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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-01-01 02:54 pm

Podpop!

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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 phosphorescent 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.

[identity profile] justoutrunyou.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Hana Asakura." Sandy tried it out the same way he had tried her name out. "Cool name. My last names Marko, it's not as cool." She confessed seeing nothing at all peculiar about Hana's name except that it wasn't the sort of name she was used to hearing.

And for the first time in what felt like days she smiled.

[identity profile] moms-temperment.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
He looked at her curiously before smiling back, seeming to have shaken off whatever had him worried. "No way, Marko is so much cooler."

[identity profile] justoutrunyou.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
She was about to argue with him when they reached the top of the stairs and found themselves facing down a curtain of tentacles. They were moving and all too eager to get started cleaning and clothing the duo...not that they would know that.

"Creeeeepy."

[identity profile] moms-temperment.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Hana looked at the tentacles nervously, contemplating whether to just rough it and go about naked instead. Finally, he shrugged and looked at Sandy, still smiling. "Guess I'll go first. If I start screaming, just make a break for it, kay?" He joked.

[identity profile] justoutrunyou.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Oh silly Hana, that was always the plan!

"Yeah OK." Sandy shifted nervously from one point to the other, "Don't die or anything." She added in haste...and then realized she was looking into his eyes and looked down embarrassed...and then realized she'd looked down while he was naked and looked up face bright red again from having seen more then a girl her age should, "I mean like...um...be safe...don't die. Right?"

[identity profile] moms-temperment.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hana just looked at her, obviously not understanding the cause of her redness or even realizing she was actually flustered. "Yeh, okay. By the way, if you're feeling sick or something, just tell me, alright?" With that, he turned and walked into the flailing curtain.

[identity profile] justoutrunyou.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Sandy waited nervously, there was no screaming. She inched closer calling "Hana? You alive?"

But then she got too close and Stacy urged her on with a little help from the tentacles reaching out to grab her and pull her in for a cleaning and to be dressed.

She'd just have to find Hana later when she got out of there.