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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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"None of the stuff that people who are from something are in." Which sucks, 'cause he'd really like to watch something other than Casablanca. "So if any of the characters from your series show up here, it'll probably vanish. Like every episode of Star Trek has."

"No Star Trek? None?!," Marco said, sounding horrified. "That...that's just got to be a crime, man."

And characters from The Tomorrow Series? Showing up here? Marco guessed it must be possible, if Superboy and Kirk and Sonic showing up was...but the idea was definitely unsettling. "You know, if Nick Lang show up here and starts complaining about how I play him, I will be very much weirded out."

For some reason, Marco hadn't considered the possibility that fiction about him could exist in some other universe.

"Well what do you need Star Trek for when Captain Motherfuckin' Picard is our commanding officer?"

Allen might be a little gay for Picard. He just might.

"So if some kid who looks like you shows up complaining about you, I should point him in whatever direction you're not? Sure."

"That is indeed awesome, yes," Marco agreed. "But somehow I don't think I can just walk up and say, "hey Captain, feel like re-enacting my favourite scenes for me?"

Marco laughed. "Hey, that could be any number of people. Not just Nick Lang. But sure, you do that."

"He might punch you in the face, like he punched that velociraptor."

Wrap your brain around THAT, Marco. Morph a dinosaur, and Picard will still have the balls to clock you one. That's hardcore.

"Wait...Picard punched a velociraptor? Seriously? An actual velociraptor?"

Marco knew Picard was awesome, but damn. Marco had seen, morphed, and run like hell from dinosaurs during that whole sario rip thing. He was most definitely impressed.

"Yeah. It was pretty much as awesome as you think it was." I mean, that's some pretty straightforward awesome.

"Anyway, that's why we let him be in charge, other than just the part where he's Picard."

"And he managed to not get eaten...how?" Seriously, Marco wanted to know. He was all up for not being eaten.

"Hey, sounds good enough for me," he said. And at least he knew who Picard was, thanks to many Star Trek movie marathons. They guy could lead, and that was a heck of a lot better than someone who couldn't.

"Dominance fight. Soon as he established dominance, the other participant backed down. It was all very primal."

Marco gave Allen a suspicious fight. "Dominance? How come the raptor didn't see him as prey?" From what he remembered, Tobias had only managed to convince a bunch of velociraptors to back off Rachel - who had morphed grizzly - after morphing a velociraptor himself. And Marco had morphed plenty of predators, too. He knew how they thought. As awesome as Picard was, Marco doubted something like a raptor would just stop seeing him as prey just because the guy fought back.