[Just outside of Holodeck 2]
D`Tarik's leaning against the doors to holodeck 2, waiting for Rylan to show up. Just as he's wondering if he should go back to the medlab to make sure that tr`Tuhmek hadn't snuck in to search for that pain killer, Rylan steps out of the turbolift. Spying the shorter Rihan, Ry smirks and says, "Sorry 'bout the wait, hann'yyo for letting me change."
"Aefvadh." D`Tarik replies, then walks through the doors, into the white room with faint green lines beyond. Ry walks over to the panel to key in a program. "Hey!" D`Tarik ask indignantly, "Who said au get to pick the program?"
Rylan shrugs and smirks at that, "Well...I was first io at the panel...teach au to be slow." As the boys suddenly find themselves in a cavern, Rylan calls out, "Pistols and katanas!" Immediately the computer complies; two disruptor pistols appear in Ry's hands, two katanas lay at his feet.
"Na...this na my kind of program." D`Tarik protests, "I was thinking of something more relaxing....and fun! Computer D'Tarik's program, New York 1980s." The cavern first swirls around them, shimmers away, then shifts into the new program. The boys find themselves standing on a highly populated New York street during the day.
"What the....?" Ry looks startled at all the humans around him, then shakes his head in disbelief, "Au've *got* to be kidding!" Fixing DT with a disapproving look, Ry demands, "Computer! Go back to the previous program!"
D`Tarik gives Rylan a annoyed look of his own, as the cavern reappears. "Computer pervious program!"
Rylan shakes head at all the humans again, "Na na na......Previous program!"
"Fine." D`Tarik shrugs, and tries to compromise, "Previous program, but populated with Rihannsu women."
Rylan pauses a moment, grinning at seeing all the girls, then shakes his head again. "Na. Caverns! Hordes of enemies! Change the fvadt program!!"
"Na!" D`Tarik shakes his head, "New York 1980s....with Rihannsu women."
The boys rapidly keep switching the programs back and forth, adding those things they each want in their own little fantasy world. The computer can't keep up with this overzealous display of indecisiveness and something shorts out. Without warning, the program sticks and refuses to change.
The problem is, it stopped in the middle of switching the program to another, and the boys find themselves in a strange concoction between the two programs. They currently find them selves in what looks to be a gigantic cavern, with a small city -- a smaller scale NY - contained within it. Curiously, it's bright daylight within this underground city, and the boys find themselves standing on the city's outskirts.
D`Tarik stands there quietly, surveying his new surroundings and looking a bit confused. Rylan takes a moment trying to figure out what happened, "Great!! Au broke it DT!!! Way to go!!!" he gives the smaller boy a glare, the mumbles, "The Leih will *na* be pleased...." Shaking his head angrily, Rylan heads back to where the panel should be, but can't find it and mutters, "Hnaev..."
"It's na my fault!" D`Tarik immediately counters. "I should've picked the program!!! I invited au!!" Turning angrily away from the taller boy, he calls out, "Computer end program!" And nothing happens. so he tries again, "Computer end program!" And still nothing happens.
"Oh great!!" Rylan gives him another glare, "Au really *did* break it!!!"
"We both broke it Rylan!" D`Tarik shot back, "It's na just my fault!"
"Ie, au'rh right." Rylan sighs and nods, "It's my fault too...." With that admission, they stood quietly for a moment more, to survey their surroundings again.
"Well this is just great." D`Tarik finally breaks the silence. "Okay, so what do we do now?"
"Bizarre to say the least..." Rylan says to himself as he looks around then shrugs in answer to DT's question. "Well, here au go..." he hands the smaller boy a pistol and a sword.
"Well, what the Areinnye are we supposed to do?" D`Tarik demands again, refusing to take the offered weapons.
"We've got to find a way out of here for io." Rylan answers simply, strapping the refused katana to his back, and setting one of the pistols in his belt, gripping the other in a fist. The other katana lay forgotten on the ground.
"And how do we do that?"
