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Why now?

It was the worst possible time for it. The crew was about to be embroiled in a battle for their lives. Half of them were infested with alien parasites and restrained in MedBay.

||Pod Release Protocols Initating,|| Stacy's familiar voice sounded out to all the podmates.

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

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

Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss.

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"I'm not aware that I made a joke, no."

OK, hologram, definitely GD stuff. Jo smiled slightly and headed toward the lighted pathway, pushing past the annoying man in the process. "It's a Hologram, genious," she pointed out drily. Yup, and this hologram was going to lead the way so she could end up strangling Fargo. Sounded like a plan to her.

"I knew that," Sawyer lied--LIES!!--as he trailed behind Miss Attitude as she followed the shiny little path of light that was oddly reminiscent of...

"Just so we're clear, if there's a candy house at the end of this you're gettin' in the cage, Gretl."

"Sure you did," Jo tossed over her shoulder before rolling her eyes. Did he think she was stupid? She'd grown up with brothers, she could spot a male lying a mile away. And besides, how likely was it the man had actually ever encountered a hologram?

She stopped suddenly and spun to face him, her expression one of being clearly not amused. "You think you're funny?" She asked, though she didn't even wait for him to answer before going on,"Well I don't, so just... " she drew in a deep breath to calm herself. "Just shut up already."

She turned away from him, continuing down the path. "So S.A.R.A.H.?" she called out, boviously still thinking Fargo's program was around. "Which level of Global are we on?"

"My name is Andromeda. You're not on Global."

Just to make it abundantly clear...

"You're not on Earth."

Sawyer stopped dead in his tracks when the hologram chick informed they weren't on Earth.

"Where the hell are we then?"

Jo laughed, but stopped when she realized that the hologram was quite serious. No this was seriously something new. And not a good new. "OK, so... Where are we then? And how exactly did we get here?!"

"Didn't you just hear me ask that?" Sawyer asked.

Jo arched a brow and looked over at the annoyance that was following her. "Oh you spoke? I'd completely ignored you."

"You're on board a spaceship currently traveling in the void between universes. You and others from various universes have been abducted to this ship, run by a sentient AI named Stacy. I, and other AIs have been captured and imprisoned in Stacy's secondary systems as well. Other individuals like yourself have already been freed from the pods long before you, and we've all been making an attempt to gain access to other areas of the ship to confront our abductors and find a way to make the ship send us all to our proper worlds and timelines."

"Yeah...right...that's just what I was thinkin' happened," Sawyer replied with obvious sarcasm. He looked back and forth between the hologram and Miss Attitude with an incredulous expression on his face.

"What the hell is all that supposed to mean? Some cracked up alien kidnapped us, drugged us, stripped us down, lubed us up, stuffed us in some pod because it felt like havin' some close encounters?"

Jo shut her eyes, wishing that she had the device that had rendered Zoe speechless for a while. She'd so be using it on that guy right now.

Taking a deep breath she opened her eyes, deciding it was best to ignore him and his sarcastic remarks. Instead she spoke to the hologram. "Is there a reason we were chosen? And, is it possible to get some clothes?"

"I have no idea why I was chosen," says Stacy. Yes, she's an amazing AI, certainly, but Stacy likely could do whatever she could do, if she could imprison her.

Lights appear along the floor in glowing pustules. "Follow the lights."

"Do I look like Carol Ann?" Sawyer commented. "I ain't followin' no damn lights!"

"If you want to stay naked, be my guest, but I'm following the light to get some clothes," Jo told the man before doing just that, and followed the path of lights.

"What sort of clothes are we going to get?" She asked the hologram as she left Sawyer behind.

Sawyer stood defiantly in place for a few moments, visibly struggling with whether to follow Miss Attitude or not. Finally...

"Son of a #*%#@!" he cursed.

He followed...like a grumpy puppy.

"Organic jumpsuits," Andromeda replies. "I'm told they're comfortable, if unnerving."

The lights lead up a walkway that spirals up to the ceiling, given them a view of the immensity that is the Pod Caverns, dimly lit from all the glowing pods within.

Nodding, Jo followed the spiraling walkway toward the ceiling. Her gaze swept across the expanse of the cavern and had to admit that she was rather impressed by the whole set up of the ... spaceship they were in.

"If you don't stop staring at my @$$, I'm going to knock your head off," she called back to Sawyer in an almost conversational tone as they got closer to the ceiling.

"It's kinda hard to miss, Sweet Cheeks," Sawyer commented with a rather smug look on his face as he continued to trail behind her.

There's a room at the top. A circular room, with vines dangling from the ceiling over a metal circle.

Nothing else is there.

"Please step on the circle."

Jo was about to turn about and make Sawyer eat half of his face, but luckily for him, Andromeda spoke up directing them toward a circular room with metal circles.

"That's your only freebie jack@§§!" She snapped at him before doing as she'd been directed to and made her way into the room and stepped onto the circular circle.

The vines grab Jo and clothe her in a membranous, leafy bodysuit. It's veiny and leafy, and has a pulse, but rather tough, despite its softness.

"Sawyer--and yes, I know both your names, before you ask--you're next," Andromeda says when the vines put the now-clothed Jo down on her feet again.

Sawyer continues to scowl as he continues to eye the vines with suspicion. "Fine," he says, hesitating for a moment before moving into the room. "But no probing! Of any kind! Of anything! You got me, sister?"

"Whoa!! Hey watch where.... WHOA!" Jo cried, not really prepared for the vines grabbing her or that fact that they quickly clothed her in a strange leafy like bodysuit.

She staggered a little off to the side when she was finally put down and she quickly looked herself over with a slight frown. "Wow," she muttered. "Doesn't really leave much to the imagination now does it?"

"Suppose you could always take it off," Sawyer retorted as he was stepping into the room. Just then several vines wrapped around him and pulled him up off the ground and began to...clothe him...just as it had done to Miss Attitude a few seconds earlier.

"Whoa!" he squirmed, shifting back and forth as the vines twisted around his body. "Hey hey hey! I said no probing!"

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