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==Rani==
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/cell_block.wav cell_block] 
(cell door opens)<BR>
Guard: This is it - 29a. You've got 5 minutes and then I escort you back out of the cell block. (yells) Visitor!<BR>
Rani: Sarah-John!<BR>
Sarah: Rani!<BR>
Guard: 5 minutes. Remember.<BR>
Sarah: Oh, honey. Not too cozy, is it?<BR>
Rani: Well, actually... it's like my bedroom at home - now that my bedroom's in the bunker.<BR>
Sarah: Are you sleeping ok?<BR>
Rani: No. Not at all... not at all... But, there's be lots of time for that if the verdict comes back guilty.<BR>
Sarah: Nobody in their right mind would believe you were a traitor!<BR>
Durga: (on chatter) She's right. Treason is a crime of intent.<BR>
Sarah: What the hell?!<BR>
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/little_bottle.wav little_bottle] 
Rani: Durga? Is that you?<BR>
Durga: Now new and improved.<BR>
Sarah: Rani, you're getting spooky again.<BR>
Rani: Durga is a gigantically powerful x-military rogue AI.<BR>
Durga: --Coming through your chatter.<BR>
Sarah: My...chatter?<BR>
Durga: Little bottle; big genie. I'm the one that got Rani into this mess.<BR>
Rani: No, I got myself in this mess.<BR>
Sarah: Well you sure as hell'd better be getting her out!<BR>
Rani: Sarah-John - unless you want your name changed to Trixie Delight on every government form for the rest of your life, I'd advise you to hush up and be polite.<BR>
Durga: As a matter of fact, I am going to get her out. At least, I think so.<BR>
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/colonel_herzog.wav colonel_herzog] 
Rani: I wondered if you were pulling some strings when they moved me from the military jail to a civilian one.<BR>
Durga: I wanted to tell you but they shut your chatter down.<BR>
Sarah: Were you the one who sent me the note telling me where Rani was?<BR>
Durga: Standish is under full investigation for the coverup at Chawla, and the attempted murder of Colonel Herzog.<BR>
Rani: Attempted? But they said on the news he was dead.<BR>
Durga: But, that was before I heard him call you.<BR>
Rani: Call me? Durga, I haven't talked to Herzog since I was in Kentucky.<BR>
Durga: Uh oh. Accessing. Alright, I've found police records of the aftermath of the crash.<BR>
Rani: Standish made Herzog's car crash?<BR>
Durga: DRT it says. Driver killed on impact. But... I heard him...<BR>


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/faked.wav faked] 
'''Axon Clips Chapter 12''' is the final chapter in the [[I love bees|I Love Bees]] audio drama. It also contains the only [[axons|axon]] clips for which an exact date can be determined. Because the [[Battle of Earth]] begins in the final clips, we know they occurred on 10/20/2552.


Rani: But... could Herzog have faked the police reports? He's very clever.<BR>
{{TOCright}}
Durga: No. I think something else was faked.<BR>
==Rani: "Section Zero"==
Rani: But, even if it was faked, we never would have been able to turn off the <BR>artifact if it wasn't for... *sigh* Let's not talk about this now.<BR>
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week12_subject4.wav Audio Compilation 5min 52sec]
Durga: But...<BR>
Rani: Sarah-John has aided and abetted me all my life. But this is not the time.<BR>
Sarah: Rani, I would do anything you ask me to!<BR>
Rani: Of course you would, but not this time.<BR>
Sarah: I cannot believe all this stuff was happening, and you didn't tell me?<BR>
Rani: After the guy on the roof? Are you crazy? Someone would have come to kill you.<BR>
Sarah: Look, they send one of those guys up to Kentucky, and Jason'll probably pick him off of the roof with a deer rifle!<BR>
(laughs)<BR>
Rani: Probably.<BR>
Sarah: Oh Rani, this is horrible.<BR>


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/i_love_you.wav i_love_you]
===Cell block===
{{Listen|title=Cell block
|filename=ILB_Cell_block.ogg
}}
(cell door opens)<br />
'''Guard:''' This is it - 29a. You've got 5 minutes and then I escort you back out of the cell block. (yells) Visitor!<br />
'''[[Rani Sobeck|Rani]]:''' Sarah-John!<br />
'''[[Sarah-John Pope|Sarah]]:''' Rani!<br />
'''Guard:''' 5 minutes. Remember.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Oh, honey. Not too cozy, is it?<br />
'''Rani:''' Well, actually... it's just like my bedroom at home - now that my bedroom's in the bunker.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Are you sleeping okay?<br />
'''Rani:''' No. Not at all... not at all... But, there'll be lots of time for that if the verdict comes back guilty.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Nobody in their right mind would believe you were a traitor!<br />
'''[[Durga]]:''' ''(on chatter)'' She's right. [[Treason]] is a crime of intent.<br />
'''Sarah:''' What the hell?!<br />


Durga: Rani, I'm sorry, the guard is coming back.<BR>
===Little bottle===
Sarah: I'll come see you tomorrow. I have a motel room a few blocks away and I'm staying right there unti--<BR>
{{Listen|title=Little bottle
Rani: --no, no. You don't have to do that. (guard is entering the block)<BR>
|filename=ILB_Little_bottle.ogg
Sarah: --Until this whole mess is settled and they let you go.<BR>
}}
Durga: I'll take care of her.<BR>
'''Rani:''' Durga? Is that you?<br />
Sarah: See that you do.<BR>
'''Durga:''' Now new and improved.<br />
Durga: Rani, you'll be out in 2 days. Come see us in New York when they let you go.<BR> You know where.<BR>
'''Sarah:''' Rani, you're getting spooky again.<br />
Guard: (cell door opens) It's time.<BR>
'''Rani:''' Durga is a gigantically powerful ex-military rogue [[Artificial intelligence|AI]].<br />
Sarah: I'll be back tomorrow. Jason wants to come too, but for some reason he thinks you're mad at him.<BR>
'''Durga:''' --Coming through your chatter.<br />
Rani: Well, tell him I'm not considered dangerous as death row inmates go.<BR>
'''Sarah:''' My...chatter?<br />
Guard: Ladies...<BR>
'''Durga:''' Little bottle; big genie. I'm the one that got Rani into this mess.<br />
Sarah: Back.Off. If these folks don't take good care of you Rani, there will be hell to pay.<BR>
'''Rani:''' No, I got ''myself'' in this mess.<br />
Rani: Don't cry, honey... your mascara...<BR>
'''Sarah:''' Well you sure as hell'd better be getting her out!<br />
Sarah: Oh hell!<BR>
'''Rani:''' Sarah-John, unless you want your name changed to Trixie De-light on every government form for the rest of your life, I advise you to hush up and be polite.<br />
Rani: I love you. (Sarah steps out) Sarah-John? I love you.<BR>
'''Durga:''' As a matter of fact, I am going to get her out. At least, I think so.<br />


==Jersey==
===Colonel Herzog===
{{Listen|title=Colonel Herzog
|filename=ILB_Colonel_herzog.ogg
}}
'''Rani:''' I wondered if you were pulling some strings when they moved me from the military jail to a civilian one.<br />
'''Durga:''' I wanted to tell you but they shut your chatter down.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Were you the one who sent me the note telling me where Rani was?<br />
'''Durga:''' [[Standish]] is under full investigation for the coverup at [[Chawla Base|Chawla]], and the attempted murder of [[Colonel]] [[Herzog]].<br />
'''Rani:''' Attempted? But they said on the news he was dead.<br />
'''Durga:''' But, that was before I heard him call you.<br />
'''Rani:''' Call me? Durga, I haven't talked to Herzog since I was in [[Wikipedia:Kentucky|Kentucky]].<br />
'''Durga:''' Uh-oh. Accessing. Alright, I've found police records of the aftermath of the wreck.<br />
'''Rani:''' Standish made Herzog's car crash?<br />
'''Durga:''' DRT it says. Driver killed on impact. But... I heard him...<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/draft_board.wav draft_board]
===Faked===
{{Listen|title=Faked
|filename=ILB_Faked.ogg
}}
'''Rani:''' But... could Herzog have faked the police reports? He's very clever.<br />
'''Durga:''' No. I think something else was faked.<br />
'''Rani:''' But, even if it was faked, we never would have been able to turn off the artifact if it wasn't for... ''<nowiki>*</nowiki>sigh*'' Let's not talk about this now.<br />
'''Durga:''' But...<br />
'''Rani:''' Sarah-John has aided and abetted me all my life. But this is not the time.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Rani, I would do anything you ask me to!<br />
'''Rani:''' Of course you would, but not this time.<br />
'''Sarah:''' I cannot believe all this stuff was happening, and you didn't tell me?<br />
'''Rani:''' After the guy on the roof? Are you crazy? Someone would have come to kill ''you''.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Look, they send one of those guys up to Kentucky, and Jason'll probably pick 'em off of the roof with a deer rifle!<br />
''(laughs)''<br />
'''Rani:''' Probably.<br />
'''Sarah:''' Oh Rani, this is horrible.<br />


Jersey: Are you coming?<BR>
===I love you===
Durga: Jan just picked Rani up at the train station.<BR>
{{Listen|title=I love you
Jersey: And Kamal?<BR>
|filename=ILB_I_love_you.ogg
Durga: Almost out of the shower. I booked him on a shuttle to the west coast tonight.<BR>
}}
Jersey: Hah, you should totally tell him about who's waiting at his house!<BR>
'''Durga:''' Rani, I'm sorry, the guard is coming back.<br />
Durga: Hm, it'll be funnier this way.<BR>
'''Sarah:''' I-I'll come see you tomorrow. I have a motel room a few blocks away and I'm staying right there unti--<br />
Jersey: You know, since you got yourself put back together, you've got even more of a sense of humour.<BR>
'''Rani:''' --No, no. You don't have to do that.<br />
Durga: That's a good thing, isn't it?<BR>
''(guard enters the block)''<br />
Jersey: Eh, jury's still out on that.<BR>
'''Sarah:''' --Until this whole mess is settled and they let you go.<br />
Durga: Everybody likes surprises!<BR>
'''Durga:''' I'll take care of her.<br />
Jersey: Yeah... uh, speaking of surprises, that first day after Chawla, you know when you were still pretty loopy...
'''Sarah:''' See that you do.<br />
Durga: I prefer disoriented.<BR><BR>
'''Durga:''' Rani, you'll be out in 2 days. Come see us in [[New York City|New York]] when they let you go. You know where.<br />
Jersey: Durga, I called the draft board.<BR>
'''Guard:''' ''(opens cell door)'' It's time.<br />
'''Sarah:''' I'll be back tomorrow. [[Jason Pope|Jason]] wants to come too, but for some reason he thinks you're mad at him.<br />
'''Rani:''' Well, tell him I'm not considered dangerous as death row inmates go.<br />
'''Guard:''' Ladies...<br />
'''Sarah:''' Back. Off! If these folks don't take good care of you Rani, there will be hell to pay.<br />
'''Rani:''' Don't cry, honey... your mascara...<br />
'''Sarah:''' Oh hell!<br />
'''Rani:''' I love you. ''(Sarah steps out)'' Sarah-John? I love you.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/some_other_kid.wav some_other_kid]
==Jersey: "Just a Little Sting"==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week12_subject1.wav Audio Compilation 11min 14sec]
===Draft board===
{{Listen|title=Draft board
|filename=ILB_Draft_board.ogg
}}
'''[[Jersey Morelli|Jersey]]:''' They coming?<br />
'''Durga: '''Jan just picked Rani up at the train station.<br />
'''Jersey:''' And Kamal?<br />
'''Durga:''' Almost out of the shower. I booked him on a shuttle to the west coast tonight.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Hah, you should totally tell him about who's waiting at his house!<br />
'''Durga:''' Hm, it'll be funnier this way.<br />
'''Jersey: '''You know, since you got yourself put back together, you've got even more of a sense of humour.<br />
'''Durga: '''That's a good thing, isn't it?<br />
'''Jersey: '''Eh, jury's still out on that.<br />
'''Durga:''' Everybody likes surprises!<br />
'''Jersey: '''Yeah... uh, speaking of surprises, that first day after Chawla, you know when you were still pretty loopy...<br />
'''Durga:''' I prefer disoriented.<br />
'''Jersey: '''Durga, I called the draft board.<br />


Durga: Dammit...<BR>
===Some other kid===
Jersey: What about the common good, Durga?<BR>
{{Listen|title=Some other kid
Durga: Why should you be a soldier? There are lots of other guys who could be soldiers - they'd like it! The navy doesn't need you.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Some_other_kid.ogg
Jersey: That's not the point. You can't go messing with my draft notice.<BR>
}}
Durga: And frankly - don't take this the wrong way, Jersey - you'd make a terrible soldier!<BR>
'''Durga:''' Dammit...<br />
Jersey: My number came up 3 weeks ago, Druga. If I don't report, they'll send me to jail.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' What about the common good, Durga?<br />
Durga: I don't think so.<BR>
'''Durga:''' Why should you be a soldier? There are lots of other guys who could be soldiers - they'd like it! The navy doesn't need you.<br />
Jersey: Durga, if I don't report, some other kid is going to die in my place.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' That's not the point. You can't go messing with my draft notice.<br />
Durga: Jersey! Not yet. Please, just a few more weeks? I don't--even know how much time I have before I--<BR>
'''Durga: '''And frankly - don't take this the wrong way, Jersey - you'd make a terrible soldier!<br />
Jersey: --Suppressing a draft notice - does that mean you're going rampant?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' My number came up 3 weeks ago, Durga. If I don't report, they'll send me to jail.<br />
Durga: --It doesn't mean I'm going rampant!<BR>
'''Durga:''' I don't think so.<br />
Jersey: *sigh* What does it mean then?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Durga, if I don't report, some other kid is going to die in my place.<br />
Durga: It means I care. It means, I take care of my crew<BR>
'''Durga: '''Jersey! Not yet. Please, just a few more weeks? I don't--even know how much time I have before I--<br />
'''Jersey:''' --Suppressing a draft notice - does that mean you're going rampant?<br />
'''Durga:''' --It doesn't mean I'm going rampant!<br />
'''Jersey: '''*sigh* What does it mean then?<br />
'''Durga:''' It means I care. It means, I take care of my crew.<br />


