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when a Doctor needs a doctor [ota]

Jan 10, 2010 16:20

He hadn't responded to the message from his older self concerning one Perpugilliam Brown, as opposed to the multiple versions of her he'd already encountered in the corridors of the station. His fault. All his fault. If he had kept better tabs on her rather than allow the TARDIS to drag him to this infernal place without her ( Read more... )

[canon] peri brown, [canon] trance gemini, [canon] five, [canon] arik soong, [canon] data, [post] virus strand plot, [canon] leonard mccoy

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dr_arik_soong January 11 2010, 04:41:15 UTC

Milling around the many many versions of the young woman was a geneticist in a biosuit attempting to take samples, and he heard the Doctor's voice faintly as he was acquiring a vial.

But then he turned in time to see the Doctor drop. "Data! Get over here!" He jogged over to the Doctor's side. Data, who had been organizing the information at a console into something they could possibly use, bolted over to hook his hands underneath his shoulders and start to heft him up. An arm hooked under his knees once he had him in position, and he hoisted him to take him to one of the examination tables.

The young girl looked the same as any of the young girls in there, and Arik took a quick look at her. She seemed healthier than the others, but that could be shock from seeing the Doctor drop.

peri_patetic January 11 2010, 05:48:34 UTC

Why was she feeling so panicky all of a sudden? The Doctor knew what Peri had to do, had told her exactly what to do to help the station. But it was so hard!

She wanted to leave, but she knew she couldn't. Everyone was looking for people who looked like her. They were all being rounded up anyway. So...so...

"I-is he gonna be okay?" she asked the man in the suit, her voice timid. And ideally she was trying to ignore the man with the pale skin who picked the Doctor up like he weighed a little less than a feather pillow before depositing him onto the table.

dr_arik_soong January 11 2010, 05:57:04 UTC

"I hope so. I'm still looking for the base pattern, I need to map out a counter-virus to combat this." He scratched at his helmet as if scratching at his head, taking a good look at the Doctor ( ... )

peri_patetic January 11 2010, 06:29:51 UTC

The Doctor was changing so fast, not like the others she'd seen in the corridors. He wasn't going to get any better if she didn't say anything. And he was so still on that table.

As still as death. She'd seen him like this before. Sometimes if he got hurt, he'd fall into some sort of trance or a coma while he recovered, but how could you recover from turning into somebody else?

Her arms hung loosely at her sides, easily taken for a blood sample. She raised her eyes, trying to look at the face of the man beneath that helmet...

A face that sorta looked like an older version of the pale man who'd helped the Doctor...

Was...was he a victim of the virus too? But ( ... )

dr_arik_soong January 11 2010, 07:52:49 UTC

"No no no, not your fault. This is good. Not the virus but finding you. Usually I have no problem with cloning but this is out of control." He went ahead and took the sample, this one receiving a red label. "Here, Data. Take it ( ... )

peri_patetic January 12 2010, 00:51:07 UTC

"But...but the Doctor's not human. Is that gonna be a problem?" How much of that alien DNA was fighting off the infection, and how much was gradually acclimating to it? She figured that it would be better for the people who were already human, and only had to deal with getting changed into another human.

But with someone who was a completely different species...

"Um..." She tapped the pale man on the shoulder. Hopefully she wouldn't come off as annoying, but she was curious. "Why aren't you wearing a protective suit too?"

empirical_data January 12 2010, 01:20:13 UTC

"I am an android. I am incapable of being infected." He glanced over his shoulder at her with bright gold eyes, before returning his attention to the computer screen in front of him.

"Which means he doesn't need gloves. Data, lay out the helixes of four victims for comparison." Data and Trance were far less encumbered than he was at the moment.

Data place samples on all of the scanners, and knit his brow.

"...Dr. Soong. The Doctor's DNA has a triple helix. I am also detecting the presence of another virus that might have enhanced his alteration." Strange, though, the other virus looked like it belonged. Integrated with his leukocytes.

Arik grunted. Ideas. He needed ideas. He needed to speak with Trance. "Do a spectral analysis of the other virus. I want to know everything about it and its affect on his bloodstream."

peri_patetic January 12 2010, 05:00:20 UTC

"You're an...oh..." She should've known, really. All that time with Kamelion in the silver-skinned guise of her stepdad, but this guy was different. Well, she supposed that when androids weren't under the control of a madman, they were perfectly useful and nice.

Didn't mean she had to get attached, did it?

Despite herself, Peri took a glance at those scanners. Not that she really could make heads or tails of it, but what Data said was pretty interesting. Like the Doctor's DNA being triple helixed.

And he was already sick?

No, it didn't sound like it.