Rylan smirks, "Like this...." he opens his comline, "tr`Tuhmek to engineering. We seem to be trapped in a holomatrix program." he frowns, "Seems to be an overload of some sort, and I can't find the panel. Send some io to open the doors from the panel outside holodeck 2."
"Okay...." D`Tarik starts to walk towards the city, Rylan following a few steps behind. "This should be fun." he says without much enthusiasm.
"Ie rekkhai..." said a miscellaneous voice from engineering that Rylan couldn't put a face to. "Sending a repair crew. Could take a while though. We're a bit short handed and working on the warp core at the moment."
"Great!" Rylan mutters then looks at DT. "So!" he begins, trying to make the best of the current situation, "What was in ninte program, DT?"
[Holodeck 2]
As the boys finally reach the city proper, they find the streets busy with life, and filled with all kinds of women. Some are just walking around, some are eating, some fighting each other. But most are doing normal city-type stuff. The streets themselves are busy with car traffic, but most of the cars are being driven by odd looking monsters.
Rylan, not noticing the monsters at all, pauses in his footsteps to watch a pretty Rihan girl walk by. He turns, allowing his eyes to continue to watch the girl walk away, "Well....it's na all that bad...." he smirks to DT.
D`Tarik snaps his fingers in front of Rylan's face. "Rylan focus!" The woman stops and turns, looks Rylan up and down, then walks back over to him.
"I am focused...." he grins, never taking his eyes off the girl, "on her..." he bows his head slightly as the female approaches, "Lhhei...."
The woman stops a few feet away from him, and puts her hand on her hip. She has on a long pink sweater, white leggings, a big loose belt, and is chewing gum. "Hey...." she answers Rylan.
Rylan grins again, "Where's a place around here where a guy can relax?"
"I`m na sure." she says through a wade of gum. Then suddenly, she holds up her hand and shoots a fireball at the two boys.
D`Tarik pushes Rylan out of the way and takes a good bit of the blast. As Rylan's falling, he shoots the girl with the disruptor and vaporizes her. He lands hard on the ground with an "Oomph!" then scrambles back to his feet, and heads over to the smaller of the pair, "DT? Au alright?"
D`Tarik's holding his now bleeding head, "This is exactly why I did na want a combat program!" he says angrily, sitting there on the ground, looking pathetic.
Rylan points to his lab coat, "Well...give me something and I'll help au stop that bleeding."
"Au guys okay?" yet another female -- human this time, kneels down to help. Ry's jaw drops in disbelief, and he levels the disruptor at this newest addition inconspicuously, raising a brow at the girl's appearance.
One half of her head has been shaved of hair, the other half seems to have been cut by a drunken barber. More interesting, was the neon-green color of the surviving strands of hair. The girl had half a dozen safety pins stuck through the lobe of each ear, three through her left eyebrow, and another one just under her lower lip. Her eyes were shadowed with black make up, and her lips were covered in that same color. She must've been homeless, as her clothes seemed ragged and torn in more places than you could count.
D`Tarik, not bothering to look at the owner of the voice yet, reaches into a pocket of his lab coat, pulls out a patch and slaps it on the cut on his head. Instantly the bleeding stops. Once that was done, he finally looks at the human, and sighs in resignation, "Give me a gun, Rylan." Without hesitation, Rylan hands over the spare from his belt.
"Au guys should be more careful." the odd looking human offers a hand out to the smaller Rihan male sitting on the ground. D`Tarik takes the gun, and leveling it at the girl, he regains his feet on his own. The girl merely shrugs in indifference, "Fine then." then turns and walks away.
The boys silently watch the strange human walk away for a second, look at each other, then back the retreating girl again. "Wait!" D`Tarik finally calls out, "Is there anywhere we can go....that's kind of quiet?" As the girl turns around at DT's question, a big, orange-furred beast resembling a huge furry spider, suddenly leaps out from an alley and pounces on the girl, and she's dragged off screaming. The boys stood there a moment longer, their jaws hanging slightly open at this latest development, then the silence is once again broken by D`Tarik as he looks up at the taller of the pair. "Monsters....way to program, Rylan." he rolls his eyes.
