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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:10 pm
Roselyn stood there a moment longer again just listening. Yes, she supposed she was weird too in her own way, nto nearly as sociable or happy as he was or even as to a level of what would be considered 'normal' around here. But she shrugged and resummed looking at the floor.
Always something wrong with them indeed, but was she to mention her ankle? Nope. She was presently dragged off and silently allowed it not saying or doing anything to help or hinder their movement. And suddenly she was in Ingenuity. Where she needed to be, but she looked to Ren anyway and spoke in her quiet voice, "Why are we here?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:20 pm
As always, found among a pile of mess behind a desk, Erik really standing off on his own around the far wall that he was leaned against. Jelena blinked from behind the computer screens that made up her glasses and then smiled in the fashion she often did. "James, nice to see you. Though I have to say I wasn't expecting you."
She swiveled her chair to a computer screen and keyed in a few characters to bring up what appeared to be Roselyn's files. She shared them along with the Metamorphosis division on the Ingenuity since Rosey was double project participant. "You're right, looks like she did." Then a raised eyebrow. "Though I suppose that could be my fault since she was allowed to sleep in." A laugh. "Felt she deserved the break from Rennell."
"Because this is where I'm supposed to be? And you seem to have missed an appointment...and I was sent to fetch you really...but you know me. I would of popped up sooner or later." A hug to his friend as he now led her down the corridors with an arm around her shoulders.
"Did you miss it on purpose or did you just not want to go? I know you don't like to have people poke at you." A sympathetic look now from the young man, with a hint of a smile as he tried to get her spirits up.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:36 pm
She looked away a moment and huffed a sigh, "A little bit of both really..." Her hands went to her pockets, "So I do not like people messing with me, there has been too much of it lately."
She turned a bit and started walking back, "I do not need anything right now." Lie though she did look back to him "And I do not feel like it right now, why do you ned to be here anyway? You can miss appointments. Maybe I will just see you later." Then she started walking again.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:52 pm
Of course he turned and started walking in her footsteps, imploring his whine skills to get to her more. "But Rose buddy...come on. You know you need to go to your appointments....all of us do. Which brings me to another point."
He scratched the back of his head with a laugh, mussing already chaotic red hair. "Also...I have an appointment too around the same time. I'm scheduled right after you. Frankly...I don't want to go alone either. You know..."
He was in fact rather skittish. But who could blame him, he was one of the few surviving participants that had the specific modifications that he had.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:31 pm
Rosey merely rolled her eyes and kept walking at his whine. What was wrong with her not really caring for slight malfunctions? Well that was not entirely true either. Then she turned around and sighed, watching the ground and her feet again, her tail hanging limp. "Fine whatever." That was a very begrudging agreement and she held out her arm to him because clearly she was not going to willingly go. "You should not feel to weird for it though, I just do not like to be touched much. And why must we all go?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:12 pm
"Yay." And he took her by the arm, pulling her along down the hall once again. "I've told you before Rose bud, that's how it's done up here. We're to get checked every two months on regular basis and also come for maintenance for anything else between those times scheduled. It's the price we pay for having metal in or attached to our bodies and non-dissolving/dismantling nanomachines in our blood streams."
Then that caring look again. "Not to be mean...but you know you need to go. Especially since you're not original Metamorphosis technology." He really wasn't trying to be mean or anything, that was just the truth. "And none of us like to be prodded at. Think how I feel sometimes..."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:25 pm
" All due respect, Ma'am. But this is not something that needs to be toyed aroudn with. I've seen too many under my command die form malfuctions in biomechanics. Letting her sleep in when she needed to be checked is a serious problem. those things malfunctioning coudl cause the ships and herself as well as other serious problems or deaths."
He looked between them both, James was a very serious person when it came to this kind of thing especially. he was known for dragging augmented indviduals to checkups wether they felt they needed them or not.
"Do you know where she is now, it's very important she get her check up, especially with her particularly extensive augmentations. As you should well now by now, with er previous incidents."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:46 pm
Well she did not ask for any of this, what she thought with a huff, but that small smile did come back at the continued use of her nickname, the one that only he used for her. She was dragged along, "Why can I not just come when there is a problem?" If I feel like it then. She sighed, "And I think of how you feel, I think of how anyone else may feel but... You have to realize how not fun it was the first time these guys poked at the blade-equiped tail and my permenant SHAD's. They had to really look around and get all the information on my... modifications and well, you know about it, it was not easily done." And there was more poking at her that she did not really consent to. Prasie had been kind of crazy...
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:06 pm
Jelena tapped her nails on her desk and then nodded slightly as she ran a hand through her hair. "I apologize James. I honestly didn't know she had an appointment today, she usually informs me of them. However, she is known to weasel her way out of things she doesn't want to do..." Another tap of nails on her desk.
"She left here not long ago. If I had any guesses she's with Rennell...usually spends her time with him. And I recently banned him from the Echo sensitive areas. Which would put Rennell in the outer sections of Envision, or hanging out in Ingenuity." A point to the intercom on her desk. "Would you like to put in a call to Radiance to issue a call over G.O.D.D for her?"
"Come on now. It's like being a kid and having to take cough syrup when you don't want to. You know your mother isn't going to leave you alone until you take the stuff. Want me to stay with you when they do yours?"
