It’s not the first time…
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Peach
Let’s get you to the MedChief for a quick exam. And you can tell us all about how Ace crashed your ship into North Korea.
Ixil
Wait a tic. Ace looks alot like the guy that crashed my ship, but now that I think of it, that guy was older. And we ended up in Montana.
Gina
Montana?! That was you?
Ixil
Yes. So, what’s this about North Korea?
Gina
When Ace was 16 he went missing from his apartment in Pyeongtaek, South Korea and turned up 3 days later in Pyongyang, North Korea. He had no memories of those days.
Peach
We did have him over for a party for a few hours for one of those days. But we didn’t do anything to his memories and even tucked him into bed. X gave him a goodnight kiss just before we beamed out.
X
If I say so myself, that was not a kiss to be forgotten.
Ixil
I admit that our memory suppression drug is pretty harsh, but we’d adopted your techniques of sleep induction and hypnotics well before then. So, I doubt it was one of us. And since we don’t have transporters we alway do our collections in remote areas. I’d blame Saurians, but they had no interest in male humans, particularly teenage boys. They claimed testosterone fouled their meat. I just think there were homoerotic overtones that the homophobic bastards couldn’t handle.
Gina
Saurians was my guess. They were upset that Ace caught one of them in the act of kidnapping a neighbor’s daughter, and killed him with his bare hands.
Ixil
His bare hands? So panic was the correct greeting after all.
Let’s get you to the MedChief for a quick exam. And you can tell us all about how Ace crashed your ship into North Korea.
Ixil
Wait a tic. Ace looks alot like the guy that crashed my ship, but now that I think of it, that guy was older. And we ended up in Montana.
Gina
Montana?! That was you?
Ixil
Yes. So, what’s this about North Korea?
Gina
When Ace was 16 he went missing from his apartment in Pyeongtaek, South Korea and turned up 3 days later in Pyongyang, North Korea. He had no memories of those days.
Peach
We did have him over for a party for a few hours for one of those days. But we didn’t do anything to his memories and even tucked him into bed. X gave him a goodnight kiss just before we beamed out.
X
If I say so myself, that was not a kiss to be forgotten.
Ixil
I admit that our memory suppression drug is pretty harsh, but we’d adopted your techniques of sleep induction and hypnotics well before then. So, I doubt it was one of us. And since we don’t have transporters we alway do our collections in remote areas. I’d blame Saurians, but they had no interest in male humans, particularly teenage boys. They claimed testosterone fouled their meat. I just think there were homoerotic overtones that the homophobic bastards couldn’t handle.
Gina
Saurians was my guess. They were upset that Ace caught one of them in the act of kidnapping a neighbor’s daughter, and killed him with his bare hands.
Ixil
His bare hands? So panic was the correct greeting after all.
SNERK!
Very good ‘Panic Response’ … messy, but good.
So now we have another incident, and this one could involve Trey or Quaid. Since Trey didn’t remember aliens I’m going to say that somehow we have a Quaid, or maybe even a Quinn. Reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox’s family tree after the accident with the birth control device and the time machine.
thankfully I’ve suppressed those memories.
[Opus the Poet]:
To be fair, we don’t yet have direct evidence of a “Quaid”, much less a “Quinn”.
My suspicion is, the Author is unlikely to show us any plot-elements that he’s not rigorously plotted-out well in-advance.
If this is true, then the only reason we’ve heard anything at all about the “N. K. Incident” is because he’s already fully aware of every pertinent detail of that story-line, & lacks only the time-&-computer resources to properly render the images fast enough. He’ll get to it in due time.
Don’t forget – we also still have to deal with (in no particular sequence):
– Carly & Rocky’s wedding
– The “Montana Crash” incident (If Larry Lawton was the guy responsible, it’d explain the resemblance to Ace!)
– Lady Banshee’s return
– The mysterious origin of Ace’s nanites
– The ongoing “Vampire” issue, which might include …
– The (possible) threat of a nanite “Grey Goo” incident
– The Teleport-Pod “Denial-Of-Service” attacks, which is prompting …
– Ace’s planned “escape” from the “OIS Gene Roddenberry”
– The plot of Countess K’Aya & na-B’Lili, to destroy that same Orion ship with a nanite booby-trap
– The (possible) return of the Saurian menace
– Barbie & Officer Friendly’s respective romances with Jaz Stockam’s brothers
– The hijinks that will inevitably ensue, now that Maggie Rush knows that G’Nar can talk, but …
– Maggie DOESN’T know that her older half-sibling knows – will she try to hide this from Maddie?
– The loss of “Miss Mercy’s” Celestial staff-members, which results in …
– A corresponding increase in the number of Australian Mermaids
– The shadowy agency behind the 2 agents, Tarent & Petros
( … & there’s no telling yet, how many of these plot-threads are connected to each other, or merely “running parallel”)
… & that’s just what I came up with, off the top of my head!
Speculation has been running rampant, but [AndyOH] knows how to play his cards close to his chest!
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Methinks Akane’s starting to wonder something along the lines of “HOW am I supposed to be “protecting” someone who apparently terrorizes ALIEN RACES just by saying “Hello”?!”
That, or, “How am I supposed to protect someone who has alternate versions of himself all over the place? Best I stay with Ace-dono.”
Was thinking more along the lines of “What has he been up to as a kid?”
Or maybe she’s just remembering what she had for lunch 😛
[Guesticus]:
My theory is, she’s using her vigilant “Ninja Sentry”-senses, to look thru the “4th Wall” …
… & keep an eye on US!!!?!
( … we better not try anything – she looks like she means business!)
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She does have her hand on her stomach…
… & her nails are FULLY deployed …
( … gulp … )
Could be she’s communicating with her uteruses on the -urgency- of getting on top of this mysteriously multi-located Ace-dono before she’s psuhed too low on the waiting list to make it? 😀
I think she is looking back towards Ace, thinking, “I’m trying to protect someone who killed someone with his bare hands when he was 16? Maybe he doesn’t need me. Then why would he let me stay around? Does he feel sorry for me? Does he like me?” … etc
So the guy who ‘fell down the stairs’ and got his neck broken was one of the dino aliens?
Saurians are a different reptilian species than the K’Sel, IIRC.
The “dino aliens” are the K’sel, the Saurians have only been on panel looking exactly like humans, and the majority of what we know about them is that they are nastier in a fight than a standard human but less nasty than a vampire, and that they are all male, having relied on now destroyed technology to reproduce.
TYPO_ALERT:
[Ixil]_(in part): “… no interest in male humans, partially teenage boys.”
“partially”?
… don’t you mean “particularly”?
!@#$% Spell trickers…
[AndyOH!]:
“Drag-Knob Them Gar-Flinkin’ Spill-Chuckers!!!?!”
( … AKA: “My Standard Response” … at-least when my nephews are within earshot … )
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Older and looked like Ace? I’m betting on Larry as the guy that crashed his ship.