Still staring at the place the gigantic-spider-thing came from, Rylan shrugs, "I figured after ch'Vania...it wouldn't hurt to practice..." he tried to explain.
"Favdt!" D`Tarik suddenly exclaimed, "I'm going to be late for my date!"
Rylan, still staring at the alley, looks thoughtful, "But I don't quite remember programming that io...." he trails off.
"Actually, that kind of looked like io of the things I have in my laboratory program...." D`Tarik now turns thoughtful as well, trying to puzzle out this latest bit of news, when Ry's suddenly picked up by his collar and thrown against the wall of a building by a female Klingon brandishing a Bat'leh. D`Tarik's startled by this, and take a blind shot with the disruptor, missing the Klingon. Missing very badly. Rylan, who had for the second time that day cracked his skull against a wall, shakes his head to clear it, then shoots the Klingon, instantly vaporizing her.
"Lucky shot..." D`Tarik says sarcastically.
Rylan smirks, heading back towards the smaller boy, "Whatever! Way better then au!" he dusts himself off, "If au would practice more...au wouldn't have missed!" He looks around a moment, "I say we go that way...." he points in a different direction than the spider thing came out of.
"Gun fighting's na my field." D`Tarik responds, then suddenly raises the gun as a huge blue clawed hand is about an inch from Rylan's neck. He vaporizes the big monster standing behind the taller boy.
Rylan's eyes widen, as he realizes what had just happened, "Uh...hann'yyo....but next time...tell me there's something there, okay?" he turns around and mumbles, "With ninte aim I could've been the io to be vaporized!"
D`Tarik heard that anyway, and he retorts angrily, "Well maybe if *somebody* had the difficulty set lower this would na be so hard!"
Rylan glares back, "Well maybe if *somebody* would practice more, it wouldn't seem so hard...just a slight challenge!" he smirks obnoxiously.
D`Tarik suddenly stops, "Wait, I have an idea!" he steps out to the curb, and waves his arm in the air.
"What the Areinnye are au doing?" Rylan asks confused. As a cab pulls to the curb, Rylan suddenly understands, "Oh!" and he walks towards DT's ride. As he peeks in the open car door, Rylan spies a Cardassian woman sitting in the drivers seat, looking only slightly out of place as she wears the stereotypical clothes of a cabby.
"Yo wheres ya wanna' go?" she questions.
Rylan looks at the Cardie-turned-Cabby, then at DT and shrugs, "Uh..... somewhere... quiet?"
"Get in d' back, d' meter is already runin'."
D`Tarik climbs in, acting as if it were the most normal thing to do in the world. Rylan, however, is still not convinced, and he gives the interior of the cab a weary eye before he too, gets in the back of the cab. Closing the door, he looks at DT and asks quietly, "Meter? What's a meter?"
"It's how much we are charged for the ride...." D`Tarik explains quietly.
Rylan nods, confused, "Ah...." then decides the best course of action he could take, would be to keep his disruptor aimed at the back of the drivers seat....just in case.
"Take us to any quiet bar." D`Tarik says casually.
"Ok hold on." The Cardie nods to D`Tarik's reflection in the rear view mirror, and suddenly the car goes off...the cabby driving like a maniac. Dodging in and out of traffic like she was a cop in a high-speed chase. Rylan holds on to the door rest with one hand, and tries to keep aim with the other; and passes a curious eye to D`Tarik as he seemed to be rather enjoying the ride.
After a brief, but harrowing ride the cab stops with a screech of tires, next to a back alley. More than happy to get out, Rylan opens the door then exits the cab, his eyes darting around for targets. "Therz' a nice place down dat ally.....and dat'll be fifty bucks." The cabby informs D`Tarik as he follows Rylan's example and exits the cab.
"Bucks?" Rylan looks at DT again, "What're those?"
"I said dat'll be 50......"
D`Tarik had drawn his disruptor, and shot the cab driver, vaporizing her instantly. "I have always wanted to do that in this program."
