Pods Will Pop

[cityship]

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[toaster_lover]

For such an entirely bizarre situation, there shouldn't have been so much about this that rang familiar to Gaius Baltar.

But the ship that was both a ship, and a woman who spoke to him, and not just spoke, but emitted warm fuzzy feelings of acceptance, love, and some 'greater purpose'... all of this felt much too akin to the sort of nightmarish reality he had grown accustomed to.

But something about this was even more wrong, all wrong. His first instincts were that this had to be some kind of Cylon game. Actually, those were his second instincts as well.

But he'd never heard mention of this race of 'Ohm' that 'Stacy' was on about, and for all Six's blather about him being the Chosen of God, she'd never alluded to any of this. He'd thought it all had something to do with the end of humanity, or the beginning of something new for both man and Cylon, but to be a protector? A 'champion of life'?

Not to mention she'd stated he would be fighting these alien insects

[dyu_uv_rikku]

Oh, Shoopuf!

That was the best Rikku could come up with in her current state, the Al Bhed struggling to wrap her head around what had happened. She knew she was covered in something slimy, sticky, and felt worse than getting buried in a sandstorm back on Bikanel. Even worse, she was naked, and covering herself with her arms was proving a futile effort. She spat and coughed some at the salty taste in her mouth as she tried to remember what happened. They were celebrating, she thinks. Tidus had returned, hadn't he? And then... Nothing. "Y-Yunie?" Rikku called out quietly for her cousin, then louder, but all the response she got was the throbbing of the floor at her feet.

Wait. Why was the floor throbbing? Had she been swallowed?

Rikku didn't like this one bit. "Hey!" she cried, trying to suppress her fear with unnatural bravado, "Can I at least get a towel or something?" As if on cue, the lights on the floor lit up. Lights were to be followed, right?

[lackofdarkwings]

Ohm...

It was something Matt was unfamiliar of.

Emerging like a slime-encrusted human nightmare was a unique experience, something he felt was less than needed.

Something on the edge of his senses tingled a little bit as he was clothed and changed and hosed off.

Something FAMILIAR.

Unnoticed even by himself, his fingers tingled with magic before dying quickly. Was he...?

His expression went a little downcast as he looked around for that familiar presence on the horizon.

No doubt about it.

His Will-senses were tingling.

[indigoblueberry]

Indigo pushes herself up, dripping slime, and frowns as she examines her enviroment. She listens to STA'C K'LTRRB'TXFT's speech with half a mind as she floats up, heedless of her nudity or the slime dripping off of her, and stares around, trying to get a decent fix on her location. She makes no noise as she sweeps her vision around, only frowning when she realizes that something's interfering with her scans.

But she doesn't need fancy scanners to see the pods. Millions of them. The ship itself seemed organic... Was that what was keeping her from getting a decent reading in this room?

"Ohm." She tries the word out. She doubts that any insectoids would be related to the unit of electrical impedance.

She lands, then starts walking. If she had been chosen, it was likely that the other Outsiders had been as well. All she had to do was find them.

[am_alwaysfree]

The last thing Mal was falling asleep in his bed in his room on Serenity. He remembered dreaming about the final battle of the Unification War, the Battle of Serenity Valley. He saw the soldiers dying, heard the screams and sounds of gunfire, and smelled the blood, burning flesh, and thick smoke that was covering the entire valley. Then he saw a blinding flash of light, followed by the sensation of falling.

The next thing the captain knew, his eyes snapped open, and he realized he was lying naked on the floor, covered in warm sticky goo. Then he realized someone was talking to him, informing him that he was chosen to do something... to fight some insects called "the Ohm".

As he sat there processing what that someone ("Stacy", her name was), he kept thinking there had to be something he was missing.

Why he'd been chosen at all was one question among many that he had.