[Medlab...?]
Rylan, bewildered, stands there on the log with the girl still slung over
his shoulder looking
around at the dismal swamp. D`Tarik looks at Rylan carrying 'his woman'
then smirks, "Hey Mister! Watch the hands!"
Rylan glances down and sees Emni's butt then smirks back, "Au rather carry
her DT?"
Catching the glance that Rylan had giving Emni's posterior he nods,
"Ie....I'm sure she would rather have me looking at her butt then au."
"Suit ninte-self!" he grins, then lets the Erien drop to the log - though he
made sure she fell gently - then rubs his shoulder to help get the
circulation going again. "Where in Areinnye are we?"
D`Tarik glares at the taller boy, "Hey! Be careful with her!" then looks
around at the bog. "This looks familiar....a program of mine perhaps?"
"Oh, she's fine!" Ry protests, then does a double take, "Ninte-a?" he
sighs, "Great! What kind of monsters are gonna' pop out at us now...."
Ignoring this, D`Tarik looks over in the distance and sees a very small
figure on the shores of the swamp. "Where's Sprink....?" Ry said almost to
himself. Putting his hands on his mouth, calls out loudly, "SPRINK?!"
The figure that D`Tarik had been watching had creeped a little closer, "Be
someone looking for,
au are....yes?" the little green man asks in a scruffy voice.
Rylan turns his head at the strange language and sees the creature, then
levels his disruptor at it... just in case. D`Tarik scratches his head,
"He's speaking English...I know English!"
"Au do?" Ry asked surprised, but still keeping the disruptor level at the
creature, "Then ask
it what it wants...does it know a way out of here?"
D`Tarik clears his throat. "Hmmm....yo!....what's...up my G?" then goes
back to talking in Rihannsu for Ry's benifit, and shrugs, "Okay, so maybe I
only know from the Earther's entertainment that I have seen..." he tries to
peer through the fog to see if he can tell who or what this thing is.
Rylan shrugs at the smaller boy's explanation, "More than I know...."
The little creature speaks up again, "Speak you with trouble much...hmmm?
Yes?"
Ry, trying to make sense of the incomprehensible syllables, whispers to DT,
"What's it saying?"
D`Tarik whispers back, "I have na idea....it speaks worse English then me!"
"Oh just great!" Rylan smirks sarcastically, then sits on the log in
frustration. The little creature creeps a bit closer, waiting to see what
they'll do, and Rylan immediately brings the disruptor to bear on the
creature again.
The creature crosses it's little arms in front of it's face to shield
himself. "Shoot me not...mean you no harm, I!"
D`Tarik tries again to communicate with the creature, though he was having a
little difficulty trying to say the words, "Hey...man....can ...au...I
mean, you....get us off of log?"
The creature peeks at D`Tarik, "Off the log being you want.....hmm? Do
yourself that, yes?"
"Damnit!" D`Tarik says in English, then turns to the other boy, "Rylan, give
me that thing!" he snatches the pistol from the other boy's hand before he
could protest, then shoots the little creature, vaporizing him.
Ry, surprised by that as he didn't know how bad the conversation had been
going, questioned. "What'd it say?? What'd it say??"
"I *still* have na idea!" D`Tarik hands him back the disruptor.
"Ah." Ry seems almost disappointed by that dismal news. Taking the pistol
back, he looks around, "Well...guess we can wait until the program
changes."
"Wait! I know what this is!" D`Tarik proclaims, "This is an interactive
movie program! An Earth movie called....I forget, oh well...." he shrugs.
"Earth movie?!" Ry shakes his head at that, "I might've known! Au waste
ninte time with all that Earth nonsen..." then is suddenly grabbed around
the ankle by a tentacle and dragged under the swamp.
"Rylan!" D`Tarik screams, peering into the murky swamp water. No signs of
the boy, not even bubble emerge from the swamp. Alarmed, D`Tarik jumps into
the water to try and find Rylan, only to remember too late that he can't
swim, and he struggles to grab back onto the log.
Rylan is suddenly propelled through the air, "AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" to
land hard on the shore on the far side of the swamp.
"Ry...!!" is all D`Tarik manages to say before he sinks under the water
again.
Aemhig stands in the door frame, "What the bloody Areinnye is going on
here?!"
Ry hears the familiar Rihan language and tries to sit up rubbing the small of
his back, "That *really* hurt!!"
Aemhig looks down at the Tribble, "And what are AU?!"
The Tribble tries hard to form the word, "Sprink!"
Not answering that, Aemhig pulls her gun but doesn't aim it at the
apparently non-hostile creature.
As Rylan calls out from somewhere within the bog, "If au opened that
door...don't let it close!!"
D`Tarik manages to get his hand just above the water to grab on to the log.
He dose so, but only manages to spin the log a little, causing Emni to fall
into the swamp as well. Rylan hears the splash, "DT?! Au All right?"
D`Tarik, busy with trying to hold Emni up to the best of his ability.
Mostly submerged in the swamp, the only answer that Rylan gets is some
bubbles. "DT?!" Ry repeats worriedly, trying to peer through the bog, then he
suddenly turns "And who the Areinnye just spoke before?!"
"erie`Arrain?" Aemhig answers, "Why haven't au disabled the holoemitter
system? What is..." then gets irritated at having to repeat herself,
"Report fvadt sake!"
"The fvadt holoemitters can't be found!!" Rylan yells back, "Everything's
on the bloody fritz in here!!"
Aemhig groans at that, "Hang on....I'll be right back..."
"Don't let the doors close!!" Ry yells out, sounding almost desperate.
Not answering the erie`Arrain, Aemhig leaves Sprink at the door and, rolling
up her sleeves, goes to an access panel in the corridor.
D`Tarik, meanwhile, manages to get Emni's head above water, but not his own.
Rylan figuring that the problem of the doors wasn't in his immediate
control, turns back towards the swamp and calls out again, "DT!!!" Still
not hearing an answer, he dives in and tries to find him.
Emni has now been woken up by the cold swamp water and yells, "HELP!"
Hearing that, Rylan has a direction to go in, and swims over to her.
Finally reaching the girl, he grabs hold of her and helps her get back on
the log. Then dives under the murk trying to find the smaller boy, just as
D`Tarik's head pops up above the water as he had been holding up Emni.
Meanwhile, in the corridor, Aemhig curses and tries to re-rout the
system� having a bad time with it. Cursing louder, she simply fires a few
shots into the computer killing off the program...and the power for the
entire deck......
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