Rylan grins then slaps him on the back, "Ie! Good for au!!" He chuckles then motions off down the alley, "Now� let's go raise some Areinnye!"
[Holodeck 2]
As the boys come to a set of steps that lead down to the basement of a building in the alley, D`Tarik admits, "I have never been to this part of the city before in this program."
Rylan shrugs, "Well....I've *never* been here before, period. So au'rh io up on me." As they get to the bottom of the steps, they see the small, red neon sign that simply states 'bar' above a door. Ry nods, and points his gun at the glowing word, "Ie, now *that's* familiar!" D`Tarik opens the door, and the boys step through.
The bar is full of humanoid monsters sitting at the bar and casually talking. There's a naked human-looking woman with long black hair and bat wings tending the bar. A few big monsters are in the back playing pool. And some smaller brown furred monsters sit on the bar itself, drinking.
D`Tarik stands just inside the door, a bewildered expression on his face, and notices a Klingon woman and a Romulan woman in the back playing chess over some drinks. "Hmm... this is definitely new..." he says contemplatively, "Part my program, part ninte-a, and part....who knows what." he finishes with a shrug.
Rylan didn't seem to hear him, instead he heads casually to the bar, passes an appreciative eye over the bartender, and gets the naked ladies attention, "Rhennish!" he pauses, then casts an eye to the bottles displayed behind the bar, "If au have it..." he adds, taking a seat on one of the end bar-stools.
The woman looks confused at that request. "What?" she shakes her head, and smiles almost seductively as she dries off a glass with a towel, "We have Jack Daniel's...vodka... 12 different beers on tap," she shrugs, moving the huge bat wings slightly, "Just about any hard liquor you can think of."
It was Rylan's turn to look confused, "Rhennish is hard liquor...we're au been....?" Shaking his head, he looks over the counter again, then points to a random bottle, "Just.....give me that io, I guess...."
D`Tarik walks closer and takes a seat near the corner next to Ry's, and orders, "Two shots of taqulia." he looks at the taller boy, "Trust me, au will like this Rylan."
Rylan nods at DT's words, "Alright then...." he points to tr`Rekkohan and addresses the naked bat-winged girl, "what he says...."
The bartender pours the drinks and sets them on the bar in front of them, then leans closer to the boys, "Haven't seen au two in here before..."
D`Tarik pushes his shot glass over to Rylan, "Just try it." then addresses the bartender, "Ie, there's good reason for that...umm...miss." The bartender slightly pouts at DT's dismissive attitude and focuses her eyes on Rylan instead. Looking back to Rylan again, D`Tarik questions, "Any idea when that repair team is going to get here Rylan?" His eyes travel back to the naked bartender again, thinking he has seen her before in his study of some culture's myths, but can't quite place it.
Rylan shrugs and answers DT as he picks up one of the shot glasses, "Na. Said they were busy working on the warp core." he downs the drink and sets the glass back on the bar. "Tastes like water." he announces disappointedly, then looks at the barkeep again, "Got anything stron...." and is suddenly grabbed by the collar and kissed by the naked woman. She pulls him across the bar, onto the floor, then straddles him and tries to remove his clothes.
D`Tarik looks startled by this latest development, and isn't sure how he should react. And still, the thought that he remembered her from some obscure alien myth kept nagging at him. Looking at the other patrons in the bar, he notices that no one seems to have paid the incident any attention.
Thinking he would at least see if Rylan was okay, he leans over the bar, and sees that his friend doesn't seem to be fighting off the girl. "Umm...Rylan? Au want me to stop her?" Rylan waves him away, and seems to be rather enjoying himself, so D`Tarik sits back down in his seat again, and casually looks around at the other patrons in the bar. All of a sudden, D`Tarik holds his finger up in the air, "Ah fvadt!" he grabs his gun and shoots the bat-winged bartender right in the back of the head with a vaporizing blast.
Rylan looks startled, "Where....?" then glares up at DT and gets quickly to his feet, "What'd au do *that* for?!?!" he demands angrily, refastening his clothes.
