Test Drive #7 - Ten Forward and Captain's Yacht

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Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprise's off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...





Option 02. The Captain's Yacht: Oooh, you sneaky stowaway! You've found yourself in a very exclusive part of the ship: Captain Picard's personal craft, used for short jaunts when a shuttle just won't do. (One must retain some decorum, after all.) It may not be as large as the Enterprise itself, but there are sure to be some surprises aboard once people start snooping.


[OOC: The Captain's Yacht is located at the very base of the Enterprise's saucer portion, so if you put someone in there you can also play them trying to get back to somewhere they know!]

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[hollabackgirl]

"Whoa," I say, staring at my phone in horror. "This is like, some serious Lyle hacker voodoo, and I've gotta say it's really uncool, Hacker-Lady-with-the-Seriously-Severe-Bangs."

She probably doesn't get it, but like my phone is my life. Who else would go through two dozen packs of cell phone batteries that aren't like even made anymore, wherever this is, while the crew gives me some serious stink-eye like I'm going to destroy the planet or something? The joke's on them anyway, we're not on a planet.

So I give my phone a good shake, hoping it'll maybe knock the hacker out without totally Tara Lipinski-ing the super righteous Instagram I was trying to make of myself eating a cheeseburger in outer space. Most Liked Photo in History, here I come! Suck it, Fit Brit!

Now if only I can find a decent signal...

"Oh balls, you're still here," I frown at the screen.

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce was transforming, and shuddering as it took hold, but the pain was eased by the healing and he groaned as something new happened. The serene touch faded into him and he shifted, more and more, but unlike normal, Bruce found his mind was still just as keen, and even as his clothing ripped and he grew to more than twice his normal size, his mind stayed in control.

"Wh-what did you do?"

Bruce struggled up, and up, and up, to the Hulk's full height, looking down at the other man and at himself. Somehow, he was in the Hulk's body... and in complete control!

"Oh my God..."

[gregorydeegan]

Greg stared, his jaw dropping, then he grinned brightly. "COOL! You're like a super hero or something!" He beamed happily. "I used my White magic," he explained. White magic is for healing and calming, and you seemed to need both. So... there you go. I hope I didn't go too far, I get a little fired up."

[doctorbrucebanner]

The only danger in bringing Bruce into her web thing during the transformation, well, was that the Other Guy was awake, and angry, and loud. Bruce faded in, calm, and blinked, then looked at himself and her, and around. "What--- where am I?" And then there was a roar, and Hulk was there. Bruce paled as he looked. "This has to be a dream..."

Hulk pressed aside trees as Hulk moved out of the recesses of the darkness of Bruce's mind. Hulk snorted, looking around, and then at the woman. For in this place, Hulk, also, was calm.

"Why woman bring Hulk here?" Hulk looked at Bruce and snarled. "Puny Banner."

***

In the real world, the transformation continued, for a moment, then stalled, Bruce's body caught mid-way between the two forms, misshapen and larger than normal.

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce pounded the floor with one hand, fighting with every part of himself. The voice of the Captain made his head snap around, and the visage that looked at Steve was that of rippling skin and bone, green and normal skin intertwined and side by side, blending back and forth. And those eyes, brilliant green in a face stretched wide with pain.

"Steve... get away... don't want to hurt you..." There is rage in the voice, and pain, so much pain.

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce looked down at the man and blinked. "Ah, or something..." He winced when the man said magic, and sighed, facepalming. Even the sensation of palm against face was different, and he lost himself in a moment, looking at his palm, absorbing the sensations. This was entirely new, and he needed to remember it all.

"I'm not sure...normally, pain, stress, or anger transforms me into the Hulk, in this body, but out of control. And when I calm down, I go back. Now... I have no idea."

[the_blood]

"Mother Night," she murmured, then she looked over the both of them. "I was sure I was only aiming for one mind, and yet, I have ensnared two." She looked to Hulk, "I do not think that I was aiming for you." She wished she could side step into the twisted kingdom, but she was in the vision. that was too dangerous.

***

Theiorn watched the body, frowning, and doubled his shields, glaring at anyone who dared come too close.

[gregorydeegan]

"Huh, that's odd," he said. "The one time that happened to me... all I felt was sheepish," he admitted. "I can try channeling white magic into you. Unless you're undead or an infernomancer, or demon, white magic can either help or do nothing, but not harm."

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce snorted. "One mind, two sentiences within it. We were once one, and now only one is expressed at a time in the waking world... wait, what?" Bruce stared at her. "You tried to bring us in? Which means this is not a dream?"

