Grrl Power #641 – Well that’s probably not good
Hey that guy seems to know something about the orbs. Let’s hang around and ask him. Or run. Probably run.
Whatever that thing is, it’s developed the very opposite of passive scanning. Not just active scanning, oh no, it’s developed “incredibly conspicuous scanning.” And it’s a fair bet those beams make that “vwoo woo woo woo vWOOOoom” noise when they pass over you like every flashlight in movies these days, or that scanning thing at the beginning of Aliens.
Sciona’s doing the Hulk sad music walk, and if you’re wondering why she isn’t just flying, it’s because flying is a happy activity. Have you ever seen someone fly sad? It’s like jumping rope sad, or skipping sad. It’s just not done.
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What bothers Sydney most is “what is that critter learning about her?…”
What I’m thinking is that maybe that critter might actually be of the same race that built those orbs? Or at least recognizes those orbs as coming from a race that it’s familiar with? It doesn’t seem to be interested in anyone/anything else right now…Lovecraftian Critter thinking
considering the orbs just appeared as spheres of darkness to it, I think it’s more along the case of “I am the best scanner in the world SO WHY THE *BLEEEEP* CAN I NOT SCAN THOSE THINGS” after all according to what Dabbler said they were like literal spheres of nothingness no matter how she tried to scan them, she could SEE them, so obviously they reflect light that hit them, but that was about it.
nothingness, yes. but it’s capable of reading some things.
it’s capable of reading activation (green text on shield orb), so something is readable?
I suppose both Dabbler and ‘RealityHackerGirl’ could also see things about the orbs… so it’s not entirely impossible…
Interesting point. To the scanner beast the orbs themselves are complete voids. Even the two orbs with a data overlay are themselves black holes of mystery. Perhaps the data that the scanner beast sees is only picking up on the interaction between the orb and Sydney’s nervous system. The real mystery then is why an orb not currently in Sydney’s hands is actively interfacing with her.
… … … The orbs are rotating counter clockwise above her head. The orb that wouldve been in the position as the black circle with some red lines of text on it is the orange orb. The orb that she cant figure out how to work. IT HAS A PASSIVE EFFECT!!!!!!!! (Or something similar, something that happens even when not in use)
Daniel here. I think #6 & Tempo may be onto something. Yes, that thing is incapable of scanning the orbs directly as with all previously seen scanning attempts, but it seems able to read Sydney’s neurological activity. It’s quite likely it’s picking up on her neural interaction with the Orb in her hand plus a PASSIVE ability of another Orb as well, causing the readouts on the active & orbiting Orbs.
This thing could be really dangerous if it can not only pick up that kinda info, but if it can process & react to it…
Going on the theory that Sydney’s orbs are actually an alien idea of a spaceship, I’m thinking the unknown orb could be the ship’s AI. Can’t wait to see Sydney’s freakout when she realizes the orbs are sentient.
Look at what orbs they are- Air and Shield (based on the positions in the previous panel).
There are 5 voids and one code, making 6 orbits, but there are 7 of them.
The code orb isn’t the space that Shield would be in.
OMG that’s it!
First hint about the unknown orb?
Nope, it’s just the air orb.
Note how far the Shield Orb moved between the two panels you illustrated. Apply the same amount of movement to all the other orbs and the Brown Mystery Orb is indeed the one with the text. This is also consistent with every other depiction of the orbs, where they rotate between panels. As seen even on this page.
The reason I still disagree is because when Halo calls an orb into her hand, they move at a faster rate than they orbit. Usually with a light trail, but we don’t see that this time (but there should be one since an attack is incoming when she calls Shield).
Please refer to my reply on the same point here, on the next page.
Unless I’m mistaken, judging from the rotation of the orbs in the other panels, I believe that orb that she’s not touching that seems active is the one we don’t know anything about yet. Maybe it’s a control center of some kind? It could be that that orb controls or provides the link between Sydney and the other orbs. Possibly even be the orb that projects that level up array we’ve seen
Scanner beast: I spy with my little eye something that… what the hey?
If I remember right, she could see them with her bio eye, but on her scanners and the cyborg eye they just where not there. like not black but not registering at all,
No, she said the orb’s skill tree was not visible.
Unless it doesn’t reflect the light that hits them, but produces its own light so you see what they want you to.
It found the tentacle manga hidden in her pocket, didn’t it.
Boy is her email account going to get some serious galactic porn spam!
Dabbler… I don’t understand 1/100th of these emails and based on pictures I’m assuming you will. Please filter the box down to what isn’t porn. I know this may take a month. I’m ok with that based on the first 4.
