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The Zin Ship Above Fandom, Saturday Evening

The sim broke for the first time sometime shortly after dinnertime on Saturday. It was just a little blip, in a few places. Across the full extent of the Zin simulation system, it was negligble.

But for the citizens of Simulation 45y, it meant there was a chance, for just an instance, to escape.

Across the Zin ship, pods opened. Just a couple, here and there. But that was enough.

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Across the ship, there are pods in various places. Some close together, some far apart, all in their own room. These big round pods have big round glass doors, which open automatically when the creature within regains consciousness.

And some of them might just have.

. . . And then Raven was in a pod.

So this was new.

She climbed out slowly, all her muscles stiff. When she lowered herself to the floor she was careful of her injured ankle -- except it was fine. She felt sore all over, but the ankle that had gotten shot earlier totally didn't hurt any worse than anything else.

Right. Because none of that was real.

Which meant she could shift again!

She gleefully went through about six different shapes right there in her pod room just because she could, then turned to look at the door. She could go small and sneaky and get out without drawing any real laser fire on herself.

Or she could go big and maybe get to break some things while she made her way out.

Decisions, decisions.

The inside of the Zin ship is a maze of corridors and stairs (http://cdn.cheatcc.com/guide_screens/saints_row_4/KinzieGambit4.jpg), patrolled by various Zin guards.

Too bad for them they're not really expecting a break-out.

There are several teleporter rooms all across the ship. Find them and hit a few buttons until they display Fandom - then you can go out.

Or find some other way to break out. Maybe you have friends on the outside?

Raven went with a small elephant. Just big enough to almost fill the hallways as she went barreling through the ship, looking for an escape route.

There. That looked hatch-y. Raven lowered her head, grew and thickened a bone plate over her forehead, and ran full force into it as hard as she could.

There seems to be actual commotion on the ship; some of the lights on the outside keep blinking on and off.

Want to head up there and pick up some of your newly-escaped islandmates? Just want to shoot at the ship and see if it dinges anything? Go go!

Somewhere, someone had let Kenzi have a flame-thrower.

"GIMME BACK MY BO, YOU ASSHOLES!"

This experience was not how Zoe wanted Grace to learn about ships, but at least she was going to learn a valuable lesson - if you wanted to escape a ship, hitting things was always a good first idea. Zoe had Grace scooped up in one arm and a piece of metal she'd broken off on her way here in the other, and was banging at buttons trying to make something happen. After a few good thwacks--was that swearing?

"Hello?!" she yelled back. "Is someone out there?"

"YES!" Kenzi yelled back, jolting. "Who is it? Are you okay?"

"I'll be a lot better when I can get. something. open," Zoe said, punctuating that with some more smacks. "It's Zoe Winchester, and my daughter. I don't suppose you see a door on that side?" That would probably require more luck than she had.

"No!" Kenzi hollered back. "But there's a seam right here and I have a flame-thrower!"

You might want to stand back, Zoe.

For a moment, Zoe wondered why she had a flamethrower. Then she realized:

a) she probably didn't want to know, and
b) she did not want to die by flamethrower,

so she turned and crouched down, putting herself between Grace and the seam. "All right, go!"

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH Flame burned along the seam, loosening up some of those space-rivets, and making the metal curl a bit. Not a lot- this stuff was space-worthy after all -- but some. The metal buckled and curled, and Kenzi stepped back, pushing up her goggles.

"Can you kick it out when it cools in a minute?"

Oh, Zoe would be happy to get to kicking, and she may have put a little more force into it than necessary to make a hole where Kenzi had burned the metal. It probably didn't look very dignified as she crawled out, but the important thing was they were out, and Grace was looking at Kenzi and the flamethrower with a particular gleam in her eye once she was steady.

"No, you can't have one," Zoe said to her, before smiling at Kenzi. "Thank you for that."

She was just dizzy enough that when she was suddenly out into open air, Raven didn't immediately remember shift out of elephant form until the ground was rather closer than anyone might want it to be. She let out a trumpeting shriek that shriveled into a squawk as she shifted into a falcon.

She managed to bank at the last moment, her wings spread. Was she -- was she flying? She was flying. She was flying! -- oh shit a tree!

A little peregrine falcon scrabbled at the air, missed a tree, and landed tangled in a bush.

Giggling.

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Yeah, so that wasn't a clue or anything.

"Hello? Did you just break out of the ship?" Kenzi called, trying to brush some of the branches out of her view. "Are you usually human?"

Raven flapped her wings, trying to disentangle herself -- then gave up and just shifted into human form. She got a number of scratches in the process and pretty well decimated that poor bush, but at least she wasn't stuck in it anymore.

She'd had enough of being stuck, this week.

"Hi," she said. "Yes. To both questions."

"Raven!" Kenzi looked delighted to see her favorite fake justice-of-the-peace. "Dude! Welcome back! Do you need anything?" She stopped and put the flame-thrower down. "What happened?"

"I shot jello at people and then I woke up in a pod and I busted through a hatch as an elephant but I was in the air so I turned into a bird and I think I might have flown."

Raven was the best storyteller. The best.

"Trippy." Seriously trippy. Kenzi offered Raven a hand to get herself out of the shrubbery. "Shooting Jell-O? What? Did you see Bo in there anywhere?"

"The security woman, right?" Raven asked. "I talked to her the first day. We commiserated about our powers not working."

That was worth a combination of oh no and Yay! at the same time. Kenzi grimaced. "Do you think she could break out?" She paused and reached in her tote bag. "I think I've got a water bottle in here, if you want some."

"Oh yes please," Raven said with some fervor. "They must've been keeping us fed and everything up there somehow, but my mouth is dry as a rock." As for the other question, Raven shrugged. "Everyone's working on breaking everything in there, as far as I can tell. I saw my chance and ran for it. I'm sure everyone else will be along soon."

Kenzi handed the water bottle over fast, and sat back on her heels to contemplate that statement. "So you got your powers back, though? Since you were an elephant and then a really klutzy bird?" So it wasn't permanent, whatever it was, and Bo might be whammying a lot of guards into being her love-slaves right now.

"As soon as I got out of the pod," Raven said, after she took a long gulp from the water bottle. "They were only gone in the simulation. And we got new ones the last couple of days, I guess from the people out here helping out. I could shoot jello out of my hands after the school blew up this morning."

Kenzi started snickering at that, delighted, then said, "Pod? Zinyak or whoever was keeping you guys in little pods? How completely... sci-fi."

"Well," Raven said. "It is an alien spaceship."

"True, but. It's Fandom. I always expect something extra." Kenzi squinted at the ship, then asked, "Anything else we can do from out here? People have been hacking all week, I guess."

"I don't know," Raven said. "If we try attacking the ship itself we might damage those pods and hurt people."

Kenzi gave her flamethrower a regretful look. "Damnit." Nnnngh. "Right. Let's get you back to the dorm. And the library, if you feel up to telling people stuff that can help?"

"Sure," Raven said. "Though I don't know how helpful I'd be. I don't really know anything about computers."

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