Starship WrongPlanet: The washing the cat adventure! 6/26/05

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Civet wished that the moons of Neptune weren't converging at this particular moment, or perhaps she would be able to return to her humanlike form.

Instead, she crouched up above a doorframe, just out of Morlock's line of sight. That weapon he was carrying looked dangerous...

Attack and disarm! Her instincts took over the normal calculating state of mind, and she lunged at Morlock's right arm, taking the phrase quite literally, as she clung on for dear life, attempting to swat the gun from his hand through use of sheer insanity, hissing, clawing, biting, and all the like.

"Dog... adopt... ME?!" Our poor security officer is sputtering incoherently. "D***it, how many times do I have to say it? I'm a cat person! I'm not going to adopt a drippy, hairy little...

Oh no! Prometheus, Morlock, drop that gun before you hurt somebody! Only authorized personnel are allowed to carry weaponry on this ship! You forgot to lock up the gun closet again, didn't you, Mr. Ghosthunter?!"

Lt. Pyraxis grabs the tranquilizer gun and races down the hallway after the wet footprints of the cat, calling over her shoulder, "Does anybody want to adopt a dog??"

-*Morlock to crew of Starship Wrongplanet... What is the current status of the search... Repeat... Requesting current status of search... *-

"Look up, Morlock! The blasted cat's on top of you!"

"And until you get out of the way, I can't get a clear shot at it!"

-*GENERAL DISTRESS MESSAGE!! ! Werecreature has disarmed me, and I am currently being subdued!! ! Report immediately to engineering room!! ! Be prepared for armed conflict!! !!*-

I am proud of you guys and gals!
This is taking life, and it is built on
interaction! I am proud of you all
and get that cat? There is more to
come!

Luckily, I still carry a spare power cell from the laser rifle... And lethal force is not called for here. I can reconfigure one of THESE over here into an electron beam stunner, which would also have the side effect of deactivating the nanomachines in Civet's body, reversing the transformation. ANd hook the powercell into it like so...

I shout at Pyraxis "no!! ! dont!! ! Ive got it, that type of neurotoxin doesnt work on weres!! !" then fire a bolt at Civet, who falls unconcious, reverting to here human form.
Unfortunately, the power cell I used worked by cold fusion. and those sometimes go unstable, and its getting warm...

Lt. Pyraxis swings the gun aside at the last minute, and the tranquilizer dart thuds into the ceiling instead of into the spitting and raging cat. The canister shatters and tranquilizer fluid rains down on Civet and Morlock both... which is not a good thing, considering the number of open wounds in the room. Morlock's eyes begin to glaze over, and the rifle drops from his hands.

Lt. Pyraxis steps over to the half-human, half-cat body of Civet, which is still undergoing its change, and gingerly reaches towards it, unsure if Civet is completely unconscious or whether she will still lash out with those finger-sized claws.

Now forgotten on the floor, Gamma-Photrazonic picowaveform Laser Rifle begins shuddering and emitting strange blue sparks...

Dragons head appeared over computer staring at Morlock. "Did it bite you? Does that mean your a were?" Then she hid behind the big computer, blinking at all the penguins by her.

-*message to shuttlebay subturing operator AI: I need a hazardous materials ejection pod available, RIGHT AWAY!! ! Rest of crew: Start dealing with the penguins! I might be wrong, but these may be a Technorapture Hypernation prank gone wrong...*-
Myself, think I may need to head to sickbay. If she injected those nanites into me... *shudder*

Hi! Did I miss something, say's "Low Freq"!

Ooooh Dear! and as this is spoken, penguins are
pecking at the computer image! He swats them
away and they see his long-thingy pointer that
zaps them away! They proceed with their cart
wheels on the computer screen as if nothing is
wrong!

A beam of light, and the gun is transported and
automatically a shuttle with the gun is sent out!
Kabbbooom! and a blue emitting light creates a
wormhole!

Oh! Dear! What was that! says "LowFreq"
and the ship starts to get sucked in!

"What happened?" Dragons said after the kaboom. A couple of the penguins fell over. She started to plot revenge against whoever brought her on this ship.

Ah hell no... This is a rare, but not unknown event with cold fusion meltdown. Seems it brought the local spacetime of a few meters around to a high enough energy level to capture one mouth of a wormhole.
-*Astrogation Department: figure out where the hell the wormhole goes! Propulsion Department: prepare for evasive manuevers to escape the wormhole's gravitation. LowFreq: prepare a shuttle. I and a few other brave crewers are going in*-

You're not going anywhere without Chief Security Officer Pyraxis!

RRRRGh... whaddaya mean impulse power's shot??? Go to hyperspace then!! ! do an unplotted jump if you have to! Meanwhile, cancel shuttle order... Dunno what I was thinking. Start investigating ways to dissolve this wormhole!