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Tweak says, "I can fly!"

Pavel Chekov (candothat) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-12-05 21:11:00

Entry tags:

aidan reilly, jack harkness, jim kirk, john constatine, kitty pryde (aoa), pavel chekov (au)

Day 405 [closed action | open action]
[action | closed to Kitty]

[As it happens, waking up three years older than you were when you went to sleep is mildly disorienting. Waking up in bed next to someone who wasn't present in any of those three years compounds the effect. Chekov--newly twenty-four and, as far as he can remember, fresh from yet another near-death experience--sits up with a start. This is definitely not his room at Yorktown Starbase. This is...

MarinaNova. He's in bed with Kitty. He has been here for one-hundred twelve days.

Chekov lowers his head to his hands and groans. There are two different yesterdays in his mind, both equally vivid and real, and it's way too early to deal with that.]

[action | open]

[Chekov, three years older than he was yesterday and considerably more dazed than usual, does a circuit of the dome. Everything has a not-quite-rightness to it that he can't put his finger on and he feels oddly out of place. He isn't, of course. He was here yesterday, and he remembers that yesterday like it was... yesterday, which it was. But he also remembers a yesterday where he was a universe away and waiting for the Enterprise to be rebuilt. In that universe, he was on year three of a five-year mission.

He's looking for Kirk, specifically. It would be easiest to call him up, but Chekov would much rather talk in person.]

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foreverjack
2017-01-18 11:31 am UTC (link)

[Of course being really careful isn't really enough, but it's the best they can do, and still better than letting renegades run amok. At least Time Agents were usually aware of the more important things that had to happen.

He grins at Chekov's assessment, rather pleased to find someone actually comparing his wrist strap favourably to the TARDIS, which is pretty rare.] Convenient, maybe - when it works - but nowhere near as comfortable!

[He shakes his head, smiling.] And don't ask me exactly how the physics work. I'm a pilot, not an engineer. I can fly the thing, but I don't understand how it works! Not that the time-travel function has worked in years, anyway, I'm afraid.

((OOC: My brain now hurts from looking up closed timelike curves! I get the principle, but I couldn't work out if they applied to DW time travel or not!))

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candothat
2017-01-18 03:26 pm UTC (link)

But more sensible, as well. Hiding an anachronistic accessory would be simpler than hiding a large blue box. [Starfleet would have a fit about time travel methodology in the Whoniverse. Running around time and space, parking telephone booths in the past... madness!

He's not disappointed in Jack's inability to break down the mechanics. There are plenty of people in MarinaNova to talk physics and engineering with.] May I ask why you still wear it when when you can no longer pilot through time with it?

((OOC: Heh, not to worry! I just get excited when the physics geniuses have an opportunity to physics. Feel free to handwave if it's ever necessary!))]

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foreverjack
2017-01-19 04:39 pm UTC (link)

We-ll, the blue box was originally designed to camouflage herself. [Look at him, all these years later and he's still prepared to defend the Doctor, and the TARDIS.] And she still has a bit of a perception filter about her, so people don't notice her as much as they ought to.

[He presses a couple of buttons on his wrist strap and it starts playing music - In the Mood - which always makes him smile.] I still wear it because it's a part of me, now. Holds a lot of memories, this thing. It used to do more, too, before the AIs froze most of its functions. It could scan things, teleport, support holovids - loads of things. Now about the best I can do with it is programme it to turn off the bedroom lights.

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candothat
2017-01-21 11:59 pm UTC (link)

A perception filter... like a cloaking device. [He nods, somewhat glad that he isn't affiliated with Jack's people. The risks that they must take every time they travel though time makes him and his overly cautious tendencies nervous, and he's just listening! (It's interesting, though, and much better than talking about what happened at home or where Chekov's head is.)]

Aha, well. Controlling lights and playing music are very important functions. [He smiles a little, still trying to determine how the wrist strap works just by looking at it.] It's important, too, to have some of your home here with you. In places like this, something sentimental is more valuable than something useful.

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foreverjack
2017-01-28 08:55 am UTC (link)

Yeah, almost a cloaking device. Not quite invisible but more... unnoticeable, if that makes sense?

[He smiles at Chekov's attempt at levity, appreciating that his head is still very full of other, much more serious, stuff.

He looks down at the strap and smiles.] It's very important to have something like that. For a long time, I never had a home, never put down roots. This was the thing that always came with me. What I turned to to remember things. It still holds a lot of records. Some of them got corrupted at the same time as the vortex manipulator shorted out, but I've still got some things in there.

[He presses a few buttons and the tiny screen sparks into action with information about some random alien species. He shrugs.] This kind of thing came in useful when I was working for Torchwood.

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