Episode Five-The Enemy Within (Group 3-the Nerds)

[Aear Charter]

2007
Science Block
Meropis

Aear half ignored Elly and Fee as they slipped quietly past him. Right now they weren't his concern, well strictly speaking they were since he was trying to protect them but the thing he was trying to protect them from took priority. And how exactly was Aear protecting them? With a staring contest that was how. He just stared at the mole creature, secretly wanting to just eat it. They felt full of mana somehow, with their appearance it didn't make sense, maybe, unless those spine were acting like Meowtian whiskers and feeling the changes of the flow of mana. It was an interesting theory but how was he going to prove it?

Aear thoughts on exactly what experiments to do to the poor creature were interrupted. Could they read his thoughts? Whatever it was the creature had launched itself at Aear with enough speed that it actually took him by surprise. Staggering backwards the second one of them wasn't going to as Aear quickly fired a shot upwards striking it squarely in the chest and causing it to fall down the staircase. This thing packs a nice punch he though as he flipped the creature off his back. Aear gave it a good kick to it's chest as it snarled and clawed at him. Yeah right one on one? That was never going to work on-well crap. Aear was knocked to the ground by a second creature landing right on top of him. Seriously he needed his MaDaR back, not that they were casting but the speeds they propelled themselves at he was sure they were using magic. A cacophony of noise broke out from above them, just how many of these idiots were there? Not that Aear had any time to count the individual vocal markers as a telltale whooshing sound split the air and a metal rod slammed into the floor right where his head had been. Seriously? Fine he was eating this one and he didn't care what... And it was gone. Fee had shown her torch at it and it had reared back hissing and covering it's eyes. They were fast little buggers, Aear was sure that was magically aided. The mana from just one would probably give him just enough to keep him fighting through this, magically anyway.

Aear stood himself up as the creatures got even more noisy. They weren't idiots either, he wasn't going to so easily hear one of them sneaking up on them with his ears if they didn't shut up. Aear leapt down into the stairwell to land next to Elly, firing the staff weapon at the hole as fast as it would manage. Hopefully it would shut them up or even hit something, but more importantly he needed to know rate of fire. Aear modified the flow of air around him with the tiniest bit of flight magic, he didn't need to unbalance the stairs and send them all crashing down from the impact. It was a tiny bit of magic but it had been enough to open up the scar over his eye. Aear kept his back to the girls as he spoke still keeping an eye out. "Two things, first, that speed HAS to be magical. Second, I love this thing. Can I get another one later?" Aear kept the staff weapon pointed upwards, unlike Cyleo's staff weapon it only fired in one direction, which was slightly irritating but he'd deal with it. It was also heaver and more of a blunt force weapon then a slice and dice weapon. Still, Aear was well suited to it, even if Elly didn't seem to think so.

Tag: Fiona Maccafferty, Elly Clark, Plot Twist Sure Aear can't eat one?

[Fiona Maccafferty]

2010
Science Block
Meropis

The alien-thing disappeared into the cieling once more, and while Fee was afraid, she was also insistant on her task. She continued down the stairs, carefully stepping around the rubble piles and trying to keep a brave face for the other two. They were just scientists; they weren't SUPPOSED to be doing this. This was the military people's job; they were the ones with training and guns and all that stuff.

Before she could speak, though, to Aear, the alien being snarled and landed on Aear's shoulders. Sh*t. She raised the weapon, and the torch at the same time.

Aear moved into attack. She fired off a shot towards the cieling; a sure shot-she was no dummy, and while she didn't LIKE guns, she did know a little about how they worked-it was just science, after all. Yeah, yeah, so the Grunts would say that she needed years of practice, but actually, it was quite simple-if the average bullet sailed at about 1700 MPH, and you needed the bullet to go five feet (roughly how high Fee was aiming), you needed to fire from the left, at an angle, to get the maximum velocity. And she remembered the NASA guys always telling each other to "keep thier eyes open and thier legs apart." So she had done that.

More Moles appeared, and she and Elly used the torches to scare them off. They were afraid of fire, much like jungle cats. Interesting. She lit some of the rubble on fire, as well, trying to make a circle, which she hoped would keep the mole alien things at bay. Finally, Aear had the mole grounded, and it was seemingly dead. She hoped. She started back down the stairs, and noticed that the noise level increased. Aear spoke.

Two things, first, that speed HAS to be magical. Second, I love this thing. Can I get another one later? Fee made a face.

NO. Can you keep them at bay? I mean, without hurting YOURSELF? She didn't want Aear to set himself back with his recovery...she NEEDED him.

Tag:Elly Clark, Aear Charter, Plot Twist (We nerds don't back down. We might be nerds, but we're not wimps.)

