Timelords Anyone?

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

(AC-TI-VATE PRIMARY BUMP CIR-CUITS! UPDATE! UP-DAAATE!)

[AlexisV]

The Navigator jumped in after the Engineer with a splash. The water below was warm and a clear vibrant turquoise. He did a few rolls, stuck his tongue out at the Engineer while upsidown, and then stopped caught sight of what was on the sea floor below them.

 

It was reef of giant corals, corals in a hundred different shapes and colors, and nearly all of them glowing with stripes and spots of an internal bioluminescence. There were corals that forked like antlers, flame red and glowing like live coals. Pale brain corals that pulsed faintly with veins of green light. Shining ice-blue corals like skeletal fingers. Candy pink corals that grew in haphazard loops and spirals. Thirty foot high purple fans with orange stripes rose above all of these, swaying gently in the current.

 

"Now that is definitely cool." The Navigator muttered in awe. He was very glad to have the Professor's breathing helmet right then, partly because it would allow him to swim down and look at the reef up close, partly because he probably would have drowned without it while he floated there with his mouth open.

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

The Engineer touched a long, spindly coral with one gloved finger, green ripples running up the length of it, in sharp contrast with the yellow of the whiplike fronds. A trail of bubbles floated up from the backpack-like device on the back of the space suit, the gasses that could not be recycled into oxygen. A few multicolored fish swam around the bubbles, fascinated by the curving surface that reflected their faces back to them. A cephalopod swam through the reef, trailing disproportionately long tentacles, thirty in total. It's four eyes rotated separately, one eyeing the Engineer, another the Navigator, and the last two looking at the TARDIS above. Scooting into a hole as another fish with spines running down it's back swam by, hunting for something to eat. "This is really cool! A pity Lord didn't want to get his feet wet. Not like mine are any wetter... But at least I went in the water." A small rumble shook the tips of the corals and vibrated the hard ones closer to the ground, sending up clouds of scared fish. Holding out a hand to allow the sensors in the fingertips of the glove a closer look, a small seismograph popped up on the glass of the helmet. "That's odd. There is a concentrated seismic field over there, but it goes completely calm a bit outside three feet away from the center." He frowned slightly at the oddity, but pushed himself off of a brain coral towards a hole, inspecting a veinlike network of light leading into it's depths.

[Raven301]

"Mmmmmmm, sounds good!" The Professor said before diving into the water after the Navigator. "Coming?" he asked the others that were still sheltered inside the TARDIS, "Or are you too chicken?" Laughing, the Professor turned his attention to the underwater wonderland beneath him. "Coral." he murmured to himself, swimming closer as his eyes filled with wonder, "Coral is beautiful." he stated simply, it was how his brain worked, either you got the description that took three hours or you got the one-sentence answer. And sometimes you got both. Realizing he had been describing the beauty before him telepathically in the form of a poem to the rest of the group the Professor quickly shut up and swam after the Engineer. Trailing his hands over the weird the beautiful and the weirtiful. Laughing out loud and to himself at the same time the Professor quickly pulled out his sonic and, pointing it at the Engineer's helmet projected the readings onto the water, where he could see. "Hmmm, well something's off, let's go poke it!"

 

[pudding]

Lord looked slightly flustered when the Professor called him a chicken and jumped away, laughing gaily. Was everyone here insane? He grimaced and cradled his head in his hands before slowly walking over to the doors. He peered out at the waters below that the group was swimming in, then sighed yet again and grabbed the remaining helmet and supplies. Why was he even doing this? Seriously?! He put the helmet on his head with a sigh then returned to the front of the TARDIS, hesitating in front of it. He slowly sat down and started to edge himself into the water, not wanting to actually jump in as easily and readily as the others had.

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

"Might be hard to poke tectonic plates, or whatever is causing that, but sure." He took out his own sonic, fumbling a bit with the gloves before placing his thumb on the small indent. Pressing down, he set it to setting 13, a hum shaking the water nearby, causing it to ripple with the sonic energy as it was amplified. The hole rumbled, opening to the size where two people could fit through with extra room. "I made a hole into a bigger hole, so, let's see who's messing with the planet." He propelled himself down the hole, pushing off a coral and using his hands to direct himself, coming to an underwater cave, he stopped, waiting for the Professor. Reaching up to the side of his helmet, he flipped a switch, turning on the lights mounted on the sides, two whiteish blue beams cutting through the darkness.

[AlexisV]

The Navigator watched the Professor and the Engineer out of the corner of his eye. Most of his attention was focused on fighting with a tiny and surprisingly mobile yellow coral that had latched onto his hand when he reached out to touch it. It didn't have spines or venom and didn't really hurt, but it was strong.

 

Let go you little... he thought, followed by a few pictorial mental insults and threats. The Navigator finally braced his feet against the rock on either side of the tiny coral and managed to pry his hand loose. To his surprise the coral replied with a simple yet smug telepathic message to the effect of that's what your mom said.

 

The Navigator rolled his eyes and swam away, hoping that no one else had seen that happen. Fortunately the Professor and the Navigator seemed to be focused on something else. Some sort of seismic readings, guessing by the projection the Professor had made. He looked down into the dark hole the Engineer had opened in the rock and coral. He didn't quite like the look of it, but it didn't seem dangerous, so he swam inside after the Engineer...

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

Turning around when he noticed the Navigator, the Engineer slid his sonic back into the pocket, closing the top over it, the velcro latching onto itself and holding the pocket shut. "I found some odd seismic activity, a concentrated epicenter of tectonic movement, isolated from the earth around it. Something is causing earthquakes, but only in about a three foot radius." A tremor shook the space, dust and coral falling down to the ground. "And here's something more, down that hole", he gestured to another passage of similar size the the one he opened, "It gets unusually cold, even for the depth and lack of light. Around 3 Earth degrees Fahrenheit. It should be around 30 degrees. Somebody is messing with the planet, but I don't know what they are trying to do." He waved his hand around in the dust, stirring up a small cloud. It was sucked down the first hole like water into a drain. "And the dust is moving against the current, which means that something is making it's own currents." He sat down on a rock, or, floated about an inch off of one, still neutrally buoyant.

[pudding]

As it turned out, Lord was not very friendly with large bodies of water either. As soon as he entered the water, he began awkwardly flailing about, thrashing his limbs in an attempt to swim. Oh. Oops. Did he even know how to properly swim? The helmet prevented him from drowning but doing anything aside from sinking was an entirely separate issue. So, unable to stop, he began to sink deeper into the water, flailing his arms the entire time in an attempt to do something. How did he even swim? It always just looked like arm flailing but apparently, it wasn't.

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

(Reverse the polarity of the bump-tron flow.)

 

"Oh, it looks like somebody decided to get in the water!" He swam out of the room, up the tunnel. Looking around until he found Lord, flailing his arms like a possessed monkey. He swam up to him, using his arms in the 'breaststroke' position, pushing both hands out in a wedge then pulling them apart to push against the water, bringing them back near his chest. "You won't get very far if you swim like that." He remarked. "Try kicking your legs, it helps. And once you learn to swim, we are about to do something incredibly stupid and most likely dangerous, it also may be fun." He added a muttered, "If you even know what fun means..."

[67596]

((Stalking some people. Came across this. Figured it needed a bump. It looks like it deserves one anyway.))

[SUP3RSPAWN3R]

(*Raises pentagrams and necronomicons and joins the chant*)