Room 512, Monday Evening

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock was sitting cross-legged on the floor on his side of the room, meditating, as was his wont. He could frequently be found thus, seeking serenity in the cold reassurances of logic.

Unfortunately, the universe had other plans for him tonight. But he didn't know that yet. So he was peacefully meditating.

((Open for the roommate, but if anyone else has cause to be in 512, they are of course welcome.))

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[heromaniac]

Momoko came storming into the room, wet and unhappy. "Ugh. I can't BELIEVE how horrible it is! It's totally like," she removed her jacket and tossed it on the bed, then realized how silly that was since it was soaked and reached for it again. "Like, some totally bad movie version of what the future would be like, except it's TODAY."

Then she noticed Spock... "Oops. Sorry, Spock," she whispered.

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock sighed and opened one eye, then the other. "It is quite all right," he said, since there was nothing to be done about it now. His meditative calm was gone, and probably not coming back any time soon. Really, with Momoko around, you would think he would be used to it by now. "Is something the matter?"

[heromaniac]

Really, she tried to be good! "You haven't noticed? The island moved again and we're right next to Tokyo and it's not right!" She threw her hands up, frustrated. "It's dark and gloomy and the people are all cyborgs and sad and no one talks and it's always raining and I almost got hit by a car at least twice!"

[eyebrowgoesup]

"Curious," Spock said. "Perhaps it is a different Tokyo?" Perhaps she should also have looked both ways before crossing the street, he thought, but he suspected that would be imprudent to say.

[heromaniac]

They were racing in the street!!

Momoko looked at him blankly. "Of course it's different, but it's still Tokyo. I still don't like what's happened to it. How would you feel if we visited Vulcan and it was all.... Uhm... What's your world like, anyway?"

[eyebrowgoesup]

"Vulcan is a desert world. Most of the planet is very hot and dry," he told her. "It is unlikely to go through any major upheavals." Oh, Spock.

[heromaniac]

"Ha!" She pointed at him and chuckled. "See? That's totally what I thought about Tokyo City!" Well, except for the desert part. "And look at how much it's different here! I bet if we visited Vulcan and it was totally covered in ice you'd think it was weird, right? Especially if a lot of the places and buildings and stuff were still sort of the same."

[eyebrowgoesup]

"If Vulcan was covered in ice, my people would be in a lot more trouble than I suspect the people of Tokyo are in," Spock pointed out. "We do not function well in low temperatures." Momoko may have noticed that he spent most of the winter indoors and/or bundled to within an inch of his life.

[heromaniac]

Momoko had! And she may have giggled about it sometimes, sorry.

"That's totally not fair, using logic on me," she rolled her eyes, amused and totally used to it by now. "You know what I mean. It's just weird seeing things you're used to be totally different."

[eyebrowgoesup]

"That can be true," Spock agreed.

And then, because the universe thought it was funny, he turned into a horseshoe crab.

Copper-based blood, you know.

[heromaniac]

... ... ...

!!!!

"Oh my... Spock? Are you okay?!" Momoko knew he wouldn't talk back, but she'd never actually been there when someone changed into an animal, and it was a bit shocking.

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock couldn't answer, because he was a crab, but he sort of...scuttled toward Momoko's foot.

Perhaps she could be so kind as to put him in some water or something. He wasn't really sure what the best course of action here was, himself.

[heromaniac]

"Eeeek!" Momoko scuttled back instinctively, then put a hand over her eyes. "Ah! Sorry, sorry!" It's just Spock, it's just Spock.

"Uhm... Uhm, you kind of look like a kabutogani. Uhm. Okay. Uhm. Ah! Moshi, no!" The cat had jumped from the bed and was slinking his way towards the former Vulcan when Momoko scooped him up. "You couldn't turn into a cat? I totally know how to take care of cats!"

Water. She needed water... Right?

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock was sorry he was not a cat. A cat would have been better able to express this, also. So he just sort of sat there and. Was a crab.

He did not like this one tiny bit.

[heromaniac]

"Okay, uhm. Moshi, sorry, but I need you to go in your cage for a bit while I figure this out. I totally don't need to explain you attacking Spock to his mom. Or the Principal." She settled a mewling Moshi in his cage and then turned back to her roommate.

"Okay, uhm. Bathtub for now? Although... are you salt water? I don't want to take you to the beach - who knows what's in the water here, and I don't want you lost or left behind." She ran a hand through her hair. "Okay, I'll get some water in the bathtub then look you up online. Okay? You won't, like, get sick or something, right?"

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock attempted to convey that he would do his very best not to get sick, but since he was a crab, he just sort of waved his tail...thing around.

At least he had a hard shell if Moshi did decide to mess with him.

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded, taking the tail wagging as agreement. "Okay, uhm. Please don't bite me! Or whatever kabutogani do, okay?" She reached to pick him up, gently. Both because it was her roommate and because, well, ew!

Setting him in the bathtub, she ran enough warm water to cover him but not much more, folded a couple of towels and created a dry area at the far end, if he needed it, and settled in to make sure he didn't go into shock or something. "I'm just going to watch for a few minutes, then go look you up. So if you're going to get sick, can you do it now while I'm here?"