime of all things. Coughing up whatever could be in her lungs - please don't let that be someone's spit - and stumbled to her feet. Purple hair plastered itself to her forehead and face, feeling unnatural and sticky. She tried unsticking it first with no luck, and opened her eyes.

If she was a newborn child, she would have howled.

What she did, in reality, was no different.

"Hello!? Where am I? Anyone here?" she called loudly. Nearly slipping on the green juices, she grumbled. "This isn't funny!"

[cityship]

||You are in the Pod Caverns,|| a voice answered her. ||I am here. There nothing that was intended to be humorous.||

Psychic voice says hello!