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Post by Foaly on Jan 31, 2007 23:44:51 GMT -5
"Roger that," Foaly replies, his fingers flying over his keyboard. In no time at all, every criminal known to the LEP is transferred to the radar screen on the transportation shuttle and to the screen in Holly's visor.
"I need to delete Briar Cudgeon off this list," the centaur comments as he is browsing the files himself, "Seeing as how he's dead, I don't think we need to clog up this folder with his criminal record anymore. Who else do we know that would be devious enough to go playing around with something as dangerous as a troll?"
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 1, 2007 0:37:07 GMT -5
Grub obeys Holly's orders and monitors Chix. The sprite is still unconscious and blissfully unaware of what is going on. The corporal finds himself almost feeling jealous--especially when the shuttle takes off and he is hit with a wave of motion sickness.
"I hope you can get this crate back to Haven swiftly," he whimpers, turning almost as green in the face as Chix, "These shuttles have a rather nasty effect on me."
Taking deep breaths and willing himself to focus on something else, Grub manages to keep from throwing up, but the greenish tone of his complexion remains. He busies himself adjusting medical equipment attached to their wounded comrade as he waits for the trip back to Haven to be over.
"Do you think someone like Ark Sool would release a troll on the People?" he asks at length, trying to help out and get his mind off his nauseated insides, "I know it sounds silly, but there's something I don't trust about that pompous gnome. He was always trying to discredit Commander Root."
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 1, 2007 21:51:59 GMT -5
"Keep Briar Cudgeon's file on the database. I think he's somehow linked up to this incedint."
Holly watches the smug picture of Cudgeon scroll across her helmet visor.
"How are things going back there Corpral? Is he still breathing?"
Holly lands the shuttle in the LEP hangar bay. Making sure that the she lands softly so that Grub doesn't barf, and that Chix doesn't go sliding somewhere.
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 1, 2007 21:59:46 GMT -5
"Stabilized, Captain," Grub reports, his voice sounding a bit sickly, "His breathing hasn't changed since we left and he's still out cold."
As soon as the shuttle touches down, Grub wastes no time scrambling out the door to lose his lunch in the nearest trash bin. He returns quickly enough, looking pale, yet ready to tackle whatever is to be done next--obviously getting Chix into emergency care.
"How could Cudgeon be involved?" he asks Holly as he releases the brake on the gurney and wheels Chix into the infirmary, "I thought he was killed back at Koboi Labs."
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Post by Foaly on Feb 1, 2007 22:08:59 GMT -5
"I've got to agree with Corporal Kelp there, Holly," Foaly cuts in, "I thought Cudgeon got himself burned to a crisp back at the labs. Unless that wasn't him and it was somebody impersonating him, Briar Cudgeon is as dead as a door nail."
Realizing they have touched down at the infirmary, Foaly pulls up the check-in information and transfers it to Holly's helmet visor faster than one can blink.
"He's been assigned bed 313," he adds in case Holly is ignoring her visor screens, "I went ahead and put him on the hospital files so they'd have a spot cleared for him by the time you arrived."
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 1, 2007 22:37:55 GMT -5
Holly rubs her temples for a second then she says.
"They cloned him! He is dead but he has a fully developed clone I think. He must have had Opal Koboi clone him, and when he died they released it. But see I think this one has a mind, and can think for itself."
Holly knows for some reason at times she is smarter then the centaur, thinking that she's smarter because he's a male.
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Post by Foaly on Feb 1, 2007 23:21:24 GMT -5
"This seems pretty far-fetched, Holly," Foaly replies doubtfully as he removes his glasses to give the lenses a quick polish before replacing them on the bridge of his nose, "First of all, cloning is still completely illegal and punishable by law. Second, a fully-functional clone? It's never been done. The most anybody's ever gotten was a breathing vegetable with a heartbeat. Everything else just doesn't work."
The centaur has himself convinced. He has done a lot of research on cloning in the past and--as far as he's concerned--he knows everything about it and how advanced it really is...or rather...isn't.
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 1, 2007 23:34:42 GMT -5
Grub is having a hard time keeping up with the discussion going on between Holly and Foaly and the speculation that Briar Cudgeon may have had himself cloned. He momentarily entertains the thought of cutting himself off from the conversation by switching his communicator to a different link, but he doesn't. Instead, he focuses on getting Chix the help he needs.
