"No, not at all," she said. Okay, so it was, a little. She missed her friend. And while she liked the Doctor, she knew he still wasn't fully comfortable with her. Billy was. And he was also brilliant in his own way and had a unique view on things that differed from hers, the Doctor's, and Connie's.
"I have the notes I made from the notes you made, but I never did learn the language you wrote in, so there might be gaps here and there. We're trying to find Doctor Zardeliv, who we believe came this way. Like you he's an expert in temporal sciences. Unless you think you could deactivate the time bomb yourself now that you're here?"
Violetta had slipped off to quietly update the others, Zeetha had lowered her blades - but hadn't sheathed them yet - and was leaned against a wall, watching. Dingbot was now on Agatha's shoulder, half hidden in her hair. The weasel popped its orange toothy snout out of her pocket then retreated in again.
He was getting there. She was chaotic, but it was a positive sort. By and large. Like if the Master could get over his ego for three bloody minutes and do something constructive. In fact, he had theories about her - namely that, at some point in her ancestry, Time Lord DNA had been spliced in. Either deliberately or on accident.
But she also had to be watched. The wrong circumstances could topple her onto a path down which only heartbreak and tragedy lay.
"Well, let's have a look, then. An actual time bomb, I mean really. Such a useless weapon. The man is a foolish meddler - he has no idea what happens if he tore a hole in the time-space continuum." He shook his head, tsking.
"You don't mind if I dispose of it after?" It was phrased as a question, but with certain harmonics that suggested it wasn't really. "Can't have that sort of thing laying around."
He pointed at Zeetha's blades. "If one of them were to go off, you'd find those very busily employed and to no good use, let me tell you."
"There are things beyond, you see," he intoned, as a general lesson for all. "Between the universes, between moments of time. They'd flood in and consume this universe like starving rats on a carcass."
"We should probably find Doctor Z first, so we have both of you," Agatha said, considering that. "But sure, if you want to take the time bomb once it is deactivated you're welcome to it. Do you know how we can get into its sphere of influence?" She started to pace small tight circles, fiddling with some metal in her hands. "I still need to figure out how to save Tarvek. Without Baymax my best bet is to cut off his head and hope his brain is intact, unless..."
She snapped two bits of metal into each other as her head shot up. "Doctor, instead of destroying the bomb outright, can you shrink it to make a stasis field around Tarvek's brain and heart? Then we can draw a sample of the poison out of his blood to experiment with to find an antidote." she went back to tinkering, accepting a tool from one dingbot as she paced. "That leaves us with the Gil problem to fix, as well as my mother. But Tarvek can help with the first, and Tarvek and Gil together can help with the other. As well as you, of course, Doctor. And if you're Ascended we can find and pick up Billy, Connie, Leia, and Nita. They'd all help."
Even having known Leia as long as she now had, she still missed the part where bringing General Leia Organa to Mechanichsburg would very much NOT go well. For anyone.
She snapped another piece into place, a new device forming in her hands as she paced. And waited for his answer.
Zeetha shrugged, sheathing her blades. "I get attacked, I fight. She gets attacked, I fight and then duck."
Violetta snorted. "When Sparks fight I skip joining in and go straight for the popcorn snails."
He rubs his chin as she speaks, letting it wash over him. It's best that way. He likes getting a word in edgewise, after all.
"Well, the best way in would be the TARDIS. I doubt any temporal stasis field or any other defences he's worked up will slow the old girl down. Bit risky, but then again with what we're dealing with..."
He looks at the others, chuckling.
"Brave words. But you have no idea the horrors this could unleash as unreality cascades into the universe. Or worse, anti-time. That's the problem, you see - I've not seen this blasted thing, I don't know what sort of damage it can do. I'd like to think that someone at this level of advancement - no offense - couldn't rip a hole in things, but that's not an assumption I can make."
Agatha considered that as she built... whatever it was she was building. "Perhaps that's for the best then, but we do need to make sure we keep Tarvek from dying too permanently once we break the aura of effect." Another piece was snapped into place. "The Tardis though... I thought that was just a weird house where Connie lived with the other person who just called himself The Doctor." So she wasn't sure what the Tardis could do.
