More Meteor Showers Bring Even Stranger Powers. (O/A)

[mc2]

Christian rolled his eyes when Gidget spoke about his mother being detained so she wouldn't do anything rash. "It would pain you to see her in 'such a state'? She is always doing something rash or planning something rash: shouldn't someone who claims to be her friend have accepted that already? Makes you no better than Daedalus in the end, though. Trying to protect her verses trying to keep her: you still are robbing her of her freedom."

Christian than took note of Gidget's unnerved reaction and her whisper about being a copy. "Miss Gidget, I think you are oversimplifying things. I already said that currently while you don't have emotions you have something like emotions at the bottom of it all. And, your body, it has emotions too which are nothing like yours. It's a simple happiness. And Mom thinks that the current you is Gidget, and she's fighting awfully hard in her head to assert that your body is only a body. No one is a copy of anything, if anything you might be a piece of the 'real' Gidget."

Christian frowned and added, "Anyhow, if you didn't have any emotions you wouldn't have kept Mom detained. She's not a danger to Valhalla. Maybe herself and Daedalus, but not Valhalla. You wouldn't care about her wanting revenge. Why care? Because you should for me? Or maybe because Shane might? And your friendship with Trinity- it wouldn't exist. Say I killed Trinity right now or Ako or anyone else, are you going to claim you wouldn't care and your mechanical body would just mimic getting upset?" He smiled slightly, "Everyone is looking at this way too simply. The situation is way complicated. I bet the only way to see this properly is to have a sensor who has Mom's ability and mine."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Nova Blancke

They rose as the soil continued to fold in on itself.

"No! She's me and I am her! She's mine!" Alexavier shouted infuriated that Shane would go so far as to say that. The guts of that freak. Clutching his head due to a sudden pain, a new personality forced it's way out.

"Say....with all that knowledge inside of you....you never found the son of the man who did this to you?" Alexavier almost looked innocent while saying that. Almost.

Shane snickered as he continued to keep the soil at bay. He had just figured out a way to get out of it, but he needed the distraction. The water continued to creep as Shane answered Alexavier's question.

"Never really gave it much thought. I'm not really the type to kill people who had nothing to do with the project. Besides, that kid was the only reason I let that guy live. Why, are you about to tell me he's Cassandra's boyfriend or something. Man that must have made you angry. Y'know, seeing as how she's sort of you but not really since you have to keep a mental tether on her."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The machine sat up as the girl continued to scoot her way into a corner to hide. She glanced at Trinity, then at Christian, before arriving at her answer.

"Christian is right. Copy is not the correct term to use. When I...she...was killed all that made up Agatha Morris was dumped into the original Valkyrie armor. Not so much a copy, more like a transfer. But what was transferred was not the soul. It was every electronic signal from her mind. Memories, personality, moral compass, and understanding of her power. Her power is not merely understanding and manipulation of machines and tech, it is a smaller scale form of the same power Ako uses. The neural port she installed was the thing that could make it possible."

"Agatha Morris died thirteen years ago, and but before that she used the armor as an ark. What I am is all that is left of her mind. I have to return it to her."  

[The Count of Monte Carlo]

Ako looked up at Gidget as she touched his shoulder, and stepped away to let her see her body. He watched quietly as the two had their moment, his eyes moving between the two to see the differences and similarities. The hair on the back of his neck stood up as the spark passed between them, He moved to catch the human Gidget as she shuffled back, but stopped when he saw she didn't need it.  

[Nova Blancke]

Theonis didn't really like Christian. Talking so easily about all of this. Plus the kid was too smart for his own good. Children should be playing at that age not discussing stuff like this. When listened to Gidget he knew it was a strange situation.

"So you are her....back-up"

"Nah, I'm just saying you've already met him...twice." Alexavier sighed. Anger seemed to have vanished. Possibly due to his new personality. He began to twirl the large chunk around at high speed whilst continuing the crushing. Centrifugal forces were building up.  