[Elly Clark]

2011
Science Block
Meropis

They had begun to move down the stairs as something lept at ear, Elly turned along with Fiona and Aear then fired a shot form his staff weapon hitting a second creature as it hit the landing between the two sets fos tairs with a sickening sloppy crunching sound, Fiona then Fired up into the Hole as Elly look at Aear, there was another beast on top of him, She didn't dare shoot as she kept her aim on the creature, as soon as it wasn't completely on Aear she was hopefuly sh'ed take the shot. 

Aear Threw one onto the Ground and Elly fired a few shots at it, she was keeping count, now she had 13 shots, Another one landed oh Aear back and she could hear more of the moving above them, she was sure they wouldn't do so well against an enraged pack, they had to free Aear and get moving, preferbably as fast as they could go. Elly then Clicked the Torch and  aiming her M9 along with it.. Aear free'd himself from it as Fiona and Elly had raised their torches at it, Aear then ,ept and landed next to Her Elly then raised her M9 with oen ahnd and held the torch with the other pointed it at the gap she fired off a few more round, down to 9.

"Two things, first, that speed HAS to be magical. Second, I love this thing. Can I get another one later?"
 Aear said as they moved down the stairs, she wasn't going to look away but perhaps she would ask. Elly was walking back carefully watching the area from where the creatures were likely to appear, the hole or in it's direction as Fiona responded.

"NO. Can you keep them at bay? I mean, without hurting YOURSELF"
Elly chose not to interjext into that conversation. "Aear did you grab a P90 or just the staff weapon? Because if you did, I think I might take it off your hands." They all moved down the Stairs. "But Also once we clear the stairs, we should maybe try jogging or running the hallways, we need to get to somewhere better to defend, and hopefully some people will already be in the comms area still. They moved down and Elly activated the magazine release, she caught it wth her arm and between her body before placing the torch in her mouth, she then reloaded and sliped that partially used magazine into a spot on the thigh holster as they continued to move down.

<TAG: Aear Charter, Fiona Maccafferty, Plot Twist>

[Fiona Maccafferty]

2011
Science Block
Meropis

Fee sighed. Her ginger knob spun with emotion, and dizziness; it was at once bewildering and frightening when she'd fired the weapon. Necessary, sure, but unsettling nonetheless. The fire seemed to work, though, to keep the creatures at bay. At the end of her time in Meropis, Fee just KNEW she was going to need a whole lot of serious therapy. The best bit about the alien beings appearing, though, is that it provided excellent distraction from thinking about the fact that she know knew about being a carrier of the ATA gene. She wasn't sure WHAT to think about that...she felt like a freak, like she hadn't been awkward enough already?! It was hard to be a wallflower when you were the only redhead around, but for the most part, she felt like most people didn't pay her much mind, and she was OK with that..she could be her own little oddball in her odd little world of logic and order, and by the way, you damn well COULD write an algorithm for love, or infinity, or any thing, really.

After the trio, mostly Aear, scared off the beings, they headed downstairs. They NEEDED to get the systems back online, and rescuing Dr. Black was also important. She was glad that it was Elly and Aear with her; she couldn't much handle it if it were on of the military guys who could only stand around useless. They might not be skilled at sharpshooting, but they had done it, and now they were going to be the heroes. Not that Fee cared; it was usually she who saved their collective sixes, anyway; computers overriding moronic decisions was something that happened in the government services on a fairly regular basis. How many times had overriding a code saved the US, neigh, the bleeding WORLD?! Well, not her, alone, but the IT department as a whole. She could count some of them, and had shared some of them with Harrison...and Fee had gotten Meropis, some of the best minds in the world, out of a few scrapes already at Lilith's labs. She would prefer to have one large Marine to deal with the violent parts of this...experience, but who the hell knew where they were?!

She headed down the stairs at a surprisingly fast pace. Fee had the advantage of being fairly aerodynamic, given her small size and short stature. She could also slide past and through things that most people could not, allowing her the benefit of sneak attacks and the like. As she moved, she clicked the cock on the weapon, turning it "off", and reholstered it. The sidearm was nearly as big as one of her ACTUAL arms, and heavy besides, but at least it was a little comforting. Behind her, she could hear Elly and Aear. She just hoped that Aear would be OK; she didn't fancy having to take care of him as a kitten again.

But Also once we clear the stairs, we should maybe try jogging or running the hallways, we need to get to somewhere better to defend, and hopefully some people will already be in the comms area still. She giggled a little.

My legs are too short to go any faster, Dr. Clark. I really am going as fast as I can. And she was; she was generally fit, she was very kinetic and hardly ever lazed around; at work, she was intensely focused, but then she also paced a lot. So she was close to out of breath; a "run" for her, but what would be a fast walk for someone twice her size.