Once again she wished Connie were with her, Connie practically lived in the thing half the time, till the people calling themselves The Doctor started leaving the City.
She shook her head. "I don't think it ever came up." Though if he had told her while she was building something, it is possible that she just didn't process.
"Wow. How did you build that?" she asked, eyes sparkling with a million ideas of how she might try to do that.
The small clank of the Castle came over, grumpy. "You do not need a time traveling anything, you have a perfectly evil Castle willing to smash and kill people for you."
"No killing," she said absently and reflexively, not really paying attention.
"Can time be... eaten?" the Doom Train clank added, as it too joined them.
"Yes," he replied to the clank, absently, "but trust me when I say you don't want it to be. Things happen that would destroy your mind long before they consumed your very essence. As for the TARDIS, no, but she's been my home for a good few centuries now. Marvelous, the Old Girl."
Agatha nodded. "After all this planning, it feels good to finally be moving at last!" she said as she snapped the last bit into place on what turned out to be... another dingbot. "Alright, we have a lot to do. And you have to meet the rest of the team. We need to decide if we're splitting off to still look for Doctor Zarldiev a the same time, in case we fail at Mechanichsburg, if we're finding him first, or coming back here after."
"It might be better if we split up," Violetta said. "The problem is... bot teams could use the same people. How do we decide who goes with which group? Because no way any of us are leaving Lady Heterodyne alone with an unknown Spark, but if we are splitting up... There is clearly another Smoke Knight down here, and uncle Tick Tock is less likely to shoot at me than you guys."
"Given your family," Zeetha began.
Violetta rolled her eyes. "Fine, he is less likely to shoot and HIT me."
"I'd much prefer we not have to deal with any shooting at all," he says, with a clear sense that he finds guns rather distasteful.
"But you know this situation better than I do - but finding him won't be difficult. The weapon's signature will be radiating forward and back in time from the moment of its theoretical explosion. Now, the task will be to stop things before it becomes a fixed point - when I can't do anything about it."
Agatha blinked then shook her head. "The one we're looking for isn't the one who set off the bomb. We KNOW where the Baron is. The center of it all. We're looking for Violetta's uncle Tick Tock, another Doctor who specializes in time, like you. I'm not sure what a fixed point is, but if you think we need to hurry..."
Dimo came around the corner.
"Ho, yez, ve agree. Hit iz time dat ve all getz movink. Doze tree vill continue un here. If hyu," to the Doctor, "ken get uz beck here after ve save de town, den ve von't mizz too much of de fighting. Hy tink ve should get Maxim and de odders bevore ve storm de town, ve vill need all de strength ve ken get vell hyu go ovv und do the shmot schtuff."
"A good idea if we can afford the delay?" she asked, looking to the Doctor, kind of forgetting that the Jägers could take one a bit off guard when they show up without warning.
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The Blue Power Ranger, lol.
Date: 2021-03-20 05:20 am (UTC)"I have the notes I made from the notes you made, but I never did learn the language you wrote in, so there might be gaps here and there. We're trying to find Doctor Zardeliv, who we believe came this way. Like you he's an expert in temporal sciences. Unless you think you could deactivate the time bomb yourself now that you're here?"
Violetta had slipped off to quietly update the others, Zeetha had lowered her blades - but hadn't sheathed them yet - and was leaned against a wall, watching. Dingbot was now on Agatha's shoulder, half hidden in her hair. The weasel popped its orange toothy snout out of her pocket then retreated in again.
I feel like I was handed a different script. :P But I can roll with this. :P
Date: 2021-03-20 10:50 pm (UTC)But she also had to be watched. The wrong circumstances could topple her onto a path down which only heartbreak and tragedy lay.
"Well, let's have a look, then. An actual time bomb, I mean really. Such a useless weapon. The man is a foolish meddler - he has no idea what happens if he tore a hole in the time-space continuum." He shook his head, tsking.
"You don't mind if I dispose of it after?" It was phrased as a question, but with certain harmonics that suggested it wasn't really. "Can't have that sort of thing laying around."
