Shore Leave!

[cityship]

Suddenly, the usual relative peace of the ship is disrupted by a rather loud announcement from Stacy.

||Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention, all personnel...||

It's entirely likely that she won't stop repeating the

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Detachment Procedures

[cityship]

Stacy's voice intones:

||Initiating Detachment procedures.||

There was a tremendous shudder and the artificial gravity cut out. It felt as if the entire Obs Deck was drifting.

That was because that's exactly what it was doing. As it slowly rotated through space they could most likely see the rest of the ship through the windows, and long umbilical cord that connected Obs Deck to it.

At first, it seemed like there was a sheer wall there, but as Obs Deck pulled away, they could see that it was in fact the ship.

And it was huge.

A long, shriveled thing, it was like a diseased organ, made of what looked like mottled, wrinkled flesh, gray in some places, green-gray in others, and black most of all. Bulbous pods, glowing faintly in the void, were clustered along the surface of it, like eggshells illuminated from the inside.

Still, its eerie appearance was dwarfed by the sheer size of it. It was bigger than a city--to those that had traveled through space already, it was easy to see that it was bigger than the average-sized moon.

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[jesushasagundam]

"That's Stacy?" Kira's voice is soft, genuinely stunned. He's never seen anything that size before that wasn't Earth or the Moon. "She's huge..."

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[bears_omnitrix]

Ben couldn't help it. He really couldn't.

So he did it.

"That's no moon. That's a SPACE STATION!"

Feel free to groan and Star Wars people glare at him.

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[neverwastenaya]

"Not bad," Tenaya remarked, smirking as she came over.

She had to admit that it was an impressive sight nonetheless. For her first spaceship, it definitely didn't disappoint.

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[bears_omnitrix]

"It HAD to be said," said Ben with a grin and shrug. "I'm just surprised no one beat me to it!"

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[neverwastenaya]

"Oh, yeah?" she asked. "Give it time; I'm sure someone will beat you to the next one soon."

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[bears_omnitrix]

Ben grinned at that. "Maybe make it a game or something."

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[neverwastenaya]

"Might as well," Tenaya agreed. "It's something to do while we're all stuck here until the next planet."

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[yubyubcommander]

Wedge glances at Ben. How odd.

"That sounds...familiar for some reason. Maybe because we had a surplus of moon sized space stations back home for a while."

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[bears_omnitrix]

Ben really tried not to laugh, he really did. But he braced himself on his knees, suppressing guffaws that would otherwise disturb the other passengers.

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[capture_worlds]

Tsukasa was watching the Saucer Separation detaching Obs deck until he heard Ben suppressing laughter.

"...Did you eat something wrong, kid?"

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[bears_omnitrix]

"I-irony," managed Ben, still holding in laughter. "Just total irony!"

Ben couldn't help it, he sunk to his knees laughing hard.

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[capture_worlds]

"...Yes, and your not sharing with the rest of class is completely helpful." Tsukasa deadpanned.

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[bears_omnitrix]

"Space station... moon joke... Rogue Squadron... Death Star... joke made... boom...!" laughed Ben.

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[capture_worlds]

Tsukasa just sighed and pinched the top of his nose a little.

"Teenagers..."

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[restoresbalance]

"At least it's not shooting at us this time," Luke murmured quietly from close by. But you've made him smile, Ben.