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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:03 pm
As Tam looked around for a fire extinguisher, Rory examined the machine. One of the unlabeled buttons had to initiate an abort or suspend or stop function.
"It may not be 'technically' possible but it's happening," Rory called, alternating between looking at the screen and the controls.
He tried recalling the information he had read about the machine but he didn't remember if the manual had labeled the buttons when it explained them. He took a deep breath and pressed one of the round buttons on the lower half of the console. Hopefully it would do something to release the batch.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:26 pm
Rory would be confronted with 'ACCELERATING PROCESS IS NOT RECOMMENDED' accompanied with the options of 'PROCEED' and 'CANCEL', displayed on the, now flickering, screen. Behind the option box was some warning about 'internal temperatures' which might have seemed a little redundant with what could actually be seen on the magnified images in the background. The 'fire' was spreading from cell to cell like some sort of biological pathogen... just, in 'flames'. It surely couldn't be long before the machine might be set aflame if it was truly some sort of microscopic fire. Several buttons began to flash at once.
"Uh." Tambrey held the extinguisher ready, pointed at the machine, but with the batch still locked inside, she had no idea where to spray it. "What d'we do?!" Was she supposed to.. shove the nozzle inside the machine and just hope the stuff found and put out the fire when sprayed? Or could they get the samples out? It didn't look like Rory had found the right button yet, but maybe he was figuring it out... She wasn't sure they had much time though before the 'fire' or whatever that was, started damaging more than cells.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:56 am
"I don't know!" Rory looked all over the machine again. What could they do to get the sample out? He was sure that if he hit 'CANCEL', it would only stop whatever process he had started. It wouldn't stop the process as a whole.
So far it seemed that their only options were to keep pressing buttons or smash the machine to make it stop. He wondered if they could try disconnecting it from the power source; he wasn't too willing to destroy Rocket property. Especially if he wanted to continue to be allowed access to it and become an Agent.
Taking another deep breath, he slammed both of his hands down on the console, pressing every possible button he could.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:45 pm
The machine tried to show Rory and error message; it read 'CRITICAL ERROR; EMERGENCY ABORT INITIATED'. The message was, however, only on-screen for, perhaps, two seconds. 'EMERGENCY ABORT' proved to be the ejection of all six of the, now sparkling, samples to where the machine knew the the 'waste unit' should be connected. The 'waste unit' was not a part that, for whatever reason, these two humans had decided to connect to the machine. In fact, that particular unit wasn't even in the room; perhaps they hadn't had room? Either way, it meant that instead, at a relatively high speed, the machine could only 'shoot' the aborted containers out into the room.
"Aaah!" Tambrey, startled, began firing off the extinguisher, aiming at anything that came flying out of the machine or looked to be 'on fire'. A fine white powder, good only for smothering chemical fires, began to cover whatever she pointed at.
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:06 pm
The second things started flying out of the machine at high velocity, Rory ducked for cover. Maybe they should have attached the 'waste unit'. Then again who knew that the samples would catch fire! Or whatever is was that had happened to them.
He leaned up cautiously and got doused with the fine powder for his efforts. Through the clouds of powder, he watched as the containers clanged around the room. So far five of them had been released. He looked over at the machine just in time to see the final sample fly out and make its way straight for Tambrey.
"Watch out!" he called and went over to pull her down out of the way of the flying container.
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:57 am
Tambrey let out a short, sharp yelp as she was suddenly pulled down, which led to her falling over and managing to drop the extinguisher on her leg. "Ow! Wha-" She didn't finish the question that she was about to ask as it was answered by the shattering of the sample container somewhere behind them. "... Uh. Thanks." She smiled sheepishly, still laying on the floor, then tried to scoot back in alarm as the machine made one last rumbling noise. Thankfully the noise only seemed to indicate that the machine was shutting down as it fell quiet a few seconds later. The dark-haired grunt stayed on the floor and let out a breath of relief. "Y' okay?" She called. She thought that she was okay, except for whatever the extinguisher had done to her leg when she'd dropped it; there was probably going to be a horrible bruise there.
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 6:13 am
Finally it was quiet once the machine finished shutting down. Most of the small room was now covered in a mix of the powder from the fire extinguisher, glass, and the samples that had leaked out of the broken containers.
Rory was still kneeling on the floor; he leaned back a little and wiped off some of the powder that had gotten on him.
"Yeah, how about you? You okay?" He had heard the small yelp of pain and heard the sound of the heavy fire extinguisher hitting something. "Not what I was expecting when we started, that's for sure."
