Why now?

[cityship]

It was the worst possible time for it. The crew was about to be embroiled in a battle for their lives. Half of them were infested with alien parasites and restrained in MedBay.

||Pod Release Protocols Initating,|| Stacy's familiar voice sounded out to all the podmates.

In the Pod Caverns, there were the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop.

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[ford_sawyer_815]

Meanwhile, a short distance away in the same pod chamber...

"Son of a %&#$@!" Sawyer cursed as he tumbled out of his hibernation pod and landed onto the fleshy, pulsing floor with a dull thump. Sucking in a breath, he let out a deep, irritated groan as he rolled onto his back and wiped away the thick slime that covered his eyes before opening them to take a gander at where the hell he was now.

His eyebrows drew together into a blatant 'what-the-$%#@' expression as he stared up at the pod-filled darkness over head. Questions of where he was were pushed aside as he began to take in the bizarre, stomach-turning room around him. The Others. Who else would build a cracked-up room that looked like the skewered intestines of a dead horse? Friggin' perverts got off on weird crap like that. And how else did you explain why he was stripped naked and covered in five bottles of KY?

Finally climbing to his feet, he ran his hands over his body, wiping off as much of gunk as he could and slopping it onto the "floor" with a quick flick of his wrist.

"What the #*@$ is this $%*#?" he asked aloud, still trying to rid himself of the slime. It was all over the place, in his hair, inside of his ears, in between his fingers and toes, inside his nose, sliding down the crack of his… Just then he froze.

"Aaahh, if you perverts probed me, I swear I'm gonna…"

[deputyjo]

Jo's eyes widened hearing the voice... come from, well she wasn't sure where it was coming from exactly.. But at that moment in time she was more than sure she was somewhere in GD! That was really the only place that would have a... talking room! Hell they had a talking house!

She was about to say something back to the room when she heard Pop. Poppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiissss. Her head snapped around and she watched in a sort of disgusted fascination as something gooey and slimy plopped out of...something that looked like it had come right out of some old sci-fi movie.

That something turned out to be a man... A loud cussing one at that.

Rising to her feet, Jo attempted to cover herself up as she glared quite openly at the slimey man. "Who the hell are you?!" She demanded before allowing her gaze to sweep once more across the vast room. "And I swear! Fargo, you skinny little geek! Your ´... S.A.R.A.H.!! What is going on?!"

[ford_sawyer_815]

Realizing he wasn't alone--and he wasn't the only one naked--Sawyer glanced over at chick with a 'what's it to you' expression on his face but, being rather immodest, made not effort to cover himself.

"What's it look like?" he replied. "I'm Santy Claus. Ho-ho-ho."

[deputyjo]

Jo stared at the guy for a moment, her gaze flickering over his nude form and shook her head. "This is not good..." She muttered before turning her back on the guy and took another look around, looking for some sort of communication device or something so she could get through to S.A.R.A.H. Oh man, she was so gonna kill Fargo. And Stark, he'd probably set up this... Whatever it was and of course leave it to Fargo to screw things up.

Propping her hands on her hips she sighed. "S.A.R.A.H., I know you have a weird sense of humor... But sticking me with *him* is NOT funny!"

[ford_sawyer_815]

Scowling, Sawyer walked closer to the slimy naked chick with an attitude problem. "Nice meetin' you, too," he said, walking right by her as he started to wander around the chamber, looking for an exit.

[cityship]

A hologram blinks in front of them.

"To obtain clothing and your belongings, please follow the lights."

Phosphorescent lights appear on pustules along the floors, trailing off through the caverns.

[ford_sawyer_815]

Sawyer quirked his head at the sudden appearance of the semi-tranparent chick. "You're kidding, right?"

[cityship]

"I'm not aware that I made a joke, no."

[deputyjo]

OK, hologram, definitely GD stuff. Jo smiled slightly and headed toward the lighted pathway, pushing past the annoying man in the process. "It's a Hologram, genious," she pointed out drily. Yup, and this hologram was going to lead the way so she could end up strangling Fargo. Sounded like a plan to her.

[ford_sawyer_815]

"I knew that," Sawyer lied--LIES!!--as he trailed behind Miss Attitude as she followed the shiny little path of light that was oddly reminiscent of...

"Just so we're clear, if there's a candy house at the end of this you're gettin' in the cage, Gretl."

[deputyjo]

"Sure you did," Jo tossed over her shoulder before rolling her eyes. Did he think she was stupid? She'd grown up with brothers, she could spot a male lying a mile away. And besides, how likely was it the man had actually ever encountered a hologram?

She stopped suddenly and spun to face him, her expression one of being clearly not amused. "You think you're funny?" She asked, though she didn't even wait for him to answer before going on,"Well I don't, so just... " she drew in a deep breath to calm herself. "Just shut up already."

She turned away from him, continuing down the path. "So S.A.R.A.H.?" she called out, boviously still thinking Fargo's program was around. "Which level of Global are we on?"

[cityship]

"My name is Andromeda. You're not on Global."

Just to make it abundantly clear...

"You're not on Earth."

[ford_sawyer_815]

Sawyer stopped dead in his tracks when the hologram chick informed they weren't on Earth.

"Where the hell are we then?"

[deputyjo]

Jo laughed, but stopped when she realized that the hologram was quite serious. No this was seriously something new. And not a good new. "OK, so... Where are we then? And how exactly did we get here?!"

[ford_sawyer_815]

"Didn't you just hear me ask that?" Sawyer asked.

[deputyjo]

Jo arched a brow and looked over at the annoyance that was following her. "Oh you spoke? I'd completely ignored you."