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Dexterity and speed were increasingly present in Kai as he knew how to use the GPS system to find new place. After his medical check it was now time to find and meet his new DH - some said she was a good DH but also shy. Whatever he would have found surely made already his idea of what this ship had: a wide variety of characters. And most of them were still to discover.

On the way of his DH’s office on deck 4, the young Ensign was just turning the last corner when with some surprise he saw a dark figure running the aisle in his direction. He couldn’t see the face of the person, as it seemed covered by something - or maybe he was just blind enough to not see the lineage of the officer, but something was so evident and weird: he or she wasn’t wearing a uniform nor a civilian clothes
“What the heck?” He expressed with some concerns as the goofy figure came up, closer and even closer shouting something he couldn’t really hear well.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

“Sir? Sir!” Mumbled loud the dark figure. “You are the new Science Officer onboard?”
As he was asked this question now the face of the science crew member was now better looking and could be seen: it was a girl, maybe on her 30s, not so young but neither that old. Wearing the stiff blue uniform, but covered by a greenish, semi-transparent slimy thing. On a first sight it was surely a slime, but Kai could not imagine what kind of slime.

“What happened?” Asked the Ensign as he saw the slimy stuff growing as they were speaking out loud and a weird rock and roll music coming out from the lab.
“Uhm I am sure we need you! We are out of Officers! I am just an assistant and this situation surely slipped out of hand.”
As both of them got near the lab, Kai started seeing a bunch of slime everywhere on the bulky floor: eww he thought on a first moment but also, why there was such music in the lab?

He didn’t waited too long to find out the mess inside: computers screens, tools and seats were all covered in slime. An Ensign was even stuck in a large amount of it asking for help like in the alien movie, when the xenomorph took several crewmen to hatch some face-hugger and develop new aliens.
“Can I have an explanation for all of this?” Asked before slipping himself, stepping on a slimy pool
“Ouch.” Commented the girl “Well… Ensign Jensen and I were making some experiment… when we discovered that the sound reacted with the slime enlarging its dimension. But perhaps yesterday night we forgot to turn off the radio and today we entered the lab and it was all like this! Yikes.”

It was an absurd situation, and yet it was his first day of job- almost his first day. Unprepared and covered by the slime feet to head as he slipped down, now he needed to think fast on how to remove all that stuff from the room and clean a bit the situation he was stuck in.
One thing was certain for Oliver in that moment: the Rock ‘n Roll music needed to cease first, one for the sake of his ears and two for the slime to stop growing.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

“Wait,” a hand closed around Kai’s arm as a voice whispered in his ear. The grip was firm but definitely feminine lacking the strength of someone like an Orion security officer that could toss you like a rag doll if the situation called for it. “This stuff is not toxic. It is not going to hurt you but reacts to sound waves.” Alexandra looked around the room and wanted to let out a moan yet knew this was not the thing to do right now.

That hand was very unexpected, but surely warm and scary, if you consider that 30 seconds ago, except Jensen, the other girl and him no one was in the room.
“Oh wha- ouch!” He almost shouted as the slime moved and exploded again. The arm of the unknown person spooked him right away.

“Be very quiet,” she whispered to the room. She was going to try and find out what happened but first, she had to get everyone up to speed. “We were on Gapania Six last week and noticed this slime mold. It reacted to noise so I was fascinated. “I brought a small sample on board to study it. A colleague of mine on Outpost 42 was the first to discover the substance. From his research, we found out it explodes when you make any noise above a whisper,” she said softly. “Twenty decibels is the cap. Nothing over a whisper,” she looked at everyone in the lab trying to asses what to do next.

“What happened,” she looked at Jensen and then turned to the new guy.

“Alexandra Robins,” she stuck out her hand. ‘’You’re the new guy. Heck of a way to join huh,” Alexandra laughed.

He didn’t spoke, nor looked directly to Alexandra. Now, to be honest her affirmation made almost him laugh: like, how many people could ever tell such fun story on their first day of job? And perhaps in space?
But then as she presented he leant his hand and said the same formal stuff that he always said to the new person he met “I’m Ensign Kai Oliver Kingstone, nice to meet you”

Turning back to Jensen she repeated her question. “We had a small mishap. So we tried to beam it off the ship but the sound from the chime sound when the transporter activates was above 20 decibels. It made it explode. We tried a few more attempts but now we have that,” she gestured.

Oh God Chris is going to kill me, Alexandra thought looking around.

