GESB: Operation Time-Cops

[Myitt]

Myitt turns to Tamora when she cries out, begging for someone to save her life.  She takes care to place the generator discreetly into her jacket pocket.

<Could be she's just asking the Yeerk to save her,> Tara says flatly.  <Or for someone in the room.  I'm pretty sure that's what I'd do in her situation.  We can't kill her, Myitt, I still don't fully understand what you're doing.  Hello?>

"Ossanlin," she says briskly, ignoring her host, Sukohn, Tamora's desperate cries and even Ossanlin himself.  "Would it be possible to run a bioscan on the people in this room?"  She scoffs self-deprecatingly.  "Call me paranoid.  Could you do that for me, please?" 

[Chad32]

<Oh crap. She's suspicious. If Ossanlin says yes, I guess our cover is blown.> Sukohn said. He managed to get himself back to the wall, preferring to lean against it than lie down or sit up by himself.

<Any other bright ideas?> Cody asked.

<Nope.>

<what's a bioscan?> Derrel asked. <Is that bad? Are they going to figure it out?>

[Terenia]

<Shh....> Zorish hisses internally. He lifts his head from his hands, his face scrunched up with the concern that Derrel was feeling naturally. It was not difficult to imitate the man. His emotions were easy to read, and there was really very little acting involved.

"Why do you want to hurt someone who is already your prisoner?" Zorish asks, reiterating Derrel's own thoughts, "what did she do that was so bad anyways?"

<I told you they were the bad guys,> Zorish adds to Derrel privately, <they have no regard for anyone, not even their captives.>


Tamora, meanwhile, locks her jaw as Sukohn mentions 'Sub-Visser'. I have to act the part, she reminds herself, although she can't help but wonder why Zorish did not jump to her rescue. Clearly she was in peril. Would Zorish really sacrifice her? It didn't seem possible, and yet he had not stopped Myitt from trying to use the killing device. No matter, she chides herself, you need to think about yourself and staying alive.

"No," she clears her throat, doing her best to imitate Zorish's delivery, "I will not leave my host. She wants me here, and I will remain until she asks me to leave."

[Myitt]

Myitt smiles over at Derrel, trying to remain ****y, although he does seem very sincere and convincing.  "This creature is an officer of our government.  A government that enslaves other races, including your own, and which I and my host now oppose.  We cannot allow her to survive after what she has learned as our prisoner," she says.  Then she tilts her head, curiously.  "She may have attempted to explain this to you, or at least her side of the coin.  You were alone in here with them for quite some time."

[Chad32]

Derrel didn't say anything to Zorish, but he did feel there wasn't any point in doing bad to captured enemies. Not much good can come from going to your local prison and shooting up everyone in their cells. They'd already been captured and imprisoned for their crimes.

[Terenia]

"She's just a girl," Zorish protests, sounding exactly like someone who is still new to the idea of a Yeerk. Someone who, even after having been infested himself, still only sees the host and not the operator of the body, "surely she won't cause you any harm. Can't you just keep her captive? There's no need to hurt anyone..."

Suddenly, a look of dawning horror crosses Derrel's face. His eyes grow wide and he bares his teeth in a frightened grimace, "You....you aren't going to kill me when you're done with her, are you?" He glances at Aliciana as though afraid that she would bring her tail down on him that instant.

[Myitt]

Myitt begins to seriously doubt herself, but her resolve remains firm.  "No, of course we won't kill you," she says quietly.  "You haven't learned nearly enough about us, unless Sukohn over there opened his limited knowledge of our operations up to you.  Even then, we have ways of allowing you to be released unharmed, and uninfested."  She looks over at Tamora.  "For this Yeerk and his human host, I'm afraid we have no such alternative."

[Chad32]

Sukohn decided not to mention that the Human did know about Marco. If released back on Earth, and infested, then the Yeerks may also find out about him. It was some small consolation for the Emperial. Derrel didn't know much alse.

[Alic]

Alic nodded at Ossanlin. <My way is funner..> She knew at this point there really weren't any plans of killing anyone. Maybe one of them would give Myitt an excuse to do so. Maybe. Probably not, she didn't think they would really try anything too stupid.

She turned a stalk eye to the innocent human. <She's not just a girl, not anymore. She may look innocent, but she has sided with the yeerks to help destroy your planet. Less of them is better for you, believe me. And no, I won't harm you. As Myitt said, you will be released.>

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin furrows his brow in some confusion, then looks up at Derrel who was free to move about the cabin, then back to Tamora.  He shakes his head, still feigning ignorance though finally Myitt's suspicions are illustrated.  <Well...it might be possible...though I'm not sure why we would wish to do so, we already know who's on-board.>  <<I see what you're driving at, I can run a complete scan without moving from this spot.>> <I'll have to go back to the cabin to interface with the manual controls to see if I can even rig the computer for a dedicated scan...what do you hope to accomplish?>

Ossanlin privately interfaces with the thought-speech command of the ship's computer and begins a dedicated Gleet bioscan that would be able to discern the species and location of all life-forms present.  No outward indication is given that the computer has begun the scan.

[Myitt]

Myitt glances at Sukohn, then at Tamora and Derrel.  "I just want to allay my paranoia, Ossanlin," she says.  "If you would, please?"

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin furrows his brow as if in deep thought.  <Well, I'll have to figure out how to reroute the internal scanners through the med-lab bio-field...>  Meanwhile the computer continues to process the information and completes its task quickly.

<<Myitt, the scan shows two male Andalites, one female Andalite, three human males, two human females, and four Yeerks.  The scan further qualifies that three of the human males' brain wave patterns match that of individuals who've been infested by Yeerks, only one of the human females shows those patterns.  Which means one too many males is infested, whereas one too few females is infested.>>

<Then there's the matter of actually scanning the entire ship...>  Ossanlin rubs his temple with his left hand as if still thinking, but his right hand hangs apparently relaxed at his side, within easy reach of his Shredder.

[Chad32]

"It's ok, Prince Ossanlin." Sukohn says, adding the title for brownie points. "We're all behaving pretty well, so you don't need the hassle. Myitt's just being paranoid. We Yeerks are like that sometimes." He was also trying to lump Myitt in with other Yeerks in the hopes that Ossanlin would further dismiss a task asked by a non Andalite.

[Myitt]

"Yes, I know it's quite complicated," Myitt replies, her hand drifting toward her own Dracon.  She shakes her head, disappointed, and draws her Dracon.  "Hadrin left this room when we did, so I highly doubt he's involved in all of this.  Now all we really have to figure out is whether Sukohn has infested Derrel and switched places with Zorish, allowing Zorish inside of Cody...improbable, but possible...or if Zorish has infested Derrel.  It's an interesting question, I would've thought Zorish might have acted when I tried killing Tamora.  Hmm.  Could very well be a simple act of self-preservation, to the end.  Am I right?"  She looks up at Derrel, questioning. 

[Alic]

((Sukohn gives in a little easy don't you think?))