Glitch IV: Chapter 2 Abduction

[Devonie]

Angela looked sideways at Crusher. "I'm the goblin - Jules," she said to the others. "I don't think we should leave her alone up here... one of us should stay to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid... Unless someone else wants to, I will. Get me something I can stun her with if need be."

She turns to Crusher, "You will help me aid the others from here. You will *not* try to take the runabout anywhere. I will not hesitate to take you out. I know you're combat trained - so am I. I am also bigger than you. I *also* know that you don't want the Null to win. We are the best hope to stop them; we can do it without you, but it will be easier if you help. Do we understand each other?"

She reaches out a hand for the weapon Matt brings her without taking her eyes from Crusher.

"You've already been comprimised by the Null once. Al could have left your ass on the Enterprise, but he brought you with us. Don't make him regret it."

[frigidmagi]

"No, absolutly not. I may not have been able to stop him, but I'll be damned if i let any of you do anything which would put this ship in any danger, or infect that world with this technology!"

Crusher seemed absolutly livid, as she walked towards the pilot's seat.

Chris had been waiting for something like that. Sooner or later crap always went wrong. Which is why he had went to the trouble of grabbing a phaser from the armory on the runabout.

"I'm sorry Doctor, but you'll have to stand down. In fact if you even try to speak I'm afraid I'll have to stun you. This action is required." He said grabbing the phaser and stepping between her and the pilot chair.

"That goes for the rest of you. Join Albert or stay but if you stay here you will stand down and take no action unless Albert calls on us." Chris commanded drawing on Magneto's sheer force of will.

Homo Sapiens and their guns....

All we got.

Doesn't mean I am required to enjoy it.

[Agent Fisher]

Jack strode into the forward compartment, sliding a blaster pistol into a holder on his vest. He looked at the man with the phaser, having come in on the part of standing down if they stayed here.

"Who the hell are you?"

[frigidmagi]

"Who the hell are you?"

"I could ask the same, but this isn't time for introductions. Suffice to say, I am the man who is helping Albert recuse his friend, I am the guy keeping the Doctor from doing something we'll all regret, I am the guy with command authority over the computer, I am the guy with the loaded phaser. Relax, I'm trying to help you." Chris said.

You know by now the Charles' X Man or Clark and his League would have started shooting at me. I have to say you're doing very well

Well I don't start conversations by ripping everything metal apart, that's gotta count for something.

What is it with schools these days, all the childern are so smarted mouthed...

[SirNitram]

"Darek." Albert spoke, addressing him again. The whispy, partially-real man stepped forward. The beam was still lodged in the almost-completely-shut portal. It was unlikely anything would be able to follow, and there was a good chance Albert would be ejected. "Look At Me."

He strode forward, noticing the heros around him. "A Null." He said, breathing in softly. "I can smell it. I hunger for it. It's got you." The third voice had wedged itself in there, under the surface. It wanted out. It wanted to obey the urges Albert buried. Leah was HIS. Darek was corrupt. It sought to kill and claim and destroy and conquer. Albert shoved it down.

"Darek. Is that really you? Or is it something using you, while your body soils itself back home?" Another stride forward, towards that line. "You didn't always lust for power. What have they done, my friend..."

[Agent Fisher]

Jack shrugged. "Ok, no problem. Just wanted to make sure you weren't going to be trouble for us and I wanted to know who you were. Since you have command authority, do me a favor and lock Crusher out of doing anything drastic."

He turned to Matthew. "You might want to grab a carbine, a belt of powerpacks and a couple gas cartridges. Same for everyone who's going down. Once everyone who is going down is ready, I'm going to be putting the equipment back in and sealing it up. Only weapons that are going to be allowed out once we are gone is that guy's" he pointed at Chris "phaser."

[Charon]

Matthew looked at the other guy and, slowly, he lowered his blaster. Looking to the others as well, encouraging them to stand down. "Alright. So you're in charge here. What'd we do now? If something's going on down there we can't just leave Al down there by himself. And I don't think he's gonna be able to send us a signal if he needs help."

[Agent Fisher]

"He said wait five minutes, but if something bad goes down, then by five minutes, it will already be over."

[Rukia]

Rory hurried off to the back. She searched for a for moments and finally found something acceptable. A red and black long sleeve shirt. "Oh great," she muttered, "I've become part of a trekkies wet dream....ugh" She walked back out and saw everyone ganging up on Crusher. "Ooh shiney! I want one." She said pointing to Mathew's blaster.

[Dark Silver]

[ suggested background music (continued from last post) - .hack//SIGN - Magic and Sword ]


Crusher stared at them all, even glaring, as she sunk into chair by a console. Thier talk about thier need of the shuttle, of her not having the right, even the one daring to spout off about the Prime Directive to her.

Her fingers wandered over one of the consoles, pressing glancing to it, then back to the others.

After a few seconds, a look of smug satisfaction on her face, the computer announced, "Runabout functions locked, Authorized Personel only."