Meanwhile Hulk stared at the weird shiny woman. "Weird Shiny Woman, Hulk does not want to be in this place! Hulk wants to be left alone!" And Hulk's words, yelled, though mostly calm, shook the very fabric of that place, as the power behind them intruded even there.

Bruce winced. "Er, this is dangerous, for you."

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce rubbed his face, then nodded. "You probably better. I don't think me being like this is a good idea." He could already feel the power there, at his beckon, so much rage that he could do anything, rule the world, tear it down or... he shut his mind away from it and nodded to the man. "Now, if you please."

His voice had a note of desperation to it as he spoke.

[gregorydeegan]

He nodded. "Sometimes people exposed to a lot of white magic feel extra good, hyper, energetic, strong...and very very healthy," he warned. Then he put his hands on Bruce's arm and focused, channeling his white magic into the other man. Channeling the magic lifted Gregory's hair out from his head in an aura, a glow of white around first him, then the both of them as he focused, going until he was told to stop.

[the_blood]

"This is a tangled web, a dream vision I wove into our minds. You seemed to be in pain and afraid, and I sought to get to the bottom of it, so I would know how to help. I can end the vision, if you think that best." Shows what came of trying to help males who weren't hers. Never mind her feeling pulled towards him...

[doctorbrucebanner]

"Ah, okay. Thank you for your concern. And... I think you may have done the right thing. Just know it is dangerous for you. I don't want to hurt you." Bruce nodded to her.

Hulk grumbled, calm but unhappy at the same time, and poked Bruce, sending him stumbling. "Why Puny Banner here? Puny Banner is never here when Hulk is here."

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce nodded, then winced as the aura slid over him and into him. Suddenly, he could feel the change happening, and he cried out. His body shifted, shrank, and turned back into that of a normal man, slowly. When it was done, Bruce sank to sit on the floor and nodded, slumped against a table. "Thank you."

[the_blood]

"I am a Queen," she said simply, though she did sigh inwardly. "Now, do you think that you can hold the calm enough if I were to return you to your own mind now?" she asked, stroking the large tiger, whose purr rumbled through the vision.

[gregorydeegan]

He nodded and sat on the floor across from him. "Hey, helping people is what I do. And when I do it after sun-down, I'm a real White Knight!" though as much as he loved making horrible jokes, as soon as he made that one, he hated himself instead of feeling smug. He still had issues with knights, well, with one knight in particular. How a wonderful woman like Jayden could be friends with a monster like Sigfried... was beyond his understanding. Milov he understood, the spell-wolf was an awesome person and a loyal friend. But Sigfried proved over and over the corruption of the Callian knights, and Jayden just stood there, making excuses for him...

[sickdaughter]

"I see..." She rested her hand on her chin as she perused the information. "Quarantine? I wonder how that will work for me..."

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce settled and he facepalmed, wincing. "And a lover of puns, too, eh?" Bruce eyed the man, then finally looked around, and shook his head.

"Where in the names of God are we, anyway?" Bruce knew for a fact he had never been here, or anywhere like this.

[doctorbrucebanner]

"Well, your majesty, I think so.' Bruce turned to Hulk and raised an eyebrow. "Think we can cooperate for awhile?" Hulk and he stared at each other for a minute, then sighed and settled to the ground, grumpy, with his eyes closed.

Bruce nodded. "I think that's a yes."

[gregorydeegan]

"Names?" he asked, curious. And did that mean that this man was religious, and maybe knew some cute pious women. Yes, Gregory had a type, no he was not going to apologize for it, especially not so soon after he broke up with Pam.

[the_blood]

"Your...majesty?" she asked, confused, then shook her head and focused on the task at hand. "Then I shall end the vision, though I do ask one favor," she said, eying them both suspiciously.

[doctorbrucebanner]

Bruce glanced at the other man then looked around. "Yeah. Many scholars agree that there are well over nine billion names for God." He spoke abstractly as he reached into the tatters of his clothing and pulled out a smart phone, as well as some tools, and fiddled with it for a few minutes.

"How long have you been here?"

[doctorbrucebanner]

"It's a formal name to address a queen by in my world." He nodded to her, then raised an eyebrow. "What is your request?" His voice was wary. He had bad experiences with people who wanted favors.

[gregorydeegan]

"Given that we were just talking about god, do you mean hear on thi....in this universe, or in this specific room, or what?" Of course once the man said scholars, that had dashed all his hopes for meeting a cute girl. They'd all be like Luna, more interested in guys like Dominic, with brains, than guys like him... with couch forts. He looked around, dismayed by the lack of sofas he could dismantle.

[the_blood]

"Lady works, just fine," she assured him dryly. "The favor is this, never EVER let Theiorn know that this had been dangerous for me. Ever. Under any circumstances. Ever. Okay?"