Hong Kong Shatterdome scraps (continued)

Continued from Hong Kong Shatterdome scraps
==2016==
===Leap of Blood===
(2016)
Yeung (TM): sisi i havent seen the triplets since i was six why am i feeling cousin-ly? 
Make_It_So: lukso ng dugo/leap of blood ur well within reason g2g love u bye
===Mako===
====Disney 1====
Tamsin, Stacker, and Mako spend the second two weeks as a family unit at HK Disney and they weren't even allowed to go back to the Shatterdome (like to sleep) until the two weeks were up because Xiong booked them in the nicest onsite hotel room and ordered them on vacation (and to accept at least /some pampering).
(They still ditched the horse-drawn carriage after the third day.) 
They end up riding the tea cup ride for over an hour until Tamsin and Stacker realize Mako's /freaking /out. 
Okay. Team Coyote Tango at Disney is /hilarious and sweet.
====Disney 2====
(with Rorykurago)
The hats are less of an icebreaker and more of a "we don't need to talk to appreciate how God-awful these hats are. Have another one!" (Trying to think of a 'Tamsin has plenty of ideas of what to do no matter how little Mako talks')
Ice cream. Ice cream is an idea. (Disneyland imports.) 
Also Mako sees a stall selling mochi and daifuku and tugs Stacker’s arm (forgetting that she’s still shy) until he walks over with her, chattering about how much he has to try one.
Stacker’s never had mochi. Neither has Tamsin; she chooses to try ume daifuku, because from the way Mako is lighting up and gesturing she’s swearing up and down it’s the best. Stacker eyes the little balls more dubiously. He selects a plain matcha mochi. That seems innocuous enough. Tamsin got them hooked on matcha when they were Coyote and Tango, and it seems like a safe bet.
Mako stuffs hers whole into her mouth. Between her puffed cheeks and the way her eyes squeeze up with her grin Stacker takes a moment to just drink in the sight. This is his daughter. Tamsin knocks him with her elbow. He isn’t eating.
He bites into his mochi.
Tamsin and Mako will never laugh so hard.
“Don’t know what you expected, Stacks,” Tamsin chuckles, patting him on the back. He’d forced himself to swallow because Mako was watching and she looked uncertain, and hurt, but now he’s swigging from a water bottle trying to get the bizarre texture out of his mouth while Mako wanders off to examine the exposed mechanics of a ride. “It’s rice cake. And your tiddlywink loves ‘em.”
====Cats====
Feng wanted to see how much many cats could cover a 13 year old so people coming into the Rec room soon found a giggling couch covered in twenty very mellow cats. 
And that is a beautiful image.
===Ambient Noise===
"Gentlemen," greets Xiong. "Have a seat." 
Jackson and Logan sit. 
Xiong pulls around a chair. "If Hong Kong Disney is six kilometres away across open water, how loud is the Shatterdome, coupled with the standard ambient noise?" 
"Very loud," replies Logan. 
"Very loud," nods Xiong. "To that, add an outspoken monk, trained in British English, who swears like an exceptionally aggressive Australian. How loud would a Shatterdome be?" 
"Even louder," answers Jackson. 
"Even louder," agrees Xiong. "I don't know which one of you taught him that--don't give me that, I know it was one of you--and I don't care."
Jackson and Logan go on guard.
"I really don't," Xiong says. "It just tells me you've a gift for languages, so--" She reaches back for a thick book. "--You'll be reading Fei Yen her morning story this week." And gives it to Logan. "In Chinese." 
==2017==
===YMCA===
(2017; Queen of Coffee!UA)
So, the Canadians still calling Min 'Tim' and they'll never stop, but someone's just noticed 'Yeung Min' sounds a lot like 'Young Man' when said quickly-ish and is now humming the YMCA. 
Min's saying quietly, "oh, that's cool, that's exactly why my parents gave me a Mandarin name so as to avoid that." while actually thinking "holy shit these people are completely insane am I in a Shatterdome or a mental health facility?" 
 
Poor Tim of the Many Names. 
===Mental Health Facility===
Min's saying quietly, "Oh, that's cool, that's exactly why my parents gave me a Mandarin name so as to avoid that." while actually thinking "Holy shit these people are completely insane am I in a Shatterdome or a mental health facility?" 
I'm also fairly sure that a Shatterdome /is/ a mental health facility. Though if it's good or poor mental health, I'm not completely sure. 