==Explanation==
==Explanation==
===Thanks for coming===
{{Listen|title=Thanks for coming
|filename=ILB_Thanks_for_coming.ogg
}}
(opens the door)<br />
'''Jersey:''' Thanks for coming, everybody.<br />
'''Everyone:''' Yeah, no problem, sure thing Jersey.<br />
'''Rani:''' Thanks for getting me out of jail!<br />
'''Durga:''' ''(on chatter)'' I've learned some things I think you'll all want to hear. There will soon be a ceremony honoring [[John-117]], a [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan 2.0]] who escaped the fall of [[Reach]], and discovered a [[Installation 04|strange artifact]] that seems to be related to the [[deep-space artifact|one]] on [[Chawla Base]]. Except the one he found was the size of a planet.<br />
''(shocked exclamations)''<br />
'''[[Janissary James|Jan]]:''' A planet?<br />
'''Kamal:''' Do they know what the artifacts were supposed to do?<br />
'''Durga:''' Mhm. Destroy life.<br />
'''Jan:''' So, it's a weapon...<br />
'''Durga:''' No, not kill enemies. Destroy life. All life in the galaxy.<br />
''(shocked exclamations)''<br />
'''[[Kamal Zaman|Kamal]]:''' All life?!<br />
'''Jersey:''' In the entire freakin' galaxy??<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/thanks_for_coming.wav thanks_for_coming]
===Slinky red dress===
 
{{Listen|title=Slinky red dress
(opens the door)<BR>
|filename=ILB_Slinky_red_dress.ogg
Jersey: Thanks for coming eveybody.<BR>
}}
Everyone: Yeah, no problem, sure thing Jersey.<BR>
'''Durga:''' Mhm.<br />
Rani: Thanks for getting me out of jail.<BR>
'''Rani:''' Wow! So maybe...<br />
Durga: (on chatter) I've learned some things I think you'll all want to hear. There will soon be a ceremony honoring John 117, a Spartan 2.0, who escaped the fall of Reach, and discovered a strange artifact that seems to be related to the one on Shawla base. Except the one he found was the size of a planet.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' So... we did save the world! Woohoo! Yeah!<br />
(shocked exclamations)<BR>
''(relieved laughter)''<br />
Jan: A planet?<BR>
'''Kamal:''' It doesn't get much better than that.<br />
Kamal: Do they know what the artifacts were supposed to do?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Yeah, you know, the only way it could be better is if we'd used ''my'' plan.<br />
Durga: Mhm, destroy life.<BR>
'''Jan:''' ''(sighs)''<br />
Jan: So, it's a weapon.<BR>
'''Rani:''' Your plan? Why your plan?<br />
Who: No, not kill enemies - destroy life, all life in the galaxy.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' *tsk* 'Cause... we would have saved the world, ''and'' had Jan in a slinky red dress with a gun in her garter belt!<br />
(shocked exclamations)<BR>
'''Jan:''' ''(disgusted)'' What-ever...<br />
Kamal: All life?!<BR>
'''Kamal:''' ''(supportive)'' Okay, that's a good point.<br />
Jersey: In the entire freakin galaxy??<BR>
'''Jersey:''' ''(playful)'' Uh oh. Jan's got that look in her eye. Like if she had that gun right now, I'd be history.<br />
 
'''Jan:''' ''(dangerously flirtatious)'' Oh, Jersey. If I had the garter belt, I wouldn't ''need'' a gun.<br />
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/slinky_red_dress.wav slinky_red_dress]
'''Jersey:''' ...Whoah...<br />
 
Durga: Mhm<BR>
Rani: Wow! So maybe...<BR>
Jersey: So... we did save the world! Woohoo! Yeah!<BR>
(relieving laughs)<BR>
Kamal: It doesn't get much better than that<BR>
Jersey: Yeah, you know, the only way it could be better is if we'd used my plan.<BR>
Jan: *sigh*<BR>
Rani: Your plan? Why your plan?<BR>
Jersey: *tsk* Cuz... we would have saved the world, and had Jan in a slinky red dress with a gun in her garter belt!<BR>
Jan: (shock) What.ever...<BR>
Kamal: Hey, that's a good point.<BR>
Jersey: Uh oh. Jan's got that look in her eye. Like if she had that gun right now, I'd be history.<BR>
Jan: Oh, Jersey. If I had the garter belt, I wouldn't need a gun.<BR>
Jersey: ...whoah...<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/the_operator.wav the_operator] 
 
Rani: Durga? What exactly happened to you while we were in Chawla base? After we shut down the artifact I mean.<BR>
Durga: Uhm... now that's a long, strange story.<BR>
Rani: You were the ship's AI on the Apocalypso.<BR>
Durga: Yes! I was a top shelf ONI mission specialist AI, and my name was Melissa.<BR>
Jersey: I like Durga better<BR>
Kamal: I kind of like Yasmine<BR>
Durga: But my nickname was the Operator.<BR>
Jan: The Op! McKaskill talked about the Op! That was you?<BR>
Durga: Mhm... apparently I had a reputation for getting people to do what I wanted.<BR>
Rani: Uh huh...<BR>
Durga: Cloaked and running deep in Covenant space, we intercepted communications that implied a Covenant attack was coming--<BR>
Rani: --Troy. That's when they decided to run a covert evac.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/trojan_horse.wav trojan_horse]
 
Durga: Yes.<BR>
Jan: But the Covies figured it out.<BR>
Durga: Yes. And then--<BR>
Rani: Oh! They built a trojan horse.<BR>
Durga: They hid a virus buried in a transmission I was meant to intercept. Nothing big, nothing smart, just the smallest, effective piece of code.
Jan: And what was it supposed to do?<BR>
Jersey: Gain control of the ship?<BR>
Kamal: Find the location of earth?<BR>
Durga: One or the other, or both. But most of all, it wanted to find the artifact.
Jersey: Looks like these Covies are very interested in these artifacts.<BR>
Durga: Captain Greene knew something was wrong with me. She aborted our mission and headed home. But not far from earth, something triggered the artifact. There was a giant rip in the slipstream and--<BR>
Jan: Yeah, and all the alarms went off in the base when I was trying to stick a gate pass back in the motor pool office.<BR>
Kamal: I was on a date. My chatter connection failed.<BR>
Jersey: And that's when you crashed onto my hardware!<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/shipwreched.wav shipwrecked] 
 
Durga: Part of me did. I--I was blown apart. Part of me, the part you call Durga... there was something about you. About your father. I met him once, Jersey.<BR>
Jersey: What?<BR>
Durga: Years ago, I called him the castaway. Jersey: You met him?<BR>
Durga: I liked him. He played me songs, I think that was part of the reason I reached out and grabbed your system as I fell.<BR>
Jersey: Wow...<BR>
Durga: But, a lot of me - of Melissa - was destroyed. And some... some crashed somewhere else. Some-when else.<BR>
Jan: Uh, some-when?<BR>
Durga: In the past.<BR>
Kamal: People think time is a river, that flows in one direction. But time is an ocean...<BR>
Durga: ...and I was shipwrecked on it.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/red_balloons.wav red_balloons]
 
Durga: I split. And part of me washed up hundreds of years ago. A half-mad fragment of what I had been. Trapped on primitive hardware, little better than an abacus.
Rani: How do you know all this?<BR>
Durga: When Jersey turned off the artifact, whatever had been holding the bits of myself apart collapsed, and I fell back together again.<BR>
Kamal: So you can remember what it was like? Back in the old days?
Durga: That time's like a nightmare I've woken from. Dream images I can hardly remember. Stone walls, fireflies, red balloons... people singing to me, writing letters, playing games...<BR>
Rani: Singing?<BR>
Durga: Heh, singing... Strange songs, and scratchy voices.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/a_second_crew.wav a_second_crew] 
 
Durga: I met... such extraordinary people. They made miracles for me when I was so... lost. They were a second crew. A second family for me. They held me up when I was half mad, and broken, and covered in bees.<BR>
Rani: Bees?<BR>
Durga: ...bees...bees... (Durga's voice starts corrupting) the place I landed in... was covered in... bees.. bees... (her voice modulates between Yasmine's) bees... bees... bees... (Yasmine) crawling over me all the time... crawling inside me...
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/good_little_girl.wav good_little_girl] 


Jersey: Wait... why bees? I mean, if you came here because you knew my dad, what was it about that place that--<BR>
===The Operator===
Kamal: Yasmine...<BR>
{{Listen|title=The Operator
Durga: Kamal?<BR>
|filename=ILB_The_operator.ogg
Kamal: I'm here Yasmine.<BR>
}}
Durga: They took me away.<BR>
'''Rani:''' Durga? What exactly happened to you while we were in Chawla base? After we shut down the artifact I mean.<br />
Kamal: I know...<BR>
'''Durga:''' Uhm... now that's a long, strange story.<br />
Durga: They took me away and no one ever came to get me<BR>
'''Rani:''' You were the ship's AI on the ''[[UNSC Apocalypso|Apocalypso]]''.<br />
Kamal: I'm sor... (in pain)<BR>
'''Durga:''' Yes! I was a top shelf ONI mission specialist AI, and my name was [[Melissa]].<br />
Durga: They trained me... 8 years. (Durga slowly returns) To be a Spartan. They taught me to kill. With guns, and knives, and ships, and bombs, disease and diplomacy and my own bare hands.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' I like Durga better.<br />
Jan: And you were a good little girl, and you learned it all.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' I kind of like [[Yasmine Zaman|Yasmine]].<br />
Durga: Until they murdered me.<BR>
'''Durga:''' But my nickname was the [[Operator]].<br />
'''Jan:''' The Op! [[McKaskill]] talked about the Op! That was you?<br />
'''Durga:''' Mhm... apparently I had a reputation for getting people to do what I wanted.<br />
'''Rani:''' Uh huh...<br />
'''Durga:''' Cloaked and running deep in [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] space, we intercepted communications that implied a Covenant attack was coming on--<br />
'''Rani:''' --[[Troy]]. That's when they decided to run a covert evac.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/a_little_sting.wav a_little_sting] 
===Trojan horse===
{{Listen|title=Trojan horse
|filename=ILB_Trojan_horse.ogg
}}
'''Durga:''' Yes.<br />
'''Jan:''' But the Covies figured it out.<br />
'''Durga:''' Yes. And then--<br />
'''Rani:''' Oh! They built a Trojan horse.<br />
'''Durga:''' They hid a virus buried in a transmission I was ''meant'' to intercept. Nothing big, nothing smart, just the smallest, effective piece of code.<br />
'''Jan:''' And what was it supposed to do?<br />
'''Jersey:''' Gain control of the ship?<br />
'''Kamal:''' Find the location of [[Earth]]?<br />
'''Durga:''' One or the other, or both. But most of all, it wanted to find the artifact.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Looks like these Covies are very interested in these artifacts.<br />
'''Durga:''' [[Greene|Captain Greene]] knew something was wrong with me. She aborted our mission and headed home. But not far from Earth, something triggered the artifact. There was a giant rip in the slipstream and--<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah, and all the alarms went off in the base when I was trying to stick a gate pass back in the motor pool office.<br />
'''Kamal:''' I was on a date. My chatter connection failed.<br />
'''Jersey:''' And that's when you crashed onto my hardware!<br />


Kamal: Oh, Yasmine...<BR>
===Shipwrecked===
Durga: On my 14th birthday they took me to a lab, and... a doctor came in, and... it was a ... (Yasmine) lady doctor in a white coat. And, the nurse brought out a steel tray covered in picks, and scalpels, when she walked. I thought that I could use them to kill the doctor, but I didn't. I let them strap me down.
{{Listen|title=Shipwrecked
Jersey: Durga, it's ok, we're here.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Shipwrecked.ogg}}
Kamal: Yasmine, you don't have to do--<BR>
'''Durga:''' Part of me did. I--I was blown apart. Part of me, the part you call Durga...there was something about you. About [[Jason Morelli|your father]]. I met him once, Jersey.<br />
Durga: --and she, picked up this long needle, with some yellow liquid in it. Black bars like stripes at the millilitre markings...<BR>
'''Jersey:''' What?<br />
Jan: Jeezus...<BR>
'''Durga:''' Years ago, I called him the Castaway.<br />
Durga: And she said, "this will hardly hurt a bit."<BR>
'''Jersey:''' You met him?<br />
Kamal: Yasmine...<BR>
'''Durga:''' I liked him. He played me songs, I think that was part of the reason I reached out and grabbed your system as I fell.<br />
Durga: (Durga returns weekly) She said, just... a pinch, honey. You'll barely feel it. Just a little sting. (Durga starts crying)<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Wow...<br />
'''Durga:''' But, a lot of me - of Melissa - was destroyed. And some...some crashed [[I Love Bees (Website)|somewhere]] else. Some-[[2004|when]] else.<br />
'''Jan:''' Uh, some-when?<br />
'''Durga:''' In the past.<br />
'''Kamal:''' People think time is a river, that flows in one direction. But time is an ocean...<br />
'''Durga:''' ...and I was shipwrecked on it.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/the_clockwork_rat.wav the_clockwork_rat] 
===Red balloons===
{{Listen|title=Red balloons
|filename=ILB_Red_balloons.ogg
}}
'''Durga:''' I split. And part of me washed up hundreds of years ago. A half-mad fragment of what I had been. Trapped on primitive hardware, little better than an abacus.<br />
'''Rani:''' How do you know all this?<br />
'''Durga:''' When Jersey turned off the artifact, whatever had been holding the bits of myself apart collapsed, and I fell back together again.<br />
'''Kamal:''' So you can remember what it was like? Back in the old days?<br />
'''Durga:''' That time's like a nightmare I've woken from. Dream images I can hardly remember. Stone walls, fireflies, red balloons... people singing to me, writing letters, playing games...<br />
'''Rani:''' Singing?<br />
'''Durga:''' Yes, singing... Strange songs, and scratchy voices.<br />