"Now...No one is taking the runabout anywhere, it requires my code to release the lock, and only this young man and Albert can operate this ship. At least they seem reasonable."

She crossed her arms over her chest, leaned back and the chair, and smirked.

Even if they kill her, at least they would neve rhave the runabout to themselves.


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[ suggest background music - .hack//SIGN Aura (Evil Version) ]

Darek looked from Leah, then to Albert. As he did so, the darkness seemed to grow about him, then spread. The Light side of the church began to sull and wash out, as the darkness grew, the stone pews began to decay and crumble, as the statues aged centuries in seconds.

"I will show you....we will be together.." he said coldly, moving to grab up Leah, even as he thrust a hand out at Albert.

It was as if a wave of force knocked into Albert, sending him back, flying into the crumbling remains of a statue of Bahamur ZERO, and disappearing as the portal closed.

The last glimpse he would have, before reforming on the runabout, was Darek grabbing Leah's arm, and pulling her against him, his mouth clamping upon hers......

[SirNitram]

"Alert, Alert." Came the Runabout's neutral tone. "Emergency reversion in progress. Alert, Alert."

The brilliant flash of light of a Beam shone, and Albert reappeared, thrown with signifigant force. He slammed into a wall, and grunted. He should be unconscious, but he was merely angry.

"...Ow." He murmured. Slowly, his eyes came open. "...I miss much?"

[Charon]

Matthew quickly leveled the blaster at Crusher. His eyes blazing hatred for this one person who had taken her away. His lips curled in a snarl as Crusher felt the burning hatred which still went unexplained to her. The finger on the trigger twitched a few times as some of the others moved to stop him from shooting her.

With a primal yell of success, and yet it almost sounded like defeat, Matthew threw the blaster away, the gun skittering on the floor until it came to a stop pressed up against one of the seats. Matthew glared at Crusher, raising a hand and pointing at her. "You're lucky I'm a better person than you."

Matthew ignored the reappeared Albert as he stalked off the bridge and towards one of the crew quarters in the back of the ship, the sound of a door slamming shut and locking could be heard shortly after.

[Agent Fisher]

Jack walked over to Albert, offering his hand to help him up.

"Well, you missed an attempted semi-munity, the Doc telling us she wouldn't help us, and her locking us out of the runabout's controls."

[LadyTevar]

[ suggest background music - .hack//SIGN Aura (Evil Version) ]

Darek looked from Leah, then to Albert. As he did so, the darkness seemed to grow about him, then spread. The Light side of the church began to sull and wash out, as the darkness grew, the stone pews began to decay and crumble, as the statues aged centuries in seconds.

"I will show you....we will be together.." he said coldly, moving to grab up Leah, even as he thrust a hand out at Albert.

It was as if a wave of force knocked into Albert, sending him back, flying into the crumbling remains of a statue of Bahamut ZERO, and disappearing as the portal closed.

"ALBERT!!!!!!!"

The last glimpse he would have, before reforming on the runabout, was Darek grabbing Leah's arm, and pulling her against him, his mouth clamping upon hers......

Leah screamed again, kicking and struggling, trying to escaped the grasp of the Dark Rider as he yanked her close. He was too strong, she couldn't stop him from forcefully kissing her, and when she bit him it merely caused him to laugh, deep in his throat. "Yeeeees... fight me... you can't escape... you're mine at last."

He yanked her hands up over her head, rapidly tying them together, before running his hands familiarly over her. "LET GO OF ME!" she screamed, only amusing the Rider further as she struggled vainly to free herself as the dark half of the chapel swallowed the light side completely.

He scooped her up over his shoulder, his gaunleted hand slipping under her robe to caress her intimately. "Time for you to meet my mistress, beautiful," he purred as her tied hands hammered at his back futilely.

"NO! NO!" Through her panick, Leah finally thought of spells. "Goddess Annana, grant you chil...OOOF!!!" The Rider dropped her hard on the floor, moving faster than she could recover to slap his bloodied mouth over hers, cutting off the spell and her concentration.

"None of that, my dear..." he whispered against her lips, his hand grabbing her breast and squeezing tightly. "My mistress wants you alive... but I am allowed to do anything I want to make sure you don't get away...."

The tears started then, as Leah cursed herself for being such a fool.....

[SirNitram]

"Good. If you lot mutiny, I'll rip you all to shreds." Albert groaned, watching Matthew stalk off. He didn't know what precisely transpired with Crusher.. But he had enough peices to be very, very close to sure. The Null he had swallowed had infected Yuffie, somehow..
"Doctor." He murmured. "Can you fire up the Chameleon Circuit to make us look like a rock or something? Then get us going around the planet. We need to find Page." He rubbed his head. "I hope the weapons you lot got have stun settings.. He's going to be surrounded by Rent-A-Cops. And maybe worse."

He took deep gulps of air. "I was across to the other side. But that portal shut. We need Page's ship to undo this all, as I had feared."