>counts on fingers< directionally-impaired Russians, coffee-blooded comm officers, a benign AI happily using the identity of a malevolent AI... I've got nothing. 
==2018==
===Bumping Along===
So they say Typhoon was "assembled in Gangzhou" but Jaegers are so big... thus imagine a transport truck bumping along a highway (with a full motorcade) with a giant mechanical arm 
Or a single, enormous foot.
People place bets on which body part'll be rolling through town next. 
 
Most of the time "rolling" refers to the wheels except that one time, in a disturbing bit of foreshadowing, when the skull got loose and bounced down a hill (unless it's Shaolin's skull but I don't know if it's round-ish)
===Hazing===
I like how Xiong's the choice for advice on dealing with bizarre Ranger-related events. The triplets have given her quite the rep, eh?
I'm quite proud of that, I must say. 
Yes, yes they have. It's a role she holds with pride. 
Well, if you're gonna have to deal with something like the triplets, you /better make something good out of it. Besides, how many others could do it and maintain sanity? It's probably why no one recommended she go to Medical after she volunteers to take both Gottlieb and Geiszler.
Maybe Pentecost could do it, as well as Pentecost and... That's about it XD
Yeah … They should second any new Marshals to Hong Kong or second the triplets to the new Marshal's assignment as hazing.
Who's not to say Xiong ships her off to Sydney as a candidate (to get thrown out like pond water). The triplets are perfect angels for a whole two months afterward. 
Makes sense. Min as a stick to keep the triplets in line. Heh.
I like that plan. I like that plan a lot. And whomever that hazed Marshal is throws themselves behind every one of Xiong's decisions 100%. 
As you so aptly put, emotional manipulation is right up Xiong's alley. You may remember an email a while back, instead of penalizing Cheung, Hu, and Jin for the unauthorized Drift, Xiong simply lists all the things she *could* tell them but won't because they clearly did all the legwork to negate the dangers and congratulates them for finding such a fantastic candidate for the Jaeger program and Min will start on light Ranger training next week (that doesn't really go anywhere). Oh, and thank you very much for pointing out those loopholes in the rule book, [Xiong] really appreciates it. 
Oh lord. I smell crack fic in the very near future.
Smells a bit like seaweed for some reason (doubtfully relevant) XD Who's the newest Marshal?
Ooo, the drama between Wash and the Typhoon spare (and Min)! The bit about "accommodate a deaf guy" wrangles things into perspective. Excellent.
==2025==
===Doctor Blockhead===
(January 7th, 2025. Min's been awake since before V-K-Day and Typhoon's conn pod has yet to be recovered, so quite a few weeks before 'Breaker'.) 
"Good morning, Doctor Gottlieb," greeted Min, "I have coffee and toast because I recommend avoiding the cafeteria. I also have some letters for you."
"Good morning, Miss Yeung, that's very kind of you. Thank you."
"Good morning, Doctor Blockhea- Geiszler," continues Min, "I brought you toast."
"Good morning, Tim--wait, what?" 
Doctor Gottlieb rummages around his desk.
"I'm very sorry, Doctor Block--Geiszler, I had a really weird dream last... whenever I slept last." 
"You had a dream about me?"
"I had a dream about getting swallowed by a Kaiju, spat up beyond the Breach, and dying of malnutrition. You were peripherally involved."
Doctor Blockhead sits on his desk. "How?"
"I had to drag your sorry-," Min bites her tongue. "Sorry. I escorted you to Mr Chau."
"You know that creep?" Doctor Blockhead's eyes light up. "No, your cousins do. The Tangs 
have a- a thing." He scrambles for a notebook.
So many of Min's nerves had boottracks she didn't even know where to start. Except, of the three people in the Shatterdome privy to the PPDC-Chau-Tang mess, two stood within twenty feet of each other and the third was a stray collection of molecules floating around the bottom of the ocean. 
Doctor Gottlieb feels her glare, looks up, draws the correct conclusion that Min would need an awfully good reason not to make that 'one person in the Shatterdome', and taps his head. 
God. Damn. Drifting. 
Panic snuck in with the anger: The liability issues were spiralling out of control. 
"My cousin, Liu, humours Mr Chau, that is correct, however I know Liu through Mr Chau through my work as the Accounting department."
"Since when do you work with Accounting? I thought you were a Quartermaster." 
