[Log from Game Event #3 Wrap Up]
Alex: [Cracks knuckles] These aren't that dissimilar to what I've dealt with before, and I"ve gotten good at tearing 'em apart. [Red-and-black-biomass flows over arms, as Alex lets his claws form.]
The Doctor: [looks up... and up... at 'Vadum] "Well, aren't you a tall drink of water?"
Naruto: [just looks beyond confused] I still have no idea what's goin... [blinks seeing what Alex does, and reflexively jumps back] Whoa!
The Doctor: [looks at Alex forming his claws and blanches for a moment]
Inara: [ Inara nods. ] That's exactly what we're going to do, 'Vadum. Or at least, we're going to try.
The Doctor: [looks over at Bruce and smiles] "And here you were worried that we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves..."
Bruce: [Bruce watches in silence, anxious but ready. He'll be towards the back of the group, ready to slip off if it becomes necessary. Though from what he's seen of the creatures, this group will be hard to miss.] Well. Until they showed up, I was.
Fran: [Some of these Humes aren't making sense with what they're saying. With all the places she had to be pulled to, why here? She doesn't seem phased at Alex growing his claws, having already seen him in action.] The sooner we find the Marker, the better.
John: [Does a quick wrist-flip with the pole, looks uneasily at Alex] Kid, remind me never to eat raw steak again after watchin' you do that. [Raises his pistol with his other hand] Oh, it's good to be back. Yes, back in your element, killing God's creatures mercil-- Shut up, Harvey.
Inara: Agreed, Fran. We should go. [ eyeing the Doctor. ] The sooner the better.
Naruto: [holds up his hands in an X] Somebody tell me what's going on, dattebayo?!
The Doctor: {holds up his hand in an "I got this" pose]
The Doctor: "Young man, we're about to run a death-defying gauntlet filled with horrible creatures. We hope to locate an acient alien artifact and get rid of it."
Fran: [Fran turns to look at the blonde asking for information.] The station is being assaulted. [She figured that much as pretty obvious.] We must find the origin of it to stop the attack.
Inara: [adding; ] And we're going to sing while doing it.
The Doctor: "Oh, and some of us will be singing in Mandarin in order to keep us all from going insane. CLear enough?"
Mordin: [The noise of two pairs of feet padding down the hallway grow louder until Mordin and Martha come up on the group. They both look out of sorts, out of breath, and Mordin in particular looks to be coated in Necromorph grime. Both are carrying rifles.]
Bruce: And now there's a child with us... [Murmurs, face palming quietly in the background.]
Inara: [relief.] …Mordin. It is good to see your face.
Bruce: Solus! Jones! [Just as relieved, seeing more of the group he knows actually safe.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum turns on the approaching footsteps, unlit blade hilt drawn and ready, before relaxing at the sight of two more]
The Doctor: "Ah, Doctor Mordin, Doctor Jones. How nice to see you both again."
Naruto: [gets a stupid I'm thinking look on his face at the Doctor's words... and then gets a glare toward Bruce at calling him a kid] I'll have you now I'm a first rate shinobi, dattebayo, and I'll easily take out this artifact thing!!
Inara: […okay time to talk to the kid.] What was your name again?
Martha: [No one has seen or heard from Martha or Mordin for quite some time before this.] "You were right..." [she says to Mordin. She looks around seeing who has assembled.] "Bruce, Doctor." [She lowers her rifle for a moment.] "What's the story?"
Bruce: Kill anything that isn't one of us in this room right now or someone you know belongs on the Station. We're going to find the Artifact we believe is causing all of this. With this crazy group, and I believe I mean that literally, now. [To Martha]
Naruto: Namikaze Naruto, shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato! [gives a big cheesy grin as he says that]
Fran: [Great, another one that seemed to have more mouth than brains. Humes.]
Mordin: [Mordin looks to Bruce] What is this artifact? [He had heard mention of it, and for all he knows it could be of Reaper design.]
The Doctor: [Oh dear... this one (looking at Naruto) looks to be more impulsive than Jamie, if that's possible...]
Bruce: We don't know. It's forced the people who did bring it on board to forget. This thing is sentient, without a doubt. And I think it will know we're coming.
Martha: [Martha shakes her head.] Sounds about right. [She glances at the Doctor for a moment.] So enough running for you, Doctor? [She says it with good humor, but is clearly troubled. But is oddly calm.]
Inara: Inara Serra. [smile.] It would be a pleasure under better circumstances, however we're in a bit of a bind. There is a very strange statue out there, and it is causing some very severe problems for all of us. We are going to work together to find it, and destroy it.
Alex: [Crosses arms, just watches the group] Do we want non-combatants in the middle? [He is trying to be patient, really. Stupid large groups.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum inclines his head to the newcomers, though he had not had the chance to meet the two of them. before glancing to Bruce's description of the situation.] An accurate description. The artifact was found on board a derelict vessel during a long range sweep. A similar situation had occured upon the vessel in question, although the crew were far less fortunate.
Naruto: [nods in understanding at Inara] Sounds like my typical sort of mission back home... I can handle this no problem!
The Doctor: "Hmmm... sounds like a good idea. Anyone with a ranged weapon should likely be on the sides, as it will be difficult to shoot over some people's heads" [Looks at 'Vadum]
Mordin: [Mordin's eyes narrow.] Sounds familiar. Might be Reaper tech. Please be careful. [He looks around, still hearing a hum.] May cause us to turn on eachother.
Fran: The creatures are too numerous to take on alone.. Naruto. [She looks at him, ears facing foward as she holds her gun carefully in hand.]
Inara: [smiling tightly at Naruto.] What Fran said. Can you help us, work with us?
Inara: [please say yes.]
The Doctor: "That's why we're also going to be singing, Dr. Mordin. Yes, I said singing."
Alex: The tall lady and guy with the imaginary friend have worked with me before, in the hallways. I can take point, or rear-guard. Which ever. [Shrugs.]
Naruto: [glances over at the.... really tall girl with huge bunny ears] Then I guess it's a good thing I'm here!! I can help, no problem, dattebayo!
Inara: [Inara's eyes shoot to Mordin. Reaper -- or Reaver? She doesn't ask for clarification - later, maybe.]
Bruce: I think we should be on the way. The longer we wait here, the more of a chance the thing has to gather its forces against us.
The Doctor: "Point well taken, Dr. Banner. Are we all ready?"
Mordin: [Mordin raises his eyebrow at the Doctor. The hallucinatory humming fades out again, but as far as he knows it's not just in his head. With his work history, it's best not to take chances anyway.] Agreed.
Martha: [Martha pauses for a moment, before letting out a laugh.] Singing... you know? That might just work. [She shakes her head, letting out a sigh, taking her gun down from her shoulders.] Bruce is right. We should get moving.
Inara: Yes. [At least Inara and the Doctor can harmonize really well…]
The Doctor: "Right then. K9, play back." "Affirmantive."
'Vadum: [Seems rather unconvinced that singing will do any good.] The longer we stay the larger the chance they will attack before we set forth.
John: See? Singing. That will get rid of the problem, won't it? Since half an hour ago. Sooner we get that frelling thing out inta space, the sooner I'm sure leatherface here gets out of my head. [Crichton hefts the pole and sets his jaw]
Inara: Onwards, then.
The Doctor: [And the recorded but clear sound of CHinese music begins to play.]
Alex: [Moves in the direction indicated, ready to take the brunt of anything if needed, and senses alert.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor looks at Inara and mouths "DO I sound like that?"]
Martha: [Martha shakes her head.] Sarah Jane never told me K9 could do that. [She raised the rifle again, getting ready to move.]
Inara: [smiling -- she nods.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor shrugs, and joins in on the second verse.]
John: [Crichton immediately starts to hum "Ride of the Valkyries"] "I have someone your dog should meet if we all get outta this."
Fran: [Follows the others, gun ready in her hand and ears alert. They might have a bit of a warning if she can hear them coming before they're ambused...]
'Vadum: [Draws both swords, though keeping them unlit for the moment as he moves to the front along with the other. Keeping alert for any sign of movement.]
Naruto: [checks for some kunai and frowns] Damn, all my tools are missing... guess I gotta pull out the big jutsu if it comes down to it... [moves to follow the others]
The Doctor: [He holds out his hand to Inara, inviting her to harmonize once more.]
Bruce: [Bruce stays subtly towards the back of the group, still wearing just a pair of shorts because he gave Jo his robe. Already he's fighting down the Other Guy in the back of his mind since he's so nervous.]
Inara: [Inara has the hilt of her sword in one hand, but it's not extended. She's ready to use it if she needs to, though. With her free hand she takes the Doctor's, and sings with him.]
The Doctor: [K9 will bring up the rear, so he can shoot anyone that comes up behind them.]
Inara: […Jo is…conveniently not with this party. Probably off hallucinating somewhere.]
Mordin: [Mordin holds the rifle, but he is much more used to small arms. He keeps his omnitool activated, just in case.]
'Vadum: [Aids in guiding the party through the corridors, having been just recently moving through these very same corridors, moving through corridors that had seen less activity from necromorphs since they had shown themselves.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor looks around to see who else is singing] :)
Inara: [It's a good thing the Doctor is used to Inara's death grip. Because it's back.]
Martha: [Martha can't help but feel that this is too similar to working with the resistance during the Year That Wasn't... Stay perpared, stay alert, stay alive... She's towards the middle-back of the pack, on the outside. Times like this she wishes she still had her Tardis key.]
[MOD] It's... awfully quiet, for those of you who have been in the cooridors. And all the dead necromorphs are gone. There's drag marks - someone's taken them. Or... they walked off. [MOD]
Fran: [Not Fran, who's too focused on listening as they move down the hall. They're certainly not a quiet bunch - the sound of the singing covers up even the hard sound of her heels. Something..didn't seem right though.]
Naruto: [has no idea what they're singing for, but his fingers are flexing in case he needs to summon clones quick]
Alex: [Alex is keeping his senses alert, and claws ready, moving with quiet and sure steps. Granted, the singing is loud...but this is...odd.]
Mordin: [Mordin hums along to the music a bit, but it's not one he's quite familiar with beyond the genre. He understands the lyrics of course, but he hasn't heard this one before.]
The Doctor: [As long as they keep concentrating on the singing, they won't hear the voices in their heads. Hopefully.]
Inara: [Here's hoping.]
'Vadum: [Narrows eyes, continuing along but making particular note of the lack of bodies, particularly of those he had slain personally] Something has taken the bodies..stay alert, something may be nearby.
John: [Crichton feels particularly comfortable. He's been on a ship overrun with creepy-crawlies multiple times. Also, he saw most of the Alien movies. And he's humming his favorite "kicking ass" song, though not the song being played. He doesn't know that one When he sees the drag marks, he starts to lead with his pistol. Stopping power, then whupping. And Harvey is busy singing "Blue Moon"]
[MOD] When they get into the next area where two cooridors meet? Something hits them all. It sweeps through their minds, subtle and quiet. It's the feeling of being watched. Of something right out of the corner of their eye but when they look, nothing's there. And more so, it's somehow familiar to all of them. For Mordin, it would be the feeling of Reapers. Alex and Bruce, the Army. Naruto, the Akatsuki. Inara, Reavers. So on and so on. [MOD]
The Doctor: [What was...? A Dalek? Here on this Station? Naah, couldn't be...]
Alex: [Alex's vision blurred briefly, eyes flashing between thermal-spectrum and back, as he mutters a quiet curse. And, then begins humming. Sounds like The Who, if anything.]
Mordin: [Mordin does not look happy, but this does not mean he looks scared. He tightens the grip on his rifle.]
Inara: [Reavers. Inara's hand is TIGHT on the Doctor's, and her voice trembles. It's not real, it's not real...]
John: [Crichton shakes his head] No. Huh-uh. Not goin' back to the chair. Not THIS time... [He begins humming louder] Ya didn't get me the last time, and that trick isn't gonna work twice.
John: [If anything he seems angrier, his grip on that trigger closer to firing]
Bruce: [Bruce swallows hard, and his fingers tighten into hard fists at his side. It's easier to hide the green flush at their tips like this as a bead of sweat rolls down his temple.]
Fran: [Fran stopped and turned sharply, looking back behind her. She thought... no. It couldn't be the Wood. She wasn't here, couldn't get to Fran. 'Vadum had said it was a hallucination...]
The Doctor: [The Doctor puts his other hand on Inara's and pats it reassuringly.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum clicks his mandibles with a growl. The flood, shaking his head, it couldn't be. His grip tightening on his blades as he pushes on.]
Inara: S-stay calm… [it's so hard, though.] Reavers, Doctor.
The Doctor: "More singing! We've got to fight it!" [And he sings louder.]
[MOD] No, there's definitely something! Right! You can feel it breathing down your neck! Right THERE. It has to be. You can almost smell it. Or maybe in the Doc's case, hear it whispering the infamous line in his mind~ [MOD]
Martha: [Martha's mind was focused on her last trip to Torchwood, before everything had gone down, the trip with Jack, Gwen and the others to the Karaoke bar, Bohemian Rhapsody, until she felt it... Tochlofane? No, they're not here. Whatever it is that's watching them, it's those things. Her hands tighten on the rifle, but not on the trigger. She turns around suddenly, seeing K9 and Bruce, but she doesn't see anything there. She starts to walk backwards.] They might be above us, be careful.
Mordin: [Mordin murmurs a bit, singing to himself.] Asari-Vorcha offspring have an allergy to dairy da da dada dee do doo do...... [In the style of Gilbert and Sullivan]
The Doctor: [NO, DOCTOR... NOT A DALEK... oh no... OH YES...]
John: [He's got the touch sensations back. He can feel the thing's breath at his ear, feel that scaly gloved hand on his shoulder. No, the chip is out. The chip's been out for at least two years. He shouldn't be feeling this. He shouldn't be hearing this] Hey Doc! Any way we could boost the volume on that thing? My friend is gettin' a little handsy. [He feels something grab him lower] God Damn it!
The Doctor: [The Doctor slows and grabs the side of his head with his free hand, grimacing in pain...]
Bruce: [He's slowly fighting a losing battle, and he knows it. Should have stayed behind. I'm putting them all in danger! But the danger is himself. It's all in himself. He's more dangerous to them than anything on this Station right now - even the Artifact.]
Inara: [..oh no, oh no.] Doctor…Doctor…?
Fran: [Fran feels it, feels the hot breath on her neck. She was wrong, that wasn't the Wood, that was -- she turns, expecting to see something, but there's nothing there.
What was going on?]
Alex: [Alex is focusing on taking a deep breath, then humming a bit louder damnit. Yes, definitely The Who. This isn't anything new...really. He's used to being hunted by now.] Fucking hallucinations... [Muttered quietly.]
Naruto: [Just blinks as he watches the others around him...and he heard that growl in the air again] Kurama... now's not the time to joke like this...
The Doctor: "No... no... just an... illusion..." [AM I? AM I REALLY?]
Inara: It is, Doctor. It's an illusion -- keep singing. [hard to follow that advice herself.]
[MOD] Mordin - there's nothing there one moment, then the next, when he steps, there is a crunch. Squish. When he looks down... there is a familiar, perhaps familiar, face looking up at him. A patient, one he lost in the past. And beyond them is another. And another. And another. A string of bodies. And they're all staring at him. They know.[MOD]
Inara: […and she goes down with the Doctor with a shout.]
Mordin: [Mordin shakes his head at the image. No, that was the past. His own life was too short to worry about the people he couldn't save. He had to move forward.]
The Doctor: "No, damn you, you won't exterminate anyone else! I should have destroyed the lot of you on Skaro, I should have strangled your race in your crib when I had the chance!"
Naruto: [slowly moves to hunch over ferally as he sees the scarred Uchiha just giving him a small smirk] Foolish boy... what possible hope could you have of cheating your fate? Come, be one with the other biju.
[MOD] Martha - Between one step and the next, she's gone. Only to herself. The world is now a landscape, endless. She has a year to walk the Earth, to save them all.... but when she goes to the next person, they ignore her. They can't even seem to HEAR her.[MOD]
Inara: Doctor--
The Doctor: [THAT'S RIGHT, DOCTOR... YOU SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED HE DALEKS... BUT INSTEAD YOU WERE WEAK... AND ALL THOSE DEATHS ARE ON YOUR HANDS...]
John: [Crichton points at DK] Now that...that is a low blow. Why is it...you mindfrellers...always go for the same. Low. Blow. (But DK looks pretty real to me, John...) Of course it does, you're as fake as the rest of it. [John raises his pistol, sights down the barrel, then stops] I...oh, god, I'm sorry... [He hesitates]
'Vadum: [That voice, Kusovai, he whips around blades in hand, still inactive though. Rearing his head back at the sight. That familiar sword sticking from him.] Kusovai...you died with honor. The parasite has you no longer. [He stands his ground as Kusovai steps closer step by step, morphing from the sub commander he knew and trusted to the monstrosity the flood had turned him into. He remembered well the moment, the moment he had lost his mandibles and released Kusovai from the parasite.]
[MOD] Fran - Before her stands her sisters. Except something is very, very wrong. No joy in their eyes. No life. Not when she can see their intestines as they reach out for her. call her name. Welcome her.[MOD]
The Doctor: "Noooo..." [And of all things, the Doctor weeps...]
Naruto: [crosses his fingers, and summons a pair of identical versions of himself out of nowhere. He holds his hands out to them, and one holds both hands out, while the other seems to be moving his hands in an odd circular pattern. A purple glow forms by a tainted Futon: Rasengan forming in his hand.] You... do not dictate.. my destiny, dattebayo!!! [launches forward, arm cocked back ready to strike at the "Uchiha" in question]
'Vadum: (I will be back in a moment, have to reset net.)
