The Boo-Ya!, Season 2- Issue 2: Part 3.3

Page 17

17.1: A two-part set of panels that starts with an action shot of Robin leaping off the machine to the panel right direction. You can see Staehlia looking on, trying to redirect their friend toward the door.

STAEHLIA

(Cont.)

This is new…and partly worrying. Uh, try to hold it in till you reach the bathroom. Or at the very least aim–

17.2: In the second part, a few beats later, Ms. Cartwright blows chunks in a light brown/blue stream in the foreground of the shot.

STAEHLIA

(Cont., Off-Panel) For the waste basket. Yeah…was fearful that would be the result.

17.3: Cut to Staehlia at the screen, letting out a sigh at the incident and glancing up toward the ceiling in an attempt to tidy up.

STAEHLIA

Fortuitously, from the data, this has painted a fascinating picture of the current composition of your inner body.

ROBIN (Off-Panel, weakly) Yaaayyy…!

STAEHLIA (Bubble 2)

As for the mess, this is not the first time an assortment of bodily fluids have been discharged in this lab. The colors are certainly new though. Cap, Protocol JRobe5.4 please and thank you.

CAPALDI (Off-Panel, from the ceiling)

On it, Stahli…

17.4: Robin shifts toward a seated position, woozy after the display of nausea while addressing her friend; the puke puddle partially visible to the right of the panel view. As she speaks, you can hear the sounds of a metal door sliding open.

ROBIN

What’s this new data?

ROBIN (Bubble 2; reacting to Panel 5, Bubble 1) You saying it’s turning me super buff, too?

17.5: Back to the genius glancing as the data from the test pops up on the screen while addressing their friend via the periphery.

STAEHLIA

(matter of factly)

Your lung capacity has increased by 40% since your initial body scan, which explains how you were able to survive on Genfluuex sans breathing apparatus. There was also a thickening of the muscles around your lungs and your stomach, and–

17.6: Same setting/layout as the previous panel. An interesting data point pops up a split second later as they finish the rest of their thought. Before they could shift their attention to said data point, however, a booming voice comes from the speaker.

STAEHLIA

It’s entirely possible, yes. Especially given the constant flux that your genetic makeup is still engaging in. I would need to sift through more real time data to know with certitude. Till then, though I know you will not agree to settling back for awhile, I would recommend wearing some nanosensors while–

MADAM (from the speaker, Off-Panel) Stahl, if you and Robin are wrapped up back there, we got a possible “Oh shite!” situation that’s come up.

ROBIN (Off-Panel) We’ll be there in a few, captain.

Page 18

18.1: Cut to a shot from the bridge viewscreen of a faint black dot that is a distance away from the rear of the ship. You can see, along with a reading of the distance, the speed the dot is taking which is steadily at 22.4 IWA.

STAEHLIA

(Off-Panel)

Are you certain this is not a piece of metal that magged on to us from some space junk?

NESSA (Off-Panel) Maybe it’s the merc’s ship, waiting for their chance at revenge?

MADAM (Off-Panel) You saw the putz in action on Mowannis hand-to-hand. You really think he’s capable of being that clever or that sneaky silent?

STAEHLIA

(Bubble 2, Off-Panel) No. No, I do not.

18.2: We move to a shot of the rest of the bridge, showing the young genius finishing up the rest of their thought. You can see Ms. Cartwright cross left to right in the background to her station, chiming in at the moment.

STAEHLIA

(Cont.)

Which would lend further credence to the spare metal theorem. I mean, we are flying in an area with the largest amount per vimlo of decrepit space junk in this section of Alliance space.

ROBIN

Is it possible this is a baby Sky Whale who’s trailing behind us like a puppy.

MADAM (shakes her head) We’re not in the right part of space for Sky Whales to pop up.

18.3: Close-up on Nessa chiming in to the chat with an additional point to the good cap’n’s comment with a slight grin.

NESSA

Also, our ears aren’t being incinerated within an inch of its bett’n life. So…

18.4: The casual snark is taken out by a development that emerges on screen, replaced by a great deal of surprise.

NESSA (Cont., confused) …It’s buzzing away.

18.5: We shift back to the Madam at the captain’s chair, along with Robin in the left corner of the background seeing the same thing at the same time.

ROBIN Kinda like that bug that bit me just before we got back on the ship. At least I think it was a bug…

MADAM

Bug?

ROBIN (Bubble 2)

Like I said, it was probably nothing.

MADAM (Bubble 2)

Right…

18.6: The Boo-Ya! hitting warp a few moments later, leaving a blue energy trail as it moves toward the top right corner of the panel view. You can see a faint white-blue energy trail right behind the ship at the same time.

MADAM (Cont.) Back on course to O’Julana, Ness. Hopefully with a few more lucky breaks for a change.

NESSA

(Off-Panel)

Aye, cap’n…!