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Who: Pavel Chekov
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: For the crew of the SS Wonderduck (and video for everyone else)
When: Now

[Chekov wishes he could be surprised or, at the very least, unsettled when he wakes up in a foreign place, but there's a point at which this sort of thing becomes a fairly routine--if always unpleasant--occurrence. Losing people is never easy, no matter the universe, no matter the number of times it happens.

But taking stock of the situation and establishing who is here has to come before mourning those who were left behind in MarinaNova. To that end, Chekov, somewhat familiarized with his new home and in clothes that are slightly more dignified than the pajamas that he initially woke up in on the Marsiva, begins a broadcast. Are you listening to this in Standard/English/Common? If so, enjoy the ridiculously thick Russian accent.]

This is Lieutenant Pavel Andreievich Chekov of the Federation starship Enterprise. If you have met me already or if you are affiliated with Starfleet, please respond to this message. [He smiles even though he's in no real mood to be cheerful.] I would also be happy with replies from you if we're strangers.

Thank you for your time.

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[It's a little harder to justify calling space a prison, admittedly. Still, they were captured and they can't leave! Prison!]

Not always, no. [See: crashing starship with massive fatalities. He grimaces.] We would be. [Since the multiverse hates him right now, why not.] Thank you for the warning. I won't panic when I open the door and see water instead of air.

[Sometimes it feels vastly more open, but they're just in a moving cage now. And sometimes when they are traveling through space or she doesn't like the system they're at it feels more enclosed than ever. Tiny rooms on tiny ships. Okay, not so tiny, but not size of the prison either.]

Good. Also, weirdly, you'd be able to breathe despite being underwater if you went out. It's odd. I can't explain it. I just go with it.

I feel that being able to breathe wouldn't fully negate the instinctual panic of being in an environment where breathing is typically impossible. [Then again, he is biased.]

What is there to do here? Is the planet inhabited? [He hasn't had time to read everything, don't judge him.]

You're totally right. [She looks calm about the whole thing but occasionally still feels like she's going to drown. You know when you have a necklace that fits too close to your neck and it feels like you can't breathe even though you can?]

It is. There are merpeople. That's not what they're called. I've explored some, but I haven't... It hasn't been a good time. [With Winn and Kurt in comas.]

Your instinctual panic is very calm.

[Right, the comas. Of course having a fine time out on the planet wouldn't have appealed to Kitty. Get your shit together and do the friend thing, Pavel.] No, yes, you have other things to be concerned about. There will be other water planets and other fish people at a better time, I'm sure of that.

It's okay. I haven't been dreaming about exploring water planets. And I feel better talking to you again than I've felt in days. [Even under the circumstances.]

You do? [He has to smile in spite of how very much he doesn't like today.] Then maybe I can't resent being here too much.

I'll understand if you resent it a little. I wanted to get back the prison so much in my first weeks.

Now nothing would make you go back, probably. I wonder if I will feel that way in a year. [Seems doubtful. A lot can happen in year, though.]