Inara: [wriggling out from under him and SHAKES his shoulders, eyes fixed on his.]
The Doctor: [K9 zaps the Doctor with a low-power beam, just enough to shock him out of his fetal position.]
[MOD] Alec - Before Alec stands a very familiar sight. Dana... except she looks terrified, looking at the strangers around her. Alec![MOD]
The Doctor: [He looks up at Inara... there are tears in his eyes...]
John: [Crichton takes a deep breath] But Honey...it's time for our William Tell act. [He fires twice at the apparition]
Alex: [That...makes Alex stop, eyes going wide. Dana...again..but...she couldn't be here.] ....You're...[Shaking his head. It's an illusion, it has to be. Turning, looking at the others...]
Fran: [She turns back when she hears everyone else - but she doesn't see anyone. She sees her sister. She sees Jote and Mjrn. A part of her wants to run to them, but she only takes a weak step forward. Partly because she knows she is not one of them, and the other part because they are not alive. Besides Balthier, they are her weak link, her Achilles' heel.] No.. Mjrn... Jote... [Her eyes are wide, hands weak by her sides as stares.] No...
The Doctor: "It's all my fault, Sarah Jane... all those lives..."
Martha: [The world seems to fade out around her. She can see people, she can see something that's very familiar, too familiar. She's been here before, and it's a place that she wanted to see none too soon. London under the Master. And she's walking. She's trying to talk to someone but it's like she's a ghost, they don't hear her, don't see her. She waves her hand trying to get them to react, but there's nothing, not even when she hits someone in the shoulder.]
Inara: Come on, Doctor. [Inara's eyes are wet, too. she's seen what the Reavers can do - she's smelled the scent of decay, seen what a man will do when he witnesses it. they're here, they're everywhere -- btu she focuses. ] Come on. We have to get up.
Martha: [She actually hit someone in the group but doesn't realize it?]
The Doctor: "But the Dalek..."
The Doctor: *NEGATIVE, MASTER. NO DALEKS ARE ON BOARD THIS FACILITY.*
Mordin: [Mordin turns, waving his hand to Martha.] Doctor Jones. Are you alright?
Inara: […slow, deep breathing. Through the nose, out the nose…Inara is trying to calm herself.] It isn't real, Doctor.
Alex: [His vision was blurring, as it had before--but the mechanical voice sounded NOTHING like any blackwatch radio comm or infected. Turning his head...Dana was gone, turning back. They were falling apart...not good.] That's right...not real. [There was a shaky laugh.] It's not real...
Naruto: [charges forward through the crowd, a small whine coming from the orb in his hand at the disturbed air caused by the swirling maelstrom]
The Doctor: "...it isn't? But... no... it's the... the Artifact?"
Fran: [Jote starts towards her, lifeless eyes trained on Fran's and seeming to hold her in place. Mjrn, the younger, was quicker and headed towards their exiled sister.] No, no! [Fran knows this isn't right and suddenly it's about survival to her as she finds a grip on the gun and raises it up, not even seeing if she's point it at anyone, ready to take out her undead sister before they take her out...]
Martha: "Why aren't you listening?" [she isn't actually talking to anyone.] "I know you can hear me. This isn't going to change! I need to tell this story!" [she takes a few steps away from the group. turning back around she seems to be feeling around her neck for something, something she isn't finding.] "It's not here...?"
Alex: [Turning once more, growling and slamming claws into the wall with a loud screech.] Bastards. It's NOT REAL...we need to focus. [And of all things, he starts singing. Loudly.]99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer!...
The Doctor: "...Inara?"
Inara: Yes. Th--the artifact. [It's so, so hard to focus on the Doctor. It's more difficult than she ever could have imagined. The Reavers -- they're everywhere, and everyone is going to die and be ripped apart and eaten alive--] I'm right here. We need… [se speaks up, louder -- a SHOUT-] We need to keep moving!
The Doctor: "Yes... we must get on our feet... Feet... K9, crank up the volume!"
John: Finally, someone with some sense. And he's got tentacles all over the place. [John and Harvey join in] And if you EVER. Frel. With me and mine again, I'm gonna... [He shakes his head] Nah, better if ya don't find out right away. Hey! Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of be-- seriously, you couldnt'a picked the song that never ends? Take one down, pass it around...
Quinn: [Quinn's caught up with the group now. Things look bad. People shouting, and... singing? Music? What was going on? He hangs back awkwardly.] What...
[MOD] And Bruce at the end - Bruce sees Betty. He sees her in his hands. Large, green hands. And she stares up at him in fear. And like a toy.. he breaks her. Just a single, quiet crunch, and she dies with that fear still on her face. His eyes close. When they open, Inara is in his hands.[MOD]
Mordin: [Mordin puts his hand on Martha's shoulder.] Doctor Jones, try to focus. We can't fall behind. The group has already stumbled ahead of her a decent distance.
Naruto: [continues to illunminate the hall in violet light, as in his mind he continues to thrust the rasengan into the Uchiha, but he phases himself out of taking damage every time it looks like he's going to hit. He was getting more and more angry with every miss, and by now others could hear the increased whine from the energy in Naruto's hand, and the eyes a deep blood red, canines extended in rage.]
The Doctor: [And slowly he gets to he feet, helping Inara up.]
Inara: [slides an arm around his waist.] Come on, Doc. We can do this. Is everyone -- alive? [not alright because WHO the hell is alright? NO ONE.]
Alex: [Right as Naruto goes to pass Alex, the man reaches out and snags the blonde's jacket with a claw.] Blondie, wise up...it's not real. [While in the mddle of singing.] and then you have 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
John: Yeah, turn down the light show. [Crichton goes back to singing]
The Doctor: "Right. EVERYONE, KEEP MOVING! And SING LOUDER, DAMMIT!"
Martha: [Her key isn't around her neck, so they can't see her, can't hear her and the key... that's not right. She never takes it off. She hasn't lost it. She'd never lose it. And there's... music in the background? She feels hand on her shoulder and she turns sharply, grabbing it and trying to twist it but it's something that's real, how many people have not acknowledged her. Focus? Someone is actually talking to her.] "Focus on the key." [She opens her eyes and there's a...] "What are you doing here? You weren't here." [And there's that music again. Maybe... she wasn't here?]
Quinn: [Quinn holds his head. This is too much. He' definitely going to keep back, away from the more dangerous folks in the gang. He'll ask the nearest person a simple question.]
...Can I ask why we're singing?
[MOD] The Marker realizes what's going on. It knows the hallucinations aren't enough - so it does what it needs to, to protect itself. The necromorphs, real and solid and ready to kill anything they touch, pour from the vents. The fight is on. Quinn, you've got one right about to drop down on you. [MOD]
The Doctor: "WE SING TO DROWN OUT THE VOICES IN OUR HEADS! NOW LISTEN TO K9,s PLAY BACK AND JOIN IN!"
Fran: [Fran, not knowing its not real, darts to the right, avoiding Mjrn and having to back up again as she gets too close to Jote. Their still calling her name, but there's something else, something like music. Why did that sound familiar? Her own nails and heels scraping the floor, the Viera is trying to get to her feet. She had to get distance between herself and the other two...]
The Doctor: **HOSTILES DETECTED, MASTER!**
Quinn: [SCREE. Before Quinn gets his answer, a monster damn near falls on him. He screams, and does his best to get away from it. He might not be fast enough.]
The Doctor: [...says K9]
Naruto: [turns to look at Alex, unseeing crimson eyes locking on the vision of Uchiha Madara in his mind...but the tune Alex is singing causes his vision to shift, revealing the strange hooded clawed guy... and his eyes shifted to the violet color of before, still somewhat enraged.] So who's the damn enemy, dattebayo?!
'Vadum: ['Vadum calms himself, collecting his thoughts forcing a deep breath, uttering something beneath his breath in Sangheili. Before shaking his head. ] I am alive. Keep moving, stay alert. [At the front unfortunately he couldn't get to Quinn himself, but the moment the Necromorphs begin to pour out of the vents, his blades flare to life, leaping forward to intercept them, scything the blades through the first creatures limbs] Defend yourselves!
The Doctor: [The Doctor pauses from singing at the top of his lungs to give the order to K9:] "Fire at will! Shoot anything with more than two legs!" **AFFIRMATIVE**
Inara: [Inara can…sort of do that. The light blade comes out, and the dance begins. At least she's been trained in fencing…?]
John: [Crichton leaps towards the beast attacking Quinn, still singing. He's singing now to keep the voices out. To keep the hallucination away so it can't see or hear him any more. To fight off the angst]
Bruce: [Bruce falls back, unseen in the chaos, and his hands come up over his head as too easily, he's lost to his own fears. He's lived them all a thousand times in his nightmares. His back hits a wall of the Station and he feels the green pouring over him, twisting him. He'll go to sleep, but like he never has before.]
Alex: Them! [Alex shouts, shoving Naruto away as Necromorphs drop.] 97 Bottles of Beer on the WALL, [It's almost like a battle cry, in the gutteral singing as Alex tears into the beasties. Claws swiping through limbs and pulling apart.]
Quinn: [Quinn has nothing to defend himself with, so he'll try his best to scramble away from the creatures and get behind someone with a weapon or twelve on them, hands over his head. Yep, should have stayed behind. This is what you get, Quinn.]
Martha: [the scream cuts through, it sounds raw and real and Martha blinks focusing in, that and the music pulling her back, the familiar sounds of the Necromorphs snapping her back, a familiar face snapping into her mind, and snapping her back to reality.] "Not again..." [She sees Mordin standing there, and nods, holding up her rifle.] "Sing and shoot!"
The Doctor: [K9 does his best to guard the rear, blasting the Necromorphs that threaten the non-combatants first.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods and resumes shooting. He takes care to aim at the limbs, having found that to do the most damage during their recent....fight.]
Mordin: *resumes singing
Inara: [Inara is just hoping someone friendly doesn't get shot in the chaos.]
Naruto: [frowning, he spotted the incoming necromorphs, and his Will of Fire kicked in. Cocking back the Rasengan again, he thrusted it forward at the nearest one, the wind element carving into it's chest, before expanding through the entire chest cavity sending head, arms, and waist flying through the one he'd hit]
'Vadum: Aim for the limbs, take them apart! ['Vadum calls as he drops low to scythe the legs out from under one before finishing it off with a second blow, carrying through smoothely to remove the limbs of another. His blades moving gracefully from target to target. His focus honed in combat[
Bruce: [The very last thing Bruce sees, before he's lost to the darkness, is the body of Jack Harkness in his hands. Hanging with a broken neck, then discarded like the broken toy of a child. It'll be the ROAR of the Hulk everyone else will hear because the Hulk doesn't give a damn about any of this - just the enemy.]
Inara: […that, Inara definitely hears and she turns and -- oh there's the green Hulk. This is…either good or bad. ]
The Doctor: [The Doctor tries to direct traffic, keeping the group moving forward. And then he hears the ROAR...] "Oh dear..."
Alex: [Alex IS good at this, as claws swipe and dice, as this is what he does--he was made for this, in a lot of ways. Then he hears the roar, and that...gets his attention. Looking, and...] Oh fuck... Everyone MOVE! [Grabbing the nearest non-enemy carefully-due to claws--and flattening himself to the side of the wall to get out of big-green-and-mean's way.]
Martha: [Martha starts humming Bohemian Rhapsody, aiming for the legs of the necromorph in front of her Freezing when she sees the green Hulk in front of her.] Everyone out of the way!
John: Craaaap... [Crichton pulls out of the beatdown he was about to unleash on the Necromorphs] Anyone know how to keep the Doc from goin' any more nuclear?
Fran: [It isn't the singing that snaps her out of it, or the necromorphs.
It's the sound of the Hulk. The roar of the beast that she had attempted to shoot much, much earlier in this ordeal. Fran's halfway upright when she snaps out of it, eyes wide. Her hand is on the gun and she almost holds it up.
'No don't, it's Bruce!' rings clear in her head from Jack and she doesn't, moving back quicker to join the rest of the group and fire a few shots at other Necromorphs]
The Doctor: "K9, get out of the center of the hallway!"
Quinn: [Quinn knows enough to get out of the way of a rampaging Hulk. Good thing he's skinny enough to get out of the way of things, though he's slowed down, taken some hits in the fight. He's panting hard, eyes wide, as he gets as far out of the way as he can imagine.]
The Doctor: "Everyone, form up on the right side and make a path!"
Naruto: [meanwhile was almost in good shape... but at the sound of the Hulk, something more feral and primal ignited within him. However befre it could unleash itself, he felt Alex grab him and yank him out of harm's way]
Bruce: [Probably for the best those who are smart enough to get out of the hallway because the Hulk clearly doesn't care about whether or not people are in the way. And... sorry but some of you? Are probably getting sprayed with yuck because he simply rips them apart as he gets his hands on them, or steps on them... or jumps on them.]
Inara: [If Quinn falters, he's going to be hauled the hell up by Inara and dragged out of the crossfire because the hulk looks ANGRY.]
Mordin: [Mordin sees the Hulk and drops his rifle, his hand moving to his omnitool. He doesn't want to hurt Bruce, but he'll be faster with his tool than he would be with the bulky rifle if it came to it. He moves to the side as the rest of the group does, giving the green monstrosity the right of way.]
Fran: [Fran moves out of the way, pressing up against the wall just as blood coats her dark skin and white hair. ]
The Doctor: [The Doctor shields Inara from the gore with his long coat as best he can.]
John: [Crichton shakes himself off] And once again, I'm covered in crap. [He presses himself against the wall]
Martha: [Martha has no idea what just happened, becuase she hasn't seen this before... But having seen this, the fact that that is Bruce, its MORE than a bit surprising. And he looks ANGRY. There has to be a way to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else. She glances at Crichton and glares at him.] Priorities! [They have other concerns now.]
[MOD] You're right on the edges of the hangar, and Inara's intuition must have been right about where the marker is because the hangar is FULL of necromorphs. Somewhat thankfully, they leap on the big moving object of the Hulk, giving the rest of you a shot for the Advance.[MOD]
Inara: [Yeah that gore is…probably all in her hair. Thank you, Doctor, because that was disgustingly horrifying.]
The Doctor: "Look, there's the ship. When I say run, run. Run!"
Inara: …Good plan. [very, very good plan.]
Martha: [Martha smiles slightly.] "Now this is more like it. Always with the running." [She checks the power on her gun.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods before turning to launch his Incinerate tech at a necromorph that the Hulk missed, making the mangled walking corpse burst into flame.]
John: [Crichton glares at Martha] Okay, okay, big green thing. I think I got an idea... [He starts to put something together in his head, continuing as he runs]
Alex: [Alex being covered in gore is nothing new, and somehow it all seems to just...absorb into him. Go figure. Once big-green-and-mean is passed, he's going to let Naruto go, and dart forward slightly, slashing then pulling apart with claws to the face first another necromorph the Hulk threw their way.]
The Doctor: [K9 extends his manipulator to the panel and shuts the hangar door after everyone is through.]
Fran: [A few blasts come from Fran - she's kneeling and firing at a couple of lingering necromorphs, shaking the gore away that threatened to drip onto her face and sting her eyes.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum pushes through the opening, ignoring the gore. Taking in the situation in the hanger, blades at ready as he pushes off, moving to intercept any necromorph's that move to stop the partiy, dismembering them with ease.]
Inara: [Inara slips a little, but she crashes through, wiping violently at her eyes to clear them.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor takes Inara's hand and they run towards the ship. New faces, same dangers, he thinks with a smile.]
Naruto: [would silently thank Alex, and quickly summon another pair of shadow clones to prep the futon: rasengan again. This one however was the pure cobalt of his chakra that he was used to, and he used it coming up rear guard from the rest of the party in case of a back attack]
Inara: [She's very glad the Doctor is there, because she might have slipped.] Where--where's Bruce? [hello, the only one NOT clued in]
The Doctor: [K9 trundles backwards, watching his Master's back.]
John: That big green thing was Bruce. He's got a little of a split personal-- look, later! Other stuff now! [Crichton's busy thinking through things while trying to avoid the various other things going on around him]
The Doctor: "What? Dr. Banner? I thought he was ahead of us..."
Martha: [Martha stops running for a bit, letting the others pass her, taking out a few of the monsters coming in from the sides, rushing after the others, catching up.] When we find this thing, do we know how to destroy it?
Quinn: [Quinn tries to stay with the group as best he can, but he's not getting too close to that room so long as it's full of necromorphs. But he won't be left behind, either. Terrified, he stumbles along.]
Inara: He--what? [RIGHT later.]
Martha: [She knows they need to get Bruce back to normal but she has no idea how to do it... maybe someone else will have an idea!]
Inara: No, we don't. Get -- it out the airlock, perhaps. [panting.]
John: [Crichton turns to Martha] Wellp, we either burn it, or we throw it out into space. I'm not sure about the success rate on throwing it out the airlock, but it worked for Ripley, and she knew her dren, so why not.
Fran: [Fran keeps back with Quinn, not seeing a weapon on him. She fires at a necromorph to take out its legs so that its slower at least.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum moves ahead of those running for his vessel, the green hull of the Advance visible not far off. Cleaving through any Necromorphs in the way to give them a clear run to get there. Though he would need to get to the Advance himself to access the vessel.]
The Doctor: "Why can't we destroy it?" {I don't believe I just said that and meant it...]