"I've watched him fight off poison and disease before," she said. "Usually he just needs sleep. Like that." And she pointed at the prone figure on the table.

empirical_data January 12 2010, 05:42:32 UTC

"...Is that... bad?" he asked innocently enough, wondering at her tone as his hands played over the controls. She sounded that sort of disappointed that the Doctor had when he had taken his clothes without solicitation. He was aware that some people disliked androids, but he did attempt to be cordial and useful. If he knew why, he could be inoffensive as possible.

Arik ruffled a hand through Data's well kept hair, messing it up with his gloved hand affectionately. "Seems the Doctor is more alien than I thought. But we know it's not exclusive to humans now." This other virus could be useful, especially if what Peri said was true.

"I think this kills off dead cells and replaces them with new cells. How long until the spectral analysis is complete."

"Twenty minutes, Dr. Soong."

adoctornota January 12 2010, 06:13:15 UTC

The doors were opened again, revealing a figure in Starfleet medical blues. Doctor McCoy's quest to find information was slightly hampered by the group of medtechs hovering around him the moment he walked through the door, who were currently trying to fit him with a biosuit.

"Oh, for heaven's sakes!" he said, brushing off a particularly persistent tech, before fixing them all with a glare. "Don't you all have jobs to do?"

As they scurried off, fitting complete, McCoy headed towards a group clustered around one of the examination tables.

"Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on here?"

peri_patetic January 12 2010, 06:42:49 UTC

"Not bad, I guess, but--" But she still found it difficult to forgive Kamelion, even if he couldn't help himself. He still tricked her, forced her to do things she normally wouldn't have done. It'd take time. And besides, he was helping with the epidemic.

Peri hopped in surprise when another man showed up, and all she really wanted to do was to blend into the background, which was pretty hard considering every single one of the patients were in the process of turning into clones of her.

dr_arik_soong January 12 2010, 06:50:52 UTC

"Who are you to ask?" Arik asked, brow knitting because he hadn't seen this man before.

Data simply cast a casual glance over his shoulder and then forward again, going back to what he was doing. "Dr. Leonard McCoy, known as 'Bones' to his friends. He was the ships chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise NCC-1701 and NCC-1701 A."

Arik glanced at the android, and then motioned for Peri to stand off to the side because this doctor looked rather cranky. "A contagion. This girl was infected with a disease that alters everyone to look like her. It apparently isn't racially exclusive. That poor man changed in under a minute," he motioned to the Doctor on the exam bed.

adoctornota January 12 2010, 07:21:17 UTC

McCoy looked a little taken aback. "What do you mean, A? There's only one Enterprise in the galaxy, thank goodness." He looked at the man with strange yellow eyes carefully; took in what he was wearing. "You're Starfleet," he said, "though I don't recognise the uniform."

He thought the other man looked familiar, as well - though he couldn't quite place it at the moment. And right now, there was a medical emergency to be concerned with.

"Huh. Reminds me of something I read about, back in medical school." Pulling out his medical tricorder, McCoy ran it over the man on the bed. "His DNA is changing pretty quick," he said, frowning down at the display. The man's lifesigns were also reading as non-human, which was pretty interesting.

"How long has all this normally taken?"

peri_patetic January 12 2010, 07:33:39 UTC

Peri did as Arik instructed, trying to keep out of the way while the others started to work.

"You'll be able to help, won't you?" she asked all of them. "I mean, not just him..." Who seemed more like a 'her' at the moment. "...but everyone else? Please. If there's anything I can do--"

Which she doubted. She'd already given a blood sample. What else could she do? All she was, was a Botany major. She knew a lot about DNA and stuff, but only as it pertained to plants, and plants weren't people.

empirical_data January 12 2010, 07:53:54 UTC

"Starfleet no longer exists in my source timeline. The Klingons invaded and enslaved Earth, and I was an android created to negotiate and correct the timeline approximately a century in your future." He nodded to the figure on the table. "He is the Doctor. He is a Time Lord. He regenerates when he is sick or injured or even dead."

Arik knit his brow. "Most people its 24 hours. It must have worked with this other virus to go faster on him. Don't worry, sweetheart," he said, not sounding condescending but kindly and paternal. As he'd spoken to Persis. "We'll help everybody."

"He is my friend too, Dr. Soong."

"I know, Data. We're going to fix him and everyone else."

adoctornota January 12 2010, 08:35:12 UTC

"Time travel. And Klingons," he grumbled. "Figures." Some of his least favourite things in the universe.

McCoy looked over at Peri, and his expression softened. The poor girl looked absolutely petrified. "He's quite right, young lady," he said, gently. "We're gonna fix this."

He moved over to where the older man - Soong, apparently - was standing. "We need an antidote," he murmured. "And fast." McCoy gestured over to the table, glancing down at his tricorder. "If this fellow regenerates when sick, maybe he's the key."

The name 'Soong' was very familiar, though he couldn't quite place it at the moment.

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