Tag:Elly Clark, Aear Charter, Plot Twist stop with the nerds already! Go bother the cafeteria!

[Aear Charter]

2011
Science Blocks
Meropis

"NO. Can you keep them at bay? I mean, without hurting YOURSELF"

Aear spun round and gave Fee a sharp look. Granted it would probably been more effective if his left eye wasn't shiny, wet, purple. "Well I'm sorry but I didn't want to take out the ENTIRE STAIRCASE when I landed.

"Aear did you grab a P90 or just the staff weapon? Because if you did, I think I might take it off your hands."

Aear turned to Elly, pulled out the P90 from his inside jacket pocket and handed it over. "I picked up six magazines. Magazines..." Aear passed a couple of said magazines to Elly as he was hit by an idea. "Cyleo, calculate casting with a cartridge." he ordered. [Understood. You would have to process the mana partner. There is a passing method.] Chimed Cyleo. "So how about I burn a cartridge and transfer us into the room? I mean I presume you have the blueprints of the room that we're heading to right Fee?"

Tag: Elly Clark, Fiona Maccafferty, Plot Twist magic time! ^ ^

[Elly Clark]

2011
Science Block
Meropis

Aear and Fee went between each other again, by Elly was too busy, curing silently to herself in Ancient, Czech, French and English. They were moving very fast.

"My legs are too short to go any faster, Dr. Clark. I really am going as fast as I can.
" Elly flushed with embarrasment. "I Just meant we should keep this up once we get off the stairs, as nice as a walk throguh these halls can be nice, now would probably be a bad time for a leisurely stroll."

Elly then asked about a P90 from Aear and Smiled then gave him a funny look on his second sue of the word magazines. "I picked up six magazines. Magazines..." Elly took th eP90 and magazines, managing to stuff them into some wherever they would go, though she lost a pistol magazine or two in the process.

"Thanks." Elly replied as she turned her hand held torch odd and quickly turned the P90's light on. She then inserted one of the Magazines as they kept movign downa nd pulled the charging handle cycling the bolt and readying the weapon.Aear mind you was having another chat with his AI.

"So how about I burn a cartridge and transfer us into the room? I mean I presume you have the blueprints of the room that we're heading to right Fee?"
 "Elly just kept moving with them. Expressing a non commital, "Uh...." It seemed Fiona would decide how they were going to get there.

<TAG:Fiona Maccafferty, Aear Charter>

[Fiona Maccafferty]

2011
Science Block
Meropis

Fee just tossed her head at Aear. Like he was really gonna DO anything about it?! With his drippy eye? She knew that he was mostly mouth and no trousers; not only were they what passed as friends, but she'd taken care of Aear, really, saving his life when the others wanted to leave him behind. So when he snapped at her, she dished it back.

Well I'm sorry but I didn't want to take out the ENTIRE STAIRCASE when I landed. She simply shrugged.

No one asked you to. You did that on your own. I simply think that too many weapons are the wrong choice...has anyone tried logic and reason? The only way Fee knew to fight was logic and reason. In the face of facts, most people were proven to be either hypocritical or else afraid, and usually backed down. It mightn't be FAIR, but was it fair that God had only given her brains instead of brawn? No. The best soliders in the world used the weapons at their disposble, but Fee wanted to be a weapon of peace; the proverbial pen was mightier than the sword, after all. Even her kid brother, when he wanted to fight, she would simply talk to him, talk him out of it, even when his friends goaded him on. Liam was smart enough to get past it, usually, and she knew that in her work, when trying to fight, say, Congress for authorization to send tools into space, for example, it was always better that the IT people presented actual facts, rather than the Brass who presented "but science is cool." While Fee agree, most people's knowledge of space was from public television programs, or science fiction movies, and it was their job to disabuse people of these beliefs.

Elly spoke, and Fee felt badly that she'd embarassed her.

I Just meant we should keep this up once we get off the stairs, as nice as a walk throguh these halls can be nice, now would probably be a bad time for a leisurely stroll. Fee just nodded; she understood what Elly meant now.

Yes, Dr. Clark. Our only goal at this point is to make it the underground labs, as fast as is possible...no side stops. I hope. Fee continued down, and then Aear offered to transfer them.

So how about I burn a cartridge and transfer us into the room? I mean I presume you have the blueprints of the room that we're heading to right Fee?" Fee just nodded. She had blueprints for the entire base, and could tell you the exact location of every single radio, computer, and lightbulb on the planet. She sighed, but spoke to Aear, looking him in the eyes, the other of which he'd finally cleaned up, and against her better judgement, she nodded again. 

Do it. She waited a moment; would it hurt?

Tag:Elly Clark, Aear Charter, Plot Twist, bring it on!

[Jason Conway]

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