[Comrade Tortoise]

"That is what the staff is for... But, I can go get a blaster, those have stun settings" Justin said. Stalking into the back of the ship and setting the disruptor down. It had two settings, kill and vaporize. He picked up an E-11 blaster carbine, which, if he remembered his Star Wars properly, had a stun setting in addition to its normal mode of fire.

[SirNitram]

"Bringing a staff to bring these people in alive.. Are you insane? Do you think you're a freakin' ninja or Tibetan monk? You're not. These people will have guns. They are not going to politely let you run up and flail around because you've had half an hour's training." Albert rubbed his head. This plan was sounding worse and worse. "I just hope some of you have firearm training..." He muttered.

The only example of a half-digital, half-flesh human hung his head. "And the world is counting on us. Man, is the world ever screwed."

[Comrade Tortoise]

"This sucker also has a stun setting" he said, holding up the E-11 he just grabbed.

"I should be OK with it, it is a little bit shorter than what I am used to, but I should be OK with it"

[Dark Silver]

Crusher looked at Chris after Albert appeared and thanked her. She looked defiant, she knew she had gone against what he said, but she'd be damned if she was going to take the chance that those people would overpower them, and have access to possibly the most powerful weapon in their world.

When Albert asked her, she nodded, "Yes...just choose the form you want..and the Chameleon circuit will take care of the rest."

She slide her rather shakey hand over the edge of one of the consoles, then glanced back at Chris. "Your friends don't exactly seem to know what their getting into.." she said, glancing back to the little group.

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Darek smirked as he pulled back from Leandra, his hand coming to stroke her cheek, and a few words slipped from his lips. Suddenly, she was without voice.

"That will deal with your spellcasting for now...my beauty." The Cathedral began to waver for a moment, as he grabbed her up, his arms tightening around her white robed self. The great temple, once showing the duality of the world, the triumphs of good and evil, was now completely black, the heroic statues crumbled to dust.

The portal appeared before them, a swirling purple and black vortex, a cloud of black mist curling about the floor around it.

"Adena shall explain it all to you m'dear...and you will know why I choose to align with her."

The Cathedral faded into nothingness as he stepped through the portal still holding the wiggling form of Leandra, and it closed behind him.

[Rukia]

"Guns you say? Real guns? Look, I know a guy. He's a shady character but he owes me some favors. I've kept him out of lockdown a few times for information. He's got lots of very powerful guns. Say the word and they're ours." Rory looked at Al. "If that's what you want. He's got vests and stuff too. It's all ours if we need it." She was getting a couple looks from the others. "What? Sometimes you have to play bad cop to get your way...'

[SirNitram]

"Rory, right?" Albert smiled at her. "We are going to play very bad cop. Thankfully, this ship has gear your friend would wish he could get. And won't be getting."

He drew himself up, nodding at Crusher. "Guys.. We're going on a suicidal run. We're going up against folks more powerful, entrenched, and with none of the rules we'll be operating under. We'll try to stun whenever possible. We'll not reveal our weapons to the outside world if possible."

"They've changed the past, we need to try and fix it. But let's keep the damage we do to a minimum. Everyone, head back to the armoury and grab some firearms."

He looked to Crusher. "I need you up here. If we fail.. Try and stop Page somehow. I think, if we fail, the desire to keep this world from noticing the intervention may be useless. But I trust your judgement." He said quietly.

"Ship, assume the form of a small rogue asteroid, set us in a nice, leisurely orbit. Scan for Page's method of transport."

[Rukia]

Rory shrugged, "I forget we aren't really working on real world terms.. Sorry." She walked back to the Armoury and grabbe the most powerful looking hand weapons.

[Devonie]

Angela sighed and slumped into a chair with an accusing look at Crusher. "We wasted time arguing, and now *they* have Leandra."

She turns to Albert, "Ok, since you seem to be the one in charge, what do we do next? I'm a legal researcher. I know the Internet. What can I do to help?"

She looks around..."Is this our whole party? Who's who? This whole thing's confusing... maybe we should wear nametags or something." She laughs dryly, "Crusher's the only one whose name I know, and she's the only one wearing a nametag..."

Angela has to be careful, she can feel the hysteria rising behind her laughter. If she gets started, when will it stop?

[SirNitram]

"There wasn't anything that could have been done." Albert said, glancing to Angela. "The portal I found wasn't stable, hence me getting vomitted out." Yea, what lovely imagery. "Well.. I don't suppose you could find where the hell Page was when he started his industries?"

[Comrade Tortoise]

Justin went into the back. And opened up the weapons lockers again, getting plenty of spare ammunition for the E-11, he also grabbed a bowcaster, with extra ammunition, and slung it over his back after replacing the staff, and few D-11 blaster pistols then something hit him

"Hey" he said, poking his head back into conversation.

"Sorry to interrupt, but it just hit me that armor of some type would come in really handy. And I am not talking leather. it also hits me that if we succeed and can repair the damage to our timestream, we will not need to worry about 'infecting' this one with this technology,because this timeline will stop existing presumably if the past is altered. And if we fail... honestly it wont matter what the general public sees"