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spacedevils2018-10-01 02:45 pm
oorah) wrote in spacedevils2018-10-01 02:45 pm
THE FIRST.
»all systems go
Their communicators claim it's October 1st, it's been over five months since Frank and Karen first arrived here. Then the others had trickled in: Elektra, then Matt and finally Jessica. It can't be a coincidence that as surely as the B list keeps showing up, the Avengers vanish one by one. People who die come right back, but people who vanish just go without leaving a trace. All of it is a painstaking record kept, but it doesn't mean anything yet - not without more data.
A night or two before, a team found the illustrious Drive spoken about in that witchy girl's seance. Against advice, it was activated on the Bridge and the Station was immediately plunged into chaos. There's no explanation yet, but the planet they've been staring at ever since they got here is gone in one blink. The space quakes are nonstop, electrical surges constant, but even though Reverie Terminal has been inexplicably moved, there was no shift beneath their feet. The sky was the same as always one moment and blank and vast the next. There's debris, possibly a dwarf planet, but it's too far away to see with the naked eye, it just looks like a dim star.
As the Station is combed for any other changes, a body appears on Deck Two. She's wearing an RT uniform, an ID proclaiming her to be "Lucia" like the medic Vanessa had spoken to. There's blood everywhere, the lights are flickering overhead and the closer anyone comes to her the more violently they'll be jostled around by the 'quakes. There's something protruding from her chest, the glint of a metal orb that pokes through the tear in the front of Lucia's jumpsuit. CIRSTA's voice comes over the speaker system, informing them to stay calm and that everything is under control. It certainly seems that way, doesn't it?
»left fear behind
A video of a woman and her children plays on a loop on the Big Screen while Lucia is transported to the Medbay. They're laughing and smiling while someone films them in shakycam. She can be recognized as a dark-skinned woman in the footage that was previously found. If anyone tries to disrupt the video, the controls will be hot enough to burn to the touch. The volume keeps climbing higher and higher until someone takes out the power supply. If they reboot the system, the woman that until now has only been referred to as Ghost appears, relaying the same warning message she gave Frank and Kamala once.
"Be ready to initiate lockdown." She doesn't engage with the feed, but every time it loops she appears just one centimeter closer to the screen. Or is that all in your head?
One deck lower, people are prying Lucia's ribcage open. It's a messy business and inside is a perfect sphere. Which is strange, because there's a circular cut-out in the center of the drive with little ridges that might interlock. It seems obvious the two pieces must fit together, but just installing the drive has already gotten them here, what happens when they make it whole again?
It seems there are two choices before the current crew: to install the core or to uninstall the drive before Total Power Failure. Talk amongst yourselves. If the AI Cirsta is addressed, she only repeats a countdown that seems to have been put into effect by the Command Center reboot.
"Lockdown will initiate in 24 hours." Each time she's asked, she'll update with hours and minutes of how much time is left to decide.
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[She looks up at him with big, bright eyes. You'd never know she was the one who could naturally stitch herself back together if this goes bad by the look in her eyes.]
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I'm right here, sweetheart. Not goin' anywhere.
[ he's scared too, of course, but he has this feeling - a calm feeling - like everything's gonna be alright so long as they keep pushing. so long as they don't give up. ]
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[Kamala smiles because all she really needs is a moment of reassurance to get through anything.]