day: 1
goob: Navy
choice: 2
response:
Watching the sky slowly cascade into darkness was only a slight confusion for Navy, the twirling cosmos and blinking stars gone along with the pitchy squeal always present in galaxic traversal. His ears pitch forward as he slips across the ship's hull, a low vibrating hymn sounding across the rooms and he blinked as he watched the lights slowly pulse in the darkness. The usual ambient lights that came from the faux glass windows were gone, replaced with a sullen void of darkness.
He moved across the room curiously, watching as the alarm system they had rigged across the ship slowly lit up with his brothers and crewmates colors. Tangerine's suspiciously missing but so was Siluas's own cherry red alert so Navy only half paid attention to it as he lit his own notice watching as Callisto's soft teal blinked in a series of questions.
Navy turned away from it, noticing Lilac's answering morse code through the notifier. He padded along the halls deciding to check on Tangerine and Siluas first since their code hadn't lit up.
Nosing open Siluas's door after a sharp knock showed Siluas curled up asleep in her nest of clothes and soft object's she'd stolen over the years from everyone's various rooms, soft pink fairy lights casting the room in a ambient color that would normally dance with the starlight outside the giant window. Navy blinked before padding into the room and prodding at Siluas's scales, she twitched before blinking open a giant eye and glaring at him with a hiss.
Navy huffed at her before motioning towards the window and watched her glare at him as she slowly moved to look at the window obviously expecting a planet or something of equal importance to have woken her up for but stopped short as she noticed the darkness.
Letting out a sharp breath she turned back to him, "A wormhole?" She questioned, looking concerned as her body moved to shift upright, using the claws on her wings to shift along the blankets and out of the nest, hissing at the cool tiles.
Navy shrugged before looking at her wall, the notifier blinking forebodingly at them as she slithered past him, using her clawed wings to type in her code and watched it light up a hue of pink before she glanced back at him, "Tangerine's is not lit." She observed as he nodded and made towards the door, hearing her follow behind him as they both made towards Tangerine's room.
On their way he checked the other's rooms and let out a disgruntled puff of air as he noticed none of them in them before he pushed open Tangerine's door letting the orange lights wash over the hall as he walked in, Tangerine laid asleep in his bed snoring softly like usual. Navy moved across the room and pushed at his youngest brother's shoulder as Siluas notified the others with the notifier that they'd found Tangerine.
Navy blinked as Tangerine didn't react to the motion, the Agel usually huffing and batting at whoever was unlucky enough to have to wake him. He shook his shoulder harsher and started to panic as the Agel made no motion to react besides breathing. He turned towards Silaus with wide eyes as she looked at them with concern.
The Aero blinked before tensing and shooting across the room, using her wings to tug Tangerine's limp form upright. Her eyes widened as he didn't react knowing that was highly unusual after having seen Lilac get things thrown at him by a half-asleep Tangerine before and she fully pulled him from the soft orange blankets, turning wide eyes to Navy who let out a puff of shakey air as he spun to lead her down to Lilac's lab.[627 Words]
goob: Crimson
choice: 2
response:
Crimson watched the room slowly shift from its light hues into total darkness, his fur puffing up as he blinked and glanced around the room, catching June’s eyes from across the table and motioned towards her as he stood from his seat and carefully moved over to her.
“What the hell is going on Crimson.” She asked quietly as he stood beside her, his ears flicking as he listened to the now silent ship, only the sharp buzz of electronics ringing through the room.
“I don't know yet,” He muttered while looking towards the windows, “We need to activate a notifier though.” The Diab said, turning towards her slightly as she glared at him before nodding and both made their way to the door, having been in one of the only rooms Lilac hadn’t gotten around to putting a notifier in yet.
They carefully made their way through the halls before spotting the main corridor’s notifier, June lighting her code first before she moved to let Crimson light his, watching as Lilac’s own lit up then Callisto’s and Navy’s a few moments later.
“Tangerine and Silaus are late.” June mused watching Lilac and Callisto converse in morse code. Crimson nodded with narrowed eyes.
They moved away from it trying to decide if they needed to go and check on the two themselves before Silaus’s code lit from the corner of their eye and they watched it as Silaus lit Tangerine’s.
“Navy found them?” June asked as she followed Crimson through the corridor, the halls lit up forebodingly in a soft pulsing alarm light.
“More than likely, I assume Lilac is trying to figure out what went wrong.” Crimson said before pausing as they heard panicked paw thuds from down the hall.
