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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-07-01 12:03 am

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] wet-and-riled.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Hydro..." Katara stopped herself. "Oh. Yes. Not a family, but a society. And not all of us. Only...some." Katara blinked. "Sorry, I usually do speak in complete sentences. It's a pleasure, Dr. Henry Pym, even if all of this is very confusing." She started to walk, following the lights. She turned back towards Pym, though, to see if he was following.

[identity profile] gi-ant-man.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hank was indeed following her, as he had nowhere else to go really. There was so much new information for him to process.

"I'd love to hear more about it once we've got some clothes on."

[identity profile] wet-and-riled.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would be glad to tell you what I can," Katara nodded. "What about you, Doctor? Do you have any abilities?"

[identity profile] gi-ant-man.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Heh, well, technically no," Hank says with a little smirk. "But with science I can use a cybernetic helmet to command insects, and I can shrink and grow , that is, if I had my equipment with me." His smirk turns into a small frown.

"I wonder if it's here somewhere. I wouldn't want to have to make them from scratch."

[identity profile] wet-and-riled.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I hope that there is some place her where our things are kept," Katara nodded. She'd like the bag that she kept her water in back. And her grandmother's betrothal necklace. "You get all of these powers from a machine? That's very interesting." And new. Where Katara was from, all powers came from the person themselves.

[identity profile] gi-ant-man.livejournal.com 2011-07-04 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Hank gives a small chuckle. "I'm glad you think so. It all goes back to when I discovered Pym Particles. They allow for the displacement of mass, with the right formula. I was hoping to use it to help the world, but there have been a few snags."

[identity profile] wet-and-riled.livejournal.com 2011-07-04 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I assume that these particles are named after you?" Katara asks. They sounded very interesting. She wondered if there was any way to apply them to the bending that Katara and the others did - perhaps as a way to carry larger amounts of water or something.

Then again, Katara wasn't exactly science-friendly, so she was probably quite off on believing that something like that could work.

"If you heard the same message I did, about us being Champions, perhaps your devices are somewhere aboard the ship. It seems reasonable that they would be, so you could make use of them."