[mc2]

Christian shrugged at Gidget's assertion before he noticed Theonis's dislike for him. It didn't surprise him. He tended to put people at unease. Alexavier had been right when he said that Christian would never have fit in even if he wasn't a meta-human. He listened to Theonis assertion that the machine was Gidget's back-up. "I would think it is more like transferring old information to a new hard drive and then only using the new hard drive. Or that would be my best guess, I'm not that much of an expert on technology."

He frowned and added, "The auras are the same but the emotions are different, and people's souls are completely different matters. Anyhow, Miss Gidget, it is up to you if you want to 'return' what is left of her mind to her. But you shouldn't do it if it is only a matter of 'obligation' or whatever. When people start doing things only because it is the moral thing to do they end up miserable- or can. That is what Mom is always doing, worrying about what the 'right thing' is to do and not what she really wants."

"Anyhow, just make the transfer or not and move on," Christian said. "Discussing it forever isn't going to help anything. And you lot need to figure out what to do if Shane, Alexavier, and Cassandra don't end up killing each other off. Because, if Shane lives Mom is going to end up killing him because he asked her to, and doing that is going to destroy her and she is going to be almost as unstable as those three."  

[PixelMuse]

Trinity agreed with Theonis as he determined it was more like a back-up. It seemed Christian said the same thing pretty much. She didn't want to deture the boy's helpfulness so she didn't say anything. Though she felt the kid was right though, "Christian is right, we shouldn't spend more time discussing the matter. We know what needs to be done so let's do it. Gidget, let us know how we can assist if any is required."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Shane was perplexed. Twice? Did the boy manage to read his mind, or was it someone else's mind he peeked into? How much longer can he spin around before he threw up into his carapace?

Enough was enough, he would have to use one part of his trump card now. Using the combined mental energy of the biomass, Shane voluntarily reached out to Alexavier with his mind. He knew this was risky, but the water had it's directions and it would carry them out without Shane's further input.

"Are you trying to make me vomit? Because you're doing a damn good job of getting me there."  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

The machine considered it's options. But that was part of the problem.

"I think, therefore I am. Even without true emotions or the ability to feel I exist. I do not know what will happen, but I do know this. I was created to restore her, and so I must carry out my directive."

"She will need to be rendered unconscious and placed into restraints. I doubt she will allow me to jam a six inch pike into her brain voluntarily."

As the machine spoke it's words became more formal and artificial, as though it knew it's time were coming to an end. It picked itself up and walked over to the junk table. It's arms opened and many smaller robotic arms folded out from them. They then began their soulless dance of creation as the parts necessary to complete the transfer are being put together.  

[Nova Blancke]

To Alexavier it was like having an incoming call. It was Shane, he just knew it. Answering it would be.....no, can't risk it. Too dangerous. Don't trust him.

"I can't shoot you off to space without some additional forces no?"Alexavier replied as the rotation increased and the angled changed to a vertical spin.  

[PixelMuse]

Rikki Tikki Travi

The machine considered its options. But that was part of the problem.

"I think, therefore I am. Even without true emotions or the ability to feel I exist. I do not know what will happen, but I do know this. I was created to restore her, and so I must carry out my directive."

"She will need to be rendered unconscious and placed into restraints. I doubt she will allow me to jam a six inch pike into her brain voluntarily."

As the machine spoke its words became more formal and artificial, as though it knew its time were coming to an end. It picked itself up and walked over to the junk table. Its arms opened and many smaller robotic arms folded out from them. They then began their soulless dance of creation as the parts necessary to complete the transfer are being put together.

Trinity's eyes lowered, she was beginning to sound less and less like her friend and more like... like a machine. She would hate to admit it but it seems Shane is right, or partially anyway. How were they supposed to know that her body was alive somewhere to begin with?

