Idle Hands Something Something

[thepurpleone]

WHO: Donnie, Leo, and circumstantially open
WHERE: Agrii Ship - That Room
WHAT: Being delinquents
WHEN: During the end of Phase III
WARNINGS: Injury?


They probably shouldn't be in here.

But then the thing about places that were locked up is that it just screams that something's been hidden there, something people aren't supposed to be meant to find. And naturally that just begs questions of what.

Handling repairs and skirting Agrii politics gets tedious, so it's inevitable that Donnie opts to go investigating new secret tech. He'd had a brief look at the place before, back when the shield had yet been in place, but now that it's open, there's nothing keeping him from poking around.

"Creepy, right?" He'd dragged Leo along, or at most gave the suggestion because he has no other brother to be a willing accomplice. The space is huge, lined with rows of some sort of beds as far as the eye can see, hundreds upon hundreds of them.

"Why the heck would this be in a sealed off area of a spaceship?"

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[faceguy]

At the back of his mind, Leo knows that if all of them were here he would not be Donnie's first choice pick - that would probably be Mikey, or April if she were here - but he'd still readily agreed because, hey, he may not be into nerd stuff, but seeing a secret part of an alien spaceship? Now that's cool.

So he's come along, taking in the space with wide-eyed interest. True, he only barely knows what he's looking at, and he'll probably lose focus the second something else comes along to distract him, but for now he is fully engaged in being Donnie's accomplice.

"Suuuper creepy," he agrees, with the delight of someone who is not actually scared at all. On some level, a bunch of beds isn't as exciting as what could have been in here, but it's still interesting. "Maybe someone really wanted to get some shuteye?"

He reaches over and raps one of the beds with his knuckles experimentally.

[thepurpleone]

"A whole lot of someones..." Donnie mutters, squinting down the row. "This place must run almost the entire length of the ship."

True, it's just a bunch of beds, but once he really has a look at the ones closest, his brow furrows. "...these aren't just beds," he marvels, eyes widening. "These are some kind of cryochamber- only without use of cryogenics."

He drifts over to the controls at the end of he bed, tapping at a few buttons and grinning as some sort of forcefield appears over the length of the bed. "Ohhh this is amazing."

/comes up with the plot of a whole JJ comic just for this tag

[faceguy]

“Ooooooh…”

Leo, for once, understands what Donnie is talking about without explanation, thanks to his love of sci-fi.

“Just like in Jupiter Jim issue 278! The crew of the Theseus XII had been in cryosleep for seventy years.” He leans toward the force field, breathing on it to see if it fogs like glass. “All but Engineer Robertson, of course, but if his pod hadn’t malfunctioned, he wouldn’t have uploaded his brain to the ship’s central computer and JJ would never have gotten that distress signal about the black hole.”

He gasps, looking back up at Donnie with sparkling eyes. “Is that what’s going to happen to us? Dibs on becoming the self-aware AI!”

[thepurpleone]

Oh but Donnie is right along with his brother on the sci-fi hype train. "Yessss, only I think the designs in Jay-Jay were much better. These are...kind of disappointing on a basic level."

He smirks at Leo, even as he reaches over to push his brother's face away. "But no, I don't think there's any sort of systems to do any brain transfers here... This stasis field serves as a way to preserve and monitor the subject within once activated." He deactivates the field, studying the control panel thoughtfully.

"There's...some sort of transfer capabilities built into this thing. And just think of the parts we could have probably cannibalized from one of these, it might have saved us a trip to the spaceport although it wouldn't have been nearly as fun. Of course, barring the whole...force field situation that was blocking the place off initially."

[faceguy]

Leo scowls as his face is pushed away, but doesn’t do anything to retaliate (at this time).

“Why was there a force field blocking us before? I could get it if this room was full of gold or space jewels or super dangerous weapons or something. But why these?”

He goes to a different bed and tries to look under it, like this will reveal something that makes it all make sense. Predictably, it does not.

[thepurpleone]

Donnie shakes his head. "No idea. But I mean, this whole floor in general was sealed off until that explosion that took out most of Engineering."

He starts to feel his way around the side for a panel before pausing and drawing his hands back. "...oh. That's. -man but this data point nonsense is annoying. There's like, stuff you don't know that you know until a situation presents itself and then suddenly you realize oh, I've known this all along."

[faceguy]

Leo gets up from what he’s looking at to watch Donnie curiously.

“Yeah? What do you know now that you didn’t know before?”

He scoots over so he can look too.

[thepurpleone]

"How this whole thing works despite never having seen it until now," Donnie points out. "I wonder if anything might pop up in your brain if you had a look at the codework."

