Aftermath - L.I.N.K.S. (chapter 4)
Sunday, May 16, 2010
L.I.N.K.S. and the Academy. Dustee's bruised and tired.
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"Using links channel."
They sit staring at me waiting for me to continue. I am tired, though, I have never felt this tired since, well, since a very long time. Amazing, how my body just aches to lay down. There is a couch right outside the infirmary. The sooner I get this done the sooner I can lie down. I give a deep sigh…
"Links:
Linkage
Interconnection through
Neuron
Kinetic energy
System" I say as I look at them." It means that the we can give off a message through the neurons
in our body. The kinetic energy is what sends the message to the other link. There goal is to have an army that can send messages during a battle simultaneously, in order to gain higher ground and win."
"That's what you did," Mal states referring to my escape.
"Yes. It can be compared to getting a wave. Except instead of it appearing on the screen it appears at any time in your mind."
"That must be irritating." Kaylee mentions softly.
"It can be. However, we get used to it. It's harder when we are surrounded by people, because their thoughts and feelings are in the way."
"So, you can see my thoughts?" Jayne asked unsetteled. "Cap'n, I dunno if I like this."
"Yes, but I try not to. I try not to read any of you, although at times it is harder because your thoughts and feelings are louder. It just depends." I try to say reassuringly.
"And River?" Simon asks.
"River can feel everything you can." I respond, stretching.
"Why are you here? Why seek us out?" Mal asks in a threatening voice. At least, it's meant to be threatening but makes me give a little smirk.
"I'm here because River was the only friend I had. I had already been in the Academy for 6 months. There was two divisions in the Academy. One was where the developing took place. The other is where the modifications were made. Every student had to pass a certain amount of tests in order to be part of the "special" division. We had no idea what took place there, but whoever was chosen, we never heard from again."
"I have a hard t
So, I'm going to take the initial theft failure to show that Dustee is VERY overconfident, all training and no experience in the real world. Which leads to the arrogance with which she dismisses the crew as potential threats. After all, for a psychic, Mal sure was able to get her gun on her fast.
This is a good thing, and I'd like to see that explored more.
So, but I also do have a couple questions.
1) If the Academy was developing a kind of psychic that stays sane, stays controllable, and which can do more types of things than River's type of psychic... Why are they still interested in River? Why'd they even alter River the way they did, since supposedly the way they did it was flawed?
2) Now that Mal realizes that Dustee can't report them without being taken in herself, what's to stop him from kicking her off, especially since River still doesn't trust her, and Mal trusts River?
3) Is this after the movie? I seem to recall you wanted to write a fanfiction that was after the movie, with a "character to fill in the gaps." Who all is still on the ship?
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