It probably thought they were leaked pictures taken from it’s galactic mobile.
Well, it has tentacles, maybe it’s gonna give her a free trail for the Interactive Tentacle Sex Experience
That would certainly account for Sydney’s expression in the last panel.
In which case, for the rest of her life, if Sydney ever again thinks about her Lighthook as the “Hentai Orb” she’ll get the shivering heebie-jeebies.
It has tentacles- more than two limbs- meaning it’s capable of accessing more orbs than a human, like Halo, can.
She’ll probably get proven tentacle size enhancement offers via email.
“You’ve got mail!” spammed on her computer 50 times, because fuck those stupid pop ups and spam emails
If you thought earth-spam was bad, wait until you encounter Cthulhu Wormhole Spam ™. In R’lyeh, no one can hear you opt out…
And if they do… They don’t care!
they R’lyeh, R’lyeh don’t care.
R’lyeh didn’t care, up until honey badger came calling.
You haven’t been schlupped till you’ve been Nyarlathoschlupped.
…why does that sound like something they would charge extra for on Saturday night?
I had to lol at this.
I think that counts as an extremely deep scan.
Galactic checkout technology, for when you want to make absolutely sure that there is no shoplifting. Even at a sub-atomic level.
Good thing this is a flashback. The scanner beast would be in all sorts of legal problems if he/she scanned Sydney these days, now that we got all the GDPR regulations.
Unknown item in the bagging area
He he.
Thank goodness I make periodic trips to civilisation, so I got the reference. Here labour is cheaper than installing self-service machines, so I have not seen one in any of the various chains of supermarkets that I have used.
Lucky. The only people they are not a massive inconvenience to are shoplifters. Our local large supermarket now has to keep 5 people lurking around the self checkout area. They took out 7 manned checkouts to put these in.
Does it recognise my gravatar now?
Personally I prefer to go the self checkout route. Apparently nobody born after 1965 in this country has any clue about how to bag groceries properly. By using the self checkout I bag everything myself, which means everything gets bagged correctly.
In the UK we generally bag our own. We even have to bring our own bags.
Some supermarkets, the till operators are timed per item, so scan them and throw them into the area at the end as fast as possible,
Some areas it is only cheaper to run self service because it prevents operators dipping the money in their till and short changing customers to make up for it.
The self scan checkouts check for weights in the bagging area to prevent you putting two items through but only scanning one. Doesn’t stop you putting your new TV through as potatoes.
Supermarkets did get a bit suspicious when they were selling many times more carrots than they actually stocked.
They narrowed it down to that scam, or the staff running a covert carrot farm in idle 6.
I heard that people were putting avocados on the scale, and telling the checkout machine that they were carrots. Once the TV news presenters covered the story, the problem got much worse. Seems everyone likes avocados at carrot prices.
*looks suspiciously at #6*
You trying to cover up the isle #6 investigation?
Not me!!! My alibi is my dislike of avocados. Never did care for the things.
Carry on capacity exceeded?
It only recognized one?
Pew-pew because it’s a weapon?
Mr. “You’ll figure it out eventually” orb because that’s the important one?
Actualy, it had data on the Shield orb and the Air orb, and specifically, it recognised that sydney had activated 1 of the abilities of the shield orb (out of 5 lines of text… what other abilities does it have other than size???)
It recognized two of them. One in the halo, one in the hand.
Two, it recognized the shield one in her hand too. And based on their rotation, and the apparent timeframe between frames, I’m pretty sure it was either the air or the unknown one.
It’s near impossible to make out details in today’s page with non-Patreon version image.
No it’s not: there is only one green-ball, and that’s the Air-ball
Well, it’s picking up on the Shield orb in Std’s hand, and based on how far the orbs have rotated in between panels, the second one with data seems to be the UNKNOWN 7th orb.
Std? That’s not a nice thing to say about a woman capable of Zorching your socks off!
It also seems to clearly scan Sydney’s nerves, not blood vessels. it’s not an Xray or thermal scan it sees of sydney.
That’s going to get on her nerves.
According to Sydney’s expression in the last panel, yes it already has…
It’s not the nerves. See the obvious lack of an optic chiasm, and vagus nerve? Those should be quite evident. The entirety of her brain isn’t properly defined, and there’s an obvious lack of a brachial plexus.
and, while some nerves are too small to be seen, and then, justified not to be on the image, the brachial plexus and the optic chiasm are large enough to be seen without even a magnifying glass, much less a microscope… FFS, it’s about half a centimeter in diameter.
