It was going to be their second meeting, and she already had an idea from Beastboy that he'd drummed up some interest in some the newly pod popped. So she'd been making alterations to the Outsider headquarters all day, from checking out the intercom and monitors Billy fixed (she needed Alex's help for that) to helping to set the new carpet in the lobby to preparing the pool for the training session. It was absolutely important that today grow well: she was going to tell the group she was trying to petition Leon to get them more involved in missions. Even if he said no, there were chances that they as individuals would be pulled into some dangerous situation and then all that training WOULD come in handy, wouldn't it? Either way the training would be coming in handy, as would meeting the people that would come to the second meeting. In a way, the second meeting was more important than the first: the second told you who was staying, who hadn't just popped in for the snacks and a few laughs. She still had those of course: chips and dip and a few sandwiches were already set up for people who were hungry.

As for her, all of this work had already made her really sweaty and stinky, so she was taking a dip in the pool to clean herself off, careful to only do so in the shallow part of the water reserved for small kids: once she was good and clean, she would flush that water out, and fill it with clean water again. For now, she wanted to make sure everything went perfectly. Of course, she was also nude for this, so she figured if Beastboy dropped in now, she'd have to dry off pretty quickly.

So far though: room were all clean, conference room was a-okay and the lobby was spotless. For the moment she could relax. She'd be ready in a few minutes.

Katara was happy to have Zhin accompany her as she went about her busy work: she'd had an idea that this would take a long time to complete, so she'd spent the last few days she would normally set aside for training or meditation to bustling around the Marriot hotel, getting things to be as they'd been when she first approached the original leaders of the Outsiders. She'd gone to Weapons and Possessions locker and had actually found the spray paint she needed to put up the big banner in front of the hotel:

OUTSIDERS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
FIELD TRAINING
PEER COUNSELING

FOR OUR OLD MEMBERS: WELCOME BACK! FOR OUR NEWS ONES, GOOD TO MEET YOU!

For her part. she'd tried to keep things as well as they'd been, although she took the presidential suite now since there wasn't any leader at the moment. The monitors inside needed to be reconfigured again, but she was sure Billy could help with that if she asked, or maybe even Matt. There was still a sign on the big couch inside that said "RESERVED FOR FORMER YJERS/TITANS WHO WERE DECLARED DEAD IN THE LINE OF DUTY," although she'd forgotten why it had said that in the first place. The part that had needed her attention most was the pool though: with all of the things that had happened in the City, it had gotten pretty filthy, and Katara had to work on it for several hours before it was back to its regular clean self again.

The outside had required little work, save for polishing that statue of B5 and assembling a table out front where she'd arranged several sandwiches and desserts for people curious. She'd gotten out her writing pad while Zhin was lying on her front paws, staring out and looking imposing.

List of The Outsiders
Advisor: Nightwing

Katara
Haku
Mai(?)
Sokka(?)
Ben Tennyson
Toph
Starfire
Suki
Alex
Beastboy
The cooking boy(?)
Shadow the hedgehog
Maydril Van Mandrian
Laurie
Luna Lovegood
Kate Bishop
If one of the members were not on the list, Katara hoped they would swing by so she could put them in.

"This is way harder than I thought," Katara said to herself, and Zhin vocalized a low "Rrrf" in agreement. "Whoever becomes the leaders are going to have a lot to keep on record."

Down in the city, behind a holographic wall, an epic battle for the whole of Stacy was taking place.

The Yeerks had dug out a portion of Stacy's 'brain' and built a machine that would let them wipe it clean, let them take her over and control her. It would also probably destroy the coordinates that would let the rest of the crew find their way home, but the Yeerks didn't particularly care about that. They knew their own coordinates, that was all that mattered.

Bumblebee, the Doctor, and the Master had found the machine, following the directions of the very unfortunate Yeerk that had wound up in the Master's hands. They'd brought an unconscious West with them and were shortly confronted by Sub-Visser 7, the leader of this particular batch of Yeerks. Scorpius had apparently attempted to first team up with and then betray the Sub-Visser -- what the result of that was, the Sub-Visser hadn't said.

But between two Time Lords and an Autobot, they should have no problems taking down one baseline human, right?

Well, that was before he'd brought out the Taxxons. Giant, flesh-eating alien centipedes, driven by a mad hunger to devour anything that couldn't run away fast enough. They weren't very sturdy, and they would immediately fall upon any Taxxon unfortunate enough to be injured, but there were hundreds of them. And they just. Kept. Coming.

And over all the fighting, the machine that would wipe Stacy's brain was slowly charging up...

((OOC note.))

The lab is coming slowly but surely. Use of the Sensorium means that they have proper lab conditions to work on equipment to make sure the actual lab has proper lab conditions. One of the first things Brainy had managed to work on is something of a secret project.

"Phillip" had given him some pertinent data on this Kandrona. Brainy doesn't think that there is much likelihood that any of the parasites Ax is afraid of are on the ship, but he thinks it's prudent to make absolutely sure, first. Afterwards, if they find there are none, Ax can finally introduce himself--for real this time--to the crew.

The scanner he made is why he's waiting down in the city for Ax to come with him as he scans. Ax had told him he would meet him there once he was finished eating his slop.

As Brainy waits, he flicks the scanner on, to test it out--wait a moment.

There's a blip.

Curious.

Brainy starts to follow where the scanner leads, ignoring the potential danger of doing it alone. The addition of Ax would not likely help him, after all, and he's a Legionnaire. If there is indeed danger, he can at least fight well enough to escape and warn the others of the threat.

This arrogance, unsurprisingly, is going to be his downfall.