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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92008-06-16 11:31 pm

Unearthly Children

||Pod Release Protocols Initating.||

Again. But this was a separate release. And now there were people to announce pod releases to.

Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
His nose was bleeding and he was clutching at his head.

"Mnuh. Can't--unh--can't think--we can't--nuh--too much--too much--scanning--too much--hitting something--feedback--aaaauuugh. Aaaaauugh."

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, okay. Stay calm.

Dammit.

"Can you turn it off?" he asked. "Khaji, Jaime, one of you, turn it off!"

Oh, good plan, play Captain Obvious.

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Turn--turn off. Khaji, he's right--turn it--shut it--"

Jaime collapsed in the pool of goo on the floor, gasping, and still holding his head for a moment, not quite able to move, even with the pain gone.

"Ow. Okay, I'm starting to think we deserved the Posse going after us after what Khaji did to Probe, if it felt anything like that. Neither of us could even think."

Jaime shoved himself up and wiped at his bloody nose with his forearm. All it really did was smear it.

"...How come we're both naked and sticky? And why is Brenda not here making a joke about it?"

The last thing he remembered, the three of them were together, and...

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good. Best friend not in pain was a much better plan than the reverse.

"Dunno," Paco said, running a hand back through his hair and flicking the collected slime off onto the floor. "Khaji got anything? Because this doesn't look like El Paso to me."

He looked around again. "If Brenda's here, all we need to do is listen for the screaming of whatever brought us here, because she's not going to be happy about waking up naked and covered in snot."

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Heh." Brenda beating up whatever aliens had abducted them. The mental image was funny.

And would be highly accurate if she was here.

Jaime suited up, but the scanners stayed off, as he and Khaji tried to root through the information they got and make sense of it.

"It's alive, I can tell that much. Psychic. HUGE. There's millions of life signs in here, although most are almost like they're dead. And it's--"

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"--and it's talking to us."

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Paco whipped his head around, looking for the source of the voice, and almost lost his footing in the slime.

"Not Brenda," he pointed out, unnecessarily. "Okay. You're super-guy, I'm sidekick-guy. What do we do now, besides avoiding pissing off the psychic voice?"

This was just levels of unnecessary creepy right here.

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Jaime thought, and thought very quickly. "Right now, we get pants. Pants first, figuring things out later, this is a rule. Although, actually, I'm good, thanks to the suit and the clothes it can make. But you need pants."
Edited 2008-06-17 06:49 (UTC)

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I am all for this pants plan," Paco agreed. There was a time and place for naked, and it wasn't now and here. "Does Khaji have a special sensor or do I have to make a toga out of the remains of the snot bag?" He jerked his thumb back over his shoulder at the limp remains of his pod. "Because if it's the snot-bag toga, I might stick with naked."

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, that depends. Do you want the snot-bag toga, or the clothes made out of my body waste? So many options there."

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Next time Brenda throws me on top of alien technology, I'm not giving it to you," Paco muttered, shooting a mock-sour look at his best friend. He cleared his throat and spoke a bit louder for the benefit of the mysterious voice. "Uhh, yes. Clothes would be great."

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, I'm perfectly fine with next time letting the alien artifact give your spine a special hug instead of mine."

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
"I bet my spine-hugger comes with a hottie-detector," Paco countered. "And pants not made of my own waste."

He looked down at the glowing pustules and gave Jaime a 'our lives have gotten so very weird' look before following the trail through the cavern.

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
So weird that they were not really freaking at all over this.

Abducted by aliens of some kind, ho hum. Jaime tried his best to keep alert without the scarab's proximity scans.



"You are an alien," Jaime muttered to the scarab.

Without scans, there were still other ways of gathering at least some information.

"Sooo, mysterious voice in our heads," Jaime said. "Who and what are you?"

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Paco manfully resisted the urge to hum a few bars of "Stacy's Mom". Instead he wiggled a finger in his ear and glanced over at Jaime.

"Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is conspiracy, right?" he asked. What was it with aliens and moms?

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes just once is conspiracy." That was something Ted Kord's notes had taught him!

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Paco grinned.

"A conspiracy of Mom-aliens? 'Clean up your planet or no dessert'? 'Leave the atmosphere open a crack when you have girls over'?"

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2008-06-17 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"'Take out the trash to the nearest black hole'?"

Jaime paused and reached out to grab Paco's arm.

It stuck out amongst the other colors.

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
"You sure it wasn't just some kind of reflection?" Paco asked, glancing down at Jaime's suit. Probably not, but a naked guy could hope, right?

"Pants or investigation first?"

[identity profile] flunkingspanish.livejournal.com 2008-06-18 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
"And me without a stick." Paco muttered. He heaved a sigh. "Okay, man. I've got your back.