Not in the Jungle any more...

ooc: I tried to clear everything up, but I couldn't do it all without a backpost. too many loose ends! It just got too confusing, so here's post the 2nd! 100% backpost free.

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Williams and Khan emerged from the shadows as Williams said, “Hello stranger long time now see.” Khan asked, “If you don’t mind we can have tea and biscuits later. I think we should get out of here first.”
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The platform controlled by Evelina rocketed across the core, with Jamie & Jaxx riding on it. Jamie had grabbed the skutter by the claw and leapt out through the broken window to land on it. A clamour to stop them from doing something outrageously stupid.

"Why did you grab me?" Jaxx asked as they moved. Acceleration was slow, but steady.

"Because you're a good fighter, and easier to manhandle." Jamie said, bluntly.

"Oh... Thanks...?" Jaxx said, not sure what he really meant by that.

The platform gained more speed as it shot across the core room, now moving in a dead straight line across the tops of the storage units.

"Beginning to think this was a really stupid idea, after the communications array got blown up.." Jamie said, noting that there was no control console on the platform itself - just guard rails and the floor.

It was a long way down.

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"Yeah... I guess I owe you for taking out those guys." Cass said to Williams and Khan, back on the ground level. She took a step forward, and began reaching for the Time Drive.

"Oh no you don't." Khan said, holding a pistol in her direction. "You'll just hit the emergency return if I let you do that." He added.

"Yeah, no funny business." Williams added, with her own pistol.

"There's no time for this! Just trust me and we can all get out of here." Cass said, knowing that there was now a lot less than twenty minutes left before the place went up. Fortunately, this wasn't a movie, so there was no sign of the place falling apart before it's set time.

"All I need is your hand to get the encoding to work." Khan said. He obviously knew his STCP tech. Genetic encoding.

Disarmed as she was, Cass didn't have a huge amount of options. Two guns from two different points aimed at her, one slowly advancing to take what he wanted.

Victoria knelt to pick up the Time Drive. Obviously it wouldn't work without Cass, but they had enough time for that.

Thoughts ran through her mind. Options. What options were there? Hope they'd miss, and try to grab for the device? Too dangerous, even with her nano-suit.

"It's not stopping!" Jaxx said as they approached their destination.

"Nope. It won't. There's no control signal being received..." Jamie replied. He knew why he'd grabbed Jaxx, not only because he could fight.

"Use your holowhips, grab that beam over there, and hold onto it." Jamie said, picking up the skutter and holding tightly onto him. "You'd better hope Eve isn't the Jealous type." Jamie joked as the holowhips swung out towards the beam, wrapping onto it and holding tight. The pair were pulled from the moving platform, and swung out in a parabolic arc towards the floor.

"Eikyaaaa!" Jamie yelled, the Ssala version of "Jeronimo". He held his legs out in front of him, and pushed away from Jaxx in the middle of the return swing, sending himself down towards Victoria, while leaving Jaxx on a collision course with Khan.

The skutter smacked into Khan, sending him sprawling out into the side of a storage container, while Jamie smashed equally as hard into Victoria. He grabbed for the time drive as they began to fall, and threw it towards Cass, as both of them tangled and fell hard into the floor.

For Jamie, the lights went out.

For everyone else, the lights flared up as the emergency return switch was hit, and the now very familiar light show dragged everyone back towards their own time.

<Ok, That's it! Auto recall brings everyone back, as it did in previous times. This ending was posted with acknowledgement and assent from Locke. In this one, I have only posted those directly mentioned again, since we're not with everyone else.>