"Au should be thanking me!" D`Tarik protests defensively.
"I should be *punching* au!" Rylan glares at him, "She was the only *good* thing in this whole fvadt program!!"
"She would of imirrhlhhse`lh au till au were dead!" D`Tarik tries to explain, "She was a kind of demon from human myth!" he paused, "Don't know what she was doing in here. Now...do au think I can communicate with Emni from here?" he suddenly asks, "She is going to kill if she thinks I stood her up!"
Rylan smirks, "Well I can can think of worse ways to die then being imirr...." he stops his sentence and looks at the critters that have suddenly started to chow down on one of the patrons of the bar.
Following Rylan's rather shocked gaze, D`Tarik announces, "Okay, I think we should go now..."
Rylan nods, "Ie...." then suddenly sits up on the bar and swings his legs around to the other side, then heads for the door. He gets almost there, then stops, comes back to the bar and grabs a bottle then leaves again.
Waiting for tr`Tuhmek from the safety of the alley, D`Tarik asks curiously, "What did au get?" seeing the bottle in Rylan's hand.
Rylan looks at the label, "Something called Jh`ak Dh`an`el's..." he opens the top and takes a swig.
"Au may like that...I'm na sure..." D`Tarik shrugs.
Rylan lowers the bottle and looks at the label again, "Still tastes like water." he says disappointedly, but doesn't throw the bottle away.
[Holodeck 2]
As they exit the alley, D`Tarik pauses to look down both sides of the city street. A Klingon woman walks swiftly by. She is dressed in the same punk outfit as that human woman who had tried to help him and had been rewarded for the good deed, by being eaten by some monster. The Klingon seems to be walking to a line of people that's forming out side of a building. He
points a curious finger to the group, drawing Rylan's attention to the curious display. "Must be a club or something..." he mused.
Rylan nods, "Ie....I wonder what they're up to...."
Just as Rylan said that last, the boys are surprised by the sound of Emni's voice traveling through the comline. "D'Tarik? Why are au still in the holodeck?" the Erin's voice sounds slightly disappointed, "I thought we had a date....or did au change ninte mind?"
"I'm na in here by choice...." D`Tarik immediately explains, "it's a long story...I...." and is interrupted in his comline communication when the stinger of a scorpion-like tale hits the brick wall just narrowly missing his face. D`Tarik follows the tale to it's owner, and finds a gigantic black scorpion.
"What the...?" Rylan grabs DT, and pulls him out of the way of the next attack from the car-size scorpion-stinger, unsheathing the katana with his other hand. With the sword now in hand, Rylan bats away at the stinger as it makes a third attack, then points down the street to the small crowd of females, "Um....they're getting closer DT..." then merrily goes back to hacking at the attacking monster.
"Well au tell me now then!" Emni's hurt sounding voice demands through the comline, "I have na-thing else to do at the moment....seeing as au are standing me up...."
D`Tarik had been watching Rylan battle it out with the scorpion, and with fear in his voice he explains to the irritated Erien, "Umm...this will really have to wait...."
"D`Tarik?" her worried voice protests, "Are au alright?? What is going on?? I'm going to get Rylan!! Au'rh acting weird again!!"
As if not hearing her, D`Tarik tries again to explain, "But I'm na standing....." then once more is interrupted when a plasma grenade lands next to his feet, "....fvadt...."
"What is going on?!!" Emni angrily demands as D`Tarik grabs Rylan by the back of his collar, and pulls him behind a car along with himself.
"Ack!!!!" Rylan, who's being choked by his collar as he's hurriedly pulled back, exclaims. "Fvadt!! Au made me drop the katana!!!" No sooner had the boys gotten behind the car, then a huge explosion sent parts of the scorpion everywhere.
D`Tarik realizes the comline had still been open during the explosion, "Oh....I will have fun explaining *that* to her....." he quietly closes the channel.
Rylan peeks saddly over the hood of the car, "Well....there goes the katana...."
