Colorless Green

Shaon · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: Colorless Green

She had no idea how it happened, really.

She was really just loafing around as she cruised to her destination, when suddenly she found her ship flying itself into a blue tunnel that suddenly appeared.

Sirens sounded, lights flashed, all was chaos inside her Runner.

"Computer! What just happened?" She yelled, trying to be heard over the alarms.

"Unknown spacial disturbance. I've lost our location. There has been no such record of this type of disturbance."

The Spittle Runner stopped shaking abruptly, as the 'disturbance' suddenly ended. Whatever it was, it spat her out just inside the atmosphere of a cubish planet.

Slowly, her ship began to sink towards the ground.

"Computer," she started, somewhat nervous. "Computer, get us out of here."

"I cannot," replied the digitized voice. "Thrusters are damaged to the point that I cannot fight the gravity."

A magnified picture of the ground below them came up on her viewscreen, with a bullseye on top of the lone building.

"I estimate the crash to be..." the picture magnified once again, "right here."

Kazumaru · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject:

Kazumaru's eyes flickered open. He rolled off the couch, muttering "Mmm... Need... coffee..."

He poured himself a cup of the instant stuff Sentinel synthesized- Probably laced with arsenic, too- and quickly chugged it back. As his senses cleared, something about the lab seemed... strange.

"Sentinel..." Kazumaru asked "... did we get new wallpaper?"

Shaon · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject:

Zion awoke a good few minutes after the crash, thanking the Tallest for the resilience of her species.

Her ship was an absolute mess. Her parts would be ruined.

Drowsily lifting her head, she was apparently suspended over a lab of some sort.

Quickly gaining her composure, she stood up. Her legs were as undamaged as the rest of her, miraculously enough. With a mental command, five long, spindly legs sprouted from the implant on her back, lifting her through a hole in the wreckage.

She stood atop the wreckage, and thus Kazumaru's lab, taking a quick survey of the area.

Kazumaru · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

"No, you blithering idiot. There's a space ship jutting through your roof." Sentinel said, sounding slightly annoyed.

"Oh." Kazumaru said, sipping his coffee. "Any survivors?"

"Yeah... one's on the roof."

Kazumaru put his top hat on and headed for the door. "Righto." he said, as he left.

The spirit climbed a convenient later to the roof of his lab...

Shaon · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

Zion noticed Kazumaru's appearance almost immediately.

He was quite tall, intimidatingly so, but a simple mental command changed this so she towered over him.

She sped over toward him, coming face to face.

"You." she started, angrily, as she tried to figure out what species he was, to no avail.

"... Thing. Do you know how valuable my cargo was?!" She yelled, jabbing him with a finger. "It was extremely valuable! My entire life depended on it, and now my only method of transportation is ruined!"

Kazumaru · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

Kazumaru sipped his coffee. "Not a clue, actually... and I think it was your ship that hit my lab, not the other way around. Either way, though... Do you want to come in for some coffee?" He had to admit, the figure was sort of intimidating... "By the way. Nice backpack."

LordPsycho · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:02 am Post subject:

((Go Irkens!
I'm gonna sing the doom song now!))

Cirrial · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

501 has had enough. He shouts to everyone in Station Zero. "I've had ENOUGH!"

"Ak-tse, I've had enough of the row! I'm going topside to make angry enquiries whilst shouting very loudly to mask the fact I have no confrontational skills! Wait. No, that was a line from Mech-Ayver, Man of Talc. Heh. That movie was funny."

Ak-tse, edging away in a manner of quiet irritation, clicks his mandibles, a well-known sign in the language of Tz-tk that the recipient is really wasting time the speaker could be using to do something constructive, such as stop a reactor from going critical.

"Yeah, you're busy. Anyway, I've got to go."

"Have fun- CODE RED! CODE RED! WE'RE DISPATCHING 501 TO THE CRASH SITE! EVERYONE TO THE CONSOLES!" Ak-tse throws a clipboard over his head and runs screaming into a very heavy armoured door, which whirs and clicks and slams open. The other saa-kru in the room stare silently and calmly decide to follow him. "I think someone here needs to take a vacation." "Pfft, like we get holiday leave here."

---

On the surface, 501 angrily knocks on the door to the lab, before inadvertantly punching a hole through the door with his metal fist. "Whoops. HELLO?! I'M YOUR NEIGHBOUR! FROM A BLOCK AWAY! TOTALLY NOT UNDERNEATH YOUR LAB AND ALL! KEEP THE NOISE LEVEL DOWN! AM I MAKING MYSELF CLEAR? HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME UP THERE? HELLO?! He- wait. Up there?"

He paces back and cranes his head up, casually glancing over the spaceship-lab hybrid. "Huh. I'm genuinely surprised I didn't notice that earlier." He shuffles about the wall, patting it and rubbing his claws over it.

"Aha. This'll do." He very slowly and precisely stabs his claws into the metal, making tiny indentures, and pulls himself up.

He falls off the wall flat onto his back less than a foot off the ground. "Well, screw that."

Five minutes later, he places a ladder against the wall, unsure of where it had suddenly appeared from. Perhaps the sole remnant of a very heavy rain. Literally heavy.

After clambering up, he pushes the ladder onto the floor to make sure he isn't followed. He then mentally chastises himself for being such an idiot and resolves to look for a safe way back down later. He also pauses to wonder why he didn't just fly up to the roof to begin with.

"Hello? Anyone up here? Nice spaceship, or whatever. Fusion reactor? Solar panel? Trendy art installation? ...Conservatory?"

Shaon · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject:

"And what caused the disturbance that forced me to crash land on your lab?!" Zion yelled.

"You better hope your lab isn't too badly damaged; I don't want to repair your place before I even get a chance to work on my Runner," she muttered.

Kazumaru · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

Kazumaru shrugged. "Dunno. I was asleep."

He sipped his coffee. "Who says I'm gonna let you use my lab, anyway?"

He raised the cup to 501, as if to greet him.

Cirrial · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

501 nods to Kaz, and gives an impromptu, rather esoteric salute, consisting of a claw slapping to the face, then being raised above the head, and then three punches into the air in quick succession.

"Hey, you. Who's this? Another robot thingy?"

He points nonchalantly at Zion and leans on... nothing. After falling off the roof of the lab, he shouts a few choice keynain curses, sounding like especially angry birdsong, and then grumbles to himself as he looks around for the ladder he found earlier.

Back on the roof, he nonchalantly leans on Zion's spaceship.