GESB: Operation Time-Cops

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin nods and pulls a small tube-like vessel from one of the cabinets in the med-bay.  He activates the cerebral stimulator which hums faintly, giving Matthew's brain a mild stimulation as he slides the top of the tube open and passes it under Matthew's slightly flexing nostrils as he inhales.  The tube contains a substance which emits pheromones meant to stimulate consciousness.  <This should bring him around, after he's steady we can get Hadrin in the field and do the same for him.  The cut on his forehead is superficial and there is not significant trauma to the cranial cavity.  There is no encephalopathy according to the computer.>  He smiles at Myitt a moment and then passes the tube under Matthew's nostrils again.

Ossanlin sends out a wideband thought-speech for Alic, though he doesn't know she has driven off.  <Myitt says to take the vehicle to town and put it somewhere inconspicuous.>

Ossanlin shuts off the cerebral stimulator and removes it from Matthew's forehead, waiting to see if he'll come around as expected.  As he waits, he addresses Myitt's other concern.  <As far as vaporization of the Bug, the Mirage is certainly capable.  I have pulse-missiles onboard after all, though that may be a bit...heavy-handed.  One of those would leave a rather sizable crater.  The shredders have been modified and the Mirage carries a second power-source besides its small central reactor in case auxilliary power is needed.  A concentration of all three beams with auxilliary power would be more than enough to melt the bug into slag...whether they could vaporize the bug or not would really depend on the hull-plating's flash-point...and upon how well the plating is still able to dissipate heat.>

[Myitt]

Myitt nods, biting her lip and watching Ossanlin work on Matthew. 

"Good," she says in response to the Mirage's capabilities.  "We're going to have to act quickly, vaporize as much of it as we can, grab Alic and run to find Sukohn."  She looks over at Terenia's sister.  "And I suppose we'll have to deal with Zorish," she says unhappily.

Matthew stirs and grimaces.  "Ughhh...five more minutes," he murmurs.  Then he seems to realize where he is, hovering above the sterile gurney on an alien spaceship.  His eyes open wide and he looks around.  "Hey, what's going on?  Ow...my head.  Oh, man..."

"Try and relax, Matthew, you're safe," says Myitt.  "Just lie back, you got knocked on the head.  Just a little battle scar."  She smiles.

"Ohhh...I don't even remember," Matthew says weakly, lying back and staring at the ceiling.  "I was behind the car door, and then everything went black."

"Shh," says Myitt quietly.  "You did real well, Matthew.  We couldn't have done this without you."

Matthew nods and closes his eyes tightly. 

Myitt looks at Ossanlin.  "Will he be able to move for Hadrin?"

[Terenia]

Zorish watches uselessly as the Andalites and humans converse above him. The young Andalite had mentioned defection to a rebel group, and it quickly becomes apparent that the humans are not entirely so.

<So, the rumors about the peace movement are true as well,> Zorish murmurs to himself out of habit. He finds it strange that his host cannot currently respond. While they were hardly friends they did have a fairly congenial relationship and he could usually count on Tamara to add her input. As it was, Zorish was receiving nothing from her but basic survival commands from her brain. He continued talking anyways, working through the situation.

<Yeerk rebels and Andalites working together,> he snorted mentally, <what a disgrace to our -> at that moment, Myitt mentions Zorish by name, distracting him, <the rebel knows who I am? This isn't some ruse to capture Visser Three? What in the name of Kandrona could this filth want from me?>

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin looks to Matthew.  <He should be fine, there's no significant damage, he may be a bit drowsy and possibly dizzy, but other than that...>  Ossanlin places a hand on Matthew's arm.  <Matthew, are you able to stand?  At least long enough to sit?  We have another injured party that requires treatment.>

He looks over to Zorish as Myitt speaks about him.  <Yes, well.  For now I think it would be best to leave his host unconscious.  He shouldn't be able to circumvent the field or the restraints, but no reason to give him more mobility than necessary.  I hope that he can provide us with some useful tactical information about the Earth invasion.  He is supposed to be one of the top intelligence officers in the invasion force.>

He looks back to Myitt.  <Once we get Matthew up and into a restraint and get Hadrin into the field, we can take off and concentrate enough fire on the bug as possible.  If the shredders aren't enough, we'll just blast a crater in the Earth.  Perhaps they will think it a meteorite impact.  Then we must get after Sukohn and preserve the timeline.  This part of the mission has gone exceedingly well, considering, but we've used a lot of time.>

[Myitt]

Matthew nods again.  "Yeah...I think so."  He starts to sit himself up, and Myitt helps him off the floating gurney.  "Ugh.  Remind me never to do this again."

Myitt smiles.  "Don't ever do this again, you lunatic."  She guides him over to the wall where she had been sitting, near the exit, and helps him sit himself down. 

"I think keeping Zorish restrained is very wise, especially if he wakes up anytime soon," she replies to Ossanlin.  "We should also make sure he is fully unconscious, we don't need even more of a security liability.  You're right, we don't have much time, in spite of our good fortune.  I do wonder how Elayne and the others are doing..."  A shadow passes over her expression as she remembers everyone back at the bar. 

