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He'd handled it well, in the beginning at least.

However, months upon months upon months of being stuck in this ship have started to take their toll on Bri.

And even as much as he cares for her, he didn't think he'd miss Deunan this much.

For the past couple of weeks, he's managed to make himself scarce from all the other people, taking time to himself to cool off.

Now, though, he's feeling a bit more sociable, so right now he's up in the Obs Deck, laying back on one of the meat-couches as he looks out the massive window.

Feel free to talk to the slightly mopey cyborg. He looks like he could use it.

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Had Bri said that out loud, Ax would have told him that it never really became not weird.

< I am all right. My older brother is here, > he said, stretching a little as he completed his demorph. < The Yeerks are from my universe, yes. Fortunately, they were defeated swiftly once we were able to find out where the Pool was. I only wish we had found it sooner. > He paused. < Where were you being kept? We had noticed that some crew members disappear and we forget them until the reappear again, and were wondering who else might be hidden away on board. >

"It was sorta like an obstacle course," he says. "The one AI, GLaDOS, seemed to be running it for weird...tests...on crewmates. From the way she talked, it seemed like she did that from time to time, just taking crewmates and having them run through the course. It was weird."

He pauses for a second.

"...And never believe anything she says about a cake. Dirty, dirty lies."

< Do you know where the obstacle course was in reference to anything we've already mapped on the ship? > Ax asked. The name of the AI might be important, too. Cortana and Andromeda had both been abducted, just like the crew, so it was possible that someone was familiar with this "GLaDOS".

< Cake? >

"Couldn't tell. She took me while I was sleeping, and I was sort of out of it by the time I got back out."

Somehow, despite the fact that he doesn't really have any facial features, Bri gets a serious look on his face as he nods at Ax.

"Cake."

Ax scuffed his hoof against the floor in disappointment. Well, it had been worth a shot, at least.

< Why would she lie about cake? > he asked. Which really only reminded him how long it had been since he'd eaten an actual cinnamon bun. It felt like a good deal longer than it actually had been -- this must be what humans felt like all the time.

~~YOU HAVE NO IDEA OMNOMNOMCINNAMONBUNS~~

He shrugs. "Cause she's a cruel, heartless person...thingy?"

Briareos Hecatonchires. Master of the english language.

"Heartless" was definitely a figure out speech, and "thingy" was a term Ax had heard the other Animorphs use, so Bri's mastery over the English language didn't confuse him too badly.

< That could very well be the case. >

"Either way," he said, "just don't believe anything she says. Except when she says you'll probably die if you screw up her course. There were a couple of nasty drops in there..."

< You should mention that at the next meeting, > Ax said, furrowing his brows in an Andalite frown. < Did she give you anything to assist you in completing the course? >

"I will," he said with a nod. "At first I thought mine was just an isolated incident, but I've been hearing about more and more people getting taken like that. We should probably start warning people about GLaDOS."

He pauses to think for a moment.

"There was this one thing she gave me for a couple parts of the course. It was sort of like a...portal gun, I guess. Wherever you shot it, it created one end of a portal that led to wherever else you shot it. Only problem was that she didn't let me keep it long enough to really examine it or bring it back for one of the engineers to take a look."

< It hasn't happened to me yet, but it was made especially obvious when someone who had been on board earlier was released again, with a Yeerk included. >

Admittedly, the Yeerk may have not been running GLaDOS' gauntlet. Both he and the host had seemed a bit dazed, like they had been frozen. That would also explain how the Yeerk had survived as long as he had.

< That gun sounds very interesting, > Ax said. Certainly beyond Andalite technology, not that he would admit it unless asked. < Certainly mention that, too. >

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