He wrinkles his nose. "Apparently there's an anti-tampering function installed to dissuade people from taking these things apart," he grumbles, pushing to his feet. "Let's see if we can pull up anything over here to override it."

[faceguy]

“Anti-tampering, huh…?”

Leo follows him to look at the panel, rubbing the back of his head.

“I mean, I know I have the Comms data point, but will I really get it just from looking at? I never got all your nerd speak before.”

[thepurpleone]

Donnie taps at the panel, pausing to look at Leo with a sloooow smirk.

"Sonic knew nothing about codework but it seemed to work for him." He pulls his sleeve back so he can tap at his bracer computer to try syncing with the stasis pod.

"Here," he says, pulling it off and handing it to Leo before doing likewise with his goggles. "Think of it like a VR game."

[faceguy]

Oh, he doesn’t like that look at all. He frowns as he takes the tech, nose flared like it’s smelly.

“I hope no one comes in… this’ll ruin my cool image.”

He slides the bracer on and then the goggles, then takes a look at the screen and… huh.

“Oh… oh this is so weird.” He messes around with the screen, eyes reading lines of code. “I… can actually read this.”

He pauses, his head tilting. Types something in and… whoa, he actually knows how to pull up records from the database. (He knows what a database is!)

“…Arrivals?”

[thepurpleone]

Not totally taking a picture of Leo with his phone, nope.

"Yeah? Crazy, right?" Donnie sidles over to look, his own nose wrinkling as the display makes absolutely no sense to him. "Arrivals? For what?"

[faceguy]

He’ll be deleting that later!!

Leo hums as he looks over the data. “It… doesn’t say. The arrival location is Temba, but the departure location is from… “out of system”.” He scrolls further. “There are… a bunch of “out of system”s actually.”

But there’s some actual coordinates here, too. He’s not sure how he understands all this, but he does.

“But some of them just go from Agra-10 to the ship and back again.”

for Wesker

[faceguy]

Here's the problem: Leo has no idea who the doctors are on the ship. Or even if there are any. Pizza Supreme, he hopes there are some - what criteria are the Agrii using if they pulled him in but not a few doctors!?

But there were people helping after the explosion, so there has to be someone, right?

But since Leo doesn't know who he's looking for, he's kind of just... running uselessly in any given direction. His only real plan is to find a He Row to ask, and luckily enough, he runs into one.

Literally, as he rounds a corner. He almost falls down, just barely managing to catch himself on the wall.

He hasn't met this guy, he has no idea who he is. He vaguely remembers him making a network post back after the explosion, though, and that's enough. Leo is desperate here, after all.

He straightens back up and says, "Hey! Do you know if there are any doctors around?"

No apology for running in the halls or crashing into people is forthcoming, it seems.

[sunglassesincluded]

As someone not involved with the actual repairs to the Agrii ship, Wesker has turned his attention back to his own information gathering and, of course, the various little projects he has picked up and spent his time and energy on. And, of course, his own investigations concerning the Agrii themselves.

Finding another person running around the ship isn't necessarily a reason for conccern to him. Not at this point anymore. By now Wesker has concluded that the majority of He Rows brought in are little more than undisciplined disaster in various shapes or forms. This one comes in the shape of a turtle. Not the turtle Wesker has encountered before however.

The man stops to raise a single brow over the frame of his dark glasses at Leo's obvious distress before responding calmly. "You have found one." Which isn't a lie. Or a secret. "What is the matter?"

[faceguy]

"Undisciplined disaster" isn't the worst thing he's ever been considered. And it's probably the most accurate, especially today.

Leo's eyes go wide at that - so this weird, scary looking guy is a doctor? Really? Well, it's not like Leo has ever been around any doctors, and the only dentist he's ever met was trying to kill him. Wesker reminds Leo of Draxum in a way, so maybe this is actually standard.

Augh, whatever, he has no time to debate this - Donnie needs help!

"It's my brother, he... I don't know what happened, he got... shocked, or something, I don't know, I just need help!"

He's already turning on his heel to lead Wesker back.

[sunglassesincluded]

Yes, he’s a doctor. Not a dentist however. Or a medical one like Dr. Takemi. He’s a virologist and bioengineer that has worked on and with all types of creatures. So all things considered if a doctor for a turtle is required he may still be more proficient than Tae.

He makes a mental note that both present turtles are apparently brothers and starts following after Leo with a stern frown at the rest of the information given to him.

“What shocked him?” He asks further, attempting to learn some more about the situation he is being led to.

[faceguy]

Leo will lead him on, talking fast as they go.

"He wanted to check out the part of the ship that had been blocked off before. We found all these... beds? Pods? Whatever, point is, they have a teleportation thingamajig, and he thought we could shut down the security measures on them long enough to take a look inside one, and... Well, I guess he was wrong."