Then she walks across the room to Hadrin, kneeling by his side and placing a hand on his shoulder.  "Hadrin?  Justin?  Can you hear me?"

One of them murmurs something unintelligible and he stirs a bit.  Myitt gingerly passes a thumb near the large bruise on Justin's dark skin, on his forehead. 

"I'm going to need help getting them up there," she says idly.

[Chad32]

<Perhaps I should not have demorphed quite yet, then.> Claxter said. Personally he would have liked to talk to Zorish and tamora about Terenia, but apparently that idea was already voted out.

The thought occured to him that since they were in the safety of the ship, now may be as good a time as any to try his Human morph. <Excuse me.> He said, as he walked into another room to morph. This way Matthew wouldn't freak out. He focused on the images of both Humans as he tried to make a mix of both.

The body shape was Matthew's, but the hair color and skin tone was different. Also some facial features, as well as a weight and height difference. After he was done he opened the door again.

"I have completed the frolis maneuver. Compalete. Commmmpleeetuhh. Hmm! That's fun. Funuh. Funnnn. Though I have no artificial artititifilceeeaal skin. I will need neeeduh some for public."

[Myitt]

Myitt stands up to get a better look at Claxter's mix of both Tara and Matthew, then realizes he's unclothed.  

Tara takes control and blinks a few times.  "Oh, this is too weird," she says.

"You're telling me," Matthew says from his spot on the floor near Claxter, averting his eyes.  "Uh.  Hey, Andalite dude?  There might be some extra clothes in the back of my Jeep.  Jeans, at least.  Hey, where is my car, anyway?"

"Aliciania, one of our Andalite friends, drove it to Roswell," says Myitt, back in control and far less disturbed by the mixed morph Claxter has taken.  At Matthew's surprised look, she adds, "Alic has been on Earth before, she knows how to operate a car.  It's a long story."  She looks at Ossanlin.  "Unless you still have that Imperial uniform hanging around somewhere.  That might be useful.  In the meantime, a little help here?"

She gestures down to Hadrin.

[Chad32]

<I do not plan to wear a Yeerk uniform.> Claxter said, choosing thoughtspeech this time. He gave Oss a sort of hopeful pleading look that said "please don't make me wear a Yeerk uniform.". He moved to help Hadrin up, as that was part of the reason he morphed.

[Alic]

Alic picked up speed, she didn't like being by herself in the middle of nowhere. The gas pedal was uncomfortable under her bare foot, and she wished she had some shoes.

((I don't know what this town is like or how big it is... What might I see entering the city? Is it big n busy? Simple streets with typical gas stations and stores?))

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

Ossanlin nods and looks over at Claxter.  <No I left the uniform back at the...location.>  Ossanlin darts a look at Zorish wondering if he could still hear or see.  The comment Myitt had made about complete unconsciousness had reminded him of the possibility.  He reaches down, wrapping one of his unusually strong arms around Hadrin/Justin and brings his tail around to help with the lift as well, trying to maneuver the rebel onto the freed gurney.

<Warrior, please bring the ship to a suitable height for free weapons on the Bug fighter wreckage.>  Ossanlin avoided saying Claxter's name, though it shouldn't really matter.  Perhaps he'd said it already...he should've been more careful with Zorish possibly hearing things.  At least no one had mentioned Terenia yet...Ossanlin hoped to hold that from the Yeerk and Tamara until they reached the bar and confronted each other.

[Chad32]

<Yes sir.> Claxter said. Since he wasn't really needed, he started making his way towards the piloting station. As hard as he tried, he still couldn't keep from wobbling around like a drunk on his two feet. He would try to practice that. Once he made it to the station, he performed takeoff procedure and made it into the air. At a safe altitude, he aimed all shredders at the ship.<Computer, constant fire on the enemy ship.>

The weapons began firing, causing the ship to begin desintegrating. They would soon see if he could cplete the job.

[Terenia]

((this wouldn't look too odd to anyone walking in. An unconscious girl and boy on gurney's, a man with a gash in his head, another young woman who keeps switching who is in control, and an alien all in a ship being piloted by a naked man who looks like a mix of two of the other people.))

[Chad32]

(we have entered the twilight zone. sorry you don't have much to type about, since they decided not to wake Zorish up. Oh well.)

[Terenia]

((it's all good ))

[Myitt]

((Hahaha guys...my explanation to my pals here as to why the man was naked was that he performed a frolis maneuver and didn't have any spandex.  I can't believe I just said that sentence, hahaha..nerdy.  But these guys already knew that...lols.  

Anywho, Roswell is a mid sized city, no big skyscrapers but maybe 45,000 people...main street USA))

Myitt gives Claxter a sour look as he leaves the room.  "He's not real big on the whole slug-in-the-head thing, is he?" she says dryly, helping Ossanlin lift Hadrin onto the gurney.  "I guess I'm not surprised."