Alex: [Heading more towards Inara and The Doctor, as they seem to know what to do. Plus, he can provide necromorph protection.] How heavy is it? [Not that it mattered...]
John: Think an engine might turn this sucker to ash, whatever it is? 'Cause...we got a few ships here...
Naruto: [would join the group, with the spinning glowing orb in his right hand] I could always send a batch of Kage Bunshin to see what they find...
Fran: I can help keep with defense. [Fran checks over the gun. Still good.]
'Vadum: First we have to ensure that it is indeed on board. ['Vadum calls across as they get closer to the Advance, hearing that snarl he whips himself about, bringing one of his energy blades up and around, aiming high for where the scything talons of the creature would be, fortunately just above the head of a normal person.]
'Vadum: (Hopefully that's fine, would suck to get an energy blade through the legs or head after all, easily missing a normal person in this case >.>)
John: [Crichton is busy trying to get into one of the ships so he can enact plan C. Necromorphs are not polite enough to allow Crichton to enact plan C.] Ack! Dammit! [He swings wildly and keeps a few at bay with the pipe]
The Doctor: [The Doctor *is* taller than a normal person, but luckily he knows how to duck.]
Martha: [Martha turns to Fran, shooting her a nod, before shootin g a leg off an incoming Nechromorph. She chuckles] Could be worse! Could be marching scarecrows again.
Mordin: [Mordin frowns a bit.] Too similar to husks.
Quinn: [Quinn heard that.] Don't ever say "could be worse"!
The Doctor: [K9 snaps off a blast between 'Vadum's legs, forcing him back slightly.]
John: Scarecrows. Scarecrows ain't got nothin' on statues. Trust me.
Naruto: [rolls his eyes] Kakashi-sensei's no where here...
The Doctor: "K9, we need louder music! Bring out Number Nine!"
Alex: [Alex is close enough to see 'Vadum turn, and the swipe.] WOAH! HEY! [That is a loud shout] We're on your side!
The Doctor: [And the room is filled with the chorus of "Ode to Joy"]
Fran: [Fran stays off the ship, trying to help keep the Necromorphs at bay - either by trying to kill them completely with a shot in the head or severing their limbs to slow their progress.]
Bruce: [The Hulk sees Vadum swing near Inara. Oh... and now there's a bigger problem. Because the Hulk roars and heads right for the big guy.]
The Doctor: ***Freude, schoener Goetterfunken / Tochter aus Elysium***
John: [Crichton lays into another Necro with his pipe. That pipe is getting bent like crazy] BLONDIE! Speak English! Or Sebacean! Or something we can frelling understand. Now ain't the time for language barriers. [Starts humming like crazy again] Dammit, hang on... [He throws his trusty pipe at the Hulk and runs like hell, still looking for that airlock switch]
Inara: [ack] No! Don't--he's on our side!
Naruto: [tenses as he looks over at the big green guy] Ummmm Scarf-guy, is the big green guy on our side, or do I gotta put him down? [looks primed to rasengan the Hulk if needed]
Quinn: [This is getting more and more absurd by the moment. Quinn would appreciate it, if he wasn't in the middle of all the life-threatening danger, trying to find his way around mechanically.]
The Doctor: *** Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum ***
Inara: [man is she ever glad she's in pants for this, because she's scrambling to get in front of 'Vadum.]
Fran: The green beast is on our side! [She practically yells that to Naruto, making certain she's heard over everything going on]
Martha: [Martha, staying with Fran outside the ship, is cutting the legs off first then get the rest, let less they can move the better] "One of these days we need to trade stories. When we're not facing potential immenint death. Though the Doctor would probably say this was the perfect time." [She shoots at another one.
Quinn: [And now the Hulk is roaring again. Don't mind as Quinn skitters the hell out of the way again.]
Mordin: [Mordin cycles a sedative to his omnitool. He tries to move up behind the beast. Knocking him out may not help everyone, but having him as an enemy is even worse.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor stands before 'Vadum, trying to talk him down.] "Snap out of it, man!"
Quinn: No, just-- get out of his way! [Quinn really doesn't want to see people get squished. Please.]
Alex: [Alex is letting his arms morph back to normal, and grabbing the Doctor. Yes, bodily picking up, and moving him.] Not the place to stand at the moment. [And moving enough away to get out of Hulk's range.]
The Doctor: "Woah!"
Inara: [Doctor attempts to talk 'Vadum down, Inara…tries to handle the Hulk…]
Naruto: [meanwhile moves to take a protective position, ready in case the Hulk goes to squishy anyone not directly in his path]
Bruce: [That isn't going to work so well on the Hulk, Mordin, because little can get through his skin. It's Inara, who gets up in front of 'Vadum, that actually makes him stop. He growls in pure threat at 'Vadum, but he's stopped.]
The Doctor: "All right, put me down!"
Alex: [Nope, not yet Doc, sorry. Alex is watching, warily.]...you got this, Inara?
Inara: [oh good because that was one seriously rampaging Hulk.] I think so.
The Doctor: "At least loosen up on my right arm..."
Alex: [Only THEN is he putting the Doctor down, and letting his claws form again.]
Fran: We need to find the Marker. [Zap zap, sizzle go a couple of other necromorphs. They looked like Undeads and there was a part of her that wondered if they would have a reverse reaction to Cure...]
The Doctor: "Thank you..." [He puts his hand in his pocket, fishes around for a moment until he finds what he wants, and then waits.]
Inara: Cargo hold, perhaps? ['Vadum would know better. Inara hadn't physically handled it.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum isn't so easily stopped at first, the blast from K9 all but ignored by the Sangheili, its Inara's actions and the attention of the Hulk however that draw his attention away from the supposed beast, narrowing his eyes as it appears to simply stand there and growl at him. Shaking his head, his voice strained] What is the meaning of this..blasted marker.
The Doctor: [The Doctor is keeping one eye on 'Vadum and one eye on Hulk/Inara, ready to dive for cover if either situation goes pear-shaped...]
Naruto: [winces some as he gets the memories of his shadow clones] OK those things don't mess around...
'Vadum: ['Vadum doesn't make to attack but steps back, wary, keying the code to the rear hatch before stepping away as the door opens.] In the troop bay..if it yet remains. [He takes steps away from both the advance and the others, barely trusting his senses at this point.]
'Vadum: (Let me know if there's any trouble with those)
Alex: Right then....which way? [Alex is ready to step in. This has to stop...and he's humming again. Along with K9's music.]
Quinn: It better be there, or we're-- [Yeah, okay, let's not finish that statement.] Which way do we go?!
The Doctor: "Inara... are you coming?"
Inara: […Looking between them and the Hulk, and she nods.] Yes.
Bruce: [The Hulk looks down at Inara and rumbles, though he still looks very ready to punch out 'Vadum.]
Fran: [Fran makes her way up to the Twilight, but doesn't go in, and keeps her distance from Hulk. She could at least help keep the door clear.]
Naruto: [slowly backs up with his rasengan still active, waiting to see what they would be doing next]
Inara: [veeeery carefully patting a big green hand.] He's on our side. Come on.
The Doctor: "Wait... catch!" [He tosses a small white paper bag at Inara's feet.] "I think he likes the green ones."
Alex: [Then Alex is heading in, still humming along...aggressively humming, no less.]
Mordin: [Mordin is ready as well. Hopefully he won't have to treat any wounds, but he's not counting on it.]
John: [Crichton has worked his way back over, and tries to keep his distance from the Hulk but close to everyone else. It doesn't quite work.]
Inara: […well alright. she picks it up and looks up.] Want…one? [Come on, big green buddy. Lets get inside.]
Quinn: [then off Quinn heads, letting someone else take the lead, in case of more necromorphs. He's played enough video games to not run out ahead unarmed and alone.]
Martha: [Martha's working the other side of the ship's entrance, trying to stay out of Bruce's way.] These things just keep coming... what are they doing? rebuilding themselves out of their dead?
The Doctor: "K9, head insode with the others. We'll be right behind you" **AFFIRMATIVE**
John: Yep, that's about the size of it. [Crichton shrugs to Martha] I mean, I'm pretty sure they'd be doing it with our dead, but there's too few of us and too many of them.
The Doctor: [The Doctor waits for Inara and her Big Green Bodyguard...]
Inara: [surreal and bizarre, this is.]
Bruce: [The Hulk gently picks up Inara, tucking her back to where he seems to favor her, kicking a necromorph out of the way before he steps inside.]
Alex: [Alex is not waiting, aside from keeping his ears alert as much as he can over aggressively humming along.]
Inara: [..eep.]
Martha: I hate zombies...
The Doctor: [The Doctor follows.]
John: These things aren't zombies. Zombies don't move fast. [Crichton picks up his pipe before following everyone else]
Quinn: These things are way worse than zombies...
'Vadum: ['Vadum moves to the rear of the Vessel once he's sure everyone is on board, focussing on those creatures he knew were not crew members.]
Fran: These are not undead. I would have an easier time killing them.
Naruto: [follows Scarf guy as he seems to be the kage around here... he even has a hat!]
Martha: [Martha is following the others but walking backwards, shooting a few more times, but she doesn't enter the ship, staying outside. for a few]
The Doctor: "Come along, Doctor Jones!" :)
Fran: [Fran almost wonders if it would be possible to get everyone on the ship and be able to close it off to the necromorphs, rather than try to fight all of them off...]
'Vadum: [It was fortunate the crew bay was designed for a race that was eight foot tall and to easily hold hunters , so there was plenty of room for all.] There are two personnell operated plasma cannons, use them to thin the hoard.
[MOD] The Marker sits back in the Advance where it had been left, and now Fran can hear the humming even over the sounds of fighting. It's an irritating, unfocused hum that plays hard on her ears. [MOD]
Martha: [She smiles to herself] Coming. [Martha shoots one more before following the others.]
John: "Seriously? Her name is Doctor Jones?" [Crichton laughs out loud at that. The exhaustion and the adrenaline combined with the new absurdity just gets him too much]
Martha: [Martha raises an eyebrow.] "Something funny Mr. Chrichton?" [She does not seem amused, and is only half paying attention to him.]
The Doctor: "Are we all here? Because we've got an Artifact to find and break."
Fran: [Fran stepps back up to the door, the sound hits her ears - hard. It's irritating and it hurts, and she realizes - that must be it. That must be the Marker. Taking further steps in closer, that makes it worse and the gun clatters to the the floor as she raises her hands to her ears, trying to make it stop.]
Naruto: [grins at the need to break something, and holds up his Rasengan] Marker breaker, check
Quinn: We need to shoot that damn thing out an airlock. now. Pronto.
Alex: Any clue what it looks like? [Alex then went back to humming, looking around, and stopping when he notices Fran.] What're you hearing?
Martha: If we're throwing that through the airlock, we're going to need to get out. Do we know if the whole bay will depressureize?
Inara: It stands on a base with two columns that look similar to DNA strands.
Fran: I...I hear it. It... it is close! [She's wincing, eyes struggling to focus.]
Naruto: (Naruto doesn't know that... he just knows futon:rasengan does a TON, and he can't use Rasenshuriken)
Inara: [Shifting in the Hulks grip.] And -- it hums, yes. [watching Fran very closely.]
Quinn: Yeah. No. I-- I don't know. I haven't been able to-- [Quinn shakes his head. Too much to explain now.] We just ain't gonna be able to do anythin' else with it.\
Alex: [Alex, unfortunately, had stopped humming...and now...he's hearing it too. It's in his brain, whispering with many voices...as he's looking around. Wincing, and trying to hum quietly to drown out the voices.]
Fran: [It's loud for her, like someone with a megaphone right up to her ears and humming into it. Or at least that's what it feels like.] The noise of it... it hurts.
The Doctor: [The Doctor hears the humming too... or is it laughter he hears?]
Bruce: [The Hulk growls, looking around for the source of that sound, and he stomps forward - that's not the best for the floor of the Advance.]
Mordin: [Mordin grimaces at the noise. He doesn't know if this is Reapers still, it doesn't seem to match, but it's damn close enough.] Need to get rid of this. Need to destroy it. [He looks at his Omnitool.] Will freezing it help?
John: A whole ton a' things. Lemme guess, no time for love?[Crichton can't contain himself. Sam is sorry. Crichton looks at the Marker] So this is it? What're we doing, shovin' it in a jet engine? Blowing it out into space? I could overload Ripley here and put it at the base...these pulse cells kinda pack a wallop...[He hears Harvey's voice tickle the back of his spine...]
Naruto: [blinks some at the hum, frowning as it almost feels like Kurama is... crooning... PURRING... to it????]
Inara: [Inara grinds her teeth.] We can't be far now. And-- [Her finger step the Hulk.] …Gentle?
Quinn: Blow it out into space. Now. Somehow. Does anyone know how this station works? [Quinn winces, holding his head with a hand. Damn, it hurt. It was hard to focus.]
The Doctor: [WELL, DOCTOR... IT SEEMS THAT OUR LITTLE GAMS IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE...]
Inara: […though that calm? Definitely not lasting. All she hears are the screams of women and men and children being torn apart by Reavers.] Out the airlock! Listen to Quinn!
The Doctor: "Not... quite... yet..."
John: [As soon as Crichton finishes talking, suddenly his head is on overload. He's in a junkyard with a dumpster, Harvey stomping on him and kicking him. Then on an operating table. Then in space. Then dying again and again and again. He is screaming, and Harvey is laughing and there is nothing he can do and nothing he can say and everyone around him is going to die and--]
Martha: [Martha just shakes her head at Crichton, not giving him a response, focusing on the marker.] We need to find a way to do that without blowing outselves there with it.
Alex: IT's...over here...[Said between broken humming, Alex crouching, in pain, with a scowl as the voices are louder.] Where's the nearest airlock?
The Doctor: "K9! Scan the hangar and locate the nearest airlock!" **AFFIRMATIVE**
The Doctor: [K9's mechanical ears whir and twirl for a moment...]
John: OPEN...THE POD BAY...DOORS. [Crichton manages to get out. The Marker's hitting every neural pathway, making him watch the deaths of everyone he knew, and everyone who didn't die. He holds out his pistol, Harvey kicking him in the arm, and aims in vain at something no one can see]
Inara: [She seems the crew of Serenity, being torn open. Kaylee, with her insides on the ground. Wash, Zoe, a bloody heap. Simon and River, hanging from hooks by the ceiling. Mal…]
Naruto: [groans and falls to his knees, his rasengan disipating and a slow crimsion miasma forming over his body as this chaos fuels his tennant... whispering more strongly than ever about the death and destruction of everyone around him.]
The Doctor: [Inside the Doctor's head, he is wrestling with The Master for control of his psyche...]
'Vadum: The main hanger doors are the nearest airlock. ['Vadum growls from where he fights, seeing naught but flood in the necromorphs he kills.]
[MOD] Someone will hear it - there's a voice on the Station's system - GET IT OUT OF THE SHIP! - Some of you might recognize it. That's definitely Gryf's voice! ...And the one person with controls to the airlock doors. THEN SEAL THE SHIP WITH EVERYONE INSIDE. [MOD]
Alex: [Pain is nothing new, nor is the anger---but the voices. It was like tracking Greene, and the hive-mind. So many voices, with screams interspersed. Everyone he'd killed...] Right...got to...get...through.
The Doctor: [AND JUST WHO IS THIS NEW CREAT--] "Shut up!"
Mordin: [Mordin grimaces and fires his Cryo Blast tech at the Marker. He doesn't think it will freeze it, but maybe a flash reduction in temperature will quiet it down.]
Fran: [The humming is getting louder, even though Fran's not moving towards the Marker. It hurts, her ears are humming and ringing and she can hear the Wood all over again, screaming at her, making to attack her. This was her punishment for leaving, for abandoning her sisters, the Wood, the village...]
Bruce:
Quinn: [That snaps Quinn out of it enough. Right, they could stay safe inside this ship while the airlock is dealt with. Time to make friends. Quinn lays a hand on the nearest mechanism he can. He could try to telepathically communicate with it, in order to get it to operate quickly.]
[MOD] It laughs in Mordin's head. [MOD]
The Doctor: [The Doctor grabs Hulk's arm.]
Martha: [Martha winces, trying her best to block out those drums, that unconscious drumming that was in everyone's head for a year. And then there are instructions! And there is a plan.] You think Bruce can get it out of here? [She winces grabbing her head]
John: NINETY NINE BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALLLLL! [Crichton begins singing, getting to his knees, his head pounding, trying to figure out where the damn thing is based on what hurts the most and what direction to go in. He keeps singing] COME ON, WE HAVE TO GET THIS THING OUT! SOMEONE HELP ME PUSH!
Inara: [Inara is starting to squirm in the Hulk's grip -- fear is beginning to take over. Her cheeks are wet -- everyone is dying--] Get it off! Help him, Hulk--!
The Doctor: "You! Drag that THING outside! Do you understand? OUTSIDE!"
John: WORKIN' ON IT! [Crichton goes back to singing and moves closer to the Marker]
The Doctor: [THE GREEN MONSTER CAN'T HELP YOU, DOCTOR... NOBODY CAN HELP YOU NOW...]
Bruce: [The Hulk grunts and puts Inara down, then walks over towards the Marker. He seems oddly unaffected by its chaos, and little issue in picking it up as if it weighed nothing at all.]
Alex: [Right...well, now they had a plan...of sorts.] Then MOVE! [Because the pain and the voices and the anger are getting to him, and he is not stopping. Red and black is flowing over his arms, turning from claws into...well...it's not clear. Exagerrated musculature in a grey-scale,w ith black and red veins, over his arms.]
Alex: (damnit, ignore my post.)