And, this is a COMIC STRIP… don’t expect the artist to be up-to-date on all medical knowledge and then be able to accurately DRAW it…
Depending on how much time passed between the panel where Syd grabbed the shield orb (6?) and the scan (8?) the one in her halo that has text is either the atmosphere orb or the brown unknown orb.
That said it only has red lines so maybe that’s a list of scanner types that returned no result.
It has Male Gaze TM !
Is that to say that it’s “mentally undressing” Sydney right down to the level of her central nervous system?
Well, the Central Nervous System is generally an erogenous zone…
Obviously! A woman’s brain is the most attractive part! Makes sense that the machine would want to see it!
Bravo.
A gold star is not enough for that sentiment. You need a special award.
Although I must make it clear that my porn stash is not full of photos of women’s brains.
If it’s planning to abduct them, they better start praying that probing s just a myth.
Well… Dabbler’s probably praying that at the very least it isn’t a myth amongst this particular alien race
Dabbler plus Halos rumoured hentia and it may be more worried about them violating it.
We get the pleasure of seeing things from the scanner’s perspective. Anyone else concerned that the uh… Checkout is specifically interested in her Shield, and more importantly, her Life Support orb?
Life Supporb
Depending on how much time it’s had to rotate that might be the unknown orb.
Ooo. That would make sense if it’s the life support orb. Because the shield is activated, so it may be supplying air automatically, at least to a point…? Which would mean that the only two orbs the alien entity can get a “read” on are active…
I have a feeling that the Air Orb is processing atmospheric conditions rather than supplying oxygen. It looks like active text is in green and Sydney has already shown that she can get light-headed in the shield. This could be an automatic constant thing or the orb may be working off her subconscious.
Maybe Red laser recognition beams are super friendly to some aliens…
This one has the Orbs of Friendship.. bath her in the red lights of happiness…
“Hum for joy, and send up the celebration flares to gather the brethren in glorious chittering-song, for the prophecied She-Who-Must-Be-Pampered is here!”
Unknown entities detected. Scanning. ERROR! Unknowns detected! Possible threat! Sending information to home base! Signaling all other units! Engaging targets!
Which is what I assume is going on in the robots brain.
Or it could just be sending a message to its fellows in orbit, “Hey guys, I found my missing toolkit!”
What? It definitely has enough appendages to use all of the orbs at the same time & it doesn’t have a set of its own right now…
“Oh! So THERE is my intergalactic Swiss army knife!”
The orbs require HANDS to use, so I think they would be useless to anything with tentacles. Otherwise, some octopus probably would have picked them up years before Sydney found them.
Who is to say that the octopi aren’t descendants of the original owner of the orbs?
Also from the scan it looks like there is a minimum requirement when it comes to a central nervous system / intelligence.
This is actually Sam Cephalopod, private investigator. He was hired by Trent’s family to track down their missing child. His scanner is picking up minute traces of Trent’s DNA on Sydney. The sky beam is him calling back to his office to let them know that he has found a lead in the case.
So – is Squidbilly there serving the function of a tripwire, left to catch any portal latecomers and sound the alert to the destroyers? Either way, it did not seem happy to see her, or at least, see the orbs..
On a separate note, did anyone else see that it could only gather information on two of the orbs – one of which is the one Sydney is holding, and therefore active? Assuming that all the creature is recording is the effect of the orb, and not how the orb itself works, that would mean there is one orb that is active regardless of physical contact. Maybe a control/interface mechanism for the orb-wielder?
Given that it was able to do an in-depth active scan of Syd through the magic & everything else blocking shield, and indeed scan the shield itself, the fact it couldn’t get a read on the orbs is interesting.
Actually not so surprising to be able to scan through the shield. The shield is effective against physical objects but is transparent to radiation – at least in the visible light spectrum.
True, and it allows things like audio and radio to pass through as well, but given it blocks things like the weakness & agression auras, and blocks light-based damage such as lasers..
Maybe it just doesn’t register the scan as a danger, and so is unconcerned.
If you look at the shield orb skill tree progression, the one that seems to indicate strength of the shield only has 4 out of 5 points unlocked. Maybe it just isnt strong enough yet?
Ouch, they were attacked once and now they gonna get attacked again cause Sydney triggered them
Is that supposed to be the neural network?
Chaotic neural.
…That’s ADHD for ya’…
Seriously though, if this board had the capacity for counting upvotes, your response would be worth all of them.
