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When Marco stumbled across the media library, he concluded that this had to be the best day so far on this freaky meatship.

Music. Massive screens. A giant, alien entertainment centre. And, most importantly - video games.

Marco was immediately drawn to the tall white box with the strange looking controllers. He snorted when he saw the name "Wii" (who though that was a good idea? The puns where almost too easy) but hey, this was clearly gaming of the future. Or gaming of a strange and bizarre alien race - it was hard to tell. Either way, it was cool, and Marco was so going to try it out.

He fished around for a vaguely interesting looking game, bypassing all the ones that looked boring (Wii Fit? Cricket? Imagine: Fashion Idol?! pfft), eventually settling on Escape from Bug Island.

Marco had been a bug before. Waaaaay too many times. Now he could squish them in safe video game fun.

But as Marco began to play, his good mood rapidly diminished. Who thought up this whole "swinging around the controller" thing? What the hell was going on with that animation?

"What the hell is with this?!" He yelled, as he tried to get the control to do what he wanted dammit. "This is nuts! GAMING OF THE FUTURE IS CRAP!"

[[ooc: For reference, this is the extraodinarily bad game Marco is playing.]]

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"Dammit!" She pouted before reaching for Fallout 3 instead. It was a cool game. Blood, guts, big mutant monsters! Yeeeeeees! She turned and waved the game at him. "Found a kickass game!"

Pushing to her feet, and flashed the guy a look. "Dude it came out in like 2006. How can you not know that?" No, Claudia isn't use to the whole different times thing.

Her mouth dropped open and she couldn't help the excitement she was feeling. "Seriously? Ohmagod! That is like.... Wicked! Have you met him?!"

"Awesome," Marco said with a grin, and giving the PS3 and admiring look. Man, that was one beautiful machine. He could almost cry. "Fallout 3, huh?"

Marco sighed dramatically. "Alas, I am a historical relic. I'm from so far in the past that I'm practically a caveman. In other words, 2001."

"Well...not really," Marco admitted. "But I did talk to Super-boy! And Nightwing. And Robin - but he wouldn't tell me which one he was. Bastard."

"Cha-yeah, dude," Claudia grinned and waved her free hand around a little. "You like play the main character in what use to be the United States after some big ass Nuclear war in like... umm twenty-two-something-something, and like the place is like totally wasted and there's lots of shooting and blowing stuff up. It's sa-weeeeeet."

Slipping the game into the console, Claudia tossed Marco the control as she plopped down on one of the squishy couches. She made a face that clearly spoke of her disgust and shook her head. "I so cannot get over the squishiness of this place..."

"Whaaaaa?" Claudia asked, twisting to face Marco. "Seriously dude? 2001? Wow, that's like... Dude, wow. Seriously you have missed out on alotta kickass stuff."

"For real? That is so friggin COOL!! Man, I heard Lex Luthor's here too! And Leon friggin Kennedy!!! How sweet is this? I mean seriously I totally thought I was like stuck in a Resident Evil game at first. I mean seriously? Zombies? That was some sick stuff."

Marco's grin widened. "That definitely sounds awesome," he said. "Much better than the stupid bug game, anyway."

He grabbed the control and sat down beside her. "I know," Marco whined. "I didn't even get to see the release of the X-box. Wait...tell me. It was awesome, right? Please tell me the X-box was awesome."

"Leon Kennedy?! He's here too? No. Way!"

"Like I said, the Wii is only good if you're into sporty type games," Claudia shrugged. "I think everything else they come out with is purposely complete crap."

"Yeeeah, the X-box is totally awesome! I'm sure they have one somewhere around here. We'll have to look later and introduce you to more kickassery!" Claudia grinned. This was totally fun and she wasn't bein mocked for being a video game junky. Awesome.

She nodded her head. "For serious! He was like one of the dude's who came and found us new peeps in that creepy pod-people room. It was like... The most awesome thing ever meeting him... Though I totally would have preferred meeting while I had some clothes on ya know."

"That is just sad," Marco said. "And yes, you definitely ahve to show me the X-box."

Mock her? For being a video game junky? No way! It was hot!

"Hey, I doubt anyone would object to meeting you when you didn't have any clothes on," Marco said, grinning. He was kinda disappointed, actually. He didn't remember seeing her in the caverns. When they went to fix the coms, yeah. But she had clothes by then.

"Hey that'll be no problemo," Claudia nodded and glanced at the screen as it loaded and began to play what looked like old footage from newsreels - which was the opening of the game.

Her brow arched and she turned and looked at Marco. "Dude seriously? That's kinda... dirty. There are like some way old dudes on this ship and they really don't ever have to see me naked."

Craaaaap dammit this stuff was so much easier when he was back home and everyone knew he was an Animorph and famous and saved the world.

In an attempt to dig himself out of this hole, Marco threw up his hands in a pleading gesture and started blabbering.

"Hey, I didn't say anyone has to see you naked! I'm...just saying that I'm sure you'd look pretty good naked. Not that you don't look good when you're not-naked! And obviously you don't have to go around naked if you don't want to, and I could totally beat away and old guys you didn't want seeing you...err..."

Marco blinked once, then twice. Crap crap crap. "...You know, how about we err...just forget I ever said anything on the topic at all?"

Wow, that's about all Claudia could think for a moment. She seriously wasn't sure if she should be flattered or completely irked what Marco had just said. It was like... Wow.

"Yeah, dude," Claudia agreed eyeing him like he'd just grown a third head. "That would probably be a good idea... 'Cause really? That was way to friggin much."

