googledox: (kid-brainy cold)
Brainiac 5 | Querl Dox (post-zero hour) ([personal profile] googledox) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2017-06-10 12:06 am

playing with matches [video] [set during time ripples and before Mind Slayer]

[Klaxons suddenly start blaring through Legion World, due to certain alarms set in the lab complex. Something has exploded. Somethings, plural, judging from what's visible on the screen when Brainy's message broadcasts. Half the lab is trashed and smoking. Fortunately for Brainy's labmates, anything that isn't Brainy's experiments is apparently shielded, but he has no problems with destroying his adult self's work.]

[It's not really that he's doing it on purpose so much as he's reverted to a time where blowing up labs was part of his standard methodology.]

[He's ten, and even the small amount of self-control and restraint he had as a teenager is now gone. What isn't gone is his intellect, which means his capacity for destruction is...extensive.]

Ignore the alarms. My idiotic adult self seems to have developed a more limiting view regarding lab safety. Philistine.

[His voice is colder now, almost robotic.]

There's only a 1.4563 % chance this experiment will destroy Legion World. So all of you little people can simply carry on with your mundane existence.

[The experiment he's working on is glowing ominously and throbbing, making a strange WOMMM noise that keeps increasing in volume and frequency. He doesn't seem to be alarmed by it, though he does pull goggles down over his eyes.]

[ooc: Anyone can respond to this but the action thread to stop it has already been promised to Wash and York.]
pinball_wizard: (Augh)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Brainy? When you decided to do this, did you calculate the other possible catastrophes it could cause? Like, I don't know, moving us out of our orbit, thereby allowing the remains of the Moon to crash to Earth?
pinball_wizard: (Augh)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
While that is good to know, it isn't what I asked.

I was asking what the chances of my ship suffering a localized containment breach that forces us out of orbit were.
Edited 2017-06-10 05:54 (UTC)
pinball_wizard: (UHHH)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
...you're actually running an experiment where the only failure point will result in our deaths.

Yeah, no. Shut it down Querl.
Edited 2017-06-10 06:45 (UTC)
pinball_wizard: (UHHH)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Just remember I gave you the chance to do it on your own.

Any available Legionnaires, please go to Brainy's lab and shut down his experiment immediately. I'll see what I can do to stop it from my end.
pinball_wizard: (Ball)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I designed the infrastructure required to set all of that up in the first place. If you honestly think a little thing like a revoked security clearance is going to stop me, think again.
steelandtemper: (57)

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-06-10 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yell if you want a hand. He won't be good enough to keep me out 10 years from now. He's certainly not good enough now.

[Yes, antagonize him further, Cortana. That will definitely help.]
steelandtemper: (13)

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-06-11 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Organics invent things that get away from them all the time, kiddo.

[Future you is terrified of her, look it up.]
steelandtemper: (04)

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-06-11 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs.]

You're threatening me. Ha. Regular you is going to be so embarrassed when this is all over.
legionnpcs: (legion - Ferro)

[personal profile] legionnpcs 2017-06-11 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
And now we're gonna have to purge this entire thing from the records so Babbage doesn't see that. Can you please take care of that, Cortana?
steelandtemper: (22)

[personal profile] steelandtemper 2017-06-11 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'll take care of it.

[She's totally keeping a copy for blackmail purposes.]
mirror_soldier: (No)

[personal profile] mirror_soldier 2017-06-10 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm curious to know; what were the chances that your experiment was going to blow up the lab?
pinball_wizard: (Augh)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-10 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
1.4563%, apparently.
mirror_soldier: (Things didn't go as planed)

[personal profile] mirror_soldier 2017-06-10 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
The chances that it was going cause as much damage as it already has, is the same as the odds of it blowing up Legion World?

That certainly is reassuring.
fourstars: (●kid | the fuck is that)

video

[personal profile] fourstars 2017-06-10 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's kind of mean...
fourstars: (●kid | the fuck is that)

[personal profile] fourstars 2017-06-11 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
That's also mean.
unrecovered: (Let me think about that one)

S8 Wash because everybody is happy in this conversation, right

[personal profile] unrecovered 2017-06-11 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Shut it down.

[He is having exactly none of this.]
unrecovered: (Let me think about that one)

[personal profile] unrecovered 2017-06-11 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Fine.

[And he's on his way. He has zero time for this bullshit.]
pinball_wizard: (Augh)

Re: S8 Wash because everybody is happy in this conversation, right

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's not going to work. 10 year old Brainy is apparently very good at not listening when people tell him things.

I'm trying to turn it off remotely, but someone's probably going to need to physically shut it down.
unrecovered: (Oh well damn)

Private

[personal profile] unrecovered 2017-06-11 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Can you walk me through the physical side? Even a basic idea would be helpful.

[Trying so hard not to be terse at the guy who's actually trying to help.]
pinball_wizard: (Hrmm)

Re: Private

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2017-06-11 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I managed to get a look at the specs before he locked me out. It shouldn't be too hard.
legionnpcs: (legion - Timber Wolf)

[personal profile] legionnpcs 2017-06-11 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Brainy.

There are children on board.

[And him being that quiet doesn't usually bode well.]