He pointed at Zeetha's blades. "If one of them were to go off, you'd find those very busily employed and to no good use, let me tell you."
"There are things beyond, you see," he intoned, as a general lesson for all. "Between the universes, between moments of time. They'd flood in and consume this universe like starving rats on a carcass."
CRAU confusions are fun!
Date: 2021-03-21 04:29 am (UTC)She snapped two bits of metal into each other as her head shot up. "Doctor, instead of destroying the bomb outright, can you shrink it to make a stasis field around Tarvek's brain and heart? Then we can draw a sample of the poison out of his blood to experiment with to find an antidote." she went back to tinkering, accepting a tool from one dingbot as she paced. "That leaves us with the Gil problem to fix, as well as my mother. But Tarvek can help with the first, and Tarvek and Gil together can help with the other. As well as you, of course, Doctor. And if you're Ascended we can find and pick up Billy, Connie, Leia, and Nita. They'd all help."
Even having known Leia as long as she now had, she still missed the part where bringing General Leia Organa to Mechanichsburg would very much NOT go well. For anyone.
She snapped another piece into place, a new device forming in her hands as she paced. And waited for his answer.
Zeetha shrugged, sheathing her blades. "I get attacked, I fight. She gets attacked, I fight and then duck."
Violetta snorted. "When Sparks fight I skip joining in and go straight for the popcorn snails."
OOOO, Agatha could go for some snails.
Yes, but this many meant it took me a few days to figure out a reply. :P
Date: 2021-03-25 04:42 am (UTC)"Well, the best way in would be the TARDIS. I doubt any temporal stasis field or any other defences he's worked up will slow the old girl down. Bit risky, but then again with what we're dealing with..."
He looks at the others, chuckling.
"Brave words. But you have no idea the horrors this could unleash as unreality cascades into the universe. Or worse, anti-time. That's the problem, you see - I've not seen this blasted thing, I don't know what sort of damage it can do. I'd like to think that someone at this level of advancement - no offense - couldn't rip a hole in things, but that's not an assumption I can make."
Gyah, sorry about that!
Date: 2021-03-25 09:37 am (UTC)Once again she wished Connie were with her, Connie practically lived in the thing half the time, till the people calling themselves The Doctor started leaving the City.
Re: Gyah, sorry about that!
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Date: 2021-03-27 01:19 am (UTC)"In short: a living ship, traveling the time-space continuum. She can get me anywhere in the universe, yesterday or a thousand years from now."
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Date: 2021-03-27 04:32 am (UTC)The small clank of the Castle came over, grumpy. "You do not need a time traveling anything, you have a perfectly evil Castle willing to smash and kill people for you."
"No killing," she said absently and reflexively, not really paying attention.
"Can time be... eaten?" the Doom Train clank added, as it too joined them.
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Date: 2021-03-27 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-04-01 06:31 am (UTC)"It might be better if we split up," Violetta said. "The problem is... bot teams could use the same people. How do we decide who goes with which group? Because no way any of us are leaving Lady Heterodyne alone with an unknown Spark, but if we are splitting up... There is clearly another Smoke Knight down here, and uncle Tick Tock is less likely to shoot at me than you guys."
"Given your family," Zeetha began.
Violetta rolled her eyes. "Fine, he is less likely to shoot and HIT me."
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Date: 2021-04-03 03:43 am (UTC)"But you know this situation better than I do - but finding him won't be difficult. The weapon's signature will be radiating forward and back in time from the moment of its theoretical explosion. Now, the task will be to stop things before it becomes a fixed point - when I can't do anything about it."
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Date: 2021-04-04 07:20 am (UTC)Dimo came around the corner.
"Ho, yez, ve agree. Hit iz time dat ve all getz movink. Doze tree vill continue un here. If hyu," to the Doctor, "ken get uz beck here after ve save de town, den ve von't mizz too much of de fighting. Hy tink ve should get Maxim and de odders bevore ve storm de town, ve vill need all de strength ve ken get vell hyu go ovv und do the shmot schtuff."
"A good idea if we can afford the delay?" she asked, looking to the Doctor, kind of forgetting that the Jägers could take one a bit off guard when they show up without warning.