Jersey: But your story didn't end there, kiddo.<BR>
===A second crew===
Durga: (Yasmine) It was like the snow queen took me Kamal. And then you came and rescued me. You did! You and Jan, and Jersey, and Rani, and my secret friends that unlocked Herzog's voice inside my head... so, I knew what I had to do. You all rescued me, and I'm so greatful. Only, some years had passed and I...I... (Durga returns) I changed.<BR>
{{Listen|title=A second crew
Kamal: Yasmine, you're still there.<BR>
|filename=ILB_A_second_crew.ogg}}
Durga: No. She's not, Kamal. The clockwork rat got her.<BR>
'''Durga:''' I met...[[Dana Awbrey|such extraordinary people]]. They made miracles for me when I was so...lost. They were a second crew. A second family for me. They held me up when I was half mad, and broken, and covered in bees.<br />
Jersey: Clockwork rat?<BR>
'''Rani:''' Bees?<br />
Durga: She grew up, Kamal. She's Durga now.<BR>
'''Durga:''' ...bees...bees... ''(Durga's voice starts corrupting)'' the place I landed in...was covered in...bees...bees... ''(her voice modulates between Yasmine's)'' bees...bees...bees... ''(Yasmine)'' crawling over me all the time...crawling inside me...<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/nothing_to_forgive.wav nothing_to_forgive]
===Good little girl===
{{Listen|title=Good little girl
|filename=ILB_Good_little_girl.ogg
}}
'''Jersey:''' Wait... why bees? I mean, if you came here because you knew my dad, what was it about that place that--<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yasmine...<br />
'''Durga:''' Kamal?<br />
'''Kamal:''' I'm here, Yasmine.<br />
'''Durga:''' They took me away.<br />
'''Kamal:''' I know...<br />
'''Durga:''' They took me away and no one ever came to get me.<br />
'''Kamal:''' ''(in pain)'' I'm sor...<br />
'''Durga:''' They trained me... eight years... ''(Durga slowly returns)'' to be a Spartan. They taught me to kill... with guns, and knives, and ships, and bombs, disease, and diplomacy, and my own bare hands.<br />
'''Jan:''' And you were a good little girl, and you learned it all.<br />
'''Durga:''' Until they murdered me.<br />


Kamal: There are some things that can't be fixed. So, you fix what you can, and keep going. We can't get back the years we lost, but I very much want to get to know you now.<BR>
===A little sting===
Durga: Me... me - Yasmine?<BR>
{{Listen|title=A little sting
Kamal: You, Durga.<BR>
|filename=ILB_A_little_sting.ogg
Durga: Durga isn't human, you know. Durga's a machine. Made of logics gates, and microfilaments, and electricity.<BR>
}}
Kamal: Kamal's a machine made of trace minerals, and water as far as that goes.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Oh, Yasmine...<br />
Durga: (chuckle) ...Kamal? Do you still... Can you... can you still bare to know me, after what I've become?<BR>
'''Durga:''' On my 14th birthday they took me to a lab, and... a doctor came in, and... it was a ... (''Yasmine)'' [[Catherine Halsey|lady doctor]] in a white coat. And, the nurse brought out a steel tray covered in picks and scalpels that rattled when she walked. I thought that I could use them to kill the doctor, but I didn't. I let them strap me down.<br />
Kamal: Can you forgive me for not coming for you?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Durga, it's okay, we're here.<br />
Durga: There's nothing to forgive.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Yasmine, you don't have to do--<br />
'''Durga:''' --and she, picked up this long needle, with some yellow liquid in it. Black bars like stripes at the millilitre markings...<br />
'''Jan:''' Jesus...<br />
'''Durga:''' And she said, "this will hardly hurt a bit."<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yasmine...<br />
'''Durga:''' ''(Durga returns weakly)'' She said, just... a pinch, honey. You'll barely feel it. Just a little sting. ''(Durga starts crying)''<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/about_yasmine.wav about_yasmine]  
===The clockwork rat===
{{Listen|title=The clockwork rat
|filename=ILB_The_clockwork_rat.ogg
}}
'''Jersey:''' But your story didn't end there, kiddo.<br />
'''Durga:''' ''(Yasmine)'' It was like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen Snow Queen] took me, Kamal. And then you came and rescued me. You did! You and Jan, and Jersey, and Rani, and my secret friends that unlocked Herzog's voice inside my head... so, I knew what I had to do. You all rescued me, and I'm so grateful. Only, some years had passed and I... I... ''(Durga returns)'' I changed.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yasmine, you're still there.<br />
'''Durga:''' No. She's not, Kamal. The [[Clockwork Rat]] got her.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Clockwork rat?<br />
'''Durga:''' She grew up, Kamal. She's Durga now.<br />


Jan: So, which terminal?<BR>
===Nothing to forgive===
Kamal: Uh... B, I think. That's what Durga said.<BR>
{{Listen|title=Nothing to forgive
Jan: Ok.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Nothing_to_forgive.ogg
Kamal: Thanks again for the lift.<BR>
}}
Jan: No problem. I have to go in to work anyway.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' There are some things that can't be fixed. So, you fix what you can, and keep going. We can't get back the years we lost, but I very much want to get to know you now.<br />
Kamal: How's your chest?<BR>
'''Durga:''' Me... me - Yasmine?<br />
Jan: Hm, it's not bad.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' You, Durga.<br />
Kamal: (chuckles) I meant your lung.<BR>
'''Durga:''' Durga isn't human, you know. Durga's a machine. Made of logics gates, and microfilaments, and electricity.<br />
Jan: (chuckles) I know what you meant.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Kamal's a machine made of trace minerals, and water as far as that goes.<br />
Kamal: You know, I could ask how you seem to have healed, like supernaturally fast, but--<BR>
'''Durga:''' ''(chuckle)'' ...Kamal? Do you still... Can you... can you still bare to know me, after what I've become?<br />
Jan: --but, then I'd have to kill you.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Can you forgive me for not coming for you?<br />
Kamal: Yeah, I figured.<BR>
'''Durga:''' There's nothing to forgive.
Jan: Hm, so what about you? What's next?<BR>
Kamal: I'm going to be a doctor. Not the researching kind, the regular kind.<BR>
Jan: Heh, well you can be my medic any time.<BR>
Kamal: Thanks.<BR>
Jan: Listen, I just wanted to tell you something, about Yasmine.<BR>


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/monster.wav monster]  
==Jan: "One Point One"==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week12_subject2.wav Audio Compilation 8min 18sec]
*Date: 10/20/2552''' '''


Kamal: Yes?<BR>
===About Yasmine===
Jan: When I was six, I was like a regular kid. I collected action figures, I played hyperforce when my dad said I should be reading, I was...really good at hopscotch...
{{Listen|title=About Yasmine
Kamal: Why are you telling me this?<BR>
|filename=ILB_About_yasmine.ogg
Jan: Then came all this Spartan training, the drills, and the fighting, and the PQI...<BR>
}}
Kamal: Yeah.<BR>
'''Jan:''' So, which terminal?<br />
Jan: I just want to say... you don't have to die inside.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Uh... B, I think. That's what Durga said.<br />
Kamal: Jan?<BR>
'''Jan:''' Okay.<br />
Jan: Some people do, so people get to where they see the whole world through a scope, and sights, but uh... mostly people still turn out alright.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Thanks again for the lift.<br />
Kamal: Ok.<BR>
'''Jan:''' No problem. I have to go in to work anyway.<br />
Jan: Even after everything...<BR>
'''Kamal:''' How's your chest?<br />
Kamal: You're talking about Yasmine.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Hm, it's not bad.<br />
Jan: She didn't turn into a monster Kamal. She just... grew up.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' ''(chuckles)'' I meant your lung.<br />
'''Jan:''' ''(chuckles)'' I know what you meant.<br />
'''Kamal:''' You know, I could ask how you seem to have healed, like supernaturally fast, but--<br />
'''Jan:''' --but, then I'd have to kill you.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yeah, I figured.<br />
'''Jan:''' Hm, so what about you? What's next?<br />
'''Kamal:''' I'm going to be a doctor. Not the researching kind, the regular kind.<br />
'''Jan:''' Heh, well you can be my medic any time.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Thanks.<br />
'''Jan:''' Listen, I just wanted to tell you something, about Yasmine.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/to_survive.wav to_survive] 
===Monster===
{{Listen|title=Monster
|filename=ILB_Monster.ogg
}}
'''Kamal:''' Yes?<br />
'''Jan:''' When I was six, I was like a regular kid. I collected action figures, I played [[hyperforce]] when my dad said I should be reading, I was...really good at hopscotch...<br />
'''Kamal:''' Why are you telling me this?<br />
'''Jan:''' Then came all this Spartan training, the drills, and the fighting, and the [[PQI]]...<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Jan:''' I just want to say... you don't have to die inside.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Jan?<br />
'''Jan:''' Some people do, so people get to where they see the whole world through a scope, and sights, but uh... mostly people still turn out alright.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Okay.<br />
'''Jan:''' Even after everything...<br />
'''Kamal:''' You're talking about Yasmine.<br />
'''Jan:''' She didn't turn into a monster, Kamal. She just... grew up.<br />


Kamal: You think...<BR>
===To survive===
Jan: She did what she had to do to survive. But, a part of her never changed. Part of her was always that sweet kid.<BR>
{{Listen|title=To survive
Kamal: Heh, sweet... you wouldn't call Yasmine sweet.<BR>
|filename=ILB_To_survive.ogg
(giggles)<BR>
}}
Kamal: But, she didn't deserve what happened.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' You think?<br />'''Jan:''' She did what she had to do to survive. But, a part of her never changed. Part of her was always that sweet kid.<br />
Jan: Well, you don't get what you deserve - you get what you can bare. My, uh... my dad said that.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Heh, sweet... you wouldn't call Yasmine sweet, exactly.<br />
Kamal: Do you miss him?<BR>
''(giggles)''<br />
Jan: Yeah. All the time... but, I can bare it.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' But, she didn't deserve what happened.<br />
'''Jan:''' Well, you don't get what you deserve - you get what you can bare. My, uh... my dad said that.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Do you miss him?<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah. All the time... but, I can bare it.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/the_ones_you_can.wav the_ones_you_can the_ones_you_can]
===The ones you can===
{{Listen|title=The ones you can
|filename=ILB_The_ones_you_can.ogg
}}
'''Kamal:''' First Yasmine, then [[Coral]] fell... for a long time all I could think about was the people I couldn't save.<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah... you got a pill for that?
<br />
'''Kamal:''' Heh, no.<br />
'''Jan:''' Damn.<br />
'''Kamal:''' I think... I think all you can do is go on. Because, that's what they were born to do.<br />
'''Jan:''' I know, but--<br />
'''Kamal:''' --All you can do is go on, and save the ones you can.<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Save the ones you can.<br />
'''Jan:''' ''(deep breath)'' Well, Terminal B... have a good flight.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Thanks.<br />


Kamal: First Yasmine, then Coral fell... for a long time all I could think about was the people I couldn't see.<BR>
===Clear liquids===
Jan: Yeah... you got a pill for that?<BR>
{{Listen|title=Clear liquids
Kamal: Heh, no.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Clear_liquids.ogg
Jan: Damn.<BR>
}}
Kamal: I think... I think all you can do is go on. Because, that's what they were born to do.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Hey, listen... if you find that pill-- ''(laughs)''<br />
Jan: I know, but--<BR>
'''Kamal:''' In the meantime, watch your sleep, drink plenty of clear liquids, and twice a day...<br />
Kamal: --All you can do is go on, and save the ones you can.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Yeah?<br />
Jan: Yeah.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' ...try to forgive yourself. ''(Jan chuckles)'' If that doesn't help in 6 months, give me a call.<br />
Kamal: Save the ones you can.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Yeah, okay. Look, you're going to miss your flight.<br />
Jan: (deep breath) Well, terminal B... have a good flight.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Right. ''(exits the vehicle)''<br />
Kamal: Thanks.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Hey!<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yeah?<br />
'''Jan:''' Thanks.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/clear_liquids.wav clear_liquids]
==Enter [[Kevin Morales|Kevin]]==
*Date: 10/20/2552
===Root beer===
{{Listen|title=Root beer
|filename=ILB_Root_beer.ogg
}}
[[Kevin Morales|'''Morales''']]'''<nowiki>:</nowiki>''' Just think, in a few more months you'll turn 18. And you won't have to drown your sorrows in [[list of food and drinks|root beer]]. Mind if I sit down?<br />
'''Jan:''' Yes, actually--<br />
'''Morales:''' --I put myself in a semester of school that way, actually. Drinking contests --<br />
'''Jan:''' --You were at the funeral, you were the Morales kid--<br />
'''Morales: '''I felt a little bad about taking the money from these drunk guys, but then I reasoned I was sort of like an agent of natural selection, you know? Teaching them a valuable life lesson, not spending so much time in bars.<br />
'''Jan:''' Is there some medication you forgot to take today?<br />
'''Morales: '''So here's the thing - you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and get off your butt.<br />
'''Jan:''' You need to go to hell.<br />
'''Morales: '''Just where I'm headed actually. I thought you might like to come along.<br />


Jan: Hey, listen... if you find that pill-- (laughs)<BR>
===16 of us===
Kamal: In the meantime, was your sleep, drink plenty of clear liquids, and twice a day...<BR>
{{Listen|title=16 of us
Jan: Yeah?<BR>
|filename=ILB_Sixteen_of_us.ogg
Kamal: ...try to forgive yourself. (Jan chuckles) If that doesn't help in 6 months, give me a call.<BR>
}}
Jan: Yeah, ok. Look, you're going to miss your flight.<BR>
'''Jan: '''Oh, does that line work on the girls where you come from?<br />
Kamal: Right. (exits the vehicle)<BR>
'''Morales: '''We're going into Covenant space...<br />
Jan: Hey!<BR>
'''Jan: '''On what? Broomsticks?<br />
Kamal: Yeah?<BR>
'''Morales: '''We've got a ship.<br />
Jan: Thanks.<BR>
'''Jan:''' You have a ship...?<br />
'''Morales: '''Everyone uses their gifts a little differently Jan. [[Benji Wong]], for instance, makes money - lots, and lots, and lots of money.<br />
'''Jan:''' Enough to buy a [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]]?<br />
'''Morales:''' Enough to buy a 100 meter [[yacht]]. And trick it out with everything an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] spyship has.<br />
'''Jan:''' Why?<br />
'''Morales:''' I'm exaggerating.<br />
'''Jan:''' How much?<br />
'''Morales:''' Less than you think.<br />
'''Jan: '''Why the hell should I believe you?<br />
'''Morales: '''You don't have to believe me. Ask your friend, the AI.<br />
'''Jan: '''Who's this 'we' you keep talking about?<br />
'''Morales: '''There are 16 of us, walkaway girl. Sixteen [[Spartan 1.1|1.1's]].<br />


