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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-01-01 03:56 pm

Podpop-ery

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||Pod Release Protocols Initating|| Stacy's familiar voice sounds out to all the podmates through the ship.

In the Pod Caverns, there are the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

There is condensation and mist spraying out from cracks in the pods, as the people inside slide out onto the floors, covered in slime.

--


There was nothing. You were going about your normal life, then there was a bright light, and then? Nothing.

Then the world lurches.

The chamber here is humid.

Actually, "chamber" isn't quite accurate. You're in a cavern, half-lit by an eerie greenish light, going on and on as far as the eye can see. The light is coming from what can only be described as pods, glistening, round greenish-yellow things, glowing with a pale inner light, outlining human -- and not quite human -- forms. Each is rooted to the floor, to the walls, with something black, twisted, and unidentifiable.

They line the walls of the cavern, go up in maddeningly high columns, curling and corkscrewing up into the darkness, until the light from them is like that of the stars, glowing pale and mournful in clusters in the darkness above. Twisted walkways and stairs crisscross, traverse the platforms in front of the pods, wending their way back and forth, up and down through the chamber.

You just came from one of those pods, broke free like a butterfly from a (slimy, nasty) chrysalis.

Now you stand alone but not quite alone, naked, not knowing how you got there, who took you, or why you were taken.

As your body heats up again, you realize the air is warm -- just a few degrees too warm to be comfortable -- and muggy; it smells acrid and organic, like freshly spilt blood and sweat. Your mouth tastes of salt.

The floors are pulsing under your feet, throbbing...

Wherever you are, this entire place...is alive.

Oh, and also you're naked and covered in alien snot.

When you call out, ask where you are, a voice speaks to you, in your head. She tells you:

||You are here.||


When you ask who she is, she tells you that her name is STA'C K'LTRRB'TXFT, but that you may call her Stacy. When she tells you who she is, there is a gush of emotion, love, maternal warmth. You are on a ship. She is that ship. Her name is Stacy and she loves you. Her voice is warm and motherly, even if these messages sound almost automated.

Glowing phosphorescenet lights appear in pustules along the floor. They lead you up a massive spiraling walkway that gives you a view of what are possibly millions in stasis. At the top is a room with moving vines that clean you and clothe you in a plant-like body-suit--soft, but durable. After that, the lights lead you to a great cavernous room with a clear floor that lets you see all the holes and tunnels in the walls of it. When you reach the center, the last thing she tells you before whisking you away to gather your belongings and meet the rest of the crew is this reassuring thought:

||You have been Chosen to accomplish a Great Purpose. You have been Chosen to help fight the Ohm, a race of insectoid beings that are the destroyers of worlds.||

||You have been Chosen as champions of life, as protectors of the worlds and peoples that are left. The others are waiting for you. They will explain everything.||


She will tell you nothing more. Your answers lie with these "others" she speaks of.
governorkang: (Well shit / Disgusting)

[personal profile] governorkang 2010-01-03 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Until I find out what those reasons are, I'm not wearing anything that has a goddamn pulse," Kang growled, trying to tug his arm free from the tentacle still wrapped around his wrist. Fortunately for him, the suit was taken away, and after the other tentacles finished cleaning off the slime, he was released.

Scales clicking and tail lashing irritably, he briefly stretched out his wings to make sure the slime was gone, "It's alive. I can smell it."
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[personal profile] chosenfamily 2010-01-03 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Glad I don't have your sense of smell." The pulsing was bad enough. Sam wasn't sure he wanted to be able to smell it, too. "All right. I guess we follow the rest of the lights from here."
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[personal profile] governorkang 2010-01-03 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Kang snorted, looking around at the others still in the chamber. Mostly humans, but there was a strange, blue-looking creature, and what almost looked like a hobgoblin, but larger, green, and not as ugly. "Looks like it."
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[personal profile] chosenfamily 2010-01-03 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Sam was checking them out as well. Mostly to see if Dean was among them. He hadn't seen his brother yet, which could be good or bad, honestly. "Right, then. I guess we follow the yellow brick road and hope there's no wicked witches at the end."
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[personal profile] governorkang 2010-01-03 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
The reference was completely lost on Kang, obvious by the blank look on his face, but he nodded and began to follow the lights again. Hopefully their next stop would provide them with some better answers.