"Au have another, remember?" D`Tarik offers, which earned him an agreeing nod, then an annoyed look from the taller boy.
"Ie....can *au* remember how to get there? Au wouldn't take it so it got......" Rylan's interrupted when a Klingon punker jumps on the hood of the car, aiming a huge plasma grenade launcher down at the boys. "...hanev...." the boys immediately scramble away from the car, Rylan shooting the Klingon as he does so, vaporizing her instantly.
"Well, she's not taped back yet..." D`Tarik says rather dejectedly to himself as he draws his gun, "She's probably pissed off..." he sighs then shoots a few blasts into the crowd of women that are now armed and staring at the boys from the other side of the street.
"Ah, Elements....." Rylan says rather disappointedly as he looks at the crowd of angered females, "I can't believe we have to kill them...." sighing at the waste of all that beauty before him, he shrugs and drops a few random targets.
Suddenly realizing they were out numbered by something like 60 to 2, D`Tarik counters Rylan's last remark as he takes a step back, "Na if we run...." then turns on his heel and runs like the wind down the street.
As Rylan keeps plugging away, the crowd suddenly charges, and fires at the boys. Rylan, deciding that perhaps running would be wiser course of action after all, turns and heads off after D`Tarik, dodging laser blasts as he does so. D`Tarik's leg gets grazed from a standard SF phaser and he goes down just as Rylan's comline opens as the repair guy reports in, "I'm here rekkhai.... shouldn't be too long...." Rylan doesn't bother to acknowledge. He instead screeches to a halt, runs back and pulls D`Tarik up, half-supporting and half-dragging the smaller boy with him. As they near the curb of the street, a cab suddenly screeches to a halt in front of them. The same Cardie-cabby looks at the boys as if she never saw them before, "Yuz need'a lift?"
"Ie." Rylan nods in agreement, then shoots the driver. Opening the passenger seat he throws the injured medical man inside, hops over the hood of the car, and climbs in the driver's side through the open window.
"Ow....." D`Tarik mumbles as Rylan climbs in, holding his burned and slightly bleeding leg.
Rylan sits staring at the strange controls, "How the Areinnye do au get this thing moving??"
"Like this...." D`Tarik grabs the steering wheel and hits the gas petal, plowing through the crowd of women. Females get hit by the car and go flying.
"What the....aww...come on DT!! Was that really necessary??" Rylan complains after a pretty Rihan girl was thrown over the hood of the car.
"Did au happen to notice..." D`Tarik begins annoyed, "that most of those girls had guns pointed at us Rylan?" he winces in pain and steps on the gas a little harder, "And they're holograms, remember that!"
"Ie...." Rylan agrees with a note of disappointment, "But they're still nice to look at...."
"Then bring her up in a program later..."
Rylan smirks and takes the steering wheel trying to help steer the car, "Na..." he grins, "I'm going to call up that bar maid!"
"Ie... and get ninte-self killed." D`Tarik grumbles, letting go of the wheel as the crowd of women finally ends.
Rylan shrugs, "Like I said...." he smirks, "worse ways to die." Trying to steer the car, Rylan's going all over the road, and he pauses in the conversation to crank the wheel to the left, swerving the car and narrowly missing another vehicle. "So what now....?"
"Well....." with eyes wide, D`Tarik grabs the steering wheel again, and gives it a hard pull to the right, pulling them up over a sidewalk as he slams on the breaks. "We park!" he finishes, "Then I say we head under ground." he points to a sewer lid.
Rylan shrugs, "Sounds like a plan." then looks around to see the streets are empty, "Can au walk DT?"
D`Tarik reaches in a lab coat pocket and takes out some of that cream that he had used earlier on Rylan, and rubs it on the wound. In a few moments, the wound is almost fully healed. "Ie. I can now."
Rylan watches him do this quietly for a minute, vaguely remembering having seen that particular tube of cream before. *Lock and key, huh?* Rylan smiles thinking to himself as he opens the car door, believing that the blue stuff that helped him forget...helped him to stop constantly thinking about things...resided somewhere in DT's lab coat. "Let's go then!" he steps out of the car.