"I took over Accounting in 2019, and I still am." 
"But you're delivering mail."
"Yes." 
"And I send all my requisition forms through you." 
"Yes." 
"And you make little foam Kaiju."
"Didn't have time today, but yes." 
"Is there anything you don't do?" 
"J-Tech and K-Sci, which if I recall correctly is what my brain helpfully used as a set up to the whole debacle." 
"So you Drifted with Mutavore instead and Otachi came after you?"
"Correct, however the Kaiju wasn't Otachi." 
"What did it look like?" 
"Large Category One or a small Category Two..." Min frowns, and recites "'built for speed, built to run'."
"Dreams, right?" Doctor Blockhead grins, scribbling.
"Yea, I remember hearing that... somewhere." 
"Any crests or anything?" 
"Primary eyes like Otachi." 
"Secondary eyes?"
"I don't know, sorry."
"Your brain cooked up a Kaiju of its own design! How could you not remember the details?"
"I just watched myself get eaten, Doctor Blockhead," Min replies tightly. "Forgive me if I focused on that."
"Aha!" Hermann strides over to Min and-
"Ow!"
"My apologies, Miss Yeung. As K-Sci J Tech Chief, I would like to put forth a motion for 'Blockhead' to become, Doctor Geiszler, your official name." 
Min rubs the meat around her lapel. 
"As K-Sci J-Tech Assistant Chief, you may vote if you so desire," explains Doctor Gottlieb. 
"As K-Sci J-Tech Assistant Chief, I second the motion." 
"Hey-!" 
"The majority has voted, motion passed. K-Sci J-Tech Assistant Chief Yeung, you may return to your duties. Doctor Blockhead, lab meeting in twenty minutes." 
"Good day, Doctor Gottlieb," Min bows. "Doctor Blockhead," She nods in his direction, and steps from the lab. 
.
 
Min returns to her quarters, kicks off her shoes, and flops onto her bed. 
«I didn't get to properly tell Doctor Block- Geiszler- Arg!» She rubs her face. «I did not have the chance to fully explain to that stupid biology guy how much of a stupid idiot he is,» she tells the Crimson Typhoon plush. «I'm still really pissed off over that dream and it's still making me feel really awful and,» she pokes the plushie's chest, «I really want to take it out on him because he was so stupid! Ack!»
Min presses her palms into her eyes. 
«You're right,» she says finally, «It's probably the lack of sleep. I should sleep.» 
Min closes her eyes. 
Cold.
Hello? Are you still there?
Battering tugging 
Larger than a Category One but Smaller than a Category Two grinning red dripping from its jaws little bits of triplet smeared--
«Okay!» She rolls out of bed. «That's enough of that. Time for mail!» 
Min pulls on her shoes and kisses the plush's head. 
«Be good while I'm gone.»
Min's halfway down the hall before she realizes she'd just had a full conversation with an inanimate object.
===Squishy===
(January 9th, 2025. Four days without proper sleep!)
"Oooo Squish-y!!"
Min paused in mid-shoe tie and looked around. 
"Over here!" 
Nothing in her room had anything even remotely resembling a mouth--
"Yes, me! Crimson Typhoon!"
--except the plush on her bed. 
"That would be me, yes, I am talking to you."
"A plushie is talking to me."
"You bet!"
Min really needed to sleep. 
"You're gonna be fine." 
But if she did, she would dream of Kaiju and dead triplets and oh so alone...
"I promise, my Squishy." 
Or she could numb her brain with piles of mail. 
A much better idea. 
"I'm going to, uh, leave now before the, um, funny farm, comes to collect me," she said. 
"Okay, Squishy, I love you."
"That's nice," replied Min, backing slowly towards the door. "I love you too." 
"Have a great day, Squishy!"
Min waved a bit, slipped out the door, and sprinted down the hall. 
She returned to her room.
"I feel really guilty. Wanna come with me?" she asked. 
"That would be awesome!"
Min tucked the plush under her arm and they headed off.
===Cold and Wet===
2025 January 14 (Tim) 
Cold.
Cold and wet and battering.
“Hello? Are you still there?”
Cold and wet and dark and oh so lonely ....
Cold and dark and dark and dark--
"Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba--!"
Min reaches out and finds her mobile.
She cracks open a bleary eye. 
10 am. 
Right. 
Night shift.
