OOC: I'm also sorry for not posting. This RPG is another one of those fast-moving ones... four days pass and three pages are there already. Because of that, I'll just assume Crystal is already on the ship...
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As soon as Crystal and her Pokemon had boarded the ship, they located their dorm.
"Room #6," Crystal noted as she entered. Milky dashed ahead of her and started to jump on the bed.
<"Ooh, springy!"> Milky cheered.
Crystal sat on the bed next to Milky and took off her shoes.
I am supposing it will be a while before we are to land. That's good--I'm kind of tired anyways.
Crystal even yawned as she said this. Meanwhile, Slender, Geisha, and Tundra filed into the room.
<"I guess now we wait for the launch,"> Tundra figured as she sat down on the bed as well.
"Alright, everything is ready. The ship is set on auto-launch in fifteen minutes." It was an announcement on the PA. "All ship personell come to the ship cockpit for launch in 5 minutes. The ship will launch in ten. This is captain Lee over and out."
<"Somebody's sleepy,"> Milky noticed as she sat on Crystal's chest. At that point, Crystal was lying on the bed.
<"And so am I,"> Slender agreed. <"Can't... find... comfortable... position... though.">
<"Why can't you just rest in your Pokeball?"> Tundra suggested. <"Besides, if we are to launch in a few minutes, we'd be safer in them.">
And with that, Tundra, Slender, and Geisha went back into their Pokeballs.
The Smoochum lay down next to Crystal and kissed her on the cheek.
"Milky..." Crystal moaned, as if trying to stay awake, "don't..." But she was asleep withing seconds. Milky snickered.
<"I guess my Lovely Kiss attack is getting good!">
With that, Milky curled up next to Crystal, burying her face in a pillow.
A few minutes later, the voice came on the PA again.
Ohhh, don't bother me when I'm trying to sleep... Milky complained. She buried her head underneath the pillow, hoping to block out the noise. Unfortunately, these motions and the talk combined woke Crystal up.
"...it was in basic training?!" the voice on the PA yelled.
"What?" Crystal asked, sitting up to hear what the captain was saying. But no more words came.
"What was in basic training?" Crystal asked again. "And what time is it?" Then she turned to Milky, picking her up and holding her in her hands.
"Okay, you little devil you," she said sternly. "What went on while I was asleep?"
<"I don't know,"> the Smoochum answered.
Crystal shook the Smoochum uncomfortably. "Then what did the captain say in the announcement?"
<"I don't know!"> Milky answered. <"I was trying to sleep too--I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying!">
Crystal threw Milky back onto the bed and walked over to the door. She sighed, shook her head, and opened the door. Then Milky got up, hurried off the bed she was just thrown onto, and rushed out after Crystal before the door was slammed shut.
All right then, Crystal thought, where in the world is the cockpit? This is pathetic. No maps--nobody to ask--how am I supposed to know? I don't even know how much time is left before liftoff!
Crystal started to walk around, looking for signs of what might be the front of the ship. She came to a door.
"Dorm 5," Crystal read. "Nope, that can't be it."
Crystal walked along a hall at a fast pace, ignoring the Smoochum that was running after her.
At the end of the hall, Crystal turned left and came to an empty hall. She looked behind her to see another empty hall. She also saw Milky running around the corner, slipping, and bumping into the wall.
<"Wait for me..."> Milky panted.
"This is your fault, you know," Crystal noted, gazing sternly at the Smoochum. Then she knelt down and picked up Milky, then continued down the hall.
Crystal swore to herself as she turned another corner.
"This is a dead end!" she noticed. Then she turned around and ran down the hall, moving to the other end of it. As she did so, she occasionally glanced to the side. No doors, no signs, no nothing.
Where is this supposed to be?
At the end of the other side of the hall, Crystal finally came to a door.
Finally.
Above the handle of the door was a few buttons, and a screen that said "Password?".
Password? Oh, I know that one.
Crystal typed in "Police" and hit the Enter button. The screen beeped and said "Invalid Password".