Not like Donnie's ever been wrong before, but he's never almost killed himself because of it.

"So it shocked him, and then he teleported into one of the other pods? And he's unconscious, and I don't know what the panel on the pod is telling me. But if it's bad..."

He sucks in a breath and rubs his hands over his face. He doesn't want to be visibly panicking in front of this stranger but it's hard not to.

[sunglassesincluded]

This information gets an inaudible groan from Wesker. Why isn’t he surprised that foolish decisions were involved in this matter?

Though he will safe any scolding for later. For the time being a strong frown will have to suffice.

“I will see his bad it really is.” He comments factually. If anything, he can make an attempt to get this turtle to calm down somewhat. At the very least this one made one correct decision by going to find help right away. Potentially the smarter of the lot.

[faceguy]

It is usually Leo’s first instinct to go find an adult when something happens; he knows when he can’t handle it himself.

“Y-yeah, sure,” says Leo in response to that. He doesn’t calm down too much, though. It had seemed pretty bad.

He leads Wesker back through the hole where the force field had been destroyed, into the giant space full of pods.

“He’s over here!”

[sunglassesincluded]

There is something ominous about this space. It’s size, the amount of pods, the alien technology… But those aren’t what catch Wesker’s eyes. It’s the sole figure standing over one of the pods. A figure that is easy to recognize for him.

“Anthony Stark.” Wesker calls out while stepping past Leonardo. “Why am I not surprised to find you here?” Of course there would be one of those self proclaimed super heroes here, at the place of an accident.

[in_extremis]

These were going to become a problem eventually, but that eventually was supposed to be a lower priority than the immediate repairs of the ship systems and getting the engine working so they weren't dead in the water. Tony's investigation after they had first gotten access to the space had been brief and frustrated, and he should have known that Donnie wouldn't be satisfied with that kind of surface level understanding. He should have been prepared for this.

He gave another frustrated tap at the obstinate control panel, angry that it didn't seem to do anything but spit out numbers that he didn't need, and more angry that he was quickly running out of reasons to keep his focus on it and off of Donnie's uncomfortable stillness. That sneering voice wasn't a good alternative, so Tony kept jabbing as he shot back, "Have enough wet dreams, one of them is bound to come true." It was well past time he dealt with this manually, and only then glanced up at Leonardo as he moved along the bed and knelt beside it to find the first seam. "Start saying something useful," he instructed.

[faceguy]

Leo is a little surprised Tony got there before them - he hadn't even been sure the man would show up, since he stopped replying to his texts. Leo's attention is pretty quickly pulled to his brother, though, and it's an effort to pay attention to any extra conversations.

These men don't like each other, he picks up on that quickly enough. He's curious about what that means, since most people he's met seem at worst neutral about Tony, but it's ultimately not that important right now.

He bristles at that, but repeats what he already told Wesker.

"He wanted to look at the mechanics of one of the pods over there," he points, "so he had me run a diagnostics check because he thought that would shut down any security. And then it... shocked him or something, and he disappeared and reappeared over here."

Leo folds his arms around himself, looking at Donnie inside. "He's... still not moving." That's bad, right?

[sunglassesincluded]

“I am not interested in whatever dreams you may have regarding these kids.” Wesker returns with a warning note in his voice. “Keep your depravities to yourself.” These super heroes will do anything for their heroic antics, won’t they.

It is then that Wesker makes his way over to the pod himself, scowl shifting into a studying frown. “And try not to mess with this thing if you don’t understand it. Messing with it is what got him stuck in there.” And even if the idea of getting rid of Tony is tempting, they don’t really need more people stuck in pods.

He shifts his attention to the control panel and the small monitor attached to it. There is something familiar to this aside from being the same alien technology he has come to know from staying at the hospital.

[in_extremis]

One of them had proven he wasn't above involving the kids in his bullshit, so that warning was duly heeded with an icy glare. Tony had to get this guy out of here before he did something worse. First, he had to thaw enough to assure Leonardo, "No change means nothing is getting worse. These are stasis beds, so as long as he is in there, we know the situation is stable." For anyone who wasn't incredibly impatient, that was good news; they had as long as they needed to solve the problem. Unfortunately, Tony wasn't terribly patient, and he was already moving away, confirming, "Which one?" with a point toward the other pods that Donnie had been examining. He didn't need much direction once he spotted the screwdriver abandoned on the floor, and crouched to assume a mirror of the same position Donnie had been in, before he was blinked. He must have been trying to open this panel. Twirling the screwdriver in one hand, Tony passed the other over the metal.