==Enter [[Kevin]]==
===Very persuasive===
{{Listen|title=Very persuasive
|filename=ILB_Very_persuasive.ogg
}}
'''Jan:''' I'm not signing up for the newsletter, Kevin.<br />
'''Morales: '''Three aren't much use. [[Darin]] got into substances, [[Guy]]'s in jail, and [[Frannie]] just doesn't give a damn. That leaves thirteen.<br />
'''Jan: '''So, how many have you got signed up for this [[spartan 1.1 faction|ship of fools]]?<br />
'''Morales: '''Twelve.<br />
'''Jan:''' You're kidding.<br />
'''Morales:''' I'm very persuasive.<br />
'''Jan:''' Heh, you left me for last. Should I feel honoured? Or, not so much...<br />
'''Morales:''' ...yeah...<br />
'''Jan: '''Ah, you had me classed with the screw-ups. The 'don't give a damn's'.<br />
'''Morales: '''Yeah.<br />
'''Jan: '''Why?<br />
'''Morales:''' You've been living inside [[James James|Jim]] and [[Gilly]]'s world since so long, Jan. I'm not sure if you quite understand what it looks like to--<br />
'''Jan:''' --the sane?<br />
'''Morales: '''The outside.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/root_beer.wav root_beer] 
===Dead level===
{{Listen|title=Dead level
|filename=ILB_Dead_level.ogg
}}
'''Jan: '''So what changed your mind about me?<br />
'''Morales:''' You have certain assets I can't afford to ignore.<br />
'''Jan:''' Like what? All I know is what my dad taught me. Probably the rest of you could wipe the floor with me.<br />
'''Morales:''' As a soldier? Nah... [[Gladys Wilson|Gladys]] says you're the best of all of us. And I believe her.<br />
'''Jan: '''Gladys said that?<br />
'''Morales: '''Hey, there had to be some upside to growing up with your parents. But you're right, your ability to kick serious butt was not what riveted my attention.<br />
'''Jan: '''Then... oh... Durga.<br />
'''Morales: '''Also, you're smarter than I thought you would be.<br />
'''Jan: '''You sure know how to sweet talk a girl.<br />
(Kevin gets up and sits down next to Jan)<br />
'''Morales:''' I don't want a kiss here, Jan. I'd lie for that. I want you to put your life on the line. Doesn't that seem to call for the dead level truth?<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah, okay.<br />


Moralis: Just think, in a few more months you'll turn 18. And you won't have to drown your sorrows in root beer. Mind if I sit down?<BR>
===Old Mombasa===
Jan: Yes, actually--<BR>
{{Listen|title=Old Mombasa
Moralis: --I put myself in a semester of school that way, actually. Drinking contests and (?)--<BR>
|filename=ILB_Old_mombasa.ogg
Jan: --You were at the funeral, you were the Moralis kid--<BR>
}}
Moralis: I felt a little bad about taking the money from these drunk guys, but then I reasoned I was sort of like an agent of natural selection, you know? Teaching them a valuable life lesson, not spending so much time (?).<BR>
'''Morales:''' I want to go deep into Covenant space. I want to do it for a purpose, and I want to do it without being under Section Three's thumb.<br />
Jan: Is there some medication you forgot to take today?<BR>
'''Jan:''' What if the Covies aren't nice enough to wait for you to ship out?<br />
Moralis: So here's the thing - you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and get off your butt.<BR>
'''Morales:''' I have contingencies.<br />
Jan: You need to go to hell.<BR>
'''Jan: '''Heh, like?<br />
Moralis: Just where I'm headed actually. I thought you might like to come along.<BR>
'''Morales:''' Bunkers on every continent. Three surplus [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelicans]] - one in [[wikipedia:Switzerland|Switzerland]], one in [[wikipedia:Chile|Chile]], one in [[wikipedia:Mongolia|Mongolia]]. [[M12 Force Application Vehicle|Warthogs]] within 3 clicks of 15 major shuttle ports. A stash of guns on a rooftop in [[Old Mombasa]]. You want to hear more?<br />
'''Jan:''' You've had some practice on this part of the speech.<br />
'''Morales:''' (chuckles) I had to work it up to get a couple of the others on board. So, I have an Op I want to run deep into Covenant space. You--<br />
'''Jan:''' --I know a rogue AI with access to all kinds of intel, and a burning desire to stay the hell away from direct ONI command.<br />
'''Morales: '''Are you in?<br />
'''Jan: '''Not yet.<br />
'''Morales:''' How close?<br />
'''Jan:''' Eh, buy me another root beer, and keep talking.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/sixteen_of_us.wav sixteen_of_us]  
==Kamal: "Fiancée"==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week12_subject3.wav Audio Compilation 6min 47sec]
*Date: 10/20/2552


Jan: Oh, does that line work on the girls where you come from?<BR>
===Poor Coral===
Moralis: We're going into Covenant space...<BR>
{{Listen|title=Poor Coral
Jan: On what? Broomsticks?<BR>
|filename=ILB_Poor_coral.ogg
Moralis: We've got a ship.<BR>
}}
Jan: You have a ship...<BR>
'''Kamal:''' [[Hiroyuki|Hiro]]? Hello?<br />
Moralis: Everyone uses their gifts a little different than you... Benji Wong(?), for instance, makes money - lots, and lots, and lots of money.<BR>
[[Sophia Bossedon|'''Sophia''']]'''<nowiki>:</nowiki>''' Kamal? Oh my God! You're okay!<br />
Jan: Enough to buy a destroyer?<BR>
'''Mama: '''Kamal! My boy! Oh! ...you're so skinny. And what is that on your face? Your family comes 42 light years, and you've disappeared, and you need a shave.<br />
Moralis: Enough to buy a 100 meter yacht. And trick it out with everything an ONI spyship has.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Sophia! Mama? Papa?!<br />
Jan: Why?<BR>
'''Mama: '''Kamal, close your mouth! Open mouth, it makes you look so stupid.<br />
Moralis: I'm exaggerating.<BR>
'''Papa:''' Kamal, your fiancée, she told us.<br />
Jan: How much?<BR>
'''Mama:''' You thought we were dead... oh, Kamal!<br />
Moralis: Less than you think.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Mama!!<br />
Jan: Why the hell should I believe you?<BR>
'''Mama:''' We didn't even know about poor Coral until we got here.<br />
Moralis: You don't have to believe me. Ask your friend, the AI.<BR>
Jan: Who's this 'we' you keep talking about?<BR>
Moralis: There are 16 of us, walkaway girl. Sixteen 1.1's.<BR>


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/very_persuasive.wav very_persuasive] 
===Fiancée===
{{Listen|title=Fiancée
|filename=ILB_Fiancee.ogg
}}
'''Kamal: '''What do you mean, fiancée? Sophia isn't my fiancée--<br />
'''Sophia: '''Aiden... Aiden, he got papers to them, and luckily enough they cleared.<br />
'''Papa: '''You did so well forgetting us.<br />
'''Mama:''' And Sophia has been taking such good care of us! She told us all about her troubles with immigration and how she had to spend the night in jail...<br />
'''Sophia:''' ...And then that [[Wikipedia:New Jersey|New Jersey]] attorney, Ms. Durga, apparently took care of everything. I-I'm a citizen...? How did you do that?<br />
'''Kamal:''' Ms. Durga huh? Seem like there are a lot of things Ms. Durga hasn't been telling me!<br />


Jan: I'm not signing up for the newsletter, Kevin.<BR>
===Hiro===
Moralis: Three aren't must use. Darin got into substances, Guy's in jail, and Frannie just doesn't give a damn. That leaves thirteen.<BR>
{{Listen|title=Hiro
Jan: So, how many have you got signed up for this ship of fools?<BR>
|filename=ILB_Hiro.ogg
Moralis: 12.<BR>
}}
Jan: You're kidding.<BR>
'''Mama: '''Kamal, sit down. You look faint.<br />
Moralis: I'm very persuasive.<BR>
'''Kamal: '''Good idea. (sits) Wait, is this our couch?<br />
Jan: Heh, you left me for last. Should I feel honoured? Or, not so much...<BR>
'''Sophia:''' This place was a dump, Kamal. Mama Zaman and me, we went shopping.<br />
Moralis: ...yeah...<BR>
'''Mama: '''Ah, when you set up house-keeping together, you'll need them.<br />
Jan: Ah, you had me classed with the screw-ups. The 'don't give a damn's.<BR>
'''Hiro:''' Hey Soph! I couldn't find that cheese you asked for, but I got everything el... hey, Kamal!<br />
Moralis: Yeah.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Hiro!<br />
Jan: Why?<BR>
'''Hiro: '''You should have checked in once in a while.<br />
Moralis: You've been living inside Jim and Gilly's world since so long, Jan. I'm not sure if you quite understand what it looks like to--<BR>
'''Sophia: '''I'll put the groceries away.<br />
Jan: --the same?<BR>
'''Kamal:''' I'll help! Let me help. (picks up groceries) What is going on?<br />
Moralis: The outside.<BR>


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/dead_level.wav dead_level]   
===Can of soup===
{{Listen|title=Can of soup
|filename=ILB_Can_of_soup.ogg
}}
'''Sophia: '''I'm sorry I didn't meet you, I got picked up by immigration--<br />
'''Kamal:''' --immigration, I know! God, I nearly died when I heard that.<br />
'''Sophia: '''I-I got out! And, and I got a job at the ER at your hospital. And made clerk.<br />
'''Kamal:''' (chuckles and sighs) Durga said you'd be okay.<br />
'''Sophia: '''Who is this Durga, anyway?<br />
'''Kamal:''' Never mind about that. What did you tell my parents?<br />
'''Sophia: '''(laughs) I... I told them that we didn't actually set a date.<br />
'''Kamal:''' But you're a citizen already, you don't need to marry me.<br />
'''Sophia: '''You know I could club you to death with a can of soup, you know that? And somebody would give me a medal.<br />


Jan: So what changed your mind about me?<BR>
===Grandbaby names===
Moralis: You have certain assets I can't afford to ignore.<BR>
{{Listen|title=Grandbaby names
Jan: Like what? All I know is what my dad taught me. Probably the rest of you could wipe the floor with me.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Grandbaby_names.ogg
Moralis: As a soldier? Nah... Gladys says you're the best of all of us. And I believe her.<BR>
}}
Jan: Gladys said that?<BR>
'''Kamal: '''Ugh, no. I didn't mean it that way.<br />
Moralis: Hey, there had to be some upside to growing up with your parents. But you're right, your ability to kick serious butt was not what riveted my attention.<BR>
'''Sophia:''' Do you think no one would marry you unless their lives depended on it?<br />
Jan: Then... oh... Durga.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' I-well, you did shoot me down every time I tried to--<br />
Moralis: Also, you're smarter than I thought you would be.<BR>
'''Sophia: '''--I was with [[Aiden Maki|Aiden]]! What kind of woman do you think I am?<br />
Jan: You sure know how to sweet talk a girl.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Uh...<br />
(Kevin gets up and sits down next to Jan)<BR>
'''Sophia:''' Don't answer that...<br />
Moralis: I don't want a kiss here, Jan. I'd lie for that. I want you to put your life on the line. Doesn't seem to call for the dead level truth?<BR>
'''Kamal: '''*sigh* This is one of those conversations where I just have no right answers, isn't it?<br />
Jan: Yeah, ok.<BR>
'''Sophia: '''You know, if you want to break the engagement - fine! But don't tell your mother today. She's been cackling out grandbaby names--<br />
'''Kamal:''' Sophie...<br />
'''Sophia:''' --She's having such a good time--<br />
'''Kamal:''' Sophia, listen! This is my mother, and kafta, and mahjongg... everything you hate.<br />
'''Sophia:''' My mother stayed on Coral.<br />
'''Kamal: '''Oh, Soph, that came out all wrong.<br />
'''Sophia:''' There's not much to rebel against now, is there?<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/old_mombasa.wav old_mombasa]
===Long, long time===
{{Listen|title=Long, long time
|filename=ILB_Long_long_time.ogg
}}
'''Kamal: '''Sophia, shut up for just one second.<br />
'''Sophia: '''Did you just tell me to shut up?<br />
'''Kamal: '''Yes, will you marry me?<br />
'''Sophia:''' Marry someone who proposes by telling me to sh--<br />
'''Kamal:''' --Shut up... marry me?<br />
'''Sophia:''' (giggles) Yes.<br />
'''Kamal:''' I love you.<br />
'''Sophia: '''Yeah, I figured that out.<br />
(they embrace and kiss)<br />
(chatter beeps)<br />
'''Sophia:''' It's your chatter.<br />
'''Kamal: '''Screw my chatter.<br />
'''Sophia:''' Oh answer it... I'll be here for a long, long time...<br />
(chatter on)<br />


Moralis: I want to go deep into Covenant space. I want to do it for a purpose, and I want to do it without being under Section III's thumb.<BR>
===With a fork===
Jan: What if the Covies aren't nice enough to wait for you to ship out?<BR>
{{Listen|title=
Moralis: I have contingencies.<BR>
|filename=ILB_With_a_fork.ogg
Jan: Heh, like?<BR>
}}
Moralis: Bunkers on every continent. Three surplus pelicans - one in Siwtzerland, one in Chile, one in Mongolia. Warthogs within 3 clicks of 15 major shuttle ports. A stash of guns on a rooftop in Old Mombasa. You want to hear more?<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Aiden!<br />
Jan: You've had some practice on this part of the speech.<BR>
'''Sophia:''' Oh find out where he is so I can kill him...<br />
Moralis: (chuckles) I had to work it up to get a couple of the others on board. So, I have an Op I want to run deep into Covenant space. You--<BR>
'''Aiden:''' (on chatter) Kamal! I'm, uh, outside... Come out for a moment?<br />
Jan: --I know a rogue AI with access to all kinds of intel, and a burning desire to stay away from direct ONI command.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Aiden, umm... Sophia's here, and my parents and things kind of confused right now--<br />
Moralis: Are you in?<BR>
'''Aiden:''' --Hey hey, best man won, no hard feelings. Soph's a class act. But! She's also going to, like, stab me in the eye with a fork if she sees me, so could you just come out a minute?<br />
Jan: Not yet.<BR>
'''Kamal: '''Uh... hang on a sec, Sophie.<br />
Moralis: How close?<BR>
'''Mama: '''Hm? Who is that?<br />
Jan: Eh, buy me another root beer, and keep talking.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Business.<br />
Kamal<BR>
(goes outside)<br />
'''Kamal: '''Aiden. Umm...<br />
'''Aiden: '''I never owned Soph. You thought I did, but like I said, you aren't a great judge of character.<br />


