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[cityship]

Throughout the ship, people would hear the familiar voice of Stacy in their heads.

||Pod Release Protocols Initating||

In the Pod Caverns, there were the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

There was condensation and mist spraying out from cracks in the pods, as the people inside slid out onto the floors, covered in slime.

Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss.

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[the-cute-speedy.livejournal.com]

Mia's eyes snapped open as she felt herself hit a cold floor, naked and covered in... something.

For a brief, horrifying moment, she was two years back, in her worst times, before Ollie. Sitting up and looking around though, she realized this wasn't a cheap hotel, or a cold rainy alley, or anywhere she'd been before. The surroundings were alien... REALLY alien. Like, bio stuff on the walls and creepy lighting.

"Oh crap... it finally happened.. I've been around the supers long enough that I've been alien abducted." She looked around, trying to find anything she could use as a weapon.

[cityship]

Nothing but pods faintly glowing, mostly-humanoid forms within them. Far off there was a long walkway that went up to the cavernous ceiling.

||Mia Dearden. Do you require clothing?||

This seemed to be the primary concern of most of the podlings as they awoke from podsleep.

[the-cute-speedy.livejournal.com]

"I require weapons! A good oak or beech-wood bow, if not high-grade fiberglass, lots of arrows, or a sword." Mia snapped back immediately.

Then, she remembered something. "And I don't know what kind of abductors you are, but I'm gonna need some anti-retrovirals in a few hours. And for every few hours after that too." Can't miss a dose. That would be bad.

[cityship]

||Your belongings are in the weapons and possessions lockers.|| the voice said.

It went on:

||You no longer have need for anti-retroviral therapy. Your human immunodeficiency viral load has been reduced to 0.||

[the-cute-speedy.livejournal.com]

Mia gaped. She.... this had to be some kind of joke. "I... I don't test positive anymore?"

If this was true, this was the best alien abduction EVER.

[cityship]

||You are no longer infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.||

It was inconvenient to provide primitive treatments for a curable disease, and the potential blood spatter could have infected other podmates. All podmates had to be functioning at 100%.

[the-cute-speedy.livejournal.com]

"I... I'm really clean then?" Mia was stunned. "Umm... thank you?"

[cityship]

||You are currently unclean as you are covered in stasis fluid.||

Lights appeared in glowing pustules along the floor.

||Please report to the Clothing Chamber and you will be cleaned and provided clothing.||

[the-cute-speedy.livejournal.com]

Mia looked herself over and had to agree. "Yeah... so I am." She looked around. "How about those weapons first? Clothes can wait."

After all she'd been through, a little gratuitous nudity was the least of things for Mia to feel ashamed of.

[cityship]

Practical girl.

||Follow the lights.||