> Betamu mumbled some sort of "urk" type noise as she brought her arm up to
>shield her eyes from the bright light. The doctor dropped his scalpel in
>shock and stumbled back.
> *BETAMU!! Betamu!! Wake UP!* Eve shrieked repeatedly.
> *Shut up Eve...* Betamu sat up and glanced down at the trembling doctor.
> The doctor nervously returned the stare and then tried his best to mumble
>something coherent.
> "W-w-who a-are y-y-you?" Betamu stood up towering over the doctor.
> "I'm... " she paused for a second trying to drown out Eve's wild shrieks
>of joy, "I'm.... I'm really hungry..." She brought her arms up around her
>body, it was cold in the lab room, too cold for her. "...and cold." The
>doctor scrambled over to a small console next to the door and pushed a little
>blue button.
> "Type-2401 is conscious, bring food." The doctor turned around and looked
>at Betamu for a second and then opened the huge metal door and slipped out.
>
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>
> Doc Shimoto leaned over the front of the table his jaw almost touching
>the ground in shock,
> "For the love of GOD creature how much are you gonna eat." Betamu
>ignored him grabbing an apple and taking a large bite out of it.
> "That's your thirty-fourth apple!" She swallowed the bite and then took
>another while attempting to speak,
> "Ith's cold." A small piece of apple fell out of the corner of her
>mouth. Everyone in the cafeteria of the Nerima Area Facility had by this
>point in time turned their undivided attention to Betamu's appetite. The
>cafeteria was full of all sorts of strange aliens and creatures. If they
>were from another world, this is where they were kept. Betamu glanced around
>briefly as she polished off the apple.
> "Ok, I'm full." she gave a half-smile. Shimoto sat back,
> "It's about time." Betamu's half-smile turned into a grin, and she
>snickered a little.
> Shimoto leaned forward again, "What's so funny?"
> *Betamu I don't think that's a very good idea.*
> *Shut up Eve.* Betamu looked directly into Shimoto's eyes and then
>grabbed his forehead.
> "This..." Shimoto's head lurched back sharply after a somewhat loud
>popping sound, he slumped forward onto the table. Betamu pulled her hand
>back and massaged it a little. *Eve, have you cracked all the access codes
>for this place yet?*
> *Not totally, but I have made an interesting discovery about this world.*
> *What?* Betamu quirked back across the cerebral connection.
> *They are sooo primitive that they're still using electronic devices
>vulnerable to minor power surges and EM pulses, which means you should be
>able to disable most of them with a little twinge.*
> *Excellent.* Betamu stood up as most of the other aliens watched. She
>calmly walked over to the entrance of the cafeteria. She reached out to the
>access panel and entered the code. The door slid open. She sauntered down
>the hall towards the elevator. Again she punched in the access code provided
>by Eve and the door opened effortlessly. *Eve, I can't just walk out the
>front door. Isn't there another way out.*
> *Afraid not, but there is way you can probably get out. This facility
>isn't something that's open to the public, so it's hidden, rather poorly at
>that. It's in the basement of an office building in Nerima, and it's usually
>rather crowded. If you can get ahold of some clothes you might be able to
>sneak out in the crowd. You could get to the ground floor through a
>ventilation shaft on the 5th floor.*
> Betamu kneeled down to inspect the elevator panel better. "I guess this
>is it," she muttered as she pushed the small round button labeled "5".
>
> Betamu stepped out into the streets of Nerima. *So nice of that man to
>let me have his clothes.*
> *I don't exactly think 'let' is an appropiate word.* Eve retorted.
> Betamu started off down the street, taking particular note of how well
>she was fitting in, she was only 13-14 inches taller than everyone else.
>She squatted down a little in a futile attempt to be a little less
>conspicuous. "It's so cold" she muttered as she pulled the leather jacket
>she had stolen tighter onto her body. People were staring. After a bit of
>wandering she found herself in front a small building called a "Dojo". She
>was getting hungry again, it was cold. The cold was beginning to be too much
>for her.
> Betamu sat down and leaned back on the door *Eve, I thought I told you to
>find a place with a suitable temperature for me.*
> *Um... yeah, sorry about that. You see I didn't realized these people
>haven't discovered how to control their climate yet. It was good when I
>picked it. It's about seventy... degrees now, that's their unit for
>temperature.*
> Betamu relaxed a little, her eyes drifting shut, "These people are
>backwater."
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