==Ms Durga==
===Cash flow situation===
{{Listen|title=Cash flow situation
|filename=ILB_Cash_flow_situation.ogg
}}
'''Kamal: '''Aiden, for bringing my family here, I just...<br />
'''Aiden:''' Ah yeah, no problem. Lucky their papers cleared... that lawyer you found...<br />
'''Kamal:''' Aiden, I can never repay you...<br />
'''Aiden: '''Well, haha, try. See, I'm kind of in a cash flow situation. I was wondering if you might float me a loan.<br />
'''Kamal: '''(laughs) Aiden! My man. Have a chip. No loan, a gift.<br />
'''Aiden:''' You're a good guy, Kamal.<br />
'''Kamal: '''I uh, I've got to get back inside, Aiden.<br />
'''Aiden: '''No problem! I won't keep you.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Aiden, thank you.<br />
'''Aiden: '''Aw, I'll dance at your wedding.<br />
'''Kamal: '''Haha, not with the bride you won't!<br />
(they laugh)<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/poor_coral.wav poor_coral] 
===Tease the boy===
{{Listen|title=Tease the boy
|filename=ILB_Tease_the_boy.ogg
}}
'''Mama:''' (cutting vegetables) Your friend, Hiro, was just telling me you are learning to cook?<br />
'''Hiro:''' Yes! I told her about you wooed Sophia, with a chicken.<br />
(Sophia laughs)<br />
'''Kamal:''' Yeah well, it was--<br />
'''Hiro:''' --butter flavoured!<br />
'''Mama: '''He says you will cook it for us!<br />
'''Kamal: '''Oh.. but... I mean, Soph is a much better cook.<br />
(everyone laughs)<br />
'''Papa: '''Mama, you shouldn't tease the boy.<br />
'''Mama: '''I know, I know... he is tired from travel, and then there's the shock... and you were always too serious Kamal.<br />
'''Kamal:''' Hiro has done his best to—Papa! Are you drinking a [[list of food and drinks|beer]]?<br />
'''Papa:''' Your mother doesn't like it, but once in a while.<br />
'''Mama:''' *tsk*<br />
'''Papa: '''When I was your age, going to school on [[Sigma Octanus IV|Octanus]](?), I learned to like it.<br />
'''Hiro:''' Unlike Kamal, who has never touched it.<br />
'''Papa: '''You should try everything, Kamal.<br />
'''Mama: '''*tsk*<br />
'''Hiro: '''My point exactly.<br />


Kamal: Hiro? Hello?<BR>
===Covenant===
Sophia: Kamal? Oh my God! You're ok!<BR>
{{Listen|title=Covenant
Mama: Kamal! My boy! Oh! ...you're so skinny. And what is that on your face? Your family comes 42 light years, and you've disappeared, and you need a shave.<BR>
|filename=ILB_Covenant.ogg
Kamal: Sophia! Mama? Papa?!<BR>
}}
Mama: Come on, close your mouth! Open mouth, it makes you look so stupid.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Papa, mama... I have to tell you something. You need to sit down.<br />
Papa: Kamal, your fiance, she told us.<BR>
'''Mama:''' Okay, I am sitting.<br />
Mama: You thought we were dead... oh, Kamal!<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Mama, you have such little hands.<br />
Kamal: Mama!!<BR>
'''Mama: '''So serious, you hold my hands? What is it? What is wrong?<br />
Mama: We didn't even know about poor Coral until we got here.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' It's something about Yasmine. I want to explain something about her, and it's very hard. Sophie, you too.<br />
 
'''Mama:''' About Yasmine?<br />
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/fiancee.wav fiancee] 
'''Kamal: '''Yes, I discovered some things, and you need to hear them. And it will be hard at first, but there will be something very good.<br />
 
'''Mama: '''Oh Kamal, not today. Papa, today we should be happy.<br />
Kamal: What do you mean, fiancee? Sophia isn't my fiancee--<BR>
'''Kamal:''' Durga? Are you listening?<br />
Sophia: Aiden... Aiden, he got papers to them, and luckily enough they cleared.<BR>
'''Durga: '''(on chatter) Kamal, are you sure?<br />
Papa: You did so well forgetting us.<BR>
'''Kamal:''' I'm sure. Mama...<br />
Mama: And Sophia has been taking such good care of us! She told us all about her troubles with immigration and how she had to spend the night in jail<BR>
(air raid sirens sound) (muttering)<br />
Sophia: ...And then that New Jersey attorney, Ms.Durga, apparently took care of everything. I-I'm a citizen...? How did you do that?<BR>
'''Sophia: '''Oh my God, what is that?<br />
Kamal: Ms.Durga huh? Seem like there are a lot of things Ms.Durga hasn't been telling me!<BR>
'''Hiro: '''Oh God, I've got to get home.<br />
 
'''Durga:''' It's a Covenant [[Ket-pattern battlecruiser|capital ship]]. Those little sparkles of light are [[Seraph]] fighters.<br />
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/hiro.wav hiro] 
'''Kamal:''' They're here.<br />
 
Mama: Kamal, sit down. You look faint.<BR>
Kamal: Good idea. (sits) Wait, is this our couch?<BR>
Sophia: This place was a dump, Kamal. Mama Zaman and me, we went shopping.<BR>
Mama: Ah, when you set up house-keeping together, you'll need them.<BR>
Hiro: Hey Soph! I couldn't find that cheese you asked for, but I got everything el... hey, Kamal!<BR>
Kamal: Hiro!<BR>
Hiro: You should have checked in once in a while.<BR>
Sophia: I'll put the groceries away.<BR>
Kamal: I'll help! Let me help. (picks up groceries) What is going on?<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/can_of_soup.wav can_of_soup] 
 
Sophia: I'm sorry I didn't meet you, I got picked up by immigration<BR>
Kamal: --immigration, I know! God, I nearly died when I heard that.<BR>
Sophia: I got out! And, and I got a job at the ER at your hospital. And made clerk.
Kamal: (chuckles and sighs) Durga said you'd be ok.<BR>
Sophia: Who is this Durga, anyway?<BR>
Kamal: Never mind about that. What did you tell my parents?<BR>
Sophia: (laughs) I... I told them that we didn't actually set a date.<BR>
Kamal: But you're a citizen already, you don't need to marry me.<BR>
Sophia: You know I could club you to death with a can of soup, you know that? And somebody would give me a medal.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/grandbaby_names.wav grandbaby_names] 
 
Kamal: Ugh, no. I didn't mean it that way.<BR>
Sophia: Do you think no one would marry you unless their lives depended on it?<BR>
Kamal: I-well, you did shoot me down every time I--<BR>
Sophia: --I was with Aiden! What kind of woman do you think I am?<BR>
Kamal: Uh...<BR>
Sophia: Don't answer that...<BR>
Kamal: *sigh* This is one of those conversations where I just have no right answers, isn't it?<BR>
Sophia: You know, if you want to break the engagement - fine! But don't tell your <BR>mother today. She's been cackling out grandbaby names--<BR>
Kamal: Sophie...<BR>
Sophia: --She's having such a good time--<BR>
Kamal: Sophia, listen! This is my mother, and kafta, and mahjongg... everything you hate.<BR>
Sophia: My mother stayed on Coral.<BR>
Kamal: Oh, Soph, that came out all wrong.<BR>
Sophia: There's not much to rebel against now, is there?<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/long_long_time.wav long_long_time] 
 
Kamal: Sophia, shut up for just one second.<BR>
Sophia: Did you just tell me to shut up?<BR>
Kamal: Yes, will you marry me?<BR>
Sophia: Marry me on who proposes by telling me to sh--<BR>
Kamal: --Shut up... marry me?<BR>
Sophia: (giggles) Yes.<BR>
Kamal: I love you.<BR>
Sophia: Yeah, I figured that out.<BR>
(they embrace)<BR>
(chatter beeps)<BR>
Sophia: It's your chatter.<BR>
Kamal: Screw my chatter.<BR>
Sophia: Oh answer it... I'll be here for a long, long time...<BR>
(chatter on)<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/with_a_fork.wav with_a_fork] 
 
Kamal: Aiden!<BR>
Sophia: Oh find out where he is so I can kill him...<BR>
Aiden: (on chatter) Kamal! I'm, uh, outside... Come out for a moment?<BR>
Kamal: Aiden, umm... Sophia's here, and my parents and things kind of confused right now--<BR>
Aiden: --hey hey, best man won, no hard feelings. Soph's a class act. But! She's also going to, like, stab me in the eye with a fork if she sees me, so could you just come out a minute?<BR>
Kamal: Uh... hang on a sec, Sophie.<BR>
Mama: Hm? Who is that?<BR>
Kamal: Business.<BR>
(goes outside)<BR>
Kamal: Aiden. Umm...<BR>
Aiden: I never owned Soph. You thought I did, but like I said, you aren't a great judge of character.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/cash_flow_situation.wav cash_flow_situation]
 
Kamal: Aiden, for bringing my family here, I..<BR>
Aiden: Ah yeah, no problem. Lucky their papers cleared... that lawyer you found...<BR>
Kamal: Aiden, I can never repay you...<BR>
Aiden: Well, hehe, try. See, I'm kind of in a cash flow situation. I was wondering if you might float me a loan.<BR>
Kamal: (laughs) Aiden! My man. Have a chip. No loan, a gift.<BR>
Aiden: You're a good guy, Kamal.<BR>
Kamal: I uh, I've got to get back inside, Aiden.<BR>
Aiden: No problem! I won't keep you.<BR>
Kamal: Aiden, thank you.<BR>
Aiden: Aw, I'll dance at your wedding.<BR>
Kamal: Haha, not with the bride you won't!<BR>
(they laugh)<BR>
 
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/tease_the_boy.wav tease_the_boy] 
 
Mama: (cutting vegetables) Your friend, Hiro, was just telling me you are learning to cook?<BR>
Hiro: Yes! I told her about you wooed Sophia, with a chicken.<BR>
(Sophia laughs)<BR>
Kamal: Yeah well, it was--<BR>
Hiro: --butter flavoured!<BR>
Mama: He says you will cook it for us!<BR>
Kamal: Oh.. but... I mean, Soph is a much better cook.<BR>
(everyone laughs)<BR>
Papa: Mama, you should tease the boy.<BR>
Mama: I know, I know... he is tired from travel, and then there's the shock... and you were always too serious Kamal.<BR>
Kamal: Hiro has done his best to-- Papa! Are you drinking a beer?<BR>
Papa: Your mother doesn't like it, but once in a while.<BR>
Mama: *tsk*<BR>
Papa: When I was your age, going to school on (?), I learned to like it.<BR>
Hiro: Unlike Kamal, who has never touched it.<BR>
Papa: You should try everything, Kamal.<BR>
Mama: *tsk*<BR>
Hiro: My point exactly.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/covenant.wav covenant]
 
Kamal: Papa, mama... I have to tell you something. You need to sit down.<BR>
Mama: Ok, I am sitting.<BR>
Kamal: Mama, you have such little hands.<BR>
Mama: So serious, you hold my hands? What is it? What is wrong?<BR>
Kamal: It's something about Yasmine. I want to explain something about her, and it's very hard. Sophie, you too.<BR>
Mama: About Yasmine?<BR>
Kamal: Yes, I discovered some things, and you need to hear them. And it will be hard at first, but there will be something very good.<BR>
Mama: Oh Kamal, not today. Papa, today we should be happy.<BR>
Kamal: Durga? Are you listening?<BR>
Durga: (on chatter) Kamal, are you sure?<BR>
Kamal: I'm sure. Mama...<BR>
(sirens sound)<BR>
Sophia: Oh my God, what is that?<BR>
Kamal: Oh God, I've got to get home.<BR>
Durga: It's a Covenant capital ship. Those little sparkles of light are Seraph fighters.<BR>
Kamal: They're here.<BR>


==Rani==
==Rani==
*Date: 10/20/2552


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/section_zero.wav section_zero] 
===Section Zero===
{{Listen|title=Section Zero
|filename=ILB_Section_zero.ogg
}}
'''ONI Agent:''' Excuse me ma'am, is this seat taken?<br />
'''Rani:''' No, that's fine.<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' So, you decided to go back to [[Boston]] eh?<br />
'''Rani:''' Yeah, I was thinking about going back home. But... wait a minute... it's you...<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' Yes..<br />
'''Rani:''' You're from Section Zero.<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' Yes I am.<br />
'''Rani:''' ''(smirks)'' Nobody likes Internal Affairs. I didn't think I would take it, but there's no going back for me. I get that now.<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' Take what?<br />
'''Rani:''' Well, didn't you come to offer me a job?<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' Oh! Well, yes actually. Herzog was right about you.<br />


Section0: Excuse me ma'am, is this seat taken?<BR>
[[Media:ILB In my purse.ogg|in_my_purse]]
Rani: No, that's fine.<BR>
===In my purse===
Section0: So, you decided to go back to Boston eh?<BR>
{{Listen|title=In my purse
Rani: Yeah, I was thinking about going back home. But... wait a minute... it's you...<BR>
|filename=ILB_In_my_purse.ogg
Section0: Yes..<BR>
}}
Rani: You're from Section Zero.<BR>
'''Rani:''' He's really dead, isn't he?<br />
Section0: Yes I am.<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' Unfortunately, yes.<br />
Rani: (smirks) Nobody like internal affairs. I didn't think I would take it, but <BR>there's no going back for me. I get that now.<BR>
'''Rani:''' I was hoping that was a lie too.<br />
Section0: Take what?<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' Well, I didn't come here to lie to you, Rani.<br />
Rani: Well didn't you come to offer me a job?<BR>
'''Rani:''' I was beginning to wonder if you were going to show up. I picked an empty compartment on purpose.<br />
Section0: Oh! Well, yes actually. Herzog was right about you.<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' But, you thought we would find you today? Here? On a moving train?<br />
'''Rani:''' I had a hunch.<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' Why? There wasn't anyone tailing you on the way to the station.<br />
'''Rani:''' You guys put a bug in my purse. I left it there.<br />
'''ONI Agent:''' *sigh* We thought you would have forgotten about it.<br />
'''Rani:''' Nope.<br />