Alexandra Robins science

It was then that the computer emitted a chime as the com system came on. =/\= Lexi please tell you are not going to be late again, Ruth won’t stop being fussy and I am never going to get this report done. Pass that ooze to some nobody underling and finish up! If you hurry I can get all of us for the Grinch with Ruth, I think she will love it! =/\= came Chris’s voice at a level very much above 20 decibels.

Christopher Robins, Stellar Cartography

Oh pluck a duck, Alex moaned in her head and closed her eyes. The warm, sticky goo was about to coat her and she did not want it anywhere the sun didn’t shine. Bracing herself she felt like it was a ticking time bomb.

In that moment, the heart beats of maybe everyone in the room stopped for a second. My god what a tension they had to face when that chirp resounded everywhere in the room. Its echoes could be heard even in the corridor and Kai in the absolute silent environment that came after the chirp thought “didn’t remembered the chirp of the badge being that loud-“
And time 5 seconds and the slime all together exploded and the mess became way larger.
Poor Ensign Jensen, that in the process became almost a projectile, being shot over the head of the head of their mates, luckily landing on the soft slimy bed.

“Oh god, oh god! What we do now? Jensen you ok?” Asked the Assistant girl whispering. Jensen nodded as he passed out a second after.
It was time to react, but they could do nothing with such large amount of mass and no tool. And for that purpose, Kai asked to Alexandra, that had maybe more experience with the slime “what’s the plan now?”

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

Alexandra opened her mouth to speak and quickly closed it. She had a bigger problem than exploding slime for a second. “Lt Robins we are all fine down here. How are you?” It was then she realized she had to act normal and stop the conversation. As loud as she dared Lexi replied to her husband. =/\= Chris I did it for nine months in my own. I’m at work deal with Ruth yourself. When I am off duty I will come you. Talk to you later=/\= she snapped off the comm. Chris might be grumpy but he would be far more upset seeing his astrobiology lab looking like a revamped version on the B movie the Blob.

=/\= Nine months alone?=/\=.

The slime began to quiver. Small bubbles could be seen before it popped again like a bubbling mud geyser. Lexi squinted.

=/\=Chris stop talking=/\= she said in a rushed whisper. Luckily Chris didn’t yell but his command tone was loud enough to create explosions that looked like grapes popping off every sure face of slime in the room.

=/\=If you had simply picked up a com and called me I could have been there the entire time. =/\=

=\/= fine talking point for later. Go take care of Ruth =/\= Lexi almost begged.
The slime continued to pop off in small and medium size explosions until everyone in the room was up to their ankles.

=/\= That’s how this works, you call someone they come to help. It’s a new novel approach to parenting.=/\= Chris snarled back at her as he couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

Listening to the conversation of both made almost Kai laughing but he needed to keep inside himself all the laughs or the laughs would transform into more slime to clean. Which was not a good a idea. After removing some of the slime off his arms and freeing himself by that greenish mass, he was now able to move again and gave a quick check to Ensign Jensen with a silent step.

“Okay, so I’m bingo. Anyone have an idea and I am entertaining out of the box things to get this back in the box,” Lexi couldn’t help but snicker and clamp a hand over her mouth. The universe was deadly but death by slime mold wasn’t what anyone first thought as a normal way to go.

She was now also stuck so any thing she could do would have to be arms only or gesture related.

Lt. Alexandra Robins. Science jo

Robins, Stellar Cartography

He needed to get near Alex to talk. From Jensen’s place he wasn’t sure that the JO could hear what he was saying and perhaps he did came toward the woman avoiding to slip like before.
“I am not sure if we can transport it! It is too much and also the sound would make explode it again. ” he whispered “we need to clean it ourselves with our hand (Of course with maximum attention) or find try to deactivate the chirp of the computer to make it possible beam it off the ship. Problem is that we need to remove that Panel. A false move and we may contaminate with the goo this deck’s circuits.” he indicated with his finger a maintenance grid panel on his right.
The options weren’t that much, and to be honest, who wanted to clean the goo with their bare hands.
“Of course if you have better ideas I am all ear!”

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist

“Oh good god do not get Jacen’s pipes, circuits, and conduits involved. That man is more important than anyone on the ship. Tick him off and you will be eating gruel out of your personal replicator,” Lexi exclaimed. Her mind drifted to an image of standing sheepishly in front of Jacen with a bowl of gray porridge as he sat back swirling a forkful of steak and lobster saying something like ‘well if you were not poking things into places you should not go you might have this,’ as he popped in his forkful.

