It was a dramatic day at the Trooper Station. They had received multiple reports of cats stuck in trees. Each one of those reports was simple enough to resolve for armored military-men. But now Jessica was moderating a discussion of both whether or not it was possible the cats were planning something and how ridiculous it was to have that ( Read more... )

A gremlin had gotten into the caf machine. Not quite literally. It wasn't like there was gremlin gore in it. But apparently some gremlins had opened the thing up and started spitting in it as some sort of competition, as far as Jessica could tell. She was taking care to scrub the hell out of it right now ( Read more... )

There had been a scheduling mishap with the armor cleaning company the troopers used. That's why the troopers were sitting around in sweats, tank tops, and in Ralph's case boxers. Jessica decided to show solidarity with her underdressed coworkers by taking off her jacket ( Read more... )

Jessica was still a human, but there was definitely something different today. She just couldn't figure out what ( Read more... )

There were a lot of alien wild flowers in the station today. Apparently the troopers had gone out to explore the planetoid and liked what they saw in terms of plant life. Jessica decided to play it safe and run some tests on the flowers to make sure the pollen wasn't deadly or the flowers wouldn't sprung to life and start choking everyone, but that ( Read more... )

Jessica wasn't sure what the deal was, but the troopers seemed on edge this week. She did notice that some of them seemed to be avoiding putting on their full armor for some reason, as if wearing white space plastic armor was a bad idea ( Read more... )

After way too much time spent on the new probe and launching it, Jessica was ready for a quiet day at her other job. So of course the phone kept ringing ( Read more... )

A week later and Vic had either finished or shredded/recycled the pile of paperwork that had piled up on her desk the last month. And as much as she wanted to take revenge on Ralph, Vic was forced to deal with phone calls from the previous weekend's weirdness ( Read more... )

The problem with being stuck in suspended animation/peanut brittle for several months ( Read more... )

After taking Tuesday off because dear lord had she spent enough time in Stark's over the weekend and also sleep was needed, Jessica was back at her other job today. The troopers all seemed to be in a good mood. It wasn't often that they got called on to actually serve during an invasion, so it was a pretty great week for them. They shot so many ( Read more... )