June looked over with confusion as they watched Navy slide around a corner, his ears pinned back as he shot over to Crimson motioning quickly with his paws at the speed of sign only Crimson and Callisto had ever managed to get to being quick enough to understand as Silaus finally rounded the corner.
Tangerine lay limply in her arm wings, his soft orange halo and wings pale in color almost like he was sick. June gasped quietly before moving quickly over to the Aero to look over the youngest brother with concern coloring her features and her tail anxiously lashing.
“We found him like this.” Silaus said moving past a fussing June, careful so as to not shove her out of the way, ahead of them Crimson was quietly and hurriedly conversing with Navy in a mix of sign and English as Silaus passed them.
The four made their way through the halls Crimson and Navy at the back of the group both panicking at the sight of their unresponsive brother.[463 Words]
goob: Lilac
choice: 3
response:
Lilac’s lab was in one of the only rooms that didn’t have any windows at all. The soft purple lights he had stringed along the pipes and walls were light enough for him and he knew the others liked them well enough, often playing host to one of his brothers or other crewmates crashing in his pile of bean bags placed carefully in the corner.
He hummed and tugged at his ear before considering the problem before him again, the math was right but the outcome was wrong. He slid a paw across the screen watching the number fly off the page and huffed as he rewrote the math down for the hundredth time.
“I should have installed an AI into this.” He muttered wishing he could have one of those old earth AI’s that you’d just have to ask to play music or solve a problem for you itself. Less of a hassle.
He sighed and pulled at the purple fabric wrapped around his leg before humming and tapping at the table. This was getting nowhere.
Pushing away from the desk he moved across the room and blinked as he saw the Notifier lit up, both Crimson and June’s codes alerted. He tilted his head before shrugging, maybe it was just a check in he thought as he moved over and typed in his own code to light his, watching Callisto’s light up right after and then Navy’s.
He looked at them for a second curious before noticing Callisto ask something in morse code, the younger Diab having asked him for lessons after learning of a new way to communicate without having to strain his bird song built vocal cords more than usual.
He replied to Callisto’s worries with a question, asking what was wrong and blinked as Callisto replied saying that the windows went dark.
He narrowed his eyes before replying and telling the younger to come to the lab and get the others down there too if he ran into them. Callisto’s reply was two blinks and Lilac nodded before turning towards the mess he had left out and sighing.
Moving some of the machinery out of the way and pushing other tools and things into bins and shelves he watched Callisto enter the lab half aware of the door’s beep.
“Did you run into anyone else?” He asked moving towards the teal horned Diab who shook his head and looked around before signing at him, ‘No, everyone was elsewhere. Only got here first.’ Lilac paused before nodding, glazing back to the notifier and seeing Silaus and Tangerine’s lit up but Tangerines was lit by Silaus.
He moved back towards the desk hearing Callisto follow him, the smaller hybrid looking around as he pushed some of the stuff on the desk out of the way to place some papers and maps down, the part of the galaxy they were in now was a well known and well traveled part of the galactic trade fares. The route was well protected from wormholes, blackholes, explosions, pirates, all the like. He looked at it confused, nothing that would cause the stars to darken would make it through the defenses unless it was sometime even the people who made it wouldn’t have thought to protect against.
While he was considering this, the doors to the lab slammed open and made both him and Callisto jump if the metal clanging he’d heard was any indication. He spun and glared at the newcomers before stopping and gasping, shooting across the room.
His brothers stayed at the edges of the door as Silaus shoved into the lab with his younger brother in her wings, panic covering all their faces.
“What happened!” He barked, shoving himself up onto his back legs to look closer at his unconscious brother.
“We found him like this, he’s unresponsive but breathing.” Reported Silaus, as Lilac motioned her to set him down on one of the medical tables. He moved away to grab a few things, snapping at Crimson and Navy to help set up the monitor, both his older brothers flinched before they moved to do as he said, tugging the monitor from its dusty corner and shoving it into place next to the medical table.
June moved over to Callisto both watched with worry as the four set up equipment around the youngest brother’s limp form, Lilac clipping a heart rate monitor to one of Tangerine’s paws and slipped a modified blood pressure cuff up onto the opposite leg and set it to monitor in the background as he told Silaus to place electrodes specifically on parts of the Agels head, chest and front legs.
Lilac turned to the monitor machine shooing his older brothers out of the way as he set it up and watched the numbers slowly slide across the screen, everything was normal.
Everything was Normal.
The others all shared a look as a silent fear crossed through the room.
If everything was normal then why wasn’t Tangerine Waking up.[835 Words]
