Tanuchan Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Just wait a bit, Zach... Kerri, are you sure you are okay now? The sisters talk quietly for a bit, and when Terri gets Kerri smiling again, she goes back to Zach. They stand there for a while, trying to guess what they're seeing... which is exactly Timmy, with his helmet donned, running to the guard and starting to talk to him excitedly, showing him both Martin and Bubba. TIMMY! Aw... Come, love! Terri grabs Zach's arm, pulling him along her and going to the guard. Kerri follows, grabbing Zach's other arm. Timmy, this is not for children! And PUT MARTIN AWAY! Both sisters shout at their brother at the same time, each one picking one of his ears and pushing him towards Zach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solivagus Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Heinrich glanced at the new-comers and barely managed to restrain himself from cursing. Blondes at the site, an ideal title for a horror movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nave Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Timmy stumbles into Zach and then shoots a look back at his sisters. Quickly though he turns back to Zach with a smile on his face, as he tries to lift his backpack in front of him. "Here Zach. You can carry my stuff. Be careful though. My rock collection is in there." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlitch Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 On seeing the girls, Timmy, and ...that other guy arrive, Albert sets his stuff down and goes over to say, "Hi," but then holds off a bit until the crying, bleeding, and tormenting eachother stops for a moment. Then... Albert Terri, Kerri uh..er..hi...uh...this place is keen huh? Hi Timmy. How's your science homework coming along? We should take a look at that tonite before bed you know. *starts rambling about protrons, neutrons and electrons and how they interact to create nuclear energy....* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vahktang Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 The assembled gather in the control room, the forward concrete bunker of the complex. The tour was impressive, the complex being 9/10 underground, with it's own well and generator, living quarters for scientists and soldiers, assembly areas, infirmery even a computer! The control room is crowded, smoked glass telescopic periscopes pointing towards the bomb site, instruments for measurements about, each attended by a technician or scientist, a flurry of activity that calms down into intense anticipation when the countdown is started. A stentorian voice intones the count down: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vahktang Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Five! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Vahktang Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Then Flash!!! As the bomb explodes. Everyone had been warned of what was to occur, flash, sound, rush of debris, then fireball, but what happens next was not on the list. Earthquake! The ground rumbles for some time, a few people fall, the thick quartz window of the control room shatters showering some with glass bits. Then the sound, echoing off the chamber, deafening everyone, the wind blowing dust and dirt into the chamber, it's quickly abandoned as everyone regroups into the corridor. "What was that," asks Zachary "Earthquake. 6.0 I think," Albert, resetting his glasses. "Bad luck to have it happen during a bomb test," said Terri "Are you kidding. This site is one of the most seismically stable in the country. No earthquakes here," says Ed. "Then the Q-bomb," wonders Greta. "None of our calculations indicated..." "It has to be," says Jamia. "No other explanation." "But the listed yield was no where near enough..." says Heinrich. "Checking the instruments," says a technician. More later, Vahktang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlitch Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Gee, I wonder if we've just been exposed to radiation. We probalby were. Do you think that maybe we'll all become mutants then?! I hope I get a neat superpower! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solivagus Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Heinrich glared at Albert. "Shut it kid. No need to go predicting gloom. Little kids today have no idea..." Trailing off he watched the scene intently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanuchan Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 RADIATION? Both Terri and Kerri look at Albert, alarmed. Timmy listens with a happy grin, seconding Albert's wish for superpowers... MUTANTS? Terri turns and throws herself into Zachary's arms, scared. Zach stumbles a bit, having been caught unaware, and reflexively holds Terri. Kerri grabs him, but this time Terri notices her. Kerri. Let. Him. Go. With a killing look, Kerri releases Zach's arm but keeps near him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlitch Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Albert offers to hold Kerri instead of Zach, only to get rudely rebuffed and kicked in the shin by her. :erm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanuchan Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) Terri half-leaves Zach's arms to hold her sister's hand before she hits Albert. She hisses in a low voice... Kerri! Poor Albert! Give him a chance! "And let Zach alone," completes her in thoughts, going back to keeping his arms full. Of her, of course. OOC Edit: mistook the names... Edited April 2, 2004 by Tanuchan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammeez Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 That was...really... *brushes herself off, schooling her features into a less concerned decorum* No big deal. Nope, I was just concerned for you guys. Yep...