“Do not move that panel. I am going to call in the only help that will help us,” Lexi said. Slowly moving her hand to her comm badge she sent an order to connect a sub space call to Outpost 42.

=/\=Duncan, its Alex Garfield. Well Robins now I got married but I had a question for you=/\= Alexandra’s voice was low and a bit desperate.

=/\= Lexi? =/\= A clipped English voice on the other end of the line exclaimed in some surprise. The voice sounded very English and proper, and also held a confidence that the man knew what he was doing.

=/\= I heard you got married, congratulations, by the way. Lily tells me there was some excitement with all of that, but you know her, she gets sidetracked with other stories rather easily so we haven’t quite got to the point yet. How can I help you today? =/\=

Why everyone got married on this period of time? It was something that Kai was curious about as he never saw married couples, beside his father and his mother, aboard other vessels. Apparently, marriage were common stuff in space!

=/\=You know that green slime goo you found on Gapania Six a few months back. The one that reacts to auditory stimuli =/\= Alex tried not to make too much noise or move around too much but rubbed her nose to stifle the sneeze coming on.

=/\= I’m sorry, I couldn’t quite hear you, you seem to be whispering. You said something about green goo? Oh, I see.... =/\= Duncans voice automatically dropped several decibels as the apparent issue came to light.

=/\=How do you get rid of it and what can you tell me about…it,=/\= she rubbed her nose hard to stop the tingling.

Lt. Alex Robins

=/\= Well, it reacts to noise and vibrations like if it is dropped or shaken, or stirred =/\= Duncan explained whispering. =/\= When did it last explode? You know that is the reproductive trait of this particular slime, it’s really rather fascinating. =/\=

=/\=No it’s not,=/\= Lexi sounded frustrated =/\=and it just exploded like two minutes ago =/\=

=/\= Really? Well why are you whispering? =/\= Duncan’s voice returned to normal immediately, no longer whispering. =/\= Once it has expanded with it’s reproductive cycle, it needs to rest for 20 minutes before it gets the energy to go again, quite like some people really. Other than that, it has excitingly beneficial health properties in the skin care area. Rub some of that on you, let it explode and before you know it your skin will be smooth as a babies bottom and positively glowing with nutrients. It also treats blemishes, rashes and other skin related issues. Not recommended for children however on account of the, ah, exploding bit. =/\=

=/\Yes yes that is rather fasc....inating,=/\= Lexi’s voice hitched as she pulled her leg out no longer worried about the volume level. =/\=I am just trying to figure out how to get rid....of it=/\= Lexi got her legs out of it and tried to find a spot that did not have some goo.

Pausing for a moment, Duncan started talking again and his voice held a clear warning. =/\= Although I have to say, do NOT try and transport it. We discovered that the molecular structure somehow interferes with the deconstruction process, and the goo explodes in the buffers. It then loses it’s dormant quality and becomes hyper sensitive to the slightest vibration, needless to say the Warp core on a station or ship is not something that runs smoothly, despite any engineers claims to the contrary. Do not use that transporter, Alexandra.Use a mop and a timer. Twenty minutes my dear, after that, big badaboom. =/\=

Lt Duncan Rhodes, Chief Science Officer, Outpost 42

“What?!” Exclaimed Kai “so we have less than 20 minutes to clean all this stuff with a simple mop?” As he sighed heavily, Kai let him fall on the slime and looked the ceiling. Why? Why the transporter? He thought. Stuff happens and now he was almost on his first day of job, with a mop, cleaning out the goo. What a first day!

=/\=Thank you Duncan and tell Lily I loved that picture she sent,=/\= Alex lied through her teeth but knew she had to be nice. After clicking off she turned to Ensign Oliver. “Okay you heard the man. We need some mops and a timer. Anyone have any idea how long we have until the next kaboom?”

Lt Lexi Robins

Clicking off the comm, Duncan paused a moment with a raised eyebrow. “She liked that picture? Huh, that woman is lying.” With a smirk, he turned back to his lab.

Lt Duncan Rhodes, CSO OP42

Kai checked the time. Beforehand he had the chance to look straight to the time on the LCARS monitor of the computer when the goo exploded: 10:34AM. Now were 10:37; not a bad time but still just 17 minutes to clean everything.
“We have less than 17 minutes guys.” Immediately he jumped on his feet and searched for the mops. Then as he saw Alexandra still stuck on the floor, he gave a hand and the mop
“Well… not the dream day I imagined. But hey! Still some work.”

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - Scientist