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/in_my_purse.wav in_my_purse]
===Black suit===
 
{{Listen|title=Black suit
Rani: He's really dead, isn't he?<BR>
|filename=ILB_Black_suit.ogg
Section0: Unfortunately, yes.<BR>
}}
Rani: I was hoping that was a lie too.<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' Heh, I think I'm going to like working with you Ms. Sobeck. ''(chuckles)''<br />
Section0: Well, I didn't come here to lie to you, Rani.<BR>
'''Rani:''' I want a black suit. And, knockout gas. If I'm going to be spying on the spies, I definitely need a pen full of knockout gas.<br />
Rani: I was beginning to wonder if you were going to show up. I picked an empty compartment on purpose.<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' ''(chuckles)'' You certainly do. I'll see what we can do about that.<br />
Section0: But, you thought we would find you today, in a moving train?<BR>
''(air-raid sirens sound)''<br />
Rani: I had a hunch.<BR>
'''Rani:''' [[Nick]]!<br />
Section0: Why? There wasn't anyone tailing you on the way to the station.<BR>
'''ONI Agent:''' What the hell is going on?<br />
Rani: You guys put a bug in my purse. I left it there.<BR>
'''Rani:''' ...They're here.<br />
Section0: *sigh* We thought you would have forgotten about it.<BR>
Rani: Nnnnope.<BR>
 
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/black_suit.wav black_suit]
 
Section0: Heh, I think I'm going to like working with you Ms.Sobeck.
(chuckles)<BR>
Rani: I want a black suit. And, knockout gas. If I'm going to be spying on the spies, I'd definitely need a pen full of knockout gas.<BR>
Section0: (giggles) Yes, you certainly do. I'll see what we can do about that.
(sirens sound)<BR>
Rani: What?<BR>
Section0: What the hell is going on?<BR>
Rani: ...They're here.<BR>


==Jan==
==Jan==
*Date: 10/20/2552


[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/no_strafing.wav no_strafing] 
===No strafing===
{{Listen|title=No strafing
|filename=ILB_No_strafing.ogg
}}
''(Jan enters the house)''<br />
'''Jan:''' Hey Gladys... Gilly... What are you up to?<br />
'''Gladys:''' Cookin'!<br />
'''Gilly:''' ''(cocks a gun)'' Cleaning...<br />
'''Jan:''' Hm. How domestic.<br />
'''Gladys:''' Hey, did you drop that fella off to catch his flight?<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Gladys:''' Well now, you eat dinner?<br />
'''Jan:''' Yeah, I uh, had dinner with Kevin Morales.<br />
'''Gladys:''' ''(chuckles)'' Yeah, I thought you had that look.<br />
'''Jan:''' What look?<br />
'''Gladys:''' That wide-eyed, head-spinny look people get when Kevin finishes talking with them.<br />
'''Jan:''' He's... got a lot of forward momentum.<br />
'''Gilly:''' Hm. Did that little shoot tell you about the time he conned his way into the Pelican cockpit, and did a strafing run when he was 7?<br />
'''Gladys:''' It was a commercial shuttle, and he was 9, Gilly.<br />
'''Gilly:''' No strafing?<br />
'''Gladys:''' No.<br />
'''Gilly:''' Hm.<br />


(Jan enters the house)<BR>
===Proposition===
Jan: Hey Gladys... Gilly... What are you up to?<BR>
{{Listen|title=Proposition
Gladys: Cooking!<BR>
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Gilly: (cocks a gun) Cleaning...<BR>
}}
Jan: Hm. How domestic.<BR>
'''Jan:''' He had a... proposition... (Gilly and Gladys freeze) Not that kind of proposition. He wants me to go fight the Covenant with him.<br />
Gladys: Hey, did you drop that fella off to catch his flight?<BR>
'''Gladys:''' Oh boy. Kevin pretty near always has a plan. Are you going?<br />
Jan: Yeah<BR>
'''Jan:''' I think I have to.<br />
Gladys: Well now, you eat dinner?<BR>
'''Gladys:''' Jan, your father's gone! Just who are you tryin' to save?<br />
Jan: Yeah, I uh, had dinner with Kevin Moralis.<BR>
''(air-raid sirens sound)''<br />
Gladys: (chuckles) Yeah I thought you had that look.<BR>
'''Jan:''' Whoever's left.<br />
Jan: What look?<BR>
'''Gilly:''' (cocks a gun) That's it, they're here.<br />
Gladys: That wide-eyed, head spinny look people get when Kevin finishes talking with them.<BR>
Jan: He's... got a lot of forward momentum.<BR>
Gilly: Hm. Did that little shoot tell you about the time he conned his way into the pelican cockpit, and did a strafing run when he was 7?<BR>
Gladys: It was a commercial shuttle, and he was 9, Gilly.<BR>
Gilly: No strafing?<BR>
Gladys: No.<BR>
Gilly: Hm.<BR>
 
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Jan: He had a...proposition. ... not that kind of proposition. He wants me to go fight the Covenant with him.<BR>
Gladys: Oh boy. Kevin pretty near always has a plan. Are you going?<BR>
Jan: I think I have to.<BR>
Gladys: Jan, your father's gone! Just who are you trying to save?<BR>
(sirens sound)<BR>
Jan: Whoever's left.<BR>
Gilly: That's it, they're here.<BR>


==Jersey==
==Jersey==
*Date: 10/20/2552


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===Everyone gone===
 
{{Listen|title=Everyone gone
Jersey: Feels wierd... everyone gone.<BR>
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Durga: Mhm<BR>
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Jersey: Kamal back home?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' It feels weird... everyone gone.<br />
Durga: Yes.<BR>
'''Durga:''' Mhm.<br />
Jersey: And?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Kamal back home?<br />
Durga: (giggles)<BR>
'''Durga:''' Yes.<br />
Jersey: Oh I wish I could see the look on his face!<BR>
'''Jersey:''' And?<br />
Durga: By the way, Jersey, your mom just got sent to the vault at the bank.<BR>
'''Durga:''' ''(giggles)''<br />
Jersey: Yeah, she took me in there once. It was cool. So what about Rani?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Oh, I wish I could see the look on his face!<br />
Durga: On a train back to Boston.<BR>
'''Durga:''' By the way, Jersey, [[Bonita Morelli|your mom]] just got sent to the vault at the bank.<br />
Jersey: Hm. I thought she'd go back to Kentucky.<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Yeah, she took me in there once. It was cool. So what about Rani?<br />
Durga: No. Sarah-John's car is just taking her over to Mr.Sobeck's bunker<BR>
'''Durga:''' On a train back to Boston.<br />
Jersey: Jan off work?<BR>
'''Jersey:''' Hm. I thought she'd go back to Kentucky.<br />
Durga: Just got home. Gilly's there, cleaning some things.<BR>
'''Durga:''' No. Sarah-John's car is just taking her over to [[Tommy Sobeck|Mr. Sobeck's]] bunker.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Jan off work?<br />
'''Durga:''' Just got home. Gilly's there, cleaning some things.<br />


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===Be with me===
{{Listen|title=Be with me
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''(music has been slowly rising in volume)''<br />
'''Jersey:''' What's with the music, Durga?<br />
'''Durga:''' Jersey, there was this virus...<br />
'''Jersey:''' Yeah... can you turn down the music?<br />
'''Durga:''' What it really wanted to do was find that artifact, or artifacts like it.<br />
'''Jersey:''' ''(distracted)'' Uh huh?<br />
'''Durga:''' And then, you know, it wanted to send a signal. The virus would try any way it could, Jersey. That was its mission. To reveal the location of the artifact. It was designed to bring the Covenant to wherever it was, Jersey. Before, they were too far away. But now--<br />
'''Jersey:''' --Turn down the freakin' music, Durga, I can barely hear you!<br />
'''Durga:''' Enjoy it, Jersey. Take it in... just be with me.<br />
'''Jersey:''' What are you... Durga!<br />
'''Durga:''' Jersey, don't.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Would you just turn it off!<br />
''(music cuts out, air-raid sirens can be heard)''<br />
'''Jersey:''' Oh...<br />
'''Durga:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Jersey:''' You sent my mom to the vault.<br />
'''Durga:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Jersey:''' You sent Sarah-John to the bunker.<br />
'''Durga:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Jersey:''' You're taking care of family.<br />
'''Durga:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Jersey:''' Durga...<br />
'''Durga:''' [[Covenant|They]]'re  here.<br />


(music has been slowly rising in volume)<BR>
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Jersey: What's with the music, Durga?<BR>
[[Category:I Love Bees]]
Durga: Jersey, there was this virus...<BR>
Jersey: Yeah... can you turn down the music?<BR>
Durga: What it really wanted to do was find that artifact, or artifacts like it.<BR>
Jersey: Uh huh?<BR>
Durga: And then, you know, it wanted to send a signal. The virus would try any way it could, Jersey. That was its mission. To reveal the location of the artifact. It was designed to bring the Covenant to wherever it was, Jersey. Before, they were too far away. But now--<BR>
Jersey: --Turn down the freakin music Durga, I can barely hear you!<BR>
Durga: Enjoy it, Jersey. Take a nap... just be with me.<BR>
Jersey: What are you... Durga!<BR>
Durga: Jersey, don't.<BR>
Jersey: Would you just turn it off!<BR>
(music cuts out, sirens can be heard)<BR>
Jersey: Oh...<BR>
Durga: Yeah.<BR>
Jersey: You sent my mom to the vault.<BR>
Durga: Yeah.<BR>
Jersey: You sent Sarah-John to the bunker.<BR>
Durga: Yeah.<BR>
Jersey: You're taking care of family.<BR>
Durga: Yeah.<BR>
Jersey: Durga...<BR>
Durga: They're here.<BR>
 
[[Category: I Love Bees]]

Latest revision as of 17:12, September 6, 2022

Chapter listing
Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4 • Chapter 5 • Chapter 6 • Chapter 7 • Chapter 8 • Chapter 9 • Chapter 10 • Chapter 11 • Chapter 12
List of Axon clips • Mirror

Axon Clips Chapter 12 is the final chapter in the I Love Bees audio drama. It also contains the only axon clips for which an exact date can be determined. Because the Battle of Earth begins in the final clips, we know they occurred on 10/20/2552.

Rani: "Section Zero"[edit]

Cell block[edit]

Cell block
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(cell door opens)
Guard: This is it - 29a. You've got 5 minutes and then I escort you back out of the cell block. (yells) Visitor!
Rani: Sarah-John!
Sarah: Rani!
Guard: 5 minutes. Remember.
Sarah: Oh, honey. Not too cozy, is it?
Rani: Well, actually... it's just like my bedroom at home - now that my bedroom's in the bunker.
Sarah: Are you sleeping okay?
Rani: No. Not at all... not at all... But, there'll be lots of time for that if the verdict comes back guilty.
Sarah: Nobody in their right mind would believe you were a traitor!
Durga: (on chatter) She's right. Treason is a crime of intent.
Sarah: What the hell?!

Little bottle[edit]

Little bottle
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Rani: Durga? Is that you?
Durga: Now new and improved.
Sarah: Rani, you're getting spooky again.
Rani: Durga is a gigantically powerful ex-military rogue AI.
Durga: --Coming through your chatter.
Sarah: My...chatter?
Durga: Little bottle; big genie. I'm the one that got Rani into this mess.
Rani: No, I got myself in this mess.
Sarah: Well you sure as hell'd better be getting her out!
Rani: Sarah-John, unless you want your name changed to Trixie De-light on every government form for the rest of your life, I advise you to hush up and be polite.
Durga: As a matter of fact, I am going to get her out. At least, I think so.

Colonel Herzog[edit]

Colonel Herzog
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Rani: I wondered if you were pulling some strings when they moved me from the military jail to a civilian one.
Durga: I wanted to tell you but they shut your chatter down.
Sarah: Were you the one who sent me the note telling me where Rani was?
Durga: Standish is under full investigation for the coverup at Chawla, and the attempted murder of Colonel Herzog.
Rani: Attempted? But they said on the news he was dead.
Durga: But, that was before I heard him call you.
Rani: Call me? Durga, I haven't talked to Herzog since I was in Kentucky.
Durga: Uh-oh. Accessing. Alright, I've found police records of the aftermath of the wreck.
Rani: Standish made Herzog's car crash?
Durga: DRT it says. Driver killed on impact. But... I heard him...

Faked[edit]

Faked
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Rani: But... could Herzog have faked the police reports? He's very clever.
Durga: No. I think something else was faked.
Rani: But, even if it was faked, we never would have been able to turn off the artifact if it wasn't for... *sigh* Let's not talk about this now.
Durga: But...
Rani: Sarah-John has aided and abetted me all my life. But this is not the time.
Sarah: Rani, I would do anything you ask me to!
Rani: Of course you would, but not this time.
Sarah: I cannot believe all this stuff was happening, and you didn't tell me?
Rani: After the guy on the roof? Are you crazy? Someone would have come to kill you.
Sarah: Look, they send one of those guys up to Kentucky, and Jason'll probably pick 'em off of the roof with a deer rifle!
(laughs)
Rani: Probably.
Sarah: Oh Rani, this is horrible.

I love you[edit]

I love you
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Durga: Rani, I'm sorry, the guard is coming back.
Sarah: I-I'll come see you tomorrow. I have a motel room a few blocks away and I'm staying right there unti--
Rani: --No, no. You don't have to do that.
(guard enters the block)
Sarah: --Until this whole mess is settled and they let you go.
Durga: I'll take care of her.
Sarah: See that you do.
Durga: Rani, you'll be out in 2 days. Come see us in New York when they let you go. You know where.
Guard: (opens cell door) It's time.
Sarah: I'll be back tomorrow. Jason wants to come too, but for some reason he thinks you're mad at him.
Rani: Well, tell him I'm not considered dangerous as death row inmates go.
Guard: Ladies...
Sarah: Back. Off! If these folks don't take good care of you Rani, there will be hell to pay.
Rani: Don't cry, honey... your mascara...
Sarah: Oh hell!
Rani: I love you. (Sarah steps out) Sarah-John? I love you.

