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The fall of the space station.

Jan 30, 2011 05:54

The space station hung in space above the world, a white dot in an expanse of blackness, a mirror to the islands below, swallowed up and surrounded by blue ocean as they were. Inside, it bustled with fresh motion as people walked, talked, worked; every few minutes, in rooms and corridors, someone passed the hidden mechanisms of an Aperture Science ( Read more... )

tony stark, dr. helen magnus, sean cassidy, saffron, matt farrell, jason stackhouse, gaius baltar, gathering, the doctor, dairine callahan, calvin o'keefe, river tam, uhura, abby sciuto, william bush, eli wallace, carwood lipton, dr. meredith grey, lex luthor, jack harkness, cable, sonya blade-hasashi, zell dincht

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SIDEWAYS notawastedlife January 29 2011, 17:04:15 UTC

Abruptly, doors began slamming open. The lasers blinked out, floors slid back into place over acid baths. Traps all over the station deactivated.

Once again, Tony's voice sounded throughout the station. "Those of you still here, I am now in control of this station. There's only a few minutes until we hit, and less than that before the exit portal closes. All the traps are off, the doors are open, but there's nothing I can do about the zombies. Get out, and get out now. And mind your step. I'm about to up-end this entire death-trap."

A few minutes later, the death-trap... up-ended. The station jerked, shaking even harder than it had been as one side lifted, the entire structure tipped, turned on its side.

A moment later, everything loose went careening sideways into what had been the floor but was now vertical as the station accelerated in the opposite direction, launched sideways.

math_boy_eli February 3 2011, 02:12:27 UTC

He managed to grin at her quip, so maybe the pain was receding a little on its own. Even so, he gratefully took the pills. “I'm not a huge fan of taking things dry, but again, better than nothing.” He downed them, swallowing with difficulty.

lastof_five February 3 2011, 02:14:42 UTC

"Do you need me to help you somewhere?" Helen asked, not wanting to leave him until he was sorted and somewhere comfortable but feeling the need to try and help others as much as she could. "I don't mind walking you somewhere."

math_boy_eli February 3 2011, 02:52:09 UTC

Now that the immediate panic of oh my god my leg was dying down, he could think a little. Where think meant worry - about Claudia, Saffron, and everyone else who'd been on the space station. The fact that he hadn't heard or seen an explosion meant disaster had at least partially been averted, but what had happened?

He looked around, finally, and winced. There were obviously other people who needed help. “I'll be fine,” he told the doctor. “I can get someone else to help me to the boat. But hey, if you see Claudia - uh, early 20s, short red hair - could you point her my direction?”

lastof_five February 3 2011, 02:53:42 UTC

Helen nodded. "Claudia the redhead. I'll be sure to send her your way if I see her, all right?"

math_boy_eli February 3 2011, 02:55:02 UTC

“Thanks. For that, and the leg, and the painkillers.” He gave her a wan smile and a little wave.

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