Meeting with Marshal Hansen. 
Another night plagued by dreams that leave her sickly empty and dead inside.
Another morning waking up exhausted. 
And a meeting with Marshal Hansen. 
Min drops her face to her pillow and instantly regrets it. 
Fourth trip to Laundry in as many days. 
She drags herself out of bed. 
A little voice cheers--She deserved a medal, 100%! 
Min doesn't acknowledge it. 
The other bed stirs. 
“Morning,” she grunts. 
“Morning,” Cheung grumbles. 
Hu mumbles something and flips over. 
Jin yawns and wiggles closer to Cheung. 
“Meeting,” croaks Min. "Go back to sleep.” 
Cheung nods and pulls the blanket over his head. 
===Vanish===
I betcha Herc just vanishes from the Hong Kong 'Dome (with Max, of course) the minute his job is done with no indication of where he's going (and has Striker obfuscate his course). Derek heads for Nang as soon as he realizes what's happened. Nang and Xiong calm him down and arrange with Nanny to ship him back to Australia for a bit. 
Derek takes a deep breath, swallows, doesn't cry, and knocks.
After a moment, the door opens.
"Officer Jones?" asks--
Derek looks down.
Miss Xiong stands behind the threshold in her PJs.
"I--the Marshal--I'm sorry to bother the Marshal--Marshal Xiong--I'm not sure what else to--I couldn't find Officer Lo--or Ranger--the Marshal--Marshal Hansen--"
"You couldn't find Marshal Herc?" 
Derek throttles his sob.
"I can find Marshal Herc."
Derek nods, gulps in air. 
===Party===
""Doctor Gottlieb Doctor Gottlieb!""
Hermann stops and turns as two young people trip over themselves skidding to a halt. 
"This is for you," pants Setsuko, thrusting an envelop into the bubble between them. 
"Suprise party for Tang Min," adds Long. "Not 'suprise' like 'Surpise!' 'cause she'd probably kill us all- Remember Tang Hu's face after the Kaidanovsky incident?"
"Which one?"
"The one were he was all-," Long mimes tip-toeing. "And then he goes 'boo!' and Lieutenant Kaidanovsky was all 'Ah!' and whacks him- goes flying, twenty feet, easy, plows into a wall..."
"Oh yea, we called that the 'bug hitting a windshield' incident."
"Why?" 
"Cause he looked like a bug that'd hit a windshield. Were you there for that?" she asks Hermann. 
"I don't think you were there for that."
"Anyway, that happened, jump scares are a really, really bad idea."
"But birthday parties!" grins Long. "Great idea!"
"Yea, first birthday with everything back to normal." She takes a deep breath. "How're we doing?" 
Liong frowns at his watch. "Hmm, a month and a half."
"Okay. Halfway there. 'Nother month, we'll have a Tibetan funeral- is it Tibetan?"
Liong shrugs.
Setsuko rolls her eyes. "Next month, we'll have another ceremony and we'll either laugh or we'll cry."
"Why, exactly, would you laugh?"
Liong and Setsuko exchange looks. 
"Um..."
"You don't know?"
"Apparently I don't."
"You should probably talk to Tang Min about that," Setsuko says finally. 
"We gotta go," Liong apologies, tugging on Setsuko's sleeve and turning to leave. "People to see, invitations to give out, that kinda thing."
"Yes, we must be off. Goodbye, Doctor Gottlieb." Setsuko snaps a bow - as does Liong belatedly - and they both flee down the hall. 
==BWAAAAHHHH!!!==
(Variable (AN 28))
"When [Marvin the Timer sighs] that his tea is properly steeped..." :D
Making those changes, too.
I am so so so glad you like the one with Marvin. I'm having a hoot playing around with what the bells sounds like. I wish I knew which coffee slinger thought of it- it's so brilliant!!! (and yes, five of the six Cherno Alpha eggtimers all sound fog horns of different pitches. Pity the employee working the day they all go off at the same time. The sixth plays the Titanic theme as seen in that comic.)
Heh. Yeah, the Cherno Alpha foghorns would be terrifying. I also like how that horn has become the unofficial sound of celebration in the fandom.
I sense a plot bunny - five eggtimers go off at once, the cafeteria jumps but Shatterbucks keeps chugging along. The morning rush clears out and there's a collective OMFG THAT WAS THE SCARIEST THING OF MY LIFE!!!
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