"Yeah," Marco said, looking glum. Way to be real smooth, Marco. You meat an awesome and very hot chick and you end up blabbering about what she'd look like naked.

"Chill dude! We're like forgetting you ate your foot, right? So stop lookin like someone ran over your dog like a zillion times." Claudia suggested.

There was an awkward silence for a few moments and Claudia sighed. "Soooooo... I saw Worf from Star Trek here too," she offered, trying to lighten the mood again.

"Okay," Marco said meekly.

The awkward silence. It burned.

"R...really? Star Trek? That's awesome," Marco said, sounding somewhat less enthusiastic than he had before. Even though normally the thought of meeting anyone from Star Trek would induce bouts of extreme glee. "Um...I talked to Sonic before. The hedgehog."

OK conversation had taken a turn and was heading straight toward sucktastic-ville. She turned to face him, pushing aside what he'd just said about Sonic the Hedgehog - which in her opinion was way weirder than knowing there was a Lex Luthor onboard.

"Look dude, so you ate your foot. No biggie, I do stuff like that all the time. And... I also have a knack of getting myself stuck to things. So are we cool or what?"

Okay, now the were edging into the oh-so-dangerous territory where they might end up "talking about their feelings". And Marco definitely did not want that. "Yeah, we're cool," he said, trying to put on an unaffected manner.

And taking a leaf out of Claudia's book, he turned to the game and tried to change the subject. "So. How do we play?"

Shrugging, Claudia decides to go with the flow of things and just focus on the game. "So like you have to start a new game..." she waited for him to do so, "And then there will be a bit of blah blah blah, AND then you get to actually set up what your character will look like and pick a name for them and stuf.."

She motioned for him to get on with it. "So go ahead dude."

"Hey, I'm not from that far in the past. I know how to start a new game," Marco said. Just for fun, he decided to name his character "Tree-hugger". The rest of the character creation was a bit different, though.

"Okay. Why is she a baby?"

"Hey man, you never know... You are like basically from the stone-age afterall. " She flashed him a cheeky grin before turning her attention back to the game.

"Wel it's like a story. You don't stay a baby. That's like.. Just the first five minutes, if even. It gets better. I promise."

"You are a cruel, cruel woman. You mock me and my lack of modern technological skills," Marco said, with a mock pout.

"That's good to know. Because while using baby poop as a projective weapon would be hilarious, it would also be really weird." He quickly assigned some attributes to Tree-hugger, giving her high perception, agility, and luck, average charisma and endurance, and low strength.

Luckily, Cassie wasn't around to wonder why Marco was basing video-game character off her. Or see that he'd given her low strength - but it wasn't that Cassie wasn't strong. Marco knew she was tough. But she was never the one to go for the high-firepower morphs. That was Rachel's job.

After assigning Tea-hugger some Cassie-related skills, Marco was done.

"I'm alotta things, but cruel isn't one of them. Smart, awesome, kickass, groovy even, but cruel?" She waved a hand in a dismissing type of motion. "Naw, dude." She chuckled though, she supposed she was picking on him.

Her nose wrinkled and she looked at him. "Baby poop? That's kinda nasty...Eww." She looked back to the game. "Wow, low strength? She's not gonna be able to carry a lot around," she observed.

"AND I'm surprised you made a chick... Most dude's make dude characters."

"But your grooviness. It wounds me." Marco didn't mind the teasing. He teased everyone, so he appreciated the ability of those who could dish it right back at him.

"See, that is why babies should not be game protagonists," Marco said. "And I'll figure out something about the low strength. Or give up and make a new character later."

"Hey, chicks are awesome too. And besides, I named her after Cassie, so making her a dude would just be weird."

"Well then, you shall eat cake," Claudia said putting on a fake high society/some sort of royal accent, and waved her hand around a little like a beauty queen. She should have been an actress!!

"Dude you can't just... Give up and start over! You gotta stick things through with your low strength chick! Ya gotta build her up... Or learn all the cheat codes." She said, quite seriously. Though, cheat codes? She knew them, but she wouldn't like share them unless he asked really, really nicely.

"Duh, I know chicks are awesome! Namely 'cause I'm one." She began, pointing her thumb toward herself. "Whoa, you named her after someone you knew? Tree hugger is this Cassies person? Man, is that even right? I mean, if you had named your character after me and then gave it some nick name like that? I woulda... I dunno what, but I woulda done something."

If only Marco was back home. He could offer to pull some strings and get her a job.

"Cheat codes? Cheat codes?" Marco snorted. "I have more self respect than that. Cheat codes are for after I've completely mastered a game."

He was a little surprised at her indignation at giving Cassie-character a nickname. "Come on, chill! It's no big deal. I just tease everyone. And Cassie's cool, she knows I don't mean anything by it."

"That's if you do," Claudia smirked before settling back into the squishiness of the couch. "I beat the whole thing in less than a week without the cheats..." She announced looking rather proud of herself.

"Hey man," Claudia said, holding her hands up in surrender. "That's cool. Just come up with something better than tree hugger for me."

"That a challenge?" Marco said, sending back a smirk of his own. "If it is, you're on."

"Sure. Next time she can be Skunk-girl."

"Well only if you're up to losing," Claudia smirked. "We'll have to come up with some stakes to put on this wager." She announced, her eyebrows raising a little in more challege.

"Wow, dude. You come up with interesting nicknames." She eyed him. "OK, I'm curious... What would you call me?"