Martha: [Through gritted teeth, Martha seems to be rejecting this thing in her head or trying to] "We got rid of the Master. He isn't here!"
The Doctor: [The Doctor collapses at Inara's feet.]
Inara: [Inara…sort of crumples right down there with the poor Doctor.]
The Doctor: [Inside his head, the wrestling match continues. And it's touch-and-go...]
John: NONE OF IT IS HERE! [Thankfully, Crichton was stopped by picking up the Marker when Hulk picked it up, preoccupied in his own head with getting up and then chokeslamming Harvey. He still can't see. Why can't he see?]
Alex: [Muscle-mass along his arms, Alex is moving carefully over to big and green. Deep breath.] Give me the that...you stay with her...protect her. [Ready to carry this thing, focusing on the pain,a nd the anger, and the voices, and wanting it all to end.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum nods to himself, gritting his mandibles at that voice, deactivating his blades as he steps into the bay, dropping both just within the entrance of the Advance, determined as he pushes forward to the Marker, moving to assist in getting it off his vessel]
Inara: [reaching for the Doctor's hand.] …Doc?
The Doctor: [YOUR PATHETIC VENUSIAN AKIDO CAN'T HELP YOU HERE...]
'Vadum: (Looks like Alex and 'Vadum would be the ones going for it)
The Doctor: [But that voice...]
[The Hulk looks at Alex, then with that, drops the Marker into his arms. Oh... good luck with that.]
[MOD] As soon as it hits Alex's arms, he'll be in a fight for his life. It WILL try to make him kill himself however it deems necessary.[MOD]
Mordin: [Mordin staggers a bit under the pressure of the images. He keeps fighting, he's never stopped fighting. He's seen horrible things and he won't let this stop him now. And then the images of the dead turn to Krogan young, and he falters, falling to his knees.]
Inara: [SQUEEZES the Doctor's hand.]
The Doctor: [His eyes open, and he sees her. He remembers her voice...] "I don't... need... Venusian Akido... to beat... you..."
TheStation]: Alex: [Ok... This wasn't bad...aside from teh voices being louder, and the screams, and I hope everyone is giving him a wide berth. Because he is now moving, very determinedly towards the door. He...is not stable though. There is red-and black organic mass flowing over him entirely, sometimes covering his form, obscuring it, sometimes not. And he is cursing. Creatively, fluently, and very very angrily. Trying to hold himself together.]
Fran: [Fran slumps against a wall, eyes out of complete focus as the voice in her mind assaults her and the noise seems to deafen her. It's terrible and already she can see Mjrn and Jote coming towards her, their own eyes unseeing as they call for her, for their rogue sister to bring her home.]
Naruto: [growls some as he hears Kurama's voice. The sounds of betrayal, of loss, and of freedom coming from the kitsune. Naruto would groan under the red chakra cloak around him, slowly looking up at the artifact in front of him, being held by two of the big bruiser types.]
Quinn: [Quinn's fallen silent, hand on the ship's wall, concentrating with everything he's got. He's taking every ounce of himself to do so, over the chaos and the intrusion in his head. He's only barely keeping it together, but he's begging the ship for its help. Once that marker is out, hopefully the ship will listen to his pleading.]
John: [Crichton finally delivers a backbreaker to Harvey inside his head. There's the dumpster...yes...an overhead throw, and then an elbow drop to the top of the dumpster and Harvey! Is! Out! John slowly gets to his feet and takes the hand of the person nearest to him] Come on, squeeze my hand. I'm real. That isn't. Repeat after me. The hand is real. The other stuff isn't.
The Doctor: "Inara... with the voice of an angel..." [WHAT? NO!]
[MOD] HURRY! GET IT OUT NEAR THE AIRLOCK! That voice again. Get it out there and GET BACK INSIDE! [MOD]
The Doctor: [Crichton's got the Doctor's left hand. Inara has his right one.]
Martha: [Martha is looking around looking for a control panel to secure the ship once everyone is back inside, willing herself to ignore the drumming.] He isn't here... Panel...
The Doctor: "The hand... is real..."
John: The hand is real, the voices aren't. Yeah, that's it, come on, you got it, the hand is real, the voices aren't.
John: [Crichton squeezes]
The Doctor: [OH NO YOU DON'T...] "The Master... is..."
The Doctor: [HERE!] "...not!"
Alex: [It's like when he had the parasitic cancer in his body, the weapon used against him. More cursing, and interspersed with it...are...apologies. Very quiet, and less than the cursing...but his pace is increasing, heading to the doors. Still with red and black biomass flowing over him as Alex tries to keep himself together.]
Martha: [Martha hears that clearly] "The Master isn't here. He's never coming back." [her voice seems strained but very serious.]
Alex: [Getting to the doors, and heaving the damn thing out them with a final growled out.] FUCK! YOU!
Inara: [Inara is trembling; and she scoots close to the Doctor and John, and closes her eyes. If this is the end - if she's going to die - she doesn't want to die alone. So she's going to press in right there against the Doctor's side, and clutch his coat.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum pushes through the crowd, opening the cockpit door and slipping quickly into the pilots chair, keying systems to ensure that the door would be ready to seal the moment Alex was back inside. Ready to keep the Advance inside the hanger and prevent it being drawn out into space should the hanger doors be thrown open]
The Doctor: [The Doctor brings her close.] "This... this is real..."
Quinn: [Hopefully, if things have gone well for Quinn, that should be easier and faster for 'Vadum to do.]
Alex: [Sprinting back to the hangar, leaping and ready.]
The Doctor: "You... are real..."
The Doctor: "We are real..." [NO! NOOOOoooo...]
John: Yeah! [Crichton tries to be as calming as possible. He can't keep it together himself, but this is helping a lot] I am real, The Master is not. The Master is a pile of dren. Come on, almost there.
The Doctor: "Pile... of dren..."
'Vadum: [Hitting the controls the rear doors slide closed the instant Alex is back within, The interior sealing with Quinns assistance all the faster. Keying the comms] Its clear, what ever you are going to do Gryff, do it now!
The Doctor: [Don't want to know what dren is...]\
Martha: [The drums in martha's head start fading, as she's piggybacking off the other conversation...]
Mordin: [Mordin is moving slower now, trying to keep up with the group but falling behind.]
The Doctor: "Inara... stay with us..."
The Doctor: "Stay here... where it's real..."
Inara: [she doesn't want to know what a dren is either, honestly.]
Naruto: [tries to finally fight back the glowing red chakra cloak, piulling his self control back together to try and fight off the Kyuubi's influence on him.] I won't.... run away... anymore...
[MOD] The airlock doors start opening the second 'Vadum activates the ship to seal it up. The inner doors open, and not like some of you have seen, the OUTER doors open at the same time - out of sync. The marker sways once, twice, with the increasing air pressure... then you all here a terrible SHRIEK,, utterly inhuman and piercing, a death sound, before the marker flies out into the vaccuum of space.[MOD]
John: (He'll say it again near the TARDIS if he's curious) We're all here. This is real. [The one time Crichton is functional and he has to swear right in the middle...ah, well.]
Inara: [She clings to the Doctor and John both -- she doesn't know who she's holding at this point, and hell it doesn't matter.]
Alex: [Alex is crouched, looking entirely human again, and clutching his head. Sorry, no cuddles for him.]
Bruce: [The Hulk snorts as he watches over them all - brows knitted together, not understanding while outside, the airlock doors shut again... and the silence returns. There's not a sound outside.]
The Doctor: [And the voices fade... The Doctor has won his mental wrestling match with The Master, two out of three falls...]
John: [Crichton squeezes them both] Okay, I think we're back...everyone good?
Mordin: [Mordin collapses, limp as the noise in his head finally vanishes.] Uhnnnnn.
Inara: [Inara is spent. Sorry for the dead weight, boys.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum fights with the controls a moment as the pressure threatens to pull the Advance free of the hanger, but manages to keep it well within, drifting it further to the side of the hanger to get out of the immediate path. Tracking the marker as its pulled out of the station]
Martha: [Martha, her head clear, moves to go and help Mordin.] Come on. Let's get you up... [she tries to help him.]
Bruce: [Suggestion - as the Hulk grunts loudly - that 'Vadum opens the doors back out or the Hulk will make himself an exit as he moves past everyone.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor picks up Inara. He bends and whispers in her ear:] "Thank you."
Quinn: [Quinn doesn't stand up right away - first, he telepathically thanks the ship for its help. Always leave them on a good note. And right after he does that.... he flops over onto the floor. Thankfully he didn't have far to go, since he was sitting already.]
John: [Crichton looks down at The Doctor] You and she gonna be all right?
Inara: [She's still jelly-legged and clinging to the poor Doctor as she's pulled up. Then she hugs him. Tightly. Crichton, you're next.]
Fran: [The screaming in her head stops thankfully, but the ringing does not. Her ears hurt and she manages to pick herself up despite the dizziness, but leaning against the wall for support. Her equilibrium was off.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods as he stands. He looks like there's something on his mind, but he doesn't say anything. Now is not the time.]
The Doctor: [Looks up.] "Yes, I think soooo--" 9And he is swept up in her hug.]
Naruto: [finally collapses onto the deck, groaning softly from the exertions of resisting his demonic chakra.]
Martha: [Martha doesn't push it. She thinks that they're all going to need time to... figure everything out. And then there's the other thing she needs to do as well. She moves so that Mordin can lean against the wall if he wants to. She wonders if they can set up some kind of alarm to keep this from happening again and catching them by surprise... she is mentally exausted.]
The Doctor: "Can't... breathe..."
Inara: [Oh right. Sorry. Letting him go now. Come here, Crichton.]
Martha: "Everyone alright? No one's hurt, are they?" [she means physically.]
elric441) [Crichton is suddenly swept up in Inara's hug] Hey, we're all al- WHOA! [He hugs her back, a little gentler, laughing] We lived through that... [He laughs louder and hugs her tighter] WE LIVED THROUGH THAT!
'Vadum: [Easing the Advance back down to the deck of the hanger, 'Vadum shakes his head as the pressure on his mind eases up. Monitoring the status of the hanger, once he was sure that the atmosphere had returned he keys the back and side hatches, allowing everyone to exit the vessel.]
Quinn: [Well, the dork wonder over here passed out, but he'll be fine in a few.]
The Doctor: "We most certainly did, good sir!"
Inara: [HOW? she doesn't know. But really -- it doesn't matter. They're alive.] We're alive. I'm alive.
Naruto: [doesn't reply to anyone, wimpering on the ground as he tried to struggle to put his head back together]
Bruce: [The Hulk leaves the ship, surprisingly quick for someone his size, and is out through the hangar doors (back into the Station) in a jump. And like that.. he's gone. Nearly quick as he came.]
Fran: [Well, everything is faint, but she'll be okay. Eventually. She's covered in gore, both dried and wet, her head and ears hurt and Fran, for the first time in more than fifty years, longed for home.]
The Doctor: [Puts a comforting hand on Inara's shoulder] "We're all alive thanks to you, my dear..."
John: [Crichton lets go and slumps back] Damn. I forgot how close those get...
Martha: "This definately will go down as one of the more eventful adventures I've had..." [she shakes her head and lets out a breath, the gun she was holding now over her shoulder and as if she wants nothing to do with it and is trying to keep it as far from her hand as she can. Martha moved to go and check on those who are passed out and on the ground, taking pulses.]
Alex: [Alex finally sighs, looking at the others...the voices are quiet, and he's still whole. One piece, still alive...] Everyone alright?
Inara: Me? [shaky laugh.] Hardly. [there's a lot of heroes tonight.]
John: Most of us. Come on, find a place to sit. [Crichton continues laughing]
'Vadum: [Sitting there a moment, 'Vadum finally pushes himself from the pilot's seat and steps back out into the troop bay.] You all fought well.
Martha: "We should check with Gryff, make sure that she's okay. See if there's anything left on the station..."
Mordin: [Mordin is slowly coming back to himself. He gives the others a nod, a job well done.]
Quinn: [After a few minutes, Quinn rouses, wondering if he dreamed them all going away. But it was quiet now - no screaming, no guns, no weird singing. He slowly and shakily gets up, and gets out of the ship.]
......We did it?
Fran: [Fran looks at everyone, barely hearing what they were saying, but hearing the louder laughter from others. She gaves a slight nod, though she feels like she's about to drop herself.] Ears...hurt.
The Doctor: "I suppose you're right; this was a real team effort. How refreshing!"
Alex: [Looking at Fran, have a faintly wry smirk.] Mine too...and my head.
Naruto: [finally gets himself back together, and he retreats from the others as they seem... like a small family. And it was hurting him to watch, even as he put up a small smile of an emotional mask on his face for his survival]
Inara: We did it. [faint laugh.] Mine, too.
Inara: We did it. [faint laugh.] Mine, too.
'Vadum: ['Vadum dips his had to Quinn and the others.] Indeed we did.
The Doctor: "Not so loud, please..." [GRIN]
John: Mine would, but it's kinda got some pieces missing. [Crichton chuckles]
Martha: "Brilliant job. [she nods] We should get you two to medical. just make sure that there's nothing out of place?" She tries to smile a bit, glancing around at everyone still assembled. The sooner she got back to medical the better.]
Fran: [Fran doesn't return the smirk] Everything...is faint.
Inara: [Don't mind her, she's going to go over here and lean against the wall for support for a moment.[
Quinn: [Quinn's quiet for a moment, looking around, unsure of what to say. He's still badly shaken.] Good. I'm glad. Now if y'all don't mind, I'm gonna so sleep for a week.
The Doctor: "Yes, I think that perhaps we could all do with some cleaning up and then a nice long rest."
John: [Crichton can't possibly have someone leaning against the wall like that. He staggers over and offers Inara his shoulder] Here, we'll find you somewhere nice to lie down
[MOD] ...is everyone alive in there? Someone report from the Advance! I've got some guy who needs his ego taken down a peg and Blu-- Megamind up here with me.[MOD]
Martha: [Martha laughs.] "Sounds like thignsare back to normal up there."
John: [Crichton uses his free hand to turn on his comm] Yyyyup, we're all alive down here. Intact is another thing, but whatever it was, it's gone now.
The Doctor: [Ah, that would be Mr. Stark. And who? "Megamind?" Curiouser and curiouser...]
Inara: My mechanic. [murmuring in relief.]
The Doctor: "K9, are there any more of those things out there?"
The Doctor: **NEGATIVE, MASTER**
Fran: [Using the wall for support, Fran squats to retrieve her gun and gets upright again to try and get off of the ship, feeling completely worn]
Naruto: [grumbles slightly and goes over to Scarf guy] OK, if someone doesn't have a good answer to my next question... I'm gonna scream...
The Doctor: "Splendid, K9!"
Martha: [Martha walks over to Fran] "Let me give you a hand." [Offers her a shoulder to lean on.]
John: [Crichton gives Naruto a blank look] How we gonna tell between that and your regular voice, blondie?
Alex: [Alex is near enough by, and stands...offering Fran that other hand.]
The Doctor: [Looks to Inara] "Shall we?"
[MOD]Are one of the docs down there? ...We need help. Kind of badly.[MOD]
Naruto: [does that creepy horror movie slow roll to look at Chriton] Unless you've got ramen to offer... I'll take it up with the kage...
Inara: […Oh God where's Bruce. This would be her looking at the Doctor.] Bruce. Where is Dr. Banner?
Inara: […and where is the Hulk....]
Martha: [Martha looks up] We're both down here. [She looks around and... doesn't mention that Bruce ran off...] Gryff, can you get to medical?
Mordin: [Mordin perks up a bit. He's tired, but if he's needed.] What's wrong?
Fran: [Fran looks to Martha and Alex before accepting the offer from both. With her ears needing to be healed up, her balance is off and walking isn't going to be completely sober-looking in her heels.] Thank you.
'Vadum: ['Vadum nods slightly, relaxing the slightest bit at that. Slowly moving to collect his blades and put them back to his belt. Looking up suddenly at the transmission.]
The Doctor: "Oh no, you're right." [Turns on the comm] "Gryf, this is the Doctor. Is Dr. Banner with you?"
[MOD] I don't want to move him. He's lost- I guess we both lost a lot of blood getting here.[MOD]
Martha: [Martha looks at Mordin] "You need to rest."
Alex: [Once its clear Fran is supported...sorry Fran, Alex doesn't really do physical contact. So, once it's clear she's supported, he's backing off.]
Martha: [Hell they ALL need to rest!]
[MOD]No, just the three of us.[MOD]
Fran: [And shower.]
The Doctor: [Follows Inara and stays on the comm] "Then who's hurt up there?"
'Vadum: ['Vadum looks to the medics] I will assist where I can. [He could easily carry someone if needed or open stubborn doors.]
Mordin: [Mordin shakes his head.] Can rest later. If a patient needs help, they come first.
John: [Still stumbling after Inara] I think he'd still have to be out here...where would he go?
[MOD] Both Megamind and I. ...Seriously, please?! Any of you?? [MOD]
'Vadum: ['Vadum keys the comm] What is your current location?
John: [On comm] Look, I'll be up as soon as I can. I know a little field medicine, it'll help till they can get there.
The Doctor: "I'm on my way." [turns to K9] "K9, stay with Inara, and try to find Dr. Banner."
Martha: [Martha looks at Alex] Can you take her? [Looks at Mordin and nods] We're on our way! Find something and put pressure on the wound in the meantime.
Alex: [Have a blink...and a long...look.] ...Yeah, sure fine. [Too tired to argue really, and Fran is quiet at least. So yeah, sliding his arm under hers so she can lean on his shoulder and be supported.]
