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Post by Cain on Jan 20, 2010 12:07:52 GMT -5
Kyo didn't regard Jor with an answer, he simply pointed in the direction of the creature behind the control panel. With the lights now on every gruesome detail of its form could be clearly seen. Strangely it hadn't made a move yet since Kyo had last spoken to Jor, it only stood and stared silently... though Kyo could sense the death around it, the blood lust and anger inside it.
"I don't know what it is... but it's weird and pissed off whatever it is," Kyo said, his lightsaber still ignited and raised in a defensive position in case the creature should try and attack.
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Post by Drake on Jan 20, 2010 18:43:52 GMT -5
Drake ran behind Jor after they finally made it was out of breath to say the least he was leanning on his knees coughing some "Damn I'm outta shape" he said as he stood up and stretched he looked over at the creature that Kyo had pointed out it was weird looking but it seemed to be more afraid of them than they of it. Drake scratched his head with his lightsaber handle "What do you want to do Jor?" Drake asked him, he stepped up some and looked at the thing "Hey can you talk?" he asked it "Do you understand what I'm saying...we're not here to hurt you we're jedi we come in peace" he said pointing to himself and the rest of them though it was a weird thing to say considering they all had weapons out.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 20, 2010 21:47:28 GMT -5
Jor looked over to where everyone else was looking and saw the thing. Something deep down in his psyche erupted right then. A feeling he hadn't had for at least 25 years sprang into his mind and he felt his mouth form the words "Leave this place creature." But the sound coming from him was not his own voice. It was deeper, with a hint of raspy breathing behind it like it was being said through a respirator.
Six, smiled at this. For him it confirmed his hypothesis and let him know that he was not the only one having control issues with his own body.
Jor took a staggering step back in surprise after the outburst. He cleared his throat and looked back up at the creature. It was gone. While he'd been distracted by his body rebelling against him, the creature had gone down, phasing through the deck plates of the room.
Six spoke up from the back. "You recognize that voice Jor?"
Jor nodded. "I do, but i thought he was gone for good when they sent you back?"
Six shrugged, "obviously not. Come on, we need to find that thing and figure out what it's connection to all this is."
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Post by Cain on Jan 20, 2010 21:55:36 GMT -5
A confused look came over Kyo's face. Jor's sudden change in voice was unsettling, but that both he and Six seemed to recognize it was even more puzzling. Kyo turned off his lightsaber after the creature simply phased through the deck and disappeared, "OK, time out. I think the rest of us may need a bit of an explanation. Whose voice was that? What exactly is going on here?"
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 20, 2010 22:07:10 GMT -5
Jor and Six were equally excited. This presented an opportunity to perhaps speak with a friend they'd not heard from in over two decades. Maybe friend wasn't the right word, he had always been a mysterious, enigmatic, manipulative ass hole who would never give a strait answer but he'd helped them out when they need it most and in Jor's book, that made him at least an alright guy... girl... thing.
"The story is too long. Short version is that i have a few different people bouncing around inside my noggin and one of them seems to have met this entity before. Me and Six thought he was gone for good years ago but i guess a part of him is still inside us and it really doesn't like whatever that shadow creature was." Jor explained quickly.
Six moved to one of the consoles and started typing. He hadn't studied Celestial technology in a very long time, and most of it was still too advanced for even him to understand, but he remembered enough to recognize a few symbols, like the one for map.
A two dimensional hologram materialized over the console showing them a simple diagram of the ship. A few green dots on the display were all crowded into one room. Jor assumed that was them. Off in the distance was 4 other dots next to a patch of red. Jor figured that was the shuttle that had taken Kyo, Six and Tycen here and the marine team guarding it.
Furhter off in the distance was a orange dot moving towards another clump of green dots next to another red patch. Jor figured that was Rita moving toward the second shuttle and marine team.
The creature, whatever it was, didn't show up on the map display but something else did. There was a bright white dot, larger then the others, in a room a few hundred yards to the port of them and 3 levels down. It wasn't moving but pulsing out a white light. Since the only other thing on the display was life signs and apparent damage to the ship, Jor figured this must be a very very strong life sign.
Jor pointed at it. "Six, how do we get there?"
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Post by Drake on Jan 20, 2010 22:14:36 GMT -5
Drake turned around when Jor spoke "What the fuck?" he said this was getting weird even for Drake, he sighed and pulled out his flask "Thats the last time I go on a mission without drinking before hand" he said taking a gulp of the alcohol. He turned back to the creature before it faded into the ground "Great now that thing can phase..." he sighed some and lowered his head as he watched Six start looking for the thing Drake leaned against the wall as he waited to hear what was going to happen "Okay so whats the plan boys?" he asked them.
