TEST DRIVE #10 - Cetacean Pool and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

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Option 001. Cetacean Pool/Aquatics Lab: Of all the places in the world, you open your eyes and you find yourself in a medium-sized aquatics laboratory, filled with various living specimens along with various science officers bustling about trying to maintain order. There's much to explore here (and hopefully, in the crew's opinion, not break), but the main attraction is the large pool at the far end of the lab; enormous but tanklike in appearance, it contains several dolphins happily swimming about, seemingly without a care in the world.


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Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.

You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.

Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.

Comments

[capsule_corp]

Tap someone on the shoulder... Yeah good advice. Bulma's interaction with a now pale and rather frightened looking ensign had started out cordially enough. Unfortunately, she hadn't liked what he'd had to tell her, and now, she's pounding one fist on the table between them, and shaking the other angrily.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'we're in space', I CAN SEE THAT!" She shrieks, halting her rage flailing to point out the huge windows. "I SAID I WANT TO KNOW WHY, AND WHAT YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!" She has a family to get back to, after all, not that she's pulled that card yet.

[fighting4afuture]

Oh. Oh god.

Trunks knows that voice, and God help the poor man on the receiving end of it. He should. Probably do something about that.

"Um. Excuse me."

...does she know who he is? He can't really tell.

[capsule_corp]

And Bulma knows that voice. Although, it's probably one of the last she expected to hear.

"Trunks?" Turning away from the relieved looking ensign (who is now bolting for the door, either to simply escape or to get down to the replicators to make a gift basket for Trunks), her anger simply melts away. She spring forward, wrapping him in a hug, all while totally forgetting about her manifesting hatred for Starfleet.

"What are you doing here?"

[fighting4afuture]

Apparently she does know, because there's sudden hugging, and he's not quite sure what's going on. He doesn't think this is his mom--as in the version of her from his own timeline. She looks younger, less...careworn.

So apparently he'd been found out eventually and the universe hadn't imploded and he hadn't ceased to exist, which was nice to have confirmed.

"It's...a bit crazy." Which, considering their lives, is saying something.

[capsule_corp]

She pulls back, making sure to check his hair length as she does. It passes acceptable standards. For now.

"Try me. It can't be crazier than... Well, you know, anything else that's happened!" She laughs, despite most of those things not being even remotely laughing matters.

[fighting4afuture]

You have no idea. (Also, what are you talking about, he's never had long hair.)

"Well. We're in another reality for one. And...when was the last time you saw me?" Because the last time he'd seen her was right after he'd given Goku the heart medicine he'd carried to the past.

[capsule_corp]

(Not yet anyway. Just wait for a time displacement wormhole or something.)

"Well, it was when we sent you back to your own time. After you guys defeated Cell, remember?" Of course he doesn't remember! But Bulma isn't one to be careful about time-sensitive information. Instead of even worrying about the possibility of timeline corruption, she places her hands on her hips, and starts chiding him instead.

"You know, I really thought you might come back and visit us sometime. Or at least send a card and let us know how you were doing!"

[fighting4afuture]

"After we defeated who?" Trunks...looks completely alarmed by this information. Just how much had he been wrong about, or how much had changed because of his interference...he'd worried about that for weeks before going back the first time, and more and more enemies he knew nothing about? Not exactly helping his nerves.

[capsule_corp]

Uh oh. That's not good.

"Wait a minute. When was the last time you saw your father and I?" Because that might squelch the guessing game then and there.