A Slight Misunderstanding

[cityship]

When they blast down the door to the Medical Wing--and they'll have to, to get in--the group of newly podpopped crew-mates will bear witness to an interesting sight. Several individuals are strapped to med-beds, restrained by insect-looking legs pinning them down. One of those individuals has a cape and domino mask that may be familiar to one of the new crew-members--even if he's older than that crew member last remembers. Medical scans and monitors blip away. There are test tubes and other medical equipment around, including a flask with some sort of nasty gray slug curled at the bottom.

A few individuals are standing around, standing guard, including a girl with a bow and arrows. In the back of the Medical Wing is a woman with a scared-looking little girl.

Sitting on a stool, leaning over a shaggy-haired young man (who appears to have suffered a horrible head wound), is that green-skinned, blonde-haired individual shown by the AIs earlier. Some freaky looking goggles are over his eyes, and a strange and sinister-looking surgical glove, attached to an apparatus on the ceiling and full of rotating micro-lasers and mini-scalpels among other things, is on his hand.

It is, unfortunately, not an image that lends itself to easy interpretation.

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[shinichimigi.livejournal.com]

"I just hope those are nice doggies" Migi says, still trying to take in the number of strange life forms on this ship. "Aren't they usually in movies?"

"As far as I knew they were fiction...like those Underworld movies. But maybe they're from another planet...I'll know more once we can learn more." Shinichi will fight the wolves if he has to, but they aren't attacking right now, at least.

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Okay, so, everything's relatively good now? No one's trying to rip each other apart into tiny pieces? It's safe to freak out?...alright then."

Ron paused, took a deep breath, and started screaming his head off.

"WHAT KIND OF HORRIBLE PLACE IS THIS?! I WOKE UP IN SLIME, WAS SCARMED AT BY SOME SNOW PLOW ROBOT, GOT DRESSED BY TENTACLES, AND WAS NEARLY MAULED TO DEATH BY A FREAKING WEREWOLF! TO TOP IT ALL OFF, THE FOOD"S PROBABLY SOME KINDA TASTELESS SLOP THAT I THOUGHT I ESCAPED WHEN I LEFT HIGH SCHOOL!"

[helipack-jack.livejournal.com]

"It's okay to freak out now?" Jack Spicer has been hiding behind a piece of convenient ship wall this whole time. He comes out, clears his throat, and then just starts yelling. By the time he finishes, he's on the verge of tears.

"Can this get ANY worse?! I'm LOST and I'm CONFUSED and no JACKBOTS and MY COAT IS GONE and THE STUPID XIAOLIN LOSERS AREN'T EVEN HERE TO SUFFER WITH ME! This is SO not FAIR!"

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

Brenda is gawping at Paco's body still, despite the chaos around her. That was not his voice. Those were DEFINITELY not his freaking ice beam eyes!

Adrenaline is still pounding through her and she'd really like to hit something, and given the situation Paco seems appropriate. She gives him a smarting but ineffectual crack in the shoulder with a shaking hand. "What happened to you? Who's in there if you're not Paco!?"

[cutintomyheart.livejournal.com]

Chris is looking pretty freaked. To judge by his expression and body language, his reaction to being accused of being a vampire by a werewolf is the same as someone might if Superman zipped down and called him Lex Luthor, then started winding up a punch.

(He's a fairly good actor, and it doesn't hurt that werewolf, well, that is a viscerally bad thing...)

[halfa-hero.livejournal.com]

"OW! HEY! Why are you hitting...oh. I'm going to take an educated guess here and assume your Paco's friend Brenda, right? Uh, hi. Name's Danny." He held out Paco's hand to shake.

"Uh Paco currently has a slug in his brain that was using his body to try and kill everyone and/or put other slugs into their brains, so I kinda used my ghost powers to take control of it temporarily, since I figured me being in control would be a heck of lot better than the slug, that, among other things, was trying to kill Jaime, being in control." Danny paused, "...and I am so wishing my life wasn't crazy enough for this to make complete sense to me."

"Don't worry, once it's safe to get out of him, I'll get out of him. Don't want to be in here any longer than I have to."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

Brenda tries to follow that as best she can, feeling awkward shaking her best-friend's hand despite knowing that she's being introduced to a completely different person.

"So, you're Danny, and you are a ghost who is inhabiting Paco's body because Paco has an infestation of homocidal brain slugs?" She's reminded suddenly of a failed third grade mason jar ant colony.

"...I wish your life wasn't crazy enough for you to have to even TRY to explain that to me."

[halfa-hero.livejournal.com]

"Mostly. Actually, I'm a half ghost, but I really do not want to get into explaining how that works right now."

[shes-intense.livejournal.com]

"My brain is still struggling past the 'I was in a pod covered in slime' part. By ALL means tell me some other time."