[MOD]We're in my supply room, holed up.[MOD]
The Doctor: [looks up... and up... at 'Vadum] "Well, aren't you a tall drink of water?"
Naruto: [just looks beyond confused] I still have no idea what's goin... [blinks seeing what Alex does, and reflexively jumps back] Whoa!
The Doctor: [looks at Alex forming his claws and blanches for a moment]
Inara: [ Inara nods. ] That's exactly what we're going to do, 'Vadum. Or at least, we're going to try.
The Doctor: [looks over at Bruce and smiles] "And here you were worried that we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves..."
Bruce: [Bruce watches in silence, anxious but ready. He'll be towards the back of the group, ready to slip off if it becomes necessary. Though from what he's seen of the creatures, this group will be hard to miss.] Well. Until they showed up, I was.
Fran: [Some of these Humes aren't making sense with what they're saying. With all the places she had to be pulled to, why here? She doesn't seem phased at Alex growing his claws, having already seen him in action.] The sooner we find the Marker, the better.
John: [Does a quick wrist-flip with the pole, looks uneasily at Alex] Kid, remind me never to eat raw steak again after watchin' you do that. [Raises his pistol with his other hand] Oh, it's good to be back. Yes, back in your element, killing God's creatures mercil-- Shut up, Harvey.
Inara: Agreed, Fran. We should go. [ eyeing the Doctor. ] The sooner the better.
Naruto: [holds up his hands in an X] Somebody tell me what's going on, dattebayo?!
The Doctor: {holds up his hand in an "I got this" pose]
The Doctor: "Young man, we're about to run a death-defying gauntlet filled with horrible creatures. We hope to locate an acient alien artifact and get rid of it."
Fran: [Fran turns to look at the blonde asking for information.] The station is being assaulted. [She figured that much as pretty obvious.] We must find the origin of it to stop the attack.
Inara: [adding; ] And we're going to sing while doing it.
The Doctor: "Oh, and some of us will be singing in Mandarin in order to keep us all from going insane. CLear enough?"
Mordin: [The noise of two pairs of feet padding down the hallway grow louder until Mordin and Martha come up on the group. They both look out of sorts, out of breath, and Mordin in particular looks to be coated in Necromorph grime. Both are carrying rifles.]
Bruce: And now there's a child with us... [Murmurs, face palming quietly in the background.]
Inara: [relief.] …Mordin. It is good to see your face.
Bruce: Solus! Jones! [Just as relieved, seeing more of the group he knows actually safe.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum turns on the approaching footsteps, unlit blade hilt drawn and ready, before relaxing at the sight of two more]
The Doctor: "Ah, Doctor Mordin, Doctor Jones. How nice to see you both again."
Naruto: [gets a stupid I'm thinking look on his face at the Doctor's words... and then gets a glare toward Bruce at calling him a kid] I'll have you now I'm a first rate shinobi, dattebayo, and I'll easily take out this artifact thing!!
Inara: […okay time to talk to the kid.] What was your name again?
Martha: [No one has seen or heard from Martha or Mordin for quite some time before this.] "You were right..." [she says to Mordin. She looks around seeing who has assembled.] "Bruce, Doctor." [She lowers her rifle for a moment.] "What's the story?"
Bruce: Kill anything that isn't one of us in this room right now or someone you know belongs on the Station. We're going to find the Artifact we believe is causing all of this. With this crazy group, and I believe I mean that literally, now. [To Martha]
Naruto: Namikaze Naruto, shinobi of Konohagakure no Sato! [gives a big cheesy grin as he says that]
Fran: [Great, another one that seemed to have more mouth than brains. Humes.]
Mordin: [Mordin looks to Bruce] What is this artifact? [He had heard mention of it, and for all he knows it could be of Reaper design.]
The Doctor: [Oh dear... this one (looking at Naruto) looks to be more impulsive than Jamie, if that's possible...]
Bruce: We don't know. It's forced the people who did bring it on board to forget. This thing is sentient, without a doubt. And I think it will know we're coming.
Martha: [Martha shakes her head.] Sounds about right. [She glances at the Doctor for a moment.] So enough running for you, Doctor? [She says it with good humor, but is clearly troubled. But is oddly calm.]
Inara: Inara Serra. [smile.] It would be a pleasure under better circumstances, however we're in a bit of a bind. There is a very strange statue out there, and it is causing some very severe problems for all of us. We are going to work together to find it, and destroy it.
Alex: [Crosses arms, just watches the group] Do we want non-combatants in the middle? [He is trying to be patient, really. Stupid large groups.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum inclines his head to the newcomers, though he had not had the chance to meet the two of them. before glancing to Bruce's description of the situation.] An accurate description. The artifact was found on board a derelict vessel during a long range sweep. A similar situation had occured upon the vessel in question, although the crew were far less fortunate.
Naruto: [nods in understanding at Inara] Sounds like my typical sort of mission back home... I can handle this no problem!
The Doctor: "Hmmm... sounds like a good idea. Anyone with a ranged weapon should likely be on the sides, as it will be difficult to shoot over some people's heads" [Looks at 'Vadum]
Mordin: [Mordin's eyes narrow.] Sounds familiar. Might be Reaper tech. Please be careful. [He looks around, still hearing a hum.] May cause us to turn on eachother.
Fran: The creatures are too numerous to take on alone.. Naruto. [She looks at him, ears facing foward as she holds her gun carefully in hand.]
Inara: [smiling tightly at Naruto.] What Fran said. Can you help us, work with us?
Inara: [please say yes.]
The Doctor: "That's why we're also going to be singing, Dr. Mordin. Yes, I said singing."
Alex: The tall lady and guy with the imaginary friend have worked with me before, in the hallways. I can take point, or rear-guard. Which ever. [Shrugs.]
Naruto: [glances over at the.... really tall girl with huge bunny ears] Then I guess it's a good thing I'm here!! I can help, no problem, dattebayo!
Inara: [Inara's eyes shoot to Mordin. Reaper -- or Reaver? She doesn't ask for clarification - later, maybe.]
Bruce: I think we should be on the way. The longer we wait here, the more of a chance the thing has to gather its forces against us.
The Doctor: "Point well taken, Dr. Banner. Are we all ready?"
Mordin: [Mordin raises his eyebrow at the Doctor. The hallucinatory humming fades out again, but as far as he knows it's not just in his head. With his work history, it's best not to take chances anyway.] Agreed.
Martha: [Martha pauses for a moment, before letting out a laugh.] Singing... you know? That might just work. [She shakes her head, letting out a sigh, taking her gun down from her shoulders.] Bruce is right. We should get moving.
Inara: Yes. [At least Inara and the Doctor can harmonize really well…]
The Doctor: "Right then. K9, play back." "Affirmantive."
'Vadum: [Seems rather unconvinced that singing will do any good.] The longer we stay the larger the chance they will attack before we set forth.
John: See? Singing. That will get rid of the problem, won't it? Since half an hour ago. Sooner we get that frelling thing out inta space, the sooner I'm sure leatherface here gets out of my head. [Crichton hefts the pole and sets his jaw]
Inara: Onwards, then.
The Doctor: [And the recorded but clear sound of CHinese music begins to play.]
Alex: [Moves in the direction indicated, ready to take the brunt of anything if needed, and senses alert.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor looks at Inara and mouths "DO I sound like that?"]
Martha: [Martha shakes her head.] Sarah Jane never told me K9 could do that. [She raised the rifle again, getting ready to move.]
Inara: [smiling -- she nods.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor shrugs, and joins in on the second verse.]
John: [Crichton immediately starts to hum "Ride of the Valkyries"] "I have someone your dog should meet if we all get outta this."
Fran: [Follows the others, gun ready in her hand and ears alert. They might have a bit of a warning if she can hear them coming before they're ambused...]
'Vadum: [Draws both swords, though keeping them unlit for the moment as he moves to the front along with the other. Keeping alert for any sign of movement.]
Naruto: [checks for some kunai and frowns] Damn, all my tools are missing... guess I gotta pull out the big jutsu if it comes down to it... [moves to follow the others]
The Doctor: [He holds out his hand to Inara, inviting her to harmonize once more.]
Bruce: [Bruce stays subtly towards the back of the group, still wearing just a pair of shorts because he gave Jo his robe. Already he's fighting down the Other Guy in the back of his mind since he's so nervous.]
Inara: [Inara has the hilt of her sword in one hand, but it's not extended. She's ready to use it if she needs to, though. With her free hand she takes the Doctor's, and sings with him.]
The Doctor: [K9 will bring up the rear, so he can shoot anyone that comes up behind them.]
Inara: […Jo is…conveniently not with this party. Probably off hallucinating somewhere.]
Mordin: [Mordin holds the rifle, but he is much more used to small arms. He keeps his omnitool activated, just in case.]
'Vadum: [Aids in guiding the party through the corridors, having been just recently moving through these very same corridors, moving through corridors that had seen less activity from necromorphs since they had shown themselves.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor looks around to see who else is singing] :)
Inara: [It's a good thing the Doctor is used to Inara's death grip. Because it's back.]
Martha: [Martha can't help but feel that this is too similar to working with the resistance during the Year That Wasn't... Stay perpared, stay alert, stay alive... She's towards the middle-back of the pack, on the outside. Times like this she wishes she still had her Tardis key.]
[MOD] It's... awfully quiet, for those of you who have been in the cooridors. And all the dead necromorphs are gone. There's drag marks - someone's taken them. Or... they walked off. [MOD]
Fran: [Not Fran, who's too focused on listening as they move down the hall. They're certainly not a quiet bunch - the sound of the singing covers up even the hard sound of her heels. Something..didn't seem right though.]
Naruto: [has no idea what they're singing for, but his fingers are flexing in case he needs to summon clones quick]
Alex: [Alex is keeping his senses alert, and claws ready, moving with quiet and sure steps. Granted, the singing is loud...but this is...odd.]
Mordin: [Mordin hums along to the music a bit, but it's not one he's quite familiar with beyond the genre. He understands the lyrics of course, but he hasn't heard this one before.]
The Doctor: [As long as they keep concentrating on the singing, they won't hear the voices in their heads. Hopefully.]
Inara: [Here's hoping.]
'Vadum: [Narrows eyes, continuing along but making particular note of the lack of bodies, particularly of those he had slain personally] Something has taken the bodies..stay alert, something may be nearby.
John: [Crichton feels particularly comfortable. He's been on a ship overrun with creepy-crawlies multiple times. Also, he saw most of the Alien movies. And he's humming his favorite "kicking ass" song, though not the song being played. He doesn't know that one When he sees the drag marks, he starts to lead with his pistol. Stopping power, then whupping. And Harvey is busy singing "Blue Moon"]
[MOD] When they get into the next area where two cooridors meet? Something hits them all. It sweeps through their minds, subtle and quiet. It's the feeling of being watched. Of something right out of the corner of their eye but when they look, nothing's there. And more so, it's somehow familiar to all of them. For Mordin, it would be the feeling of Reapers. Alex and Bruce, the Army. Naruto, the Akatsuki. Inara, Reavers. So on and so on. [MOD]
The Doctor: [What was...? A Dalek? Here on this Station? Naah, couldn't be...]
Alex: [Alex's vision blurred briefly, eyes flashing between thermal-spectrum and back, as he mutters a quiet curse. And, then begins humming. Sounds like The Who, if anything.]
Mordin: [Mordin does not look happy, but this does not mean he looks scared. He tightens the grip on his rifle.]
Inara: [Reavers. Inara's hand is TIGHT on the Doctor's, and her voice trembles. It's not real, it's not real...]
John: [Crichton shakes his head] No. Huh-uh. Not goin' back to the chair. Not THIS time... [He begins humming louder] Ya didn't get me the last time, and that trick isn't gonna work twice.
John: [If anything he seems angrier, his grip on that trigger closer to firing]
Bruce: [Bruce swallows hard, and his fingers tighten into hard fists at his side. It's easier to hide the green flush at their tips like this as a bead of sweat rolls down his temple.]
Fran: [Fran stopped and turned sharply, looking back behind her. She thought... no. It couldn't be the Wood. She wasn't here, couldn't get to Fran. 'Vadum had said it was a hallucination...]
The Doctor: [The Doctor puts his other hand on Inara's and pats it reassuringly.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum clicks his mandibles with a growl. The flood, shaking his head, it couldn't be. His grip tightening on his blades as he pushes on.]
Inara: S-stay calm… [it's so hard, though.] Reavers, Doctor.
The Doctor: "More singing! We've got to fight it!" [And he sings louder.]
[MOD] No, there's definitely something! Right! You can feel it breathing down your neck! Right THERE. It has to be. You can almost smell it. Or maybe in the Doc's case, hear it whispering the infamous line in his mind~ [MOD]
Martha: [Martha's mind was focused on her last trip to Torchwood, before everything had gone down, the trip with Jack, Gwen and the others to the Karaoke bar, Bohemian Rhapsody, until she felt it... Tochlofane? No, they're not here. Whatever it is that's watching them, it's those things. Her hands tighten on the rifle, but not on the trigger. She turns around suddenly, seeing K9 and Bruce, but she doesn't see anything there. She starts to walk backwards.] They might be above us, be careful.
Mordin: [Mordin murmurs a bit, singing to himself.] Asari-Vorcha offspring have an allergy to dairy da da dada dee do doo do...... [In the style of Gilbert and Sullivan]
The Doctor: [NO, DOCTOR... NOT A DALEK... oh no... OH YES...]
John: [He's got the touch sensations back. He can feel the thing's breath at his ear, feel that scaly gloved hand on his shoulder. No, the chip is out. The chip's been out for at least two years. He shouldn't be feeling this. He shouldn't be hearing this] Hey Doc! Any way we could boost the volume on that thing? My friend is gettin' a little handsy. [He feels something grab him lower] God Damn it!
The Doctor: [The Doctor slows and grabs the side of his head with his free hand, grimacing in pain...]
Bruce: [He's slowly fighting a losing battle, and he knows it. Should have stayed behind. I'm putting them all in danger! But the danger is himself. It's all in himself. He's more dangerous to them than anything on this Station right now - even the Artifact.]
Inara: [..oh no, oh no.] Doctor…Doctor…?
Fran: [Fran feels it, feels the hot breath on her neck. She was wrong, that wasn't the Wood, that was -- she turns, expecting to see something, but there's nothing there.
What was going on?]
Alex: [Alex is focusing on taking a deep breath, then humming a bit louder damnit. Yes, definitely The Who. This isn't anything new...really. He's used to being hunted by now.] Fucking hallucinations... [Muttered quietly.]
Naruto: [Just blinks as he watches the others around him...and he heard that growl in the air again] Kurama... now's not the time to joke like this...
The Doctor: "No... no... just an... illusion..." [AM I? AM I REALLY?]
Inara: It is, Doctor. It's an illusion -- keep singing. [hard to follow that advice herself.]
[MOD] Mordin - there's nothing there one moment, then the next, when he steps, there is a crunch. Squish. When he looks down... there is a familiar, perhaps familiar, face looking up at him. A patient, one he lost in the past. And beyond them is another. And another. And another. A string of bodies. And they're all staring at him. They know.[MOD]
Inara: […and she goes down with the Doctor with a shout.]
Mordin: [Mordin shakes his head at the image. No, that was the past. His own life was too short to worry about the people he couldn't save. He had to move forward.]
The Doctor: "No, damn you, you won't exterminate anyone else! I should have destroyed the lot of you on Skaro, I should have strangled your race in your crib when I had the chance!"
Naruto: [slowly moves to hunch over ferally as he sees the scarred Uchiha just giving him a small smirk] Foolish boy... what possible hope could you have of cheating your fate? Come, be one with the other biju.
[MOD] Martha - Between one step and the next, she's gone. Only to herself. The world is now a landscape, endless. She has a year to walk the Earth, to save them all.... but when she goes to the next person, they ignore her. They can't even seem to HEAR her.[MOD]
Inara: Doctor--
The Doctor: [THAT'S RIGHT, DOCTOR... YOU SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED HE DALEKS... BUT INSTEAD YOU WERE WEAK... AND ALL THOSE DEATHS ARE ON YOUR HANDS...]
John: [Crichton points at DK] Now that...that is a low blow. Why is it...you mindfrellers...always go for the same. Low. Blow. (But DK looks pretty real to me, John...) Of course it does, you're as fake as the rest of it. [John raises his pistol, sights down the barrel, then stops] I...oh, god, I'm sorry... [He hesitates]
'Vadum: [That voice, Kusovai, he whips around blades in hand, still inactive though. Rearing his head back at the sight. That familiar sword sticking from him.] Kusovai...you died with honor. The parasite has you no longer. [He stands his ground as Kusovai steps closer step by step, morphing from the sub commander he knew and trusted to the monstrosity the flood had turned him into. He remembered well the moment, the moment he had lost his mandibles and released Kusovai from the parasite.]
[MOD] Fran - Before her stands her sisters. Except something is very, very wrong. No joy in their eyes. No life. Not when she can see their intestines as they reach out for her. call her name. Welcome her.[MOD]
The Doctor: "Noooo..." [And of all things, the Doctor weeps...]
Naruto: [crosses his fingers, and summons a pair of identical versions of himself out of nowhere. He holds his hands out to them, and one holds both hands out, while the other seems to be moving his hands in an odd circular pattern. A purple glow forms by a tainted Futon: Rasengan forming in his hand.] You... do not dictate.. my destiny, dattebayo!!! [launches forward, arm cocked back ready to strike at the "Uchiha" in question]
'Vadum: (I will be back in a moment, have to reset net.)
