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outer_divide2014-06-01 07:52 pm
writeswrongs) wrote in outer_divide2014-06-01 07:52 pm
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[The man on your video screen is wearing a tux. He's not James Bond though.
In fact he's a writer from New York City, who was on his way to get married (for the third time) when he blacked out while driving and woke up in a pod. It was by far the oddest experience he's ever had, and Richard Castle has had many odd experiences. At first he thought he was in some kind of government facility, that the SUV with the black out windows that had been tailing him had put him here where some kind of weird experiments happened. Waking up in a pod in your boxers is enough to throw anyone. He'd put on the clothes he'd been wearing, found in the footlocker next to the pod and managed to locate the rest of his stuff. His cell phone was deader than dead, of course, so he couldn't call Kate. It seemed, other than the creepy pods filled with what looked to be people, nobody was around keeping him in one place. He wasn't a prisoner, so he decided to explore.
Stepping out of the hatch, he observed a completely different world. It was not New York. It was possibly not even Earth.]
Uh. I take it this isn't the Hamptons?
[What the hell has he gotten himself into now?]
In fact he's a writer from New York City, who was on his way to get married (for the third time) when he blacked out while driving and woke up in a pod. It was by far the oddest experience he's ever had, and Richard Castle has had many odd experiences. At first he thought he was in some kind of government facility, that the SUV with the black out windows that had been tailing him had put him here where some kind of weird experiments happened. Waking up in a pod in your boxers is enough to throw anyone. He'd put on the clothes he'd been wearing, found in the footlocker next to the pod and managed to locate the rest of his stuff. His cell phone was deader than dead, of course, so he couldn't call Kate. It seemed, other than the creepy pods filled with what looked to be people, nobody was around keeping him in one place. He wasn't a prisoner, so he decided to explore.
Stepping out of the hatch, he observed a completely different world. It was not New York. It was possibly not even Earth.]
Uh. I take it this isn't the Hamptons?
[What the hell has he gotten himself into now?]
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[Because he has to know what he's dealing with here and would at least like to get some kind of bearings.]
I'm guessing that I won't be making it to my wedding today though.
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[That, presumably, would be the difficult to swallow part.]
The planet's Verdana. There's a military outpost about a mile and a half east, and it's a half hour drive down to the city of Poseidon. And don't get your hopes up - despite the naming scheme, no one knows where Earth is.
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Ok, so wait. I'm on another planet?
[It's not necessarily that he doesn't believe the guy, because this environment is not familiar to him at all, but he just needs to make absolutely sure that he is no longer on Earth.
He thinks that somehow even his father wouldn't be able to pull this one off.]
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Take a look up, once the sun goes down. The Manhattan-sized spaceship could just be a movie set, but we can't fake the sky.
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Is there anyone here who goes by the name Jackson Hunt?
[Who knew if his dad was still going by that name? He didn't even know the man's real name.]
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[He considers the name a moment, then shrugs.]
Doesn't ring a bell. Friend of yours?
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How about a woman named Kate Beckett? She probably would have come around the same time as me.
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[His dad, certainly. Kate, no.]
Is there a way to check the pods?
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[Castle rubs his face. What was he going to do if Kate wasn't here with him?]
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Who am I talking to, by the way? I'm Rick Castle.
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[He shrugs, as though dismissing any possibility that the resident AI might become murderous.]
Name's Tony Stark. And I'm not an AI, in case you were wondering.
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A lady named Kaylee told me to check out Poseidon for housing?
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[And since the last time he checked was that morning, she probably still does.]
Hold on, I'm sending you a map.
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[This is not, strictly speaking (or at all), true.]
There are a few of us working on the ship. If we see your Kate, we'll let you know.
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Thanks. She... means a lot to me.
[Obviously. He was only on his way to marry her.]