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

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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Really, he'd just wanted a cup of coffee. Even replicator coffee - it wasn't terrible. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible. He's almost dropped the cup when he heard the scream - had only barely caught it, coffee spilling on his sleeve and hand.

He shook it off and twisted to hurry down the hall. "Hey, hey. What's wron-" He skidded to stop, watching the man in front of him.

Magneto wasn't actually sure what was happening, not at first. "Ok, ok. Hey. Sir. Take a breath. I know this is frightening, I know you might be hurt. But it's going to be ok." He didn't know that - hell didn't trust people here yet - but he sounded convincing.

Bruce was writhing, his body bulging and rippling green then pink again. The voice was calming, but Bruce was pretty far into pain and surprise now. He looked up at the other man, eyes green and dark and fathomless. "RUN!" The cry was a roar of pain.

It was a warning. Magneto would give...whoever that. But this was a closed system - running didn't work well, ultimately. And he was more hardy than mot. "It's ok. It's going to be ok." But he is did back a couple steps away. He'd never seen his world's Bruce Banner transform into the Hulk - he wasn't familiar with the process.

Bruce rolled away, hands bunching against the carpet, but the mans words, the man's voice, somewhere, reached him. It touched him somehow, even in his fear and surprise and rage, and it calmed him. It reminded him he was not alone.

And somehow... the change receded, and he collapsed, groaning, to the ground.

"There you go. There you go. Just breathe." He kept his voice calm, almost meditative. He'd learned in his studies, time spent in India when he was younger, studying yoga, meditation, and other arts while he was still studying his powers.

Seeing the man collapsed, he inched forward. "Do you need me to call for medical? Probably shouldn't get up right away."

Bruce rolled over slowly, and sat up, and shook his head while he did so, albeit very carefully. "No, I'll be okay, soon."

His heart beat coming under control, his eyes going dark again, and his mind calming, he glanced up at the other man. "Sorry for the brief scene. Not my favorite way to meet new people."

Magneto continued to walk closer, keeping a close eye on the new arrival. "Okay. Do you need anything?" He wasn't sure what had just happened - but in general those kinds of reactions weren't good.

"No harm done, don't worry about it." But he was curious about what he'd just seen.

Bruce hauled himself up, then, and settled to a chair, nearby. "Ah, if you know where I could get some water, and some aspirin, that would be good?"

And he looked around, then at the man.

"And tell me where I am. That would probably be good, too."

Magneto followed - not quite trusting the other man not to fall over. "Water and aspirin, those are easily obtained." There was a replicator near by.

"Space, actually. We're aboard a starship. I'll return - there is a machine down the passage, for your water and medication." He paused for a moment, making sure the man was all right for the time being, then left to retrieve the items. It only took a few minutes before he returned with a cup and envelop with two small pills.

"Here."

"Those would both be good." Bruce rubbed his head as he looked around. Intriguing.

Bruce paused as the man left and returned, and he took the cup and envelope, a little suspicious, but willing to trust, for now. "Thank you. Now, you said a starship? How big? Where? Who runs it?"

Bruce had questions.

"For all you may not - understandably so - be willing to trust a stranger, they are simply water and aspirin. I can show you how to work the machine yourself, once your more steady on your feet if you'd like." He understood the suspicion, he'd felt it. Still did. "And you're welcome. My trip here left me with quite a headache as well."

Magneto had to think about it - he'd gotten basic specs, of course. "Roughly 642 by 463 by 195, all meters. There are forty-two decks, and she can house just over a thousand people." If this man wanted to know size, that should give him a ballpark. "And no where near Earth, which I'm assuming you are from, we're moving but one of the ship's computers can get you coordinates, if you'd like." He tended to check them at least once a day, sometimes more. Charting their path. "It's run by a group called Starfleet, have you heard of them?"

Bruce took the pill and water, and then sat back, then chuckled as he shook his head as he pulled out a small P.A.D.D., which was farther advanced than anything on 21st century Earth. He stared at the readings after a moment.

"Dimensional changes. Has to be. Alteration of scientific and temporal characteristics. Holy shit."

Bruce shook his head. "I'd have to say it is either in the far future of my time, or the far past, and in another universe."

Further than most anything on Magneto's earth too. And he's clearly interested in it.

"It is yes. Most here seem to be from the past as well as another universe, if you don't mind sharing? This isn't my universe, and it's barely the twenty-first century for me. My name's Erik, by the way." Now that the other man was calmed down - and seemed to have an idea of what was going on - Magneto was more willing to simply sit and talk.

Bruce passed the PADD over, nodding. "It has to be an exchange of energy matter quotient, or a transporter device on a massive scale." He shook his head, imagining the energy for that. Wow.

"I'm from the 21st century, in the teens. My name's Bruce." He extended his hand.

"Likely both of some fashion. Reality warpers operate on a different level of physics which isn't entirely understood. Some of what's going on should be hard too much of an energy drain and yet...And there's no thermal displacement or energy spike I've been able to locate, so something or someone is filtering them." Someone to talk science with. This day was looking up.

"Bruce. Nice to meet you." He took Bruce's hand, shaking it. His own hand was calloused and strong - he'd worked with them, a lot.

"That makes sense. A redirected energy spike could be concealed especially if it was fed back into helping the process along. And if this is a matter-energy exchange, then the process could be... endless." Bruce shook his head.

He shook Erik's hand and nodded. He had no callouses, but hands that felt like he should have them.

"Which it seems to be, I'm told this has been going on for months, with no timeline to stop." Which wasn't something he was too happy about. He did want to go home...

But this wasn't terrible. Yes. Better than the ruin of Genosha.

"I'm fairly new, but I've been studying this dimension, the history, this ship. It's interesting, really."

Bruce sighed. "That's not good news. If it's stable, the whole thing might not be stoppable without an extreme expenditure of energy and force." Bruce's mind was calculating, but there were variables he was missing and he shook his head.

"I can imagine. Humanity, and others, actually working together and getting off their butts to go out and explore..." Bruce grinned a little. "Not something I expected, with how life was back home, but nice to see."

"There is a being - Q - controlling it. Those who know him, at least I believe 'him' applies, standard gendered nouns on Earth don't always translate to other beings-" He made a small motion, waving it off. Bruce understood, or so he hoped. "So unless he or some other of his kind stop him..." He's not pleased about this and not convinced there was nothing to be done, but for now, this was the stance he was taking.

"And with peace Earthwide, including supposedly total disarmament." He didn't believe it - but it was interesting to see it being believed. "I would never have believed the idea to even be possible."

Bruce squinted. "One being? Huhn. Impressive, if a bit intimidating." He spoke as he plugged information into a smart phone looking object, then nodded.

"Theoretically an energy field of the right frequency and power level could stop him, but whether or not we could find the frequency or generate the level of power needed is another question." Bruce's device was already working, but again, too few variables. "Does he show up very often?"

Bruce listened, then nodded. "Do you think they'll take us to Earth?"

The squint is met with a chuckle. "Yes it is. Interesting too. A entire people like. It's extraordinary." It made him wonder of his own creation, Erik the Red as he'd once been called. What he had found.

"A great deal of unknowns - and also unknown what it would do to this ship, something not to take lightly, given it supplies the life support systems." Not that he couldn't survive it. "I've not seen him. I couldn't tell you what he looks like."

Magneto shook he head. "No. I don't. We're fairly far to begin with. And it seems the crew is trying to maintain their mission."

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

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