"What do you mean it's invalid? That's the password they gave me during training! Ohh, maybe I typed it incorrectly."
Crystal pressed the buttons again, this time more carefully.
"P-O-L-I-C-E... Enter."
Again, the screen beeped and said the password was invalid.
"What?!? Hmm..."
Crystal then knocked on the door. She waited a few seconds... and a few more seconds... She knocked again... waited a few MORE seconds... After a minute, she gave up.
"Oh, drat!" Crystal shouted at the door. "If this is NOT the cockpit, why isn't there a sign that says what it is?"
<"Maybe it was the other way..."> Milky guessed. Crystal groaned and headed back down the hall.
Crystal turned down the other hall she cam in, passed the dorm rooms again, and turned down another hall. Unlike the other one, this hall was lined with a few doors, each saying something like "Storage Room" or "Conservatory" or something.
Finally, something promising, Crystal noticed.
When crystal came to the end of the hall, she saw a sign on the wall.
"To the right: Emergency exit, storage room #2, engine room. To the left: Navigation centre, something, something..."
Then Crystal saw it.
"...Cockpit! Finally!"
So Crystal came to the end of the hall, looking to her left. The hall turned to the right at the end, so the cockpit was probably that way. Triumphant at last, Crystal turned down the hall. As she did, she saw a screen next to her that turned out to be a timer of some sort.
Oh--this says how much time there is till liftoff! Crystal recognized. But as she looked on, her eyes widened.
"Fifteen seconds?!?" Crystal exclaimed. "I don't have any time to get there!"
Crystal knew what would happen if she was not in the cockpit at the time of launch.
Well, now let me think... what other place had a special gravity field similar to the one in the cockpit? The...
Crystal saw a room to her left that read "Lab 415".
Ah, yes--this is it!
Crystal hurried into the lab and shut the door behind her.
Here we go, Crystal thought as she came to a panel with buttons on it. She began to press a couple of them.
This one turns the power on... this one turns on the anti-gravity field... no, not that one, THIS one does that. Oh darn, what was that button I accidentally pressed? Mmm... ah, I remember. This one was supposed to block all psychic forces from entering the room.
With all things set, Crystal stood in the middle of the room, holding Milky tightly. She also checked to make sure the other Pokemon were safe in their Pokeballs, which were safe in her bag.
Five... four... three... two... one...
Nothing happened. Crystal waited fifteen more seconds--still nothing happened.
"I thought it said there were fifteen seconds to lift--"
Suddenly, Crystal felt something rumble under her feet. It shook her so much that she couldn't keep her balance, so she sat down on the floor.
<"Why do we need to be in this room specifically?"> Milky asked.
"Because, if we weren't here or in the cockpit, we would have been crushed by a stronger gravity force than we could handle. That's why I told you not to put me to sleep!!"
A few minutes later, long after the ship stopped shaking, Crystal turned off the control panel in the room, picked up Milky, and walked out of the room. When she did, she headed towards the cockpit.
"Okay, now the password should work," Crystal said as she approached a door with a sign that said "Main Control Center" over it.
This time, the password Crystal put in was correct. The heavy metal door slid open.
The room was empty!
That's funny, Crystal thought. Why is nobody here? Where is everybody?
Crystal slid the door shut again as she turned around and walked away from the cockpit.
"I suppose everyone's in bed or something, maybe," Crystal figured.
As Crystal walked past the dorms, she heard a few voices that suggested the rest of the crew was in there. But then, she saw a familiar face up ahead. It was no other than Lee, the captain. Apparently he was walking towards the dorm to go to sleep.
"Oh, hello there," Crystal said as she got closer to Lee. "I apologise for my absence earlier. I just couldn't make it to the cockpit on time..."
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OOC: Crystal didn't get teleported to the cockpit with everyone else because the room she was in had that psychic barrier. This I decided was better anyways--otherwise Lee or somebody would have noticed Crystal easily standing in the cockpit. Since nobody did...
