My Brain's Doing Weird Things With My Head Again

Who: Tara, Keto-Brain-Bot,
Where: In the medibay (medi-bay) medibay (medi-bay)...we're the wrong
people to JP in this place...
When: Mac killed my inner child (it has as much relevance as any time
I might put)
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The Keto-Brain-Bot sighed as only a roboticised brain in a jar can
and tried once again.
"Door open."
The door didn't move. This wasn't really a surprise, as it hadn't
moved the last six-hundred and seventy-three times that the Brain Bot
had rolled up to it, knocked on it, said "Door open" or anything of
the sort. Still, the bot was nothing if not optimistic.
"Door open?"
Tara walked/staggered back into the medi-bay. She had drunk too
many pints of Great Gable in Parrots Bar whilst waiting for her
husband to get drunk. There was a thunk as she walked into the door.
"Damnit!"
There was a loud clunk, a whirr, and the office door suddenly slid
open to reveal the Keto Brain Bot who was just about to start
saying "Door open" again.
"Tara! At last, I'm free! I got trapped in this office when I
rolled in here and said 'door close'..." began the Bot, then yelped
and rolled forwards quickly as the door slid shut again with a click.
Tara blinked at the robots outburst.
"Oh. That'sss nice for you." She giggled slightly.
The Bot paused, almost visibly readjusting its tone to deal with
someone in a state of drunkenness humankind was seldom meant to reach.
"Had a little to drink, have we?" it asked pleasantly, "I hear we
met up with another Blue Dwarf...?"
"Who me? Drinking.... Naaaaaaaaaa. I'd get fired if I did that on
duty....." She paused for a moment before saying "But wait! I already
was fired!"
"Were you?" asked the Bot, a little surprised, "Was that by my
brother?"
"Your brother. Xavier right? Yea, the bastard fired me, but I still
work heere. Since he decided to smeg off." Tara glared at nothing in
particular, remembering her hate for the 'Evil Twin'.
"Well, since he's not here...and, in fact, nobody ELSE is," pointed
out the Bot, "Except the Tree, which appears to have gone into
hibernation *again*...I think I'm actually entitled to re-hire you."
There was a pause as Tara's drunken brain filed the information
in 'excuse to party'.
"Really? But your not a member of the medical department are you?"
"Apparently, yes," replied the Brain, "Xavier's got me filed as a
piece of equipment, apparently...and since that makes me an item in
the medibay, and I'm sentient, I think I slip through a little hole
in the regulations. So you've got your job back, if you want."
"Woohoo!" Tara yelled, and hugged the brain bot. Well, as well as
you can hug a motorized jar anyway.
"Now, that being taken care of," said the Bot after a slight
pause, "I don't think we're needed here at the moment. I'd like to
take a look around the other ship, if you'd like to walk...well,
stagger...with me."
"Sure thing Charlie." Said Tara, using the name she called him/it
in med-school. "Where to first?"
"Well, I wouldn't mind seeing the other ship's medi-bay..." began
the Bot, then stopped when Tara laughed, "What's so funny?"
"I heard you say that hyphen!"
"The hyphen? In medi-bay? What about it?"
"Xavier doesn't. He ignores it completely." Tara laughed again "Now
I remember why we got on so well."
"Yes, must have been the hyphens," agreed the Brain, chuckling
quietly as they rolled/staggered out of their medibay.
-- Ten Minutes Later, On The Rebel BD --
"...that time you knocked Shakespeare's experiment all over his
workbench, and the head of the class thought it was him and took him
to one side?" laughed the Bot.
"Do you remember when we first saw Shakesey?" Tara laughed "I
thought he was a complete nutter."
"Well if what you say about him and Trisees is right, you were
correct!" replied the Brain, also laughing, "I hope they're both
okay, wherever they are."
The doors to the rebel Dwarf's medibay slid open and the two of
them looked inside.
Tara gasped at the number of people on life support.
"What on earth happened?"
"Oh, this is just the wounded from the last Empire attack," said
the strangely-familiar-looking man wearing a white coat tending to
the patients, "You should see the stasis bay. It's full of people
who we couldn't stabilise here."
There was a long pause.
"Excuse me," asked the Bot, slowly, "But are you William
Shakespeare?"
"What? Don't be ridiculous," snorted the man, "William Shakespeare
died hundreds of years ago!"
Tara and the Bot sighed with relief.
"I'm Lord Byron."
Tara sighed then turned to the Bot.
"Still as mad as ever, I see."
"Apparently, yes," whispered the Bot in response. Then, raising
its voice again, it said, "So, Mr Byron...how do you treat these
people? Other than putting them in stasis, that is."
"I'll answer that," said a voice from the other end of the room.
Tara and the Bot turned to see a chubby, friendly-looking man
approaching them.
"Hello there, I'm Chief Medical Officer Xavier Keto," chortled the
man, "How can I help?"
Tara gaped at the complete opposite of their Xavier.
"You sure that's your name?"
"Why, yes," laughed the man, "Unless I've suffered a memory loss or
something, ha-ha-ha!"
"Ha-ha-ha..." attempted the Bot, but gave up, "Look, are you
ABSOLUTELY sure?!"
"Of course he's Xavier Keto," snapped Surgeon Byron, "Most
annoyingly chirpy man aboard this ship."
"And Surgeon Byron prides himself on being short-tempered and
sarcastic," smiled Xavier Keto.
There was a long pause, and then the Bot turned to Tara and
hissed, "I really, really think we need to get out of here. Right
now."
Tara nodded enthusiastically. Hastily, she and the Bot backed out
of the medibay, allowing the door to hiss shut behind them.
"Lucky escape," murmured the Bot, then beeped with alarm as the
medibay doors suddenly shot open and Xavier Keto and Byron ran past
them.
"What do you mean, coroner!?" shouted Byron into a
communicator, "We can save anyone, unless something stupid's happened
like a huge hole being blown through the centre of their chest!"
"This could be interesting, let's follow," suggested the Bot.
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OOC: Tag, Dave or anyone in that vicinity - the rival BD medical team
is on their way to claim that they can save anyone (which they can't,
hehe), and our own beloved medical team is right behind them.
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A Joint Post Between:
Tara Cleavage-FeBuggure (Becca)
and
Charles Brain-Bot Keto (JHXMT)
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