Inara: [wriggling out from under him and SHAKES his shoulders, eyes fixed on his.]
The Doctor: [K9 zaps the Doctor with a low-power beam, just enough to shock him out of his fetal position.]
[MOD] Alec - Before Alec stands a very familiar sight. Dana... except she looks terrified, looking at the strangers around her. Alec![MOD]
The Doctor: [He looks up at Inara... there are tears in his eyes...]
John: [Crichton takes a deep breath] But Honey...it's time for our William Tell act. [He fires twice at the apparition]
Alex: [That...makes Alex stop, eyes going wide. Dana...again..but...she couldn't be here.] ....You're...[Shaking his head. It's an illusion, it has to be. Turning, looking at the others...]
Fran: [She turns back when she hears everyone else - but she doesn't see anyone. She sees her sister. She sees Jote and Mjrn. A part of her wants to run to them, but she only takes a weak step forward. Partly because she knows she is not one of them, and the other part because they are not alive. Besides Balthier, they are her weak link, her Achilles' heel.] No.. Mjrn... Jote... [Her eyes are wide, hands weak by her sides as stares.] No...
The Doctor: "It's all my fault, Sarah Jane... all those lives..."
Martha: [The world seems to fade out around her. She can see people, she can see something that's very familiar, too familiar. She's been here before, and it's a place that she wanted to see none too soon. London under the Master. And she's walking. She's trying to talk to someone but it's like she's a ghost, they don't hear her, don't see her. She waves her hand trying to get them to react, but there's nothing, not even when she hits someone in the shoulder.]
Inara: Come on, Doctor. [Inara's eyes are wet, too. she's seen what the Reavers can do - she's smelled the scent of decay, seen what a man will do when he witnesses it. they're here, they're everywhere -- btu she focuses. ] Come on. We have to get up.
Martha: [She actually hit someone in the group but doesn't realize it?]
The Doctor: "But the Dalek..."
The Doctor: *NEGATIVE, MASTER. NO DALEKS ARE ON BOARD THIS FACILITY.*
Mordin: [Mordin turns, waving his hand to Martha.] Doctor Jones. Are you alright?
Inara: […slow, deep breathing. Through the nose, out the nose…Inara is trying to calm herself.] It isn't real, Doctor.
Alex: [His vision was blurring, as it had before--but the mechanical voice sounded NOTHING like any blackwatch radio comm or infected. Turning his head...Dana was gone, turning back. They were falling apart...not good.] That's right...not real. [There was a shaky laugh.] It's not real...
Naruto: [charges forward through the crowd, a small whine coming from the orb in his hand at the disturbed air caused by the swirling maelstrom]
The Doctor: "...it isn't? But... no... it's the... the Artifact?"
Fran: [Jote starts towards her, lifeless eyes trained on Fran's and seeming to hold her in place. Mjrn, the younger, was quicker and headed towards their exiled sister.] No, no! [Fran knows this isn't right and suddenly it's about survival to her as she finds a grip on the gun and raises it up, not even seeing if she's point it at anyone, ready to take out her undead sister before they take her out...]
Martha: "Why aren't you listening?" [she isn't actually talking to anyone.] "I know you can hear me. This isn't going to change! I need to tell this story!" [she takes a few steps away from the group. turning back around she seems to be feeling around her neck for something, something she isn't finding.] "It's not here...?"
Alex: [Turning once more, growling and slamming claws into the wall with a loud screech.] Bastards. It's NOT REAL...we need to focus. [And of all things, he starts singing. Loudly.]99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer!...
The Doctor: "...Inara?"
Inara: Yes. Th--the artifact. [It's so, so hard to focus on the Doctor. It's more difficult than she ever could have imagined. The Reavers -- they're everywhere, and everyone is going to die and be ripped apart and eaten alive--] I'm right here. We need… [se speaks up, louder -- a SHOUT-] We need to keep moving!
The Doctor: "Yes... we must get on our feet... Feet... K9, crank up the volume!"
John: Finally, someone with some sense. And he's got tentacles all over the place. [John and Harvey join in] And if you EVER. Frel. With me and mine again, I'm gonna... [He shakes his head] Nah, better if ya don't find out right away. Hey! Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of be-- seriously, you couldnt'a picked the song that never ends? Take one down, pass it around...
Quinn: [Quinn's caught up with the group now. Things look bad. People shouting, and... singing? Music? What was going on? He hangs back awkwardly.] What...
[MOD] And Bruce at the end - Bruce sees Betty. He sees her in his hands. Large, green hands. And she stares up at him in fear. And like a toy.. he breaks her. Just a single, quiet crunch, and she dies with that fear still on her face. His eyes close. When they open, Inara is in his hands.[MOD]
Mordin: [Mordin puts his hand on Martha's shoulder.] Doctor Jones, try to focus. We can't fall behind. The group has already stumbled ahead of her a decent distance.
Naruto: [continues to illunminate the hall in violet light, as in his mind he continues to thrust the rasengan into the Uchiha, but he phases himself out of taking damage every time it looks like he's going to hit. He was getting more and more angry with every miss, and by now others could hear the increased whine from the energy in Naruto's hand, and the eyes a deep blood red, canines extended in rage.]
The Doctor: [And slowly he gets to he feet, helping Inara up.]
Inara: [slides an arm around his waist.] Come on, Doc. We can do this. Is everyone -- alive? [not alright because WHO the hell is alright? NO ONE.]
Alex: [Right as Naruto goes to pass Alex, the man reaches out and snags the blonde's jacket with a claw.] Blondie, wise up...it's not real. [While in the mddle of singing.] and then you have 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
John: Yeah, turn down the light show. [Crichton goes back to singing]
The Doctor: "Right. EVERYONE, KEEP MOVING! And SING LOUDER, DAMMIT!"
Martha: [Her key isn't around her neck, so they can't see her, can't hear her and the key... that's not right. She never takes it off. She hasn't lost it. She'd never lose it. And there's... music in the background? She feels hand on her shoulder and she turns sharply, grabbing it and trying to twist it but it's something that's real, how many people have not acknowledged her. Focus? Someone is actually talking to her.] "Focus on the key." [She opens her eyes and there's a...] "What are you doing here? You weren't here." [And there's that music again. Maybe... she wasn't here?]
Quinn: [Quinn holds his head. This is too much. He' definitely going to keep back, away from the more dangerous folks in the gang. He'll ask the nearest person a simple question.]
...Can I ask why we're singing?
[MOD] The Marker realizes what's going on. It knows the hallucinations aren't enough - so it does what it needs to, to protect itself. The necromorphs, real and solid and ready to kill anything they touch, pour from the vents. The fight is on. Quinn, you've got one right about to drop down on you. [MOD]
The Doctor: "WE SING TO DROWN OUT THE VOICES IN OUR HEADS! NOW LISTEN TO K9,s PLAY BACK AND JOIN IN!"
Fran: [Fran, not knowing its not real, darts to the right, avoiding Mjrn and having to back up again as she gets too close to Jote. Their still calling her name, but there's something else, something like music. Why did that sound familiar? Her own nails and heels scraping the floor, the Viera is trying to get to her feet. She had to get distance between herself and the other two...]
The Doctor: **HOSTILES DETECTED, MASTER!**
Quinn: [SCREE. Before Quinn gets his answer, a monster damn near falls on him. He screams, and does his best to get away from it. He might not be fast enough.]
The Doctor: [...says K9]
Naruto: [turns to look at Alex, unseeing crimson eyes locking on the vision of Uchiha Madara in his mind...but the tune Alex is singing causes his vision to shift, revealing the strange hooded clawed guy... and his eyes shifted to the violet color of before, still somewhat enraged.] So who's the damn enemy, dattebayo?!
'Vadum: ['Vadum calms himself, collecting his thoughts forcing a deep breath, uttering something beneath his breath in Sangheili. Before shaking his head. ] I am alive. Keep moving, stay alert. [At the front unfortunately he couldn't get to Quinn himself, but the moment the Necromorphs begin to pour out of the vents, his blades flare to life, leaping forward to intercept them, scything the blades through the first creatures limbs] Defend yourselves!
The Doctor: [The Doctor pauses from singing at the top of his lungs to give the order to K9:] "Fire at will! Shoot anything with more than two legs!" **AFFIRMATIVE**
Inara: [Inara can…sort of do that. The light blade comes out, and the dance begins. At least she's been trained in fencing…?]
John: [Crichton leaps towards the beast attacking Quinn, still singing. He's singing now to keep the voices out. To keep the hallucination away so it can't see or hear him any more. To fight off the angst]
Bruce: [Bruce falls back, unseen in the chaos, and his hands come up over his head as too easily, he's lost to his own fears. He's lived them all a thousand times in his nightmares. His back hits a wall of the Station and he feels the green pouring over him, twisting him. He'll go to sleep, but like he never has before.]
Alex: Them! [Alex shouts, shoving Naruto away as Necromorphs drop.] 97 Bottles of Beer on the WALL, [It's almost like a battle cry, in the gutteral singing as Alex tears into the beasties. Claws swiping through limbs and pulling apart.]
Quinn: [Quinn has nothing to defend himself with, so he'll try his best to scramble away from the creatures and get behind someone with a weapon or twelve on them, hands over his head. Yep, should have stayed behind. This is what you get, Quinn.]
Martha: [the scream cuts through, it sounds raw and real and Martha blinks focusing in, that and the music pulling her back, the familiar sounds of the Necromorphs snapping her back, a familiar face snapping into her mind, and snapping her back to reality.] "Not again..." [She sees Mordin standing there, and nods, holding up her rifle.] "Sing and shoot!"
The Doctor: [K9 does his best to guard the rear, blasting the Necromorphs that threaten the non-combatants first.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods and resumes shooting. He takes care to aim at the limbs, having found that to do the most damage during their recent....fight.]
Mordin: *resumes singing
Inara: [Inara is just hoping someone friendly doesn't get shot in the chaos.]
Naruto: [frowning, he spotted the incoming necromorphs, and his Will of Fire kicked in. Cocking back the Rasengan again, he thrusted it forward at the nearest one, the wind element carving into it's chest, before expanding through the entire chest cavity sending head, arms, and waist flying through the one he'd hit]
'Vadum: Aim for the limbs, take them apart! ['Vadum calls as he drops low to scythe the legs out from under one before finishing it off with a second blow, carrying through smoothely to remove the limbs of another. His blades moving gracefully from target to target. His focus honed in combat[
Bruce: [The very last thing Bruce sees, before he's lost to the darkness, is the body of Jack Harkness in his hands. Hanging with a broken neck, then discarded like the broken toy of a child. It'll be the ROAR of the Hulk everyone else will hear because the Hulk doesn't give a damn about any of this - just the enemy.]
Inara: […that, Inara definitely hears and she turns and -- oh there's the green Hulk. This is…either good or bad. ]
The Doctor: [The Doctor tries to direct traffic, keeping the group moving forward. And then he hears the ROAR...] "Oh dear..."
Alex: [Alex IS good at this, as claws swipe and dice, as this is what he does--he was made for this, in a lot of ways. Then he hears the roar, and that...gets his attention. Looking, and...] Oh fuck... Everyone MOVE! [Grabbing the nearest non-enemy carefully-due to claws--and flattening himself to the side of the wall to get out of big-green-and-mean's way.]
Martha: [Martha starts humming Bohemian Rhapsody, aiming for the legs of the necromorph in front of her Freezing when she sees the green Hulk in front of her.] Everyone out of the way!
John: Craaaap... [Crichton pulls out of the beatdown he was about to unleash on the Necromorphs] Anyone know how to keep the Doc from goin' any more nuclear?
Fran: [It isn't the singing that snaps her out of it, or the necromorphs.
It's the sound of the Hulk. The roar of the beast that she had attempted to shoot much, much earlier in this ordeal. Fran's halfway upright when she snaps out of it, eyes wide. Her hand is on the gun and she almost holds it up.
'No don't, it's Bruce!' rings clear in her head from Jack and she doesn't, moving back quicker to join the rest of the group and fire a few shots at other Necromorphs]
The Doctor: "K9, get out of the center of the hallway!"
Quinn: [Quinn knows enough to get out of the way of a rampaging Hulk. Good thing he's skinny enough to get out of the way of things, though he's slowed down, taken some hits in the fight. He's panting hard, eyes wide, as he gets as far out of the way as he can imagine.]
The Doctor: "Everyone, form up on the right side and make a path!"
Naruto: [meanwhile was almost in good shape... but at the sound of the Hulk, something more feral and primal ignited within him. However befre it could unleash itself, he felt Alex grab him and yank him out of harm's way]
Bruce: [Probably for the best those who are smart enough to get out of the hallway because the Hulk clearly doesn't care about whether or not people are in the way. And... sorry but some of you? Are probably getting sprayed with yuck because he simply rips them apart as he gets his hands on them, or steps on them... or jumps on them.]
Inara: [If Quinn falters, he's going to be hauled the hell up by Inara and dragged out of the crossfire because the hulk looks ANGRY.]
Mordin: [Mordin sees the Hulk and drops his rifle, his hand moving to his omnitool. He doesn't want to hurt Bruce, but he'll be faster with his tool than he would be with the bulky rifle if it came to it. He moves to the side as the rest of the group does, giving the green monstrosity the right of way.]
Fran: [Fran moves out of the way, pressing up against the wall just as blood coats her dark skin and white hair. ]
The Doctor: [The Doctor shields Inara from the gore with his long coat as best he can.]
John: [Crichton shakes himself off] And once again, I'm covered in crap. [He presses himself against the wall]
Martha: [Martha has no idea what just happened, becuase she hasn't seen this before... But having seen this, the fact that that is Bruce, its MORE than a bit surprising. And he looks ANGRY. There has to be a way to keep him from hurting himself or anyone else. She glances at Crichton and glares at him.] Priorities! [They have other concerns now.]
[MOD] You're right on the edges of the hangar, and Inara's intuition must have been right about where the marker is because the hangar is FULL of necromorphs. Somewhat thankfully, they leap on the big moving object of the Hulk, giving the rest of you a shot for the Advance.[MOD]
Inara: [Yeah that gore is…probably all in her hair. Thank you, Doctor, because that was disgustingly horrifying.]
The Doctor: "Look, there's the ship. When I say run, run. Run!"
Inara: …Good plan. [very, very good plan.]
Martha: [Martha smiles slightly.] "Now this is more like it. Always with the running." [She checks the power on her gun.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods before turning to launch his Incinerate tech at a necromorph that the Hulk missed, making the mangled walking corpse burst into flame.]
John: [Crichton glares at Martha] Okay, okay, big green thing. I think I got an idea... [He starts to put something together in his head, continuing as he runs]
Alex: [Alex being covered in gore is nothing new, and somehow it all seems to just...absorb into him. Go figure. Once big-green-and-mean is passed, he's going to let Naruto go, and dart forward slightly, slashing then pulling apart with claws to the face first another necromorph the Hulk threw their way.]
The Doctor: [K9 extends his manipulator to the panel and shuts the hangar door after everyone is through.]
Fran: [A few blasts come from Fran - she's kneeling and firing at a couple of lingering necromorphs, shaking the gore away that threatened to drip onto her face and sting her eyes.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum pushes through the opening, ignoring the gore. Taking in the situation in the hanger, blades at ready as he pushes off, moving to intercept any necromorph's that move to stop the partiy, dismembering them with ease.]
Inara: [Inara slips a little, but she crashes through, wiping violently at her eyes to clear them.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor takes Inara's hand and they run towards the ship. New faces, same dangers, he thinks with a smile.]
Naruto: [would silently thank Alex, and quickly summon another pair of shadow clones to prep the futon: rasengan again. This one however was the pure cobalt of his chakra that he was used to, and he used it coming up rear guard from the rest of the party in case of a back attack]
Inara: [She's very glad the Doctor is there, because she might have slipped.] Where--where's Bruce? [hello, the only one NOT clued in]
The Doctor: [K9 trundles backwards, watching his Master's back.]
John: That big green thing was Bruce. He's got a little of a split personal-- look, later! Other stuff now! [Crichton's busy thinking through things while trying to avoid the various other things going on around him]
The Doctor: "What? Dr. Banner? I thought he was ahead of us..."
Martha: [Martha stops running for a bit, letting the others pass her, taking out a few of the monsters coming in from the sides, rushing after the others, catching up.] When we find this thing, do we know how to destroy it?
Quinn: [Quinn tries to stay with the group as best he can, but he's not getting too close to that room so long as it's full of necromorphs. But he won't be left behind, either. Terrified, he stumbles along.]
Inara: He--what? [RIGHT later.]
Martha: [She knows they need to get Bruce back to normal but she has no idea how to do it... maybe someone else will have an idea!]
Inara: No, we don't. Get -- it out the airlock, perhaps. [panting.]
John: [Crichton turns to Martha] Wellp, we either burn it, or we throw it out into space. I'm not sure about the success rate on throwing it out the airlock, but it worked for Ripley, and she knew her dren, so why not.
Fran: [Fran keeps back with Quinn, not seeing a weapon on him. She fires at a necromorph to take out its legs so that its slower at least.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum moves ahead of those running for his vessel, the green hull of the Advance visible not far off. Cleaving through any Necromorphs in the way to give them a clear run to get there. Though he would need to get to the Advance himself to access the vessel.]
The Doctor: "Why can't we destroy it?" {I don't believe I just said that and meant it...]
Alex: [Heading more towards Inara and The Doctor, as they seem to know what to do. Plus, he can provide necromorph protection.] How heavy is it? [Not that it mattered...]
John: Think an engine might turn this sucker to ash, whatever it is? 'Cause...we got a few ships here...