While Holly and Foaly continue arguing and kicking theories and scientific facts back and forth--talking way over the corproral's head--he gets Chix checked in and transferred to his own cot in the infirmary. By the time he returns to where he'd left the captain, the wounded sprite is being tended to by several gnomes on call. Seeing that they are still hashing things out, Grub shrugs and meanders back into the infirmary to see how Chix is doing.
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 2, 2007 20:10:30 GMT -5
"Foaly, this is dangerous. I think that some how they did make a duplicate of him, if not cloning then artifical intellegence. They might have programmed a computer to act like ol' Boil Boy."
Holly gets frustrated with Foaly and says a word no good elf should use.
"D'arvit you Foaly! You donkey!"
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Post by Chix Verbil on Feb 2, 2007 21:51:27 GMT -5
[glow=green,5,300]Meanwhile, Chix is slowly returning to the land of the living. He groans in slight pain, his face contorting in a grimace. When his eyelids finally open, the first person his eyes come to focus on is Corporal Grub Kelp.
"Where did you come from?" he asks, appearing disoriented, "Where's the troll? What happened to Captain Short? The troll didn't get her, did he?"
Fearing his captain has been injured by the troll as well, Chix suddenly sits bolt upright on the cot, a move he quickly regrets as a searing pain seizes his side where the troll had wounded him. Abandoning his attempt at an upright position, Chix collapses back on the cot and eyes Grub, awaiting an answer.[/glow]
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 2, 2007 21:52:08 GMT -5
Grub places a restraining hand on Chix's shoulder, knowing the sprite is in no condition to fight back. He shakes his head at Chix's panicked question.
"The captain is fine, Verbil," he replies calmly, "Welcome back, by the way. I helped Holly get you to safety. That beast nailed you pretty good, but they are saying you'll be okay. Wait here. I'll get Captain Short. She seemed to be in a nasty argument with Foaly when I left."
The corporal walks out where Holly is busy cursing the centaur over the communications line and he hesitantly taps her on the shoulder, then steps back, saluting her as he speaks.
"Private Verbil has regained consciousness, Captain Short, sir--uh...ma'am," he stammers, "He would like to speak with you whenever you're done chewing Foaly out."
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 2, 2007 22:03:10 GMT -5
"I'm done chewing him out. He's awake? Why didn't you say so!"
Holly rushes down the hall, she knocks over a cart while running.
"Sorry about that! I was an accedient!"
The frustrated warlock medic says.
"You'd better clean this up!"
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Post by Grub Kelp on Feb 2, 2007 23:07:52 GMT -5
"I did say so...just now," Grub blinks, slightly confused as he takes off after the captain. He is trailing several strides behind and just when the medic thinks the halls are safe, Grub plows into him and takes him down. Of course, not being of the sure-footed type, the corporal ends up going down with him.
"Just what I always wanted," the medic complains, "To get my stuff knocked around by a big-shot LEP officer and get myself knocked down by Corporal Idiot."
"Umm...it's Corporal Grub Kelp," Grub corrects him uncertainly, "I think you have me confused with someone else. Anyway, I'm terribly sorry."
The timid officer helps the cranky medic up and sets the cart upright, replacing the dumped supplies, though not necessarily in their designated places. He then salutes the medic respectfully and flees the area, dogging Holly.
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Post by Holly Short on Feb 3, 2007 19:45:52 GMT -5
"Chix! Are you alright? They had better stitch that up, otherwise it could get infected and he could die."
Holly touches the wound and murmurs.
"Heal. C'mon heal"
But try as she might, his wound needed expert care.
"Sorry Chix, it's all I could do. I failed you."
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Post by Chix Verbil on Feb 3, 2007 20:52:24 GMT -5
[glow=green,5,300]"You worry too much, Cap'," Chix smirks, patting Holly's hand, "I've been in worse scrapes than this--not that I can think of any at the moment. Man, that thing was mean!"
He winces again as the pain in his side reminds him not to move too much or laugh too hard, but he manages to keep a trembling grin in place to reassure his Captain.
"So what's the word, Cap'?" he asks at length, his voice abnormally soft in comparison to his usual loud, obnoxious chatter, "Am I gonna live or are those gnome docs out there circling the halls like buzzards on me?"[/glow]
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