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[livestoannoy]

This was so not turning out to be a good day.

Okay, so they were stuck. In some random part of the ship that he'd never seen before, and they couldn't go back. And just to make it all better, none of their omnicomms or communication rings were working.

Which was why Marco was now sitting at the tables in the new mess hall, fiddling around with his omnicomm in an attempt to get the stupid thing to actually work. He was guessing it was some kind of hardware thing, which sucked, because Marco was better at messing with software than hardware.

Why the hell wasn't Ax here? He at least would know how to fix the damn thing. Ax could fix anything.

And as if to prove Marco's point, while he was poking at one of the wires the omnicomm sparked, causing Marco to let loose a flurry of curses.

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[first_in_time]

Barbara had found the mess hall after being lead there by Sakura, who found her wandering. For the moment, she had no intentions of leaving the mess hall and, seeing someone working at one of the tables, she thought she might be of some use.

"Is there anything I could do to help?" she asked politely, hands knotted behind her back as she bent slightly, so that she didn't tower over the young man.

[livestoannoy]

Marco looked up, and scowled slightly for half a second. Okay, so he was pretty used to people towering over him (never mind that she was bent a little; with Marco's height it didn't make that much difference), but it still annoyed him.

"You know how to fix these things?" Marco said, raising an eyebrow at her.

[first_in_time]

So that's what he was fiddling with. The Omni..things. Barbara shook her head, "I'm afraid not," the fact that she wasn't even entirely certain how to work one of them, prevented her from ever possibly fixing one.

She sat across from the young man - who appeared to be younger than what she first thought - and pulled out her own communication device, lying it flat on the table. "I don't suppose you know why the transportation tubes brought us here and not wherever we were going?"

[livestoannoy]

Marco rolled his eyes. Figures.

"How the hell would I know why? It's not like I arrived to find a bunch of dancing monkeys holding up signs that detailed exactly how the hell I ended up here."

Idly he picked up Barbara's comms, fiddling with it a bit to see if this one worked. But it didn't take long to figure out that this one was just as screwed up as his, and he tossed it back onto the table with an irritated flick.

[first_in_time]

What...what did monkeys have to do with anything? Was he expecting to find monkeys? Or should Barbara expect to find a group of sign waving monkeys whilst on board?

She took back the omnicom, feeling over it with her fingers as she watched him work. "I simply thought that I might be the one out of the loop, that someone else would know."

[livestoannoy]

Everything, Barbara. Everything.

Marco snorted. "No way. On this ship, hoping that someone else actually knows what the hell is going on is usually way too much to hope for."

[first_in_time]

"You'll have to excuse me," Barbara cringed at his language again but covered it up by putting the omnicom away. "I'm still quite new. I've been told that strange things happen but this is the first I've experienced."