*sigh* Excuse me, Ms. Von Richter? I couldn't help noticing that the experiments taking place here seem to be a bit...uncontrolled. Are you sure you should be conducting public tours at this early juncture? I mean, isn't it a little irresponsible of the scientific community to be treating a top secret facility such as this as if it were nothing more than an amusment park? Ms. Von Richter simply stares at the obviously highly inquisitive and intelligent, though also very annoying confrontational girl in black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nave Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 (edited) "Hey Albert, I think Kerri and Terri are already mutants. Think the ray..ray...ray...ra...radio...oh sh....radio ocean will make them normal?" Edited March 28, 2004 by Nave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vahktang Posted March 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 While Ed runs the damage control team, the figures come back. "This is impossible," says Greta. "The instruments say that the explosion was greater by three." "Three times as powerful," says Heinrich. "Three decimal places," says Ed. "What's that mean," says Timmy. One thousand times more powerful than expected," says Albert. A silence fills the room. "And I have something else," says Gregor. They all look at the astronomer. "A few minutes after the explosion, this camera pointed at the sky shows a bolide, that landed nearby." "What's that," says Timmy. "Meteor," says Jamia. "Falling star." "Oh," says Timmy. "An explosion, an earthquake _and_ a meteor," asks Heinrich. "I think they're all related," says Gregor. "I think the explosion launched a rock into low earth orbit." "The first man propelled object in space," says Greta. "We got to go see it," says Albert. The others chime in, and over Heinrich's objections, and the project director's permission, the group and a number of soldiers go to the nearby fall site to look it over. More later, Vahktang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Celes Crusader Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Greta is wondering about the whole phenomonon ahead. As she is way too preoccupied by the whole phenomenon. - Ms. Von Richter, asks again Jamia, I seriously question the... - Question your governement, interrupts abruptly the German, I am new to zis facility and if it vould had been only of me, no visitors vould had been alloved. I guest zey need ze money from ze tourists. Greggor walks over Greta and tries to attact her attention again. - Vat do you vant? Don't you see I am busy trying to figure out vat zis mess is? Greggor shrugs, noticing that the Greta he knew still have this edgy character of her own. He thinks that he try his chance later, when she'll be less preoccupied. When they arrived at the site Greta wonders at the crater and the object in the middle. - Zis is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyremon Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 (edited) <with the glee that is usually reserved for 5 year olds at christmas a gentleman in his mid 30's wearing brown pants and a white short sleave button up shirt with a tie loose around his neck just starts jumping up and down screaming> hahaha :woot: haha it worked!!! my portion of the project worked!AtFirstThePencilPushersWeren'tGoingToAllowTheAddedMechinism ButTheseResultsGoToShowThemAllThatMyPortionOfTheProjectAllowed AllThisToHappen.ButIManagedToConviceGeneralArmstrongThatThis WouldMakeThisProjectAnUnparralleledSuccess!!IMeanWithout TheCamera'sMonitoringWhatHappenedHowElseWouldWeHave KnownWhatThisBombDoesToUnoccupiedBuildingsAndStationaryJeeps. Edited for clarity Edited March 29, 2004 by Eyremon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarlitch Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 OOOOOO! *starts snapping pictures* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammeez Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 OOC: <...jumping up and down screaming> hahaha :woot: ...DoesToUnoccupiedBuildingsAndStationaryJeeps. Edited for clarity Sure glad you did that! IC: You don't mean that you meant the blast to be so strong...do you??? And Greta here is sidestepping the issue... *looks around for someone else who could be considered "in charge"* Hmm, no one but us dummies! We're all gonna die, ya know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyremon Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 welllllllll if the blast is strong we can stop all those commies dontcha know. besides with the CamerasThatGeneralArmstrongLetMeInstallWeCanGoAndSend PicturesToThoseCommieFoolsAndShowThemHowOurBombIsBetterThenTheirBomb AndTheirBombIsJustPlainStoooopid.OurBombIsBigger,Brighter,HasAMorePowerful Boom,AndANiceShinyCoverBecauseWeWantThoseCommieFoolsToSeeItComing BecauseOnceItIsArmedTheirIsNoGoingBack.ThisWillMakeThoseCommieBastards SorryForKillingAllOurYankieBoysInSiberia. hahahaha <starting to skip down the hall> our bomb is bigger our bomb is bigger Tommy will have is revenge because our bomb is bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanuchan Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Terri looks at Kerri, both utterly confused by Ed. Then they look at Zach, who shrugs. All three just keep looking at Ed skipping down the hall, speechless. Meanwhile, Timmy goes on and on chattering to Albert... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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