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Post by Ragasaurus-Rex on Jan 20, 2010 23:11:41 GMT -5
Tycen's face twisted into an expression of curious confusion. "a few different people bouncing around inside my noggin"? How many were a few is what Tycen really wanted to know but he'd hold on the questions until later seeing how the meddle of a dangerous mission was not the right time to be asking such things.
"I think i'm going to need a swallow of that before the days done." Tycen said in total seriousness to Drake.
"So what's the plan, Capture that thing?" He asked holstering his blaster and taking a step forward.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 21, 2010 9:12:41 GMT -5
Jor shook his head. "We don't have enough information yet to form a plan."
Six pulled out his over sized datapad and began working on it furiously. In a few moments he had copied a lot of the two dimensional map from memory. "I should be able to lead us there no problem." He said examining his map.
Jor glanced up at the rest of the room. "How about the ship, can we get it to stop doing what it's doing to the system from here?"
Six snapped his fingers and turned back to the console. "Hang on, i might be able to do something from here." He said as he began typing on the alien keys. He jumped around between consoles typing quickly until he kicked one in frustration, then jumped to another one and hit it's display with an open palm. A few keystroke later and he looked up. "I think i got it."
Jor hit the com on his collar. "Hyperion, Hyperion this is Jor. you there?"
The com crackled and the voice of the com officer on the Hyperion came back. "Jor, this is Hyperion. whatever you did has helped. Sensors are clearing up. We can safely navigate the system now."
Jor pumped his arm. "Sweet, stand by hyperion, we're onto something."
Jor pointed towards the door. "Lets go investigate an ominous yet powerful entity that seems to be incorporeal and is possibly hostile."
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Post by Drake on Jan 22, 2010 19:52:25 GMT -5
Drake leaned against the wall and yawned some "That sounds good I guess" he said as he cracked his neck waiting for them to hurry up with what they were doing. He didn't know what the hell they were talking about with everything, he just wanted to go catch that thing and find out what the hell it was. He looked up when he heard Jor say they were going to investigate "Finally" Drake said as he stood up straight and turned to go out the door, "How about you don't yell at it in a strange voice this time Jor" Drake joked with him as he ran out the room.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 0:20:39 GMT -5
FFW>>>
<STOP>
Jor and the rest of em walked into the room. It was large, very dark, and seemed to be very empty.
Jor turned on his flood lamp again and began scanning it about. Six behind them took out his flashlight again and also started looking around with it.
Jor made the first discovery. at first he thought it was a destroyed droid. It was lying on the ground with no arms and no legs, a blue substance spilled out onto the deck plating. But after a few seconds investigation Jor recognized at least it's design. It was a robotic head, sitting on a robotic torso, but instead of legs it had a mini repulsor array underneath. It didn't have any arms because it didn't need any arms.
It's head had a single eye, dead center, with no other distinguishing characteristics. It was different then the one he'd seen before, but there was no mistaking it that this robotic body was an Encounter Suit. Kosh had one that he drove around from the inside so that no one had ever seen what he really looked like.
Jor felt a pang of loss that he knew wasn't his own. Whatever part of Kosh had been left behind in him was supremely saddened by the sight of the damaged encounter suit. Six knelt down next to him and looked at the scarring on the suit.
"Looks like whatever was on the bridge attacked it. Ripped right through the metal like paper. Whatever it is, it's powerful." Six said.
Jor stood up and shown his flood lamp around some more. The next thing he saw, inspired awe in him, and frightened him to his very core. The center of the room was empty, except for the ceiling.
Hung from the ceiling by several hooks, was a body. but not like any body Jor had ever seen. When the light showed on it, the skin of the body seemed to reflect it back, or in some way absorb it, then emit it's own white light. It also wasn't quite corporeal. Jor could see right through it like a ghost. whatever it was made of seemed to swirl slowly under it's "skin" as if it's whole body was made of living mist contained inside a plastic bag.
Also, the hooks it hung by were not quite corporeal. Jor could see through them too. "...Six" Jor whispered.
Six aimed his flashlight around the very dark room as well and focused it on the head of the body. "I know."
The body was roughly humanoid, taller then an average human with a stocky build but it's face was blank. there were no discernible mouth, or nose, or eyes, just more swirling mist. From it's back, dozens long tendrils of what almost appeared to be white light streaked out and dangled. They had to have been 9 foot long tendrils because they reached the floor of the chamber they were in.
