Space Law, Arm Blade, daily IPC stuff and a wanted pet

[quintaessentia]

Normally such stories start like any other shift, not this one however.

As James, who served the NSS Cyberiad once again as the Research Director, went to his closet to get the science door remote he noticed something odd. Besides the science SoP was also a copy of Space Law. As he despites these regulations known as Space Law, because of its often miss interpretation and abuse, he took it and threw it in the nearest disposal bin he could find, after making a comment to this on the command channel. Sadly as he stepped through the airlock into the science hallway he noticed something that displeased him even more. Whole science was filled with Space Law books. As any sane person, in his mind, would have acted, he took all of them and threw them into disposals, complaining over and over about this incident over all channels avaiable to him. After other people noticed this in their respective departments too, James was already on the move. With a trusty science closet and a lot of courage he made it his divine mission to eliminate as many copies as possible. But not everyone was pleased by this.....

After he piled all books of Space law he could find before science, he went back to check on his coworkers. There it struck him, that this won't be as easy as he first thought. They were back... no, even worse... it were more! Three of them covered his whole front desk. Going on with his work one of them came to live. While getting hurt badly he managed to close the airlock behind him before running to the opposite wall to lean against it, recovering from this incident. While he repaired his dents the book kept smashing against the window of his office, after it eventually realized this had no sense it vanished. Collecting the rest of the new series of Space Law and piling them also on the pile the furious copy came back and took the locker with most of the other books.

It must have looked silly as a copy of Space Law dragging a closet was chased by a man, capable enough to be promoted to a head. What followed was a bloody, well no one actually bleeded (figures) fist fight between the book and the Research Director, ending before the office of the Internal Afairs Agents, two of which sitting in the office watching this (non) epic battle come to its climax. After the unrobust Research Director was nearly beaten to death by this bundle of paper, the IAAs came out of their office and tamed the beast, holding it as a pet afterwards. As James, happy with his accomplishment, took the rest of the books back to science to burn them all, the IAAs mentioned over comms that the paper bundle crawled into a vent (explaining the events of earlier too),never   to be seen again by James.

Coming back into science one of his coworkers seemed upset or excited about something. They told James they had tried to reach him over the science channel, which he didn't notice in the middle of the fight. Dragging him into the science hallway, James set priotities. First he burned the already gathered books, before taking a closet the collect the books............... covering each square meter of the Research Directors office. [I wished i had made a screenshot to have evidence for this. If you have pictures of any of the events mentioned in this story, please feel free to post them here.] The rest of science was also refilled with the newest copies of Space Law, so James brought them all to sci-chem.

Hearing screams near science, the Research Director decided to investigate those further. With nothing more equipped then a lit experimental welding tool, he made his way into science maintenance following a blood trail to the source of the scream, finding a dead Security Officer. Soon after his discovery, another one came to the corpse, overwhelmed with the situation James managed nothing more then to point energetic to the disfigured corpse. The officier staying calm opened a closed closet right next to the victim, revealing a human with brown or black hair and beard. This person immediately stunbatoned the Officer dropping the stun baton and carrying the stunned officier away. James was not sure why this men ignored him, maybe it was because he was in the dark and was therefore not seen (he wore a night vision security HUD) or for whatever reason, but it didn't matter to him at this moment. He just followed his instincts, leading to one of the rare occasions where he actually did something right. James grabbed the stun baton, activated it, ran after the mysterious person and stunned him, leading to him falling on the ground. Probably hitting him more then necessary, he kept him on the ground till the Officer was able to handle the offender herself. Trying to get this changeling, as it turned out, cremated, he escaped more then once. The first time James being able to help again, the other time the changeling managing to bring James with two swift hits of his armblade on the ground and with another two managing to behead him.

Luckily IPC are easily repaired and it so only took thirty minutes to get James to function normally again.

The rest of the space law copies he gathered were destryoed by him with foam acid.

Back on his own feet the Research Director found a cortical borer under a table, dragging it first to the bridge, where a Cyborg and the HoS attacked the borer repeatedly, which hid under the reinforced tables and afterwards to his office, which was luckily not filled to the brim again. Realizing the borer was not even there save, after the cyborg tried attacking it again, James let it go. Later on the transfer shuttle he thought to see the same quitter looking up to him while he sat in his green comfy chair. Then it was stomped to death.

 

Edited August 4, 2019 by quinta essentia