As D`Tarik drew closer to the sewer lid, he said, "I'm going to need your help with this Rylan...."
Rylan looks at the lid in question, "We need something to lever it up with...." and begins to look around for something suitable.
Just as Rylan finds a rusty piece of metal rod, and heads back, D`Tarik shoots the lid with his disruptor, vaporizing it. "Or that will do." D`Tarik casts an almost Ry-like smirk.
Rylan scratches the back of his head and grins, "Ie...don't know why I didn't do that myself." he tosses the metal rod away with a shrug.
D`Tarik grabs on to the ladder and starts to climb down. Suddenly a green tentacle latches itself around the medical officer's waist and pulls him off the ladder and into a river of sewage. "AHH!" D`Tarik screams on the way down, plops into the stinky water, and struggles to keep his head above the foul liquid, as the tentacle keeps trying to drag him under.
"DT!!!" Rylan screams down the hole, then hears the splash. Without pausing to think about it, he dives in after the boy. Rylan's head appears next to tr`Rekkohan's for a second. Then, trying not to be sick, Ry dives under the foul river again, finds the tentacle, and cuts it loose from D`Tarik with his dagger. Once freed, tr`Rekkohan swims to the catwalk on the other side, and pulls himself out of the water, spitting up the nasty stuff, and gasping for air. Rylan's head pops up to the surface again, near the cat walk. He climbs up to stand beside D`Tarik, looking like an angry wet cat. "*This* is disgusting DT." he pauses then smirks obnoxiously, "Emni's na going to want a date with au now."
"This is na really the...." D`Tarik coughs and sputters, "time....." he spits out some more of the nasty stuff.
Rylan slaps him on the back, "Au okay?"
"I will live..." *hack* "I think..." *cough* Rylan deftly reaches into one of the labcoat pockets as DT sputters but doesn't find the blue stuff. "Rylan!" *cough* "Get out of my pocket...it's na in there..." *hack-cough*
.Surprised, Rylan throws him an innocent look, "What?" he shrugs, "What'd I do?" he trails off.
"Yeah, right." D`Tarik sputters some more, thinking to himself, *The way Rylan is acting, maybe I should sell the formulae to the Ferengi as a street drug....* then quickly shakes that evil thought away. "Okay.... I'm ok now....I think." he says as he straightens.
Ry looks around the foul-smelling tunnel, "Well....where to go now?"
"We should just wait till they get this thing fixed...." D'Tarik offered quietly.
Rylan looks almost sick, "Here?" he shakes his head, trying not to breath to deeply, "Na....I say we try to find a way out of here...."
"Rather this then with those killer women...." D`Tarik argues.
Rylan smirks, "Rather be with the women myself...." he points off down the tunnel, "Let's go that way...."
"I`m staying here." D`Tarik proclaimed, "It's actually safe here."
Rylan, not in the mood to argue, sighs and sits down on the catwalk, "Fine fine fine....."
"Wow!" D`Tarik says shocked, "Au'rh actually thinking instead of acting like Vnny when we are in battle." He smiles almost proudly as he takes a seat next to Ry, "Good plan." Rylan winces at that, then looks away from the smaller boy and sighs again. "Sorry..." D`Tarik offered quietly, "but it's kind of the truth there, Rylan." he shrugs, "Sorry if I was out of line." Not noticing that the other boy was nearing fury, D`Tarik interjects, "Now that we have a second..." he opens the comline, "Emni...au there?"
Rylan's just about had enough, "Well, it's na like we're idiots DT. Least we're na afraid to defend ourselves!" he stands back up and walks slightly away down the tunnels.
Emni's worried voice comes back over the comline, "D`Tarik??" What happened to you?? What was that noise?? Where are au???"
"Hey...wait a second!" D`Tarik protests to the retreating figure of Rylan, "I'm na afraid.....!" At Emni's response, he looks torn at which problem to deal with first, then suddenly answers Emni, "I'm sorry...I can't talk right now...just contact engineering and ask them about the problem with holodeck 2....I hope they can explain it."