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:29 pm
"Uh." Was she okay? She thought she was okay; he leg really hurt though. "Frak. Uh. Yes.. I think so... Thanks t' you." She admitted, remembering the flying 'bullet' of a sample. 'Killed by flaming lab experiment' was actually an obituary she'd always assumed she'd get, even before Team Rocket, but given the missions and such she'd survived now, to go like that would have been terribly anti-climatic and disappointing. Also 'Aaah!', though appropriate, were /awful/ last words. She blinked at the mess and she lifted herself, with a wince, into a half sitting position. "Um. So. I guess we call this one a... learning experience? Or somethin'?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:29 pm
Rory stretched and managed to lean back against the wall. He looked around the small room and became slightly glad that they had been given a glorified janitor's closet to work in. The clean up was going to be hard enough, but it would be worse if they were in a proper lab. Also, at least here, the after effect wouldn't be as bad. No one else was around to spread the story of what happened.
"No problem," he replied. "Definitely a learning experience. Who knew that would happen? It shouldn't have even been possible." Maybe while he was researching the machines, he should start reading the information on the DNA experiments to see if anything like that had happened before. And maybe find out what it meant about the evolution process being damaged. He had to admit the idea that Pinkie might be damaged in another way that he didn't know about bothered him.
"So what do we do now?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:37 am
"No, no it shouldn't have been..." Tambrey agreed with a frown at the powdered machine; how the frak had cells caught on fi- Oh. "Fire type." She muttered, now with a slightly impressed frown. "Y'know how our white cells destroy a virus or other foreign bodies? I /think/ that might've been an extreme example of a fire type's version of foreign matter rejection!" Now she sounded delighted, despite the failure. It was only a theory, of course, but she thought it to be a rather exciting one. The grunt started to get up and winced, deciding to remain sitting for a bit more as she felt her leg protest a little. "Uh.. Ow. Well." She shrugged, looking around the room. "We try again. I mean, we've learned from this so we can be prepared next time, right?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:26 am
"It makes sense," Rory grinned after thinking it over, "The white blood cells burn whatever they don't recognize. Imagine if it was a water type instead."
He looked over at her again when she tried to get up and couldn't. "Are you sure you're alright?" The fire extinguisher was heavy, even with the release of the suppressant. There was no way her leg wasn't, at the very least, bruised.
"Do you think maybe we should find some Rapidash DNA to complete the process? Odds are if we try it the same way again, the same thing will end up happening." Looking around the room, at all the white powder that covered pretty much everything and the samples that had leaked out all over the floor, he doubted they wanted to experience this all over again.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:44 am
"They burned the very cells they were in..." Tambrey noted, still a little impressed "The DNA must have... changed them more quickly than it changed the rest of the cells or something. I... have no real clue." She admitted finally "As for a water type. I guess we'd have a flood and a wrecked machine..." She eyed the old lab equipment warily while she was rolling up her trouser leg, as though it still might just spontaneously catch on fire despite being shut off. "I think 'm okay. Thingy," She pointed toward the discarded extinguisher "fell on my leg, but I think 's just going to bruise a bit. Nothing broken." That last bit, at least, she was pretty sure of; a broken bone hurt a lot more, she remembered, than her leg currently did. "Rapidash DNA might be a good idea. I mean, then we'd have a complete DNA profile across the species; something's got t' change during evolution, so..." She nodded, following his gaze around the room. "Perhaps if we could... see about getting access to a better analysis machine to use before synthesizing..." She wondered aloud, now, rolling her trouser leg back down after seeing the beginning of a bruise, as suspected.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:38 pm
Rory nodded as he tried to keep up with her as she tried to come up with an explanation for what had happened. "I wonder if this has happened in the lab before." He commented and winced. "Yeah that wouldn't be good."
He looked around as the mess in the room again. "Even if water would be a bit easier to clean up, I don't think we want to know what they would do to us for wrecking the machine."
He held out a hand to help her up. "It must. Otherwise why would the machine have asked for it?" Then it made him wonder again why Pinkie's sample didn't work.
"Probably. Maybe if we give them the results, they'd be willing?" Then again, if they reported this incident, it could keep them from wanting to trust the two grunts with anything else.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:04 pm
"That would be an interestin' thing to find out..." Tambrey agreed. "Uh. We kind o' have to document this... So maybe if it has happened before, someone else has documented it..." Sure, they could also ask around, but that might be a little... embarrassing to explain. "I'm sure somethin' like this /must/ have happened before; I mean, look at all the genetic manipulation and cloning we do here. 'S got to be something similar somewhere in a file..." She considered the point. "It /did/ ask us... And it does, I think, kind 'f make sense... The machine wants the most complete record it can, I guess, t' save having to, uh, synthesize so much or something... I think the newer stuff is more capable of 'filling the gaps'. Maybe if we... uh... report some of this, we'd have some chance of accessing some documentation on such things if not to better equipment..." She bit her lip, finally starting to struggle upright and then attempting to brush some of the powder off, leaning against a wall.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:51 pm
"So what do you think we should do next? Besides clean up this mess." Hopefully it wouldn't take too long to get all the powder cleaned up. Then he could go get a shower and get all of it off of him.
"Do you want to write this up or would you prefer me to?" He didn't want to force all of the work on her. If she wanted to, he could take on some of it. "Then we can wait to see what they say and decide how to get the Rapidash DNA."
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