Naruto: [would join the group, with the spinning glowing orb in his right hand] I could always send a batch of Kage Bunshin to see what they find...
Fran: I can help keep with defense. [Fran checks over the gun. Still good.]
'Vadum: First we have to ensure that it is indeed on board. ['Vadum calls across as they get closer to the Advance, hearing that snarl he whips himself about, bringing one of his energy blades up and around, aiming high for where the scything talons of the creature would be, fortunately just above the head of a normal person.]
'Vadum: (Hopefully that's fine, would suck to get an energy blade through the legs or head after all, easily missing a normal person in this case >.>)
John: [Crichton is busy trying to get into one of the ships so he can enact plan C. Necromorphs are not polite enough to allow Crichton to enact plan C.] Ack! Dammit! [He swings wildly and keeps a few at bay with the pipe]
The Doctor: [The Doctor *is* taller than a normal person, but luckily he knows how to duck.]
Martha: [Martha turns to Fran, shooting her a nod, before shootin g a leg off an incoming Nechromorph. She chuckles] Could be worse! Could be marching scarecrows again.
Mordin: [Mordin frowns a bit.] Too similar to husks.
Quinn: [Quinn heard that.] Don't ever say "could be worse"!
The Doctor: [K9 snaps off a blast between 'Vadum's legs, forcing him back slightly.]
John: Scarecrows. Scarecrows ain't got nothin' on statues. Trust me.
Naruto: [rolls his eyes] Kakashi-sensei's no where here...
The Doctor: "K9, we need louder music! Bring out Number Nine!"
Alex: [Alex is close enough to see 'Vadum turn, and the swipe.] WOAH! HEY! [That is a loud shout] We're on your side!
The Doctor: [And the room is filled with the chorus of "Ode to Joy"]
Fran: [Fran stays off the ship, trying to help keep the Necromorphs at bay - either by trying to kill them completely with a shot in the head or severing their limbs to slow their progress.]
Bruce: [The Hulk sees Vadum swing near Inara. Oh... and now there's a bigger problem. Because the Hulk roars and heads right for the big guy.]
The Doctor: ***Freude, schoener Goetterfunken / Tochter aus Elysium***
John: [Crichton lays into another Necro with his pipe. That pipe is getting bent like crazy] BLONDIE! Speak English! Or Sebacean! Or something we can frelling understand. Now ain't the time for language barriers. [Starts humming like crazy again] Dammit, hang on... [He throws his trusty pipe at the Hulk and runs like hell, still looking for that airlock switch]
Inara: [ack] No! Don't--he's on our side!
Naruto: [tenses as he looks over at the big green guy] Ummmm Scarf-guy, is the big green guy on our side, or do I gotta put him down? [looks primed to rasengan the Hulk if needed]
Quinn: [This is getting more and more absurd by the moment. Quinn would appreciate it, if he wasn't in the middle of all the life-threatening danger, trying to find his way around mechanically.]
The Doctor: *** Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum ***
Inara: [man is she ever glad she's in pants for this, because she's scrambling to get in front of 'Vadum.]
Fran: The green beast is on our side! [She practically yells that to Naruto, making certain she's heard over everything going on]
Martha: [Martha, staying with Fran outside the ship, is cutting the legs off first then get the rest, let less they can move the better] "One of these days we need to trade stories. When we're not facing potential immenint death. Though the Doctor would probably say this was the perfect time." [She shoots at another one.
Quinn: [And now the Hulk is roaring again. Don't mind as Quinn skitters the hell out of the way again.]
Mordin: [Mordin cycles a sedative to his omnitool. He tries to move up behind the beast. Knocking him out may not help everyone, but having him as an enemy is even worse.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor stands before 'Vadum, trying to talk him down.] "Snap out of it, man!"
Quinn: No, just-- get out of his way! [Quinn really doesn't want to see people get squished. Please.]
Alex: [Alex is letting his arms morph back to normal, and grabbing the Doctor. Yes, bodily picking up, and moving him.] Not the place to stand at the moment. [And moving enough away to get out of Hulk's range.]
The Doctor: "Woah!"
Inara: [Doctor attempts to talk 'Vadum down, Inara…tries to handle the Hulk…]
Naruto: [meanwhile moves to take a protective position, ready in case the Hulk goes to squishy anyone not directly in his path]
Bruce: [That isn't going to work so well on the Hulk, Mordin, because little can get through his skin. It's Inara, who gets up in front of 'Vadum, that actually makes him stop. He growls in pure threat at 'Vadum, but he's stopped.]
The Doctor: "All right, put me down!"
Alex: [Nope, not yet Doc, sorry. Alex is watching, warily.]...you got this, Inara?
Inara: [oh good because that was one seriously rampaging Hulk.] I think so.
The Doctor: "At least loosen up on my right arm..."
Alex: [Only THEN is he putting the Doctor down, and letting his claws form again.]
Fran: We need to find the Marker. [Zap zap, sizzle go a couple of other necromorphs. They looked like Undeads and there was a part of her that wondered if they would have a reverse reaction to Cure...]
The Doctor: "Thank you..." [He puts his hand in his pocket, fishes around for a moment until he finds what he wants, and then waits.]
Inara: Cargo hold, perhaps? ['Vadum would know better. Inara hadn't physically handled it.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum isn't so easily stopped at first, the blast from K9 all but ignored by the Sangheili, its Inara's actions and the attention of the Hulk however that draw his attention away from the supposed beast, narrowing his eyes as it appears to simply stand there and growl at him. Shaking his head, his voice strained] What is the meaning of this..blasted marker.
The Doctor: [The Doctor is keeping one eye on 'Vadum and one eye on Hulk/Inara, ready to dive for cover if either situation goes pear-shaped...]
Naruto: [winces some as he gets the memories of his shadow clones] OK those things don't mess around...
'Vadum: ['Vadum doesn't make to attack but steps back, wary, keying the code to the rear hatch before stepping away as the door opens.] In the troop bay..if it yet remains. [He takes steps away from both the advance and the others, barely trusting his senses at this point.]
'Vadum: (Let me know if there's any trouble with those)
Alex: Right then....which way? [Alex is ready to step in. This has to stop...and he's humming again. Along with K9's music.]
Quinn: It better be there, or we're-- [Yeah, okay, let's not finish that statement.] Which way do we go?!
The Doctor: "Inara... are you coming?"
Inara: […Looking between them and the Hulk, and she nods.] Yes.
Bruce: [The Hulk looks down at Inara and rumbles, though he still looks very ready to punch out 'Vadum.]
Fran: [Fran makes her way up to the Twilight, but doesn't go in, and keeps her distance from Hulk. She could at least help keep the door clear.]
Naruto: [slowly backs up with his rasengan still active, waiting to see what they would be doing next]
Inara: [veeeery carefully patting a big green hand.] He's on our side. Come on.
The Doctor: "Wait... catch!" [He tosses a small white paper bag at Inara's feet.] "I think he likes the green ones."
Alex: [Then Alex is heading in, still humming along...aggressively humming, no less.]
Mordin: [Mordin is ready as well. Hopefully he won't have to treat any wounds, but he's not counting on it.]
John: [Crichton has worked his way back over, and tries to keep his distance from the Hulk but close to everyone else. It doesn't quite work.]
Inara: […well alright. she picks it up and looks up.] Want…one? [Come on, big green buddy. Lets get inside.]
Quinn: [then off Quinn heads, letting someone else take the lead, in case of more necromorphs. He's played enough video games to not run out ahead unarmed and alone.]
Martha: [Martha's working the other side of the ship's entrance, trying to stay out of Bruce's way.] These things just keep coming... what are they doing? rebuilding themselves out of their dead?
The Doctor: "K9, head insode with the others. We'll be right behind you" **AFFIRMATIVE**
John: Yep, that's about the size of it. [Crichton shrugs to Martha] I mean, I'm pretty sure they'd be doing it with our dead, but there's too few of us and too many of them.
The Doctor: [The Doctor waits for Inara and her Big Green Bodyguard...]
Inara: [surreal and bizarre, this is.]
Bruce: [The Hulk gently picks up Inara, tucking her back to where he seems to favor her, kicking a necromorph out of the way before he steps inside.]
Alex: [Alex is not waiting, aside from keeping his ears alert as much as he can over aggressively humming along.]
Inara: [..eep.]
Martha: I hate zombies...
The Doctor: [The Doctor follows.]
John: These things aren't zombies. Zombies don't move fast. [Crichton picks up his pipe before following everyone else]
Quinn: These things are way worse than zombies...
'Vadum: ['Vadum moves to the rear of the Vessel once he's sure everyone is on board, focussing on those creatures he knew were not crew members.]
Fran: These are not undead. I would have an easier time killing them.
Naruto: [follows Scarf guy as he seems to be the kage around here... he even has a hat!]
Martha: [Martha is following the others but walking backwards, shooting a few more times, but she doesn't enter the ship, staying outside. for a few]
The Doctor: "Come along, Doctor Jones!" :)
Fran: [Fran almost wonders if it would be possible to get everyone on the ship and be able to close it off to the necromorphs, rather than try to fight all of them off...]
'Vadum: [It was fortunate the crew bay was designed for a race that was eight foot tall and to easily hold hunters , so there was plenty of room for all.] There are two personnell operated plasma cannons, use them to thin the hoard.
[MOD] The Marker sits back in the Advance where it had been left, and now Fran can hear the humming even over the sounds of fighting. It's an irritating, unfocused hum that plays hard on her ears. [MOD]
Martha: [She smiles to herself] Coming. [Martha shoots one more before following the others.]
John: "Seriously? Her name is Doctor Jones?" [Crichton laughs out loud at that. The exhaustion and the adrenaline combined with the new absurdity just gets him too much]
Martha: [Martha raises an eyebrow.] "Something funny Mr. Chrichton?" [She does not seem amused, and is only half paying attention to him.]
The Doctor: "Are we all here? Because we've got an Artifact to find and break."
Fran: [Fran stepps back up to the door, the sound hits her ears - hard. It's irritating and it hurts, and she realizes - that must be it. That must be the Marker. Taking further steps in closer, that makes it worse and the gun clatters to the the floor as she raises her hands to her ears, trying to make it stop.]
Naruto: [grins at the need to break something, and holds up his Rasengan] Marker breaker, check
Quinn: We need to shoot that damn thing out an airlock. now. Pronto.
Alex: Any clue what it looks like? [Alex then went back to humming, looking around, and stopping when he notices Fran.] What're you hearing?
Martha: If we're throwing that through the airlock, we're going to need to get out. Do we know if the whole bay will depressureize?
Inara: It stands on a base with two columns that look similar to DNA strands.
Fran: I...I hear it. It... it is close! [She's wincing, eyes struggling to focus.]
Naruto: (Naruto doesn't know that... he just knows futon:rasengan does a TON, and he can't use Rasenshuriken)
Inara: [Shifting in the Hulks grip.] And -- it hums, yes. [watching Fran very closely.]
Quinn: Yeah. No. I-- I don't know. I haven't been able to-- [Quinn shakes his head. Too much to explain now.] We just ain't gonna be able to do anythin' else with it.\
Alex: [Alex, unfortunately, had stopped humming...and now...he's hearing it too. It's in his brain, whispering with many voices...as he's looking around. Wincing, and trying to hum quietly to drown out the voices.]
Fran: [It's loud for her, like someone with a megaphone right up to her ears and humming into it. Or at least that's what it feels like.] The noise of it... it hurts.
The Doctor: [The Doctor hears the humming too... or is it laughter he hears?]
Bruce: [The Hulk growls, looking around for the source of that sound, and he stomps forward - that's not the best for the floor of the Advance.]
Mordin: [Mordin grimaces at the noise. He doesn't know if this is Reapers still, it doesn't seem to match, but it's damn close enough.] Need to get rid of this. Need to destroy it. [He looks at his Omnitool.] Will freezing it help?
John: A whole ton a' things. Lemme guess, no time for love?[Crichton can't contain himself. Sam is sorry. Crichton looks at the Marker] So this is it? What're we doing, shovin' it in a jet engine? Blowing it out into space? I could overload Ripley here and put it at the base...these pulse cells kinda pack a wallop...[He hears Harvey's voice tickle the back of his spine...]
Naruto: [blinks some at the hum, frowning as it almost feels like Kurama is... crooning... PURRING... to it????]
Inara: [Inara grinds her teeth.] We can't be far now. And-- [Her finger step the Hulk.] …Gentle?
Quinn: Blow it out into space. Now. Somehow. Does anyone know how this station works? [Quinn winces, holding his head with a hand. Damn, it hurt. It was hard to focus.]
The Doctor: [WELL, DOCTOR... IT SEEMS THAT OUR LITTLE GAMS IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE...]
Inara: […though that calm? Definitely not lasting. All she hears are the screams of women and men and children being torn apart by Reavers.] Out the airlock! Listen to Quinn!
The Doctor: "Not... quite... yet..."
John: [As soon as Crichton finishes talking, suddenly his head is on overload. He's in a junkyard with a dumpster, Harvey stomping on him and kicking him. Then on an operating table. Then in space. Then dying again and again and again. He is screaming, and Harvey is laughing and there is nothing he can do and nothing he can say and everyone around him is going to die and--]
Martha: [Martha just shakes her head at Crichton, not giving him a response, focusing on the marker.] We need to find a way to do that without blowing outselves there with it.
Alex: IT's...over here...[Said between broken humming, Alex crouching, in pain, with a scowl as the voices are louder.] Where's the nearest airlock?
The Doctor: "K9! Scan the hangar and locate the nearest airlock!" **AFFIRMATIVE**
The Doctor: [K9's mechanical ears whir and twirl for a moment...]
John: OPEN...THE POD BAY...DOORS. [Crichton manages to get out. The Marker's hitting every neural pathway, making him watch the deaths of everyone he knew, and everyone who didn't die. He holds out his pistol, Harvey kicking him in the arm, and aims in vain at something no one can see]
Inara: [She seems the crew of Serenity, being torn open. Kaylee, with her insides on the ground. Wash, Zoe, a bloody heap. Simon and River, hanging from hooks by the ceiling. Mal…]
Naruto: [groans and falls to his knees, his rasengan disipating and a slow crimsion miasma forming over his body as this chaos fuels his tennant... whispering more strongly than ever about the death and destruction of everyone around him.]
The Doctor: [Inside the Doctor's head, he is wrestling with The Master for control of his psyche...]
'Vadum: The main hanger doors are the nearest airlock. ['Vadum growls from where he fights, seeing naught but flood in the necromorphs he kills.]
[MOD] Someone will hear it - there's a voice on the Station's system - GET IT OUT OF THE SHIP! - Some of you might recognize it. That's definitely Gryf's voice! ...And the one person with controls to the airlock doors. THEN SEAL THE SHIP WITH EVERYONE INSIDE. [MOD]
Alex: [Pain is nothing new, nor is the anger---but the voices. It was like tracking Greene, and the hive-mind. So many voices, with screams interspersed. Everyone he'd killed...] Right...got to...get...through.
The Doctor: [AND JUST WHO IS THIS NEW CREAT--] "Shut up!"
Mordin: [Mordin grimaces and fires his Cryo Blast tech at the Marker. He doesn't think it will freeze it, but maybe a flash reduction in temperature will quiet it down.]
Fran: [The humming is getting louder, even though Fran's not moving towards the Marker. It hurts, her ears are humming and ringing and she can hear the Wood all over again, screaming at her, making to attack her. This was her punishment for leaving, for abandoning her sisters, the Wood, the village...]
Bruce:
Quinn: [That snaps Quinn out of it enough. Right, they could stay safe inside this ship while the airlock is dealt with. Time to make friends. Quinn lays a hand on the nearest mechanism he can. He could try to telepathically communicate with it, in order to get it to operate quickly.]
[MOD] It laughs in Mordin's head. [MOD]
The Doctor: [The Doctor grabs Hulk's arm.]
Martha: [Martha winces, trying her best to block out those drums, that unconscious drumming that was in everyone's head for a year. And then there are instructions! And there is a plan.] You think Bruce can get it out of here? [She winces grabbing her head]
John: NINETY NINE BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALLLLL! [Crichton begins singing, getting to his knees, his head pounding, trying to figure out where the damn thing is based on what hurts the most and what direction to go in. He keeps singing] COME ON, WE HAVE TO GET THIS THING OUT! SOMEONE HELP ME PUSH!
Inara: [Inara is starting to squirm in the Hulk's grip -- fear is beginning to take over. Her cheeks are wet -- everyone is dying--] Get it off! Help him, Hulk--!
The Doctor: "You! Drag that THING outside! Do you understand? OUTSIDE!"
John: WORKIN' ON IT! [Crichton goes back to singing and moves closer to the Marker]
The Doctor: [THE GREEN MONSTER CAN'T HELP YOU, DOCTOR... NOBODY CAN HELP YOU NOW...]
Bruce: [The Hulk grunts and puts Inara down, then walks over towards the Marker. He seems oddly unaffected by its chaos, and little issue in picking it up as if it weighed nothing at all.]
Alex: [Right...well, now they had a plan...of sorts.] Then MOVE! [Because the pain and the voices and the anger are getting to him, and he is not stopping. Red and black is flowing over his arms, turning from claws into...well...it's not clear. Exagerrated musculature in a grey-scale,w ith black and red veins, over his arms.]
Alex: (damnit, ignore my post.)
Martha: [Through gritted teeth, Martha seems to be rejecting this thing in her head or trying to] "We got rid of the Master. He isn't here!"
The Doctor: [The Doctor collapses at Inara's feet.]