Either way what needed to be done was going to get done, machine or Gidget. It had its programming to follow which happened to be Gidget's goal. She saw Gidget's body heading toward a corner hiding. To render unconscious, if Ako tried to do it the girl may be able to absorb it especially if he had to use a small amount to render someone unconscious. She let out a sigh she almost didn't want to be the one to simply knock her out but she could and do it safely.

"Christian, if you feel you need to step out a moment it's okay." she walks behind the computer, vanishing into the shadow. She located the girl. Her hand came out of the shadow behind the girl and hit a few pressure points which caused the girl to fall unconscious. She picked up Gidget's body and walked back to the machine and the others. "She's unconcious... Where do we need to put her?"

((ooc: RikkiTikkiTravi you may have noticed I've corrected all of your it's to its. Its is the possessive form of it. It's is it is... I've been seeing this all over this RP and it's been driving me nuts burning_eyes

Sorry, not to be a grammar nazi or anything but this is just a minor peeve of mine sweatdrop ))  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

Nova Blancke

To Alexavier it was like having an incoming call. It was Shane, he just knew it. Answering it would be.....no, can't risk it. Too dangerous. Don't trust him.

"I can't shoot you off to space without some additional forces no?"Alexavier replied as the rotation increased and the angled changed to a vertical spin.

Shane rolled his eyes. Space would not kill him as quickly as other organisms. However, the re-entry part did cause him some concern. As did the possibility of a snap freeze upon leaving the atmosphere. Shane was not liking the idea of orbit. He did however like that Alexavier answered his question, which meant that he could be heard. And if he could be heard, then so could the dark passenger and the hundreds of other voices it presided over.

Shane opened up his mental channel again and sent every tortured memory of every person he had ever consumed. They all remembered what the process felt like, they were still alive when it happened. The feeling of being eaten cell by cell and becoming part of some darker creature. That creature made itself known to Alexavier. It refused to die in the cold of space.

"Release us, worm!"

The dark passenger fed a mental image, incapacitating Shane's motor functions. The image was that of a terrible, unimaginably monstrous being without shape or form. It was a grand mass of flesh, bones, and blood towering over all. It was the true form of the biomass.

The water completed it's trek and began it's torrential ascent to grasp the duo, It split into many snake like water currents, all vying for the one's the creator commanded it to seize.  

[Rikki Tikki Travi]

PixelMuse

"Christian, if you feel you need to step out a moment it's okay." she walks behind the computer, vanishing into the shadow. She located the girl. Her hand came out of the shadow behind the girl and hit a few pressure points which caused the girl to fall unconscious. She picked up Gidget's body and walked back to the machine and the others. "She's unconcious... Where do we need to put her?"

((OOC: It's fine. I'm surprised I didn't catch that. I'm such a stickler on the you're/your front that I sometimes forget about the smaller things.))

The machine's gaze shifted to a slightly less used portion of the lab. "Behind some of the larger components is a chair Agatha Morris used in order to install the port. The surgical machinery is long since dead, but the design of the chair will suit the procedure well. The restraints built into it can be activated by a small electrical shock. Ako's power should suffice in that regard."  

[Nova Blancke]

The sudden burst of voices caught him off guard. Something was trying to overpower him in a battle of minds? Him, of all people?! Alexavier had blocked out any further influence.

"SILENCE! YOU DARE CHALLENGE ME?!KNOW YOUR PLACE BEAST!" Alexavier shouted back to them in his mind as he pushed them all back. In his rage he had shattered the ground containing Shane and launched him up towards the sky. As soon as he realized what he had done he went after him and fired Cassandra unto him. Cassandra locked herself against Shane with her legs around his upper body as she began to pummel into his head. They were really becoming unstable.  

[mc2]

Christian rolled his eyes at Trinity's comment that he could leave if things started to bother him and he muttered, "I grew up in Daedalus: I've seen some bad and weird things before. I'm sure I'll manage. Besides, I doubt you will want me exploring Valhalla without supervision at the moment." After that he fell silent and merely watched.