1154/The Strange Container

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth was sat in his chair in the medical bay with a half-full glass of engex on the table as he scrolled through data on the computer, reading it over and sorting it. One ear perked up the other flopped over as he let the patients in the medical bay rest in the late-cycle silence.

**Phantom has posed:**
What he's probably not expecting is for Phantom to barge in without warning, carrying cylindrical container in one hand. Without even saying anything, the elusive seeker puts the tube shaped compartment on the side table next to Goth, and gives the mechabat and expectant look.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth looked over at Phantom once he caught the slightest sound and stared at the cylindrical container, his ears moving upward and forward as he stared, and then looked over to Phantom, a klik passing before he finally asks. "And what pray tell, is this?" He'd ask, raising a ridge before bringing a hand up hesitantly, ready to reach over for it, once he was sure he had permission to do such.

**Phantom has posed:**
He takes a step back, arms folded. He then turns around, shrugging. "I don't know," he says, "I don't know where it came from either. Why don't you look at it and tell me what it is?" Then he waits, still not looking at the bat.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth lets out a soft sigh and braces himself, as he suspects something to come leaping out of it as he reached over stopping only a moment to stand up and move away from the computer, and attempted to remove the cap to open it. "Was it just left outside the medbay building?" He'd ask, glancing up momentarily with a raised ridge.

**Phantom has posed:**
"I don't know," Phantom responds immediately. "I just said, I don't know where it came from."

 He's lying, but not completely. Regardless, he doesn't offer to shed anymore light on the situation.

 The cap is either stuck, or not designed to come off - either easily, or at all. Though upon closer inspection, the container seems oddly secure. As if were meant to transport dangerous materials - perhaps Dustoff would be more familiar with it, it does look like it could have been a compartment for something medically potent.. or worse.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth frowns when he can't open it, which is strange given he's normally the one opening the stuck jar lids. He'd examine the container carefully and hems. "Well this is interesting.. May need to wait for Dustoff to examine such." He'd muse as he started moving to get a paint pen to mark it for later inspection, as well as putting a 'possibly Dangerous' warning on it.

      He'd raise his ridge at Phantom once more, noting the deception, but decided not to press further. "Well, once we can get it open, will tell you what's inside if it doesn't blow up to lab." he'd chuckle, strangely relaxed.

      There was a moment of awkward silence from him as he looked at Phantom and cringed, glancing around the medical bay as he struggled to figure out how to articulate what he wanted to say.

**Phantom has posed:**
Suddenly Phantom whirls around, a wild look in his optics. "Don't open it," he snarls suddenly, but his tone of voice doesn't sound angry. Instead, it seems he's very wary of whatever's inside of the container - not because he is at all concerned for Goth's well being, but simply because whatever is in there, is quite possibly a danger to everyone at the base currently if retrieved.

 Then, he pauses. "I mean. You can," he says, "just.. not like how you were planning on opening it," he says. He turns away again, this time, intending to leave.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth raises a ridge and crosses out the 'possibly' he had written and replaces it with 'definitely' underneath the previously written letters on the label. "Right then." He'd click his jaw. "Will ensure heavy security and quarantine protocols are taken." at least now he knows it isn't some strange prank.

      He'd stare at Phantom's back for a few kliks before finally starting as he watches him go "Right then.. Thank you and.. I... Do hope you are... doing better." It was hard for him to say, that was for sure, he had trouble with expressing himself after all.

**Phantom has posed:**
Phantom doesn't say anything in response to Goth's comment about him being better. He just gives the mechabat an unreadable look.

 "Don't open it when I'm not there," he says brusquely, then turns and phases through the opposing wall, disappearing from sight.