So would that be why the Orbs bonded with Sydney? Her ADHD actually gave her a compatible neural system? Since obviously plenty of people had been in those same reefs and never found the orbs. It would be like the geode that splashed only on Maxima despite all the others who’d previously handled it without a reaction.
Hey, at least it’s not a BLUE sky beam. How bad could it be?
This could mean so many things, almost none of them good for the team or Earth.
The most benign thing I can think of is that this thing was left behind to ‘clean up’ and saw the orbs as something that requires back-up to take care of.
One of the worst situation would be this thing being merely a scout specifically out there to find the orbs, powerful enough on its own to destroy any civilization it comes across so it won’t get in the way, and now it found its target and Earth.
Well, only if it can somehow trace the point of origin for the portal. Guess we will find out whether suitably advanced technology is compatible with blood-magic…
Okay that’s more than a little creepy. Sydney is probably having her latent, nerd dangerous on high alert right now. Also it seems to be able to see and recognize at least two of the orbs including the orb Goin Up the force field orb and what appears to be to be the life-support orb
That’s supposed to be latent nerd danger sense on high alert.
I wonder how much that thing’s going to trip out when it scans Maxima?
That was my thought too, could it scan through her skin or would it just get a white blank area back like the x-rays.
if the way Dabbler and her tech (which is very advanced compared to our level of tech…) seems to not be able to get ANY data off of the orbs, but this guy CAN, i’d guess that it WILL be able to scan Maxima and at least get SOME data that we are currently unable to get with our current tech levels…
Interesting that it was Sciona’s wing trail that woke the thing up, but it is more focused on Sydney and her orbs.
Yeah make a very interesting point.
It may not have been Sciona’s wing that was required. It might have just been reacting to simple movement or pressure. Of course, given that it is likely either:
A) a native life-form of Sciona’s planet (artificial or otherwise).
B) part of or a parting gift from whom or whatever destroyed her race (in less than two days, if Sciona is correct).
Then a sensitivity to her race, abilities and/or power signature would not be surprising.
But given it’s apprently ignoring Sciona, as you said – if the former, that would fit. Of course, it may have just focused on the largest group first.
Have you ever seen someone fly sad? It’s like jumping rope sad, or skipping sad. It’s just not done.
Well it’s obvious that Sciona is going to have to get herself a banjo then.
If Sciona gets a banjo, we’ll have to paddle faster.
Flying upside own just under a raining cloud, so you can walk in the rain without meeting anyone. Admittedly fake walking on a cloud, but it counts.
That is not sad, it is attempted suicide, for humans, with your down-turning noses! All the rain would be falling inside the nostrils.
What is it we are looking at here? Trying to find some way to relate to what you’ve drawn. Is it a mud ooze? Cthulhu? What is the blue glow and the kite strings of white S shapes underneath?
Whatever it is is covered in earth and probably has been lying idle for a long time. Probably a machine of some type, a probe I’m guessing. Takes scans and sends data, maybe a little more than that given it has tentacles.
It is something that you don’t want to relate to. Nope, nope, bad idea!
Am I the only one who heard the sound effect from the laseer-scan-thingies from the movie “Prometheus” here?
Just me?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/videoplayer/vi2405016345?ref_=tt_ov_vi
I heard the reapers from Mass Effect when it went red.
Hmmm. Why is the shield only around Sydney? I would think Maxima’s command to raise the shield would mean for it to protect everyone. Or is it artistic license because the larger shield would be impossible to be seen in the closeup?
Sydney is scared, and aims to protect herself at all costs?
The extra time it would have taken. She didn’t know if that beam was weaponised or utilitarian but dangerous.
Examining the panel of the galactic deep scan, it looks like the power is inside Sydney. I wounder if the orbs themselves hold the power or are the powers inside Sydney and the orbs are just there to help her interact with them. Will she be able to use the powers with out the orbs eventually?
I’m pretty sure it’s just highlighting her nervous system. The orbs are pitch black because most forms of scanning completely fail to detect their existence. That said, this thing is having the most success thus far.
Not the most success. That award now belongs a certain reality-editing Pixel – “The Deep Code! The Universe laid bare! God’s Dice-bag tumbling across the velvety tabletop of space and time!”
She gets bonus points as she wasn’t even trying to scan them at the time.
To be fair the others might have had a better time scanning them while the upgrade panel was on.
…Crona,not Pixel…
Oops, Krona, not Pixel – you are quite correct.
In answer to Mike, Dabbler was present when Syd first saw her upgrade tree, and still wasn’t able to see anything beyond what Syd herself saw.
