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Newbie Meet n' Greet

For the newbies, there are people waiting for them in the Obs Deck. A whole gaggle of people. Behind them is the nasty statue, and the beautiful sight through the windows of the stars streaming past and the swirling vortex of collars that was interdimensional travel.

There are more questions than answers, but the crew is willing to help, especially the Command Staff and greeters.

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"Oh, I wouldn't worry to much. They might still be in the pods. Or they'll be there whenever we go home," Dani said, smiling happily trying to reassure him. She hadn't been so concerned about going home, but others seemed to be.

"Well, it supposedly is in the Ghost Zone," Dani commented. "Must have been one wild week for people who don't know about it to say something like that though."

"Hopefully they're in the pods." Marcus says, trying to smile in response. The idea of them still being in Skynet is not a happy one.

"... I wasn't serious about the sky being green. It's just an expression." he continues warily, giving the floating girl a Look.

"Something going on that's not so good at home?" Dani asked. While she didn't have as much of a problem being on Stacy, she didn't think people would want to be on here without there being something decidedly not good at home.

"Oh. I have trouble with expressions like that," Dani said with a shrug.

"Depends on how you classify an insane, self-aware AI building killer robots and trying to kill off all humanity." Marcus says bitterly, glancing over at the ghost-girl.

Marcus shrugs lightly. "Probably should have said yellow or something instead of green."

"I'd classify that as a bad. And sad. Robots are really cool when they aren't trying to kill you," Dani said with a frown.

"I've never seen a yellow sky," Dani agreed with a nod. "Though some others might. We got aliens."

That... wasn't quite the reaction Marcus had expected. To be fair, he wasn't sure what he'd expected, but sadness definitely wasn't it. "The only ones I've seen were trying to kill me." he says with a shrug. This isn't entirely true, but talking about how he's actually a killer robot is going to get kind of complicated.

"Really? Huh." Marcus says, looking around the room in interest. He didn't see-- oh, no, the green guy being tackled by a snake-woman was probably an alien.

"Well, I've only met one personally. One of the Brainiac 5's. He's really cool. Though there are other robots too. You'll see them too," Dani said. It was kind of sad to imagine them killing people in her head. "Why would they want to kill people?"

"Yep! Quite a few. They'll show up eventually," she said, looking where he was. "...and that would be the other Brainiac 5," she said, looking worried, starting to hover that way, but then the snake woman loosened her hold before she went over. Okay, he was fine, then no reason to worry.

"Technically, I think you've met two." Marcus says quietly, shoving his hands into his pockets and watching the crowd. "I don't really know the whole story, to be honest. I just woke up a couple of days ago and was a little bit busy with survival."

"There are two of them?" That's... unusual.

"What was that?" Dani asked, not quite catching what he said. "Really? Were you in a coma or something? Or, oh, are you a clone too?" She asked. Those were the only two possibilities she could think of to miss a bunch of robots wanting to kill people.

Dani shrugged. "Don't know why. I think it's something to do with alternate dimensions. The robot Brainy is a bit more friendly than the organic one, though the organic one is kind of funny to bug," she said with a childish grin.

"Neither. I was dead." Which is kind of like being in a coma, Marcus thinks, except when you're dead you usually don't wake up again. "... are you a clone?"

"That makes about as much sense as anything has today." Marcus says. "Sounds kind of like a bad sci-fi movie plot, though." Marcus hasn't really had a lot of Internet access, or he'd probably compare it to fanfiction.

Dani winced. "Ouch. And for a long time, huh? Well, at least you didn't have to stay that way, right?" She said, looking uncomfortable at the thought. She didn't like the darkness after melting. She really didn't wish it on anyone longer than a few seconds. "And yeah. I am." She's just all sorts of weird.

"I guess it would be. Kind of used to weird myself, so it's kind of business as usual."

"... nine years. Felt like no time at all, though." Marcus says uncomfortably. "I might still be dead, as it turns out. It's complicated."

"Yeah, it's just been one weird thing after another after I woke up."

"Really? Well, I guess that's better than knowing. It's not pleasant," Dani said, looking away. "And what do you mean? How can you be dead and alive? My ghost sense didn't go off."

"Well, you'll have a chance to get used to Stacy, I think."

"I wouldn't think so." Marcus says, glancing over at the ghost-girl. "And... I'm one of the killer robots, although I think I still have a human brain. I don't know if that counts as alive or dead."

Marcus just laughs quietly. "Not sure whether that's good or bad, but nothing's tried to kill me at this point."

Dani stared at that. "Just so you know, if you try to kill people, I'll have to stop you if the ship doesn't. And I can go through stuff," Dani said rather flatly and with a serious look. "And I count things as being alive by having emotions."

"There's not a lot of attempted killing here from what I've seen. Well, while you're on board."

"I found that out literally an hour before I got kidnapped by the freaky ship." Marcus says, his voice heated. "I was someone's damn science project, and I'm not going to go out and start killing people, on the ship or off it."

"Then you're not a killer robot, just a robot," Dani said. "Really, you're gonna confuse people if you call yourself a killer robot." It was just plain common sense in her head. "Nothing wrong with being a science project though."

"I think they're-- we're-- called Terminators, and I was trying not to mention it." Marcus says with a shrug. "I used to be human, and I'd rather just go with that if I can."

"True, that name doesn't sound so good either. Still better than killer robot. You could be terminating anything," Dani said thoughtfully. "But going with human is fine. If you were human, then that's how you think, right?"

Marcus frowns thoughtfully. "I'm pretty sure I've still got a human brain. I know I've still got my heart." Literally, not metaphorically. Marcus isn't much given to melodramatic sayings like that.

"That's close enough, if you think you do," Dani said. She had a rather loose sense of the word 'human.' "I mean, I don't think I even have actual organs while I'm like this.

Marcus smiles at that. "Wish everyone thought like you do. The Resistance sure as hell wanted to kill me." he says, feeling better about it now that he wasn't in their stronghold with Connor, who was an extremist at best, and Barnes, who was legitimately out of his mind.

"You're a ghost. It's a bit different."

"That's because people are weird," Dani said, getting a funny look on her face. "They do a bunch of weird and unnecessary things. I mean, Danny was freaked out he thought he had to explain sex to me."

"Still, no excuse to want to kill you. At least now you're free," Dani said, smiling.

"Half ghost. Half human too."

Marcus is a bit freaked out by that idea as well. "... part of the clone thing?" he asks after a minute, frowning slightly.

"But if you're a ghost right now, you wouldn't have a body." Marcus points out.

"Having to explain it to me? Well, he thought he did. No, actually Brainiac 5 was complaining about people trying to do it in the lab. I already knew about because I was doing Biology research because...well, I was a clone, so I wanted to know what I was made of," Dani said with a shrug. "I didn't get a basic schooling download into my head that some clones supposedly get."

"Well, I have a body, but it's not human, no. Ecto for blood and everything," Dani said, a white ring appearing around her and traveling around her body as plantsuit appeared, her hair turning black and eyes blue. "I look like this and I get all the human stuff though." She paused. ".....and the creepy plantsuit."

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