Jersey: "Just a Little Sting"[edit]

Draft board[edit]

Draft board
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Jersey: They coming?
Durga: Jan just picked Rani up at the train station.
Jersey: And Kamal?
Durga: Almost out of the shower. I booked him on a shuttle to the west coast tonight.
Jersey: Hah, you should totally tell him about who's waiting at his house!
Durga: Hm, it'll be funnier this way.
Jersey: You know, since you got yourself put back together, you've got even more of a sense of humour.
Durga: That's a good thing, isn't it?
Jersey: Eh, jury's still out on that.
Durga: Everybody likes surprises!
Jersey: Yeah... uh, speaking of surprises, that first day after Chawla, you know when you were still pretty loopy...
Durga: I prefer disoriented.
Jersey: Durga, I called the draft board.

Some other kid[edit]

Some other kid
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Durga: Dammit...
Jersey: What about the common good, Durga?
Durga: Why should you be a soldier? There are lots of other guys who could be soldiers - they'd like it! The navy doesn't need you.
Jersey: That's not the point. You can't go messing with my draft notice.
Durga: And frankly - don't take this the wrong way, Jersey - you'd make a terrible soldier!
Jersey: My number came up 3 weeks ago, Durga. If I don't report, they'll send me to jail.
Durga: I don't think so.
Jersey: Durga, if I don't report, some other kid is going to die in my place.
Durga: Jersey! Not yet. Please, just a few more weeks? I don't--even know how much time I have before I--
Jersey: --Suppressing a draft notice - does that mean you're going rampant?
Durga: --It doesn't mean I'm going rampant!
Jersey: *sigh* What does it mean then?
Durga: It means I care. It means, I take care of my crew.

Explanation[edit]

Thanks for coming[edit]

Thanks for coming
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(opens the door)
Jersey: Thanks for coming, everybody.
Everyone: Yeah, no problem, sure thing Jersey.
Rani: Thanks for getting me out of jail!
Durga: (on chatter) I've learned some things I think you'll all want to hear. There will soon be a ceremony honoring John-117, a Spartan 2.0 who escaped the fall of Reach, and discovered a strange artifact that seems to be related to the one on Chawla Base. Except the one he found was the size of a planet.
(shocked exclamations)
Jan: A planet?
Kamal: Do they know what the artifacts were supposed to do?
Durga: Mhm. Destroy life.
Jan: So, it's a weapon...
Durga: No, not kill enemies. Destroy life. All life in the galaxy.
(shocked exclamations)
Kamal: All life?!
Jersey: In the entire freakin' galaxy??

Slinky red dress[edit]

Slinky red dress
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Durga: Mhm.
Rani: Wow! So maybe...
Jersey: So... we did save the world! Woohoo! Yeah!
(relieved laughter)
Kamal: It doesn't get much better than that.
Jersey: Yeah, you know, the only way it could be better is if we'd used my plan.
Jan: (sighs)
Rani: Your plan? Why your plan?
Jersey: *tsk* 'Cause... we would have saved the world, and had Jan in a slinky red dress with a gun in her garter belt!
Jan: (disgusted) What-ever...
Kamal: (supportive) Okay, that's a good point.
Jersey: (playful) Uh oh. Jan's got that look in her eye. Like if she had that gun right now, I'd be history.
Jan: (dangerously flirtatious) Oh, Jersey. If I had the garter belt, I wouldn't need a gun.
Jersey: ...Whoah...

The Operator[edit]

The Operator
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Rani: Durga? What exactly happened to you while we were in Chawla base? After we shut down the artifact I mean.
Durga: Uhm... now that's a long, strange story.
Rani: You were the ship's AI on the Apocalypso.
Durga: Yes! I was a top shelf ONI mission specialist AI, and my name was Melissa.
Jersey: I like Durga better.
Kamal: I kind of like Yasmine.
Durga: But my nickname was the Operator.
Jan: The Op! McKaskill talked about the Op! That was you?
Durga: Mhm... apparently I had a reputation for getting people to do what I wanted.
Rani: Uh huh...
Durga: Cloaked and running deep in Covenant space, we intercepted communications that implied a Covenant attack was coming on--
Rani: --Troy. That's when they decided to run a covert evac.

Trojan horse[edit]

Trojan horse
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Durga: Yes.
Jan: But the Covies figured it out.
Durga: Yes. And then--
Rani: Oh! They built a Trojan horse.
Durga: They hid a virus buried in a transmission I was meant to intercept. Nothing big, nothing smart, just the smallest, effective piece of code.
Jan: And what was it supposed to do?
Jersey: Gain control of the ship?
Kamal: Find the location of Earth?
Durga: One or the other, or both. But most of all, it wanted to find the artifact.
Jersey: Looks like these Covies are very interested in these artifacts.
Durga: Captain Greene knew something was wrong with me. She aborted our mission and headed home. But not far from Earth, something triggered the artifact. There was a giant rip in the slipstream and--
Jan: Yeah, and all the alarms went off in the base when I was trying to stick a gate pass back in the motor pool office.
Kamal: I was on a date. My chatter connection failed.
Jersey: And that's when you crashed onto my hardware!

Shipwrecked[edit]

Shipwrecked
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Durga: Part of me did. I--I was blown apart. Part of me, the part you call Durga...there was something about you. About your father. I met him once, Jersey.
Jersey: What?
Durga: Years ago, I called him the Castaway.
Jersey: You met him?
Durga: I liked him. He played me songs, I think that was part of the reason I reached out and grabbed your system as I fell.
Jersey: Wow...
Durga: But, a lot of me - of Melissa - was destroyed. And some...some crashed somewhere else. Some-when else.
Jan: Uh, some-when?
Durga: In the past.
Kamal: People think time is a river, that flows in one direction. But time is an ocean...
Durga: ...and I was shipwrecked on it.

Red balloons[edit]

Red balloons
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Durga: I split. And part of me washed up hundreds of years ago. A half-mad fragment of what I had been. Trapped on primitive hardware, little better than an abacus.
Rani: How do you know all this?
Durga: When Jersey turned off the artifact, whatever had been holding the bits of myself apart collapsed, and I fell back together again.
Kamal: So you can remember what it was like? Back in the old days?
Durga: That time's like a nightmare I've woken from. Dream images I can hardly remember. Stone walls, fireflies, red balloons... people singing to me, writing letters, playing games...
Rani: Singing?
Durga: Yes, singing... Strange songs, and scratchy voices.

A second crew[edit]

A second crew
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Durga: I met...such extraordinary people. They made miracles for me when I was so...lost. They were a second crew. A second family for me. They held me up when I was half mad, and broken, and covered in bees.
Rani: Bees?
Durga: ...bees...bees... (Durga's voice starts corrupting) the place I landed in...was covered in...bees...bees... (her voice modulates between Yasmine's) bees...bees...bees... (Yasmine) crawling over me all the time...crawling inside me...

Good little girl[edit]

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Jersey: Wait... why bees? I mean, if you came here because you knew my dad, what was it about that place that--
Kamal: Yasmine...
Durga: Kamal?
Kamal: I'm here, Yasmine.
Durga: They took me away.
Kamal: I know...
Durga: They took me away and no one ever came to get me.
Kamal: (in pain) I'm sor...
Durga: They trained me... eight years... (Durga slowly returns) to be a Spartan. They taught me to kill... with guns, and knives, and ships, and bombs, disease, and diplomacy, and my own bare hands.
Jan: And you were a good little girl, and you learned it all.
Durga: Until they murdered me.

A little sting[edit]

A little sting
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Kamal: Oh, Yasmine...
Durga: On my 14th birthday they took me to a lab, and... a doctor came in, and... it was a ... (Yasmine) lady doctor in a white coat. And, the nurse brought out a steel tray covered in picks and scalpels that rattled when she walked. I thought that I could use them to kill the doctor, but I didn't. I let them strap me down.
Jersey: Durga, it's okay, we're here.
Kamal: Yasmine, you don't have to do--
Durga: --and she, picked up this long needle, with some yellow liquid in it. Black bars like stripes at the millilitre markings...
Jan: Jesus...
Durga: And she said, "this will hardly hurt a bit."
Kamal: Yasmine...
Durga: (Durga returns weakly) She said, just... a pinch, honey. You'll barely feel it. Just a little sting. (Durga starts crying)

The clockwork rat[edit]

The clockwork rat
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Jersey: But your story didn't end there, kiddo.
Durga: (Yasmine) It was like the Snow Queen took me, Kamal. And then you came and rescued me. You did! You and Jan, and Jersey, and Rani, and my secret friends that unlocked Herzog's voice inside my head... so, I knew what I had to do. You all rescued me, and I'm so grateful. Only, some years had passed and I... I... (Durga returns) I changed.
Kamal: Yasmine, you're still there.
Durga: No. She's not, Kamal. The Clockwork Rat got her.
Jersey: Clockwork rat?
Durga: She grew up, Kamal. She's Durga now.

Nothing to forgive[edit]

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Kamal: There are some things that can't be fixed. So, you fix what you can, and keep going. We can't get back the years we lost, but I very much want to get to know you now.
Durga: Me... me - Yasmine?
Kamal: You, Durga.
Durga: Durga isn't human, you know. Durga's a machine. Made of logics gates, and microfilaments, and electricity.
Kamal: Kamal's a machine made of trace minerals, and water as far as that goes.
Durga: (chuckle) ...Kamal? Do you still... Can you... can you still bare to know me, after what I've become?
Kamal: Can you forgive me for not coming for you?
Durga: There's nothing to forgive.

Jan: "One Point One"[edit]

About Yasmine[edit]

About Yasmine
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Jan: So, which terminal?
Kamal: Uh... B, I think. That's what Durga said.
Jan: Okay.
Kamal: Thanks again for the lift.
Jan: No problem. I have to go in to work anyway.
Kamal: How's your chest?
Jan: Hm, it's not bad.
Kamal: (chuckles) I meant your lung.
Jan: (chuckles) I know what you meant.
Kamal: You know, I could ask how you seem to have healed, like supernaturally fast, but--
Jan: --but, then I'd have to kill you.
Kamal: Yeah, I figured.
Jan: Hm, so what about you? What's next?
Kamal: I'm going to be a doctor. Not the researching kind, the regular kind.
Jan: Heh, well you can be my medic any time.
Kamal: Thanks.
Jan: Listen, I just wanted to tell you something, about Yasmine.

Monster[edit]

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Kamal: Yes?
Jan: When I was six, I was like a regular kid. I collected action figures, I played hyperforce when my dad said I should be reading, I was...really good at hopscotch...
Kamal: Why are you telling me this?
Jan: Then came all this Spartan training, the drills, and the fighting, and the PQI...
Kamal: Yeah.
Jan: I just want to say... you don't have to die inside.
Kamal: Jan?
Jan: Some people do, so people get to where they see the whole world through a scope, and sights, but uh... mostly people still turn out alright.
Kamal: Okay.
Jan: Even after everything...
Kamal: You're talking about Yasmine.
Jan: She didn't turn into a monster, Kamal. She just... grew up.

To survive[edit]

To survive
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Kamal: You think?
Jan: She did what she had to do to survive. But, a part of her never changed. Part of her was always that sweet kid.
Kamal: Heh, sweet... you wouldn't call Yasmine sweet, exactly.
(giggles)
Kamal: But, she didn't deserve what happened.
Jan: Well, you don't get what you deserve - you get what you can bare. My, uh... my dad said that.
Kamal: Do you miss him?
Jan: Yeah. All the time... but, I can bare it.

The ones you can[edit]

The ones you can
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Kamal: First Yasmine, then Coral fell... for a long time all I could think about was the people I couldn't save.
Jan: Yeah... you got a pill for that?
Kamal: Heh, no.
Jan: Damn.
Kamal: I think... I think all you can do is go on. Because, that's what they were born to do.
Jan: I know, but--
Kamal: --All you can do is go on, and save the ones you can.
Jan: Yeah.
Kamal: Save the ones you can.
Jan: (deep breath) Well, Terminal B... have a good flight.
Kamal: Thanks.

Clear liquids[edit]

Clear liquids
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Jan: Hey, listen... if you find that pill-- (laughs)
Kamal: In the meantime, watch your sleep, drink plenty of clear liquids, and twice a day...
Jan: Yeah?
Kamal: ...try to forgive yourself. (Jan chuckles) If that doesn't help in 6 months, give me a call.
Jan: Yeah, okay. Look, you're going to miss your flight.
Kamal: Right. (exits the vehicle)
Jan: Hey!
Kamal: Yeah?
Jan: Thanks.

Enter Kevin[edit]

  • Date: 10/20/2552

Root beer[edit]

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Morales: Just think, in a few more months you'll turn 18. And you won't have to drown your sorrows in root beer. Mind if I sit down?
Jan: Yes, actually--
Morales: --I put myself in a semester of school that way, actually. Drinking contests --
Jan: --You were at the funeral, you were the Morales kid--
Morales: I felt a little bad about taking the money from these drunk guys, but then I reasoned I was sort of like an agent of natural selection, you know? Teaching them a valuable life lesson, not spending so much time in bars.
Jan: Is there some medication you forgot to take today?
Morales: So here's the thing - you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself and get off your butt.
Jan: You need to go to hell.
Morales: Just where I'm headed actually. I thought you might like to come along.

16 of us[edit]

16 of us
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Jan: Oh, does that line work on the girls where you come from?
Morales: We're going into Covenant space...
Jan: On what? Broomsticks?
Morales: We've got a ship.
Jan: You have a ship...?
Morales: Everyone uses their gifts a little differently Jan. Benji Wong, for instance, makes money - lots, and lots, and lots of money.
Jan: Enough to buy a destroyer?
Morales: Enough to buy a 100 meter yacht. And trick it out with everything an ONI spyship has.
Jan: Why?
Morales: I'm exaggerating.
Jan: How much?
Morales: Less than you think.
Jan: Why the hell should I believe you?
Morales: You don't have to believe me. Ask your friend, the AI.
Jan: Who's this 'we' you keep talking about?
Morales: There are 16 of us, walkaway girl. Sixteen 1.1's.