"D`TARIK??" Emni's angry voice comes back, before D`Tarik kills the comline again.
Running after Rylan, the smaller boy grabs him by the shoulder just as Ry was heading down a bend in the tunnel. "Hey!! Don't au *EVER* say I'm afraid to defend myself!" he grabs Rylan by the collar, "I killed the woman I loved to defend myself and the hole fvadt party!! So don't au...EVER say that hanev again!" Having finished his speech he turns and heads back to his original position.
Raising a brow, Rylan sighs then takes a few steps back towards DT. "Sorry...." he hesitates, "I sometimes say things before I mean to. I didn't mean it DT. And I'm sorry au lost her...but au weren't the only io to lose a lot. I've pretty much lost everything too....."
"Ie...well none of what au lost was by choice!" D`Tarik sits back down, almost pouting.
"None of what au lost was by choice either!" Rylan shot back angrily, "And I just *don't* want to *think* about it anymore!"
"Sure Rylan, whatever! Anyways...let's just wait. We can get out of here faster that way, and get on with trying to make things work again. I am....maybe au should too, instead of drowning your problems in Rhennish, and now drugs!" Rylan stands there looking at the smaller boy furiously for another moment. Lowering his eyes, he mumbled something incoherent, then turned and disappeared around the bend of the tunnel. D`Tarik watches the taller boy walk away then chastises himself, "Oh, that was a good idea...depress a guy with enough problems with depression already." He sighs, "I just seem to be pissing everybody off today...."
Rylan sits further down in the other tunnel, twirling the pistol in his hand lazily, trying to push away the unwelcome thoughts that the argument with D`Tarik had made to resurface. Leaning his head back to rest itagainst the cold wall, he looks down the tunnel distractedly, and finds something of interest out of the corner of his eye. Turning so he could see the object better, he says to himself, "Ie....that might be it....." then stands and heads over to the object. He grins, then opens the panel, revealing the wires to the holomatrix.
Not knowing what to do for Rylan, D`Tarik tries once more to have a conversation with his assistant. Opening the comline he says tentatively, "Emni...?"
"D`Tarik...if au cut me off io more time....!" her warning shot back through the channel.
"Look, none of this is by choice believe me......" D`Tarik explains.
"Are au alright?" she asks worridly.
"I hurt my head� and leg...but I think I will be ok. Did au get filled in on what happened?"
"Ie..." Emni answers, "They're still trying to work on it..."
Out of nowhere came the startling sound of 'sizzlepop' followed immediately by Rylan's angry "OW!!!!"
D`Tarik scrambles to his feet when he hears Rylan yell, and runs in the direction his friend's voice had come from. He sees Rylan standing next to an open panel, shaking his hand and looking about ready to kill someone, before the taller boy goes back to playing with the wiring again. Not sure what to make of this event, D`Tarik asks quietly, "What are au doing Rylan?"
"What does it *look* like I'm doing?" he pauses as he exchanges wires again, "I'm trying to fix the bloody mess!"
"Ie.... well...na need to yell." D`Tarik offers quietly, "I'm sorry about what I said." When the taller boy doesn't answer him, he walks away, "I will let au work."
Not caring anymore at this point, Rylan exchanges the wires then pulls out a thin, transparent card. As the card leaves the slot it had been sitting in, the sewer fades away. The boys once more find themselves in the bare white room with faint green lines. Rylan quietly closes the panel then shrugs, "I know au didn't mean it DT." he looks down, "Neither did I...."
D`Tarik doesn't seem to hear this apology, "IE!! Hann'yyo!!" he actually hugs Rylan then quickly lets go, "Okay, I have to go deal with a less then happy girl right now..." he turns and runs out of the holo deck to go see Emni. Rylan watches his friend run out of the holodeck with a 'are you alright' expression; then smiles faintly, slightly shaking his head, and goes off to his quarters to get cleaned up.
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