Inara: [Inara…sort of crumples right down there with the poor Doctor.]
The Doctor: [Inside his head, the wrestling match continues. And it's touch-and-go...]
John: NONE OF IT IS HERE! [Thankfully, Crichton was stopped by picking up the Marker when Hulk picked it up, preoccupied in his own head with getting up and then chokeslamming Harvey. He still can't see. Why can't he see?]
Alex: [Muscle-mass along his arms, Alex is moving carefully over to big and green. Deep breath.] Give me the that...you stay with her...protect her. [Ready to carry this thing, focusing on the pain,a nd the anger, and the voices, and wanting it all to end.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum nods to himself, gritting his mandibles at that voice, deactivating his blades as he steps into the bay, dropping both just within the entrance of the Advance, determined as he pushes forward to the Marker, moving to assist in getting it off his vessel]
Inara: [reaching for the Doctor's hand.] …Doc?
The Doctor: [YOUR PATHETIC VENUSIAN AKIDO CAN'T HELP YOU HERE...]
'Vadum: (Looks like Alex and 'Vadum would be the ones going for it)
The Doctor: [But that voice...]
[The Hulk looks at Alex, then with that, drops the Marker into his arms. Oh... good luck with that.]
[MOD] As soon as it hits Alex's arms, he'll be in a fight for his life. It WILL try to make him kill himself however it deems necessary.[MOD]
Mordin: [Mordin staggers a bit under the pressure of the images. He keeps fighting, he's never stopped fighting. He's seen horrible things and he won't let this stop him now. And then the images of the dead turn to Krogan young, and he falters, falling to his knees.]
Inara: [SQUEEZES the Doctor's hand.]
The Doctor: [His eyes open, and he sees her. He remembers her voice...] "I don't... need... Venusian Akido... to beat... you..."
TheStation]: Alex: [Ok... This wasn't bad...aside from teh voices being louder, and the screams, and I hope everyone is giving him a wide berth. Because he is now moving, very determinedly towards the door. He...is not stable though. There is red-and black organic mass flowing over him entirely, sometimes covering his form, obscuring it, sometimes not. And he is cursing. Creatively, fluently, and very very angrily. Trying to hold himself together.]
Fran: [Fran slumps against a wall, eyes out of complete focus as the voice in her mind assaults her and the noise seems to deafen her. It's terrible and already she can see Mjrn and Jote coming towards her, their own eyes unseeing as they call for her, for their rogue sister to bring her home.]
Naruto: [growls some as he hears Kurama's voice. The sounds of betrayal, of loss, and of freedom coming from the kitsune. Naruto would groan under the red chakra cloak around him, slowly looking up at the artifact in front of him, being held by two of the big bruiser types.]
Quinn: [Quinn's fallen silent, hand on the ship's wall, concentrating with everything he's got. He's taking every ounce of himself to do so, over the chaos and the intrusion in his head. He's only barely keeping it together, but he's begging the ship for its help. Once that marker is out, hopefully the ship will listen to his pleading.]
John: [Crichton finally delivers a backbreaker to Harvey inside his head. There's the dumpster...yes...an overhead throw, and then an elbow drop to the top of the dumpster and Harvey! Is! Out! John slowly gets to his feet and takes the hand of the person nearest to him] Come on, squeeze my hand. I'm real. That isn't. Repeat after me. The hand is real. The other stuff isn't.
The Doctor: "Inara... with the voice of an angel..." [WHAT? NO!]
[MOD] HURRY! GET IT OUT NEAR THE AIRLOCK! That voice again. Get it out there and GET BACK INSIDE! [MOD]
The Doctor: [Crichton's got the Doctor's left hand. Inara has his right one.]
Martha: [Martha is looking around looking for a control panel to secure the ship once everyone is back inside, willing herself to ignore the drumming.] He isn't here... Panel...
The Doctor: "The hand... is real..."
John: The hand is real, the voices aren't. Yeah, that's it, come on, you got it, the hand is real, the voices aren't.
John: [Crichton squeezes]
The Doctor: [OH NO YOU DON'T...] "The Master... is..."
The Doctor: [HERE!] "...not!"
Alex: [It's like when he had the parasitic cancer in his body, the weapon used against him. More cursing, and interspersed with it...are...apologies. Very quiet, and less than the cursing...but his pace is increasing, heading to the doors. Still with red and black biomass flowing over him as Alex tries to keep himself together.]
Martha: [Martha hears that clearly] "The Master isn't here. He's never coming back." [her voice seems strained but very serious.]
Alex: [Getting to the doors, and heaving the damn thing out them with a final growled out.] FUCK! YOU!
Inara: [Inara is trembling; and she scoots close to the Doctor and John, and closes her eyes. If this is the end - if she's going to die - she doesn't want to die alone. So she's going to press in right there against the Doctor's side, and clutch his coat.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum pushes through the crowd, opening the cockpit door and slipping quickly into the pilots chair, keying systems to ensure that the door would be ready to seal the moment Alex was back inside. Ready to keep the Advance inside the hanger and prevent it being drawn out into space should the hanger doors be thrown open]
The Doctor: [The Doctor brings her close.] "This... this is real..."
Quinn: [Hopefully, if things have gone well for Quinn, that should be easier and faster for 'Vadum to do.]
Alex: [Sprinting back to the hangar, leaping and ready.]
The Doctor: "You... are real..."
The Doctor: "We are real..." [NO! NOOOOoooo...]
John: Yeah! [Crichton tries to be as calming as possible. He can't keep it together himself, but this is helping a lot] I am real, The Master is not. The Master is a pile of dren. Come on, almost there.
The Doctor: "Pile... of dren..."
'Vadum: [Hitting the controls the rear doors slide closed the instant Alex is back within, The interior sealing with Quinns assistance all the faster. Keying the comms] Its clear, what ever you are going to do Gryff, do it now!
The Doctor: [Don't want to know what dren is...]\
Martha: [The drums in martha's head start fading, as she's piggybacking off the other conversation...]
Mordin: [Mordin is moving slower now, trying to keep up with the group but falling behind.]
The Doctor: "Inara... stay with us..."
The Doctor: "Stay here... where it's real..."
Inara: [she doesn't want to know what a dren is either, honestly.]
Naruto: [tries to finally fight back the glowing red chakra cloak, piulling his self control back together to try and fight off the Kyuubi's influence on him.] I won't.... run away... anymore...
[MOD] The airlock doors start opening the second 'Vadum activates the ship to seal it up. The inner doors open, and not like some of you have seen, the OUTER doors open at the same time - out of sync. The marker sways once, twice, with the increasing air pressure... then you all here a terrible SHRIEK,, utterly inhuman and piercing, a death sound, before the marker flies out into the vaccuum of space.[MOD]
John: (He'll say it again near the TARDIS if he's curious) We're all here. This is real. [The one time Crichton is functional and he has to swear right in the middle...ah, well.]
Inara: [She clings to the Doctor and John both -- she doesn't know who she's holding at this point, and hell it doesn't matter.]
Alex: [Alex is crouched, looking entirely human again, and clutching his head. Sorry, no cuddles for him.]
Bruce: [The Hulk snorts as he watches over them all - brows knitted together, not understanding while outside, the airlock doors shut again... and the silence returns. There's not a sound outside.]
The Doctor: [And the voices fade... The Doctor has won his mental wrestling match with The Master, two out of three falls...]
John: [Crichton squeezes them both] Okay, I think we're back...everyone good?
Mordin: [Mordin collapses, limp as the noise in his head finally vanishes.] Uhnnnnn.
Inara: [Inara is spent. Sorry for the dead weight, boys.]
'Vadum: ['Vadum fights with the controls a moment as the pressure threatens to pull the Advance free of the hanger, but manages to keep it well within, drifting it further to the side of the hanger to get out of the immediate path. Tracking the marker as its pulled out of the station]
Martha: [Martha, her head clear, moves to go and help Mordin.] Come on. Let's get you up... [she tries to help him.]
Bruce: [Suggestion - as the Hulk grunts loudly - that 'Vadum opens the doors back out or the Hulk will make himself an exit as he moves past everyone.]
The Doctor: [The Doctor picks up Inara. He bends and whispers in her ear:] "Thank you."
Quinn: [Quinn doesn't stand up right away - first, he telepathically thanks the ship for its help. Always leave them on a good note. And right after he does that.... he flops over onto the floor. Thankfully he didn't have far to go, since he was sitting already.]
John: [Crichton looks down at The Doctor] You and she gonna be all right?
Inara: [She's still jelly-legged and clinging to the poor Doctor as she's pulled up. Then she hugs him. Tightly. Crichton, you're next.]
Fran: [The screaming in her head stops thankfully, but the ringing does not. Her ears hurt and she manages to pick herself up despite the dizziness, but leaning against the wall for support. Her equilibrium was off.]
Mordin: [Mordin nods as he stands. He looks like there's something on his mind, but he doesn't say anything. Now is not the time.]
The Doctor: [Looks up.] "Yes, I think soooo--" 9And he is swept up in her hug.]
Naruto: [finally collapses onto the deck, groaning softly from the exertions of resisting his demonic chakra.]
Martha: [Martha doesn't push it. She thinks that they're all going to need time to... figure everything out. And then there's the other thing she needs to do as well. She moves so that Mordin can lean against the wall if he wants to. She wonders if they can set up some kind of alarm to keep this from happening again and catching them by surprise... she is mentally exausted.]
The Doctor: "Can't... breathe..."
Inara: [Oh right. Sorry. Letting him go now. Come here, Crichton.]
Martha: "Everyone alright? No one's hurt, are they?" [she means physically.]
elric441) [Crichton is suddenly swept up in Inara's hug] Hey, we're all al- WHOA! [He hugs her back, a little gentler, laughing] We lived through that... [He laughs louder and hugs her tighter] WE LIVED THROUGH THAT!
'Vadum: [Easing the Advance back down to the deck of the hanger, 'Vadum shakes his head as the pressure on his mind eases up. Monitoring the status of the hanger, once he was sure that the atmosphere had returned he keys the back and side hatches, allowing everyone to exit the vessel.]
Quinn: [Well, the dork wonder over here passed out, but he'll be fine in a few.]
The Doctor: "We most certainly did, good sir!"
Inara: [HOW? she doesn't know. But really -- it doesn't matter. They're alive.] We're alive. I'm alive.
Naruto: [doesn't reply to anyone, wimpering on the ground as he tried to struggle to put his head back together]
Bruce: [The Hulk leaves the ship, surprisingly quick for someone his size, and is out through the hangar doors (back into the Station) in a jump. And like that.. he's gone. Nearly quick as he came.]
Fran: [Well, everything is faint, but she'll be okay. Eventually. She's covered in gore, both dried and wet, her head and ears hurt and Fran, for the first time in more than fifty years, longed for home.]
The Doctor: [Puts a comforting hand on Inara's shoulder] "We're all alive thanks to you, my dear..."
John: [Crichton lets go and slumps back] Damn. I forgot how close those get...
Martha: "This definately will go down as one of the more eventful adventures I've had..." [she shakes her head and lets out a breath, the gun she was holding now over her shoulder and as if she wants nothing to do with it and is trying to keep it as far from her hand as she can. Martha moved to go and check on those who are passed out and on the ground, taking pulses.]
Alex: [Alex finally sighs, looking at the others...the voices are quiet, and he's still whole. One piece, still alive...] Everyone alright?
Inara: Me? [shaky laugh.] Hardly. [there's a lot of heroes tonight.]
John: Most of us. Come on, find a place to sit. [Crichton continues laughing]
'Vadum: [Sitting there a moment, 'Vadum finally pushes himself from the pilot's seat and steps back out into the troop bay.] You all fought well.
Martha: "We should check with Gryff, make sure that she's okay. See if there's anything left on the station..."
Mordin: [Mordin is slowly coming back to himself. He gives the others a nod, a job well done.]
Quinn: [After a few minutes, Quinn rouses, wondering if he dreamed them all going away. But it was quiet now - no screaming, no guns, no weird singing. He slowly and shakily gets up, and gets out of the ship.]
......We did it?
Fran: [Fran looks at everyone, barely hearing what they were saying, but hearing the louder laughter from others. She gaves a slight nod, though she feels like she's about to drop herself.] Ears...hurt.
The Doctor: "I suppose you're right; this was a real team effort. How refreshing!"
Alex: [Looking at Fran, have a faintly wry smirk.] Mine too...and my head.
Naruto: [finally gets himself back together, and he retreats from the others as they seem... like a small family. And it was hurting him to watch, even as he put up a small smile of an emotional mask on his face for his survival]
Inara: We did it. [faint laugh.] Mine, too.
Inara: We did it. [faint laugh.] Mine, too.
'Vadum: ['Vadum dips his had to Quinn and the others.] Indeed we did.
The Doctor: "Not so loud, please..." [GRIN]
John: Mine would, but it's kinda got some pieces missing. [Crichton chuckles]
Martha: "Brilliant job. [she nods] We should get you two to medical. just make sure that there's nothing out of place?" She tries to smile a bit, glancing around at everyone still assembled. The sooner she got back to medical the better.]
Fran: [Fran doesn't return the smirk] Everything...is faint.
Inara: [Don't mind her, she's going to go over here and lean against the wall for support for a moment.[
Quinn: [Quinn's quiet for a moment, looking around, unsure of what to say. He's still badly shaken.] Good. I'm glad. Now if y'all don't mind, I'm gonna so sleep for a week.
The Doctor: "Yes, I think that perhaps we could all do with some cleaning up and then a nice long rest."
John: [Crichton can't possibly have someone leaning against the wall like that. He staggers over and offers Inara his shoulder] Here, we'll find you somewhere nice to lie down
[MOD] ...is everyone alive in there? Someone report from the Advance! I've got some guy who needs his ego taken down a peg and Blu-- Megamind up here with me.[MOD]
Martha: [Martha laughs.] "Sounds like thignsare back to normal up there."
John: [Crichton uses his free hand to turn on his comm] Yyyyup, we're all alive down here. Intact is another thing, but whatever it was, it's gone now.
The Doctor: [Ah, that would be Mr. Stark. And who? "Megamind?" Curiouser and curiouser...]
Inara: My mechanic. [murmuring in relief.]
The Doctor: "K9, are there any more of those things out there?"
The Doctor: **NEGATIVE, MASTER**
Fran: [Using the wall for support, Fran squats to retrieve her gun and gets upright again to try and get off of the ship, feeling completely worn]
Naruto: [grumbles slightly and goes over to Scarf guy] OK, if someone doesn't have a good answer to my next question... I'm gonna scream...
The Doctor: "Splendid, K9!"
Martha: [Martha walks over to Fran] "Let me give you a hand." [Offers her a shoulder to lean on.]
John: [Crichton gives Naruto a blank look] How we gonna tell between that and your regular voice, blondie?
Alex: [Alex is near enough by, and stands...offering Fran that other hand.]
The Doctor: [Looks to Inara] "Shall we?"
[MOD]Are one of the docs down there? ...We need help. Kind of badly.[MOD]
Naruto: [does that creepy horror movie slow roll to look at Chriton] Unless you've got ramen to offer... I'll take it up with the kage...
Inara: […Oh God where's Bruce. This would be her looking at the Doctor.] Bruce. Where is Dr. Banner?
Inara: […and where is the Hulk....]
Martha: [Martha looks up] We're both down here. [She looks around and... doesn't mention that Bruce ran off...] Gryff, can you get to medical?
Mordin: [Mordin perks up a bit. He's tired, but if he's needed.] What's wrong?
Fran: [Fran looks to Martha and Alex before accepting the offer from both. With her ears needing to be healed up, her balance is off and walking isn't going to be completely sober-looking in her heels.] Thank you.
'Vadum: ['Vadum nods slightly, relaxing the slightest bit at that. Slowly moving to collect his blades and put them back to his belt. Looking up suddenly at the transmission.]
The Doctor: "Oh no, you're right." [Turns on the comm] "Gryf, this is the Doctor. Is Dr. Banner with you?"
[MOD] I don't want to move him. He's lost- I guess we both lost a lot of blood getting here.[MOD]
Martha: [Martha looks at Mordin] "You need to rest."
Alex: [Once its clear Fran is supported...sorry Fran, Alex doesn't really do physical contact. So, once it's clear she's supported, he's backing off.]
Martha: [Hell they ALL need to rest!]
[MOD]No, just the three of us.[MOD]
Fran: [And shower.]
The Doctor: [Follows Inara and stays on the comm] "Then who's hurt up there?"
'Vadum: ['Vadum looks to the medics] I will assist where I can. [He could easily carry someone if needed or open stubborn doors.]
Mordin: [Mordin shakes his head.] Can rest later. If a patient needs help, they come first.
John: [Still stumbling after Inara] I think he'd still have to be out here...where would he go?
[MOD] Both Megamind and I. ...Seriously, please?! Any of you?? [MOD]
'Vadum: ['Vadum keys the comm] What is your current location?
John: [On comm] Look, I'll be up as soon as I can. I know a little field medicine, it'll help till they can get there.
The Doctor: "I'm on my way." [turns to K9] "K9, stay with Inara, and try to find Dr. Banner."
Martha: [Martha looks at Alex] Can you take her? [Looks at Mordin and nods] We're on our way! Find something and put pressure on the wound in the meantime.
Alex: [Have a blink...and a long...look.] ...Yeah, sure fine. [Too tired to argue really, and Fran is quiet at least. So yeah, sliding his arm under hers so she can lean on his shoulder and be supported.]
[MOD]We're in my supply room, holed up.[MOD]
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