A comforting pat at her arm. "At least you have built in protection to your S.H.A.D.s. Especially when you spend your time around me. But that's one reason I passed them up. And believe me, the more they know, the less they have to poke and prod at you."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:18 pm
Alaster rose from where he knelled his head and his hands inside one of the side compartments of the station. He was at it again, something or other needed to be fixed, and he was the man to do the fixing. It was what he was good at, since maintenance for the enhancements was usually done only a need to basis, and he prided himself on the work that he did, making it so the problems were usually never reoccurring. He would get a pile of work orders in the morning delivered to his quarters and off he would waddle to work, always fixing something, like a any soldier he hated staying in one place. And so he was a whirlwind of work, always trying to fix something, and this time was no different. He ran his fingers through his coarse red beard. and wiped the sweat from his brow. "damn bucket o bolts! Work ye blasted thing!!" he growled as he pulled another tool from his case and did something or order, receive output and punching in more inputs, all while trying to manually adjust the machine. It had started as a simple job trying to fix the door to one the empty service rooms, and it turned out that the whole system was out of wack. And so Alaster worked, as always with a frown on is face, and some foul mouth remark in his mouth.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:21 pm
"That would be the thing, at first they did not have the information. And again, to need cough syrup, someone would be coughing and therefore they would ahve a problem, not be going for maintenance or a check up in that case." She sighed and had started walking slower out of subconscious and without really thinking about it. Her eyes focused on the careful footsteps her feet made, "And yes... and if I did not have built in protection and you fired your guns well goodbye my hearing."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:41 pm
"Rennel. Just perfect he has an appointment as well. Though him I wouldn't mind missing."
Which was as close as James came to saying his disliked a member of the Metamorphisis. He tooked the few steps over to teh G.O.D.D, and hit the button, his voice coming over none too pleased.
Roselyn, and Rennell. Report to Metamorphosis IMMEDIATLY for your mantinence. If you are not back at Metamorphosis in fifteen minutes, I will personally come find you and take you there myself.
He gave a nod to Jelena, then took a look aroudn her office at the disaster that it was.
"You know, it's so painfully obvious that you lack the good discpline of a military lifestyle. You should tidy up some, organize this monstrous mess. might make things a bit easier to locate."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:04 pm
"Goodbye your hearing indeed." He stopped mid-stride as the characteristic sound of the G.O.D.D. went off, indicating that everyone best listen up because it either 1. pertained to them, or 2. everyone needed to hear it. But painfully enough, it was specifically for them.
"Uh oh...Moira is on our case now. See, this is also why we go to our appointments...to keep guys like him from stalking us down and picking us up by our parts and drag us away."
Rennell merely dragged Rosey the rest of the way to the main sections in the Ingenuity for the Metamorphosis priject...or what was now maintenance. "Best if we don't make him put that threat into action Rose buddy."
"He's not a bad guy...just overly cheerful for the rest of us sometimes. Then again at times I wish I could have that type of disposition." She leaned back in her chair a little as James put in a call to Radiance thus having his message thrown to the lovely named PA system.
Then a sharp look to Erik who took to chuckling at James' comment on the lack of organization within the office space. "Oh hush you, you're no better. In fact you're supposed to keep me organized." A smile and look back to James. "What can I say, I know where everything is to an extent when I create my own chaos. Besides...after either engineering or looking after Echoes all day...you're just too tired to clean up. Which is why I hired another assistant.
"Who is overly late by this point. Feeding the dragons says that she got lost." He was tapping at his watch with a smug look on his face.
"I'm not taking that bet. It's your job to do that."
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:22 pm
"The boy is..too cheerful. it's like he's constantly on a drug. I've seen infants that have less of a...cheerful..disposition than he does. As for this mess. I coudl straight it out for you. but I would expect you to keep things cleaned and in order if I did it."
Then a look to Erik.
"And you're no better, as she said. an assistant is to help keep the boss organized, and I don't see much work on that from your part."
No smile from him, just a stern look.
"And a new assistant? are they augmented as well?"
No comment on the dragons. or any of the mythological creations. Biomechanics hie understood the need and uses for. genetically created mythic or fables creatures, he didn't understand the point, and was always waiting for the day some of the more powerful ones got loose. then he's have to play hero. Joy.
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:23 pm
Rose was about to say something when GODD came on. Then she cringed and was finally given some good persuasion to get herself to Metamorphosis for the damned maintenance, James dragging her down. She sighed and nodded allowing herself to be dragged more quickly.
Once she was far enough into that section she was led over to where her hm, special skematics were set up. A man was already there set up and ready for her. In fact he was sitting there tapping his foot waiting, with a slightly annoyed look on his face as she was that late. Rosey looked back to Ren as he ignored the person waiting on him and stayed by her. Then she stepped and held out her arms, refusing to sit or lay as usual, nto enough control for her.
Flexing her arms a moment her blades for forced out and checked for retracting time and efficiency. They were working fairly well. Then came her ankles and as mentioned her right one was slow. The left one was put back in and the right one she was forced to step it up so it could be worked on easier. Her eyes squinted shut a moment, then she just let it go, not doing anything. Though with the thoughts and anxiety in her she had no trouble popping out the blade in her tail, as sometimes they responded to her feelings. It had to do with the way she was wired, and what the mechanisms responded to. Then her ears or SHAD's really and her visor, both attached.
It all continued as normal, with her ankle fixed and the normal chastising she got as it was evident that the part had been like that more than one day. And her orders to come back if it happened again, blah blah. And once that was done she walked over to Ren and grabbed his arm with her hands, hiding behind him a bit but more using him for comfort. It was the rare bit of affection she showed to him. "I guess being forcibly dragged here would have been worse, though it might have taken my mind off of this actual stuff."
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