Log:SPACETEAM 2: The Re-Spacening!, Scene 1

SPACETEAM 2: The Re-Spacening! 2017/01/10 Rick Griffin Indira Quiet

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Today is a day when things will get weird.

Indira's stellar communications array intercepts a partially jammed Asrani signal. She intercepts this signal at approximately 2 am, while Rick Mason was taking his customary Tuesday night/Wednesday morning hour of sleep. You can probably excuse Rick for looking like he rolled out of bed in the video call he places to the rest of Zero Division, especially the part where he waves the world's tiniest pennant while he "merrily" cheers:

"We're going back into space. Wooooo."

A digital rally point is established in a one quarter block (square) park nestled deep in the heart of Old Town. Rick Mason stands in the middle of the the park's central clearing in his full Breach Suit, although his helmet and head are both flopped forward against an unexplained metal post covered in no less than seven different color lights. The lights are gently strobing in an irregular sequence, ignoring Breach as much as Breach is ignoring them.

Indira had to be woken up from her sleep for the signal. With the night cold and the sun down, she decided to wear something other than her robes of state, opting for the insulated and self-heated skin-tight space suit. It looks suspiciously like a superhero costume with some carbon plating and puncture-proof material. The collar is high and a little wider than her neck, but the helm has been reduced to an ear-piece at the moment.

She's seated on the grass awaiting the others. Nevermind that there's a perfectly good bench nearby. She seems to silently contemplate Rick's state of being. Perhaps she is attempting to commune with him on some chemical level.

Griffin's middle of the night workout is interrupted. Unlike Rick's perfectly sensible 1hr a day regimen- Griffin only sleeps once a week.

It doesn't take him long to put on his BDUs and make his way towards the rally point. Any early warning detection systems would detect an incoming object moving at high speed straight for them at ground level. His speed clocking well over 230 MPH.

He slows down the enarer he comes to the rally point and sure enough he's visible.

He slides to a halt near Rick & his light-show. "What's up, Mason? Space-days are the best days!" He says, positively giddy about going into space again.

Quiet has trained herself to sleep lightly, but she does require more than an hour. She is not a methuman, undead, amnseiac, nor invulnerable. She is, however, fairly perceptive. After blinking away the initial grogginess, she takes the pennant from Rick and takes it with her from the room. She replaces it, belatedly, with a glass of liquor on her way to get dressed. Specifically, into combat gear.

It's about damned time. Tuesday evenings/Wednesday mornings are always fun, but... well, this is space.

She arrived via anti-grav, helm dipping to familiar family-at-arms.

Breach grunts at Griffin, waving a gloved hand generally in Griffin's direction. One hour a day seems tactically useful to Rick, plus it has also allowed him to stay vigilant about Indira whose sleep requirements are different from your average Earthican.

Like Quiet.

Only when Quiet arrives - and how Rick knows she's arrived is up for debate - does Breach straighten up again with a low groan. He nods in turn to Quiet and Griffin before he calls to Indira, "Team's all here, Indira. You can put the beacon into something other than parking/stand-by."

Tiredly, Breach offers a fist to Quiet and Griffin in turn. He may or may not be of much use to the mission with his sleep interrupted. Offering a grunt, Breach takes another step away from the metal post with its many blinking lights. Breach waits patiently, otherwise, for Indira to arrive and operate the Asrani device.

Indira rises up from spot as she sees the other members of Zero Division arriving, offer a grateful smile to teach as they arrive. Stopping before the post, she lefts a hand and rests it on its surface. While Rick was using his head, that was probably the wrong appendage.

Foreign, musical words spill out from Indira, flowery as she is, as she gives a voice command to the device and awaits a response.

Griffin meets Rick's fist with his own, and then puts his hands behind his back as he waits to get a sitrep. Rick knows the Earthbound members of the team to know all he has to do is call, but when the word space is used they doubletime.

He looks on as Indira rises and activates the beacon. Her smile is returned with one of his own before asking, "So what's the call, ma'am?"

Quiet watches Indira and her colorful conversation with the machine. Not that anyone here would expect her to interrupt. She divert briefly to perform a summary check of her weapon and armor systems, then looks back to Indira. Expectently, perhaps, though the helm makes that hard to determine.