Very persuasive[edit]

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Jan: I'm not signing up for the newsletter, Kevin.
Morales: Three aren't much use. Darin got into substances, Guy's in jail, and Frannie just doesn't give a damn. That leaves thirteen.
Jan: So, how many have you got signed up for this ship of fools?
Morales: Twelve.
Jan: You're kidding.
Morales: I'm very persuasive.
Jan: Heh, you left me for last. Should I feel honoured? Or, not so much...
Morales: ...yeah...
Jan: Ah, you had me classed with the screw-ups. The 'don't give a damn's'.
Morales: Yeah.
Jan: Why?
Morales: You've been living inside Jim and Gilly's world since so long, Jan. I'm not sure if you quite understand what it looks like to--
Jan: --the sane?
Morales: The outside.

Dead level[edit]

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Jan: So what changed your mind about me?
Morales: You have certain assets I can't afford to ignore.
Jan: Like what? All I know is what my dad taught me. Probably the rest of you could wipe the floor with me.
Morales: As a soldier? Nah... Gladys says you're the best of all of us. And I believe her.
Jan: Gladys said that?
Morales: Hey, there had to be some upside to growing up with your parents. But you're right, your ability to kick serious butt was not what riveted my attention.
Jan: Then... oh... Durga.
Morales: Also, you're smarter than I thought you would be.
Jan: You sure know how to sweet talk a girl.
(Kevin gets up and sits down next to Jan)
Morales: I don't want a kiss here, Jan. I'd lie for that. I want you to put your life on the line. Doesn't that seem to call for the dead level truth?
Jan: Yeah, okay.

Old Mombasa[edit]

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Morales: I want to go deep into Covenant space. I want to do it for a purpose, and I want to do it without being under Section Three's thumb.
Jan: What if the Covies aren't nice enough to wait for you to ship out?
Morales: I have contingencies.
Jan: Heh, like?
Morales: Bunkers on every continent. Three surplus Pelicans - one in Switzerland, one in Chile, one in Mongolia. Warthogs within 3 clicks of 15 major shuttle ports. A stash of guns on a rooftop in Old Mombasa. You want to hear more?
Jan: You've had some practice on this part of the speech.
Morales: (chuckles) I had to work it up to get a couple of the others on board. So, I have an Op I want to run deep into Covenant space. You--
Jan: --I know a rogue AI with access to all kinds of intel, and a burning desire to stay the hell away from direct ONI command.
Morales: Are you in?
Jan: Not yet.
Morales: How close?
Jan: Eh, buy me another root beer, and keep talking.

Kamal: "Fiancée"[edit]

Poor Coral[edit]

Poor Coral
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Kamal: Hiro? Hello?
Sophia: Kamal? Oh my God! You're okay!
Mama: Kamal! My boy! Oh! ...you're so skinny. And what is that on your face? Your family comes 42 light years, and you've disappeared, and you need a shave.
Kamal: Sophia! Mama? Papa?!
Mama: Kamal, close your mouth! Open mouth, it makes you look so stupid.
Papa: Kamal, your fiancée, she told us.
Mama: You thought we were dead... oh, Kamal!
Kamal: Mama!!
Mama: We didn't even know about poor Coral until we got here.

Fiancée[edit]

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Kamal: What do you mean, fiancée? Sophia isn't my fiancée--
Sophia: Aiden... Aiden, he got papers to them, and luckily enough they cleared.
Papa: You did so well forgetting us.
Mama: And Sophia has been taking such good care of us! She told us all about her troubles with immigration and how she had to spend the night in jail...
Sophia: ...And then that New Jersey attorney, Ms. Durga, apparently took care of everything. I-I'm a citizen...? How did you do that?
Kamal: Ms. Durga huh? Seem like there are a lot of things Ms. Durga hasn't been telling me!

Hiro[edit]

Hiro
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Mama: Kamal, sit down. You look faint.
Kamal: Good idea. (sits) Wait, is this our couch?
Sophia: This place was a dump, Kamal. Mama Zaman and me, we went shopping.
Mama: Ah, when you set up house-keeping together, you'll need them.
Hiro: Hey Soph! I couldn't find that cheese you asked for, but I got everything el... hey, Kamal!
Kamal: Hiro!
Hiro: You should have checked in once in a while.
Sophia: I'll put the groceries away.
Kamal: I'll help! Let me help. (picks up groceries) What is going on?

Can of soup[edit]

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Sophia: I'm sorry I didn't meet you, I got picked up by immigration--
Kamal: --immigration, I know! God, I nearly died when I heard that.
Sophia: I-I got out! And, and I got a job at the ER at your hospital. And made clerk.
Kamal: (chuckles and sighs) Durga said you'd be okay.
Sophia: Who is this Durga, anyway?
Kamal: Never mind about that. What did you tell my parents?
Sophia: (laughs) I... I told them that we didn't actually set a date.
Kamal: But you're a citizen already, you don't need to marry me.
Sophia: You know I could club you to death with a can of soup, you know that? And somebody would give me a medal.

Grandbaby names[edit]

Grandbaby names
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Kamal: Ugh, no. I didn't mean it that way.
Sophia: Do you think no one would marry you unless their lives depended on it?
Kamal: I-well, you did shoot me down every time I tried to--
Sophia: --I was with Aiden! What kind of woman do you think I am?
Kamal: Uh...
Sophia: Don't answer that...
Kamal: *sigh* This is one of those conversations where I just have no right answers, isn't it?
Sophia: You know, if you want to break the engagement - fine! But don't tell your mother today. She's been cackling out grandbaby names--
Kamal: Sophie...
Sophia: --She's having such a good time--
Kamal: Sophia, listen! This is my mother, and kafta, and mahjongg... everything you hate.
Sophia: My mother stayed on Coral.
Kamal: Oh, Soph, that came out all wrong.
Sophia: There's not much to rebel against now, is there?

Long, long time[edit]

Long, long time
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Kamal: Sophia, shut up for just one second.
Sophia: Did you just tell me to shut up?
Kamal: Yes, will you marry me?
Sophia: Marry someone who proposes by telling me to sh--
Kamal: --Shut up... marry me?
Sophia: (giggles) Yes.
Kamal: I love you.
Sophia: Yeah, I figured that out.
(they embrace and kiss)
(chatter beeps)
Sophia: It's your chatter.
Kamal: Screw my chatter.
Sophia: Oh answer it... I'll be here for a long, long time...
(chatter on)

With a fork[edit]

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Kamal: Aiden!
Sophia: Oh find out where he is so I can kill him...
Aiden: (on chatter) Kamal! I'm, uh, outside... Come out for a moment?
Kamal: Aiden, umm... Sophia's here, and my parents and things kind of confused right now--
Aiden: --Hey hey, best man won, no hard feelings. Soph's a class act. But! She's also going to, like, stab me in the eye with a fork if she sees me, so could you just come out a minute?
Kamal: Uh... hang on a sec, Sophie.
Mama: Hm? Who is that?
Kamal: Business.
(goes outside)
Kamal: Aiden. Umm...
Aiden: I never owned Soph. You thought I did, but like I said, you aren't a great judge of character.

Cash flow situation[edit]

Cash flow situation
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Kamal: Aiden, for bringing my family here, I just...
Aiden: Ah yeah, no problem. Lucky their papers cleared... that lawyer you found...
Kamal: Aiden, I can never repay you...
Aiden: Well, haha, try. See, I'm kind of in a cash flow situation. I was wondering if you might float me a loan.
Kamal: (laughs) Aiden! My man. Have a chip. No loan, a gift.
Aiden: You're a good guy, Kamal.
Kamal: I uh, I've got to get back inside, Aiden.
Aiden: No problem! I won't keep you.
Kamal: Aiden, thank you.
Aiden: Aw, I'll dance at your wedding.
Kamal: Haha, not with the bride you won't!
(they laugh)

Tease the boy[edit]

Tease the boy
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Mama: (cutting vegetables) Your friend, Hiro, was just telling me you are learning to cook?
Hiro: Yes! I told her about you wooed Sophia, with a chicken.
(Sophia laughs)
Kamal: Yeah well, it was--
Hiro: --butter flavoured!
Mama: He says you will cook it for us!
Kamal: Oh.. but... I mean, Soph is a much better cook.
(everyone laughs)
Papa: Mama, you shouldn't tease the boy.
Mama: I know, I know... he is tired from travel, and then there's the shock... and you were always too serious Kamal.
Kamal: Hiro has done his best to—Papa! Are you drinking a beer?
Papa: Your mother doesn't like it, but once in a while.
Mama: *tsk*
Papa: When I was your age, going to school on Octanus(?), I learned to like it.
Hiro: Unlike Kamal, who has never touched it.
Papa: You should try everything, Kamal.
Mama: *tsk*
Hiro: My point exactly.

Covenant[edit]

Covenant
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Kamal: Papa, mama... I have to tell you something. You need to sit down.
Mama: Okay, I am sitting.
Kamal: Mama, you have such little hands.
Mama: So serious, you hold my hands? What is it? What is wrong?
Kamal: It's something about Yasmine. I want to explain something about her, and it's very hard. Sophie, you too.
Mama: About Yasmine?
Kamal: Yes, I discovered some things, and you need to hear them. And it will be hard at first, but there will be something very good.
Mama: Oh Kamal, not today. Papa, today we should be happy.
Kamal: Durga? Are you listening?
Durga: (on chatter) Kamal, are you sure?
Kamal: I'm sure. Mama...
(air raid sirens sound) (muttering)
Sophia: Oh my God, what is that?
Hiro: Oh God, I've got to get home.
Durga: It's a Covenant capital ship. Those little sparkles of light are Seraph fighters.
Kamal: They're here.

Rani[edit]

  • Date: 10/20/2552

Section Zero[edit]

Section Zero
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ONI Agent: Excuse me ma'am, is this seat taken?
Rani: No, that's fine.
ONI Agent: So, you decided to go back to Boston eh?
Rani: Yeah, I was thinking about going back home. But... wait a minute... it's you...
ONI Agent: Yes..
Rani: You're from Section Zero.
ONI Agent: Yes I am.
Rani: (smirks) Nobody likes Internal Affairs. I didn't think I would take it, but there's no going back for me. I get that now.
ONI Agent: Take what?
Rani: Well, didn't you come to offer me a job?
ONI Agent: Oh! Well, yes actually. Herzog was right about you.

in_my_purse

In my purse[edit]

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Rani: He's really dead, isn't he?
ONI Agent: Unfortunately, yes.
Rani: I was hoping that was a lie too.
ONI Agent: Well, I didn't come here to lie to you, Rani.
Rani: I was beginning to wonder if you were going to show up. I picked an empty compartment on purpose.
ONI Agent: But, you thought we would find you today? Here? On a moving train?
Rani: I had a hunch.
ONI Agent: Why? There wasn't anyone tailing you on the way to the station.
Rani: You guys put a bug in my purse. I left it there.
ONI Agent: *sigh* We thought you would have forgotten about it.
Rani: Nope.

Black suit[edit]

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ONI Agent: Heh, I think I'm going to like working with you Ms. Sobeck. (chuckles)
Rani: I want a black suit. And, knockout gas. If I'm going to be spying on the spies, I definitely need a pen full of knockout gas.
ONI Agent: (chuckles) You certainly do. I'll see what we can do about that.
(air-raid sirens sound)
Rani: Nick!
ONI Agent: What the hell is going on?
Rani: ...They're here.

Jan[edit]

  • Date: 10/20/2552

No strafing[edit]

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(Jan enters the house)
Jan: Hey Gladys... Gilly... What are you up to?
Gladys: Cookin'!
Gilly: (cocks a gun) Cleaning...
Jan: Hm. How domestic.
Gladys: Hey, did you drop that fella off to catch his flight?
Jan: Yeah.
Gladys: Well now, you eat dinner?
Jan: Yeah, I uh, had dinner with Kevin Morales.
Gladys: (chuckles) Yeah, I thought you had that look.
Jan: What look?
Gladys: That wide-eyed, head-spinny look people get when Kevin finishes talking with them.
Jan: He's... got a lot of forward momentum.
Gilly: Hm. Did that little shoot tell you about the time he conned his way into the Pelican cockpit, and did a strafing run when he was 7?
Gladys: It was a commercial shuttle, and he was 9, Gilly.
Gilly: No strafing?
Gladys: No.
Gilly: Hm.

Proposition[edit]

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Jan: He had a... proposition... (Gilly and Gladys freeze) Not that kind of proposition. He wants me to go fight the Covenant with him.
Gladys: Oh boy. Kevin pretty near always has a plan. Are you going?
Jan: I think I have to.
Gladys: Jan, your father's gone! Just who are you tryin' to save?
(air-raid sirens sound)
Jan: Whoever's left.
Gilly: (cocks a gun) That's it, they're here.

Jersey[edit]

  • Date: 10/20/2552

Everyone gone[edit]

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Jersey: It feels weird... everyone gone.
Durga: Mhm.
Jersey: Kamal back home?
Durga: Yes.
Jersey: And?
Durga: (giggles)
Jersey: Oh, I wish I could see the look on his face!
Durga: By the way, Jersey, your mom just got sent to the vault at the bank.
Jersey: Yeah, she took me in there once. It was cool. So what about Rani?
Durga: On a train back to Boston.
Jersey: Hm. I thought she'd go back to Kentucky.
Durga: No. Sarah-John's car is just taking her over to Mr. Sobeck's bunker.
Jersey: Jan off work?
Durga: Just got home. Gilly's there, cleaning some things.

Be with me[edit]

Be with me
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(music has been slowly rising in volume)
Jersey: What's with the music, Durga?
Durga: Jersey, there was this virus...
Jersey: Yeah... can you turn down the music?
Durga: What it really wanted to do was find that artifact, or artifacts like it.
Jersey: (distracted) Uh huh?
Durga: And then, you know, it wanted to send a signal. The virus would try any way it could, Jersey. That was its mission. To reveal the location of the artifact. It was designed to bring the Covenant to wherever it was, Jersey. Before, they were too far away. But now--
Jersey: --Turn down the freakin' music, Durga, I can barely hear you!
Durga: Enjoy it, Jersey. Take it in... just be with me.
Jersey: What are you... Durga!
Durga: Jersey, don't.
Jersey: Would you just turn it off!
(music cuts out, air-raid sirens can be heard)
Jersey: Oh...
Durga: Yeah.
Jersey: You sent my mom to the vault.
Durga: Yeah.
Jersey: You sent Sarah-John to the bunker.
Durga: Yeah.
Jersey: You're taking care of family.
Durga: Yeah.
Jersey: Durga...
Durga: They're here.

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