Yes, I seems to be highlighting various parts in Sydney’s brain & more that could correspond to similar colored orbs.
If you meet something strange and the first thing it does is calls its buddies….
If this was DnD my Bard would be saying “This is why I have Dimension Door at ALL TIMES….”
It seems that creature knows about Sydney’s orbs…! Now Sydney has requested a retreat and pray they don’t trapped in that dimension!
Interesting power level for that probe. Dabbler’s technomagic was completely ineffective in scanning it. Her cybernetic eye could not even see the skill tree. Then we have Krona indicating that the language associated with the orbs is somthing fundamental (with a vibe like ‘the language of creation’).
Yet this critter cut through that like it did not exist!
And then seems to have sent an urgent message. Probably offworld.
It considers the orbs to be important enough that it did not even call collect!
Two theories come back to mind.
1: The orbs are part of a space ship, possibly a bio-ship.
*sub-set: this thing is either from the same civilization, one that recognizes the magi-tech, or are not on good terms with the creators of the orbs. Red eyes are seldom good.
2: The orbs are something eldritch, and something eldritch just got freaked out by them.
So does this mean they wiped out Sciona’s people and know it’s detected something sufficiently advanced that it immediately contacts it’s superiors?
Not fancying Sciona’s chances but given her habits on earth she might not get killed but joins them to return to Earth?
The thing that worries me most is the BEAM, its like its putting out a call for backup or like when the Heralds of Galactus summon him to a nice juicy planet. I just dont see that as being any sort of good.
The ominous BRAAAAA Inception music is now overplaying Sciona’s sad Hulk walk music.
I like to think that it’s calling for help because it scanned her memories and saw what she did to a ‘bank robber’ without using any of the orbs.
Killing time, whilst waiting for the bus home, at an internet cafe, in Varna. On a random PC in a bank of 32. Yet various things I type in, on the browser, are being anticipated after just a few characters, for instance “https://www.grrlpowercomic.com” or “Sydney Scoville Jr”.
Nice to know that there is some other Grrlpower fan here. And this is not the first time it has happened, so I suspect that there are a number (otherwise I would be less likely to be at a PC with such terms in the search history).
Its got a good following Im sure. In researching Patreon and looking at what other web comic artists are doing for theirs I noticed Dave is making a decent little monthly income from this. So he’s got enough fans to support him doing this full time it seems. Nice to know, here’s to hoping the popularity spreads far and wide. Could you imagine seeing a decently budgeted Grrl Power movie!
Just looked to the side of the comic, seems it’s currently ranked #5 in the TopWebComics rating. Now I don’t know how many of you Humans go online & vote on that, but it seems a few…
It is shameful any month that we let it slip below third. I can only hold my head high on months when it stays at number one all month. Fortunately that is reasonably often.
Maybe is Sydney put that thing on THE LIST it would back off and run away.
Hold on. They are on an alien world with an carbon/oxygen ecosystem. If they just jump back to Earth who knows what alien diseases they could be bringing back? Are they going to have to sit in quarantine for a week to see if someone suddenly turn purple or something? (any MORE people turn purple)
Because its comics and that sort of things never happens unless its a plot point (looking at you Venom).
That would be wise. We don’t want to create another sequel to “Species” now. (They got worse and worse with each movie.)
Of course, this begs the question of what microscopic flora and fauna from Earth will do once they get to Sciona’s home dimension and start exploring. No telling what’s going to happen if they find something they “like.”
There are aliens on Earth already. Syd has met quite a few. Unless we see something sneak back with them, it won’t be something they haven’t already encountered.
If there’s interstellar travel, there will also be some version of the CDC (probably organized within the Xevoarchy) that mandates specific vaccination-protocols for each species that wants to travel…I would guess. Joining the military, Sydney would’ve had to succumb to the “21-gun salute” series of shots by now.
If not, then oh well…The whole team seems to have skipped out of the interstellar vaccines before coming here.
Actually, none. Diseases jumping across species are EXTREMELY rare. We are living together millions of animals and only a handful of disease was able to jump from our barn animals to us. It is very very likely that whatever disease an alien would carry couldn’t attack us, at all.
But then we also cannot interbreed with such animals despite the best attempts by some. However, there are hybrids known between alien races, indicating we are likely to be genetically closer and therefore more susceptible to any diseases.
As this is the homeworld of Sconia, Sconia may have already brought some diseases with her (both wittingly and unwittingly) to Earth without (as far as we know) any consequences. And now some pathogens fromEarth can come to this world
There is the possibility that the invaders used pathogens, but given the damage that we see, it is not their primary form of attack.
