Panicked Video. WELCOME TO STEVEN UNIVERSE.

[throwsdown]

Who: Takeshi and any concerned citizens
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A unless you're visiting afterward! (He'll have a mingle thread on the fusion log. You can reply re: network there as well!)
When: TODAY!!!

[There's a static-filled and alarmed transmission before the SS Golden and the SS Pathstone speed off towards each other — the voice is that of Takeshi's sitting at the pilot seat, trying in vain to alter the courses and not let the ships move on their own accord.]


All the ▓▓▓▓▓ controls not working!! Ship▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ can't stop ▓▓▓▓▓▓!!!

Every▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ seatbelts ▓▓▓▓▓▓ gonna crash!

[There's a rolling, anbd the screen is fuzzy and nothing is immediately distinguishable as there's a great big CRASH!!! It seems the crews of the ships have been lost — Or, well, it seemed that way until suddenly the camera, abandoned on the floor, shows... confetti...?]



[Takeshi stands, panting and in a fighting pose, his gun drawn and ready for battle, likely members of the two crews standing around him as well. Slowly... he picks up his feed device and puts away the gun, looking puzzled as he walks around the new bridge, toward the controls.]

Is... everyone okay...?



[He wanders over to the captain's ship, stares down at the cake. Reads what's on it:]

"Congratulations... SS... Goldstone. Happy... Fusion..."

....

....

[After a long and thoughtful pause, he blows out the candle.]

Comments

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[exothermia]

[Now that's an alarming broadcast if he's ever seen one. Being down on the Ring world he didn't see the 'collision', but he calls up immediately once he sees Takeshi on screen again.]

Takeshi, what happened?

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[throwsdown]

Our ships smashed together!!

And we got cake for it!

[Clearly that explains everything, doesn't it.]

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[exothermia]

They smashed?

[That background does not look like it belongs to a ship collision, mister. He squints at the image, trying to see if anything looks amiss behind Takeshi.]

What about your crew?

[He hasn't forgotten that Tempest is on that ship too.]

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[throwsdown]

We're okay... Nobody's dead, anyways! Everyone just showed up together.

From our ship and from the other ship, too. Everything's... [He struggles for an detailed description of it, but just mashes his hands together instead.] ...together! Some rooms are the same as our ship, but some look really different.

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[exothermia]

[That sounds like some kind of merger. His lips thin at the implications.]

You should probably check the whole ship over... to see if anything is missing or vastly different.

I've never heard of something like this happening with the ships.

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[throwsdown]

[He inhales a tiny gasp.]

I hope they didn't lose any of my drawings....

[He's pitter-pattering to go look.]

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[exothermia]

[It's such an innocent thing to worry about after ships have collided and merged. Erik watches Takeshi's progress, intently interested in what the changes might be.]

How does it look?

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[notanoptimist]

Uh... [That's alarming. All of it. Even the seemingly innocuous bit at the end.] Everyone okay up there?

[video]

[throwsdown]

[He gives a slow thumbs up.]

I think so. We smashed together! Two whole ships!

[Explains everything, yeah?]

[video]

[notanoptimist]

[Explains everything.]

And then?

[video]

[throwsdown]

... Then there was confetti and cake.

[Is that helpful at all, McCoy?]

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[notanoptimist]

No injuries? Just confetti and cake?

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[throwsdown]

[He looks down at himself, patting his chest.]

... I think we're all okay, yeah!

No blood or guts nowhere! That's pretty great, right?

[hollystrike]

...well, at least you got cake.

[Important things in life.]

[throwsdown]

I know, right? Cake's pretty good!

[Takeshi's already making the most of this weird situation. okay.]

I wish they coulda' gave us cake without scarying the heck outta us!

[hollystrike]

Maybe the cake should have had an apology written into the icing. [Being alive to eat the cake is a good thing, though. That was uh. Some impressive feat, Atroma.]

[throwsdown]

They're not gonna 'pologize if they don't feel sorry.

[NUGGET OF WISDOM, THIS CHILD.]

[hollystrike]

They could be lying. People pretend they're sorry all the time.

[throwsdown]

... I dunno if that's any worse or better...

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[bythewaves]

[ Instant worry - the child is so young ]

Art well?

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[throwsdown]

[Rather breathlessly:]

I draw good!

B-but I don't think this is the time t'worry about that!

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[bythewaves]

Sorry. [ Maglor apologises, smiling at Takeshi's scramble ]

Twas' not what I meant - I slip, sometimes. I meant to ask if you were well.

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[throwsdown]

Oh...! S-sorry, it's okay; I know I got a lot to learn about talking, too...

I'm okay, though! I'm not missing any arms or nothing!!

[He holds up his arms to show, for emphasis.]

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[bythewaves]

No, no! Tis fine - I am sometimes a little old-fashioned in my speech, eh? You should not pay too much attention to my slips.

That is well. [ Maglor agrees ] And your ship?

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[throwsdown]

I think my ships okay...!

But I don't know if it's still my ship anymore... I mean... not all of it.

I don't think the Golden is a ship anymore on its own... And we got more crew!!