The search for Spock - uh, Chen

Who: 2nd Away Team
Where: Crash Site
When: When they arrive at the crash site (duh)
>"Look," Dirk pointed to the ground around the wreckage. "Weeds have
started to
>grow around it. If it had crashed even just six months ago, the ground
wouldn't
>be able to support plant life." He bent down and plucked an eight leaf
clover
>off the ground. "It brought a lot of radiation with it too." Dirk
stuck the
>clover in his pocket(if a four leaf clover is lucky, an eight leaf must
be twice
>as lucky).
>"Smegg!" Harris shouted. "I want you to check this out. Tell me what
every you
>can find out about it. Like where it came from."
Smegg walked over to the crash site and started to inspect the pod. "Hmm,
looks like a standard JMC escape pod," he said. He noticed some dust
obscuring some writing on the pod and reached to brush it off. But as
soon as his hand came close to the pod, it suddenly started traveling
much faster and Smegg ended up punching the pod with all his might - with
fingers extended.
"Ow!" he said; his fingers were all smashed. He ran over to Dr. Keto,
willing to risk one of his mysterious ointments. The good doctor looked
around in his bag and pulled out ointment #1138, a thin, clear liquid. He
rubbed some of it on Smegg's hand and Smegg noticed that his hand felt
cold. "Hey! That's rubbing alcohol! What good will that do? I smashed my
fingers!" "Oops," the doctor said, and got ointment #1148, cream of
tylenol pill. Better than nothing... though weren't they supposed to be
ingested?
The doctor then asked Smegg why he had decided to punch the escape pod,
and Smegg explained that he didn't INTEND to hit it, he was just trying
to brush some dust off it but his hand must have slipped. And the doctor
then reached into his bag and pulled out an ointment that Smegg
recognized as an antischizophrenia drug that was illegal on 57 moons and
planets; Smegg ran away to the rest of the away team, not wanting to
suffer under the hands of a mad doctor or fail the next Space Corps drug
test.
So he reported back to Harris that it was a JMC escape pod but that he
couldn't continue investigating because he smashed up his hand and it
hurt like heck. Harris called him a wuss and sent Dirk Bell over to
investigate instead. Dirk went over and a few minutes later he came back
reporting that he to had injured his hand.
"Well dammit" Harris fumed, "can't we have anyone investigate this pod
without getting himself injured," and he went over to the pod himself.
And a few minutes later he came back clutching his fingers and crying for
mommy.
Meanwhile Smegg and Bell had come up with an idea. They had both noticed
that the pod looked like it had been lying around there for a long time.
Too long, in fact. According to the carbon dating which Bell had managed
to perform before he had injured his hand, the pod had been there for 600
years. Now it was a known fact that there was no JMC in the year 1500.
Oh, sure, there may have been some "Jezebel's Medieval Circus" or
something but they certainly had no space pods. So, there were only two
possibilities. One, that the pod had fallen through a time hole. Or two,
that the shock of the collision caused the pod to convert into
proto-matter, a highly unstable substance which produced an
accelerated-time field around it. The second theory seemed more likely,
as it also explained the hand injuries. Ahh, the beauty of science.
So Bell and Smegg went to warn the rest of the away team that the capsule
was now to be treated as dangerous because of the fact that it could go
kaboom at any moment if disturbed further. Unfortunately at that moment
the capsule decided to go kaboom. Fortunately Harris was outside the
blast radius as shards of protomatter flew outward annihilating anything
in their path. Smegg hoped the other team had found something useful
because this had been a total bust...
Well, there was this nametag and a couple bones lying there that somehow
had survived the blast, it said "CHEN"...
OOC - OK this was a dumb post but I had to do something...
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Dumb quote: "Let us return to the sheep!" - Judge in Molière's "Le farce
de maître Pathelin"
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