Jor walked up to the body and reached his hand out to touch it's face. He was just inches away when it moved. Jor's hand shot back and he took a few stumbling steps backwards. He looked into the things "face" and suddenly he knew.
he knew what had happened aboard this ship. He knew what the creature had done. "We need to destroy this ship." Jor said to everyone. The creature contained inside this ship must be destroyed.
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Post by Drake on Jan 23, 2010 0:33:25 GMT -5
Drake walked in the room and looked aroud he followed Jor and Six over to the suit and looked at it "And this would be?" he asked however before he could get his answer he felt a sharp chill run up his spin some "Man my spidey senses are tingling hard" he said turning around with jor and the others to see the ghost like thing. Drake took out his flask drank from it and closed his eyes. He reopened them and the ghost thing was there, Drake looked at the flask and tossed it on the floor behind him. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.
He moved his saber up when Jor went to touch it "Hey careful" he said, suddenly Jor said he knew everything and they had to destroy the ship Drake opened his mouth to speak on this one "Sounds good to me, but you know this sounds like that episode of X-men, when they went in the sewer and found the life sucking monster, and Professor X tried to probe it, then went into a coma after seeing everything it done..." he said, he looked at everyone in the room "Yeah I may lay off the booze awhile..." he spoke again.
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Post by Cain on Jan 23, 2010 12:08:40 GMT -5
The weird just kept getting weirder. The strange glowing creature that hung from the ceiling was just the latest in a long list of unanswered questions, but at this point Kyo had gotten used to being out of the loop. He kept his lightsaber ready as Jor went in to touch it. As Jor stumbled back suddenly, Kyo flinched, "What is it? What happened?"
"We need to destroy this ship." Jor said.
Kyo swallowed hard, whatever Jor had seen must not have been good to suddenly suggest such a drastic measure. Kyo was actually relieved to hear Jor say it though. He'd had enough of this ghost ship, "Let's do it."
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Post by Ragasaurus-Rex on Jan 23, 2010 18:30:14 GMT -5
As they moved into the dark and Void room Jor releasing the greatest source of light in the form of the flood lamp Six fallowing jor as he shone a flashlight of his own. Tycen placed his hand on the blaster that remained holstered in place under his right shoulder. Tycen fallowing six' gaze located the ghost body almost like a, A Smoke person? But not aware of any species fitting that description he dismissed that idea.
Has Jor approached the Ghost-smoke body thing Tycen wiped out the small blaster from its holster, Now wishing he brought a rifle. He aimed in its direction, just in case. Tycen managed not to fire at the sudden jerk of the body instead only taking a step back in surprise. Jor had now decided it best to destroy the ship, Tycen couldn't have agreed more.
He remained silent assured that Jor would give the plan to destroy the ship in a matter of moments, Or the way to figure out how.
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Post by MikDaTv on Jan 23, 2010 18:56:35 GMT -5
Jor gave the being one last look. "i'm sorry." he said to it. the being's head turned up as if it was looking at him, then faded. it's light got dimmer and dimmer. It had been waiting, who knows how long, maybe thousands of years, for this moment and now it was finally allowing itself to die.
Jor triggered his com. "Danny, how much explosives did you bring with you?"
Danny's voice came back "We didn't know how much we'd need so i brought a lot. on both Dragoons."
"Good, set them up. place them all around the area where we breached for maximum spread." Jor orderd. He got a double click from his com telling him Danny understood and was complying. He looked over at Six. "Can you set some kind of overload on this thing?"
Six nodded. "maybe not destroy the ship but i can do some damage, get me back to that control room."
Jor pointed to the door. "Good, get started. Kyo, Two Face, go with him. keep whatever that thing is off his back. It will try and keep us from destroying it."
Jor looked at Drake. "Well, we get to destroy something Drake, thats your area of expertise, where do you want to start?"
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Post by Drake on Jan 23, 2010 19:00:33 GMT -5
Drake turned to Jor when they formulated a plan he was ready to go take somethings a part so it was about time they got to this. He smirked at Jor "Well I say we start in the engine room, or in the mess hall, hell doesn't matter to me" he said "Lets just start tearing shit up" He walked out the room and turned the corner walking through the halls as he did he cut into the walls of the ship with his saber. "Wonder if we'll run into that thing, the phasing thing..." he said "We should try to take that out while we're at if possible"
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