Sciona, not “Sconia”. (I know, nit picking.)
… great. Now I have a craving for scones.
… I also have a concept for a hero whose “power” is baked goods. “Anyone want a scone?”
Sciona, not “Sconia”. (I know, I’m nit picking.)
… Great. Now I have a craving for scones.
… I also have an idea for a “superhero” whose “power” is baked goods. “Anybody want a scone?”
(If this posts twice, I blame WordPress. It has been behaving strangely for me lately.)
Yea, it has been for all of us. But I have noticed signs of changes, so am sure work is being done to try and fix it, even if it isn’t quite there yet.
Best way to check for a post is just to go back to the previous page, then return. 99% of the time it will appear.
F5 & CTL F5, conversely, are unlikely to work (unless you left it some time before trying).
Well Achilles is fine, cause Achilles. Dabbler probably has her intergalactic herpes immunizations up to date so she’s fine. Max and Hiro might have super immune systems. Sydney is the only one with any real threat here.
If they DO turn purple, they’ll have to be on guard & “keep a watchful eye out (Dabbler can do that part; she’s shown us that back in the steak house restaurant)” for any one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eaters.
I used to have a old fashioned Star Trek scanner device toy.
You push a button on it and it made a passive scanning sound, then a “found something” (which was a deeper tone with some static mixed in) scan sound, then back to the passive one again.
It didn’t matter HOW sure I was that my closet was empty. If I swept it across my room and timed it so it changed while over my closet… That sound freaked me right-the-crap out.
Anyone else wonder why we haven’t seen Maxima take Sydney out somewhere far from anything and pound on the shield? Knowing the maximum it can take seems a teensy bit important, right?
She did. A while ago. Blasted it with laser bomb beams and everything.
Did you see the testing before the media circus got to watch the demonstrations?
Good news. The orbs have finally picked a new leader/master.
Bad news I’m from the political party who doesn’t want a new leader/master. Now to let my party leaders know where you are.
Looks like its tendrils managed to contact the two orbs closest to it, Green and Purple, before Sydney got her shield up, blocking the tendrils’ access to the other five orbs. Hence why those two show data and the others are blank.
The YEEEEEN might be response to the shield blocking access, something it has seldom encountered, possibly?
I’m thinking this thing is like the alien probe in the episode of Babylon 5 where it threatens destruction for failing to answer a list of high-level questions, and the crew reason that the probe is designed to destroy potential threats, so they ignore it and it leaves them in peace, assuming they’re too primitive.
Those aren’t tendrils, they’re scanning energy beams…
Oh, physically, they’re scanning energy beams, informatically, they’re probing tendrils.
Hey. We have a Sergent Schultz moment here.
I See Nothing!… I KNOW Nothing!!….
Beast: I spy with my little eye… something that… WTF?
Sydney DOESN’T want to fight the monster scanner thing? What madness is this?
Its huge, looks like Cthulhu’s cousin, just started to glow red, emerged from the dust of a desolated landscape, looks like its sending a signal to Galactus, and has red movie sniper like beams pointed all over her and her orbs and the beams appear to be passing right through her supposedly invincible shield.
-time. to. leave.
*nods*
I feel the urge to leap to rescue Sydney. Towards her and well away from Galactus’s dinner gong / entré chef.
Ironic twist. It’s actually a tech support bot that just realized Sydney doesn’t have a copy of the manual. It’s actually calling a customer service rep to give her the training materials and complimentary road side service that should have come with the orbs.
Let us hope that they do not feel it necessary to build said road, through the Earth.
“Pardon, valued customer, but your support plan has expired. Summoning Local Sales Rep to explain to you why this is a bad idea, and all the benefits you will receive if you reinstate it within the next 30 minutes. For example, you could be permitted to retain no less than two limbs and a sensing organ of your choice, for no extra cost!”
I just have to say that Sydney has returned to her lovely cute self, over the last few pages.
So glad that she recovered from the incident where her uniform got temporarily bleached, by the acidity of Sciona’s monologuing.
“We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.”
“Error! ERROR!! 404 Objects not found/Scanned!!! Exterminate!!! EXTERMINATE!!!”
(Started with Borg voice, transitioning to Dalek for the error message. ;) )
Lol.
A nurse walks in from off-screen (insert obligatory “Hello, nurse!” joke here).
“The Doctor is ready to see you now.”
“Doctor who?”